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Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-28
ssThe Churches that Protect ID
be Damned''-New York
Voice.

The New York Voice of No
vember 18th. has an editorial, a
part of which 1 give, that sounds
SO much like the Blade that many
readers of the Blade can recog-
nize the similarity. to what 1 say,
when l get to talking in the plu-
raj tenses"-as Uncle 10 MOsby
used to call it-and in five years
from now if l should hear it read
without knowing who wrote it /
would think l had done so.
If l can keep the Voice reading
the Blade a little longer. l will
make a good Prohibition paper
of it.
The excerpt is as follows.
"Whether it helps the Prohibi
ton party; whether it helps OF
hurts the temperance organiza-
ton; whether it helps or hurts the
churches; and whether it helps OF
hurts the "Voice" or its publish.
ers, we demand, in the name OF
humanity, in the name of those
principles of righteousness and
morality that outlive all parties
and ante-date all churches, in the
name of wrecked man.
hood outraged womanhood and
crushed childhood, in the name o
Christ in the "glad news" that
He preached, we demand tina
the churches shall rebuke thos'
who are perpetuating by law Thu
atrOcity Of misunderstanding
or stand branded as recreant t.
every principle that it Processes t.
uphold. If our demand resulted
i'm the Obliteration of the PrOhi
bition party tomorrow we would
make it nevertheless. If it re
suits in the destruction of ever,
church organization on American
soil the day after, We would reit
crate it all the same. There j
one thing that stands above al
parties and creeds and State con
situations, and that is TRUTH
The institution that trembles an,
totters when the utmost truth get
itself spoken, is one that ought t
tremble and is sure to tOtter w
have been told ad nauseam of tn
terrible effects our recent declara
tions would have upon the Pro
hibition Party. We don't believ
one syllable of the forebOdings
but if we believed them all the
would make no difference. w
are not assailling the church; bu
We assail living lie that has 60
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-28
The Heather Blade to 60 "a
AN old Time Quaker and
AbOlitiOnist.

DARLINGTON, KY, Nov. IS, 81
Charles c. Moore, Esq.
DEAR SIR-Find enclosed check
on the bank of the state of New
York for $500.
Place $500 to my credit, and
send for the other $500, a copy of
the Blade to Geo. Il. Atkinson,
Mullen Hill. New Jersey.
Mr.. A. is 81 years old-a
Quaker-a temperance man, and
was GarisOnian AbOlitionist.
know he will enjoy the re-
marks of heather.
Yours,
JOHN b. ATKINSON.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-28
4 Georgetown Prohibition dog.

Mr.. Muccie of Georgetown,is as
his name would indicate, an Ital-
ian, and he is a good old citizen.
Editor Garrett, of the Enterprise
here has just gotten Mr.. Muccie to
tell me about his dog. He says
he has a dog to which he can give
his pocket book, and send him to
the butchers or other places to
make purchases for him, Or to get
his mail.
The old gentleman has been
trying to train him to bring beer,
but he says the dog spills the beer
all along the street. He says he
whipped him about it; but the dog
seems averse to carrying beer.
Plain case of Prohibition dog.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-28
An Important typographical
Correction.

The Blade of November 81,
makes me say 81 hate the
Yankees 1t was typographical
error, and should have been IL
hated the Yankees" 1t alluded
to how l felt during the var, and
does not at all express my present
telling. l voted for Clinton B.
Fisk a Yankee General for Presi
dent of the United States.
l do not use the term Yankee
and "Rebel" invidiously, but
simply "for Short" instead of say
ing "Union soldier" and Coon
federate Colonel"
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-28

So you see there are people in
the world who are temperance
workers who like me because |
am a heather. You know Bro.
Duff of Lexington, some time ago
gave me a dollar to send the
Blade for 6 months to an old Bro.
Overstreet. The old Brother that
is Overstreet; Duff is unmarried
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-28
THAT Presbyterian hop at the
Ph9niX.''

