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Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-05
An Elegant Line Of new SPRING GOODS!
Korah MORE. Kora,h MORE
CHINN, ROSS & TODD.
TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM
THE BLADE MAY COME.

The issue of Oct. 31st begins
the second year of the Blade, and
l hope that those who intend TO
take it will be as prompt as they
can in paying me for lt-S2-OO a
year for persons in good circum-
stances, and Sl.OO alyear for per-
sons who can not afford to pay
more, and will tell me so.
The Blade will 60 to all persons
to whom it went last year who
have not ordered it discontinued
Those who have not paid me
for last year will please do so, il
they feel that they ought to do so,
and if not, please notify me to dis
continue it, in order that L may
not incur further loss by sending
it 20 them.
| will have no collector and will
not dun you for it.
If you are willing to pay me
send the amount by mail and you
will receive a receipt.
Fraternally yours,
CHARLES G. MOORE.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-05
Ir@a.ls Tells Sonre Tratt.

The address Of ex-senator John j.
Ingalls, mt Monona Lake on Prohibi-
ton expresses what has been said SO
much by Prohibitionists. Coming
from man who has been So rromi-
nent in public life his words will be
taken as full of meaning when he
says: 'For fear of offending the radi-
cal Prohibitionis.s, for fear of offend
ing the brewery interest, for fear of
offending the distil!ers of whisky,
there is no one man IN public life to-
day that darrs to tell the honest truth
about frohil iticn-pot one"
This is John J. Ingalls, who was one
OF the public men referred to. 1t is
no more patent E ohservlnt men that
this is 50 because John J. ingalls, has
said so, but it is Well he has said it.
Supposing Blaine would free his mind
about prob b..i'n. Would be the
nominee of the republican party the
next election? Would Hill or Cleve-
land ii they gave their views?
When men say Liquor traffic" some
one is hit every time. There is not
another question before the people.
nor will there be for ages a question
of such magnitude. 1t makes it no
more the truth because a prominent
man says so, but it drives it closer
home. In the battle of the great
giants that will come on this ques-
ton, such other questions as raise up
a strife in politics now will subside
into insignificance in comparison
IAnvar
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-05
L am Still Betting GA tie
Ravens.

LEXINGTON, KY. Noy. IS, 1891.
DEAR Bro. MooRE-Enclosed
you will find $500 to pay for my
paper, and the one 1 had you send
my father, p. M. Wrenn. Now
for the balance | would like you
to send the Blade to G. w. Hall,
Culpepper, Va, and to G. A.
Wrenn, 422 O street Washing
ton, ID. c., for six months each.
want them to see our Blade
and to hear our Moore. and hope
it may cut from them $500 for
the same when the six months is
up.
Instead of the "crow, buzzard,
wood-pecker, or jay-bird," a
smaller bird than any of them will
send the dollar for Bro. l.. A.
Freeman's paper of Danville. The
other dollar is to pay for that.
Yours,
f. b. WRENN.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-05
The Farmers Alliance.
From the Shelby Seminal. J

From the Shelby Sentinal)
The Farmers Alliance seems ia
be fast approaching final disolu-
ton. Founded only a year OF
two ago, on sound principles, with
high motives, it has drifted afar
from its original purposes and be-
come what it was never intended
to be, the plaJthing of designing
politicians, demagogues and NAL
contents. who saw in it an oppor-
tunity to crafty an ambition
which the two old parties had
failed to satisfy.
Divorced from politics by its
constitution, it was nevertheless
led into these devious paths; at
first only in local contests, then
into State elections aud finally,
by actions of the Supreme Coun-
ell, in session at Indianapolis last
week, into endorsement of the
Peoples party--an segregation
of soreheads, Missionaries and po-
litical malcontents, eclipsing any
thing ever seen before
A year in politics, it seems,
should have taught them better
policy. In kentucky, where the
order promised to become a power
full element, the membership has
decreased, according to the latest
reports. from 100000 to 10000, or
$4,000: In Kansas, its strong
hold, nearly everything was lost.
In Mississippi aud Georgia it was
defeated at every point, aud yet,
in the face of this overwhelming
evidence of the unpopularity of
partisan politics, the Supreme
Council, in National assembly, de
clares for the Peoples party.
A split in the order had already
occurred on the sub-Treasury
scheme, aud the anti Treasury
faction become aiIenated and this
final action of the Council, it
seems will disrupt the whole
concern.
The Alliance as we have fire.
quently said before, was founded
on pure motives and, had the pur-
poses of its authors been adhered
to, had a future of good ahead of
it. 1t was a patent fact that the
farmers had been neglected in
legislation, and il was only proper
that they should bard themselves
together to demand their rights.
Had they only done this all would
have been well. But the farmer
deserted his standpoint of right.
He came to demand OF govern
mcnt not only rights, but privi-
leges. The organization grew
into a power. The sweets of Of
flee became a temptation. Then
demagogues arose, and playing
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-05

