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Digital page images are linked to the text file. f i BLUE GRASS BLADEEDITED BY A HEATHEN IN THE INTEREST OF GOOD MORALS PUBLISHED WEEKLY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR IN ADVANCE AiIII VOLUME XIV NUMBER 33 LEXINGTON KENTUCKY SUNDAY NOV 5 1905 ONE DOLLAR A YEAR IN ADVANC = i t ry TERMS OF THE BLADE tiercents each for Terms 100 per year In advance foreign subscription 1W i Five new subscribers sent one year for Sill Make all Money Orders Drafts ami Exprssa Orders payable to the Clue fftM Lexington Ky w your address ad gvisevtrWasahe Newaddresa sad are a sew K- kntered at Lexln ton Ky as Second Cla s Mat ter Address all communications to BLU t GRASS BLADE P O BOX 33 Lexingt Kentucky te teiepnone 019 Cumberland Telephone 307 it your aubscrlpllon ia due we wish you would please remit and nave ua the postage of notifying you GO SOUTHWEST NOW and nee for eltthe opportunities for making moneyfor home building Okahuma Indian Territory and Texas Prospects were never brighter the crops are fine and show plainly the possiblltles of the Southwest for you There Is need of more hands to develop the country In the South west are vast areas of unimproved land not yet producing the crops atne vhlch It lsr capable Fraclcally the bame things Is true of the towns lines of business are adequately rep resented There are openings of all aorta for the right men Are you onetc An exceptional Offer To enable you to see the Southwest the K and T Railway will on Oct 17th and Nov 7th and 21st sell round trip tickets to all points Southwest at LESS THAN ONE FARE RATES Tickets permit of STOPOVERS go ing and returning and are good twen tyone days from date of sale fci Vrlte today for partlcuars and ask for our paper The Coming Country GEORGE MORTON General Passenger and Ticket Agent St Louis Mo An Exceptional Offert On the first and third Tuesdays of October November and December you can purchase tickets Southwest via M K and T Railway tCIsLESS THAN ONE FARE RATES This gives you an excellent oppor tunlty of seeing this land of prosper Ity for yourself Tickets permit- of stopovers going and returning and s are good twentyone days from da tothey of sale Write now for particulars and be 4 sure and get a copy of my paper The Coming Country 8 O LANQSTON General Immigration Agent t it Louis is L i Septo5Cft WOMEN BE ANGELS IF ANGELS CANNOT BE WOMEN For years I have been saying through the Blade that nowhere In the Bible is it recorded that a woman ever went to heaven and the Holy Book never speaks of Women An gels The sex of angels is now a subject of wide discussion among the clergy and they have decided that no woman ever was or ever will be an angel I am glad the preachers have coincided with one of my assertions perhaps they will find many other things true that Ratlonaists are say- Ing and confess them Who knows 1 his clerical decision that women cannot be angels is a telling blow to good Christian sisters who are cut vating their pious shoulders to grow wings and cultivating their voices to Join the heavenly choir in the New JerusalemOf the preachers know all about angels It Is their business to manutacture them The Episcopal Tans who are galvanized Roman Catho cs are building a ten million dollar in New York to worship the bavlor In The man of sorrow wh was born In a stable and had no where to jay his head In this tempt- to be 4000 statues more or less o saints and angels The Episcopalians hi their liturgy always contritely pray Lord have mercy upon us miserable sinners and they often give evidence of this truth of their moral and spirit sill condition so these saints and an els may be necessary to rouse them from their despondency knowing thjjp elyssjow much In need of mercy tJay lscopalians were siatoM1 wiiftlAe let theft J t fX Yew t Trite trai a different thWg for they auta telling Go6 they are miserable sin aloeEe e before they make It But I did not be gin 4 write miserable sinners though It Is a fertile theme but of angels and their sex Forty lady an gels in the great cathedral at Mom ingslde Heights N Y have aroused the ire of the Episcopal clergy and they demand that the sculptor change the sex of these angels even if they have to chisel whiskers on their faces as all the angels spoken of In the Bi ble are men and there is no scriptur al warrant for women angels A ruby coifiplexloned D D asserts that beauty of countenance chastity of pose whatever that means and wings do not necessarily make an an gel Will this D D rise and tell us angeldever see one The Eplscop- preachers owe It to an inquiring to produce just one live angel