The farmer and mechanic., 1909-09-07

/ Pious. a thrue monarch. with his rile
chin sunk as deep in his rile collar a:
it will go. He sets a little forward il
his throne to rest hinsilf FIR tn houl
is late an he's been there f'r some
time an as tn old sayin' goes 'Onaisy
lies tn head that wears a crown He
recognizes thin although his eyes are
closed They expict him to say: Well
] if that amt Missus Hicks! An Silas
too. iv all persons!' But he don't. A
/ benign expression that seems to say
| Where tn blaZes did they come fr' m,
crosses his features. An befure they
know it they're on their way back to
tn hotel an Missus Hicks is sayin'
Amt he tn perfeck gintleman?' Mis-
ter Hicks replies: Ivry inch a king.
AN it's tn same way ivrywhere in
Europe Americans, tn right kind iv
Americans with loanable money, are
poplar ivryWhere. Ye can see thin
in cabs minglin' with tn naughty ar
rystocracy iv tn Fowboorg San Ger
mayne. Ye find thin in tn most ex-
clusixe schnitzel imporyums iv Vienny
or losn' their money with th' best at
Monty Carlo. IvryWhere they were re-
ceived kindly be tn best blood iv
Europe until tn Wrights wint over an
disgraced thin. Tn Americans livin'
over there thried to do ivrything f'r
these deluded young men. Why sir,
wan iv tn leaders iv American sciety
in London not Wilbur Wright a chanct
to meet tn Duchess iv Dorking. 1t
was this way: TIL American lady had
been honored with tn Job iv tendin'
tn American bar at a bazaar f'r tn
binffit iv tn anti-foreign league iv
British gintlewomen. She was ap-
preached be tn Duchess who spoke as
follows: My dear, / can't recall ye'er
name, nor wish to, but won't We bring
those wonderful American Wrights
to lunch tomorrah?' says she oh,
ye'er grace says tn queen iv Ameri-
can s'ciety, we have been SO long
away firm tn States that we don't
know hardly annHwan there Who are
these Wrights?' Says she They come
firm some place called Oheeo Dayton
or Dayton OheeO. Ye have such
amusin' names f'r ye'er cities says
the Duchess. oh. ye name Dayton,
Ohio says tn American arrystocrat
We iv Cincinnaty know very few peo-
Duchess, we must know those dear
delightful Wrights who've invinted
those darlin' flyin' machines Ye must
bring thin to me- Ye needn't mind
comm with thin. if We don't want to-
says she. Well, will We believe me. VIII
bur Wright wudden't go. No sir. he
said he had to make some repairs in
tn machine an he thought he'd sur
round couple iv hard billed eggs an,
piece lv pie in tn machine shop
They were asst to go to places that
some 1v our statliest representatives
abroad only knew by name. an they
wudden't go. Thousands iv Ameri-
cans busted into s'ciety be pretindin'
they come firm Dayton an knew th'
Wr1ghts They STINT over to this coun-
thry an got copies of Googan's His
thry iv Dayton from the invintion iv
tn cash register to tn prisint day so
that when a noble jock said: eYe ARE
firm America, tell me somethin' about
Dayton they'd not feel embarrassed,
an perhaps fired out iv tn house as
imposters. But they cud do naWthin
with tn Wrights These foolish young
men Wint on hammerin' at their flynn
machine an whin th' King iy Snain
ast to be led to thin, an an American
told thin iv tn honor that
was goin' to be hurled onto thin, they
said, oh, is it that whopper-iaWed
young fellow? Well, bring him over
An whin this here exalted monarch
deigned to speak to thin, they said
I didn't quite catch tn name. Oh, tn
King iv Spoin. Glad to have met We.
If yen excuse me I'll go on with our
Boy so an fill that can with
lie while I'm putin on me overalls.'
An there ye ar're. 1t will take a long
time befure th' bad impression created
be thin will wear off,
Dye think we'll all be flynn soon?'
asked Mr. Hennessy.
Faith, I don't know" said Mr..
Dooley. eye niver can tell what this
here dhroll little race iv men will do.
We've gone a long way. Man can fly
now almost as we'll as hen with (
busted wing. But I don't think tn
kind iv flyin' we'll iver do will look
much like tn rale flyin' to a wild
goose goin' South with his family. IF
was a flynn machine man. bumpin'
around in a conthraption made iv
steel an wood an canvas, an run by
gasoline, an called it flyin' I'd be
ashamed to look a goose in tn face
What Tn afraid iv is that these here
flynn machines will make us a joke
among tn bur-rds iv tn air. Up to
this time they looked up to us whin
they looked down on us, an see tn
dcrf,al tiaipcS clad do With