The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-30
BROTHER GARDNER.
Some Timely Words OF Advice to the
killers.

When the routine business had been
disposed OF at the last regular meeting
Of The Lime Kin club, Brother Gard
ner arose in his seat and said:
4 haInt feelin bout things as L
would like to feel. I'ze got de feelln
on me dat de Guild people OBJ dis ken
try am gwine to smash in spite of all
dat kin be said or dun. Ebery day
when I walks out 1 cum home wild an
achin' heart. Ebery time pick up a
paper and sot down TO read am made
to wonder what has got into de cull'd
race dat it am actin so.
Il was in a feed stoh de odder even
in to buy some con fur my chickens
I has bin acquainted wild dat feed stoh
man fur ten years, and we ike each
odder He has nebber cOtched me
film my pockets wild con when his
back was turned, and he has nebber
looked down on me kase de Lawd
made me black instead of white. We
was talkfn' away and respectin' each
odder when in busted Brother Jones'
He was all logged out in patent leath-
er shoes and a red neck-tie, and he
purceeded to swell out his chest and
call dat feed stoh man Tom and order
him to send ten cents worth OF mashed
oats in a hurry. You'd hev thought
Brudder Jones owned de airth and dat
&c hull United States was gWine to TIP
Ober If he didn't git dem oats mighty
quick He felt hisself bigger'n a brick
mouse, anu OIL mo AllPO4 AoAtOC val a
governor. but arter he went out dat
feed stoh man called him all sorts o
names and predicted dat he'd come
down to airth wild an awful smash
befo' de year was out He WASH I'M
pressed nor imposed on a leetle bit
Some few weeks ago Brudder Shin
dig watkins had de griefness to lose
his wife She was his third wife, but
when dis club learned de sad news II
took right holt jest de same as II she
had been his first 1t sorrered. It
bought flowers. It shipped in $50 in
cash. Mo dan so of US attended De
funeral When We returned from dc
said occasion we patted Shindlg on de
back and told him dat his loss was
her gain. and dat dere was no cloud
widout its silver linn. You all remem-
Der low broken uB he was. Some OF
us said dat he wouId neber rekiver
from de blow.
"A day or two ago. only six weeks
arter de calamity, I was walking threw
/ Chipmunk Alley and I stumbled upon
| Brudder Shindig. He and Gull ed Wo-
man was sittin on .doahstep. He
| had his arm around dat woman, and
| her head was laid on his shoulder
| When any one tells you that de white
! folks own all de rapid transit business
In de kentry you Jest remember us
Three months ago Brudder Pickles
Smith lost his mother by. death She
wasn't no wuss and no better dan any
I
/ sympathy, and we Clipped in SO IT
! cash besides. Next thing we heard Of
him he was arrangin wild a marble
man to git a $500 n1onument for de ole
woman He wanted de genuine article
i and he wanted an angel wild her wings
i spread on stop He wanted somethln
i to beat de white folks. and he would
have had it and been so years payin
for it If I hadn't happened to meet
him while he was on his way to clinef
de bargain.
sBrudder Phosphate Nickersor
blacks stoves and does whitewashin'
and his average airnings are ten dol
lars a week. He lbs clus to white
man who Arms thirty. Common sense
would tell Brudder Phosphate dat he
was no society swell and wasn't called
! upon to put on de frills. Common
sense would tell him dat thirty dollars
/ will go three times as fur as ten. He
/ don't listen to common sense, how
! cher he and his wife are tryin' tc
outshfne dat white family. Dey hey
ice cream and angels cakes dey buy