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Digital page images are linked to the text file. 2BLUE GRASS BLADEVol IT No 23 Lexington Kentucky Saturday December 3 1891 Subscription 2 a Year f Capf Den rnkcsCIironiclcof Charles the Slower and Lie- lYonderfu1131nte1 In this issue appears a long styleChrohut of reset found out was written b myold friend Capt Ben S ri cityCapt a Confederate tlbloodyof to so wide that we can not most cordially shake hands across it I eaw it was a Men strike as soon publishedfirst after the publication of the Captains piece in the Leader ofI October 7 but it was too long f m paper I thought But I have had calls for it by friends of the Blade and for their sake andmJ 4 own I republish it I have not at this writing seen Capt Drake since he wrote it though I wrote him sightI a note that I would shoot tood that he feared feelingsbuthave read anything in any Lex ington paper at which I have laughed so much He scores it into me prett nicely sometimes but that is pav 4ingme in my own coin and the a preservation of histori cal accuracy that he maintains all through tbe whole eight chapters of his Chronicles demands that mytimeoomPersons anywhere in the United States who have read the Blade especialthose J tional first issue will recognize much of the accuracy of the his to Phr clsJmt citizens of Lexington who saw and heard much that took place that wns never published in my paper nor in any other nor indeed could have been will be forcibly struck with the accuracy of the gallant Captains accoun- tI am willing to be slightly vie timized if it would afford others as much amusement as I think this piece has done It was written when the com mon supposition was that I had hung up the Blade RISE AND FALL Of Charles the Mower it and His Wonderful Blade Tin Trials and T ribulaa tionsofaModsrn Re former Narrated in Chronicles For Future Generations To Refttlaml Iondvr OerThet Strange Advent iircn of a Gi ed Scribe Whose Land w liaised AgHiiisl Every nail j And Who Assailed Those Who Were His nest Friends FIRST CIIArTEU OF CHRONICLES 1 And it came to pass in the days of Charles the Painter who succeeded Claudius ILr Great that there were mnrmurings and dissensions among the peopleI2 And Charles the ItihmalliteI was chief among the uturnnir era and dissenterst3 man about him and walked among the people of the city and d dspy upon them and did try to stir up more dissension among them 4 But the people wouldt hearken unto Charles the Ii dayl hismaelitcman is a heathen he is no good 5 Theo Charles the Ishmaelite became exceedingly wroth and did cry aloud against Charles the 4f Pointer and tlie people and he did spy on Charles the Pointer to find cause whereof he might accuse him 6 But when he could findno fault in him whereof to accuse him before the people his anger was greater than before 7 Then Charles the Ishmaelite spake unto his wife saying Lo Charles the Painter is an exceed ing wicked man 8 Inasmuch as he hath begot ten a son Charles the Prince who yerelyhelieve w liquohereby rg drunken 9 And also he hath taken into his council certain other bad and wickedmen publicans and sin ners who fur the purpose of gain and profit in filthy lucre hath also sold to the people this vile liquor whereby they are become drunken 10 When Charles the Ish- maelite had thus spoken he was moved with much anger 11 And he looker about him and sought how he might punish these men who had done no evil thoe sixteenth day of the ninth month of the third year of the reign ol Charles the Painter 13 That Charles the Ishmaelite did conceive a weapon wherwith to smite Charles the Painter nndfl the chief priest and the scribes and the publicans and all of the people who were drunken 14 Charles the Ishmaelite had not money enough to pay for his weapon So he cnlledupln the chief priest of the city and the publicans and the moneylenders saying 15 Behold I have in my hand weapon wherewith I will smite allof the wicked people of the city mid make them good and cause them to cease from drunk emptyIand wonderful weapon of my own invention I pray thee therefore give me of thine abundance that may go forth and do the people good w 16 And the chief priest and publicans and the moneylenders were deserved by Charles the Ish- maelite and gave him bountiful of icirfilthy lucre his 17 And the heart of Charles the Ishmaelite was made glad and he went on his way rejoicing and saying 18 These fools have given me the wherewith to pay for my weapon the like ot which no man lath ever seen before and no man willever see again 19 And on the morning there in after it came to pass that Charles thelshmaelite did take his strange and heathenish weapon and sally forth into the city 20 And when the people di look npon this strange weapon theywere sore amazed and snidn one unto another What man ner of weapon is this 21 Charles the Ishmaelite answered them saying Behold is a weapon of mine own inven ion the like whereof no man ever held before and no man brave enoughsave me in all the land De n found to wield it for lo it smites in front and rear to the right hand and to the left hand andottimes smihs the smiter 22 But I will fear not for my weapon is exceedingly sharp and long and bright and for these rea sons I call it my Blade 23 And Charles the Ishmaelite did wield his Blade and did smite Charles the Painter and his son Charles the Prince and Charles ic Great Counselor whose sur nama is Rufus because of his hair 24 And he did also smite Joshua the Smith who was also a scribe and wrote with a pen made from the wing of the Falcon 25 And he did also smite David lie Transcriber and he did also smite all of the chief priests and a peoplet the Money Changer and his son Wil Ham who is also a money changer did he smite 27 And he did also smite the lawmakers and the publicans Yea evey one of these he smote with his Blade 28 Awesome of them that the smitten were fearfully andothers of them that were smote were sorely angered But none of them that were smitten diedIsaw he fearful havoc that Charles shmaclitft had wrought and t wide swath he had cut with hiss Made with one voice call ithatCHAPTER OF CHRONICLES 1 And it canto to pass on the morrow after all these things hat happened the chief priest and the lawmakers and the money tv r lenders and the councilors and the counselors and the publicans did gather themselves together in the tempts 2 And when they were set they plected one of their number to preside over them 3 Arid they sent into the high ways of the city and had Charles the Mower brought before them 4 And when he was come jut the presence of the chief and scribes and rulers and con publicnl1tsmitten and those who were there assembled 5 Behold he stood as a chained wolf in the presence of a band of shepherds and tneir flock and when he looked around on multitude there assembled Ueho no man was his friend and he was sore afraid And when he who over them asked who would ac cuse him Lo every man was o his feet and no one could be hear but for the tumult of the multitude 7 But the voice of Hull the publican was heard above the tumult saying 8 It is I Oh Mr Chairman that do accuse him for this is h that cometh to my inn and asketh me for money wherewith to pur chase a weapon with which to smite the evil doers of the sit d lo I gave him of my abun and see whore he hath smit ten me on the facec9nd r opened his mouth and said Hull the Publican Thou gave me no money but thou didst promise it 10 And Hull the Publics whose anger was very great di unlose his purse strings and take givethem tThonbut I will p y thee all I owe thee 11 And Charles the Mower cepted the money and said unto givthee fulNay illaEphraim the MoneyChal1ler vas exceedingly wroth because Charles the Mower had smitten many of friends 14 And he got up01rlilsIeet nndwould fian have smitten him with his hands then and bNaystrife here And William de sisted 15 And when Charles the Mower saw that he had no friends the vast assembly his heart was sore troubled and he said unto them 16 Verily verily I say gooduse my fearful weapon no I will suspend my Blades yhave17 But they with one voice said Nay nay we will have to dot with thee no more Go thy tva Thou art the worst nun in the city 18 And when the assembly wasI broken up Charles the Mower was much troubled and sought conso lation in the highways of the city and by chance it came to p that Ephraim the Money Changer passed him b on the a andspoke to himt19 And Charles the Mower MoneyChnnger abuse and spitefully use binfrAnd Ephraim the Money ger said unto 11imv20 Grieve not thy heart be cause of my sons anger I ha this day admonished him yea even William my son 21 And the heart of Charles the Mower was made b ti troneyCll3n11rejoicing 22 And as he ran along t lithe highway he met Joshua the Smith who also was a Scribe And Joshua the Smith was exceedingly wrothat Charles the Mower be r cause Charles the Mower had smitten him and wounded him sorely 23 So he opened his mouth and reslakt unto him saying Hear n oh Charles the Mower thou smitten me sorely I who tv a thy friend thou hast smitten 24 And I now warn thee that will nut turn my other cheek unto thee that thou mayest emite thheprocure0d a pow and leaden bullets and other explosive and hard substances heavilyladenheadoil 25 Be warned in time OhICharles the tower 26 And when Joshua had thu w f spoken shook dust against Charles Mower took departure And again Charles Mower afraid andcom plained bitterly that those whom smitten with sought pented slay THIRD UIAPTBB thtBcDAnd when there hunted wife spake shying have from wilderness escape mine enemies who seek iiIdAnd because thereof many becaused slayjingly afraid have wildernesswhere mine enemi And will wieldmy wonderful weapon suspend beloved Blad myIofwood drawer water tiller thudclothes wept show great concern Now wife Charles exceedingstLord wiser than Charles bdandopened mouth spake clthesebeen true faithful wife Thou knowest that jeseech thee careful who thou sraotcst with thy Blade fearful weapon andwonder made My heart goes thee husbandf I1lhyBut thou must Btrive nohearthat thine anger heavyblowstay blow that 1theavy thy victim tlnessnocent stay thy hand that innocent may suffer And when Charles Mower had heard these words hidworshipledhis would have him FOURTH CHAPTER CIIUONJCIES And morrow Charles Mower mounted soughYpublicans those whom smitten them things wife spoken And chief priests Chass5JwomnnLord surely should fear strange weapon rected good woman And they took Charles hand made iends with gave gold greenbacks wherewith keep Blade tcight that might punish wicKed city And again Charles Mower sallied forth city smite madethemselves drunken And when chief priests rulers publicans smote only wicked smote them slightly they said other invcutiYweapon much good land Charles Mower longer smites And many days with wife side Charles tatower throughout city tsFIFTH CHAPTER CHRONICLES Now there lands time divers strongminded ordothey dissensions walked fear thingstheAnd they assembled them selves together loud voice that they should peopleinstencl drunken 5l will feet and the had Bla him but and her fled into the and fled into find and will and soil and the tear the and she her and unto him hee and unto the and did fort the fall will and and and told had him and this by ower by cud him and him and and the into and and that aud unto the the the and the this But were and the and did come the the the off his the his was sore his not was up his Lo the fro the not nor my the his far 11 out not too the not