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BLUE GR S- nBLADE ADVANOErTAT 303I 1100 A YEAR r tikTERMS OF THE BLADE 1 Issue for one year 100 Issues for one year 250 10 Issues Tor one year 400 100 Issues lor one year 3500 tTerms JlOO por year In advance in clubs of five 50 cents foreign subscription JlfiO t Make all Orders Drafts and Express Orders payable to the Blue Grass Blade Lexington Ky I When you change your address ad vise this office giving your old as well as the new address When you send your subscription say whether you are a new or old sub scriber The address slip on the paper will show expiration of subscription and f serve as a receipt as the date changes f as soon as the subscriber pays Subscriptions to this publication are Jnflt discontinued at expiration unless so ordered by the subscriber The ct courts Invariably hold a subscriber re the1J1JtfiIveIl1fhthrii 1fffn iiiIJiipriudate l uff diJdt rue Office of publication East Third street near Walnut Entered at the Post Office at Lexing ton Ky as Second Class Mall all communications to LUE GRASS BLADE P BOX 393 Lexington Kentucky Cumberland Telephone 307 Club Rates and Sample Copies The Blade win be sent for 50 cents a year each for any order for FIVE or more Sample copies will be sent tree DAMNED STUFF CALLED ITHE ALCOHOL certainIdegree those It those who sell It and those who drink It believe from the time It Issues from the coiled and poisonous worm of the distillery until It empties Into the hell of crime death and dishonor It demoralizes everybody that touches- It do not believe that anybody can contemplate the subject without be coming prejudiced agalnst this liquid you have to do Is to think of the deathsof the suicides of the Insan ity of the poverty of the Ignorance off the distress of the little children tugging at the faded dresses of weeping and despairing wives asking for bread of the men of genius It has t wrecked of the millions who have struggled with Imaginary serpents produced by this devilish thing And when you think of the Jails of the almshouees of the prisons and of scaffolds upon either bank do wonder that every thoughtful man 1the alcohol against the damned stuff ROBERT INGERSOLL Keep Church and State forever separate GrtIn no sense whatsoever Is this goy ernment founded the Christia- nrellglonWashington The divorce between Church and State should be absolute Garfield COLLEGE MEDICINE SURGERY Chicago Four years Graded Course Laboratorlesfully equipped Abundance of Clinical Material SEE MODERATE J Fall term opens In September Write today for Catalog to FLORENCE DRESSIER M Sicy 846247 Ashland Ave Chicane III a t r t l ii CHINESE AS EXEMPLAR AND WOMEN AS AIDS nJT ono of Louis ville preachers that has embarked In the enterprise of sending a moral wave over Kentucky held the nese up as exemplars to U S Christians In hlssermon on February 15th passedInfailed the banker should ho put to death A crude law this was but do you know that after that statute went Into effect there was no more bank failures In China When it comes to vengeance the Christians doiit care a rap for what their Bible says resist not evil do good to thlriplpnemles return good lIesllltefullyen times but seventy times seven And when the have no pulsliment to fit the crlmpgtlfey cite the Chinese WhenthectergYJilof the Chinese tq help stay the tide submergeClirlstemloniitis that ChrfstlanltyTnH a moral force is religionnorconquer the criminal tendency that Is run Ing riottijhahe blood of Chris faithfullytriedresults today jBeslde citing the wis tohelpcrime rtheTclerg3QiaVe loudly calling on oxtrenuitysItlt riot hVfOfjvpman to call on in iimeVoflt8 nwOj The other Louis cataclysmbutthat lifrtdsrnp yie Chinese as exem plars for ChrIlans when they nee- dIltoecUonfronr bloody hand of reJectLexington1896 will show reason why Lexington LeadeVr Oct Cth UNSCiirETURAL Lotlls LlstJ LouiJ1I11lInft raarrlayefnb cd U1rtluestl HELL IS- CROWINCr HOTTER We Americans Imagine that no other people are making tho Intellectual strides that we are hut while we are tramping all around on other peoples toes with our heads so high we cant see the effects treated lone Individuals rise occasionally in other parts of the world and say something which our selfassumed superiority characterizes as insane ravings Some time ago a high church man of England Rev Freenmntle declared his disbelief In tho Immaculate con ception and resurrection of Jesus lIe was denounced as an Idiot Now comes Canon Page Roberts of St Peters London and denounces the doctrine of lieu He declares that While Science and Philosophy constantly change for the better theology stubbornly clings to same old views from age to age Listen and you may hear the thunder of the canonadlng from Amer lean shqres- Rev Dr Francis Barry InsIICan on Roberts talks like a lunatic Shades of the martyred heretics Is h man living In the 20th century to ire called a lunatic because he does nut believe In Hell Are wo to return to the Inquisition Wo have been told that Ingersoll was a back number that Hell has been ong ex tinguished but hero Is a man who calls a brother minister a lunatic he cause lib dehounces the doctrine of lIcit This Reverend critic further states The church has always believed In an unending hell and It Is not at nil particular to explain away the literal fire This always was and always will be the doctrine of the church Is this expression to represent the boasted progress and enlightened Ideas of America It looks lilwwo need several more Ingersolls to assist with good fire extinguishers before the lames of hell are subdued This declaration that This Is always was and always will be the doctrine of the church ought to have the effect of showing people where they stand on the brink of the burning precipice and turn the tide of Inhuman actions Into the channels of justice But It tines not because If wo sin we have in advocate with the father and can escape the abyss of torture Then n good Methodist undertakes to flay Canon Roberts with ministerial logic He saysN When aVmlnlster begins to lil p ri fr uius from Mrs Henrietta C Ogden tha thenbrlctI n Work waited In the anteroon- while her message was delivered D minIsteram opposed to hearing this wo man It Is unscrlptural for a woraar ofticlalInfavorobjections were too pronounced thIngdownyou can do It hut Ill not hear her i t Suppose the women of Dr Eatons hearImamwould be a clerical Othello with tils occupation gone This Is exactly what they are going to do and when they thinly for themselves and realize their silenced and subjugated position with the ecclesiastical halter about their necks The cry goes forth from church that the criminal classes have the upper hand In society and women are called on to help to bring about a better moral condition Is It forgotten that woman Is the original sinner and every crime In the cal endar is laid at her door One has not to read very far In the Bible to find that out but a mystery is con jnected with this whole thing Though woman brought sin into the world she has been cute enough to dump ninetenths of It off on man and he Is paying the penalty In prison and on the scaffold while woman who is re sponslhle for nil sin and crime tually goes scot free and the preach ers call on her to keep reform etao ers call on her to help reform or pun dlplomacInplomacy in all lines look like 30 cents Yet this feminine diplomat must not address a body of men In an of ficial capacity- It toes seem strange that when morality Is at low ebb that the Heathen dunce should be cited as an exemplar and woman who brought sin into the world and who Is un worthy to address a body of men In an official capacity should be called In to help church elevate the morals of society t iti I Versailles Kyi preach against hell It is a sign he Is going to hell and knows it The same reasoning might be ap plied this way When a man does not preach against hell It Is a sign he Is going there but dont know it Behold on what a slender thread hangs all eternal things What a small thing may consign one to eter nal burning This Christian logician also Informs us that The doctrine of hell Is not preached nearly as much as It should be and conversions are falling off in the same ratio The doctrines that souls are annihilated at death or subjected to discipline and flpally restored to favor with God are mischievous errors and without foundation In the word of God How these men representing the meek and lowly Jesus regret that hell cannot he made still hotter so that there might be weeping and rail- Ing and gnashing of teeth In fearful anticipation before death Still another confirms the above Rev Dr A D Traveller secretary of City Mission says Put me down as believing in a straight Methodist hell believe the punishments of hell will be unending and hopeless Such ex preslons as these ministers have made about the old theology of hell ought to horrify any thinking person Science has long since demonstrated that the hell of the Bible Is an absolute Impossibility Human decrees have rellgated its monstrous teach ing to the past Years ago I reada symposium by several ministers on this subject and but one D L Moody clung to the old idea and I had thougtht that Moody and Spurgeon werethe only two ministers who lIterathellldurlugboth dead foolishly believed we would experience no more ttthatI rent that Christian purlfer but we are confronted with the same old monster which like the cat has seven lives and must he killed over again and again so put on your armoryInfl dels and charge the enemy with re newell vigor and do not give up the fight until victory Is ours vHARRIET M CLOSZ METHODIST- MIS R E PRE S E TAT ON WeskernCltrlstlanministers meeting in Chicago resent ly that tho Methodists lad gained 1500000 converts in the past Pour years The Inllated sails of the M E ship were punctured by Dr Buojkley who flatly contradicted the statement FverofallingConferences Ho declared that he believed In looking the facts In the face and said that counting acqulsl tlons at revivals many of whom never became full members and1 of those who did very few remained wasnot delegatesloudlymeat of facts H MC lL 11 Mr T J- Yscarvert Tie National Liberal Party Is memberro which ranks high and which must ne rosarlly make It a power It Is hrllIranks and who are being constant Itlgenerally hear of officialsfreasgjDut among our high privates some of our most able and bril liant thinkers ofsof them Mr T J Wyscarver of whoso masterly address at the Congress appears In this Is fIe Mr Wyscarver Is a keen observer ofnna man of travel who has vis ited most of the countries of the Garth He Is familiar with the laws and religions of the various and classes of mankind and lass Is eminently qualified to upon the subject he chooses for hits address Religious Prejudice This brilliant address Is only an lajtlmatlon of the diversity of Mr t lyscarvers mind From a collegiate graduate he pass oil on to the position of Superintend a m h a e lecturerjthor During the winter months he re ies In Cincinnati and In the Sum r moves to his beauUful country rtfflldence near Glendale To the strong qualities of mind wjnlch characterize him at once Were may be added a cheerfulness illness and benevolence of heart wflilch round up the humanitarian and thje esteemed gentleman Ills not often that the successful nVslness