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The herald., 1897-08-10
TYPHOID FEVER

DR.. Powers presented a statement, to
be published in full later, calling upcr
citizens to adopt certain measures for
the prevention of an epidemic oftyphoid
fever The season for such disease to
manifest itself. is at hand, ana the ut-
most caution should be used to prevent
the scourge from securing a foothold in
the city. DR.. Powers detailed his plans
at length and the board adjourned. to
The herald., 1897-08-10

brighter than ever, the decorations are
tasteful, the coloring is warm and the
audience was warmer than all in it's ap-
probation of the bill of fare set before
them last night
If there is anything the Burbank au-
diences like better than anything else, it
is a mild seasoning of sensation in their
theatrical diet. Therefore the manage
ment was wise in providing such an ex-
cellent dish as "The Fast Mail" 1t is
piece that has the usual complications,
hairbreadth escapes and happy ending
common to its class. The hero is ac-
cused of forgery and murder and is
hunted down by the villain and the de-
tective, but finally, by the AID of wo-
man, succeeds in proving his innocence
and the villain gets his just deserts.
The play reaches its climax at the end
of the third act when the fast mail tran
goes by anG the villain finds himself
"foiled." The fast mail train was all
that could be desired, but the freight
train which preceded it was decidedly
ricketty, am unavoidable circumstance
Of first night performance. The de-
tective of Frederic Tjader was well sus-
tained and the audience showed by the
hearty applause. with which they re-
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1897-10-03

/ believe that Infidels have gener-
ally decided all great moral ques-
tons, and / believe IL to be now one
Of our imperative duties to take up
this question and decide il on its
merits.
In your views of my prophesying
you remind me OF some OF those old
Bible chaps. They not only de-
manded that their prophets should
tell them what was coming but that
it should be something good.
Yes, am death on drunken
ness" and one of the reasons that /
am opposed to it is the unnatural,
and irrational and consequently i'm
moral, sexual appetite that it in
duces, and | am opposed to these
houses of prostitution that they have
in the cities, because they are kept
by unintelligept and immoral wo-
men and principally patronized by
men Of that kind.
| do not think our "freethought
editors" are in favor Of free love, il
we except Lillian Hartman whose pa
per "Lucifer" is primarily free
love" and only incidentally, If at all
''freethought."
In the last issue of her paper she
says:
We also thank Mr.. Chas. G. Moore
Of the BLUE GRASS BLADE, for the
many left-handed compliments he
has given Lucifer and its conduc
tors-causing his readers to investi
gate for themselves as to whether
free love as taught by us is the
"black beast" that It's self-righteous
judges have described it to be.
Looks like l am always between
hawk and buzzard. She vilifies me
because / am against free love and
you because l am for it.
I do not know but that case of the
man and his wife that you cite is q
genuine one. Variety is the spice
OF life.
AS to ''cuss words and slang"
refer you to my answer to the letter
Of Bro. W. W. Goddard in this or
some early issue of the BLADE, and
for other matters, alluded to in your
valuable and esteemed letter l refer
you to my answer to Judge Feland.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1897-10-03
HORSE RACING.
AND IT'S VICTlMS-AN APPEAL
To the Infidei Race Horse Men of
Bluegrassdom.

have just heard that Major John
S. Clark of Lexington, has been sent
to the Lunatic Asylum, in conse
quence of his losses at horse racing,
and that Captain b. ]. Treacy, oil
Lexington, lately ruined by horse
racing, has died a most distressing
death.
They we're, few years since,
among our wealthiest and most
prominent and influential citizens.
| day or two before he was COM
mitted for insanity Major Clark took
occasion to give me a cordial greet
ing, and Captain Treacy has, ever
since | started the BLADE, been one
of my warm friends, and once gave
me $40 for the paper.
Major Clark is Protestant Chris
tian, and Capt. Treacy was Cath
Ole.
On one occasion | got Christian
young man to take me through typi-
cal specimens OF all the varieties of
ill-fame in Lexington, and about the
same time | went to see a horse race
on the Lexington course.
l had, for years, associated, as be-
ing ir the same line of business,
churches, saloons, race courses and
houses of prostitution. have gone
to the latter two, but | draw the line
at churches aud saloons. There are
some places where man cannot go
even in search of valuable informa-
tion
found the houses of III fame, of
the better class, better than l ex-
pected. ] found the race course even
worse than expected.
That There is no accounting for
tastes" is proverbial. | can readily
see how a low, ignorant, brutal man
might be entertained by horse
race, or a chicken fight, or a dog
fight, or a bull fight, or a prize fight,
but how cultivated gentlemen could
be entertained by such things is
more than can understand.
Nearly all the cultivated gentle
men who now live, or have lived in
the Bluegrass region of Kentucky,
have been, and now are, my person
al friends, and almost without an
exception that class of race horse
men have been, not merely patrons
but donors to my paper.
have sold provender to race horse
men for their horses, and they have
been fair and honorable in their deal
ings with me, and yet am candid
enough to say to them that II / had
the power | would suppress the race
horse business ON the ground that it
is cruelty to animals and that 1T is
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1897-10-03
Subscribers to the May Collins Mon.
ument Fund.

