San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-05-15
THE LIME KILN CLU5.
Much Valuable Information Collected as
Requested by the Government.

Much valuable information Collected as
Requested by the Government.
"Gemlen," began Brother Gardner,
as the regular Saturday night meeting
Of the Lime Kiln club was called to or
der with 213 members present, and FL
der Toots ready for two-hours' nap,
"let your conversashun be plain an TO
de pint. Say what you mean, an mean
what you say. has noticed a tenden-
cy on de part of certain members of
dis club to affec' de Shakespearean
style.
81 want it stopped. 1t doan sound
right in a man applyin' whitewash OF
stove blackin'. How many members of
dis club know de meanin' of de term:
'Prognosticate towards de individuali-
ty? an yit I h'ar it uttered a dozen
times day. What's de use of a GUILD
man airnin' ten shillm's adayremarkin'
dat he expects to condescend to de ir-
responsible endeavor when he kin just
as well observe dat blackberries am
down to Is cents quart? If any of you
has an ideah dat de use of such words
as bombastic, delirium tremens, Cicero
or inconsistency, elevates you in &c
mind of your naybur, you is greatly
mistaken.
when a man comes to me an wants
to borry two tablespoonfuls of S0-cent
green tea, kase de preacher am gwine
to be at his house to supper, let him
spit il right out in plain English Ian
guage, instead of beatin' round dc
woods an luggin' in SIGH words as alb
dictate, reaction, C9sarism an cahoots.
If had a son 90 Vars ole, an he should
come hum wild his whitewash brush on
his shoulder an inform me dat de graft
ficashun OBJ de incontestable syntax had
withdrawn its bombardment of de
planetary desderashun, should riz up
an put my No. 10 agin him wild such
auxiliary reprehensibility dat he would
feel lame fur six weeks.
Il take dis opportunity to say dat I
hev received q letter from Washington
akin me to furnish de giv'ment wild
SIGH statisticks regardin' de GUILD race
as we hev thus fur bin able to gather
since de organizashun of de Lime Kiln
club. De secretary has prepared an
will ford de followin' valuable slices of
informashun:
81. Gin a darby a cooked hat an q
tin sword an de noise of drum, an
you kin lead him anywhar' you will.
"2. We can't see dat de color am
bleachin' out any.
"3. We doan' know dat de black man
has growed any wuss doorin' de las 20
vars, an we can't prove dat he has
growed any better.
~. Truth, honesty an industry am
three great jewels hidden in de groun'.
Looks like a heap of Guild folks war
too lazy to dig down an find EN-
IS. Our religun am about de same,
an our pollyticks all mixed up.
sc. De inventive genius of de race
hasn't turned so much to mechanism
an art as TO plannin' how TO make one
days work bring in libin' fur de rest
of de week.
I'm case any of de members know Of
any furder Jacks barring on de issue
should like to h'ar from him"
Sir Isaac Walpole thought he could
see great improvement in social ETH
quette. Colored brothers who former
ly heaved brickbats at him now raised
their hats as they passed, and women
who once went barefoot in their shoes
now wore stockings costing six bits.
Giveadam Jones had seen n great
change in his race in ten years. When
black man who never owned a fowl in
his life had chicken pie three times a
week the year round there was a COM
bination of genius and progress which
could not be kept down nor drowned
out.
Waydown Beebe thought the colored
man was more industrious than in for
mer years. He had known lots of them
to work hard all day for insignificant
wages to get money to patronize policy
shops and purchase lottery tickets.
Several other choice bits of informa-
ton were cheerfully rendered, and the
secretary was instructed to incorporate
them and write his report in red ink.
ITO boil de matter down inter sirup,"
added the president, "de Guild man has
got his liberty, but am hungry an
ragged fo'-fifths of de time. He has
got de ballot, but de white folks has got
de offices. He has got civil rights, but
he hain't got de cash for a seat in de
parkay ciryle or de palace kyar. Letus
purceed to de bizness which has COM
pounded us together" - NJ. Quad, in
Detroit Free Press.