Evening journal., 1899-02-18

nOldin tne mautdr unutr duYlSelnenl
an to-nte he haint deelded weuher
to heed the warnin or not. He'd like
to here sum expreshun of ophnyin
fTaIm adie Deleware wimmin before
actin in the matter.
nt-day, felier cum up to me in the
stait House an sed: Here's sum potry
I've rote, Mister jones. an j thot how
maybe Mary Ann mite like to redt
HIT" "Wots yer pome aBsut?"
sez. HITS called 'Addicl1s's Lament, -
he eed. "au' here hit il:
on Alice, boy. wot shall l do?
Fer menny days I've looked to you
To stere me TO the SENT.
But, OH the nawty, migrate boys,
Despite my boodle-supper, toys.
Won't let yer master in II.
To git them over banks Of sno
let the barrel freely 40,
y An got our men In line.
In council with his majesty,
Hit seemed to Satan an to me,
mite slip silly in.
But ne upon them Dimokrats!
As spri an quick an shore as cats,
(Anathemas roll DER 'em)
We're there, an put us in fix.
Shame on their Dimokratic tricks!
That kept us f17m a quorum.
Chl Alice boy, my hart is sad;
Wot kin you do 10 make me g'ad?
Agin l look to you
Speke out an Civ me all yore mind;
I've sode the Doodle, reeped the wind
An don no wot 60 do.
Hits mi opngun, Mary Ann, as huy
this felier am Ned Painter has BIZ
holdiT a cawcusls on potry.
Genera Topham haint with the gan
ennymone. They wuz Uoo much fe
him, an he's gone to a kwieter abidlr
plase Postmaster Kassen waiz teliar
me as how Topham cum to him az
sed as how everything had bin fxEt NJ
Kasson asst him witt way. nophar
sed the Fedrel paytronage wuz to b
divided mp an then they wlz all I
John dn,an elect a senHter. Kasson az
Topham hoo wuz to be elected semitic
mister Addix" sed Topham, an je
then Kasson foun' out as how he'd bl
gissenin 10 anuther farey tail. II
certenly wuz amusln'.
Guvuer Tunnel asst me To cum in h
of1is this mornin I d.dn' no W.
hit wuz abort, fr hadn' asst him n
nRrthin', an wnzn't eNpectn' ennr
tIhdnlg. He sez, "Bill, here's this vel
durnsd 1ndyau river eel bin on N
desk an thot as how. ef you didn't uT
jeIc we'd veto the dnrned thing"
toll him as how l represented the ee
an eff he realty wanted to vevNo hit
w-uldn' override his veeto. He sc
I'm delited to at las find a fell
aroun we're who dom wan to STAN
the life otatten myweeto. I've bin
wonderin' wi. IN THE Helen Blazes the
constitushenal convenshun fe.lers &
me the rite TO veto bills an NAL
arpintmanrs. Ell l r1ol again b
them fe1lers upstares puts bubble b
i'm the mouth Of my veto. s.aps a sa
die on hits back an overrides hit: a
et make an appintment sumibody
a-holdln' up oonfermashuu. Hit hal
no use of bein' gVner no more"
sez, Hbe, ef youll veto that eel b
yoo kin have mi persne. garensee
how nobody'n ride hit vile Bill Jon,
Of Sandtov'n. is hangin' arounf the Sta
House" You're plum shore as hi
you haint got no obiecSsIhun?" he s,
mo, hahn got no objaczshuns."
eed. Then wct do you say ef.we We
htt2' he sed. I'm within" j sed. a
we dun hit rite then and there. Ma
Ann, an forced the Dimokratic SET
10 do the exspongin' act on hits jern
tell WOO Mary Ann. wen Ebs an l
goes fshin' fer ee1s we ketoh sumih.
every time. Hit may be eeis, or !
may he eumth.n' hotter. but we's shl.
OF ketchinf sumluhin'.
Us Addix feEle1s is after Barn
s'tfaclrva's sia,p. but gees he don
rhat.-r Barney hahn bin very go
friend OF ourn- an too yeres ago
hurt Frank A,iee's arm. Now we
agoin' to even up by preventin' ]
conirmashun bi the Senit. He's 8
to be purity spri to git away frnm
an Frank. fur this yere Tammeny b
;ssssz=ss IL likely to git mixst up in
before the weeks out.
D cer'tenl5 hav missed Mister Lat