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Vol. I. -No. 37.
Lexington, Kentucky, Saturday, ftQmary 10th, ISM.
Subscription, $2 a Tear.
Brother Barbee itnn n Goad
Word Fwr th Farmer
Alliance People.
Editor Blue-Gran Blade:
I have been reading of late in
our various party papers edito
rials, communications, etc., on
platforms broad and platforms
narrow, Farmer' Alliances, Pro
Fusions and Anti-Fusion. In
my opinion much has been said
that had best been left unsaid. I
can see no more necessity for
fusions now than in August,
1872, when "ProhibitloniHts,"
"Home Protectionists," Peo
ple's Party," etc., made a fusion.
This fusion brought together the
extremes as well as the means
(mathematical, not financial), and
out of this political hotch-potch
have grown bickerings and inter
necine strife. I see no good sense
in making war upon the farmers,
or the farmers' Alliance. We
can differ with some of their
extreme ideas, and what appears
to many of us as impracticable
methods, without indulging bit
ter personalities and sharp criti
cisms. . Whatever Use may De
said about and against our farm
ing classes, there is one thing
certain, as a class they are hon
est and sincere, and in my opin
ion constitute the conserving
forces in our government. We
want the farmer to see that there
is in existence now a political
party, and the only political party
that will give any permanent
relief to the down-trodden and
oppressed masses, and that party
is the Prohili ion party.
Reform has grown to be a
mighty big word of late. In fact
every eccentric notion thrown olf
from the centrifugal forces of
society", religion and politics, now
' "days-, is - denominated "reform."
" Whaty ia my opiuiou, we need
in Kentucky, and the nation is a
party with enough conservatism
and common sense in its platform
to commend it to the every day
thinking man. Whether it be a
virtue, or a vice, it is none the less
true, that the American people are
not going hastily, to make any
radical changes in our goyernment,
whether they be administrative or
legislative, and the great stumbling
blocks of all so-called reforms have
been their ultraism. While 1
might as an individual be very
favorably inclined to support some,
or all of these ultra political ideas,
Iet common sense, and a practical
nowledge of political conditions
suggest to me that I would be en
gaged in a decidedly up hill busi
ness to try to induce a majority of
the voters of this country to see
likewise. As a farmer and horticul
turist I have learned by actual ex
perience, that in all tree growth a
pruning is sometimes as essential
to the life of a tree, as a sack of
fertilizer, and I want to suggest to
the Prohibs of Kentucky, if, when
you come together again in State
Convention, you will use a politi
cal knife on your platform, cutout
the gush and extreme notions, and
in their stead, cultivate with more
energy and sincerity, the practical
reforms advocated by the Farmer's
Alliance people, there will bo no
necessity for another new party in
Kentucky.
I have by invitation, been at
tending and addressing ot lute some
ol these Alliance gatherings, and I
rejoice at the independence ol
thought expressed. The farmers
as a class are our friends, aud I
want to conclude as I begun, there
is no good seuse in insulting and
driving from us those who are
growing sufficiently independent to
give us a listening ear.
We can, at least, treat them
courteously and be indent will)
them while they are passing
through the same emhriouio period
from which many of us have not yet
fully emerged. IN on partisauism
I believe it the views herein ex
pressed meet with the heurty con
currence ol a majority ol the Pro
hibitionists in the next stute Con
ventiou assembled, aud we will
come together in the spirit of HE
COVCIL1A1ION determining to wipe
out this uiteruu'ine strife that is
consuminir us, we will sooner
or luter march forwurd to a el
rious victory in the "Dark and
Bloody Ground."
J as. T. Baubee.
Glasgow, Ky., Dec, 25, 1890.
The naamrrf. The Key I
Aerial Navigation.
Sicxt to my intormation on
theology I regard as most impor
tant my knowledge of the buz
sard.