or Hterary man braves public prejudice with his honest convlc t If all such came to the front w dayAllfthen conscience ami whomthe love of Justice nrfiJ1Tinntv rlpgn Inhn t gr and cowardly c aanAwiio haw the courage to step beyond a life of ase and assume his share of the burderiso f the Reformer Such a man Is he of whom Iwritea man whose heartbeats keep time to the music of the march of the myriad footsteps of suffering but hopeful humanity Mr Wyscarver nas taken an active Interest In the N L P from the very start aiding It with his presence hiss money and thought It Is Interest by such as lietime silent active earnest worker In the ranks which encourage and sustain the of ficials and which strengthen the party chainJ WILSON Pres N L P Christian Countries Becoming Civilized And Moral A writer In the San Francisco Ex aminer in landing the introduction of the American system of free educa tion Into our new island possessions and the progress being made by the brown man says And so the good work goes on The Ignorance of gen erations Is In a fair way of being soon ended by the American public school system and those who a little while ago were slaves will stand up free intellectual selfrespecting citi see newspaper writers tell the truth We have been told from the plilplt and through the religious press that Christianity was the source of all enlightenment and civilization but when we know that our Island possessions have been under Roman Catholic rule for 300 years and everyman woman and child a devout be liever in Its tenets and therefore sup posed to be highly cultivated and moralIt takes the wind out of ortho dox sails to be told thatThenorance of generations is being end ed and those who were slaves are standing up free Intellectual self re liant citizens Spain poured out the hearts blood of her best sons to Christianize the Islands which we have wrested from her and In doing It she left her degen erates at home to supply the foun talus of life Three hundred years passed away and Instead of saving the sons of the heathens she lost her own proud heritage of sons as well as her earthly possessions and Is now forced to listen to the condemnation of the world for her failure The Ignorance of generations Is being ended by the American public school system and those who a little while gao were slaves will stand up free intellectual selfreliant citizens Such truths as the above are bound to dispel tho idea that Christianity is either a civilizing or moralizing agent DELINQUENT SUBSCRIBERS There are 750 of our subscribers behind with their subscription Unless you pay us we cant pay our hills So please send In that Sweet Willie by return mall andyou will enjoy the Blade all the more S UNDER THE TEACHINGS of THE PRINCE of PEACE The press announces that a seorcn of the school boys of the town Kokot thatfhall cartridges This civilizationall the way from young America load ed down with nhootlng Irons to the mature American citizen who Is a moving arsenal and from the police IJhtdgeontowho are drilled in the art of war Ariel ofStatearmy In their gorgeous military trop theAmerican jfOvermonster battleships ready to deal but IJrutalmen of the United States is it any wonder the cry for lilood Is in th air Is it any wonder that we had StatesInstIJluoJThalone In carrying pistols If a search allpublicresult would be appalling The mur derous spirit is running riot in too blood of Christendom The arnites- and navies of Christian Jtemspretend to follow a Savior whom theyy call The Prince of Peace We are told In the Bible that Jesus Christi said Mat 1034 Think not come to send peace on earth I camel not to send peace hut a sword and from the present conditions the object of His visit to earth has been ally carried out This New Test ment declaration is but an echo of what God said In Exodus 32 27f Thus saltli the Lord God of Israel put every man his sword by his side and go In and out from gate to gate throughout camp and slayeveryj man his brother and every companion and every Ulan hlsvinelgh gWeWJtconsolation can be got from such passages of Gods word as the above and hundreds of similar ones Is beyond my comprehension The truth Is the Bible Is a record of butcheries and horrors and If every passage referring to murdeV were marked with red Ink the book would look like It had been baptized in blood The first man ever born on thp earth Cain was according to the Bible a murderer and murderers all through the scriptures were the most prominent Bible characters Veeven have the record that when God him self came to earth to save his creatures he was murdered by a mob that clamored for his blood Facing cold facts men of Chris tian nations seem to have a natural born desire to kill and torture The germ of this desire Is found ln tho small boy who carries a pistol He Is evoluted Into the brutal bully of the community or the murderer dangling from the scaffold The State mani fests Its murderous spirit by murder Ing those who take human Iifevam1 the nations foster the thirst for blood by the call to arms sending men out to slay their fellows The President of the United States said recently that a goollsoldlerI should not only be tons to fight But why the need of soldiers and fighting Why fire the blood of youth by the magic rolls of thundering drums calling them to the field of carnage And yet these very nations claim that their God Is the Prince of Peace The following from a leadings Methodist Bishop will explain itself Albany Nov 16Blshop Charles H Fowler one of the prominent bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church said today to the General Missionary Committee of the In session here vICITHE KAISER AND THE SCIENTISTS Emperor Wllllanm of German is stepping on dangerous ground byfa tending the lectures of the noted Asp syrlologlst Prof Delltzeh The lecturer on the subject of The Biuffuand Babel which tho Emperor attended and was a most earnest lstenejyaldj that the religion of tho Jews as laid down In the Bible had been taken from the old Assyrian religion sand he declared the Catholic press half destroyed the whole Christian belief In revealed The Kaiser thanked the lecturer for hIs able and Instructive lecture and now botlt Ger man Catholics and Protestants are condemning In whispers His Majesty If the Bible Is not what Is claimed for It Gods Word what becomes of Williams William Is not a divinelycomminisslon- iruler what will become of the firm of Me and Coot When the Euiper t I iIT 1I A butcher of mankind The Saxoifis the rightthat oneli1 even If we are the batches we tell the truth We met the Indian scalpelhimand got down on our knees and when we arose we went at the aborigines got the Africans we make them for us The Saxons my friends is a hail neighbor In all fairness this must be said but give him time enough and he usually comes out at the toy Tj We should remember that the Sax timeshopsneighbor to the heathen and also to Ifhepeaceful Pagans he Is on the warpath after his Christian neighbors arid he comes out on top as the Bishop says If murder and pillage will bring him there The Bishop Is mistaken when he says we scalped the Indian because ho would not work It Is a historical fact that the Indian was scalped be cause the white man bearing aloft the banner of the cross wanted to h rob him of his land and there is no doubt about him coming out on top If the Saxon scalped those who do not work church dignitaries would be in great danger The small boy with his pistol the soldier with his musket and the as sassin with his knife are natural pro ducts of a religion whose guide book Is a recital of bloody wars and brutal butcheries There are crimes and horrors recorded In the Bible that the most blackened criminal of our tiny would recoil from The thought naturally arises If a loving God want ed to write a hook to guide his chil dren Into spiritual and moral life to fit them for heaven why should not that book he filled with good purefthoughts that will unseal the foun taro of all that is kind elevated and noble that Is Inate in every human being instead of giving a of bloody1 savages whose bnllalllyYf ezesitheblood In the veins WhltiSr5 fiT1 lttfTSiT lJJjn human race to be instructed Taboiii 1P crimes that could not be concelvelTot In the human brain If the Blbledld 3h 4rnot record them Two thousand years of Bible influence has not yet brought the human family even to the thres hold of civilization and It never will be brought there until Rationalism destroys the influence of the blood lest book of the ages There Is barfly a single character In the Bible taken In all its phases that Is an ample of good morals and lofty Ideals and many of the most prominent ures In the book If they were living today they would be considered crim inals fit only for prison or the scaf fold As the power of the Bible Is destroyed the race becomes more mane and civilized John Calvin was a Christian and Ingersoll was an Infidel yet Ingersoll said and did more to humanize and elevate the human race than all tho Christian saints and leaders In the calendar To show that world Is growing out of Bible savagery the fact that there Is a clamor for an expurgated Bible proves It If the cruelties and horrors that are in the Bible lad not been taught as Holy Writ we would have no vast nmles and navies no red handed murderers police deadly weapons or small boys with pistols If the cruelties taught In the Bible deadlj weapons and strong drink could be eliminated crime and Inhumanity would disappear and the human race regenerated i If Susan H Wixons Right ing were taught to children of the Bible we would have no LlvIcarrying pistols or youthful nals filling our Houses of Through the ceaseless efforts of Ra tionalists the world Is drilling from Its Bible mooring and when it launches boldly out on the sea of Reason the race will become moro thumane and a new era will bo usher ed in JOSEPHINE K HENRY Versailles Ky c for of Germany hobnobs with such men as Prof Delltzeh and Prof Her nack he Is driving a wedge dn duo time upset the present rellgiourand governmental systems of Ger many The Emperor of Germany and tho King of Spain are acting rather tiueer and the gentleman that lives at the Vatican may withhold his smiles and blessings ilr JOSEPHINE K HENRYf dayOf1 t Commencing with the first March we wil no longer pre mlums for subscribers on the club 4iplan so If you want to get a premiumt please send your club In beforethatJ date dII 683 IS THE NUMBER OF COPIES OK DOG FENNEL IN THE ORIENT SUBSCRIBED FOR JO THIS DATE 1 j4 1 i iiiiii JiAlJ t lff BLUEBRASS BLADE I Short Letter From Friends On account of devoting a large por tlon of the last three Issues of the i In publishing the addresses de firlivered at the recent Congress of the L P we have gotten behind with prtlntlng our correspondence Some of the letters which appear this week are therefore somewhat old but make Interesting reading nevertheless 0 Use not vain repetitions as tho r heathen doJ C r Editor of Blue Grass Blade In commenting on the letters of a carre 4spondert who finds so many discrep nudes the double accounts recorded in Ezra and Nehemiah 7 amI who calls attention to the repetition of tho last two verses of 2d CorIn- thians in Ezra you state there are two chapters in the Bible just ulllw and ask any of your readers to name them Tho 19th Chapter of 2d