even if It be of an inferior type The dic tionary defines an angel as a spiritual celestial being superior to man in po er and Inte111genceIIt just one appear on the earth It would scare th preachers to death and they woo flee to Mt Hepzadam to get out of way The Truth Seeker of New York makes this strong point on this angel question The clergy ought to stab llsh If they can the genuineness of angels because if there are no angels the images of them are no better than petrlfiod lies The Truth Seeker Is right That is an axiom that even a theologian cannot evade If there are angels now right now is the oppor time to produce just one and If angels are mere creatures of diseased imagination and there are a few thou s and petrified falsehoods in the ten mil Ion dollar cathedral at New York how it be claimed that Gods house is the abode of truth This state of things at least casts some suspicion n the things that are taught in Gods house The preachers can as easily prove the existence of male angels as can prove the existence of the living God A savior born of a virgin u heaven or hell the soul being In or proof of immortality This Is a big contract but to prove the oxlstencet of male angels woud be a starter anda might make the rest easy The world In this age demanding proof of all u f ii these things and in due limo it Is go- Ing to have it or destroy the clerical trust that deals exclusively In spiritual goods thus rendering Cathedrals ed with stone angels and preachers with rich sinecures of no use what ever in an age of reason and common sense Angels are always suP posed to wear white robs and have wings The Episcopal clergy try to gee themselves up as near line angels us possible They wear petticoats and white flowing robes cut from a night town pattern and add to it angel oiepves or course they ought to look angelic but when a big burly man wits whisKered or mustached face with a wart on his nose stands in a chancel waving axe angel sleeves and a survey ol his ngure is taken down to the coth trowsers below the angel robe and unshed off with a pair of big reel In Celt enn shoes such a figure sort of paralyzes the angel Idea am givesri am grad that it does for women coolUd s as the men who wear angel robes on the earth Of course there are only wae angels The Bible plainly say that men are the sons of God an women are the daughters of men and It has always amazed me that tnese sons of God who evolute into angel should be willing to be born bt and wedged to the daughters of wen and thus break the celeeU al groot finf uible gives no hint that women go to heaven or become angels and trot some of the pretty things that Pau and John and other Bible authorities have said of them their condition on earth Is not very enviable and millions of them can bear testimony to this factWomen will find that male abound in the Bible and the Boo never speaks of a female angel- A taideratlleletpoersl lnLt9ij14UWnciIthe child she had borne and told her to go back I any respect for that angel This is rec orded in Genesis 167 Numbers 22nd iells of the Angel of the Lord with- a sword In his hand appearing to Bal dams ass 17 and 18 chapters of Genesis three men angels appear to Abraham and tell him that Sarah though 90 years old should bear a son Judges 611 angel of the Lord sat under an oa tree Judges 133 An angel of the Lord a man of God appeared to the wife of Manoah and said unto her Behold now thou art barren and barest not but thou sht conceive and bear a son and she went and told her husband and he made no objection and In due time she gave birth to Samson of the flowing locks Judges 523 An angel of the Lord told Meroz to curse the inhabitants of the land nothing very angelic about that- Judges Cll An angel appeared to threshedd s The angel said to him The Lord Is with thee thou mighty man of valour angwel outhls hand upon Jerusalem destroy It the Lord repented him thdst h handisDavid saw this angel and talked with the Lord and made an humble confes sloe 11 Knlgs 1935 And it came to pat that night that the angel of the Len went out and smote In the camp the Assyrians a hunded four score five thousand and when they arose early In the morning behold they were all dead corpses Now what do yo think of that He must have been boss angel Major General of the anigelic throng An angel that could Ill 185000 In one night and have all wake up In the morning and ndAll themselves dead corpses could get a steady job with any of the warring nations of the earth at a salary that would make the salaries of kingsI czars and presidents of life Insurance companies look like 30 cents Such angel would be competent to run