Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-26

Is through,
ike to tcaik on Chestnut street an see
tohat ne,os Is neto.
TODAY seen a little Kid d-chottin' up fence
An 0eei hts intrest IN his toorb tOuS so dash
dinged intense,
He didn't notice me at an TIL tcus clost
behind him
An so a-standin' there dtohile by ordvy, str,
dnd him
A-mahin uoly pictures Of the U. s. President,
with tcritir underneath cm that tods Very
likely meant
Fur poetry or somethin', an asked him
to erpldin;
He turned look upon me of the hdu0htiest
disddin
An told me, "You'H obH9e me u you mind
your business, Misterp
An toorbed atodv as bold as brass. 'T1cds
little otcny WiSteri
Notc, speakin' of poetic me,os an all that
kind of thing,
I think a proper subject for us poet-foiks to
sing
Would be the dead Librarian, John Thomson,
for he stood
For ev'rything in this here life that boosts the
general good
who lorcd his books an children Che had
ScuenJ and his 1Uitc
An rounded out to eighty gears a truly noble
Bei
seen a crotcd o. fcllo,cs on the steps Of
our p. O.
A-wditin' for the mail to come an crdchtn'
johcS. you bnoiU,
An Charley KnotUlton boilers out What
made the Baker go7"
When cre,'6ody gcu IL up. achy Charley
holiers "Dougb!"
Gosh most of as laughed right out loud, but
ono bto guy looked black
An 1chen he started 1raIbin' of see IT'S
Connie Mdcki
Whenever It's a Saturday, an all ,ny 1cork
is through
Ike to tcalb on Chestnut street an see 1chat
netcS is nelD.
A hog owned by W. r. NTer of Pennsvlle,
gave birth the other day to a litter of ten pigs
white, red and blue.
Mt Pleasant Pa) Journal
A patriotic sow, but a bum mathematician :
VNTHEN we put up the shutters couple |
w Of nights ago j. Mcclure was talking
about the Scotch who jumped to Ulster He |
hasn't shown up since, and there are some |
who have been hoping that it's in the hos
pital he is this minute-and not resting any |
too comfortably. Not at all! Here he is, in
again: !
The ScOtch-Irelander
a. Mcclure holding the floor. spite of inter-
These transplanted Scots took the lands given
to them by Britain cultivated them. instead !
of going about living their neghbors hunt
Ing or in cutting the throats of some nearby |
friends family. Hence they fourshed hand
over fist, although they had hard time fight
ting off the Irish living on the borders of Ulster
who wanted share in what the Scots had
grown
Always the Scots called themselves Scots"
a picked breed of which they unquestonably
We're To this day they call themselves "Scots."
because that's Just what they are, even as
Italians are Italians in the United States, and
white men are white men no matter where
they go.
inhabitants of Ulster Irish Scotch" as they
registered them on the books of Edinburgh Uni
versity, to dfferentiate them from the Scots of
Scotland and the Irish who didn't care hoot
about Scotch education, since it required think
ing. Later in the history
"Hcy! Jack, givc as tioo more o. them
tdH ones AMI as tvas sdpdn'
Ben, II it 1cuz'p' fur Sattcrd'v nights youse
lcould'n' ketch me tUorkiH' 1Ueek after aueek
fur dat guy. He come ap ter me dis nornirt'
no, it IUu@ yisttd'y-an he 8es, You pulled
boner, he seq, an 1 Ses 'WhereP' seq
an ne see, wing, IN dis Job, seq e, and seq,
'ZGt SOP s., 7, aud he seq, Yes, zats so,' an
sea, Yer knOto loat ger kin do about IT,
s. l."
Later in the history of England the authorities
conceived the idea of making every one supnort
the national church body. Both the Roman
Catholics and the Ulsterites (our Irish Scots)
solutey-a-b lbs -o-l-u-t- e e-l-y-refused to the
astonishment, of course, of the government to
submit to that Rather than submit thousands
of the Irish "Scots" emigrated to Chesapeake
Bay regions, and to New England territories.
The inhabitants OF these places growled at first
at the coming of these "Irish," Just as we groWl
about the coming OF the Hungarians. They OBJ
served, however, that there sharp dis
things between these northern Irish" and the
other Irish, who came only in very small num-
bers, so, to make distinction they called the
Ulsterite Presbyterians Scotch Irish" And
"And all got to sag to her Is: Maggie, Pm
bein' Saturday night; and she'H say 'Ato,
Ol0an! What do carer" like that, see, just
Ike that Good scout. chr II yOu Just treat
'em right as say"
And there has never been peace In the United
States since, because probably of the knack in
born in the Scotch Irish to either own, control.
boss, or otherwise meddle with anything human.
Most OF the presidents of the United States are
OF that strain. (Oh, listen 10 the dissentD
One thing is certain II II hadn't been for the
Scotch-Iris emigrants living on the borders
there would have been United States. They
stuck out grimly, at Londonderry against
the greatest odds, and, Of course, won. / say, |
"of course" for Thraneen should know that
whatever a Scotch -lrishman undertakes he
carries through. You may think he has for
poft tap he n bFi a hnI1 IA |