Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-04-24

The Temperance Wave Strikes the
CROSSROADS,
CoNFEpRIT Y ROADS,

AONfEDklI hOAbSt
(wich is in the State Nv Kentucky
FEBRUARY 2S, 1874. )
When | opened my northern papers
aud red NV the prayin movement by the
wimmin ov Ohio and Injiana, said to
myself, :, The Crossroads is bound to
ketch it," There amt no trouble agoin
but wat il lites onto the Crossroads,
Misforchoon has marked the Cross roads
for its own.
The last Tuesday, Bascom got a post
al card on wich it was statid that on the
Friday followin delegashen NV ladies
from New Boston, manufakturin vii
lage started by lot of Yankees over
about ten miles from here, where they
don't sell no spirits, wood visit the Cross
roads and try the efficacy Nv prayer onto
Bascom, to see eff they Good not konvert
him to stop his soie-destroyin, democrat
izin dizziness. Es Bascom red the postal
card Cor rather ez | red it for him. he
wuz picter to look upon. His kneez
knoct together and his face turned a
CHASTITY pale, and his hand trembled so
that it wuz with difficulty that he Good
raise glass of likker to his lips.
"My sole-destroyin bisness " said he,
"My bizness sole-destroyin Good heav-
ems, what next ?"
"My time is about up, guess, re-
markt Deekin Pogram. az hev seen
strange things in my lifetime, but when
am not allowed to take my regular
drinks it is time l wus goin hence. !"
"The idee, said Issaker Gavitt, that
sellin likker or drinkin it is demoralizin.
/ hev drunk likker all my life, and
At this pint Issaker's wife cum in, and
wanted Issaker to go and get some rice,
and then go home and split some wood.
Issaker wantid to know wat she come
there for, and the unreasonable woman
burstid into tears, and sed she couldn't
split wood, with no shoes and three inch
es of snow on the ground, and that there
wuzn't thing in the house for the sick
baby to eat, and eff Issaker would spend
half the time at work that he did loahn
ia Bascom's and half the money on his
children that he did for likker and
Issaker didn't allow her to finish her
unreasonable harangue. He took her by
the shoulder aud showed her out of the
door, and swore that he didn't know how
it wuz in Ohio and Injeany, but he'd be
id if in Kentucky woman shoodent
keep in her proper spear. He wuzen
agon to allow no woman to dictate tt
him wat he shood do with his time OF
money nuther.
Capt. McPelter remarkt that Ell his
wife ever jined in SIGH demonstrashel
she'd wish she hadn't. His wife tried t
stop him from taking another drini
wuust, after he felt his oats and het
throwd cradle with six months bah.
out NV the door, and the black eye sh
got wuz a warnn to her never to inter
fere with his prerogative no more.
Poor Bascom wuz cast down. He sal
Amerikin liberty wuz gone, when pa
sui Nv women got to goin about interfe
in with u mans biznis. But he shout
adopt vigorous measures. He'd neve
surrender-never.
Friday come and Bascom wuz reao
for EN-. Every wun Nv our persuasit
in the Corners he'd ordered his wife
keep strikly in doors, and on no akkou
vencher out doors in the day. Basco
asked US all to stay with him and s
thro' it. To witch we all agreed. The
ez wuz married and kept house, we
home to FIX up their doors and nj
boards over the broken glass NV thu
winders, so that their wimmin shoodl
see outside. It's no small matter
close up all the holes in the houses at
Corners.
Well at II o'clock a procession
wimmin did make their appearance
the lower end Nv the village, and tt
moved slowly to'ards Bascom's. G.
wuz as pale as a sheet.
&c. W. sed /, there is but {
thing you kin do. Rally yoor friel
about 700, and make head against
unholy croosade. The regular freque
ees of the place are fritened, and are
here. Bring EN- herel Bring EN- herr
wunst Swing out a placard wich ;
read:
"Likker free to all doorin the con
yooance NV this fanatikle campane
all We that thirst Come and d.
without money and without price F"
This. G. W., will fetch em in,
ez long ez the likker is free they will
in and give you their moral supI
Shell write the placard ;"
G. w. wavered. He cast one 81
at his kegs, and sighed hesitatingly
cast one glance at them kegs, and
determined that so good an opportI