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Blue-grass blade., 1891-12-12
A WHISKY NERVE.
u. Quad Tells What Alcoholic Stimu-
Iants VIII Do for II Man.

n. Quad Tells What Alcoholic Stima-
Iants VIII Do for II Man.
saw an exhibition of nerve aud pluck
tue other day which ought to be recorded
Ia black and white. From the cornice of
3re of the tall buildings was suspended
Q painters scaffolj. They are raised
and lowered. as you know, by the paint
ers pulling on Il tackle at either end.
Few men can look up from the walk at
the scaffold, swaying about under the
cornice and the men coolly plying their
brushes, without feeling the flesh creep
little: The breaking of a rope means
| tCatn to the men on the scaffold and,
perhaps, to TWO or three pedestrians be-
low. Should one of the men lose his
balance and fall he'd strike the fagstones
and have every bone broken.
Three or four of us We're looking up
from doorway opposite, when one of
the painters dropped his brush and
lurched about as if drunk. The other
cried out to him sharply, and he lay
down on the scaffold as if helpless. The
man had either taken sick or was over
come by fright. There was no one on
the roof. We saw the other painter look
up and around iii an anxious way, aid
then he crrpt along the scaffold to his
partner. Ii he tried to brace him up it
was Il failure. He took the slack of the
rope and passed it about him SO that he
could not roll off and then he begin
hosting up the scaffold. He pulled that
end up about two feet, and then crept
down and raised the other to correspond.
There WAS IL lit of ten or twelve feet,
and he passed from end to end of the
scaffold five or six times before he had
elevated it 10 the corrice and could step
OFF. The other man lay as if dead. and
was pulled of onto the roof so helpless
that he could not stand. He WAS sitti.,g
with his back to chimney when / got
up there, and no dead mans face was
ever winter He trelnbled IN every lin.
his teeth chartered aud his eyes seemed
to have lost all expression.
whats the natter" asked the other
painter, who was calmly adding little
oil to the mixture in his pail.
"New mad" lie brusquely replied.
'How do you mean
ats his first time on swing scaffold :"
he explained. land lie was foolish enough
to take a drink of whisky to brace his
nerves."
"And didn't it:'
For half an hour or so, then it col
lapsei him, rs it always does everybody,
and he Went to pieces quick AS wink"
''ls it your first experience
"Not by dozen! Most of 'en act this
way the first time. You've got to give
'em sharp talk and tie 'em ON or they'll
do something desperate"
"And weren't You at all rattled?'
'Shoo! | eel my pulse"
And he whistled merrily rs he stirred
the mixture and waited for another man
to come and ~ down with him.
Glow do you feol:' | asked the other.
He tried to reply, but his tongue
seemed to have lost its power, and after
two or three efforts he began weeping
like a child. lie WAS utterly annerved.
M Onad in New York World.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-12-12

Col. A. M. Swope told me, not
long before he was killed, that
that was one of the brightest
young women he had ever met;
and yet she would rather get
brick into one of these old hard
shell Presbyterian meetin houses
that thousand rich old hypocriti-
cal ignoramuses will help to build.
because they think the devil will
get them if they don't do it, than
help me in my almost single
handed fight in Kentucky, against
a sin tfat is disgrace to Chris
tendon.
Durn old John Calvin; | am
glad he is dead, and that Briggs
is knocking the stuffing out of the
influence he has had on the world.
That young wOman's father
fought against the gridiron flag
with Billy Breckenridge, and Billy
being Presbyterian, is, in their
eyes, a ''little tin god" that Nc
Kinley wants TO boost with pro
tective tariff. That young woman
can tell yOu all about McKinley's
tin bill, and all the humdrum clap
trap the Democrats are continu-
ALLY pow-wowing over, but | will
bet the Bluegrass Blade for year
against dollar, that she did not
know that the finest women in
the world from Europe, Asia, At
RIGA, Australia and the Pacific
Islands, met in Faneuil Hall in
Boston, the other day, with Lady
Henry Somerset, of England and
FraLces E Willard of America at
the head of them, all working to-
gether to help Prohibition; and
they did not care any more for old
Calvin's cast iron religion and
McKinley's tin politics than the
man in the moon cares for little
dog that barks at him.
With different enrirOnments-as
everybody has to call it these
days-that bright young woman
would be Il Helen M. Cougar, OF
Helen III. Gardner and would be
making her impress on the world
for she has just as much brains as
any Of them: but, raised up on
Democracy and the catechism, she
is content to spend her life getting
bricks into houses that propagate
a religion Of the dark ages, in
vented by an old scoundrel who i:
in hell to-day, if there is any hell
and who, as Bob Ingersoll says
deliberately parted his coat tail,
and turned his back and warmed
himself, by the fire that was roast
ing Michael Servetus.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-12-12
Kicking About my Reing 8,
Hcaflien.

