The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-11-24

ing little vessel that usually made the
from side of the the other in a couple of
months so; provided she had favorng winds and
the captain stayed sober.
When they had left the recedng shores. mist-bound
miles behind, and there chance of 'bouting
ship and putting back Mr.. Matthew Mark Luke John
Costgan took firm grip the rigging and, climb
ing up on the rail- began to tell the royal family. in
dividually and collectively what he 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 diatribe was such
that the captain left the wheel and came down to
listen to him. The captain had been using the
objurgatory 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 harbor eager was he to rest
foot upon 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 a HILL that he fell the bow and if it
hadn't been been that the anchor there Gated,
this story might never have been written.
As 1t was he made his way the side on a rope
ladder to the dock and thence into the emigrant
stable and, the time he length got
vincing lot of prying obtuse obstinate and inquis
tive persons that he capable of supporting him
self and didn't have any contagious diseases other
those natural to who has lived in peat bog.
and that the Home for the Destitute not the
Of his ambitions, he at last permitted to go out
into the street. But else had already picked
up all the dollars and the only thing left for him to
do to take job carrying bricks ladder that
leaned against the side of unfinished stack in
Hoboken.
AS he open-handed, open hearted, free
spender free drinker and free thinker, and as
eager for is a dog for bone, he soon
achieved a degree of popularity that bore heavily
upon his personal success for he found that in a
country where offices elective, and laws lax there
is a great opportunity for man of brains to live
without working.
Mr.. Costgan from carrying the hod came to car
rying the billy Then he was advanced to the posi-
tom of roundsman; and as the tribute that he levied
the toll that he took of gratifying argeness
he became lieutenant and finally captain.
Arriving at this eminence, he looked about him;
and his experienced eyes that captaincy is
an effect rather than 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
inch of dirt that he put into scar on the face
of Mother Earth that for some reason which all
wise Providence alone knew required filling, he
paid for cubic foot. And each of his sky blue
wagons would drive past the inspector, who counted
them having different load on each appearance
until the dirt sfted out between the bottom boards
and the driver obliged to go back for a
load If Mr. Costigans city wagons had had dirt
tight floors there is knowing what his wealth
might have been.
OF course he married. The Of his choice
cspoused during billy-carrying days. had been
vant-girl employed by family residing upon Officer
Costigans beat; and because she chose stay the
and talk to Officer Costgan instead of cook
ing and making beds. her employers eventually de-
cided that they had to do all the work themselves
anyway, they might as well do it without paying her
c salary, too Whereat the lady in question to
officer Cosigan and subtly implied to him that, he
the Of her losing her position, it pat
atty his duty to provide her with another by we'd
ding her
At first Officer Costigan was obtuse and was unable
to follow her line of reasoning But she was large
woman with hand like a sack of potatoes; and so
they finally married.
She proved a good wife; for she made him home
from which he was afraid to stay away and to which
he afraid TO go with too little money or too much
liquor and she bore him son, and then died
He mourned her sincerely as his business cares
would permit, and the son, when he became old
enough, was sent away to boarding-school Time
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
began to achieve the father began lose sense and
when finally the returned from a two years trip
abroad that had been put onto the tagend of a COL
lege education much snapper is attached to the
end of a whipash, it to find the father much
altered.