Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-07-10

~" - ELL, sir, said Mr.. Doc
A ley, Eye ought to be glad
wv ye're not sick an illus
threes at tn same time"
''How's THAR" Mr.. Hennessy de-
manded.
well, We see," said Mr.. Dooley,
suppose anything happens to We
now; a fellow counthryman dhrops a
hammer on we tn day afther tn picnic
or ye'er digestion listens to a walkin'
dillygate firm tn Union Nv Mickrobes
an goes out on sthrike. TIL polisman
on tn corner has tn usual suspicious
among gintlemen an bits We over tn
head an calls tn wagon an sinds We
home. TIL good woman wrings her
hands an calls Hiven to witness that
II We have a toothache We wake tn
neighborhood, an slaps a mustard
plasther onlye II she comes back later
an finds We haven't put tn sheet be-
tween We an tn plasther an gone to
sleep, she knows It's seeryous an sinds
fr tn doctor. We continyoo to have
doctors in what tn pa-apers call tn
outlyin' wards. They live above tn
drugstore an practice midicine on
us. tn physicians an surgeons are all
down town edith tn pa-apers. Well,
dock comes to We afther awhile in a
buggy. On tn way up he sets broken
leg, removes an arm, does a little
something FIR tn city directhry, takes
a thrink, talks polyticks with tn un-
happy parent an fin'lly lands at ye'er
dure with tn burglars tools. Afther
he's closed that dure tn secrets Nv tn
inner man Is know Monty to him. No
wan hears or wants to hear anything
about It. TIL mex time we see We, We
come out lookin' pale an emacyated
an much younger an better lookin'
thin annywan liver raymimbers seem
We, an afther awhile ye obsarve that
whin We start to tell how nanny stitch
es 1t took an what We see whin We
smelled tn dizzy sponge, ye'er friends
begin to sprint away. An We go back
reluctantly to wurruk. Ye niver hear
annywan say: 'Hinnissy is great COM
p'ny whin he begins to talk about his
Sickness I've seen men turn firm
poor, helpless, enthusiastic invalid to
listen to a man talkin' about tn Mica
ragooan canal.
but with tn great tbs far din rent.
I've often thanked tn Lord that I
didn't continyoo in polytics whin was
capn iv me precinct FIR with tn eyes
iv all tn wurruld focused, as Hogan
saws. on me- l cud niver injye tn
pleasure tv a moments sickness with
out people in far-off Boolgahrya know
in whether me liver was on straight.
Sickness is wan iv tn privileges Nv tn
poor man that he shares with no wan.
Whin 1t comes kindly to him, tn four
walls iv his room closes in on him like
a tent, folks goes by on tn other side
Nv tn sthreet, tn rollin' mill disappears,
an with tn mornin' comes no honest
days tile. He lies there in blessid idle
ness an no matther what's tn mat
Their with him he don't suffer half as
much pain as he wud in pursoot Nv two
dollars a day I knowed a man wanst
who used to take his vacations that
way. Whin others whit off FIR to hunt
what Hogan calls tn finny monsthes
Nv tn deep, he become seriously i'll
an took to bed. 1t made him very
sthrong.
But suppose 1 hadn't resigned firm
cap'n Nv me precint whin l was de-
feated. II anything had happened to
me, ye'd pick up tn pa-apers an see:
'Seeryous news about tn Cap'n Nv tn
twinty-sicond precint Nv tn sixth ward.
He has brain fever. He has not. He
got into a fight with a Swede an had
his ribs stove in. He fell out Nv tn
window iv a ioolry store he was bur-