Blue-grass blade., 1891-01-10

W cOnSciCncc ", ~ cOursc,a fcl
ular, fire eating Prohibitions
We writes to he in his gent
Christian spirit and tells me tn,
he is afraid | will hurt the feeling
Of too many people by my reckle,
and indiscriminatc way of frin
of whole broadsides of facts with
out warning anybody to get out 9
the way. 1t may be my weakness,
and will just now serve notice o.
the press of America, civil or &C
cIcsiastic, that the first man tina
Jumps on Noah agar, wi | get tn,
very best there is in my shop.
| Noah got drunk / will admit
But he was a sailor and had jus
come into port # of long voyage
He didn't try to smooth it over b,
calling it Intoxicated He didn',
get into the police court and ge,
fined 81. for it, as one of our col
lege professors lately did, who was
a little too previous in observing
New Years day.
Noah, like myself, had a versa
tility Of genius. He was a preach
or, sailor, the proprietor of the
best meragerie that ever was on
the road, and he was a farmer, and
made wine, and didn't vote with
the Alliance people.
He was the most faithful preach
er that ever lived. HIc pr, ached
for a hundredand twenty years from
one text. never made a convert,
and never got nickel, or even
Il pair of slippers Or a dressing
gown at Christmas.
Think of it, ye degenerate
preachers of the gospel of the new
and better religion! One hundred
and twenty long not summers with
out single vacation to Palestine,
Europe or even to cold Pc n -
One hundred and twenty Christ
masses without gold watch, or a
gold headed cane or barrel of
flour in your stocking!
One hundred and twenty years
Of occurrences of birthdays, and
wooden weddings, tin weddings,
silver weddings, gold weddings,
diamond weddings and not as much
as tin cup at all of them! You
call Gladstone the "grand old man
for what he has done for religion
in his short, evanescent, butterfly !
existence. But think of old Broth
ar Noah whose letters never came
to "Rev. DIR. Noah" as
even mine do sometimes when the
wicked want to throw up by-gones
% me-preaching every Sunday
or a hundred aud twenty years,
holding camp meetings wherever
wanted him, and pegging
way at that old boat through the
week; while the boys of a half doz.
n generations passed by and guy
ID the old gentleman by asking
lin if he thought i was going to
ain.
And yet after all the old fellow
lowned the whole of them, by T,
howIng that he was right and
very body else wrong, as no Z
'reacher ever did before, or since.
You may say that that little
pree he got on is calculated to
amage his standing in the Prohi-
ition party, but no man has ever
aid that in the final outcome of
he conflict between the "wets, !
nd the "drys'. Noah did not come
ut ON top. !;
AS for that little episode that =
Ioah had, when he slipped up on g
rape juice, l know from personal =
Experience exactly how it happen. 6
d. | have been there. :,
l have neighbor who isas good S
citizen as lives in Dog Fennell. O
lie is a Methodist, and a good O
lend to The Blade. o
He has one of the finest farms in -
lie county, lots of bank stock, Il t.
andsome wife and pretty daugh- II
II, and no poor kin. He is col C
ge bred man, of easy but digni n
ed manners. h
My wife and | had been scatter $,
| around from here to California, Ii
I'd had finally had an opportunity a
doing the elegant thing by call ft
& on him and his family, and not
long time after on "a beautiful day in
city late in the Fall, the gentle in
an rode up on horseback to my la
Try plain home to return the cal g,
OF course the occasion was one Il,
,on which should have been II
gnifed, and | was quite So. Il
This was twelve years ago. ii
The summer before that | had a
'ss lot of grapes. They were a,
gular daisies. What we could W
t didn't make any impression on k
EN-. | didn't want to waste m
EN-, and | asked my wife how to n.
AXE wine. Her father was a b.
rmer, had a great big vineyard "
ID made the finest wine ever made Sc
the State. and she told me how n,