Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-03-19
TIE III Err AID.
TIL Whisky WAR.
Incident. spd u umphs Of the Crusade As t 10
carried on In ohio.


movements are being inaugurated
throughout the state. The Cincinnati
Commercial relates a description CIV
on by a refugee, who has arrived IN
that city from Macarthur, V'nt"n Co,
Ohio. where he had a sort OF club
room where a game o. cards could be
PLAYED and drink OF whlskey taken.
lie was driven ont by the woman 8
war AGAINST whiskey and cards. lie
said: "They climbed up to my place
a week ago last Friday night, nifty
four of them, young and old, rich and
poor, some in rags and some IN tine
harness. Each OF the titty-four women
came up personally and spoke to me,
and hoped I'd get new soul. OF
course / had TO treat 'em politely
There was only one lamp burning IN
the room when they came ia. so | Int
another for them, TO make 1t lighter
] hen they took out their hymn books
and all began to sing together. Que
or two of 'em led, and the rest joined
in. After they had sung fifteen min-
utes or 80 they all got down on their
knees and prayed. There was one
woman there who could pray lond
enough TO be heard all owe: the vii
lage, which has only eight hundred
inhabitants. A woman would pray
and the reet would JOIN in with an a-
a men-a long and loud one. One OF
the women that prayed was seventy
years old. She prayed SO long and
strong that she got herself all OF a
tremble, and had TO be lifted to her
feet and carried down stairs. One
time they called all got down on the
outside, and SAM aud prayed,
Reporter You closed up, finally.
Mr. G There was nothing else to
10 when they were carrying on that
way. The, closed every thing i'll the
village down to an oyster saloon,
where the folks were in the habit OF
D aging a game of cards To see who'd
pay for the stew place where there
WASH drop of liquor sold.
Reporter How do they treat fel
low in their prayers?
Mr. Il. rney arc very kind in the y
prayers at first. They pray for tel
lows soul, and then stick petite n
before him. II he don't sign 10 quit,
they pray tor lightning to strike his
shop.
a correspondent describes speech
Of Van Pclt, delivered in front OF a
saloon in Morrow, Ohio. dc says:
Van Pclt launched INTO the most un
repnrtab'e speech have listened TO
Tor some time. He told of the evils
!lc had witnessed l. the saloon busI-
ness, the ruined men he had known,
and the misery it caused, then gave
comlcally unphilosophical explanation
81 Why the great God put the slim
ulAnt INTO tie corn II he didn't want
men To use 1t. stating that peaches
contained arsenic enough to kill men,
'but it Is no sound reason why man,
because God puts brains into his head
that he could do II, should distlll tins
arsenic ont TO kill the human nation off
the face of the earth"
In subsequent speech Van Pelt
made one astonishing statement: hat
The liquor dealers in Cincinnati had
offered 10 supply him with liquors free
OF cost for one year if he would hold
ont.
4 correspondent from Shelbyville.
Ind, says: On Wednesday, at the sa-
Ion Of George Deprez, while the large
number of women were engaged IN
prayer and singing, novel and pecu
liar emotional incident occurred. Mr..
Deprez had, as had been his custom
upon every occasion except the first
visit OF his lady friends, politely open
cd the door OF his establishment and
welcomed III the crusaders. There
WAS the customary singing of hymns,
-ucceeded By freluant prayers. IN
ladies addressed the remark, kindly,
TO the proprietor, "Mr. Deprez, you
are too intelligent q man and too
much of gentleman not to acknowl-
edge that selling liquor is grea'
wrong" Dir. Deprez made answer
by saying, unexpectedly:
madame, | do not lay much claim
TO being g.ntleman 80 long as ! am
engaged in this business; and It !
should be the very first 10 quit it to
oblige the ladies OF Shelby vile, II
woulln't surprise me"
This was gratefully accepted by the
prsyertul people as u great and prom
ising concession on the part OF De-
prez. While these Interesting mat.
ttrs were transporting in Deprrz's "a
loon. there were present two deeply
attentive spectators leaning against
ii Z tall bar IN the rear of the room.
These men, James Thomas and one
LAcy, were moved hS the spectacle OF
the pleading women 10 ask tor their
prayers, and they were given with
deepest pathos and sympathetic clio
quenct. Thomas aud Lacy knelt dur
ing these solemn scenes, and when
they were concluded, these men were
overcome with remOrse. Jim Thum
~ came forward 70 say, In griet-heavy
words, Il am not sure all vi you know
me, though some OF you possibly may
10 tins several responded, I'VE
Know yon, Mr., Thomas, and our soi
row - ali the keener.
Vel then, he went on TO say,
''you remember me when was q pros
porous and well~to>do merchant IN
Your miis., wang happily with a d ar
family IN my own pleasant home
And now you look upon the wretch
that am-another warning against
intemperancc. My family were com
PEELED to fly from me and are broken
aud scattered = my children, God
knows where! All my property has
gone / am in poverty, IN disgrace
and confirmed drunkard. oh, ladies
hode you will all pray for me. and
close up these gaping temptations
these hundreds and thousands OF sa-
looms!