Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-06-21

VI lue OHlleu oldleS DdIIleSHlp henluChy,
but now more recently promoted and trans
ferred to the United States cruiser Tennes-
see, now with Admiral Evans fleet off
Provincetown, Mass, on target practice, was
absent The shots awakened the older boy,
Frank, jr., and the mother cried to the boy,
upstairs: Frank, somebody has taken my
pistol and shot me. Go quickly for help
But when he returned with neigh
bors, his mother was dead" CA victim of
war; AN effort was made to inform Lieu.
Rorschach by wireless of the tragedy. Mrs.
Rorschach was a handsome woman SO years
old and one of the most accomplished
musicians in Virginia. Gov. Swanson has
offered a reward of 5000, for the capture of
the murderer of Mrs. Rorschach. The cap
tain of the ship was requested to break
the news to the husband, who was located
on board the armored cruiser Tennessee,
at the Boston navy yard. 1t is under
stood that he will be Immediately relieved
from duty so that he may at once go to
Norfolk"
If Lieu. Rorschach had fallen on the deck
of that floating palace shot through the
heart, during a battle, would his death have
been called a tragedy? No. They would
have called it patriotism; the patriotism
that demands that man desert wife and
helpless little ones, to engage in the work
of gaining glory (gold), for the money loan
ers and to make another vain attempt to
satisfy the Unsuitable greed and ferocity of
Roosevelt is reported to have said "A good
soldier should not only be willing but
anxious to fight" So apparently should
some dogs and for the same cause-that
their masters may win the proceeds.
What, think you, must have been in the
mind of that mother, Mrs. Rorschich, while
she, dying, awaited the return of her little
seven-year old son? Did she remember the
promise, made only few years before by
the absent husband to love, honor and
CHERISH" And what else does cherish mean
but to protect? Ephesans V, 90: For the
husband is the head of the wife, even as
Christ (the true Christ and there were and
are false Christs), is the head of the church;
and he is the Savior of the body" Grain of
gold) Lieu. Rorschach was engaged in
target practice (wasting your earnings and
mine), that he and others might become prof.
cient in the arts of war and that the missiles
thrown from the guns with which that
cruiser is armed, may fall among the homes
of soldiers of other lands. And in those
homes dwell families whose mental condi-
ton like that of so many in the homes OF
our own soldiers may be best described in
the words of the little girl, who, in explana-
ton of her timidity said: 1--WE are always
afraid now. little brother and mama and l.
afraid at night too to go to sleep, cause
papa is gone to the war"
President Roosevelt has spoken against
race suicide and urged men who earn per,
haps two, or three dollars per day, to follow
each his example, land he, man whose
income is at least, many thousands ayear),
and rear large family; and that too, with
out consulting with the mother, which is in
itself the grossest of immortality and is the
creed of the licentious, drunken tyrants, of
whom we read in the old and new tesla
ments and who ordered young women stolen
for the same purpose that brutal debauch-
cry might furnish material for war; while
the natural moral code regarding generation
and which obtained before man allowed
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