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Died. Charles Wesley Simmons, 79, onetime sheriff; from a paralytic stroke, in Wichita, Kan. He many times arrested Carrie Nation, famed militant Prohibitionist, was made miserable by her hatchet crusades (TIME...
Near Medicine Lodge, Kan., stands a five-room brick cottage, from which, 27 years ago, crusaded Carrie Nation, Prohibitionist, Reformer, Hatchet-Wielder. Last week Prohibitionists began a movement to preserve this cottage as a Carrie Nation Memorial...
...mirrors, bottles, glasses; upbraid bartenders and patrons. In a Wichita saloon in 1900 she eyed a nude over the bar, told the bartender that the picture was an insult to his mother. As the town marshal escorted her to the station, many a rotten egg was flung at the Hatchet-Swinger. She was jailed three times in Topeka. In Kiowa, when the mayor demanded that she pay damages to a battered saloon, she threatened him with fire and brimstone, then, as he allowed her to leave, turned, delivered a benediction: "Peace on earth-good will to men!" As her fame...
Cherry Tree. "The Cannot-Tell-a-Lie incident of the cherry tree and the hatchet is a brazen piece of fiction made up by a minister named the Rev. Mason L. Weems, who wrote a life of our country's father which is stuffed with this and similar fables...
...conquer and bestride "The Old Hag of the Alps"-the Matterhorn. Humpbacked, she towers, and her hump is a jagged ridge from which many have slithered down to death. About her hungry lightning tongues lick often, winds howl, and evil legends cluster grim and hoar. Sometimes, when a climbing-hatchet slips and sickening pebbles roll, it seems that the Hag chuckles...