The Oregon daily journal., June 25, 1905, SECTION TWO, Image 14

THE OREGON SUNDAY , JOURNAL, PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING..: JUNE , 25, , 1905.
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. PrSrarn for National .'.
r" WoraanSuffrage; Convention, !
- flie National Woman Suf rrage asso
'elatlon meets in ihle-rtty June To
, . week's session and will Bring to ron
i ih miui nromlneiit vmen
. . i . from all portion of the United States
A very elaborate ana raKrnum pra-
' gram ha been prepsnjfd. on wmcn are
- the ntmw of agtes.of -the beat men and
1 , women ieaker to be founT InUie
-i i-eotiirtrvr The nieetlnga wwba beldln
; -ha Firat CongrwtUmal churchy. Park
,nd Mudlion streets. ,tm program
t.'-': 1 oeni wUira meetmg or the executive
- tbmmltteo at the Portland hotel on the
.-.... eVe.nJrg gfyjune z, roiiowea uy
next mornliiw at the same,, place. The
executive committee la eompnead-of th
general loriicerar-onairmrH ui .!...,,.
'' ; committee, presidents of ststs organl
latlgp ..and, one member appointed by
each state organisation.- ,
-At the day meetinaa -report oe off!
"'il' rera.. chairmen of committee and State
-Tceeldente will be made and aiaouaaaa.
' All lona are open td the public x
- the- jneetrnra f the aeutlv O0v
::' mjttee.. '. i - '.'
' The meetlnga Jpen at :4I a. mt at
' ; o'clock and o'clock p. m.
On the first afternoon there will be
Kreetlnira from the Oregon Equal Right
association. National Council of :Wnen,
V-TCatlonaT W.jfc. T.W.. National Orage.
' National Federation of Labor. National
Charltle and Correction. Ladle of the
T i Maecabcea, - Faderation of ; Women
--flubs. Woman' Henry Oeorg league.
National IV A? R. and National Foreftry
, association with response front the
:- great leader. Buaan R, Antaonrv - -
In th evening addresse of welcome
-- Will give by Ooveenef-Ghamberlaln,
' Mayor William and Jeffern-Myer In
, behalf Of th Lewi nd ,Wark exposl
tlon and by Abigail rcot. Dunlway In
' tfehalfof the-'ploiteer of the-nortb-
V Mr. Carrie Chapman Catt. vlce-prea-."Ident
of the aoclatlon. will respond,
f-" Ti.h Ppv. Anna U. Shaw, presl-
; ."''Identof thr association, will lv herj
Friday, Jun H. has been selected as
Woman's dar t the eapoaition, when
;tnera will be'greetlnrSilroni U gpv
roof of th fur states where women
ire- enfranehUed.- Mrt- Mayor.Woc"of
' , Idaho will respond. - . r',4 w
Th But Federation of CIiB, the
W. C,T. Cthe T. W. G. JA.;-the
LWoman'Medlcal asaoclation and th
-;: A. R. will extend greeting, which
: ; will be responded to by Dr. Baraq .Ken.
,7 dall of Waahlngton. Thlgvwlll be fol
lowed by hort, addree by Alice Ston
'Tlackwell. Maaaachusetta. secretary Na
,. tlonat Woman Suffrage , association;
' r illss Ilairlet - May Mill. .New lork,
erganlaer New York Stat Woman Suf
- frage asBocla,tlon; - Mr, . Mabel Craft
. '" , Peering. gan-Franclsco newspaper and
; snagaaln writer; Mrs. Lucia A me Mead.
Massachusetts, prominent - worker for
peace, and arbitration, and . France
i ' ,Wood, South Dakota. ' S
v. Rev. Anna, . Shaw will conduct a
:-- ' Question box." The meeting will'b fol
lowed by a reception In the Oregon tjate
.building.. , ,..-...,!' : '
; r Sunday service will be held at 4
- ' o'clock. July 2. conducted by Elinor
" Gordon of De Moines. Jowa. assisted by
'- R4;v. Anna H. Hhaw and Rev. Marl Jen-
- tiey How Of Cleveland, Ohio.''.
On th evening of July appropriate
. xercla , wilt be held in the church,
With Mrer.""Carri Chapman Catt a th
- orator of the dayMrt Charlotte Per-.
-. , kin Cfllman. will read n original poem.
- ' snd.MIs M&ry S. Anthony the woman'
aec1arattn of Independence of 1S4S. -Among
Uie speakers who will be beard
. . .re Susan B. Anthony, honorary presl-
' dent,! arid Carrl Chapman Catt of New
' Tork. president' of the ; International
Woman Suffrage alliance. Rev. Anna
It Shaw of Philadelphia. Pennsylvania,
. prealdent of th NatlonaU Woman Suf-
- ' "frare association: lira Marv C. C. Rrsd-
ford of Cblnrado, president of th 8tat
Federation of, Women' Club; Miss
" Laura Oregg of Nebraska, national or
' ganlEer; Mr. Ellis Meredith, news-
, paper correspondent . . and , magailne
writer of Denver; Mrs. Mary A. Chase
of New Hampshire, national orga"nlaer";T'
; .linv Florence Keiley, New Tork, aecT-
tary National Consumer league; Mra.
