Arizona republican., 1892-10-22

WORK tor the club should be its officers
The faint of personal ambition Is the
trail of the serpent. The greatest leader
Is she who serves most and best.
One of the beautiful girls of Utah
comes of the widely distributed blood of
Brigham Young, and her name is Miss
"Jote" Beattie Jote!
find from the Brooklyn Eagle that
Brooklyn has at least two accomplished
women druggists, one Mrs. Eccles, the
other Mrs. Rose Smith Drummer. Mrs.
Drummer graduated from the New York
College Of Pharmacy in 1888, being
among the ten that passed the highest
examination. She says that the occupa-
ton of druggist is well adapted to
women, but that they must understand
their business and not expect to wear
trains and have white hands in phar-
macy. This lady makes all her own
tinctures. One of her observations is
worth noting. 1t is that the only I'M
pleasant experiences she has ever had in
her business have come from women
One lady who remarked magniticently
that dispensing drugs was not woman's
business anyhow, and refused to be
waited on by Mrs. Drummer, bought five
cents worth of borax. Poor creatures
we are.
One likes to see ones favorite theories
borne out by facts. have always said
that women were the born orators and
preachers of the race, and the time
would come when the world would know
it. was not bit surprised therefore
when Miss Jean Nelson. a brave, bright
Indiana girl, won the first prize in the
interstate collegiate contest at Mime
apolis. Against her in the contest were
President John, of De PAW university,
where Miss Nelson is student. was at
Omaha at the Methodist conference
when the announcement was made that
the young lady had won the prize. He
Immediately telegraphed home; Con.
CALCULATIONS. Tell the boys to make a
noise.
A young woman preacher of Chicago.
Rev. Frances Townsley. has been called
to the pastorate of Emmanuel Baptist
church at Lincoln. Neb. She has &C
cepted it and is now regularly filling its
pulpit.
Polly Pry," of the New York Re
corder, knows hotel chambermaid
whose lower front teeth are all gone be-
cause she loosened them by holding be-
tween her teeth the edges of pillow cases
while she drew them upon the pillows
Bad habit.
How glad am that Worth, of Paris
has set his foot down upon women s
dress trains in the street!
Able editors delight to tell woman
suffrage advocates to wait till there Is n
general demand among their sex for the
ballot before they try to get it for them
selves. But these same able editors did
not talk that way when at the close of the
war the ballot was suddenly thrust upon
a million or 50 of swinishly ignorant ne
groes. The ballot was necessary to pro-
tect the negro, it was said. How about
protecting women?
Midy Morgan was the pioneer woman
live stock market reporter of the world
Eccentric though she was in many ways
she did more to show what intellectual,
and business capabilities a woman pos
sesses in an unusual field than almost
any other newspaper reporter Of her
sex. Jeered at and opposed in the be
ginning by cattlemen and masculine
live stock reporters alike, she lived to he
Il recognized authority and writer on
both horses and cattle. Magazines of
the highest rank were glad to get papers
from her pen on her favorite topics. BY
her years of solid, magnificent work she
helped to advance the belief in women 5
capacity hundred years. And she had
| one of the sweetest, most musical aud
cultivated voices | ever heard Death
found her, though nearly sixty-four
years old, as active and able for work as
she had been twenty years before.
ELIZA AGCHARD CONNER