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Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-05

The money paid for one glass of beer
would pay for one loaf of bread.
The money paid for one glass of whisky
would pay for one pound of beef.
The money paid for two glasses of beer
would pay : peck of potatoes.
The money paid for two glasses Of
whisky would pay for onepound of coffee.
The money paid for three glasses of
beer woald nay for quarter of a pound
of tea.
The money paid for three glasses Of
whisky would pay for dressed fowl.
The none paid for four gllsses of beer
would pay two dozen eggs.
The mOL-y paid for four glasses Of
whisky would pay for three pounds OF
butter.
The money paid in one month for two
glassca Of beer a day would pay for a ton
of coal.
The money paid in one month for two
glasses of whisky day would pay for a
suit of clothes.
The money paid in one year for three
glasses of beer day would pay the rent
ter small suite of rooms for one year.
the money paid in one year for three
glasses o. whisky a day would pay for
an outfit of household furn' ture.
The money paid in one year for four
glasses of beer a day would pay for a
carriage.
The money paid in one year for fonr
glasses of whisky day would pay for a
horse and h;.rness.--Wooster Herald.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-05
AlCOHOL'S ALPHABET.
It Was Written by a Wine Ruined Young
Man.

DR.. Cyrus Edison contributes paper
to the September plumber of The North
American Review on the question, is
Drunkenness Curable:" and ends the
article by reciting an alphabetic rhyme,
describing all the stages of alcoholism
from the first nip to drunkard's grave,
which he learned from patient, a young
man OF great ability and fine moral per.
ceptions, who was an incurable inebriate.
The doctor says that his eyes would
stream with tears as he recited the fol
lowing verses, describing his own case
and career. 1t is the most truthful and
graphic picture of the kind that has been
printed:
A stands for Alcohol, deathi;ke its grip;
for Beginner, who takes just sip;
c for Companion, who urges him on;
ID for the Demon of Drink that is born;
for Endeavor he makes to resist.
stands for Friends who so loudly insist;
G for the Guilt that he afterward feels;
III for the Horrors that hang at his heels;
l his Intention to drink not at all.
j stands for Jeering that follows his fall:
for his knowledge that he is a slave.
L stanfis for the Liquors his appetite Graves;
NJ for convivial Meetings so gay.
y stands for No that re tries hard to say;
o for the Orgies that then come to pass.
p stands for Pride that he browns in his glass
Q for the Quarrels that nightly abound.
r stands for '.uin, that hovers around.
5 stands for SIGHTS that his vision bedim.
I stands for 2 .embling that seizes his limbs:
for his Usefulness sunk in the slums.
stands for Nagrant he quickly becomes:
w for Wanii s. of life that's soon done;
X for his exit, regretted by none.
Youth Of this nation, such weakness is crime;
Zealously tura from the tempter in time!
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-05
ALCOHOLISM IN FRANCE.


Which Proves That IA Wine Country Is
Not Temperance Country.
No newspaper has SO large a circula-
lion in France as lie Petit Journal of
Paris. 1t is clean paper, and often
PRESENTED in proof that French families
will support Il pure and truthful Journal.
In recent number it says:
1t has been said with truth that, of all
The dangers menacing our agricultural
population at the present day. the gray
rst and the most difficult to fight against
Is alcoholism. No one can have been
resident Of country district without
being struck with the development of
this scourge daring the last thirty years,
the deplorable effects of which are every
where visible.
The habit of saving, that was SO long
the strength and the glory of our tillers
of the soil, is gradually disappearing.
The money box of the liquor sellers
swallows up, sous by sous, the wages
that formerly, in the form of silver
pieces, We're hidden away in some corner
of the clothes press, to be brought out
when enough was accumulated to buy Il
little piece of ground. The peace and
harmony of families are seriously i'm
paired. In the villages the women are
reduced, like the wives of worimen IN
the towns, to haunt the doors of lae
drink shop in order to rescue the bread
of their children from the alcoholic gulf.
In most of our hamlets the drunGard,
who was formerly the exception, has
multiplied by contagion.
Once the peasant never entered the
cabaret EXCEPT on "a Sunday" to leisurely
sip few liters of wine and play IA long
game of cards or bowls for the scot. To-
day, when idle and going to work,
whether it is holiday OF not, the rural
laborer never meets conrade with
out inviting him to take glass-a
glass of brandy be it understood. One
glass means two, for it is only common
civility to call for another, and If, us
often happens, friends drop in, each one
treats in his turn, until the man who
came in just to take nip goes away
charged with IA half pint or pint
spirits, almost always adulterated.
This guzzlins of spirits (and what
spirits! for the country tavern keepers
do not hesitate to sell the most frightful
mixtures for gaiD is not a rare occur
J renee. Repeated daily, it becomes per-
picious in the last extreme
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-05
Thu,Mped the COngressmaD's
Son.

