Blue-grass blade., 1886-02-13

like I was dog. The Gazette was
at that time, and i now, one of the
most prosperous papers in the State,
and for the amount of brains put in
to it, was then and is now the most
successful newspaper printed in the
English language. Things looked
! so hard to me that / determined to
make heroic effort to get to be-
lieve things like every body else,
and / dropped into the Office of the
minister now in Lexington, who
had thought of taking my place in
Versailles. 1 went in sorter acci-
dental like, feeling pretty lowly,
and Aattering myself that I was
pretty good subject for good, pi-
Gus man to work on. He had fine
office. and easy chairs, and nice
fire, and plenty OF nice clothes and
books, and darkey man to wait on
him. 1 took a seat sorter like a
man in dentists chair, and waited
for him to begin on me. He pulled
out handful of fine cigars, and
offered them to me. 1t wa, mighty
nice and gentlemanly, but it was
after | had got cured Of tobacco,
at Bro. Barnes "Pink Cottage.
and 1 was not exactly hankering
after tobacco, and I sauntered out
sorter accidental, just like / came
in. Now the only connection which
this story has with the DeRoode-
Gratz racket is this; that even if I
admit that Mr.. DeRoode is not as
orthodox as he might be, / may be
slightly, sorter, kinder in the same
boat with him; and it would look
little hard to me, if under the cir.
cumstances of my case, l could not
have as fair show before civil
court as the solid Bro. GratzS
Well, after all this had occurred
between me and Bro. CIR tz, got
on another newspaper, and one eve-
ming after all the newspapers had
announced that there was going to
be "a nice time at Gratz Park, place
commonly supposed to belong to
the city, thousand or so OF the
incest people in Lexington assem-
bled at the big iron gates that Mr..
Sanford gave to the Park, and
waited to go in there. Bro. Gratz
came up and walked around among
the people waiting, and then, with
with the key in his pocket, went
home, and left them to do the same.
1 descanted on it in q newspaper,
and he quit speaking to me. Igot
sorry and wanted to publish an
but the proprietor Of the
paper said | was right in the first
place and would not let me do it.
l went to a mutual friend of Bro.
Gratz and myself, and through him
sent an apology to the offended edit
or, but it didn't soften him. 1
met a member of Bro. GRATIS
family, that this community has
seen good cause to honor in dis
manner, and told MIN
l wanted to make friends with
Bro. g., but was, 10 my surprise,
told by him that he himself was
not on speaking terms with the
gentleman; and by the way it is
fact, if mistake not, that Bro.
G. was not for years on speaking
terms with his own father. I af-
sent word by another editor
to Bro. Gratz that wanted to make
friends with him, but he still walks
by me like that man that walked by
on the other side" in the story of
the man who went down from Jeru-
salem to Jericho and fell among
thieves. 1 have read the 18th chap.
ter of Matthew act on him, and he
can walk by just that way from now
till the crack of doom if it suits him
best. That's the variety of sardine
that he is. Brother De Roode was the
pioneer of classic music in the Blue
grass region, and to him more than
to any man in the world, is this city
and this community indebted for mu-
sic's refining influences, and l simply
ask in the name of justice that the
public will give him show for his
white alley.