The sun., 1904-07-17

'Then l showed him how to milk.
started him on old Spot, that's pretty near
dried up anyhow, SOS a new hand wouldn't
hurt much He seemed to get the hang
real well an went Of an left him. Pretty
soon they was yell down in the bsrnyard
There was old Spot, that never kicked
before in her life. lammin' out with both
her hind legs, an there was that blame
little Britisher trying to milk her on the
right side.
He was hangin on real gritty, an she was
! fghtin' hard. Finally, she lit out with both
her hind legs to once an set down on him
| an the pail an the STOOL But he got up
an Cussed like an American citizen, an /
see there was hope for him. And he's
got to be real handy
John Bailey belongs to the civil war
generation Of Long Island. Asked how
he reconciled his liking for his new hired
man with his feeling about the British. he
said
'Waal. figured 1t like this: There's
100000 Americans and there's some bad
people among EN-, as 1 know from ex-
perience. The Lord makes a mistake onoet
in while. They tell me there's about half
that many Britishers, an maybe the Lord
made mistake or two there. but few
good ones with en-
Fourth Of July-last Fourth, the l2sth
anniversary Of deliverance from the British
the old meeting house at Wading River
saw an awful sight. 1t was built in the
20's Of the last century, that meeting house.
The men who raised 1t and the men who
paid them had fought In two wars against
Great Britain. Every Sunday for going
on ninety years 1t has echoed prayers for
deliverancs from perfidious Albion. That
being so, the spectacle upon which 1t looked
last Fourth Of July completely shivered
it's venerable timbers
There were twenty Britishers shopping
round the country looking over the land,
and there was native, who has Stony
Point f1intlock at home, aiding and sbetting
them and treating them to beerl They
trod unharmed ON the sacred sol watered
with English blackthorn stioks 10 see how
far down 1t went to hard pan. The English
'help' were putting In their first holiday
looking at prospective purchases.
The weather stats which fell OF the
steeple of the old meeting house two nights
later were supposed to have been jarred
loose by the thunderstorm which hap
pened that night. None Of the neighbors
understood But It was the old meeting
house trying to shake itself to pieces before
1t became party to the iniquity.
Land values have gone UP on the east |
end of Long Island. Every one is laying |
for q chance at Britisher who wants to |
buy. This has pretty thoroug ughly dis.
gusted syndicate which had Just about |
closed deal for lot Of cheap land, whom
In came the Britishers and up went prices.
1t looks now as though the English would |
hang on and win out. There are sixty OF |
them here and moro coming. They win
grub out the oaks In the out-over forest
land; they will take up the abandoned
farms with the Colonial housqs. they viii
drop into the shoes Of the old people whose
children refuse TO farm. In Colonial houses 2
where once q fintlook hung on the wall,
there will bang-oh. shades Of washingtoni
-there will hang revered and honored por-
traits Of q successor Of George III. For
ths most intensely anti British part Of the
Unitsd States bids fair TO bsoozns the most
DEttisk