The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-11-14

THE TELEGRAPH MESSENGER
nov in Polltlcs-Why He Does Not Adj
miro the Intelligent American Fo-
ter and the Smart Politicians
lie Kicks Vigorously.

With one hand on his right knee and
the other spasmodically grasping the
bolustrade, a messenger boy came slow
" toilipg up the third fight OF stairs to
the Telegram Office late yesterday after
noon. The bright, devil-may-care look
generally on his face was gone, and in
It's place was an expression Of COM
plete tired out ed ness and dis
gust with life. Besides, the
latest edition of the "American
Rows Marrow Curdler" containing the
last chapters 81 the spirited continued
story. Tho Headless Vampire; or,
Seven Fset of Cold Steel and Forty
Buckets of Warm Blood no. longer
peeped, as was its wont, from his upper
outside breast pocket.
"What's tho matteri did you bet your
nicliles on the wrong candidate?' asked
the Office boy.
"What's eain' you?" answered the
messenger boy,scorntully, as he reacneo
the ton of the flight and dropped on the
settee; "gosh-darn the candidates ana
the Who'll thing anyhow. am regerlar
bowed, I am" and he mopped ms iact
with very sma'l and very motted hand'
kerchiei. 'Jest ter think, I've pm &9ln
like an elevated road since saturday
morniu, This makes seventeen
times I've shinued up three flights o.
stairs to-day, besidst distribut!n' lO0Ol
political cifkerlars and havin' eight de
4 tails ter other newspaper oinecS that Is
i'm The tip-top of their buildtn's. / won
der why tho editors can't have then
desks down in the cellar, where felle
kin git ut 'em easy?
Here the messenger stopped for mo
4 ment and screwed his forehead into
/. a Iaasf mn a
"A dificult and went on with jerk, "but ~
"A the Same rs was sayin' elections is
q great noOeauce to everybody THAT'S 20
anv sense or feclips! | amt got n
mOre'n four hours sleep = night Tor IN
n last week, along of holm Worke
I'm day aud night, and my stoumlck leei
now all the time Just a5 if ia cat pee
o' neanuts with the shucks on, and m
legs is so lame when ! git out OF be
s that can't bend 'em, aud nay old v,
man has TO hold my pants while my. b!
brother lifts me up and Tets me drop IN.
Here he stopped to get a fresh mold o
"A his breath and then began again.
"EVervbudy warts to send message
a by US instead Of usin' tho Telegraph
Just because is election time, aud the
thinks it's smart and i'm style. us h
suit to us messenger boys to he used s
promiscus. ! didn't ohieck to he'll
called 30 fashionable Hat up TOW u an
havin' the miSsus come out into 81
diniu' room with "a wrapper on an
sendin' me out after pitcher Of he,
nor havin' to lake love letter from
dude to his girls house and getting O
n regerler soap from him for dol
a it straight. Nor don't mind ac,iu'
escort 10 couple of blOpmln' young
dies to The theayter or "a concert garde
and back home again. But rs To bel
used Just as IL we was nothin' but orc
nary telegraph boys that don't new
make nOthin out otnO SOFT snapS-tha'
what / call hard lines for Teller tn
understands his legilermate pCrfessi
and ought 10 be let stick to
But Molly Hoses, I've bin chiuni
here fur half an hour, and
amt allowed TO charge extra Tin
till all this election b,ziness is over.
tell YOU what, / wish there wasn't
president in this country, but only
ear, and then these elections would
come up 10 bother everybody, and y
could have lots Of @tuu DeiN a nihili
hey?"
And with this the messenger h
pulled very heavy sigh from the b
tom Of his stomach, aud, rising TO
feet, limped on into the private Office
the editor to deliver political dispa
of great Importance, which had bt
particularly marked ain great has
by the sender. y. y. Telegram.
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