AUGUSTA, KY, Nov. 13, 1891.
Charles G. Moore, Georget,mn, Ky.
My DEAR BRoTHER-I have
just got through reading the
Blade received to-day.
We have some good men here to
whom | had you send specimen
copies of the Blade-Prahibition-
ists-who, while they, / believe,
would like to read your way of
putting the Prohibition question,
say they could not let such a
paper-so irreverent and infidel;
that's the way they put it-go into
their homes for their children to
read. Now brother as | have said
also reason with some of my
friends, when they come to look
at what you say about the Chris
tan religion squarely. they must
admit that you are about right.
No man can eXtol the life teach
ings of Christ MS you do. and be
much of an infidel or a bad man
On the other hand it makes me,
as some others have said to you,
feel like trying to be a better
man. And that other question
equal rights OF the scxes-y'n are
just where L have been from my
youth. 1t has grown with my
growth and strengthened with my
strength.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-12-12

gone a snipe shooting, or was TAX
ing all after dinner nap, and they
ought to pray louder and wake
him up.
Now you don't understand
about that pile of wood burning
with all tina: "water' on it; do
you? Nay verify.
Well. l will explain it TO you.
There was not a drop of 'oater
in Bro. Liiah's buckets. 1t was
all "Headlight' coal oil.
Bro. Elijah knew about coal oil
and the heather didn't; and they
didn't know about matches either,
and the old man just clear got
away with them.
Real my book "The Rational
View" and it will explain all
those things to you.
| credited Bro. McDaniePs
money on his own account.
You can read that story in l.
Kings, 1888.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-12-12

paralyzed by alcohol. If the
Christian people who claim-pri-
vately, not publically-that they
espouse the cause of Prohibition
would work with the same untir-
ing zeal that the saloon-keeper
does, they might expect to accom-
plish something The saloon
keeper has money III view and he
is up, in the morning by 4 O'Clock,
and rarely ever lags in his chosen
pursuit until 2 or 3 o'clock at
at night. The Christian people,
if the Bible is true, have some
thing more valuable than money
to inspire them in their fight
against whisky, for it is written
that "No drunkard shall inherit
the Kingdom Of heaven"
Therefore, from their stand
point they would, if they spent
their time in saving souls, be
worthy of a crown which money
can rot buy. If there is anything
in the world that | like better
than Prohibition it is consistency
Respectfully yours
j. III. HENDERSON.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-12-12
Drunken Workers Digging for Dead

Drunken Workers Digging for Dead Men.
Even in the awful and CHASTITY affair
in Park place i'll New York city, in
which over sixty persons We're crushed
and roasted to death, the drink evil had
its part toplay. Harper's Weekly charges
that the men employed in searching the
ruins for the dead We're drunk most of
the time, and that for thi, reason the
work was carried on in the most brutal
and Inefficient manner. While the search
was in progress number of the daily
papers severely criticised the police for
allowing so many rumsellers aud small
politicians to crowd themselves Into the
space which should have been reserved
only for the friends of the dead and the
workers in the ruins.-Christian at
Work.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-12-12
Drink Ruins Many Intellects.

Mrs. Liyrrmore's assertion that intern
perance is greatly increasing the number
of the insane i fully sustained by tie
statistics of science. 1t is not only the
predispositi"n to insanity and the actual
insanity produced in the individual! HIM
self by the malignant Influence of alec
hol, but Il still greater evil, the transmits
sion Of its dangers by the laws cf
heredity. The children not only of the
confirmed inebrilte, but of the moderate
drinker, inh rit constitutional tendencies
to intellectual weakness, idiOsyncrac-
or even imbecility, while morally their
faculties are liable To be distorted and
deprayel. THIS consideration is one
the complications of tine temperance
problem. Traveller.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-12-12

