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Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-11
Will Run in the Steeple Chase.

Evangellne, Bob Thomas and Pro-
tector, Chicago horses, have been en-
tered for the steeple chase races at the
Kent county far. The steeple chase
races will be run on September p, %
and %. Evsngeline and Bob Thomas
ran in the jumping races of the Jockey
club last JulV
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-11

M0Rdar, sept.mber ~. Fourth ward
Esf.ui,l susn club meet at Lincoln club
headquarters.
NOnday. = ptefnbsr IL Twelfth ward
Esrubi team vtnO meet the corner OF
Hail nd foala streets.
Wedne-dhy september "a. sixth ward
kepuistiesan club meet at " ilmOnts hall,
No. az " sSt Leonard street
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-11

this move or be erept into the eonven-
ton 70 90 a piece OF dirty WORK for
them. Ii either role the man presents
a unique specimen Of paltroonery and
doublefaeedness.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-11

Louis Deitz and Louis Deitz, IT., yes
terdav cold their machine shop and
fixtures At Nos. % and al South Front
street 20 Edward Tannowitz for 81, 575.
Tsnnewitz was junior partner of the
Hartmann company until their foundry
burned.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-11
Turned Into the Street.

Mrs. Angus, an insane widow with
one child, was turned out of the house
she had been occupying on Winter
street yesterday. Her furniture was
moved INTO the office of the director of
the poor in the city hall, and she will
be cared for by the authorities.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-11
Gospel Temperance Meeting,

The gospel temperance meeting at
Good Templars hall this afternoon will
be conducted by Lathrop w. C. I. u.
The following program will be pre-
sented:
Song service. and Congregation
Devotional exercises. The Rev.W. l.. Davidson
Contralto solo........ .........MlsS Carrie Holmes
Recitation ......................Mis Miss Louie Yates
MesSrs, Langdon and Newbury. Miss
Whitney and Ms. Hart.
Observation-Disclosures Drunk" .....-Viola StOn
j. NJ. Buffum. state lecturer of Iowa.
Closing hymn
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-11

WAsHrNGroS, sept. lO.-For lower
Michigan. showers; except clearing
ton gut IN eastern portion OF upper
Mich gan; cooler IN lower Michigan
west - northwest winds.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-11

The various labor unions Of this city
have contributed S235.55 to aid The
strikers At Homestead, SO Of which
has alresdy been forwarded 10 them.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-11

Residents Of Lyon Street Think
the Improvement
IS NOT BEING PROPERLY DONE
They Have Duplicate Contracts ana Arc
Watching The Work clossly-ROa-
tine Of the Board.

President Shelby presided over the
meeting o. the board OF public works
yesterday afternoon. IN the absence
OF the secretary City Engineer Collar
acted N that capacity.
petition WAS received from five
property owners on Wells street asking
that water mains be laid from Wealthy
avenue 10 Buckeye street.
Residents OF Lyon street are dis
turbeo because ln their estimation tie
work OF improving Lyon street Is not
being done according 10 contract IL
Is sald that n places the top dressing
OF gravel = beng put on foundation
OF loose sand. The board touched
superintendent DAVIS up a little o.
TINS subject and cautioned lam 70 use
much caution ~ seeing that the work
is satisfactorily finished. The resl-
dents u that street have duplicate con
tracts and are watching the work. u
II Is not done according 70 contract 4 ls
SAID thai they VII refuse - pay Tor the
Improvement
The attention Of the hoard has been
called 10 the condition OF sewers on
Ottawa street. MT. Shelby said that Ia
ms opinion the condition Of sewers e a
cholera-breedeT. The street has never
been cleaned since the pavement was
laid, aud IN many places tie nth y
cisgracefUl. The board OF health
should. IN his estimation, be Immedi-
Ate!y notified.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-11

AFTER the Mohamet OF Buzzard's
Bay had eaten and drank with Tam
many's braves. the worshipful mug
wumps are expected meekly to fold
their hands, and with bowed heads
devoutly say: "Not our wills but thine
be dome"
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-11

