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Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-07
Christians who snake More In.
fldels than all the Tom
-Paines. Bob Ineer.
soils and Char.
ley MOOres''.

MT. CARMEL, KY, Sept, 1891.
Bro MooRE:-I am a POOR man,
as l told you when 1 sent You my
subscription to your paper
/ have a family of eight chill
dren, one of them feeble-minded
and have but little time or money
at my disposal. But in order to
encourage you In the good work
you have begun, and so heroicaily
carried on for a year. over the
head Of every opposition, | desire
to say to you and all who may
read this, that from the very
depths OF my soul / sympathize
with you, in your efforts to expose
the hypocrites by whom we are
ruled both in politics and relig-
ion.
If had 81 900 or So, 900, that /
could do without, | would gladly
invest it in stock in the Blade.
But alas! of silver and gold l
have but little, but such as l have
Twill give unto thee. My prayers
to God are tor you and for more
men like you. Your paper | get
each week is read by at least four
families, and l am going to get
you five subscribers to your paper
this year at the p 'or mans rate,
or pay myself to have your paper
sent to five poor men, and more if
/ can. have said before and |
repeat it now, that l believe the
Bible from Genesis to Revelation,
but l can not believe in a religion
that gets a man no higher than to
vote the old Democratic whisky
soaked, personal liberty ticket, or
the Republican party beer guz-
zlers' ticket.
No one can be religionsly right
and politically wrong. One may
be politically right and religiously
wrong, but to be religiously right
he must be politically right. You
are doing all you can to get men
politically right. You are casting
out the whisky devil, and l am
sorry to say the disciples are for
bidding you just as they did when
Jesus was here upon earth.
They found man casting out
devils and forbade him and Went
and told Jesus about it.
And Jesus said "Fobid him moi
for he that is not against us is fol
u.s.. Aud there are a great many
preachers to- day who can't catcl
on to that statement of Jesus, bu
join the saIoon-keepers ant
whisky devils in crying infdel
infidel, and then on election da,
60 to the polls and vote for TIT
parties that legalize whisky tina
makes more infidels in one yea
than all the Tom Paices, Boil
Ingersolls and Charley Moore
that ever were on earth. MATTHEW
18th chapter 18th and 10Th verses
"Beware of false prophets whicl
come to you in sleeps clothing
but inwardly they are ravenin.
wolves. Ye shall know them b,
their fruits.
How about the crop of drunk
ards that by the votes of many o
the disciples is being brough
forth every year!
No drunkard can enter tn
Kingdom of Heaven, aud therefor
the fruit of many of those disci
Piles 10 evil. Wee unto him the
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-07
DIR. Talmage on ''Rain Max.
ing.''

While all PrOhibitionists should
appreciate the services of DR.. Tai
mage to Prohibition it is true
that as scientist he is exceed
ingly unreliable. He has lately
preached a sermon i'm which
he announces that Grain making
is All accomplished fac:, and that
the next thing to be done will be
to find some means of stopping
the rain when it is excessive.
This disposition to believe in
the improbable on very limited
testimony probably accounts for an
Orthodoxy" in religious matters
that is 81 mewhat remark able in a
man of his prominence.
Surely there has been abso-
lutely nothing in the experiments
of Gen. Dyrenturth to prove the
efficacy of his rain making theory
and there is no scientific basis for
his theory.
1t is exceedingly doubtful if il
would be any Improvement upon
the order of nature for men to eX
ercise the power of rain making il
they had the power, and it is al.
most certain that there would be
great conflict of interest and con.
sequent great dissatisfaction as tC
the time at which the rain should
be produced.
Just now for instance, | as {;
farmer, and the whole farming
interest of the Bluegrass Region
need rain for our grass and wheat
and there is nothing in the agri
cultural interest of this sectio,
that would be injured by the rain
We of the farming interest wOnlt
say, without an exception almost
that we are ready for a heavy rail-
Just at the hour | write this.
But if we had the rain maxim,
power and the superintendent Q
the weather should turn on
heavy rain right now, he woul
be in great personal danger 70
doing so, if somebody did not XII
him tor it.
Before the earth could dry fror
such a rain the time for the trOt
ting race between "Nancy Hanks
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-07