' "Mary H. Klncaid of th Lo Angeles
V Herald; Mr. W. 8. IT Ren. Oregon City;
' Judg Stephen A. Lowell, Pendleton,
f Oregon; Mr. Ella 8. Stewart. Chicago,
-Illinois,' Mr. Marlon-. Baxter, Beattle,
' Waahlngton, editorial writer for the Se
r , attl Tlmelnd provincial commander
y of the Ladles of the Maccabees of the
EWorld: i.i. wood Portland, orgoH-f
,'Rer.. Antoinette , : Brown v Blackwell of
; New Tork, oms"br th earliest pioneer
eft" the movmntr-Mrs. Maud Wood
-. I in 1ln' Louisiana .ygrchaee" 1
H JL '. Bv William Salter. ' Thla U
one of the. book that acts as
, a strong sldellsht to .Ulomlne the com
t plet history tf th' United Btate. which
.1 growing smore Interesting and re
markable as the years roir around and
-thff-atupndoflT7lasr"df" Its upbuilding
I ' Grossm of Some Current Boolcs '
'- 1 -7 ))
f . .. . become hefted known.
t '"( Ir.'alter'a book begins with th4 di.
I early discovery of the upper Mississippi
i "i ; wben Marquette snd Joliet gilded. In a
' ji " b,rcn eanoe,- froraj the Wisconsin, river
into the ."Father of Waters." June 17,
. i 17-' and end In. lM, when President
-: f. , f Polk signed the bill by which Jpw
Vj became the th state of the American
1 j Union and 'the fourth state-'created out
ef the Loullana purchase. . Iowa, Ilk
' 1 every state of the Union, has -Its In-
y. i dividual history and no one la better
qualified d present ra romance land. It
I ,J tragedy. Its history and Its building,
f than Dr.i Baiter, as - he Is generally
' : recpRDlsed as the highest authority on
the history and development of -Iowa,
It Is doubtful whether any man -now
J living haa been so closely Identilled with
1 in aiiairs 1 or so long a period, (about
v ' 9years) and certainly , few. are, better
known" In ibis native-Mate.
r1 Th author throughout the book tW-'
I veiop. a remarkable 'faculty for pre-
; senung almost rorgottenr facts In such
- ( a manner ae to show how indispensable
- j i ora of ,h mo,t trlvl4-iivetltsvwere
V'tn reartnr the whole efrocture of state
' (hood and bringing It In aa a free ((
f . In ithe earliest days of discovery unless
i gold ad lllver rrtlled Into the coffers
jl -7 of aha 'Spanish snd French the lend
of little account, so the, future
4 com-producere t the worlS found
- very little favor with , even1 such far
llahted men ss Marquette and Joliet, and
the whole T -Iowa, like all that vsst
'region of the middle wet, lay fallow
j until th Leulstsna purchase, snd .until
jlwls snd Clsrfc had traversed It rivers
and plain, eieept for the raisin a of a
'vallaat foe which. as Foxes tsnd tiara
' - . Ja later searrto meet the pleneeraJ
Rra&V
Carrie Chapman Catt,. Vice-Preaident.
" ; ' ': ' - . .. , - ciation.'' -;
Park. Boston; Mrs. Mabel Craft Deerlng,
San Franciaoo. California; Mr.. Henry B.
Blackweil, Boston. Massachusetts, sen
ior editor of the Woman' Journal: Miss
Oall ' Laughlln, national organiser ' and
speaker; W1"S Frances Qrlffln. president
Alabama - Stat) , assoclatlsn; Charlotte
Perkins oilman,, New xora; wr. I nar-
lotte B. Wllbour, New TOTk, president
Borosl;Mrs. Mary J-. Coggeshall. Iowa,
president Iowa State association; Wll
II Dunlway and Rabbi Stephen 8. Wise
of Portland, and Mrs. Ida Jlusted Har
per. .. . ;.7 ' ' j -
Lucy E. Anthony ' ' " ',
la a Clever Buine Woman. .
Tltwe'-la- perhaps no worker In the
suffrage ranks about whom so little Is
known a there 1 of-Mia Lucy E.
Anthony.- Th reason tfor this. Is (hat
Miss Anthony accomplices all "that in
ha to do in th quietest and most -un
ostentatious manner. She Is a niece of
Susan B. Anthony,' and- much of herM;ou,v fommltte of the Massachusetts
childhood and young glrlhOod-wa spent
n th home of her distinguished aunt.
