Evening Star Newspaper, March 24, 1888, Page 2

CT Ws as a —- Nae re | = THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C.. SATURDAYY MARCH 24, 1888—BDOUBLE SHEET. |THE WOMAN'S CONGRESS. —— to CITY AND DISTRICT. upon Congress, Though her visage ts Quaker-like, there fs nothing severe or repetiaat to wer or speech. She is always kind and thoughtful. In conversation or on the ‘she is ever ready LEADERS WHO CALLED THE 1N-| and bright, and ‘Those TERNATIONAL COUNCIL, Attached vo her. “As has been stated anaes lived the efforts todo injury fo er cates Program of the Week—The Opening He- | toss wid host strongly oppose the lgious Exercises To-morrow —The | treaties. Some years ate Female Preachers who will Conduct | Miss “Anthony. The ‘Them—Prominent Women who will | ference, and. Speak During the Week. THE DISTRICT LAWS, What is Said About the Proposed Com= Pilation, EXPRESSION OF OFTKION BY RECOGNIZED LRGAL AU- TRORITIRS—IN PAYOR OF COWPILATION—HUW OTR LAWS DIFFER FROM OTHER LaWs—THR JURT SYSTEM. ‘The House has passed a bill for thé compilation of District laws and tt is in the hands of the Sen- ate District committee, who are considering It. A ‘Stam reporter called on Judge Wylie the other evening to get his opinion as to the necessity for such acompilation. He had just received a letter from Senator Ingalls inclosing the bill and asking ‘his opinion as to the same matter, He had the Dill before him. WHAT JUDGE WYLUs samp, “The bill,” he said, “provides for the collecting togethet, the comptiation, of the laws, not for a codification. It authorizes the appointment by the Supreme Court of the District of a commission of three to make such a compilation and to report Yo Congress. It deals with the statute laws In force tn the District of Columbia, and does. not meddie with the common iaw. "A codification Would do away with the common law by reducing through their statute books: ‘Therefore be it resolved by the Citizens’ Repre- sentative Commitier of One Hundred that Con- urged to for a speedy codification ‘Uhe laws of the of Columbia, and that ap executiv~ committee be appointed to bring Unis matter to the immediate attention of Congress, -_ MEN WITH NIMBLE FINGERS, How the Artial Dodgers Get Their Start im Life. A TALK WITH A DETECTIVE ABOUT PROFESSION At PICKPOCKETS—THE VARIOUS DEGREES OF RXPRET- NESS—TRICKS TO WHICH THRY RESORT—MEN WHO ‘WORK WITH A “Mon, LAWN TENNIS. How a Scnate Commitier Spent Sunday im the Endina Territory. During last summer Senators Piatt, Citlom and Biackburn, under a resolution of the Senate, Visited the Indian Territory (0 investigate the dis. Position under the present adminb@ration of ip dian traderships, ‘The committee reached the Indian Territory at A very desirable season of the year and during the Pleasant weather. They managed to employ themselves in making tnqutries aboat traderships, ‘uutit in the due course Of days, aud bight: sunday came. Sepater Blackburn had been ——s. {he few persons ahout the feservacion who cou S English as to the streams to the vicinity and the Kind ‘of fish they produced. ile had learned that some of the flues! Dlack-bass streams In tae World were wiUhin easy reach, So he proposed to Des that they turn what would @her- Wise be a dtull Sunday into a day of recreation. UY angling. Hat Seuators Plait ana Culiom objected to Ashing on Sunday. Senator Biackburn argued ‘hal as Uhey were outside (he pale of civtitration, they Would ot be held to wirhet account abHliLy Lor observanor of Sunday laws. iis anguiucnts tailed ‘W move Lhe other (wo senators. BOW THE DAY Was aPRST. eBEe THR HANDSOME PRIZE POR THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF ‘THE DISTAICT—CLURS AND PLATERS IN WASHING- ‘TOM—SUCCESS OF THE SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. ti 3 | i Ed HI H ‘Tents players are stil! in winter quarters. They Are waiting for the frost tocome out of the ground. ‘They want to bear the song of the viue-bird, and 1 See the violets shyly nestling in the green grass. When they see these and other signs of spring they are ready to beileve that tho winter is over. Like a great many other people, they have no faith em crocuses. They saw their yellow beads in the Parks several weeks ago; but since then they re- ember the bitzzard, and tremble to think of the consequences if they had ventured out and had Deen caught in the icy clutches of the Dakota mon- ster, a 14 ¢ Year, she has resided tm Belmont, Allegany N.Y. She will return here, however, next autumn. ‘Mrs. ‘Sheldon’s petite form and interesting face are femiliar to ull who have attended the woman sut- trage conventions in this city. She has been one ne quiet and steady workers in the cause. She u tion of recor secretary Seven or elght Fears, ‘she was borin Cuba, Alle- i eoe Ee? i “How do professional pickpockets nuke astart?” asked a Star reporter of a deweetive the other day. “He begins,” answered the detective, “by rob- Ving small stores or candy shops; by sueaking into the stores and robbing, or attempting to rob, the till, Before he becomes an expert he 1s usu- ally picked up by the officers for petty offenses. ‘The first time he ts arrested he probebly gets off by paying astoall fine. The next time he is sent {to jail, and he then becomes hardened. While ta Prison his associates. or many of them, are old years Was called by the National Woman Suffrage As-| phia, which was mi sociation. It 18 not, however, called in bebalt of | Of esteem and affection which on the cause of woman’ suffrage only. It is intended | Youd amply reward even 2 I tocelebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Grst | the most eres incident oman rage tion, signalize cured in 1872, when ne bray basset =e bags ‘Rochester, Y., her it to vole under the four. event by 4 conference of women that will give a | Rochester. N. X-. he agen yocs ta the rok. fresii impuise to all the reform or philanthropical | Gentiai election. For this offense she was ar: movements which have been inaugurated and are | rested and convicted, Miss Anthony having carried on by women. So there wiil be assembied | arisen in court, the judge said “the sentence of at Albaugh’s Opera House leading women from | the court is that you pay a fine of $100 and the 1 i g exerted a deep her life work. It was laughingly sald of Mrs Sheldon’s mother by her grandchild “when mother tries her pen, she always writes ‘Susan B. Anthony.’” Mrs. Sheldon studied medicine in col- lege in ‘his city for four years, and then as sue declares, gave up all belief In the power of TRNNIS TALK ‘The bibernstion, however, has only been sofar a8 ac‘ual playing 1s conce: ‘There has been ® good deal of tennis talk afi winter. Plans tor costs of the prosecution.’ all laws to Lhe next season have been discussed, and it 18 pro- Dabie that more people will be Interested tn the Kame during the coming season than ever before. A great deal of this interest 1s no doubt due to the formation here last year of the Southern Lawn ‘Tenals Association. Then there was the tourna- Ment held under the asplces of the assoctation, PrMch owing to peculiar circumstances was the lo ved and hardiest tournament ever known tolisory. It vezan early ta, the tall amd coo. Unued unéil the winter set im, and some maintain That Ht ts still im progress. Liowever, the latter opinion Is incorrect. it is due to the iidefatigable efforts of Dr. Frank P. MacLean, the president of The association, that it has been officially settled ‘Whea the tournament ended. DURATION OF THE TOURNAMENT. ‘The constitution and by-laws of the association, ‘Which have just been issued in a neat pamphiet Under the'editorial direction of Dr. MacLean, con- Lalas the statement that the tournament was held Trou October 30 to November 1, 1887, However, it 3s of minor consequence how Idng the tournament comtinued, for it was very much enjosed by all in- Terested 1 the game, and it 1s believed that it gave a great stimulus to tennis in tuis city. ‘The association has now a membership of twenty. three cluta, and as it was only organized last Cctober, it may be regarded as having made a promising beginning. THE NUMBER OF PLAYERS 3m this elty nas not deen definitely settled, but