The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-02-14
pooLers MEDITATION
On . Hero who worked Overtime.
(Chioago journal. }

(Chioago Journal
"weii, sir" said Mr. Doolsy. at looks
now as IL they was nothing left RI me
young frind Agsynaldoo to do bat timn.
Like az not a year firm now he'll be In
jail, like Napoleon, th' impror Nv the
Fr-rinch, was In his day, an Mike, tn
Burglar, an other pathrites. That's what
comes iv beina pathrite too long. lis
good Job whIn they'se nawthin' else to
do, but tits not tn thing to wurruk over
time 1t. Ills sort Nv out iv-dure sport
that ye shud engage In durin' tn sum-
mer vacation, but whin q man carries 1t
on durin' business hours people begin to
get down on him, an afther awhile
they're ready to hang him to get him out
" tn way. As Hogan says. 'lh' las
thing that happens to pathrite he's a
scoundhrel.'
Las summer there wasn't warmer
pathrite anywhere in our imperyai do
minions thin this same Aggynaldoo.
was with him mesilf. Says /; 'They'se
good coon. says He'll help us FIR to
make tn Philippians indipindant on us
FIR support, snys, an whin tn bles'
sins iv civilization has been ixtinded to
his beloved country an, l says, they
put up intarnal rivinue offices an post
offices, says, we'll give him good job
as letter carrier l says, where he
won't have anything to do, says, but
walk l says.
"An' so tn consul at Ding Dong, tn
A. -, ba
says to Aggynaldoo: Co. he says
where glory waits ye. he says. 60 an
sthrike q blow. he says. 'fr ye're coun-
thry,' he says. Go, he says. III stay,
but you 90, he says. '1hey'se nawthn'
| in stayin', an ye might get hold Nv a ty-
ranncial watch or pocket book down
beyant,' he says. An off wint TIL brave
patsrite to do his jooty. He done 1t, TOO.
whin Cousin George was pastin' tn
former hated CASTLES who was 1t stood on
TIL shore shootin' his bow-an'-arrow into
| tn sky but Aggy naldoos Whin me frind
Gin rial Merritt was ladin' a gallant charge
again blank catredges, who was 10 ranged
| his noble ARMY iv pathrites behind him
tn sea but Aggy naldoo. DE was good
man thin-n good noisy man.
9TH throuble was he didn't know
wbin ~ knock off. lie didn't hsar tn
wurruk bell tsllin' him to come In II m
playin' ball an get down TO business.
Says me Cousin George: Aggynaidoo,
me buck, he says. tn war is over, he
says, AN we've settled down to tn OIL
game, he says They're no more he
roes. All Nv thin has gone to wurruk i'r
th' magazines. They're no more path
rites. he says. They've got jobs as gov
nors or ARE lookin' FIR thin or amy
thing else, he says AN tn prom mint
mesilf,' he says. is busy preparin' their
detinse. he says Il have no deinse, he
says, but I'm where they can't reach
me, he says. Tn sport Is all out ~
tn Job, an IL ye don't come in an jine
tn tilin' masses iv wage wurrukeIs, he
says, we won't even have tn credit Nv be-
| in licked In a gloryous victhry, he says.
| so TO tn woodpile with ye, he says, fr
We can Z 20 on ciily bratin tn Foorth ~
July without bein' took FIR disordhly
conduct. he says.
/ An Aggynaldoo doesn't understand
it, An he gathers his Archery CLUB
ar round him an says he: "Fellow-path-
rites he says, we've been betrayed he
says. We've been sold out without, he
| SAYS, 'gettin' tn usual commission, he
says. We're still heroes, he says. an
our pitchers is IN tn pa-apers he says.
ut In, ne says, An stnrlke pioW ho
tn gay deceivsrs, he says. III sell ye're
| lives dearly he Gays. An tn Archery
club whit In. Tn pathrites whit up again
a band iv kansas sojers, that WINS wanst
heroes tefure they larned tn hay foot
sthraw foot an Is now arnin' tn wages
iv a good harvest hand all tn year ar.
round, an ID rather fight than ate tn
ARMY beef, an ye know what happened.
Some ~ tn poor divvles Nv her oes Is
liberated firm the cares iv life, an TIL
| r-rest iv thin il up in threes an wishin'
| they was home smokin'a good seegar
with mother
| IA n all this because Aggynaldoo
didn't hear tn whistle blow. lie thour
| TIL loom was still on in tn hero busr
| II he'd come in ye'd lie hearin' IT,.
James Hsitoh Aggy naldoo'd been appoint
| ed foorth -cinss rostm asther at Hootobey-
Kootohey, but now tn mex We know iy
him II be on tn blotter at tn polls sta
ton: James Hatch Aggynaldoo, alias
| pompydoor Jim charged with carryin
concealed weepins an rnyststin an OIL e
Ger. Pathritism always dies whin ye es-
tablish a polls foorce.
| well" said Mr. Hennessy, I'm kind
iv sorry FIR tn la-ads with tn bows-sn'-
arrows. Maybe they think they're path
rites
| "Divyle TIL bit Nv difference ii makes
what they think, 80 long as we don't
| think so. !" said Mr.. D0oley. Its what
| Father Kelly calls case iy mayhem ct
chew 'em. That's Latin, Hinnissy, an
IL names what's wan mans food Is anoth-
er mans pizen