the not the his the his the not the the his the the the the saw the tho oti do for his by his did the he was not the cry out all art all he of 27 he he can of of was ly 14 If 16 do all he of he one go be he me of he he to OE to to am no of to be 12 to to see in it no on wi OF on ass to we if sil to in to in no OF in at of iu an d 2 3 I 4 I ne I I r a a to 8 g a I is a I a I so w 1 I arr I 2 so a 3 4 c y t J 5 c w an S us 7 P m f L 2 a 3 a J t t i s t t 4 And they declared that they petticoatsbutments they would cut their hair theirJlCadsand other vanities 5 They also declared in a loud obeythdrunken and that theywould not obey the laws of the land that were made by men who had become drunken 7 And they declared that they would ride their horses even as the men do Yea they would ride astride of their beasts 8 And many other foolish things did these women who walked not in the fear of the Lord nottlthifwcrfearful invention the Blad spread throughout all the lands much so that these women who walked not in the fear of the Lord heard thereof longpistleswherein they flattered him and a grcattthenr 11 And they visited the Mower in hi den in the city nndlidcr him 12 And they said unto hi ollrhampionand with wonderful and fearful invention the Blade n retour13 Go forth in thy might and with thy wonderful and fearful in ention the Blade smite every notivebecomedrunken14 And smite thou Chmanjllcth the same Smite the law akers until they let us make the ws 15 Yea smite the rulers until hey let us rule the land for betholdc arc wise we drink no strut 5 drink wherebywe may be p1Genrenedunto the voices women and reasoned wit 6iros Jf thus wifeitfarwomen are wiser than men I e their champion 81 And when he camp into the rese ice of Irs wife he told her hat he had promised to do for BlandLard 19 And his wifo warned him to ive nothing to do with these women and besought him not to champion their cause with his onderftil and fearfully made Blade 20 But Charles the Mower ould not hearken unto her and w lid unto her I know that thou wiser than I and for this reason am constrained to believe that women are wiser than men 21 And if thou art wiser than arc not ten women wiser than thou I with be guided by one aftohharltseak thus she was sore 1lIdSIXTH CHAPTER OF CHRONICLES 1 And on the morrow Charle- the Mower did sharpen up hi onderful and fearfully madpB Blade and did go forth c mdandsmito the people as these heathen women had directed HigPriesth a Minsellors he smote the senators ea evcu Joseph with the Iron awxiid he smite and he smote nllium of the Silver Tongue 3 He smote the lawmakers nt rankfortand the hiJh priest who lived there then yea oven Simon smote severely 4 And he smote the clliefpric the city wherein he lived and rulers and councilors and the teachers in the synagogues and teachers in the schools and Charles the King and Charles the rince and Charles Rufus the Great Counsellor and he smote his friends and his neighbors All these and many more he smote and arely wounded with his wonder 1aul fearfully made Blade 5 But none of those who were mitten did die therefrom Now when the people saw that Charles the Mower was again the war path and did seek for notisssjain in the temple But they sought him in tw jhcity and in the wilderness und nauy of them who sought him would thin slay him 8 But Charles the Mower hs d iJ pEr been privily warned that U people sought to slay him and fled into the wilderness in a desert place in the for away land of Kus sell and found him a cave and did hide himself therein from tl people who sought him 9 NOW while hid in the cave felt no fear of his enemies but wmnl0rhieand fearfully made Blade while Jandcity and wrote them each week long letters instructing them in the use of his wonderful and fearfully made Blade and telling them who to smite 33 And from his cave afar off even in the laud of Russell di Charles the Mower smite th e people and wound them sorely SEVENTH CHAPTER OF CHRONICLES sAenot inasmuch as he could not with his own eyes behold the fearful havoc being done by his w made Blade troutlcgd people said about him 3 And he sent two spies tut the city to spy upon the people and shoost m 4 And the spies made their upothen t6me Tentpld c an go and Hurnedunto the land of Russell where they did seek the cave in which Charles the Mower was hidden- And when they had found lam they opened their mouths and spake unto him saying 7 We have been into the city as thou didst command us i arles the Mower and we did spyupon the people therein 8 We did spy upon them in the temple and tIll synagogues in the highways and in the byways of city and in all other places therein 9 And we heard many of the or ople therein say many wicked ngs against thee and thy won weaponh10 SlIme of tlfe people that spake against theo ate persona of nuthorityAndandunto one another 11 This man is a wicked andsmites us with his tiKand tearfully made weapon ade and wounds us sorely givenhim FUand13 Yea even into the land of Russell will we pursue and hunt him and when we have found bin- e will slay him 14 And destroy from the face o the earth which it polluteth that wonderful and fearfully made weapon the Blade 15 Now when Charles tIll Mower heard all these things that the spies said to him he was sore raid and his knees smote to and his teeth did chatter in mouth 16 And he smote his breast and ept mOUTH CHAPTER OF CHRONICLES 1 Now when shades the Mow hiistlandm nu unto his spies paying a 2 Go ye back into the city and when ye are there seek out m den and to the maidens therciil- you shall say 3 Thus saycth Charles the Mower Go you unto my banker ycthenfor I lear the people will do you harm 4 And when the maidens at tlstmyBladefear my wonderful and fearfully weapon no more 5 When the spies had done as Charhs the Mower hade theta the maidens went unto the hanker andreceived their pay and de parted from out of the city 6 When the people heard what the spies told them Charles the Mower had said they were exceeding glad and did offer sacrifice tho Temple and in the synagogues uuleven in the inns and 1inbl houses there was great rejoicing 7 And the people did cry out ith n loud voice saying Ro uice for we will no more be smit by Charles the Mower with his wonderful and fearfully ma weapon the Blade therefore e ill the people rejoice r4h i ELECTED d 01Ollr high qualities and low prices theclead on Underwear and Hosiery ust What You Want 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from the narrowest to the widest and richest patterus We show them in all sorts of materials A treat for the ladies and a wholesome surprise to those who get our prices on them No lady in Lexington anticipating to make up Spring Underwear Childrens or Misses Dresses of White Goods can afford to miss examining our stock of these goods Early Spring Woolen Dress Dlatciial Novelty Suitings the rarest and oddest of patterns new entirely pleasing to the eye prices below actual anticipation ranging from e to per yard A new line of spring shades of lIcnril tar just opened new colors no change in price in spite of the additional duty on them WASH GOO DjSoo GinghamsScotch plaids and neat stripes They are quoted at 30c we have marked them at 20c per yard A full line of dress Ginghams in new designs estimated to be worth 15c our price is lOc USES MUSLIN UXDER WEARSPECIAL SALE patentfacingtrimmedeLakies Muslin Drawers Fruit of the Loom Cotton deep hem and tucks above 22c worth 40c 75eNewin securing many cases of Ladies Cotton Lisle and Silk Hose in both Administrativell fit our customers Ladies regular made fast black Hose regular price now 35c we still have them marked 25c ofterthemnowtOcisTOILET ARTICLES GlycerinedifferentVusaliuc in bottles at lOc Ammonia for household purposes only lOc per quart bottle tKflUEMAN STRAUS ft Gui q t IbY Roasts bis Helpless Babe Be fore its Jlotlicrs Eyes Whisky the Cause LEXINGTON VANOV 4 thrivingsettlement of some 500 people mostly direct descendants lightPresbyterians this section of the Shenandoah Valley furnishes one of the most diabolical brutal acts that has ever occurred in this section an act that has incensed the good people and created no little ex citementA roasted alive by it drunken father in the presence of its helpless mother is the cause The details of the fiendish act read like a story of the South Sea Cummings a man hereto fore bearing a good character at tended an old Virginia court hereon Monday and returned home whiskyOnbecame troublesome and attempted quarrdfirstby throwing brandy on the cook stove when she was preparing angerknewthe babe from its crib he placed it on the red hot stove at the same time drawing a revolver and threatening to kill the helplea- woman if she attempted to rescue the child The child is reported roasted alive hut another repor says it is not dead The man ha not been arrested at last accounts nchinghimNcLslwillc We have a great deal of talk about the extent to whichmen are responsible for the crime occasioned by the liquor traffic and the Ungodly League editorials of the New York Voice have set our Prohibition people all by the ears as to the responsibility of the church for this crime The church docs not amount to a row of pins to me except that church menbers who are not Prohibition ists simply add the crime of hypocrisy to their complicity with the liquor traffic because they profess to be better than other menEvery man in the United States who does not vote with the Prohi bition party is responsible for the r roasting upon a hot stove of that little baby before the eyes of its mother unless the man is ignorant of the fact that all political par I ties except one are upholdin- the liquor traffic and that the one exceptional party is the Prohibi tion party and that it is the liquor traffic It is opposingII for these men to reply eulher g = thing a to itical mat ters to be seen to beside the Prohibition of the liquor trade Ifa man is a farmer and plowing in his own fieldon th side of a railroad and he sees that a switch has been improperly left stoplightningy a stepping out on the track and is hand in the manner of warning and he declines to do so simply because it is more to his business interest to keep on plow ing that man is constructively a ifloss of life ensues and fmUldererought to be It from any Democrat t or Republican in Lexington Ky whom I arraign for complicity in the murder of the baby in Lexington Va for him to say that he was financially interested in the tariff or that lie hoped to get an office from one of the old I parties Ifhe is a man of as much intelligence as he ought to be quired to have in order to the ex ercise of the elective fraivhisc and was a competent voter at the last Presidential election and did not cast his vote for Fisk and soias finis in the murder of that Virginia baby as if he had been at Lexington Va and had declined- to stop Carl Cummings when he could have done so with perfect impunity to himself simply b f warning him not to do so Quod Tacit per aliam Tacit per so is a recognized fundamental principle in law and the principleI- S not destroyed by the fact that several others may intervene be agentIan or Any man of ordinary intelli anyIProhibition party at the last Pres partyIsell whisky and that whisky would make men drunk and that drunken men would roast babies on red hot stoves or commit any other crime that they couldcon ceive of And therefore when that man roasted that baby on that red hot stove and kept its mother off with a revolver he simply did what hypocritical Christians all 1over