The Governors Ball. at Lexing-
ton, on last Friday night, was the
scene of difficulty between Mr..
Robert Breckenridge, son of the
Congressman from this district,
and Mr.. DALI. Arnold, of this city,
in which the former formed bet
ter opinion of Dalt's fistic attain
ments than he had before.
1t seems (irom Dalt's own ac-
count, which is corroborated by
others who attended the ball and
witnessed the conclusion of the
affair that DALI. requested young
Breckenridge to divide a dance
with him, and that the latter re-
fused in "a manner which Arnold
resented, and he sought out Breck
inridge after the dance was over
and told him that his action was
an insult and he demanded an
apology. This Breckenridge re-
fused to give. whereupon Arnold
told him that he was "cowardly
cur"
Breckenridge then accused Ar
mold of applying to him a vile cpl.
tibet, and he demanded an apology
DALI. denied the charge, and OF
course refused to apologize for an
otlense which he had not com.
mitted. Breckenridge then said
"You are a G. d. liar whel
Arnold struck him. They wer,
separated and lett the bali room
Breckenridge was accompanied
by about twenty of bis friends
Arnold with but one. The latte
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-05
WINES AWFUL WORK.
It Ruined the Lives of Two Young Peo- |
pie ON Their Wedding Day.

It Ruined the Lives of Two Young Peo-
pie ON Their Wedding Day.
The Christian Advocate vouches for
the truth Of this story:
A scene OF tragic pathos took place in
Long Island City short time ago at
the family residence of a wealthy cit
izen. A large number of friends had
gathered to see the daughter If the host
married. The bride WAS ready, and the
minister was in waiting, but the groom
came not. After long delay, during
which the friends became anxious, the
family had about made up their minds
to inform the guests of the nonarrival
of the missing bridegroom, when he en-
tered the door. The person he met first
was the father of the bride, who saw
that he was in no condition to act as
principal in a wedding. Without a mo-
ment hesitation he ordered the young
man from the house, and told him never
to darken the doorway again. The young
man started in to argue the matter. The
description of what followed is taken
from daily paper. The discussion was
becoming heated, and the guests who
had crowded into the hallway We're fear
full that Mr.. - would throw the young
man out on his head, when there was
rustling on the stairs and the bride ap-
peared. Her eyes were wet with tears,
but there was blush of indignation
upon her handsome face. and she pointed
a gloved hand toward the front door
and commanded - to leave. He obey
ed instantly.
Love may be as strong as death. but
wine is stronger than love. We pity the
bride that she loved an unworthy object,
and felicitate her that his mask slipped
off before she became irreyocably his.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-05
Coffee Houses as Temperance Promoters

Coffee Houses as Temperance Promoters.
We do not believe there is any field of
temperance work in the city of New
York and i'll the other large cities of the
country VIII re such large and immedi-
ate results FIR good might be attained
in the movement for the erection o.
coffee hOus's. In every large center of
population there always has been and
always will be an imperative demand
for some class of institutions that sh Ill
serve as places of social rendezvous for
the masses. The groSshops now have
monopoly Of the business of catering
to the social needs of the people, espe-
cially in the poorer and more crowded
quarters of the towns. no adequate at
tempt has yet been madein this country
to meet the saloon evil at this point, but
it must be done if we are ever to over
come this arch enemy of Christian civil
ization. the saloon must be deprived of
the excuse which it has for existence as
the ''poor mans clubhouse" by the sub
stitution of places that shall have all the
social adjuncts of the drink shops with
out their attendant evils. We repeat it
again that something of this kind must
be done.-Christian at Work.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-05
Alcohol No Respeeter of Persons.

