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Blue-grass blade., 1886-02-13

lieving that these talented la
dies may soon contribute a.
much to the fair fame of Lex
ington as Miss Mary Anderson
has done, and Miss Currie
Duke can do for Louisville.
The criticism has been made
by some one who heard their
musical entertainment in Ber-
lin, and where it is generally
known they are prosecuting
their mnsical education with
such a devotion and natural
ability as will justify the music
loving world here in. anticipa-
ting such a feast when they
come upon the stage here, as
has not yet been given by any
artists born in the Western
country.
Misses Mary, Carrenno and
Lucy Campbell are studying
respectively the piano, violin
and violincello. None but
artists of the highest style are
heard in the highest circles in
which they perform, Musical
criticism there is a matter of
fact rather than OF compliment
and sentiment, and musical
critics are as chary Of their
opinions in their departments
as. members of the learned
professions are of their opin-
ions in this country. And yet
under these circumstances,
these young ladies have stood
the ordeal of criticism Of the
most advanced city in the
world, perhaps, in musical Gull
tlvatiOn.
The years Of labor and de.
voted perseverance that have
been necessary to make the
artists who have gain
ed the applause Of the world,
are scarcely appreciable to
those unskilled in this art, and
perhaps no American women
have ever combined with their |
natural ability, the assiduity |
ard singleness of purpose that
these ladies have. There is |
no little Of the heroic in that |
spirit which will make young |
girls turn their backs upon the |
allurements Of young society, |
and with a great and ennob-
ling aim in view, determine ITO
do or die" as truly as did the
heroes OF Balaklava.
We can but feel a pride in
claiming such instances of de-
votion topurpose, as specimens
Of our Kentucky womanhood,
and yet the sacrifice Of home,
and friends, and the social en-
ioyments of youth seem almost
too great to justify us in stim-
ulating others to emulate their
examples.
They will return to Lexing-
ton next summer, and will 60
upon the stage, and not merely |
the Bluegrass region, but the
State OF Kentucky, can honor
herself in honoring them.
Blue-grass blade., 1886-02-13

] | oO iCduCtil IL hiih N'~'S'Ss
They said DeRoode burnt his
! j0welry store, but the insur-
ance company paid for it all
the same They said he cheat
led at cards for money. ! don't
know about it, but it sounds
like some fellw who had got
scooped and squealcd. | can
beat any country gentleman in
the county, except Messrs. Ar
thur Peter and William War
rem, at chess, but I wouldn't
tackle Herr Zuckertaut nor
Mr.. Henry Loevenhart. | can
beat any body in the world
playing backgammon, except
my wife, but | don't know "B
from bull foot in cards. But
if | did know cards and should
60 in to win, would not stand
upon the order Of my 60
ing. would stuff trumps up
my sleeve like a Chinaman, be-
cause, with my conception OF
the moral code, the difference
between an honest game OF
cards for money and a cheat
ing one. is SO sharp that you
could whittle a pine knot in a
goods box with it.
But while am on the SUBJ
iect of cards l will make clean
deal. Every body knows about
Bro. GRATIS Cheapside club.
1t has some Of the finest gen
tlemen in the city in it, and
there is nothing but plate glass
between them and the outer
world, and every body knows
it is only a social game, but all
of us miss one from that group
who stood as high as any Of
those that are lett, and who
showed me more personal
friendship than any man in
Lexington has ever done. We
know what that social game |
did for him, all the same. Not
long ago fearful affliction be.
fell Bro. Gratz; one regarded
by good men as the saadest
that any man can suffer. | |
love to see Stoicism in q man
when some good demands it.
l have known Prof. DeRoode |
from the time he came to this
country, and have known his
wife from her young ladyhood,
as born of the best parents,
and reared to make her the
model woman that she is. III
she had died and | had seen
her husband a short time al
terward slapping down spades.
and jacks, and queens, and
trumps, with an avidity appa-
rently oblivious Of all else in
heaven or on earth, would
have said DeRoode was drunk |
or crazy.
Then Mr.. Gratz, born Of a |
lew. but one who was ian Is
raelite indeed in whom there
was nc guile" a grand "old
block" of whom it is impossi-
BILE to conceive that the subject
of these animadversions is a
"chip," a noble sire of whom
this is a son-Bro. Gratz, edit
or OF the Gazette, who rolls
profanity as a sweet morsel
under his tongue; yea. as a
quid of "star plug" charges
| Mr.. DeRoodc from whose lips
| have never heard an unclean
| word or an oath, with being an
in6del. Mr.. Gratz, who could
| not, to save his life from that
horrible imaginary gallows that
he got up for John Bush, re-
peat any three verses in the
Ola .or New Testament Scrip
lures. charges Mr.. DeRoode,
who has made SO much elegant
musicifor the biggest and finest
churches here, with being an
inhdel. If you will pull music
as a prop from under the mod.
ern fashionable ecclesiasticism,
you may kill Col. Ingersoll,
and | could tumble down the
| whole structure by myself, like
Samson did the temple. And
what has Mr.. Gratz to show to
offset it, and justify that hau.
peur with which he thanks God
that he is not as other men,
Blue-grass blade., 1886-02-13

