Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-24
SHE STOLE MIKES HEART AWAY,
NOW MIKES WRITING POETRY
But Mike Can Lick" Any
body in Georgia to Win
This Fair Southern
Beauty
Met Her on Atlantic's Sandy
Shores, but Even So She Is
True to Ter Beau at
Home

Nellie Riley stole big Mike" Devine's
heart away and went back home to Georgia.
That's the entire story except for some
details which have to do with Dcv!ne look
ing AZ the moon as he walks his beat IN
West Philadelphia. writing poetry, reporting
Tor duty on his day off and vowing that he
can lick" any baker or Baker in the state
Of Georgia
No one can deny that Dev'ne is in love
Mike Devinc. whom woman had failed to
charm all these 45 years or more. that be-
gan when he was born in County Derry.
Ireland Tie admits that when h. went to
Atlantic City for his vacation about three
weeks ago he met his fate in pretty Nellie
RlleN, who owns a millinery shop IN At
lanta. ca. lie wouldn't have to admit 1t,
says Lieutenant Ben Savage Of the Thirty
ninth street and Lancaster avenue police
station.
Dovlna i5 waiting for the answer to his
plea. made while he and pretty Nellie Riley
were sitting on the sands watching the
waves come swishinE into shore. He knows
there t. some one else. either baker or
n Baker-hc doesn't know which-down in
Atlanta But he's hoping Ard he says
lie would 60 down TO Georgia and wallop
every baker by trade and Baker by name
in the state II that would help his suit.
Ills friends agree that he could do II. for
his q feet inches of muscle is topped by
n shock of red hair, and everybody knows
how red-headcd man can fight. All his 81
years on the force lDcNiiie mas peen hlOWu
rs n "scrappcr" and hear"
But he's grown very gentle Of late, His
dreams of Nellie Riley, with her Irish blue
eyes and her black hair. have set him to
writing poetry, an art which he's cultivated
from time to time. Here is his 'LocksIey
Hail." the rhymes of which he composed
while walking his beat and the words of
which he wrote down on the walls Of cor
ner buildings by the light of arc lamps:
list 4 Girl FROM GEORGIA
or late I paid visit to the Atlantic shore,
Where thousands there assembled from places
1 there saw one amongst the rest who stole my
And left me here to lnnEulsh on the Atlantic bay.
BY friendly introduction I did obtain her
And slowly did inquire from her from whence
Said SHE: Il came from George state that fair
And for rccrSntion have strayed to the Atlantic
strand"
Said l. Fair maid. hc not afraid. although
You're far from home ..,,, ,.,-,. ,,.,,,
I would make you my equal could obtain your
And stay with mo, and bid farewell to Georgia
sunny land"
"G am sorry; sir" she did reply. IT am not of
Therefore am net equal your partner, for TO be.
As LETT my true love In Atlanta until l return
We csTaei to spend our happy days in dcorsIa's
sunny lanG.'
with due respect she bid Food-by and walked
along the shore.
Left me behind for to lament could see her
more.
My llfc [ would surrender could her love but
To stay y With me, and bid farewell to GeorGia's
sunny land.
NEEDED A WIFE.
The other ''coppers" at the station house
say that Mike" decided recently when he
was frying some eggs in the bachelor quar-
ters which he maintains at 1910 Race
street that he needed n wife. He went to
sleep while the eggs We're sizzling, the story
runs, and the next thing he knew was that
hclt dozen burly firemen with hose were
tramping up the steps in response to an
alarm turned in by neighbors who saw the
smoke.
BE that as it may, he Is more than will
ing for Nellie Riley to settle down with him
on one of his two farms near Palm Beach
or his farm in County Derry as Mrs. Michael
Devine