OSE of those learned German physi-
cans has asserted that a man can be
cured Of desire for liquor by eating
a green apple at every meal. A green
apple At every meal is enough to de-
stroy TIE desire for anything.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-11

The following approximate estimates
were submitted by the board. Tor a
sewer IN Plalnfeld avenue from Mad
son street 10 Ann street. 81 ,s5s. for
paving Pear street from Ottawa street
10 North Division street with asphalt.
s. ,Sli; same with brck CA concrete
base, & ,3s2; same with cedar blocks
Oh concrete base, s., $50.
The following contracts were let. For
sewer III PARIS avenue, 10 l.. Schneider,
1904; for sewer IA South College ave
nue., 10 l.. Schneider, S36si laying Va
ter pipes N Wells street, 10 J. Powers,
81 100.
Alderman Conger of the Second ward
was present and desired Information as
TO why the contract for improving
lyon-street hlll Was let 10 Aiathewson
Il Kloot and not 20 A. Prang OF kens *
Wiser, who were lower bidders.
The reason, as explained by the
board, was that the other contractors
had AL they could do and tie parties
TO whom the contract Was let are lhor-
oughiy reliable.
Then the board adjourned.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-11

MANY peoples party men are begin
ming to wonder where they are at.
The democrats seem 10 have absorbed
about all there IS worth absorbing and
the cTanks have nothing left but a
splntered platform and broken
nrOuf ses.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-11

WHES Grover shall have diued and
vined the balance OF the kiokers bis
cottage at Buzzard's Bay VIII have a
thatch Of mortgages and his purse
will resemble the proverbial fsttened
Eriddla cake.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-11

ZIMMERMAN the bicyclIst has beaten
Nancy Hanks the trotter, by going u
mile on his wheel in 2:06 10 over a reg
ulation track. "Zim" didn't have q
running mate either. and bicyclists are
frsnt.cally fanatical over his great
achievement
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-11

AFTER all the cutting satire, the
ranking invective. David, the naughty
and imperial trainer of the Tiger, has
bowed down before the JOSS and VIII
continue to saIaam until the Ides of
November. Poor David, he has not
where to lay his head except upon the
cold cobblestones of defeat.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-11

War e ths matter Of including Ed
wn 2. winans ln the paisontoiog'esl
department. Of M,ch nnhs geologi ca
exh itit a. The worlds tart
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-11

PRoFrssoR HosFoRD OF Harvard col
lege thinks he hss found Norumbegs.
the fabled New England city of the
Norsemen. This seems ike another at
tempt TO do up Chicago and the
rorIt-s far
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-11

IsaAEr GoonNAN. aged 5 and Mshit-
shle Homes. aged 50. both OF Wnssed
Connecticut. were married Thursday
after having been engaged City yesrs
That's fast time for Connecbcut. 100.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-11

Mas. CoRRErr says her James would
not exchange places with the president
Of the United states. It would save
Mrs Cleveland a great deal II dissp-
pointment f Grover woud get that
'dpa zoo.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-11

WHERE IS the American citizen whose
heart does not expand with pat
rIotc emotion when he witnesses the
dainty Don's debonair devotion to col
ossal JOSS? In 1t one sees the blending
of the exquisite and beautiful with the
huge and massive; the living and ad-
miring confidence of the innocent
lamb and the protecting shield of the
immense mountain.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-11

Mr.. FISHER, the newly elected presi-
dent of the board of education, is well
quallfiee to discharge the duties of the
Office. lie takes keen interest IN the
schools, the library and public i'm
provements generally and Is an active
friend to the cause OF education. He
succeeds one of the best presidents the
board ever had and he will prove him.
self 20 be worthy successor.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06
Poison In the Cup.

