Blue-grass blade., 1891-10-31

in this city, and as a Democratic
office holder who would rather
vote for the devil than for Pro-
hibition.
When the dogs caught the poor
fox right in front of all the people,
consisting of ladies and gentle
men and children, there were
great shouts and cheers and
laughter.
While all of this was being
done by the Christians in Lexing-
ton in the name of their religion,
out at my house in the country
where we are all heather we had
sick kitten. My wife gave it
medicine, and wrapped it up
warm, and felt its failing pulse,
and looked like she would cry. 1t
died and / went with the children
to the back of the garden, and we
buried that little kitten with all
the funeral sadness and solemnity
that is said in school book poetry,
to have accompanied the obsequies
of my distinguished namesake,
Sir John Moore.
My children read "Black
Beauty" The average Kentucky
editor and politician, if he ever
heard of "Black Beauty" sup
pose thinks it is some colored
damsel, more than ordinarily
attractive. You could not have
paid anybody about my house to
60 and witness such a spectacle
as these Christian people had got
ten up.
After they had killed the poor
old rheumatic fox, they had
a Tournament" This consisted
of lot of dudes on horseback who
rode around a circle and punched
at rings with poles.
Among people who read and
know anything, what little was
left of the tournament when
Michael Cervantes got through
with it in don Quixote" has been
annihilated by Thomas Nelson
Page in "Pulasky's Chunament;"
but is satire as a fragrance
wasted on q desert air, when adj
dressed to Ketucky Christians
and Democrats.
In order to get ready in time
for this great moral show, it was
necessary for these Christian per
pie to have fifteen hands to ,oork
all day Sunday, III the hottest and
dryest weather of this season to
put up a mile and half of fence,
so high that with a barbed wire
around the top of it, the poor per
secuted animals could not get out.
This was done with the knowl
edge and consent OF the Presbyte-
tian church officer, and yet the main
two features in the Presbyterian
religion is to sprinkle all their
babies aud keep the sabbath; two
pieces of religious trumpry that
are combinations of heathenism
and Judaism.
When l was getting the people
to help me by taking stock in the
Blade, l went to the house of the
head boss of the cruelty to ami
mails Christian charity enterprise,
to see if he would contribute
He is a very wealthy man, and ]
have given him and his horses
more free newspaper puffs, than
any one man ever gave another
one man in the state of Kentucky.
His wife without any hesitation
told me she thought her husband
would take a ten dollar share Of
stock. He would not do it, and
never has.
l would not shed a tear if he
had to pay five thousand dollars
instead of five hundred to make
up the expenses of killing that
old fox.
If Col. Robert Ingersoll'.
daughter were here with her 30.
ciety for the prevention of Cruelty
to animals, she would have all the
ring leaders of that show arrested
put in Jail and fined.
About the same time that the
Christian charity people of Lex
ington were working a heavy force
all day Sunday to get ready tc
persecute poor old crippled ny
fox, at Nicholasville twelve miles
from Lexington, the enforcement
of the Sunday law took differen
turn.
A poor travelling photographs
took some pictures on Sunday
They arrested him and fined him
and when he had not the money
to pay the fine they put him ir
the work house and made hin
crack rock until the fine was paid
Not long before that in Tennessee
a Seventh day" Baptist, who hat
kept Saturday for a Sabbath
every body ought to do who KEEP
Sabbath at all-worked on Sun
day.
They arrested him for it, ant
fined and imprisoned him.
These are samples of the poll
ties and religion that they have il