Dr. MacLean during the winter has been engaged 4m calculations, and he announces as a result that there are now seventy-five courts In this city. "This fact affords some basis for determining.tne ty of the game here. st fall there was a great deal of talk about Duying ground and establishing tennis-courts hich would be open to all metmbers of the associa. Uion. The advantages of such a poliey were so manifest that 1t received the heany endorsement of all the members. Tt has been found impossible suitable property owing to the expense, many of the great organtzations of the United States and other lands. One of the members of the committee Of arrangements told a Stan re- porter that the National Woman Su‘Trage Associa~ tion calied the counell because it was believed that the efforts made by the ploneersof that association had given an impulse to all the public movements in which women are now so lazgely engaged. They bad emancipated women from traditions which required her to keep silent. When Miss Susan 8. Anthony was a young school teacher she Shocked a teacher's convention by demanding the right to speak, Such a thing as a woman ing in a public meeting Was almost unheard of Now Women gather from every quarter of the world to take part im a council, and itis taken as a matter of course. So the Woman Suffrage Association called the council and the association will act the part of host, giving a large share of the time to the delegates representing other movements in Which Women are interested. ‘THE COMMITTRE OF ARRANGEMEXTS. ‘The burden of arranging tor the councti has de- ¥olved upon the officers of the National Woman Suffrage Association. ‘These indies were const!- tuted a committee of arrangements by the tional Association, They_are: | Eitzabeth Stanton, president: Susan B, Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage, vice presidents at large; May Wright Sewall, chalrman executive committee; Foster, corresponding secretary’; Jane treasuter and Ellen H. Shelden, ‘recording, tary. Mrs. Stanton,having beeh absent in Europe, has not had much to do with the detaila The general management has devolved upon Miss Anthony, to whose rare ability as an organ- ior is due much ofthe credit Of the work so Well performed by the committee. Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony are regarded by their fellow-workers with an affectionate esteem amounting almost to veneration, Their long comradeship in thelr work has bound them to- gether by the strongest ties, One of the younger workers In the cattse said to a Sra reporter that these two women Would remain as the oficial “May it please your honor,” said the deftant Miss Anthony, “will ot pay a'dollar of your unjust malty. Pete jidge seemed astounded ter a moment, Dut he answered, «‘ the court will not order your com. mittal unul the fine ig paid. You can go.” Miss, Anthony left the court-room and is still at large, Dut the fine has never been paid. MATILDA JOSKYN GAGE, ‘There are few women Who are more thoroughly Identified with woman suffrage than Matilda Joslyn Gage, une of the Members of the commit- Lee of uri mts. She was early trained to self- Fellance and seitreason- Ing, her parents hav! taught her to accept no inion without thor- ough thvestigation, and to aiseard everything from which her reason revoited. She is a broad- St ly-cultured woman, an earnest student, collecting information from all Sources, but with judictous discrimination, and while not confining her Investigations to this re- form has always been considered a full and re- Mable authority to questions pertaining to woman Suffrage, She became actively engaged in this movement in 1852, and is therefore one of the toners of the association, in Which for years she weld the oMces of recording secretary, chairman | executive committee aud president. ’ She snow vice-president at large, and Ras full’ privileges to exercise her authority as her Judgment best. dic- tates, Mrs. Gage is eminently literary In her tastes, and au easy and graceful style, combined with her marvelous fund of igformation, has fitted her for the nfmerous literary burdens her colleagues have accorded her. Her hand 15 seen 4 the famons ‘Declaration of Rights" of 1870, ax Well a numerous inportant state papers, among them’ addfesses 10 various “nominating convene tions, democratic, to release man from the burden of disease. has since directed her attention to laws of thought: Werning mental action and their application to wealth, “She has written a work on matters related to what is known as mental healing and also a tract or pamphlet, published by the Moral Education Society, of which she isa member. In 1884, in response lo an invitation from the “Insti- tute of Heredity,” in Boston, she presented a paper before that body on the subject of “Enligniened Parentage.” Mrs, Sheldon proposes for her future work to endeavor to apply the setence of mind, as Its termed, to releasing man from what the mental ‘Scientists, Call the Illusions of belief in sickness. HELEN M. GOUGAR. ‘Mrs, Helen M. Gougar, as chairman of the commit. ‘tee on railroads, has co- operate. with ‘the comn- mittee of arrangements, and given mucn of her Ume to the preparations for th council, The qualities that impress ‘one at once upon coming into contact with Mrs Gougar, are her quick. ess of apprehension, pen- etration self-reliance, fearlessness, enthusiast # and will, Added to her love for the cause, and her mental endowments, she possesses the® advantage ? Of @ splendid physique, She is about forty years old, the embodiment of good health, and an un- tring worker. As an organizer ‘she bas few superiors, As an or tor she is graceful, easy, and Wholly free from affectation. She speaks without MAAnUscript or notes, and apparently without ef- fort. She bas achieved also a reputation a8.an easy, rapid and graceful writer, Mra. Gougar is a lar contributor to the Chicago Inter-Ocean and sev- eral other newspapers, She has won many. friends for the cause “of “home.rale In Ireland by her letters from the “Distressed Isle” as well as by her lectures upon the subject. She has traveled formally at Aloaugh’s Opera House with an ad- dress by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The general ‘subject for the evening sesston Will be educauca, ‘and addresses will be delivered by several women prominent as scholars and educators, These in- clude Mra. May Wright Sewall, Principal of the Indianapolis Classical School tor Girls; Pundita Ramabai, the Hindu lady and scholar, now travel- ing in this country and Working in bebalf of ‘the education of women in India: ‘Sarah B. Cooper, President of the Golden Gate Kindergarten Asso clation; Prof. Louisa Reed Stowell, M. 8, F. R. M. of Ann Arbor, the president and delegate of the Western Collegiate Alumne; Prot. Rena A. Michaels, Ph. D., dean of Womun’s College, North: western University; the Baroness Alexandra Gri- penberg, delegate of the Finnish Woman's Associa- tion; Ada M. Frederiksen, delegate of the Danish Woman's Association; Cora A. Bermesen, A. M., LE 8. Michigan University), fellow in history, Brya Mawr vol. and Mentha McLelian Brown, vice-president of the Wesleyan College, Cincinnati. ‘The theme for Tuesday morning's session Will be Pphilantnroy Harriette R. Shattuck, president Of National W. S Association for Massachuseits, will preside, and the speakers will be Isabel C. Barrows, delegate Woman's Auxiliary Conterence Unitarian tation; Jennie Fowler Willing; Laura McNefr, delegate and president Ladies of the Grapd Army of the Repubiic; Isabelle lot, delegate and director Prison iteform. Work o® St.’Lazare, Paris; Ednah D. Cheney, president and delegate New England Hospital tor Women and Children; Harriet N. Morris, ex-principal Public apply here to a written code. Lam a believer tn laws that are the growth of expenence and are passed to meet necessities, Tam not a code mad, and I thiak Chis plan ior a compilation ‘good thing. ‘The old statute laws were framed by good lawyers, and are more carefully drawa than is the habit of later years, and we have the advantage of their having’ been in- Lerpreted for us tine and time again, The old English