The Cedarville Herald, Volume 11, Numbers 22-52

i.-4' ... * - i . M , The CedarvilleHerald. iTHEBATTLEFIELD. W. XLBLAIR, Publisher. THE POISONED HAMS. CEDARVILLE, OHIO; CLEVERLY t a k e n IN. <? How juj lonoceut-Cooklngr Old Fellow VJ«J” ttmizcd Two Horde Sharps. One of 'Our boys was over in the Mo­ hawk Valley one day, .and on that same day a couple of chaps came Into a vil­ lage on a tin peddler’s wagon. They were driving a horso which could have fooled no one hut a hayseed. Any-.one posted on the points of a trotter would have put hfrudown as good for loss than three minutes. This was in the olden days, when a horse showing a clip pf 2j5Wwas looked upon as a marvel, ->The peddlers found the usual crowd at fhe village ’ tavorni and it didn’ t take thont tiyo hours to get, up a match with the boss, trotter of the neighborhood, It was • best two in three for §50, and the tin-wagon horso won both heats in 8:55. It was evidently a put up job to-skin the rustics, and, as they were headed pur way,' we determined to ■ bo ready for ■them, sent,a hundred miles' aftfer * trotter, scraped our dollars together, and the day the peddlers arrived wo had, out nag' drawing manure with a, cart. The peddlers arrived at about eleven o’clock, and after dinner, as- we all sat on the veranda, one of "thorn care­ lessly inquired; : “ Got any thing in hoss flesh to brag of hero?" <. 1 “Ono purty fair hoss," replied the vil­ lage cooper, who had. a dreadfully inno- pent look on his fatherly face. “ Can he go?” . - ■• “ Wall, he’s cleaned ’em so fur.’’. “Our pld hoss does a mile fairly well.” ' “ Yes?" ‘ “And, just for the fun. of the thing, wo 'goinetimes trot him,” - ” ' “ Yes?" v . ;■ _ ; “ Can’ t wo get up a go?” “ Wall, our boss is no cheap'anitpql. We’d want^to makp it a hundred at least.” ■ * “ We'd rather make it S850.” - - . In ten minutes-we had the money- up and the race agreed to. W ohad no . track, but tho highway was broad and smooth, arid it was to bo a mllo straight­ away. The peddlers brought in a sulky they had loft just out of town-, our horso was provided with another, and every man, woman and child in that totyn ' turned out The race -was Square" up and up, and our horse got tho first boat by throe- good lengths. -Wo' saw that . the peddlors were puzzled and anxious; .but they had sand and each put up his watch for §20 more. It was a fair, oven start on tho second heat, and the pace was even fop a quarter of a mile. •Then oiir horso began drawing away, and when ho went under the string he was thirty foot ahead. The jjpddlors gave up the stakes, sat down by themselves and had a talk, and thon tho spokesman fiqatly moved over to where the cooper stood and said; “ We see through it, and wo can’ t squeal. As for your getting an ,old ’ringer’ to ihntcli ours wo haven’t any fault to find, hut what hajrows up our souls and makesms long for rest beyond the grave is tho idea that wo were taken in and done for by such a li.onlgn old cuss ns yon seemed, to he, hut ain’t! I’ll tio both feet and ono hand and fight you for'the hoss and wagon!”—N. Y. Sun. THE WORLD’S BABIES. The Cradle* of a Single Year Would Kncir- de the Kartli. It has been computed that between 85,000,000 and 07,000,000 babios ' aro born in the world - oaeh year. Tho rate of production is, therefore, .about seventy per minute, or rathor more than ono every heat of tho clock. With tho one-a-moment cal­ culation every newspaper reader is familiar, but it is not every one-who stops to calculate what this means when it comes to a. year's supply. It will, therefore, probably startle a good many persons to find on the authority of a Well-known hospital writer that, could A War Incident or Particular Interest to LadyHeader*. ■ “ Now, mistis, ain’ t we gwino son’ Marso Ran. no box dls Chris’ mas,. It p’intodly d<Jsoom too had to disapp’int do chile!". • ■' We were all "chillun” to mammy, and oven though m y soldier-brothor now bore tho title of Major, sbo could never forget that a little more tfiah twenty years before bo had laid his curly head on