The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-02-05

well SIR" said NJ. Do9ley, u
hand across tn sea has been extend
ed To US again We rayccived it un-
dhCr tn car.
''Did We read about it? Ye didn't?
Well twas this way. our felinM-An-
gIO-SaXonS own an island somewhere
beyant Cubia where they raise rum,
mollasses. ginger, an naygurs Fl tn
export thradc. IT'S firm there we get
tn sturdy blacks that may be seen
amy day smoking cigarcetS an play
in cards While diggin tn Pannymd
canal. It's q vallyable little Pearl
" tn Anti-Hiils and if England had
a few more iv Thin she'd be broke.
We'll, tn other day an earthquake
come along an SHOOK ii up. It
must've been Il good deal iV a jolt f'r
almost as nanny people were Kilt be II
as die III this country amy cold day
fr'n not havin' good enough shoes.
1t was pretty bad. an We're good
hearted people at heart. dye mlnd
an ivrybody. even thin unhappy peo-
pie that can't be sure they are Anglo
Saxons on account iv their parentdge
were in favor iv doin' somethin' fr
th' poor creatures.
us Anglo-Saxons looked on It
another WAY. Twas not to nurse tn
injured nor feed tn hungry that we
called on tn Prisidint to sind ships
to Kingston, but twas to bind up IN
wounds in wan iv tn exthremities "
our Mother Country. TIL Anglo
Saxon union invited contributions
through its Chairman tn Hon. Isaac
tears in his eyes ordhered Bob Evans
to sind somebody else to Jamaica 10
help ou~ cousins an prove again that
blood is thicker than water. he dtd
not think twas wise to SIND BOD ENan@
himsilf 50 soon afthcr tn earthquake.
;<,frx, 10 "A no IN
name iv Davis, an he got together our
WarShipS an rushed off to Kingston.
Twas all right. If there was an
Englishman in throuble in tn next
house I'd thry to frget what his folks
done to mine, an no wan Wud pc
quicker to his bedside thin this Anglo
Saxon What I'd DO to him afthcr he
got out IL tn hospital might be diff
f'rent / have gr-reat feelin fr hu-
man suffern', an | don't know that
[ don't feel sorrier fr an Engilshman
in throuble thin fr anyyWan else. I've
got to keep firm laughn'. Besides, if
there's wan use I'd like TO put q war
ship to it wud be to make grocery
wagon or an mbulalce out iV Ii. L
wish Whin tn PriS' 'dint gets through
usin' tn navy to relieve foreign dls-
thress that on'y feels relieved Whln in
navy goes away. he'd INSTRUCT II 10
sail up tn canal to Ar-rchey Road
prepared to hurl a broadsde iv over
coats, boots, condinScd milk, an flan-
mel bandageS at our nelg1borhood.
Since this cold snap set in we've been
a somewhat sthricken community our
silves
well, away wint Admiral Davis an
steamed into Kingston Harbor, an as
q first aid to tn injured made q search
light display an fired tn customary
salute " four hundred an eight guns
1t was arly in tn aVenln'. an tn GOV :
nor havin' issued proclamations re-
levin disthress ontil teatime, was en-
ioyin' a well-arned slumber But he
got up at WanSt an rayturncd til COM
plimint in tn most gracious terms.
He wrote a note to tn Admiral as
follows: shut up ye'er darn guns an
get out iv here. Ye make my head
ache
''Th' Admiral bein' an Anglo-SaXon
firm Boston. where JaWny Fitz IS
mayor, was much moved be this deli
cate complimint. an havin' fired an
other salute iv two hundhred an four
guns fr tn GoV'nOr'S Sicrety an in
sthructed tn band to play Gawd Save
tn King he went ashore. on his way
to tn rooned capital he came acrost
a boatlOad iV American citizens takin'
refuge firm a British ship on tn Wob-
bly but more frindly land. TIL feelin'
iN tn native-bOrn Anglo-SaXon on
boOrd this ship toord their cousins was
not permit thin to share tn rigoTs
IL life on tn perlous waves, with an
awful smell iv cookin' comm firm til
galley an nawthin' to sleep in but cots.
No, Sir. They insisted that they ac-