Evening journal., 1899-02-21

ln snide game agin thai there Dela-
ware Pitt Assoshiashun. They allow
as how they won vote TO pass Captln
verden's pilit bill unless the Phit Cum
mishun agrees TO Civ Representativ
Donnyhoe, chareman of the Dino
Sratic steerin committee in the House
furst-c.ass pitts iisense They say
as how he kin steer things as good as
Pllit Verden or emmy of them uther fell
lers an allow as how he's deservin' OF
a lisense. ] CESS Mister Donnyhoe is a
hankern fer that lisense, Mary Ann,
fer wen a fe,ler asst him where Mister
Macknuitee wuz he sed: Lay yore
corse sow-eow-west an you'll site him
three pints abaft the wether beme of
that there Use cooler back in the cor
ner." / CESS Mister Donnyhoe musta
bin a sayler sumtime in his life or else
them Dlmckrats wou.dn' a-made him
chareman Of there steerin' cummittee.
I hay saw Mister Verden an tol' him
as how things is, an ef he don con-
sent TO givin' Mister DonnyhOe that
pilit's lisense he'll lose his bill.
! never moved tin Satterday as how
my OF an festive friend, Jabez Jinklns,
of North MurderkiH hunderd, kud pla
the fiddle. certeniy wuz serprist
Mary Ann. He brot his fiddle up the
Delewar rode an got on at Whining
ton. Wen he got in the strete car an"
wen out Delewar avenoo he had that
there fiddle OF hissen up in his lap a
nursin' hit as tho hit wuz a dere little
gran'child Hit certenly wuz an in
spirin' site. Mary Ann. sez: Mister
Jinkins, | didn no tel jes' now as how
YOU kud play the fiddle" He sez: you
didn'?" sez: mo; do You play by
ere or by band?" He SEE: "Sumtimes
one way an sumtlnes the uther."
sez: kin you pla the Devils Dreme?"
He sez; Il could before ] jined meetin',
hut hits agln the dissip,in TO do hit
now Bat. Bill, ! kin play the Arkin-
saw Traveller, an the Hiland fling all
rite. an wen hit Gums to the Mockin'
Berd an Home. Swete Home. hits
perfect dreme.' Jes' then the conduck-
ter yelled out Maddysun strete!" an
had TO git often the car. Mex Sum
mer wen we hav our corn-thinnin'
festival down at sandtown I'm a-goin'
to git Mister Jinklns to cum down an
play the plane sets fer US, fer he's such
jolly feller-jes brimmin' over with
annimel speerets, an | think hepe ov
him, Mary Ami do. fer fact.
Readin Clerk Of the House Parker
has made a big change in his frontis
piece, Mary Ann. He has had his mus
tash shaved off, an now his fase wares
genyoOine look OF Jeffersonyen sim
plisity HITS Offensiv to them Regler
Republicans an Union Republicans,
an they're a-thinkin OF readin' him
outten the party fer runnin his Ease on
Dimokratc prinsipels fele rele
sorry fer Parker fer he's a good-na-
tured felier, an ef heM Civ me his
ward to re-establish hissef politically
by .ettn' his mustash gro agin' | think
kin fix hit up as how he kin kepe his
present job.
To-nite ex-Jedge Maryle has bin a
caucussin' with them silver Dimokrats
an hit wouldn' serprise me as how
they'll Civ him Complementary vote
fer seniter Tomorrow Ef they do, III
| Civ Mister Marvle credit fer bein' a
furst-ciass cawcussee.
Representativ Lattymus is back
agin', an he's a site. Mary Ann. One
eyes all hunged up an the uther ones
a-goin' He looks like a Cubin patryOs
after hard fite an no mistake. | asst
him how hit cum that his eyes got into
sech condishun He sed he had to
shovle sno fer three days after the
u blizzerd. an he straned his eyes a
loolxin' fer the end Of his job. | asst
him wi he shove,ed snO wen he wuz
shore as how Spring an Summer wuz
a-cOmin an he sed as how the sno
, wuz there, an the shuvel wuz there
an he didn' hav no time to think about
{ thaw a-comin'. He's got severe
, cold. too. asst him how he cum to git
that. He sed that he wen down to the
, erik to see ef one-pound carps could
git throO a net havin' a mesh of one
and one-eighth inches, and he got his
I arms wet a shown the carps throO the
: net. / tell you, Mary Ann. Iattymu,
won vote fer a bill tell he nows hits
, rite. an he'll git to the bottom OF its
meanin' ef he has to git wet an pnoo.
monya to do hit. Hit hahn every
E STATESMAN as would git in bote an
D go cut on the ise 10 see wot injestise a
q bins a-goin' to wnrk agin' Dutci
, carps, an take an interpreter along tC
! here there greeyanses.
% Messers. Blakely, Frizzel an Yoo
ing has cum out an declared their
! selves, Mary Ann an ef we kin git sil
8 or ate more votes Addix'n serteniy b,
n elected. But nun Of our fellers seem'
. to no where to go to git them uthe
votes. Hits exasperatin' 10 be so ner,
z an yit 50 far, an Mister Addix don
+ like hit abit He's a-singln' Draw M
4 nerer draw me nerer" bait l don't Sc
n as how we kin do hit We're a-layin
4 fur too or three more votes. but hit'l
take more'n that. an sam Nox ha
y hOodooed us by nxin' March therteentl
y as the time fer the finle Dustin uT
II Hits an unlucky day, Mary Ann, an
Ia oain't see as how them feilers ever le
- him git hit throo. Don believe nun O
them tails about Mister Addicks offer
p in seven thousan' dollers fer votes
ls I've bin iOokin' fer things of that kline
n an | hahn saw a sent. Our cawcu
y nominee is rich. but he haint usiI
y money 20 git ahed in poHiticks, fe
hits agin his princepels