the United States voted that he should do and they would have been surprised to the extent of thinking a miracle had happened if in the whole of the United Slates as thedirict natural and legitimate result of their votes there had not happened such a case or one as bad or worse ifJ possible than I now reportiThe man who has sense enough to appreciate the effect of his vote and is today determined not to vote for the Prohibition candi dates in 1892 is in his heart an accessory before the fact to a thousandmurders as villainous as hse casts his vote against Prohibition he will be a murderer If he is instigated to do this under the in hte has been inflamed and instigated to do it from the speeches or ed itorials of Democratic or Republi can politicians then he has done it in sudden heat and passion and he is guilty of murder in the second degrees If he has not been unduly influ euced by any of these but know ingly and of his own free willand accordvotes against the candi dales who represent the party whose purpose is the suppression of tlio liquor trade then he is guilty of destroying human life with malice prepense andafore thought and is guilty of murde- in the first degree If only one man or a score or a hundred men should by this ex 1cremes of their power bring upon the citizens of this government the murders that result from voting against Prohibition they be arrested and ought to be ar rested and hanged like the Nihilists at Chicago But the con spiracy and rebellion against the principles of civilized government- is so large and so general that there is no tribunal that can bring them to justice thadJ themselves as well as upon others by their votes any more than i would have been a valid plea of the attorneys for the Chicago Ni hilist that the dynamite bomb- that their clients threw into tIle crowd killed Nihilists as well as innocent citizens Every man who casts any other ballot than that for the Prohibition party throws a dynamite bomb into a miscellaneous crowd and it is no effect to his crime that he kills hisown friends among others The man who casts such a ballot and he who casts such a bomb commit offenses that are equally damnable before any just tribunal But the tribunals of this country for sordid and base motives are in conclusion with those who cast the murderous ballotand can not make any profit by collu sion with those who cast the mur derous bomb and therefore the unjust discrimination for one and against the other Every mother in the United amggence to influence men to vote for the Prohibition movement just as trjuly contents to the death ol tfatvirgniteJwiby as Saul who was afterward callcdImli consented unto the death o Stephen when he stood by ands without protest held the clothes eof those who stoned him The Fanners Alliance From tho Shelby Sentinal The Farmers Alliance seems to be fast approaching final disolu tion Founded only a year or two ago on sound principles with high motives it has drifted afar from its original purposes and become what it was never intended- to be the phrthing of designing politicians demagogues and mal contents who saw in it an oppor tunity to gratify an ambition which the two old parties had failed to satisfy Divorced from politics by its constitution it was nevertheless led into these devious paths at first only in local contests then finallybycalin session at Indianapolis last week into endorsement of the Peoples party an aggregation politicalthing over seen before A year in politics itseems should have taught them better policy In Kentucky where the powerfulelewent decreased according to the latest reports from 100000 to 20000 or strongholdIn Mississippi and Georgia it was yetinevidence of the unpopularity of SupremeCouncil dares for the Peoples party A split in the order hid already occurred on the subTreasury scheme and the antiTreasury fiction become ailcnatcd and this final action of the Council it seems will disrupt the whole concern Time Alliance as we have fro quently said before was founded on pure motives and had the pur poses of its authors been adhered to had a future of good ahead of it It was a patent fact that the farmers had been neglected in legislation and it was only proper that they should band themselves together to demand their rights Had they only done this all would haw been well But the farmer deserted his standpoint ofright He came to demand of government not only rights but privileges The organization grew into a power The sweets of fice became a temptation Then demagogues arose and playing on the selfish interest of a credu lous constituency led them to all kinds of suicidal folly Tho result was a saturnalia of class leg islation The farmers who con demned in the bought rulings that favored monopolysought to be guilty of the crimes they condemn in others Their original complaint was that government showed favoritism Instead of merely protesting against this they began to demand that gov ernment should favor them The plausible legislationless kind The collateral of the farmer was to be given preference to all other collateral and the public money loaned on it Inc short they wanted the earth in their desire for it they over reached themselves Tho finale as we comprehend the situation- r of the Alliance as a power in the country was written in the Indianapolis resolution The Shelby Sentinel in which the shore editorial appears is ed ited right in the midst of the strongest Farmers Alliance senti meat in this state and is the onl paper in which I know outside o papers that were started in the interest of the Alliance humbug that come out and advocated its cause I supposed the Alliance go to the dogs in a short time but it gift there sooner than I expected incougruoustreligion and worse politics out partiessperpetrated on a longsuffering public It was a kind of a habrid between a Methodist camp meeting Freemasonry and Know nothingism It began the proceedings o each meeting with a religious cere many that was open to the public and wound up withsomething that only the eniciated were al lowed to hear andseea pro cedure at once sun gestivc of trea governmentAuy on keeping its proceedings closed froth public scrutiny should be put 1under police sureveilaucc The death of the Farmers Al liance adds only one move to the list of spasmodic efforts that have been made to establish soothe party and which have ingloriously gone down until their names have almost been forgotten And yet the Prohibition party has been present at the birth and death of all of these not making any great stir or sensation at any time but steadily from 5000 to siuglefspringing up among them It is practically impossible that there can be any division among Prohi bitionists as to the ultimate purpose of the party The very term Prohibition means to prohibit the liquor trade just as Abolition meant to abolish the slave trade and any nun who ever went into either of those parties could but know what he was doing because the very names of them told him The very worst that we ever can do among ourselves is to fuss a little about Woman Suffrage while each party claims to be the better Prohibitionists The rise and flllof allsuch parties as the Alliance or Peoples parties strengthen the Prohibition party They have taught each other about the errors of the old parties and are weaned from alwaysbeand they will not go back to them for sympathy and will come to Prohibition We are bound to win if we ad work to our political faith Let every man do his duty to this causa when an opportunity offers itself and occasionally let him go opportunities I am Still Betting on the ICavens LEXINGTON KY Nov 18 1891 DEAR BRO Moons Enclosed you will find 700 to pay for my paper and the one I had you send my father P M Wrenn Now for the balance I would like you to send the Blade to C W Hall Ciilpepijer Va and to C A WashingtonI want them to see our Blade hopeitthe same when the six mouths is upInstead of tho crow buzzard woodpecker or jaybirdasmaller bird than any of then willj send the dollar for Bro L A Freemans paper of Danville TheI other dollar is to pay for that Yours E n WRKKN You know I have said more against miracles than all the other newspapers in Kentucky but the fact is that Isee miracles every now and then just as plain as yoilI all saw the moon eclipsed the other night People used to think an eclipse was a miracle and it was a miracle until they understood it and then it wasnt Captain John Smiths compassI and the talking chipwere miracles to the Indians but the compass was not a miracle to a sailor nor the talkingchip a miracle to anybody who could chipAllwhose heads arc a little out of anydaypeople about it for they would asylumsTwentyfive all that McQueary and Briggs and Lorimer and Harper and Flower and Cave are now saying but the people thought my head was net level and I had to go slow and if I would tell you just how certain I am that the Prohibition party is going to sweep the liquor traffic out of this country and out of the whole civilized world just as the Abolition party swept the slave traffic even my best friends would justlikeIt will have to go not merely if it has to split the churches as New York Voice has said but if a war as direful as that of thirty years ago has to make it goI When the true American born patriot understands as he will yet trafitfc tryiitoleading politicians of thid country are servile sycophants who bow politicaltValleyForgeHill and Saratoga and Monmouth againstthesewarmed in our bosoms and the seedofthe woman shall crush the serpents head But I started to tell you about youIClarkfdo I have been betting on those ravens for thirty years and r have never got left yet People say to me that if I dont quit talking as I do my paper will go to smash Let her smash butsgetkilledmy paper my cause will grow all the faster like the Acacia in the grewfasterof itBut about those ravens You know Bro Freeman from Dan paperbutfor it und asked me to discon tinue it until he could pay fJr it I said in the Blade that the pfeper would go on to him and si me body would pay me for it and that if a raven did not it a crow or buzzard Ott svvjnd pffeicr or jaybird or some other bird Wrenhaslars more beside If the Christian people just had as much in God as I have in the crows they wouldnt get left either The Blade und I want a mailing machine for a Christmas gift and then well be all hunky and my young ladies can set more type and your paper will come to you with your name printed on it and the time you have paid to I have got money enough to run the sparetocan get one for 0200 and I can myselfbutravens or crows or sonic other kind of a bird for the other 5000 and you see if it dont come somehow or other by Christmas Then when I get that I wont ask any odds of anybody I will be perfectly serene if people who owe me for my paper will either pay me for it or send me word that they dont want it and let me stopit A Kentucky Woman for Pro hiuiHon The Versailles Clarion publishes a womans speech lately delivered in Lexington and makes the fol lowing introductory remarks The fdlowing speechon Woman Suffrage was made by one of our brightest Kentuckyw- omnen at a teachers session of the Lexington Normal School There is more goodsound common sense in it than in nil the speeches made in Congress in the last ten years The conclusion of the Ladys speech is as followWLastlyI would touchon what we want the ballot for We warn it to secure prohibition make the law and put into power men who will make Prohibition prohibit Nearl all of us have