The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1906-03-23

Deadwo"d Pioneer lines: Tor.
rence,' said Henne>>,. = ne laid
down the Pioneer-Tim.- "a the bar,
''who in the div il is them in-n"rgents
anyway. The papers are tull Nv
thim?"
1.-THE wurrd insoorgin,. said DOo-
ley, "is wurrd av varied md di-
vers flied manin 1t macs anuyihin'
from a naked savrge W,t Il bow an
arrer to a young lawyer wi burn
country storekeeper who wants a
postotfice. Wan>t that wurrd mint
the Cubans, thin it stuod for the
Filipayuos, an now it names a
bunch av discontinued Republicans
in our own tigh little -th tte whose
mouths are watering far pie.
Dooley stopped to light his cigar
and then continued: "Tnuz this
summer the trouble began, Hinnissey,
and sure it started whiu TX Sinitor
Frank Pettigrew stharted "a sing "a
song. Now Frank is IA nice felah
but he isn't much av singer"
can what wuz be -ingin'?" asked
Hennessy ia astoniahment
'Shure all last summer he kept
II
wurrds av the famous coon soug,
oh, Wont You Let Ne Bring Me
Clothes Back Home, manewhile
castin' sleeps eyes at the ray publ
can partly. So wan day in the midst
pened to reach, b. acc dent, the ears
Frank wild the tears av sympathy in
his vice.
"Poor lad, "says Coe, "Dose ye
want to cume back home?'
'Ind ade | do,n says Frank betwiXt
lade, Coe, since the stahr eyed god
been a mavarick ever since. 'Tis
tough Coe, this bein' II maverick all
the tonne. paryticularly seeing that
whin winter comes, and the grass gifts
Frank, "I'll be dinged, if I'll go in
the back dure of the party" Then
he continued, "tis not for me wild the
clingin' around me massive brains to
be takin' the pinitent binch or the
anxious safe for anywan 'Tis the
lIouO VI lure lpI lIc, Sots anu VIC Odud .
plyin' and the glad hand. No sneak
in back for yer Uncle Frank. 2"
"PoOr lad,' sez Coe, 81 wisht | cad
isn't meself that has the kay av the
front door. The masheen has it, dart
the luck.'
"Aisy, aisy, lad" sez Frank, "Go
in now an fight the masheen, an
l. tkrioIy Einhf
'em Coe, and I'll help We out. Ye see
lad, I'll sind We whole bunch av
old time pops and ye know that a pop
tn an a steam calinpe, an that's what
We want, lad, molnd me now, is noise.
Yell for Teddy an again the ma
sheen.'
"Huh," sez Coe, 81 don't see how
that 'ud help amy, the masheen is for
Teddy
they'll yell for It'd, too, but paste
to it that We yell louder, louder, do
the paple u'll think ye're the only
friends Tiddy has in the state. ~
''Tis foine plan, Terrence, do We
sey.
'Tubbe sure, tubbe sure, just loike
wan av thin perpetual motion ma
sheens that niver goes at all Now.
Hinnissey, twuz jist here that SinitOr
Gamble sits into the game. Sez he,
Frank we're the dealer, give me a
boonch av thim cards ye are dalin'.
COe, they shure looks loike thrumps
= ipi, &c, ;,,s
some too.
"But now, Terrence, didn't Gamble
make good sinitor?' protested Hen
nessey.
.'Av coorse, he did. He made sup
er-elegant sinitor. He lint foine
air av dignity and distinction to the
hull city of Washington which it
otherwise sadly lacked In fact Hin
nissey, he wuz so busy wurrking at
bein' dignified that he hadn't tonne
for annythin' else. Now there S
Congressman Martin, Hinnissey, the
trouble wild him is he is too busy to
be dignified. That's wan difference
betwixt him an Gamble. You see
Martin has his coat off wurrking, an
do ye know Hinnissey, it isn't alsy for
a man to look dignified in his shirt
sleeves.
"Wurrking at what?" asked Hen
nessey.
DRAFTING bills again the bafe trust,
and trying to pass them. Just imagin
man, now will We, tryin' to be
dignified when he is ladin' the strin-
uous lofe scrappin' wild the bafe
thrust. Av cOOrse that has given
Gamble decided advantage don't
think" and nooley winEed solemnly
at Hennessey.
''But what / don't understand at
all, at all, is where Frank Pettigrew
comes in in the dale. 'Tis the sinite
for Gamble and the governorship for
Coe, but where does Frank come imp
"Shure, he wants his ould job back
again"
"What ould job do We mane?"
'Runnin' "a political masheen, y
said Doolev, and turned out the
lights.