The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-29
ANOTHER SMITH HEARD FROM,
Deafer Than Deaf smith Are Those VINO
Know Not the Heroic Finn.

To THE EDITOR OF THE ScN-Sr. 1R-
norance OF the name and fame Of Deaf
Smith IL an educational tragedy; igno-
rance of Finn McCool II "A crime. When
Hop Smith put the Carriers on the map or
Virginia he little dreamed a Carter would
live to fout Smith or acknowledge ig-
norance of the McCool. Unhappy hap to
trusting Hop. Now out Of the bottornless
pits of darkest Dutch Pennsylvania comes
Another Carter" out OF abandoned Al
lentown comes this shameless one TO ask
who is Finn McCoolT' ! suppose this
hyperborean cave man OF Carter will
soon want Brian Boru identified and Fingy
Corners who's whoed-"
l can scarcely contain my disgust and
Indignation. Well may you call to an out
ragged earth, ARISE, ye Gaels. and glut your
, ire" Aye! Arise, ye blizsards, hurri-
canes. typhoons and equinoctial gales and
sweep Allentown and Carter into chaos
Dealer than Deaf Smith are these Car
ters who never heard the resounding trump
Of fame blaring the deeds Of the heroic
Finn. A word Of caution: Let these Car
ters avoid Boston now q university ex-
tension Of Ireland. Hero wait Jim Cur
ley and the Clan-na- Gael to tear them
limb from limb.
However. let us be patient. Why should
! expect Carter who is ignorant OF the
history Of his own country to be familiar
with the annals Of the country OF his
rulers, Ireland7 II Ia possible to under
stand how n man living in Allentown may
| never have heard OF Jason. Ulysses, Childe
Roland Black Roderick. Hengist. Horsa,
Cole Blease, the Cid Campeador. John l..
sullivan. Prester John or Billy the Kid |:
but Finn McCool. never,
Finn McCooi lived long before the food
and long after II he was some swimmer.
He was the finest fighter. the smartest
| swordsman, spearman and bowman: the
best "lepper." the grandest hurler. the
sweetest singer. the most soothering orator.
the most splendidest lover and the most
invincible warrior OF his day. He stood
! foot in his pelts he had a chest ex-
pansion greater than Curtis Guilds; he
could crack cromlech under his oxster
and reduce diamond to dust between
his thumb and forefnger. He was on
speaking terms with Tubal Cain the
Smith and with Noah the Navigator
| Helen OF Troy knew Finn before Paris |:
| and all the great ones of the earth from
| the Kings OF Atlantis to fellows like
Zoroaster and MelchizcSek knew him
| we'll
Finn McCool built the Round Towers of
ireland. the ancient cities OF Yucatan.
| the Progressive platform and the Cape OF
Good Hope. He wrote the Upanishads and
| established the Banks OF Newfoundland
he drove all the wild animals out OF Ire
land except the wolves and the o. Neils
he founded the Bog OF Allen after which
Allentown Is named. and made the Isle OF
Man out OF the leavings and he moved
the Galtee Mountains into Tipperary over
nigh, to stop the FISHERMEN from dts
turbing his dreams. He had Europe I'M
der his heel and Asia under his thumb
the man in the moon Ii a Fitzgerald he
threw there when he WAS cross but why
continue?
Let Carter write Or. Douglas Hyde at
Shauballyinaguthru In Mayo and secure
In the original Gaelic and forty-seven vol
umes The Life and Times OF Finn Nc
! Cool and he will learn things. The only
living descendants OF Finn McCool are
Barney Shaw OF London and Jim Curley
| OF Boston. AS for Carter: Pooh
ANOTHER SMITH.
RosroS January 2S