mngs Is repeated in Isaiah 87 In each of these chapters are found the famous r verses that tell us 185000 men awoW one fine morning and found thom selves all dead It may be that the 1 Almighty considered that event as of sufficient importance to justify petition The 14th and 53d Psalms are excepting one verse identical r The first few verses in 2d Kings 20 are duplicated in Isaiah 38 There are c many instances of duplicate verses especially In Psalms One verse In the ICJthPsalms occurs four times c There are many examples of double and even triple accounts of the same transaction which though not verbally identical are not suf ficiently varied in matter and style to justify a repetition There Is much in Kings that is retold in Chronicles As is well known not a few of the double records are perplexingly com pllcatlng Of course all are Inspired but they all cannot be true I would call the attention of Blade readers to the remarkable discrepancies in the double accounts recorded in the last chapter of 2d Samuel and the 21s chapter of 1st Chronicles Note the wondrous injustice goodness and mercy of the Almighty when lie de stroyed 70000 inoffensive people to punish David for doing just what God told him to do Of course you ma put me down for Dog Fenne Swipe all the sacred relics you can No harm In so doing for those old curios are miraculously endowed with power to reproduce themselves Ifa piece Is knocked off another will grow i on I speak of a small piece of Cho rllle tatjte- r pf Mrs Bettermuck ea off and bring it hack with you f 4 It would be a prime curio fortlie B G B officeW K DEAN Taent Oregon Hooversvllle PaWIll send you soon Put me down for Dog Fennol The golden calf is the God of America and none are so blind as those who will not see I didnt help you with the lino simply because I could not R L NOEL Bone IowaPut me down for copies of Dog Fennel in the Orient have been talking it up with my friends and they wished me to get them may get some more before the book Is ready Notify mo when It is ready and will remitT C HOXIE v Sheshcguin Penn Bro Moore I am four years older than you ate I never went to sciool a day In my life I never used tobacco nor toolt a drink of tho damned stuff called alcohol and I am blessed with none of this worlds goods but I enjoy the best of health My lameness prevents me from doing labor but I am happy and enjoy life If I can get plenty at r Socialist and Freethought reading I am as great a believer in alcohol as I am in powder and dynamite The fault Is in the Ignorance and weakness of the people and yet their faults are no greater than those of thousand of Infidels who aro continually shout- Ing Down with the church and yet twice a year they vote with one or the other old parties cementin tho ties of bondage and slavery upon themselves and their children The are like the A P As while the aro stabbing the Popo they are doing all they can to establish the Blbl r hi our schools Your valuable pape has near 5000 subscribers and the N L P near 500 Why such a differ ence Is not Infidelity as good as Socialism There are Socialists doing the commands of J No man Is worthy of the namo of a Liberal that stays In either of the old parties I hope Dr Wilson will put a Socialist plank in the platform of the N L P Put me down for Dog Fennel I want a chunk of mud that Adam was made out of Wish you a happy and prosperous trip JASPER J BROWN Buffalo N YThe Blade has just como to hand containing your appeal for cash remittances for subscriptions to Dog Fennel Enclosed you will find my 100 As your book Is sure to reach a wider circle of thinking people than are acquainted with Dog Fennel Deestrlck I would recom mend In order to obviate continuous demands for explanation of the term that you place upon title page a better understood name such as Palestine or the Holy Land from a Heathens or Infidels Point o- fVlewIs Palestine a Holy Land The Holy Land as I Found it The Holy Land as Seen through the B G B spectacles or some similar title Think this over when you aro not sea sick I also enclose herewith qr JJ by way of cncoiiragemont another list of five now subscribers for the B G B accompanied by the usual reo mlttanco and very soon shall send your another list You see I am Iolng missionary work here So go on our journey In peace and leave all cares behind Appoint me Vicar of Duffalo and tho spiritual welfare of tho con groRatlon will bo well looked after Now If you want to send mo BehllHl the Bars for this last list of fio novices shall bo happy to go there For the previous list of 10 now slib scribers please send me the Mat 1 dour of Man Handbook of Free thought Ancient Pagan and 1Iod ern Christian Symbolism or an such book In cloth will keep on working for the Blade until we hae at least 50 more subscribers here I shall Also get you some more suh scribers for Dog Fennel So heres farewell to yourI hope you will have a pleasant voyage calm sea and fnlr weather enjoy your trip and return to us Invigorated in body and sJlrlts A party from the Buffalo 1Iornlng Express one of our best papers will bo on board Moltke With Idnd regards GUSTAV POHL M D Washington D CI have jllst read the Blade and hasten to send you a little spondiilix to help you to a martyrs grave in tho unholy land provided that Is to bo y our destiny You know that told rou I would give 200 to bring me a roclt want a small hand specimen from off the top of some of the Imobs around Jerusalem my happy home and Museum authorities very much appreciate your ItllHness you will bring us one also send 200 for the sweetscented Dog Fennel that is to be Dont do like old Moses eat too many grapes and be buried over there When you come through this city come over and let me show you the Museum and our work here You could write a letter about it to the Blade May you havo a hog killing time and come bacl without a single whisker Is the prarer jf oldFRANK BURNS Lexington Ky In the Issue of our paper of this date Feb 111 Moore reiterates the statement that iie is not a Socialist and seems to regret that he is not in accord with many of his people for that reason In a former number of the paper he dvanced tho idea that tho noblo and loquent Dr Wilson is inclined to act rom sudden impulse at times and went off half cocked on this subject It is on record in tho paper that Mr Moore strongly denounc Socialism and afterwards ackno edged that he was profoundly rant on the subject which may have roused the suspicion in some minds that the erratic editor fires off his hetorical ordinance somewhat at ran tom or through motives not altogether liberal The above Is written In good humor joklnglyand as an Introduction tl the suggestion thatMr Moore should maO a clear statement of his oJjec tones to Socialism sometime in the B B and If his arguments are for Able he fnav be able to win over te ilk sia6iflo lu iflnera ineELv- lto hnow have become Interested In the Soclallstlcmov trient He has stated one objection and only one in as far as I know and hat Is that it would be wrong tc ako away from any person wltho his consent a farm or other proper that he has possession of legally All Socialists will agree with him that uch a procedure would not be right and as tho objection Is based on a wrong conception of Socialism falls After Socialism shall have becomc established there will come a time no doubt when all titles to land wl1 be abolished and speculation in real state Become a thing of the past but at the same time It will be lie creed that no one shall be disposed of his home without his consent and not until the cooperative Commonwealth will be able to offer him a etter home and an absolutely urc source of IIvllhoOiI- Socialism if it ever becomes cessful will cause a vast change tho thoughts opinions and conscience of men and tho majority of properl ivners will gladly give up their homes for the better homes that be built for them by the Commonwealth A home and tho right prlv liege of dally employment will lie guaranteed to every human being rent Interest and profit will cease and there will eno motive and nc desire for the private ownership the land To study Socialism wc must begin with the study of nature imanlty and justice and the nat- ullll rights of mankind which antldat all kingly priestly and socallei vested rights and we must begin hy laying aside all prejudice and Its of thought established by erroneous teachings in youth All free Inkers having disenthralled tutu minds from tho entangling m clsms of theology are well prepare to take up the grand study of the- ethics of the new sociology J STmNER San Francisco CallfMy Blade- did not arrive last week I walled til this weeks arrived to see what- was up see nothing unusual so cludell they got lost on the road Perhaps they Will enlighten somo super stltlous mind As I dont rest easy at night without my Blade please- send missing link or I shall go down to my grave thinking have missed ono great joy Kidder and myself woud have been at the convention hut walking is very bad this time o- frearA JOHNSON iardyvllleKy What do you think of organizing a Kentucky branch of the N L P We Kentucky Iluerals- want to know each other better want to get close together Knelt one of us ought to know tho name and P O address of ovary true Liberal In mr state Wo ought to meet once a year and show to the world where we stand and that we arenot asham ed of out position that wo mean- business and that wo aro organized and ready to demand and fight for ILC rte I1T our rights Will he with yO next week JESSE RUSSELL Note Thero ought to be a local Freethought Club In every to vn In the United States If It emit only get 5 members and they all ought to work In connection with tie N L P Owcnsboro KyEnclosedI0 ono to renew and 100 for m ship in tho N L P I am trylngtll or ganizo a Liberal club here W b1ve good material here but this ono of tho most churchridden citis In tho laud Many hero admit that they do not believe in tho Bible and then sit in front pews I am deters neel to do something to help others lS I have been helped A mind shot as free as the air I send you list of names that want Blades se to at ono cent each and will send them until they order them sto lled Put mo down for Dog Fennel L COPPERSMITH New Market 0I guess I ne ted to subscribe for Dog Fennel hlle at the Congress as was mr Intel lIon kindly remember me when the arc issued The dollar is subject to our call I would suggest to the e ccu tivo committee of tile N L P ra ternity that they issue a busincs lll rectory containing tho names an dresses of the members of tho or an izatlon also constitution bylaws res olutlons adopted etc This v Jrlt could be gotten out in book form a small cost by our Mr Hughes land made a source of revenue by him I think each member would glIlly pay enough for tho work to coral en sate Mr Hughes for his trouble 4 Id allow him a good profit A work of this kind would bring the membrs closer together and enable us to b of Immediate benefit to each other In various ways Yours for IL II I C D McKlnney New Haven ConnI received 0 copies of the Blue Grass Blade a days ago for which I thank you I sure that if there is another we d awaiting us that our honored Pa ne and Ingersoll will be among the st to greet you to It And to think t at the friendships formed in this wt arc to be forever broken that cha te jailed death Is