The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-02-07

The man held tho paper within q
couple OF inches of Ills eyes and
contrived. after much squirting, to
decipher the name. His glasses
were an eighth OF an inch thick:
and at that his vision was palpably
very poor. When the secretary had;
listened to his .plaint, he said:
I'm afraid the fofester's right,
this time. You ought not to be
trimming trees when your sights
MS bad as that. Y cure likely to-get
a fail and cripple yourself for life.
think I can get you a job with a
fioristEwork that doesn't call for
such good sight"
Tho man had not thought OF the
personal danger, and the kick sec
rotary did not so much as mention
to him that his work was snecessar-
lily not good, when he could not disc,
tinguish between dead and live,
branches al. a distance OF three feet.
He, too. went away comforted..
The woman,s case was different.
She had had some plumbing done
and It was unsatisfactory. She re-
fused to pay the bill, and the
plumber threatened to bring suit.
Z What ought she to do about it?
What were her rights?. She had
once been involved in a police court
trial on a similar case. and had re-
ceived a parody on Justice. The
secretary asked her to give him the
details of the work.
with any limited knowledge" he
said, II can see where the man has
violated the building ordinance at
two points. The thing for you to do
{ is to take your complaint to the
Building Commission office. A
plumber isn't going to monkey with
the Building Commissioner. He'll
come across when he knows you've
got the goods on him =
:. While the complaint was yet on
Mr.. Marsh's desk, another and more
perplexing one presented itself. 1t
was not brought by the postman,
but was presented in person by a
very fat and very cross man. He
had grievance. and he knew what
to do with 1t.
I tried to get a Job on the Fire
Department, and they wouldn't take
me- he sputtered. II went up
against this here Efficiency Board,
and Iscould pass any old examina-
tion they wanted to give me. I.
graduated from the high school in,
my town when I was IL years old,
and I've been a voter for ten years.
I can keep, a set of books, if I get
'em to keep. The trouble Is Lost
my Job three months ago. and i, all
ways did have q liking for the Fire
Department. ] was in the volunteer,
fire corps in my town when r was
q kid. and know,I can do the
work all right; but when 1 went in
for my examinatio they didn't put
me to parsing sentences and doing
sums in arithmetic. They, made me.
run and climb greasy poles ana do;
az lot o. stunts like that, and my
heart gave out on me and they re-
jected me.'
I'm sorry. my. friend" Marsh
told him. II don't see why you
come to me. j haven't anything to-
do with the EFFICIENCY Board. That's
a totally distinct Institution. i un-
derstarid that when they want q
man to clean the streets they don't
examine him In Horace and as.
trononiy and analytics. They ex-
anime his back ana arms to see IL
he's strong enough to work on the
street all day without breaking
down. lt you cam do the work
required OF q man In the Fire De
partment the city has no right to-
employ you, and you soughtn't to
Y want the job Il you're going to- get
an attack es heart g e faii.is !; the tifst