The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-01-25

high dudgeon and a low, foul-bottomed wallop-
ing little vessel that usually made the run
from one side of the to the other in couple of
months or so; provided she had fayoring 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
Costigan took firm grip on the rigging and, climb
ing up the rail- began to toll the royal family in
dividualy and collectively, what he thought OF 1t.
He threw in few scattered remarks in general anent
Parliament, landlords rents and similar unpleasant
evils; and the whole tenor of his diatrbe was such
yaat the captain left the wheel and came down to
listen to him. The captain had been using the same
objurgaory 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 sail ed up the harbor eager was he to rest
foot upon tie soil of that glorious country where all
born free and equal (even though they don't
stay that way 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 there Gated,
this story might never have been written
AS it was he made his way over the side on rope
ladder to the dock and thence into the emigrant
stable and by the time he at length got through con-
vincng lot of prying obtuse obstinate and inqulsl-
tive persons that he was capable of supporting him
self and didn't have any contagious diseases other
than those natural to one who has lived in peat bog
and that the Home for the Destitute not the apex
of his ambitions he was at last permitted to go out
bod od1yn mir cd
I'D all the dollars and the only thing left for him to
do was to take job carrying bricks ladder that
leaned against the side of unfinished stack in
Hoboken.
AS he was open-handed open-hearted, free
,pender free drnker and free thinker, and as
eager for row is dog for a bone, he soon
achieved a degree of popularity that bore heavily
Upon his personal success; for he found that in a
country where offices are elective and laws lax, there
5 a great opportunity for of brains to live
without working.
Mr.. Costigan, from carrying the hod, came to car
.ying the billy. Then he was advanced to the posi-
lion Of roundsman; and the tribute that he levied
and the toll that he took were of gratifying largeness
he became lieutenant, and finally captain.
Arriving at this emnence, he looked about him;
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
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 reason which all
wise Providence alone knew, required filing, he was
paid for cubic foot. And each of his sky-blue
wagons would drive past the inspector, who counted
them having different load each appearance,
until the dirt sifted out between the bottom boards
and the driver obliged to go back for a
load If Mr.. Costigan's city wagons had had dirt
tight floors there is 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
Costgans 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-
cided that they had to do all the work themselves
anyway, they might as we'll do it without paying her
salary, too. Whereat the lady in question came to
Officer Costigan and subtly implied to him that he
was the cause of her losing her position, it was pat
emily his duty to provide her with another by we'd
ding her.
At first Officer Costgan was obtuse and was unable
to follow her line of reasoning. But she large
woman with hand like sack of potatoes; and so
they finally married.
She proved good wife; for she made him home
from which he afraid to stay away and to which
be- afraid to with too little money or too much
liquor: and she bore him one son. and then died
He mourned her as sincerely as his business cares
would permit and the son, when he became old
enough, was sent away to boarding Time
passed. The son grew in mind and hodv uhi1o +ho