a sad and gloomy h a Love is to the human heart what n shine is to flowers And friendship is the fairest thing this cold world of The railroad me from attending the rention in your city oursII vas obliged to stay at ny thumb In New d the worklngmans e he government owns on can ride on their trains for than 17th of what you have to y here under private ownership 0 much for Socialism I enclose ljl or a years subscription to the B ue Grass Blade Please send a copy to ach of the following persons all of New Haven Conn I am a new crlberjA C FISHER AY rSpokane Wash Enclosed find ne dollar to pay for my Blade anojfi year am too far away to att lid the Lexington Liberal Congress ould enjoy meeting all those ionds In the rough Theres Dr J Bowles who was my family physic Ion once saving two of my chlldrc ivlth a malignant case of dyptheri low would like to strike hands with him In Old Kentucky lIe will lie there and blaze like a star in that Congress Say I wish if you had any the subscribers in this town you would give me their addressC W IcDORMAN Wood Lake Neb After a longtime have suceeded In getting five ibscribers for the Blade It Is the ardent job ever undertook as there- 1rc only about ten Freethinkers here It least they claim to be but when- you ask them to subscribe for a ner or book they say Oh I take so any papers dont have time to ad them and If you lay a pape 10wn In public place It will bo got ed up In a hurry Hoping that you id a good time at the Convention remain WM GULICK P SI send 100 for renewal am 150 for other names Norwalk ConnI write these lines to congratulate your entlro del ration on tho success of our late ingress I regret It was Impossible ror mo to attend learn from the- Blacle that the Congress was well tended at every session and that the calming was fine I would especially ngratulato President Bowies in his opening address it being one of the- best addresses on Human Liberty that has ever been printed in the- Blalle Please send ten copies February 1st to circulate find ten cents nclosedJ B BENNETT Stlliwaler MeI wish you to put mo down for one dose of Dog Fennel If Is possible for you to extract that- knife from the belly of old Heglon alII bring it to me will pray con stantl for your trip to Holy Land to be a success and one of pleasure J RIGBY icio Ohio Enclosed 100 to help pa Congress expenses in your town- Put mo down for two Dog Fennels rould come to tho Lexington gress but am nearly 100 years anll cant stand tho winter Our Congresses ought to be in September or August so we all could go there J JOHNSTON emoore Calif What in the thun del Is up Has an earthquake crcone struclc the Lino My paper not come this week It may be my time is up if so here is renewal Tho Blade Is tho only paper among half a dozen others and wait comlng and read it all admire the- bod fearless effectual way of your- reiling permanent sequlter on nil IIglous flunnery But dont buck against Socialism for there you show a eakness =B F HAMLIN Tecumseh Okla Enclosed find ono dollar bill a legal tender for a tardy subscriber Tho old sayin Ita fool and his monry soon parts Is not applicable In my case I was never a possessor of money or senDe enough to make first class fool I rank No 1 as a heathen and am a second class dealer and cannot han le divine facts Markot valuo l1ecllrtng all the time We lire gaining rrnl1lll In voodsS U MITCHELL Mammoth Springs ArltEnclosel1 find a check for Dog Fennel In the Orient and one years extension of my subscription to the Blue Grass Blade I have been n regular sub scriber to the Blade since your rest for blaspheming the Holy Spoolt but have never been able to decide doinnglighting lIy neutralized by its advocacy of freales and frauds You make a few sldo swipes at the skypilots and silly dues that tickle me to my theirI and it all a break Jaclmsslerya point where it is only necessary for you to make a statement and it goes But we Infidels of Mammoth Springs live within 200 yards of Mlssourla and prefer to be CITED We would to know what Booker has done that he has grown so great Of course ho took dinner with Teddy tho Tel ror rut there be people who consider that an evidence of Bookers lack or taste rather than an evidence of greatness Yes have heard about the Trecumbla School which If it accom pllshes anything it will bo to hasten the inevitable raco war which will result In the extermination of his peo pie The Negrophyle must havo a felicity to worship a generation ago Fred Douglas was the object of their veneration I can understand Infat uatlon of Northern cranks who rare ly ever get within scenting dls tance of the brother In black but In a Southerner it looks like degeneracy Now candidly if anyone else bad made the Washington comparison wouldnt you have considered It Idiotic For years I thought that however badly mistaken In your can elusions you were honest In our methods and opinions but against that stands a quotation from a law yers speech as the sentiments of Boh Ingersoll Perhaps you are Ignorant of the fact that the tenor of a yers address is entirely contingent upon the source of his fee Then there Is your pretense that the church Is against Prohibition when the fact is that the church were never so nearly a unit Protestant In favor of any other evil PulIJlt press and pew are shrieking for Pro ilbtlon humbug while you have the sublime gall to assure your readers hat the church Is lighting you and Prohibition I have never had the ortune to meet personally a Prohll ion Infidel but where Prohibition vas Issue In Iowa there was only one lone preacher who raised his voice against it and he was literally driven nit of the state by the enthusiast eformers of which I regret to say was one He lived to see his po iltlon vindicated by the logic of venus tracrie u fa ntT taawty2cc- ewa with much except his selfri your trip to the Orient mi result In a broadening of views ani yours trulyS F PALMER Vineland N JFlnll enclosed one lollar my subscription for the Blad krtow am late in sending but ould not help it I have not received tho Blade for 18th yet and I miss wo In middle November You can put me down for Dog Fennel and ont you be too gay while you are over there Hope you will have a leasant trip Yours for liberty In tho fullest term WILLIAM DAY SON P SWoull like tb be with you next Sunday Tltusvllle PaPleaso find enclosed O for 200 for which send me 50 oples of Dr Wilsons Party Problems as ordered Would like very muc to attend the Congress at Lexington but havo not the money or time to spare No doubt you will have a great meeting think you should talee every chance to spread and clr late Dr Wilsons article as I thin he is the ablest champion of Human fights in this country I see Mi Moore has the tlmo set to start his journey to Holy Land I wish good luck and safe return homo 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your oxepnses to foreign lands to ather facts and trustworthy Information to be embodied In your great- worl Dog Fennel When your book Is published you can repay It with- books which shall present to a who need the truth Use plain words- and adopt a style fit for honest farmers In Kentucky If you get stranded beforo you visit the petroleum springs where Noah obtained the r pitch to help prepare tie ark In tho Euphartes Valley or before you dls cover which of tho temples in India Lor China Jesus Christ visited during seclusion from the age of 12 to 30 or before you secure tho eft hand finger including engagement ring both of which I speak for now In advance feel free to write to me and I shall poor as I am as the sult of a robber through decelpt and fraud ampuntlng to nearly 9000 by a Christian lawyer and a sanctified Methodist preacher gladly advance you another five dollars May good health truth and purity inspire you and may Kentucky and the world bo blessed through you I am ever 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NEGRO PREACHER FOR WHITE CONGREGATION Our English cousins are rushing where Americans fear to tread color line may bo looming up on the- horizon no bigger than a mans hand but which may prove disastrous Ir Its effect The United States citizens shrieked with rage when the- preshhmt dined with a gentlemano color and again when ho appointee a tinted skinned Bostonian to office and still again when he recommended a rasp haired collector for the port of Charleston S But hero conies a white congregation of Wllberforce Memorial church Birmingham England and bids for a negro pastor Hov P Thomas Stanford who was- born a slave at Hampton Va Let hopo that color prejudice may not- reach the porportlons It has in the- United Staves IL M C SEEKING A NEW HOME shy not try the great Southwest- Low colonist rates on the first and- third Tuesdays of each month Ask for particulars and literature Ad dress- JAMES BARKER- Genl Pass Agent M K T RV 201 Wainwright BdgSt Louis f Ir t ItI Womans LJMrssallies Ky Lucy Waters Phelps West Sutton Esther A Van Riper Circle vllle Ohio Mrs Thompson 436 Oak St Chattanooga Tenn Miss Lula Gibson 276 E Ter race St Chattanooga Tenn Mrs E Davis Rockdale Texas THE VACANT TOMB OF THOMAS PAINE By John Prescott Guild Read by Miss Tillltf Oelslager at the Congress of tho N L P We oft hoar named as Holy Land A vagrant piece of rock and sod Where frequent come some pilgrim band To Kiss the empty grave of God But theres ono valued plot of ground Most fit for freedoms fame It is a well kept wayside mound The vacant tomb of Thomas Paine The nation caused a column rise Potomacs placid banks upon Which spires so high to pierce the skies To lift the name of Washington But yet to mark the man alone Who led the Independence train There stands a little bust and stone At the vacant tomb of Thomas Paine But Boston boasts a building proud Though neither wide nor tall And nobler name no temple bore Than Paine Memorial Hall All minds that have learned how to thlnl- tWithoutapalllocit on the brain With liberty and justice link The honored name of Thomas Paine One day shall sound throughout the tflTheor his who gave with open hand a His love to both the hemispheres A grander monument than stone lWhich scorn nor hate can stain Within the hearts of those have grown Who knew the worth of Thomas Paine As straight and clear as ray of light Did Paine pursue his chosen path And all his alms were truth und right In spite of ignorance and wrath rhe Age of Reason he unbarred aught liars loose more than they gain His principles were heaven starred The Radical Saint Thomas Paine Ahal 40Qaptain Jloyd- lithhWBIglit fand brave Who long his care has well employed To guard the Author Heros grave reserve the tree that grows so fair From where his bones have laintTo reverence let all repair- o vacant tomb of Thomas Paine Sllverton Oregon Dec 25 1902 ERMS REMOVED FROM MONEY Queen Elexandria Is very fastidious In many ways One particular being her scrupulous cleanliness I have often wondered how poscoslng such a trait she could bring herself to sociate with her royal husband But this world seems to be full of paradoxes A little personal In the press recently stated that the Queen never indld money that any ono else had touched That when a check was cashed coins were scrubbed with a lather of spirits of wine soap and water before being accepted by her and in making puschascs a lady In waiting takes charge of the money until it cnn