Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-05-02

Brother Gardner's Friends Discuss
the Question ''DO We Expeck
Too Much.''
Detroit Free Press.1


"De subieck of our discushun dis eaven
in'," said Brother Gardner, as the meeting
opened in due form, sis: DO We Expeck
too much?' 1t ar matter dat hev de-
voted heap o. thought to, an hev cum
to de conclushun dat we do. Las mite
when went to bed had twelve chickens
in my coop. l expedited dar would be jist
twelve dar when woke up dis mawnin'
Had any right to? No sab; but when
found only seven left l jumped up an
down, an felt like de hull world was agin
me.
"We expeck to 20 right along frew life
| walkin' on our ears an feelin' as peart as q
calf, an when sickness seized us, we pear
to be astonished dat sich things can be.
1--WE 60 to bed at night countin' on de
incest sort of weather fur tomorrow, an
when we wake up an find de rain comm
down we feel dat great injustice has bin
done u.s.
II lend de Rev. Penstock dollar, an l
expeck he will repay me on Saturday.
hain't no right to expeck it, but / do, an
git left. May be doan' git it fur month.
"WaydOwn Bebee sends his chill'en ober
to my house to borrow tea an coffee an
soap and fat-irons. 1 confidently expeck
to git 'em back, but dey nebber come.
"As human beins we ar unreasonable.
We goes slOshin' around like steam bull
CINE specktin' every body will clar de road
and Civ us free track. We doan' count
on cons, biles, headache, rheumatic, sore
throat and lame backs, an we reckon on
dodgin drouths, freshets, billiards an
yaller fever"
Shindig Watkins begged to differ with
the president. He argued that a person
was born into this world to take comfort.
He had q right to expect good weather,
a reasonable cash income, lots of holidays
and the right to keep seven dogs. Why
should person wake up and find boil on
the calf of his leg? 1t was more reason.
able to expect that it would appear on
some other mans leg. 1t wasn't expecting
too much, as he viewed it, that the hens
he left peacefully roosting on q pole at 6
o'clock in the evening shouldn't be on
deck at 6 in the morning.
The Rev. Penstock, who had been very
uneasy for the last five minutes, now arose
and inquired:
II would like to inquire if de cheer
claims dat owe him dollar?"
mo, eah: not jist now," replied the
chair.
II would furder inquar' if eber bor-
rowed q dollar of de cheer an didn't re-
turn it?"
"You hev allus returned it, sab. used
your case simply to illustrate. If You had
borrowed dollar of me an hadn't returned
it dar' wouldn't be muffin to illustrate.
Did you wish to speak on de question:"
mo, sar. I simply desish to cl'ar my
fnanshul reputashun in de eyes of de
world"
"Den you kin sot down. Your finan-
shul reputashun ar way up in g."
Sir Isaac WalpOle said he was in accord
with the President. He believed it was
the great fault of mankind to expect too
much. Men sat on the fence all summer
end expected to live on rosst beef and
mashed potatoes all winter. They ex-
pected to get the smooth shedding and
leave the rough roads to somebody else.
Men who couldn't pay their house rent ex-
pected good clothes and piano in the par
ior. He sought to be reasonable in his ex-
pectations. The extreme limit with him
was expecting his landlord to repair the
plaster of the kitchen ceiling, and he had
been knocked out on that 80 often that he
had become discouraged.
Waydown Bebee said he arose to