suflcrerlsomewhat from the curse of intemperance Many ofus have suffered terribly in the past and some of us dread the future Our only hope is Prohibition Moral suasion has been tried thousands of years and while it has saved some it has failed with thousands of others In this country seventy thousand men die every cal from drunkenness temJcrncomen do not deny it We want to stop this wholesale slaughter Men are so wrapped up in their business affairs that they do not stop to think and are unconscious of tine grief that looks at them from the eyes of women allover our land We know our own sorrows We know what we want better than any creature no matter how near and dear can know it for us A girl has lost a brother who was shot down by a drunken man she has two other brothers going to ruin under the power of a hereditary craving for liquor she wants Prohibition that she may save her brothers Men generally do not care whichway the battle goc8but tnrowing around her looking into her eyes their hearts throbbing with htfr heart is an army of women with hands raised to God for vengcuce but weaponless These seventy thous and men leave every year thousand of women alone to battle with the world for themselves and their fathers and mother of their chil dren Now a child needs two parents a mother cannot be father and mother both to her children and I ask which is best for a mother to leave her home for a quarter of a day once a year in order to deposit her vote for laws andmen who will make it easy to do right and hard to do wrong everydaythose she loves aMy Old Virginia Preacher Friend still for lime 812 W MARSHALL ST RICHMOND VA v Nov 19 1891 DEAR MOORE I enclose post office order for subscription to Blade for another year I also en close an article for publication in paperWith of your correspond ents I agree that you should con duct your paper on strict business principles It is worth 200 and if any man is too poor to subscribe the 200 a true Prohibition friend would help him or you could send the paper for six months J wish you had a subscription lidt of ten thousand 9o that you might publish the Blade for 5100 spirithaveIcourage than any editor in the United States It is certainly re freshing to read what you write particularly when you expose the hypocrisy of politicians and church members There is great need of a fearless pulpit and fear less press God bless you in your noble work agaiiiBt the saloon which is the deepest disgrace of our century aud government trulyL Lexingtonpapers tllat worked that infidel racket on me and stirred up these old religious hypocrites and drunken politicians until they were about to kill me here Did guy decent Christian preacher ever write to any Lexington Democratic or Republican paper and say God bless you in your noble work Never since Faust and Gutteuberg made the first type und they never will There is not a preacher in the town black or white that will say God bless any Democratic or Republican editor in the town but there are a thousand men here who will saloonkeepersthat putinsay God damn all of them and theres not one of those editors will deny what I say They have put thirty men in of the colleges anduniversity the churches the press the drama and the lecture halls the society and improvements and the commer cial relations of this city and there are not more than five out of the thirty that I would pay 1500 a month for anything they could do except to run a bar room if I were in that business and twentyfive out of the thirty could do that if they could keep sober What Missouri Says About Time Blue Grass Biatlc After a short intervalof silence uuqueuehableProhibitionist speaks again as editor of the Blue Grass Blade published at Lexington Ky denunciator of the whisky traffic and allshams religious social oath political We are glad to salute brave earnest men anywhere and regard our brother Moore as the Bayard ofI the presstcttus County 7o Enterprise Domesticity uud Drink In New York last year 14UI husbands procured divorces frou their wives on tho ground of drnnkcuuuss Daring the same year 12433 wives procured vorces from their husbands on the sumo charge Muriloreil lir Drunken IIuiu An English paper from statistic taken from the press of the United Kilo dow reports the records of murders of women by inebriated husbands since Jau11SS9 to Jan to be 3004 What Ouo or Let mo tell you how much a gallon of whisky costs said a judge after try ing a case One gallon of whisky madoI two murderers it made two wives ows and eight childran orphans k An Elegant Life of NEW SPRING GOODS Korah Moire Korah Moire CHINN ROSS TODD TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THE BLADE MAY conE The issue of Oct 31st begins the second year of the Blade and I hope that those who intend to take it will be as prompt as they can in paying me for It5200 a year for persons in good circum stances and 100 aycar for per sons who can not afford to pay more and will tell me so The Blade will go to all persons to whom it went last year who have not ordered it discontinued Those who have not paid me for last year will please do so it they feel that they ought to do und if not please notify me to dis continue it in order that I may sendingitI will have no collector and will not dun you for it It you are willing to payme send the amount by mail and you will receiptFraternally yours ClIAKLGS C Moo- urNLARCH S FURNITURE STORE No 24 Vilest Main St The cheapest place on earth te buy Furniture Carpets Stovo und Household Goods BaTay Carriages accost m TIE BEAUTIFUL 20 MILES THE SIIORTEST 4 EXPRESS TRAINS DAILY CINCINNATI Making direct connections ill Central Union Depot for ST WESTERN CHICAGO Points DETROIT CANADIAN CLEVELAND Points BUFFALO SEW YORK BOSTON NEW ENGLAND Washington Baltimore Philadelphia 171 Miles the Shortest mini Qiictcst Line LEMION JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA The only line running Solid Trains through without change for any class of passengers with choice of Pullman Boudoir and Palace Sleepers making quick time TO Atlanta racon Savannah B nswicklLae CitrThomas Augustine and CUBA Co lumbus Montgomery Mobile and Points in GEORGIA AND ALABAMA MILESTHESHORTESTTONEW TIME 25 nouns Solid Train with Pullman Boudoir Sleeping Cars making direct con nection at New with out omnibus transfer for TEXAS MEXICO an- dCALIFORNIA The Only Lino to MississippiMaking Omnibus transfer at Shreveport LOVESI t NA For Dallas Fort Worth Houston Galveston Texas Mexico ami California THE SNORT LINEwith through Pullman Bourdoir ers toKNOXVILLE Connecting with through car lines for ASIIVILL13 RALEIIIJI k CAROLINAS For Lowest Rates Correct County Maps and full information call on s T swift city Phoenix noteW shuf Depot Ticket Agent Frank w Agt1Lexington D MILLER D G EDWARDS Traffic Manager G P TA CINCINNATI O Ingull Trlls Son Truth address of exSoaator John JIngulls at Monona Lnlco on Prohibi tion expresses what has boon said so Comingfromnent in public life his words will be taken as full of meaning when ho says For fear of offending the radi cal Prohibitiouists for fear of offend- Ing the brewery interest for fear of whiskytlmeroday that lanes to tell the honest truth about Prohil itionnot ono This is John J Ingnlls who was one of the public men referred to It is no more patent b observant men that this is so bccauo John J Ingalls has said so but it is well he has said it Supposing Kaitio would free his mind about prolrbiiin Would bo nominee of the republican party next election Would Hill or Clove land if they gave their views When men say liquor truffle some one is hit every time Thero is not another question before tho people nor will there be for ages a questionIof such magnitude It more tho truth because a prominent man says so but it drives it closer home In the battle of tho great questionstrife in politics now will subside comparisonLpvor BAKER cfe BROS No 12 NORTH LIMES LONE ST Manufacturers and Dealers in Carriages Buggies Photons etc Repairing prmptly done fad on reasonable terms They are also agents for FRAIZER CELEBRATED CARTS We also have a stock of PONY CARTS on hand COME AD SEE VS BAKER and BROS HATING OKKSHAl ISUCCESSORS H A WHITE 47 West Main Sfcv A Full Assoi tment of Stoves CaL stan tly on Hand ROOFING GUTTERING REPAIRING A SPECIAL WilSON STARKS CLOTHIERS TAILORS HATTEES FURNISHERS The Largest House the Largest Stock and the Largest Business in Our Line in Central Kentucky v If you need anything in our line dont buy until you have looked through our stock pricesFarmers with us when in town WILSON STARKS 62 64 and 66 E Main Street FIRE FIRES FIRE O THE GREATEST FIRE SA LEO In the history of Lexington The Fire in our place of business did us just enough damage to ne cessitate the StockSrwithin the next Thirty Days With this end in fromonehalfovercoats suis and trousers for men boys andchildren underwear neckwear shirts waists collars cuffs gloves hats rubber goods umbrel everythinginHERE IS A LINE TO GO BY 25 cent linen collars go now at lOcta 25 cent linen culls 15 35 cent silk scarfs 15 100 silk scarfs 35 2500 overcoats 1500 1500 overcoats 1000 Wintersupplyportunity like this in a lifetime Everything thirtydaysONE PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE M KAUEMAIT CO 5 East Main St Lexington Ky OASSELL PRICE The Largest Dealers In Central Kentucky in time leifiii llyle Dry Gaads md Nations New Goods Choicest Styles and sold at the Lowest Prices for first class goods We invite the public to call and inspect our stock CASSELL PRICE IGaadIS West MninSt LEXINGTON KY t y ii i I ADVERTISING RATES a YearI onthsI Three 13lnsortlonsI rte Xwo onthsI onthIThree Insertions Insertions Insertion I lui1tc0 AC1S1S ul JLlXI WANTED z y An Eastern Steamship and Cole onization Company have written to the General Passenger and Ticket Agent of the Queen Crescent Route to find for them t a tract of land in either Kent- uckyIor Tennessee of about 150000 The land is to be suitable for truck farming also for raisin corn wheat trees and shrubs and near enough to railroad to mak shipping facilities handy An suitableI andID G EDWARDS G P T Cincinnati 0 4To the Editor of the Truth Seeker stIBrother including Col Inger soil though his whisky jug letter of thanks to Alfred Hammer staggered me but I must draw theJ line at brothcring you Excuse me if my style seems a little brusque but my paper is not like yours large enough to admit of any circumlocution aud I have KrgU Ilicri1bfthe shortest route You wrote me sometime ago that you wanted to exchange pa- perS with me and I put you on my list and yours has regularly come to me I do not now order you to stop my paper I want it to come right along for Iam going to set up with you Your paper announces that it is a Journal of Freethought aud- Reform I published in a recent issue of my paper a pretty bright letter from a manwho I did not knew but who alluded to me as the most prominent freethinker i Kentucky I dont know no care about the prominence of it but I am a thinker from way back and I am free because Ito anyhodythatI am not only a freethinker but I am a pretty free talker and I am going to give you some of it that will come to you just as free as the air of heavenno C 0 D about it but with the postage pre paid at the regular rates for sec ond class matter The half of the first page your paper of November 7 that have just been lookingat is taken up with a cartoon of the crucifixion of Jesus Any man who is capable of printing that picture and sending it out to the world is coar and brutal iti his