The irrepressible "Mr. Dooley" has turned from the Dreyf as
case to the Transvaal. In a monologue on the war contributed to the New York Journal, he describes President Kruger as follows :—" Krueger, that's th' main guy iv th' Dutch, a flue man, Rh:missy, that looks like Casey's goat an' has manny iv th' same peculyarities. He says, 'All r-right,' he says, I'll give thim th' franchise,' he says. Whin P' says Joe Chamberlain. 'In me will,' says Krueger. Whin I die,' he says, 'an' I hope to live to be a hundherd if I keep on smokin' bef are breakfast,' he says. bequeath to me frinds, th' English, or such iv them as was here befure I come, th' inalienable an' sacred right to demand f'm me succissor th' privilege iv ilictin' an aldherman,' he says. But,' he says, in th' manetime,' he says, we'll lave things they way they are." Mr. Dooley adds that if he was Kruger there would have been no war : "I'd give thim th' votes, but I'd do th' countin'." We may take it from this "appreciation "that all Irish-Americans do not see eye to eye with Mr. Devitt in regard to the war.
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