Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1909 — Carrie Nation Lashes Smoker With Her Tongue. [ARTICLE]

Carrie Nation Lashes Smoker With Her Tongue.

Carrie Nation, fresh from a fourhour argument with a bottle stopper salesman on a train from Columbus, 0., stopped off a few moments in the union station at Indianapolis Tuesday night, en route to Peoria, 111., where she is to lecture. She had time enough to give a reporter a fierce lecture on cigarette smoking, in a high-pitched rasping voice. “Go way from me, you cigarette ’fiend,’* she shouted. “You smell bad. I won’t talk to a reporter that smokes cigarettes. You ought to he ashamed of yourself, a great big fellbw like you. You call yourself a man, but you’re nothing but a two-legged fiend. You tell your editor that he’s hard up for brains, when he hires you!” But when the smoker picked up her luggage and carried it to her car she subsided, and confided in him that Indianapolis will be a hell as long as there are saloons in it. “But cigarettes—l’d rather have a boy of mine drink than smoke.” Whereupon she beamed and regretted that she had sold her last hatchet, because sh& would have liked to give the reporter one for a Souvenir.