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“EQUALITY

BEFORE THE LAW.”

 

 

VOL. XIV. NO. I8.

WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, I897.

FIVE CENTS A COPY.

 

A DEAD AEAR.

I took a year out of my life and story.

A dead year and said.. “I will hew thee a tomb!
‘All the kings of the nations lie in glory:’

Cased in cedar and shut in a sacred gloom:
Swathed in linen and precious unguehts old;
Painted with Cinnabar and rich with gold.

“Silent they rest, in solemn salvatory,
Sealed from the moth and the owl and the flitter-
mouse. _
Each with his name on his brow.
‘All the kings of the nations lie in glory,
Every oneih his own house:‘
Then why not thou?

“Year,” I said. “thou shalt not lack
Bribes to bar thy coming back:
Doth old Egypt wear her best

In the chambers of her rest?
Doth she take to her last bed
Beaten gold and glorious red?
Envy notl for thou wilt wear

In the dark at shroud as fair:
Golden With the sunny ray

Thou withdrawest from my day.
Wrought upon with Colors fine,
Stolen from this me of mine;
lec the dusky Lyolan kings,
Lie With two wide open Will-[ZS

Uh thy bflast, as if LO say.

‘Un these wings Hope new away’.
And so housed, and [nun adorned,
Not forgotten, ahdnot scorned.
Let the dark for evelmore

Close tool: when I Close the door;
And the dust tor ethos lull

ii; the creases or in; pani:

said no Voice. not Visit rude
b‘reek thy Scaled :aLllLUCi:."

'1 tool: the year out my lilo and story,
The dead year, and sa/ld, “i have hcwed tile-e aiornb
‘Ali the kings of the HAHUIIS lie in glory:’ -
Cased in cedar and slid. to a sacred groom.
but in: the Sw‘eIQ, and the sceptre, and dianem,
Sure thou didst reign like then...”
So i laid her With tzlusu tyrants olsl and hoary,
nCCUl‘Glilg [0 my ’JUWZ
in I said, “ .L‘ne drugs or the ndélulls lie in glory,
' “ha 4" :.:..;;. .i' ...l"
"flock,” i said. “thy fins are strong,
That 1 bring, thee guard it long:
Hide the light lfuill buried eyes——
mine it lest the dead ..rise.”
"IO-II,” 1 said and turned away.
"I kill Irce v1 trite “4.: day:
ml that we LWU only hiiuyv,
I lulglve and I lurcbu.
be lily inc: no more 1 meet
11: hIlC-IICiCl er in the slice..."

’1‘hus,we parted. she and. l.

Lire hid death and put it by .
Lire hid death and said. "D'e tree!
1 have no more need of tnce.’,
Nu more need! u, mad mistake,
With repentance in its wake!
ignorant, and rasn, and blind:
Life had left the grave behind:
but had looked within its [1010
With the spices and the gold,
All slle had L0 keep her warm

In the raging oI the storm.

Scarce the sunset bloom was gone,

and the little stars outshone,

fire the dead year, stiff and stark,

.Urew me to her in the dark,

Death drew lire to come to her,

beating at her Sepulchre.

Crying out; "blow can 1 part

With tne nest share or my heart?

Lol it lies upon the pier,

Captive With the buried year.

U my heart!" And i tell prone,

Weeping at the sealed stone,

"Year among the shades." I said, .

"since I mic and LIlulJ. art dead,

Let my captrv: heart be tree

Lille a bird to fly to me.”

And i stayed 50in. e vow: to win,

But none answered iloni wrtnlh,

And I Kissed the door-and night

Deepencd till the sturs waxed bright.
as >:< >l= re

“So; swing open door, and shade
Take me: 1 am not afraid,

For the time'wul not belong:
Soon I shall haue waxen strung—
Strong enough my own to Win
From the grave it lies within:”

And I entered, On her_bier
Quiet lay the buried year.

