St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-27

well-regulated little homestead, as, in
deed, he is, for he still exercises all
the functions of master and lord of the
manor
Mr.. Welsh. of late years, has been
the subject of the pen of the news
paper writer, but "they somehow al
ways TUX me down wrong" he remark
ed. as he welcomed The World cor
respondent within his gates
Dye see, now. I knowed ye wor a
newspaper man when when l saw ye
comm up the road How did I tell?
Why, 1 knowed ye quarter of a mile
off. My eyes are that good, moind.'
And We wrote something about me for
the paper wanst before, and we said
was born in County Monahan when it
ought to have been West Meath I was
mad that time, and I spoke me moind
about ye to Jim Clark the next time
I went to Cumberland. Mayhap he
told yep
BORN IN 1888.
II was born in West Meath in 1888.
and was ten years of age when the
boys rose for liberty in 1898. 1 was too
young to handle pike at the time,
the English sogers. I remember a
party of young Frenchmen landing at
Killala. They came over to help us.
But, poor fellows, they were all taken,
and what became Of them God only
knows.
"Those wor sore times Of trial in
ould Ireland, and we were dreadful
poor. Many's the day we went with
out food, and the sogers would rob us
he fnf 1n6 %O
keep it we'll hidden. I had heard of
America, and determined to get there
wan day, if the Lord spared me. But
| it took hard working and long waiting
| to get together the money, and I had
| a wife and three children when land
ed in Baltimore in 1924, without more
of the worlds goods than ye could
carry in blanket f9got work, and
I was as happy and as merry as the
| lark.
'In 1882 I got work under a man who
had a contract upon the construction
| of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal.
| That's how I came to this part of the
| country. I first worked along about
| Hancock, in Washington county, then
we came further west and got a sub
! contract near Oldtown, in this county.
Twas there I had to beat the board
ing boss onst. He abused his wife till
| / could not stand It, and jumped IN
and welted him till he squeaIed like a
| pig He lives in Cumberland still, and
| he bears a grudge against me to this
day for that batting.
Sometimes I meet him at church In
| Cumberland, and he speaks to me in
| such a grumpy way that I feel more
like giving him a belt in the lug than
sayin' good morning. 1t is shame
for him to be holding spite for what
| took place more than sixty years ago.
'"This canal. We understand, only runs
from Washington to Cumberland. Eu'
it was intended at the time it was first
| planned, that it should connect with
the Ohio river below Pittsburg, the ~
| legheny mountains that barred the way
to be crossed by a chain Of mighty
| locks; and some even dreamed of 6
portage railroad; though at that time
| there wor no railroads in this country
barring one in New Jersey somewhere
| Of course, when I first worked on the
canal there were railroads, but people
/ didn't have much hopes in them.
IN -WASHINGTONS DAY.
Seen. Washington turned the frs
suade of earth in this canal. And. In
deed, met and knew many people IL
my time who had seepand talked will
the great man, but I would be lying dit
1 tell you saw him mSsNlf.
"The canal was proiecsed, think, ever
before the great National turnpike
which runs from Baltimore to Wheel