Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-06-25
WHAT PHILOSOPHER DooLEY SAYS

Reflections on the Queen and Her
Long Reign.
From the Chicago Post.
"Ar-re We soin' to cillybrate TIL queens
jubilee?" asked Mr.. Dooley.
What's that?" demanded Mr.. Hennessy,
with violent start
To-day" said Mr.. Dooey her gracious
majesty Victorya, queen iv Great Britain
an that pant iv Ireland north iv Sligo. has
reigned r. sixty long an tiresome years"
Il don't care if she has showed FIR sixty
years." said Mr.. Hennessy. Til not cilly
brate it. She may be good woman f'r all
1 know. but dam her pollytics.'
Eye needn't be pro-fane about it,, said
Mr.. Dooley. Il ony asst we civil question.
FIR mesilf l have feelin' on tn subject.
1 am not with tn queen an I'm not again
her I'm rejoiced to me frinds lawn r.
Walsh an j. V. Clarke jinin' in tn move
ment iv her lyal subjects in Chicago to
honor tn occasion, an faith they ought to
do something to square thimsilves, FIR they
were both Cutrajous fenians in tn OF days
an give her nanny a sleepless night. At
tn same time. l cortally agree with me
frtnd Captain Finerty, who's put his news
paper in nournin FIR tn ivint. 1 won't
march in tn parade an 1 won't put amy
dinnymite undher thin that does. 1 don't
say tn mai cheers an dinnymters ARE not
both Fright. IT'S purely a question Nv
taste. an tn Executive says whin both
candydates are Numbers iv tn camp:
'Pathrites will use their own discretion
"Th' good woman niver done me no
har-rm an beyond THROWN rock or two
into an oranjey's procession an subscribn
to tin dollars worth Nv fenian bonds, I've
threated her like lady Amy gredge 1
liver had again her l buried long ago.
We're both we'll on in years an tits no use
carryin' har-rd feelin's to tn grave About
tn time tn lord chamberlain whit over to
tell her she queen an she came out in
her nitey to hear tn good news l was an
nounced into this wurruld iv sin an sorrow.
SO we see we've ,reiSned about tn same
lenth iv time an ought to be cillybrattn
me dimon jubilee. j wud, too. If had an
ny dimors. Do We r-run down to Alderman
O'Brien's an borrow .twinty or thirty FIR
me. ana
Great happeniii's have me an Queen
Victorya seen in these sixty years. Durin
our binificent rrisince on earth tn nations
have grown r-rich an prosperous. Great
Britain has ixtinded Ier DOMAIN until tn
sun niver sets on it.. No more do tn orig
inal owners iv tn sile, they bein' kept
movn' be tn pol:s: While she was lookin'
on in England was lookin' on in this
country. ] have seen America spread out
firm tn Atlantic; to th' Pacific. I've seen
tn shackles dropped firm tn slave SOS he
great city desthroyed he fire firm De
Koven sthreet to tn Lake View pumpin'
station. an thin rise felix-ltke firm its
ashes. all but tn West Side, which was not
Cool an Tom Allen beat Jim Mace an
somebody beat Tom Allen an lawn Sullt-
van beat him an Corbett beat Sullivan
an FitZ beat Corbett, an If l live to cilly-
brate me goold-watch-anchain jubilee 1
may see some wan put it all over Fitz.
"Oh. what things I've seen in my day an
Victorya's! Think iv that gran PROCESSION
Bill Nye an Ella Wheeler Wilcox an Tim
Seaman an-an I can't name thin all;
they're too NANNY. An tn brave gin-rals-
Won Mickey an Bismarck an u. S. Grant
an gallant Phil Shurdan an Coxey. Think
Nv thin durin me reign. An tn invintions
TIL steam milne an tn printin' press an
tn cotton gin an the gin sour an tn bicy-
th'-slot machine an tn Lorimer machine
an tn sody fountain an--crownin' wur-
ruk Nv GU. civiliza tion-th cash raygisther.
What gr-reat advances has science made
in my time an Victorya's. f'r whin we en-
tered public life 1t took three men to watch
IN barkeep, while today ye can tell within
IS an hour what he's took in.
GLORY be. whin I look back firm this
day Nv gln'ral rejoicin in me rhinestone
jubilee an see what changes has taken
place an how nanny people have died an
how much betther off tn wurruld is, I'm
proud Nv ;nesilf. War an pest'Ience an
famine have occurred in my time, but L
count thin light compared with TIL binifits
that have fallen to tn race since I come
TIL earth
What ARE We talkin about?" cried Mr..
Hennessy in deep disgust IAN this time
we've been standin' behind this bar iadlin
out disturbance to tn sixth wa'ard an We
haven't been far east as michigan
avnoo in twinty years. What have We had
to do with all these things?"
well" said Mr.. Dooley, II had as much
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