Semi-weekly herald., 1911-04-17
CARRIE
NAT|0N6'l,$:,'' :,
Famous Joint SmaSheI
Died in Leayenworth
Hospital Yesterday

Mrs. Carrie Nation, the famous cru
sader, died at sanitarium in Leaven-
worth, Kas., yesterday. She had been
in very serious condition for weeks
but her remarkable vitality enabled
her to fight off death until, worn out
by the unceasing struggle, she gave
up and passed away.
BY the death of Mrs. Carrie Nation
tn world loses one of it's most Pc
cuiiar characters. We had personal
acquaintal with hec and re are the
Letter, we believe, for il. She was one
Cf the most lovable. rotheriy, CID Ia
dies we ever knew and, aside from
her mania agains. tobacco aid li.Iuor,
one of the most agfeeilie.
Her life had been made mis1rabl.
by a drunkard husband whom she
had married while mere child. He
beat her and mistreated her in every
way and it must have been a blessing,
instead of bereavement, when he
departed this life, but in talking with
us of her early days she never said
harsh word of the man who abused
her, placing the blame on the drink
evil instead of against the individual.
She afterwards married preacher by
the name of David Nation but he was
a man of rather small nature and
this union was not an altogether hap
py one.
There was a personality about Mrs.
Nation that inspired respect and won
the love of those who knew her in
timately. In the city of Topeka, where
she wrecked many Joints" in the
early spring of 1901, the very men
whose places she attacked became her
friends. When she would be taken in
charge by the police and taken to
the police station it would often be
the very men whose dives she had
raided who would come to the rescue
and become her bondsmen In one of
the wickedest dives in the city she
was protected from violence, at the
hands of the criminal habitues of the
place, by the proprietor, himself
thug and police court character, who
stood up and kept the crowd back
while she demolished the fixtures in
the place and beat in the heads of the
kegs and barrels and spilled the con-
tents on the floor.
Her first attack was made, in To
peka, on the Senate, a pretentious re-
sort on Kansas avenue, run by
man named "Sheep" Lytle, and her
actions here showed the utter fear
lessness of the woman. The night
bartender, young chap who carried
the reputation of being man eater,
grabbed up a pistol when she came
to the joint and swore that he would
kill her if she set foot inside its
doors, but the old lady just smilingly
walked up to him and requested that
he give her the gun and, after a few
moments of steadily gazing into one
another's eyes, the young fellow gave
her the gun, made an humble apology
for his rudeness and turned and ran
out the back door. In less than two
moments she caused loss of more
than thousand dollars by hacking up
the fine cherry fixtures of the place,
breaking an immense mirror and de-
stroying several valuable paintings.
"Sheep," himself, went with her to the
station and signed the recognizance
which gave her liberty which she util-
lied by Immediately swooping down
on another dive and putting it out of
business.
That the woman was insane there
can be no doubt, she told US that she
was "the fullfilment of the scriptures
and quoted passages Of the Bible
which she thought proved her claims
She would at times lose all spirit of
violence and would talk to those who
would listen in the most kindly man
ner and at other times she would rush
up to strange men and jerk the pipe
OF cigar from their mouth and revile
them in the most lurid terms.
She was a well educated, or rather
a well posted, woman with desire to
work great reform and the, idea
grew upon her until she became al
most maniac at times, but she leaves
behind her host of those who will
forget the unpleasant things and re-
member her as most kindly old soul
who desired to work only for the
good of humanity.