give it up Brother; ask me
something easy. | suppose there
never was more thoroughly ir-
REPUTABLE statement than that ''if
everybody would vote the Prohi-
bition ticket it would add to the
health, happiness, intelligence and
wealth of mankind" And yet
the great body Of men in Lex
ington who are otherwise sensible
men, regard that proposition just
ike lot of idiots would do.
The brain becomes weakened
by inactivity just as the muscles
of the arm do from disusc.
Men have been in the habit of
letting political demagogues do
their thinking until they have lost
the capacity to do their own po-
lilical thinking and any kind of a
spouter of political buEcomb and
clap-trap can come TO Lexington
and make the average man be-
lieve that the McKinley's plan to
get cheap tin plates is of more
Importance than the whole liquor
traffic evil, and yet if he has paid
$4,000 in taxes for the year, half
of It has been TO prosecute crimes
and hire judges and police, and
pay for jails and penitentiaries and
lnnatic asylums and poor houses
occasioned by the liquor traffic,
while in the same length of time
he has bought about $500 worth
OF tin.
There are around every town a
lot of bummers who have no bust
ness aud are of no account, and
their only way Of attracting any
attention in the world is to swing
On to the coat tails of one of
these local political heroes, and
when one Of theh comes around,
these bummers get around him
and laugh at his jokes and drink
his whisky and smoke his cigars,
and then when our hero gets up in
the court house, the business Of
these bummers is to yell, and
throw up their hats and get "wild
with enthusiasm" and then when
the orator is gone these fellows
are out of a job until another fell
low comes along.
And so far as that class of shall
low fools is concerned | can I'M
derstand why they would not
want Prohibition; but to answer
you why it is that many men who
seem 20 be decent, and moral and
sensible let hoodlums of that kind
nominate their candidates, is more
than | can do.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-12-12
"Why. i'm the Name Of Common
Sense Don't Tsscy Act?''

LEXINGTON, KY, Nov. Is, 1891.
DEAR MookE-Enclosed please
find check for $500 for the Blade
another year. | like the Blade
because it is sharp and cuts keen
We can't work with dull tools.
When a surgeon wants to cut a
mans leg off he must use the
Blade, and if he doesn't use the
blade the leg will not come off.
five want to curtail the in
fernal rum traffic We must do it as
the negro preacher wanted the
Lord to curtail the devil.
He said, 80 Lord cut it close;
right smooth off up TO the very
end"
Did you ever hear about the
COW boy that said he could lick
any man that would make hay?
When the hay makers got a
prize fighter into their ranks they
challenged the COW boy for a fight.
The first round the cow boy re-
ceived a blow upon the neck, and
he sat down on a log. When
time was called he had both hands
up weighing his head. He said
II don't believe | want to fight
l want to find ont what's the mat
ter with my neck
When the Presbytery of New
York was trying Prot. Briggs fol
heresy they asked him if he
wished counsel. He said, "No ]
can defend myself"
After Prof. Briggs had given
them broadside in the shape o.
a two hours speech, the Prcsby.
terry concluded they did not want
to tight-they want to find ou'
what is the matter with theil
creed.
Prof. Briggs had too many guns
for them; aud for the peace of til,
church they did not want to fight
The secret of the whole matter
is that the creeds must go.
If everybody would take tn,
Blade and vote the Prohibition
ticket it would add to the health
happiness, intelligence and wealth
of mankind.
The above is sample state
ment of facts that everybody
knows, but why in the name o
reason and common sense dom
they act?
Yours truly,
JOHN You've.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-12-12

In this day and age no man who is not
a total abstainer from all forms of ir-
toxicating drink has no right to count
himself ON he side of temperance T.
form. He is only stumbling block in
the way of temperance progress. and Z
he persists il his selfish and unchristi~ u
indulgence, he less he has to say upon
the subject Of temperance the better i;
will be for the cause.-Christian Advo-
cate
Blue-grass blade., 1891-12-12
i am still a Betting OIL the Buzz
yards.
FRANKFORT Ky, Nov. %. 81.

FRANKFoRT,KY Nov. %, 81.
Mr.. G. G. MooRE-l COM
menced to receive your paper
some time ago and do not kno w
when, and don't know by
whose order, and don't know how
long it has been coming. 1t came
sometime before | took any notice
Of it. However | send you check
for $500.
Please look at your book, and
if there is any balance due me,
please give Bro. L. III. Freeman.
of Danville credit for the balance.
Yours
n. j. MCDANIEL.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-12-12
why she Couldn't Take the
Blade.

