The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-03
A TRUTHFUL TALE
OF TOM MEEHAN
Something About the Latter's PaternaI
Ancestor and the Wine Ii Cost Meehan.

Something About the Latter's PaternaI
Ancestor and the Wine 1t Cost Meehan.
Former Sheriff James Dunn has just
returned from his annual trip abroad with
big fund of happy stories. One that he
tells has been pretty well circulated
Throughout South Sou. Brooklyn, and has al
dealer, who with "Phil'' Casey, the expert
handbaH player, accompanied the former
under sheriff to the other side, numerous
Ing "jellied, !" and when his friends recall
Dunn's story referred to, the lumber man
. says it makes him feel like thirty cents,
and he cuts the discussion by buying wine.
Bum sWears that the facts are just as he
states them, Meehan was born in Done
gal he left there a ragged boy, and
came over here and accumulated a pie
thoric bank account When he learned
that Dunn and Casey were going to visit
ireland this summer, he prevailed on them
TO take him along, SO that he could 'once
more see the house of me birth" When
the party reached Donegal Dunn feelingly
asked Meehan: tom, do you think you'll
recognize the old home when you see ti?"
Tom Meehan responded with tears in
It's been in me minds eve for thirty years.
So this is old Donegal? The place is lit
tie changed, but as sure as me name. Is
Tom Meehan, there stands the old house,
looking as If it was built only yesterday"
Meehan pointed to a handsome, mod
ernly constructed dwelling in one Of the
peSr sections or the place,
Is that the house in which YOU were
born; TOMB" Dunn asked snothering a
smile. with an effort.
1.-THE very one. Jim," Meehan declared.
How we'll remember the old place."
Dunn looked at Casey the third member
OF the party, who seemed ready to burst
with laughter, and then hailing an old
fellow who was selling potatoes on the
""sag, daddy, how long have you been
around here?e
AS man and boy nigh on to seventy
Did you know old Tom Meenan, the
"Bedad, did, sir, and foine old man
Didn't I tell you, jim" Mehan inter-
jected gleefully, "Me father was well
thought of in these parts. Here, me
friend, to the potato vender, go dump
your entire stock in the home of the first
wilder yer come to. and there's the mon
The old fellow poolketed a bank note
that Meehan had given him and was trot-
ting off when Dunn stopped him.
do you know, daddy" Dunn asked
him, where old Tom Meehan lived?'
will I ever forgit it, sir?" the aged
helped him to empty many a can in his
Show US; the house and I'll double that
money one you've just received" 49,,
potatoes and led the way to a. weather
stained, one-.story cabin in one of the
poorer neighborhoods of the town; Nee
han went along with a detected look,
Reaching the building. which was scarce
ly large enough to shelter two persons
the aged guide said:
There; sir, is old Tom Meehan's
home. 1t was there he raised his family
and there he died. and, sir, he left divil
if a young son, who whit to America
and was never heard of again here
abouts."
You're a liar. you old blatherskite.
Meehan calculated. Fork over that
money just gave you. Jim, this fellow
pom my honor, is a fraud"
"Say no more, me boy Dunn OBJ
served, I'VE know he's ssar, and
we know that your father was one Of the
big guns of Donegal and that he lived in
a mansion
'@Of course we do, Tom Casey de-
clared, "but it's just possible that you're
a wee bit twisted in the memory rela-
ton. Let's forget it"
bought wine enough to float battleship
since his return home In order to keep
this story from spreading
Times.