Jjor breast, well knowing tbefre was no more faithful repository for his child­ ish woes. • Tears camo into roy mother’s eyes as Blip thought of tho soldier-boy who .would have to bo disappointed-, so far; as. she could see. - It was the Christmas of 18(54, when the people within^tho Con­ federate lines wore almost at . the last extremity-of their need,, . ,,y . “Omammy!” she said(.,“ What have wo for a box? Not a turkey nor a thicken, except old .Speck, did- the last , raiders leavo us! I s.ont' to thevillageyostor- day to get some.,eggs,, but the last had .been sold at fifteen dollars.a dozen. You know last Christmas <we sent the last coifeo, and untoss'-’you or Cbioocould go to make it; for him, Randolph would nov.er have it fit .to drink,’’out of the ryo- and ochre wo use.” ■ - , ; . •' ■ “ Why, mistis, is you done forglt the pizened hams?” ,-Tbeso “ pizened” hams are worthy of a- place in history. "When it was report­ ed that the raiders- wore, coming, my mother determined to save, if -pbssiblo,- the -few hams WQ,ft had left, Taking mammy and faithful Bon into her confi­ dence, -sho proceeded with austentatious Becrocy to the smoke-house, \yoll know? ing that the oyo.of a young negro wasat each chink, trying to find gut wbat.“ olo mis’ was doin’ so secret-in tho sm’oke- honso,” ; Tho next day the Fedoral soldiers, came. While somo looked after the live stock, others, procoedcd to the1smoke­ house, for Virginia-brims always had a high reputation. Tho looks of tho lit­ tle negroes told a.story of mystery of some sort, which excited the -suspicions of .these soldiers, .which wore confirmed when they discovered a line white -pow­ der over tho meat,- ' ~ , Seizing one black boy by the collar, a soldier-demanded the secret “ I’so skeered to tell you,” sobbed; tho boy, while his tooth chattered,1 “ ca’so mammy caught us peepin’ , and said of wo told she gwino bus’.our head open.” But as the danger of a “ bus’ open head" seemed more-,imminent from' tho soldier than from mammy, tho. confes­ sion waft finally extracted that “ Mo and Dick seed old mis’ sneakin’ long to do smoke-house, and slio. shot do do’ so still, like, dat we peeped in, an’ -dou sho was puttin’ dat whito stuff on do meat, an’ Undo Bon said as. how ‘ef do Yankees eat dat meat dey won’t nebbor eat nullin’ mo’.’ ” , - Just then a slip of paper labeled “ strychnine*’ was discovered In a corner, "So our precious hams wore saved by a harmless shower of flour and a piece of white paper! ■r . ■ With a ham to start with no Confed­ erate would despair of a box. So ChloP proceeded to make half a btishol-tff gin­ ger-snaps, which with “ goobers” (pea­ nuts) constituted tho Confederate eon- ,feetionery. :I turn -now to my “ I’onfcd- erato Recipe-Book,”, and see how those snaps wore made: ■•One-halfmeal, one Unit Hour, sorghum, pot­ ash instead of soda (a dark powder got from hickory ashes by some homely chemical pro* cess), garden-raised popper, and a little horse­ radish forpungcncy.'’-' Wo had’ peach presoryos, mado with the inevitable sorghum, of course; but as there was'not a jar to bo had, we had almost despaired of being able to send any.- Mammy solved tho problem by producing somo gourds, ‘ well-sweetened and dried. These were filled with the precious sweet, and then the .plug roplaced over the hole and secured with paper and paste. Some of the field- hands brought in two young possums, fpr Kimson said if “ Mar.se Ran done got to bo&a major, I-knows ho aint forglt to love possum.” . nails with which to fasten it. Tho - blacksmith bad said, a few days before, 1 that ho had no*rooro iron. But Bon brought from his stores some old horse­ shoes. Armed with these I myself went to see the nails beaten-outby tho smith, since we dared not trilst- that ..precious iron out of our sight, When “ Rau’s” next letter told us how ( that hard-won box had given him and his brother officers the first good-meal they had enjoyed for weeks, many'tears were shed, Old mammy, could hardly stand' undor' the caresses that were lav­ ished on her, as tho prime mover "of the work. But for her suggestion of the “ pizened hams,” , it would never have been.