The public announcement has recently
been made of the confinement in an
asylum near Paris of Mr.. Elliott Roose
welt, of New Yori, city. rendered insane,
according to his sisters testimony, 4
excessive drinking. Mr. Roosevelt is \
wealthy family, of a fashionable soc;
circle, and member Of sundry W
known New York clubs. In 1888
was married to popular and beautiful
young woman, before and since her mar
riage society leader. His case is an
other sad illustration of the fact that
alcohol is no respecter of persons or
social conditions. 1t prostrates the rich
and socially favored as readily and as
inevitably as Others. The perpetuation
of injurious, and, as in Mr.. RooseveltS
experience, dangerous, social drinking
usages is one of the greatest present hiD
ORANGES to the progress of the temper.
ance reform.-National Temperance Ad-
yOcate,
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-05
Soma CnmInnn Sense for Drrnlxards-

A certain little tract, addressed to in
ebriates, contains 10 sentimental appeal
to the emot, IS, but is full of practical
common se..se. Let every one addicted
to the use of liquor read it and pronounce
Judgment upon the advice it contains:
One gallon If whisky costs about three
dollars, and contains, on the average,
sixty-five ten cent drinks. Now, if you
must drink whisky, buy gallon and
make your wife the barkeeper; then,
when you are thirsty, give her ten cents
for a drink When the whisky is gone,
she will have left, after paving for it,
three dollar aud q half, and every gal
Ion will vi, | the same profit. This
money she should put away IN the saw
ings bank, SO that when YOU have be-
come an inebriate, unable to support
ycurseiF, anu s;i;.ane,, aid desniSed by
every respectable person. your vile ;na:
have money enough to keep you unrii
vnnr time comes 70 Gil . irnpksr3's
oEaUa--E--
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-05
10000 ktisk.S OF LAND
WANTED.

An Eastern Steamship and Col
onization Company have written
to the General Passenger and
Ticket Agent of the Queen &
Crescent Route, to find for them
a tract of land in either Kentucky
or Tennessee of about 10000
acres. The land is to be suitable
for truck farming, also for raising
corn, wheat, trees and shrubs, and
near enough to railroad to make
shipping facilities handy. Any
one having a body of land suitable
for this purpose, will please COM
municate with the undersigned,
giving price, terms, location, and
all particulars.
ID. G.. EDWARDS
G. p. & T. A.
Cincinnati, o.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-05

venerable Horace Waters who
was Kissed and secuted in 1910 in
Maine for voting the Liberal or
Abolition ticket, lifted up one of
those tickets and said "This ticket
will win in twenty years." 1t was
like prophecy. In exactly twenty
years it did win. Throw away
votes indeed! A vote from prin-
ciple and for principle is never
thrown away.
"Not lightly fall,
Beyond recall,
The writtens crolls breath may
float;
The GROWING fact
The Kingliest act
OF freedom, is the freeman's vote. y
In 1872 James Black received
5,6OS votes. In 1875 Green Clay
Smith 1922. In 1880 Neal Dow
0,3O5. In 1884 St. John l5l, 800.
In 1883 Fisk 100000.
In 1892, if we do not elect a
Prohibition President, we should
increase our vote so much as to
shake this whole country, and
make the old whisky soaked,
rum-governed political parties
tremble with fear.
Yours for Prohibition and
Christianity versus Chuchianity.
l.. A. CUTLER.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-05

loon-keeper, what kind ola liter
AIRY taste can your readers have,
that you can pander to it, and
tickle their intellectual and moral
pilates, by carica!uring the suffer
Jugs of a young man who was
neither thief nor a murderer nor
saloon Keeper, but young car
penter who made his living by the
sweat of his brow, and who Ger
tainly never did you any harm by
word or deed. The picture is
ironically celebrated to his Ho-
illness. Leo KILL" Certainly no.
body will accuse me of being dead
stuck on Popes, after all the rows
| have had with even these one
horse preachers, but the hard pan
fact is that old Bro. Leo has a
soft snap that you or l either
would take il We could get-only
| believe | would want to run the
Blade if | had the Vatican in a
sling.
Leo XIII and | would not gee
on theology, because l know more
about that than he does. but he
has said some things lately for
Prohibition that look like he is
doing something himself in the
"reform" business.
What are you doing for Pro
hibition? What kind of ":re-
lrom," is it you are driving at,
anyhow? / have been getting
your paper for some time, bu have
not yet found out what one of the
many modern reforms is your
speciality.
see in the copy of your paper
now before me that a man from
Atlanta, Ga, named Charles E
Moore fires into Sam Jones, land the
SABBATH observance pretty much
like l do sometimes.
Things must have changed down
in that part of the country since |
was there twelve years ago.
talked to two prominent men
down there on theological matters,
and they told me if l went out on
the streets and talked publically
as l did to them that somebody
would hurt me for it.
The fact Of you being an infdel
does not set you back in my esti-
nation if you were trying to do
good.
Your old paper is no good, and
is not likely to do any good.
The things you discuss were all
grey-beard chestnuts when l first
read the Bible.
Get the "Arena," published by
B. o. Flower, in Boston, and post
Yourself in the more advanced
steps of your department before
you undertake to teach others.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-05