The following persons have SUBJ
scribed to the fund to build monu-
ment to May L. Collins, at her grave
in the Lexington Cemetery: DR.. G..
@. Burns, Greensburg, Ind, $40;
G. Q. Moore, Lexington, KY, $40;
Josephine X. Henry, Versailles, KY,
S25; Hon. Moses Kaufman, Licking
ton, KY, $40; ]. A. Jackson, Cutler,
N. c., So; David Clark, Springfield,
Mass, So; A. B. Bennett, Norwalk,
Conn.,, 81; 5. S. Bryan, New Or
leans, La, $40; L. b. Silver, Cleve-
land, Ohio, SO; G. Shubinski, Gin
cinnati, O., 81; 7. D, Rutlidge, Vel
vington, KY, 81; Geo. w. McCor-
mick, Moultrie, Ca, $22; Louis Lee
vine, Charleston, S. c., s.; w G
Carswell, Goldthwaite, Texas, 81;
p. Parrott, Lexington, KY, 81; A
Friend, Kentucky, $4,000; d. M.
Worley, Lebanon, o., 81; Delos A.
Blodgett,. Grand Rapids, Mich, $40;
Joe A. Kimbell, Vestal, N. ", %;
Jesse Russell, Hardyville, KY, 81;
w. HI. Blackwell, Perryville, Ark,
81; o. H. Stone, Ft. Smelling, Mimi,
81; j. R. Candle, Lake City, Mimi,
81; ]. G. Harvey, Crosby, Tex, 81;
w. w. Goddard, Harrodsburg, KY,
$50; W. M. Hampton, Hamburg,
CAL, 81; Jesse Russell, Hardyville,
KY, 81; Richard Hazelton, Eustis,
Fla, $40; George N. Cate, Marlboro,
Mass $3.50; Jas. E. Hughes, Gin
,innati, O., $3.50; Mrs. X. A. I'M
thank, Lawrence, Kan, 81; r. T.
Shaw, Corinth, KY, 81; Geo. w.
lett, Mt. olivet, KY, S.; L. f.
Mansfield, Rowletts KY, $3.50; A.
,. Quisenberry, Washington, d. @.
%; j. W. Walsh, Louisville, KY, 81;
B. Ogden, Newport KY, 80;
E. G. Reichwald, Chicago, Ills, $40;
w. II. Northcutt, Cynthiana, KY,
b; G. Elton Blanchard, Cleveland,
Ohio, S.; VIM. Graham, Luna, N.
Mex, 81.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1897-10-03
Sl.OOO.OO
TO DOUBLE THE SIZE OF THE
BLADE,
And Reduce Its Price to rs Cents
a Year.