The Pen, an excellent little
monthly exchange, from Melton's
Va, says;
1--WE take no stock in infdelity;
but we do admire the way in
which the Blue Grass Blade gets
down to the bed rock principles of
sound Christian morality. and
slashes right and left the enemies
of God and humanity-even fits
editor does profess to be an in
fider'.
To all of which we say;
Them our sentiments, prezact-
ly'. Amen. The Worker
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-07

AS the issue gets its English to-
gether a little loosely, l will pre-
sumo that the above is all intended
for kindness.
1t seems strange however, that
any man should think, as the Is
sue seems to do, that there is any
"mOral merit" in belief, or de-
merit in unbelief; belief being a
mere accident of evidence, or of
the logical receptivity of the mind
to which it is presented, and both
of these being circumstances over
which a man has no control. Be-
lief and unbelief are not matters
of volition or of preference, but of
necessity.
If there is no merit or demerit
in the belief or disbelief OF the
plainest proposition conceivable,
certainly there could be no de-
merit in the disbelief of "a state
ment which seems intrinsically
and essentially improbable.
No sensible man would say that
some other man sins in not believ-
ing that the three angles of every
triangle are equivalent to two
right angles, or that third man
is a good man because he believes
that the square described on the
hypOthenuse of a right angle tri-
angle is equivalent to the sum OF
the squares described on the other
two sides.
One of the greatest scholars and
best men that l ever knew, be-
lieved that the stars were inhab.
tied by intelligent beings, and
have made the same argument in
"The Rational View, but | dc
not think that it makes man al,
better or worse to believe or dis
believe, that the stars are inhab
tied.
Talmage has lately preached
sermon in which he expresses tn,
belief that Gen. Dyrenfurth hal
succeeded in making it rain BY
: exploding gases. l have hat
precisely the same testimony OF
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-07
Col. Billy Breckenridge and
Lyman Abbott, ~ ''Frienls
and IlBamPi0ns Of the
Liquor Traffic.

The champion of Freedom
and Right" is published in Chi
cago, by Dutchman named Paul
Schuster, and is printed half in
English and hall in Dutch. 1t
claims to be "The National Rep
r4sentative of the Beer, Wine and
Spirit trade"
1t may be that Paul is
"fchuster' little vain glorious in
BIZ noble aspiration to be 1.-THE
National representative etc, but
al nong the liquor men L think his
paper is counted as high author
ity.
i Ii is edited with as much intel
lectual and moral ability as you
would reasonably expect to find
in "a paper that advocates its cause.
Its last issue devotes over a
column t. extracts from what the
Blade said about Billy Breckin-
ridge aud Lyman Abbott go
ing to Iowa to speak against Pro-
hibition, with its comments
thereon.
The article of the champion
has triple head, in big capitals,
and reads thusly;
"7hc Liquor Traffic Adcoca'es.
iiow they are abused by the press.
The last Brayiag Of a dying
.Jackass.
The article begins by saying;
For some time past one Chas. G.
Moore, of Lexington, KY, made a
regular ass of himself -outdoing even
the notorious Sam Jones in paper
called "The Blue Grass..Blade." -stE
In the last issue crazy Charlie an
nounces that his paper is busted; and
he is going to stop publication and
act as agent for the N. Y. Voice. The
lat kick of the dying Jackass is in
the direction of the Champion which
has ever been an eye-sore to every
Prohibition shouter in the-land.
The "Champion' then goes on
aud quotes what | said, and
makes its comments on it, alluding
to me as being crazy" and closes
rs follows;
1t is good thing that such blather.
sixties are starved out. Their OWL
chums despise and loath them. This
is but mild specimen of the abuse
and obloquy that is heaped by the
Prohibition press upon the friend,
and champions of the liquor traffic
And yet how do those we fight for dis
charge their obligation to us? They
ought to be ashamed of themselves
Our subscribers and advertising pa
irons of course excepted.
Thus from beginning to end O
this article. this Dutch intide
liquor editor, recognizes our "sil'
yer tongue sweet William anC
Rev. Lyman Abbott, of Brooklyn
n. Y. two of the most sanctltie6
Presbyterians in America, AS ''th'
friends and cha npions OF thu
liquor traffic
And yet the Christian churcl
in Lexingt IN, that fired me be-
cause | was an intidel, lately hat
Billy Breckenridge to deliver
Sunday school address to the chill
dren of that church.
In other words, an infide
Dutchman in Chicago, who is al
most certainly the friend of tn
Nihilists that were hung there TO
cold blooded murder-an editO
who makes his living by inducin,
young men to drink the whisk.
that intidel Dutch and Catholi
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-07