For several Vear sh ha been asso
ciated with Rev. Anna Howard Shaw as
private secretary, and In'thl capacity
sh arrange for Miss Shaw's lectures
all -ever th country. Sh I also Mia
Bhaw's hodaekeeper, and In the domestic
arts .ahe . excels, For some yeara he
ha been chairman pf th committee on
local arrangement for the national' as
sociation. Mis Anthony ha, traveled
quite extensively In our own country
and abroad. - SheVwIll attend the Inter
national. "Council of Women at Berlin In
th sp"rlng '.n company with Rev. Anna
If. Shaw.- .. : , . -
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Alice Stone Blackwell --r
Recording Secretary of SqcietyrV-s-
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Alice Dione oiacBweii. or many years
recording , secretary of the . National
Woman Suffrage . association, Is . the
daughter of -Lucy Stone and lienry B.
Blackwell. known the world over for
their . progressive Ideas. andV work re,
behalf of all kinds of reforms that tend
to make the world better, and especially
tn the'WMl'ment for woman uf frage.
m lies her parents moved to Boston
hlohl
ha always been the official organ of the
suffragist" ...
ah wii fitted for college at Chauncy
and make up so much ot the history of
the state.
these Indian1 wa'rs pr. Salter de
votes much of his book, and as the
state "Bt Iowa lay-right In the pathway
of. western emigration? a-knowledge' of
Its history Is necessary to properly un
derstand later events. The period of
greatest- Importance.- howeverm the
history of the etate snd hers the author
shows himself a master In presenting
sttustions was the time Just prior to
Its -admission to statehood. At .the time
Lot - the' Louisiana purchase slavery had
a. ban set upon It and' It avas beginning
to'he a mooted, question, although -the
geographical, line of , demarkatloh bfr
tween free and ,s)ave states somewhat
shifted before It. became a national
Issue. " t -ft. .
Oa; this period of Iowa's history Dr.
Baiter dwells .with piuch interest and
st some length, quoting largely from
congressional records snd jpewspspers of
the day. and giving manyv facts almost
forgotten. Whea Iowa waa ready- for
admission' ' they were - beginning with
JeaVous' ' foresight, snd - perhaps po
litical -intrigue 'to' -pair ' states, . or at
least to ad vooat -thla .plan aa had been
ddne wlth Main and Missouri, and when
Iowa applied Tor admission II was tha
opportunity fo Florida, walch, had been
for -seven year knocking at the 1 door
qf the Union to entift The bill ap.
provlfit theadmlssuw; ef : these two
states - was the last 1 act - of President
Tyler'e administration, . but hpw lit the
end-Iowa failed and -through a disairee-
f meet qv$Xbfundary -line allowed even
Texas to "precede It. Into the Union-Is
on - ef the most" Interesting features
of pr. 1 Baiter's book-, vend shows the
gigantic contest ..between" et4e loyalty
and political manlpjilatlon. , .
, The' whole 1 history fs characterised by
completeness. It Is leas than K0 psges,
but an Immense amount-of Information
hae been condensed tnte Its few pages,
and In a way gltogether satisfactory
and readable. It eonUlne about (S
cellent lllustratlone and mad iof early
times; Its portraits ef the builders of
the etele are unususiry tood( and some
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National Woman Suffrage Aito-
-r ' : v
hall, a famous eld school,. which then
had hundreds of bdV for pupils an
fltting for Harvard, Vale, etc., and only
about a seer of girl.:: She took a prti
for -the beat English . ceAVKrifrHon. also
s8eclBl prjle for knowledge of flhoke
speare. defeating the present lieutenant
ovwnar of Massachusetts, Genera)
Cuftle Quild, who stood second. :. , .. .
: tien she entered Boston university
there was but on other girl in her class
At the clou of the first year ahe-was
elected ' claas president. .. Sh also be
longed to the college debating society,
where she -wss at th Ireai?. Ex-Governor
Bates and several member of the
Massachusetts legislature,, and the editor
of th most widely circulated paper in
Boston." end' some prominent divine,
were among her college companions.
un graduated with honorMn Jl
went to work th sama vear halnlhr h
pnt edftWis Woman' Journal. nd
ha worked, at It and at uffrace work
ever since. She -to ehartnsm--of,-tlMri
and New England. W. 8. A s. and sine
IMS' sh edited .the WomsnJa Column In
addition, to helping edlt the Woman's-f
Journal. tlh I also a member of th
New England Women' Pre associa
tion, r ,-. .: , :., : . .
Antoinette BrBwji Blackwell N
Pioneer Woman'i Work.
. The Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell
began platfosu work In 1S4S. In. 1847,
In 1 comrjnfv-wlTh Lucy Stone, she con
ducted k" discussion In the presenco of
a pro4esor and the senior claas of
Oberlln college, and thet year prepared
an exegesis, giving a , new- interpreta
tion to St. Pauls teaching concerning
women. - yvi f-
: Ih, IJ4l whenfr. 'Stntorf. cjiSled th
first .woman's right convention, Miss
Brown -had nearly completed a year of
th .regular- theological jjcourserwith a
class of men shd. on other woman, Let
tlce Smith 'riolrtles. In 1S58 ah took
her degree rrnd began, preaching a op-
Lfiortunlty offered ,Th same yeaf "she
-attended the rirst national woman
rights cohvsntlofl.' alnce which time she
has been publicly Identified with, th
woman suffrage movement.