niverse while the maker and rule rested as He did on the seventh day 1 Chronicles 2130 David was afraid go before the altar because of the of the angel of the LOrdIPsalms 355 Let the angel of the Lord chftoe them The Angel of 4I We J AH ii r Annunciation was the Archangel Gabriel Mathew 120 and he sold t Joseph in a dream Thou son David fear not to take unto thee Mar thy wile for that which Is in her is of the Holy Ghost Luke The archangel announc to Zacharias that his wife Ellzabe t shall uear a son and thou shalt call his name John The male angels seemed to make husbandstt wives woud bear sons by the Holy Ghost or some other father the birth of daughters was never an noun ed and even meddled in family affairs so far as to name the sons Male angels alone made these an noun ements and the husbands of the woman Implicity obeyed the angel Since Bible days things have changed and Joseph and Zacharias were the lost lof their type of husbands that nave appeared upon the earth If an gels should make such announcements today they woud hardly be treated as courteously as in Bible days and that may be the reason that the live angels stay In heaven and delegate tho stone angels to attend to their business with the old of the clergy themdthey will if they whl carefully read angelsIannounced appeared disappeared as cent ed descended smote chased per openm turnacde wore swords fought became stars became dragons were bound and loosed tor worshippedlswords and torches stood around the throne sang praises and stood on the four corners of the earth SUch a strenuous heavenly existence as this would even get a strenuous coolkn a after all that women cannot be angels angels cannot be women If this facttne vTestlonVarlse8 If women helIThis1b a question for every woman to settle for herself JOSEPHINE K HENRY Versailles Ky PIIVATE LETTER FROM A RIC MAh prkroommate Ho is rich and lives great luxury I had supposed the he had long ago stopped taking Blade but he seems to have been reading it all the time I think heI pays for it for five years at a time He is a very cultivated man and Is connected with very high society poll tically and socially He lives in of the greatest of our Eastern and has a residence at ono of the mos fashionable sea resorts- I was the occasion of his conver sloe to the Campbeilite or church He then became an Episco gallon I do not know what his ref gious opinions are now They do no seem to be orthodox He sympathy for me and seems to thin that mine has been a strange life In hla letter ocurs the followingIPeople dont the public ha s no opinion save what Is impressed Imposed upon It by some strong men who have opinionscMen like working beasts have toIbe guided Occasionally there Is a theoandMost men generally live by their traditions not by their beliefs partagion and being asked what that was sensible man ever tells 11Near the end of his letter he say of which means dear Charley that I never forget you or your truth and tendernessI IIsonBURIEDa Lettrfrom a very dear friend who thin that my funeral should be the accost of a commemorative ceremony and asks me to outline my idea ItII want to be burled in the ac and least expensive mannerI AN THOMAS IPAINEhTHE UNIVERSAL POLITICAL GEN IUS AND THE COMING AMER ICAN IDOL Tho report of the Paine Memorial copolleisure will prove highly Interestln reading to all Liberals It Is remark abe that this should be the first public and omelet recognition of Paine by the citizens of Now Rochelle notwith standing Paine was her greatest citi zen and the greatest she will ever ilKely have New Rochelle is known al over the world because of Its haveJ ing been the home of Thomas Paine thousands of people In Australia and isew Zealand Know of New Rochelle who never heard of Albany Buffalo i Rochester and the other Important cities of Nw York Worldwide is the tame of this beautiful little city nut we must not condemn the good citizens of New Kocheie for their past neglect of Paine It sometimes taKes eelanom is genius appreciated in its day we must not target that the fame otand ejimitespeare did not become universal lor two hundred years alter his death dand then not by the recognition or his own peupio The uermans discovered the genius of Unaaespeare and spiesd it broaacast upon the world Finally toe bngiish alter the lapse of two centuries waxed up to had that the greatest genius of the ages had moved among them- Littowise the people of New Roch ele have wetted up alter a century o tueep to and that Americas most unl versal genius wooed among them and that their beautiful and growing city win lorever be to ail lovers of liberty and political and reiglous