The herald., 1896-01-27


Polaski's synagogue, just at lunch time.
"It's like dis, you see." continued the
deputy zanjero. "Bein' a real, simon
pure American, and dere's only few of us
left, had to chop on beer, not cause it
hain't up to de mark, but de stuif's kinder
German, you know. 1 began dallyin' wild
l guszled so swift dat de gang gimme
credit for landin' Kelley prize. Den
falls afoul of gin, but tippin' my
hat to its color, it amt no
white mans drink. Den I wooed de
juice of the grippe for a season, but de real
stuff's so.damned foreign, and some of the
association, when was orderin' extra dry
stamped wild Guy Baroham's Uncle Sam
uel, give me one or two times the pepper
mint squint, which are dat tired feelin' you
meets goin' to Catalina Island. Now takes
mine in soda pop, brewed by Mojave In
dian as was here afore de old Cathedral
was on it's uppers. De pop amt not'in',
you know, when it comes to scrappin' for
yer principles, and some tings is better'n
oders sometimes, which is good reason
why some of us does as we pleases some-
times when dere amt nobody around; so
here's to youse ALL"
"Say, did you comprehend how dose
councilmen looked kinder white like just
under dere eyebrows when de manifesto
how dat for sixth ward language-come
in from de ministerial combination last
week? Dere amt no springtime lilies
goin' to waste where dat push is connu-
biatin'. Dem pious chaps is good enough
stuff when it comes to endorsin' our re-
spectacle candidates and stackin' de cards
agin de Irish and de rest of de land as is
always wantin' our jobs in de city hall an
de courthouse, but dell be maxim q mess
of things accusin' de administra-
ton. of. playin' tag with de
Sunday saloons. We razooed Bauer down
in de Ate, cause his sixteen to one wasn't
buzz saw, mind what I'm asayin'. and de
first ting Munson III know Bob Kern and
some of de real people I'll be linin' up de
California State Protective 'sociation agin
de whole ticket, and Tom Rowan III be
once more asignin' his name to ordinances
de street from freeman Teed's leather
backed trone, which will be some one of
desc days soon if de wooden goose amt
ablinkin' me into de wrong pool box, I'd
watt all such writins' as de preach
ers' walls over to de police commits
I'd I'd" do o0ss some A' new 'ns. primary law law
politics. and de ting ID be hypnotized into
one of John NJ. Glass Siberian cages under
de old city hall De big chief amt no
Grenadine when it comes to some tings,
an he'd take care of all dat kind of giant
DOWOer SO uat IL WOuluUt 20 OIL anywhere
round our block.
"What de grand jury won't find round
here. would fill in Santa Monica harbor.
'cordin' to Hoyle and my frien' Coils Papa
Huntington. De zanja systems de most
valuable asset de city's got, and de cash
fund was eat out paying good men in de
'sociaton starvation wages. and Tom
Savage might get queered for reportin' for
work only once so often, and Doc Steddom
might get it for not drawin' his salary on
de mint, but de rest of us is all right and
nex' year de tax levy I'll be less, 1 don't
tink If de treasury lives trough de conven-
ton, which maybe it will, but smile when
l says it; ira la, la, la.
''Kingery's new ordinance to put bloom
ers on de fences arouu' town g ham dat
won't eat, no difference how you chew
Pm for morality an agin Nose Gunst's
cigars on principle, but dat law'd give q
goat de Saint Vitus dance. If had George
Pessell's job, which'll be maybe soon and
maybe sooner. am dat ting d been inter-
duced, I'd had it referred to Vena, de boss
janitor, to eat dat night for his dinner, or
de nex' day white American would have
had his job if he'd had turned up wild it in
his cloes. Some tings is just humorous and
orders is foolish, cause you amt built de
wrong way.
"Dat garbage franchise kept 'em all
a-guessin', but me an John Cross is strict
| ly next, 'ceptin' de captains sometimes off
| de bridge an on in de same breath. He
| was forninst Scott's 'lectric franchise dur
| in de rehearsal, an den after he played
his t'inkin' part on de dog, he went Trough
| de motions afore me an de board of pub
lie works an we're still blinkin' at de sun
| when it's time to go to bed.
| dat privilege is worth too much money
for us to farm out wrong. We want to
know de boss swiler in de job afore we'll
| agree to sell de loaf.
Depuddins on de table, but it won't come
/ Otf dis meal cause de deserts too rich for
| your blood. Sabee.
''De man who is collecting powder for de
| Fiesta was aroun' for subscriptions de oder
day. He saw every man in de hall who
bosses his new clerks, an all he got was a
dollar from Walter Parker to buy hisself a
hair cut. He was after ten all roun', de
breatin spells. ! never knowed afore how
many paupers de city has on it's pension
roll for 200 wheels and more month
Fred Teal said he'd see about and
wanted to pay his, leggin it as
a soldier, and Charley Luckenbact
rush, after he'd paid his next mont's house
rent. Billy Dunn said he had to use his
pin money buyin' candy for de kids da
never come, but Dunn'l properly cough
when the flags waved all right. He's {
real gentleman an de fren' of everything
loRltiiIhto Ill ue cObb lluos Ddt IIldu btDllel
right so easy when he's touched dat he's
good ting wheresoever de English languag,
is whispered in dis town. De mayor Civ
de collector chap a check for $3.50 mex
day. an Pm goin' to do de hands ONE b.
decoratin' de town wild American fla ys fol
de celebration, free of charge to any on
but de executive committee, which'll pa.
de bill.
"Whose goin' to de big convention to st
Louis? Well, maybe It'll be me an maybe
It'll be my fren' de colonel-not in tou
SAN. And maybe It'll be Bob Ling. who'
de boss barker for de kids like Walte
Parker; an maybe It'll be de captain
who's agin de party on silver, but WHIT
never misses de ticket when de nomina
tions run dry. 1t might be Lionel Sheldon
who's always right, even when he's for Nc
Kinley an for de separation of church ant
state; or it might be Freeman G. Teec
who is a-walkin' slow cause it amt rigll
now his time to trot; or it might even b
Hervey Lindley, who always controls d
conventions up 10 de day of de primaries
could go myself, but I'm for any one Q
de respectables. In politics my motto is:
''Usa de feller as links he's ausin' you,
| Use him good an strong,
Use him we'll and use hi m long.