Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-11-15

sword or iron stab knife. which adds some
dignity to his otherwise apologize appear
Some will say that I am severe to the
French police, but, reply, not so severe as
he has been on me. Whatright has an Off
GER to arrest me in a language which I do
not pretend to understand and herald my
name all through Europe without paying
the slightest attention to the remarks
which I made in the purest English Of which
I was master? I say, and say 1T in stem
torian tones, that no country except
America can hope to be great which
makes up her entire police force of for
In ireland the police are also foreigners.
but they speak very good English. was
not arrested in Ireland I bought a sprig
Of shamrock. however, and brought it home
in a little hOWer-pOt. 1 sat up nights 10
keep it alive, and Watered it with my tears
while i'll on the ocean. But thank heaven
it pulled through at last and is alive and
growing on my country seat.
But it is not Shamrock.
1t is Glover.
And Mighty poor clover at thatI
If the Irish relief fund is not so large
this year as usual, the public will under'
stand why it is thus.
Our jaunting car driver was an Irishman.
He was an extremely entertaining one also.
| Very polite and a good singer. He had the
stars and stripes tied to his whip, and 50
he had a good many American dollars at
the end of the year which ne puts into
pounds, shillngS and pence. He told me
!
the matter than ever did before / be-
lieve.
Then I tried to get even by telling him
about our glorious country. 1 spoke Of the
marvellous growth and wealth Of the re-
public; also of our cordially toward for
eigners who desired to come here and vote
our way as soon as possible.
Then 1 told him about the great agrIcul-
tural resources of our country and the
mighty cyclone Of the West, which is able
to pull an artesian well wrong side out, like
the finger Of a glove. and leave it sticking
nine hundred feet up into space like sore
thumb. then spoke briefly but f6elngIy
OF the far West; the gold and silver and
canned goods, wild animals and despeFa-
does, the high mountains, the wealth Of
timber, the rarity of the atmosphere
which enables one to easily see across an
entire State, and which makes the bore OF
an ordinary revolver look like the HoOsac
Tunnel All these 1 told him about as we
rode gaYly along in our russell eolored
jaunting car, with Maud S. doing the pull
Maud S. is a bay mare of about middle
age, with a green grass style Of emDOnpOints
as we say in Fran CO. which prevents her
| attaining great velocity without training
After I had told the driver all I could
/ think of he yawned a little, I thought. and
said: yes, / am always Interested in
| Ameriky, and shall be all my lOif, for I lived
| in MOntany eight years mesilfl"
/ then spoke Of the scenery through
| which we were passing. George W Floyd
/ we were on the old sod. 7 drank some of it
/ on the way over here. I now see why Ire
| land feels that she has been grieVOusly
/ WrCnged. That is exactly the way felt.
] We also bought several shiLlaIahs, some
/ times called the original Home. They are
| made Of black thorn, with a prOtuberance
/ on the top out Of the root of the thorn
! Ihls mob rebounds from the head with
/ great elasticity, so as to give several blows
| with only one propulsion, so to speak.
| his, combined with the popular beverage,
no nufT aofT T--Tr1
/ 70 spirited and earnest controversies over
anything which may present itself. But
| seriously. the Emerald Isle seems to be
/ more nOpSIul OF peace and prosperity than
Tor many years past. according to the au-
| thOr1ty OF the best-read Irishmen, and es-
pec1ally Of the clergy, among them the very
/ Rev. James Hegarty. who was a fellow pas
sengers and who talked very cheerfUily OF
the Irish situation at present, feeling, as he
/ said that it must very isOOns and without
/ serious disturbance. adjust itself to the
satisfaction Of everyone, with the exception
valuable
Next to the policeman, the railway guard
OF the old country interests me. Having
/ been accustomed to the clear, resonant and
/ evolutionary elevated railway guard and
! his bright crisp remarks about the stations
/ as we pass along, 1 was il-prepared to be
/ fastened into railway carriage by myself
] with no conductor to converse with, Nc
brakeman to bore hole into the effete At
nosphere with his cork-screW voice, nc
/ peanutter to come and lean a whole circu.
/ latlng library on my bosom or show me the
/ scenery as he pointed out the beauties o.
our latest and most successful smutty move
fresh from the hands OF its bright yOune
/ schoolgirl author.
That is WhyI was carried past my station
and instead Of Liverpool I turned ap a,
Scotland Yard once, and at another time, II
gazing up the Thames, found myself, ate
a little nap at station called Chester
Several times i was carried to the end o
the road when 1 had intended to stop OF
the way and would have lost good des
OF time only that one can only 20 far enough
away from London so that he viii be able {,
get back in half an hour. If one should e
farther than that ne would drown.
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