The morning times., 1895-11-10
IMPoRTANT INFLuENC CE.

Soon afterward she entered the Academy
of her native town, studying with the boys
Latin, Greek and mathematics, but from
the old Scottish clergyman she received
many influences during the formative period
of her character.
MY fathers office was in n wing nd
Joining the house, aud | used to 60 there
and listen to the complaints of the
clients. The women from the Scotch
neighborhoUd came in to make their com
plants. At that time all the women of
this State were under the old common law
of England. A married woman could not
inherit any property; whatever was left
her went to her husband. Shecuuh not have
her own wages; If a woman worked all
day long, what she earned belonged TO her
husband at night; and, If you paid her,
the law could compel you to pay him over
again. A woman could not do business in
her own name she could not make CON
tract; she could not sue or be sued; she
could not own her own children. Sitting
in my fathers office l listened tu all these
complaints of the women and got my first
idea of the cruelty of the laws. The
women used to weep and talk, and my
father seemed so helpless to do anything
for them.
when L asked him why he did nothing
for these women he said: Well, the
trouble is tlle law Is III Tue way linen
W ould say Let me see the law / could
not believe that anything could stand in
the way of remedying such trouble.
Seeing my Indignation, the students used
to amuse themselves looking up the very
worst la WIS relating to women and reading
them to me, so that they kept me in con-
slant state of wrath. After a while got
them all marked, and used TO go into the
office and read them over and over again.
last g1id- aTf thasn In yp "a r.a Io ipo
that make all women so miserable / will
just get pair of scissors and cut them
out, and that will end their suffering
A CASE IN POINT.
"Now, Flora Campbell, who used to wear
big red cloak with a hood, came every
Saturday and brought US chickens, eggs,
maple sugar, and sweet flag. and had q
very tender feeling for Flora Campbell
One day when she had been telling my
father what she suffered at the hands of
her son and his wife for her husband had
left the farm to the son, although Flora's
money had bought the la ud), who did not
take good care of her, l said: Now,
Flora, dry your tears; 1 am going into the
office to cut every one of those laws out
of the books, and you viii have no more
trouble
Flora told my father, and he took me
into his office. If my office should burn
tonight he said, 1T would make no
difference, as there are hundred lawyers
in the State, and all lave these same
books. When you are older, you can go
down to Albany and tell the legislature what
you have witnessed here, how badly these
laws work, and then they will pass new
ones My thought then turned to the time
when would be big enough to go down to
the legislature.
AT the ,Johnstown Academy 7 studied
everything that the boys did, and my one
ambition was to outstrip a boy in every
thing so as to make my father say: We'll,
after all, girl is as good as boy 1
was riding splendidly on my pony, and
kept at the head of the class in Greek,
Latin and mathematics, until when the
class was graduated at the end of five