be cleaned supposelIf the people who are their good coins would refuse to fur- nlsh them the Queen would descend tram her lofty perch and beg for the favor of handling a filthy gold piece exandrla is supplied with money from which every germ has been moved and she gives no equivalent tor its value but thousands of the of England cannot procure enough dirty money to sustain even though they are giving their hearts blood in exchange But what caro tho selfish monarchs of tho- world for the offscrourlngs of the- earththo common people so long as their positions are secure warll cleanlness however does not protect royalty against the con tam nation of domestic contact it not remove tho germ of licentiousness it does not destroy the bacilli of goneracy nor loosen tho fungi of Imbecility and if reports are true Bxandras tears have flowed of such uncleanlncss Royalty Is In sore need of pity II M C TO GET RID OF A LOVER Edmund Russel in a lecture In New Yorle recited 87 ways to get rid of lover as culled form some ancientywritings of India These 87 ways may bo effective over there where the plo aro pagans but hero In Christian America about tho best way to get rid of a lover Is to marry him Tho- love soon turns disgust and hatred then A hotter question for discussion would bo ono sure way to get rid of a Christian master after tho knot IsJtied without being beaten to death or murdered Divorce docs not swer the purpose for the chattel Is Invariably followed and made to pay the penalty of escape with her life We ask for ono way to get rid of obnoxious husbandsI r t l BLADEITIMELY TOPICSn THE HEIRS OF ALL THE EARTH By Thomas Wentworth Hlgglnson From street and square from hill an glen Of this vast world beyond my door hear the tread of marching men- The patient armies of tho poor The halo of the citys lamps Hangs n vast torchlight in tho nil dampsINot ermine clad nor clothed In state Their title deeds not yet made plain But walking early toiling late Tho heirs of nil the earth remain Somo lay by laws as fixed and fair As guido the planets in their sweep Tho children of each outcast heir The Harvest fruits of time shal- reap The peasants brain shall yet bo wis Tho untamed pulse beat calm am still Tho blind shall see tho lowly rise And work In peace times wondrous s will Some day without a trumpets call This news shall oer the earth be blown The heritage comes back to all The myriad monarchs take thei own Sing a Song of Trust Sing a song of oil trust Pockets full of dough Many universities Planted In a row When they want more money From the oil trust then Mr Rockefeller Makes us dig again John Is In his counting house Piling up his money Dr Harper feeling Mighty good and funny When he needs tho ducats Ills oil friend is seen Then the Standard Oil Trust Picks our pockets clean Will S Maupin Americas Religious Crisis In discussing Americas Religious Crisis Rev Dr George C Lorimer pastor of Madison Avenue Bap tilt Church Now York said Religion especially evangelical rd liglon Is today of very low vitality The attendance at church service Is shamefully small We are attacked by secular writers They tell us that the ministry Is deteriorating that hiirclieflhavef lost their influence schools and that education to the alone can encompass all the acttyiUes of life They say that the churches spend more fop supertlulties of life than for gospe l point with scorn t a and other cheapeningmethods of obtaining money to gospel They condemn its for sending missionaries abroad when our people are spiritual ly starving at home but however true these accusations may be in part they are overdrawn They must be taken with an allowance Yet a thoughtful man will not Ignore them He must admit that there Is a crisis In American religious life As has been said we live for money by day and pleasure by night have no fear In saying that at the present rate at which we are living in fifty years we will have no Sabbath Christians get mad when we point to the fact that their religion Is de dining So it is wholesome to print the statistics and declarations of their own prominent clergy The Output of Hell Jesuit Priest Tom Sherman son of Gen William T Sherman In a recent fecturo declared that Socialism Is the lowest output of hellthat Its view of the married state would dishonor tho mother and shame every drop of blood In our bodies He further de no Catholic could bo a AmerlIcanconstruction you put on the word patriotism If any Catholic should cling to you teaching that the Pope null the church Is above and Inde pendent of the state and that alle F glance is duo first to them which teaching is Inculcated In the mind of every Catholic American youth by fiuch as youif this is patriotism then Indeed no Catholic cart be a Socialist His right name Is Traitor And no Socialist would want to ally himself with such enemy of So cial order Hut thanks to education and scion tlfic progress the Catholic masses are awakening from their drunken dream of faith and many of them entering the ranks of Socialism and there stand amused at your vapid t r last statistics show a Cath chic population of about 12000000 a largo percentage of which are counted two or three times and another large percentage never enter a church Three tines as many Catholics have immigrated to this country as now compose Its church population These millions who have fallen away may not be good Catholics but if they are not a credit to Tom Sherman they are not to live In America Tho reason priests know so much about Hell Is they are always swindling poor Irish washwomen out of their hat coed pittances by pre tending to bo able to keep tncm out of Is tho biggest boldest holdupt genre over played upon Ignorant hu Inanity and if any ono else would thus obtain money under such talseI j UV pretenses they would bo sent to th penitentiary and put in stripes This Tom Sherman Is tho fellow lecturedwas the proper remedy to apply t thoso who opposed Catholicism Tin speech was suppressed but not be fore it reached many of the leadlnf papers Ho Is a fine sample of the patriotic American isnt he The greatest blow over given his father who was a Freethinker was when this son took to priestbuggery The old General shut himself up for days and would not bo consoled A man having the opportunities Tom Sherman had and who make- so llttlo out of them ought to ashamed of every corpuscle of blood in his contemptible carcass IPlugged Priests Last week two French priests were with bullets women whom ofemarriage The Abbe Jacuetln had been keeping a flagon with Mademoiselle for loz who resolved to have revenge up on him when he wearied of her and tried to cast her away A special dispatch says Mlle Borloz is of Swiss origin and was formerly a Protestant Five Cathyolic with 1ersister who a French Marquis Soon after that Mlle Borloz met Abbe Jaquetln who it is said promised her that ho would abandon tho ecclesiastical calling and marry her- Whentho priest was removed from Vichy he continued to correspond with the girl and it appears that she was with him at the funeral and reminded him of his promise Then she followed him to the railway sta Lion and as he seemed desirous of snaking her oft she fired at him striking him each time but not kill Ing him M Jaquetln refuses to take any proceeding against the young woman WilD has been sent to prison to await her trial Die In the Belfry The other tragedy of a similar char acter took place near Toulouse Some time ago the priest Vales a handsome man was appointed cure of the little village of Carbouse Ho lived with two old maiden aunts and his grandmother One morning It was discovered that the young priest and a girl of 18 had disappeared Everywhere vain search was made rItflr foodthe belfry here he body of the priest by the side of that of the girl A revolver lay between them Ical evidence proved that the priest had shot the girl and then committed suicide A letter was found In the priests pocket stating that he had mistaken his vocation lIe preferred death to sullying the purity of the girl he loved but he could not brook the thought that she should ever belong to another- It is safe to say that there is not a priest In America but has had just such guilty experiences According to ExMonk Sullivan who lectured recently in Cincinnati and who backed up hs exposures by books of authority from which he read all lay priests are permitted coition four times a monthfor all over this they have to confess In reality then they are unlimited What so easy cheap and reminiscent as to confess their Intrigues and victories over women to each other If they all got plugged with bullets who seduce girls would bo a host of ventilated priests everywhere German Orthodox Press Mad at the Kaiser A dispatch from Berlin states that the Christian people of Germany are up In arms against the Emperor for attending the lecture of the noted rtssyriologlst Prof Delltzschs on the higher criticism entitled Babel and Bible In which tho Professor up sets Inspiration theories declaring that Babylon had a Decalogue cen turies before Israel And to make matters worse the Emperor presented the Empress to the lecturer The dispatch says The declaration of tlno lecturer that there Is no greater mistake of tho human mind than to hold that the Bible Is tho personal revelation of God and the countenance which the Kaiser appears to give to the professors destruction of other ortho sox beliefs have caused consterna lion The lecturer stated that the Ten Commandments were laws In Babylon long before Judaism was thought of and that they have been embellished by word of mouth In tho course of ages This theory has still more as tounded orthodox Germany and the conservative press Is loud In Its censures This is a most important Incident and of great interest to Rational ists showing plainly the progress of Freethought We all know that Emperor William despises Rationalismthat time end again ho lies addressed his soldiers and urged them to hold firm to the Christian faiththat ho has tine and again sought to weld more closely the links of church and statethat ho well knows that tho crown Is tho merest bauble without tho support of f the cross Then why should ho pretend al at once to be in favor of free speed and why should be attend tho lectur of a noted Atheist I will tell you Freethought has grown to such pn portions in Germany that It has b e come an element to be dealt with Tho censored press keeps the worl Ignorant of its progress But It well known that notwlthstandln Leze Majeste Rationalism now lead education In Germany and when till bigot Emperor the Godcrowned Kin g lends his to a Rationalist as elee ment has become a party to be con sldcrcd and recognized Suppose we had 44 Socialist repr- sentatives In the Congress of tin United Statesall Freethinkers working and pulling togetherImag Ine what an uproar would be raise In granting certain unconstltutiona we have not one Free thought has not a single representa live having the manhood to Introduce a bill for It Why should Freethinkers be sue cowards in this country when Fre in com poslltlcal policy to give It prominent recognition There has nothing com to my observation in late years which so greatly marks tho advance of Freethought as this instance the Emperor William recognizing Its might and the outcry of the re llglous press of Germany against him Kings