LEXINGTON, Nov. Is 81.
Mr.. &. O. Moore,
DEAR SIR-GO on with the
Blade. Please roast these hypo-
critics in Lexington. Give it to
these pool rooms, and the Brock
inridge fight, and that Presbyte-
rian hop at the Phoenix.
Yours fraternally
A SUBSCRIBER.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-28
Amendments Of Professor A.
l.. Voters. Prohibition
State Organizer.
Attention, Editor Of the Ken
tuckian- Citizen.

sThe Blue Grass Blade is surely
crazier than ever" said good Chris
tan lady. Editor Moore says
preachers here i'm Lexington are a
worthless set" because they didn't get
more than 62 votes in Lexington for
Prohibition. -Kentuckian-C Citizen.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-28
indiana Aesivity.

Gov. st. John will make twenty
speeches i'm Indiana, in November.
under direction of the State Commit
tee. LaPorte, Upton, Franklin,
Goshen, Terre Haute, Sullivan.
Parkc county, Logansrort and Royal
Center, have already spoken for him.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-28

We right frequently get a card
like that. No newspaper has any
way of telling what address Mr..
Ranshaw's paper shall be changed
from. | will send him his paper
to Lexington as desired, but have
no way OF telling where his paper
has been going, and it will go on
and be lost.
You must tell what place to
change it from as well as what
place to change it to.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-28

Bro. Brooks was a member
with me, of the last Prohibition
State Executive Committee, and
though he is a young man, there is
not a man in the world, whose en-
dorsement l more highly value.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-28

The Prohibition papers of Ohio are
to unite in an Ohio Prohibition Press
Association for mutual oonsultatioa
and helpfulpesA
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-28

l have them all in soak and
will use them some of these
days.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-28

November 81, 1891.
c. G. MOoRE-Please change
address of my Blade to Box 131.
Lexington, KY, and oblige.
GEO. B. RANsHAw.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-28

The departure and the previous ar
rival contrast very strongly in one
respect. When patient comes to
Dwight he slips off, pretends to be
going somewhere else, and has his
friends pledged to secrecy. When no
leaves here he has already written or
sent word to every one he knows, SO
secrecy being no longer possible. he
leaves In Q storm Of farewells In
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

rudiments Of education in a Wisconsin
country school. At eleven he became a
monk in St. V%incent's abbey, Pennsylva.
MIA. At thirteen he entered the scholastic
cate of the order of St. Benedict, discarding
his baptismal name n adopting that of
Innocent. At twenty-three he was or
dained a priest. He gave so much promise
of usefulness that Archabbot WINNER, of
St. Vincent's, sent him to Rome, where he
was enrolled as a student of the "Sapienza"
during four years.
He graduated at the age of twenty-seven
with the highest honors of his class, and
received the degree of doctor of divinity.
Returning to America, Father Innocent
successfully occupied positions of profess.
or, project of the seminary, p~rocurator,
prior, and master of novices. At the age
of thirty-three he was elected first abbot of
the newly erected abbey of St. Benedict,
at Atchison. His benediction and install
lation took place on the feast of St. Bene.
dict, March 81, 1877. Besides St. Bene.
diets abbey and college, a dependent
house of the order at Burlington, Ia, is
also under his care. In addition he is first
visitator of the American-Casines Congre.
cation of Benedictines, a position ranking
next tt that of president of the congrega-
ton.
The Americana asinese congregation
takes it's name from Mount Casino, in Italy,
where St. Benedict founded the first mon
astery of the order which bears his name,
in the Sixth century, and is so called to
distinguish it from the Swiss branch.
Abbot Wolf is q native of Schmidtheim,
Rhenish Prussia. His parents brought
him to America in 1851, when he was eight
years old. settling in Wisconsin.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12
DIR. NANSEN.

You'd which no EsquimauX are found, not
because of the cold, perhaps, but because
there is no food, nothing, indeed, but ice.
In 1875 the Alert and Discovery sailed
from Portsmouth, England, and on the
18th of May, 1876, the sledges of the Alert
reached latitude So degs. 20 min. 26 Sec,
the most northern point then attained, and
far beyond the most northern range of the
EsquimauX. From the loftiest point at
tainable no signs of an open polar sea were
discovered, but all in sight suggested pre-
cipitous mountains of ice, rising higher
and higher toward the pole. The vessels
wintered in latitude 50 dogs. 81 min., where
the sun was out of sight 142 days, and no
EsquimauX were anywhere found north of
81 degs. SO sec. Yet the greatest cold reg
istered was but q dogs. below zero, and of
12O persons only four died-one by FROST
bite and three by scurvy.
The Scandinavians had meanwhile sailed
along the northern coast of Asia, and in
1879 Lieutenant De Long sailed in the
Jeanette. 1t was crushed by ice June %,
1881, and three months later two of its
boats reached the mouth of the Lena. The
third, De Long in command, was lost, and
in March, 1882, the corpses of him and his
companions were found in a Siberian
forest. The last to attract general atten-
ton was the Greedy expedition, and the
details. so far as known, bear an IN
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12
Women in Government Employ.