What's become of those Lexing-
ton Democratic and Republican
papers that worked that ''infdel'
racket on me, aud stirred up these
old religious hypocrites and
drunken politicians until they
were about to kill me here? Did
any decent Christian preacher
ever write TO any Lexington Dem
ocratic or r publican. paper, and
say "God bless you in your noble
wOrk?" Never; since Faust and
Gutenberg made the first type;
and they never will. There is not
a preacher in the town, black OF
white, that will say "God bless
any Democratic or Republican
editor in the town; but there are
a thousand men here who will
look at that gang of drunkards
and dead beats and saloon-keepers
that the Democratic and Repub-
lican papers have combined to put
in authority over this town, and
say "God damn" all of them; and
there's not one of those editors
will deny wha l say. They have
put thirty men in charge of the
colleges and university, the
churches, the press, the drama and
the lecture halls, the society, and
improvements and the CONNER
cial relations of this city, and
there are not more than five out
of the thirty that | would pay
$500 month for anything they
could do, except to run bar
room, if | We're in that business,
and twenty five out of the thirty
could do that if they could keep
sober.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-05

and is to-day determined not to
vote for the Prohibition candi-
dates in 1892, is in his heart an
accessory before the fact to a
thousand murders as villainous as
the roasting Of that baby. If he
casts his vote against Prohibition
he will be a murderer. If he Is
instigated to do this under the in
fiuence of avarice, or because he
has been infiamed and instigated
to do it, from the speeches or ed
ilorials of Democratic or Republi-
can politicians, then he has done
it ain sudden heat and passion, +"
and he is guilty of murder in the
second degree.
Ii he has not been unduly influ-
enced by any of these, but know
ingly, and of his own free will and
accord, votes against the candi-
dates who represent the party
whose purpose is the suppression
of the liquor trade, then he is
guilty of destroying human life,
with "malice prepense and alore-
thought" and is guilty of murder
in the first degree.
If only one man, or a score, or a
hundred men, should, by this ex-
erclse of their power, bring upon
the citizens of this government the
murders that result from voting
against Prohibition. they would
be arrested, and ought TO be ar.
rested and hanged like the Nib
lists at Chicago. But the con.
spiracy and rebellion against the
principles of civilized government
is so large. and so general, that
there is no tribunal that can bring
them tojustice.
1t is no just answer to this that
these men bring disaster upon
themselves as we'll as upon others
by their votes, any more than II
would have been a valid plea o.
the attorneys for the Chicago Nj
hilist that the dynamite bombs
that their clients threw into the
crowd, killed Nihilists as well as
innocent citizens.
Every man who casts any Other
ballot than that for the Prohibition
party, throws a dynamite boml
into a miscellaneous crowd, and il
is no effect 10 his crime that he
kills his own friends among others
The man who casts such a ballot
and he who casts such a bomb
commit offenses that are equally
damnable, before any just tribu-
nal. But the tribunals of this
country, for sordid and base mo.
tives, are in conclusion with those
who cast the murderous ballot ant
can not make any profit by collu
sion with those who cast the muir
derous bomb, and therefore the
unjust discrimination for one anC
against the other.
Every mother in the United
States who reads this editorial ant
does not exercise Ordinary dill
gence" to influence men to vot,
for the Prohibition movement
just as truly consents to the dealt
-et~ttat Virginfa-haby, as Saul
"who was afterward Called Paul,
consented unto the death o.
Stephen, when he stood by. and
without protest held the clothes
of those who stoned him.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-05

You know / have said more
against miracles than all tie other
newspapers in Kentucky; but the
fact is that | see miracles every
now and then, just as plain as you
all saw the moon eclipsed the
other night. People used to think
an eclipse was miracle, and it
was a miracle until they under
stood, it and then it wasn't.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-05
What Missouri Says A1eIt
The l.Iue Grass Essa.ae.