—Clara M. Lynn, in Youth’s Com­ panion. ~ ____________’ ’ AUBREY’S FAMOUS RIDE. - INWOMAN’S BEHALF. “ BETTER THAN B^ST.” What canwe do for Wbat can we say ef her? her? - ’ Woman tho Conqueror? Woman tho King! Why should wo kneel In submission and sup for her? - ’ " ’ , 'Tis of her victory manhood must sing! ” • Equal to man? She has risen superior! Daughter of Pallas Athene confessed! Lifted to triumph who once was Inferior, ■ > ’ Better than Host! I*1 mil gravely . A/!g-<thiof'5uat<>i' 1 ' - •*.#__ ..Int A Peat That. Uni Fnvr Parallels In'Endur- •anco unci B ravery. “The-greatest physical achievement ever accomplished in this country,"''said John 1-'. Grahdm to a*Denver Nows man,- “ was the ride of F. X. Aubrey from.the- plaza Of Santa Fq, N. Ml,-to .tho public square at Independence, Mo.,-a distance of nearly eight hundred miles, through a country inhabited by warlike Indians* a largo part of - which was then a sandy desert." - Being uf-god tO'givo .an account of the great ride Graham proceeded; „ “It was about the year 1851 that Aubrey gave his wonderful tost of human endurance be­ fore which all other attempts; of the! kind pale into insignificances. ; He was a short, heavy-set man thirty-eight years of age, in the prime of manhood and strength. His business for ton years as a Santa Fo trader had made him per­ fectly familiar with'the trail and all tho stopping, places. Ilo-was a perfect horse­ man, and althoughHkero were great riders in those days nono of thorn cared j to dispute the palm with Aubrey*' <)n a : wager of 81,000 ho. undertook I .to ride alone <i from Santa; Ij’o to Independence inside of .six days.- It was thirty-nine years ago that h o ' undertook tho terrible feat .It was *to bo (tho supremo feat of Ills life, and be sentj, a half-dozen of'- the swiftest ho.rses ahead to .be stationed at different points for use-in, tho,ride. Ho left San­ ta Fo iii a sweeping gallop, and that was the pace ho kept up during nearly overy hour of tho-timo until ho fell . fainting from his foam-covered horso in the square fit Independence. No man could keep with the rider, 'and he would have j killed every- ’•horse .in tho West rathor * than have failed in the undertaking. IV took him’ .justj live days and ninotoon : hours to perform the foat, and it cost tho lives of.1 'several of the’best horsos. j After being carried into a room at the Was she not best in the world when we cried to her? Woman, the Mother 1who gave us our life I Helpless, and hopeless, and Ifioble we elghod to her. Helped by maternity out of tho Strife! . ,, Who can repay tho fierce pangs she endured tor us? ' • Giving herself from hotbountiful breast, / Manhood and muscle, ’twas woman secured for ■ us. ■ ' . ’ Bettor .than Best!- flees, talked with them at their firciiiC watched thorn in their domestic tiona, and ato bread ma-ie by the atm hands that had cast a ballot Wo fpy^ social life there tho sagie as. in Eastern States. Marriaga had not bg) * annulled, cradles aband^ied, nor jj* stockings mended .by tha .Sijite. were struck, too; with tin) earnestngf and intelligence o f ’the wi)men. Thtfe ’ conversation, was more atyut laws constitutions principles of govermneat and practical politics, thani about ft»i- w .... ions, personalities, ana their neighbor® „ llre tuttedtor hr private affairs. They laugcpd over tb» ■ ^*na foeltkis ebar.-r common idea that' women jiadnot the™ a*®01"1' 101 physical enduranco to vote ^id liold.pf, flee. They said they never eirned tbtM dollars'a day sd easily as sittiW in com,] m >t&l tch *jrJU . ' . «he'Udrlvoiro”r'^1*' Ai>flf lthWcnpj-J .'