Blue-grass blade., 1891-02-21

another Of my papers TO his house,
as Bro. Brooks saw.
This coal of fire Brother has
been recently q member of the
council, ifhe is not now.
! have seen and heard him in
the city council, when ! was re-
porter for a Democratic newspa
per, vote for month after month
to give saloon licenses in this city
to men of the very lowest "moral
character" and | never yet have
heard him say in the council, or on
the street, one word against the
whisky traffic in this city.
Not long since this cot Brother
told me d story about my my
grandfather Stone and old Father
I"Raccoon" John smith, that made
the ears come into my eyes, until
| W, ashamed of myself. and the
co., brother said he hoped !
would come back to the old relig-
ion again that t.ose goofa old men
had.
Bro. Brooks is a poor man, and
is " 'w 'mer like | used to be be-
fore l got to he a bloated bond
holder editor. He is a Methodist
and believes that Jonah swallowed
the Ark, and all .1ss stories that
got RE into trouble. He is a
stakeholder in the Bluegrass Blade,
and through the court house racket,
when I was 'bluer' than the
Blade, or the grass either, he stood
by me like little man, when
Prohibition Chairman Hib'ar, Of
that same Main street Christian
church, stood right beside the big.
gest saloon keeper in Lexington
and took time alb put one holding
, while the other skinned me.
When the c-o-f brother was
through, Brooks said to me, 81
am ready to take another share o
stock in the Blade just as soon a.
: you need it," and then we left the
, Office and started out and took ;
walk together, and he said thing'
to me that at this very minute
gives mere courage to hgh
this christianity whisky hypocric,
than l have ever felt before; though
at the time, as Brooks said he saw
? in me, the quicksilver in my mer
curial nature showed forty degree.
below Cicero.
! 1 know it's not right in me, jus
. as Mrs. Clark says, to be bull
dozed by a man lacking in intelli
gence and moral courage, bu
sometimes, like old Peter on thu
water, l can see the bottom below
me so clear that l falter and G,
down just like poor McGinty."
Now, SUPPOSE some day | shoulC
happen to get the light turned OF
, these Noah's ark things, like othel
people, and should want to G
back to the old faith again. do yol
think l would want to 90 NJ
Main street and join with that CO
brother? No; I'll be burned II
r would. l would join the Metho
dists four times before | would dc
it. 1 would rather 60 up and joir
DIR. Keller's church where they ar,
religiously so far in the dark thai
they have to burn candles in the
day time, than to have man give
me the Fright hand of fellowship
who has given the "right hand OF
fello wship" to nearly every saloon
keeper in town.
/ have frequently asked the cot
brother to try to do something
against the liquor curse in this
town, even when l was as much OF
a Lexington Democrat as any well
raised man could be, and now
when he saw whole lot of people
Jumping on me, like town dogs on
a country dog that has come to
town, he thinks it's good chance
for him to show his eminent piety
by piling on too.
God knows, if there is any God,
that DR.. Keller had just burnt it
into me, and that / had, as | said,
"taken my medicine like little
man, and soul as big as mus
tard seed that never heard of Jesus
Christ, ough. to have had some
sympathy for me. Physically, he
is a great big handsome fellow,
but morally, sympathy with the
liquor business sizes them up all
the same.
! / don't want my rooms on his
, flat either, if we all get to heaven.
The robbery t. devastation Of Africa
justly excite th2 Indignation Of the civ
ilized world. Eat tlis traffic, 80 horri-