West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-07-13
BRO. GARDNER TALKS.
A Man who Minds His Own business
Has Plenty TO po--Ancthcr Warning
About Biblical Disputes-..why Bro.
Gardner stopped Them.

ner when the Saturday night meet
ing Of the Cotton Blossom Club had
been opened in due form, "dar am
seberal different things l desiah to
call yer 'tenshun to at dis time,
when dis club has no partickler biz
moss befo' it.
al notice dat some of yo' is great
hands fur notices. In my time
has knowed heaps o. people wild
notices, an nebber could see dat
dey got along any better dan odder
folks. DE trubble seems to be dat
de motto an dc man doan exactly
hitch up together. DE LATEST,
sleeplcst man l ebber knowed had
Excelsior = fur his motto. De man
who stole sixteen chickens from nv
coop in Detroit had fur his motto.
Honesty Brings Success 1t is
now ober scben Vars since lent
80 to man who had no less dan
i've notices to spur him on, an
haln't got dat money back yt.
cit hain't de motto dat makes dc
man, but ebcry man must make his.
self. When Snindig Watkins goes
to de grocery fur pound of sale
ratus de grocer doan az him what
motto he am runnin' bizness on !,
but looks him in dc eye an expects
him to come down wild de cold cash.
III Samuel Shin had bin livin' fur
dc last twenty -one vars by dc gcl-
den principles of dc motto of Strive
to DO Right lie couldn't go out
on Sixth Avenue an make it buy
him three yards Of calikcr. When
dat calikcr was cut of an rolled up
Brudder Shin would hcv to plank
down dc cash or offer good Sc
curity.
''An' want to tell yo' dat one
half de trubble We encounter in dis
wurld Gums frum our cxpectin' too
much OF our fellcr-men. We ex-
pect a man am gwine to tell de
troof when we know we'd dodge il
onrself; dat he's gwine to be honest
whore we'd be tricky; dat he'll be-
licve IN ns while we doubt him; dat
he orter be generous while We am
stingy. In fact, we's lookin' fur
odder folks to be perfect, whIlo we
realize dat we ourselves am chuck
full o. meanness.
81 has made it a rule all my life
not to expect too much of my feIlcr
man. I've knowed a man to run
long fur var or 80 as level as a
plank an as good natured as
squash. Then he'd suddenly kick
up an show his mean eide. We is
all full o. strcaks, an whims an
noshnns, an dar comes a time
when we've got TO show 'em out or
bust dc b'ller.
81 has been panied to obsarve a
dispOsishun on de part Of sartin
members of dis Club to be Gurus
regardin' deir nayburs. 1 uscd to
be dat way myself in dc long ago.
Dere was time in my life when. il
a strange niger passed my cabin
ridin' straw Guild mewl an fol-
lowed by yaller dawg, I'd stop
hocin' con an sot down to wonder
who he was-whar he cum frum-
how many chillen he had -wheder
he wouldn't trade dat dawg fur a
bar trap, an so on an 50 forth. /
found it a losin' bizness an / quit.
Any one Of as who kin manage to
keep out Of Sc hands of de doctors,
police aud lawyers has about all de
bizness he wants to see to.
81 felt compelled a few weeks ago
to warn yo' agin de practice Of DIS
putin on Biblical p'ints. under.
stand dat dar am two members who
still porseverc in it. Izc keepin'
my eyes peeled, an dc fust thing
dey know dey'll feel commoshun.
Long bout fo'ty vars ago I'd
sooner argufy on religus matters
dan to cat dinner. let on dat
Sampson was a red headed man wid
a squint 70 his left eye; dat de lions
didn't cat Dan'l kase dey wusn't
hungry; dat Noah nebber dun got
half dc ANIMALS in bis ark; dat dc
Good wasu'tsix feet deep, an heaps