The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-03-30
w. g. r. u. DEPARTMENT..

most important topics the Judge excused
the other three examiners, saying that he
was well satisfied, and he believed every
member of the bar felt the same. As Mrs.
Bittender rose to take the attorneys oath,
the Judge said in effect that she had pass
ed highly creditable examination, much
superior to the usual one.
Thus was the first woman admitted to
the bar in Nebraska. The same day of
her admission, husband and wife became
law partners, under the firm name of II.
C. & Ada III. Bittenbender, which relation
still exists and is most harmonious. They
removed to Lincoln, Neb., in December,
1889, Mrs. Bttenbender prefers court
practice TO office work. She ranks
as very successful lawyer. She travels
throughout the state, practicing before the
higher courts, tie utmost courtesy inyar-
iably being shown her. Never but once
has she lost a case brought by herself.
She has had several cases before the Su-
preme Court the highest court of the
state which in every instance she has won.
She has been admitted to the United
States District and Circuit Courts for
Nebraska, and expects to be admitted to
the United States Supreme Court during
her stay in Washington this winter
For the last four years she has been SUI
perintendent of leg islation and petitions
for the Nebraska w. G. T. IT,, and secured
the passage of the Scientific Temperance
Instruction bill, the Tobacco bill, secured
Il law giving the mother the guardianship
of her children equally with the father,
and several other laws. She is the author
of the excellent Industrial Home bill
which vas enacted by the Nebraska legis-
latnre last winter, and which establishes
an industrial school as well as home for
penitent women and girls with view to
| lessen prostitution.
At the State Convention last summer of
the Nebraska Prohibition party, Mrs. Bit
tenbender was chosen as the nominee for
the position of Judge of the second judicial
district. She did not lift voice or pen in the
canvass. The party is not strong enough
yet in the state to elect, but when it is, it
is expected that Mrs. Bittenbender v ill be
one Of the first to be elevated to a judicial
position.
Mrs Bttenbender writes to me as fol-
lows:
| have always been a total abstainer. As
soon as was old enough, | joined the
Good Templars. Ny mother also, has al
ways been total abstainer and worker in
temperance societies and movements, My
father was an advocate of the temperance
cause, leader of the I. O. c. r., and tenn
perance lecturer, but would fall from grace
occasionally, caused by hereditary APP
petite.
Mrs. 8ittenbender is three ionrths
Yankee" her mother aud her ancestors
having been New Englanders, while her
fathers family were partly of New Eng
land, partly of German stock. She has
uniformly good health, good conscience,
and, as q natural consequence, good tenn
per. She says that Sin Pennsylvania she
never heard or thought about the woman
question, but just as soon as Mrs. Harriet
| Brooks called on her in Omaha to talk of
the campaign, she knew she was herself a
sutlragist, although she had never known
| it before" In fact, she is a free-born
| spirit, with the gift of seeing truth in it
self, unllampered by traditional prejudices.
| Al tie international Council of Women
to be held in Washington. ID. c., March
% to April 2, Mrs. Bittcnbender is to
speak upon "W omen in Law" She will
| be in Washington during the entire session
of Congress to represent the National w.
G. T. u, is quietly domiciled at the Tenn
pie Hotel W it'll Mrs. La Fetra. and is an
! ndefatigable worker, constantly sending
out to the local unions and the press as her
| base Of operations, for petitions, para
graphs, help in the way of influence with
| Congress to grant prohibition to the Dis
trict of Columbia and the territories, pro-
lection to women, constitutional prohibit
| ton, and other measures called for by the
| Nashville Convention. She drafted our
bill to accompany the great petition for
| the protection of women, offered February
| 90. by Senator Blair This involved much
hard work, as She was obliged to go over
| all the records of Congress from the first,
! to learn precisely what had been done al
| ready and to make her bill harmonious
with existing legislation. She spoke
briefly, but with clear, convincing argu-
| ment at our recent hearings before com
mittces of Senate and House. 1t is q pa
| thetic, no less than heroic figure, that
patient little thinker at the Capitol, work
| ing i'll spirit SO prayerfnl and earnest for
our sacred cause, paying her own ex-
penses, and denying herself the comforts
of her home; nor can | forget the loyal
| heart that stands by her in all these brave
| endeayors, the husband who is SO proud of
her achievements and who, "for the pres
ent distress, is willing to share her sacri-
fees. Oar prayers aud blessings clnster
around these noble friends, and predict for
them joyful part in the Harvest Home
| that is to be.
| Brown with the Tax.''
| The liquor traffic is like q hunted fox
pursued by the greyhonnds of Prohibition,
| rappnI AT lhs4 tay and guprpnna oai,yt do