I sat down where I could see

Life Without, and sunshine free.
Death within. And 1 between,
Waited my own heart to wean
From the shroud that shaded her
In the rock-hewn sepulchre:
Waited till the dead should say.
“Heart be free of me this day"—
Waited with a patient will—
AND I WAIT BETWEEN THEM STiLL.

I take the year back to my life and story,

The dead year, and say, “I will share in thy tomb,
‘All the kings of the nations lie in glory:’

Cased in cedar. and shut in a sacred gloom.

 

They reigned in their lifetime with sceptre and
diadem .
Brit thou excellest them:
For life doth make thy grave her oratory.
And the crown is still on thy brow,
'All the kings of the nations lie in gtorv,’
And so dost thou.”_

—From Poems by lean Ingelo’w.

Jean Ingelow.

No English poet of the day has been
dearer to the common people than Jean
Ingelow, who passed away from her home
in Kensington, a charming suburb of
London, on July 20, in her seventy-sev-
enth year, Jean Ingelow was born in St-
Botolph’s town as it was anciently called,
although long before our poet’s lime it
had become the Boston from which John
Cotton‘named the Massachusetts seaport
where he landed. Her best known poem
“High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire”
preserves the legend. of her own town.
The Humber is a tidal river, and doubt-
less has more than once “swept out the
flocks to sea”. There is a tower there
200 feet high in which hangs a lantern
which throws its light forty miles out to
sea. The scenery of the surrounding
Lake country which gave Wordsworth
his inspiration, was not WillJOllt its effect
on her.

lean. Ingelow wrote charming stories,
esbeciallffhosc for children, four novels,
of which the best know: is, “Off the
Skelliggs”, and-its heroine, Dorothea, is
thougf-it to repressn; the mental devel-
opment oi the author. I—Isr fiction, is
strong and. dramatic, but if: is by her po-
etry that she has endeared herself :20 the
English-reading world. Mr. Stedman
very poetically and aptly _ “Her
songs sprang up suddenly and tunefully as
skylarks from the daiSj‘;—spangied, haw-
tli‘m‘? bordered r‘lieac’lmvs of field. Frill."—
land, with ‘a blithcness long unknown,
and in their idyllic underflights move-d
with the tenderesr currents of human
life.” Of all her poems, “A Dead Year”
has in it most of the Spirithal quality in
its interpretation of life. In burying
the dead year with its grief she all un-
wittingly buries her heart with it, 'and it
gives her no peace until she takes it back
again along With the dead year whose
pain is to be evermore a part of her life.
The TRIBUNE giVes in this issue, almost
entire, this poem which it considers Miss
Ingelow’s masterpiece, although it is sel-
dom quoted or referred to.

Many hearts are grieved by the re-
port that Ambassador Hay has made an
attemp to secure an amelioration of the
condition of Mrs. Florence Maybrick but
that the British government has declined
to interfere. If Mr Hay could feel that
it was possible for him to personally pre-
sent the matter to the Queen, he would
certainly accomplish the release of this
American woman and gratify the Ameri-
can public who believe. perhaps without
exception, that she was unfairly tried and
unjustly condemned.

Miss F. Henrietta Muller early in the
year left London, the scene of her dis-
tinguished literary labors, for India,
which she had before visited at some
length and to whose women she now in-
tends to devote her life. An Indian paper
speaks of her as the president of the so-
ciety for the Ayran education/of Indian
ladies and says that she has promised to
give a thousand rupees yearly for three
years to the Mahakah Pathshala ‘of Cal—
cutta.

The city of Hartford is about to erect
a bronze statue of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
It has accepted the design of the sculp-
tor, W. Clark Noble, who has represent-
ed Mrs. Stowe as seated, with Uncle
Tom kneeling, and reaching up his arms
from which hang broken chains. The
statue is to be twelve feet high, and its
unveiling in 1898 will be made a State
celebration.

Mrs Marilla M. Ricker is evidently
not disgruntled with her party because
she did not get the appOintment as min-
ister to Colombia for whicn she was so
strongly endorsed. She is writing now
for New Hampshire newspapers answer-
ing objections to the Dingley bill, and
asking people to give it a fair chance
before talking against it.

