Evening journal., 1899-03-28

has side-tracked Had Lewis fer Pohse
Commissioner Mister Addix has rote
letter to Judge Sprooance, an you no
how much the judge thinks OF Mister
Addix
Ef this yere trubbie blows over so
that we kin cum outten the loft hits
cur intenshum 10 rmt a stty ticket in
the feed in Joon an wipe them Reg
.ers outten existence. We hain't goin'
10 spare nobCddy, fer everyboddys Is
agin us an we're agln everybody.
There hain't goin' to be no more com
min primeries ef we knows ourselves.
Mister AddiX sez he hain't never went
into a dee with the Reglers without
gittln' burnt, an ne don't propose TO
wear no linseed oil bandage this year
ef he kin help hisself-an' he gesses as
how he kin.
Mister Addx has offered to give me
sum more Bay Stait gas, but | have
dek.ined My eNpensis now IS moren
kin stand. He apperes to be the only
feIler hoo kin maik Bay Stait pay.
asst him to let me in on copper but he
sed as how Newer Ball an sum of the
utAer fe,lers had got al he cud spare
Ef ennyboddy shud tell you as how
Jim Robertson wants 10 be sitty tax
collector jest set hit down fer a lie. He
has sent me a note tel.in me that he
hahn; hankerin' fer Tom Lewis p,ase
This is easin on THE situashun, an
hits re.e nise' of Jim to keep outten
the mnss
Mister Addix allows as how Wiplyam
Mikle Bern is gittin' too derned fresh
in this yere investigator blzness an us
Aa3.X men is reddy TO salt him down
Wen did he bel0um "a assistant dep
petty attorney generel, Mary Ann2 /
haint saw nuthin about hit in the
nOOspapers. We allow as how he's bin
waitin so Icing fer Lew Vandegrlft TO
cit outten the offls OF deestriot after
nee- that he CANT hold hisseif no lon
ger, and as Mister Vandegrift won't let
MIN hep in them there hank cases Of
cun, he's go.n' in to hep Mister Coo
per. ! allow as how that there NANNY
fee,O Of Mister Rurnses is a-gOin' to
drive a lot more Of our fellers up into
this yere hay4loft There don't anpere
TO be no grattytood about Frank Iatti-
nuss. After Mark Davis goes an Of
iors to lift a mortgige witch has been
hangin to his farm fer sum time wot
duz ne do Init go an try to git Mark
in1cr trubb,e. HITS enuf to mock the
lcife Gene outten filanthrOpy Ef ! wuz
Mark I'd SO an git the feller wot holds
that there mortgage to foreclothes. jes'
TO shCw Latiymnss wot he missed by
not takin' up the offer / CESS Mark
tTR "a. fu.fa rf
hisscG, an cf his case Gums up before
a jury | allow as how hitu disagree.
Mark won't do no time ef Mister Addix
KIN help hisself.
lnat there QcC-0lack snake is still
a-wrigglin'. Us fe.gers has told Mister
l.Cocper's trends that ef hem hang hit
aUost fense raie hitll die nipht
about shutdown. But he seq, Let her
ilegie,' an that's wot she's doin But
| hain't in that, Mary Ann Sum OF the
ieacrs is feelin' tlOo about hit, but |
halnt rroppggaMn' no legislative
srakes. I'd ruther rase dlmund back
taupins There hain't quite SO much
money in hit, hut there's less risk.
Mister Frizz,e's kinder mad about
yae way Mister COoper's tretin' Mister
Davis. He cum up in the hay-rack to.
day an sed: "BlG. ef them Dimmocrats
don't let up on Mark Davis I'm poin
TO tel al know about money being
offered to git that there Strete an Sool
llone bill throo.' / sez. "Wuz emmy of.
fers made?' an he SEE. "WeA. | shud
say so; an that hain't an" George
Roberts wuz also a vister to-day. an
ne allows as how the Addix feller
down In Kent county is gittln' reddy ts
make hit hot fer William Mikel Bern
don't know how hit'M AN tern out
nut ei this yeie thing keeps up abou
mar the poppyashnn viii be in jale an
the luther half out on susplshnn.
Henry has dun jes wot told him.
pinted out TO him wot a good man jim
Carter wud be fer direckter fer tn,
stre:e an SoOr Department. Jim's bil
Kicked at the Poles so much that ther
wuzn't nuthin left fer him but an an
pclntive offis. Hit wuz a sad blow fe
Newan GawiIhrcp | understand a
. how he fe,es hit most keenly. III
halnt SD nuthin' to me, but ef n
Gums up on the hay IN tell him hoy
nit an cum about He thOt that wen h
got the backin Of the silk-stockin' el
lement he had everything he wanted
but he didn't know as how us feller
wuz pullin the wires agin' him Mis-
ter Addix never fergets an seldom fer
gives.
/ Jedge Sprooance has cum to th
: fntnt with Jim Oarkson fer pclis
r commissioner. Hit strikes me as ho'
( that's goin' to keep them Regiers fruI
I iumpin' in an grabtin' everything {
Z site. Mister Clarloson hain't goin' I
I bust his neck tearin up the pohse d.
K rautment fer the sake OF fellers he
= are hankerin fer spoils
a l wunder ef Billie Thompson cud te
v Mister Cooper ennything about thu
4 there race-tlaCk snake. Hit has hi
A sed as how he sent seventeen thol
n sand dcl,ers ever ycre sum time ag
= an that only ate thousand OF hit hs
o ever lin accounted fer. Mary Ann,
r / oud jes a-run up agin' that thel
~ seventeen thOusan' dollers you needn
Il a-dun no more washin fer / cud
= hired two or three nigger wimmen
n have stc-red up the suds every Monds
:, mornin'.
T. I'm sendin' this to Wilmington
mail so as to throw them slootl