Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1885-06-20
TILE LIME KILN CLUB.
WORDS OF WISDOM FROM PARA.
Disc HAIL.
President Gardner Delivers n Lecture 10
m Errin2 Brother.

IF Ancestor Jinkins am in de hall to-
night he will please step dis way" said
Brother Gardner as the meeting opened
with fourteen kerosene lamps going at
fail blast.
Ancestor was IN, and MS soon as he
could get his feet clear of the benches
he waddled up the aisle and stood q.
attention" with his toes turned in.
'Brudder Jinkins continued the Pres
laont, II was told to-day dat your wife
was bar'fut all your chill'cn cryin' fur
bread"
"Woll, sab, it's bin hard times"
Il suppose so. l understan dat you
hasn't done day 8 work dis winter"
"Work has bin skeerce, sah.''
Exactly. You had work in foundry
last fall, didn't you 2"
eyes, sah."
"You was gittin' ten shillings day,
an you struck fur twelve q
"Yes, sah."
can bckase de man didn't figger dat
your sarvices war worth twelve. shillins
day to him you frew yerseif out Oh
a steady job, an hev come as nigh de
poo'-house as you kin git widout enter
in de doah."
II orter had mo- pay, sah."
''Dat may be, but as long rs yon
In ~ -
away de wages you could git. What
pertickler pint hev you gained, Brudder
Jinkins ?"
"Well, let the fonndryman see dat
I had some independence.
'Sartin-sartin. You let him sec yer
wife at de Poo'master's office, ycr
chill'en beggin' of de naybKs, an
z.lozcn creditors ckasin' you up wild
bills"
"Hadn't laborin' man orter hev fai
wages?' demanded Brother Jinkins.
''He had. He orter hev FIVE dollars
day, but he can't get it. He puts his
skill or muscle up to de highest bidder,
an he mus stan by de bid. Brudder
Jinhins, let me make few remarks in
your ear. De man who pounds his
thumb doan' spite de hammer De con-
dis!un of bizness fixes de rate of wages.
You may kick, but it will simply result
in batterin' yer own toes. De mex best
thing to what you want is what yon kin
get. Bekase | can't get dollar for
whitewashin' ceilin' I'm not gwne to
frow away de fifty cents offered. Brud.
der Jinkins, what am de goin' price fu)
oIacking stoves 2"
"Two shillins, sah."
" 'Zactly, but suppose you get de
ideah dat you orter hev thirty cents,
what will be dc result %
"Reckon I won't git any blackin' to
do"
"Jist SO, sab. Now, den, if stoves at
twenty five cents am few an fur between,
but lots doin' at twenty cents, isn't it
better policy to hold a steady job dan to
have no work at all 2
.P"Rackon, sab.
"You kin take yer seat, Brudder jim
kins. Any principle am all right on a
full stomach. ANY theory am ali right
if you have big woodpile at the doah.
De orator who declar's dat you orter
hev twelve shillin's day won't go hum
cry on account Of your strike. We like
sugar in our coffee. but we am idiots to
frow away de coffee kasc we can't get dc
sweetnin'. ."-DefroH Free Press.
WFIL-rAID LABOR The Pittsburgh
Times saya:-A reporter Of the Times,
while talking to a number Of iron work
ers, was told by pul Ter Of man who
has two trains of rolls anil who makes
without any trouble from sIJ to go :
lay. A ,olicr with a email guide mil
| train can earn from 28 to so a~dav
| There are rollers in Pittsburgh no7
earning from 2}6 to SO a day. There
| Is a steel-rol!ef IL a South Side stee
works taken from his work about tsc
O'Clock il the afternoon in his barou che
| driver. by his colored servant.