That's one of the most sensible
of the many sensible letters that
were ever written to the Blade.
That is the spirit of the Chris
tian religion. That brother says
he believes everything in the
Bible from Ginseng to Revolu-
tions. l don't tetiere all of it by
jug full, but his religion and
mine are as much alike as two
black eye peas, because we get it
out of the same book, and we are
trying to do the same thing.
blessed are they that do his COM
mandments''.
1t does not amount to hill OF
beans with me. if that brother be-
lieves that Jonah swallowed a
string of whales as long as from
here to Cincinnati, just so he does
right.
Certainly l was right when
said "DOwn with the churches
and the preachers. We don't
want one of these modern churches
or modern preachers in the world,
and the sooner We get rid of the
whole of them the better. When
the people of this country revive
the primitive church of the first
Christians. / want to take stock
in it. Those people had no build
ings tor churches but they met al
each others houses, and the pur.
pose OF the meeting was to inquire
who needed help, and to arrange
to help them, and every mar
brought along with him. money
with which to do that, according
as he had prospered in business
| am in for a church of thai
kind any day that anybody will
start it.
And as to that matter of having
property in common that thu
brother alludes to, l have said TO
years that the Shakers were no
far wrong on that subject if tn,
old fools had not spoiled it all b!
saying We should not have on
wives.
l like a good kind Of religion
very well, but | would not Civ
my wife and children for all tn
religion in the world.
, Bellamy's Looking Backward
. is all built upon the idea of tn
early Christian community O
property.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-07

giveth his neighbor drink; that
puteth the bottle unto him and
maketh him drunk. Also 2nG
chapter of Habakuk. Everyone
who votes the Democratic or Re.
publican ticket has the curse OF
God after him and will be over.
taken -ure. The Democrat and
Republican parties are whisky
parties and everybody knows it
The Christians of this country are
responsible for all the drunkards
and they will have to answer in
tie Judgment for voting for these
A just (Iod can never seLd the
drui.kard to hell and send the
man W 40 voted to license WHISKY
to heaven. The cries of defence
less women and children have
reached up to heaven. aud the
Almighty has sent out the Prohi-
bition party to stop the whisky
business. and il must stop; if it
takes year, or ten thousand
years, the rum traffic must die
You ask the people from all
over the country to write aud let
you know whether you are the
light man or not. You are ex
actly the right man i'm the right
place. No amount of kid glove
handling these religious and po-
li,ical hypocrites, viii ever in the
world avail anything.
Nothing bat just such sledge
hammer blows as you are hitting
them will ever cause them to quit
their evil ways. Hold them up
and expose their evil deeds, their
wicked ways, their vile practices,
and their bad habits; and their
self respect will help them to re-
form. If they do not reform the
people will forsake them sooner
or later. Give us an editor like
you to run his paper in every
State in the Union and the money
to run his paper as it ought to be
run. and the Prohibition party
will rule this country in less than
five ) ears.
A word now to those who owe
Bro. Moore for his paper.
Ifyou want to help put out the
devil send the money you
owe by the next mail, if possible.
Get up a club in the near future;
take as much stock in the Blade
rs you can. Only let us furnish
the editor with the sinews of war,
and if you do not hear the whisky |
monster roaring in less than a
year | can not discern the signs
Of the times.
But if you desire whisky rule
hypocrisy and drunkenness, just
continue to howl intidlel, infidel,
refuse to pay the editor what you
Justly owe him, and continue to
vote the Democratic and Repub-
lean tickets, and if you are not
in the final judgment
)y those who nave been made
Trunk, and who robbed and stole
md murdered while under the in
1uence of whisky it will be be-
cause there is no, just judgment in
he universe.
Brethren. go read Acts 4 and
), and compare the church of the
present day with the church you
'ead Of there, and ask yourselves
vas not Charley Moore half right
when he said "Down with the
churches. Compare the preach
ng of to-day with the preaching
IF that day and ask yourelves was
he not half right when he said
Down with the preachers.
God bless the church and the
preachers; they are asleep
Brethren like the disciples the
light Jesus was taken. Let us
wake them.
Yours for Prohibition,
K. G. ROLPH.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-07

