El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-09-02
Mr.. Dooley On Secretary Alger's
Letter.
Chicago Journal.

s'OnlcaRO JOURNAL
81 usen't to know said Mr.. Dooley,
"what me frind Gin 'ral Sherman meant
'whin he said that thing about war.T' We
been through two iv thin, not to spea x
.iv convintiOns 'an' prim 'ries, an div
vie tn bit 1v har-rum come to me more
thin If l was settin' on a roof playin' an
:accorjeen. But 1 know now what tn ;
.o]' la-ad meant. He meant war was
hell whin twas meant
81 amt heard amy noise firm tn
sfellows that whit into threnches an
[ plugged tn villyanious Spauyard.
4 Mostiv thin is too weak to kick. But
! tn proud an fearless pathrites who re-
4 strained thimsilves an didn't 60 to tn
| fr-ront, tn la-ads that struggled hard
| with their warlike tindincies an fin'lly
downed thin an stayed at home an
4 practiced up on tn typewriter, they're
4 ragin' an tearin' an desthroyin'
\ their foes.
Did We see what me frind Alger
wrote to Chansy Depoo? Well sir,
!, Alger has been misthreated. There's
4 a good man. | say he's good man.
1 An he is, too. At amy thrick firm
i shingles to two-be tours he's as good
1 as tn best. But no wan undherstud
\ him. Nowan even thried to. Day be
\ day he published the private letters iv
\ other people, an that didn't throw
! amy light on his charackter. Day be
day he had his pitchers took, an still
tn people didn't get onto tn CURVES
4 iv him. Day be day he chatted iv tn
turrors iv war, an still people on'y
said: AN Alger also Fran But TIL
time come whin Alger cud contain
/ himsilf no longer. an he set down an
4 wrote to Chansy Depoo.
Mr.. Chsnsy Depoo, care iv Grand
! Cintral Depew, New York, New York,
A Esquire. Dear Chanse: I've been ex-
II pectin' letter r'm ye FIR three or four
days. In reply to sane will say: Oh,
4 Chanse, ye don't know low l suffer.
d I'm that low in me mind | feel like a
bunch iv lathes. Oh, dear, to think iv
what I've gone through. l whit into
4 tn war unprepared. L had only so many
d Grounds iv cartridges an cross cut
!, saw, an L failed to provide mesilf
Il with tn ordinary necessities iv
Il life. But in spite iv me DEFICIENCIES
i whit bravely ahead. TIL
Il sthraia was something tur-r'ble on me.
4 Me mind give uout repeatedly. | cud
not think at times, but 1 niver falter-
ed. In two months 1 had enough sup
lplies piled up in Maine to feed ivry
sojer in Cuba. They were thousands
iv Grounds iv cartridges FIR livery
rig mint, an all the rig'mints
had to do was to write
FIR thin. The navy had taken Manila
an CeVera's fleet an tn, ARMY had
taken Santiago an the yellow fever
Tn war is over an peace wanst more
ways her wings over tn country.
Pine scantlings is quoted sthrong.
Ivrywhere is peace an contint. Me
photographs are on sale at all first
class newsdealers. Yet there is no
ca m FIR me.
4 " 'Onthinkin' vans insult ne. They
II tell me sOjer can't ate gin raj ord
hers. They want me to raysign an go
back to me humble home in Mitch
gan. Disgustin' men that've done
nawthin' but get thimsilves shot ask
FIR milk an quinine. They'll be askin'
me to carried food to thin mex. Oh,
i Chanse, oh. hivens, We can't know how
4 grieved [ am. Rather wud l have
\ persisted in log jam thin to've indur-
ed this ingraGithood.- But in lOokin'
back over me past life 1 can think iv
at fault please note. Me career is an
open book. I've held nawthin' back
firm tn public, not even whin twas
marked private. If can cay with tn
pote that | done my iooty. But oh !,
| Chanse, don't liver aspire to my job
Be sicrety iv war if you will, but niver
sicrety iv A war Do not offer this
| take it. How's things going with We,
oil pal? l hope to see We at tn sea-
| side. Till thin I'm yours, sick at heart,
! but attn regular, Russ -
"Well,'' said Mr.. Hennessy, 9Th
poor man must've have a bar-rd time
iv it,
HE did," said Mr. Dooley. -'Niver
laid his head to pillow before s, up
with tn moon,ihe's suffered as no man
can tell. But he'll be albright whin
his mind ut r-rest"