After short interval OF silence
that fearless and unquenchable
PrOhibitionist, Charles {. Moore,
speaks again as editor of the Blue
Grass Blade. published at Lex
ington, Ky, ienunciator of the
whisky traffic, and ali shams re-
ligious, social and political. We
are glad to salute brave earnest
men anywhere, and regard our
brother Moore as the Bayard OF
the press Petfus Comfy (Mo }
Enterprise.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-05
Murdered by Drunken Husbands.

An English paper, from statistic,
taken from the press of the United Kn.s-
dom, reports the records Of murders of
women by inebriated husbands, since
Jan. |, 1889, TO Jan. /, 1891, to be 1904.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-05

In New York last year ,43i husbands
procured divorces from their wives on
the ground of drunkenness. Daring the
same year 12,432 wives procured di-
CHARGE
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-05
What Ona Gallon of whisky Costs

Let me tell you how much gallon
of whisky COSTS" said Il judge after try
ing a case. Zone gallon of whisky made
two murderers, it made two wives wild
ows and eight children orphans"
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-05

The Shelby Sentinel, in which
the above editorial appears, is ed.
tied right in the midst of the
strongcs, Farmers Alliance seDti
mcnt in this state, and is the only
paper in which | know, outside o.
papers that were started in the
interest Of the Alliance humbug
that come out and advocated it:
cause.
1 supposed the Alliance would
go to the dogs in a short time but
it got there sooner than 1 ex.
pected.
1t was the most incongruou'
nondescript conglomeration OF bat
religion and worse politics, out
side of the main two old parties
that it has ever attempted to bt
perpetrated on a long suffering
public. 1t was kind of habri(
between a Methodist camp meet
ing, Freemasonry and Know
nothingism.
1t began the proceedings O
each meeting with religious cere
mony that was open to the public
and wound up with something
that only the eniciated were al
lowed to hear and sea pro
cedure at once suggestive of trea
son against the government
Any political party that insists
on keeping its proceedings CLOSED
from public scrutiny should be pu
under police surveillance.
The death of the Farmers AL
lance adds only one move to tin
list of spasmodic efforts that hav,
been made to establish anothe
party. and which have ingloriousl,
gone down until their names hav'
almost been forgotten. And We
the Prohibition party has beer
present at the birth and death 0
all of these; not making any grea
stir or sensation at any time, bu
steadily growing from 5000 t.
| 256, 900 and without one singh
instance of root of bitterness
springing up among them. 1t i
practically impossible that Their
can be any division among Prohi
bitionists as to the ultimate pur-
pose Of the party. The very tern
Prohibition means to prohibit tn,
liquor trade, just as Abolition
meant to abolish the slave trade
and any man who ever went int
either of those parties could bu
know what he was doing, because
the very names of them told him
The very worst that we evel
can do among ourselves is to fus
e little about Woman Suffrage
while each party claims to be tn,
better Prohibitionists.
The rise and fall of all sucl
parties as the Alliance or Peoples
parties strengthen the Prohibition
party. They have taught each
other about the errors of the ole
parties, and are weaned from
them, and know they will Away.
be suspected by the old parties
and they will not go back to then
for sympathy and will come t.
Prohibition.
We are bound to win, if we ad
work to our political faith. Lee
every man do his duty to thi
cause when an opportunity offers
itself, and occasionally let him Sc
out of the way to seek opportuni
ties and it will tell after a while
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-05

on the selfish interest of a credu-
lous constituency, led them to all
kinds of suicidal folly. The re-
suit was saturnalia of class leg
islat;on. The farmers who con-
demned in the bought rulings
that favored monopoly sought to
be guilty of the crimes they con-
denim in Others. Their original
complaint was that government
showed tavoritism. Instead of
merely protesting against this.
they began to demand that gov
eminent should favor them. The
sub Treasury plan, with its piaus-
ible pavnbroker promises, was
preached. This was class legis-
lation of the most open and shame
less kind. The collateral of the
farmer was to be given preference
to all other collateral, and the
public money loaned on it. In
short, they wanted the earth, and
in their desire for it they over
reached themselves. The finale
as we comprehend the situation
of the Alliance as a power in the
country, was written in the In
dianapolis resolution.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-05
ROasts his Helpless Babe Be
fore its NOther's Eyes
whisky the Cause.

