The Topeka state journal., 1901-11-18
Returns From Her Three
Months Lecture Tour
Going to Medicine Lodge to
Fight Divorce Suit.
GOING TO REST AWHILE
Then She Promises to Again
Make Things Lively.
New York the Worst Place She
Visited.


peka this morning over the Santa Fe
at 11:30 o'clock, after a three months
pilgrimage and crusade against the
dens of iniquity in the east. Inciden-
tally she brought back with her a good
collection of coins taken in as gate
money at her lectures. She is on her
way to Medicine Lodge to contest the
suit for divorce brought by David Ma
ton.
Mrs. Nation has suffered physically
on account of her lectures. She is
plains of her lungs. She expects before
she enters the lecture field again to
have her chest tapped in hopes of re-
lieving her lungs She thinks the physi-
clans will advise the tapping process
She says she has trouble in breathing
W1en she lies down to rest.
Mrs. Nation looks the same as when
she left the county jail last August just
in time to catch a train for the east
The only marked change in her appear
ance is that she has lost a front tooth.
Her skin is a shade darker than when
she stepped from the county Jail after
two weeks of bleaching and inactivity
She has provided herself with a leather
satchel to take the place of the little
black alpaca handbag she used to
carry, and she now wears long ulster
storm coat with a cape, the same severe
black bonnet the same white neck piece
and the same style of black silk dress.
visit her newspaper establishment at
1927 Kansas avenue, where the twelfth
number of the Smasher's Mail had just
been run off the press She congratu-
lated her foreman on his ability to get
out the paper in her absence, and then
she read a letter from her manager, j.
G. Furlong. The famous smasher was
all smiles, as usual
Yes. I'm going to Medicine Lodge to
look after my divorce suit" said Mrs.
Nation. Mr.. Nation had no cause to
hT~fr1 Il T. =
ting into second childhood. His son and
grandson put him up to it because when
he dies will get all his property and if
he secures a divorce his son and grand
son think they will get it. He has filed
a petition for divorce, asks for all the
property and wants me to pay the costs
of the suit. / will not L shall contest
the case. That's what 1 am going there
for and I'll fight it. He wanted me to
compromise by giving him some of the
property. I won't compromise the case
and I'll fight it if it takes my last cent
Mrs. Nations eye snapped and she
shook her finger as if she meant every
word of it.
said he would meet me and not let me
come into town because of that report
ed remark about President Mckinley
said Mrs Nation with a laugh and a.
display of her even sets of teeth. THAT
story was a lie put up by the New
York Journal. 1 made no such remark
and the whole story was without fOun-
dation."
Mrs. Nation coughed and slapped her
chest as if in pain. Il have lectured
almost every night since 1 left" she
said. THAT is why my throat troubles
me. There were lots of stories told
about me that were not so. l never
was on exhibition in the Midway of the
Buffalo exposition. I lectured there in
a building one day. 1 caught cold there
You know the Bible says Blessed are
ye when men shall revile ye and perse-
cute you
paper going" said Mrs. Nation looking
around at her plant. 1T isn't on a pay
ing basis yet.
Il found Commissioner Murphy in
New York city a pompous old invalid
and peevish. He is in his dotage. 1 like
Mr. Devery most. ! found New York
the worst place / ever saw. The whole
state on account of the Rains law is in
anarchy. There is not a decent and re-
spectacle hotel in the city
Il just came from Wheeling, West
Virginia. / was tried there for starting
riot. You know prophet is not with
out honor save in his own country, and
they made more of me in the east than
they do out here. There were crowds at
the depots that followed me about. In
Wheeling 1 went into saloon and the
crowd followed me and L was arrested
They wanted me to plead guilty and L
would not do it. They tried me al mid
night in the cellar of the jail. The jury
disagreed. They tried to make me
promise that 1 would not go in any more
saloons but L would not.
Il going to rest up a while and
then 1 going to make things lively
again. l am just as good a smasher as
I ever was and think shall do some
thing this winter / smashed cigar
case at Steeple Chase park, Coney Is
land, where / lectured for two w-1s
1t was the only bad thing in the park
I talked to the man and he insulted me
and L smashed his cigar case with the
hand bag full of small hatchets that L
had. He sued for $50 damages and 1
paid him $S
Il told the people in the east that To-
peka was the best and cleanest city in
the country and that if they were look
ing for a place to bring up their families
that Topeka was the place.