Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-12-05
For the Brooklyn Daily Times.
Anna Dickenson.-An Eventfm Lii

1t may be truly said that Anna Dick
enson's life for the past ten years, has
been an eventful one. She has worked
her way from an obscure Quaker girl to
the first and best known women in Amer
ica The first money earned by this
champion of Reform was twenty five
cents, for scrubbing pavement in the
city of Philadelphia. With this hard
earned piece of silver (Which it was,)
she gained admission to a lecture OF
Wendell Phillips "a very poor girl list
ening to the first orator Of the country.
Now she is herself to the peer of thai
orator. She has accumulated fortune,
and what is of infinitely greater import,
has won an honest fame that will live
for all time.
Miss Dickenson's power of endurance
and her bravery is remarkable. In a
recent ten days trip, through the Rocky
Mountains, she assembled Pixies Peak by
new trail, still uncompleted, eighteen
miles, to the top-fve miles of which
was over broken granite. No walking
creature but man had ever reached the
top before. 1t was considered an impos-
sibility to ride, or drive, or land q beast
there, but the brave girl had made up
her mind her donkey must keep her COM
pany, aud he did. She rode over three
hundred of the fearful miles by carriage,
and fifty miles in saddle, climbed to the
summit of Mount Ebert, (its peak IA, 900
feet high,) and was the first woman and
one of the "frst men" who ever reached
it,
An amusing incident occurred last
autumn during the delivery of one OF
her new lectures, in New York. While
addressing vast concourse Of people, a
bit of paper fell frem her hand. The re-
porters reached for it. The captor
Judging from the diminutive size of the
paper, expected to find short hand copy
of her speech, but soon discovered his
mistake, and returned The little slip with
good grace. 1t contained simply doz-
en- or so head notes of her lecture, which
was all she had to stay her memory
through her long and powerful address.
Miss Dickinson resides in the city OF
Philadelphia, and handsomely supports
her aged mother. In city after city
separated by hundreds and hundreds OF
miles, Anna Dickinson never forgets the
affectionate mother at home. Her mes
sages Of love flash daily across the wires
and give constant expression of hel
warm heart.
Her charitable acts are matters o
public record. She is never appealed tt
in vain. Her purse has ever been oper
to the poor and distressed, and by then
she will always be gratefully remembered
Miss Dickinson as rule speaks five
nights in the week Saturday being
the off" night. OF course she is tn,
victim of Jealousy and early this season
canard was extensively circulated t.
the effect that she had abandoned tn,
platform for the stage. How true thi
is can be quickly answered. She is en-
gagged to lecture until the latter part o
May next, and is lecturing now. She il
wanted everywhere and if it were posi-
BILE to open almost every leading cours
in the country, Anna Dickinson will al
ways rank as first choice.
Miss Dickinson is very regular in he
habits, and wholly abstains from eatin,
after dinner until she has finished he
, lecture. She is constantly busy with tn
pen - her correspondence accumulate
from day to day-so that her time is di
vided between speaking and writing, ant
yet she braves this fatiguing life and in
variably appears before her audienc
apparently fresh, seldom exhibiting tn
first sign of exhaustion.