WINCHESTER, KY, Nov. %, 81.
DEAR Cousin CHARLIE-I shall
have to ask you TO discontinue
your paper to me. My sage crop
was a complete failure this year.
Our "Sally muil"-whose dis
position can not be relied upon
kicked my Jersey calf in the head
yesterday. My turkeys strayed to
the neighbors, and theirs happened
to have a red yarn string in the
gill too, 81 there were only a few
LETT, and they are only fetching"
six and a half cents. Drlndy
Cayce, the old gray mare, my
Golconda whose wealth was to
take me to Europe, has lately
"swinneyed." Grandma's bank,
on account of It's new building,
fails to declare Il dividend. and
then Mckinley has stuck his bit
into my tn milk pans; tqtte,W
JuSi ~ VII tilC S.tiIiC anu uSN IL lit
tie more for it, SO he wont know
by the time get through With it,
which side of his bread the blue
grass luxury is on.
| hope my tale of woe will
commend itself to your credulity.
Ifnot, | think | have better
reason than all these. We are
trying to honor God with better
house OF worship, and | want to
have brick in it somewhere.
We all wish you and cousin
Lucy would come up soon and
make us visit, and | wish too
that this be strictly confic0G,l; but
| am sure your couslnIy pride will
keen me out of al danger.
With love to cousin Lucy and
Annie | am aliectionately your
cousin,
ANNA b. CRoXToN.
p. s. Lclie says please send her
a few copies of your paper with
her great musical puff in item
and she will "remit. | expect it
will be omit.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-12-12
DRY Cp the Source.

Lady Henry Somerset. speaking at /
wOmen's demonstration in England, sait
the beauty of temperance work was thai
it threw people of all denominations to
gether and kept them near each other
Clearing off the Submerged TENTH" ST.,
declared, would need to be repeated
again and again unless the drink WIFI
hurried these people to destruction we-,
uried up at its source.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-12-12
a Mean Way of Getting "A Living.

Don't sell liquor. l would rather see
any young man become tramp and beg
from door TO door than to sell liquor for
u living. There is no meaner or more
contemplate way of getting living
than by selling rum.-Rev. Father r.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-12-12

Any white man giving drink to an
aboriginal or half caste of any district in
FIJI is liable to Il penalty of fifty pounds
and imprisonment.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-12-12
A Short Argument.

Here is an argument for total absti-
nence in Il sentence. which ought to b,
enough to sAyisfy every Christian man
as to his duty il the matter: IF meet
make INV brot sSs>TtIIyill eat lc
Blue-grass blade., 1891-12-12
ANNA Is. CRnNrnN.

When | first read that letter !
didn't know whechcr to laugh or
grt mad. and | am right smartly
mixed about it yet.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-12-12

Having dissolved partnership with L. p Young Jr this is to
notify old patrons and friends will rdivduay continue
my business
No. NORTH BROADWAY,-
IN this city And will keep hand full supply of Painters
ra consisting of Glass Leads Brushes and
parment will contract to do House Painting the most ap
proved style and will furnish bids m short notice
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-07
THE WAR IN AFRICA.
A Social Science Party on Mime
sofa Street Broken Up.

A Social Science Party on Mime
sofa Street Broken Up.
Police Officers Davis and Haney were
IN plain clothes last night. Whenever
Davis sheds the blue cloth and buttons
for modest black diagonal and a Derby
tile there is fun on the RIalto. and last
night was no exception to the rule.
Mabel Lane is a quadroon damsel of
about twenty. So Is Carrie Miller. or
rather Carrie is a little the elder
of the two. but equally quad
room. Thomas Philips has also
tinge OF the sable in his complexion,
and he poses as very particular friend
of Carrie. Miss Lane has rooms over a
blackSmith's shop between Fifth and
Sixth on Minnesota street. Carrie IS
wont to keep her company there occa-
siOnally, and the two find diversion in
watching the passing show from the
vantage point of the Minnesota street
doorway. Besides all that, things were
tritle lonely up in those rooms for
two lone damsels, so the lonely ones
adopted the simple device of inviting
chance paSserS to share their solitude,
and perchance render it less solitary for
the nOnce. Anyway, that is how Mabel
explains the state of affairs developed
last evening. Now Davis and Haney,
the policemen who uncerpmonously
broke up a picnic in progress at the
place indicated. tell widely different
story. This is TO the effect that both
Mabel and Carrie came within the linz
its of the comprehensive term, "known
to the police" Also that orgies of a
distinctly prohibited character have
been of nightly occurrence at the abode
of Miss Lane, and th.,t on the strength
of evidence already secured the arrests
were made. At 10 o'clock the patrol
! wagon discharged six prisoners at the
central station. They were Mabel
Lane, Carrie Miller, Thomas Phillips,
John FentOn, George Brown and Will
lam Brown The first named was
charged with keeping, and the others
with visiting house of bad reputation.
Miss Miller wept cOpiously at the sta
ton and declared she was mice girl
and only visiting" John Fenton is an
engineer, employed near the scene of
the arrest, and George and William
Brown are land prospectors. The
former gave up 32caliber Smith II
Weston revolver. 4 quart of whisky
and a Wcked-looking knife. The en-
tire party will appear in court this
morning.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-07
SPRING SUFFERING.
What Is Being Done for Rel1 eff I'm
This City.

