The independent., 1907-04-04

Customs House Th' peiple that wud
make tn inyintion pay wud be tn last
to want 20 be tested by it. TIL pa
apers might keep records iv tn re-
suits: 'Misther So-an' SO, tn gr-reat
captain iv finance, died yesterday,
universally regretted. His estate
amounts to nineteen millyon dollars.
There ar-re two large bequests to char
ity. Wan is a thrust fund set aside
f'r his maiden sister Annybelle, who
will receive f'r life tn income on eight
hundherd dollars in stock iv tn Hack
ensack Meadows comp'ny. TIL other
is forty-two dollars to buy wooden
leg fr his brother Isa,.1, in Abilene,
Kansas, it bein' understood that no
charge is to be made be tn estate
against tn brother FIR set iv false
teeth bought f'r him in the year nine
teen four Th' balance iv tn property
is left in trust FIR th' minor children
ceased requested that his soul be
measured be troy weight 1t tipped
tn beam at wan pennyweight.'
Dye think tn soul can be weighed?"
asked Mr.. Hennessy. II know it's
there, but I think-I kind iv feel-I
wondher1 don't hardly know"
ley. "Scales an clocks ar-re not to be
thrusted to decide anything that's
worth deciding, Who tells time be a
clock? Ivry hour is tn same to
clock an ivry hour is diff'rent to me.
Wan long, wan short. There ar-re
hours in the avenin' that pass between
two ticks iv tn clock: there ARE
hours in tn arly mornin whin man
pretenses
"How can I know anything, whin I
haven't puzzled out what / am mesif.
| am Dooley. ye say, but ye'er on'y a
casual obsarver. Ye don't care amy
thing about me details. Ye look at me
with a gin'ral eye Nawthin' that hap
pens to me really hurts We. Ye say,
'I'l go over to see Dooley,' sometimes,
but more often ye say I'll go over to
Dooley's.' I'm house to ye, wan iy a
thousand that look like row-iv model
wurrukin'men's cottages. I'm post
to hitch ye'er silences to. I'm always
about tn same to ye. But to me I'm
a millyon Dooleys an all iv thin
sthraners 20 MgE. | niver know which
wan iv thin is comm in. I'm like
hotel keeper with ony wan bed an
millyon guests, who come wan at a
time an tumble each other out. | set
up late at night an pass tn bottle
with a gay an careless Dooley that
hasn't a sorrow in tn wurruld, an
suddenly | look up an see settin'
acrost firm me a gloomy wretch that
fires tn dhrink out iv tn window an
chases me to bed I'm just gettin'
used to him whin another Dooley
comes in, a cross, cantankerous, crazy
fellow that insists on eatin' breakfast
with me- An so it goes. / know more
about mesilf than anybody knows an
| know nawthin'. Though I'd make a
may firm mem'ry an gossip iv amy
other man, FIR mesilf I'm still un-
charted.
so what's tn use iv thryin' to know
anything less important. Don't thry.
All we've got to do is to believe what
ye hear, an if ye do that enough af-
ther while yell hear what ye believe.
Ye've got to start in believin' befure
we can find reason FIR ye'er belief.
Our old frind Christopher Columbus
hadn't amy good reason FIR believin'
that there was amy such a place as
America. But he believed it without
reason an thin wint out an found it.
Th' fellows that discovered tn canals
on Mars which other fellows think cud
be cured be good oculist. hadn't amy
right to think there were canals on
Mars. But wan iv thin said: I Won
dher if there ar-re canals on Mars; L
believe thera ar-re. III look an see
Be Hivens. there ar-re.' If he'd Won
dhered an thin believed about clothes
poles he'd've found thin too. Amy
kind iv fact is proof iv belief. A
firm belief atthracts facts. They come
out iv holes in tn ground an cracks in
tn wall to support belief but they run
away firm doubt.
'I'll niver get amy medal FIR maxim
amy man give up his belief. Ii | see
q fellow with a chube on his eye an
hear him hollerin', 'Hooray, I've dis
covered new planet, I'll be tn last
man In tn wurruld to brush tn fly
off tn end iv tn telescope. I've known
people that see ghosts. l didn't see
thin, but they did, They cud see
ghosts an l cudden't. There wasn't
anything else to II. 1 knew a fellow
tha. was a Spirituaiist wanst. He was
In tn chattel morgedgc business on