Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-08

from side OF the to the other in couple OF
months or 50; provided she had fayoring winds and
the captain stayed sober.
When they had left the receding shores, mst-bound
miles behind, and there chance of 'bouting
ship and putting back, Mr.. Matthew Mark Luke John
Costgan took firm grip on the rigging and, climb
ing up on the rail- began to tell the royal family, in
diyidually and collectively, what be thought of it.
He threw in few scattered remarks In general anent
Parliament, landlords, rents and similar unpleasant
evils; and the whole tenor of his datribe was such
that the captain left the wheel and came down to
listen to him. The captain had been using the same
obiurgatory vocabulary for years than ten, and
this was an opportunity for improvement not to be
missed
Some eight weeks later he landed in New York
AS they sailed up the harbor was he to rest
foot upon the soil of that glorious country where all
born free and equal (even though they don't
stay that way more than couple Of minutes after
BIRTH and where dollars lie about in the streets like
potatoes in hill that he fell the bow; and if it
hadn't been been that the anchor was there Gated,
this story might have been written
As it was, he made his way over the side on rope
ladder to the dock and thence into the emigrant
sable and by the time he at length got through con-
vncing lot of prying, obuse, obstinate and inqusi-
tive persons that he was capable of supporting him
self and didn't have any contagious diseases other
than those natural who has lived in peat bog
that the Home for the Destitute not the apex
of his ambitions, he was at last permitted to go out
into the street. But else had already picked
up all dollars and the only thing left for him to
do to take job carrying bricks up ladder that
leaned against the side Of unfinished stack in
Hoboken.
AS he was open-handed open-hearted, free
spender free drnker and free thinker, and
eager for row as is dog for bone, he soon
achieved a degree of popularity that bore heavily
upon his personal success; for he found that in
country where offices elective and laws lax. there
is a great opportunity for Of brains to live
without working.
Mr.. Costigan from carrying the hod, came to car
ryng the billy. Then he advanced to the posi-
ton of roundsman and as the tribute that he levied
and the toll that he took of gratifying largeness
he became lieutenant, and finally captain
Arriving at this eminence be looked about him;
and his now experienced eyes that captaincy is
an effect rather than cause. So he broke out of the
police department and into the Board of Aldermen;
and thence into the contracting business which
to be the height of ambition for most good politicians
He prospered. He. prospered exceedingly. For
every inch of dirt that he put into the face
of Mother Earth that for some reason which all
wise Providence alone knew required fng, he
paid for cubic foot And each of his sky-blue
wagons would drive past the Inspector, who counted
them as having different load each appearance.
until the dirt sfted out between the bottom boards
and the driver obliged to go back for new
fJoad If Mr.. Cosngan's city wagons had had dirt
flight floors there is no knowing what his wealth
might have been.
OF course he married. The woman of his choice,
espoused during billy-carrying days. had been
vant-girl employed by family residing upon Officer
Cosigans beat and because she chose to stay in the
areaway and talk to officer Costigan instead of cook
ing and making beds, her employers eventually de-
cded that, as they had to do all the work themselves
anyway they might as well do it without paying her
a salary too. Whereat the lady in question came to
officer Costigan and subty implied to him that as he
was the of her losing her position, it pat
entity his duty to provide her with another by we'd
ding her,
at first Officer Costigan obtuse and was unable
to follow her line of reasoning But she large
woman with hand like sack of potatoes; and SO
they we're finally married.
She proved good wife; for she made him home
from which he afraid to stay away, and to which
he afraid to go with too little money too much
liquor; and she bore him son, and then died.
He mourned her as sincerely his business cares
would permit. and the son. when he became old
enough was sent away to boarding -schooI TINA
passed The son grew in mind and body, while the
father grew in wealth and influence. But there was
this difference between them: that while the son