The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-07-03
BROTHER GARDNER IN SIGNS
Under che Bylaws tho Limekiln Club Does
Not Believe in Them.

Not Believe in Them.
Copyright. 1899. BY q n Lerct.
When tho business Of the Saturday night
meeting of tho IImekiln Club had been con-
cluded. Observation-Disclosures arose and looked down
the aisle as if in search Of certain member.
1T hos lately come to my knowledge" no
began. dat sartin members Of dis club am
firm believers in signs an warnin's Fur In
stance. 1 am told dat Bruddor Standofr Jack
son heard o clook strike thirteen times dc
odder night an he was so affected dat he
couldn't 60 to work next day. He believed
1t was a sign OF sudden death in his family.
l ON told dat Bruddcr Giveadam Jones saw
dc new moon over his left shoulder ono night
last week. and he done felt 70 poky ober It dat
he had to soak his feet an 60 to bed. Farm
dat Brudder Waydown Bebeo saw three white
bosses clus together do odder day on de street
an no run home to see II do baby was dead.
''Only last night was informed dat Kurnel
Kyann Johnson. second Vice-President OF dis
club. sot up all night de odder night bekase
dc family teakettle sounded a warnin soon
arter supper. 1t seems to me. from what hev
heard doorin dc last TO- weeks dat nine-tenths
of de members Of dis club am nightly 'spectin
to see ghosts walRin about DER bedrooms: I
desiah to call yo'r attenshun to bylaw No. o5l.
ThGh 20 ney perhaPds s dun b IL
ghosts may be fined as high as $4,000 or ex-
PEELED from de club pe Secretary will n 10Y,
ss d u nSi as he hits ye %!
Tho Secretary called the roll. but not q
.""De ghost. bizness seems to hey played out
bo II she
warnin's,; De Secretary will cali de roll agin.
an dc belie'yers will stand up. Befo' dom SO
No. 49,. which reads dat any believer in signs
an warnin may be- fined as high as $4,000.
rm DE- sdb fur 1aS
seemed to hold himself down in his chair:
"Doan' seem to be nobody standin' up" said
believe in dreams: bylaw No. VS3 reads. dat
dreams e or Who shall arsuiS to another mem
Der dat dreams am sent by de angels in
Heayen to warn US OF what am to come may be
months. Xii 20 % Dat belieys in dreams stand
W, as you, nam es am called"
out nS aa s af fa xss the ssretary
m ~. rosSsn os %
dreams seems Seem like Was dun mistak en- about
strikin' thirteen times?"
Reckon counted ono too many sah."
"Brudder Jones. how about dat new moon 2"
II doan' believe in no new moons, sab"
An. Brndder Bebee. 20, saw three white
sn a 70
hammer dat I'd dun forgot"
On. I soc! Kurnell johnson. how about
dat tea kettle7"
Dat was all in fun. sah"
ut was. eh? Well. lie powerful glad to h'ar
dat dis club am all right on signs. warnin's,
right. lie an old man. an in my time Ize met
up wild heaps o sich stuff 1t ar my candid
tep s dat
'cordin to dreams an signs was BON fur a
fule an list missed it by an inch! hain't
irvine TO bn arbitrary q To dnt pull'd
folks can't SEQ ghosts sfttin' in. do cane seat
rockin cheer, at midnight. wild DER eyes
shant lar death ticks in de wall an strange
whispers floatin in do DIR. I simply say dat
members. Of dis club who see an h'ar SIGH
things will git down stairs an out O. dis organ
izashun wild such sudden rapidness dat race
hosses can't ketch EN-! Wo will now bust up
de meetin an 60 home" NJ. QUAD.