The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-04-13
NAsBY ON, THE CRUSADERS.

Massey ON THE CRUSADERS.
The Temperance cruaade at the Corners
---Polioels and Bigier Get Up Wo-
mans aIoyemcnt---rhe he. Great Failure,
Joe Bigler, the iniamus, and Pollock,
wich Is worse, hey been at ii agin.
There is ati amountuy devilmentin the
buzzums NV them men wich biles over
perpetooally, and wich kin no more be
stopped than kin fermentation in cider.
The Corners willihey TO rise in it's mite,
and kill them two impious wretches in
self.defence. au % Nlhda Npi
The fact that Mrs. Bascon, the saloon
keepers wife, hez bin gittn d large
assortment Of new cloze In Louisville,
and that she's the only woman In the
Corners who hez q second dress -and 1t
wood be almost safe 10 say the fust one
-hez bin taken advantage uylb by these
feends TO perdoose ,insurrekshen in
our otherwise quiet households. 4,
Issaker Gayitt's wife, Lucindy, and
Deekin Pogram's wife, and his dawter,
Mirandy, happened to be in Pollock's 3
store o buyin some pork to bile, when,
ez III luck wood hey IL, Mrs. Bascom
passed down the street, She had on 4
fur sack and q moo bonnet, and he'd
gloves ON, and q muff, and gold chain,
and she held her head we'll up, and he'd
o ostridge feather. She wlz o gorgeous
site for the Corners. Sc ~ III
q "See Mrs. Blscom, Mirandy," sed
Joe Bigler, callin the attenshun uythe
wimen TO her, ez she went sailin down
the street. ra69B
They all looked at her, and rageflled
their buzzums. il,.e S,st s,l7bTk j
II never he'd buzzum pin, sed
Mirandy, indignantly. ;.5
"Why, amt got no shoes Ito say
nothin' nv fur oyershoes, "shrieked Lh-
cindy Gayitt2 itls : = 1sgflgis 2
"why don't Issaker git yoo shoes y
asked that yillainops disturber, Pol
lock. "A I, s,.,ai i,si5i
Lucindy. f'lflP' - n
ewat did he do with clio money /
paid him for his corn, two weeks ago 2"
dwuz the innocent question nv Pol
lock. Gad os3fS idFe,Eiia Il
II wuz spark nv fire in amagazine.
"a " Hez he sold his corn2" she asked,
her voice quiyerin' with emoshen. q
nHe did sell II to me two weeks
ago. sed Pollock. -.ssstt
"The ornery ctiss ! Why, lie prom
ised me pare NV shoes and the baby
come clesewhen he sold that eorn.n
But, my deer Mrs. Gayitt, sed this
hypercritikle sneak, ,syou know
Jest then Mrs. Bascom was returnin-
"But you know ho coninyood,
"he he'd to pay Bascom, jbecoz by the
way ther goes Mrs. Bascom agin, and
aint she q stunner-becoz G.. w he'd
to 60 to Louisville to get his wife'swin-
ter outfit, and he he'd 70 hey wat Issaker
owed him. ,saissisM9l b
"And the munney forthe corn, wich
I planted and hoed, and cut, and
shucked, he'd TO 60 To- put cloze on Liz
Bascom, did 1t |? Liz Bascom hez cloze,
hes she n 7ssi g'f'l '.,e ~
And this enraged woman howledwith
emoshun, Us did Mirandy Pogram and
her mother. ~ p
Aud Pollock kept addin fooel to the
flame he had kindledl
isl8" Here, sed he to Lucindy, 1is 10
lovely piece NV velvet .wich wood mike
VOC on elegant sack, and, Lord Bless
yoc, how this French flannel wood
make up into q dress and cloak for yoor
baby II does seem n me as though
lssaker and tho Deeltin mite let you
wimmin hev ontiff money 10 git yoo
some things. IL seems o pity that Mrs.
Bascom shood hev everything
III there is anything Which'll make n
lion out nv q woman, It's the desire for
dry goods. Pollock knowd this and
he played it onto EN-. He showd EN-
dry goods till they became raying
maniacs. la g5tlo "a i.liA .glliil
These three misguided wimmen left
that store croosadefs -they wuz 80
many Jone NV Arks. iThro aihe mud
they went 10 Mrs. McPelter's, to Mrs.
Elder Pennibacker's, and to the wife Of
every ,regler resident NV the Corners,
and they determined to make q move
onto Bascom, and stophis biznis any
way, so that tho money spent at his bar
could be yoosed in gittin cloze forthem
and their children. They appointed
Toosday lust eEthe day on wich they
wuz TO make the raid. They atranged
npercessionj with banners onto wich
they wuz TO write, 'tLess fum-niore
cloze, j" and they wnz 10 visit Bascom
and set down In his grocery and COM
pei their husbands not to, drink no
more, and Bahcom MOTTO soil EN- any.
thing anymore. lal6N5issi s5eYl
There iwuz wild forebodina of woo IN,
Bascoms, q. W., hisself, and IsSalIor,
GAyitt, and Deeken Pogram and myself
allsot with pale faces, dfeadinF this
invasion. lam o man nv resource. I
advised that q bari be rolled out into
his barn and bar bo extempofizcd
there, where we Good get our nipg, TIL
this cyclone 1hood pass over, This g.