The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1902-03-01
Copyright, ioJ2, BY Robert Howard Russell.

hnckin' W, dear brotheri an hOck III
Watch on tn Rhine" This here Il
American joke. tPm gettin' on tast)
I'm goin to he took to tn opry some
night this week. They've fixed a lot
iy la-ads' out iv their boxes to make
room pr me. Wan iv thin objected,
but he was fired annyhow. Ailerwsrd
l m goin to ate dinner with tn iditors
iv tn country. Won't that be nice?
suppose Pm tn first Honezollern that
iver took dinner with an editor, though
our family has often given him t,od an
lodgin'-iu jail wish ye was here to
60 with me, Ye've had more journalistic
experience, On NANNY iy tn things
we've printed wudden't seem too un'
thrue to tn other guests. Th' news
papers has been most kind to me, l
might cay say, almost too kind, | am
sindin' ye a photygraft iv mysili in me,
bath, took by hashlikht be an iditor
concealed on tn top iv tn clothes press,
On interview be a lady rayporter, who
riprisinted herself as tn queen iV Ohio
80 But tn big ivint comes off tomor-
rah. Am actually invited to a dinner
iv wan hundherd iv tn representative
business men iv New York an few
Christyans ast in sitherward. Hooray
hooray mind ye, these ARE not ord
hn'ry bu usiness men. Far firm it. No
wan gets in unless he has made at laste
eight millyion marks out WITH siyinty
millyion marks in this country. n
I'm act to meet thin! What fun |
bet twill be jolly, I'm goin' to buy me
a table i'r computin' inthrest, a copy iv
tn naytional banking act, an good
account iv tn transactions in sterlin'
exchange rr tn current year, an whin
tn qup an jest 20 round I'll be no excl,
et,n at tn feast.
"'Ye can zee be this that my life has
been almost TOO gay, hut tn merrymint
goes blithey on. Firm here | go to
Bn%ston, where / expct to pat th' Bun
ker Hill monymint on tn head an have
look at tn new railway station, Then
| will tax in Buhlo, Cichago ro.noupced
Sichawgo) Saint Looey, Three Rapids,
Idaho, Pennsylvania, an mos iy tn
large cities iy th' West, including Chata-
hooga, whers wauiv th' gr-reat battles
iv tn rivolution was fought between |
Gin'ral Sigel an Gin'ral Zollccffer. |
expict to larn great deal about th
steel, pork, corn, lard an lithrachoor iy
tn country before rayturn.
But this buttherhy existence is
KILN me. Itis far too gay. | suppose
whin l was younger l wud'ye injyed it,
but me time fr socyal festivities has
passed, an long i'r tn quite iv home
life among tn simple ryelties iy Europe
Ye'ers lIinnery.'
"Yes, he's hsvin' a good time. But
what tn pa'apers calls tn climax iv tn
intertainmint will be reached whiu he
arrives in Chicago. S5hwartzmeister an
l will rayceiye him. Schwaitzmeister'
iaml knew his in tn OIL country. He
had an uncle that was booted all tn
way f. m Sedan to Paris be a cousin iv
tn prince. We've arranged the program
so far as Ar'rchey road is concerned.
Monday Tornin', visit TO Kennedy's
packin house; afternoon, Riordan's
blacksmith shop; avenin, 9Th Two Or,
phaus," at tn Halsted street opry house.
Choosdah, II a. M, inspection iv tn roll.
in mills; afternoon, visit TO Feeney's
coal yard aveuin'. Bells iv Carnevlle, ,
at tn opry house. Winsdah lnornin',
tug ride on the river firm Thirty-frst
sthreet to Laws coal yard; aithernoon,
a call on tn tanneries, the cable barn
an Ia brickyard; avenin', dinner an
rayciption be tn retail saloonkeepers
There's tn whole program. They may
think in Moo York they are givin' him a
good time, but wen him what gayety
raaly is, an inform him iv tn iounda-
tion iy our supremacy as a nation.
That's what he wants to see, an we'll
show II to him."
'GooWan,' said Mr.. Hennessy. "He
don't know ye."
81 bet ye he knows me as much as he
knows thim," said Mr.. Dooley. "To a
} raale prince they can't be much differ
enee between a man who sells liquor be
tn pail an wan that sells it be tn dis
tillery, between a man that makes a
} horseshoe an wan that makes a millyion
tons iy steel. We're all alike to him
Carnaygie, Rockyfellar, Morgan.
Schwartzmeister an me.
well, he certainly has been well rsy-
ce'yed," " said Mr.. Hennessy.
81 wondher, "said Mr.. Dooey, ''ii he
} thinks Its on tn square"