In mi
In South Butler. New TorK; in which
she wan ordained by a united council one
year later. Soon after tht she legally
ere comparatively new and unfamiliar.
A. C. McClurg it Co. Price, $1.20.
"How to Know r Wild
FrutU" By
Maud Orldley Peterson. Out of the
author's own . experience arose the
Inspiration t'o write her book. On
a carriage ride' through he brilliant
fall woods, a fter 4 ketlowerln g Reason
hsd passed and-th rich fruits were
left, ' her attention was called to on
particular yarlety, which wks beautiful
oui wnicn naa neitner nowcr nor lear to
indicate It family All available field
book failed to give her the Information
necessary to determine what It was. and
an analysis proved no more satisfac
tory.' Peraistent reading only developed
the reagerness of -(the description of
fruit and it was the difficulties that
confronted her In Identifying her precious
And 'that suggested the present beok.'" ln
her preface sh ssys: "I have attempted
to deaj with those plants only which
bear, .attractive colored fruits. These
fruits are the most noticeable lonea;
they do not In most, cases develop until J
the blossoms have disappeared, and they
naturally fall Into a class by them
selves, being adapted ' for the same
method of eeed dispersal. The list will
Kaaturally Include, herbs, shrubs and
trees Vl. . and under each family
the spedles are grouped by colore, H .
ins oraer -or arrangement or the plant
families, follows that of Engler 'alfa-l
Prantl. The nomenclature and arrange
mnt-of species is- essentially that of
Brltton and Brwn The additional
name le that-used In Gray's, sixth edl
tlon. In the classification ot the black
berries I have .followed the general plan
of L. If. Bailey, who has made 4 recent
and careful study 4f them ."' '
Thus It will be seen that the' plan
ITM scope of the worktl carefully eon
eelved anditha pagea that follow eon
clualvelV affow that lit th execution of
the work the author' haa paid the eame
careful attention te system and detail.
. A carefully prepared stable, of defini
tion and a euld to plant Itf atart one
to readme the subject matter with ease
and Interest and -put pne oa Intelligent
iisass H ! aVsssl
tolned In. wedlock theirat c,opl marj
rled by a woman. ' - '".'
'Until about 160 ahe frequently mad
rcturtn trip -with Mis Anthony, -wod
has never given up, during the 49 years
sine sh made her first public speech,
lthar pulpit or platform wonk.;
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Harriet May Milla i . . .
Ia a Reformer by Birth, r I..'--. ..
. lUla. Harriet May Mill Of Syracuse,
New York." organlaer" nd lecturer for
the New Tork State rwdman'e. Burfrag
association, ha a' charming personality
and 4 rapidly coming to,', th front.
Added te her fln advantage,1sh ha a
rich berltago In belnar'the daughter of
rhri. Am R. Milla of Hyrteusei tn
author. By birth and education she 1 a
reformer, ak, , tnrougn i aer iinimwi
hAr- home ws a canter f er th lec
turer and worker In reform and liter
ary r line. L.VLrj muu,
Anthony. Fredertck Douglas and many
nthar wall known men'1-and -women
gathered et.th Mill fireside. Sh was
coeducated from th beginning tn' the
primary echool td Jer traduatton at-Cor
nell 'unlveralty In 17.
She taught for everai year ai iwo
choot In Syracus.; During that tim
ah. organised with 'Mr. Mary E. Bagg
th Byracu urownmi ,uo, wphu
now' th -oiae! ciuo .!
exlatenc. , ' ' ;
-.After, a yearpf , travel abroad r4
ome newspaper work in Boston and
elsewhere. Mis, Mill became an active
worker In th woman suffrage move
ment. For four year sh w record
ing secretary ef th (New York. Btat
ffraa assorlatlnn. lnlSf hwas
mad organlaer and lecturer, which of
fice h h lnc filled with marked
ability and wrowina popularity; -
.-uf m. at . at
Carrie Chapman Catt . ;
Ia a Splendid Orator.
A an orator Mra.: Carrie .Chapman
-. .vioK-nrasldent of the National
Woman Suffrage asaoclation, hae hardjJL
a peer among men or women. j
- Mra. Catt was born In Wisconsin and
educated In Iowa After her graduation
from calleg h Decam prmii
the high school In Mason City. Iowa,
from which position aha was soon- pro
mote tt that of city superintendent of
.bMi. . ... in llll she married Leo
Chapmaru who died a few month later.
8he then-moved to Ban Francisco,
where she engaged in Journalistic work.
Jn 1 h entrd tn iectur noiu.x
In 1S h mrriea wwiiti "
of New York, president of thr Atlantie,
Qulf and Pacino engineer and contrac
tor. Her husband I in TUir sympamy
with her work and believe In th rlght-
punevf the cause which h advocate.-
V"1-'!' .'. -' -
In 190TMr. Catt ueceeaea miss An
thony as president - of th National
Woman Suffrage association, and for
the paat four year ha devoted her time
and energy, aa wall a hr money, to
th cau.--- v "
Her health av!ngrnecomomwnat
rpaired, ah resigned from th presi
dency of the national association at
their convention In : Washington thl
wlnten but was mad vice-president.
that the national board might not b de
prived of her counsel and wisdom,
. at .t t ,r
Charlotte Perklna Gilman "-
Has
Many
Varied Gifta.
