Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-07-17
w. G. T. u. COLUMN.
HOW WOMEN OUTWTTTED A RUM
SELLER.

1t was toward the close of the war.
The boys from the front were coming
home to Moore's Hill, Ind. The col
lege halls that had been deserted at
the first call of the bugle were TO be
peopled again. The towns life was to
be taken up again where it had been
left off, and the people had turned
face expectantly to the future, says a
correspondent of the Commercial Ga
zette.
Quick to see that the growth of the
college meant business opportunity
TO the town, at this very time a man
established saloon in the place. The
news spread through the village, "a
grog-shop has been opened" You
may imagine the sensation that it
stirred = grog- shop in Moore's
Hil-and the worthy old president of
Fhe college in his catalogue referred
70 the community as moral one,
where ''such thing as saloon would
pot be tolerated for an instant" The
problems of the dark days of the war,
he struggles with poverty at the
hearthside, equalled only by those
Pther struggles where cannon roared,
bad hardened the wits and quickened
he wills of the women of Moore's
Hill In '65 with them to hear was to
hink, to think was to act; and the
rst customer had scarcely entered
Goore's HIPS new saloon before the
oor was darkened by woman's fig
re- She was the spokesman for her
eighbors-comet to buy out the shop,
nd In her hand she held the purchase
Ell honey.
"But l amt here to sell out. I've
Ot TO make living, and Pm going
IN b make it. I've got as much right in
Ioore's Hill as you have, and money
Fon't make me get out"
Thus spoke the keeper. If the po
ency of money had failed to GUST him,
ne would conclude that the attempt
as over By no means! A private
AZ heeting was held, where was evolved
ne most novel method of warfare ever
aged by woman against man.
Next morning, before the astonish-
barkeeper could interpose, file of
blemn- faced, determined women
assed through the door of the sa-
on, and having arranged themselves
DELIBERATELY about the room, drew out
teir work bags, and adjusted their
wing caps. A customer now and
eu struggled in at the door. He
anced sheepishly along the walls at
e awful sight that stared him in the
Zee, and fumbled out few remarks
out the weather, the crops, and dart
out into the fresh air. The village
ctor peered through the door, and
a over the hills SO fast that, tradi
n says, the boys might have played
e-pins upon his coat tails. Thus
went-rather one would say, thus
knt the customers. At noon not a
am of liquor had been sold. The
bmen had determined to knit the sa-
pm out of town. Twelve brought a
Ssh relay of knitting women, but the
fforce, and he stood at his post all
" long, unassisted. At six in the
ening the throng of the morning
peared again; and the next morn
the keeper saw once more his
ends of the afternoon. Twice he
ed to smoke his unwelcome visitors
ay, thrice he tried to lock them in;
he always failed. For days the
MI Equal conflict ragged. Meantime, no
Ftomer dared run the gauntlet;
Biness was at standstill The
|l Pdles flew increasingly; the wooden
Ickings grew and grew, and the sa-
"a owner Internationally surren-
led. The knitting needle is might
than the demijohn, or words to
+ effect! Now to make this nara
of local legend romantic, one
ID only add that the despised and
secuted, the ottwitted and out
tied vender of liquors became one
he best known and most liked cit
rs of the community; and such is
fact.
have never seen an argument
inst woman suffrage that was not
sy. Men are much disposed to
ggerate the difficulties of voting
diligently, when they talk of wo-
voting By the time a public
stion is ready for the popular
+, it has become a very simple
ltiou that ro0J1iraS little mora