THE LIME KILN CLUB.

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1654, 18 January 1886, Page 2

THE LIME KILN CLUB.

♦ ' I can't see dat Prof. Trespass Johnson am in the hull to night,' said | Brother Gardiner as he looked tip ! and down. 4De fack am, [ didn't I • zactly ' spect he would be. Sartin | events hey occurred to render his ab. j sence a necessity. De Seokretary j will turn to his name on the roll an ; scratch it off, and write aerois it in red ink de worJ ' expelled V ! When the Secretary Iml ca>ried ont the requi-st the PtCsid.-nt contended. • Up to a y'ar ago, Prof Johnson was an active, respected member of l dis club. He was not only a worker i in our cause, hut was industrious as a I man. If he coul lu'i get work at a 1 d )llar an' a half a day, lied g> t it fora dollar. If he couldn't h.-v roast duck for Sund ty be put np. wk! a l»e« i f bone ; soup. His family had plenty to eat an' to war, an' when rent day enm around he bad de tah ready for his landlord. 1 Jist about twelve months ba-k some white man told de Professor dat he had just as i;ood a right to a pinner, gold watch 'an span of horses as a I rich man. He was told dat, de aris i tocracy war coitiin' money ont of his ' labor. Hi; w.=is made to believe, dat I the pusson who couldn't p?iy two dollars to he 7 a kitchen ceilin' white washed was» an oppressor. It was pointed into him dat, if he sat on de fence all summer an' talk-'d ayin the ; blue-lit- >od of dis ktsntry, sotneb-vly 1 would furnish him roast turkey all winter.' •Many of yon saw how he was af fected. He began to hate honest work. His monf began to grow big:*er. While his cloze gmwed Si'edy his importance increased daily. Wh-n his woo I -pile grew low he cussed VanderbiW. Wlie.ii his flour burl was empty he revilec Jay Gould. When his children becnm ragged he. ripped at capital. When ! his wife becum liar'fnt he swore at dH aristocracy. When his landlord bounced him for non payment of rert he howled and raved about oppressors and tyrants. IDe climix cum las' nite. I heard dat he bad bin l>oastin' dat de rich must divide wid him, an' I concluded to watch my hen coop. About 'leben o'clock de Prof ssor showed np. I had twenty two choice heng. He had uone. He was gwine to divide wid me an' tuke leben. My freus, I' can't 'zactly desoribe what happened ai ter I got my paws on him, but 1 know he went away empty handed, lirapin'. sore an' in da | hands of an officer. He am no longer j a member of this club. If dar' am any odder member wid socialistic ideas now would be a good time for him t> make a grab fui his h.U, an' back down stairs.' A deep silence followed. Not a man moved.