A Successful Woman.

, The opening of the thirty-third scho-
lastic year of the Spencerian Business
College this week is an opportune occa-
sion to speak of Mrs. Sara Andrews

Spencer’s wonderful work as the head
of an institution that, of its kind, has no
superior.

The battle for women’s equality is not
yet won even in the educational field,
and will not be until women with equal
qualifications have an equal chance to
win the high positions in the professron.
The National Educational Association
gives a scant share of honors to its major-
ity women members. In universities and
colleges women as yet, even in the most
progressive, have only an occasional pro-
fessorship and in most no place. at all or
else are limited to assisting some chair
filled by a man. Unpleasant as the truth
may be, women are still, as a rule, only
the employed, the directed; and men
are the managing power, not only in the
immediate control of the educational
interests but in the political world in
which, as far as our public institutions
are concerned, the final authority in
heres.

It is encouraging to turn from the con-
tcri agitation of tries-e facts to an instance
in woich a \vohiin has achieve ‘7. bell". suc-
ihg the highest ability, and 0316:, too,
\VIllCl‘i seems the forums: removed from
the educational posii;i<‘:a:=..-.s usually sought
by women. .

'I‘hc Spencerian Business College w .'
founded by I‘rofeSsor Henry C. Spam;
and conducted by him until his death,
at which time The bequeathed the sole
proprietorship to his wife who Lad been
Qqsrvfi;;lPC-l wait him for 'Cvafilli _.lv::~ years
in its management; and who has conduct-
ed it with increaSing success, and fully
maintained the high standard it had won.

The College is now moved to the
Academy of MuSlc, corner of Ninth and
D. On this spot it had its home for
many years in the old Lincoln Hall
building. Eleven years ago the Spen-
cers, who had their living apartments
also in the building, were driven from
it by a fire which consumed every-
thing and gave them barely time to es-
cape With theit lives. By an explosion
of gas Mrs. Spencer, being last to leave,
was cutoff from the rest of the family,
and wandered through that immense
building trying to find an exit. The sio-
ry of her deliverance when told by her—
self with\her great dramatic power, is
thrilling enough to be the basis of a po-
em or a romance. The scene came back
to her with the Vividness of yesterday, as
I sat and chatted with her the other ev-
ening upon the strange events which had
brought her back here again under such
greatly improved conditions. It was a
rare good fortune to have an undisturbed
evening with this gifted woman, who is
usually engrossed with her school duties
although she does somehow seem to be
able to keep up with everythihg. I found
her in her private corner, the tower al-
cove, of one of the large halls devoted to
the school. The end of this hall is par-
titioned off as a bank for the instruction
of the students and the alcove is curtain-
ed off from this. The view was fine and
in that sunset glow appeared doubly beaut
tiful. Looking south lialfa block, one
sees Pennsyluania Avenue,, and beyond,
the Smithsonian grounds aod the Nation-
al Museum. To the West one block is
the Avenue again with an unobstructed
view for a long distance. Here we sat
and talked as sunset faded into twilight
and the stars came out. Then Mrs.
Spencer touched a button, and the place
was illumined with electric light, and its
beauty and fitness for its purpose was re-
vealed. Two large halls have been ar-
ranged appropriately, one for the busi-
ness course and the other for the short
hand and type-writing department. In
the former are the spleudid appoint-
ments that Mrs. Spencer brought home
from the World’s Fair in Chicago.

. It may not be generally known that
there was a Buslness Education exhibit
in which ten leading colleges participa-
ted, each keeping four pupils there, and
changing each month, so that there were

 

during the whole Exposition forty pupils

 

going through With the routine of a reg
ular Business College course. The very
handsomest banking and business desks
that could be made were used for this ex-
hibit and the entire equipment Mrs.
Spencer purchased at the close? of the
Exposition for her school here.