‘Strong, (®asc xWtAniVii? to rtabio chairs listening t4 cases' -■ fMW-" ' «rtiat goegte inal:" t 'Awomtadh*’ ?1’” : rtTiiye all hi*)) Has she not- given us Love for our 'covering 1 >-' Love tor out shelter,ami Love, for our star I Love for our comforting, Love that is hdv-. oring. •’ Soothing our sorrows at home or afar! What would the tVorld bo without her who lpv: ethus?, ' • , '~Aftor our wandering, woman's the Nest,. Ah I the reward sho can give when sho provetli - us - ■ - Better thon Best! Calm in her confidence I Proud of her purity! How she has soared pu -tier wings to the • blue! ' . Brain for her help* nnd-bor heart for security,. tVhot: is there left for a Woman to.do? * Classic uml Wrangler! deep science and art with her,, Proudly she stands and submits to the test, ' ■ ,. ■ Man can,but love her tho'taore, and not part with her, ■. - > Better'than Best!. , —Lady’s Pictorial. WELQOME, WYOMING! old hotel at Indqnendonco Aubrey lay. hoSfr for forty-eight u s.in- a dead stupor before.ho came to his senses. Ho would | never have recovered from theshockliad. it not been for his wonderful constitu­ tion. The feat was unanimously re­ garded as tho greatest exhibition of strength and endurance, over known on tho plains." ‘ ‘What became of Aubrey, afterward?” was asked. ••*„ • * “ After his-rldo lie became tho lion of the west, and was dined and feted at St, Louis as though ho had been a conquer ­ ing hero. He finally met his death at the hand of a lriond, One day in 1854, in an altercation with Major RichardIi. Weightmah, the great rider wasslabhed to the heart and droppeddeiuldnii’ Santa Fe saloon, lie was buried in an un- known graver tfnd all that is roinembor- rd of Aubrey is liisj'remarkable ride. IVeightman was tried, iipon tlie charge of murder, .but was acquitted, and, join­ ing the Confederate' army, was shot at Wilson's ("reek while leading bis brigade into battle.” HAD £ SURE THING, But General Banks Didn't Consider III* Proposal I-'nvornbly. [ . I was serving in a regiment undof General Banks when one of our men struck his Captain and was, of course, put.under arrest and bold up for court- martial. One day, just before, .tlie trial was coming off, lie scut word to the Bri­ gade General that ho had some thing of ( tho greatest importance to communicate. Tho General went down to see him, or rather, had the prisoner brought to Iris The First Free State for Women—How an. '"Experiment lias Been Crowned With Success. The following extracts'aro taken from an address by Elizabeth Cady Stantqn,. in Woman’s Journal: 1 ‘ , * When tliQ United States of America Inscribed her namo on the roll of na­ tions, with a constitution placing a ll­ power in tho hands of- the people; ignor­ ing popes and kings, and declaring all men equal, wo.celebrated the greatest event that had thus far marked tho his­ tory of the race. But now we have as­ sembled 'to celebrate a still greater event, the drawing of the glad day when tho mother of the raco.is at last recog­ nized as a human soul, as a person, en­ dowed with inalienable rights;, as a citi- zon of .the State, with.an equal voice in government; an equal factor in the-so­ cial scale of boing; a member of tho church universal, to bo guided in mat- tors of faith by her own individual con­ science) andjudgment; for political equal­ ity means all this—civil, social and ro- ligious freedom. The admission, of Wyoming as ti State into-tho Union, with a provision in her constitution for woman suffrage, is our second declaration, of independence; ns much moro important in national life than that of 1770 as tho fulfillment of a principal oxcocds its proclamation. When the Territory of Wyoming, twonty-ono years ago, recognized wom­ an as an equal factor in civilization, but few appreciated the momentous and far- reaching consequences of that stop;.and whomtho groat experiment was consum­ mated by the recent debate and-vo.to at. tho national capital, the most sanguino of uh could hardly boliovo that woman, in her - long; dreary struggle for froo- dom, .was at last victorious. - ■»’ * * * ■ # * * Near the closo of-tho first Legislative Assembly, without any^icovious discus­ sion, a member introduced tho ‘follow­ ing .bill: ‘ * Be It enacted by tho Council nnd Houso ol Rep­ resentatives of tlio Tetrilory of Wyoming: S ec . i . Every woman of the age of 18, resi­ dent in this Territory, may.at every election to be liolden under the