The herald., 1898-07-30
DoOIey Has a Letter
From the Front


Mr.. Dooley looked important, but affected
indifference, as he mopped the bar. MI.
| Hennessey, who had learned to study MS
friend in order to escape disagreeable com
plications, patiently waited for the phiios-
opher to speak. Mr. oDoley rubbed the
bar to the end, tossed the cloth into mys-
FERROUS recess with a practiced movement,
moved glass or two on the shelf. cleaned
| his spectacles and drew letter from his
pocket.
"Hm-m!' he said II have news fr' m tn
| fr-ront. Me nevvew, Terry Donahue, has
sint me letter tellin' me all about it."
How shud he know" Mr.. Hennessey
asked.
How shud he know, is it?' Mr.. Dooley
demanded warmly. How shuddent he
know? Isn't he sojer of tn ARMY? Isn't
| 1t him that's down Their in Sandago fghtin
| FIR tn honor Nv tn flag while tn likes Nv
you is up here Twin like prince an dom
nathin' all tn live-long day but shovel Stag
at tn rolln' mills? Who are We FIR to crit
| icize tn dayfenders Nv our country who
ARE lynn in tn trinches an havin' tn
clothes stole off their backs be tn pathri-
otto Cubans, L d like to know? FIR two pins,
Hinnissy, you an I'd quarrel"
II didn't mean nawthin'" Mr.. Hennessey
apologized. II didn't know he was down
there"
"Nayether did l." said Mr.. Dooley. But
I informed meself. I'll have no wan in this
place speak again TIL ARMY. Ye can have
ye'er say about Mac. He has good job an
tbs Fright an proper FIR to basic him fr' m
time to time. 1t shows ye'er in good thrim
an 1t don't HURT him. They'se no wan to
stop his pay. He goes up to tn cashier an
dhraws his forty-wan-sixty-si just tn
same whet he's sick or well an whether
he's pulled tn box regular or has been
p!ayin' forty-fves in tn back rroom. But
whin ye come to castin' aspersions on tn
ARMY, be hivens, yell find that l can put
Inc thumb on this showcase an go over at
wan lep.'
II didn't say anything" said, Mr.. Hen
nessey. II didn't know about Terry"
"Iv coorse We didn't said Mr.. Dooley.
AN that's what I'm sayin,. Ye'er here
wallowin' in luxury, wheelin pig if n fir n
morn till night an We have no thought iv
what's goin' on beyant You an Jawn d.
Rockefeller, an Phil Ar-rmour, an Jay
Pierpont Morgan, an Yerkuss, an tn
r-rest Nv We is settin' back at home f1gurln'
how We can make some wan else pay yere
taxes FIR We. What is 1t to we that me
nevvew Terry is sleepin' In ditch wather
an atm hard tacks an coffee an bein'
r-robbed be leeber Cubians, catchin' yal-
low fever without chanst Nv givin' it to
Ter a Spanyard? You think no more Nv a
stamp thin We do il ye'er country. Ye'er
like tn sugar thrust FIR two cints ye'd
rayfuse to support tn government. know
We We bloated monopolist."
I'm no such thing" said Mr.. Hennessy,
hotly. 1--WE been a Dimmycrat FIR thirty
year."
well, anyhow" said Mr.. Dooley, don't
speak disrayspictful Nv tn ARMY. Lave
me r-read Terry's letter firm tn fr-ront
Nm: In tn trinches, two miles from
Sandago, with a land crab as big as lob
ster crawiin' up me back be way Nv King
ston, June 9Th. Dear Uncle Martin That's
tn way 1t begins. Dear Uncle Martin: We
are all we'll here, EXCEPT them that is not
an hope ye'er inJyin' tn same great bles-
sin. It's hotter down here than Billy-be-
dom'd. Theyse rollin' mill near here
JUS tn same as at home. but all tn hands
is laid off on account Nv bad times. They
used or-fashioned wooden wheel-barrows
an fired with wood. I don't think they
cud handle tn pig tn way we done, bein
small la-ads. TIL coke has to be hauled up
in sacks be tn gang. TIL derrick hands got
six a week, but hadn't amy union. Help
ers got four twinty. Puddlers was well
paid. / whit through tn plant befure we
come up here an run a barrow up tn
plank just to keep me hand in. Tell me
frinds that wan gang iv good la-ads fr' n
tn r-road cud wurruk amy three iv the
gangs down here TIL mills is owned be
Rockefeller, so no more at prisint firm
ye'er affecshunate nevvew, Peter Casey
who's writin' this FIR me-"
" IT'S a good letter." said Mr.. Hennessy.
II don't see how they cud get derrick hands
FIR six a week"
"Me frind Jawn D. knows how" said Mr.
Dooley.-Chicago Journal.