The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-04
PHARISEES AND PUBLICANS.
A. D. MDCCCXCIX.


Their golden lamps they trim;
In full assurance of their worth
AS proud as cherubim.
The guerdon thus; ga chosen race
And thus they honor Him.
They grope, and note with aching heart
The far-off seraphim.
In secret cherish, humbly bear
Their rush-lights pale and dim;
Their inner life In silence hid
Lest they dishonor Him.
Worcester, July 2. H. w.
THE conductor of the trolley car,
which they hailed at the street corner,
stopped it and got off the platform, and
stood in the street until they were safe
ly aboard, without telling them to step
lively, or pulling them up the steps, or
Knocking them in the back to make
them move forward he says. He 'let
them get fairly seated before he start
ed the car, and so lost the fun of seeing
them lurch and stagger violently, and
wildly clutch each other for support
The Germans have so little sense of
hunlor that probably no one in the car
would have been amused to see the
strangers flung upon the floor. No one
apparently found it droll that the con-
ductor should touch his cap to them
WREN he asked for their fare; no one
:
derstand where they wished to go. and
he did not wink at the other passengers
in trying to find out Whenever the
car stopped, he descended first, and
did not remount till the dismountine
passengers had taken time to get well
away from it. When the Marches got
into the wrong car in coming home, and
were carried beyond the street, the
conductor would not take their fare"
The writer recalls an afternoon in
Heidelberg and a tussle with a jacket
that would not go on from the wind
caused by the motion of the electric
car. The conductor, seeing the diff
Guilty, instantly stepped along the run.
ming board and helped her on with the
wayward garment as deftly and gal.
lantly as If he had been a courtier in q
ball room. The young men who con.
voy the electric cars up and down the
Main street of Worcester are capablf
enough and courteous most of the time
but fancy one of them condescendinp
to help lady passenger on with hel
jacket!
The Hindoo scribblers are indulgins
in rhapsodies over the charms of Lad,
Curzon. One writer says that "a dia.
mond set in gold and a full moon In &
clear autumnal sky have something OF
the beauty Wnlch belongs to Lady Cur.
zon." and that the ladies of official so.
ciety are trying to follow in Lady Cur.
IONS footsteps 1t is a very naught,
American paper which says the lattel
proceeding ought not to be difficult
considering the city which is her LADY,.
ships native place
1t was the lakes Of Killarney, nov
in the market with Howard Gould {
possible purchaser, that gave Ternysor
the inspiration to write his marvellous
" beautiful "Bugle song" considered
by some the most perfect lyric in The
English language. The lake arc Ire
lands most famous show place; they
can be bought for $250,000 AS theil
purchase would doubtless make Mr.
Gould very popular in Ireland, they
may open a way to q transatlantic
career similar to that of William Wal.
dorf Aston, but more brilliant that his
The inhabitants of the Green Isle coulc
scarcely do less than to make hin
mayor OF Dublin or Cork But 1t IS oil.
together doubtful whether any des.
cendant OF say Gould would get AZ
much out of Killarney as did the Eng.
lish poet He brought with him Inc
vision OF an idealist, the Transforming
eye Of the poet. and these are things