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Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06
THE OCCASIONAL GLASS.
Il May Well Be Refused IL 1t Civ
Temptation to Others.

h May Well BE Refused II It Gives
Temptation to Others.
1t is difficult to convince many other
wise excellent people that there is any
harm in taking an occasional glass OF
wine or other intoxicating beverage at
the table or elsewhere. They never
drink to excess, it is said, and why
should they deprive themselves Of q
harmless indulgence because other men
are too weak to control their appetites.
This is the usual argument, but in the
present situation of things at least it is q
cruel, selfish, unmanly and unchristian
argument.
1t is the old cry in q new form, Am
/ my brothers keeper" Paul answered
this most effectively when he said, IF
meat make my brother to offend, l will
eat no flesh while the world standeth. I"
There is true manliness in this, the
true Christ spirit. 81 will deny myself" |"
the apostle might have added, "even 80
harmless and SO important an article of
food as meat if the eating of it shall
cause my brother to stumble and fall
into sin. 1t is not absolutely essential
that l should eat meat to sustain my life.
There are plenty of other kinds of food
good and wholesome to which may re-
sort. will restrict myself to these If
by SO doing can save a single one of
my fellow men from life of sin and
shame" Would that the moderate
drinker would apply such logic as this
to himself!- Christian at Work.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06
CHRISTMAS IN RETROSPECT.
Happy Homes Contrasted with the Miser,
Caused by Drink.

Happy Homes Contrasted with the Misery
Caused by Drink.
In millions of happy homes the an
nual festival of Christmas was cele-
brated. Peace on earth, good will
toward men" welled up in millions of
bosoms. Ministerial lips told the story
of him who came to the earth with glad
tidings of great joy which should be to
all people. Christian hearts responded
with words of praise and with acts of
genuine good will. Editorial columns
bulged with sentiment. Christmas! A
word to conjure with. Selfshness was
relegated to obscurity. Anger and
hatred and strife hid their faces in
shame. For time the millennial dawn
seemed about to burst upon planet re-
deemed from the sway of the powers of
darkness. Was the world made better
by all this? Undoubtedly.
But this is only one side of the picture.
There is anosher and darker side. For
instance:
A party Of barroom loafers in Plainfield, N.
j., on Christmas induced three-year-old boy,
for their amusement, to stand at the bar and
drink whisky until he was deathly sick, after
which the little fellow staggered out into the
street and fell dead.
At a drunken revel in Jacksonville, Fla.
Christmas morning, one man was killed and
1ve others were wounded in a general fight
over nothing in particular.
During drunken quarrel in notorious dive
at the corner Of Sixth avenue and Twenty
third street in New York city, on Christmas
day, John l.. Wogan. the reputed proprietor of
the place WAS shot and killed
A Christmas debauch carried over into the
next day by company Of Italians, wound up
In q fierce riot, in which several men were
stabbed, one Of them. Stephano Deni. being
killed.
At Jewett, Pa, on Christmas eve, William
Kinney, lumberman, bought jug of whisky
with which to celebrate Christmas, and drank
80 much of it that he dropped dead.
drunken crowd of hoodlums at Littles-
town. Pa, on Christmas eve made disturb
ance and assaulted the officer who tried to
quiet them The officer shot and killed in
self defense Joseph Shade and wounded Frank
Shadle.
Charles Behrendt, of Scribner, Neb., while
on o drunken spree Christmas morning, at
tackled and disemboweled his brother with
o butcher knife
Mary Reilly, of Brooklyn. was found dead on
the floor of her kitchen Christmas morning
having died from drinking.
Sarah Parks, fifty years old, was found dead
In the hallway of S67 Second avenue, New
York. Christmas morning, unconscious from
the effects of liquor. She died before she
could be taken to the hospital.
John Mulholland, of Morrisania, ". Y,
while drunk on Christmas, was stabbed to
death by six drunken Italians, who owed him
some grudge.
These are only samples. A complete
list Of all the horrible murders, cuttings,
accidents and suicides due to drink would
fill columns in this paper. The daily
press scarcely deems drink-crime short
of murder worthy of a passing notice, so
common have such crimes become
Voice.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06

Some wise and good men are racking
their brains over the question, "Why is
crime increasing in this country?' The
answer is simple enough. We can an
swer it in a single word-"Drink." This
is the answer which a writer in Forum
gives to account for the increase of crime
in Massachusetts, in recent years. The
report of the police department of New
York city for the year 1891 tells the same
story. And an analysis of the records Of
any police court, or prison or reforma-
tory in the country will yield the same
voar11ta
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06
The slums and the saloon.

