News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1881-12-22
THE LIME.KILN CLUB.
The Charity Seasonal Bad Man
Some Curious Things.
From the Detroit Free Press. 7

Some Curious Things.
! From the Detroit Free Press.1
"What I was gwine to remark, p"
began Brother Gardner as the meeting
opened, "was to say dat de season has
now arrove when de cry fur charity am
heard in de land, an people who hev a
dollar to spare am 'speeted to pass it
ober to de poor. Fur de convenience of
, people whose hearts ache to do sunthin',
1 hev compiled list of patients an will
furnish it free gratis on appIicashun.
De man who leafs all summer an bees
his way frew do winter am on de list.
De woman who sells her clothing fur
money to buy whisky am on de list.
De families which support two or three
dogs, a pig an dozen hens on de pie
an sweet-cake begged by de chilIen am
on de liat.s On Dat 4sfFh hev put down
men who will hand coat or west ober
de bar in exchange fur drink.
81 hev put down men who spent deir
days in sleep and idleness when laborers
were being paid twelve shilling day.
L hev put down families who sleep on
straw an live on bread an water, an
yet if dey should be handed dollar in
money would use it ali in purvidin' an
oyster supper. If had time I could
make list which would prove dat
nine-tenths of de charity subjects in
Detroit am de basest frauds, an dat
cherry dollar placed in de hands of de
Overseer of de Poo am blackmail on
taxpayers. When de father of family
kin airn from dollar to twelve shillin's
per day, an de mother from fifty cents
to dollar, what right hev dey to ask
fur charity? If man am old and poo
we hev county house fur him. If
poo man am sick We hev hospitals.
When a child am left an orphan we hev
homes an asyluns.
"De hull subjeck am fraud on
workin' people. We am simply offerin
| a premium on loaferism, laziness and
degradashun. Ebery time we hev in
creased our poo fund we hev increased
de number of beggars. Ebery dollar
bestowed upon begger makes him
hate work so much de harder. A child
who sees his parents live by fraud and
beggary am sartin to cotch de same
ideas and practice de same principles.
Foller de people seen de oftenest at de
Poo'master's an you will find neighbor-
hoods whar de mos petty thievin' am
practiced an de mos laziness am in
dulged in.
''When death enters de family of
workin man he may want loan. When
laborin' man meets wild an accident
his income stops, and to tide him ober
de gap am bounden dooty. When
charity goes beyand dat it supports
fraud an breeds vice."
PLEASE ARREST HIM.
The Secretary announced a letter from
the Hon. Occupation Buckworth, of
Portsmouth Va seas1 y 4sat ,-1lored !,
man calling himself JAge john Walk
erman, and claiming 10 be an active
local member of the Lime-Kiln Club,
was in that city disposing of photo
graphs supposed to represent Brother
Gardner. He sold the photographs at |
twenty cents each, and claimed that the |
funds were to be sent to Liberia to es-
tablIsh a mouth-organ factory. The |
photographs represented colored per-
son with a broken nose, squint eye |
front teeth gone and ears large enough |
to throw shadow over wall eighteen |
feet high. Was III all right, or was the
man an impostori
Brother Gardner was jumping two |
feet high before tie Secretary had fin
ished, and it took him only four min
utes to write and send out telegram
asking the Portsmouth man to arrest |
the impostor if it cost 5000. In this |
connection it may be well to state:
l. The Lime-K Kiln club employs no |
travelling agent.
2. It offers no cllromos.
8. None of its members are allowed |
to attach their names to medical in
ventions.
4. 1t favors no scheme to build OBJ
servatories in Liberia or orphan asylums
in the Sandwich Islands.
5. 1t publishes no dime novels, sends |
out no hair dyes, and has no Presidential
candidate for 1884.
ANOTHER WARNING.
Brother Gardner produced the follow
ing, and desired the Secretary to read it |
in loud voice:
TICE-CONsSABLE SALE-Per-
senaI property to Satisfy execution
in my hands, issued from the Justice
Court of VIM. 81. Lock, against kary
Gilmore & in favor of Thos. Seay, I |
will proceed to cell on the IL day of
October, 1881, between the hours of IL
& oclk, the following describe proper
ty as the property OF the said Kary Gill
moore, to wit: One black male OK,
name Preacher; one white milk COW.
with blueisfied head Il calf, the COW
name rose; one red milk COW, with blaze
in face, & calf, the cow Razne blossom;
one blueisfed Steer, name Brag; one
Sorrel Horse, narae Frank; one tow |
horse waging. NED SMITH, Co. for
B. IT,, Hale Co., Ala.
can l now desire to remark" con-
tinued the President, as the Secretary
finished, ''dat the said Ned Smith, con-
stable, etc., died wldin week of writin'
de above. OATS 'ghat / hev told you
all along offs alone. De strain on
de intelleck am too great, an de up hills
an down hills of crthography will kill
anybody but wtite man inside of a
month"
JrsT De SAME.
The Committee on Science and Phil
osophy, through their Chairman, Judge
Cahoots, reported as follows:
"Dis committee has made faithful
inwestlgashun of ds assurshun dat de
world am gradually slantin' ober, an
it has been unable to diskiver wheder
de statement am true or false. In dis
emergency we recommend dat every
body pay up his debts, put on clean
shirt, and be ready to slide down hill
when de hour arrows.
Gas to de predickshun dat q comet