The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-08

Town Tales
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

"The man who quits at the first
sound of the whistle" said a friend of
mine yesterday, sis pretty sure to have
to quit before he gets quite ready.
There are altogether too many men
and women, too, who look upon their
occupations as a thing to make NV
ing by without taking the least thought
of their work, SO they get through with
it somehow. Every employer is glad,
and anxious, to help along those of his
people who take an interest in things,
who fipd things to do, and who are not
afraid of any work that comes along,
even if it is not nominated in the
bond For these people there is al
ways room at the top. They are in
demand and their future is assured.
A veteran of the Spanish war recent
" received a communication from the
pension bureau at Washington, inform
ing him that his application for pen
sion was numbered 1,211, 600-odd, and
that in the regular order his case would
be attended to. The man supposed that
that / 211 600-odd veterans of the same
war had got in ahead of him, and he
presented his views of the matter TO
the Observer whose acquaintance ne
happened to have. When he had been
assured that the number of possible
applicants for pensions who served in
the Spanish difficulty would be some
thing like I'LL 500 less than the num-
Der he mad feared, he was much relieved
and told an interesting story of how
he came to be afflicted. He was a cor
poral in Fourteenth regiment in charge
of a cook tent in the south and con-
tracted typhoid malaria fever, the Sc
IF .1rbi Pn inward
bles of character likely to shorten his
life queer part of the story was
the statement that he he'd himself eX-
ahmed by no less than IL doctors be-
fore he could find one who could say
that he was ailing from any bad ef-
fects of the typhoid malarial attack
Armed with this doctors opinion he
hadn't the slightest difficulty, he said,
in securing the opinion of other physi-
clans to the same effect. The veteran
says he is somewhat put out when
telling his friends of his claim upon
the government for a pension to have
them say, why, you certainly look
better than you did before you went
TO the war" or something of the sort.
Matrimonial alliances between mem
bers of royal families" says the Boston
Evening Transcript, always interest
eommoners to a considerable extent, al
belt every one knows that such unions
are based primarily on convenience,
other advantages if they exist being
purely incidental. The latest reported
royal engagement is between Wilhel-
nina of Holland and the kaiser's son,
Crown Prince Frederick. From por
traits shown of the couple, neither will
ever be hanged on the score of beau
ty, as the old saying goes. But there's
that last loophole left for them that
remains to unhandsome common folk
to be good; and they do say the queen
of Holland is a real good girl-'good
TO her folks to take up phrase that
is altogether too full of meaning to be
monopolized by the variety stage,
where it has done yeoman service of
late. Speaking, however, of personal
appearance, the kaiser must note a vast
difference between the American Wo-
man with whom he has been hobnob
bling and openly admiring recently, and
his prospective daughter-in-law."
Woman teachers of New York city
have been raising fund for present
to Senator Ahearn in recognition of his
services in getting their salaries raised.
One of the teachers, who was promi-
nent in the effort for the desired legis-
their committee told Mr.. Ahearn that
If money was necessary to obtain salts
factory action, they would raise &c.
900. I'VE have here" says the Pitts
burg Dispatch. 1.-The statement that wo-
men, supposed to instruct the coming
generation in the duties of patriotism
and citizenship, as well as in the three
RS, were ready to bride legislators in
order to secure the enlargement of their
salaries. 1t is an almost obvious COM
ment that for teachers Of that class
of instruction almost any salary is ex-
cessive. The affair if the whole thing
is not gross libel, presents a startling
example of decentralization extending
into the very sources of education for
the children of the nation. If teachers
are ready to buy legislation, what won
der II their pupils reach the age of suf-
frage without any conception of the i'm
portance Of honesty and virtue in pub
lie affairs?"