The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-11
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III low wud We like to live in New York?
r. asked Mr.. Hennessy. IF I was
younger" said Mr.. Dooley, an more
bullet-proof I'd take chance. There's
no doubt it's TIL center iv American civilization
since Dead Horse Gulch Quilted down. I'd like
to see tn late Jesse James til Younger broth
ers on Broadway. If they didn't die iv narvous
prosthration firm tn artillery practice they'd 60
home to Missoury an spite their reputation FIR
truth an veracty be settn around til fire afther
a hard nights wurruk Robin Missoury Pas
syhc thrain an tellin' their comrades about tn
exploits iv TIL New York polls
mo, | don't think I'll go there. While ad-
mittin' that place in tn wurruld offers
betther prospect fr career to an ambitious
young fellow who can deal firm tn bottom Nv
tn deck an is handy with gun, Pm afraid tn
metropolis wud be too sthrenuse afther years
iv tn reiious quiet iv Ar-rchey road an tn
stockyards. Life in Chicago, it is thrue, is often
teejous. At times l weary iv tn mild excite
ments iv our little pasthral village, tn common
place holdups an burglaries, an tn shootin
scrapes iv tn corner saloon. lvry night | go
through tn same dull routine iv walkin home
in tn middle iv til sthreet an barricadin' ne
dure with tn bureau. If, be chance, i hear a
fellow citizen thryin' to make call through m
window with a cold chisel feel perfectly safe.
in pokin' out me head an yeln Polls! KNOWN
we'll tn faithful guarjeen riv TIL peace won't re-
spond to me wall an thus make tn odds two to
wan against me. No, sir, I'm satisfied to stay
where am, far firm tn, socyal whirl. in. a place
where TIL highwaynen can be distinguished fir m
tn polls be tn difference in their UNIFORMS. AT
my age, an unused to TIL ways " til methropolus,
might be i'll at aise in New York. I'd hardly
know how to conduct nlesilf in that gr-reat
center iv pleasure. Like as not Id make some
bad breaks if l found mesilf in a fashnable
Broadway gatherin' whin Numbers iv tn old
Knickerbocker an Methropole families got plug
gin each other | nightn't be dressed f'r til
occasion / might've f'rgot to takeqnle gun with
me an so be subjick to til naughty sneers iv.
those who had come perfectly armed accordia'
to TIL latest hint firm tn Kentucky mountains.
Prhaps I'd aven show me ignorance iv custom be-
stoppin' polisman in his mad fight an pin.:n'
in tn other direction an gettin lick over III
head with his stick of timber f'r me rudeness
But because | don't feel robust enough to
stand saison among TIL festivities iv til gay
white way, Hinnssy, I'm not sayin' that don't
hwy tn forchnit people that lucky chance or
birth or tn Rooshyan an Eyetalian. polls have
landed in that,frivolous but happy capital. Mind
We, don't know anything about it except what
/ r-read in tn pa3apers, but firm thin | make
out that it's conlbynation iv London, Paris,
Peking Naples, Ninjy Novgorod, an I'll Black
Hills Lecture tn railroads was put through an
its got thin all bate at their own specyalties.-
/ wudden't change it f'r anything. 1t fNs-
nishes tn ony readin' matther worth printin'.
It's gr-reat town an I'm proud iv it. Firm
nightfall to dawn this throbbn home iv JOY niver
slows down TIL din1ons on tn shirt fronts iv,
It's citizens put out tn stars. No church is a.