The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-11-29

II wasn't TT thin I'd have no society
1T to ASSOCIATE with-only people like
x~e'ersiif an Hogan. But the pa-apers
opens up life TO me an gives me a
epeakin' acquaintance with tn whole
Wurruld- I know how tn Car iv Roo
shya is gettin' on with his wife as
though we were next dure neighbors.
If tn King iv England happens to take
3 dhrop too much an fall an skin his
elbow. / nave it as quick as I wud tn
news iv a bad break be tn head iv tn
Hinnissy dynasty. I know more about
th' Impror iv Chiny thin me father
Anew about tn people in tn next par
ssh. n If there's wan thing 1 want to
write to tn iditor iv tn pa-aper an
hank him about an sign tn letter
Pro Bono Publico,' it is tn peek he
gives US iVry wanst in a while into tn
homes iV tn arrystocracy iv our neigh
norhood. Ye go by a. iv these mag
nificent brick mansions, We see tn
automobile dash up We see tn jock
step out an run up tn stairs, we see
tn hired man in knee breeches open
th' dure an We think to ye'ersilf: I bet
ye Thin people ARE unhappy Ivry-
thing must be cold an cherries with
III, there's so much room. Ye think
iV tn great cap'n iv in~dusthree settin'
in a marble hall surrounded by GRAND
~piannieS, plush chairs, onyx cuspydors
an all tn Evidences iv wealth an re-
dnement that money an art can sup
tiINs 11tS 81 a o1 LII Il CSl ~
tn family that whin he wants to ak
20 thin he has to whistle FIR tn butler
10 take tn message. ~Ivrybody Is polite
an uncomfortable. If a man has a
5ook fr a son-in-law We don't hin
he can liver cut loose an be himsilf.
There can't be amy freedom in such
Surroundings. TIL week passes with
out a youbedam'd. Ivrything is like
il is in a novel. It's: look, have an
other saucerful iv tay.' will ye'er
grace jine me In a tub iv champagne
Can l throuble ye'er grace to pass tn
ketchup.' Ye wondher why tn mil
iionaire isn't down at tn corner saloon
ivry night thryin' to pick a fight with
n b%artinder. Ye feel sorry FIR tn
rich IN their restricted lives
But ye're wrong, Hinnissy, ye're
wrong. TIL life iv tn rich is far more
home-like thin We think. There's much
more family feelin' hin ye imagine.
Takin' thin all in all an I don't think
ye need to pity thin. A longshoreman
doesn't have to walk SO far to take
q kick at his son-in-law, but thin look
at tn amount iv furniture a miliyon-
aire has to throw at amy mimber iv
IN family that don't agree with him.
A family man down on tn drainage
canal that is thryin' to discipline his
relations is limited in AMMUNITION.
Afther he's used four chairs, plates
a vinegar bottle, tn baby IN a glass
case iv artyficyal flowers, he has TO
rethreat to tn kitchen an defind 1t
agin a younger an more ~lnJanyou
man. But tn aged MILLIONAIRE has a
thousand little objecks iv art that ne
can hurl an if he misses with tn We
nus de Midicy, he can fiatten tn JOCK
out with a g%inooyine Rembrandt NO,
sir, ye needn't pity tn rich. They have
their own nachral judgements iV life
an they ought to be happy.
81 was radin' about it in tn pa-aper
an it made me long FIR a little loose
change more thin anything I've seen
in NANNY a day. It seems that wan ~
our most prominent capitalists, Multi
gan J. Billhooley, had given his daugh-
ter in marredge to a Fr-rinch jock
This sign ~ a foreign arrystocracy
come to America to live with MS VIE $
parents, an properly SO, as Mulligan
r. Billhooley didn't dare to thrust
large sums iv money to tn mails. Tn
nobleman made himsilf at home al
wanst. There's very little difference
between tn arrystocracies iv amy
counthrie They're all alike. Blood
will tell an tn nobility iv tn wurruld
are always aisy with EACH other
whether their title dates back to Agin-
court or South Bend.
"Ih' look was noble be birth, his
family havin' done no Wurruk since
tn middle iv tn f~oor1eenth clnIh,s
TIL Billhooley escutcheon was Splash
ed be a few years that tn old AIRY
stocrat had put in as a stone mason
but that's something we won't talk
about. At tn prisint m no tam
~ has a better ratin' in B~radsthree
neerage thin tn B~illhcoley's. tn jocks
nobility was older, but Billhooieys was
longer an more aisily neegotyaoie d.
tn meat market.
Well. sir, tn inthercoorse ~ ehese
Two great noblemen was charHaih
parfectly ais an simple, like a re-
union in a Bohaymian family out a
tn yards. I'll give we an exthract IF n
tn s'ciety news about thin: 'WhlI
they set down to tn table wan nisn'
pass tn that tn JOCK was
overthrained in tn matther iv dhrlnk
His grace was nachrally an
slammed her In fh, eye. inns 4SSy