The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-08-22
From Seneca.
he Gcer ana the Germans. and Items IN
General.

On Wednesday of last week the State OF
Seneca, an important geographical division
Of the United States located within the Dor.
ders Of La Sale county and at the eastern
boundary line thereof, was thrown into wild
state OF excitement by the sudden appearance
of Madame De Gecr, the somewhat noted
female apostle oftempcrance. The advocates
of water As the only fluid wherewith men
Shall lrrig0;c their tunsls, dld but little more
than to "do tho filing and blowing" while
the saloon men provided place for this mod
ern Xantippe to be delivered of her speech.
Saloon men provided her a chair and table.
and Richardson ~ Bros. druggists, neither
saloon men or temperance men, furnished
lights for the speaker and gave her every
facility in their power so rs to enable that
generous old female to abuse them to her
hearts content and be comfortable while do.
ing 1t. m.
At the hour announced Il crowd of three or
four hundred men, women children, cats and
dogs, attracted by novelty, sympathy, oppo-
sition, curiosity, or whatever else calls to
gethcr a molly CROWD, gathered about the
platform Of the drug store to see and be seen
and to hear what lhe celebrated female oracle
might pronounce. The Madame soon loomed
up in the light, and opening her somewhat
extensive mouth, made the same old speech
which our people here have heard so often,
varying it, however, by virulent attack upon
the Dutch. She made serious mistake II
supposing that Seneca was an Irish town"
She hoped that no Dutchman lived there.
why said she, "you can tell Duchman
by his ears. They aIe like mules, Al
you have 10 10 with a Dutchman ~ to take
him by the ears and say gee and he will
nee, or say "haw," and he will ha'c, They
have great big hands and their stomachs are
like beer keg, and when they walk they
shake off great Jumps of fat and grease"
When she had reached this part of hervery
refined and lady-like remarks, she was inter
rupted by German woman Il very little one
in stature, but spunky enough to make up the
difference This little woman was Mrs.
Schnake, a farmers wife, who went up to the
platform and selling the huge Madame by
one OF her elephantine rs, exclaimed:
"You yust come down-you bees one -.
Here she used a word that would be proper
only in a Beecher-Tilton scandal) The De
Geer kicked with the viciousness of @ mule,
and having freed herself from the grasp OF
the excited little feminine granger, opened
her mouth and began another onslaught upon
the Dutch, as she called them, when Mr..
Maurer exclaimed: ats better you shtop-
we've heard enough odds" Other German
voices broke in or out, and a general hubbub
followed. The Madame made has,y retreat
into the drug store. 1t should be noted that
owing to the active eXertions Of Chas. Ne
laise, Robt McFarlanc, Ed. Battle and Rich
ardson & Bro, she was not only saved from
being rotten egged, but permitted, after few
moments, while they restored peace, to finish
her remarks She did so, but from that on,
,oent Hght on tie Dutchi 1t should be further
mentioned here that she wrote to the Chicago
Times hluiutin account Of the affair, in
which she makes herself out to be q mighty
hero, and prctends that after the interruption
she scored the Dutch and whisky men in
no sparing terms" This is not true She
was as meek as a mouse after the little cpl
sode mentioned. She dealt in commonplace
remarks on the evils of intemperance, She,
however, at the close, did spunk up enough
to say that ''the next time she came to Sene-
ca she would bring our good Temperance
Sheriff Mr.. Mcintyre along to keep order, for
love him. God bless him" When She
l.. "a 81, IA,
cheers, and Mrs. Hill, the woman who caused
the indictments to be brought against the
saloon keepers OF Seneca, was treated to three
very healthy groans. The next orator was
MIR. JAMES COLLINS, ..r
who had been temperance man for forty
years. He too, like Madame DeGeer had
very long butIess complicated pedigree. While
she had shown herself to be part English
| Irish, Dutch, Welsh and Scotch, he was only
French and Irish He ranbled about in his
speech from A TO Z, .and was evidently "t'u'
trated" Following him came
DE. CLYMER,
who made brief sensible speech. He want
ed hisn straight. He was down on adultera
ton (IIc had probably been reading tue
Beecher business) He thought that an IN
spector should be appointed with power /"
seize and pour into the street all poisoned
stufs and to arrest the dealer and manuiac
turer and hand them over to justice.
WM. :. JACKSON,
the banker at Streator, responded on call
He thought that much of the whisky we
drink "is below par" Did The mean himself,
De C,cor G 90 q You draw on the maker
of the liquor for an No. article, 1t
reaches YOU C. o. ID. lon believe it"sound'
and "turn it over with your endorsement
to third innocent party" lie drinks Il
! md ,rhnt i The resultg trMMd. (ou have