Evening journal., 1899-01-30
GUESTS OF TANTALUS.
Bill Jones Sp,nds a Night in
Fair Addicksonia.
ROYAL RECEPTION ACCORDED HIM

DISTINGUISHED ATTENTION
WHEREVER HE GOES-HE GIVES
MIR. ADDICKS HIS VIEWS ON
THE SENATORIAL DEADLOCK
AND PRESIDEs AT TEE PHIIA-
DELPIIIA DINNER.
On Saturday night the wayfarer
waylaid the mail-carrier Of sandsown
and, after a desperate hand-to-hand
struggle, took from his mail-pouch the
following letter from Hsa. William
Jones, Of sandtown, to his immured
and devoted wife:
Dover, Del, Jan. 70. 1899.
Dear Mary Ann: My, wot a ned 1
have got. Hit feels fit to bust hav
jes' cum to frum that shampane dinner
wot Mr.. Addicks Civ US on Friday mite
Fur a day an a'nite I hain't Knowed
nuthin', an I'm afeerd that the second
attack is now comm on, fur I've bin
drinkin water an hits kinder resur-
rected the burned stuff that we mad to
drink. I'm ether gittin' drunk agin'
or else I'm tal1in' the grip. IN this
lucid interval I'll tell YOU al about
hit, fur in ha'f an owr l may be in
delerum trimmins or nav the rams an
then / won be able TO rite. We had
q big time. Our feller Addicks over
done hisself fur our benefit. Hit WIS
gorgus, Mary Ann, an ef / git over
hit I'll be trooly thankful. don' no
wether hits the shampane or the fish
house punch that's actin thisaway. but
never felt so burned foolish IN all
my life Hit'l1 be a hardship 10 cum
back to sweet slider, rot-gut whiskey
an SandtOwn after this yere exsperi-
ence, kin tell you. I CESS you never
seen any Of this yere shampane. Mary
Ann. Hits the mos discortented
hcker l ever run across. Hit dom
wan to stay nowheres. Wen hits in
the bottle hit wants to bust out; wen
hits in the glass hit wants TO run out
an smear hitself all over the label
cloth; wen yOu git hit in yore stumick
sum Of hit wants to go up in yer he'd.
sum OF bit wants to go down in yer
legs, an wot's ,ef' dom care a durn
where hit goes. Hits the conrrariest
stuff that ever a man watered mis- in
nerds with but hits nice, Mary Ann,
mitey nice. an we had five hundred
dollars wuth Of hit. They had sum
stuff ther they called fsh-house punch.
Hit looked somethin' like dandeline
wine with froot floatin' aroun' in hit.
asst a feller wot hit wuz an he SEE,
Hits lemonade-help yerselfi" 1 sailed
in, an Milf Wilson sez. "Bili, do you
no wot you're drinhn?" ! sez, "Yes,
lemonadei" He sez, "Ei 20 drink
much o. that lemonade you'H need a
.Ke.ey inetitoot an sum wife ash trete-
.ment to straten you up. Hits the mos
delusive stuff that yo' ever hit IN the
drinkin' line" swOre off fur the
time beln' but hit WIZ too good to
miss, an / wen back fur sum more.
But, Mary Ann, wan 10 tell you all
about hit.
Friday afternoon 7 got a telegraph
frum Addicl1s tellin' me as how the
dinner wouldn' cum Off ef I didn' cum
up. He sed he wanted to see me be-
fore the funkshun begun an hav a
talk on the senatorial situashun. I lef
Dover on the mOrnin' trn.a an wen
up. tride to wurl1 a pass put the
feller here sed mo Addicks need ap-
ply" so I borrowed the money an
went. Them cars cert'nly did fly San
Perkins blaze-faced sorrel PAGER hahn
surkumstance to them cars. ( seer
Claton, Middletown, New Cassii vii
mington an all them other places
you've hern tell about, an Pm led t.
bleve as how there's somethin e,sl
in the worl' besides Sandtown. I geel
the felers up in Wilmington must a
moved wuz passin' threw, fur I no
list 4 hole lot OF flags a-hyin'.
Wen l got to Brod s.rete stashun
wuz jes struck dunn. Hits a big Place
Jim Harrington's grocery store hahn
a surkemstance 10 nit. Hit must aces
fifteen or twenty thousan' dollars.
asst a perliceman ef he could tel m
where J. Edward Addicks put up. "Le
me think a mint" he SEE. After h
had thunk his think he sed: "Oi
South Seventeenth street; do you uhini
you kin find hit?" 7 toll him as hoN
II wuz the first time ia ever bin i
lFillydelpfa, an he called anuther pei
lieeman over an sed: 'Gzere's froI
# Addickses. Drop everything al
take him up to the house CT the por
mans friend" Then he turned 20 N
an sed: ''Ef yo' hahn got no ob5ecl
shun I'd Like to no yore name" Ell
Bill Jones. Of Sandtown." ! sed. We,
sir, Mary Ann, them feI,ers jes' toe
Off their hats an they wen on as
l+bcv'd met an ND fren ssgTn,-g,a ,-f,f