statutes—and there are many of them that apply here in Whole or in part—have been inier- preted by the courts in both countries, and (heir Ineaning fs weil settled. One of the most famous Of the Euglsh laws the trauds and perjury acts watch applies here in most part, dates back to the twenty-niuth year of the reign Of Charies L, and of AUC ty Said tuat the interpretation of each line has cost the amount of a subsidy. We lave the ad- vantage Of ail this. The old laws of Marviand were drawn by wyersand have been full tested and interpreted. Tne meaning of a law is ever settled until it has gone through the courts, And much uncertainty Abd annoyance will grow out of a statute until its meaning hasbeen Tully determined. In this we have a great advanta, in our old laws. ™ TRE LAWS THAT APPLY HERR are the common law, whlch 1s the atmosphere of Jaw; Uhe old English statutes, Which are applica~ ble to our conditions; the old laws of Maryland, Which were in force before our courts were formed, And the United Statutes statutes applicabie to the District. The laws in force here are good laws. We can punish all crimes and protect the riguts of the citizens. ‘Tnere 1s no foundation tor any charge that they are mixed, vague, or uncertain, But they are seattered through the books, and it Would be a great assistance and convenience to lawyers coming from other places here to have a compilation so that they couid get the laws all together and see just what they arc. “All the old wyers of Washington—the young ones, too, for Just where to go for any law they Want. There 1s hothing doubtiul or dificult or troublesome about our laws for them. ‘They know tn what books to | look for them. offenders, and from them he receives ad¥i and learns a’ great deal about professional _ work, When he fs released from jail be thiuks he Knows: as Inuch as any of Une fest not su ov ider members nitentiary. ‘Then be will follow ct ail’ bees robber er conventent purse and Only such portions of its | easily identified. A favor | pockets is to take a gang of five Out on the day of some cei point abd pick out a anari* car pase! ! the first t When the" the ‘wi several poc “another favorite pi | Continned the detective, “18 at a railroad junction, A swell mob of first-class men will meet, lay *hetr JOINING A GANG. or five men known as He is When at the victim 18 in posiuion “stall” and uands hj S nev 18 possession. The victiin nse he cannot sre Lhe ‘wire. itted the proceeds nfederate, Who gu place, cleans or ein! then’ disposes of it, ontents as or six ‘of the pro- Mand he then mukes a start toward Uke dies about, je will pick Out those who carelessiy carry their purses tn their outer pockets or om their arm. “Ina short time,” the detective went on, “ne Joins. fang’ or “nob.” These ‘gangs’ usually are composed of fo swrires' of tools.’ The ‘stati the ‘stalls’ and ISthe man Who gets park’ or Vict in position, heaviest man in the ‘yang. finished a: comes along and works from belund the victim the sstall.” “In ninety-nine cases out obevery bun- dred where the vicum di robbed he stezes the police. Of course when the ‘stall’ ts se ¢ is found on hin, for he ‘swag’ in usually tue his work ts the -wire™ a overs that he has been Lin over LO. oes er had the grabs the After the are vurned oes UW a pues the keeping canne and start lebration to go through ‘Two of them Will enter a car at a des- s along Ul wo give t ‘Street the others ¢1 step es throug: hin eLbOOks AT A RAILROAD JUNCTION. for a mob TI as the itjand ‘of the ‘car, tue car he 1s hustled at the door by members of the gang whlie iC ther havea chance e secured berore they leave ‘the car, and In this Way tey frequently make a good haul, to work,” be | ng with Une pick- “We didnt go Nshing,” remarked Senator Black. burn, In giving an account of that Sunday, “bas YU tell you how we spent that day, Ip the fore. noon We went to an Indian War dance, at which Ube Warriors exhibited Ube scalps Lacy tad take All the afternoon we spent In souking at races (ween Indian ponies. Taik about horses running, 1 Cel You those Indians ave sou: (hat seem talrly tomy, AN INDIAN PONT Race. “They run tm a Straight line and cn the turt for about threeeighths oF bait a 1 saw an dn dian lead a pony by a haiter to the top of a bill im Tuli view, He stood there holding the halter J inquired what it meant. That was als oly toarace. Very soon an Indian near us pony and that was # signal Laat the cha Was accepted. They run from fifveen to five pontes in keejy 10 up for b ore a face 18 started UWO Indians, one in ire the other and carrying a long pole OM their shou der march through the Vili Ail the In want to bet o thelr wag diaus bear it chroug’ Wagers uave been doliscted the Whole mass Lt dumped ira pile on the gross near to half a dozen OF more Of the oldest men oF the tr, THESE MEN ARE THE sUDERS Of the races, and they sit Mat upoa the ground forty or Atty yards from the fintsh. There are | Bostarters, The riders are ail bareback, aud « Armed With a long whip go to the starting-po=t And start as the ‘one may get of (wen thirey sands , and Chat is AN rie | is an ght, ab SIXLY for itm a man weighing (wo hundre io the same race, When wearing the flnts Ader leans forward and from heneath tne n Ris pony h WHIPS THE OTHERS IN THE Pack $0 a8 to keep them back, ‘That is regarded Yo sequire and this project bas been abandoned for the pres. ent The members will continue to play on the courts owned by their respective clubs as hereto- Zor, and an effort will be made to bring about an Inverenange of visits between the members, 50 Freenback | and” republican, Often chairman of the resolution committee at conventions, toher pen 13 due some of the most Tadical that have sppeated, among them those theological resolutions ‘first given the world at Rochester, in 1878 and two years since, creating somuch discussion when promulgated in Wash- extensively over Great Britain and Europe, study- iug the condition of the working people in'the old World. Her special work in. reform 1s in legal and potitical lines, being well posted in constitutional | jaw. She has'several times been called to address | Special committees in Congress, and also before plans, and then go tothe juuction, ach will go alone and take bis positiou. When the car arrives rush is made and passeagers are prevented for | 4 minute or two from getting off the car. While Pressing past each other we ‘wire’ gets in his work, aud When Ube car on the crossing rood School No, 39, Brookiyn; Emily S. Richards, dele- gate L. D. 8. Women’s Assoclation of Utah; Amelta S. Quinton, delegate and president Woman's Na- Uonal Indian Association; Clara national president American Association of the Red Cross, ‘Tuesday evening the temperance questions and When the race 18 over the owner of the win horse takes the entire ‘boadie.” All that ed In the race goes to nim, and he bis friends upon som The old warrl AUT 4 STRANGER COMES HERR and tries te take hold of the law and he finds it tangled skein. It takes time for him to become familiar. Lawyers who come to the District the middle itre never do acquire a heads of tho movement so long as they lived, and when they died the women Would erect nionn- ments to thefr memory. RLIZABETE CADT STANTON. Among ail the women that they ean benefit by each other's method of | playing. rn , ity with our laws. For these a The loss Of a pock@Lbook. The man who got it is | the unaided eve. ‘There is no. wire to Organizing the New York dare yuscrumeatal iN | Towa and Kansas. To her'efforts are’ largely dué | Willard, Pres, National W.C-1-U; Hannan Waitail | ¥eulence tt would’ be wen es Lae ee ad U a e ‘a > i” 8. N i ; mpllation. and, thongh A PROPOSED TOURNAMENT IN JUNI {onal Council of Women | organizing the New York State Woman Suffrage | the success of the ngitation in Kansas forthe iaw | Sitti Aurion toe Wai oS ag Besale | Tt would be very muca better to have all the | Ghanose for eaeebing Rint eee ree oh scat | And, though Ameeting of local players will be held next OF any where else, none | Association, and, through almost. superhuman ‘Tuesday evening at the Ariington Hotel for the Purpose of considering a proposition to hold