Iron County register., 1905-08-31

vance in a fight, or in the rear when
there is a 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 Cinnamon, 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 l had written, and be
cuffed me on the side of the head, and
said l was an incendiary, and that /
ought to have sense enough not to
write treason while a guest on Brit
ish soil.) Well, | don't care a darn.
1t makes me hot under the collar when
| think of the brave Irish fellows, and
| wonder why they don't come to
America in body and be aldermen
and policemen. When / get home |
am going to join the Fenians, and
raise thunder just as quick as | am
old enough.
Well, 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. 1t is just dig
| ing a railroad cut through the desert
and letting in the water, and there
you are. The only question in its
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 it and keep away from the
banks. for fear the banks will cave in
on them, and give them bath before
their year is up, cause they DOM
bathe but once year, and when they
skip year nobody knows about it.
Our boat went right along, and go
out of the canal, because it was {
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 tt
blow over, and as we passed then
every Russian ON board looked scared
as though we were Japs, that were go
ing to fire torpedo under them, O.
throw a bomb on deck, and when ou
boat got by the Russian boat the crev
was called to prayers, to thank tn
Lord or whoever 1t is that the Rus
slams thank, because they had escape,
dire peril. guess the Russians ar
all in, and that those who have no
gone to the front are shaking hand
with themselves, and waiting for tn
dove of peace to alight on their guns
The Suez canal probably pays, an
no wonder, cause they charge wha
they please to boats that go through
and # they don't pay, all they hav
to dD is to stay out, and go around
few thousand miles. It is like
ferry across little stream out weS
where there is no other way to cross
except to wade or go around, and tn
old ferryman sizes up the wagon loa
that wants to cross, and takes all the
have gotloose, and then the travellers ar
ahead of the game, cause If the
didn't cross the stream they woul
have to camp on the bank until tn
! strearn dried up. Some day an eartf
quake will split that desert wide opel
and Tie waterHn the Suez canal wi
soak into the sand and the steam
boats will lay In the mud, and be co,
cred with a sandstorm, and futur
ages viii be discovering full-rigge
shipsfe n deep on the cesert. Dad say