Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-01-04

SHAKESPEARE DIS WINTER" president, T am told dat you contem. plate readin' Shakespeare dis winter?"
 es sah.'' v s'I am told dat de objeck am to im prove your mnd!'
 Yes, sah''
 Do you owe any back rent?'
 1.-Two months, I reckon
 Have you got in your coal for de winter?'
 s4 "N-no, sah'
 Have you got shoes and warm clothes fur your chilen!"
 '.Not yet, sah.''
 ..Have you got an extra bushel of taters down cellar?'
 "Not jest yet "Brudder Pullback, femme give you "a tip. Shakespeare was good man. 5sHe was smart man. He used up heap of ink and paper in writin Oar ahain't no question but what if you or <. any odder culld man would sot down and read his books for six months you would improve your mind. # But you hain't got time, Brudder SPullbaek. You has got 10 hustle fur ( bacon and taters and clothes and shoes : and back rent. You has got to be < right on de hump. You may git time S to pick up somefhin' by Laura Jean s Libbey or Old Sleuth, but you won't go ! beyond dat. Il shall keep an eye on you de con- in winter, and if 1 hear dat your < chilen can't go to school fur de want i of shoes or dat you have put a mort 5 gage on your cook stove 1 shall pur- ceed to improve your mind in q way dat will make your heart ache fur six months to come.
 'You may now sot down, and if Eld CT Penstock am wid us tonight he will please stand up"
 The elder was there. During the last three months he had been debating with himself whether the earth or the sun moved, and he was figuring on a piece of paper when the voice of the president reached him.
 'Brudder Penstock, you has been member of dis club fur good many years, and up to few weeks ago I counted you among de level headed. What you been gettin' in your head about de sun movin'?"
 we am told dat de airth moves around de sun, hain't wei" queried the elder.
 'I's heard some sich talk
 "But I don't believe dey kin prove 1t. Is been watchin' things, and I's al- most believin' dat it's de sun dat does de movin'."
 "Brudder Penstock, s'pose you should find out dat de airth moved around de sun for suah-what would happen"
 ''Why-why-I dunno, sah."
 "S'pose you should find out de odder way-what would happen?"
 Cant say, sah."
 "No, reckon you can't, but I'll tell you what'll happen if you don't drap dis sun business and go to work. happen to know dat you am head ober heels in debt and libin' mostly on dried apples. and unless you make change you'll get de bounce from dis Lime kiln club in a way to take de curl outer your hair. It's muffin to you or luC Ol IO dAy OOuCA CuAA 00A WnO has to work fur libin', whedder de sun or de world moves. What we want is to be on de move ourselves. We want to be movin' coal and codflsh into our cabins, and we want to see de chilen movin' right along to school ebery day.
 When our days work am done, If any of us am fule 'nuff to go out and sit on de fence to see whedder de moon or de fence moves, dat's all right, but we hain't gwine to waste none of dc daylight.
 Oats all, Brudder Penstock, and now have word to say to Waydown Beebe.
 "Brudder Beebe," said the president, "you am one of de charter members of dis Limekiln club. You was ono of de seven of us who met in stable