freedom as tileat a shrine as atiuttord upon Avon is to too rover of literature philosophy i4n1CIthedrau fqthere Is no American author of fames day or sighs then or of the present time whose worKs are as ex tensively read In Japan Russia In an countries where men are striving tor political and religious justice AtteHr epee one years they are still the standard exponents of uuerty franklin Jefferson and many universaleotliclan all betweeen t them from reading their works and their writings are read out of this country while the works of Paine are read all over the a world He Is the idol of millions who cannot speak a word of English Isnt wonderfuls natlotn just what the citizens of New Rochelle have done We see asnnewspapers more and more and given respectful cominfg thse Laskt man they have villifled for a hundred years as a profane vulgar Atheist gave the in evdr so written by man Even the backwoods clergy have let up on Paine for it longer safe for them to lie luasydcontinuous and persistent vindication it is laughable that the chaplain of The Sons of the Revolution In the Contlncntlal Army should pronounce a benediction at the aceptance exercises at New Rochelle What a ghostly grin that must have produced on the my thee spirit today The growth of Paine as a political has nowheo been so greatly man- Ifested me as right In Philadelphia the scene of his greatest political actlvi to Recently through one of the great city papers a vote was taken as o the most popular Pennsylvanian If Ifkamaioriton y wortheh es them shine the brighter Time treas them and eventually lifts them ascendeny This popular vote led j to the acpectanco of the Paine bust in Independence Hall after thirty atr years tireless opposition by the clergy hasIfchanespeare may taKe another hun dred years beloro the nation will rec ognize his genius and the shame of its negect and ingratitude out the time win surely cotue when tho mar oidd image ol Paine Will stand In me capaoi hellos those with whom Vashifitongl will tell you one of the principal lactora watch wl l bring this about n will cows tram the pressure of opin ion vowing tram other lands Already the anger ol shows Is being pointed at America lor her treatment of her greatest political benefactor in her loriuativo period Chinese statesmen liKe wu Ting bang wonaer at us The Japanese have marked this ingratl tune and malicious prejudice When was in Italy the same was mention jtted to me there and American profes alone of liberty and freedom was 7 doubted and questioned In Switzerland ann Italy saw FranceIof honing Paine in tho windows and not the works of any other American Abe vitality of Paine Is worldwide tithis outside pressure must eventu ally have its innuence upon the Amer theInoteIpoet which soon showed them that they had been so blunt and dull as not geniusIElliott Phila President ol too Paine Memorial Asso tciadon 1 here is a grand man For years he has fought for justice to the memory of Paine there In his home cuy and at last has triumphed In get ting the bust of Paine in indpendence Hall All Liberal should belong to d Una Pnlnn lytemorllAeaocl env125 to Mr Blfiot ace StrPhilanel pay for a certiuciia of membership and besides entitle ou to some Valua ule Paine literature and important 1tphotographs which you will all appre crate and welch fur Elliott will send you And all honor to Dr E B Fotte Sn Dr E B Foote Jr and to Capt Geo Washington Loyd These three been the lonely guards of the monument for many years haveiIts neglect desecration and donmcnt they have ever come rescue and have finally succeeded In + awakening the sense of an honorable pride and care in the community which vlil hereafter claim it Dr Foote Sr Capt Loyd are now old and fee ba and must soon lay aside the man lie of life but I am sure that the thousands of Liberals all over the country to whom they are known will gratefully remember them when they are dead and gone and long will they TfaDEAR BRO BUCHAGNANI CAME TO SEE ME iOn Saturday Novemoer 28 dear old Brother Caesar Buchagnanl of Lexing too came to see me He was born Italy and has a good wife of the same nationality He was suffering that It was the third start before ysgoodtand his dear old heart was so full of mpathy for me that he could hardly tall He favors my idea of editing lha Blade to do good He and his wife were born Catholics They are both good friends to me She would have onto to see me but is sick I have nearly every kind of a man in Lexington who wants to help me In purpose to do good There is Bro Moses Kauffman a Jew one of the best and most influen fiat men in Lexington He brought beautiful fruits and flowers I cannot