Logan Republican | 1905-02-18 | Page 6 | Emphatic but Not Profane

' ''!.' " f EMPHATIQ JIUT NOT l0rAN. Strong Exprstslone That Can Be UmoI Without Blasphsmy. In tho United States It Is common to say that you "don't give a tinker's dam" for something or other. Our English cousins, in similar circumstances, circum-stances, say "a twopenny dam." Each of llieso apparent oaths Is harmless, and may be used In polite society without a qualm. Hear Admiral Casey, noticing a, look of surprise on the face of a friend when he said "tinker's dam," observed: ob-served: "I guess jou think I'm swearing, nut I'm not. A dam Is a contrivance resorted re-sorted to by all linkers In their work." The phrase ' twopenny dam" was first used by the great Duko of Wellington. Well-ington. His administration of the British army was attacked, and ho astonished as-tonished the House of Ixirds by replying: re-plying: "I don't caie, and the British army don't care a twopenny dam for any of these criticisms." Then ho explained that "a dam was an Indian coin of the valuo of twopence two-pence "