Evening star., 1911-06-10

which was paid. Later in tthe day she
went to Baltimore
ridor in the city hall in Baltimore she met
q messenger boy with a cigarette. The
paper cigar aroused her ire, and she
promptly struck it from the youths
mouth. Later she returned to Washing
ton and started out on another crusade In
the business district. She was placed un-
der arrest again for attempting to de-
molish the fixtures of downtown bar
and hustled off to the first precinct sta
ton. When arraigned before the desk
sergeant at the precinct she was asked
the customary questions for inscription
In the record of arrests
What is your occupation?" asked the
sergeant.
I'm a servant of the Lord snapped
out Mrs. Nation, looking the sergeant
squarely in the eyes.
Servant" wrote the unimpressed desk
sergeant.
Woman With Mission.
Carrie Nation. whose maiden name was
Moore. was born in Kentucky. near ex-
Senator Blackburn's home, and was a
schoolmate of his. Her mother. it was
said. died in an asylum for the insane.
Her first husband was Dr. Gloyd, and
after his death she married David Nation,
lawyer of Kansas City. who gave her
legal advice, but left her after she had
launched out on her anti-saloon crusade
with the hatchet. All her life she was a
strong temperance advocate, and came to
regard herself as a woman with mis-
sion. She declared publicly that hers was
the right hand of God and that she had
been commissioned to destroy the rum
traffic in the United states.
Mrs. Nation suffered imprisonment
rdicule, and was even declared insane.
and at the end of nine years she retired
with sufficient money to purchase farm
in Arkansas. A good deal of her money
was derived from the sale of her souvenir
hatchets.
Mrs. Nation lived in Medicine Lodge,
Kan. until June q. 1900. On that day
she went into her back yard and picked
up half dozen bricks After wrapping
four heavy bottles to the collection, she
drove in her buggy to Kiowa, where she
smashed the windows Of three saloons
with her ammunition. The other saloons
closed their doors. and then Mrs. Nation
stood up in her buggy and told the as
sembled crowd that the law had been
violated and some one should be punished,
either herself or the officials who permit
ted the saloons to be operated against
the law of the state.
Many Times in Jail.
Next morning the newspapers scattered
the news broadcast that new reformer
had arrived upon the scene. From that
day Mrs. Nation had been in Jail at
Wichita three times. at Topeka seven
times. once at Coney Island. Kansas City,
Los Angeles and San Francisco, twice al
Pittsbur2, three times at Philadelphia,
once at Bayonne, \. j.. and once at Cape
Breton. In all Mrs. Nation had to pay
the penalty twenty-five times for taking
the law into her own hands.
During her travels Mrs. Nation went
TO New York and visited police head
quarters and John J.. Sulivan's saloon.
She did not do any smashing here, but
gained considerable notoriety.
Mrs. Nation made a tour of Great
Britain in 1908. visiting music halls and
saloons and giving advice to magistrates.
She was arrested at Newcastle -on-Tynt
for smashing, and appeared in the Lon
don music halls, where the audiences
Kissed her off the stage. In her own
state of Kentucky Mrs. Nation had the
reputation of being kind-hearted sym
pathetic motherly woman before she
moved into Kansas. where she became
obsessed with the prohibition doctrines
1t was said that her militant campaign
called public attention 10 the rum traffic
in the south and helped the cause of
temperance a great deal by having the
laws( enforced against abuses in the
liquor traffic.