eat tho fruits but I give them other poor and sick people Brother Dick Redd is not a preacher but conducts a Presbyterian chapel Ho has two daughters that are splen did nurses not professionals and he said he would bring them both to walt- on s me if I wanted them A Presbyterian preacher named Thompson my neighbor says he Is coming to to see me and I hope towsee him MRS WRITES OF EDITOR MOORS ILLNES The news of the Illness of Editor C C Moore has carried sorrow into thousandS of hearts and home throughout our country It came as a great as Mr Moore has always been a very robust man leading a most exemplary lice abstenious in ntl things and living coso to the heart of nature But advancing age and the straw and stress upon his brain and heart in his great lire worK of destroying superstition and promoting moral Ity sobriety and virtue among fellow is now telling upon his spend physiclquo and with heart and asthmatic trouble his condition Is at times critical American journalism has never produced a grander or more unl fquo figure than Editor Moore He is in a class by himself and his Inlluenc has been greater and more far reach- Ing than the conservative world Is willing to acknowledge A man with lofty ideals who will suffer imancii loss persecution and prosecution wear the garb of the convict and death for his principles is a laceI figure in this sordid selliesh ing hypocritical cowardly generation Such a figure is Editor Moore In thl 20 or more years that he has been at the editorial helm of the Blue Grass Blade he has stemmed the rushing tide of ignorance intolerance and hy f pocrlsy and has time and again been overwhelmed with discouragement and persecution even to being impris oned in county jails and the Ohio pen- Itentiary AND FOR WHAT Men ly because he thought deeply on the mysteries and miseries of life the religious governmental and social r systems that shape the destiny of the human race and his conclusions did not agree with the ideas of the com moo herd who never think ut all and jx he had the courage to put in cold prin his convictions and conclusions For a man or a woman to express honesy 0 t convictions contrary to stereotype ideas is punished as a crime in this socalled enlightened age Whatever i Edtor Moore has suffered he has made it possible for thousands to rise in their mental integrity and rcieasi themselves from mental slavery He has started rills of thought that t now rising to rushing torrents and yetwhile waves of persecution rolled ove his life bark before his splendid courage the waves are retreating and he has made smoother sailing for others What grander work can any humai being do than to hep establish the rights of Reason Editor Moore did Jgapproje were his methods nro J f frk consclenclousJ t T9gSfaJP e his detractors did u vould not qr could not do th work at all by any method If all that Editor Moore iias written pleading for sobriety higher morality justice to the defenceless and a grander and nobler life free from the in justice shams and vices of the civilization of today could be put into one book it would be a literary treasure U help the world to higher thinking anc nObler living To emphasize the honesty of his efforts he has lived a life of absolute mental and moral integrity At times he has been bitter too bitter but let us remember that the world has beer bitter and cruel to him and he is but human How many of the uncog nlds turn the other cheek How many Let them answer for them selves Editor Moore has spoken burning words that will never die for the rights of Reason the rights of the poor and defenseless the rights tit women the rights of tho Negro the rights of even the prostitute made t a draught upon his sympathy and no man in America has tried harder to wipe out the curse of strong drink t and make this a sober nation than he But the pride and hope of his life has been the Blue Grass Blade While the has Indeed been leading the sim ple life plowing sowing and reaping at Quaker Acre he has taken time to load down its columns of the Blade with reason common sense and plead ings for better things than we have today and the Blade though small in size has found its way to the ends of the earth and has been read by more people who have borrowed it or obtained it by other means than any paper ever published in the Unit ed States and for the number of cop lee printed each week it has more readers to the copy than any one pa per in the journalistic field No paper has more loyal devoted generous or selfsacrificing friends 1 and supporters than the Blade and its patrons and readers are found in cit ies towns rural districts and foreign 1 