We, the undersigned, agree to pay
the amounts set opposite our names
on the following conditions:
That Mrs. Josephine X. Henry Of
Versailles, KY, is to receive this
money, as Treasurer of the BLUE
GRASS BLADE, and that it is only to
be paid for the actual mechanical
expenses of the said B. G.. BLADE,
when, and in what amount she sees
proper so to pay it,
That none OF this money shall be
paid to her until the whole amount
is subscribed;
That in the event the whole
amount of $1,000, 90 is not paid to her
by January 1, 1898, the amount paid
by each one shall on that day be re-
turned to him, or her, by check of
said Mrs. Henry;
That, in consideration of this
81 100000, if raised, the said B. G..
BLADE, shall, on and after January
l, 1898, be made to contain at least
twice its present reading matter,
aud shall be sent to any address, in
America, for % cents a year, and to
any extra American address at 25
cents year, with the foreign post
age added;
And that Charles Chiffon Moore,
OF Lexington, KY, various titled
Editor" Colonel, Reverend"
''Ex-Reverend, "'Right Reverand,"
Bishop" "Heathen," Brother,
'Mohammed," and Honorable, 4"
shall continue, without any compen-
sation, direct or indirect, to edit
said B. G.. BLADE, retaining his mug
and fac smile sign manual as ED
itor, in the Northwest corner of
the first page, as evidence thereof;
Provided, further, that said Moore,
with any, or all, of his titles, above
mentioned, shall not die, or get
killed-which are, practically, the
same-or that, by the consensus of
the competent he may show himself,
mentally, morally or physically,
either or all, incompetent to dis
charge such editorial duties; in
which latter events said Moore, with
titles aforementioned, is to waive
notice of protest, and abdicate the
the tripod of said BLADE.
On the conditions herein before
specified, we, the undersigned agree
to pay the amounts set opposite our
respective names and addresses:
W. S. Jones, Oakland, Ky., 50:
Charles G. Moore. Russell's Cave,
KY, $50; R. T. Shaw, Corinth, KY,
So; E. F. Creevy, Cincinnati, O., So;
H. M Close, Chicago, Ills, 81; Chas.
Hickethier, Rian, Iowa. S..
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1897-10-03
3:3l

Is the number of persons who have
subscribed for my book "Behind the
Bars" written while | was in jail in
Paris, Kv., the prisoner of the Chris.
tian church, having been prosecuted
by combination Of Christians and
whisky sellers.
The book is TO be neatly bound,
and will be more than twice the size
of my 'Ratior al View"
The price will be S1.00 payable
when the book is ready for delivery
and l will begin its publication as
soon as 800 subscribers shall have
been gotten, and the book will BE-
ready for delivery in about q month
from that time.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1897-10-03

the burial expenses Of Mr.. Grin
stead.
One of the Harpers was one OF our
most successful race horse men, but
he was murdered, probably for his
money, and member of his own
family was suspected of having
done it.
John G. Breckenridge was Vice
President of the United States and
president of the Lexington Racing
Association. His life was wonder
full instance of wasted genius, and
the world was made worse by bis
having been born.
Gen. Buford of the Confederate
army was one Of the great Kentucky
patrons of the turf. He wasted a
fine fortune on race horses, became
somewhat daft; joined the church as
a disciple Of the erratic George O.
Barnes, and died after having writ
ten, in the Courier Journal that he
expected to meet his horses in
heaven.
Jim Keene is successful race
horse man. He has his millions. He
has buried "Domino" within half q
mile of my gate on the turnpike, and
is having made very handsome mon.
ument to put over the horse. In half
mile of that monument there is poor
old negro woman who, with her
crippled son, has scarcely enough to
keep life in their bodits.
The chances are SO out of 100 that
no race horse man will be at all in
fuenced by anything | am here say
ing, but if some one OF these men
who is an Infidel can summon the
moral courage to say he will quit
the business, and will use che horses
he now has for some practical pur-
pose, and hereafter raise only horses
that are valuable for domestic pur-
poses, be can make himself happier
man and make others happy, and do
something to stay the tide of gam
blingAby Christians and Infdels,
which is bringing ruin and misery
upon this country.
If some Inlidel race horse man iu
Kentucky, will just have the courage
to say about this matter, that l am
right and that he is wrong, and stop il
while it seems to be prosperous, and
let the world see that he does it as a
matter of conscience, he can, in so
doing, strike blow at Christianity
and score a grand point for infdeli-
ty, and die honored by all good peo-
pie, whether Christian or Infidel,
while if he dies as he now lives he
will simply be numbered with the
army of gamblers ami debasers OF
the public morals who have given
this State the bad reputation that it
enjoys. ! say enjoys advisedly.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1897-10-03
Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 5, 81.