LEXINGTON, VA, Nov. 4.-This
thriving settlement of some 500
people, mostly direct descendants
of the Scotch-Irish-blue light
Presbyterians, early settlers in
this section of the Shenandoah
Valley, furnishes one of the most
diabolical, brutal acts that has
ever occurred in this sectiou-a
act that has incensed the good
people and created no little eX-
element.
A babe roasted alive by its
drunken father in the presence of
its helpless mother is the cause.
The details of the tiendish act read
like a story of the South Sea
Islands.
Carl Cummings, man hereto
fore bearing a good character, at
tended an old Virginia court here
on Monday and returned home
under the influence of whisky
On reaching his house he at once
became troublesome and attempted
to provoke his wife into a quarrel
first by general complaint, then
by throwing brandy on the cook
stove, when she was preparing
supper. Failing in this his anger
knew no bounds, and snatching
the babe from its crib he placed
it on the red hot stove, at the
same time drawing a revolver and
threatening to kill the helpless
woman if she attempted to rescue
the child. The child is reported
roasted alive, but another report
says it is not dead. The man had
not been arrested at last accounts
There is some talk of lynchiDg
him.-NdshUiUe Issue.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-26
The Manfaced Crab.

One of the most singular looking crea-
lures that ever walked the earth or
SWAN the waters under the earth" is
the world famous lnanfaced crab Of
Japan. Its body is hardly an inch in
length. yet the head is fitted with face
which is the perfect counterpart of that
Of a Chinese coolie: veritable missing
link. with eyes. nose and mouth all
clearly defined This curious and I'M
canny creature. besides the great like
ness it bears to a human being in the
matter of facial features. is provided
with two legs. which seem to grow from
the top Of its head and hang down over
the sides Of it's face Besides these legs.
two "feeIers." each about an inch in
length. grow from the ''chin" of the ami
NAL. looking for all the world like q
colonel's forked beard These manfaced
crabs fairly swarm in the inland seas OF
Japan.-St. Louis Republic.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-26
SpectacIes or longs.

They tell good story of Chief Justice
Peters, of the supreme court of Maine,
one of the brightest and wittiest orna-
ments of the bench in that state or any
other.
While the judge was still a practicing
lawyer he had for client farmer
named HanscOm. who. though he was
we'll past middle age. had the notion not
uncommon among Maine farmers of his
age that he was as young as ever and
could hold his own in moving field with
the best of them.
One day the farmer came into the
judges Office to look at some papers
which had been drawn up for his sigma
ture, and as he picked up the first one
he began to adjust it in the manner
sometimes spoken of by those who use
glasses and mislay them as ''telescoping.
The judge noticed the action and. see
ing that the farmer was holding the
paper pretty well at arms length. re-
marked pleasantly
Your eyeslght seems to be failing a
little. Mr. Hansco1n You will have to
get pair of spectacles."
mot a bit of it," growled the old
farmer; mot a bit Of it My sights as
good as it ever was Ishan't want 'spet-
tacles for good many years yet"
"All right" said the judge: you'll
have to get pair Of tongs then. DE
troit Free Press
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-26
ELECTRIC SPARKS.

The electrostatic resistance of the Allan
tic cabie reduces the speed of the electric
current more than One-third, requiring
three seconds for it TO travel to Europe.
The latest improvements in the long dis.
lance telephones have raised the question
Of the probability OF their being put into
operation between this country and Europe
Among recent inventions is an automatic
electrical pump. 1t shuts itself Off by a
slow closing switch when the tank is full.
and starts again just before the tank be.
comes empty.
Recent experiments show that an cleo
trio current will travel over a good con,
ductor at the rate of 500 900 miles a min.
ute, or around the earth in three seconds.
Light travels at the rate of 1000, 900 miles
a minute.
While six years ago there wasn't an cleo
trio launch on the Thames, sixteen were
counted at tho Henley regatta this year,
and there are nine stations between Kings
ton and Oxford at which the storage bat
tories can be replenished.
The following metals will conduct cleo.
trtcity III the following proportions, viz:
Silver, 100; copper, %; gold, 70; aluminium,
80; zinc, 26; platinum, l6; iron, Is; nickel,
10; tin, II; lead. I. OF the above. copper
aud iron have the greatest commercial
value - electric conductors.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-26
FEMININE FANclEs.

