The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-23
MR. DOOLEY ON THE
TRUTH ABOUT SCHLEY

YF THEYSE wan thing I'm prouder
iv thin another in me past life"
- said Mr.. Dooley, Its that whin
the country called me to go to tn
Spanish war, l was out. 1 owe my
rayspectibility an me high standin'
among me fellow-men to tn fact, Hin
Missy. that where tn shot an shell fell
thickest, I wasn't there. If / had amy
childher, tn proudest title Nv fame. as
Hogan says, cud hand down to thim'd
be that 1 niver see tn shores iv Cuba.
'Childher,' I say, 'ye-er pah-pah's
life was not entirely free firm crime.
He had his triflin' faults, was somethin'
iy an embezzler, little iv safe blow
er an occasionally a murdhrer. He
dhrank too much an bate ye'er poor
mother that now Is dead, or wud if she
liver lived, but wan thing he niver did.
He niver took a hand in tn war in
Cuba. There ar-re no dents on his ar
NOR plate
''Td have Congress sthrike medals FIR
the absentee hayroes: To Martin Doc
ley f'r not bein' prisint at tn battle iv
Sandago,' or, In recognition iv gallant
absence firm tn battle Nv Manila
Sweet an proper it is to remain at
home for vans country Be hivins,
Hinnissy, if a mans brought up be-
fure a judge on e charge iv larceny,
tn coort says: Amy previous convic-
tions?' No. says tn polisman. Five
years. says tn judge. But he was a
hayro iv tn Cuban war Make it life
says tn judge.
First they was Hobson. He kissed
a girl an ivrybody says: Hang him.
Kill tn coalskuttler.
Thin they was Dewey. He got mar
id an tn people was FIR maxim mathri-
mony a penal offince.
"Ye raymimber Gomez. Ye recall.
Hinnissy, how tn correspondents used
to poke their way to tn jungle where
he set maxim his simple meal iv tn leg
iv a Scorpion an piece iv sugar cane,
an offer him tn freedom iv tn city iv
Moo York whin tn war was over. Well
he went to Moo York las week, this
George Wash'nton iv tn Ant Hills. He
was met at tn ferry-boat be a raypor-
Their that twishted his head around to
take a phottygraft iv him an called
him Nanny an said he looked like
Mike Feely, tn alderman iv tn third
ward, only darker. A comfy iv seegal
makers waited on him an asst him tc
jine their union, an that was all tn
honors he had.
Freedom iv tn city. says ye? oh
he got that, an all iv that. He wa:
free to go an come without annybodJ
payin' amy attintion to him. He wa:
as free as tn air, because tn poll!
didn't know him. If they'd known, h'
might have been locked up.
can now it's Schley's turn. 1 knew
it was comm to Schley an here i
comes. Ye used to think he was
gran man, that whin OF Cerveer:
come out iv tn harbor iv Sandago call
ed out Come on, boys an plunged int
tn Spanish fleet an rayjooced it t.
scrap iron.
That's what ye thought, an that
what 1 thought an we were wrong
We were wrong, Hinnissy. I've bee
r-readin' a thrue histhry iv tn cam
paign be wan Nv tn gr-reatest history
ians now employed as a clerk in tt
supply stores iv tn Brooklyn nav
yard. Like mesilf, he's firesde veth
ran iv the war. He's mimber " tt
Martin Dolly Post No. 1, DEFENDERS /
tn Hearth. He's tn boy FIR We.
, liver he beats his sugar scoop into
: soord, ye'll think OF Farragut was
! lady cook on a lumber barge.
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: work of construction of a new band stan
was commenced yesterday, in the rear
Captain Berger's residence, by fore
of carpenters from the Quartermaster
| department and it Is also why Capital