The age-herald., 1901-02-13
NR. NATION IS
 GETTING TIRED Husband of Saloon SmashGr Feels TrIflg Hsnpecked OPPOSES THE EASTERN TRIP Joint Wrecking Madame Wants Her Husband to Stay Home and Look After Things and This Brings
 Out Objection.
OPPOSES THE EASTERN TRIP

Wichita, Kan, February 12-(Special) David Nation, the spouse of the now famous saloon srnasher, has tired of play ing second fiddle In the Nation family and has rebeled against his wife's treat ment. He applauds his wife's determina- tion and respects her ability, but Is an- gry because she has suspended her trade against the saloons in Kansas and gone east.
 MT. Nation went to Topeka last night to advise his wife, but she sought other advisers and made him stay in the room and answer her correspondence. She also gave him the cold shoulder when she de- cided to go east.
 He Is Too Old. You are too old, papa. to take this trip" he says she told him. David is 70 years of age.
 As further humiliation Mrs. Nation called David to the stage, during wom- ans meeting and introduced him as the man who was her husband. She asked him to make a speech. and just as he was getting warmed up to his subject she called aloud:
 
 run for the train. I want you to go back home and take care of the place while am away"
 All these things have stirred Mrs. Ma tion's husband to a high pitch of rage. His hands were clinched and his voice trembled as he talked of his wife,
 .I married this woman because I needed some one to run my house." said MT. Nation. "She showed to me that she had stern qualities and could man. age things carefully and with economy. We went to Texas and set up in busi- ness. In a short time I accumulated $2O0 900.
 II attribute my financial success largely to her. But she is so hard to manage when she wants to do any thing Once in Texas she started out on saloon crusades, and I told her to stay at home. She gave me a piece of her mind and I got even with her.
 Things became uncomfortable in Texas Medicine Lodge Kas
 Tn Medicine Lodge Carrie started on her rampages again." continued the old l man. What made me angry was that l she kept telling me the reason she was smashing saloons was because her first | husband died of drink and she feared would do the same. She has warm spot in her heart for little children, and we raised several orphans.
 "Well, l Let Her Go On Smashing"
 Well, when I saw that she was de- termined to keep up her fight. on whiskey let her go on and decided l would have nothing to do with it. I knew the law well enough and felt sure that they | could not punish her for it. So as long | as it pleased her so we'll to go out saloon- l smashing never said any more" l MT. Nation then related how his wife | used to get up in the night and pray Tor 1 the destruction of the saloons and every 1 time a tornado came along she would go l into the back yard and pray that 1t | would clean out every saloon in Medicine lsLodge.
 | "At times think she is daft about this saloon smashing business" MT. Nation 1 went on 'She will fast for days, until | have to make her eat or she will die. She claims to have visions of the Lord, and lots of times I have arrived home to | find her talking to an unseen being. who | she claimed was Christ. laughed at her for this absurdity. but she assured me | that it was true
 And the Lord Did Heal Her.
 "When she smashed the saloons at Kiowa she came home all covered with blood, and thought she had been shot, but she had only cut her hands on brok- en bottles. I wanted to send for the doc tor, but she said the Lord would heal the wounds and sure enough in one days time there was not one scar left.
 Two years ago she came to Wichita with me to see the street fair. We stepped into a cafe near the depot. While eating she saw some men drinking at the bar in the rear.
 "'I am going back there and pray with them, she said. I got up and left her, and an hour later she came back smiling and happy. She said that one of the men had promised her to stop drinking
 "Let Her Stay in Kansas"
 1T think that her head is being turned by all this notoriety. I have warned her not to talk so freely about her plans and they would carry better but she seems