Evening journal., 1899-01-24
SENATORIAL OUTLOOK.
Bill Jones Gives Inside Infor-
nation to His Vile.
COLLECTOR SAVERS DEFENDED


BILL JONES WON A LOT OF
BETS AND FEEls TIrAr HIS
WIFE IS ENTITLED TO A PIER.
CENTAGE
Hon. William Jones. OF sandtown,
becomes more and more careless with
his mail matter, and but for the kind
ly consideration Il the Wayfarer Mrs.
Jones would never know that her ris-
ing spouse had written to her. This
is a strictly confidential communica-
tion picked up in theHall ofRepresenta-
tives:
Dover Del, Jan 21.
My Dear Mary Ann: ! am glad to
here that hit IL all over, an that hit IL
"a boy. An so the frs words hit sea
wuz: Tell pap to stan by the cawcuss
nominee!" Mary Ann, that merely gose
TO show that breedin' will tell. Me
an the fe,lers here haz bin swappin
bets az to wether hit would be a boy
or a girl an l ha' won about Fifty
Dollars. Hits my opinion that you're
entitled 10 a percentage NV all bets fur
the Inconvenience you've bin put 20 in
maxim yore Bill so prosprous. Hit'z
my opinyun that we oughter call the
kid John Edward O'Suillvan AddicksI
Jones' That's a purity big name fur a
small chill to hav' to bare, but he kin
carry hit around in a sling till he gifts
big enuf TO recognise the responsible
lty under wioh he is laborin'. You
kin Whisper in his yere that his pap is
goin' to stan by the cawcuss nominee
tin the horn Bows fur the men to-
cum in outten the field
Mary Ann, wot do you think. ! met
our Of fren' Reubin Scragss, Nv
Sockums in the lobby to-day an he
sez: Hello, Binl" an ! sez, "Howde
do, Reubin." An he SEE, Il here as
how the poppy.ashun NV Sandtown has
bin incresed an that you're thinkin
about havin' the town Incorporated" !
sez: "Reubin, yore hearin' is purity
good" Then he reched out his han
an sed: "BiE. 1 wan to congratulate
you, an to wish you menny happy re-
turns Nv the day" l sez, "Reubin,
howse the worr bin usin' you" an
he sez: Ruff. Bill; damruff. I've bin
the victim uv misplaced confidence, an
! never fel' so ruff in all my life. Sum
city fellers cum down yere an played
the go. brick an lightnin'-rod racket
on me. They toll me that ef I'd only
have faith an repent an stick up one
uT their lightning rods with a clere
conshense the lightnin' would strike
hit an leave a goT brick worth some
thin like fifteen hundred dollars layin
at my feet. l dun hit, an burned et
the lightnin didn cum down and hit
a feller named Sheppard an never no.
tist my rod at all. Hit wuz bunco
game, Bill, an wen l complained they
sed the resOn the hghtnin' didn
strike my rod wuz that hit wuz afeerd
/ hadn' repented enuf an that the
shock NV findin the gop brick might
make me a backslider." sez, 'Wotre
yo' goin' to do about hit, Reubin?" an
he SEE, I'm goin' back " SOckum in
the jaw" Now, hits my opinion, Mary
Ann, that Reubin hadn't no bisness
.comiE' to town. He mfta moved that
"a feller frum Sockum wuznt no match
fur them fellens from Wilmington. But
the meme part NV hit wuz, Mary Ann,
20 git him TO declare his intenshunsan
then refuse him his final natcherali-
zashun papers. He's anuther one Nv
these yere men who has got 10 go 70
Helen Hunt for eonsOlashun. / don
know this gal, but she mus be CRATE
fur I've seen her menshuned
quite cffen in the papers. Joshua
Muggs, NV Cypress Swamp, wuz also a
caller en- yore risin' husban' to-day.
He sez that down in he deestTict he
don't heer nobody's name but mine
menshuned. HITS Bill Jones every
ware. no yule be prowd to heer this,
even tho you don no Joshua Muggs.
Hes l Of them Literary felers, like
Reubin scraggs. an deles mos gen.
orally in po,iyticks. He sez that in all
his knOwnin' he never run acrost a
man who could git to the top NV the
hepe like 1 hav. Hits jes' marvlOusl"
ne sez; an he's a 'nowin' feller.
That fe.er Gray's a loomin' up, an
Miss Dimockrasy has her goldin hair
a-hangin down her back. Taylors
lef' the fellers who is in this yere
thing fur purely complimentary pur-
poses, an l have hearn tell as how
Clark an Oday Wall slide into camp
on Monday or TO0sday. Seniter Ken
Rey wuz here to-day an l hav bin
givin' to understan' that he jes up an
tol the hold burned bisness TO git to
gether an stan fur Gorge Gray. Fl
he's dun. that hits likely that Levi:
an p,-1a mill la tho nn1rr zoo mar