Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-19

1 North Upper street in little col
: tage of two rooms. So miserabl
r had their lives become that on
r night they undertook to XII
= themselves. They took morphin
7 in what they supposed to be fats
quantities, and went to bed to di'
A negro woman heard their har
breathings, broke through thei
, window, raised the alarm, an
: physicians Were called who, afte
) hard work brought them back t
, life. Since then, in those nin
, short years, she has become tn
owner of five dwellings on whic
she pays taxes, one of these bein
the palatial residence which sh
now occupies on Mcgowan street
When she bought that lot, les
: than two years ago, she paid tn
cash for it, and l have not beer
able to find any mortgage agains
it on the records. Where did sh'
get all this money? There is (
dying girl now in one of our in
firmaries, recently brought there
from one Of these houses on thai
same street. who sent piteOus en-.
treaties to some benevolent ladie:
whom she had known in her limo.
cence, not to allow her to die in
that horrid place. Just a few
years ago che and her sister were
pupils in the Main street Sunday
school and the daughters of poor
woman with a drunken, worthless
husband The mother died and
the girls We're enticed into a life
Of shame. The other sister is still
in the house whence this one was
brought away to die. Less than
year ago girl just blooming
into womanhood, a member of the
Broadway church, and, like the
Others, a daughter of a poor
widow, was drawn into the same
cesspool, and |, with the help of
Others, tried to rescue her. In
the course of q conversation l told
her that if she kept on in her
present career she would land in a
few years on Water street among
the negroes.
| asked her how on earth she
came to fall into such "a course
of life. She answered that dane
ing was the cause of it. ave be-
came excited in dancing the round
dance, he went home with me, l
slipped him into the house quietly,
and we went to bed together
Gentlemen, you who have daugh
ters; will you permit them to in
dulge in this pernicious amuse-
men,? Do so if you will; but as
for me and my house, God for
bid.
Even now when less than one
year has nassed, her health. has.
failed, her supporters have de-
serted her, and she is begging
good women whose advice she
spurned to come to her relief.
These three are but specimens of
a vast number of these wretched
creatures, whose lives are now
but hell ON earth. Surely, with
all their infamy, they are more
sinned against than SHINING. And
where are the seducers? Tell me,
where are the men who beguiled
them from their childhood inno-
cence, and became the murderers
of their souls. If these poor girls
had had fathers, or grown
brothers, of any spirit, of the Ken
tucky spirit, many Of these Sc
ducers would have been dead and
in hell long ago. But where are
they now:
Some of them are married men,
who lay down at night by the side
of virtnous women, and tell them
lie after lie to hide their crimes.
Some of them are still unmarried
men, who walk about with up
lifted heads, and who expect ere
long to marry virtuous women,
and to go on like the others with
this continuous string of lies
Well if, they are going TO hell any
way, as most of them will, let
them keep up their lying, for a
few lies heaped on top of their
worse crimes will not sink them
much deeper in the bottomless
pit, aud they will keep their wives
from the shame and horror of
knowing how mean their hus-
bands are.
In the presence of sin and
crime like this, you are perhaps
ready to cry out: Is there no law
in the land that these things are
allowed? Law! there is a plenty
of it. Listen while | read to you
an enactment that is in point,
"Sec. 1913. Amy person who
shall in this city keep any i'll
governed and disorderly house,
or house, at which lewd or OBJ
scene acts are perpetrated In such
manner as to become nuisance to
the neighborhood, shall be fined
twenty five dollars for each day
he or she shall 50 keep said
house."
Here is a law which would, if
enforced, shut up every bawdy
house in this city; for every one
of them is nuisance. But what
about the law? Is it one of the
blue laws of Connecticut that has
come down to us? No! Is it a res
olution passed by some Methodist
Conference? Or a deliverence