Charlotte Perkln Gilman 1 In the,
front rank 6f the younger, woman fit
action. ' She began to wrice at am early
age, but her real werR' began In Cali
fornia In ltl. " "i.
Her splendid intellectual power 1 de
rived from an ancestry that Includes
Henry Ward Beecher (her granduncle)
and Harriet Beecher 8 to we i while en
her mother' side is aome of th strong
est and purest New England - t,ock,
whicjt may b traced back to fighter
and orator protectorate . dsyiMn bid
England. - , v
Not only In 'th realm of thought 1
Mrs. Oilman a succesf but In all sorts
of work that have been considered spe
cially feminine. On on occasion when
she was stoppingat Bird Tfliff. a resort
for artists, on the upper Hudson,, the
cook was disabled, and Mrs. Oilman,
equal to th emergency, went Into th
kitchen and skillfully prepared th din
ner for the 40 guests. v
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Kate it. Gordon
HarAVorked far iW TOrleaha;
MS-
Mis Kate M. Gordon of New Orleans,
corresponding secretary of th Nstlonal
terma pf fhtlmacy with explanations that
follow. . - , -;
Each plant the writer takee up for
treatment Is described by fruit, .leaf and
flower, with a brief general description
of th plant a It appears "Ta a whole
and almost every one Is Illustrated by
a clear, distinct plcture,whlch. If prop
erly? studied, under the guide that the
4 author furnishes, never could be mis
taken' no matter In what woods It might
be found. The writer uses the elmplest
and most familiar names for plants and
trees, but does not eschew entirely th
botanical and scientific names,- as they
are appended In every case, eo the book
eervea-foe-the-erre1itejrres--wll--e- for
the amateur who roams the-woods and
delve Into Its mysteries for his own
pleasure only, to those who, like the
author, have - heretofore eearched In
vain for Just thia kind of Information
thia book will be a mine ot enlighten
ment. . Macralllan Qo. -Price, - ll.SQ, .
"Justin Wlnsjate, Ranch man" By
John H. WhltMh.. This Is. as the title
would Suggest, a story of western ,raneb
life. A deaerted boom village returns
nn re to lta form-m rkirv. and the
small orphan", J u at In Wtjigate. forme a
strong, clear-cut- character, and about
this .personality circles others of-greater
or less msgnttude.
The book deals with local, political
conditions, while th cattle man and -the
farmer each show's his. own side of the
serious questions- of,, fencing, feeding.
etc. Justin wingate-goesto tn legisla
ture' snd the scheming and Intrigue are
Intensely ' Interesting snd st times al
most thrilling. The hero plays a man'
part and satisfies the most . (anguln
expectations of th reader. The whole
story Is a rare combination of love and
politics, with a graphlo picture of west-
f" '. ' i..- : . . . -ll
w riier. line srii-iiv. irv urKinniiis
turn their eyee to the west tor original
subjected they see in it a charm, a free
dom, a romance that hae grown weak
snd blsse In other directions, but th
great unfamiliar-west of fere a temp tin
Ltleld, with lte -ranchmen, Ite -mountain
men ana ite cowboy to furnish subjects
worthy the pen or brush Into It, how
everj like the servants ef old "many
ere -felled but few are chosen"; or to
be plsln, ..many Tattempt the portrayal
of this particular phase of Anierlren
life or scenery, but few succeed In-surrounding
their work, with thst brsclng
buoyant Atraospher,. the llgtate and
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Rev. Anna H. Shaw, President National Woman Suffrage Asaociatloiu.
Suffrage" association, ha gained a na
tional reputation through her splendid
work "In behalf of better sewerage ana
drainage in New -Orleans.- 'cnzir
The 'last Louisiana' constitutional con
vention gave taxpaylng women the right
t'4 vote on all . question submitted to
the taxpayer. New Orleans was 1 at
that-time almost th only American city
ot-tta Ue without underground sewer.
In consequence It was often seourged by
epidemics, and again and again It was
the gat by which ellowfeverntered
the south. Soon after they were en,
f ranch laed the taxpaylng women of New
Orleans carried a proposition to levy a
special tax to provide' the olty wltn
underground sewer, Improved drainage
and a pure water supply. Every effort
to secure thla piece of lmprover sani
tation had failed, till the women wer
given a vete upon the question, and after
th victory th New Orleans paper
were unanimous in declaring 4hat -"the
women did It." .
at. t t .
Laura Cly Belonge ': '
To Diatinguiahed Familyj f ,
Miss Laura Clay is a native of Ken
tucky, her ancestors, originally..- from
Virginia and Maryland, having settled
'rtflere before It became a state.
