all what th’ joynts iv fi-nance were doin’.  ‘Who’s that man with th’ plug hat just comin’ out iv th’ gamblin’ joint?’ ‘That’s th’ prisidint iv th’ Eighth Rational.’  ‘An’ who’s that shakin’ dice at th’ bar?’ ‘That’s th’ head iv our greatest thrust comp’ny.’  An’ so it wint.  To-day I read in th’ pa-apers an appeal to th’ good sense iv Mulligan, th’ tailor.  It didn’t mintion his name, but it might just as well.  ‘Twas th’ same as sayin’:  ’Now, look here, Mulligan, me brave fellow.  ’Tis up to you to settle this whole matther.  It’s got beyond us and we rely on ye not to dump us.  We lost our heads but a man iv ye’er carackter can’t afford to do annything rash or on-thinkin’ like a lot iv excitable fi-nanceers.  Ye must get undher th’ situation at wanst.  We appeal to th’ good common sense th’ pathritism, th’ honor, th’ manly courage an’ th’ ca-mness in th’ face iv great danger iv Timothy Mulligan to pull us out iv th’ hole.  Regards to Mrs. Mulligan an’ all th’ little wans.  Don’t answer in person (signed) Jawn D. Rockyfellar.’

“An’ iv coorse Mulligan’ll do it.  Mulligan caused th’ throuble be havin’ money in th’ first place an’ takin’ it out in th’ second place.  Mulligan will settle it all be carryin’ his money back to th’ bank where money belongs.  Don’t get excited about it, Hinnissy, me boy.  Cheer up.  ‘Twill be all right tomorrah, or th’ next day, or some time.  ’Tis wan good thing about this here wurruld, that nawthin’ lasts long enough to hurt.  I have been through manny a panic.  I cud handle wan as well as Morgan.  Panics cause thimsilves an’ take care iv thimsilves.  Who do I blame for this wan?  Grogan blamed Rosenfelt yesterday; to-day he blames Mulligan; to-morrah he won’t blame anny wan an’ thin th’ panic will be over.  I blame no wan, an’ I blame ivry wan.  All I say to ye is, be brave, be ca’m an’ go on shovellin’.  So long as there’s a Hinnissy in th’ wurruld, an’ he has a shovel, an’ there’s something f’r him to shovel, we’ll be all right, or pretty near all right.

“Don’t ye think Rosenfelt has shaken public confidence?” asked Mr. Hennessy.

“Shaken it,” said Mr. Dooley; “I think he give it a good kick just as it jumped off th’ roof.”

OCEAN TRAVEL

“I see this here new steamboat has broke all records.  It come acrost th’ Atlantic Ocean in four days.  Passengers that got aboord at Liverpool on Saturday were in New York Friday afthernoon.”

“But that’s more thin four days.”

“Not be nautical time, said Mr. Dooley.  Ye mustn’t figure it out th’ way ye do on land.  On land ye niver read that ‘Th’ Thunderbolt limited has broken all records be thravellin’ fr’m New York (Harrisburg) to Chicago (Fort Wayne) in eight hours.’  But with a steamboat ’tis different.  Ye saw a lot iv time off ayether end an’ what’s left is th’ v’yage.  ‘Th’ Conyard line’s gr-reat ocean greyhound or levithin iv th’ seas has broken all records iv transatlantic passages except