Waterbury Democrat., 1902-08-28

Sat On the Poker DeckAngry Play
ers Handled Her Roughly.

Sat On the Poker Deck-Angry Play
ers Handled Her Roughly.
indianapolis, Aug 2s,-In his %
years as railroad man, Conductor
Collins, of the Chicago division OF the
Big Four never hud an experience like
1t, and he Is authority for the asser-
ton that he does not want another
like it. Mr. Collins pulled his train
out of Chicago in happy mood.
There was actually nothing for him
to find fault with and there was not
bit of ssgrief" on the railroad horizon
as large as an ants heel. But at
Kankakee Mrs Carrie Nation boarded
the train.
She started trouble as soon as she
got aboard and the breakers kept roll
ing until she left the train at Lafay-
cite. The door of the smoking car
was open and Mrs Nation saw it. She
ran up to Collins and demanded that
he close the door of the smoker Mt
once SO the fumes of tobacco would
not otfend her nostrils. Collins vast
ed no time
Then an inoffensive travelling man
from Louisville sauntered in from the
car ahead. He had been smoking. sand
his pipe was so hot that he did not put
| 1t In his pocket but placed 1t on the
window sill beside him. Mrs Nation
saw the pipe and darted for 1t, but the
man got 1t first. and after struggle
he held to his property. lust then
Collins came along and Mrs Nation
said things to him for permitting a
nasty pipe TO be brought into the car.
| BY this time the passengers were
aroused. Some We're amused, but most
OF them were angry. and poor Collins
/ was abused for not making the Kan
sas smasher take her seat He could
not stop her. She was parading up
and down the aisles, lecturing and Of
fering to sell small souvenir hatchets.
Suddenly she dashed into the sleep.
| Ing car. In the smoking apartment
1 four men in their shirt sleeves were
smoking and playing poker. Mrs Ma
ton groned her way through the
! smoke and demanded that the game
cease at once. The players said they
did not think they would quit Mrs
| Carrie shouted her defiance OF the
/ devil and her denunciation of card
/ playing and smoking until the passen-
i gers who We're In bed We're aroused.
Collins and the Pullman conductor
4 tried to quiet Mrs Nation, but she
Y would not be quieted. Suddenly she
i grabbed up handful of cards and
rushed, back into the coach shouting:
i II have broken UP their game. i
have beaten the devil: Glory! Glory!''
and she waved the cards high above
her head. She dropped the cards into
q seat and sat on them. Soon one of
| the players came in.
Mrs Nation" said he,"you have my
property and must ask you to give it
up. You have no more right to take
those cards than you have to take my
satcheIn
"'rhey are inventions of the devil.''
/ shouted Mrs Nation, s.and you have
no business with them. Nou shan,t
/ play cards liz I can help It,"
But Mrs Nation, they are my prop
! ertv."
~ don't care if they are, you can't
| have them
/ Now don't want to use force, Mrs
| Nation, but must have those cards"
continued the travelling man getting
red In the face.
Say Bill. where the blank is the
/ rest Of this deck?" shouted another
travelling man who ran In from the
| The travelling man called aBlll'' took
4 the other one around the neck and
/ whispered something to him. Then
4 the two walked back to Mrs Nation
Are You going to give me those
cardsy sternly asked Bin.
No. l amt"
Before she could say anything more
the travelling men caught her. one by
each arm, gave her a sudden jerk and
landed her on the seat opposite. Then
they picked up the cards and dashed
back to the sleeper. Mrs Nation tried
| to follow but the Pullman conductor
was on guard that time and locked the
door SO that she could not get In.
I About the time that all had quieted
down again Mrs Nation discovered
that she lost her satchel and there was
another eruption. When the train ar
1 rived at Lafayette, Mrs Nation left
1 1t and the train crew collapsed while
the passengers gave thanks.
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