The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-29

now regularly engaged in lobbying in
washington. For twenty-six years she
has been the self-elected champion, friend
and attorney of all sorts of worthy claim
ants, and while she has tirelessly labored
through the years for such as were other
wise friendless and unaided, she has stead
lastly refused to accept any commissions
or remuneration in money for her work
1t is and ever has been labor of love, the
result of good principles earnestly adhered
TO, and boundless sympathy for the I'M
fortunates of our race / am credibly in
formed that through her mediation no less
than ten thousand pension claims have been
adludicated and that in every case the pen
sloner has been, or has been believed to be.
worthy and in need. Yet this is but a Dor.
ton of Mrs. Hetchman's work She has
interested herself in behalf of thousands of
claimants other than pensioners, and in all
sorts of reforms of the general laws look
ing toward the relief of oppressed classes.
She knows personally more influential
men, perhaps, than any other women in
America, and though her fame has not gone
as lar as that of many women who work
Tor lesser ends, but with more ostentation.
she has probably done more. in her quiet
practical way, for the really needy, than
most of those whose names are familiar to
the tongues of this nation and the world.
IL this be an extravagant claim, have
made It in a frame of mind quite free from
prejudice, for i have no personal acquaint-
ance with the lady; know her only by her
works, and judge her only by long rec.
ord Of consistently good results-a record
which began in the hospitals made numer.
Gus and frightful by our civil war, and has
been continued through the years of peace
with undated energy and faithfulness. OF
course, Mrs. Hetchman is in comfortable
circumstances financially. No woman who
was not could thus devote herself to others
without living by the charity of friends
She has share of this worlds goods, and
is striving to see that those who have not
be raised from their condition of distress
In personal appearance Mrs. Hetchman is
delicate, fragile looking lady, whose
snowy hair disputes the question of age
with her clear eyes, her vigorous tones, and
alert movements.
She is an earnest believer in that spirit
ual science which has come to us from the
Orient under the name of the Wisdom re
ngion, and attributes her success in the
practical work to which she devotes her
self TO the influence of the other world,
with which she claims continual, though
restricted, intercourse For this. of course,
she is often called a crank; but the SINGER
ity of her faith and the truely glorious re-
suits which she must be conscious of hav-
ing achieved, give to her. have no doubt,
the fortltude TO bear all such epithets. or
rather, perhaps ought to say, raise her to
a height whereon fortitude is unnecessary,
since the shafts of such raillery can not
reach her there.
There is another woman of whom
should like to write few words here She
is not now a lobbyist, though for many
years she was one. l refer to DIR. Mary
Walker, = woman who because she wears
mans attire, has long been ieered by those
who. let US in charity presume, do no.
know that she adopted this attire because
in the ordinary dress of her sex she could