a ‘Yourmament in this city some time ju June, which ‘Will be open to players residing here. 1 is said ‘has handsome prizes will be offered, and already a has been recetved to donate iy eaigned silver trophy to be given to of the championship 0? the District, in the event ‘that @ tournament shall be held. "The value of | this prize will be about $100. There will be other | ‘prizes offered, and it seems highly provable that a | docal tournament will be held. Mr. Joun F. Wag- aman has stated that Le wil ay out tennis courts in the ¥ known as the Highlands, which 1s Jocated on tie Washingtou brasch of the. batt | more and Ohio Railroad, a short distance frou this ty, and Le bas invited the association to hold thelr tournaments on these courts. It is likely ‘Uhat this invitation will be accepted So far as the Jocal tournament 1s concerned. ‘The association Tourmaments will probably be held on the xrounds ‘of the Mt. Washington club near Baitimo ‘The cali for the Tuesday evening meeting was signed by Rev. W. E. Parsons, of the New Jersey Avenue Ciub; Oscar Woodward, Country Club: Douglass Dyrenforth, Capital Chub; H. W. Spottort, esper Club, and F. P. Maciean, president of tly 8.1.7. A. ittsasfoliows: “At an informal meet- 2g of representatives of several tennis clubs of the District, held on Tuesday, March 20, 1888, It Was acekded to bold a, tourtiament, liniived ‘to, the | players of Washington, for prizes and the cham- Hronship of the District ot Columbia, at date tn | to be met at an Interna- ‘Will enlist interest and win confidence sooner than Mrs, Elizabeth Cady | Stanton, who by right of priority of claim, and by Teason of her position as president of the National ‘oman Suffrage Associa tion, stands at the head | of the woman suffrage movement. Mer personal character and her mental attainments are such that no one disputes her ysition, She has a face remarkable for tis noble Beauty, ana a charming suavity of manner. About her fave, still fresh, clusters a wealth of snows white halr, Mrs. Stanton Is quoted as saying that she does not want to enter the kingdom of heaven distranenised, Though she 18 now seventy-two years of her brignt eyes, and face ruddy with heaith, give promise that she may yet lve to see” woman suffrage an accom- plished fact, if the expectations of the most ardent advocates of the cause are realized. She was born November 12, 1816, !n the ola Cady homestead, at Johnstown, X. Y., and to this home amid the associations of her youth she returned after 4 busy and eventful Use, vo 3 Her mother was a distinguished Livingston family and a Woman of rare personal beauty. Her father, ady, was a lawyer of ability. As 3 wabeth Cady’ evinced much independence of sou spe F | perity. labor, established tts permanent success und _pros- She also organized the Virginia State As- sociation, has appeared before constitutional con- ventions of New York and Dakota, and has hed many important congressional and legislative hearings, where her influence has been marked, 1878 she became editor and proprietor of the ational Citiven and Ballot Box,” published tn Syracuse, N. Y., which, for several years, waged an aggressive Wartare'in behalf of woman sut- | frage. Mrs Gage was one of the three editors of the “Woman Suffrage Histor; encyclopedia of the reform which required six Years for Its completion. She 1s also the author of “Woman as an Inventor,” the “Woman's Rights Catechism,” &¢., and has been a contributor to several of our iéading magazines. At present she 4s engaged pon a book to which for years she has devoted much thought and research—“Woman, Church and State,” now nearly ready for public tion, This she regards as the most important Work of her life. “United with a commanding presence and graceful figure. Mrs, Gage possesses adelightful and original style of oratory, carrying her hearers with her by virtue of her iarked tn- dividuality, MAY wnicHT sEWwatt. Mrs, May Wright Sew- all, of Indianapolis, also a member of the commit tee of arrangements, is another of the group of | well-educated, interest | the legislatures of Indiana, New ‘York, Wisconst granting municipal suffrage to women. Mrs. Gougar is the wife of a successful attorney-at-law, a man of wealth, who Is lo full sympathy with het in her public enterprises. She leaves a beautitul, well-ordered Lome to go out and engage in her present work, CLARA B. COLRY. ‘The arrangements for making the offical re- parts of the counell have nh entrusted vo the hands of Mrs, Clara B. Mra Colby is a « sity of | Wiscons! . She has been cor nected for se Assoclation for N s Well as presi associa Uon, For five years she has’ publisued” at her home In Beatrice, Neb., he Womans’ Tribune, and asaneditor has done titanic Labor forthe ease she a % is pleasant ih address and fulk of ent energy. Her husbawi LW. a state senator and one of t its various bearings wiil be discussed by Frances E. Starr Keeter, Fraternal Delegate Toronto y Frapces E. W. Harper; Prison, jail, police, and .T. Us; Dr, Mary Weeks Burnett, Dei. X: ‘Temperence’ Hospital and Med. College Ass’n.: Matiida B. Carse; Mary H. Hunt, Nat. Supt. Sc:entittc Instruction and Francis E. W. Harper, of Pufludelpta, who will speak on. the subject “what shali Le doe with the neglected rich?” fA a colored woman noted for her powers as. a speaker. irs. Laura M. Johns, of Kansas, will preside Wednesday morning, when the sndject will be industries, ‘The speakers Will be Mury A. Liver- mot he delegate Of the Ame frage Association, aud one of the most impressive Woinen orators; Anna M. Worden, Worthy Master of Vineland Grange No. 11; Hulda B. Loud; Helen Campbell, vice-president Socioiogt Aierica; Leonora Barry, delegate and organizer f the Knights of Labor, avd Esther L. Warner. The last-named lady 8 a farmer of Kansas, and Will talk about “Women as Farmers.” At the evening session Women in professions will be talked about by Prof. Rena A. Michaels, Laura ©, fiolloway, the Well-known journaiist; Dr. Surah Hackett Stevenson, Ada M. Bittenbender, nation: superintendent jegisiauion and peuitions of N, ©. T. U.; Kev. Ada ©, Bowles, Martha R. Field, W man’s ‘international Press’ Association; Ainelia Hadley Mohi, delegate Woman's National Press be organi “an Woman Sut- | ‘al Society of | it toot tanta for general con- statutes in force in the District of Columbia in one volume properiy todexed, The proposition meets with my approval Tully, “But it ts not to be sald that the District is any Worse off for laws than arly other place, and. that there Is any vagueuess or doubt as to'what the law ts. Congress cannot pass law that will inet with the approval of a man who 18 ignorant Of ft, and the criticism of oue who knows ‘nothing of tie subject Is not Worthy of consideration, THE LAWS EASY TO MASTER, “A lawyer, for instance, coming trom Illinois to Washington, would find the laws no more aime to master than Would a Washington lawyer find the lilinois laws, If the Ilinois lawyer went to Lonisiana he would thd a greater diMiculty. Tuere they have the civil law. Ail their laws are based upon that. ‘The lauguige of the civil law is diff-r- ent, and it would take years for a man to become iar with the iaws of Loutslana, The man Who ts fainiiiar with bis toois finds no trouble with. the District laws; so must the lawyer in Lilluols Know his wols, “But inen from other places are often appointed to jnate sim the District, and itis difti- tw come to a thorough understand- ing of our laws, THE JURY Laws, “You hear the complaint sometimes,” continued Judge Wyle, “that the Jury laws im the District are bad, Ihave given much thought to the mat- ter, and Tknow these fee rt uy iman chances for class workers preter to travel alone ai With a newspaper or light overcoat, carry an overcoat on their left arm ai doing a job will tarow it across their right arm, hiding hetr hand. These fellows can easily t A ‘prop,’ as a pin is sometimes called. takes being: ing bim ave very slim. AT A COUNTRY PAIK. A wem! ove on his pocketbook. m the time and trout if an get a pocketbook and the | countrymen nave Une, 1s too deep, 4 gang Will either accideniaily | Sictim’s hat off of pull it down over his ears. In elther