Mrs. Spencer now feels that the Col-
lege has come to its permanent home,
and in due time she will lit up other
halls in this building. The spacious
stairway lends itself finely to decoration
with the college pictures. The rooms
have all been newly arranged and deco-r
rated to meet Mrs. Spencer’s wishes and
everything is bright and cheerful. It is
only since Mrs. Spencer’s return from
the meeting of the National Educational
Association that she learned that Ehe
building she had been occupying for
eleven years was to be sold. She was dis-
mayed forthe school must open prompt-
ly at any cost. Fortunately this place
met her eye at once. The proprietors
wanted to securc— her as a tenant and
so they put six groups of men to do the
fitting up under her supervision. The
work made rapid progress and in an in»
credibly short time the place was ready .
Then came the moving which occupied
eleven transfer 9 three days and
things hat. to be moved. iess than two
blocks. That the change could be so

1yr‘ Mr.

V rt;{,\JQS

‘ , . . . smoothly accomplished and everything
cess and recoghiliou in a CCSIIlOH requizu l f

in apple-pie order by August 30, when.
ii: school opened, indicates the ability
and generalship which has made Mrs.
Spencer great in her lifc'work.

No person is doing more to mould the
character of the community today than
"fairs. Spencer she gathers around
her her able faculty and the hundreds of
young men and women whom she trains
nor only in business methods but in all

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character.

Mrs. Spencer conducts the college
with personal supervision of every detail,
and it is only by the most zealous conse-
cration of time and talent that such an
institution can be kept at the pinnaCie
of the profession; bui her thought is not
confined wholly to her school. She bears
the interests of the church of her choice
always in remembrance. Her charitable
work and her special efforts for unfortu-
nate women would require a volume to
relate. Sheis also profoundly interested
in all phases of reform, and whatever
cause she espouses, she defends With
brilliant oratory. As a disputaht in the
Academy of Forty she has no superior.

It is well to put on our near-Sighted
spectaclss occasionally to get a glimpse
of an hereic personality who is in our
midst.

. ,. ,,
”4.4.. Ligalh'asl -C,

Origin of Leap Year Privilege.

Few people are aware that in two coun~
tries at least laws have been passed giving
women the right to propose marriage. In
case of refusal to accept the hand of the
suitor a. heavy fine was imposed upon the
unfortunate man. Among the ancient rec-
ords of Scotland at searcher has recently
discovered an act of Scottish parliament
passed in the year 1288, which reads as fol-
lows:

”l'ris statut and ordaint that during the
reign of his maist blissit Begeste,ilk for the
yea-re knowne as lepe yeare, ilk mayden
layde of bathe highe and lowe estait shall
hae liberte to bespeke ye man she likes, al-
beit he refuses to talk hir to be his lawful
wyfe. he shall be mulcted in ye sum ahe
dundis or less, as his estate may be; except
and awis gif he can make it appeare that
he is betrothit and ither woman he then
shall be free.” A few years later a similar
law was passed in France and received the
approval of the king. It is also \said that
before Columbus sailed on his famous voy-
age a. similar privilege was granted to the
maidens of Genoa. and Florence. There is
no records of any fines imposed under the
Scotch law or trace of statistics of the num-
ber of spinsters who took advantage of it or
the French enactment— Tire Green Bag.

The one supreme characteristic of the
Victorian reign has been the progress which
it has made toward admitting all the people,
rich and poor, male and female, noble and
plebian, Angelican and nonconformist, Cath-
olic and Jew, to a full and equal share in all
that is going at home or abroad. The peo-
ple have at last been admitted to enter into
its inheritance. And a spacious inheritance
it is, and one that has expanded every day
since the reign began.—-VV. T. Stead.

The world needs good chihking.

 

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President, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Rochester, N. Y.

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l‘he WOMAN’S i‘RiBUNE reproduces
in this issue the Bulletin on Wyoming and
other places where women vote. It is
regarded by suffrage workers as the. best
document that has ever been published.
The price post-paid. is $50 per thousand
it was. Mrs. Patty Miller Stocking, .m-
f ~4 of Miss Pike who prepared the ar-
ticle published in last issue of the TRIB-
UNE, concerning Miss Frances Graham
French, and read it at a meeting of the
Woman’s National Press Association.
The mistake was in this office where the
:~:‘.--\.uuscript, not having any name at-
: ‘rt‘ed. was credited from a mistaken
memory.