never toady to their enemies until they have to Attention Los Angelese Liberal Club Tho next general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church which will bo attended by delegates front all over tho world to the number of bishops and clergy will meet at Los Angeles In 1904 This decision was made by the Book Committee in New York last Monday The Meth odists of Los Angeles guaranteed 000 for the success of the meeting When we observe the big moguls of Methodism to the number of travelling in palace cars and on first class steamships to a remote city from all parts of the world the press noting every arrival and every word of their proceedings It makes the Congresses of the American Secular Union and the National Liberal Party which didnt make as much noise as a borhorygml in a thunderstorm look as sick and thin as a starved cat But there Is this consolation they have to expend an Incalculable amount of energy praying pulpit pounding lying and fabulous treas tires to keep down a few Infidels and then they dont keep them down The same energy and money has to be doubled every year and stilt they slide back They spent 200000000 In the United States last year and only added 400000 to their membership which ratio of increase is only half the ratio of increase of tho general population Tho cost pcjr head was But deducting from the 400000kthe mimr her of children who are born into the church and who come Into the fold like cnlckens to cheat Just by calling and counting only the CON VERTSthe actual result of church propaganda and a conservative esti mate would leave not over 100000 the cost of which Increase would be per head- I think It would be safe to figure the actual converts at no more than 10000 which would make the cost of each 2G000 per head Thousands of these joiners are counted two and three times a year as they move from town to town and parish to parish and leave one church for another If Rationalists spent 260000000 a year for five yearsif they spent 1000000 a year for five years the Christian superstition would dwindle to the ranks of the Salvation Army We will always have It because we wii always have Ignorance and In tolerance There is this consolation for Rationalistswe propagate by virtue of the exercise of Reason hu manity and justice Christianity prop agates by imposing upon the helpless mind of the child lying to it all its life am spending 260000000 a year In keeping It from detecting tho guilt of Its mental enslavers How many converts would Chris tlanty make In a year If it was com pellet to stand upon its Intellectual merits as Rationalism does Why if you would take that 2COOvJ000 away front it for just one year all these sleek wellfed preachers and even the Bishops themselves like impudent kids would make ugly faces and stick out their tongues at It then turn and paddle their be hinds in contempt of It Money Is what makes the parson as well as the mare trot C Missionary Misery At a recent meeting in Cincinnati of the Christian Foreign Missionary Society Dr McLean Its President opened his talk with the statement that a reliable religious journal had hunted up tho Interesting fact that it takes 28 Presbyterians 30 Christians 31 LmneransK31 Methodists 31 Epis copalians and Congregationalists ono year to bring just one soul into the church The Chapel was crowded with min- Isters of all denominations A reporter present said that tho statement caused a perceptibly uncomfort able movement front the auditors Let us inquire into cause said Dr McLean In the early days thief was not so for on the Day of Pentecost 3000 were converted Fifty years ago revivals everywhere resulted in large increase of converts often into tho hundreds and even thousands The situation of today Is deplorable Not withstanding the assistance given by the press and the fact that the ma chinery of the church is almost per feet there Is a lack of results The Doctor might have added not sallaried amount saved by the evasion of to atlon and the extra tip from mar- rlages anti the appropriation and hell e form the Almighty himself The amusing part of all this Is tha the clergy confess to tho truth who they come together but Ho to tin world They raise a wail of woe beforsgross of the church Their own statistics and their ow n i secret confessions would indicate the they are hoeing a stumpy old row 0Petersons Rod I clip from The Examiner Col R pubeing thereclplent walkinicut a short time since from the grave of Thomas Paine It bears the following Inscription carved on a sll ver plate From the grave of the author hero PaineeJ B Wilson vicepresident of the N L P Cincinnati 0 from him to fromeas Mr J F Miles is a Liberal whom I have arned to appreciate He one of he Hon dice Presidents of the N P and a prominent mer chant of Paris Texas He is n native of Ohio and makes occasional visits East no only on matters of business but to k up old friends and sweet hearts On a visit last fall I present ed him nth one of the Paine canes to keep Iii self ro to give to Col Peter son Th cane has fallen into worthy hands t id I hope it will be used to sustain the Colonels step through long dc lining years and when he gets re dy to lay it aside that he will Ilk wise add a silver plate with the Ins iptlon Col R Peterson to the Liberal to whom he choses to give It These canes will be valued relics In time They are valuable now and any one may well be proud of the possession of one thanks to Capt George Washington Loyd I would call the attention of the Blade readers to the Examiner edited Col Peterson It is a magazine neatly printed and bound and Issued monthly Col Peterson is a vigorous writer and to his own able produc dons are added those of a score of brilliant correspondents- Col Peterson is the leading Free thought pioneer in that part of Texas having always boldly maintained eral principles and he has lived to see the effect of his good work upon his community and State- I predict success for the Examiner and reccommend it to Liberals generally One dollar per annum Put me down Colonel as a subscriber X THE HUMANITARIAN REVIEW Is another well edited monthly pub Angeles Calif thatgemcittof Western Liberalism The tlHumanEthicalCultureIs in every respect a high class Free thought Journal Its editor Singleton W Davis evidently understands the editorial business and art of printing The Review Is one of the neatest Be sides Its contents reflect the best philosophic thought and its editorials are able and breezy The Review has 24 pages of reading matter and its editor will double this space If Liberals will aid with their subscrlp tons It is now worth the money one dollar per annum Since the removal of the Torch of Reason from the Western coast the Review Is the only journal there sustaining Liberal Ism Western Liberals especially should take a pride in its success Enroll me as a subscriber Every Lib eral should give his encouragement to new and struggling effort 0 THE KEY OF THE BASTILE The Los Angeles Liberal Club is one of the most wide awake and progressive Freethought societies In the whole world How do know Because hear of It and learn of its work It gets before the publicIt reaches outit is always doing soni- cthingit has the git up and git It puts out pamphlets and leaflets and seeks in many ways to advertise eral principles and history One of the latest is a unique card three by six Inches on one side of which is printed the program of the clubs memorial exercises on the 166 anniversary of the birth of Thomas Paine On the other side is a picture of tho key of bastile which is among the Washington relics at Mt Vernon and which was given by Gen LaFay ette to Thomas Paine for presenta tion to General Washington At the bottom of the card is printed the let ter of Mr Paine to Gen Washington notifying him of the present We rev produce below this very interesting letter which will be news to many LiberalsLondon Eng May 1st 1790 Gen George Washington SlrOur very good friend the Marquis de La Fayette has entrusted to my care the key of the Bastile and a drawing handsomely framod repre senting the demolition of the detes table prison as a present to your cellency of which this letter will more particularly inform feel my self happy in being the person thr whom the Marquis has conveyed this early trpphjt of the Spoils of Despot ism the first ripe fruits of American principles transplanted into Europe to his great master and patron When ho mentlcyied to me the present he Intended my heart leaped with joy It is something so truly in charac tel that no remarks can illustrate it and it is mire happily expressive of his rememerance of his American friends thanany letters can convey That tho principles of America opened the Castile Is not to be doubted and therefore tho key conies to the right puree THOMAS PAINE The above letter Is Interesting par ticularly as lit reveals the high es x teem In which Mr Paino was held hi one of the greatest of Frenchmen It was a happy thought on tho par IttMemorial card in my oplnon shout servo as a model invitation to Paine Memorial occasions It certain e ly reflects credit upon Its designer These cards are just the thing to sert in a letter to your friends anti can be purchased by tho hundret for a trifle Writs to Walter Collins Secretary Los Angeles Calif HETTY GREEN AFTER THE PRESBYTERIANS Hetty Green of Now York the greatest business woman of America and tho richest owns a mortgage ol 13000 on the Fifth Presbyterian church of Chicago and as Its trustees plyinsg ed the foreclosure of the mortgage It seems as though the trustees have thought because Hetty is rich she ought to make a donation of the amount to them But Hetty is some what of a Freethinker and above all she is an honest business woman and demands that people she docs business with bo honest and act hon orably In an Interview with Mrs Green she briefly and curtly presses her views on her relations with church trustees Its beyond me these church feuds The religion that cant meet Its honest obligations in this world Is no good Those churches out in Chicago have been mixed up for tho past five years each trying to get possession of the property on which hold a mortgage have given them three years to settle up their differ ences and they have not none so If they wanted me to give them some thing it would be different but as an officer of the courts I Tim pelled to see this thing through The mortgage was secured from my husband in his declining years and somebody nas got to pay ItI dont care whether It is paid by the Methodists or by the Pesbyterians have Instructed my attorneys to advertise tho church for sale under a mortgage foreclosure and take what they can get for it Between the Predestinationists and Sanctlficatlonlsts Hetty seems to be having a hell of a time This reminds me of the experience of a friend of mine a prominent bust ness man who Is In tho church Fur niture business When he started In the business he was a good Meth odist one of the rousing roaring whoop ia kind He went to prayer and class meetings and got glory in his soul After a number of years experience with church trustees and congregations his zeal began to sins mer and now he says that any man who has business dealings for any length of time with church trustees and dont lose faith in Christianity and become an Infidel hasnt the sense he was born