Blue-grass blade., 1890-09-20

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Transcript. | was getting s65 a
month, and | calculated that the
time spent on Colonel Gilman cost
the Transcript Sl5, and cost me
individually 10 cents wear off 81
pair of shoes.
There were other saloons that
DIVIDED the Transcript, but never
had any trouble with the others: the
Editor had another way of liqui-
dating them. He and Judge Soulc
Smith would start out about twelve
O'Clock every night. They would
pass by Gus Jaubcrt's because he
was an Alderman, and the Judge,
being an Alderman also, seemed to
bc afraid of Jaubcrt's samples.
But they would start in at Tobc
Lees, he being a niggcr, and they
would go ahead until they would
get even on sevcnty-fvc or hun
dred lines of "locals" at five cents
line, but by the time they would
get down to Colonel Gilman's, they
would get so that they could not
liquidatc worth a cent, and in that
way the Colonel got ahead of the
Transcript.
Though | do not know the Col
onel, as ] said, | hope Judge John
ston will allow me to Join in this
enthusiastic 'laudation that comes
up to him from all over the coun-
try. | was educated in Old Vir-
ginia, and my father came from
there, and | know that anybody
who writes +. +. V. after his
name could only be actuated by
the highest motives of patriotism
in appointing the Colonel to this
office, and not by any reciprocity"
scheme, like that of Brother Blaine
lately in the South American mat
ter: it being fact that Colonel
Gilman, belonging to the saloon
business, the most respectable and
influential business in this city,
would be likely, in turn, to boost
Judge Johnston, when the Judge
wants something better than the
sinecure which he now holds.
1t is true that the high-toned
Colonel Gilman may never have
seen a gallon of the plebeian oil
that he is to inspect, but his large
acquaintance with "Bcnzine," of
which l hear frequent mention in
saloon circles, would, of course,
give him natural aptitude for
coal oil. And then the fact of the
ColonePs being Democrat" as
the Transcript justly emphasizes,
as an evidence of his competency,
shows that he must have intellcc-
tual and educational abilities that
would fit him for any emergency.
Ordinarily a knowledge of
chemistry would be regarded as an
element Of competency for coal oil
inspector, and some mind not so
far reaching and comprehensive as
that of judy ge Johnston, would
have appointed some such man as
DIR. Peter, the most eminent chem
ist in America, or DIR. Simrall, or
Overstrcct, or II. b. Wood, all pro-
fessional chemists; but all of these
men have helped the Blue-Grass
Blade with their money, and are
consequently offensive to the sa-
loon element, the sentiment of
which latter class of society Judge
Johnston is, of course, too consid-
crate to offend.
The management of coal oil in
spcction, to mere laymen, is pccu-
liar. DR.. II. j. O'Mahony, al
French gentleman, as his name in
dicatcs, who was born in Cork
was lately coal oil inspector here.
1t would be rude for me to say
that the Doctor ever gets drunk,
but as newpaper reporters, the
Doctor and ! have been chums for
years, and | would simply say that
the Doctor is an incessant and
excessive drinker. His normal
condition for the twenty years that
| have known him has been such
that he could not have told coal oil
from water, if he had had the
whole laboratory, ont at the State
College, at his disposal.
AT pretty regular intervals here
when ] have been working on
these Democrat newspapers they
would fire me out because | would |
say something about religion, that
would raise Cain, and | would 90
out home disconsOlate, and go to
work on my little farm, until they
would send for me again, just like
the Transcript did about three
weeks ago, to come back and try
il over.
During these times ! have come
% town in my two-horse wagon
and gone down to Chess Carley
Company's and would buy at one
ime barrel of coal oil and one
If gasoline. ! nave gone there
many times and never saw DIR.
)'Mahony there butShanging up
IN the wall of Chess-Carley Com