The Report of National Congress of
Mothers is a large paper-bound book of
278 pages, fine paper clear print. It con
tains all the addresses given at this mem-
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valuable to mothers and teachers. All
the speeches should be read and discuss-
ed at all woman suffage societies and
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The ladies of the Board of the Ten-
nessee Exposition have given October 25
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Nebraska W. S. A.

The Nebraska Woman Suffrage Asso-
ciation will hold us Sixteenth Annual
Meeting at Lincoln, October 4th and 5th.

It was decrded last year to have the
convention at Table Rock in connection
With the Chautauqua and as the guests
of the 'l‘able Rock W. S. A., one of the
oldest and most indefatigable of the so-
cieties of the State; but the postpone-
ment of the Chautauqua necessarily post‘
booed the Corivention; and now there
are such good reasons for holding the
meeting at Lincoln, that by vote of the
generals officers it has been. decided to
accept the invrtation of the Lincoln so-
ciety.

The Lincoln W. S. A, formed only in
February last, cordially invites the Con-
vention; and it 18 thought that by hold
ing this annual meeting there, not only
Wlll the mosr convenient place be offered
to delegates, but this society, which has
grown into a vigorous activity quite un-
aided by influences from without, will
be strengthened {or the important work
devolving upon a sufii'age society at the
State capital. This result will be the
most important gain that can at present
be made ‘11 the State work. '

The local arrangements are in charge
of the Lincoln society and delegates Will
be entertained. A. good programme will
be preparetod include State and nationrl
speakers. Mrs. Colby, president, will be
in Nebraska for this meeting. Otherhu-
nouncements will be made in next issue
of the l‘RIBUIxE.

The National . Irrigation Congress
meets in Lincoln, September 28—30. and
an effort Will be made to secure an ex-
tensmn of their reduced rates to Include
the dates of this meeting. The suffraoe
assocmtion will also combine with the
State Federation of Clubs, which meets
at Beatrice October 6 to secure reduced
rates. It is hoped that by holding this
meeting just before that of the Federa-
tion of Clubs many wishing to attend
both will be able to do so.

All persons expecting to attend are re-
quested to notify Miss Helen M Goff,
corresponding secretary, of the State As»
socialion, I3I3 L. street, Lincoln; Nebr.

The Punjab, Vegetarian Society at
Lahore has issued its Fifth Annual Re-
port. The Soc1ety is organized “to keep
out Vlr'fll“"l‘fl flesh-eating lw "

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Wornau Suffrage in Wyoming.

Article 1. SECTION 2. In their inherent right to life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness, all members of
the human race are equal.

SECTION 3. Since equality in the employment of
natural and civil rights is only made sure through
political equality, the laws of this State affecting the
political rights and privileges of its citizens shall be
without distinction of race, color, sex or any circum-
stance or condition whatsoever other than individual
incompeteucy and unworthiness, duly ascertained by
a court of competent jurisdiction.

Thuswre the. Declaration of Rights of
the Constitution of the State of Wyoming,
and. these sections are enforced by the first
section. ‘ ,which says: “The right
of citizens Gs. ‘

