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The Life of Carry A. Nation

by Carry A. Nation

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Contents Chapter I. My Old Kentucky Home and What I Remember of My Life Up to the Tenth Year

Chapter II. My Experience With the Negroes as Slaves — Their Superstitions — A Beautiful Fairy Tale

CHAPTER III. MOVED TO WOODFORD COUNTY, KENTUCKY.—ALSO MOVED TO MISSOURI.—SAVED FROM BEING A THIEF.—MY CONVERSION—GOING SOUTH AT OPENING OF THE CIVIL WAR.——AN INCIDENT OF MY GIRLHOOD SCHOOL DAYS.—WHY I HAD TO BELIEVE IN REVELATION.—SPIRITUALISM OR WITCHCRAFT.

Chapter IV. My First Marriage — A Bitter Disappointment — Mother Gloyd — My Drugged and Whiskey Murdered Husband — Losing My Position as Teacher — Second Marriage — Loss of Property — Keeping Hotel — Struggles for Daily Food — The Afflictions of My Child — Answer to Prayer

CHAPTER V. THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY GHOST.—REJECTED AS A BIBLE TEACHER IN METHODIST AND EPISCOPALIAN CHURCHES.—TAUGHT IN HOTEL DINING-ROOM.— VISION, WARNING AND BLESSING.—ENTERTAINING ANGELS.—THE JEWS.— PRAYER FOR RAIN AND ANSWER—GOD’S JUDGEMENT ON THE WICKED.— MOVED TO KANSAS.—DEATH OF MOTHER GLOYD.—SERMON OF A CATHOLIC PRIEST.

Chapter VI. Why My Name Is Not on a Church Book — Closing the Dives of Medicine Lodge — Cora Bennett, and Why She Killed Billy Morris in a Dive in Kiowa — Her Resurrection — Raiding a Joint Drugstore

Chapter VII. Spiritual Leadings — Jesus a Conscious Presence Three Days — Loss of Liberty by Compromising — The Price Paid to Be Rein Stated — Disgrace to Ire a Millionaire

CHAPTER VIII. THE DIVINE CALL.—THE JOINT DRUGGIST OF MEDICINE LODGE.—BEER A POISON.— DOCTORS MAKE DRUNKARDS.—SMASHING AT KIOWA.—ATTITUDE OF SOME W. C. T. U.’S OF KANSAS.—SUIT FOR SLANDER.—SMASHING AT WICHITA.— CONSPIRACY OF THE REPUBLICANS TO PUT ME IN THE INSANE ASYLUM.— SUFFERINGS IN JAIL AT WICHITA.—SLANDERS FROM THE RUM-SOAKED PAPERS OF KANSAS.

Chapter IX. Out of Jail — Eggs and Stone — Smashing Stilling’s Joint at Enterprise — Whipped by Hired Prostitutes.-Plot at Holt by Hotel Keeper and Jointist to Poison and Slug Me — At Coney Island.-Hand Broken and Handcuffs

Chapter X. Legal Status of Prohibition and Joint Smashing

CHAPTER XI. MY TRIAL FOR DIVORCE.—THE LICENSED RUM TRAFFIC THE CAUSE OF SO MANY DIVORCES.-DIFFERENT TIMES AND PLACES I HAVE BEEN IN JAIL.—AT THE CAPITOL OF CALIFORNIA.—WIDE OPEN TREASON.—AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS.—WOOLLEY CLUB AT ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN.—CATHOLIC PRIEST AND CIGARETTES.

Chapter XII. Woman’s Suffrage

Chapter XIII. Echoes of the Hatchet

Chapter XIV. Christian Experience

Chapter XV. Spiritual Authority for My Christian Work

CHAPTER XVI. IN NEBRASKA.—WHAT I DID WITH THE FIRST MONEY I GAVE TO THE LORD AT CONEY ISLAND.—WHAT I SAID OF MR. MCKINLEY.—IN CALIFORNIA. “CRIBS” AT LOS ANGELES.—ARREST IN SAN FRANCISCO—CONDEMNED BY SOME MINISTERS.—WHISKEY AND TOBACCO ADVERTISEMENTS.

Chapter XVII. My Visit to Washington, D. D — Arrested in the Senate Chamber — Taken Out by Officers — The Vices of Colleges, Especially Yale~ Roosevelt a Dive-Keeper

Chapter XVIII. Prohibition or Abolition — What It Means — The Free Methodists and Other Ministers Endorse the Work — A Catholic Priest’s Endorsement — Modern Deborah — John P. St. John

Chapter XIX. Dr. McFarland’s Protest — Kicked and Knocked Down by Chapman of Bangor House — Meddling With the Devil — Timely Warning to Our Boys and Girls — Brubaker of Peoria — Witchcraft — Last Time in Jail

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