Cyrus Tor as he is called in the forty
fifth chapter of Isaiah, Cores) once when
q child visited his uncle in Media, King
Astyages. One evening when they were
seated at the table the king permitted
young Cyrus to act as cupbearer, but
when his uncle, as custom required, de-
sired the youth to first taste it, he ex-
claimed, 81 dare not uncle, there is
poison in the cup" Astounded and
frightened, the great monarch thinking
possibly the lad might have seen some
one putting poison into it, burst forth:
"What do you mean? How do you know
there is poison in the cup?" when the lit
tie cupbearer answered: Indeed there
is poison in the cup. l know it well.
Last night, uncle, You drank deal of
wine, and you spoke so incoherently and
stupidlyl Among other things you said
i can subjugate the entire world; let
anybody who dares come hither, shall
manage them And when you arose
you were so weak you could not even
stand. You reeled about and had to
steady yourself by taking hold Of the
table. So, dear uncle, do know there
must be poison in the cup" 1t only
needs to be added that Cyrus became
the founder of the vast Persian empire,
which chiefly owed its greatness to the
sobriety which its founder had made a
corner stone in his building of state
Christian at Work.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06

Among the most practical schemes for
the promotion of temperance is that
which is known as the coffee house plan.
1t has been in operation for some years
in Great Britain and, as we understand,
Is in its tentative stage in New York.
1t Is proposed to give it a trial in
Chicago. OF course the coffee house
must not be offered to the wage
Garner, for whom, mainly, it is in
tended, as charity, nor openly as a
reformatory agent. 1t must be offered
as business experiment. The manager
of system of twenty-five plan coffee
houses, started in an English town by
the temperance people, reports divi-
dend of - per cent upon the capital
stock. The houses were opened, made
attractive, managed with the shrewd-
ness displayed by saloon keepers and
proved profitable from the first. Meals
were served cheaply and elegantly, as
they are in those saloons where they
have lunch or restaurant attachments.
Customers were made to feel at home
The result has been notable reform in
the lives of many who had been fire.
quenters of saloons. Equally, of course,
the experiment, to be successful, must
not be under the control of any temper
ance society, though the capital must
be furnished by people who desire a
diminution of the drinking habit. This,
we are told, is the policy of those who
are anxious to have the coffee house
plan in operation in Chicago. 1t is a
policy that we hope soon to see reduced
to practice.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06
RcrPeC1iuiI
FRED S. DONALDSON.

1 am informed that copies of
the Blue Grass Blade Of JAM. %,
sold in Paris for twenty-five cents
each on account of that article
about whisky in the "Christian"
church there.
1t was not a patching to what
will be in the Blade of February
l3, written by members of that
church, and giving that church
particular fits.
l used to think pheasant
Green," the negro church in
Lexington was tough, but / am
never going to say it any more
since l have gotten into true in
wardness of that "Christian"
church at Paris.
1t does beat the devil. l will
publish the testimony of a lady
and gentleman who are mem
bers in good standing in that
church.
Fred Donaldson at Paris is the
Blades news boy, and unless
orders for more than 100 are given
him before February II, l will
send him only 100 papers.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06

or navy, ard that in order to
show the complete fulfilment of
that prophecy, they will literally
take some of the bayonets from
the arsenals Of the United States
and make pruning hooks ofthem,
and take some of the swords and
make plow shares of them, and
that all of them will be converted
into some Industrial pursuit, and
that the cannon and cannon balls
will be melted and put into rail
road rails, on railroads that will
be owned and operated by the
government, and that you will be
able to go from here to New York
for a dollar.
That's the kind of a hair pin l
am in theology.
Set up with them Brother
Byram; we'll get there.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06
A Visit to q London Gin Palace,

A mission visitor of one of the London
churches thus describes her visit to a gin
palace: Without, in the narrow, dirty
street, misery and squalor on every side,
but within, all bright and gay. A throng
of men and women crowded the bars,
many Of them scarcely more than chill
dren in years. but old in sin: and ON look
ing around and lower, even upon the
floor, were to be seen as many as thirty
or forty little children, many of them
babies. l at first thought they were
asleep and pitied their neglected condi-
tion;but this feeling was quickly changed
to horror when was assured that they
were all drunk-dead drunk, stupidity
drunk-and that some of them had never
been sober, having actually been born
saturated with the accursed stuff and fed
on it ever since, the result being visible
in their old, pinched faces, and miserable,
half starved bodies, with nothing of
babyhood about them"
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06
DRINK IN RUSSIA.
1t Honeycombs Public Service and De-
bauches the PeasanfAv

