The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-27
Limeklln Club Proceedings.

:" If had son dat war gwine out in
de world to seek his fortin'," began the
old man, as hush crept down the hall,
g / should say to him not to talk too
much, nor yet to be too silent. Dat
class of men who am allus shootin' oil
de mouf am no wus dan de class who
sot an sot an LOOK as wise as owls, but
hev muffin to say. De one talks bekase
he doan' know how to keep still. De
odder keeps still bekase he doan' know
muffin to say. If dar eber was time
when a man who sot an rolled his eyes
an puckered his mouf an kept his
tongue still was taken TO be some great
gun of filosofer, dat time has skipped
an will neber return. neber bet on a
man who talks too much, an / neber
trust de man who doan' talk at all.
What sarch fur am de happy middle
ground. Dat is, fur a man who knows
when to talk an when to keep his head
shet, when | find him I hitch right to
him wild chain an paddock. We will
now ambulate according to de reg lar
programme.
so UNDERSTOOD.
Ibid I understan' de President to
use de word ambulate?'' inquired the
Rev. Penstock, as he suddenly bobbed
up in his seat.
you did, sahr'
Ambulate?''
Eyes, sab, ambulate."
"I-I-hardly-
"You hardly bettah sit down, san!
Dis Char knows de difference between
ambulate an ambulance to perfexshun,
and sich interrupshuns of de meetin' at
| dis airly hour should be frowned down
by all good members
Several Kisses were sent across the
hall at Penstock, and he dropped down
| to be heard of no more.
ELECTION.
A trip of the bean-box resulted in
| what Giveadam Jones termed the zen
sanguinous eleckshun" of the follow
ing named gentlemen: Glasher Smith,
, Colonel Fox. Rev. John Pickadyke, AL
titude SNOWFALL, Christmas johnson.
Samuel Hoots and Treadwell Stone.
CAN'T HARMONIZE.
The Committee on Peace and Har
mony reported that they had been act
lively engaged in an effort to bring
about harmony and good feeling be-
tween the men who pack six quarts of
peaches into four-quart basket and
sell them for a peck, and the genera
public who buy, but thus far all theil
work had gone for naught. They haC
wrestled with grocers who dump a peel
of half decayed pears into a bushe
basket and cover them over with sounG
. fruit, but they could not say that thei
influence had been felt. They haf
worked hard, accomplished nothing ant
were clear discouraged.
: ssT. Ia fro,,
, f1rder considerashun of de report" re
piled Brother Gardner, % would sa
dat l hadn't de faintest hope dat de,
, would succeed in maxim a change Jis
| so long as we lib in dis world we will
, obsarve dat de man who has an old Gov
to sell will be lookin' for some way t.
2 take de wrinkles off her horns an de
/ ceive de buyer. When church deacon
/ in good standin' am privileged to file o.
| de teef of a hoss nineteen v ars old an
sot his aige back to seven, too muc
!. mus not be 'spected from de commO
: run o. folks, who wouldn't hev to plu,
v up worm-holes in apples if Natur' hadn'
3 cheated us by putin em dar fustly.
|, Several of the committees were rubbe
:, up about future work and as the cloc
f struck the hour for closing the Pres
s ident raped for attention and said:
|. "We may make mistakes an we ma
8 err in judgment. an circumstances ma
}, sometimes put us in false posishur
s but none of us kin eber hev de leas' el
d cuse for forgittin' dat half of de roa
. belongs to de odder waggin. De pusso
i who am eddicated 'nuff 70 know his ow
o rights neber tramples on de rights {
Is odders. When you find man so puffe
1t up an swelled out wild his own 'po
3, tance dat he can't see muffin but ribs i
d his fellow-men, make up your mind d'
D dar will be 'sploshun and dat he wi
ID be de only pusson hurt. We will no
sarch out our hats, wake up Elder Too
and let this hall relapse into silence."-
Detroit Free Press.