The slums and the saloon are INSOFAR
able allies. We are accustomed to think
of London slums as being not only the
darkest spots in darkest England" but
SURPRISING in misery and crime anything
in our own country. But good authority
asserts that in the poorest district of
London there is one saloon to each 13f
persons, while in a less poverty strickeI.
section of Chicago there is one saloon to
each sixtY-fiYe persons.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06
A Church ssMember i'm Paris
Writes a Libel Upon me,
and the Kentuckian-
Citizen Publishes ff.
THE RAYlNGs OF A LUNATIc.

For the benefit of a few unac-
quainted with the facts we
desire to say a word in regard to
the wholesale denunciation of our
people in sheet calledthe Blue
Grass Blade.
1t is with sorrow and commits
Grafton that we refer at all to its
editor. He has been an inmate
of the Lunatic Asylum; and
should he have a friend, or friends,
for their own reputation and for
his sake, they should see that he
be returned Immediately to that
institution.
Dementia assumes many forms.
This poor fellow once attempted to
preach and to become Christian
preacher. He is grand son of
the beloved and venerated B.
w. Stone, one of the movers of
the Reformation, who lies buried
at old Cane Ridge, and among the
people that this poor man 80
fiercely denounces.
Infidelity, lunacy and the great
cause of temperance do not 60
well together. Every precinct in
Bourbon county save one has 10
cal option laws and favor and
work for temperance. Paris is the
only precinct in Bourbon county
without temperance laws; and we
made a magnificent fight here a
few years ago for Local Option,
but were outvoted, as the friends
of temperance generally are in the
larger towns and cities.
The spleen and idiocy of this
man seems to be directed against
the Christian church and it's
pastor ]. s. Sweeney.
Possibly OF the 300 members
of the Christian church in Paris,
there is not to be found in this
broad Commonwealth, or else
where, a more united, devoted,
moral and religious body of peo,
pie. They are noted for their
generosity, hospitality, refinement
and culture; the church in Paris
gave $4,000 to the cause of ed
ucation (Kentucky University in
the adjoining city of Lexington.
more than any other one church
Kentucky.
AS to elder Sweeney it is
enough to say that his people fol
whom he has preached almost the
fourth of a century are satisfied
with him. During the twenty.
three years that he has beer
preaching the glorious gospel O.
Christ here, with a power and elo.
quence and pathos rarely equaled
he has never repeated a single
sermon.
He breaches for the restoration
of New Testament Christianity
andfor the unionof all Gods peo
pie in the greatest cause in all thi;
universe; impressing upon hi
hearers that their loftiest ambition
and aspirations should be tor {
virtuous life. and glorious anG
blissful immortality.
If the editor referred t.
above could - his more lucit
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06

Statistics show very close connec-
ton between poverty and saloons. A
recent number of an English publica-
ton asserts that in the poorest district
in London there is one saloon to each
1876 of population, or eighty-one saloons
to 1900 of population. In certain
quarter in Chicago, which, however, is
not conspicuous for extreme poverty,
there are said to be $50 saloons. The
vote of that quarter is about 1000. 1t ap-
pears therefore that there is one saloon
to every ten voters. Provided each of
these voters represents ten persons who
do not vote, or in other words that the
population of the ward is 10000, which
is much too high, there is one saloon to
each 100 of population. On the other
hand, accepting the lowest number Of
saloons claimed for the territory $500,
there would still be one saloon for each
thirteen voters. Estimating the voters
at one to five of population there would
be one saloon to each sixty-fve persons.
Thus it appears that London's record OF
saloons in its poorest quarter is not SC
bad as is that Of part Of Chicago
Chica0o Daily News.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06

