The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-04-13
"AIARGARET'-HER LIES WORK
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At Washington and IL other cities Of
this country stand statues, in marble or
bronze, of the eminent men, from Wash
ington down to the present day, who
have figured rs soldiers, patriots, states
men, etc. But nowhere, III this country,
IS there q statue to woman. In no
city has there been an effort or even a
suggestion to thus honor the name and
memory Of woman until Margaret
Haughery died in New Orleans few
months ago. Margaret" (as everybody
in the Crescent City called herr came to
New Orleans long years ago. She
was poor and uneducated, but
she had pure soul and a
warm heart and nature had
blessed her with a clear head and
strong willing hands. She conducted a
little bakery, giving good bread and
honest weight and winning friends by
her CHEEKY, sunshiny nature and her in
dustrious struggles. Years went by and
the little bakery grew to be the largest
establishment of the kind in the south
and one Of the largest on the continent
"Margarets' bread and crackers grew
famous throughout the south. Wealth
came to the good woman-immense
wealth-and she spent it like water in
the cause of charity. A Catholic, her
self, she knew no creed nor race in her
benevo ience. OF her it might have been
said: "Ihe world is my country, to do
good my religion" The sick, the des-
titute, the orphan were her care, and
through her long life she spent hundreds
of thousands of dollars in aiding the
needy, bequeathing at her death a large
fortune to continue her life work. When
she died, last January, and they went to
bury the modest, big-hearted, unedu-
Gated woman, the leading men Of Louis
lana We're the pall-bearers. Thousands
OF people followed her to the grave and
/ all IN the streets stood uncovered as the
! cortege passed. 1t was the tribute OF
! humanity to Il kind heart and spotless
lie. New Orleans is raising money to
erect monument to Margaret and it
will be fitting one. We have been led
to give this sketch of Margaret be-
cause she Is the first American woman
to whom such a tribute is proposed, and
from the further fact-(we quote now
from a letter whose writer sends con-
trbutiou to the monumental fund.-
"tAat not pomp nor pedigree, nor even
intellect won the honor of the first
statue of q woman on this continent,
but goodness only, and goodness una
doned."
Kind hearts are more than corouets
And simple taith than Norman blood -
The writer Of the letter to which We
refer Is Miss Francis Z. Willard, pleas
antly remembered by thousands Of Tex
ans as the President of the Woman's
National Christian Temperance Union.
E--
The Kentucky legislature has practi-
cally agreed on a congressional appor-
tlonment that may be considered mod
erstely fair for Kentucky as 1t gives
the republicans living chance to make
a fight in four out of eleven districts.
These are the third, ninth, tenth and
eleventh, in which the democratic ma
jorities for President in 1880 were as
follows l,412, 2,423, 1,062 and 739.
Jefferson county louisville gets dis
trict all TO herself, with a democratic
majority III 1880 of 800 votes. All in
all kentucky has done the decent thing
in this apportionment