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Vol. II. -No 29.
Lexington, Kentucky, Saturday January 16. 1892.
Subscription, $2aTear
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The Blade waaU 95,000.00
Reduce Its Snbocrlptloa
Price to 81.00.
to
jft(?9fJuSreceive(l an elegant
"t. artle from H Augusta
kT, of Georgia. It discusses
the quPsion of prostitutes, and
ought to appear at once, right on
the heels of the sickly stuff that
Prof. Nelson wrote in reply-
quasi reply to Rev. McGarvey;
but so manv things are ahead of
it, that it will appear only when
it is somewhat out of date.
If the Prohibitionists and
Woman Suffragists and moralists
or this state will furnish the
money to run a nrst class paper
in size, and amount of matter in it,
can make a paper that will beat
Oie New Yoru Voice, and I wont
do anything but write just enough
to keep them stirred up; and gen
tlemen and ladies from all over
the United States will furnish me
the material for it, without charge,
. because they want to help the
cause.
I want but $5,000.00 and I
want you to have your own treas-
urer and keep your money in his
hands, and simply pay the actual
expenses of the paper. I would
like for you to pay me $50.00 a
month, now and $75.00 a month
which is the most I ever got for
newspaper writing when you
think you can afford it Or I
will do it without one single cent
of pay, if you say the proceeds of
the paper will not justify it.
I nave all the printing outfit
that I want except a mailing ma
chine that costs about $62.00, and
I will furnish this in addition to
my labor.
I have to watch my farm to
make a living for my family and
myself, and I can not do that and
attend to the business part of my
paper, and the literary part, and
ifiivaa .11 .r rnn soma Tim a
I need somebody to attend to
the business and mechanical part
of it for -me.
The price of my paper is the
draw back on it. It is the only
one in the United States that
charges more than a dollar.
I can run it as I am now doing
and charge $2.00 for well-to-do
people and $1.00 for poor peo
ple, and'get along with it, and ex
pect to do so. Such gentlemen as
Prof. deRoode and Dr. Coleman
eay I ought to charge the firt
says $4.00 and the latter $5.00 for
it. That's all nice and compli
mentary, and gentlemen of their
niens would pay that for it; but
there are the great masses of the
people who can not pay that
much.
Rev. Cutler, of Richmond, Va.,
as you have seen, regrets that the
Blade has not ten thousand
readers; and yet you have lately
seen that a gentleman right here
in Kentucky took ten Prohibition
papers and had just for the first
time seen the Blade a few days
before, and was delighted with it,
and wrote me a complimentary
letter sending me the money for
it
I can give you the names of
the decent Democrats who have
said they would rather have the
Blade than all the other papers in
LexiDgton put together.
One farmer who is a poor man,
and never has voted anything but
the Democratic ticket in his life
told me he would rather pay $5.
a year for the Blade than to get
the Cincinnati inquirer for $1.00.
That the Blade has made more
Prohibition voters you know be
cause I have printed their names
in the Blade to that effect.
Leziugton is the citadel of the
whisky influence of the world to
day. I do not say it as any boast,
but I say it because the business
interest of the Prohibition party
make it advisable that I should
do, and I come as near thanking
God for it as I ever do for any
thing:, but the Spartan handful of
Prohibitionists who have stood by
the Blade, have the liquor traffic
in Lexington on the nip now,
and are simply bound to down it,
if the Prohibition party from all
over the United States but princi
pally trom Kentucky, help me
through the Blade, to say what
these Lexington Prohibitionists
want me to say.
It's a mighty good sign that we
are getting in our work when you
see these old whisky voting poll
ticians wanting to kill me, and
the Lexington Press and the Lex
ington Transcript trying their
level best to instigate thein to do
so. Killing me would not set
Prohibition back any, but men
would rise np to champion my
cause, just as the fact that the
saloon-keepers killed Haddock
and Gambrell inspires me to talk
as I do.
So far as the racket about my
religion is concerned, I have on
my side such men as McGarvey
and Graham and Loos all of the
theological department of Ken
tucky University, and Rev. Dr.