Give my love to Bro. Dechant
and tell him he is a man after my
own heart. He made the argu-
ment fairly and gentlemauly, and
as forcibly as the circumstances
would admit, for his old political
party, and when l answered it he
saw there was rothiug in his ar
gument, and he gave it up like a
man.
He could see that he was every
way my peer Intellectually, and
tnat he probably knew more
about politics than l did, or do.
But like any other strong-minded
and honest man who will stop to
think, he can see that the diff
ference between Democrats and
Republicans is nothing but "a
souable between the ms and the
outs while the liquor traffic, in
volving finance, and morals and
legislation, as it does, is the most
stupendous issue ever presented
to the American people; and one
which will go through all the gov
ernments of the earth just as it
has through ours.
In time to come, Smother"
Stewart, the author of Prohibi-
ton, will be known to the world
as greater hero than "Mother
Hubbard" and "Mother Shipton"
and the smother of the Gracci, "
all put together.
The next thing after Prohibi-
ton is the 'Peace Congress"
It's all part and parcel of the
one grand Prohibition idea.
The Peace Congress will all be
fixed up at the Chicago Centennial
next year, by representatives from
all over the world, and there will
be "peace on earth and good will
among men," and "war shall be
no more" and the spear (bayonet)
shall be beaten into a pruning
hook, and the sword into a plow
share and men shall learn war no
more"
There are not three preachers
in Kentucky who have as much
faith in the New Testament as ]
have, and / am a heathen.
They will tell you that they be.
lieve something about Trinity
and Regeneration" and ''sancti-
acatinn5 and "expurgation" and
athunderation" and "damnation;''
but they and do not be-
lieve a word of it; and they do moi
believe that the day is at hand
when men shall learn war nc
more, and when, metophorically
the lion and the lamb shall lie
down together"
believe this sincerely and in
telligently. l know that only
two or three centuries ago, the
;udges decided cases at law by
"wager of battle" That is now
so thoroughly done away witt
that not more than one man ou
of ten who read this will know
what that means.
In fifty years from now childreI
will be asking their parents how
it was possible that government
used to keep armies, just as the.
now ask how it was possible tina
we used to have slaves.
/ believe that the Peace Con
gress is coming, and that NJ
government will have any arm,
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06

The suppression of the drink habit is a
moral issue. 1t is not question of fiscal
expediency alone. 1t does not appeal to
self interest alone. Its claims reach the
conscience of men and women simply,
directly and with tremendous power.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06

OF the 9O, POT arrests in New York city
Last year, according to the police reports,
no less than $4,000 were attributable to
the liquor traffic. Nearly 10000 were
directly credited to the traffic by the
police. And the records also showed
that crime of all kinds was increasing in
this city faster than the population.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06
The Greatest Monopoly on Earth.

The population of the United States
today is about g., ,0O0,0 OF this num-
Der about 240, 900 are retail liquor deal
ers, or one person out of every 25S. The
gross income of the business is over ST.
100, 900, 900 each year, an average to each
dealer of nearly 5000, the best part of
which represents clear proft.-Voice.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06
Especially Glad to Have
Friends i'm s'Old Bourbon"
PARIS, KY, Jan. 8 '92.

fARIS, NY, Jan. o u.
Mr.. &. G. Moore,
!. DEAR SIR-Herewith please
find check for 81 90 in payment
of your paper. [ do not know
how long it has been coming to
my address bnt am satisfied /, or
we, have gotten the full $500
worth. l hope you may continue
it, and if l am unable to pay you
in money 1 will take pleasure in
rendering professional services to
that amount.
Respectfully
j. T. MCMILLEN.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06
water n, our Natura, neverage.

Water is the only drink which nature
knows or has provided for animals, and
whatever nature gives us, we may de-
pend upon it, is the best and safest for
ms
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06
For Moderate Drinkers to Ponder.

Every moderate drinker should some
where in his room paste up the following
lines from Hannah More's Robert and
Richard" This is Richards epitaph:
Here lies poor youth who called drinking his
bliss,
tlis?"
Leaeh passerby to his errors attend,
~ Ia learn of poor Dick to remember the end.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06

His letter head shows he is a
dentist, Jest think about getting
paid by having your teeth pulled.
Jeeminy!
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06

Liberia imports n 900 gallons of in
toxicants for every missionary it re-
ceives.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06
An Extra Supply Of Blades for
Paris, Kentucky.

PARIS, KY, Jan. 20. 80.
DEAR Mr.. MooRE--Receivedyour
papers by this afternoon train.
Sold them out in a few minute.
Can't you send me 100 copies
next week, can sell them without
any trouble.
Please send them.
Respectfully
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06

Uncle Sans Annual Liquor Bill.
The ANIMAL liquor bill for the United
States is q "38, 900, 900
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06

Total Abstinence In India.

OF the new mayors in England thirty
seven are total abstainers.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-06-09
Legal Notice.