Lady Lytton recently gave lawn party
In Paris at which 1900 guests were present.
The Countess Clancarty, Belle Billion,
IN the owner Of five fast horses. Of which
her favorite is Cream Tartar.
Miss Maggie Mitchell. the daughter oil
the Oregon senator, is one of the most
beautiful women ever seen in Paris, says
M Cabanel. the French portrait painter.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis has decided that
the final place of burial for the remains oil
her husband shall be in Richmond, be-
cause it was the capital of the confederacy
Young Mrs. Oscar Wilde is said to be @
striking contrast with her husband. She
is very quiet, while he is rather loud; she
Is inclined to be commonplace, while he is
brilliant in conversation.
The Duchess Eugene Litta Bologuine
of Milan, to express her complete abandon
ment of the pomp and vanities of the
world, recently sold her wonderful gems
for 1000, and gave the money to he,
priest, with instruction to erect with it q
hospital for little children.
Miss Elizabeth More, of Edgeworth, Pa.
with her own hands recently built neat
little cottage, laying the foundations, plas
C0TluS UuO Walls Vi Uu0 OlucFGuU rOOmE
and performing all the carpenters work to
builders taste. To do this she found il
necessary to don male attire.
President Harrison and Secretary Noble
were classmates at the Miami university
in Oxford, o. They were firm friends, and
remained SO until they both fell in love
with Carrie Scott, the daughter Of the pro-
prietor OF n neighbo"ing seminary and
now the mistress Of the White House.
Miss Anna Williams, the girl whose
classic profile is reproduced on the silver
dollar, is still a Philadelphia teacher, as
she was when her features attracted the
attention of the mint engraver. She now
teaches kindergarten philosophy in the
Girls Normal school in the Quaker City.
Mrs. Lucien Mayberry, of Lii tie Rock.
is the happy mother of ten boys, all
born within a married life Of tLirty-nne
months. There are two sets Of triplets
and two pair of twins. They ara all well
formed, bright and healthy. Mrs. May
berry is a pretty blond. plump aud hearty,
of barely twenty-four years of aye.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-26
A Spoiled Child.

English children are so much more
childish than ours" said an American
mother once. II wonder why it ia"
1t is undoubtedly because they are
kept in the nursery and do not come into
prominence at so early an age as ours do.
The other day in hotel rotunda stood a
round eyed darling with her short,
golden hair fuffed around her winsome
face; her short wasted. long skirted
frock added to her picturesque appear
ance. Almost all the men passing by
stopped to speak to her She was the
delighted recipient of nickels. cards and
bonbons while she coquetted with all
the airs OF society girl My heart
ached. for she was getting all the sweet,
downy freshness of childhood rubbed off
30 early
Her father. standing near. encouraged
her and laughed at her naive questions
and replies BY and by the white capped
nurse came on the scene and bore her
child away: and she. loath to leave the
scene OF her conquests. made her exit.
biting. kicking and scratching her nurse.
while the men laughed heartily at this
edifying spectacle
There are some wise mothers who dis
courage and endeavor to suppress this
precOcity. but they are lamentably few
in number.-L. E. Chittenden in House.
wife.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-26
CROWN AND SCEPTER.

Leopold II, king OF the Belgians, prides
himself on being Il workingman. He rises
at and does two hours work before break
fast.
The Prince of Wales, it is said, is pecun-
niarly inter ested AZ a considerable stock
holder in Il large hotel in London, and is a
silent partner in shop in Bond street and
in another shop in Piccadilly.
The Princess OF Wales plays on a banjo
made of fine walnut with an ebony finger
board and silver fixtures; she was taught
by Harry Spratt, the first man in England
to introduce the banjo to aristocratic no.
Gce as musical instrument.
The Duke of Augustenberg, for whom it
is said his brother-in-la law, the German EN-.
pcror, wishes to arrange n marriage with
one of the daughters of the Prince OF
Wales, is described rs being Exceedingly
proud and arrogant, desperately stupid
and by no means rich"
Queen Natalie of Servia has written a
fairy tale, in which she herself is supposed
to be the heroine. whereas her only son,
jealousy guarded by three powerful evil
spirits. is ultimately rescued by her sell
sacrificing love. The book having been
translated. is we'll spoken Of in Germany.