ease hy | himself his money fs taken, Knock tht 4s Surprisea, and while ble to pick OUL the right mai and afterward 1 mber,” continued t ra countryman Was seen, ths his nat He calls Ubi e detectiv had sometuing, and on inoves off One OF ore of Its passengers discov ‘Some ar work ‘They wit when Such a job jut an Instant, and in very few cases are the Uueves cangnt, “The pickpocket,” continued the detective, “Is in his glory at the country tal a large crowd at such places, smob’ Will get into a crowd and c | your pocketbooks” In an iustan hits his hand The mob a chance to locate the poe! saves ng about to locate them, ‘There is usually ber ef the “Lookout tor ry C0 nery= Tuts give ie of fanning’ or attempt 18 ckel, am the intended recovering: . bart in from Une crowd, and fearing Ubat he Will pick the Wroag oue, he waiks quietly : fair committee for his toney. “1 ren, a country hand on his hip-pockei every few mm | thleves tho knocked jook’s to the chat at nts Tue of tt nites, tance from the fnisl JOCKEYS White men—nave ocrasionally gone down there With acrack race-horse, fixed up Wit cockie burs S Mane and tall, so ax togive hin the with the idea of p se who Went Us ‘The indions & race With any Strange hors AU Opportunity aL MIght LO steak md ascertain his Best speed, Ulng Lo beat bun, What is Done with Worn Out Departs ment Desky—The Mospital and Ke« ceiving Vautt. What beeon Ras the Govern of old Department furnitare? ent a Garret, Mice those in ancient family manstens, which ‘old-fastion Ists loved to describe, where furniture of antiqy make and disabied for use rests 1 rt It would be interesting to Ree t ety ote ao ie seator snd one of chs Neg Sraay morning. will Be organt:| ter, ad Tn opt nts are unfounded, | (hein, Knocked his, hat off, The’ countryman | which the oificial forefathers of the prewt gre periaced x a ores Law State, Mrs, Colby has an at atilda Joslyn Ga de. | Our Jury laws are ax xood as any there ar. ‘Thai | stooped over to plck It up, and while stooping over | ware ' ‘s ms they we Hotel on Tuesday evening, Maren 2s, ise ate: | Greek prizes away from the boys. “From there she | @e@ Who have of a band, In conversation with a Star reporter delegate and president Association for Uhe Ad: | upon t administration of such laws whether | hands across nis back. When the countryman | Show the marks of heels and demonstrate thaw Grclock, to perteet arrangements for and details of | went to a seulnary at Troy, where she completed | Zane qe engaged tn Pras Wrenaliste cmuplosineut, tes. Colby said | vancement of Women; Mary ¥, Eastinan, delegate | uiey are good or bad. I know it isannoying, anda | started to getup le’ was held dow until hus | the practice of sitth feet perched upon ine totirnament. A full attendance is desirable, | her education. Au twenty She atried Henry B. | ¢acryiNe | that ieoccuplest time "nat iient ‘ot Association for ule Advancement of” Won and you are carnestiy requested to be prescut, ease invite tennis player- of your acquaintance. ‘THR ASSOCIATION TOURNAMENT. ‘The event of the greatest interest to tonnls players 1s the next wournament to be held by the usseetation. Mr. Leigh Bonsal, of the Mt, Wash- ington club, Baltimore, wno won the first prizes in and doubies in the tournament last. tall, | ‘was over here last week in consultation with the lusmMbers of the association relative to the time of holding the next tournament. He favored a date Ju dune, and the association was invited to hold The tournament on the grounds of the Mt. Wash- ington clu This arrangement seemed to be zal and partial arrangements were made for having the next tournament at tue time men. tuoned. ft was found, however, that the donors of the cups objected. They said that the cups had ‘een offered under the condition that they suould ‘be held for two years or for two successive yearly vourmaments, and the person hoiding them for that period Would Decome the permanent owners, Yn the event that the tournament was held in ume, and Bousal and Le Moyue again won, them’ they would become tue owners of the cups after holding them loss than eight mouths “They Thought that this would not be lp accordance With the spirit of the agreement. it baving been Tepresenied to them, however, That the month of June was a more favorable time for hulding the tournament than in the fall, em account of there being fewer ont of town, the douors have expressed their willing- uess to withdraw their objection made to the arlier date. In view of these facts the executive omunitzer of the Southern Association has prac- weaily decided to hold the tournament on the th and 6th of June on the grounds of the Mount ‘Washington Club. GRAVE ROBBING © OLD TIMES, Mow Medical Stndents Got Subjects— A Startling Grave-Yard Adventare. “The business of grave robbing,” said an old Physician to a Stax reporter a few evenings ago, “is pot a new one tn the District. In old times, hovrever, the students toa great extent did their own work, and there were but few professional Fesurrectionists then. There are some men living Stanton, a lawyer and a radical anti-slavery agitator. “After traveling for 1 time In Europe Mr. Stanton settied for a while In Boston and then went Seneca Falls, N. Y. She had five sons and two daughters Mrs. Stanton cailed the first Woman's convention ever heid, the one that met at Seneca Palls forty years ago. She there advo- cated a resolution demanding suffrage for woman id Was the first to make this claim for her sex. Two years later she met Miss Susan b. Anthory, who became her coadjutor tn the Work, and a friendship was formed which has grown sironger with years. <A large portion of Mrs, Stanton’s life has been public and Is well-known. She bas trav- elled extensively and delivered addresses In every pert of the Union, If ail of Mrs. Stanton’s public work im whieh she has been engaged for forty years was eliminated from her life's history her private life would still remain, a record of Which any woman could be proud. For, as a mother and a head of a happy household, she bas nothing with which to reproscn herscit. Once, after she had made a speech before a state legisia- ture, a woman asked her what she did with her children during her public appearance. “Ou,” sald Mrs, Stanton, “it takes me no louger to come here to speak that it takes you to come here to listen; what have you done with your children during the ‘two hours you have been sitting here*" ‘Once, speaking of her join Anthony, Mrs. “Miss Anthony and I ‘used to work in partnership. I had a family and coult pot travel much, so she collected facts, I compiled them, and sue disseminated them. I never allowed nurses to bathe or feed my children, When I went to speak in apother city I took my nurse and children to the notel with me, just as women do on their summer trips, and as soon as [ had finished we went home together.” It Is the essential womantiness of Mrs. Stanton that con- ‘stitutes one of her chief charms. She is scholarly and noted for wit as well as her wisdom. Her honest blue eyes twinkle with good humor, A story thal she tells in an inimitable mannef ts that of her effortsin her girihood with other young ladies to educate « young man for the ministry. ‘They got & fairs and held sewing bees to pay ex- peuses, and when their object was accomplished and they Went to hear their protege preach ly frst sermon he rose solemnly in the pulpit and took for his text, “I suffer not a woman to prea At the election in Lsés, in the etghth district of New York, Mra Stanton nominated herself for Congress In order to test the constitutional right Seneca Falls of chairman of the execus | tive committee inthe Na- @ | tional Woman Suttr ‘ Association for the | Seven years, and her 4 sound jadgment and her sill and fertility inde | recognized. Spreading pilcer she poamens ote eek s ready knowledge of parliamentary law, 3 unfailing tact and courtesy tial” instre Probably M striking quality 13 t universality of her interests—she believes pro foundly, almost passionately, In the need. for greater opportunities for wotuan’s advancement, And in the capacity of her sex for devel & moral and intellectus dreamed of, But her ardor for this cause hardly surpasses her interest in every other human ac- uvity. She ts equally devoted to education, moral reform, literature, art, physical training, and soctal pleasures, and is'well known in her home, and outside of it also, for her active participation in all these interests.’ Mrs. Sewall 1s an. Live of Milwaukee, though of New England stock. She 1s & graduate of the Northwestern University at Evanston, Ill, with ihe master's degree. RACHEL G. FOSTER. ‘Newspaper correspond. | ents and others who have had to make inqui- tes respecting the ar- rangements for the com. ing counell have come into contact chiefly with Miss Rachel G, Foster, ‘This accounts in part for the very kindly tone of the newspaper notices of the council, Miss Foster, ‘who 1s corresponding sec: retary of the National Woman Suffrage Assoc! tion, 18 young, and en- thustastically devoted to her work. She 1s hand. Some, and interesting, eloquent in conversation, and While having decided conviclions which she expresses with force and | acter, i know What she would do ‘the long periods that her husband's bust ness required hina to be away from home if she did hot have some regular employment of this char- Mrs. Colby’s printing and pubilshing office is a practical exeiapiitication of woman's ability to take part tn the business of the worid. "The type- setting is done almost altogether by women and the affuirsot the business departiment are man- aged by haifa dozen young lady clerks. Dung the council Mrs, Colby transfers her ofitce to this elty, and Will issue her paper here as the offictal in and reporter of tke counchi, WOMEN IN THE PULPIT, Fair Prenchers Who Wi Opening Religious Conduct the ercises, Thongh the business sessions of the counell be- gin Monday, the woman's Week will be inaugu- raved to-morrow by religious services at Albaugh’s Opera House at 2:30 o'clock, These services will be unique In their way, as they will be conducted entirely by wounen preachers, The program 1s as follows: Hymn, Rev. Phopbe A. Hanatord; reading of scriptures, Rev. Ada C. Bowles; prayer. Rev, Antoinette Brown Blackwell; hymn, Rev. Louise 8, Baker; sermon, Rev. Annie H. Shaw; hymn, Rev, Amanda Deyo; benediction, Rev. Antoinnet Brown Blackwell. REV. ANNIE H. SHAW, who will preach the ser- mon, 13 one of the best known woman orators in the country. Her subject, to-morrow’ Will be “The Heavenly Vision.” she 1s “a regularly ordained minister ot the Metho- dist Protestant. Church, and a graduate of theo! ogy and medicine, At present she devotes most of her time to her Work as a superintendent of a. department of the National Woman's Christian Union. She 18 alecturer and organizer lexandra Gripenber; tion; Abby M and Tadustrial Chic sep, of the Danish Woman's Association; Willard, Fanny Zampint Salazaro, of ); M. Louise Thomas, president. and May Wright Sewail, and Susan Finnish 1 the evening of Thursday the subject for dis- cussion wiil be legal coudiuions, and the speakers Will be Lillie Devereux Blake, pre dent New York State Woulan Suffrage Association; Alice Scatch- Edinburgh National Soctety for age; Allee Fletcher, special fndian agent under tue severalty bul; Dr. Ruth M. Wood; Matilda Josiyn Gage; Lucy Stone, deiegate Amer: ican Woman Suffrage ‘Assoctation, and Mary A. Livermore. Friday morning will be given to the subject of | cl Women only will be admitted to | 1 purity. this sevsion.” Mrs Elizabeth Boynton Harber, of Mlinots, wili preside. ‘The speakers wiil Le Eliza beth Lisle Saxon, vice-president National Woman Suffrage Association tor Tennessee; Auna Rice Poweil, delegate New York Cominisston for the Prevention of State Regulation of Vice; Mrs. Or miston Chant, deiegate of Edinburgh N tonai So- clety for Woulen’s Suffrage; Caroline M. 8. Frazar, Geiégate National Moral "Educational Society? Dr. Caroline B. Winslow, president District of Co: Inmbia Moral Educatioual Soctety; Harriette R. Shattuck; 8 Magelsson Groth, délegate Norwe. jan Wolnan Suffrage Society; Clara Cleghorno joffman, and Frances E. Willard. Friday evening political conditions will be con- sidered, and the speakers will be Clara Neymann, Isabella Beecher Hooker, vice-president of National W. 8. A. for Connecticut; J. Ellen Foster, Harriet H. Robinson, member executive committee National W. S. A.; Frances E. Wiiard, Rev. Annie H. Shaw, Superintendent franchise ‘department National W. C. T.U.; Laura M. Jouns, and Abigail Scott. Duniway, vice-president National W. S.A. for Oregon. Saturday morning there will be a conference of joneers, and addresses by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass, Lucy Stone, Henry B. Black: well, Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Rovert Purvis, Carctine H. Dall, Mary Grew, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Samuel C. Pomeroy, and Susan B. Anthony. ‘Among the pioneer, of the woman-suffrage movement who are -xpected to be. present are Amy Sarah H. Willis, Mary H. Hallowell, great private, often eu a pubite, Inconve for active business mi n to be called upon for three months’ jury service, but thls can be arranged = taat no great hardstup may come of it. without cUing from ths character of the Jury Tesponstbillty— 7 they inake the best Jurors, They will furnish a good part of tue “list. “When 1 was on the. bench AC an active business man was drawn for the jury and he was trying to avold the service while L Wanted bis assistance I would take litn aside and Lell bit that he need not be uneasy; that after he had done the service desired of him he would be relieved and not be required Wo serve the full three months. The law permits the court vo ex- cuse a Juror and todraw others, and When this Privilege is wisely Used good jurors may be hud Without great Inconvenlencing the citizens or Provoking dissatisfaction, We can always get good juries, their expenence of LAWS NOT TO RE REPEALED. “This compilation of the laws does not include or imply any repeal of laws. After they are all got together ft may be found that there are some that We could dispense With, baLour Whole system 4s good. ‘There are a few of the old Marvland laws Which have probabiy never been repesied,. bUL Which have no application to our conditions— suc, Perhaps, 28 That makjag i a crime to deny the tioly ‘Trinity. But any’ court would decide these to be obsolete. The gathering together of all the District laws Im one volume would bea Valuable work.” JUDGE MACARTHUR'S VIEWS. Judge MacArthur said: “I have received a com. munication from Senator Ingalls enclosing a copy of the act and asking for an expression of my views. 1 have no objection to stating in advance that as the statutes, outside the Hevised Statutes, of the Disthiet of Columbia coaprekend Une old "British laws and Maryland laws, most of which are appil- cable to the District aud’ Lave been passed upon and identified by the decisions; that it would be a great conventence if they could be complied into soine convenient form. I should be opposed toany codification of the civil or eriminal law and rules of pracuce of the court. In regard to the practice Of the courts the statutes now authorize ‘the Suc yreme Court of the District to simplify and adopt Fito the present necessities and wants: andia pure airgn anthony Burts, Mary’. Anti Rochester, suance therewith the court has from tune to time ready pocketbook Was taken fre “Some years ago at ao ginia the thieves reaped a harvest, but found no eWas a politician speaktay Stand, in front of wate! etb00ks, and afver the r: almost ttaposstble the thieves procured a TUS sisted t pe they had and were uz Goldsborough, Pa, hotels, and vie friends of the princi figut followed them. farmer drove u sielgh. covered matters generally (or the Visitor, and while so do- ing reileved him of his pocketbook. ‘Then they in- ‘vited him into the hotel to tal $s Were passed around, and when it carne the | KIND ATTENTH Several he a his A SHOWER OF POCKETHOOKS. mtry fair in West Vir- throw the empty pocketbooks, stood a cou from a sinall ryman wita ‘One by one the empty cropped into the old man’s umbrella, | nally A Suower came up, and When the old man ho:sted Ls umbrella there Was x shower of pock- und was a