The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-10
Copyright, 1904, by Mcclure. Phillips & Co.


sthrong FIR human endurance. Mug
gins didn't mind it. He niver minded
anything. He was a hayro.
Afther awhile he took to dhrink. Ha-
hlchool hayrOes always do an whtn
IN dhrink he was melancholy or quar-
relsome, as dhrunk men an hayroes
sometimes ARE. Clancy Wud be sit
tin quitely in cafe with some friends
whin Muggins Wud blow in an set down
with his hat over his eyes. TIL frind
Wud have to inthrajo him with a
catch in his voice an a tear in his eyes.
Boys he'd say 1 want to inthrajooce
We to Alphonse Muggins. Gawd bless
him, boys, he saved me life Is that
soY says wan w his COMPANIONS. 'Ye
betcher life it is says Muggins. Did
/ save his life? Well ask him. Ye ask
him If ] din save his life. Ye just ask
him. If he don lie about it, he'll tell
We who saved his life. Din l leap into
tn ragin' flood an riscue him at tn
risk iv me life? Maybe, l din. Maybe
it was man in Milwaukee that done
that. Looky here. Look at this clock,
/ got firm his folks, if We don believe
me. An what's he done FIR me? Tell
me that, will We? Who am 1? I'm moth
in. I'm Muggins tn tailor. An what's
he? Look at him, will We, with his
dimon' pin an his plug hat so gay. An
where'd he be if it wasn't FIR me?
But it's all right boys. It's all right.
Life is curious place an gratichood
is thing unknown An he wud weep
an go to sleep. Sometimes he wud
fight. He punched Clancy two or
three times on account of his ingrati-
chood. Clancy had to support him an
bail him out an get tn clock out iv
tn pawnshop iVry Saturday night.
But an end comes to all things Hay
roes don't live long. They can't tn
sway they live. An wan day Muggins
wint tn way iV all our kind, proud an
simple, coward an brave man, hay
roes an hayro wOrshipper. The pa
aperS had an account iV his fun'ral.
Among tn mourners none was more
affected thin Congressman Clancy,
whose life. near forty years ago, this
humble hayro had saved firm a wathry
doom in Lake Michigan TIL ray
porthers didn't obsarve that Clancy
tamped tn grave with his foot to
make sure it was solid. He wint home
with light heart, an says to his
wife; Mother to-day ! begin me rale
career. We burrid Muggins.' But Cor
nelius,' says tn good woman We owed
him ye'er life Praps,' says Clancy,
but he says, he took it out in thrade
long ago
cisthress kindly call FIR PROFESSIONAL
help. I'll be rscued be a fireman or a
polisman because it's all in their days
wurruk, but amachoor hayroes is a
danger when they're riscun' We an
worry liver afther. If owe me life to
annywan let il be to man who won't
thry to collect it. Anyhow what is
hayroism? If a man stops a runaway
team that is dhraggin an empty milk
wagon into a ditch. he's not a hayro.
He's a fool. TIL line is lightly dhrawn
anyhow. hayro is often a SUCCESS
full fool an fool is an unsuccessful
hayro. I've heard Andrew Carnaygia
called hayro but don't believe it. If
he was he wudden't be givin' medals FIR
hayroism. If he was a PROFESSIONAL
swimmer, he wudden't think anything
Nv savin' people firm dhrownin'. If ne
was a fireman he'd think nawthin' iv
carryin' a man down tn fire escape iv
burnin' buildin. If he was a stable
boy he'd find that he'd have to catch
runaway horses or lose his job. [ wud-
dent hesitate to go down laddher on
yeer shoulders but if We thried to save
me firm dhrownin' I'd scream FIR help.
What wud / be doin' thryin' to stop
a runaway team? But if We fell
through my coal hole into me cellar, I'd
organize an haryoic riscue. l know
tn way. Hayroes ought to know tn
way to be safe. If they do they don't
need amy medals. If they don't, they'd
betther turn in an alarm.
There ar-re hayroes an hayroes.
We're all hayroes more or less. Ye're a
hayro yeerself, town those tired feet
afther We iviry mornin' whin tn whis-
tie blows. An be hivens If ye'er wife
had a medal FIR livery act iv hayroism
she's performer, she'd have as nanny
now as Sousa. Hayroes in tn humble
walks av life. says he? Well, there's
enough Nv them to break him If he gives
each wan iv thin tn ony kind iv med
ais they need, tn kind tn govermint
foundry makes with tn eagle on tn
back"
well anyhow, he's a very gin'rous
man an he deserves ivrybody's graft
chood," said Mr.. Hennessy.
"Oh, as for that" said Mr.. Dooley,
what good wud my little gratichood
do him? He'll get gratichood enough.
He tends to that himsilf."