Blue-grass blade., 1891-10-31

GeavOr to advance its IN terests.
A Christian Lexington BanI
Cashier i'm Trouble.
Bro. William Bright, lat
Cashier of the Lexington Nationa
Exchange Bank, is having troubl
in the spirit.
Bro. Bright is a Republican ant
a devout "Christian" of the North
ern Methodist persuasion, ant
"roars you as gently as a suckinl
dove," as a basso in the choir o
tie Broadway Methodist church il
this city.
He has been associated with
a Mr.. Cheppu in the dog busi.
ness. lido not know Mr.. Cheppu
nor whether he is related te
"Chippy" who was advised tc
get your hair cut.
Dogs are expensive luxuries in
this country, and it takes a banl
to. run even a respectable dog
business.
AT church fair here the Other
day they had a dog for which the
owner said he had refused SIC. 900
There is no telling what one oi
these bluegrass dogs would bring
if one were actually sold: I never
heard of one being sold, but from
What their owners are constantly
refusing for them 1 imagine they
must be very valuable.
I don't know much about dogs,
but suppose these dogs are some
kind of a short horn or short
tail variety, whose superior ex-
cellence is, like our race horses and
whisky, attributable to the grass
ana corn of this region.
Bro. Bright's is another illustri-
Gus example of the trouble that
mep get into from not searching
the scriptures. Philippians 3:2,
says "Beware of dogs. Those
three little words would have
saved Bro. Bright. Or, if, as a
classic scholar, he had remembered
the Roman maxim, "Caue canem",
how happy he might now have
been.
don't know that Brethren
Bright and Cheppu were trying
to get up a corner on dogs, like
"OA Hutch" did on Chicago
VIII &at, but Bro Bright as Cashier
u esssiunaf Exchange Bank
allowed his associate in the dog
business to overdraw his account
$33b495.8O. To a mere novice in
the dog trade that sounds like a
great deal of money; but with
dogt at $40, 900 each it only takes
THREE and a half dogs to come to
mofe than that.
The collapse in the price of
dog} that busted the combination
was probably owing to the failure
in the dog show that was lately
gotten up here by General Gentry
and Bro. Dick Redd a deacon in
the Presbyterian church in this
city for a church charity. When
they got through, so far from
there being anything to give to the
poor and afflicted, Gen. Gentry
had to go down into his breeches
pocket and haul out his big wal
let to pay the expenses Of the
thing. The General is still alive,
but his friends are solicitous about
him, and are keeping such things
as pistols and shot guns and razors
and trough on rats out of his
hands.
The expenses of that church
dog show-or dog church show,
it was-were enOr-
nous.
One item was mile and half
of Beatty picket fence-see adver-
tisement in this paper-that had
to be built on Sunday, and took
fifteen men all day, to keep from
interfering with the training ofthe
race horses, onthe grounds where
the dog show was TO come off.
Race horse men are conscien-
tious about training their horses on
Sunday, but the dog show being
under the management of a Pres
byterisn church officer, who is
also a Democratic officer of the
law, and the dog show being for
a religious purpose, the little mat
ter of working fifteen men all day
in the broiling hot sun and fear
ful drouth on Sunday, with two
or three hundred church bosses to
them, did not amount
to much.
But Bro. Redd's failure in the
church dog show, knocked the
bottom out of the dog business,
and when the government officers
came around to examine Bro.
Bright's bank it was found that
the great "Meadowthorpe' dog
farm which he had allowed to
overdraw its account, could not
ante its overdraft, and Bro. Bright
resigned.
We people who are not pious
ought to take a warning from
this; for if a pious and sanctifed
Methodist, who belongs to the
"high moral party in politics, can
get himself into a pickle of this
kind what would we ungOdly
people do if any of US should be