withithey want something for nothing and then a big donation thrown in They dillydally about payingwont keep a business agreement and have no business conscience whatever and dont atvT attrFht iiTPyprtcntinn and worst of all they think anything not strictly fair shoved he condoned and overlooked just because they are good church people This is the tes timony of an honest business man after years of business experience with church trustees He and Hetty ought to get together and swap notes forgot to mention that this gentleman now reads the Blade The National Liberal Party Is taking a stride forward New members are coming In Some of the old members have complained that they never received their certificate of membership All these should write at once to the Secretary Morris Sachs Atlas Bank Building Cincin nati Ohio Send in your membership Do not delay it We must have members to grow and wax strong Our success depends upon you more titan upon ourselves If the organization fails for want of membership dont you fellows who withhold your member ships be so foolish as to say I told you so The time to talk Is now You discourage us by not uniting with us In union there Is strength That we do not grow faster is rectly due to yourselves to your disassociation with the cause you pretend to uphold and serve Now let us have a greater show of patriotism You will be happier and well all bo happier W LIBERALS Members of the National Liberal Liberal Party and those who desire to become members are requested to send their annual dues of one dollar for the year 1903 to the Secretary MORRIS SACHS Atlas Bank Bldg Cincinnati O THE WELLKNOWN PHYSICIAN Cures Where Others Fail FOR PROOF READ 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feelings of any persons or to tread on their orthodox corns and bunions It will be Impossible to have my and be honest with myself In the discussion of this subject without Indulging In sonic expressions that may seem a little caustic I have no word of censure for any being be cause I believe that the life of every person Is the result of heredity birth and environment If you will care fully study the history of religion especially the history of the Christian religion you will be compelled to admit that the God of the Bible has either commanded the commission of almost every crime or has silently acquiesced In It You must admit that tho disciples of any religion are justified in a belief that It Is not wrong for them to do and sanction the things commanded and sanctioned by their God I sincerely believe that every Intelligent unprejudiced person who reads and studies the Bible carefully must Inevitably conclude that a devotee of the of the Bible can find a Biblical cuse for almost every Indiscretion for almost every misdemeanor and crime known to man and womankind Realizing as we do that for thousands of years the human mind has been steeped In a seething sesspool of Biblical filth Immorality cruelty Injustice Inhumanity and fiend- Ish persecution in the name of the ruler of the universe It Is not surprising that some people believe that a new birth free from religious prejudice Is the rock upon which the temple of human liberty should be constructedIt that religious prejudice rules the world It Is the Chinese wall of superstition built across the rough and rocky road to progress It Is the brake on the wheels of civ ilization it passeth all understanding it has made countless millions of fools and will make countless millions moreIt has poisoned every atom of human tissue every drop of human blood every avenue of human thought for thousands and thousands of years Its mark Is upon every human brainIt Is the father of Injustice of hate of murder of fiendish persecution J r IC hail planted in tlClrainairircart Thou shalt kllllt has endeavored to blot from the human mind every sweet scented flower of PItyIt has written In letters of fire In every statute book on the face of the earth Thou art guilty It has soured the milk of human kindness of every judge of every jury In every land beneath the skiesit has given to the world a glittering sword reeking with the crimson blood of the brave and heroic fenders of human liberty It has bent the knee to every military unl form it has placed the laurel wreathe upon the bloody brow of the goddess of warIt has commem orated the name of the biggest mur derer by planting on his grave the highest monumentIt has crowned an infinite fiend with the purple robe of powerIt has endeavored to convert the human brain Into den In which lurk the assassins o- fjoyIt has substituted falsehood for truth undermlnded the foundations of correct thought and blunted all the tender sensibilities of the human mindit was conceived in the carrion flesh of that Biblical command Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake A command that has made count less millions mourna command that has caused the shedding of enough of blood to flood every foot of land a command tyranjnlcalmand upon which rests the founda tion of every jail of every penlten tlary of every dungeona command that has been the refuge of every enemy of human liberty of every lItical thief of every tyrannical ruler for thousands and thousands of years a command that has legalized er Infamous law that has ever been placed upon the statute books Religious prejudice has fattened upon the Biblical command Thou shall not hearken unto him that serves other gods neither shalt thinef eyes pity him neither shalt thou conceal him but thou shalt surely kill him and thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death and afterward the hand of all the peo command that gave to the world the Dark Agesthe cradle in which that sweet little cherub Christianity was rocked a cradle that was constructed out of the mountains of bones of one hundred millions of men women and chil dren and rocked by the hand of an infinite fiend in an ocean of scalding tears and innocent bloodIts occupant was lulled to repose by the countless millions of groans and agonizing and piercing screams of tens of millions of women children and babes the seething hissing Juggernaut of fiendish hatea command that block aded the highway of human prog ress for a thousand years with a swimmingInman tears the only period In his exageratlonReligious a sweet morsel In the Biblical restriction tiTT p yCtmlr 8 But I suffer not a woman to teach nor to usurp authority over the man but to be in silence Why For Adam was first formed then Eve and Adam was not de ceived but the woman being ceived was In the transgression How Is that for logic A sentiment and a conclusion that would bo a disgrace to an inmate of a lunatic asylum It Is the corner stout upon which Christianity re When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thine hands and thou has taken them captive And seest among the captives a beautiful woman that thou wouldst have her for thy wife Then thou shalt bring her home to thy house and she shall shave her head and pare her nails He did not propose to have any hair In the butter nor to have his eyes scratched out These commands forever settle the fact that the God of the Bible is a he God with a big II These commands have been the rocks upon which womans humil nation has been anchoredfor thous ands and thousands of years they have made her a slavea chattel In a class with the cattle of the field they were a wall of tIre that stood between her and the pearly gates of paradlse they attempted to blot from the human mind every tender flower that blossomed in the rose tinted garden of womanhood they made the sweet name of motherhood a reproachfor thousands and thous ands of years they branded her as the author of all the sin in the worldtoday today January 25th 1903 in the land of the free and the home of the brave womans original sin is the mountain behind which every guilty man in all Christendom takes refugewhoever heard of a man who claimed that he Inherited his shortcomings from his father Those Infamous commands have left their slimy trail on the delicate and supersensitive membrane of every human brain they have denied to women the boasted Inalienable rights granted to man It will require thousands of years to drive from the human brain the last vestige of that Biblical poison It will require thousands of years to give to the world a Declaration tJndepftrjrinnrti rthct WUJvPEgglato All men women and children are createdequalIt will require thous ands of years to make a constitution that will grant to every human being an equal voice in the govern wentit will require thousands of years for man to fully realize what a gigantic egotist he has beenIt Will require thousands of years to civilize him sufficiently to recognize the inalienable right of woman to govern herselfIt will require thous ands of years to drive from the brain of man that Biblical prejudice that causes him to believe that wo man is a slave and does not have sense enough to voteIt will require thousands of years to drive from llrejuldiceout of five when asked What do you think about woman suffrage to exclaim Vote woman dont know any more about voting than my dog Religious prejudice has so thoroughly poisoned the mind of man that he believes he has a godgiven right to govern woman to tax mil lions of women without their con sent to deprive them of represen tation In the government under which they live to accuse arrest try convict sentence and send them to a dungeon for life In accordance with laws made exclusively by and for man It has so poisoned the mind of man that he believes a few politicians have a right to declare war to grat ify their prejudices and to fill their pockets with gold and that they have- a right to take from woman without her consent her husband and stand ilm in line of battle as a target for tho enemy to murder for the magnificent consideration of 1200 a month for the purpose of feeding clothing and educating five to ten children the God of the Bible lIeved in war why should not they Religious prejudice has so poisoned the human mind that man can commit any offense against the moral code of ethics and continue to be favored guest of the selfconstituted cen cors of public morals while the man who steps slightly from tho path of rectitude is cast out Into utter darkness although she may be a sweet perfumed flower In compar- Ison to her consors Religious prejudice based upon the cruel heartless and Infamously just commands of the Bible has made it possible for hundreds of millions 6f Christians to applaud the man who Invents a weapon of war that will kill the greatest number of human beings in the shortest space of timethat will make the greatest number of widows and orphans that will produce the greatest amount of human anguish Religious prejudice has made It possible for millions of human be- Ings to applaud the man who can corrupt tho greatest number of man beings and steal the greatest number of dollars from his fellows It has made it possible to blind the eyes of tens of millions of our best citizens in the United States to the deplorable fact that at least one I1half of every dollar of revenue ceived from taxation and from otherI sources amounting to millions of dollars each year is not only misappropriated but makes It possible for the stolenItI steal this enormous sum ands of millions of year to receive the plaudits of