The unknown heirs of William Barlow. de-
ceased, and the unknown heirs OF Richard +.
Bernard, deceased, will take notice. that on the
26th day of April, A. d. 1892, Eugene Eim-
norman. as trustee for tho use and benefit of
Helena Zimmerman, filed his petition in the
Common Peas Court, OF Highland county,
Ohio. against the above named parties. praying
that said parties. the defendants in said action,
may be ordered tn cohvey, in fee-simpe. by
good and sufficient deed, to tho plaintiff. the
following real estate, bounded and described
as fellows, to.wit: Lying and being in the
county Of Highland. State of Ohio, on the
waters of Lees Creek, part OF jacob Spring
er's survey, No. 1861, beginning at o stone in
the Wilmington and New Lexington turnpike
and in the original north line OF said survey
and running thence with said orisinai orig line OF
said survey, N. 4611 deg. e. $50 poles 10 a
stone in said original survey line; thence s. As
deg, L. SO poles to stone from which an ELM
bears 8. 6S deg, W. 6 links thence s. 4S deg,
min. W., 2S4 2. 10 poles to stone near the
bank of Lees Greek thence 8. "a deg, W.
passing center OF Lees Creek at poles, 10
28-l00 poles to point in said creek thence
| 3. 43 deg, E. 20 4O-100 poles TO point in said
creek thence \. Sl19 deg, E. 81 28 100 poles
| to stone thence y. 40 deg, W. 80 40.lOO
poles to stonein the center Of the Wilmington
and New Lexington turnpike thence with
said pike N. "A deg, A. min, ". 46 poles to
stone, corner Of school lot thence with the
line thereof N As deg. 10 min, e. 10 poles to
a stone thence N. "A deg, Al min. W. II
| 76-l00 poles to q stone (; thence y. As deg, IL
min., W. 10 poles to a stone in said Whining
ton and New Lexington turnpike thence with
the pike N. Al deg, 40 min., W 94-10 poles to
a stake thence N. AZ deg, IL min.. W. IS
Sc 100 poles TO the beginning and that hit
title to all of said real estate may be quieted
| against said defendants.
| Said parties are required to answer on OF
before the sixth day Of August, A. d. 1892, OF
| Judgment may be taken against them.
| EUGENE ZIMMERMAN, Trustee, nc.
By Herbert Jenney, e. P. Thorpe, Irviu McD
| Smith, plaintiffs attorneys.
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Legal N Notice.

Sealed proposals will be received at the office
OF the Clerk of the Board of Education Of Dod-
son township. Highland county. Ohio, i'll
Lyrchburg. until twelve ociock at noon on the
18Th day of June. 1892, for binding schoot
honse in sub; district number nine of said
townrkip, according to the plans and speclf-
cstiors on file in sail office.
Each bid must contain the rsme Of every
person interested in the game aud he sccomps-
MED by tufficent guaranty Of some disinter-
ested person, that, II the bid ia accepted. n
contract will be entered into and the per-
fuimaice Of it properly secured The bid tor
each kind OF ma efial called for by the speciti-
cations mnst be stated separately and the price
OF each given. and the price of lah''r must also
be separately stated None. but the lowest re-
spui,sibe bid Will be accepted aud the Beard
may r. Jet all hi "a
l,v order Of the Board ~ Fdncat'on.
May 9th 1892. DAVID SIMpKINs, Clerk.
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Specimen Cases.

S. H. Clifford, New Cassel, Wis, was
troubled with Neuralgia and Rheuma.
tism, his Stomach was disordered, his
Liver was affected to an alarming de.
gree. appetite fell away, and he was ter.
ribly reduced in flesh and strength.
Three bottles OF Electric Bitters cured
him. e
Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg, ILL.,,
had running sore on his leg of eight
years. standing. Used three bottles OF
Electric Bitters and seven boxes OF
Bucklen's Arnica Salve, and his leg is
sound and we'll. John Speaker, Catawba,
O., had five large Fever sores on his leg,
doctors said he was incurable. One bot.
tie Electric Bitters and one box Bucklen'e
Arnica Salve cured him entirely. Sold
by Seybert & Co.'s drug store.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-06-09
VERY SLOWLY
The Search for the Dead Min6
Workers Goes On
A Careful Estimate shows Tint Fully -Four
Hundred Lives Were Lost In the Birls-
enberg Minc Horror. Among Them
Five Mining Academy students.