lands This has been achieved by the r sacrifice suffering loyalty and tenac- Ityj of Editor Moore and the loyalty of the friends of the Blade Now after all his struggles the sage and philosopher of Quaker Acre lies at his old Kentucky Home in the shadow of the Great Unknown and his character with Its crowning virtues and some faults is being rounded out Some faults he had yes some faults and L J Jtif P tf17 i who has not At this crucial time let us bury them and think only of his virtues that stand out like torches In the night and of tho grand work that he has done for tho betterment of thl s weary old world Should he linger yet awhile let us rejoice his tempest toct heart in his closing days by rahyln to the support of the Blue Grass made on which he has without any cot pensation spent his best efforts and on which his hopes have been cents ed The Blade should be one of the greatest mental and moral powers In the American Republic and this has always been the wish and aim of Ed tor Moore Will his friends make it so He has through sacrifice and suffering laid its foundation will his coworKers and friends build the superstructure Personally I am grieve beyond expression at Editor Moore failing health and I owe him a debt of gratitude for his splendid service to humanity and I know there are thou who join me in this sorrow and gratitude JOSEPHINE K HENRY Versailles Kentucky LETTERS FROM FRIENDS Balm OrldaI notice the way you have been stormed by the press seeking to learn of your condltioi Kind wishes for your recovery and a long life in store for you that you may yet live to see the dawn of the day of reason here in the United State LICLARKI believe the Interest that the pers are taking in me is In kindness- I do not believe they would be less kind to me if I were dead than they are now Letter From a Clergyman My wife has received from Rev Dr J H Frazee of Knoxvllie Tennessee Congrcgationalist and fatherinlaw of my son a letter full of sympathy for tier and me in view of my illness He teems to think his visit to our hous is one of the most delightful memorle of his life He is much older than I and if we live until nez summer I nope he will be here again Columbus OhloIt is post my er to express my feelings upon itor Moore Ill I have felt for sometime that our friend was ailing and uso that it was from heart failure Cardiac asthma is one cf the terrible aliments from which I have suffered It was always from care and worry and neglecting myself I write im uedlately and send 1 as it palm no to seo only 14halft in the Jlade I know a worry to our tear editor and It is natural when so much SO MUCH of his life has been given toward making the Bue rasa Blade a success I am ashamed of the way that Liberals neglect paying their debts to our splendid editor and publisher of the Blue Grass Made Oh If only I could make Rockefeller pay up some of his por Ion toward the salvation of the race In the line of the Blades way of redeeming tho world from ignorance and selfishness the two most hellish eatures that produce these million Ires There would not be such drains and aches on the heart of our dear friend Now Brother learn to take more care of yourself He is not the lealthiest who lives the longest It is through suffering that we learn tc care for ourselves properly We need ou hero so please give up the idea of going up higher just now No Oslei In this case You are our foremost editor and do not need to be chloroformed yet Small bits of morphine vill bring you all right and you must be bossed by your wife With love and sympathyM N LYNDALL Noblesville IndI have received f no Blade for two weeks Those I have received lately have been devoted principally to lauding and defending a practitioner and beneficiary of the Christian commercial system Judging by previous statements in the Blade by Moore regarding his anxiety for a donation from that source I think his object is plain If the Blade con inues in the same strain you need end no more to my address GEO W HALLI print this letter to show tho animus of a Socialist toward me I have given my life since near the lose of our civil war including much of my liberty and of my money to an ffort to promote Infidel philosophy and now in my old days when I am lose down to the grave and the one only thought of my life Is to get dels and Christians to join In an fort to make us all better and hap plor here is a man who claims that my purpose is to get Rockefeller to mice me a donation of money It is scarcely possible that he knows of my existence and if he did now of it it does not seem so probable that he would give money to an Infidel as that he would give to