at least onehalf of our best citizens who exclahn Well done thou good and faithful servants It makes it possible for at least one half of the public officials from the President of the United States toload supervisor to be public thieves by and with the knowledge and consent of millions of what are med our best citizensrobbery an i heartless Injustice taught in theht able fur nish them an their vII llainy Religious prejudice bass upon the infamous laws and comma ds of the Bible has prostituted thE uman tellect to such a degree that hundreds of millions of menv and men claim that Chrlstld Ity from which all blessings flow have all the praise In a worlj without endAmen because of th glorious fact that it has so thor ighly culcated the humane prla siple of Peace on earth good will to men women not Includednot Ithstand Ing the lamentable fact tat every socalled Christian nation on the face of the earth has a grand army of tens of thousands to millions of men millions of guns gigantic deathdealing hundredton cannons dynamite guns leviathan ironclad monsters of the deep and imposing military fortifications bristling with demons of destruction all for the purpose of killing Christian men wo men and childrenfor purpose of planting In the human heart Thou shalt not kill Not a standing army in all Christendom was organized for the purpose of slaughtering any people on the face of the globe except the followers of the meek and lowly Naz arenePeace on Earth good will to all mankind Is a child of orien talism exclusively Drive from the human heart the unjust and bloodthirsty influences of Religious prejudice and the human brain will become a palace of hu man liberty a palace In which will bud and blossom every tender Howe of universal Justice every tender flower of loving kindness tlr every 44heartwill grant to woman the inalienable right of selfgovernment ann usher in a new era that will rtfoognize the glorious fact that woman is en titled to be born free and equal as well as man Drive from the human brain Re ligious prejudice and war will be no more every battlefield ovary Itary monument every navy yard every man of war every military college every military uniform will become to every civilized being neath the skies an Insignia of bru tality Drive from the human brain Rellg ious prejudice and all human beings will become sufficiently civilized not to love their enemies but not to have any enemies Drive from the human Crrtln Re ligious prejudice that enables mil lions of people to believe thfit there Is somewhere in the boutfdk ss universe a being cruel enough to pun- Ish his children for not being better than they were made and Ing kindness will be substituted for cruelty Justice for Injustice Intelligence for blind faith and smiles for tears Drive from the human brain Re ligious prejudice and the time will come when the face of the earth will be converted into a rose tinted play slaughterIat least one twentieth of all the men women and children born have been butchered Drive from the human brain igious prejudice that is born of a belief that there Is a Odd cruel enough to damn his children for not being better than their father and the man whd goes forth to hunt and kill any harmless animal on the face of the earth for pleasure will become obsoletenothing a brute will kill any animal for pleasure Drive from the human brain igious prejudice born of a belief in an Infinite fiend that is believed to have commanded his devotees to commit every crime known to man for the glory of God as taught in the Bible and swords will be verted Into plowshares and the word sin will be blotted from the cabulary of manlDrive from the human rain Re ligious prejudice born of the belief In a book that teaches If any man come to me and hate not his father and mother and wife anil children and brethren and sisters yea and his own life also he cannot be my disciple and fortynine moths of our lunatic asylums will be converted into kindergartens Let us be thankful for the glorious fact that Religious prejudice ever has been tempered by th leaven of Infidelity by a hope thai after all that every human being Is better than the Biblical model Let us be thankful for the gUtter- Ing star of Infidelity in very brain that has prevented absolute belief in the bewildering labyrinth of fiendish commands and brutal tea lags of a Bible that says Believe or be damned in a world end I LJ n Let us be thankful that the liestI aliiChristendomspark of Infidelity consists in the consoling fact that no man no wo man beneath the blue sky can really and truly believe that the Bi ble is infallible and the word of the ruler of tho universe without coming a raving maniac Let us be thankful that the preme effort for thousands and thousands of years to make us all driveling idiots demons and lunatics has not been In all respects a suc us be thankful that in every brain there is a glittering star of hopethat in every brain there are a few healthy germs of Infidelity that in every brain of every human being there is a little of the glorious sunshine of do- ubtItimized Bill An artist employed In decorating the properties of an old church In Belgium being refused payment In a lump was asked for details and sent in his bill as follows Corrected the Ten Command ments 512 Embellished Pontius Pilate and put a new ribbon in his bon net 20 Enameled and gilded the left wing of the Guardian Angel IS Put a new taU on the rooster of St Peter and mended his comb 3 02 Washed the servant of the High Priest and put carmine on his cheek 12 Renewed heaven adjusted two stars and cleaned the moon 7 15 Reanimated the flames of Purgatory and restored souls 06 Revived the flames of hell put a new tall on the devil mended his left hoof and did several jobs for the damned 7 17 Rebordered the robe of Herod and readjusted his wig 00 Put new spotted dashes on the son of Tobias and pressing in his sack 00 Put earrings In the ears of Sarah 01 Cleaned the ears of Baalams ass and shod him 02 Put a new stone In uavlds sling and enlarged the head of Gollah and extended his legs 02 Decorated Noahs Ark 06 Mended the shirt of Joseph and cleaned his ears 00 Total 1591Th- is curious bill Is from a clipping that Mr W J Abram made from a newspaper a number of years ago PAUPER PRINCES The perseverance of Brother Moore in declaring that it is easier for a needle to go through a camels eye than for a rich man to go to heaven seems to have made an Impression on the trade barons of the country i 0 i poitiidtmrillxgIlUHnm are true John D Rockefeller Jr as listed his personal property at 30000 and is said to have debts estimated at 150000 The needle and the camels eye Isnt mentioned in connection with debts and of course as the debts of this popular Sunday school super- Intendent who controls millions of trade and dictates legislation to suit him can get into heaven without trouble Referring to the above are cent telegram says Nelson amendment not acceptable to our interests attorney has substitute that is antis applying here just what he said a few weeks ago in his Sunday school classIunto him that hath shall be given but him that hath not shall be taken away even that he hath In another lesson he said It Is not helping a poor man to give him a quarter Dont you give it to him Johny You might demoralize him and make him a good Christian And as he has nothing you should take away even what he hath and arrange leg station so that he cannot recover it Then there is J Plerpont Morgan who to all appearances sets tho boundary lines to continents His property is listed at 600000 This Epls copal pillar says it is listed too high and prays for a reduction to 400000 My neighbors widow and daughter lying on a corner of street Intersec boa pays a high rate of taxation while the churches occupying the three other corners pay not a cent and J Pierpont Morgan falsifies his rating and thus Increases the rate of the already overburdened tax payer We worshipers of the money god and believers In the subjection of hu manity to priests and kings and dustrial lords must have been taken In thinking that J Plerpont wan a billionaire Perhaps we can plunk up sufficient courage to engineer our own affairs hereafter stead of permitting their manipula tion by a man who has but the paltry sum of 400000 The schemers to escape just taxation would furnish mental energy enough to accumulate many a tune The latest to date Is the effort of escape taxation on money left by one Anton Ilemml of Dubuque Iowa for the payment of masses for the repose of the soul of the deceased The attorney general however has rendered a decision for payment but the case may be appealed The pious plea Oh Lord be merciful to mo a sinner should now read Oh Chris tian be just to the poor man IL M C THE COMING COUNTRY No section of the country Is Ing to the front as rapidly as the In dian Territory From the Lund of the Indian It Is slowly but surely being transformed Into the White Mans Paradise You know what Oklahoma has donethe Indian Territory is bound to outstrip Oklahoma Write for particulars JAMES BARKER Gen Pass Agent M K T Ry 201 Wainwright Bldg St Louis ++bFfd + 3qT + F33 1+++++ + + + HF H9d +++ a try MY PRICES IP E2 COMPARISONo v In 123 or 4 Ounce 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Freethought and other badges Ingersoll Spoons and my tract Theism In the Cru clble fr- eeOTTOii WETTSTEIN ij La Grange Ill tHMHHHMH + ++ + + Illinois CentralRailroad Half Rates Via New Orleans and ReturnACCOUNT OF MARDI GRAS February 17 to 23ruSpeeipl tJpfiaftJoloticLRntei toi l- Ca1ifoiniaA F z FEBRUARY 15 TO APRIL 3O 19Q3 THROUGH PERSONALLY CONDUCTED EXCURSION SLEEP ERS TO MEXICO ARIZONA TWICE A WEEKrREDUCED ONEWAY COLONIST AND HOME SEEI ERS EX s CURSION RATES TO POINTS SOUTH AND WEST FIRST AND THIRD TUESDAYS IN EACH MONTH WRITE FOR BOOKLET DESCRIPTIVE OF NEW ORLEANS AND FOR CIRCULAR DE SCRIPTIVE OF LANDS IN THE SOUTH F W HARLOWDi- vision Passenger Agent Louisville RentucKy Very Low R- ToNorthwestFrom February 16 to April 30 1903 THE Northern Pacfic RailwayWILL SELL ONE WAY COLONIST TICKETS FROM ITS EASTERN TERMINALS t ST PAUL MINNEAPOLIS DULUTH AND THE SUPERIORS ro NEARLY ALL POINTS ON ITS OWN AND CONNECTING LINES IN MONTANA IDAHO WASHINGTON AND OREGONdGOOD LANDIW THESE STATES IS RAPIDLY BEING SOLD AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO GET DESIRABLE LOW PRICED HOMES IS JUST AS RAPIDLY PASSING FOR RATES DETAILS AND GENERAL INFORMATION WRITE TO9 CHARLES S FEEGENERAL PASSENGER AND TICKET AGENT Saint Paul Minn 1 Correspondence and Inquiries are given our prompt attention DontThe fj t0tidinglocations for Industries of all kinds f Go Westalong Its lines Write if you are in terested We will send book ness Chances and any other infer BUT IF YOU ARE THINKING nation wanted Address OF DOING SO KEEP BEFORE JAMES BARKER YOU THE FACT THAT THE Genl Pass Agent T Ry uOUioVILLE HENDERSON 201 Wainwright Bide St Louts ST LOUIS RAILWAY IS MAK e ING LOW ROUND TRIP HOME r SETALIFORNIABeginning February 15th the M AND SOUTHWEST ALSO LOW K T Ry will sell Colonist Tick COLONIST RATES TO CALI ets to California at very low rates FORNIA MONTANA OREGON viz St Louis 3000 Kansas City BRITISH COLUMBIA AND OTH 2500 leaves St Louis each Tues ER PACIFIC AND NORTH PA day at 832 p in Ask any Katy CIFIC COAST 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