Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1912-08-30

One day when I was peeping in at
Bull Mcese meeting ! heard some
of the folks that invented the Della
ware Bull Moose. say TO an elephant
that they were fttin' bull moosey
horns to Now. Mister Alice is only
the tail of this Del B. NJ, so don't
get cold hoofs And I says TO my
self, Nov just watch Mister Sen. Al
lee turn that tail" round TO where
the head ought to be and say, see this
is the head And sure enough that's
what it would be. And sure enough
that's what Il is" Maybe IL was Doc.
Layton that did some kind of surgery
that turned the tail into the head.
You know Doc is smart
Speaking of buttons, I've been won
dering what Misters Alice, Layton,
NcCommons and Newell Ball are go
ing to do with all the buttons now
that it isn't safe to play button, but
ton who has got the button?" on cleo
ton days.
Here's an ad. / snuck (sneak,
snack. snuck) in without shown Il
TO the Bus. ON. (short for Business
ofiice) For sale cheap. one set OF
Bun Moose HORSEPOWER has no
further use for them since the Reg.
Rep convention. Apply to most any
Bull Moose" They tell me that
there's been bred a new animal in
Delaware-it's an elephant with Bull
Moose horns. On one horn there's
'T'' and on the other an "R." The
rest of the animal-outside the horns
is sure enough elephant of the C. o.
p. variety.
I've been thinking a whole lot
about all the folks that'll be disap-
po 81 dav after election when they
find that they haven't been elected on
the Del. Bull Moose ticket, so I've de-
cided to run for all the Offices myself
80 that there will only be one disap-
poi1ted. just say the word. Mister
Alice and III do the marathon for
all the offices.
Yesterday, a man called me up on
the phone. (telypone)-that's one on
the Sunday Starr, and told me II
would come over on Vandever ave-
nue., he would show me a SCOOP"
ftbe professor OF my Colleee-the l.
G. Something-told me always to be
on the lookout for "scoops") 80
hustled over Eleventh street bridge
so those other reporters wouldn't see
me. and when ] got TO the grocery
store. the man showed me q sugar
SCOOP. Now. / think the Progress
sives ought TO put something in their
platform about preventing young re-
porters being imposed upon-they
have everything else in their platform
except this. Why they even have a
rgangplank" In that platform.
heard a good story"--that's what
all we reporters call EN- after we've
heen real reporters for a week-yes-
ierday and came In 10 tell the city
editor about IT, ] told him that Hen
Lang. (guess I'd better write that
Henry McComb Lang. OF III be fred.
was chasing caterpillars out in Tenth
street park. You know Hen. Is May
or OF that park. The G. ". just look
cd up at me and scowled--you ought
10 see him scowl-and said; For
get It. Don't write any stuff like
that. If the caterpillars chase Lang
81 would be a good story. but Lang Is
always chasing some kind Of bug
I've been trying to find out what
kind of tree that Is on the Court
House lawn at Tenth and Market,
anu ~ lawyer ARAfiANh VIC " T III va
rct haven't seen him yet, and
somebody told me I'd better not ask
hun. For" said Somebody, Judge
CIIHfcnman asked Judge Garrett two
years ago what that tree was. and
Mr.. Garrett. looking wise. replied. An
elm. of course Last year the same
man asked Phil. kinda offhand, what
kind of a tree il was, and Phil
without missing the cuspidor, replied:
It's a hickory. OF course This year
another man asked Judge Garrett for
an opinion about the same tree. and
the Judge opined, 1T is locust"
Guess I'll ask somebody who knows.
ike Frank Biggs OF Judge Townsend
or Bayard Heisel, who have had ex-
perience in the country.
Somebody was telling me Council
man Jake Zimmerman is becoming
some boxer. mo" said a friend of
Jake, who saw the bout, Jake Is a
runner. The only thing he can box
Is a deviled crab with trimmings"
And talking about boxers who can
KUN, keep your eye on Funny Cole