That distinction between Chris,
tianity and "Churchianity" is the
racket 1 want you all to get on to,
and Prohibition will go in
a whoop.
The first time | ever saw the
word "churchianity" was in a let
ter lady wrote me, who has dis
tinguished herself as a worker for
Woman Suffrage and Prohibition.
The letter head on which she
wrote had at the top of it a quo
tation from the New Testament.
She was for Christianity and al
most fanatically rersus "Church-
ianity."
She said in her letter, "Your
book, The Rational View lies as
a text hook on my table," and she
signed herself "Intidel" "Heretic'
and a half dozen other synonyms
and shades of the same idea.
Nobody knows it but few friends
whom she has allowed to enter the
penetralia where are her Lares and
Penates, but l have seen Chris
tian audience hang enrapt upon
the words she spoke.
Christianity is doing good to
our tellowman. Chrcuhanity is
the paving of big salaries to big
preachers to shoot off a lot of theO-
logical pyrotechnics and serve
ethical syllabus, while the femi-
nine creme de la creme exhibit their
bonnets and sealskins and dia-
monds, and their husbands get
business advertisements without
having to pay the newspapers for
them.
Around Lexington here the
average man thinks that the Pro-
hibition movement is thing got
ten up by few "long haired men
aud short haired women" and our
William Of the "SilvertOngue,"
our Joseph of the "Iron Jaw" and
Jack the "Giant Killer" who gets
drunk and falls down on the car
steps when he goes to a brother
senator's funeral, are pointed to as
the great mastery minds that are
going to crush out the Prohibition
fanaticism. If Lexington people
never heard of Gladstone. and
Lord Randolph Churchill and
Cardinal Manning before. L wish
they would take pains to read up
on such men as these, aud lay
their learning, and their achieve
ments and their regulations along
side of our famous Kentucky
trumvirate, and note the differ
ence.
In the heads of any one of these
three Kentucky celebrities there
has not been a new idea in the
last thirty years, and they are as
truly fossils of another age as one
of these mastodous they dig up in
making Kentucky railroads-big
enough, in ore sense; but; after all,
nothing but heap of rottenness
and dry bones.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-05
The Curse of Australia.

Drink is the great curse of Australia.
High wages only too often lead to in
dulgence in bad colonial beer, and wine
that is even worse than malt liquor or
spirits. Girls and women drink much
more in the colonies than they do in Eng
land. This is partly owing to the ha. i
work, partly to the hot climate. Il
shouldn't like the girl who made me
this shawl to see me in this place" said
a girl while unpackins her box in a mis-
cradle Melbourne lodging house. She
looked up, and there stood the maker of
the shawl, the daughter of poor but
respectable Irish farmer. Both girls had
been emigra1ts, and both had come to
grief through drinking.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-05

disclaimed any wish to quarrel,
and said he would apologize for
any wrong he had done if Breck-
inridge would do likewise, but
stoutly denied having applied the
epithet as charged.
Breckinridge would not be pac-
flied and as soon as his friends re
leased him he rushed at Arnold
and struck him twice before the
latter seemed to realize what was
up. Then he went to work. His
first blow struck Breckenridge in
the mouth and drew blood, and
the next two closed both eyes and
knocked him down and he was
pretty badly whipped. He had to
be taken home by his friends but
said: 81 won't fight you with my
fists any more, but we will meet
with pistols" Notwithstanding
this it is believed no further
trouble will ensue. DALI. didn't
show a scratch from the scrap
Frankfort Roundabout.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-05
Rev. l.. A. Cutler Endorses the
Voices "UngOGly League
Editorial.
RICHMOND. Va, Nov, 20, 81.