Felix of the Baptist church of this
city. That's glory enough for me
in orthodox religion, and I can
knock out ay "nurW
take issue wTthVne in my theo
icai views and uare mm with a
big D. to try it i .
Then among the heathen
nave tor mends the finest pro
fessors in the state College and
some of the best Prohibitionists
men and women in the stafN
I have never in my life Uw a
half chance to show what I Voild
do in journalism.
w nue 1 am blowing mv -wn
bazoo, I want to make a 'oss
blow of it ' I don t think any
thing is worth doing that is . not
worth doing well. . 1.
io man in America was more
earnest in his admiration of
the "Ungodly League'' editorial
of the New York Voice than I
was. It shook ' the party from
ocean to ocean.
I can write from one to three
just as good every week.
1 be woods are as full of them
as blackberries in June.
I have more of them in mv
head now than I could write in a
year, and new ones are coming in
all the time.
If you will furnish me $5,000.00
so I can put my paper at a dollar
a year, I will carry Lexington for
Prohibition in one more year. As
soon as Lexington capitulates the
whole state of Kentucky will fol
low except Louisville and Cov
ington and then we can force them
into rrohibition through the leg
islature. As soon as Kentucky throws
up the sponge, the backbone of
the liquor snake is broken and a
woman can crush the serpent's
head with her French heel.
McGarvey and Beauchamp
have shaken this whole town like
a Charleston earthquake, and be
fore this is printed some other
man will have swept it like a
Louisville cyclone, and Prof. J. J.
Rucker of Georgetown who s can
make one of the finest arguments
of anyjof them, through me, vol
unteers bis services to Lexington,
while my Presbyterian Brother
Rev. R. A. Walton is going to
execute a regular Stonewall Jack
son Prohibition "plank move
ment" on Georgetown, and num
bere of people have told me that
1 have done it "with mv little
hatchet"
Raise the $5,000.00 to help us:
keep the money in the hands of
your own treasurer; pay it out
from week to week as you think
it is efiectin&r what you want done.
and when you see that it is not
doing that withdraw your money
and pay it back to those who have
r id it in, and I will go ahead as
have done. The fact that a tew
old sore head mugwanip church
people growl at me does not
amount to a hill of beans, except
to show that the Blade is having
the desired influence.
Read the following address to
the editors of the Voice, the na
tional organ of the Prohibition
party, by a durned tool named JS.
P. Piatt, that the Voice says is a
Presbyterian Sunday-school
teacher and president of a Y. M.
C. A. in New York.
13 ro. i'latt 6ays to the voice as
follows.
Gentlemen, I doubt if the Lord has
appointed the editor of the "Voice"
as the judge of the church, which
position be has assumed. You may
think you can stand it to allow your
name to continue to be associated
with such a sheet. I consider "The
Voice" so wicked, immoral and in
decent that no financial or any other
consideration would induce me
to allow it to come in
to my bouse: you are only contami
nating and injuring your other publi
cations by tolerating such a nest of
filth under your roof. Haying been
invited to subscribed to the stock cf
the Funk & Wagnalls Co., I take the
liberty of thus expressing1 my views
of its business.
E. P. Platt.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Nov. 2.
I have printed for you the very
worst that has been said about the
Blade, and even the Democratic
and Republican papers of Lexing
ton have never said anything any
tougher about me than this sanc
tified disciple of John Calvin has
said about the editor of the Voice;
the grandest newspaper in the world
to-day.
Why cant some man head this
conditional subscription for $5,
000.00 by saying he will give
$100.00 and let us knock this
damned liquor infamy out.
I believe I can make the invest
ment pay you ten per cent.
Have you another man ready,
so that if the thugs here do '. kill
me, you just reverse a few column
rules, and head a Bhort and busi
ness like notice of the incident,
with some such head lines as
"Knocked out and gone up
among the angels" or "gone to
the devil," just as the notion
strikes you; it will be allee samee
to me and let the Blade go right
straight along without missing an
issue; and the Prohibition party
in Kentucky will get there in one
more year.
