The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-29
BROTHER GARDNERTALK
NOTICES ARE GOOD, BUTT TAKES
CASH TO BUY SALERATUS.

has Plenty TO Do-AnOJher " arntng
About Biblical Disputes Why
Brother Gardner Stopped Them.
The Hypocrisy of Putting On Style.
The Diamonds in Watermelon Hall.
From the Nea0 York World
my frens," said Brother Gardner when
the Saturday night meeting of the Cotton
Blossom Club had been opened IN due form,
''dar am seberal differant things desiah to
call yo'r 'tenshun TO at dis time, when dis
club has no pertickler bizness befo' it.
81 notice dat some Of yo' is great hands
fur notices In my time has knowed
heaps O. people wild notices. an 1 nebber
could see dat dey got along any better dau
odder folks. De trubble seems to be dat de
motto an de man doan' exactly hitch up
together. De LATEST. sleepicst man cher
knowed had Excelsior fur his motto. De
man who stole sixteen chickens from my
coop in Detroit had fur his motto, Honesty
brings Success 1t is now ober seben Vars
since lent three dollars to man who had
no less dan five different notices to spur
him on, an hain's got dat money back
yit.
ut hain't de motto dat makes de man,
but cherry man must make hisself. When
Shindig Watkins goes to de grocery fur
pound of saleratus de grocer doan' ak him
what motto he am running bizuess on,
but looks him in de eye an expects him to
come down wild de cold cash. Ii Samuel
Shin had been livin' fur de lost twenty -one
Vars by the golden principles Of de motto of
"Strive to do right" he couldn't go out on
Sixth avenue an make il buy him three
yards of caliker. When dat caliker was
cut off an rolled up Brudder Shin would
hev to plank down de cash or offer good
security.
trubble we encounter In dis wurld Gums
from our expectin' too much of our Teller.
men. We expect a man am gwine to tell de
troof when we know we'd dodge 1t ourself:
dat he's gwine to be honest where we'd be
tricky; dat he'll believe in us while we
doubt MN; dat be orter be generous while
we am stingy. In fact, we's lookin' fur Cd
der folks to be perfect, while we realize
dat we ourselves am chuck full o. mean
ness.
II has made it rule all my life not to ex-
poet too much of my feller-man. I've
knowed man to run 'long fur var or SO
as level as a plank an as good-natured as a
squash. Then he'd suddenly kick up an
show bis mean side. We is all full o.
streaks an whims an noshuns, and dar
Gums time when we've got to show 'em
out or bust de b'ller.
II has bin panied to obsarve adisposishun
on de part of sartin members OF dis club to
be Gurus regardin' DER nRyburs. | used to
be dat way myself in de long ago. Dere
was time in my life when, if a strange
niger passed my cabin ridin' straw-cull'd
mewl an followed by a yaller dawg, I'd
stop hoein' con an sot down to wonder who
he was-whar' he cum from-how many
chil'en he had-wheder he wouldn't trade
dat dawg fur a b'ar-trap. an 80 on an so
forth. found it losin' bizness AM quit.
Any one Of US who kin manage to keep out
Of de hands Of de doctors, police an laws
years has about all de bizness he wants to
see to.
81 felt compelled few weeks ago to
warn yo' aRin the practise of disputin' on
Biblical p'iqts / understand dat dar' am
two members who still perseveke in it. lie
keepin' my eyes peeled, an de fnst thing dey
know deyhl feel commoshun. Long bout
forty Vars ago I'd sooner argufy on relgus
matter dan to eat dinner. l let on dat
Sampson was a red-headed man wild a
squint TO his left eye; dat de lions didn't eat
Danl kase dey wasn't hungry; dat Noah
nebber dun got half do animals in bis ark
dat he flood wasn't six feet deep, an heaps
of odder things. In jist one Var had SIX
teen fights an licked foteen mon. | broke
up church. run fo' Baptist preachers out
of de kentry an got all de chil'en so scarf
dat dey dasn't say de Lawd's Prayer any
mo-.
San yit what good did it do me9 I dun
licked men, but couldn't convince 'em.
could out boiler man, but / couldn't fur
nish any proofs dat was right an he was
wrong. Folks dun called me a fool, lost
my land on mortgage an / finally con-
cluded to shet my mouf an work wild my
hands. None of US was in dat Ga'den Of
Eden. How, den, do we know whedder
Adam had red bar or black, or whedden
Eve was freckled or fair9 None of us was
around when de food took place. None of
US dun saw dat ark. What's de use, den, OF
our argufying about it,
AN l want to say few words TO de
younger members of dis club on de subiict
Of spreadin' derselves. De odder day saw
Three-Ply johnson, WHO'S a waitah in a
hotel, gwine along Broadway wild so much
spread dat folks stopped to look arter him
an wonder how many banks he owned.
When we come right down to facts,
Brudder johnson Arms about $40 O week,
an if he am heah tonight I'll bet he aiut
got 80 cents in his pocket. What's the use.
den, of all dat spreads What's de use of
deceivin' de publicl Let man be what he
am. If he's got $l7 ,000, 900 den let him frow
on $4,000, 900 wuth of style. II he hain'u
got but II cents let him walk softly aroun'
an attempt no decepshun. De public can't
be deceived about desc things. When Way
down Bebee gifts on dat cape coat of his an
goes sailing down Broadway nobody be-
Iieves dat he owns all dis town below
Blocker street. Dey is right on TO him for
a chap who couldn't buy 10 cents worth of
paregoric an hey huff cash left to ride
home on de kyar. l saw one OF our men,
bers gwine into bank de odder day wild
great stiffness an Importance He lust
would believe he was gwIne in dar to git
$50, 900 in cash an buy house on Lexington
avenue, but he was deceived. dun saw a
man look arter him an say:
1 wonder if dat niger is gwine to carry
coal inP
81 saw anoder member standin' down by
de possoffiS an lookid' at de Astor House.
He walke1 up an down an looked. He
wanted people to emagine dat he was
gwine to buy dat hotel He felt in his
pocket, an he asked man if Mr.. Astor was
home, but he deceived no one. was standin'
right dar' when a policeman said DO mus
dun move on or he'd give him de collar.
"Jlst a word or two mo-. From wharf |
stand kin count no less dau forty-two
great large diamond pins glitterin' on de
shirt bosums an neck scarfs Of members,
an reckon dere ar forty-.wo mo- on de
back rows. De ideah wild cherry single one
of yo' is to make de public believe yo'r pin
cost at least $500, an dat yo' is rollin' in