B fie Is a daughter of Caaalue Clay and
a distant relative ot enry .uay. j uev-
ral of the member of th Henry Clay
family belong to the .Kentucky Equal
Right association. When th Ken
tucky "Equal Right - association .-.was
formed in 1888,,jghe was mad Its presi
dent. This association haa succeeded In
securing grfeat Improvements In th
law concerning women, notably those,
touching the., property right of married
women . and one requiring women phy
sicians in trieam asylum where women.
are tree teal
,So'n c:X"aa TrtrJ
farm In Madlaon
tract which her grandfather, General
Green Clay, took up under the land lawa
of plpneer times. She has been an audi
tor, of the National American Woman
Suffrage association since 189.
Dr. Cora Smith Eaton
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Has Long Been a Suffragist.
Dr. Cora Smith Eaton has long been
a suffragist. .aDr Eaton is a graduate
of Boston university school of medl
cine and began
lajg'4
North Dakota, and was president of the
North Dakota Equal Suffrage .associa
tion 1S84-8. Her first Suffrage work
hade of th billowing prairie, th
Uehce of night It creep upon you,
or the hilarious Joy of th "round up,"
all' of which Is o much a part of west
ern Ufa.-, Of these few-who have suc
ceeded none haa taken a more conspicu
ous plscs In ths field of romance writers
than -Mr. Whlteon. His stories . ring
true through every change and he haa
caught the-intent end spirit of western
life as few have been able to do; He
haa not learned one feature of weetern
life, gone back to hie eastern library
to writs it up, believing he had seen
on" one small ranch all that was to be
learned, but1 he ha taken various atand
polnt, coming In touch with the many
Idee ot western life,- and thla on that
deals so Intimately with political Issues,
which are pnly known to the ranchman
and farmer, haa proven hi thorougn
knowledge and appreciation of condi
tlone In the west that have been a part
of -its upbuilding. Combined with a
pretty Jove story, "Justin Wlngate;
Ranchman," roust - find . Itself ,well
launched on the way tpoDHlarlty. . The
etory le Illustrated 'from drawing by
Arthur E. Becker. Little, Brown Cp.
Price 11.60. ,,
" 'X'kavee of ' Krdlinedge" By - Elm
MacOlbbon. Thla Is a brief, chatty
little chronicle of numerou tripe 'taken
by the author and information, gleamed
from th vartou place . h visited.
Mrs.- MaoOlbbon covers quit an area,
but devotee most Of her space to Oregon,
Washington, Montana and Idaho, though
giving" a goodly portion. to a trip to ths
far east, where ahe visited Washington,
New , York, Boston and, . the maritime
provlnoee. ' The' 6oolc le more conspicu
ous foe the close observations of ths
author and correctneee of Information
and statistic thaii for Its vivid descrip
tions' or pen pictures ot the country -she
travel through.--' In fact little Attempt
le' made 'to convey any Idea of the
natural features of the country and the
etyl le that ef one who aeee things
with a buslnsss eye end meaeuree them
up from a commerclsl, rsther than from
a sentimental and artistic, standpbtnt.
Mrs. MacOlbbon displays a remarkable-
faculty for grasping s,uuauooe quickly
and has a habit of drawing comparlaona
between placee ehe vlalte In euch a way
that en- Indelible Impreealon le left In
the mind of the reader; she Is elso
Bppreclstlv,e of aseoctstlons snd never
fslle to remember hlstorle ' fafts con
nected, with lace and people, and one
1 . .. t
We- '
at V ' lA 'ilt A"
. j
wag done in that'atate," where h a
atsted Henry J4. Blackwell of. Boston to
get school suffrage Into the constitu
tion wHenNurth Dakota became a stats
lii 188.J'dr the paat seven yeare ehe
ha been in active practice in Minneapo
lis. Her husband, Robert A. Eaton, Is
an 'attorney in Mtnneapolla.
Sht wa chairman--fit local arrange
ments for the Mlnneapoll convention In
1901. -That year'he-wa"lected Junior
auditor on th national board. Th foUJ
lowing year ah declined reelect Ion because-
of tba pressurs ef 'practice. . ,
; ;rv' at at at
Harriet Taylor Upton
Ia Zealoua and TactfuL". .. 1 . . -. v :
Mfs IlarrlcVaylor- Upton 'of Warren,
Ohio, hae served a treasurer of -the
National Woman Suffrage ' association
for many years, and Is universally loved
an admired.' She Is Llgo president jf
the- Ohio State Womao, . Suffrage asso
elation.. She is energeilo," sealous. tact
ful, and la -eald to possess a.remarkable
Inslghtxlnto 'human nature. Mr. Upton
1 a bortv. business woman,- with a won
derful capacity for looking arte- detalle.
She- is a member of the board of educa
tion at Warren. She hae contributed to
magaslnea , and newspapers, Esra B.
