The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-08-20
some Proceedings Of ~ ne.Kif
Club. ~ 81
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UNDER this head the Committee on
Inland Navigation made their report on
the case Of Brother Enhancer Simm0ns.
who was charged by several white per-
sons with having taken a jug of Vine
gar from q grocery store. The COM
mittee's report was full and exhaustive,
and concluded as follows: w Fsa =
sBrudder Simmons had no difficulty
in 'stablishin' de tack dat he had cab
bage under his arm when he entered
dat grocery. He placed dat cabbage on
de counter beside de jug. When he
went out he war talkin' pOllyticks, an
his mind war bus5 wild de Presidential
queshun. In moment of absent-mind-
edness he picks up de jug instead. of de
cabbage an walks out, an datsi de
long an short of de story. 1t am de
Opinyun of dis committee dat he didn'
mean to do it. ii t ISIS l.9t'-
81 doan' believe dat Brudder Sim
mons would steal q jug o. vinegar in de
daytime" remarked the President, as
he received the report, ''but feel it
my dooty to caushun him to be
more keerful in de fuchur. De likeness
between jugs an cabbages am not SO
clus dat he need eber make de same
mistake again. - .,fu 3D. = aea =
REPUDIATED. ,
The Rev. Penstock here arose to a
question of privilege. He said he had
been instrumental in inducing the Club
to sanction an almanac printed for the
exclusive use of the colored people. He
was one of the committee to report on
che number of eclipses which the said
almanac should contain, and he had fur
nished a poem of his own composition
to embellish at least one of its pages.
He now desired to say that he repudi-
ated the almanac from page one to the
mad-dog cure on the last cover. None
of the eclipses had occurred on time, or,
in fact, at all. Moonlight nights had
been run in for all sorts of weather, and
his poem had been cut to pieces and
made to do duty for iver-pad adver-
tisement. In several places the name
of the club had been printed Lime
KILL" and in a brief history of the or
ganization Whalebone Honker was
down as deacon, Samuel Shin was
said to be missionary, and Saleratus
Spencer was marked as deceased. He
would offer resolution regulating the
almanac and its maker.
The resolution was voted on without
discussion, and was unanimously
adopted. b
- CLOSING REMARKS. $ sr.
When the sound of the triangle strik-
ing the closing hour had died away to
mere whisper, Brother Gardner ex-
tended his arms and said: ''De road
runs 'longside % canebrakes, where de
wolves howl an make de chill EN- afeard;
ober ribbers wher' de ole men an de
women may git lost; frew dark woods
in which strong men tremble as de mid
night breeze whispers in de tree-tops.
We are all on a journey. We are all
gwine to one place. Fast as we git
dar we am put on de right han or de
left. an it am court o. Judgment dat
neber skips a day or adjourns for an
hour. DE man who does de mos pray
in may not git dar befo' all de res, but
lie fggered it up, an 1 believe de
straight way am de bes' way. Git de
compass pint an den move on, lendin'
a dollar heah-speakin' a kind word
dar-bracin' up de weak-cheerin' de
lowly-puttin' out boat hans all de
time fur chiren to lean on. We will
now bulge outward towards our homes"
Detroit Free Press.