Arizona republican., 1903-02-16
Copyrighted, 1903, by Robert Howard
 RusSell)
By P. F. DUNNE.

Its turrble, tn way me frind And hrew Carnaygie has been jumpin' on Homer said MT. Dooley.
 What Homer?" asked MT. Hennessy.
 Homer tn pote,'' said MT. Dooley. Has: Andhrew been roastin' him?' asked MT. Hennessy.
 He has, said Mir. Dooley. lies been givin' it to him good. It's all up with Homer No wan will print his stuff amy more. He'll be goin' round with a pome undher his ar-rurn fir newspaper to newspaper thryin' to sell it. 'They'Se a man wants to see ye,' says tn office boy. Whats he like? says tn iditor. He's an ol' bald headed man with long whiskers an 6hressed in a table cloth. I think he's blind fir he was led in be a dog on q sthring,' says he. 'Oh, it's on'y ol' Homer says tn iditor. Tell him I'm busy he says. Carnaygie has busted him. People will talk about him firm now on as tn fellow that CarnaygIe threw into tn fire.
 Twill be a hard blow to Hogan. I niver Tread anything that Homer wrote but Hogan an tn ol fellow was gr-reat frinds. I got an idee that Ho
 
 knew annything about mannyfacthrin' pig ir'n an bein' blind he couldn't tell good money firm bad. He niver sold canned air to tn govermint f'r armor plate an he didn't know tn prince iv Wales at all. If ye wint to ol' Homer an thried to tell him that be handin' 3 little coin to tn freight agent iv tn Pinnsylvnnia he cud ship his pothry firm Pittsburg to Phillydelphy cheaper thin Roodyard Kiplin', tn chances ar-re he'd tell ye to go to tn divvle an raysume his pome. He had no busi ness head an he niver founded libry buildin. though I've heerd tell he founded a few libries. Poor ol' la-ad; l feel bad about him. But it's hard on Hogan. He's always blowin' about Homer. Ye'd think thls ol fellow was all tn potes there iver was. It was Homer this an Homer that. Homer says so-an'-so. Dye raymimber what Homer said about that? He's as blinI as bat bu- he can see more thin mor- tial man. He is poor but his head is full iv kings an princes. an not fat little kings that are tn same height anyway ye take thim, but long, lean kings that ar-re always chargin' round soerd in hand an slayin' each other. Sivin cities claim Homer's birth place which is eight more thin claim And hrew Carnaygie's-Ithaca, Utica an five other places in cinthral New York that I don't raymimber. I felt says Hogan, 'whin I first met Homer like tn pote that said he felt like somebody or other whin first he looked out upon tn Passyfic firm tn City iv Mexico he f, e that ol' blind fellow. Now. it's 1l.- turn. Whin he comes round, yell hear me say: Hows ye'er frind Homer now?' or Have ye heerd firm Homer lately?' or Whats Homer doin' in tn pothry line?' I'll make life 9 burden to Hogan.
 "Ye didn see what Carnaygfe said. did ye? I'll tell ye. 'Th other night. he says, I wint home, tired out vita th compliments I had rayceived firm me silf an settled in me cozy libry. full iv tn choicest backgammon boords. he says I picked up wan book afther another firm tn libry table. Sthrange to say, they were all be tn wan author me fav'rite author. tn kindliest sowl that is constant inspiration to me mesif,' he says. I craved lighter
 
 grajate iv a Scotch college-which l have made into a first-class intilligence off1ce-f'r amy readin' matter he hai on hand. He sint me copy iv a pote be tn name iv Homer-I don't reck- feet his full name, but I think twas James J. Homer. P'raps some iv ye will know. He's a Greek pote an this book was in tn original Greek thrans- ch 1,a very fiuently. he says. Well. I don't know that tn matther is worth talkin' about excipt to tell ye how felt about it, but if this is tn way modhren lith- rachoor is tindin'. I'm goin' to put | blast chimbly into all me libries O. all tn bum books, Here's fellow set tin down to write an gettin' tn good money iv tn public that hasn't amy style, amy polish an don't know tn first ilimints iv tn Greek language An his charachters, I tell ye. boys. I know few things about kings. I don't go be hearsay about thim. l know thinl. I've had thim right in me own house They've slept undher me roof an even firm tn barn where coort etiket pre- scribes l mus lay me bed whin rieltv IS Tn tn house, I've heerd tn kinglv snore iv that charmin' monarch Ed ward iv illusthrees memory who ray numbers me name I can tell ye all about kings an I will if somewan will lock tn dure. An l say to ye that this man Homer don't know king firm i; doose- He's got wan charackter- In in book. king be tn name iv AchiIls What kind iv king does he make K himE Is he small. r-round. haughtI king with a pinted beard. who says Andy. fir foolish little man, ye hay. very good house. Not at all: thi. Achilis is no more an no less thin . dhrunken vaSabonc. He's roysterin an cuttin' up firm mornin' to night hes chopin people open: hes insult in his frinds an bethrayin' his Co11n thry an Gnlly he dies he bein' hit 0, th' heel. Did ye iver hear tn like?
 know kings, I tell ye. an that's no tn kind iv men they ar-re at all. The, dong carry sOords but canes I wea ~Ilip firm tn cane iv wan iv thin r@ho shall be nameless to all but We. m ( frinds. but it was King Edward, I wea & silver firm his walkin' stick over m , heart at this minyit. They don't ge ! dhrunk. at all. As a rule they arr