Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-06-21
THE LIME KILN CLUB.



1 Received In u Friendly Spirit.
"Dc subjeck of our discushun dis eavenin',"
said Brother Gardner, as the meeting opened
in due form, lis: DO We Expeck Too Muchr
IL ar a matter dat | hcv devoted u heap o.
thought to, an hev cum to de concluslun
dat we do. Las mite when went to bed
had twelve chickens in my coop expected
dar' would be fist twelve dar' when woke
up dis mawnn' Had | amy right tot No,
sab; hut when found only seven left
jumped up an down an felt dat do hull
world was agin me.
1--WE expeck to go right along frow lifa
waikiki Oh our ears an fcelin' as peart as a
calf, an when sickness seizes us we pear to
| be astonished dat SIGH things kin be-
ave go to bed at night countin on dc
incest sort Of weather for tomorrow, an
when we wake up am find dc rain comm
down we feel dat a great injustice has bin
done us.
II lend do Rev. Penstock dollar, an ex.
peck he will repay me ON Saturday. hain't
no right TO oxpeck it, but do, an git left.
Mebbc doan' git 1t fur month.
"Waydown Bebee sends his chill'on obor to,
my house to borry tea an coffee an soap an
fiat irons, | confidently expeck to git 'em
back, but dey nebber come
"As human beins we ar unreasonable. We
goes sloshin' around like a steam bullgine
spccktin' eborybody will cl'ar dc road an Civ
us a FREQ track We doan' count on cons,
biles headache, rheumatic, soro throat an
lnme hacks, an we reckon on dodgini
aroughts, freshetS, billiards an yaller fever.n
Shindig Watkins begged to differ with the
president. He argued that n person was born
into this world to take comfort. He had
right TO expect good weather, reasonable
cash income, lots of holidays and tho right 10
keep seven dogs Why should person ex.
pect TO wake up and find a boil on tho calf OF
his legl 1t was moro reasonable to expect
TINT it would appear on some other mans leg.
1t wasn't expecting too much, as he viewcl
it, that the hens no left peacefully roosting on
a pole ut O'Clock in tho evening shouldn't be-
on dock at @ in tho morning.
Tho Rev. Penstock, who had boon very un.
easy for tho last five minutes now arose and
inquired;
81 would like to inquire If de cheer Claims
that owe him dolarfT
mo, sab; not jist now" replied the chair.
'Iwould furder inquar' II cher borrowed
dollar Of de cheer an didn't return itf"
you hev allus returned it, sab. used
lOui Nu1o W IL NOu uuu
borrowed dollar Of mo an hadn't returned
1t dar' wouldn't DO uufiln' TO lustrate Did
you wish to speak on de question:
'No, sar. l simply desiah TO cl'ar my
flnnnchul reputashun in dc eyes Of de world"
"Den you kin sot down. Your flnanshul
reputashun ar way up in G.n
Sir Isaac Walpole said be WIS In accord
with the president. He believed it was tho
great fault OF mankind to expect too much.
Men sat on the fenoe all summer and expected
TO live on roSt beef and mashed potatoes all
winter. They expected to get the smooth
shedding and leave the rough roads to some
one else Men who couldn't pay their house
rent expected good clothes and pinno in the
parlor. He sought to bs reasonable In his ex-
pectations Tho extreme limit with him was
expecting his landlord to repair the plaster
OF tho kitchen ceiling, and be Ind beon
knocked out on that 80 often that he had DO
como discouraged.
Wnydown Bebee said that no aroee to q
question Of Jurisdiction. The chair had made |
a statement which he gould not pass unnoticed. |
While II was true thar be lived next door TO |
Brother Gardner, and occasionally had to
borrow groceries, ho had always nado it an |
inne1ible r1ilo TO roturn the loanS Dil the |
president moan 10 insinuatD that he was |
dcrclicti
"Dis char reckons you haSpah it all back"
answered tho president. ~ was simply lus-
train my remarks might how meant dat
when lent you Java coffee 'spcctcd do
same kind back, but got Rio instead. II you
hev no remarks 30 mako on DO queshun OF is
sue you kin sot down.
"But feel dat my integrity has bin i'm
pugned, sahln
you Is all wrong Your integrity has
muffin TO do wild it You isenergetic nuif 10
keep plug hat fur Sundays, AN honest huff
not to DO cotched by do purleece. OATS all,
sab, an you'd better rot down.
Givcadam Jones said ho had given fifteen
minutes solid thought to the inquiry now boz
foro the meeting, but had NOT been abIo to
decide the matter It seemed roasonablethat
a man with boil on his right foroleg should
expect the public 10 pass him on tbs port
SIDE, but he would surely be disappointed 1t
would seem as II man was put here 10 enjoy
himself, and M II ho could expect dark nights
In the watermelon season and good weather
for Sunday school picnics, but the biggest
melons always came with a full moon, and
the picnic always had shower ON tho way
home II not sooner He did not desire to
commit himself at this time but would ad-
nit that he leaned 10 the affirmative
Gen. Colfax, Judge IIoldback, Professor
jackson, Uncle Davis and others spoke on the
question, and tho discussion WINS then closed
and a vote was taken. II was found that the
query was carried in tho affirmative by
large majority. Free Press