gully, | Through the fair g n had contiaued some U nk Wulen t ‘one of others, we gully, While rsonS across the could, jeved of all a rust Early in the in front of one of the horses witb biankets and and many persons ime it was 0 CTOSS the stnali stream. One hey placed them as. | robbed who money as the ie to make any more pi chases. A good mob will never let business zet duil while workiug a city, for they are always 1o raise some excitement and cause a ru Which will enable them to go through the crowd. They usually reap a harvest after some celebration 48 over and persons are maki ‘They are always ready to mu | Where the different cars take them. Then when | Uwe train is ready to start one of them will enter Acar and inform the passengers Of the mistake. Tuen there is a rush to get onthe nigut crula. | During che rush and ex able to tak oF the Cars. ufOra PErSOUs as LO cliement persons are un- e care of thelr pocketbooks, a pickpocket takes advantage of Une opportunity. XS TO A FARMER. “Iremember several years ago,” continued the detective, “when McGlade and Collyer fought at They stopped at different the pals in the morning a hotels ta a young men ran out and kindly arfanged adrink. Several rs Uurn he found he had iost Lis pocket hook, face as he saw lis jot finding it, he starved joteL A stile came to return upon his ckethook on the celiar-door. | | to tne strata of the desk was not ag in However, tv f the present age, t has no garret used for make another dispo-ttion After a generation or 89 of aged to wriggle the chatrs into and worn grooves Into t with thelr heels lied in. He a nos eit hospital oF It may be con sighed 1o the resting-place of all Deparinent fur hulure that has terminated its ovis! carcer, THE FORNIFURE HOSPITA:. The hospital 18 the repair-shop, which ts located | in the basement of all the great Deperttaent build« lugs, Here are corps of skillful su-geous. They mend broken limbs and they su ‘They have paint aud Varnish and perhaps a | of new upuolstering am of furniture leaves ibe Hig Of the cave hangs tue it may be ordered to Une ig Ht gives of Depa Finaliy there comes a day when the ing and finds Uy air gone, In the sally veart Of the World he es hiaselt on t change, and perhaps luxuriates im ‘iw comfort whitch lightens his daily Turuiture gors down wo the grav honored, and unsur THE CEMETERY. Some where down in an out of the way part af the basement Is a piace where Department tu Ture goes When it oMclally dies, It is, however, a kind of receiving vault. When the eotiec comes UMCeutl is hauied out Into t courtyard or 801 ‘open space. ‘The red flag ts put out, the auctloneer’s bel Ahrong of buyers assembles. crept articles ¢ pass from the Private individuals. atu cially dead. ‘There ts it bet usetui to sf Woulld Bot be so brisk, and the p: ‘The old desks are Knocked down sen surprising, abd as for the carpets (he compe Ution becomes’ actaally exciting. — Perl are only om ich left wo make wine the bidding ican y - ‘ Same articles bran. new Stores unig’ ‘Who could, if they would, tell of some very exci:- | Of a Woman to run for ofice. ‘This aroused discus. | COM 1) of the American Woman «3, M. Adeline Thomson, Emily Winstow Tay- | adopted rules for practice jf regard to proceedings | A ioment later his couutenance fell agai", for | Satue art cl % i Ing sceunc Know oo vr comin! ocurenes,| wot, ana mand geopie were sprue to earat | REINO, Gu teoppoate of She wean SAE Sprea" Aeonaton let Pa bey i, Sou | hd plein woken have very muck snp | jn he iced up test ora epee | ABE wre Ut the wapreuiond weston in wusige Resta centuxy agethene tan aaumeunes jeap tine he were eligible to | who are. not friendly to the cause. There | Her avility as a public , y. | Wélesly Hills, Mass.; Sarah E. Wail, Worcester, | then, noted colored giant. He was a magniticentiy formed man physically, and possessed correspond- ing strength. Aman who would, if he died in season, be in demand as a subject. Mol fortune | favored the students; “the giant met with an accident, breaking his Beck. ‘The students were so anxtous to secure the subject that they were scarcely able to walt until he Was placed in the ground. On the night of nis burial 4 party went to the ground and soon reached the top of the coffin. The custom was to ull ‘he corpse about haif out of the coffin and to deel the body and determine whether it would yaa a guod subject. The expert decided that for Suune reason this subject would pot keep, and that at Was best to abandon the Job. An attempt was sande to push the body back, bat the being 4u a sitting posture could not be forced back into piace, Aller working ai it unsuccessfully for Some time, it was determined to leave as it was Throwing back the earth, the members of failure. Subsequently of students autious to secure the prize went out fd and faliing in their impatience party ad iett it was not iong before the head yas uncovered and the large ey s stared at them. ‘This was a ther party of the stl ork) to rob a grat grave t ‘haa now,” sald the doctor. “It was a custemfer fearing that graves would be we short pieces of woud to the ground, which + For with the fret warm days appear SUSAN B. ANTHONY. Placed beside Mrs.Stan- ton in the affection of the women Who have been engaged in the struggle for equal rights for wo- man, and equally hon- ored’ by them, 13 Miss Susan B. Antuony. Miss Anthony, perhaps more than any other individ. ual, Was made the object of Carricature in the days ‘when the claims put forth by women Were met only with ridicule. Sne was a convert to the Woman suffr made to suffer many in- dignities, but she has lived down all opposttion ‘s> of that character. ‘The days of herinartyrdom aré over. No Woman has received higher proots Of pubite and private esteem tnan have been accorded her in later years. She is quite the opposite of Mrs Stanton iM personal appearance and general aracteristics. Her face is strong, with sharp lunes giving evidence of her tenacity of purpose. Withal, it is a xindly face, and seems appropri. ately sét off by the simple, old-fashioned manner tn wen se arTanges her dark hair, which is Just little tinged” with She has supplied, eoadjutor with Stanton, | qualt- in which the ‘was ‘deficient. Miss Anthony 19 an Organizer, aw of rare tact and executive ability, and bas k the work going on, when many, Who had Mra. latter 1820. Her er mother a tanieal mode of life, and mnbued ‘with the old puri: tanteal habit of self-denial and sincere devotion to any cause she oid her Hy iz H SF i I HT I z I Bi Bi a u il vie is nothing maseline in ber | manner, nothing that Js not thoroughly womaniy: iss Foster was born in Pittsburg in Dec and educated In Puiladeiphia. 1 speaker 1s remarkable, ech! and she fs regarded as a fival in. that line of Mra, Livermore. Tier manner in speaking 8 dignitied, calm and forciful, She has recently been on & lecturing tour through Kansas and achteved great 4. Heron Foster, of the Pittsburg Despatc) well-known newspaper man. She has studied and traveled extensively.and quite a linguist. In 1878 she passed a part of Harvard examina- tions for women. e studied pollucal economy at the University of Zurich. She has been the corresponding secretary of the National Woman Suffrage Association since 1881. She was doctrines at the of thirteen. Her mother, a lady of great beauty ‘and refinement, while not prominent as a work in the movement, was strongly in sympathy with it and contributed money to it. Miss Foster's Foster, with whom she resides in Philadelphia, was tor some time recordin; secretary of the Nwtional Association, and ‘still gives ak from her purse to ald the cause, she not 80 actively engi 4m the work as formerly. Thess two ladies come very honesty. ir Woman suffrage principles, ‘Their mother Was a Sunday school pupil of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. For m: and daughters lived in close and autiful com- Panionship, ending only with the death of the Mother, which Occurred while the trio were poe if Italy two years ago. Miss Rachel G. Foster, the subject. of this sketch, as secretary of ‘the committee of arrangements, has had upon her shoulders much of the responsibility of the prepa- rations