hNC DdNy SiOCNClt COOi
just tumbled over before | 90
there.
Now | am going to stick th'
BLADE into another knott,
subject. 1t may be that whel
it gets through it will be worse
hacked than a jig saw thai
has run against a nail, but it !.
going in all the same. The
racket may be a little rough
but time is a regular 81 De
Long grind-stone that vii
smooth the hacks. II I say
anything that is not true
and any body knows it i:
not, let him print my word:
in any newspaper in town
and right below it say, "that's
alie," "and sign his name like q
little man.
In the DeRsode-Gratz af
fair, now under trial in the
Fayette Circuit Court, l know
all the parties and their ante
cedents, like a book. Prof.
DeRoode has done wrong,
very wrong, but there was
enough method in his mad
ness" to show that he was not
crazy by a jug full. | will not
descant upon his error, because
that has been thoroughly done
by Mr.. Gratz on the witness
stand, and by one ofthe sharp
est Commonwealth's Attor-
neys in,America, both of whom
living III "glass houses" pelted
the defenceless head Of their
unbefriended victim as re-
morselessly as Mr.. GRATIS
Jew forefathers would have
done the woman "taken in the
act," except they (the Jews)
had enough of conscience to
be restrained by the words,
''let him that is without fault
you."
If you can conceive of Lex
lngton editors as being "nomi-
as candidates who were
to get their heads cracked,
subject to the action" ofShe
Democratic editors, and With
the franchise limited to this
municipality, Bro. Gratz would
be elected by an overwhelming
majority. The Press, his next
door neighbor would "take the
stump for him, and fly his
name in capitals big enough
Jor a circus "ad." The Blade
would want a square election,
out would have decided convic-
ions upon the snbject, and
would vote early. The OBJ
server would be his personal
friend, but if DeRoode had his
:uning hammer, hanging like.
some kind Of a Damocles
sword arrangement over the
head of Bro. Gratz. and it had
70 come down on his head, or
that of any other newspaper
man in town, every paper in
the burg would say, olet her
slide; DeRoode, and some ed
itors would smile audibly in
their sleeve, and wink out of
the north east corner OF their
left optic.
Some time ago a man stood
behind a pile Of goods boxes
on Main street, in this city, and
when another man came along
the pavement he shot him, and
when the wounded man fell
upon the pavement, he shot
him again--so it was told to
me, but | never heard the
The man that did
the shooting was kin to a
daily paper in this town,
and had influential kin folks
living in Ane houses all over
the city and county. The courts
and juries decided that it was
all right, on what grounds ! do
not know; probably that the
man did not really mean any
harm, but was only joking, or
something OF that kim d. Now,
DeRoode reads the newspa
pers, and he thought he would
try that thing on, on a smaller
scale. So he gets what they
called a ''tuning fork" first,
than n .stnninor hnmnerO
Blue-grass blade., 1886-02-13

