The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1913-09-20

He seemed 10 just soak IL up both
Fs-reg'lar human blotter
You lap IL up like man. says l.
III a cowman full growed. Ever been
we az
Nope says he; born here
well, I'm a stranger, says j, out
absorbing such beauties OF architecture
and free lunch as offers along the line.
II / amt keeping you up ia be glad
Of your company.
"I'm your assistant lunch BUSTER
says he, and IN the course Of things
he further explained that he was
tugboat fireman out on n strike, Civ
Ing me the follerlng information about
the tieup: II all come up over dose
NJ dyspepsia -
Back up" interrupted "Kink,"
squirming. Are you plumb bug? Get
together! You're certainly the Raving
Kid. Ye must have stone bruised your
heel and got concession OF the brain"
Eyes. sir-indigestion." Billings con-
tlnued. "Old man Badrich OF the Bad
rich Transportation company has II
terrible. Ii lands on his solar every
morning about O'clock, getting worse
steady, and reaches perihelion along
about H. lie can tell the time OF day
by taste One morning when bis mouth
felt like about 10:45 In comes com
mittee from Firemen and Engineers
local No. n with demand for more
wages, prodding him with the intima-
ton that IL he didn't ante they'd tie
up all his boats
II s'pose teaspoonful OF baking
soda, assimilated internally around
the environments OF his appendix.
would have spared the strike and
cheated me out OF being a hero. AS
the poet might have said, Upon such
slender pegs is this our greatness
hung"
"oh, Gawd." exclaimed Mullins
piously.
Anyhow, the bitterness In the old
mans inner tubes showed in the bile
OF his answer, and he told 'em II
they wanted more money he'd give
'em chance TO earn it-they could
work nights as well as days. He
intimated further that they'd ought
10 be satisfied with their wages, as
they'd undoubtedly foller the same
line OF business In the next world and
wouldn't get cent for feeding the
fires neither.
Next morning the strike was called,
and the guy that breathed treachery
and walkouts was one oily Heegan,
further submerged under the titles OF
president OF the Federation OF Fresh
Water Flremen; also chairman OF
the United Water Front Workmen,
which last takes in everything doing
business along the river except the
wharf rats and typhoid germs, and
it's with the disreputableness OF this
party that l infected myself 10 the
detriment OF labor and the triumph OF
the law.
ID. 0'Hara Heegan is an able man,
and inside OF a week he'd spread the
strike till IL was the cleanest. dirtiest
tieup ever known. The hospitals and
morgues was full OF nonunion men,
but the river was empty all right
Yes; he had a persuading method OF
arbitration quite convincing 10 the
most calloused, involving the laying
on OF the lead pipe
Things got TO be pretty fierce by
and by, for they had the police buff
faloed, and disturbances got plentyer
than the casualties at butchers
picnic. The strikers got hungry, too,
finally, because the principles OF
unionism is like a rash on your me
chanic, skin deep-inside, HIS gastrics
works three shifts day even II his
outsides is idle and steaming with
socialism.
"'Ony' fed EN- dray loads OF elo-
quence, but il didn't seem to be real
filing. They'd leave the lectures and
rob a bakery.
"He was a wonder, though; just sat
in his office and kept the shipowners
waiting in line, swearing bitter and
refined cuss words about ignorant
fiend and cussed pedagogue,' which
last, for Kinks enlightenment, means
a kind OF Hebrew meeting house.
These here details my new friend
give me. ending with a eulogy on
oily Heegan the idol Of the idle
"1f he says starve we starve,' says
he, and IL he says work we work
See! oh, he's the goods. he is Let's
go down by the river Mebbe wen see
him So me and Murdoch liked down
Water street, where they keep mos
quito netting over the bar fixtures and
spit az the stove
I'VE found him. big mouthed
shifty kind OF man, bout as cynica
looking in the face as black bass
and full Of wind as a toad fish. eI
changed drinks for principles Of so
cialism and doing so happened TO dis
play my roll. Murdoch slipped away
and made talk with n friend: ther
when Heegan had left he steers ms
out the back way into an alley. Shor
cut says he, TO another and a better
place