instincts or not the sense he was born withI unless he was a born fool There was a man named Bara bas who was a thief and a mu derer who was crucified at theI time that Jesus was lie expiated his crime and satisfied the demands of the law by his suf1 r log on the cross and it would be in exceeding bad taste for you even to have a picture ridiculing poor Barabbas on the front page ofa journalof reform A year or two ago a saloon keeper was in Lexington for murdering his wife andun opposedtthe worst people that ever curse the earth and thougi I do li print it at the head of the Blt Grass Bade I claim that it is at least int ndcd to be a journal reform But if I should pri in my paper a caricature of that poor man who has expiated Ii crime upon the gallows the who cityof Lexington aud Prohibitionists would rise inf righteous indignation against metIf you appreciate as a you must if you have ordinarily refined sensibilities that it wouldat least bad taste in you to caricature sufferings of Barabbas a thief and murderer aud I would not dare if Ielt so inclined to caricature thesufferings of a murderous sa t loonKeeper what kind of a liter ary taste can your reaJers have that you can pander to it and tickle their intellectual and moral palates by caricaturing the sufferings ofa young man who was neither a thief uor a murderer nor- a saloonkeeper but a young car penter who made his living by the sweat of his brow and who ccr tiinly never did you any harm byword or deed The picture ie ironically Dedicated to his Ho liness Leo XIII Certainly no body will accuse me of being dead stuck on Popes after all the row 3I have had with oven these pantuctsoft snap that you or Ieither getonlyIBlade if I had the Vatican in a sling Leo XIII and I would not gc on theology because I know more about that than he tines but he has said some things lately for Prohibition that look like ho is doing something himself in the reform business What are you doing for Pro hibition What kind ofa ire from is it you are driving at anyhow I have been getting your paper for some time bu have not yet found out what one of the many modern reforms is your specialty I see in the copy of your paper now before me that a man from Atlanta Ga named Charles E Moore fires into Sam Joncsand the Sabbath observance pretty much like I do sometimes Things must have changed down in that part of the country since I was there twelve tagdown there on theologicalmatters and they told me if I went out on publicanYwould hurt me for it The fact of you being an infidel does not set you back in my estimation if you were trying to d goodYour old paper is no goodau is pThereybeardchestnuts when I firstI read the Bible Get the Arena published by B O Flower in Boston and post yonrself in the more advanced eps of your department before you undertake to teach others Rev L A Cutler Endorses the Voices Ungodly League Editorial RICHMOND Va Nov 2091 The editorials of the New Yor Voice on the Ungodly League ot Church anti Saloon Have we libelled the Church The brand of Cain and Four million Christian murderers have my hearty endorsement I also ape prove the editorial unauswerabl- crushing reply to Dr Iierric- Jajtnstous Protest A Church that is silent on the liquor traffic discredits itself as much as a Church that is silent on dishonesty for the whisky saloon is an enemy to the home the school the church and God spart our deepest disgrace of the centuryI That churchmeraber is recreant his most solemn vows who votes for the sale of intoxicating liquors or who votes for a political party that and tects tile nefarious tmfficIVoting in this case is as sacred as pray ing Sir Charles Buxton says The struggle against the whisky shop nfacWhen the best and purest men of the Christian church press int this war with an energy that wil not suffer men or parties to stand in the way the traffic is doomed liquoaelence and famine combined Powderly sajsHIt is the one doers ot Lord Randolf Churchill uses this language The destructive devilish liquor traffic Cardinal Manning says I impeach it of high crimes and mis demeanors against tins common wealth This conflict is irrepressible partiesIIon moment that the Prohibitionists 11ercd rigldeousucsto s man is an enemy of the saloon who prohiGilioltitve weapon in this war Liquor nini gooselc d carverau to principle is never lostelevotes for Hirnej and JIuleatid Martin Van Biircn and Fremont 1848 awaybThe men who cast those votesE were derided but in 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected Presi dent of the United States TheJ s venerable brace Waters who inIaAbolitionthose tickets and said This ticket will win in twenty years It was like prophecy In exactly twenty years it did win Throwaway votes indeed A vote from prin stele and for principle is never thrown away JjBeyondThe writtens crolls a breath may float factevoterIn 1872 James Black 5003 votes In 1875 Green Clay Smith 9522 In 1880 Neal Dow trIneIn 1892 if we do not elect Prohibition President we shoal increase our vote so much as to shake this whole country auc make the old whisky soaked rumgoverned political partie- tremble with fear Yours for Prohibition and Christianity versus Chuchianity L A CUTLER That distinction between Christianity and Churchianity is the racket I want you all to get on to and Prohibition will go in a whoop The first time I ever saw the word churchianity was in a letter a lady wrote me who has distinguished herself as a worker for Woman Suffrage and Prohibition The letter headou which she wrote had at the top of it a quo tion from the Now Testament was for Christianityand most fanatically versus Church mutts She said in her letter YourI book The Rational View lies as a text book on my table and sh signed herself Infidel Heretic synonymos same friendds e where are her Lures and but I have seen a Christian audience hang enrapt upon the words she spoke Christianity is doing good to our fellowman Chrcuhanity is the paying of big salaries to big preachers to shoot off a lot of theo It pyrotechnics and serve ethicalsyllabus while the feminine creme de la creme exhibit their bonnets and sealskins and dia moods and their husbands get business advertisements without having to pay the newspapers for them Around Lexington here the inkten up by a few long haired men and short haired women and our William of the Silvcrtonguc our Joseph of the Iron Jaw and getsdrunk Urothekr the great masterly minds that a going to crush out the Prohibition fanaticism If Lexington people never heard of Gladstone an Lord Randolph Churchill an Cardinal Manning before I tvisl- eyth would take pains to read u layIments and their reputations oleo b of our famous Kentucky trumvirate and note the differ cote In the heads of any one of then- three Kentucky celebrities there not been a new idea in the last thirty years and they are a truly fossils of another age as one of these mastodons they dig up in making Kentucky railroads big enough in one sense but after all but a heap of rottenness dry bones CougresanmuISou rThe Governors Ball at Ltxin ton on last Friday night was the scene of a between Mr Rohert Breckiiridge son of the Congressman from this district cityintcr opinion of Dalts fistic attain meats than ho had before It seems from Dalts own ac count which is corroborated by others who attended the ball and witnessed the conclusion of the attair that Dalt requested young Bancse reiii a manner ti Breclewas over and told him that his action was an insult and he demanded rNbIVC d told him that he was a cowardly cur Brcekinridge then accused 11w nold of applying to him a vile epi apologyDaltf course refused to apologize for an ollenae which he hud not committed Breckinridge th11 said You are a G dliar when Arnoldstruck him They separatedand left the brill too Breckiuridge was accompanied by about twenty of his friends Arnold with but one The latter disclaimed any wish to quarrel and said he would apologize for wrong he had done if Breck would do likewise bu stoutly denied having applied the epithet aa charged Breckinridgo would not be pas flied and as soon as his friends leased him he rushed at andstruck him twice before the latter seemed to realize what was Then he went to work His rst blow struck Breckinridge in mouth and drew blood au dtothe next two closed both eyes an I knocked him down and he was pretty badly whipped lie had to he taken home by his friends but mdmet Notwithstnndingthis ouble will inane Dalt didnt frshowRoundaboutd 1Ordinarily a fight like that does buae a n specializing this one Col Breckinridge the father of one of the principals in this scrapl a my in judgment the most adroit and formidable enemy of Prohi geninsinthat of the great champion of GmdjColof arty fine opportunity that pro sents itself to stab in the back the great cause that Grady diedI battling for- Recent Lexington newspapers report a speech of Col Brcckin ridge to a SundaySchool and take pains to state that at a recent entertainment the house of Col Breckinridge given to his oldI a there was no inwineexcept the Blade has ever said that Col Breckinridge was the pacleage billthe purpose ofwhich was to force liquor upon states that had voted it out that he was the man who defeated the Con gressional Commission to report upon the effects of the liquor traffic in the United States andI that he rectally went to Iowa and amChicagotraffic bragged on him ass friend ta the liquor traffic He has the sublime cheek to standup in any church in the United States and prate about re ligion from the standpoint of old John Calvin but though he had brother killed in a saloon he weal not dare to open his mouth against a saloon or even suggest in the mildest terms that the liquor tralfi of Kentucky is damning the state the estimation of good and in people the world over mIwhen tray misfortune befalls hint and say of him again as I havel resaidsample of that superficial ad cap axdum genius that makes a her on a Kentucky stump there is stateeMarshall died But in hispnblie and official character I must sat huldf ce R our r incouphairs the trouble which a news thngive All the glory of hia brilliant ca reel twice toldwould not pay me advertisee d newspapers as Breckinridges son as the scraps ALCOHOLISM FRANCE JVhlch Prove Timt a Wlnu Country I lot n Tfinpcrance Country No newspaper has o large a circulation in France as Le Petit Journal of Paris It is u clean paper and of te 11best resented in proof that French families rrill support a pure ami truthful journal In n recent number it says It has been said with truth that of till Iho dangers menacing our agricultural population at the present day tho grav aodittgst atresident of a country district litho being struck with the development of this scourge during tho last thirty yea the deplorable effects oftsLicharoever where visible The habit of saving that was so 10llgC tho strength and the glory of our tillers of the soil is gradually disappearing The money box of liquor sellers wallows up sous by sous the wages that formerly in the form of silver pieces were hidden away in some corner of tho clothes press to be brought out when enough was accumulated to buy a 1harmonypaired In the villages the women are reduced like tho wives of workmen in the towns to haunt the doors of the drink shop in order to rescue bread of their children from tho alcoholic gulf In most of our hamlets the drunkard who was formerly the exception h nsc contagionepeaE never entered t cabaret excrpt on a Sunday to leisurelyc sip a few liters of wine ago playa ion gamo of cards