any one of the thousands of his Christian brethren who are continu ally begging him If I were to accept even a hundred f dollars from Rockefeller I would probably have a very short time to enjoy it as six hours ago ItWas a lifo and death struggle with mo and to accept such money would ruin my reputation St Elmo TennI heard of your illness Thursday and determined to pay you a visit at once am with a young lady who was thrown from a horso and pretty badly used up but sue will be aolo to give mo up in a days and 1lt slip out of town and up to Lexington just as soon as she can spare me I think Ill be able to leave Chattanooga Friday mornln and not later than Sunday I do hope you will be much better uy that time Uo very carelul and very good unUi i come lour devoted friend LULu il GIBSON Miss Gibson is a proiessioual nurse and is one of the oiucers in a nations inuuel organization if were a urlt wan other Christians would say that tats is only an angel that uod is sent my me and believe u Is an auger Melons Uf am very much sui prised to learn to your serious nines and am very sorry that this misiot tune has overtaKen you I have ways loll a aeep interest in you and jour weuaro but have been to bus to say much about it cant cut Distantly call upon the supernaturu o bring you saieiy through rues rou oe for i uo not beiieve in uie super aaiuiul and oven if were to so De revs nay observation teaches me that the supernatural does not intoner dven wren impiored by its woraUip era May an ardent desire and a strong determinauon to Set well as sisieu by your physician nurses and we expressed sympathy of friend pull you safely through this distresi and danger and may you live man more happy years to swing that Bloat wench you know so wen how to use against the lorces of ignorance and a pocrlsy lam a student this year in that one of our state institutions wuicn is cated here I attend about half of its chapel exercises and while the Bible is read at every one of them yet iron the remand that follow I discover that skepticism is exercising a beneficial innuence over the minds of a fey members of the faculty But I a as tonished that so many still cling tc oeiief in a God that will not hearken to their prayers and that does so lit tie for them With best wishes for yourself and yours and for everypne else I am yours fraternally and lot the Church of HumanltyC KIMBERLY Upland Indiana Having receijfE the Blade only last evening and Uak ing the paper up this morning for the consoling influence for good and rue philosophy I am shocked and pared to see the startling headlines of 1Our serious illness for though I kew you were nearing the allotted time mentioned again and again for the the lifo of men but knew nothing or anything wrong as to your health and hough that venerable shock of Hair severing your great dome of thought and wisdom was whitened by the rusts of many winters and the last Ime I saw you at St Louis you looked so strong and great that with your molesome living might live to be 100 years old I fear you have beei3 a little too strenuous in your labors and the overexertion caused some pro ante trouble to your time keeper ire ulting in loss of power j Possibly this may be too late to reach you before all is over but itj is ny sincere hope not and that you lave rallied to the treatment and gqod Advice of Dr Wilson enabling you to regain strength and vlltallty for many a dayyes years yet if the finale is sear and nothing can stay the Inevitable reapers hand of death continue be brave and noble to the end that your greatness may be proclaimed a entury hence knew not fear or felt a future existence passed into some errible ordeal of punishment as aught by the superstitious That you have fought the battle for Intellectual freedom bravely and cvn be it said leave to generations yet unborn tablets in memoriam greater ban all the powwows by the clergy In extreme unction for a hundred we the readers of the Blue- Grass Blade to peruse no longer the lifted articles so pungent and spicy yet with all so logical our heart earns for Moore and more No I cant believe that your lifes work is lone and those remaining true to heir convictions of intellectual Free thought are to go forward without your further help as it seems a void w1ll happen none other can fill in promulgating tho work to be done before the desired objects are to be tained in supplanting the bigotry and fallacIes taught by ecclesiastical reeds Your reply to that Minnesota Dr Shuck is grand and ought to cause he gentleman for once to crack ls noggin with a mallet to get his think er In the right kind of kelter before J i exploiting tho verbiage