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Show "Mr. . Dooley" on Hard Times. "Mr. Dooley," who is writing for the American Magazine, is in the February number with a wonder of an article on Hard Times. - ' Lord Macaulay says that the highest miracle of genius is to make the imaginings imag-inings of one mind become the personal recollections of another. In the following follow-ing passage which precedes a description descrip-tion of the sufferings of the rich and an interview with a millionaire, "Mr. Dooley" Doo-ley" certainly accomplishes this feat. It takes us back to other panics, and shows how we all pulled through. "If hard times come ye'll niver notice thim. That's one srood thing about th' station in life to which we have been called an' locked up without bail. Our peeryods iv hard times are broken now. an thin be more hard times. Just as soon as we begin to tire iv hard times with too much work, we have worse hard times with less work.' . "What difference does if' make to ye how far ye move forward, if ivrything else.moves forward ahead iv ye? Now, "as thin, ye are chasin th' willow-th'-wisp iv good groceries. As ye begin to retreat. they come back, but there's niver niv-er a day whin ye can reach out an' seize thim. Th' dinner pail is always full, but not full iv angel cake. Don't ye be throubled be th' end iv prosperity. Ye have nawthin' to fea,r fr'm hard times that ye haven't suffered durin' th' per-yod per-yod so charmingly described in th' Thanksgivin' Day proelations. I haven't seen ye fiittin' by this establishment in no autymobil! or clucking to a team iv baj trotters on th lake shore drive, or comin' home fr'm th' opry in an elicthric cab an' handin ye'er fur overcoat over-coat an' cane to th' f utman at th' dure, an' dhroppin' heavily into a plush lounge while the butler asked ye wud he pipe in mint juleps or champagne, while ye'er wife wint upstairs an' got onharnessed fr'm her dimon tyrary, be makin' signals to a Fr-rinch lady hired to guard her jools an' her hair. I ain't seen ye often with ye'er wife, which is a mark iv great prosperity, but I haven't seen ye with any other lady, an that pushes ye back among th pro-lootooryan pro-lootooryan class again. I won't stand ye'er complainin' if hard times comes, because ye'll have nawthin' to complin iv. I've been through manny peeryods iv hard times; most iv thim I cause me-silf me-silf with me neefaryous vote. Two panics pan-ics I caused be, votin' agin th' tariff that makes ye'er wages almost enough higher f'r to pay th' increased cost iv ye'er pants. At other times th' country coun-try wa. brought to roon be th' fear in high circles that I was goin' to Vote agin' th' tariff again. In eighteen ninety nine-ty two, I managed to land me vote f'r a sound, 'eonsarvative man, that had niver shook his fist at Pierpont Morgan, siave in th' way iv kindness, an eighteen eigh-teen hundred ninety-three hard times began. An' I cudden't see anny difference diffe-rence in ye. Ye were thrown out Iv employment em-ployment more often, but ye worked less. Ye got less money, but corned beef was ten cints a Dound. An' there ye are." |