or bowls for the scot To when idle and going to work hether it is a holiday or not the rural laborer never meets a comrade without inviting him to take a glassa glass of brandy bo it understood One glass meant two for it is only common civility to call for another and if as often happens friends drop in each one treats in his turn until the man who came in just to take a nip goes uw pintPadulteratedm wit titbeer spirits for tho country tavern ecptrsJ do not hesitUo to sell tho most frightful mixtures for gain is not a rare occurtrence Repeated daily it becomes per vicious in thejoet jBxtremQ r WINES AWFUL WORK It Ilulnoil the Lives of Two Young Peo Dayt for thoHruth of this story A scene of tragic pathos took place i Loug Island City a short time ago at cidd t married The bride was ready anti the minister was in waiting bnt the groom caraw not After a long delay during which the friends became anxious tho mily has about made up their minds infonn the guests of the uonarrival of the missing bridegroom when he tered the door The person ho met first was the father of the bride who saw that he was in no condition to act principal in a wedding Without a m soongtto darken the doorway again The young man started in to argue the matter Tin description of what followed i3 taken om a daily paper Tho discussion was heated and tho guests who has crowded into the hallway were fear ful that Mr would throw the young man out on his head when theta was a rustling on the stairs and the bride appeared Her eyes were wet with tears t there was n blush of indignation upon her handsome face ova she Jointed a gloved hand toward the front door dud commanded to leave lie ed instantly Love may bo ns strong as death bu wine is stronger than love We pity tm bride tint she loved an unworthy object and felicitate her that his mask slipped off before she became irrevocably his Insanity and Intemperance saidfwill do file same though it is no thirsty The custom of drinking for cowpony when drip is dispensable and prejudicial sterns t j be a case of the sawn kind Ill put a inm feathers only excepted upon a footing with a goose Attention has lately been di rested to a sport made to a convention- of French physicians containing a re raarkable array of facts as to the in especiallyasthe malady tIne to excessive indulgence alcoholic drinks It appears that in seventeen years insanity increased throughout tho country to tho extent of 80 per cent 56 per cent of the insane being m n and 11 per cent women The yearshasbranches of alcoholic insanity and o general paralysis or paresis only a very little advanca Icing noted in mania melancholia and chronic delirium alcohol and overwork are therefore responsible for the greater part of the increased insanity thus recorded Some fifteen years ago the proportion of women ong the cases of alcoholic insanity was to be onesixth while at present it is onefifth The singular fact is also mentiord that the number of new thespriugtheannually an epidemicyew York Tribune ilIe Was Drunk attempttoliquor murders and other crimes chron iclediii the daily press To do tLu leasct thecon itry nUll our paper would have the charnc er of a Newgate calendar Brief mentic a may bo made however of an un j atrocious murder of this tell nrar Jersey City one day last Ir5hjml1T tlanC7m6 drunkrt noon and not finding his drone jas expected turned upon his young fife knocked her down and beajt thowas enacted in the presence of the littl childreii of the couple The murderer was arrested soon after The only exo etacwas t maw what he was doing Christian nt Work The Curse or Australia Drink is tho great curse of Australia High wages only too often lean to in dulgence in bad colonial beer and wine at is even worse than malt liquor or Girls and women drink much Enrilandwork partly to the hot climate I shouldnt like the girl who made mo the shawl to see me in this place said mixtlooked and there stood the maker thshshl f the daughter of a poor but respectable Irish farmer Both girls had been emigrants and both had solo toj grief through drinkingc IIrlnlens a Crime Saxony has made drunkenness a crime This hiss bran done on the advice of the puyiii ins in the land who scout the idea of dipsomania and declaro tha men get drunk not because they rmrv 114tLatnae they are vicious should be restrained There is a goo deal tobsnd in support of this positionj Inebriate adams right some purposss but for certain other purposes wbippii pest would be a valuable ratadjnupt iouth Bend TimesI Oarek land Culi s carried on a highly suc busi for several years that of nlllr jns sing having utuonutcd to 2O2 Orr a 200 of tho profits have been wspand m temperance work the balance being applied to a new building fund sanSene duel Schools There are 5009 saloons in the United State and public schools T peopljjpay yearly to schools Iud 1471000000 to sappo the saloons More weans and money to debauch than to educate the youth of tho llldBrl Milk Ulter Thull feet It is reported that in some of ourlnna asylums beer has been removed nu Ltihof contentment and a decrease of jhfloat Abstlnenc1 DM fur 111mC Mr Isaac Pitman the father ofI rtnorthand was fifty years ago in very ill health and not likely to live He gaveitp meat mil alcoholic driuk and has cuter since enjoyed the best of lltlltuj anti capacity for the hardest of hard s harkI1nctpThree hundred million more gallons were swallowed in this country t ear than in the year tirmpilintr In the United States of America the 175000 saloons 10000 of which ore in New York city tt It c r ALCOHOLS ALPHABET It Written by a Wine Ruined Tonne Man paperto 9nss and ends the irticle by reciting an alphabetic rhyme Iescribin all the stages of alcoholism from the first nip to a drunkards grave which he learned from a patient a young man of great ability and fine moral per ceptions who was an incurable inebriate The doctor says that his eyes would stream with tears as ho recited the fol lowing verses describing his own caae and career It is the most truthful and graphic picture of the kind that has been printedA for Alcohol dcathliUo Its grip sipohornEInsistGheelsIfallKcravesSIsayOP stands for Pride that ho drowns In his glees for tho Quarrels that nightly stands for iuln that hovers around S stands for bizhts that his vision bedim limbsUV stnmlr for Vagrant he quickly becomes doneXcrimetWhat It Would Do The money paid for one glass of beer would pay for one loaf of bread The money paid for one glass of whisky would pay for one pound of beef The money paid for two glasses of beer potatoesThe of cpffecThebeer would nay for a quarter of a pound of tea The money paid for three glasses of whisky would pay for a dressed fowl The mon 7 paid for four glasses of beer eggsThe glasses of whisky would pay for three founds of money paid in one month for two glosses cf beers day would pay for a ton of coal The money paid in one month for two glasses of whisky a day would pay for a suit of clothes The money paid in one year for three rentfThe money paid in one year for three glasses of whisky a day would pay for an outfit of household furnHure The money paid in one year for four glasses of beer a day would pay for a paid in one year for fonr glasses of whisky a day would pay for a horse and harness Wooster Herald ColIeo iIonses as Temperance Promoters We do not believe there is any field of temperance work in the city of New York and in the other largo cities of tho country wh re such large and immedi ata results fry good might be attained in the movement for the erection o coffeehouses In every largo center of andtsome serve as places of social rendezvous for tho masses The grogshops now have a monopoly of tho business of catering esperiluuneiB mo towns r o adequate ac thitconntrptoit must be done if we are ever to over come this arch enemy of Christian civilization The saloon must be deprived of e excuse which it has for existence ns the poor mans clubhouse by the sub therut their attendant evils We repeat it again that something of this kind must be doneChristian at Work Alcohol Kp Respecter of Persons recentlybeenasylum near Paris of Mr Elliott Rooso velt of New York city rendered insane according to Ins sisters testimony rf excessive drinking Mr Roosevelt isia wealthy family of a fashionable soy circle and n member of sundry w known New York clubs In 1883 was married to a popular and beautiful young woman before and since her mar riage a society leader His case is an other sad illustration of the tact that alcohol is no respecter of persons or social conditions It prostrates tho rich and socially favored as readily and as inevitably as others The perpetuation injurious and as in Mr Roosevelt experience dangerous social drinking usages is one of the greatest present hint drances to the progress of the temperance reformNational Temperance Ad vocate tDrlnlthrg Men at n Discount ofatheduse omploe3Thenears alone expelled nearly 400 member Imlicon the rail end no alcoholized brain can be trusted to guide an engine open a switch or wave a flat Employers real ize this and thus selfish interests an aiding the temperance reformUnion Signal A Coral Full of Poison It is estimated that intoxicating UnitefStatorfeet wide and 120 miles lung heDrlnklu Doctors In Georgia lrtonce can not practice medicine any more in that state Some Common Sense for Drunkards fadto the cinoti is but is full of common sere Let every one rronouncejudgment One gallon of whisky costs about titre averageixtyfivemust drink whisky buy a gallon and make your wife the barkeeper then when you are thirsty give her ten cents gonehegallonmoney she should put in havehisycurseifafro chuuned and despij nl byI naanyou nn your time COle to till 3 ornakatds a Go To 1 FOR ANYTHING YOU WANT IN CLOTHES UNDERWEAR HOSIER NECKWEAR KNIT JACKETS SHIRTS- SUSPENDERS GLOVES COLLARS and CUFFS LOWEST PRICES ALWAYS MoLL L3 oO Corner Main and Broadway JOHN T MILLER WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN HARDWARE IRON STEEL NAILS Belting Packing Lace Leather CUTLERY GRATES fee 23 WEST MAIN STREET LEXINGTUTI THE PRICES MARKED IN PLAIN FIGURES ON CLOTHING HATS SHOES ETC In ourShow Windows tell their own tale Bear in mind that ou 10 and 15 Suits and Overcoats CUT from 2 to 5 under the prices of any named in this town WE SELL FOR CASH ONLY AND TREAT EVERYBODY RIGHT 10 A 21 MIN BETWEEN MILL AND BKOADWAYJ tr DH BEATTY Fencing Contractor Keeps constantly on band a full stock of the following Fencing FencGates and Posts THE FARMERS FRIEND PICKET FENCEa- nd will contract to build Bastard Post and Rail and Plank Fences Hekeeps also Locust Chestnut and Oak bored posts and Locust Cedar andOhestnut Plank posts and Gate Posts of all grades Also T Rail Farm Gates PlankndTerms Cash accountsD H BEATTY T J H1WIEHL SON Undertakers and Emkalmers CHARGES REASONABLE CQrOfilcel TclcplioueI3l22 Residence Telephonic SI a 4 fromLimestoneZETIIDID GRAVES DEALERS IN lladwareeCUTLERY GUNS AMU1TITIO1T MANTELS AND G RATES TILINGCarpenters and Blacksmiths Tools Rope Chain Itcltiiizr IronsBirdand Smooth Wire and ReadyMixed Paint beLANDRETHS NEW CROP GARDEN SEED 58 E Main St Telephone 184 a i T 1 A Christian iigaiust the Chris tiansH- ARDYVILLE KYM Nov 8 91 Mr G G Moore Lexington Ky DEAR SIR I am so glad that you have be gun the publication of the Blade again We Christian people needI it to ptirus up to our duty en lose a few of my thoughts which you may publish if you think them worthy of a place in your paper if not all is w llItrulyJESSE Who is responsible Lord is ill beingsfillin the United