The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-06-20

man. soak your head. The boys are too'i"g you
and the girlS ,cW Ldugh al you.
That DE Geer.
Among the numerous pests that have infested
this community during the present season, suck
as cut.worms, curcuio, potato bugs and the like
none has been worse nuisance than that plague
known as the De Geor He, she or it is an ltin-
Grant agta,or of Temperance, so called. She
for probably this "what-is.t!' is female, as 1t
wears hoops, n hustle and womens hablliments
but has the voice of man, the lungs OF stem
tor and more cheek than lightning rod pedlar
this nondescript has appeared at Ottawa dur
ing the past three or four Sundays and been con-
spicuous in delivering herself Of public haran-
cues at the front door of the Court House, on
the balcony of the Clifton Hotel and other places
here and in this vicinity besides going into the
Jail.
This blathcrskite in pettcoats has taken occa-
sion to pitch into us, (Beemus,) and pour upon
our devoted head the torrents Of slime, and all
without cause or provocation. We have borne
the abuse of this Xantippe until forbearance has
ceased to be virtue, and now we take occasion
to show up this public scold in her true light
She affects to despse all editors, yetat the close
of each of her discourscs-at best but string
of assertions, barren of sense or logic, weak,
washy, everlasting food of words without mean
ng-she presents her own AK to grind, in the
way of begging subscriptions for contemplate
fraud on newspapers, called Tie CRUSADER. 1t is
a wretched little ABORTION published somewhere
in Chicago, and edited by this De Geer
On the strength of this puny barnacle, this OBJ
scure excrescnce, this microscopical parasite on
res ectable newspapers, this embodiment of vi
tuperaton in hoops and interloper into respect
able professions elbows her brazen phiz into the
editorial convention, and, thus getting into de-
cent society, parades her way into Baltimore and
returns to cackle over the event as though she
was the hen that laid the egg out of which came
the cock of the walk, or the original American
eagle, or the tabled Roc!
The editorial fraternity who went on that eX-
cursion were gentlemen. On such an occasion 1t
would be expected that little extra Indulgence
would be taken: those who occasionally smoked
would smoke oftener; those who now and then
Smiled" might be expected to 'laugh," &c; but
out of the 1874 who went not one allowed himself
TO become intoxicated though wines and choice
liquors were set before them everywhere.
At Cincinnati Mrs Wells, a lady Of the highest
breeding and possessing queenly resources and
generous hospitality, invited the fraternity to
her mansion. She set before her guests repast
of rare fruit and comtts, and added to it native
wines and sparkling catawba made from grapes
from her own vineyards. The De Geer-this
high moral spouter in dimity-after examining
81, OF, hn toh u,it
disregard of the rules CT good breeding that
would have caused Digger Indian to blush, took
occasion to publicly rebuke Mrs. Wells for set
ting wine before her guests and not content
with that interrupted the social pleasures Of the
occasion with a harangue on temperance of ten
minutes duration!
We give below what Mr. Holt, of the Kanhakee
Gdzefte, one Of the editors with the excursion,
has to say about it:
Mrs. De Gecr, the spirituallst, crusader, etc. ad-
ministered lordly rebuke to Mrs. Wells, OF Gin
cinnati, during the entertainment of the editor-
al party, because she allowed catawba and cham
paipn to be set before her guests It's recorded,
however, that Mrs. De Geer took special pains to
"fl up" with strawberries, ice cream and lemon
ade before she distinguished herselfin the cause
of virtue" Very Justly, the insult was resented
by the excursionists in holding themselves aloof
mate her with their profare intercourse! If we
had camel we'd hide it when she was around
for fear she'd swallow it. People who strain at
glats are sometimes awful camel swallowcrs.
! On Sunday last she entertained a crowd Of
men in front of tho Court House in Ottawa with
! the stcrcotyped twaddle, varying it only with a
nasty dog story too filthy 20 put into print, a
pointless rigmarole of unmitigated and nonsens-
zeal nastiness. man standing by ventured to
demonstrate by asking her if she were not
ashamed TO tell such story to men, and especi-
! ally in tie hearing OF little children" Some
temperance fanatics caused the mans arrest on
! the ground that he was drunk. 49,.
We close about this humbng crusader with the
following from the Earlville Transcript:
AN 1NQUIRY.--A year or more ago, Mrs BE
| ticer, who seems omnipresent on every public
occasion, in Chicago, Springfield or elsewhere,
collected some $40 from the people in this town,
Representing herself as the agent for some "Wo
mans Home" already in existence or about 10 be
established IN Chicago. As the people bcfe have
not, up to this time heard anything about that
"Woman's Home" except what Mrs. De Geer
told them when she collected the money, they
very naturally lraye desire sor information on
that subject. WIN Mrs, DC Geer or somebody
enlighten them? BEENUs.