An Illinois company lately in
cornorated, with a capital stock
of ?20,000,000, for the purpose of
building air ships, anords me
long dexired opportunity of ven
tilating my Knowledge of the
buzzard.
Hail the Congress thai adopted
the eagle as the American em
blem, been Icm plagiari. ts from
the effete governments, of Eu
rope, and more scientists, the
buzzard, instead ot the eagle,
would have spread his vings up
on American banners na upon
"the dollar ot the uauuies, or
the daddy of the dollfiTs, as, it
always seemed to me, would be
a better expression. 1
In matters of diet theseftwo
birds are equally untidy, and
while the buzzard mukei himself
a useful citizen, the efcgle kills
lambs and pigs without warrant
of law. When it comes to "soar
ing," as a trope for college boys
on commencement occasions, the
buzzard can lay it over the eagle
two to one, aud get so much
higher than Gilroy's kite, or any
thing that an eagle can do, that
it would make an eagle's head
swim to get there. ;
I am latisfied that in the soar
ing flight of the buzzard as the
best and most familiar instance
ot soaring birds, there lies a
secret which men, from Icarus
to this Illinois company, have so
far sought in vaiu, and which
when known, as I believe in this
age of progress it is daily liable
to be, will not only make aerial
navigation practicable, but will
make it possible for the belles
and beaux of some near age to
pirouette through the sunset
in gay flying gowns and knick
erbockers, and bathe their silken
plumago in the setting sun, with
all the safety, and inexpressibly
greater pleasure, than our park
abitue now have on the square
tailed cobs of English affecta
tion. In all of my quT-lonings of
scientists upon inie?. art, I haye
only come across one man who
had ever noticed the phenomenon
of the buzzard, and speculated as
to the practical conclusions dedu
cible therefrom.. He was Mr. B.
F. Williams, a gentleman of in
dependent and original thinking
capacity in this city.
Many ot the older citizens here
may recollect my kinsman, Maj.
Tom Moore, who was Provost
Marshal of this city during the
war.
He was ecceutric and witty,
and had but little conti ience in
the claims of the most advanced
science.
I asked him once how he could
account for the phenomenon of a
buzzard rising from the earth
against the laws of gravity, aud
Hying against the wind, without
"flapping" his wings.
The Major answered mat it
... . i
was "because oi tne caroonic
acid gas on the stomach of the
buzzard."
I once asked Dr. Robert Peter
about it, but he would not recog-
uizo that there was any unknown
phenomenon in the flight of buz
1 i .i . I - i
zurus ana oiner souring uirus,
but claimed that they rose from
the ground and propelled them
selves on the same priuuiple of
compression aud resistance of air,
by the striking with the wings
iust as other birds do.
1 atterward suggested my ideas
to Dr. Dabaey, Presileut ot the
University ot Tennessee, and he
ml
seemed to think them worthy of
investigation, but never reported
anything iu furtherance ot my
opi nious.
1 am not willing to no aogmai-
io about these suggestions, but I
am satisfied that iu this phenom
enon of the birds soaring, as dis
tinguished from what 1 think the
entirely different priuciple ot fly
ing in the more common way,
there is a "working hypothesis''
that scieutists are not warranted
iu ignoring.
While the amount and torce ot
muscular action that a crow uses
in his flight could not proportion
ally be equalled by man, the ex
penditure of physical force made
by a buzzard in sailing,! no more than naturul, let us examine the
than a man would use in extoiid-) gospel narrative with au unpre
iug his arms and legs to flout judiced eye aud see what honest
unou cork buoys ui on the water,
Tho most cursory observation,
it stems to me, must recognize a
radical difference ill the principles
upon which crows aud buzzards
go through tho air.
The crow resists gravity by
striking against the air with his
wings, the light edges of the fea
thers acting as valves that close
as the wing goes down, and open
as it goes up, so that the action
and reaction are not equal in the
opposite directions.
