Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1899-01-02
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(BY S. w GILLIAN. }


.'O'ive been an seen UNI, an. "a
Grogan says when he tells thot ould
lie av his about havini seen tn priace
.av Wa-ales, theirs gra-ate disappint-
mint in tn appearance of r-royalty. l
fiIt consider BILE as il tn underta- aksr
he'd sed Pass this Way L view the
remains an tn aforesaid hadn't kept
we'll"
Who do yez meant asked Mrs.
Horriesn as her husband, delivering
himself of the above remarks. prepared
for his nightly slumbers by hanging
his socks on the round of chair close
to the fire and smoking his good
night pipe in his bare feet.
"Noey Clodhopper. OTve looked
on um an lived. Tonight Oh WIZ wild
some friends an all av 'em wanted to
90 till tn council cha amber t'see the set
av over Drained dads COLLECT there t.
la abor earnestly toward tn PREVENTION
av . city surplus in tn tLreasury.
Amung other things there wuz Noey
an g frind Willie Pickens. bein'
showldered about be me ould frind
Lindymoot who wuz city atthurney
long enoof T. know what wuz FIR tn
city's good, an in larnln' thot he
natcherally larned what wuz tn OPP
pysyte.
''Loike as inny way, Nora, yez nis er
heerd ixactIy how this ting furrst come
up. Well, firm talkin' t. Tim Cron n
an others that uiver gifts behind tn
tonnes regysrdin' inny public quis-
ton Olive larned tn whole inside OPP
eraytions av the whole procoedins, an
hyer they are.
| I'm the beginnin' comas wan called
Noey Clodhopper, who hez built more
railroads that Oh hiv helped build
moiles of ra-alroad wild tn siction
gang, but won't tell where the roads
are for fear somebody'll think he's
boastin'. He axes council. trough :
frind Lindymoot, FIR frinchise TO take
linny koind av a road thot ma-ay be
Iinvinted befure tn year nine tame
ltwintyfoive, along sout' q stra- ate
firm tn corpo. alton line aist He
wants tn road T. run along tn ould
L. & X. line, an g frind Willie
Pickens wants thot line r no other
The council wuz TUX be surprise al
} thot, an seq we'll think about, it Shict
they didn't intind to, but thot jist Civ
'em all chast T. go an see what tn
lpublic thinks av ut an to talk t. Dave
Whelan. At tn mkt meetin it had
transpirsd thot the public wuz sus
picious av q road that wanted the right
of wa-ay thot had been hid be another
lroad an wud be wanted sgin. They
wuz nothin' inny more diffiinite abou
lth' application FIR q fraochise thar
they ust T. be about park commits
sioner's report. The payple akin i
wanted tn right T. run a railroad fl
shtame cyars. FIR throlley line, f'r 1
sta-age coach line. FIR Kelley motor
line, FIR a mule thrain er a canawl boa
or even FIR thrain av thought, jis
80 it whit along tn line av tn ould K
& 4. This tn council got suspicion :
an said we ma-ay need thot very
ground FIR tn new Southern Injanny
FIR We hear Tommy Walsh is aeadeo
this wa-ay. Ta-ake yer rorte trough
some other p~.rt nv town, an well
tlsten to fair proposition, sez' coun'
lcil.
This they wint into a committee a,
tn whole, an as them meetin's is al
ways sacret, 'twuz no trouble Z larr
ixactly whut happened there. Nov
thot ma-ay sound funny to yez, Nora
common open mestin' yez can set an
listen yersilf, an yez won't know wha
might be goin' on. But if it's Sc
crit session. thin livery mon in towr
knows befure five minyits afther ad
journment, jisht what's happened
livery mon promises all the others he 4
say nothin', an each mon, KNOWN
tn others'll all break their promises
hurries so he'll get Z do his share ay
tellin' befure tn others tells it all an
ma-akes it shtale. Thot's tn wa-ay
wild toe minny things amy how.
/ well, in this committy av tn
whole Musther Pickeus seq thot he is
aware thot it is bein' said thot the
Pennsylvania ro'ad-bad cess to it, =
is backin' his schame He proves tho
it a-aint by admittin' thot he's {
brother of tn la adm atthurney f.,
tn road an has helped in some av tn
roads migration. This clears 'un
in iverybody's mind, an Everybody:
sorry they hid liver accused um az
bein' not av tn Dist intintions. Az
coorse if s brother WIZ high NOR
wild tn road an a bigger lawyer MOI
Willie he'd want Willie to be dead
agin tn road he wurrked for. Thot's
tn Pinnsylvany company's wa-ay
livery time. If they couldn't git il
on g shtra- ate, he said, they
would like T. come up sout' elivinth
shtra-ate. he said, or thirteenth, thor
bein' in tn vicinity av tn Southern
lndianny's depot grounds. Thin
Noey Clodhopper got up, an tould
it all over agin. He hiz, Nora, wan az
| these mouths wild a side iuthrance, wild
| whisker porthieres, an whin he ma
axes spache he seq somethin' about
biznes phrinei pies livery minyit.
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