States No drunkW ard shall inherit the heaven Jesus Sixty thousand souls are by the liquor traffic annually ushered into eternity totally unprepared to F buLordSomebody is responsible for all this human blood My reader is it you Put the question to yourself Answer it honestly If you are a voter voting for the party that favors licensing or permitting the liquor traffic you are to a large extent responsible Human blood is upon your hands highhandedhold you responsible I realize that this is a grave charge and shudder to make it especiallybut it is truth and the truth must be spoken regardless of consequences You say one who does responsiblePartly ber that no young man when he dtoards grave But little by little step by step unaware of the danger he is in inticed by the attrae Lion of the opened licensed loona permitted by the Iawsmadeby e men elected by the voter he goes down down down till he reaches the gutter and finally th drunkards grave and drunkards hellIs the man who makes it re sponsible Partly so But he e only doing what the law permits and gives him a right to do responsiblethe law permits and protects him in his damnable business- Is the officer who issues the li tense responsible He is doing what the law rays he shall do under certain conditions responsiblHe f seutative of the v ErlD 1 out whatJiaibWffL1 to lie their ten Isthe intelligent voter respon sible Most assuredly he is more than any one else if he votes and casts his influence for the man or partywho favors or permits the existence of the liquor traffic for by his vote he elects the man who makes the law that orders the court to issue the license that permits the saloonkeeper to sell death and destruction to his fel low man Where do you stand my reads Are you voting with the party that fosters and protects this gigan tic evil for its influence or that has not the backbone to come out and openly condemn it If so you arc just as guilty of murder as he who places an infernal machine loaded with dynamite upon the public highway and blows the un wary traveler into countless atoms This is plain talk but it is truth and must be said The curse is here the work of destruction is going on The liquor traffic has throttled both the leading political parties j and they dare not cheep against it for their lives It heaps up its blood money in the church treasury and eays Speak against me if you dare and I will withdraw my support Let such parties and such churches perish The sooner they are gone the better for the country The profeeeed Christian voter who tits upon his own hearthstone and says The liquor traffic does not harm memy boy does not drink therefore I shall not raise my voice or vote against itJ has not enough Christianity in his soul to warm a flea on a frosty morning Am I my brothers the rule Vote as you pmyand no Christian man can vote for the Republican or Democratic parties and be con sistent for both of them foster encourage favor license und permit the liquor traffic And that too upon the lowest principle upon which any evil could be permitted namely merely for its polluting corrupting unpatriotic influence in politics What Is itcousistent Christianity to vote for a party that permits and encourages licenses and pro frets an evil that sends sixty thous and human beings to drunkards graves and the drunkards hell every year in the United States alone That causes ninetenths of all the crime commitcd that blights and blasts the brightest intellects of the land that de thrones reason and makes a brute of a man that causes more mis cryshame and degradation than anyother one thing under the sun that destroys the happiness of more homes breaks the hearts of r sr eS more women and unfits more young men for a life of usefulness than any thing else in the world Can any Christian man vote for party that is responsible for such things and be consistent prayforthingsChristian if you will lay aside your prejudice and be honest you must adroit that these things are true If you admit them true you must confess that at your own door more than that of any one responsibilityChristian your excuse for shouldering this sponsibility What is your exam pie to the unbelieving worldj consistencyhere million Christian voters in the prChristianYe hypocrites ye whited sep uponbutIt is within the power of the church to blot out of existence at one stroke the infamous liquor curse Four million Christian voters could by a large majority carry any measure they might SiIfevil and does not then a large share of the responsibility lies at her door Its of no use to dodge the question any longer Away with such doctrines as hIts not political question the church must not dabble in politicsit is already sufficiently in politics to fIfof the condemnation of being to a great extent responsible for the enormous evil resulting from the traffic she must take a bold and decidedstand against it forbid ing Soy of her members to aid it r its protectors either by voice vote or at Hush It would cause division the church In the language nother If it splits the church from turret to foundation stone let her g Better be split into bix hundred particscrime andmurder Lord is it IsJESSE RUSSELL tonguehade from oil the attar of inspiration had spoken those words 1 do see how they could have been be ter said As often as I have heard the expression Vote as you pray imprlssedbyono he veithere isa Christie it ht state of Kentucky who would ha Le effrontery to stand in his pulpit uiut pruy flf God would bless the Democratic or Republican party I dare an preacher to try it I dare al Christian in the state of Kentuck who has family worship to pray God in the hearing of his wife and children that lie may the Democratic or partyand then write me a lett for the Blade and say he has dot so I dare any man to pray any such prayer even secretland then write me about it Ibum any man publicly to pray that Godmay bless Tariff for revenue onlyor the sub treasury pia or the free silver billor tl KMcIvinley billor the 11Ii1 includingBillsilver tongue in any public speech tc call upon God to defe this country from a protccti tariff They wont do it They will tell you that you must not mix up religion with politics politicaldo not want the people to car their religion into politics I because religion is opposed their kind of politics and woo ruin it If a man with Democratic Republican politics gets any re ligion in hint his politics just scoots out like rats out of a corn- crib when you put a weasel in Whisky politics and religion a two timings thatcan not occupy the same space at the stone time al ulas these whisky politicians know it and therefore they arc always warning their henchmen against taking religion into politics politicsthatto bless in public or in private and therefore the Prohibitionist always wants a man to carry h religion into his politics as a tr Christian carries his religi wherever he goes These od party politician wt tell you that you ought to tu your politics to church and hit your business house and out on your farm and into your family and take it along with you when you go a visiting and take it along when you go travelling just like you would your grip but theres one place and only one they ea where a Christian man may prop crv go and not take his and that is to the pulls But shows some good in the moan forI his respect for religion tivcn if he will not practice it shows that he knows that his old whisky bloater rum soaked beer swollen DllI1oI cratic anti Republican politics urei not decent enough to tale Christian religion into theI I am glad to sec the Clu u k liYtiP Prohibitionists forcing the issue between the church and the saloon Sam Jones saidhIt is better for the churches to split and half of them to get to heaven than all to- go splittingYour A Curtain Lecture to Some Pro liibitiou Papers- I reckon I have been afflicted with more advice than any newspaper editor in the United States in proportion to the size otmy paper and of myself and tote I am going to retaliate by giving some good advice to somebody else and 1 select as the victim of my good advice the ReiD Era a Prohibition paper published at Springfield Ohio eface my remarks just as they do to me bsaying I like tbe loyalty of that paper to ob P myjectionsIn the editorial department of the issue of Nov 20 the one that now lies before me there is a lot ofeditorial squiblets varying in length from one line up to nine teen lines I think half of the occupied by these is taken with advice to the people t subset ibc for the New Era Then there is an editorial ofa little more than a column anda half solidand the conclusion it arrives is that people ought to take th New Ma and yet in that editorial it speaks of jtself as being most serenely solid on the question o f Some people say that ifI claim to be a heathen I ought not to quote scripture but I will t to the New Era Let another praise the and not thine own lips That paper is sometimes chock full of boasting of its own excel lence I dont see how any modest man can write that vay about his own newspaper in hard earnest pileitman of sense will understand that I am simply talking for buncomb I have lately claimed for in stance that I know more theology than Pope Leo XIII but it never truck me that any man in the State of Kentucky or anywhere else thought I was fool enough to believe that in earnest and yet of alcourse I really think the old gen is a kind of a back number in some of his ideas thtmore a column kicking against what is known as the million pledge plan suggested by the New York Voice Time very worst that any sensible man can justly sa against that p inn is that it may nrtt t1atrl andintcndo to canyad- mit to that it may not do any good Voitoce same there certainly does seem to thatanway some as we whichse to we every resource at our command Eraeon its distinguished opposition to the recent editorials of the Voice conlcamismy d brother uf the New Era sounds like a little piece of journalistic jealousy and it sounds a little bit jealousyt of moon rag businessI in fair emulation and- if I could make a paper twice as good as the New York Voice I bee5t goorSy Itam ramlcb orThe Voice has the brain at money and energy to put into a big newspaper and it is doing it and we should give them all honor for doing so and if other iufltret newspapers all of them firedo not agree the Voice in some position it takes the other Prohibition paper must not jump- on it with both feet li they were trying to stamp out paperPen big Tom cat with a allfofits sewers ofCcouup 11lame Voice can defend itself the most formidable of its tlocause it has the argument and the brains to drive it home but till concerted action of smaller papers like the New Era and the Chicago Lever might do the Voice im mensc harm nod if were to thtVoice the whole of us rural aofita x Each ohms could get some idea of what the party is doing in our own state but none of us would know what the Prohibition party doing all over the United another page of the New Era under the heading The 1Y Kccley cure for inebriety there is an article of a correspondent to the sentiment of which the editor gives the consent of silence It is boosting Dr Keel y bichloride of gold humbug that claims to cure drunkenness by a hypcrder mic injection of some new tan glednostrum Theres justabout whiskyisbite If there was anything in that rattle snake whisky business and a rattle snake should be so unlucky as to bite one of these Lexington politicians the whisky in the man would kill the snake as dadau hammer while