In the post, telegraph, telephone and
postal savings bank departments of
France women are employed as follows:
AS aids in Offices of secondary impor-
tance.
AS employees at the telegraph and tele-
phone offices in Paris and important towns.
AS clerks in the savings bank and book
keeping department of Paris.
AS receivers.
The personnel is recruited from the aux
~iliaries, who must be sixteen years of age
II free from any weakness which would
prevent their being employed in any branch
of the service. These aides are under the
direction of the receivers, and rise by eX-
aminations. Postulants must prove that
they have lived honorably in company with
persons of their own families. Age for
entrance, eighteen to twenty-five.
The relatives of employees have the right
to come up first for examination. The
value of the appointments varies from 500
to 800 francs a year, rising at the rate of
100 francs at Il time. Posts in the savings
bank are reserved us far as may be for the
wives, daughters, daughteEs-in-law and Sis
ters of public servants and officers of the
army and navy.-New York Sun.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12
THE GOVERNORS HOUSE.

rooms, the generous hall, twenty feet wide;
the spacious verandas and park of fine
trees, all show the views which the pro-
prietors had of IL home suitable for the SER
wants of the king.
For several years this mansion was
graced by the presence of Chief Justice
Smythe, and in October, 1774, some ten
months after the historic Indian entertain
ment known as the Boston Tea Party, his
excellency Governor William Franklin,
son of Benjamin Franklin, took possession
of the place, and had a most unhappy time.
He was a thorough l~oyalist, and stuck to
his colors till General Hugh Mercer
swooped down with his Flying Brigade
and arrested him in his bedroom in this
house. He was taken away to Burlington
and Perth Amboy knew him no more.
Then the house w;fs the British headquar-
tiers. After the war it was partially
burned, then rebuilt and made a hotel.
Just before the war of 1912 it was II place
of fashionable resort, particularly by
southerners. Finally the place was
bought by Matthias Bruen, inherited by
DR.. Alexander NJ. Bruen, and by him
given to the board of relief of the Presby-
terrain church in 1883, as IA tablet in the
hall, with the following, shows:
This tablet was erected to the memory of
Alexander NJ. Brucn, who was born Dec. II,
1908: died Oct. :, lS,j. This house was in the
year 1888 donated by him as a home for disabled
ministers of the Presbyterian church. Them
that honor me, | will honor."-I Samuel KIN.
The place is therefore now IL refuge for
old and iniirm clergymen and their wives
and Il charming home they find there.
Apropos of William Franklin, the last
governor who lived in this mansion, his ia
ther, the immortal Benjamin, said upon
one occasion: "iViIl is now nineteen years
of age, Il tall, proper youth and much of q
, beau. He is somewhat overcoming his
idle habits, as | have assured him that |
intend to spend what little l have myself,
if it please God that l live long enough;
and as he by no means lacks acuteness, he
can see by my going on that mean to be
as good as my word"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

BARON NoRDENsKJoLD. longitude 40 dogs.
48 min. 80 sec. This is probably the near
est point to the pole ever reached by man,
savage or civilized.
Of this years expeditions the most in
teresting to Americans is that of the Kite,
a whaling vessel, which sailed from New
York recently, carrying Lieutenant Robert
E. Peary and Professor Angelo Heilprin,
of the Academy of Natural Sciences if
Philadelphia. The former thinks he can
find a mooth route through middle Greenz
land to its northern coast, and hence lay
out a route to the pole, and the latter is to
ascertain the physical facts about the re-
gion. They will go into winter quarters
early, and expect to do their principal work
next year. Greenland's interior is a huge
icecap, of which .Fridtjof Nansen crossed
the southern part in 1883, and Lieutenant
Peary went some distance into the interior
in 1886. He designs to repeat that trip and
then &c north along the center of the ice
cap.
DR.. Nansen, the Norwegian scientist, de-
signs following the course of the Jeanette,
and thinks he can avoid the errors of her
managers. Another expedition is that of
the Danish government, and is command
ed by Lieutenant Ryder, of the Danish
navy. He purposes to explore the eastern
coast of Greenland. And lastly Baron
Nordenskjold, whose experience on the
north coast of Europe and Asia qualities
him for the task, purposes to explore the
mysteries of far southern ice, and get as
j. 81. BEADLz.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12
A WESTERN GIRL IN NEW YORK.
She Has Had II Singulariy Adventurous
and Successful Career.

