Daily Republican., 1889-05-30
THE LINIEl<ILN CLUB.

"Does Man Expect Too Much, asked
Brother Gardner as he looked UP and
down the aisles of Paradise Hall for a
moment and then blew his nose with u
canuon-like report. "D,s ar a query
sent to me from Griffith, Ga, to be de-
bated on by dis club. | would like a
gineral 'spreshun of opinyun an doorin'
dc purCetd ins Samuel Shin viii either
quit spittin' GU de stove an foolln' wild
his feet or he kin lonk out fur ca
lsmity. Kurnel Ca0in will please lead
off,"
The Kurnel, who was suffering with a
sly on the LETT eye, introduced the same
as evidence that be did not expect too
much lie expected to slip through lie
without meeting auy OF its ills, and was
greatly surprised when boil hit him In
the leg or soft corn showed up between
his toes. He knew men who expected to
live without paying their debts, and who
expected tue community to keep them In
tobacco and drinks. He knew others
who expected to loaf all summer and
have srloin steak all winter. So far as
his experience went man was always ex-
pecting something, and was mad II it
didn't come. Man was also unreasona-
BILE In his expectations. lie had known
Va u uhli-uthAtiI ClurE-fl W. lbl-rHDul-
dered man TO be mad tor month he.
cause he did not get the cane voted to
the handsom 81 man in town.
Major Insomnia Quack enbush begged
to diller with the last speaker He be-
lieved thai man was put here to expect,
and that he couldn't expect too much
When he went to bed at night he cx,
pected to get up In the morning and find
the chickens safe Was that unreason-
ablel He expected his old dog would ne
at the back door, his wheelbar ow would
be in the shed, and his front gate still
hanging by one hinge. Man had right
to expect good weather, good living a
reasonable amount OF ginger ale and
Lemonade, and paseablY good clothes.
He lad encountered few people who
didn't expect auytbiI r, and they not
only never got 1t, but didn't take aul
comfort. NAV was created to enjoy this
world. To expect liver and bacon Tor
breakfast, rot-pie for dinner and hot s.
cult and l."ney Tor supper was only With
I'm the bounds OF reason.
JUICE Fulljames johnson said he could
not agree with the last speaker. Man, %
he booked upon him, was a pore, onery
critter, who really hadn't any hueiness on
earl tn, and who should be thankful that
he was permitted to stay here. He didn't
think anybody had any right to expect
good weather, riches, good health or con-
tentmenL 1t was wicket to expect it.
II he BACKED a stove or cleaned chin
ney he expected his pay, and he expected
that pay would buy cOJllsh and potatoes,
but he didn't soar beyond that.
Something hod been said about boi S
and corns. Why should man expect to
aaa al. 1. u.
to expect that the chills would skip him
ard bit the family arouud the corner? He
had made it rule never to expect any
thing, and therefore when he fund filty
cents on the sidewalk ne was ten times as
happy rs tue man who expected to find
five dollars.
At this point Samuel Shin aud Elder
TOots, who have not been on speaking
terms since the last election, when each
met the other carrying home sack OF
Hour in the evening, got into a row. They
were pulled apart and fined five million
dollaIs each, and then Prof. Asteruid
Parker took the floor. 1t was a subject
he had given much thought, hut had not
yet reached definite conclusion. II was
proper, he thought, for man to expect
more or less, but he must not 10 unrea-
sonable about II. For Instance, If he
bought ticket IN a lottery, lac had
right to expect to hit at least $40, 900, bur
In going home oi a dark night lie had no
right to expect to stumble over bag of
gold containing double that amount.
Man could properly expect three or four
days OF good weather in the week, but hi
must not go on the Idea that lie ran
things, and could have what suited his
convenience beat.
II = II
the morning without giving his wife any
money he must net expect boiled dln-
ner wien he got home. Boils, corns,
carbuncles, ague, toothache and LAME
back must be looked upon as an offset
for going a fishing and holding cake
walks.
Waydown Bebee said he thought man
unreasonable in his expectations. II h.
left his hoe standing outdoor he couldn't
expect an angel to come down and guard
1t while he slept and snored without
care. When he bought q dozen eggs he
had no right to expect that they would
hold out as such, and when the halter
warranted his hat not TO fade in the sun
he couldn't expect that warrant to also
stand against thunder showers. He had
made up his mind ut tender age that
he would get so many lickings as a child,
about so many cults as a youth, and
meet with about SO many set-backs as u
man. He had, therefore, never been
surprised or disappointed. Man, on the
average, seemed to think he owned the
earth, ard expected all there was In II.
'De queshun hasn't blu decided by
de debate heah Tonight" said Brother
Gardner as he arose to close the discus
sion. 81 reckon, however, dat we all do
expeck too much. Man ar an ezpectin'
animal. It's hon In him. He keeps
right on in spite of set-backs. We will
decide dat de queshun hasn't been de-
cided, an lay it aside for further discus
at