the leglikeragging on Jo Blackburn and never suppose for a moment tlut the snake was anything more than one of these jimjam snakes That other Keeley that made the rooter that never rooted worth a cent was no fraud at all com paredwith this new whisky cure quack But the New Era man seems to think that since Keeley has come to the front with his snake medi cine there really wont be much use for the Prohibition party but It sounds when we have all just read that Col Miner suchoan advertisement in the North American Review by telling how yKeeley resulet ofa drunken debauchof a month I reckon that in starting a Prohibition paper in Lexington Ky I have token the hardest row ednitor iu the world I aint getting to be a bloated bond holder nor a regular Jay Astorbilt nor anything of that kind at the basins s but we all get plenty to oat and Ill dogged if I would write my prin ciple editorials about getting money for my paper if we wernt getting plenty Use your brains and write the best you can for the Prohibition cause and the people will be more apt to pay you than theytyi Il if you are eternally clamoring for money Whenever it begins to look to strappedIam getting along and then some body sen ls me some money be cause everybody is most apt to help a fellow when they think he dont need it A Deluded Farmers AIllstnc tries to Iteiniile ore VEUSAILI ES Kvt Nov 15F91 Mr G G More Mr DEAR SmI have n iticc withregret that you have remntl turned our4BI de a itl t Farmer Alliance I thin o do the Alliance an injustice b plesPartyutrun a candidate as a party Paritas kicked out of the Alliance be cause he showed disposition t beboughtThe adopted the Alliance platform in order to catch the Al vote But with an Alliance membership of over 100 000 voters in Kentucky they on pefPartythe principles of the Farmers Alliance had more to do with lessening the Prohibition vote than any other cause Prohibitionists with Republican tendency voted Republican ticket in the hope tb the Peoples Party would so draw from the Democratic party as to enable them to elect Wood the Prohibitionists who had De ocratic tendencies voted with Democratic party to keep Brut from being defeated All th combined to make the Prohibition vote small disappointdhibitionist will ever go back on his principles and though the vote may not show at the elections owing to the hopelessness of su mess the great work of edurtti and reform is going on The writer has never voted the Prohibition ticket but has be for the principles ever siuc was a lie personally knot kepossibly a hundred men who stand in the acme condition This you would say is coward ice but such is not the case I well as they openly auuoun ofour principles and we all use our powers of argument and example to promote the good of the taus We can do more good as tni sionaries of the cause within tl large political divisions of our population than as a small forlorn hope to attempt to fight them all With the interest of the Prohibition as much at heart as a voter of that ticket I look to the Tarn ers Alliance as the medium throughwhich we will attain the end As a body they fire undoubtedly in minor of temperance During the recent meeting which Iattended at Elixabethtown I met over 200 farmers from 102coon ties of tho state was constantly with them for several days and during that time did not see a stogie indication that one of time was drinking They met purj posoly in Elizabetlttown whichs i Prohibition place Last year If they met in Lexington Is not that an improvement I do not look for absolute success in the Prohibition cause until we get Woman Suffrage This the Alliance most certainly favors They admit women to an equal membership with men At our recent Union in Elizabethtown a young woman was elected secretary the only paying office in the Alliance over six mcnI competitorsYou farmer join the liance of your county It will not conflict either with your religions convictions or your Prohi tion principles You will do your cause great good and will make many sterling friends who will standby and protect you in nunciatingwhat is the great watchword of our order The Truth yoursLEwls Considering you live right under the drippings of the iron jaw of Jo Blackburn you are my dear brother childlike am bland to a degree that is phenomenal Granting for the sake lcoplesPart sayIcal think ifyou will read the froym you will admit they are identica now The head lines to the dispatch read as follows The Alliance ParfyLLThe Sub lreasury scheme spit upon while Jerry Simpson is barred The dispatch says The Peo pIts Party has captured the Al Timee capture of the Alliance by the Peoples Party vas practically ac agobutwas not apparent until today when President Polk was raously reelected and J Loucks of South Dakota chosen VicePresidentJust the whale swa goneinto CinIcil1atJhauscr a Dutch Brewer who intelligibly c process of digestion and assimilation is now going on youer plain to you that there is not in North America such a thing as a Prohibitionist with Republican tendoncies or with Democratic tendencies any more than them ublieayn nhticnal or on one otherthsat mugwumps men o who believe in one thing and politicaltyI would like for you and others Isoparty is not a temperance society I never belonged to any temperance so ciety and never expect to The nearest that I ever came to it was FrancyFsaw a was a blatherskite and was disgusts- with him but a pretty room pillnedblue let it stay there atAny pretty woman can pin any on my coat byintelligent Propm A l11erca prays to vnGo to play the devil with the business and then votes liqutir papers say Mur phy Saloonkeepers have lots 0offaith in religion and they love men who do not have any religionWhenever kCe1c rs and the preachers and editors wl toIto put the happyYou on Godi n over JoMulhattan told The man who wrote that motto would not lend me 10000 with God as se cavity rotce youhaeboysieum going to talk to you in kindness Lot in justice Yon are not a fit man to trusted with American elect ive franchise According to your own statement you have voted lie every time you have since you know of the Prohibition party The constitution of this couutr wisely decided that the host law is that which docs the to the greatest number1 a litt1C government wisely and justly gave to its citizens the right to Bay what that was declaring its inItention to rooks laws in gal ny pnthat every moral and religioiy and political instinct of every American freeman would make j e v 7R 4 him say honestly at the polls what he thought was right and best According to your own statement you have not done this and countryjustexcept in degree He had the courage to come out openly You get in your work as it was done EglonJoelJudas and Jesus Your miesionary illustration- is good If you and I were to go preach the gospel to the heathen in your judgment you could host helpingthehookand all because by so doing you could get into the good graces of the cannibal- sIf you hind been a Greek under Leonidus at Thermopylae you would have gone over and fought with the Persians to help Lonnie out He hoda small forlorn hope During the late unpleas antness if you were in sympathy with the South I suppose you viles almyYou1are undoubtedly in favor of temperance Every liquor editor in the United States says the cam e thinganel Irish saloonkeeper in Lexington witha lip shanghaitooutlandish brogue over the loveliness of temperance But ifyou want to hear him cuss just men tion Prohibition with a big P You say your people are for Womans Rights It takes a auythinLg with some of your party women at your convention at Lexington The leading Womens Rights tryinge Womans Hights in your platform and I was helping them I saw with my own eyes wht appeared to bo your leading women treat the womans rights women so scornfully that my mustache curled with indignation bHd c my religious convictions and I most disrespectifully decline cPIcasurcville asks a Metaphy sical Coiiiiudriiui PLEASUKEVILLE hovli91 Mr Charlis O Moore Mr DEAR SmYou will find payforWell I like your paper well enough to pay for it I admire your fearless and earn cst way of writing thinkOU are often too hard andrough on baeve b power Whom did it originally come from and how did you get it Was it produced from matter did it have an existent uRespectfully Yours J1154E1I1fOSely Thank you for the money and the compliment My reasoning parcntsIproduced from matter about lift four years age THE 1The Youn Men Mmt He Won to the Partyartmoonaa slightly trcmul us with excitement offered the resolution which was adopted by the State Convention ad vising tho formation or Junior clubs throughout the State wo wero filled feltlikeof a project of the utmost value to frequentlyurgedthat it might meet tho fa of many another plausible practicable scheme which w simply planned and not executed It was withu sigh of relief then that wo road tho an nouueomcnt that nineteen enthusias nightformedProhibition club in Baltimore TI MtotI for Governor 1011 West t AbbottConventionheldweganlzo the young men of the city into political clubs to work in the Interests ronngmoneel1ymeetingsllaltlmoro vocate dORGANIZE It li a Crime to Neglect TLh Promlt- Fleht The Wideawake Junior Prohibition t interiowiug opibehopethatStates will miter in with work of ordertoer thatitperance cause that shows tho most promise of immediate result p timboysgitpromise originalolder are grafted into the Prohibition partyAnother says To mo it is tho romise of Prohibition party Inway should Junior movement peeplopeople H W ALDENBURGy ECaIrECTaStJIERINrENDANrp 101 West Main St LEXINGTON KT Represented by JR SCOTT VICTOR BOAERT REPAIRINGAN- DManufacturer of Jewelry 15 East Short Street u LEXINGTON KENTUCKY ESTABLISHED JsaJv5XR4M SHAW9 in1s1I GENTLEMENS FURNISHING GOODS Trunks Valises Umbrellas Ye So 18 East MaiiiStrcrt JKXIXGTOX hi The S P Gross J Artificial Stone and Paving Company Office and Warerooms Nos 131 133 135 E 6th St atLEXINGTOZIT KYLayers of Cement Work Artificial Stone Sidewalks Diamond walk CellarsAnyr ofArtificialSewer and Drain Pipes Drip and Step Stones Fire Places Furnaces CementtcAll orders will receive prompt attention All work guaranteed The best of reference given Address all communications to S P GROSS Qrtteral Manager PaJ qtlFS Matolliais lid Supplies Having dissolved partnership with L P Young Jr this is to notify my old patrons and friends that Iwill individually continue my business at No 9 NORTH BKOADWAY in this city And will keep on hand a full supply of Painters Mate vials consisting of Glass Leads Brushes and everything in that De partment I will contract to do House in thlm itarproved style and will furnish bids on short notice M N BASS J Great 50 Gents On The Dollar Sam OF CLQTHI1iWe aregotngto make someimprove ments in our store room after Ja tne andresealedwith the cour t store conse quently we are compelled to sell our stock or pack it away We prefer selling it at a sacrifice Nothing re everylyovercoat every pair pants MARKED IN PLAIN FIGURES j baitoThis means 50 cents on the dollar madecho in schemesgwatchingIalways promise great returns for small investments Intelligent minds are on to the racket and take no stock in any such humbug goodsforthis sale one hundred cents worth at 50c on the DollarEvery article in our establishment is ticketed at the lowest price havetn you to our store feeling asr red that you will be pleased with our garments offerInoisSTRAUS LEADI1TG CLOTHIERSs LexingtonY f e t 1 if J4 7 I1ii r

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