She Has Had IL singulariy adventurous
and Successful Career.
One of the most remarkable young wom-
en- of the time is Cynthia NJ. Westover,
secretary of Street Commissioner Beattie,
of New York city. In variety of accom-
plishments there is scarcely her equal any
where among women. Her father was a
geologist and expert miner, and the child
learned to ride almost before she could
walk. She rode with her father all through
the western mountain and mining regions
from Mexico to the Canada line in his pros
pecting Journeys. During these years the
child became an expert shot and horse
woman. and learned the Spanish language
besides.
Once, when little girl, she shot dead an
Indian who had his tomahawk uplifted
over the head of u white woman. Again,
when her fathers camp was surrounded
by hostile Indians, she galloped out upon
her pony and brought relief. The redskins
saw her, but they were used to meeting the
child riding about after the COWS and did
not disturb her. She had played many a
time with the little Indian children and
thus won the good will of the older ones.
These years were the making of Cynthia
MISSIONER. They gave her health, practical
knowledge and splendid independence and
self reliance. She was so much at home
with the shy wild creatures of the wood
that she learned their calls, and they came
to her like domestic birds INC animals.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12
CHARMS OF THE ARCTICS.
PRESENTATIONS OF THE FROZEN RE-
GlONS FOR EXPLORERS.

Four Expeditions Now En- Route for the
North Pole and One for the South
Pole-Previous Attempts and Their Re-
suits.
1t is not easy to explain in a popular
article why any one should be eager to
reach either pole of the earth except as
matter of mere curiosity, but navigators
have been trying it at frequent intervals
for nearly four centuries, and this summer
five expeditions will start-four for the
north pole and one for the south. 1t is
some slight satisfaction, however, to learn
that there has been a steady gain, though
a very slow one. and that in 1882 two men
reached Il point within less than 400 miles
from the north pole-to wit, latitude SO
dogs. PAX min.
We may name Sebastian Cabot as the
pioneer, and his object and that of his
successors for over three centuries was
to find the northwest or northeast route
to Asia. Within the Sixteenth cent
ury Frobisher, Davis, Willoughby, Chan
cellor, Barentz and others searched
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12
W\NNNA-~n~

She had a strange power over them, and
used to come into camp with wild birds
and squirrels upon her shoulders. Besides
that she could laSSO Il steer with the best
of them. When at length she went to
graduate at the state university of Colo
RADIO she paid for her last years tuition
with the price Of her own small herd of
cattle, which the gallant cowboys mostly
took care of for her.
The girl mostly fitted herself for college.
After graduating at the normal depart
ment of Colorado university she took full
curse in a commercial college. In Denver
she taught school Il while, taking charge of
the truant and bad boys of the streets.
Her great force and magnetic power, as
well as her wonderful executive ability,
showed itself in the way in which she
Strengthened out the crooked sticks among
the rude children she dealt with. The little
girl VITO had brought the birds and ami
mails to her side at her call, controlled with
out effort the almost equally unframed chill
dren of Denver streets.
The same magnetic power, coupled again
with striking practical executive ability, is
manifest in the street commissioners office
in New York. Fifteen hundred Italian
laborers are employed in this department.
Cynthia MISSIONER can talk to them in
their own language and "boss' them as
few men have been able successfully to do.
During an illness of Commissioner Beattie
lasting several weeks she managed entirely
the affairs Of the whole street cleaning de-
partment of New York.
Miss Westover obtained her appointment
in the beginning simply because she passed
the best examination of any applicant for
the place. New York state is under a
civil service law. When this girl got the
place many were the Disguised faces among
the "boys," who thought al Office with
a salary of 81, 800 quite wasted on Il omar
Once in office, the young lady found there
were several things she did not know. She
was ignorant of some of the technical
terms used in the office, for one thing. I'm
mediately she got a dictionary and sat up
much CT the night learning these terms, also
learning something else of which she was
ignorant. That was how to calculate the
amount of dirt a street cart and a dump
scow would hold. In New York the street
sweepings and garbage are loaded upon
scows and towed, or supposed to be lowed,
by tugs out into the Atlantic ocean and
dumped among the wild waves. 1t was a
part of Miss Westover's duties to calculate
how many cubic feet of this refuse could
be loaded upon a cart or scow. She can do
it now to a dot.
She went to live in an Italian family to
learn their language, and had herself fined
a cent for every English word spoken. The
first day it cost her 50 80, but after that it
came easier. Finally, she IAN sing like II
bird, IL has been a member of an opera
company ELIZA ARCHAED CoNNEE.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12
How They Walk.

