Connecticut western news., 1881-02-16
BRO. GARDENERS LIME.KILN CLUB.
A Few Maxims-The Evils of the Ma
 tiOn, etc.
From the Detroit Free Press

From the Detroit Free Press.
 During the past week the Committee on Internal Harmony has been busy with pen and ink, and as result Broth CT Gardner was asked to submit the fol lowing maxims to the club for adoption:
 "Advarsity makes heroes, but we doan' want any advarsity.''
 "Misery lubs company, but de com pany hain't worf 'soshatin' wid." "De man obleeged to borry an ax am nebber situated to lend spade" "It's none O yer bizness who ibs next doah if he doan' steal your wood. ,"
 "Bread cast upon the waters may re- turn, but eight per cent. interest, wid a good endorser, am mo- like business. ''
 "De man who kills your chickens am ready to respect you if you kill his dog" "It seems to me dat abstract maxims am like woolen mittens in July. 1 have no doubt dat one could sot down an call to mind five hundred notices, maxims l and sayings dat would read off werry fine, but it would be 8 useless task When you have told man to be honest, industrious an forgivin', you have got de essence of all de maxims eber writ ten, an you have given him all de bur den he kin bar up under. De work ob de committee will not be lost howeber. We will lay de maxims aside until an opportunity offers to send dem to some Comm on Council or odder public body 9 l ANATOMICAL.
 The Committee on Science and Anat- omy reported the following petition
 To DE LEe1s1AoHUR We, de under signed, citizens of color ob de Stait ob Michigan, am we'll awar-
 1. Dat medical colleges mus have dead bodies on which to practice
 2. Dat if dey can't get 'em one way dey will try anoder but at de same time we mus emphatically protest agin dis awful bizness O grave-robbing. It shocks de feelins ob de well, makes de sick shiver wid terror, an has bad eff feck on de system of chillen. It am an outrage on sentiment, sacrilige on ef- feckshun, an de law mus grant protek- shun agin it. We darfore petishun your humble body to make 8 law to the effeck dat de body of ebery physician dyin' widin de limits ob de State be handed ober to medical colleges. Make de penalty so severe fur not turnln' ober a body dat de law cant be evaded. Obleege ebery doctor to register his name wid de County Clerk an select de college he wants his body sent to.
 On motion of Pickles Smith every member of the club was given chance to sign the petition, and the Secretary was then instructed to forward printed copies to the various colored societies ir the State.
 URGING HIS CLAIM.
 The Secretary said he was in receipt of letter from Col. Hardfy Perkins, a colored leader of Alabama, asking the Lime-Kiln Club to urge his claims tc some political position under the new administration, and promising, in case he secured good place, to remember those who helped him in his hour O. need.
 ''As to dis letter." said Brother Gard her, as he held it in his hand, "dis clut neber urges any polytikle claims. IT de nex' place, it doan' want to be re membered by polytishuns. If we kin find out dat de Kernel am an honest straightforward man, we might recon mend him to some one who wanted stoves blacked or fences whitewashed but I should hate to do dat widout see in 8 specimen of his work"
 WANTED TO KNOW.
 Trustee Pullback had something on his mind. It had been there since Monday morning, at which time he read thai one of the preachers in the city hai told his congregation that the end o. the world was not far distant. It made considerable difference to Brother Pull back whether the end was coming this year or ten years hence. He had sev eral jobs on hand, and he had severa plans for the future, and he hoped the club would appoint a committee to in vestigate and report on the momentout question.
 The idea was promptly seconded by Waydown Bebee, Giveadam Jones Elder Toots, Samuel Shin, Kyan1 Smith and twenty. one others, showing that the assertion had struck chord o: alarm.
 My friends an brudders," softly re piled the President, " no man hbin' ki1 tell you how dis world was created, an no man ibin' kin tell you how it will bt destroyed. No one kin say whether il has stood six thousan' or six million } y'ars, an dey am jist as blind as to how long it will stand in de fuchur. De mar who breaches any sich stuff am doin jist what he abuses de heathens fol doin'. It am all bosh, an needn't scare eben poo cull'd child. De signs whicl tell one man dat de world am gwine tc eand tell anoder dat it am gwine right on fur ten thousan' ya'rs yit. It's al in de hands of de Lawd, an man am too poo an low an humble to penetrate His secrets"
 HARDLY.
 A letter from the Hon. Blackboard Graham of Chicago, stated that his corner grocer had already hung out z sign of "New Maple Sugar." and the Hon. inquired if this might not be taken as an excuse for withdrawing his patronage from the store on the ground of the dishonesty of the grocer.
 "Hardly, hardly replied the Presi dent as he put the letter aside. "I am doubtless sperrit of enterprise in stead of dishonesty dat actuates de