The propelling force of the
wing is only in the small curved
part of it, that is. in front, in the
act of flying, ana which strikes
the air at an angle of fort v five
degrees, which, as in the fluke of
a screw propeller of a ship, is
scientmcaliy and practically pro
ven to be the angle of greatest
torce.
In the soaring flight of the
buzzard, however, none of the
phenomena in the flight of the
crow are discovered.
I have loqked squarely - down
upon the bacics ot buzzards as
they flew past the face of a very
high perpendicular cliff, upon the
top of which I was, when the
buzzard was hundreds of feet
above the plain below, and I have
seen that the wings ot the soar
ing buzzards were as rigid and
motionless, with reference to
their bodies, as it they were taxi-
demised.
In noticing the flight of the
buzzard it will be found that he
occasionally "flaps" his wings.
but the intervals are so long,
that taken in connection with
the tact that the speed of the
buzzard does not decrease up to
this flapping, nor increase after
it, we may assume that its effect
is entirely too small to account
for the main phenomenon of its
flight.
It would seem that there is
thus demonstrated to exist some
power the principle of which is
as yet absolutely unknown.
The specitiic gravity of a buz
zard is as great, or nearly so, as
that of a crow, and there is but
little difference in the relative ex
panse of their wings.
It might be worth while for
some aerial navigation enterprise
to look into this phenomenon of
soaring birds.
What Was the Phyalcal Canse
of the Death of Jenua
Bt C. C. P. CLARK, M. D.
This questionthe discussion of
which has lately been revived in
the British Medical Journal (?),
and participated iu in various
other quarters, would seem to
have been a puzzle both to the
faculties of theology and medical
science ever since biblical criti
cism has had a voice. And yet,
if handled with frankness, it
would not seem difficult of solu
tion. In the first place it seems to be
admitted on all hands that Jesus
did not die from the immediate
and natural, or ordinary, effect of
his suspension on the cross. This
method of punishment was very
common amoug the Romans,
Jews, and other nations of an
tiquity, and it is abundantly sub
stantiated as a fact, in addition to
its consistency with the establish
ed laws of human endurance.that
the subject ot it, when of ordinary
health and strength, would sur
vive his torture for from two to
four or even five days. But Jesus
was suspended but about as many
hours, or not above six at the
most. Accordingly it was that
when at the ninth hour, or six
o'clock p. M Pilate was asked
for his bodv, "he marvelled if he
were already dead" (Mark xv.
44.)
Nevertheless it has been the
a. a a aaa ..
part, as it has beeu indeed the
necessity, ot orthodoxy to hold
that when taken dowu from the
cross of Joseph of Arimatheaand
laid away in the sepulchre (or re
cess in the rocky hillside), be was
as veritably dead as the soldiers
who were sent to break the legs
of the crucified supposed him to
be; aud many lugeuious explana
tions have been devised and
argued to account for what, to
those who stood by, must have
been so strange and unexpected.
Without undertaking the task
of setting forth aud controverting
these, and bearing in mind that
the death of Jesus is nowhere
represented by the evangelist or
elsewhere as miraculous, or other
inferences may bo drawn there
from.
Aud let us bear in mind, too,
that the accouut there found are
uot only all that we have from
which to make deductions, but
. le
thal they arc, at least excepting
meir miraculous or supernatural
features of unquestionable' credi
bility in all essential particulars,
differences ot detail even (ending
support to tne main story; tne
capture, tho trial, the crucifixion,
the interment, and the reappear
ance of Jesus among the" living,
are tacts as assured to my. mind
as the taking ot Jerusalem by
ntus. .no sufficient reason can
be imagined for the invention of
any of them, save only the res
urrection; and that that really oc
curred so unexpectedly to all the
disciples, the immediate and
rapid spread of Christianity there
after is alone sufficient Evidence,
since it is impossible to account
tor it in any other wajTit was
the "immortality (belWvtd to be,
brought to light through the
Gospel" that alono give that
Gospel its' enduring and conouer
ing vitality, and is stilt froth its
chiet support and the graat stum
bling-block ot unbelievers.