RuhiSSho ShOy uoSu w Pu'
teeth with, or a boss corl
screw, or something Of tha
sort, and is no more kin to ;
sledge hammer, as you woule
suppose from reading the Ga.
zette's account Of it, than 9
tooth pick is kin to a crow bar
Well, the Professor snaket
up behind Bro. Grats and wen,
for him with the tuning ham.
mer. DeRoode is one OF the
smartest men the Bluegrass re.
gion; but that was the biggest
fool thing that he ever did since
he came to America. He got
that newspaper racket all hind
part before, for he was not on
ly not kin to any newspaper
himself, but the man he tapped
had a newspaper all Of his
own, which many old style
country gentry read four times
as mitch as they do their Bi-
bles, while on the other hand,
it is a remarkable fact that
DeRoode is the only Amster-
damed Dutchman in Lexing-
ton, or Fayette County; the
Germans, who are often igno-
rantly confused with the Dutch,
having no more dealings with
Dutch than Jews with. Samar-
itans. The result OF the thing
is, that the son who came to
the assistance of the father,
and was remotely accessory,
has been punished more than
the average Kentuckian who
kills some fellqy as dead as a
mackerel, and I heard an in
telligent man say the other day
that the father ought to be
put in the penitentiary for lite. :"
There are some facts about
this case that are Of interest.
If DeRoode had to fight Bro.
Gratz in some way, the one he
selected would be the only one
in the world. left him. He is
so near sighted that he could
not hit a barn deeE6keen feet
off with a shota Jun, and if he
had a nose as. long as Col. G.
Y. Johnston's, he could not see
the blossom on the end of it
without using an opera glass.
Bro. Gratz and l have both
been farmers, and we have
more muscle than brains. |
will bet a years subscription
to the Blade against a jug of
buttermilk that a man c ould
take a fine comb and SCOOP
hay seed out of Bro. GRATIS
hair now.
The Professor was educ ated
for a priest, and has devote, ] his
whole life to books and music,
and has more brains than
Ii DeRoode had " 'alk-
ed up in front of Bro. Ciiratz
and proposed a fair fight, Bro.
Gratz would have knocked him
into a cooked hat, or the ,mid-
die of next week, before you
could bat your eye. | c ould
whip two DeRoodes and his
boy just to give me an a ppe-
tite for my breakfast, b ut |
would walk around four SOU ares
pretty lively before l W ouid
tackle Bro. Gratz; or if co: mer-
ed by him. wouln use al II the
logic in my shop to decide an
issue with him before | would
resort to this arbitrament of
p physical prowess.
The life work Of Prof. De
Roode has been as far above
that OF Editor Gratz as the
heavens are above the e arth.
One is a sheet of beautiful
the other a sheet of
rampant stations. More hap
py hearts have marched to the
altar, and more sad h carts
have been solaced at the bier,
under the symphonied thunder
Of De Roode's organ. than
that Oh any man perhaps In the
State OF Kentucky. My wife
and my sister learned music
under him, and the best wives
and the best sisters all over
this country have done the
same, but it has remained for
Blue-grass blade., 1886-02-13
LEXINGTON MUSICIANS IN BERLIN

A criticism of the musical
performancesof Misses Mary,
Carrenna, and Lucy Campbell.
Blue-grass blade., 1886-02-13
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&&Ay"v
LAvOAslE LEXINGTON ENTERPRISE.

