Evening journal., 1899-02-08

INTENTIONS BY VOTING FOR
ADDacKs-A joke ON REPRE-
SENTATIVE EWING.
The Wayfarer. having come into
POSSESSION Of the following communi-
cation, offers it to Evening Journal
readers:
DOVER, Feb z, 1898
Ny Dere Mary Ann
1 hav' hin reseevin' a good menny
letters dnrin' the pas few days. Mary
Ann. Pete Jordin wants to no wen
the fare to Dover is goin' TO git cheep-
er. / hay told him as how he'd bet
ter interyoo a ticloit scalkper, an git
his lowest rates. Jack Spring tells
me as how he's goin' to be kerener
sure in 1901. He has my congratu-
lashuns in advans, fur / hahn shore
as how he'll want EN- after ahe pri-
merry elecloshun has bin held. skeat
Forrest sez as how they're goin' to
hav ? new clubhouse, an wants to no
ef l won make the openin' address. ]
hav tor him as how he loin set me
down fer hit an the grub. squire Nc
Colley sends me the encouragln' news
that he'll beat Jim Mccoy in 1908
Hits my opinyun that he's little
prevyus AS anuther evydens OF pros
perity Dutch Martin is promisin
bricklayers six dollers a day, an
they've all quit work and are layin
nroun' waitin' fur the raise to cum
iuck Berry has rit a postil card in
which ne SEE THAI the Eighth Ward
Republican lege is boomin'. an the
flnans committee has ordered new tips
10 be bilt on the pool kews. Sum 81
that there corrupshun fund musta go'
stuck in the Sth ward Charley Hig-
mutt has sent me a fumegated letter
frIm the bord Of helth. He sez h,
lain had sech good job sense h,
wuE wayin male matter down at tn,
deepo.
Mister King got a picltter Of wr-
man he's correspondent with in Pits
berg, an she's certenly a bure. Ther,
hain't no flies on her, Mary Ann, an
everyDoddy who has seen her seq a.
how she's mitey good loobin'. Mlstel
King is to be congratulated.
Kerne. Rickerds sez he didn't rlt,
no letter to Miff w9lsun to kiln tn,
Lawrel water wuriSs Din. hahn sayln
as how he did, Mary Ann but eff
hahn mistaken hearn him tell Semi
ter Pile to stan him in his fte, fur h,
held two men fur him fur the speaker
chip. Seniter Pile mildly sed: "Yor
ala like hel!' and asst him who the,
Nuz He sed as how they wus Moor
an Farow. Ever sense then Semitic
Pile has bin votin' fer the bill in
brown study, an Seniters More an
Farlow has bin wonderin where the.
wuz when Kernel Rickerds wuz a
holdin' them.
Hit has bin mitey hard day O,
them military fel.ers, Mary Ann. Gen
eral Topham an Kernel Henry Doc
Pont has bin elimynated. an hits non
the klergy agin the Standard lie Cam
pny.
Mary Ann, you oughter saw Repre-
sentative Youing on the trane thi
mornin! He wus ridin' down frur
Wilmington in the smokin' car. al
shortly afore We reched Dover he WI
fas' asleep. sum OF the fellers rit
piece Of paper tellin' the conductor I
put him on at Feltin, an pinned n.
10 the frunt of the cote OF Youinp, u
never moved a thing about hit We
the trans reched Dover all the feller
sot out an lef' Mister Youine alone
his glory. He slep' on like an angel
Jes' before the trane was about to lii
cut fur Wyomin', Kernel Lafe, N
conductor, poked his he'd in the dor
an yelled: "Feltini Feltini All q,
iur Fetinl Mex stops Woodside,
Mister Young jumped outten his ser
an made a brake fur the dore. The
ne remembered as how he had a sache
Wen he wen back to look fer hit ,
ioun' as how hit wuz gone. sum
me fellers had toted hit of the tran
lie mad anuther rush FUR the dore an
jumped offen the platform. expect
TO hay to hire a teme to carry hi
back to Dover. Wen he cum to h
sensis an looked aroun' he foun'
wuz at Dover, an that everybody WI
s'andin in frunt ov the stashup al,
a-iaifin' az him. Hit wuz mitey Iaff
bel Mary Ann, an I wisht YOU con
a-eeen hit.
A.l OF us Addicks fellers is in
tether to-nite about Frizzle votin' I
Addicks to-day. He didn't stay Wi
US very long, but he jes' shode his go,
intenshuns, an we hahn greven' nu
We think We kin git him wen we wa
him; an we don want him pertickel
ies yit-
fore risin' husband,