THE LIME KILN CLUB.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2516, 4 February 1887, Page 2

THE LIME KILN CLUB.

An Opinion Wanted. The Secretary announced tho following communication from Birmingham, Ala: "I do not remember that Brother Gardner has yet expressed himself on: the question of the tariff. If he la for Ireetrade or protection? Before .we make application for a branch lodge at this place the question must be settled. Let him give ub his candid opinion." " In reply to dat," said tho old man as h e caressed his right ear in a reflective way. "I nobber had but one policy. If I had a mule to sell I touted him around till I got all bo was and a lettle mo 1 . If I wanted tobuy a mule, I wated'till mule-meat to cheap, and got one for a little less dan he waa wuth. -1 want freetradeso dat I kin git my whitewash brushes cheap, and I want purteoksbun bo dat nobody can undersell tne on ax an' hoe handles. I reckon dar's a spot somewear' in/diß qupßjiun wher' do'bo'd will balance, and neittar one pud will be up or down.aH do time." ■. rilOßAßir NOT. The.'Bev. Penstock, to whom was referred the question," Has the <pim- ; •cipatioa of, tne blaoks .resulted in a marked increase of colored' Cbfis". tians /.!' begged leave to report that he had investigated to the best of bis ability, and was compelled to oonoludo that it had not.'. There was a larger attendance at church, but no apparent enthusiasm, The present generation went to church to show off-their clothes or go homo with the girls, «&r) one missed the numerous and hearty. " amens" aud " brese de Lords!" which wero once beard on every band; lie was afraid that the young colored man was growing np without fear of-' tho hereafter, and that pride and vanity were tho ruling spirit even among the; middlo-aged ohurch goers. •'Howgyejy the game state of affairs wns qbgei;vable in the'while churches, and.lft one was criticised the other should,be;