IL H0neycombs Public Service and De-
bauches the Peasant<y.
The Grashdanin, Russian official or
gan, recently contained some graphic
pictures--some humorous, though pa
thetic, others tragic-of the effects of
drink in that country.
For instance, it relates how in the
great city of Kiev Russian policeman,
who was to bring prisoner into court,
enters the room with hat on head and
suddenly drops helpless on the floor.
Panic prevails until it is found that the
man is only drunk. When he has re-
covered sufficiently the presiding justice
asks:
"Where is your prisoner?"
Answer-He-e-e is right down stairs,
yer know; stopped just t. have a little
smoke. B-but he will be up by and by,
you'll see; can take my word; he's the
right sort of fellow.
Again: A tax collector is out gather
ing arrears; the peasants plead impecu-
mostly, but Hospitality invite the officer
to take glass of vodka (brandy) with
them. Next morning many of them had
to be put under pump in order to bring
them to their senses, but such heroic
measure was of no avail in the case of
the tax collector-he had drank himself
to death. The peasants in the neighbor-
hood attended his funeral, and most of
them, to honor his memory. became
dead drunk.
In this connection, however, we must
remember that in Russia vodka is ex-
tremely cheap; that the Russian, as a
rule, cannot stand more than one-half
the amount of liquor tolerated by his
European neighbors; that as he lives
poorly the drink has more terrible eff
feet upon him; and that most Of tie Eu-
fopean countries consume per capits a
much larger amount of alcohol an
does the Russian.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06

Thirty years ago it required great
deal of moral courage in India for any
one to be total abstainer. At that time
comparatively few missionaries had
adopted this rule, and when gentleman
was asked to drink glass of wine at a
dinner table it sometimes required no
little moral courage for him to decline.
But few hosts could understand his
scruples, and sometimes a whole party
would feel affronted if he did not con-
form to the common custom. All this
has since been changed; an abstainer's
principles are well understood, and he is
now seldom pressed to touch wine-
glass. Even the queen has caused it to
be known that the practice of total abb
stinence is no longer to be considered at
her table breach of the best etiquette
known in the empire. With the path
way of duty thus made plain and easy,
there ought 10 be no longer hesitationQ
the part oe01 one in walking in h u
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06
Robert NuckOls Writes.

Mr.. X. G. Nuckols, late cashier
of the Mercer National Bank of
this city, has column article in
the Georgetown Times in which
he AYERS that his recent escapede
was caused by nervous prostra-
tion and mental worry over indi-
vidual financial embarrassment.
The article is aimed specially at
Charley Moore, and to refute GER
tain alleged aspersion of that in
dividual in reference to his
(Nuckols) downfall being attribu-
table to whisky. The article
closes as follows:
"Now hereafter the man who, o,af-
ter,my declaration, strives to write
my and my family's name with
tales of infamy, by the power
of truth | affirm that | will hold
him individually responsible for
a personal recantation."
While we don't endorse Charlie
Moore in anything he says, yet
Mr.. Nuckols' procedure in this
town is an open secret to every
body, and when he left, the news
papers kindly threw the pal
ladium of charity about him.
We don't think he has yet quite
recovered from his mental dis
order, or he would have forborne
to appear in print upon such a
delicate subject. We would ad-
wise him to quit drinking "moder
ately'' and keep himself as far
away from newspapers as possible,
or he may find it necessary to hold
some of the boys in this neck of
the woods individually RESPONSE
ble."
Georgetown Times, and Har
Democrat, please copy
Harodsbnrg Sayings.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06
No Alcohol Made in the Body.