the subject that l)r. laimage has
had, but do not believe that
Gen. Dyrenturth ever made sim
gle raindrop fall, or that the firing
of columbiad or gas balloon
would come any nearer to making
a rain than the firing of "a
Christmas fire cracker.
Yet nobody would say that Tai
mage's beliefin Dyrenfnrth's rain
theory makes Talmage any better
man than / am.
l know the best kind of men
who believe in spiritualism, and
believe that they see spirits and
talk to them, and / believe them
to be sensible and cultivated and
honest men; and yet after l have
carefully listened to their testi-
mony on the subject | do not be-
lieve there is any reason to be-
lieve what they believe on that
subject, and | do not believe any
of it; and yet no man of sound
Judgment says that | sin in not
believing what these gentlemen
do.
The large majority of us are
satisfied from the evidence tina,
the world and the heavenly bodies
move; but when occasionally we
come across a man who does not
accept the Coperuican theory OF
astronomy, but inclines to the
opinion of the Rev. Joseph that
"the sun do move," nobody says
the majority are any better or the
dissenter is any worse in conse-
quence of their belief or disbelief
about the earth's motion, though
We have all had precisely the
same evidence on the subject.
But if 1 go ahead and say fur
thermore that / believe that for
the last ten thousand years the
earth and all Of these heavenly
bodies have moved without in
terruption, just as they are doing
to-day, my brother Prohibition
editor of the "Issue" will insinu-
ate that l am a "fooP' and that
because believe that l deserve
to be burnt in hell just little
less than a man who uphOlds the
liquor traffic.
My brother of the tissue" calls
my attention to the alleged fact
that about three thousand years
ago, a man named Joshua having
occasion to murder great many
innocent men could not get
through the job before night, 80
he just ordered the sun and moon
to stand still, and the earth and
heavenly bodies all Obeyed him.
In all the cycles of eternity my
brother of the "Issue" thinks that
such a thing never had been done
before, and never will be done
again, even by the God that made
the universe, but because l do not
believe that story and could not
believe it, if my life depended upon
it, my brother ProhibitiOnist
seems to think it an instance of
rare Christian charity that he
holds me morally a little above a
man who does believe that story
but is engaged in perpetuating the
damnest infamy that ever dis
graced the human race. II
Just as long as the belief in
that story of Joshua is made any
part of the Christian religion. and
4 man who does not believe it but
does love and revere the character
Of Jesus of Nazareth, is put almost
On the same footing with a man
who does believe it and votes
against Prohibition, will the
church be the covenant with hell
and league with the devil' and
'bulwark of the rum traffic that
the New York Voice said it is,
and to which the large majority
Of the Prohibition papers of the
United States have said Amen.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-07

The Iowa State Register is Just
"socking it, to the third party Prohi-
tionists these days. Helen NJ. Gou-
gar, "a Pr"hibitionist agitator, is re-
ferred to as one of a lot of checker
careered females" the product Of
whose brains is "foulsome mental
sewer gas" Really now, can such
talk make votes for the Republican
acknowledgements Republican.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-07-02
An American Queen.



Mrs. John ID. Rockefeller-the wife
Of the great Standard Oil king, whose
fortune is estimated at over one hun
dred million dollars. and who is adding
to it so rapidly that, if he lives, in =
few years he will be the wealthiest
man on this Continents modest,
quiet. unassuming woman, devoted 20
her household, her family, and her
home, and who never figures in the
society newspapers or in the great
social events OF New York. Ii is be-
cause she wills 1t so. She has no taste
or inclination for fast life Like her
husband, she is a member OF the Fifth
Avenue Baptist church The Rookie
fellcrs live on West Fifty fourth street.
IN New York city, opposite st. Luke's
Hospital and the inmates of that place
where so much pain, misery, and sor-
row are daily seen, know Mrs. Rookie
Teller better than the habtues Of Fifth
Avenue. Two or three times a week
she visits the hospital, carries flowers
and delicacies there for the poor and
sick, and in other ways tries to bring
sunshine into the lives of the poor uu-
fortunates. She gives away great
deal OF money aud is always trying to
do good. Her home is not very preten-
tious. Mrs. Rocketeller's two daugh-
tiers employ the services Of but one
maid. These daug h,ers. Alta and Edith.
have been brought up in the good old
fashioned wav. aud have been taught
TO wait upon themselves There are no
powdered innkeys at the door ; a white
capped maid takes the visitor card,
and Mrs. Rockefeller. if she cares to
see the caller, very soon appears in her
rcceptlUn-room. She is her own house
keeper and keeps set Of books III
which every cent expended is account
ed for. II i, said she can turn back
ten years and tell the exact amount OF
money spent IN any week OF the year.
Her eldest daughter is now the wife Of
Rev. Charles Strong, son Of the presi-
dent OF the Utica Theological Scmin-
AIRY. The three daughters were edu-
Gated at Nassar. and the oldest one,
instead Of Speeding her allowance for
luNuriously furnished rooms and rich
gowns, paid for two years the college
bill OF pretty girl from the country
who was working her way through
school II is a model American home
there are prayers in the lnornIn. and
III the evening, and sometimes father,
mother, and children gather round the
organ III the back parlor and together
sing a hymn or two. Mrs Rockefeller
is peril forty-tive wears of age
Ladtes' Journal.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-07-02
Would You
MRS. LOUISA 7. STRONG.