1 be .blade has never bad as
vvnUuV feuds far and near as it
nas to-dy, and its enemies and
the entries of Prohibition are
akepng all the time. '
tV gentlemen have told me
they would help me with money
for the BJade, and I have not even
kept a record of their names.
1 want now every man who is
willing to contribute to the $5,
000.00 fund on the conditions that
I have mentioned and I will print
bis name and the amount in the
Blade and let it stay there until
he can see that the full amount
has been subscribed before any of
it is paid, and then I want you to
make some arrangement to assist
in extending the papers circula
tion. (
Let me hear from you please
right away.
P. S. This piece was written be
fore the combine with Bro. Neal,
and has been delayed until I have
just now read it in type; but its a
good idea. If you will furnish me
the amumtion I will shoot it.
Rev. L. A. Cutler of Virginia,
Tells how a Mohammedan
Rebuked (he "Chrlstlaa"
Liquor Dealers, and
Expresses tbe Hope
that the Liquor
Question Will
"Split the
Churches.''
Richmond, Va.,Nov. 24, 1891.
Dear Moors Bishop Foster
writes these burning words.
t,rVa n 11 rrVi gf f rvl q v m iiih
more the church of the future,
must take to its heart the duty of
combining and massing its forces
against that gigantic atrocity, that
diabolical conspiracy, that name
less monstrum horrendum of Chris-,
tiair-Trvilifcatioh,' Lfat "' mothers
nine-tenths of the woes and sor
rows which blight and curse our
modern age, tne traffic in intoxi
cants; which hides its deformity
under forms of law.
How long shall the face of our
Christian age blister with this
worse than pagan shame?.
lias the virtue ot our time de
generated so low that we do not
even blush at the legislated tramc
in the souls of our own children?
That by the very doors of our own
homes and our temples, an army
of miscreants should, by authori
zation of laws made by Christian
lawgivers, prosecute a work of
murder and death? Are we re
duced to the shame of admitting
that a civilization which has
grown up about our altars, is im
potent to cure this evil?
How can we go to tne neat hen
with this cancer of worse than
heathen infamy festering in our
bosom?"
I heard Brother Mitchell who
has been a missionary to India,
and will return to India next
summer to live and die in that
heathen land, 6ay, last Sunday,
before a large audience, tnat a
meeting was held in that dark and
benighted country, in which a
Methodist preacher and himself
were invited to the platform. The
meeting was held to consider the
liquor question.
A Mohammedan arose and said;
"Our religion does not allow us to
drink intoxicating liquors; and
we protest against the importin
into our country, of that whicl
curses our people. The Christian
religion, (pointing to these two
Christian missionaries) allows
Christians to drink and to sell
rum."
Bro. Mitchell said; "Brethren
what could I say? I have been
asked. 4Vhy didn't you say the
charge was not true?' Brethren, I
could t do it. llad 1 denied it,
that pagan would have taken me
only one mile, and showed barrels
of all sorts of liquors, imported
from Christian lands.
He added that the idol worship
ers would not allow whisky to b
drank because it would degrade
and debase them. Pointing to the
idols he had on the table, he said;
"degrade the worshipers of those
. . .
hideous things!
Filled with Christian zeal he
exclaimed: "O Christian men
and women, send the gospel to the
heathen but don't send rum.
Before these pagans, their false
religion appeared superior to the
Christian religion. When we
e-ive ten cents to save the souls
of these heathen, the liquor men
give two hundred dollars to damn
their souls
And yet you and I, and others
who have the moral courage to
say what we think on this sub
ject, and what everybody knows to
be true, are called fanatics and
cranks. Thank God that this
army of fanatics and cranks is re
cruiting its ranks every week.
Thank God that the best and
noblest and purest are leaving the
old corrupt and whisky soaked
political parties and joining the
only party of decency and mor
ality. Here is an extract from an ed
itorial of the New York Voice,
sharp and incisive and which I
endorse.
"A church that will not insist
that its members array themselves
against the lincense of drunkard
making, and, against all political
parties that upholirifcr has lost its
power" to cope with sin, and haw
become an ally to hell."
it seems so to me.
