The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-04-15
New York Journal.)

chills chase each other up an down
me spine"
whats this lere stuff they calls
lyddite?" Mr.. Iie1nessy asked.
'Well. it's tin divvel's own med
cine" said Mr.. Dooley. Compared
with ly1die joynt powdher is Mrs.
Winslow's sootE.ng syrup. an We cud
leave tn childhcr play baseball with
a can iv dinnymite. IT'S as sthrong
as Gin'ral Crownioy's camp tn day
~ tn surrinder. an almost as sthrong
as tn politics ~ Montana. TIL men
that handles it il cased in six inch
armor and PLAY ed on be hose iv ice
Wather. TIL gut that shoots it is al
ways blown up be tn discharge. Whin
this deadly missile flies through tn
air III threes ARE withered an tn
little bur-rds falls dead firm tn sky.
fishes is kilt in TN rivers an tn telly-
phone wires won't wurruk.
''Th' keen-eyed British gunners an
correspondents watches it in its
hellish course a1t' turin their faces as
it falls into tn Eoer trench. An oh.
tn sickly green fumes it gives OFF,
JUS like pizen f. potato bugs. There
is thremer. Gus explosion. IN
earth is thrown up FIR miles. Horses.
men an gun carredges ARE landed
in tn British romp whole. Tn sun
is obscured he Eoer whiskers turned
green. TIL heart in til correspond
ent is made sick be tn sight, an be
tn thought iv TN fearful carnage
wrought be this Unread destroyer in
tn ranks iy tn Irave but misguided
Dutchmen. Tn mex day deserters
from tn Boer ranks report that they
have fled TIL camp, needin a dhrlnk
an enable to ste nd the scenes iv hor-
ror. They announce that tn whole
Boer ARMY is as green as wall paper,
an tn Irish brigade has sthruck be-
cause We can't tell their flag firm tn
flag iv tn r-rest " tn Dutch. TIL FIR
rinch Gin raj in command iv tn
Swededish corps lost this complexion
an has been STINT to tn hospital, an
Mrs. Gin'ral Crownjoy's washin' what
was hangin on til line Whin TIL bonn
bardmint commihced is a total wreck
which no amount iv bluein' will save.
TIL deserters also report that many
iv tn Beers ar-re Out-spannin, trek
kin. loogerin, KCpejein an veldtin
home to be dyed f'r it's not known
whether lyddite is fast color or will
come out in tn wash.
sin spite iv their heavy losses tn
Beers kept up a fierce fire. They had
no lyddite. but with their other divvil
ish modhern explosives they wrought
TREMENDOUS damage. FIR some hours
shells burst with turr'ble precision i'll
tn Boer camp. Wan man who was
good at figures counted as NANNY as
forty-two thousan' eight hundred an
sivin bu1'stin' within a RADIUS iv wan
fut. Ye can imagine tn horrible
O. p. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Higgins lost
lost his eyeglass tin times, tn las
time almost swalIowin' it, while ye'er
faithful correspondent was rinder
ed deaf by tn explosions. Another
Irish rig'mint has disappeared. tn
Twelve Thousandth an Eighth. Dub
lin Fusiliers. Brave fellows; It's sus-
picted they mistook tn explosion iv
lyddite f'r Pathrick's Day process
sion and whit acrost to take a look
at it.
"Murdher, but It's dreadful to
r-read about. We have to change all
our CONCEPTIONS iv warfare. Wanst
tn field was r-red now It's a br-right
lyddite green. Wanst a man wint out
an died FIR his country. now they
sind him out an lyddite dyes him.
w lldb 10 l uldHc 1 IL IL ,IOkt L
I'll not explain it to We. We wudden't
understand it. 'Tis FIR tn eddy
Gated classes
How they're liver gOin to get men
TO fight afther this | cudden't tell We.
Twas bad enough in tn oil days, whin
all that happened to a soier was bein'
pinithrated be a large one-round COB
iv solder or stuck up on tn end iv a
baynit be a careless inimy. But now
adays they have tn bullet that whin
it enthers We TURNS ar-round like TIL
screw iv a propeller, an another wan
that We might say goes in be key
hole an comes out through window.
an another that has time fuse in it,
an it doesn't come out at all, but
stays in We, an mebbe twinty years
afther. whin we've f'rgot all about it
/ an ARE settin' at home with ye'er
family, bang. away it goes, am We
with it. carrying away half iv tn roof.
"Thin they have guns as long as
firm here to tn rollin' mills that fires
shells as big as thrunk. TIL shells
ARE loaded like a doctors bag an
have all kinds av things in thin that
won't do a bit av good to man or
beast. If soier has weak back
tIICIt SlHIctlllllS III III SlItll tildl IT,
moves a weak back; if his head trou-
bles him. he can lose it; if tn odher
av vilets is distasteful to him tn shell
smothers him in vilet powdher. They
have guns that amy boy or girl who
knows tn typewriter can wurruk an
they have other guns on tn music
box plan. that We wind up an go
away an lave an they annoy amy
wan that comes along.
They have guns that bounces up
out av hole in tn groun', fires Il
millyon shells a minyit an dhrops
back FIR another load. They have
guns that fire dynnymite an guns
that fire tn hateful, sickly green lyd-
dite that makes tn inimy look like
fiat money, an guns that fire canned
beef FIR the inimy an distemper pow
dher f'r tn inimy's horses. An they
have some guns that shoot straight.
We'll. thin" Mr. Hennessy grum-
bled. Its a wundher to me that with
all thin things they amt more people
kilt Sure, Gin'ral Grant lost more
men in wan day thin tn British have
lost in four months. an ali he had to
keep tab on was OF fashioned bullets
an big. bouncin' iron balls