DR.. L. S. Lambert, who has been de-
hvering series of lectures in New York
city on the injurious effect of alcohol
upon the human system, illustrated his
lecture by means of lay figures and
charts. Among other interesting things
the doctor said that the effect of alcohol
upon the body sick or well is and cannot
fail to be highly injurious. Alcohol,
which is the scavenger of nature, can be
made analytically only by the yeast cell
creature. This creature, the ferment,
so called, converts one molecule of
glucose or grape sugar into two MOLE
eules of carbonic acid gas and two
molecules of alcohol. 1t cannot live in
a temperature higher than 75 degs., and
as the normal temperature of the human
body is not lower than 95 degs., it fol-
lows that there is no free alcohol in the
body. That is, none is made there.
Whatever is there has been taken in.
The doctor was rendered vote of
thanks for h ectures.-Voica
rS - Ssr sz,SS@s5
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06

During the last five years England's
drink bill has been steadily on the in
crease, Notwithstanding the fact that
never before have her temperance Or
CARNATIONS been so active or aggressive
as during that period. We are told that
among her educated and well to do
classes drunkenness is becoming the ex-
ception and moderation the rule, yet
notwithstanding this moderation move
ment and in spite Of her boasted 5000, 900
to 100000 total abstainers, her Bands
of Hope and other means for educating
children in temperance principles and
her scientific and economic protests
against the drink, etc., the bill goes on
increasing. From e124,000,0 900 in 1887
It rose to el39. 900, 900 in 1890, and is ex-
pected to show a large increase for 1891.
Christian at Work.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06
intervals visit the grave of his
great ancestor it would in all
probability do him much good.
A MEMBER IN PARIS.

1 deny the statement that l
ever was can inmate of the Luna
tic Asylum" or that 1 was ever
insane or that there is any foun-
dation in fact for the statement.
The Lexington Leader of Jan.
81, has also published the above
account with the additional head
lines aud comment. ga Right
eous Protest-Against the utter
ances of the Blue Grass Blade.
A member of Elder Sweeney's
church in; Paris denounces Editor
Moore for his violent abuse of
that eminent pastor.
The Paris Kentuckian- Citizen
Friday published the following
righteous protest against recent
utterances of Editor Charles c..
Moore in the Blue Grass Blade" :"
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06
A Nice Old Gentleman Tumbles
to the Prohibition Bracket.
Abingdon, Ills, Jan. IA, '92.

ARLINGTON, Ills, Jan. IA, '92.
Mr.. c.. c. Moore.
DEARSIR-For your encourage.
ment / write this.
Uncle Peter Dechant used this
language in regard to your paper
(the Blade 81 take six papers but
Tread the Blade clear through first
all the time, and confound me if ]
do not believe l will vote the
Prohibition ticket next election" "
There were witnesses who
heard this besides me.
Said 1 "Bully for uncle Peterp'
Another man accosted me in the
grocery. Said he, "Byram do
you take that Blue Grass Blade?''
II do" said 1.
Said he, "a man ought to be
turned out of the church who
reads it."
We need buck skin editions in
Abingdon.
Send the Blade for six months
to ii. A. Peters, Hay Springs,
Nebraska.
l will send a dollar for same
soon.
Respectfully
W. W. BYRAM.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06
A Fearful Indictment to Face.

We select, almost at random, from a
daily paper on our desk, the following
insidents:
Little Willie Barrett, nine years of
age, was picked up on the streets of
Brooklyn last Thursday morning, half
frozen and furnishing from hunger. His
drunken mother had driven him from
the house and compelled him to stay out
all night.
The same morning, which was bitterly
cold, May Lawson was found drunk on
the street of the same city with two
year-old baby in her arms, nearly frozen.
The child was taken from her and placed
in founding asylum
The night before, in saloon at Mon
day, o., drink crazed desperate,
Thornton Sampson, murdered without
the slightest provocation John Lynch, a
man with whom he was drinking in a
saloon.
These items were all in remote corners
of the paper with nothing to indicate
that they were anything unusual. They
are paralleled almost every day in the
year.-Voice.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06

Of late the papers have published for
eign dispatches portraying an appalling
state of drunkenness among the starving
Russian peasantry. How reconcile this
with the statement that drunkenness pro-
duces poverty? Simply thus wise: That
drunkenness in the past was the cause
of the poverty stricken state among the
peasants at present, and their drunken
habits unfit them for energetic effort to
relieve the stress of the situation, hence
to drown despair they drown reason in
drink. Drinking in poverty intensifes
the evil of poverty. The total abstainsr
rarely becomes poverty stricken, but i,
he does he knows that drink is no cure :
Christian at Work.