Governor Hill is al astute walker. He
has an air of caution about him, and when
he puts his No. rs down he does it boldly,
but at the same time with considerable
care. His walk is quite indicative of the
man. He seldom shows himself at the
New York theaters, and when at his hotel
takes little exercise in the lobbies, prefer
ring Broadway at a good swinging gait.
Mr.. Cleveland walks with care. He takes
lots of time but puts his feet down with an
air of 81 know what | am doing"
Mayor Grant has a decidedly stacy walk.
1t is said that New York's mayor at one
time had a decided liking for the profes-
sion and devoted a few years in studying
how to become an actor. Mayor Grant
would pass for Il successful business man
were it not for his walk.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12
A Ruler Tired of His Place.

1t looks as though another king might
soon retire from business. Charles of
Portugal threatens to abdicate because of
the political turmoil in the land over which
he is nominal ruler. If he carries out his
intention he will find several sympathizers
-ex-Queen Isabella of Spain, eN-Emperor
Dom Pedro Of Brazil, and ex-king Milan
of Servia being among the number.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

long for the want
ed passage, and
early in the next
century Henry
Hudson sacrificed
his life by persist
ence in the at
tempt. EARLY in
the Eight g e II t h
century the mari
time nations wed
with each other in
daring attempts
upon the north.
Behring became
famous by his dis
c%overies, and Van
couver surveyed
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

pleasant re Sc M
blance to those re-
lated of the rear
guard" of Stanley
Africanus. Suffice
it here to say that
on t h e 18th of
May, 1882, Lieu
tenant Lockwood
and two compan-
ions in this expe-
dition reached the
most n orth r
point on record
latitude SO dogs. "a
min. 80 Sec, in
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

belief in all "open
polar sea" became
general. June 90,
1871, Captain Hall
sailed from New
York in the Polar
is. He died in the
Arctic regions s,
but not till several
other expeditions
had been organ
lied. At last the
fact was conclu-
SlVely PROV d
that there is a
northern limit to
h u IN a n occupa-
ton. There GER
tain1y iS q limo bo-
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

west coast of America. Captains Parry
and Lyon became famous early in this
century, and then all interest centered in
Sir John Franklin.
In 1885 a company was formed in London
called the Fellowship for the Discovery of
the Northwest Passage" and from 1743 to
1918 parliament offered geo, GOO for this dis
covery. Later a reward of $4,000 was
guaranteed to any one who should pass no
dogs. westward; later changed to l20, and
lastly to 100 degs. Captain Parry received
one of these rewards. Sir John Franklin
did discover a northwest passage, such as
it was, for he sailed down Peel strait and
Victoria strait, since called Franklin strait.
He died, as was afterward discovered, on
the 18th of June, 1S47, and much of the
work of several subsequent expeditions
consisted in tracing his course.
Americans, Germans and Scandinavians
then took the lead for some years, and the
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12
A Satire on English Weather.

According to a London paper the vari-
able English climate is neatly satirized by
an Australian c~olonist who has lately Wis
tied the mother country. He points out
that when a doctor orders change for his
patient the prescription eau be carried ont
efficiently by simply waiting for the next
day, when a change of weather is sure to
ensue. @- d.. %