Taylor, her . father,, eucceeded- Oarfleld
"L.::"?,?:?. ".rv"r-
' r: ' n,r ,,lner
WAbI in CnnarrstsU. - nVi rai I'ntnii nnw neieiJ
chares of . the vast 7mAant'af
nected with the National Suffrage head
quarters which hae been removed from
New York to Warren, Ohio. ,
Elizabeth J. Hauaer
at:"" ' Society.
Mis Elizabeth J. Hauaer la secretary
In charge of the National -Woman Suff
rage headquarter at Warren. Ohio. Sh
I on of thos woroen who work for a
prlnclpl wKh never a thought of glory.
Previous to the removal of the . na
tional headquarters to Warren two yeare
ago Mis -HstrseV acted as sectary for
the notional treasurer, and had charge
of the books' of .the association. Sh
ha been chairman" IkF'th prea commit
tee of the Ohio Woman Buffrafe ao-l
clstion for several years. In which capac
43' BHJlW"1 W V(f JF' 'it 1498 0B S? Uti
When In her toens, without any news
paper training or experience, she efllted a
weekly paper In -fter own lUtle'sWa of
of the most entertaining parte of her
book le her travele over, the Baltimore
ds Ohio railway and the scenes she re
calls ae ehe passesover ths battlefields
and points mad hlstorlo during the
civil war. ."., " ,
In her travels through -the northweet
ehe also display this trait lh her writ
ings, but In one particular case rather
eettlea a very much disputed question
a little teo Jeremptortly. When eh
gete to Walla Walla ahe writes: Ths
people revere-the. name of that brave
and fearless missionary. Whitman, who
aved-the whole country then known as
Oregon, to the Amerlcsn government,"
and tn-a doen--or-so -lines gives- the
whole history of how It wss done. Port
land readera must warm td tha writer,
however. In the many kind things she
has to say of the.rJty,partlcularly when
ahe draw a "6nfparlson between the
rlty of Maine end It namesirkaa th
Willamette wholly complimentary to the
latter. W wlah the writer had choeeni'0' eplclnewa or Interest thst allures the
a title'. a little more descriptive. . Trder. Mr. Mclitn reaouae-T(1; book
"-Leaves of .Knowledge" is. to say. the
leat, ambiguous,'' and rather, ponderous
for so dainty a book and toot In, keeping
with the exquisite white snd sold bind
ing. Mrs. MacQibbn Is hsf own pub-.
nailer, ai 4. IV. u rir ST
, . & - : '
"iohq enry . Smith" By Frederick
Uplram Adams. This Is above -everything-Alee'
tnf out-of-door novel "or" One
mlght'elmost say, an entirely golf novel,
written with, the whlmalcal humor that
character1zedr-4Mi'. Ailama' first "atory,
"Tha Kidnapped ' Millionaire." ' Th
action of the-etory tskes place In ths
open and a lovs story.' develops on the
links. Millionaires, philosophical farm
ers, a remarkable hired man and a pretty
girl figure In the etory.., An Incidental
feature le a duel between a Fanhard
motor car and a bull. The book Is co
piously Illustrated. by A. B. Frost, who
had -done a remarkable1 group of picture
In that he carried out euccess fully ths
somewhat Unique Idea of making the
plcturea. appear a if drawn by h
narrator of the tory.
. .The author le a moat Interesting char
acter himself, few having had a mor
varied or strenuous -11 fe-.Jl ws born
In Boston, hie fsthsr being a watch man
ufacturer, and Frederick, having aif'in
ventlv turn of mind, became an expert
.aeelgner. He le an Inventor of more
than ordinary, ability And haa attained
a wide reputation, through -his patent of
Oirard with good umml"u)u'u.u..
Isdeeply interested Inf woman suffrage.
uui m 4 line tor society aa it appears
tilt V
Mary S. Anthony -i
Haa Won Many Honoi T " :
Miss Mary B. Anthony has won many
honors, and 1 entitled to a' ehaf e la all
the honors bestowed epon -her slater,
Susan B. Anthony. On "April . f lltf,
th Rochester Political Eaualltr cliib. of
which Miss' Mer. wss president, ar-.
ranged a reception In honor of her seven
tith birthday. - ' , . , - .
From l6T .fo llts he tagght in the
publifi chool.Many of the best cl ti
sane of Rochester once went to sohool
to her; and It le perhaps her Influence
upon those minds . and ' live that
she considers the most Important part
of her life work. She haa always been
Identified with the suffrage cause In
New York. For a number of yeare eh
wa corresponding secretary of the sUt
society, and for five year baa. been
president of the city Political Equality
at ; '
Mra. Ella S. Stewart '. - ; f.
Haa tha Pegree ol A. B ;
Air, Ella -Stewart of Chicago, one
oi me speaker of the Nation! Woman
Burrrage convention. Is a prominent
worker in th uf frage rsnka and leo-
lurer ror the-National w. C.-HV U.,
which off lea aha hae held for- 1ft var
Sh 1 also one of th trustee of Eu-
reaa. couge. jsureka, Illinois, ano seo
tary rthe reform department of the
Chicago Woman's club.