Some one had predicted that the
church will be split on the liquor
question. The sooner the better.
mi . .
a lie sooner liquor mazers,
liquor sellers and liquor drinkers,
get out of the churchy the better.
As they are Christians let them
set up churches of their own, and
let them preach what they
practice.
The convention of wine, beer
and whisky dealers, pass temper
ance resolutions. The bar-room
keeper is a temperance man. Yes,
every distiller, brewer and grog
shop keeper, believe in temper
ance.
They hate a prohibitory law
worse than they do the devil
excuse me more than they lute
God.
They fear and despise the vote
against their nefarious traffic, and
that is the only thing in this
world they do fear and despise.
Liet Christian men consider the
indescribably sad and damning ef
fects of the rum traffic. And then
let them ask, Who is responsible
for all this pauperism, drunken
ness, crime, cruelty, damnation
and death?
And let them hear this answer,
lingering in their ears; "The
voters ot this country are respon
sible."
And then, by the scalding tears
and piteous appeals of women and
children, by the untold suffering
and sorrow, which this trade
brinea uxn tbeirelloW -man. lei?
them revive that . they will cast
tbeir votes tor the rrohibition
party the only party that pledges
itself to prohibit by law this ''de
structive and devilish business."
L. A. Cutler.
People think when I claim to
be a heathen that I am only talking
with my mouth; but if I had to
join a Mohammedan or a Chris
tian church to-morrow, 1 believe
would join with the prophet of
Mecca, and enlist under the cres
cent instead of under the cross
not that I think Mohammed was
the peer of Jesus, though he was
a grand man, and a beautiful and
ovely character, if you will read
Carlisle's life of him.
But the Christians kicked me
out of their communion because I
was honest, and the very man that
was the leader in it, recently stood
right in the same spot from which
he announced my excommunica
tion, and said to an immense audi
ence that he never caught me in a
ie.
There is not a man of any
standing in Lexington that will
dare impugn my veracity or my
morals, and yet because 1 dared
say about the Bible what the men
of any intelligence who took part
in my excommunication then be
lieved and now believe was true,
they were willing to subject me to
the scorn of the ignorant and the
bigoted and make me suffer for it,
in estate, if not in spirit until this
day.
I do not believe a Mohammedan
would have done that.
I have seen African Mohamme
dans, black as charcoal, but finer
looking men, and more manly
looking men than any preacher in
Georgetown, and dressed more
beautifully and tastefully thau any
one ot these preachers ever
dressed. They were the cleanest
looking men I ever saw. They
were Moors, and when 1 nrst saw
them, I could easily understand
how the Caucassian "Desdemona "
could fall in love with one of
them.
Half of the men in the City
Council of Lexington they would
not touch with a ten toot pole, and
they would almost as soon go to
hell, as go into the bar-room of
Hull Davidson and Mitchell Al
lord, tbe Mayor ot the Athens of
the West and the Lieutenant
Governor of the "proud common
wealth of Kentucky." And t
Mohammedan would kill the best
dog he had it the dog should go
into the gin mill of Legislator
liiiiy May.
The record of the Mohamme
dans is better than that of the
Christians. In the crusades Mo
hammedan Saladm was a hero,
and Christian ' Richard Coeur de
Leon was a merciless brute. In
the late war when the Christian
North invaded the Christian
South, Sherman burned the homes
of non-combatants in his "March
to the sea." When the Saracen
Mohammedans marched into
Christian Spain they built the
Alhambed, and it is there a mar
vel of beauty until this day.
And now Christian America
and Christian Europe are shipping
cargo after careo of rum and
whisky, made in Lexington and
Paris, Ky., into Africa and forcing
the sale of it among those people
that they called pagans, and the
Mohammedans and other pagans
can only retaliate by calling our
people Christians, because that is
the most contemptible word they
Know.
And yet every Sunday, in our
i Christian churches, thev hand
around the hat or the missionary
(box to send the gospel to the
, heathen, and a lot 01 grand rascals
: , . '. .