ot some one elses say so Then to the last remark for being good you have done the subject most excellently and If none other is to appear in tho Blade all couid join in saying Well done thou good and faithful servant 0 yes the paper is only coming a half sheet but it is a thousand times better than no paper at all But why dont the delinquents do their duty by remitting at once and help to lift the pressure the publishers are labor lUg under Hoping and trusting for tho best I remain steadfastly sincere friend I M MILLER DEAR DICK REDD A PRESBYTERIAN CHRISTIAN COMES TO SEE ME Dick Redd and his brother Olive are two Cofederate soldiers who tween them for many years held the office of assessor for my county Faj otte in which Lexington is They are two of the best men personally and ficially that I ever knew and are both devoted Presbyterians They have both claimed all the time that I am- a Christian Dear Bro Dick is not an ordained preacher but in an informs way conducts Belmont Chapel Dick came to see me yesterday Octobe 28 and as ho came into my room he said God bless you Brother Moore and he threw his arm around me and kissed me on the forehead He told me a story that is greatly to the credit of the Catholics and race worse men that I want people to re is a millionaire For man years Bro Redd has conducted Bel mont chapel on Belmonts horse farm without taking a cent of pay for It lately Bro Redd in one unfortunate but honorable deal lost everything he had and Belmont ordered that Bro Redd be put regularly in his pay roll Bro Redd agrees with me in want ing Infidels and Christians to combine in trying to do good which he says is all the happiness there is In life Here is a Catholic millionaire and poor Presbytcran and I poor Infidel all Joined in promoting a religion that has no creed except The Golden Rule and which Jesus got from the Pagan Confuslus Bro Redd said to me You know that Bro Barnes and you and I have always been considered cranks 1 said Yes Bro George Barnes is one of the most talented orators that ever was in Kentucky He is about 80 years old and for 26 years has so w id like I do that he can not lie was originally a Preaby cher but preaches now a of his ownBro Redd e to write to Bro Barnes telling him four meeting and asking aim to wfo to the Blade I hope Bro will write the letter to the Blade and that the letter of Bro dodd to him will be sent me for print faro Redd deplores the elegance and uxury of the churches I do not un lerstand exactly what the words mean but I say God bless my Brothers Belmont and Barnes and Redd THE ARKANSAW TRAVELER The Arkansaw Traveler New Tope devotes a whole page to a reprint of my letter to the National Rip Saw of St Louis The Rip Saw has some good things tut some glaring defects It is very religious and has a great deal to say against tho Negro that it calls nlg ger It uses much ugly language I hope It will Improve in these respects THE LINEVILLE IOWA DEBATE The Llneville Iowa Tribune gives an account of a religious debate in hat town between Rev William El none of Covington Indiana Camp icllite or Christian and Mr A A Snow of that place Infidel There seems to have been a large crowd and much interest- I hope that each side has been honest There is inquiry as to what has become of the Welsh and Wllkin son debate Please let us hear about it ORMER STUDENT HERE HONORED Wallace Beatty Graduate of K U and State College Given Chair In Rockefeller Institute of Medi cal Research Dr Wallace A Beatty a graduate of the academic department of Kentucky University and also a student for several years of chemistry at Kentucky State College has been appointed chemist at the Rockefeller Instl ute of Medical Research of New York Dr Simon Flexner is president of his new institution recently endowed iy John D Rockefeller which it is bought will come rapidly to the fronts an authority along medical lines Dr Beatty was for several years a tudent on jlhe local male coil egos I r 44 Education Worship VISIT R9 YELLOWSTONE PARK Iyr All thru Tickets Good for Stopover at the Park VERY LOW RATES vu NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY For time rates and further information write to J J Ferry DIs Passenger Agent 40 East Fourth Street Cincinnati Ohio Send four cents for Lewis and Clark Booklet and six cents for Wonderland 1905 to A M Cleland Gen Pass Agt St PaulhllnnJ RcnlThe 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was stated that saloon keepers were giving liquor to the boys of some Prohibitionists Mrs Beatty asked me to print in the Blade that she would kill any alooar keeper who would give liquor to her son and I printed It l 9