The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-17
THE LIME KILN CLUB.
Colonel Goalong White Delivers a Lee
tlre Before 1t.


1t became known as soon as Paradise
hall was opened for the evening that
Colonel Goalong White, of Alabama,
had been stopping with Brother Card
ner for the last three days and that he
was booked to deliver a lecture before
the club that evening The colonel is
known to fame as The Postum Orator
of the South, and there was much spec
ulafion as to the address he would de-
liver.
THE HERO COMES.
As the hour for the opening of the
meeting drew nigh the colonel appeared
in the hall, escorted by Brother Card
ner. He sized up as chunky, sawed
off darky with a great deal of shirt
collar and pair of bow legs. A few
members We're at once prepared to be
disappointed, but those who had trav-
eled as far west as Toledo and the
Maumee river were satisfied to wait for
developments. The colonel looked as if
he would be a hard man in a rough
and tumble fight, but he might also
have the silver tongue of an orator.
HE IS INTRODUCED.
My frens," said Brother Gardner as
the hall grew quiet. Il don't reckon
dar am a pusson heah tonight who has
not heard tell of Kurnel White, of Al
albany, de gefn'lan who stands at my
right hand, and who am presently gwine
to address dis assembiage-
DE kurnel don't come heah as a
stranger. If he did, he has, got de
DOCUMENTS in his pocket to prove dat
he has delibered ober one thousand
addresses in de las ten years and dat
doorin' de same time he has broke Jail
no less dan thirteen differunt times.
aside from bein' Kurnel and an
orator, he owns nine dawgs and am de
ladder of fourteen children. In de
summer time he am employed by de
millyons bein' shipped up Moth and he
he has got so expert at it dat he nebber
by any chance makes a mistake and
sends US ripe one. De green ones
come Moth and de ripe ones am eaten
up at home.
ovid desc few remarks he will now
appear befo' you, and I bespeak for
him an enthusiastic welcome"
HE BOWS AND BEGINS.
The Colonel slid to the front as if
and stiffened up, and then bowed to
the audience in a way to elicit hearty
applause. He then whirled around
three times on his left leg, shot out his
right arm in dramatic gesture. rolled
his eyes around until they seemed to
be on wheels turning on shafting, and
was ready for the fray.
BACK TO THE PYRAMIDS.
Men of dis yeah Lime-Kiln Club,
he began in a voice audible at the head
of the alley stairs, stand wild me for a
minnit under de shadder of de great
Pyramids of Egypt. Who built dem
Pyramids wild DER tops piercfn de
star studded sky? answer dat it
was de cullud race-men of your color
and mine. (Great cheering.)
81 do not wish to be thought con-
ceited when I add dat man of my
name bossed de job. haven't de least
doubt dat he was my great, great
grandfather but am / putin on any
side on dat account? No, sab. I am
leavin' de eliminashun of de corrobar-
ashun to de desiderashun just de same
as if my projenutor had been one of
de donkeys dat helped draw de stone
during which Waydown Bebee hit
Samuel Shin in the back with an APP
ple.)
THE PILGRIM FATHERS.
81 ask YOU" continued the orator,
who was now getting the sweat started
on the back of his neck, ito come out
of de shadder of de Pyramids and
come along wild me to Plymouth Rock.
I'VE stan heahz and gaze ober de
sunlight sea rollin' away to de East
fur three thousand miles. You don't
see muffin fur a few minits, and den
sail heaves in sight and ship comes
ter ancher 1t am de Mayffower, load
ed down wild de Pilgrim Fadders and
Murders, almost de first human bein'
to reach desc wooded shores.
Take a clus look at DEM Am dey
black or white? Black, cherry one of
dem-ebery face as black as your hat.
Lie WDllS 1OIhS may dCily H. Jul 1 We
got de proof right heah in my pocket"
lawful sensation and holding of
breaths.)
Eyes I hab de proofs, and let me
furder add dat de fust pusson ashore
was Jim White. He was shOrely a re-
lahsun of mine. but am I stuck up on
dat account? Fur from ut. De canti-
lever perrigrinates around de seques-
tered mutability jest de same as if nuf-
fin tall had happened" (Outbursts
- fr-oT1 n in zxg1li a17
Brother Jones was hit in the left
eye with an apple core and charged
the club with wanting to assassinate
him.
WHO FIRST KICKED?
"Come away from dat rock and
dem Pilgrims, and accompany me to
Boston, which town has been called
de Cradle of Liberty. 1t was so called