There is vast amount of needless
suffering in st. Paul at this season of
the year. Poverty is not the sole cause.
There is as loud cry for relief in the
families of the wealthy as in the homes
of the poor.
Where is the cause:
1t is in the changeable weather, that
makes our blood flow sluggishly through
| the veins; IN the overWOrk and worry
| that weakens the nervous system; and
| iii the various causes that bring on dyS-
| pepSia, headaches and tired feelings.
What will result?
There can be but one answer. Each
| succeeding spring sees many yield more
readily to the diSease-bearing effects of
| this change from winter. And the re-
| cOvery has been slower each year. The
sadness of spirit, detection, specks be-
| fore the eyes, palpitation of the heart,
| headache and backache, debility and
| proStration, rheumatic and neuralgia
pains, poor appetite, coated tongue, and
| tired and WORKOUT feeling,-all these
| come with greater severity as one grows
| older. The increased death rate of the
| spring months needs no comment of
| ours.
| What can be done?
| RBtheI, let us ask, what is being done
in this city,. In drug store where our
| 1CpOlbC1 llC was lOIu
| probably half of the people in st. Paul
used medicine in March or April, some
on a physicians prescription, while
others selected some advertised remedy.
"What is the most popular?' asked
| our young man.
well, it used to be sarsaparillas, but
this year it is Paine'S Celery Compound,
which not only contains sarsaparilla,
but in addition nerve strengtheners and
| brain invigOrantS, such as celery, hops
| and other herbs. This shows, of course,
that our people are using their brains
more than they used to- and need for a
spring medicine something beyond an
ordinary Sarsaparilla or bltters."
Can you tell me of any one who is
using this Compound" asked the re-
| porter, anxious TO investigate the mat
ter thoroughly.
Il could, for / know of several, but |
am afraid they would object to the pub
licity. Here, however, is something
about as good, for | can vouch for its
truthfulneSS myself" Turning to the
shelf, he took down a package of the
| Compound, and, opening it, disclosed a
circular around the neck of the bottle.
Nov, here's printed letter from Har-
ley Sherman, 95 Elm ST., Burlington,
| Vt. He has written: For long time
was so nervous and worn out that
| could not work. | tried many medi-
cines, but none gave me any relief until
L used Palne's Celery Compound, which
at once strengthened and invigorated
my nerves. Now l am personally ac-
quainted with Mr.. Sherman. He is well
known in Burlington, is prominent
member of the Methodist church, and a
| gentleman whose word can be relied
upon.
Il asked him about this letter. and he
told me that every word of it was true.
There are many professional men, me-
chancs, ladies of the highest social
standing, and, in fact. people of all ages
and classes using the medicine this
spring. 1t is undoubtedly doing more
to relieve the suffering of spring than
all other agencies combined"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-07
ON GOVERNMENT PROPERTY.
Why a Negro Hesitated About
Taking Il Dollar.

BALTIMORE, April CIVIL Service
Commissioner Roosevelt to-day inquired
into the political methods of the post
Office here. and during the progress of
the examination Mr.. Roosevelt asked
the postmaster if he could procure him
a light lunch, as he did not care to stop
for dinner. The postmaster sent Jack
son, his cOlOEed messenger. to Rennert's
restaurant and bought four sandwiches
and sent them into the room. Mr..
Roosevelt inquired of Jackson what
they cost.
Nothing, Sir" he answered.
But | Know they did cost something,
and | want to pay it," said the commits
SiOner.
They are paid for,sir," said Jackson.
Il cannot allow this" said the COM
missioner. and insist upon knowing
what these sandwiches cost"
We'll, sir" said jackson, IF you in
sist, they cost 40 CENTS" whereupon Mr..
Roosevelt handed jackson 81 and told
him he could X ep the change.
jackson turned the glistening silver
over in his hands several times and
finally hSnded it back, saying: Il am
afraid can't take this. sir. We are on
government property"
oh" said Mir. 70 ISevelt. "that's my
own money AMI can do as | please
with ii; so you need feel 10 hesitalcy
in accepting it."
Jackson p0cketed the dollar and re-
tired. Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr.. Bona
parte laughed heartily.