RICHMOND. Va, Nov, ~, 81.
The editorials of the New York
Voice on the "Ungodly League
of Church and Saloon ''Have we
libelled the Church,? ''The
brand of Cain" and "Four million
Christian murderers;" have my
hearty endorsement. 1 also APP
prove the editorial unanswerable
crushing reply to DR.. Herrick
Johnston's Protest.
A Church that is silent on the
liquor traffic discredits itself as
much as a Church that is silent
on dishonesty; for the whisky sa-
loon is an enemy to the home. the
school, the church and God.
1t is the greatest, blacklist spot
on our civilization. 1t is the
deepest disgrace of the century.
That churchmember is recreant
to his most solemn VOWS, who
votes for the sale of Intoxicating
liquors; or who votes for pOliti-
cal party that upholds and pro-
tects the netarious traffic.
Voting in this case, is as sacred
as spraying.
Sir Charles Buxton says, "The
struggle against the whisky shop
is but one development of the wal
between Heaven aud hell"
The Hon r. G. Pittman said
"When the best and purest men Of
the Christian church press into
this war with an energy that will
not suffer men or parties to, stand
in the way, the traffic is doomed
Gladstone says that the liquor
traffic is "worse than war, pesti-
lence and famine combined"
Powderly says "It is the one
reason why the laboring man doe:
not advance himself"
Lord Randolf Churchill uses
this language. "The destructive
devilish liquor traffic.
Cardinal Manning says, 81 i'm
peach it of high crimes and mis-.
demeanOrs against the common
wealth."
This conflict is irrepressible.
Let not the old corrupt parties
nor the rum sellers think for on,
moment that the Prohibitionistl
intend to give up this fight. w,
are i'm for the war, and are re-
solved to do battle against til,
enemy of truth and righteousness
until the curse is banishcd. ",
man is an enemy of the saloon ,cht
does not cote for its prohibition
Votes are the most efiectiv,
weapon in this war Liquor mel
laugh at the resolutions passed
by churches aud religious conven
tiOns; but votes count. A vot,
for principle is never lost. Wer,
the votes for Birney and Hale an,
Martin Van Barren and Fremont
in the years 1910, 1911, 1913
1852, and 1856 thrown away?
The men who cast those vote
were derided, but in 1860 Abra
ham Lincoln was elected Presi
dent of the United States. Tn
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-05

Ssxony has made drunkenness Il crime.
This has been done on the advice of the
best physie ms in the lanl, who scout
the idea Of uipsomania, and declare that
men get drunk, not because they are
crazy, bet L~cause they are vicious, and
should be restrained. There is a good
deal TO be s;id in support of this position.
Inebriate a.Ylans are all right for some
purposes, bat for certain other purposes
the wiipp;IS post would be a valuable
adiuAct $50 nth Bend Times.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-05

1t would be in vain for US to attempt
to make record in our columns of all the
liquor murders and other crimes chron.
icled ip the daily press. To do that
would hecessitate our recording at least
two-thFds of the crimes committed in
the country, and our paper would have tile
character Of a Newgate calendar. Brief
mentidh may be made, however, of an I'M
usually atrocious murder of this character
,committed rear Jersey City one day last
-wee1. an irisn QTT!arryfnau came nome
drunk It noon and not finding his dinner
ready, as expected. turned upon his
young wife, knocked her down and beat
and jumped upon her PROSTATE body
until me was dead. The awful scene
was enacted in the presence of the little
children Of the couple. The murderer
was arrested soon after. The only ex-
cuse he had to give for the crime was
the usual one, that he was drunk and did
not know what he was doing.-Christian
at Work.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-05

Three hundred and seventy-five out Of
the 600 railway corporations of the
United States prohibit the use of in
toxicating liquor by their employees /.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-. :
neers alone expelled nearly 400 memben)
the past year for intoxication. The pub
lie demands assurances of safety when
ON the rail, and no alcoholizei brain can
be trusted to guide an engine, open a
switch or wave flag. Employers real
ize this, and thus selfish interests arr
aiding the temperance reform.-Union
Signal