laws thereof, cast her vote; and her rights to the olcctive franchise, and to hold office. Hi)all ho tho same under, the elec­ tion laws of tho Territory, as those of electors. HF.c n . This Act shall take effect and be in force from nnd after its passage. Strange to say, the bill passed almost unanimously nnd without debate./ It was said all the time that it was done partly as a joke, and partly to advertise tho Territory, hoping thereby to induce o f jt'rtntAri__ # __ * Court,-and it was less of an efljrt, to vots ■ than to (watch aloaf of bread through it| various phases until'' it emerged from the oven in perfection. , Women have manifested great publlo 1 spirit, and a conscientious .interest % .every department. of Government, especially in that of education. At the j last census, Wyomiifg was' rotirnef u-i having a smaller per cent, of ilUtejhey ’ than any other State or Territory in tit Union. Again, sho has no public d' ht On January 10, 1S9Q, after every obi g*. tion.hqd. been paid, there was in' ier treasury §230,000; due, n’o doubt in scne;i measure,1 to woman’s economy in thenj ’ minor expenditures. And yet hereto- cational and. charitable institutions j®, well sustained. ‘ ■ ■ . o? - And now, Wyoming has been admit.; ted intp the sisterhood-Of States’with (t -.voman.suffrage provision in her consfi-’ tution. ” She has beep duly warned tljst this proviso would probably bloek her admission, but her wisist We will take the do* bfe women, .who have endured with jig the hardship of pioneer life, into tie Union .with us, or we will remain aTflc- ritory until there are manly Snenenougkil -lit' Congress to' admit ns ' together!” | Fortunately there was a sufficient' hu: her there already 'to pass tho bill though after much opposition and pri longed debate, in which the old plati­ tudes that have been' answored a huh. dred.times were made to do duty oncal more; The frivolous objections we heat]] on both sides of tho Atlantic in Eng-! land end America •alike, are un-j worthy of gentlemen who . have hadj the advantage of collegiate education,!: drilled in science, philosophy, historyj and logic. It is fair to suppose that] O^rcw.fbulibi-Jb ' WltbW«iingb « ■ Bntaskterene »»« <,SncWV’W so v, Boatorwy blood, J « sot) my heart i» ^Aristxe Andcrs<>n ' ii S i I » UpuciiinS’ L it! 1 - Johnston chance^for politicians said: they present the best arguments they | can find, bonce we tnust attribute-’their !| failure, not to any. lack of, native strength, hut to the paucity of /the ma­ terial ,at hand on that side of the ques­ tion. - The history of Wyoming shotild close the debate on this subject, as wo now have abundant facts of long standing to contradict all'the absurd suppositions and ■soul-harrowing prophecies of the opposition; • s * * * * * * # * * In . his- last speeoh giyon-at llarvariki Coilogo, Wendell Phillips,-or -prophet;"I oratpr and seer, in speaking of the (leg- tiny of woman, aai'd! “The first glimpse wo got of fjaxon blood in history is that lino of Tacitus- which reads, ‘In all grave ‘‘^natters wo consult our women.’ Years hence, when robust Saxpn sense has flung away Jewish suporstition-and Eastern projudico^and put under its foot fastidious, scholarship and squeam-’ ish fashion, somo second Tacitus from tho valloy of tho.Mississlppi will answer to him of tho seven hills,- ‘In all grave matters wo consult our women.’ This prophecy, mado only nino years ago, Is already fulfilled. Tho statesmen of Wyoming have indeed echoed backfroia under the very dome of our capitol that “ in all grave matters wo c(insult onr women;" yea, more, beyond thp valley ,] of tho Mississippi thoy have planted* 1 republic 'where tho niatriarchate, of mother age, shall bo realized once more. Though by inheritance we wouldshare .in all the conquests of our fathers, from their landing on Plymouth Rock until now, though rightful heirs of North America from sea to sea, yet wo gladly yield it all for that holy land, called Wyoming, redeemed from tho great A--, A’ter the tdasis < btfnBtown ‘corresp hmcraft Club on ? ■jft-n reminiscence! .yes remark hr* IwaP-’ H* IIastilv tiKbenefactor of b 1 Johnstown, .had b |N«v York,: a .storv l'tb(Ugh it has waiu l-’teling, has the R [ oil nowly-pHiekc •ttqk new odor of fjfm a talo of thmgh the hero b .fithe way the Geri -‘I t was the nigl ,Iiad arrived on fine before, after j^sr thomountain [ jorrible thing da Uwn anyhow, an fight, and the woi ktandi-ng on the [plain and the sm- jbridge, saying not Uhink, Presently (pieces of wreck to i'We could see eac l ot the toughest b i.inmy life,, and it- [jsnd dirty’and mis ’ attention.,in Jol ground'until-ho can, and in it he ttiefire and ban said, when he ha- *“ I suppose yt “We always m that to a strange [■the onlynatural “ ‘No/sald'.-luv “ ‘You belong “ *Nop,’ said h< ‘“ Got friends! ... “ ‘Nop.’ ' “ ‘Look here,' anyiiow?’ , “ ‘Well,’ he sm j they ceil a tram ' “ Then he seei said; “ •I’ll toll yd- work in moro’ n pened to come n-‘j it just knocked people with not holp ’em, an’ .1 knew it. I ain- all I could, an* ’] now as long as J ‘ o l ... ..... “ I sort of, toi low at that^am c that if ho’£ cor next day I’d g Ho was on ham y Jbo said ho did v/e tied a wliiti hat, marked A tors, and told tho dead. Y>“ that was, hul.1 how, and he d ment. After a ,j ho was one of * waS'patlenl, ii r‘ as faithful s " shirked a tasi-1 flowing and at the samo time extend ! around the globe. Wo have tho ingCnl- * ous conclusion also that, supposing tho little, ones grow up, and the sexes bo equally divided, wo would have an army 100 times larger than that of Groat Britain and a wife for each soldier be­ sides. Tho same writer, looks at the matter In a still more picturesque light. Ho imagines tho babies being carried past a given point in their mother's arms, oho by one, and tho procession boing kept np night and day until the last comer in tho twelfth month had passed by. A sufficiently liberal rato is allowed, hut oven in going past at tho liberal rato of twenty a minute the reviewer at his post would only have scon tho sixth part of this infantile host after they had been passing him at' tho rate of 1,200 an hour during tho entire yoari In other Words, tho babo that had to ho carried when the tramp began would bo able to walk when., but a more fraction of its comrades had reached tho reviewer's post, and when tho year's supply of balfies was drawing to a'close there would !>o a rear guard, not of infants, hnt of romping six-year-old boys and girls.—Sk Louis Globe-Democrat, —-i’rof. Mebra, of Vienna, used often to express himself in this wise: “ It Is necessary that there should bo surgical geniuses, but don’ t ever lot a surgical genius operate on you.” that “dat old hen had so much sense she musu’ t bo kilt, even for Marso Ran.” When the raiders came the good old eoolc hail stuffed the hen into an empty box In tho kitchen. There the wise bird staid (vifhoufc making a sound for thirty-six hours, wondering, no doubt, ’ vhatrinnde the night so long. When she was released she Jound herself “ mon- areh,of all sho surveyed." Every other domestic animal on the place had gone tho way of all flesh. . But though there was ho poultry for it, the preparation of the Christmas box went on. In ono corner was put a little hag of cloudy-looking salt. Randolph had said in his last loiter that If there were always salt, the cprn-pono or hard- parched corn would not he so bad. This salt was a triumph of Confeder­ ate Ingenuity. All tho largemoat-houses had a floor of earth, over which tad been cured and bung the meat used on tho plantation for generations- These dirt floors were dug tip and tho earth boiled in largp kettles until all the salt was ex­ tracted. Several wagon-loads of dirt produced a few quartsof.the precious, powder. » Our box was filled at last with ono tiling *and another, and seemed* to our poor confederate eyes very complete when the chinks had been stuffed with sweet-potatoes and liome-khit gloves slid-stockings. The bog was done, but therewere no me? “ I did.” "You claim, to have important now?s" “ I have, General." “Well; out with it.” “ Well, General, you'know they.brand Government mules and liorsfcs?