Mr. Stewart was bom In Illln'ol and
educated at Eureka college andT tff Unl
verelty of Michigan;-where - sha. re
ceived the degree of A, B. lit 1893. Her
husband. Rev. Oliver W. Stewart, la a
minister -In the Christian church and
also a prominent lecturer and prohibi
tion organiser. . ' '
Alice Stone blackwell" V: i , ,
: . - i - - wv . ...
An Encyclopedia on Suffrage". -i--
Alice Stone Black wall, for many: Veer
recording - secretary of th National
Woman Suffrage association, 1 th
daughter-ot Luey Stone and Henry B.
Blackwell. and la looked on aa a veritable
encyclopedia of knowledge by -bet co
woraera. - '.
v In llll her parenta moved til Boston
end started the Woman's -Jeurnali Bhe
was fitted Tor college at Chaunoy Hall,
a famous" old ' school - which ., then had
hundreds Of: boys a pupil and fitting
for. Harvard and Yalei-endenly-about
a cor of alrls. r Bh took a pre for
the .beat English composition (In' open,
competition with 'all these- boys); also
a special prlxa for knowledge of Shake
speare, ji. , ' jrr-.-r---- -v
Mary J. Coggeahall f 7
A Wonderful Organlger.
MrsrjUary J. Coggashall. areeldent' ov
the iowa (State Burrrage association,' la
one tst.the- most act Ireland prominent
suffraglsta In the state. She1 la a women
of noble and. gracloqs bearing. ' Her
lifelong devotion, tdauff rear plcee her
name . at the head of the pioneer
suffragists-of the state. Twenty-nine
years 'sgo she ; was Instrumental In
organising the Polar?otnty Suffrage
eoctpty. the-Slr.t local eoctety In Iowa,
and ha bpn If faithful aervltor vr
- .i
-Tf ,nci: "f 5 nd influence haa not
been confined to1 local work; her hand
of the state association Since. She has
been twice Ite president and many year
chairman or it executive committee. '
at at t I
Mra. Florence, Keiley '
Protecta Child Employee.... .
Mra.' Florence Keiley ha been for
year secretary of th Nstlonal Con
sumers' league, with headquarters (ni
New York-CIty,-and haa devoted? her
entire time to Investigation and organ.
Isatlon tn behalf of the Industrial work-
rTif the-United State, but. mote per-
tlcularly for the protection of the 'child
employes. She haa been the source
and mainspring of most, of; the wide
spread child labor legislation passed In
the United i-Btates. Mrs. Kslley wss
:0r ' of illltiule-ur '
year previous to her appointment, as l
-ecrviary ei lire aiionai consumer
league. -7 " . r-
barbed wire, harvest machines and elec
tric light towere, but Is probably -th
best known a the , Inventor of ."th
clgar-ehaped, train," designed to avoid
atmospheric resistance, which wea successfully-tested
la Baltimore four year
agoiv, .,; .
He'le an expert gelfer, ee "John Henry
fimlth" show, . and - now - occupies his
time by writing. Doubleday, .Page A
Co. Price 1.0. 1 , .; ;:,
Literary Notea.
"j!"B. - McLaln's .descriptive book.
"Alaska aitoH the Klondike!, aroueed sol.
much Interest among the, member otJhe
senate commlttee.xn" territories thsfef
fort wer mad to get , Mr. McLaln t(V
let the book be pnbllshed a a senate
document Mr. MoLaln,-however, had a
pardonable desire to have his book reed.
Government books hev not reputation
from practiesl oblivion and tave Jt-a
chance foV life by putting- It Into the
hands of a regulsr publisher. (MoClure,
fhllllD Ce.). with the, reeult that It
has achieve -a popularity and a aale
qurte 'eiaraordlnTy . for a hook of lta
claae'i... ' t ' 'i"-"j.
Th Olrl Faom Home." v It. was dur-,
Ing the time covered by the narrative In
Isabel fitrotig's Hawaiian storjrthat her;
mother and Robert Loula Stevenson
csme on their yacht "Csscp"- ta Join
her In Honolulu, and made the visit "to
Molokal. . of which Stevenson Jias Jef t
I rf.opr tn hlsveocount ofFather :Tmien.
ijnrs. Btrong rra'mw viviaiy, now, on
the day they left, King; Kalakaua, whom;
ahs mskrf 'so real a character In her
book, "came on' board, to eey ,ood-bye
and drink a etlrrup cup." , p
i Roy E. Norton of -thla "rlty he a
storv.'!'"Capt. BIII Slocum. -Retrlbutor."
Th the July Red "Book. Mr. Norton has
made a csrerui stuay, er odd types ia
sailor life end mining life on thle coast,'
snd lias" written Jnnny excellent stories
on subject lit" th coast -j-statea , and
AlaskW.;Thls htory ' gives a cleverly
written Insight into the rhtoter of
"DM nilL" a hard western tvne Who be
lieved In the eye-for-en-eye Justice.
Xoho of th Battle. . , ' '
Officer Where le the admlratf '"'
Orderly T regret to report that Ro-
jest-ventsky,
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