The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-06-23

Then, when the store became crowded
with people. she went to the window.
opened the back of it, grasped the per-
former inside by the scruff of the neck
and yanked him to the floor. The
manikan was surprised that he be-
came galvanized and the crowd roared.
The next day the window was empty.
and remained so for the rest OF Carrie
Nations stay in Atlanta.
l suggested to her that Governor
Hoke Smith was an inveterate smoker.
rs he? Well let's go to see him." she
said. It'll make good newspaper talk.
won't it?.
We went to Hoke Smiths office. but
that gentleman was TOO shrewd for
Mrs. Nation He recognized her when
she opened his door without being an
nounced, and Immediately threw his
cigar into cuspidor. Mrs. Nation was
satisfied to give him mild reprimand.
and we left for more fertile fields
Down to the police station the little
woman marched. followed by a crowd.
which jeered and laughed at her. When
we went into the station the chief was
seated at his desk smoking a big black
cigar Mrs Nation went up to him,
grasped the cigar and crushed 1t In
her hand. "Don'tyou know you are
smoking yourself into hell?" she
screamed. Then she lit into the chief
and gave him the warmest ten minutes
he had experienced for some time.
or course the newspapers were full
of Mrs Nations doings, and none could
be more pelased at the publicity than
she. She would get out on the street
at o'clock in the morning and WON
until the matinee. l asked her once
why she did II. It's good advertising.
! son." she smiled. 1T gets the people
into the theater and we need the
| money"
Mrs. Nation cleared nearly $4,000
| from her lectures in churches and thea
ters She would refuse. however, to go
to a church If a theater made her q
better offer minister once upraided
her for this but she snapped him up
with. When 1 fish. 1 go whore the
fishes are"
1t is a bitter commentary on her life
that she died leaving an estate of only
/ $4,000 All the money she made went
i to support useless tracts and raftin &
| editors of various so-cailed prohibition
papers. One paper published in Wash
| ington. d. c., ate up thousands of dol
lars of her money. She even mortgag
ed her home. she told me, to help keep
this paper going. Her estate consisted
of a few houses and lots in Shawnee
and Guthrie, Okla, an insurance policy
and a bank account OF 1000 in Alex
andria. Va. Her only daughter, Mrs
lCharlton A. McNab. received the estate.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of Kansas was left Mrs. Nation s
autobiogra ply, Book of My Life"
Mrs. Nation died of paresis. brought
on by nervous breakdown from
worry over a lawsuit to recover money
due for her lectures. She died as she
had lived after she found herself ia
nous She was obsessed with the de
In doubt whether not she was sim
cere in her prohibition fight or whether
she saw in 1t method for gain. She
was either a shrewd. unscrupulous
business woman, she was insane
lam more inclined TO believe, from the
scontradictions In her character. that
she lost her mind before her first sa
lloon-smashing expedition
It was Carrie Nations boast that
when she died the Lord would raise up
other women to carry the nation. >
The pity of her life shows the futility
of a hopeless task. When she died her
own Kansas which she made dry.
was overrun with bootleggers and
ldives She witnessed the prohibition
| wave surge over the South. At her
death she saw the reaction. and that
the Southern states had begun to re-
peal the laws which they found i'm
possible to enforce 1t was these facts
it is said that went far toward making
her a broken. disappointed old woman
! 1
could lead her without resistance. The
hopelessness OF her efforts to establish
a reform through fanaticism. the
| ceaseless demands of the blood suckers
who lived from her earnings. her lionel,
life and her death without friends tc
comfort her made the tragedy in Carrie
Nations life.
is THE MAN WHO OUGHT TO BUT
! YOUR PROPERTY HARD TO FIND.
= IF HE IS JUST TRY AN AID IN THE