Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-01-31

uUy way Opposc" w tue WHIsk
traffic have in some way attractc
, my attention. They have bee
Christians, Jews, Infdcls an,
Spiritualist, old and young, blac
! and white, rich and poor, drum
, and sober, fools and smart men
, But I have never yet heard of Re,
Sweeney making a Prohibition
speech or taking a Prohibition pa
per, or going to a Prohibition con
vention or contributing to a Pro
hibitiOn fund.
| lie and [ have stood in the sam,
pulpit in days gone by. Brother
Craddock continually Publishes in
the main paper Of his town, ant
one of the most prominent in tn,
State, that | am trying to beat tn,
whisky business: | have Just sent a
receipt to Mr.. 'Charlcton Aleyan.
der, the richest .ihan in Bourbon
county, for 50 hc>scnt me for The
Blade, and other nice people down
there have showd that they appre-
ciated my little paper, but Brother
Sweeney has becnso engaged with
his wcter fight that he has never
taken time to send me even an en-
couraging word in my phisky fight.
But whisky has got it in for him,
while he's been 6oling with water
and I'll bet 50 that he will hear
about the Bluegrass Blade now.
I suppose he i practically in
hell now, and I am sorry for him,
but it's going to take just such
things as this to, bring the preach
crs to their senses: aud | say let
them come.
Ihavc been hearing for years
how popular Brother Sweeney
is. It's mighty bad sign in a
place like Paris.
My views on this thing of
man running off with another
mans wife are peculiar, but 1 will
give them for what they are worth.
l think that all the dramatis
personae in this little cpis de ex-
cept Brother Sweeney are to be
congratulated.
think Jack is tp be congratu-
lated that he got the woman that
he wanted, and thar Mrs. Long is
to be congratulated that she got
the fellow that snd wanted, and
that Mr.. Long is tp Be congrat'na
ted that he gjt rnlt 4 the woman
that didn't want him.
He "wants but lid lie here below,
nor wants that littH Long that
ran off from him. =
They had a case Ike that one in
Harrodsburg not long ago. A
fellow ran off with another fellows
wife, and the man that lost her W;
distressed nearly to death about it.
l think he ought to have sent the
fellow that stole her chrome.
Kill him the dickens No, the
fellow that steals another fellows
wife is the last man in the world
that the other fellow ought to want
to kill.
Go it old John Barleycorn! I'm
a betting on you. | don't see how
the Prohibition party could get
along without you. When you do
start out to make q Prohibition
lecture you make one that lays it
over Mrs. Henry, or George Balm,
or Dickie or Thomas, or any of
them.
Once during the war l was rid
ing along beside my splendid hand
some brother in law, Major
Thomas Y. Brent, who was after
ward killed under Morgan.
A magnificent park of brass cam
non and caisons of ammunition came
rolling by, that they had captured
from the Yankees. He looked at
them and said, 81 don't see how
we could carry on the war if it
wasn't for the Yankees
That's the way with the Prohi-
Our batteries wouldn't
amount to Il hill of beans if the
whisky enemy didn't furnish us
like this to fire back at
them.
Shoot it to them all along the
line brethren, and We'll get there.