PRAGUE, June 4.-Owing to the great
excitement that prevailed when it was
known that the fire that broke out
Tuesday night in the Birkenbcrg silver
mine. near Przibram, had caused the
death Of number of the miners. many
contradictory statements wore made as
to the number of those who had per-
ished. One of the reports had 1t that
forty had been killed. Now, however,
that the excitement has died out to q
great extent. and inquiries have been
made among the survivors, 1t is csti-
mated that fully 400 of the employees
lest their lives in the disaster,
Among those who were killed were
five students from the mining academy,
who were studying the working OF the
mine to gain practical knowledge OF
mining operations
Gas continues to form in great vol
umes in the mine, and the Maria shaft
is so filled with It that the volunteers
who were seeking to recover the bodies
are greatly hampered in their work; in
fact, it is thought now that II will be o
fortnight before all the bodies will be
taken out
Large trenches are being dug in the
church yards in which the dead will be
buried. These trenches are large
enough TO hold $50 bodies. Many OF the
bodies recovered were almost complete
" destroyed. only q few fragments
sufficient to fill q child's coffin remain
| ing.
Many affecting scenes have been wit
messed when persons who have lost
relatives have sought to indentify the
charred and mutilated remains by frag.
ments OF clothing that are sometimes
burned into the flesh. Many of the dead
will never be identified. and this adds
TO the sorrow and mourning that Is sc
general throughout the district.
Every effort is being made by the au'
thorities to alleviate the distress OF the
sufferers and to tide them over until.
they are In measure provided fol
themselves.
The bodies v,!l be buried at the cS
pense OF the state, and 1t Is thought
that the government will be repre-
sented at the funeral By some high OF
fetal The motion made in the lower
house Of the Austrian rcichsruth t
have the imperial government nd tho
sufferers is very favorably commented
upon, as is also the proposal to erect
monument Us memorial to the foul
brave miners who lost their lives whilt
trying TO save their companions
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Just a. sure as hot weather comes
there will be more or lees bowel con .
plant in this vicinity. Every person,
and especially families, ought to have
some reliable medicine at hand for in
slant uselin case it is Yeesled. A 25 OF
so cent bottle Of Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhes Remedy il just
what You ought TO lave and all that you
would need, even for the most severe
and dangerous cases. 1t is the best, the
most reliable and most successful treat.
ment known and is pleasant to take
For sale by Seybert & Co.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-06-09

The eremarkable children's worm medi-
cine called Mother Grsy's Sweet Worm
Powders, is the receipt used by Mother
Gray, for years nurse in the Children's
Home in New York. These powders
are now sold at all drug stores, and
mothers everywhere use and praise
them. II your child is fretful and sick.
ly, worms often cause it. Ask for this
remedy. Harmless as milk. Destroys
worms and gives new life to the child
Price 25 cents.
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Piles F! Piles! Itching Piles /!

s. B. Belding, Myrtle Avenue, Albany,
N. Y, writes, Nov. 81, 1898: have sufT-
cred for twelve years from itching and
bleeding piles, was treated by specialists
and tried every sort OF remedy. Aliens
Discovery for Piles cured me, and ssy
with confidence after it cured case as
bad as mine it would cure any case.
wish all could know of A liens Discovery
and use it sooner than did," Sold by
all druggists. Price Soc.
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WILL WRITE NO LETTER.
An Important Declaration From Blaine %
an Important Question.

An Important Declaration From Blaine on
an Important Question.
WASHINGTON, June AUST as Secre-
tary Blaine was leaving the White
house Friday afternoon, and was walk
ing to his carriage, he was approached
by o representative of the Associated
Press, who asked him several questions
in regard to his conference with the
Canadian commissioners and then,
changing the subject, reminded the
secretary that in case he had any further
communication to make In regard to the
political situation the. Associated Press
would like. TO have It. The secretary
smiled, and, without seeming to attach
any importance to what he WINS saying,
rcmarked: That's all right, but there
won't be any more communications :"
He then changed the subject Of con-
versation, and courteously averted any
further reference to it.
MINNEApoLIs, June 4.-The press dis
patch from Washington stating that
Secretary Blaine had said he would
write no more letters and make no
further announcements prior to the
convention were received with rcjoi6-
ings by the Blaine men Friday evening,
and they declare that nothing can pre-
vent his nomination. Indeed. the gen.
eral effect of this announcement Of the
secretary of state has been to add en-.
thusiasm to the Blaine movement, and
inspire his supporters with increased
confidence. t,tst ~