Evening journal., 1899-04-15
JONES IS DISTURBED
He Reviews the Many
Troubles Of MIR. Addicks.
BILL LONGS FOR HIS RURAL HOME

SERTS THAT If HOFF'ECKER DOES
NOT NAME THE DISTRICT ATrOR-
NEY 1T WILL BE BECAUSE PREsI-
DENT M'KINLEY HAS VIOLATED
PROMISES.
Thanks to the duplicty Of Henderson
G. Talley. Of Bmndywine hundred the
Wayfarer is enabled to give to his read
crs the text Of the following letter from
Hon. William Jones. of Sandtown, to his
devoted and long-sufferng wife, Mary
Ann Mr.. Talley assured Mr.. Jones that
NE would mail the missive for him, but,
instead Of doing so. he brought 1t to the
Wayfarer for publications;
Claymont, Del, April 6, 1899.
Mi dere Mary Ann:
Things is movin', but there's nuthin'
insplrin in the drift Of publick events up
yere unless hits the enkuredgin' noos
that the legislative investlgashun apperes
to be peterin' out. But, with it all, there
hain't no sunshine an latter up in Mis-
ter Addix's hayrick HITS filled with tim
ithy hay an gloom in equal proporshuns,
an the atmosfere is hevy with anxiety
an dire forebodin's. We're usin' teres
insted Of water fer victim down hay fer
the live stock. am the critters apperes to
take a likln' to the salty taste. Them
annimels hain't got no idee wot hit cost
to fetch them teres. Hits the most ex-
pensive salt and water they ever put In
their innerds. To the best Of mi calcu-
latin hit must a-cost about 100000 a
quart an hits stll a-howin
1 sertenly wish as how I'd kept outten
pollyticks an stuck to farmin', Mary
Ann Wen you're farmin' you sit UP
erly in the mornin' an so to bed erly at
mite: but wen you're out wurkin' in the
field of pollyticks you git up late in the
mornin' an go to bed erly in the morn
in. so you kin imagin' how mutch sleep
STATESMAN gifts. Hits sertenly tryin'
on a fellers' sleeper, an no mistaik. Hit
hain't wot hits cracked up to be. be-
leve hits more onprohtable than rasin
wheat at forty sents a bushel. Leastwist
me an Mister Addix has found II thata-
way.
Mister Addix is sertenly playln' in hard
luck. He sez so hlssef, an ] CESS there
hqint no disputin' II. His Ocksy- -Hider.
gen hobby-horse got the bots, an died
Then the black rot got in them sennytor.
yal sower grapes, an they wuznt fit fei
either him or Mister Higgins to eat. Tw,
yeres ago Higgins an Doopont nocket
the sennytoryal plum often his tree, an
Roll Kenney snuck in an picked hit M
an ct hit. Mister Addlx tride to git {
back by bringln charge Of stealth
agln Mister Kenney, but the jury sed nj
wuzn't goin' TO be fetched into no secl
ite. an Mister Addix had to give in an
let Mister Kenney keep the plum. The
he allowed as how he'd go In an try Il
git Mister Gray's sennytoryal plum. bu
the Dimmocrats an Regler Republican
stud In the orcherd an told him to kee
away frum the forbidden froot. He tho
he cud wip the hole outfit, an before h
got dun thinlSin'. the Dimmokrats Civ
him uppercut an the Reglers kicke
him in the soler plecBsus. Hit WI
more'n he cud stand. Up agin the rope
he went an while Frank Alice an Joh
Abbitt wuz bringin him to his senses al
sayin' consolin' wurds. sum fellers u
there on Wall strete. in the town of n
York, wuz drivn' his Bay Stait gas stoc
outten the stockyards an levin hit
Craze along the curbin'. Havn' no plas
to take hit he begun selnn' hit on II
hoof rite where hit stud an while j
wuz doin that along Gums that skand
about Farlow. an King, an Clark, voti
, fer the pore mans friend. Then he shoe
wot "a trooly CRATE man he wuz, fer !
throde open his stable door an sed: &C
in the hayrck, all who are hevy lade
an IN see as how you git yer grub q
h | right" We excepted the invitashun, n
y now we're hopin the trubble will soon
e at an end. fer the wether's gittn' dern'
a hot. But sence then a lawyer up at Yo
n lstica, Nu York, has sood him fer ther
S thousand dollers, more or less, fer tell
Mister Addix sum things he didn't kno
an I leve hit to you, Mary Ann, ef hi
c emmy wunder the pore mans friend fel
e tired OF livin. He's mitcy nigh wo
out a-watchin' his trends an his enn
mics. Iof / wuz him ia sell my politik
trends sum more Bay stait stock on t
hoof an retire on the proseeds.
Frank Alice wuz up yere TWO or thr
y days ago. an he stud on the cross-beI
= an rested to us sad tale about
way things is goin' all over the stait.
allows as how sumthin' has got to
done. The Yoonyun Republican party
disintegratin' an in danger OF Dustin
. on account OF all this yere talk abo
fellers bein' bribed. He allows as h
hits drivin' the respecktabel elleme
Al outten the party But l don't see no 4
n Of gittin' existed over that. fer ef
n- does hit won't cut down our vote We
s.. much / believe Franks got the bic
an that his nerves IL unstrung. He
lows as how the Regler Republki
ID Dimmokrats an the Almitey is about
ee much of a combynashun as the st
y Committee kin buck up agenst w!thC
gittin' hert.
hain't saw nuthin' in the papers la
. ~ about that there feller Ross fer ma.
t5 Of Wilmington. Kin it be that he's dr.
clene outten the hte? Hit wuz my des
- to see him stay in to the finish, fel
wanted to see how bad he'd git licked
49,, the sitty eleckshun.
~ Mister Addix sez he feles as tho
~ sord Of Dammoclees is hangin' over
nc perscnelly an the party in generl.
~ know things is desperit, but there ha
no use cussin' about hit.
Wot is there in this talk / hear alb