7 pocKet tbe money before tbe
people get out of the church.
it
Lhey always get my quarter.
but if they will put the missionary
box into the hands of honest men,
and pass it around to pay to bring
some heathen missionary, here I
will give a half dollar.
Letter From a Lady la Georgia,
Who Is Trying to Help
Prostitutes.
Columbus, Georgia, Nov. 28, '91.
air. C. C. Moore, Lexington, Ky.
Dear Sir Through the kind
ness of Mrs. Josephine K. Henry,
we have received several copies
of the Blue Grass Blade. If it
has space for Georgia as well as
Kentucky news, 1 will occasion
ally send it items or articles.
It fearless advocacy of right
must command the respect of its
bitterest opponents. , While the
land ia so overstocked with venal
editors it is pleasant to count the
tripod of the Blue Grass Blade out
of the throng.
It is but rarely that anything
favoring woman suffrage can be
got into the Georgia papers.
lhey freely publish the would-
b4 arguments against it. and refuse
publish refutations, thereby
e pens ofits advocateb. j
be article herewith 1 use
single quotation marks to inclose
indirect quotations.
l menuon mis oecause sucn
usage, though authorized, seems
not to have been understood byN
other papers for which i have
written. Of course it appreciably
facilitates abbreviation.
Long live the Blue Grass Blade
and its editor.
Yours very truly,
H. Augusta Howard.
The article alluded to will ap
pear in the Blade just as soon as
its "turn" comes.
It ought to appear in the
Arena," with an elegant steel
engraving of H. Augusta Howard
whether matron or maiden I
know not.
It has more good sense in it
than a regiment of Professors
James P. Nelson man who tried
to answer Rev. McGarvey could
write in a thousand years.
It s a nice state of affairs when a
man appointed by this state to
teach the youth of this state, has,
in maiden like modesty, to hide
his blushing face behind his lily
white hands, while such women
as Helen M. Gardner, Frances K.
Russell, Josephine K. Henry and
H. Augusta Howard blast this
maudlin sentiment that thinks the
best way to prevent a damnable
iniquity is to hide it from the pub
lic, and let the young first know
ot it when they become its victims,
as Mrs. Howard suggests. ' .
ouch men so called ought to
be put in petticoats and made to
nuree oaoies ana mate catnip tea.
and wash BKUiets and milk cows.
while women such as I have
named ought to run colleges and
universities, and be Mayors, like
Mrs. Paxton of Kiowa, Kansas.
who bad all tbe liquor in the sa
loons poured into rat holes, and
the saloon doors nailed np.
As a tax payer I would be will
ing to give $100.00 to have almost
any first class woman Governor
of Kentucky, and would make
money by it.
I signed that "million vote
pledge, down in Cincinnati the
other day, and suppose that St.
John will be our next candidate
for President, but if any one of
those four ladies above named
will announce herself as candidate
for President of the United States,
I will find some way to lie out of
that pledge and vote for the
woman, if the pledge were to get
forty million signers.
I would vote for Belva Lock-
wood before I would for little Ben
and his hat, or old G rover with
his shirt that he pulls off without
having to unbutton the collar.
Our men are getting to be what
the Indians call "squaw men,
while our women are growing in
tellectually into Amazons.
We hear a good deal 01 com
plaint of the "strong-minded
women, but it is all made by
weak-minded men.
I will give just one page of the
thirteen pages ot most beautituuy
wntten manuscript of Mrs. llow
ard, and let the people of Lexing
ton compare it with the balder
dash that Prof. Nelson slops over
the plucky little Napoleon of the
pulpit, Kev. iTof.Mcuarvey.
On page seven of her manu
script Mrs. Howard writes as fol
lows:
"A boy is so reared that long
before he has attained manhood
he knows himself, and hence is
equipped for mingling with his
fellows. 'Forewarned is fore-
Larmed;' there is therefore little ex
cuse for his fall from virtue.
But how is it with the
nrnman'
From her veriest babyhood her
parents studiously guard her from
all that wonld unfold to ber mind,
by a natural and wholesome
process, the laws of her own be
ing, and probably she first learns
them through temptation.