-’ “ Yes.” I “ And that some of tho hoys who got an animal try to efface the brand an! sell him?” ' t “Yes.” “ But they make a poor job of It,” . “ UmP “ Well, now, General, I’ve got a dead sure thing on that brand business. I can lake ono off in a week and never turn a hair. My proposition is this: Got Captain B. to Withdraw lfis charges and I’ll not only give you my receipt, but I’ll agree to steal and sell one hun­ dred mules a month and give you half the profits.” . The General didn’t brain him on the spot, but the offer added an extra year to tho sentence ..of the court-martial.— N. Y. Nun. ON THE SKIRMISH LINE. T ub Cedar Crook haltle-ground, in Virginia, has been bought by tho G. A. R. Tiriifm are how 575 camps of S. of V. in the United Stales; charter mem­ bers, 11,550; actual membership, about 150,000. order and fowuyfsraTp^ fights were usual, and oven the use of fire-arms was frequent; fraud and vio­ lence marked tho elections. And yet, the first time carriages rolled up to tlie polls loaded with women to vote, that rough pioneer crowd fell hack in line, hats iti hand, and maintained a respect­ ful silence until the women .had voted. Their influence was fell, too, in the qhoico of candidates; they invariably opposed the nomination of men of im­ moral character and bad habits. In the courts, women discharged their duties- with wisdonj^ and discretion. Esther Morris, as justice of tho peace, presided for two years, maintaining tho most orderly court in.the Territory, and nono of her decisions owero ever re­ versed. As hirers, too, they were reasonable and conscientious, holding their senti­ ments and emotions in abeyance to tho evidence. Even in a murder case, where much anxiety was expressed lest Women Should ho governed by their feelings, their verdict was strictly in line with tho testimony. Tljcy felt tho responsi­ bility in deciding on a human life, and carefully roviowed tho testimony again and again, and after a prolonged and serious consultation, they were unani­ mous in rendering tho verdict “guilty.” Misi} Anthony and Tin company visit­ ed the Territory in 1871, and saw the women who had filled these various of- mo/it. It is a small spor~we~uw,nrtv;^~ pared with the vast possessions that should bo ours; but'Palestine-on tic eastern map looks' smaller still, yet tfifc great doctrine of'human equality wM uttered there by Him whoso life was one great sacrifice. Through all these centuries, that thought wafted by winds and waves round and round tho glow, has found no living echo to its truth-mi- til now. Wyoming answers back, and - the daughters of people who havo ftlsb touched the depths of scl'Psacrifico.havo come up through great tribulations to join in tho chorus, "Equal Ilight9 to All.” 4 , Tho Saxon raco is destined, I boliorS, to carry .the new gospel of women’s equality to all tho nations on tlio earth. Thus far, England and America bar* kept pace, step by step, in this direc­ tion, and 1 venture to predict that tho sunlight now shining on tho moun­ tain tops of Wyoming, will soon gild tho venerable dome of St. Paul’s. The pilgrims of the future will not he mourning saints weeping around th« sepulchers of the dark past- hut a happy multitude, seeking westward tho o?it ’bright star In our constellation W J States; rejoicing in a risen humanity, redeemed from poverty and ignorant*, and free from tie- halefpl spirit of t**« and class; to 'llv' evermore under * truly parental government, a unit* head, equal in power and glory,. ~Vli»3 HUi'lT tv? . we organized | to put him on " | him; Rii "What's v. ’!‘j “ *Oh, jus* said; ‘ that’ ll 1 "So as Jim *' and that wa V ** v « v , knew him by about headqt and of forty-1*'1 I was in Ji' Steady, ban honest roan i-*1 Were-there. Set to do so nncomplaini. to think a goot ih appearsr citizen, bur sick and So!’ d deal of his more refln 1<| didn’t thinly- Ward “ One dm ' paid off, an had had sir , “What lie- dim?” ! asl jo ‘Wen, know I ah fw ttsed to ha- r, •fits and r. i^i