Mr.. G. G. Moore.
My Dear Sir:-You can put me
down for $500 toward the May
Collins Monument fund to be paid
when ever the Committee call for it.
File my request that the form Of
the paper be changed to size Skill
in as weekly magazine with the
same matter as to amount, and make
it possible to preserve the work.
You will double your income with
with little or no outgo in excess of
the present expense.
Now that it is settled for all time
that G. G. Moore is to be the editor
let DAY Dreams" and by cones be
forgotten. Give us the best weekly
program you can, of reform think
ing, stop talking about suspending
and people will pay up. No one
wants to embark in q leaky craft
liable to sink, and one dollar sub
scription cannot be risked even by
Infdels. Herald your success and
keep your personal griefs out of the
paper, then you will be an editor,
instead of a curiosity to be read only
by the curious. Cleveland liberals
are generally with you. l consider
the Day Dream business happily
Yours in the only
great Cause.
@. ELTON BLANCHARD.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1897-10-03
LECTURES AND MEETINGS.

The Freethinkers' Association Of
Dallas, Texas, meets at Liberty
Hall, 22S South Ervay street, every
Sunday at 7:3O p. m, for lectures
and discussions. Seats are free. and
the public is invited. Ormond Paget,
president; Allen Johnson. secretary.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1897-10-03

hereby request my publisher to
send a neatly marked copy OF the
BLADE that has the Bourke Cochran
article in II 10 His (Un) Holiness,
Leo XIII, at Rome. | think 1t Is
calculated 10 imprese him and
Bourke with the idea that we amt as
dead stuck on him as flies on "tan-
gle-foot" fly paper, as the two seem
to think.
Orally, and thus by letter, have
been spoken to on the assumption
that I was the author of the review
OF Cochran and the Pope. am not.
IL is somewhat like me but better
than l can do. 1t was signed Sub
scriber, and was written by friend
OF the paper who does not live in
Kentucky.
A little before l received your
letter received one from Judge Fe-
land, OF Lawrenceburg, KY, very
much OF the same tenor as yours. l
refer each Of you to my answer to
the other.
lam glad to see you defend your
convictions about morals. Real
friends of Infdelity cannot too much
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1897-10-03
5OCENTS A YEAR.

Desiring to extend the circulation
of the BLUE GRASS BLADE we will,
upon receipt of ~. 80 send the BLADE
TO five different persons for ONE
WHOLE YEAR. This is placing our
subscription rate at DC cents per
annum, but remember we do his in
of clubs five and more ONLY.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1897-10-03

Moore.
Dear Friend:--I was just
the BLADE of the 18th inst,
pticed your prediction on the
lation which you propose TO
n without a parable.
" why not let this sex question
IL is about as well regu-
as IL will ever be.
cation, nationality and the
Ition OF society in particular
ties has everything to with it.
claim TO edit the BLADE in the
rest OF good morals; then why
let that the time is coming, 10
wentieth century, when there
be a revolution OF the present
Is on the sex relation, and that
thy men and women will be as
to enjoy each other as to graf
their appetite for FOOD?
ow IL this don't mean that soci.
will be broken up, and that the
han family will herd and run to-
her like animals-cattle, hogs
sheep-I don't know what IL
IS mean.
Persons reading this kind OF Ian
bye in the BLADE, and seeing that
editor is the author OF IL can
ne TO no other conclusion than
BIT his desire is father TO the
bught.
do such utterances tend TO make
G rising generation more moral?
krtainly not. Then why befoul the
bLADE with such language.
You know taat whisky, prostitu-
|on aud general lewdness run to.
ether, yet you are death on drum
enness but would give full rein to
In the sex relation.
Let me say 10 you that our Free
bought editors have u weakness in
hat direction. No Longer than last
eek ! was reading in u Freethought
lagazine an extract taken from an
xchange wherein married woman
as quoted as saying that she and
err husband were in perfect accord
! psacticing variety in the sex re-
Ition, yet that she had happy
ONE, and was honored and respect
by friends and neighbors and
nildren.
Now is that not an awful declara-
on to be made by a woman? j don't
elieve she ever made It, but that IL
as written, in all probability, by
,me orthodox scoundrel and i'm
osed upon the Liberal editor TO be-
,ul his magazine.
You complain OF hard times and
ie BLADE not being as we'll sup
cfr5d vs. 10 ssscS be, yet you can
lot see that such language as you
make use OF is the whitening ele-
nent Of Encouragement.
You write some OF the finest arti-
les ever read, but they remind me
1 the Kansas farmer, when he is in
ugh hopes and along come the hot
Winds and destroy ali his prospects.
II you could be considerate enough
o drop the sex question and leave
u those cuss words ana slang
hrases the BLADE would succeed.
Otherwise IL never can, because the
eople will choose between vulgari.
and decency; or, in otner words,
etween carrion aud good whole
ONE food.
! am surprised that too many of
ur Liberal editors will continue TO
lace before their readers coarse
Inguage just as il they were to be
ttracted by filth instead OF refined
Your article written on the Bourke
ockran visit to the Pope is inval-
able and | will inclose you a dollar
send marked copy of that issue OF
he BLADE TO the Pope.
This letter is not written for pub
cation, as IL only conveys my pri-
ate thoughts to you and would look
deous ia the BLADE, or any other
ablication. Respectfully,
Il. G. MosIER.
| hereby request my publisher to
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1897-10-03

