The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-10-14
THE LIME-KILN l.
Aims Of the Aggregation Set Forth at
an OId-Fnshi0ned Meeting.

MY 1reDS, SAID BrotleF d4Tunef, d. the
notes of the triangle calling the meeting to
order ceased to echo through Paradise
Hall. "de present meern' of dis club will
be held in de old-fashioned way. an SIGH
members as am alive at de close will repair
to de aunty room an be RECALLED on seb-
eral large and voluptus late watermillyons
which hev jist arrive from de Stait of
Gawgy. In answer to sartin letters of in
quiry received doorin' de week / should like
to say:
IDS club am pledged to no p%ertickler sort
of religion.
Eve has no pollyticks as a club. but as
individuals we cast Duh votes in favor of
honest and respectable men. 1t I'm so sell
dom dat we find honest, respectable men
runnin' for office. howeber. dat moas' of
us stay home on 'leckshun day to clean out
de cistern or repair de pig pen.
Our aim am TO elevate de Guild race. If
de race amt TO pegs higher in matters of
science. philosophy. economy an art dan
it was five vars ago 1t amt our fault
''We has no partnership wild congresh-
unal or legislative bodies. an we enter
into no alliance wild odder clubs or societies.
1--WE believe in a hereafter. charge IS
cents fur whitewashin' an ordinary ceilin',
an any pusson desirin' stoves BACKED in
NC 4iiOao diilS ShOdtA oIfC Wv
job TO a member OF de Lime Kiln Clue Let
US now purceed."
Sir Isaac walpole brought out a brand
and in ten minutes the following candi-
dates were neatly and legally elected: Par
adox Jones. Colonel Carr; Shakespeare
O'F1ynn, Hon. Asteriod Greene and En-
deavor Williams.
The secretary announced an official COM
munica ton from the secretary Of the Akron
Dead Beat Society, of Akron, o., asking 10
be admitted in a body to the Lime Kiln Club.
Their creed was: Trust to-day. pay to-
lars a day and no work" Their object in
life: ITO beat the human race"
Brother Gardner read the communication
over slowly and then dropped 1t out of the
A communication from Halifax contained
this inquiry: In case a member OF the
he can't let whisky alone, what would
be good advice for him?"
Ny advice would be fur him to 60 OF
let whisky alone 1 soft him down as an
idiot who had better take hisself out OF
hands an lick his appetite in a stan up
fight should hev bin bon a cow"
Giveadam Jones offered a resolution that
the fine imposed on Elder Toots for dis
turbing a meeting a few weeks ago DE
RENTED. The disturbance was created by
aaldlnE Elder s9w3 To ssa'rS ne aer fsii down = stairs aaHr;
when he could avoid it. He might have
! made less noise. but he paid for the door
The resolution was adopted by a unani-
nous vote and the president declared the
Some time since Samuel shin let an old
tin pan full of ashes fall upon Whyfore
Davis as the latter was entering the nan
hy way Of Legislative alley. There has
been a GOODNESS between them ever since,
and Brother Davis has several times as
serted that he would puiverize Brother
catch him out on a rabbit hunt. At the
present meeting, and a few minutes pc
fore the triangle sounded, Brother Davis
in es West Virginia. was dead. This softened
his feelings and prepared his heart for
reconciliation. and he walked ~ 10
b h5SsnsT t ssin aw snI e ehasm' He afterward
ascertained that his mother had been dead
eleven years. but he had made up the co1e .
honorable man would have done:
The secretary then announeed an OIL
the Anti-Buttermilk Society Of Dupont
Banks, Del. asking to be admitted to the
Lime Kiln Club as a body, with autnorlty
to work on the third degree; sot me th,t et tbe
| society was of the opinion that buttermllk
WAS the bane of the present age, lhVes-
tigation had revealed the fact tnat me
greatest consumers of the fluid were those
most obstinately arrayed against the So
ciety and the law. Out of twenty-five muir
4 QeIeTS QueSlIOitCl D< tfO eC
admitted their fondness for butterm1ik;
Train robbers, burglars. cowboys and al
the prominent embezzlers were butterniil<
drinkers and the society had started on a
crusade which would not END until tne
chrrn was forbidden by law
THE secretary was instructed TO reply
that the Lime Kiln Club did not care ioT
such an alliance, having use1 mnss
for the last seven years with the "os'
gratifying results.
The LIBRARIAN reported that he had lately
received several historical works. two vol
umes of poetry, three pamphlets on Tree
trade and a hymn book. The library was
now open six evenings per week from ao
10 O'Clock. and the average attendance TOT
the past month was sixty-eignt.
ont ~ cents for tin to nail over ratholes-
The committee on judiciary reporteu .
petition from Syracuse skiing the clun
lation TO make Ii a penal oHense ior any
nerson to deliver a Fourth OF July Grafton
within two miles of any crowu OF peopis.
The mysterious disappearance of the hal
worn by De Soto when he discovered the
Mississippi river, and for three or ioui
minutes CONSERVATION was depicted on es'
cry coun.enancs: IL Wss t the hat to carrs
home some carrots from the market. NJ
was given such a raking down as few mel
fhirteen minutes in which to gallop a mile
and a half and return with the sacred renc
Waydown Beebe then offered the follow
ing resolution: ,onsti
tutionaliy opposed to lynch law. de mem.
hers stan ready to pull on de rope III IA
am any lack of help"
Trustee Pulback DEMANDED the yea ~ ~,
nays, and the resolution was dooP'S1 10
The lamps being on the point OF goint
out, the meeting sang a poem a"N ."
journed to the banquet hail.