for the International Counctl, Sne says her chief aim ts to relieve Miss Anthony, to whoin she Is devotedly attached, of as much of tne drudg- ery as possible, Miss Foster has, ever since she was a child, been in newspaper work, an experience which ai greatly in present work. She has uot, however, confined herseit en- Urely to the routine work of a trustee of her chu popularity there. She will spend three months In That state again next fall, she made her home tn Boston unui recently, when she removed to Evans- ton, IL, where she now resides close by Miss Wil- ard, REV. ANTOINETTE BROWN BLACKWELL, of Elizabeth, N. Unguished both as a eacher and a writer, Rev. Mrs. A. B. Blackwell was ordained and settled minister of a Congrega- tional church 35 years ‘ago,she having previously studied at Oberlin College and taken the usual course of theological ‘study with young men at the same institution, Miss Brown was the first woman to prepare for aud J) regularly enter upon that Po iy aio zp as been followed by PMA tiny “others. ‘some. ‘of Whom will be present at the council. Mrs. Blackwell's name 1s ‘now on the foll of American Uniiarian ministers, though of late ears she has preached only occasionally, rs, Blackwell has been a persistent stu- dent of physics, especially interested, in the light shed by recent scientific investigations upon human life, as illustrating her chosen thei moral nature and the imuiortal hope of mankind, Besldes stories and lighter writings, she has pub- G. P. Putnam’s Sons, three sueces- pon Kindred “Studies in Gen- ” “The Sexes Throughout Nature,” and “The Physical Basis of Immortality.” It ‘understood that the paper to be read by her at the counell will ba suggestive outline of some ot er reveut fxvestigations tnd conclusions on the same gene certainly be notable fs.a contribution by an Amoriean Woman toa dis- ere Gussion which is engaging the deep attention ot thoughtful tequirers bach and abroad, REV. PHOEBE A. HANAFORD Mass ; Clemence 8. Lozier, M. D. Erazet Ingalls, Glenora, X. ¥.: ‘Susan Kansas; Esther Wattles, Overlin, Oni L, Minor, St. Louis, Mo. and br. Caroline B, Winslow,’ Dr. Susan Edson, Jane B. Archibald, Julia A. Wilbur, Washington, and Catharine A. F. Stebbins, Michigan. Saturday evening the consideration of “political conditions” will be continued, and addresses will be made by Heien H. Gardner, Mrs. Ashton Dilke, Del. Newcastle Wouien’s Libéral Ass'n, Eogiand, ‘and Helen M. Gougar, Pres. Indian Nat'l Woman Suffrage Ass'n. Sunday, April 1, a re ‘symposium will be ‘The speakers will be. Matiida Joslyn jatlida Joslyn Elzabeth Boynton Harbert, Mary A. Livermore, Fuzabeth Cady Stanton, Isabella, Beecher Hooker, Julla Wary! Howe, Elizabeth G. Stuart and Zerelas G, Wallace. si the council will close with ad- dresses by Zerelda G. Wallace and. Eivenbers Caay Stanton. Monday morning, April 2, @ meeting Will be held for the purpose of forming permanent organuations, Since the program was prepared the following olive responses have been received , Which will be represented by delegates and be in the council: Woman's Centennary 01. Universalist Church, M. M. Dean ‘Sherwood: of Written for Tax Evenme Stan. ‘Alas! with warm heart yearning And lips that must be dumb, ‘With love's fond passion burning ‘To dare not bid love “come,” ‘To spend one's life in waiting ‘The good one must not win, ‘With candid truth in hating, ‘and love concealed like ai,— ‘This is the role of woman ‘On panston's inimic stage, ‘Ber right to be all-human COMMON LAW. “Tam now of the opinion that the common-law Practice of the District 1s the simplest and best calculated to secure the administration of justice ‘that prevails any where in the United Slates, The Statutes in regard to municipal law are some. what scattered, and when any particular statute 1s desired a special exaininer then becomes neces- sary, and It 1s only by a Very diligent and exhaus- tive research that some can be found. This is great inconvenience to the court and bar, and SUll greater to the public, who should have the Feadlest means of access Lo the laws which govern them in 50 many relations. While, therefore, Lam ‘not in favor ol a law for a general ‘codification for the District of Columbia—an experiment which has already been tried without much success or Denefit—I am strongly in favor of a compilation of the statutes Into a Single volume, provided that ‘sald compliation be entrusted to skiliful and expe- rienced members of the bar who Wiil give the work the requisive Ume and attention to make tt com- I should regard the appointment of those who should compose this commission as a mstter 28 s eed | i fl i i f 5 if $4 i i ES f i i | i i Hi j i ; i i mitted resolutions, to be ‘The downy bads—es t hough to bring tines two years alter Mie meee ee bene pian oa ld A giadsome message for the year. declaration of principles in the Seneca nm. wwe her voies and her labor ‘Do they forget that spring's fet smile ares Srates Tews often chilled by winter's frown, with ‘Philli ‘William As seeking gently to beguile She has also done much wx ‘When he, reluctant, leaves his throne? ‘and for the For ob! to-night the wind biows ferce; ‘Fomen, but she hes ‘The coid anow drifts and swirls o'erhead, for the ballot As though the tender buds to pierce = t= ‘That seem to beud and cower with dread.) mm. ‘And oft with a, as with the thes, ‘Our dearest thoughts are ventured forth, ‘And mest instead of balmy breeze ‘The cutting winds from oat the north, ‘Bow herd it is to weather thees, ‘And Loop altve the bud of worta! the “After they have pocketbooks,” sald the detective, “they go a step it is only a TAKING WATCHES. yuired the knack ‘They can roba man in broad dayligut so neatly and quickly that the Victim sometimes Knows nothing of it for an hour or more afterward. It takes no difference tn what his pocketboox Lo the tite! getling an opportunity to get at It, et Aman carries matter of of taking | her in, and become metabers of, the gang who wring or steal watches which are known to profession as white and red chain they cali ‘slang.’ These watch experts pay O attention to pocketbooks, and they are Loo high in their f their entre attention to taxing Supers are seldom taken now, because Chere are so many cheap and. nickel-plated ones Unat it does not pay to run the risk. ofession to tap store-tlls. PLAYING THE PART OP PAGIS. “supers.” atches, The y devote Waite “The older members of the profession usually pick up young converts and make them do tue work while they watch and give instructions and Uben hold the knowa_as ‘Johnn; ‘There was once a iellow thé Greek.’ He was a good Worker and never hiad any trouble in securing con- foaerates. He once went, Uo a country fal and, being alone, he employ: couatrymen 1 assist hiin, paying them §2 each. All they uad to do Was stand in some renaving lots ot ties mere e ‘country me! in, but wi ent at they Lum. Died to their employer's racket they demanded an increase of pay. Instead of increasing their pay he taxing chain in two: 1m an instant. rid of bis ‘sw: watobes all a ‘and di ef has to do ‘or break the ring, ever in taking @ Watch. 4 COURSE OF STUDY IN PRIsOX. “What effect does it have on one of these pro- fessionals to send him to the penitentiary:” quired “ ue ot orn usually ao making H Ay i ‘them. In to snap the which can be doue An expert finds no aimMeuity what- sale goes with a rush chairs, desks, carpets, fie cases Of cast-off things. The sale ts y iustances a species of resurrection, and perhaps the very clerk lor Whose official presence sone articie of furniture was vanished Will Ue greeted by it when he enters bis boarding house. This may be termed the irony of furniture. —— THE TEMPERANCE MOVEME: wuct Betweex MAN Ax ALCON WILLIAM BLALR, United States se Hampsiire. Boston: William E. Washington: WF. Morse. WILLIAM OF GERMANY: A Succings Wilitam I, German & .peror mtd By AncurbaLy tonnes. New 1 Washington: A. 8, Witherbee & Co on, Tor, Cow. rb on, Tue Avomenees. pit. Kevan Cane vy New lork, John JUDAISM ON THE SOCTAL QUPSTION. By Rabbi HH Bumkowrrz, New York. Jou b, Alden represent the emperor in Lhe transaction of oMcial in the event of tbe emperor being enabie