What ls'spoken of by all the
evangelists as the "giving up the
ffhost" by Jesus it is: uncertain
iow long before he wfca taken
down from the cross-? was un
doubtedly partial or entire syn
cope Irom exhaustion, and per
haps by the desolation that he
felt when he found, off-thought
he found, himself forsaUen by his
God (Mark xv. 34); or (it might
be even that he attectei a condi
tion of insensibility in ofder to es
cape such further cruelties as the
supplying his thirst with vinegar.
However this may bWwe can
well believe that whei the sol
diers came to finish the barbar
ous work, by breaking the legs
oi nits victims, luey lounu mm in
a condition which men even lees
ignorant, stupid, and! careless
than they most lively were,
would easily and naturally take
tor actual death. Foif Jesus, it
must be remembered, already
worn nigh to exhaujVon with
fasting aud anxiety, to? My noth
ing ot bis undoubted phly sen
sitive organization. ..vjbk
Here we come, inHie Gospel
according to John, (Xixv -37,
and xx. 27) to a - plijj solution
of the whole greajTBystery.
Soldiers were , "sew Tby - Pilate,
fcwtbsRieoquest.S ft?Wwto
break the legs of JeV5 aud'the
two thieves, in order that the en
suing "day of Preparation" might
not be desecrated by their still
hanging from the cross, and that
they might ba effectually dis
abled from escaping death. They
practised this horrible feat of
cruelty on the companions in i
misery of Jesus, but when they J
came to htm they found, or sup
posed that they found, him to bo
already dead, and accordingly ne
glected to complete what anato
mists know must huve been a
somewhat difficult job.
"But one of the soldiers with a
spear pierced his side, and forth
with there came out blood and
water."
Now, there is but one part of
the human auatomy, it need not
be argued, where the thrust of a
spear would naturally be followed
by such a phenomenon as this,
aud that is the region of the
urinary bladder.
Moreover, while a wound like
that would not immediately destroy
life, and might even easiiy permit
the sufferer to go or be conveyed
about, and show himself from tune
to time for a few davs, it would uot,
i , . . - .. .
nevertneiess, in view ot the poor
surgery of those times, and of the
uncertain care, or even neglect,
that a refugee would inevitably
suffer, fail before any long time to
prove mortal.
This, then, u the true story of
the reappearance or resurrection of
Jesus after his supposed death on
the cross. Removed to the cool
tomb by the tender hands of his
fricuds, and placed iu a horizontal
position, ho recovered, prohnblv
after some hours, from his state of
syncope or collapse, and easily made
his way to some selected refuge,
leaving behind him the garniture
of the grave which Mary, but not
Simon Peter took for ungrU clad
in white raiment. Then he lingered
out his lew remaining davs, se
eureiy conoeuieu jroiu uis enemies.
but revealed to we know not how
many (iu the disagreements of the
evangelists) ot his most trusted
lollowers. Mvdical Record of
Nov. 15, 181)0.
Thejr llaug be Wroug Mm.
Men and brethreu, read aud
consider tho following petition
against the hangiug of Sidney
Ware, who while crazed with
driuk, murders two men, May 1,
183!., It is extensively circu
lated for signatures throughout
Dauphin County, I'enn-yl vnnip.
Too the honerable members oi
the Jlnard of Pardon of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania.
Your petitioner herein rapro
sent that Sidney Waro has bjen
convicted and condemned to
death in the court of Dauphin
County, for the murder in the
town of Lykers, on the 4th of
May, 18811, of Maurice Miller
and Frederick Kindler. We res
pectfully pray for tho pardon of
said Ware, tor the followin
reasons.
1. Ho was violently insane
from drinking a poisonous liquid,
furnished without cost to him, by
and in the house of August Bra
tier, whoae permit or license was
not revoked after the murder.