A stranger to herself, she is an
easy prey to the designer.
It would seem that society
should be tender to those who,
being trained to run with the
lambs only, have been turned out
among wolves; but the verdict of a
pew-renting population is, 'btone
the woman; let the man go free.'
The reputable dare her to dwell
among them, refuse to give ber
honorable employment, and then
bid her be virtuous.
The path of her betrayer is un
impeded, from the bagnio to the
White House.
Ia this morals? Has the text
He that is without Bin among
you let him first cast a stone at
her been omitted from the gos
pels of south Atlanta's church
goers? Alas for the human hearts
on. which these men climb to
mount their self-constructed pe-
dastal and pose as purists."
Gen
Gauo glad
ahoat Hills
defeat.
mvs m wi ows wui mix u t iaj irxi i
waTllSesTlhatTIfTisp 1
was nominated for Speaker, Judg
Deckner, ot vv incnerter, thinks so,
as he is deemed more conservative
than Crisp and peculiarly well
adapted for the duties of Speaker.
We sympathized yesterday with
Gen. R. M. and John Gano, of
Texas. They said: "Many of us
in Texas will not cry over Mills'
defeat, because he was so severe
on the Prohibitionists when that
cause was made in our State,"
Kentuckian-Citizen.
We have just had. the honor
of having General Gano to
dinner with us. He was a Gederal
in the Confederate army, and was
then, and is now, a minister in the
Christian church, and is one ot
the most popular men in Texas,
and equally as popular in this his
native state.
He and his son took the stump
for Prohibition in Texas at the
time Mills and Jeff Davis beat it
there. A Confederate General
can be a Prohibitionist in any
other state, but such Confederate
Colonels, as Carlisle, Blackburn,
Bro. William Breckinridge, were
just dead mashed on Mills and
voted for him to the hnish.
There's nothing that makes a
man so popular in Kentucky as to
have done something to encourage
the whisky trade.
1 want the people of this
country to watch Deacon Breck
inridge, and if any friend of his
anywhere, will find me an instance
in which be is not tor liquor,
every time a liquor issue comes
up, and will send it to me, 1 will
print it in the Blade.
"Glory to God for Rev. HeGar.
vey aad Don. Charles J.
BroBatea."
Wildwood, Dec. 9. '91.
Dear Bro. Moore. The pages
the "Blade" are not sufficient to
express what I feel since reading
the sermon delivered by J. W.
McGarvey to the men of Lexing
ton, and the speech of Charles
Bronston in the case of the Com
monwealth against Lily White.
I don t know whether there be
a God or not, bnt will at a ven
ture say, aye shout Glory to God
in Heaven, and honor and immor
tality to BrosJ McGarvey and
Bronston on earth.
inia is me sentiment 01 my
heart to-day, and I pray that there
shall never be cause for a change,
Yours forever, for truth, and
the happiness of the entire human
family, ana to mat end, tbe sup
pression oi tne distillery.
W. W. GODDAkD.
1892
lauihter
For the next 15 days our prices will be as follows
WOOLEN UNDERWEAR.
For Ladies, Gents and Children. 35c goods go at 26c, 40c at
29c, 45c for 33c, 50c for 30c, 60c for 49c, 70o for 58c, 75c for 59c, 90o
for 71c, $1 at 74c, $1.15 at 97c, $L25 at 99c, $1.50 at $1.16, $2 at $1.47.
COLORED FLANNELS.
20c goods go at 15c, 25c at 19c, 30c at 23c, 3oc at 27c, 40c at 33c
50c at 42c
WOOLEN HOSIERY.
25c goods at 20c, 30c goods at 23c, 36c at 27c, 40c at 32c, 45c at
37c, 50c at 42c
LACE CURTAINS.
$1 goods at 74c, 1.25 at 98c, 1.50 at 110, 2 at 1.42, 2.50 at, 1.90,
3 at 2.10, 4 at 3.10, 5 at 3.90 6 at 4.60, 10 at 7.90.
PORTIERS.
$6 goods at 4.95, 7.50 at 5.90, 12.50 at $9.50.