to of ‘Vifyomiog :0 vote
"hall not be denied or
«net of 'ex.”
i- he s f ' yoming has been me-
terially benefitted by the vot° of women,
where it has prevailed for twenty-seven
years, it will certainly be the best argument
for its adoption in every State in the Union.
In compiling the first volume of the laws
of Wyoming, Secretary Lee “In the
provisions of the Woman’s Suffrage clause,
enacted in 1869, we placed the youngest
Territory on earth in to“. vanguard of civil-
ization and progress." That this statement
has been verified by practical experience
the testimony is unanimous, continuous and
conclusive. Not a link is wanting in the
chain of evidence, and, as 9. Governor of the
Territory once said, “The only dissenting
voice against woman's suffrage was that of
convicts who had been tried and found
guilty by women jurors." Women exercised
the right of jurors and contributed to the
speedy release of the Territory from the
regime of the pistol and bowie-knifc_ They
not only performed their new clut'us without
losing any of. the womanly virtues and; with
dignity and decorum, but good results were
immediately borne. Chief Justice Howe of
the Supreme Court, under whose direction
women were first drawn on juries. wrote in
1872: "After the grand jury had been in ses-
sion two days, the dance-house keepers,
gamblers and demi-monde fled out of the
State in dismay to escape the indictment of
women grand jurors. In short," he adds, “1
have never, in twenty-five years of constant
experience in the courts of the country, seen
a more faithful and resolutely honest grand
and petit jury than these.” And there is no
doubt that the superior conditions that exist
lii Wyoming are in a. great measure due to

- : .
liar. .

ter they had exercised these rights, Hon.
John Robson, Secretary of the province of

frage bill in the British Colombian Puritan
merit as a government measure; for he said
the women of "Nasbington are voting all the
gamblers and blacklegs out of their Terri-
tory, and if the women of Seattle have the
ballot, in self protection must give it to
the women of Victoria.

In the official record of Governor John W.
Hoyt, in 1873,he stated: “ ttendance upon
school is obligatory; teachers are equally
paid, male and. female alike, for the same
service." Does not this indicate a 'anrorable
esult from woman’s suffrage, when it was
the first commons“ th to aiont compulsory

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pay teachers equally without regard to sex,
until Utah adopted such a law at its first
legislative session after the women of that
tate had been me voters?

Governor Hoyt’s testimony with re-
gard to the direct benefit of woman’s suf-
frage was also very Stl'Ol‘li’.‘ in 1882. In his
official report, be said: “Elsewhere object-
ors persist in calling this honorable statute
of ours, ‘an experiment.‘ We know it is not;
that under it we have better laws, better of-
ficers, better institutions, better morals and
higher social conditions in general than
could otherwise exist—that none of the pre—
dicted evil-3, such as loss of native delicacy
and disturbance of home relations, has fol:
lowed in its train; that the great body of
our women, and the best of them, have ac-
cepted the elective franchise as a precious
boon and exercise it as a patriotic duty-in
a word, that after twelve years of happy ex-
perience, woman’s suffrage is so thoroughly
rooted and established in the minds and
hearts of the people that among them all,
no voice is evervuoliited in protest against
it or in question of it."

In 1879 the Speaker of the House, Hon.’
N. L. Andrews, a Democrat, ratified what
had been said by the Republican governors,
saying publicly; "I came to the Territory in
I871", strongly prejudiced against woman
suffrage. It has produced much good, and
no evil that I could discern. In my opinion
the real health-giving remedy that would
counteract political degeneracy would be
the ballot in the hands of women in every
State and Territory.”

In 1883, Chief Justice Joseph W. Fisher
stated: “I have seen the effects of woman
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Relief- Work for Cuba.

The Woman’s National Relief Associ-
ation for Cuba in Aid of the American
Red Cross is not inactive in these days
of excitement with regard to Cuba. Not
waiting for the lead of any one, as soon
as the news came about Miss Cisneros,it
at once cabled, at its own expense, to
the Queen Regent of Spain asking her
to inrerpose in behalf of the unfortunate
young lady. It also wrote to Consul
General Lee, thanking him for the hu-
mane stand be had taken and begging
him to use every effort to save Miss Cis-
neros and offering to receive and care
for her if she could be sent to this coun-
try.

