Frostburg mining journal., 1881-12-24
e. ALEGANY COUNTY MARYLAND DECEMBER a. 1884,

my note expect 10 pay IT, WHEN
OK a man how he would like to trade
his wheelbarrow fur my dog I'm not
qwine to inform him dat Caesar am
all bark an no bite, an he am not
gwine to tell me dat he borrowed dat
wheelbarrow in de night an forgot
to return it. If a grocer leaves me Ia
charge of his sto' Izs gwine to sot fur
hal an hour beside box of herrings
an keep my hands in my pockets all
de time. Yet, if dat same man sells
ne pound of tea he expects me TO
try an pass off on him a half-dollar
wild hole in it.
"Continer, my trehs, to believe dat
honesty am de best policy, but doan'
expect too much Of so-called honest
men. You kin trust men wild yonr
walle! who would borrow pitchfork
and nebber return it. You kin lend
your hoss to man who'd cheat you
blind in tradin' obercoats. You kin
send home par o dead ducks at
noon day by a man who would steal
your live chickens at midnight.
When I lend my naybur Mocha coffee
l like to wonder if he won't pay it
back iu RIO. When de Gle woman
buya kaliker on guarantee she rather
it will fade in de wasbin'. so!emnly
believe dat de world am honest nuff
jist as it am. When you gin your
word stick to it if it lusts de bank.
When you do job of work do it
well. When you make debt pay it.
Any man who am mo honest dan dat
will want to cut penny in two to
make out his shilling; he will ring
you up at midnight to return your
mousetrap he will take one shingle
Fl ON your bunch and offer you de
one-hundredth part of what de bunch
cost he will borrow your boot-iack
an insist dat you borrow his wash
board to offset it. We will now pro-
ceed to bzuess.'
PETITIONS.
Among the seventeen petitions pre-
sented was the following:
ATLANTA, GA, October %, 1871.
Bro. GARpNER-Dear SIR Il am Prof.
Moonshns Smith. l am also q lawyer
and doctor. also break colts, cure the
hollow horn in cows, compound certain
cure for chilblains, and have on sale 100
different songs of my own composition
If you think that it will add to the stand
ing OF your club to elect me g member, l
am willing you should do SO also play
on horn. Let me hear from you a once.
And get the highest rates of any man in
the wcrld for backing stoves and putting
on my Unrivalod, Eycelslcr, Double
Strength Whitewash. PROF. NJ. SMITH.
The petition was carefully placed
in the waste basket, a brick carefully
placed on the petition, and if the pro-
t, ssor ever gets into the Lime Kiln
Club he will be thoroughly surprised.
ELECTION.
The band struck up, "Oh why did
pawn my overcoat T. and Sir Isaac
passed the bean box for the benefit of
the following candidates Way Back
Smith, Endeav6r Jones, Uncle Rube,
Set Down Hastings, Piper Green,
Moses Pavne, Elder Scott and Trus-
tee Jackson.
UNPLEDGED AND UNCERTAIN.
The Secretary announced a letter
from the Sta Department Ct New
Jersey, inauiring if Brother Gardner
favored the annexation OF Canada to
the Unit d Sta es, and the ola man
carefully felt of his left ear and
replied
Oats subjeck which has troubled
me a great deal, an up to de present
| am onsartln an unrledged. De
same toof- brush which am sold fur
twenty cent, OF dis side kin be bought
fur fifteen ober car. If we annex
Canada we kin hev cheap tooth
brushes. On lie odder haa, de same
rat-trap dat we sell fur twenty five
cents on dis side cant be had ober
dar fur less than thirty. If Canada
annexes us she am suah of cheap rat
trads. Oar it am, you see, and
whether we should annex Canada or
Canada annex us am a queshun which
l cannot decide to my own satislaxun.'
THE SICK.
The Committee on the Sick re-
ported that Sampson Andrews was
lying ill and filed his application for
relief. They had investigated the
matter and ascertained that he
pprained his back by trying to lift
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