If thou trustest to the book called
the scriptures, thou trustest to the
rotten staff of fable and falsehood. =
Thomas Paine.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1897-10-03

Cascarets stimulate liver, kidno~
and bowels. Never sicken. We
or grippe. lOc.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-10-13
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

The proof of the pudding is the empty
dish after dinner.
Economy consists in knowing how to
get others to supply your wants.
Husbands and wives never argue with
each other-they simply dispute.
A girl may love man from the bot
tom of her heart, but there's always
room at the top. .-.,.- ..l..,.
The camel and the scorcher both
have humps, but the camel has the ad-
vantage in being able to go for ten days
without drinking.
Few women would care to become
angels if they could not talk out loud to
each other while some other ange:
played harp. I" -.
Some girls seem to have great deal
Of music in them, and the neighbors
are always sorry when any of it es-
capes.
Time wasted can never be recalled.
You should remember this when try
ing to carve clearinghouse beef
steak.--Chicago News.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-10-13
ABOUT POSTAGE STAMPS.

If Hawaii is annexed there will be
an increased demand for stamps of that
country. In that event the new Off
cial stamps issued only a short time
ago will likely come in for good share
of attention, as they have not yet been
circulated to any appreciable extent.
In Malacca and in Ceylon, large COM
nlercial firms are permitted to print
their names on the postage stamps to
prevent theft of stamps on the part of
their employees. In that way, Ceylon
stamps are often considered great treas
ures, when bearing the. name of Gave"
in small black capitals, while this sur
charge means nothing but the imprint
Of wealthy tea planter. '..
D. o. Blood & Co., of Philadelphia,
who, from 1841 to 1858, issued so many
different locals and operated private
post so successfully, were, perhaps, the
originators of the idea of including the
hour at which the letter was stamped,
in the postmark. The postal authorities
Of the government did not adopt this
nice system of postmarking until long
after Blood & Co. had set the pace. "
When the government issued the
first perforated stamps a few of the
good folk living in the rural districts
were so bound by conservatism that
they placed the stamps on their letters
only after they had clipped off the per-
forations. They had been using un-
perforated stamps for many years, and
they did not propose that any new
| tangled arrangements should have en-
couragement from them. ..s
| Germany is the home of the stamp
forgers, the authorities there seeming
to consider that it is none of their bust
ness so long as the forgers do not med
die with the home stamps. Lately the
forging has taken q new turn, a Ger
man firm having shipped to this coun-
| try thousands of sheets of decalco-
mania pictures containing Autographs
of United States stamps. The pictures
have been held at the custom house,
and somebody will lose money on this
transaction.
A plan for removing medallions ON
the United States stamps and replacing
them with miniature photographs is Il
new idea which has recently been copT-
righted. Permission is said to have
been granted by the government for
the use of postage stamps in this Inun-
ner, but only used specimens must be
utilized for the purpose. 1t is now POS
sible for one to see his own features on
the penny satmp instead of those OF the
| illustrious Benjamin, or on the two-cent
stamp in lieu of those of the immor~
| tai George.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-10-13
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No. 80.
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