The Jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 18??-1907, 1905-06-17

A VISIT TO JEFFERSON AND DANGERFlELD
Saturday morning we took the 1850
train from Atlanta to Jefferson en- route
to Dangerfeld.
Finding when we reached Jefferson
that we would have several hours be-
fore the M. X. & T. would go, we de-
cided we would spend that time in work
for the temperance cause; so after buy
ing tickets and leaving our grips In
care of the agent we started out to hunt
! the president of the w. @. L. U.
How delapidated poor old Jefferson
looks, we love the town, it was once
our home and we have known and loved
the people since childhood days, and it
grieves our hearts to see the work of
the destroyer. Fire and flood and worse
than all intemperance has devastated
the place until it looks a mere ghost its
former selef.
We found the president of the w. @.
7. E. an earnest intelligent and enthu-
siastic temperance worker. Like her
illustrlous father, she has wisdom and
determin alton, but like the other tenn
perance workers there, she was almost
buried beneath the mountains of diff
Guilty piled upon and around them by
the enemy.
The people of Jefferson are of the old
time and anti bellum southern aristoc-
racy, the dearest people in the world;
they are proud and chivalrous and gen.
erous; the men do not want to see the
women exposed to any of the rough
realities of life, do not want to see them
upon the platform or dpon the streets
in any reform or temperance work. The
president said she told them that the
women would only be too glad to take
| fln of nd 40
men would carry on the work. But we
read that during the early settlement
of this country the enemy would some
times come to the homes of the people
and our true-hearted mothers would do
valiant service in defending their homes
and little ones. So the true-hearted
women of Jefferson have determined
A that they will by the grace of their holy
Helper, defend their homes and resuce
I their loved ones from this enemy that
has slain so many of Jefferson's noblest
and bravest.
1t is the Lords work, and the ban
ner of the Lord has been trailing in the
dust long enough, and like Deborah OF
old, He is putting it into their hearts
to pick up his banner und carry on his
work. And there in the presidents
parlor in little prayer meeting, we
: laid the case before our Father. We
told him we were jast some weak WON.
i en-, but we were depending on Him
t that we were interceding for Jefferson
and asked Him to send more laborers
and to pat it into the hearts of the mer
\ to Danish those pitfalls of destruction
and that the people might repent anG
J. seek first the kingdom of God and ther
t prosperity would be added and thu
town and country would bloom anc
s blossom as the rose. He met with III
and gave us the earnest in our heart
that we would get our desires; that HI
}, would grant our petitions.
s An old gentleman, an old residente
and friend, told us that the men of tn
town were too immersed in business t
think much or care about prohibition
The intelligent express agent at the !
& P. depot told us that it was sadl
Y needed, but but iwould never be oh
~ taned unless the women got it. Blu
10 this is getting so long our Dangerfiel
"a visit must be saved for another time
"a A. B. II.
III Press reporter, w. @. II. u.