Messrs. Berkley, Guthrie &
Watson, on Jordan's Row, III
this city, is one Of the most
substantial evidences of the
genuine spirit Of enterprise
that is claimed for Lexington.
AS model Of elegance, com.
fort and convenience, in all the
substantial appliances and mi
nutia and detail of a place for
ladies to do dry goods shop
ping, this elegant new building
hardly has its counterpart in
Kentucky or Cincinnati.
There are houses in Cincin.
natl that cost far more, OF
course, but excepting Shilito's,
l know Of none there that are
SO thoroughly lighted and ven-
tilated as this one in Lexington,
and it is a fact, that in many
Cincinnati houses, purchasers
OF dry goods are compelled to
purchase more by faith than
by sight in examining textures.
1t may be that to those who are
personally acquainted with the
proprietors of Cincinnati hous-
es, and who are residents of
Cincinnati, those houses. will
offer inducements fully equal
to any that Messrs. Berkley,
Guthrie & Watson can offer
here, but it is almost absolute
ly certain that they will not do
as well for the Bluegrass deal
ers, as every motive of high,
gentlemanly instinct and sound
busipess policy will prompt this.
Lexington firm to do for those
same dealers.
That should naturally feel
a prediction for our oitizens
is soft impeachment to which
| plead gully, but as a busi-
ness statement, will say that
| have been so engaged as to
require me to 60 from one to
the other Of every prominent
dry goods house in Cincinnati
and talk with the proprietors,
and that in none of them have
| met gentlemen whose per-
sonal department and 'eviden-
ces of taste and business quail
ihcation have more pleasantly
impressed me than have these
qualities in the firm now under
consideration.
The site for the building has
been most judiciously selected
the house facing on the ele.
giant new. Court House and
yet just SO far removed from
the old dry goods localities as
to give it a pleasant individu-
ality, without making it incon.
veniently remote,
The house externally and
internally has all the beauty of
architectural proportion, of
permanence, Of utility and
adaptability. A competent
architect in this city, where
there is such rivalry in that de-
partment, and where the sue
cess of architects is based fair
ly upon their merits, has been
given abundant time, free
scope, and good wages to ex-
hibit his skill, and has done so.
The interior woodwork is all
of cherry, and has been finish
ed in the most ornate style.
Visitors can 60 from one story
to another by elegant stairs or
by a handsome hydraulic ele-
vator, at their option, and la
dies have an elegant and re-
tired lunch room in the third
story, where they can rest and
leave their wrappings.
The house is now stocked
with goods appropriate for the
season, and will sson send its
representative East to select a
new stock OF, Spring goods that
will be thoroughly in keeping
with the elegant establishment
in which they are to be sold.
LEx/NG TON MUSICIANS I'M RERiIN
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1886-10-15
MRS. FREMONT.
The Devotion of This Strong Minded We
man to Her Hushanh,. Intar..

The Devotion of This Strong Minded w.
man to Her Husbands Interests
Mrs. Fremonts figure is too stout 10
be graccful-she always had a tendency
to amplitude this, with her white
hair, gives her a grand maternal air,
which is in accordance with the fact,
At first she strikes you as older than
sixty-two. After talking with her for q
while you think she must be YOUNGER.
Her mind is as fresh. alert and spark
ling as when she WAS TWENTY-FIVE; il il
aflluent in resources. | have often
heard her called one of the most INTEL
lectual women in America
When Fremont visited California after
Buchanan's election. and at the end Of
two or three years went to Emope. his
wife accompanied him, of course. He
and she have been inseparable. pycept
where circumstances absolutely forbade
their being together. She was anxious
to join him in his early explorations into
the wilds of the then unknown West, in
which the strongest men nearly persisted,
and she would have gone, but for the
fear of making her husband ridiculous
almost the only fear of which she is cap
able. Courage, physical as well as
moral, is one of her most valiant traits.
1t is a paternal inheritance, and is what
Napoleon called of the two-o'clock-in-
the-morning order She would have
been only too happy to follow her hus-
bands fortunes in the field, and was re-
strained only by the consideration have
named. She and her son, then a small
boy. were with him, and slept in the
same tent, when he was in Missouri in
lS6l, and ironical soldiers frequently
spoke of her as beng his chief of staff.
She is capable Of carryinga musket, and
C<sng it, and | ann confident she would
lead any folorn hope, particularly if it,
object were TO advance her husband
prospects. She is without the weak
ncsses 80 prominent IN many women.
Characters. and for the ordinary woman
She has little liking. Her natural prefer
ence Is for the society Of men. because
they are less frivolous, broader and have
higher aims. The stronger and more
intellectual class of women she affects.
and numbers many of them among her
dearest friends But she has no SYM
pathy with what is known aS wOmans
rights Cor. 81. LOUjS Gio6s- Democrat.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1886-10-15
Mime. Janauschek's Advice.

