The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-03-25
ME. D00Zeg ON m 10 2a's,2, Explosives =:
Copyrighted. 1900, by Robert Howard Rus
BY p. p. dunno.

Copyrighted, 1900, by Robert Howard Rus
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IF liver I wanted to go to war;" said
Mr.. Dooley, IAN 1 niver did, tn desire
has passed firm me iy late. Ivry time |
read Nv tn destructive power Nv modbern
explosives col chllls chase each other I'D
an down me spine"
What's this here stuff they call lyd-
dite?" Mr.. Hennessy asked.
well, tbs tn divvle's own medicine "
said Mr.. Dooley. Compared with lyd-
dite. joynt powdher is Mrs. Wlnslow's
soothin' syrup, an We cud leave tn chill
dher play baseball with a can iv dlnny-
mite. It's as sthrong as Gin'ral Crown
joys camp tn day Nv tn surrinder, an
almost as sthrong as tn politics iv Mon
tana. Tn men that handles 1t is cased In
slx-inch armor an played on be a hose
Nv Ice wather Tn gun that shoots 1t Is
always blown up be tn discharge. Whin
this deadly missile flies through tn air.
tn threes ar-re withered an tn little
bur-rds falls dead firm tn sky; fishes is
Kilt in tn rivers an tn telephone wires
won Wurruk Tn keen-eyed British gun
ners an correspondents watches it in its
helllsh course an turn their faces as 1t
falls into tn Boer trench An oh! tn
sicllly green fumes 1t gives off, jus like
pizen FIR potato bugs! There is a thre-
menjous explosion. TIL earth Is thrown
up FIR miles. Horses, men an gun car
redges ARE landed in tn British camp
whole. TIL sun is obscured be Boer whis-
kers turned green. TIL heart in tn cor
ryspondints is made sick be tn sight, an
be tn thought iv tn fearful carnage
wrought be this Unread destroyer In
tn ranks iv tn brave but misguided
Dutchmen. TIL mex day deserters firm
tn Boer ranks reports that they have
fed firm tn camp, needin' a dhrink an
enable to stand tn scenes iv horror.
They announce that tn whole Boer
ARMY is as green as wall paper, an tn
Irish brigade has sthruck because We
can't tell their flag firm tn flag " tn
r-rest iv tn Dutch. TIL Fr-rinch gin'raI
in command iv tn Swedish corps lost his
complexion an has been STINT to tn hos
pital, an Mrs. Gin'ral Crownjoys wash
in that was hangin' on tn line whin tn
bombardmint convinced is total
wreck which no amount iv bluein' will
save. TIL deserters also report that man
ny w Tn Beers ARE out Spanntn', trek
kin, loogerin kopjein' an veldtin' home
to be dyed, FIR tits not known whether
lyddite IS fast color or will come out
in tn wash.
I'm spite iv their heavy losses tn Beers
kept up fierce fire. They had no lyddite,
but with their other divvlish modhern ex-
plosives they wrought TREMENDOUS dam
age. FIR some hours shells burst with
turr BILE precision in tn Boer camp. Wan
man who was good at figures counted as
NANNY as forty-two thousan' eight hun
dhred an swim burstin' within RADIUS
iv wan fut. Ye can imagine tn horrible
carnage Col. c.. G. F. X L. M. N o.
P. Hetherington-Casey- Higgins lost his
eye-glass tin times, tn las time almost
sWallowin' it, while ye'er faithful cor
ryspondint was rindered deaf be tn ex-
plosions Another Irish rig mint has dis
appeared, tn Twelve Thousandth an
Eighth, Dublin Fusiliers. Brave fellows,
it's SUSPECTED they mistook tn explosion
iv lyddite FIR Pathrick's Day procession
an wint acrost to take a look at 1t.
"Murdher, but tbs dhreadful to r-read
about. We have to change all our con-
options iv warfare. Wanst tn field was
r-red, now tbs q br-right lyddite green.