Evening journal., 1899-01-30

20 felp az nome. nut tney Qlln make
a hcw.in' sucksess NV hit. Hits my
opinyun that they'd ruther a-bin
! hcme Let's go in an sit sumthin' to
eat ." sod Addicks we caint stay
long. cf we're g9n to the theatre an
geas We are Hlt wuz o beautiful
ABIDE trimmed with urgit-me-nots
| After we Wuz all set aroun the table
/ Mister Addicks aed i move that
Bin Jones. of sandtown be- the pre-
sldin officer an that seniter Atbitt
of Milford be- the tuastmastcr Il sed
carried" an took my seat Milf Will
sin sed: Speech" an the uther fell
lers jlned in. J got up an sed:
"Feller Citlzens-Of course yo' all
/ knew wot this yere funkshun means
! Hit is purely a soshal affair There
hahn no pollytics in HIT Ef there is a
real genuine poliyiishin here I'd mos
respectfully ask him to 90 out
Then, Mary Ann, ! pawsed an look
ed around Sum of the fellers wuz
squirim In their seats. but nobody
went out Then / sed
'Addicks Is short Of votes. an ef
he kin swap sum Addicks grub an
shampane fur three or four Reg'ler
Republican votes hits cheap an
piesent way of gittin' EN-. We CANT
afford to give a funckshun like this fur
nuthin an we haint agoin to do Il ef
we kin help HIT We've spent about
nine hundred dollers, TO say nuthin' Of
theatre tickits. an the least that we
kin be expected TO do is 10 make ex-
pensos. ! motifs that there's LOT nv
peple here who haint got no vote In
the Legislature an that there's a lot
who has gol a vote i'm the Legislature
VINO haint here ~ there IL emmy
member NV The Legislature here VINO
caint see his way c,ero to vote FUR
Edward Addicks fur United etaies
Soniter now's the time fur him to git
MP an so out, fur this yerc things
bcin ran on strict bizncss principles
an We dom wan 20 feed Reg'ler Re
publicans."
Seniter Biake.y got up an sed: "I
WIZ givin' to understan as how this
funckshun wuz purely soshal lSf hits
a bindin' Addicks cawcuss with grubh
an shampane throwed In me an Friz.
2.e an Young will hav 10 take a sand.
wich an glass Of shampane an git
out ! haint sayin' wot might do at
sum future time. | haint got no luv
fur Kernel DUPONT, fur he run William
Wilson. Jr. out again me. bat Frank
DuPonts all right, an SOS Joe Chand
Ter, fur a while yet, ennyhow."
Addicks seq. Bill. your de me a
pcrsnal faver ef youll let these three
fellers stay"
/ tol him as how l didn think hit
wuz bizness or practical politics. but
finally we compromised the matter by
maxim 'em eat mt anuthor table.
Then we began TO hav a good time.
Mary Ann. Addicks sez. ~ think this
funckshun should opn By sumboddy
onernin' a toast TO me. Seniter ALbit.
got up an sod Here's TO the only
man that ever discovered my states
manlike qualities Dr. Gale layton
wu2 sittin' mex to me an he pulled
a psce Of celery outten his mouth an
sed. "All things works together fur
good 20 them who fears the lord"
Seniter Ahbitt sed. "Will Dr. Layton
plese respond to the toast. Our Absent
Guests, an not make hit too long?"
! wish you could a-heerd that feller
layton, Mary Ann. The way he lit
into them Dimocrats an Regler Re
publicans wuz caushun. Hit dun my
cd heart good to here him He's one
Of these yere no compromise feNers.
Mister Addicks got up an sed that
he wuz glad TO see them ali at his own
expense. Times had been hard, but he
thought he could stan the racket with
out gcin' into a receivers hands He
sed there wuz no politics In the funck-
shun His only idee wuz 10 Civ them
a good square melo an let 'em see the
inside Of a theatre. i've only asst one
feller to vote fur me-" he sed, an
that's Mister Young, who Gums frum
my own district. an he's still votin'
fur the uther feller" looked at
Young an as. him wot he had to say
He sed he cum up there TO eat an
drink an NOT to talk. an then he bit a
bite outten a slice of bred, an wen on
! eatin, Jes then one OF them walters
walked up 20 me an sed. Mister
Jones VIII you hay sum bullyon?" 1
sez: Watts hullyon Hits soop. %
he sed. I tol him / didn't wan no bull
I NNNI tA AAAiA'f AA +NnN llaANs ever y NdA
| tomater soop wuz good enuf fur me
/ couldn rede the list Of grub. Hit
wuz in Dutch an ! tod the waiter to
bring me a dinner all at once an no.
in seckshuns. Hit wuz pudty good. an
so wuz the shampane an hsh-house
! punch. Wen we had got an we wanted
we lef' the table an started fur the
theatre. Wen ! got i'm the strete car a
fe.ler mex to me stuck up his nose an
SEE "Sumthin' smells ded Hav' you
got ennything about you that's
! splled?' hit made me so burned mad
thai | sed II wan YOU to undersan'
as how I'm Bill Jones, from Sandtown
an | don want nun Of yore internal
iip!' He sez. I'm health officer
an ! deman' to no wot you hav' got in
yore poclSit." sez II hahn cot
) nothln' in my pocket bat fifty shares
of Bay STATE gas That's hit" he
sed. jumpin up an grabb'n' me ly the
collier Hts the rOttcnest burned
stuff about Throw hit outten the
, winder or I'm have you arrestid fun
carryin' aroun a public nuisance"
dun wot he tole me. an he sed 20 the
ecnducter, Stop this yere car an burn