Would you sell yourself for a drink, boys
A drink from the poisoned cup?
For taste of the cleaning wine, boys,
Would you yield your manhood up?
Would you bind yourselves with chains
boys,
And rivet the letters fast?
Would you bolt your prison doors, boys,
Preventing escape at last?
Would you wreck your youth and health
boys,
Those blessings God has given?
Would you ruin your life on earth, boys,
And blast your hopes of Heaven?
Would you dig, with your own hands
your grave, boys,
And willingly cast yourselves in2
Would you die a besotted wretch, boys,
In poverty, sorrow and sin?
All, no. a thousand times no! boys,
You were born for noble end;
In you are your country's hopes, boys,
Her honor the boys must defend.
Then join the great temperance band
boys.
And pledge yourselves strong agans
Rum;
Stand firm as a rock on your pledge, boys
And fight till the foe is o'ercome
Toledo Blade, Apr. 9. 1891.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-07-02
Dedication.

The Union church at West Franklin
was dedicated June 10th. The indebt.
edness Of the church wa. $40 A col.
lection was taken up just before the
sermon, which was sufficient to free the
church from debt. There was very
good attendance in the forenoon and
in the afternoon the church was filled
to overlooking. A large number were
compelled to remain outside. The fol-
lowing is the order of exercises:
l. Organ Voluntary.
2 Invocation Rev. Mr.. Gross Of Franklin
B. Anthem-Choir.
4. Scripture lesson-Rev. Z. H. Doane
BroOkln. Maine.
5. Prayer-Rev. j. B. Brown, Machias.
6. Report of committee-E. Debeck, Wes
Franklin.
I. Hymn-Cboir, No. S6S.
S. SermOn-Rev. c. E. Mason of Bangor.
8. Hymn-Choir. No. $50.
10. Dedicatory prayer-Rev. +. S. Bckford
of Lamone.
II. Selection Choir.
II. Benediction-Rev. Mr.. Harding of Ellis
b. worth.
In the evening there was sermon
by Rev F. S. Bickford of Lamoine.
June II. H. A. S.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-07-02
Portland Transcript
Dreams and Dreaming.

1t Is fact, known to manv that the
position one occupies when asleep has
much TO DO with what is dreamed Per
sons who sleep upon the right side,
seldom have fearful dreams. They
may meet wild beasts, and have fights
with enemies, but are quite sure 10
conquer. Upon the left side, dreams
are generally pleasant. Heaven is
dreamed Of. and old friends are met,
and one often wakes with a happy
heart. Upon the back, dreams are
generally Of fearful character II we
are pursued by an enemy we are sure
to be overtaken. We have no power
to fight, and passively submit 10 being
tlayed alive. 1t is a dangerous position
to occupy when asleep. and should
be avoided. Without doubt many per-
SONS die in their sleep by being scared
to death by frightful dreams, aud the
danger of sleeping upon the back is
shown by the fact that nearly all per-
sons found dead in bed were upon their
backs. Those who lie upon the face,
or partially SO, seldom dream. In a
sitting position, one seldom dreams
anything trightful. If farmer, the
common business Of the day is dream
ed of. The neighbors may call. or
the near approach of some domestic
animal may cause him to awake A
stranger may call at the door, perhaps
in rags or curiously draped. If a fight
occurs the dreamer is sure to win, and
often awakes with a smile to see his
enemy retreating.
-Thos. 4. Crabree.