Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1901 — Missed Her Guess. [ARTICLE]

Missed Her Guess.

When Carrie Nation was at Indianapolis a mun played a joke on her and demonstrated Mrs. Nation’s inability to tell a saloon man by his appearance. The fellow pointed to a corpulent gentleman and said to the hatohot wielder — “Look at that man. He is well off and he makes his money out of tears of orphans, the wails of widows, and the groans of strong men.” “He keeps a rum shop, does he,” said Mrs. Nation. “No”, was the reply, ‘ he is a dentist.”