CHEAP TABLE OF TOWELS.
25c goods at 15c, 20c at 13c 15c at 11c, 12c at 10c 35c at 25c,
40c. at 27c.
BLANKETS.
90c goods at 65c $1 goods at 75c, 1J5 at 90c, 2 at 15, 3 at 20
4 at 3.25, 5 at 4.20, 6 at 4.60
COMFORTS.
75c goods at 65c, $1 at 75c, 1.25 at 95c 1.50 at 1.05, 25 at 1.75
3.50 at 2.65.
CLOAKS.
$6.50 goods at 5.50, 7 at 5.75, 9.25 at 7.90, 12 at 10.
Our goods are al marked in plain figures. Our prices, already
proverbially low, have been cut as above stated, making them by far
the lowest ever quote in Lexington. All prices cut trom 10c to 35c.
TAYLOR & HAWKINS
No. 7 West Main Street, Lexington, Ky.
BAKER & BEOS.,
No. 12 NORTH LIMESTONE ST.
Manufacturers and Dealers in
Carriages, Buggies Fhsetons etc.
Bepairiag promptly doao
They are also agents for FRAIZER CELEBRATED CARTS
We also have a stock of POXY CARTS on hand.
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The Largest House, the
Largest Business (in onr Line in
Central Kentucky.
If you need anything in our line dont buy until you have looked through
our stock.
We are "leaders" in correct styles and low prices.
Farmers are especially invited to make headquarters with us when in town.
WILSON & STARES,
62, 64 and 66 E. Main Street.
Kaufman. Straus & Co.,
13 EAST MAIX(STREET.
New goods are now arriving daily. Laces and embroideries are
crowding our shelves from the narrowest to the widest and richest
Citterns, v e sbow tnem in all sorts oi materials. A. treat tor the
dies and a wholesome surprise to those who get our prices on them.
No lady in Lexington, anticipating to make up Spring Underwear,
Children's or Misses' Dresses of White Goods, can afford to miss ex
amining our stock of these goods.
Early Spring Woolea Dreas Material.
Novelty Suitings, the rarest and oddest of patterns, new entirely
and pleasing to the eye; prices below actual anticipation, ranging from
50c to $1 per yard. A new line of spring shades of Henriettas just
opened, new colors, no change in price in spite of the additional duty
on them.
WASH GOODfS.
Just received and put in stock a quantity of fine Zephyr Ging
hams, all new patterns and coloring, modest pin stripes and checks,
Scotch plaids and neat stripes. They are quoted at 30c; we have
marked them at zws per yard A lull line of dress Ginghams in
new designs, estimated to be worth 15c; our price is 10c
LADIES MI SLIX U3I DER WEAR SPECIAL SALE.
Forty dozen Children's Muslin Drawers, six button holes. tatent
facing, at 10c a pair; worth 20c
Ladies' Mother llother Hubbard Gown; good muslin, well trimmed
at 55c; they are worth 83c
Lakies' Muslin Drawers, "Fruit of the Loom" Cotton, deep hem
and tncks above, 22c; worth 40c.
Ladies' walking skirts, deep
New Spaing Hosiery for Ladies
securing many cases of Ladies' Cotton, Lisle and Silk Hose, in both
black and fancy, prior to the going into effect oi the administrative
bill, and our prices thereon will show how these early purchases bene
fit our customers.
Ladies' regular made fast black
still have them marked 25c
Ladies' black and colored Lisle Hose, worth 60c; We still offer
them at 40c
Ladies' fancy striped Cotton
40c; still marked at 25c.
TOILET ARTICLES.
Colgate Turkish Bath Soap, a full dozen for 50c; 4711 Glycerine
different sorts at 42c per box; Espey's Cream, genuine article, 20c;
Yasaline, in bottles at 10c; Ammonia, for household purposes; only lOe
per quart bottle
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SEE US.
. BAKER and BROS
Largest Stock and the
Cambric ruffle, at 49c; worth 75c
and Gents. We were fortunate in
Hose, regular price now 35c: we
Hose, boot patterns, costing vou now
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