Show THE LIME KILN I CLUB Brother Gardners Illustrations Are rot Received In a Friend Spirit Do subjeck of ourdKcushun db ea enm said Brother Gardner as the meeting opened in due form is Do Wo Espec Too Much It ar a matter dat 1 hev devoted a heap o thought to an I hoe cam to do onclushuu dot we do Las into when I went to bed 1 had twelve chickens m my coop I esp cted dar would be jut twelve dar when I woke up dis ma vum Had I any right to NO sah but when I found only coven left I jumped up an down an felt dat do hull world was agin me Wo expeck to go right along frees lifo wallan on our ears an feelin as posit as a calf an when sickness seizes us we pear to be astonished dat sich things kin be 10 go to bed at night countin on de nicest sort of weather for tomorrow au when we wake up an find do rain comm down we feel dat a great injustice has bin done us I lend do Rev Penstock a dollar an I ex peck ho will repay me on Saturday I haint no right to expeck it but I do an I git left Mebbo I doan git it fur a month Waydown Bebee sends his chillen ober to my house to borry tea an coffee an soap an flat irons I confidently expeck to git ern back but dey nebber come As human beins wo ar1 onreasonable We goes slosLin around like a steam bullgiue specktin eberybody will clar do road an giv us a free track Wo doan count on cons bites headache rheumatiz sore throat an lame backs an we reckon on dodgin droughts freshets blizzards an yaller fever Shindig Watkins begged to differ with the president He argued that a person was born into this world to take comfort Ho had aright a-right to expect good weather a reasonable cash income lots of holidays and the right to keep seven dogs Why should a person expect ex-pect to wake up and find a boil on the calf of his leg It was more reasonable to expect that it would appear on some other man legIt leg-It wasnt exp < ting too much as he viewed it that the hens ho left peacefully roosting a polo at C oclock in the evening shouldnt bean be-an deck at 6 in the morning The Rev Penstock who had been very un easy for the last five minutes now arose and I inquired I would like to inquire if de cheer claims that I owe him a dollar No sah not jist now replied the chair I would furder inquar if I eber borrowed a dollar of de cheer an didnt return it You her allus returned it salt I used your case simply to illustrate If you had borrowed a dollar of me an hadnt returned it dar wouldnt bo nuffin to lustrate Did you wish to speak on do question No tar I simply desiah to clar my financhul reputashun m do eyes of de world Den you km sot down Your finanshul reputnshun ar way up in G Sir Isaac Walpolo said he was in accord with the president He behoved it was the great fault of mankind to expect too much Men sat on the fenco all summer and expected to livo oa roast beef and mashed potatoes all winter They expected to get the smooth sledding and leave the rough roads to someone some-one eke Men who couldnt pay their house rent expected good clothes and a piano in the parlor Ho sought to bo reasonable in his expectations ex-pectations Tho extreme limit with him was expecting his landlord to repair the plaster of the kitchen ceiling and he had been knocked out on that so often that he had become be-come discouraged Waydown Beboo said that he arose to a question of jurisdiction Tho chair had mado a statement which he could not pass unnoticed While it was true that he lived next door to Brother Gardner and occasionally had to borrow groceries ho had always mado it an inflexible rule to return the loans Did the president mean to insinuate that ho was derelict Dis char reckons you has paid it all back answered the president I was simply lus tratin my remarks I might hev meant dat when I lent you Java coffee spected de same kind back but got Rio instead If you hev no remarks to make on de queshun at issue is-sue you kin sot down But 1 feel dat my integrity has bin impugned im-pugned sah I You is all wrong Your integrity has nufflnto do wid it You energeticnuff to keep a plug hat fur Sundays an honest nuff not to be cotched by de purleoce Dats all tab an1 youd better sot down Givoadom Jones said he had given fifteen minutes solid thought to tho inquiry now before be-fore the meeting but had not been able to decide the matter It seemed reasonable that a man with a boil on his right foreleg should expect tho public to pass him on the portside port-side but he would surely be disappointed It would seem as If man was put hero to enjoy himself and as if he could oxpect dark nights in the watermelon season and good weather for Sunday school picnics but tho biggest melons always came with a full moon and tho picnic always had a shower on tho way home if not sooner He did not desire to commit himself at this time but would admit ad-mit that ho leaned to the affirmative Gen Colfax Judge Holdback Professor Jackson Uncle Davis and others spolroon the question and the discussion was then closed and a vote was taken It was found that tho query was carried in the affirmative by a largo majorityDetroit Free Press |