Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-13

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 LOOK AT IT AND KEEP AWAY FROM
 THE BANKS.
 lea feel like he was at home to mix with British soldiers who come from the old sod
 Dad says that there is never an army anywhere in the world, except the armies of Russia and Japan, that the bravest men are not answering to Irish names, and always on the ad- vance in fight, or in the rear when there is retreat. Dad says that in our own army, and when the north and south were fighting, the Irish boys were the fellows who saved the day. They wanted to fight nights and Sun days, and never struck for an eight hour day. or union wages. When the fighting was over, and soldiers were sick, or discouraged. and Respondent, an Irish soldier would come along, maybe on crutches, or with bullet in his innards, and tell funny stories and make the discouraged fellows laugh in spite of themselves, and when another fight was on, you had to tie the wound ed Irish soldiers to their cots in the hospital, or put them in jail, to keep them from forgetting their wounds and going to the front for one more fight Dad says if there was an Irish nation. with an army and navy, the whole world would have to combine to whip them, and yet the nation that has the control of the Irish people treats them worse than San Francisco treats Chinamen, makes them live on potatoes, and allows landlords to take away the potatoes if they are shy on the rent.
 Gee, dad looked over my shoulder. and saw what I had written, and he cuffed me on the side of the head, and said I was an incendiary. and that ought to have sense enough not to write treason while guest on Brit ish soil) We'll, don't care a darn. It makes me hot under the collar when I think of the brave Irish fellows, and I wonder why they don't come to America in a body and be aldermen and policemen. When 1 get home I am going to join the Fenians, and raise thunder just as quick as I am old enough.
 We'll, sir, we have been through the suez canal, and for a great modern piece of engineering it doesn't size up with a sewer in Milwaukee, or a bayou in Louisiana It is just dig ing a railroad cut through the desert, and letting in the water. and there you are. The only question in it's construction was plenty of dredging machines, and place to pile the dirt and water that just came in of its own accord. and stays there. and smells like thunder, and you see the natives look at 1t and keep away from the banks. for fear the banks will cave in on them. and give them a bath before their year is up. cause they don't bathe but once year, and when they skip a year nobody knows about it
 Our boat went right along. and got out of the canal, because 1t was a mail boat but the most of the boats we saw were tied up to the bank, waiting for the millennium. We saw some Rus sian boats waiting for the war to blow over. and as we passed them every Russian on board looked scared, as though we were Jsps. that were go- ing to fire a torpedo under them, or throw a bomb on deck. and when our boat got by the Russian boat the crew was called to prayers. to thank the Lord. or whoever 1t is that the Rus sians thank because they had escaped Q dire peril [ guess the Russians are all in. and that those who have not gone to the front are shaking hands with themselves. and waiting for the dove of peace 10 alight on their guns.
 The susz canal probably pays. and 10 wonder. cause they charge what they please to boats that 20 through. and fl they don't pay. all they have to do is 10 stay out. and go around a tev thouza1d miles. F is Ike a ferry across little stream out west, where there is 10 other way to cross. except to wade or go around and the 7id ferryusn sizes up the wagon load hat wants to cross. and takes all they have Eot loose and then the trzvslsrs are ihead Of the game. cause If thsy iidnt cross the stream they would iare to os1p on the bank until the rrean driss ID. Some day 2z earth Tuzke uIIl spiit that dsserr wids open.
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