Young ladies, ! fancy, ask your ad-
wee as to their going on the stage9"
"les, hundreds. Every week some
girl comes and asks me: Madame, |
want to go on the stage; shall I?'''
"And you answer?' Il answer: No.
no, no, my child; no They know
nothing OF the life of the stage. its
temptations and lis hard work. They
see us only AT night, nicely dressed, and
with every thing perfect. They know
no more. | have been tbirty-three
years on the stage, and l say there is
no life like it. Ii has no happiness. it
leaves you no time for domestic or So
cal pleasure, no time for any thing but
work, work, work. ] was once good
pianist But for years ! have hardly
touched piano. love to draw, but
there Is no time ever All is work and
travel, travel and work. To girls who
think of going on the stage again, | say
no. no. "-Phitadeiphia Press.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1886-10-15
FARM AND FIRESlOE.


--Peppe rmint, which is cons dered
oil therefrom selling at $3.50 per bottle,
biscuits: One quart of -four; a level
teaspoon of soda; a tablespoon of salt:
sift both with flour; add lump of lard
size of an egg and a pint OF good butt r.
milk Do not mix still Work but lit
tie and bake in quick oven. = Chrtstjaa
Union.
Grab Apple Jelly: Boil apples. with
just water enough To cover them. until
tender. Mash with iron spoon and
strain out Juice Take pint OF juice 10
one pound of white sugar, boil thirty
minutes, strain through hair sieve
Toledo B'dds
Most farmers have learned that cut
hay or even straw wet and Sprinkled
with meal is better feed for working
horses than whole grain and hay. In
this shape the nutriment in the feed is
eaten and easily digeSted. ~ T. Ieie-
gram.
A novel design in engagement
rings is to divide the ring and bend the
q
small gold bar. a Jewel i then set on
each end. and the result is that the
jewels are very close together, but still
not united, and are thus quite typical
OF engagements. Chicago Tribune.
-Bla X Cake: Two cups of sugar,
one cup OF molasses. one cup of
milk, one cup of bu ter, :hree eggs,
3
spoonful of cinnamon, one teaspoon
tul of cloves. one nutmeg, tive cups
of flour. one pound OF rai'ins. one
pound of currants, one-guartar pound
of citron. This cak, viii keep good
several months - Boston BEdgef.
Rice: Cook cupful of raw rice in
generous quart of boiling water. with
out stirring, unit tender. shaking up
the saucepan vigorously several tines.
Drain of the water. salt the rice and let
it dry off at the back OF the range before
djshing it. Give portion of rice with
each ''help" of chicken. pouring the
curry gravy on it.-IIEf:gRa State Sen
tiHci
There are many directions for max
ing good coffee Here i one from an
Irish health journal fifty years ago:
Mix the groun coffee with halfaS much
cold water rs YOU will use for the coffee
pot. Allow it to come to a boil; remove
the pot from the fire and let tue co'lea
settle. Pour off the coffee to another
pot, pour rs much boiling water on the
grounds - you used cold water at first;
and boil five minutes; then pour both
together and lett settle again Boston
Post.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1886-10-15
WIND VS.. STEAM,
Recent Experiments with Improved Amer
lean sailing Vessels.