2. The Judges ot Dauphin
County had given to the said
August Braner, tor and in con
sideration of $150, a permit to
furnish the said Ware aud others
the poison which rendered him
insane.
3. Tho legislators oi the Com
monwealth enacted the law per
mitting the judges to permit the
said August Braner to furnish
the said Ware aud others the
poisonous liquid.
4. A majority of the male citi
zens of the Commonwealth voted
fcr and elected these law-makers
knowing that they favored a law
permitting the judges to sell a
pirmit to the said August Bra
ner to furnish Ware and others
with the poisonous liquid, which
they knew produces temporary
insanity.
5: All of these men had guilty
kuowledge of the possibility and
even probability ot the criminal
results ot the several parts
enacted. This kuowledge had
come to them through a repro
duction by the public press, pub
lic speakers, and the printed page
of the fact that the furnishing us
beveruge ot said poisonous liquid
uuder torms ot law produces
yearly io Pennsylvania many I
tl.Allaarifla AT llniiafiipul .lantliu!
many of these being murders and
suicides. These tacts are taken
from statistics of criminal records;
are sworn to- by public officers,
and hare been published broad-
flinf Inr mnn Baa pa
6. Your petitiouerTel?oT?!r
emphasize the tact that neither
August Braner who furnished the
poisonous liquid to Ware; nor the
judges who sold him the permit
to do so, nor the legislators who
enacted the law; nor the citizens
who voted for them, have beeu
apprehended, iudicted, or tried,
though clearly every one of them
was a mediate or immediate par
ticepi criminis.
We submit 1st. That to hang
Sidney Ware under all of the cir
cumstances, will be iu conflict !
witn the principles ot commou
aw, which is older aud more sa
cred than any mere statutory en
actment. .
2. It will bo a clear case of in
equity, and a travesty ou the
boasted civilization ot the nine
teenth century.
6. It will jeopardize tho public
weul through the inevitable re
troactive curse that comes soon or
ate, to all aggregations of indi
viduals, practising the injustice of
punishing tho insane individual
agent iu crime tor tho wrong do
ing, of which they themselves
were clearly the aiders and abet
tors. Wo therefore humbly pray
that Sidney Wure bo granted by
your honarable body uucoilitioual
pardon and immediate liberation
troiu prison, and your petitioners
will ever pray, io." What a pon
derous ami crushing theretore !
No anti-Prohibitionist will dare
answer.
L. A. Cutler.
Porra of llrque.t.
I give and boqueath to the Prohibition
Trnst, Fuml ikuociation, orttniztl uudtr
the lawn of the ntate ot Xi-w York, uml
having itri oinVo in thu city, county awl
t;it.' nC NVw York, for iu uso iu bar
immy wiih the oliji-rt it it orgruiiza
tio'i ns v't firth in it- ivrtuVute of in
ciirimralioii . Aud I hereby in-
wtruct iuv executor ti currv out the
n.vinuiiH of this W-iU"r.t nt iho earliest
lr:ielicalile liato.
Tho aliovv is a form of botjuost that
mnv lie used by 1'rohibitionbtH who may
deMie lo remember and thin reform
in tluir wills.
Tho above named association in com-
hd of well known Prohibit iouistg, thu
foJlowhijr, belli;? the olllcent:
I'rt'hident, I'ivfohor Hamuel Dickie;
vic 1'ivxident, Hon. John V. St. John;
secret. vy. J. Lloyd Thomas; treasurer,
William T. Ward well; imuuxcI. Ilou. W.
Jav (iroo.
Send to Secretary John Lloyd Thomun,
W lvut Fourteenth street, New York,
for full information. Do not uejloct
thi important matter.
We want YOU to know that
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is the best place to buy
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& nun,
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Black Embroidered Fichus
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f Cashmere Shawls, in Black,
ana uoiors.
ver
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KY.
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