A prominent newspaper in New Vork
recently asked Miss Barton why the Red
Cross was not at work in Cuba and she
reSponded with a statement of the fact
that last January she obtained permission
of the Queen Regent to go there and
made her appeal to the American public
for funds but none had been placed. in
her hands. This emphasizes the need of
the Association now formed to secure the
funds. All readers of the TRIBUNE who
wish to help in this humane work are in-
v1tcd t end the membership fee of one
dollar or such donation as they see fit.
It can be sent direct to the headquarters
at 110: K street northwest, where Mrs
Mary S. Lockwood has generously plac-
ed a cornmodious first floor room of the
Strathmore Arms at the use of the Asso-
ciation. There the secretary, Mrs. ,Kil-
vert, is daily at work and weekly meet:
ings of the executive committee are held
under the able chairmanship of Mrs. J.
E. Gilbert. Mrs. J. Ellen Foswr, the
advocate general, 15 ever ready With as
sistance in diplomatic matters and Mrs.
Lockwood acts as president until Mrs.
J. C. Burrows returns.

Even if the war in Cuba should be
over before Miss Barton could get there,
their won-d long he need of relief work
there to restore the island new devastated
and blighted by long continued war. No
one need tear, therefore, that the money
will not housed as designed.

After this work is entirely ended, it is
the. intention. of the Association to or—
ganize ona permanent basis, so that it
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fore a more than temporary significance.

The TRIBUNE suggests that woman suf-
frage societies and woman’s clubs might
well establish a Relief department so as
to be ready to act in local matters or, for
national-purposes, to act in unison with
the national organization.

The Woman’s Signal is reproducing
the earliest book written on the “woman
question”, Mary Woolstonecraft’s “-Vin-
dication of the Rights of Women”. This
English exchange is edited by Mrs. Fen~
wick Miller, whom many Americans will
remember as a brilliant participant in
the Woman’s Congress at the World’s
Fair in Chicago. Her writings are bright
and forceful and the paper commends
itself to all classes of readers. It can be
obtained in this country post paid for
$1.50 per snnum. Address 30 Maiden
Lane, Covent Garden, London, W. C.

The Blue Grass Bode, published in
Kentucky, clevrvtes four columns to
Mrs. Josephine K. Henry whom it styles,
after a comparison of Mrs. Henry to the
great statesmen of her age, the greatest
human being in the world. It wants Mrs.
Henry elected President of the United
States, and takes its stand for the-princi—
ples advocated by Mrs. Henry; among
which are equal rights for women, com-
pulsory education, national marriage
laws; Government ownership of rail-
roads and t‘elegraphs, and internation-
al currency, &. The question of a wom-
an in the Presidential chair Will some
day come in earnestbefore the American
people, but this will be aftgr women shall
have. ceased to be classed by their coun-
trymen with the idiots and criminals,
and when that time comes, ma, the na-
tion have a standard bearer as strong and
true. in adherence to pl'lBCiplc as the
gifted and brilliant Mrs. Henry.

If Mr. Nicola .l‘esla is cori'etly report-
ed he has solved the problem of wireless ~
telegraphy by the use of an electricalos-
cillator which will cause Vibrations in
the static electricity of the earth. The
energy of the electric current is displayed
only when the current 1s interrupted. and
Mr. Tesla makes an oscrllator which can
interrupt the current millions of times a
second. I-Iis experiments fully demon-
mucb 5 been claimml by OC-

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“I have seen much of the workings of wom-
an sufirage. I have yet to hear of the first
case of domestic discord growing therefrom.

evil." In the same year he eported to the
Secretary of the Interior: “The men at . as
favorable to woman suffrage as the women
are. Wyoming appreciates, believes in. and
ilndorses woman suffrage." In his official l
report next year, he said: “Woman suffrage
continues as popular as at first. T be worn-
en nearly all vote, and neither party ob-
ects." And in 1889, he reported: ”No one
will deny that women’s influence in. voting
has always been on the side of the Govern—
ment. The people favor its continuance.”
Official. evidence as to the beneficial ef-
fects of woman suffrage is supported by the
universal testimony of residents and visi-
tors. On the other side. are oni. random
statements born of a prejudice ‘lfl’i‘ e wish
is father to the thought. We are, that ”
bound to believe that the status of Vin/om-
up has een favorably affected by woman
‘uErage if we exercise the ordinary trust
ind Crcdulity on which our other beliefs
ind daily transactions are based.
.With such an experience of twenty years
twas not strange that the delegates