Recent Experiments with Improved Amer
lean sailing Vessels.
notwithstanding the improvements
in steam navigation. transportation by
sailing vessels i so much cheaper. that
new experiments, are being tested in
wind-drivcn crafts. On the lakes, il
has been found economical 10 use huge
gram vessels, those which PLY between
chicago and Buffalo. carry i've ma~ts.
There Is now building "A hyc-mu~tcd
schooner for salt water with q carving
capacity of three thousand tons. The
competition between Eu sian and
American petroleum J. making both
nations do all they can 10 cheaper that
useful and wonderful product of nature.
NhI!e Americans have heretofore sent
the refined oil 10 the rest Of the world
in barrels, the Russians have sent il out
IN bulk, making a large saving thereby
Several American vessels have been
htted up 10 carry oil to Europe also in
bulk. As steam is costly and fire dan
gerous, il Is proposed 10 build a SIX
masted schooner that will carry one
hundred thousand cans of oil. Mineral
oil. by the way, is very cheap. At last
accounts, crude petroleum was selling
at sixty cents a barrel. This i re-
markable boon TO the poor Of all coun-
tries. who have now 4 brilliant iliumi-
nant cheaper than was the old tallOw
dip. -UemOTCSt' S -ROUfh'H
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1886-10-15
Duration of lnfectiousness.

The duration of the infectious stages of
various Diseases thus given by DIR. j.
F. Pearse, an English physician: Meas
les. from the second day of the disease,
for three weeks; smallpox. from the
fourth day, for four weeks; scarlet fever.
from the fourth day. for seven weeks;
mumps, from the second day, for three
weeks; diphtheria, fir ON the first day for
three weeks. The incubation periods,
or intervals occurring between exposure
to infection and the first symptoms, are
az follows: WhOOping cough, fourteen
days; mumpS. eighteen DAYS; measles.
ten days; smallpox, twelve days: scar
let fever, three days; diphtheria, four
teen dayS.-ArkdHSaD Irdreler.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1886-10-15
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.
The Artificial Manufacture OF Ouinine, 40
c0Fdins to Hewett's Plan

Hhe ARTIFICIAL Manufacture OF ouiniup, 4 C.
cordin% tn Hewett's Plan.
A remarkable discovery, by which the
price OF quinine may b. reduced to
something like six cents per ounce. has
been made by Mr.. Cresswell Hcwett.
The synthetical manufacture Of quinine
was first suggested to Mr.. Hewett. in
1869. by the late DIR. Mattheson. OF St
Bartholomew Hospital, while giving
his assistance in course of expert
ments in connection with apomorphia.
Subsequently, Prof. ParkeS. of Nctiet,
aided with his advice. and To these gen
tlemen, rather than 10 himself. MIR. Cre>s-
well Hewett modcstl- explains that the
process is due. The Importance OF this
dlscoyeryis rendered greater by the fact
that while hitherto we have been de-
pending for our quinine on the cultiva-
ton OF the cinchona tree, from whose
bark only about two per cent. Of good
qunlne can be extracted, ninetv-cight
per cent. being vulueless, the drug can
now be manufactured without limit by
very simple process from an article
which can always be got in abundance
in any part OF the world. -LORdoH Lam
cet
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1886-10-15

when it Is the oli-faShiOned blue mass, blue
pill sort, and insist on using Dr. PierCe's
" Elcasaut Purgative Pellets" a modern
medical luxury, being small, sugar-coated
grauules, containing the active principles
OF certain roots and herbs, and which will
ba found to contain "a much cathartlc
power a any of the oldfashioned, larger
pills without the latter's violent drastic
effects The pellets operate thoroughly
but b1rmlosSly, establishing permanent
" healthy action of the stomach and
bowels, and as an anti-bilIOus remedy are
uu-4 J@.cI.