The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1895-10-09

tional attainments already secured led to
plans for q college course. The prepar-
ations, including the turning of a little
property into money, preparation OF
wardrobe, by the wife's own hands. and
the provision of supply Of such food as
is not quickly perishable, occupied about
two wears. Hillsdale College, Michigan,
was selected, and in 1867 they moved
into little three-room house there. For
the five years of their stay, Mrs. Dodge
was hOusekeeper aud student. Through
out her course she seldom was outranked
by any student in any study, and her
literary productions secured marked at
tention.
Graduating with her husband, Mrs. ID.
was with him for the yearthat he was Su-
perintendent of public schools at Woos-
ter,O., and then was Preceptress while he
Prin iple OF Geneva Normal school, in
their native country. 1t was there. in
the winter Of 1881. that the Woman's
Crusade swept over Ohio From the out
set, Mrs. Dodge was leading spirit in
this movement. She was one of those
who addressed immense meetings, and
not less ably than one of her associates
in the town of Geneva, who has since
been National w c. T. Z. President.
In 1879, some months after the hus-
band came to Kentucky tentatively, the
| family moved, and Berea has since been
! their home Here, in the face of many
obstacles, Mrs Dodge has been one of
the most fruitful temperance workers in
the State. 1t is pretty certain that no
woman in the State has devoted so much
time and strength to tins reform. Few
persons, in any State, were 50 thorough
/ " informed on the various aspects of the
temperance question, history, legislation
and the physiological effects OF alcohol.
Many years ago she organized the
Glade WOman's Christian Temperance
Union. and was permanently its presi-
dent, attending the meetings in all sorts
of weather and looking after all details of
business with unfailing zeal, and without
reference to the sacrificing of comfort
which was involved. She was the prime
mover in effecting the district Organiza-
ton, representing considerably more
than a Congressional district, and known
| in w. c. T. L. State records as pioneer
District" From the outset she was Cor
responding Secretary of this district, and
had the chief labor and responsibility in
preparing the programs She gave many
other occasions in different counties,
sometimes in other States; and these ef-
forts were marked by a breadth and
thoroughness Of thought, securing atten-
ton and appreciative comment from the
oldest listeners.
Mrs. D. was regularly a promi-
inent member of the w. c. T. L. State
/ Conventions and had attended several
Nationals. She was the State Superin-
tendent OF the department Social
Purity, in which capacity her
efforts had an influence upon
legislation. Her correspondence in this
capacity involved hundreds of letters
every year.
For eighteen years an organization
known as the Christian Temperance
Union of the Glade District, has been de-
ing continuous and successful work 1t
embraces old and young, male and fe-
male. OF this Mrs. d. was the first
Vice. President Through all the years
her labors in this connection have been
abundant, not only in her own public
utterances but in training hundreds Of
children and youths for public temper
ance recitatiOns, songs and dialogues.
At the time Of her death she was Presi-
dent Of this organization.
Other lines of public work were not
wholly neglected. She found time for
some Smday-school work, much of the
time during the past year teaching a
large class of young ladies at Berea, while
frequently visiting other schools in the
vicinity. For several terms she taught
physiology in the college and sometimes
other branches. For years she had been
a member of the College Ladies' Board Of
Care and its President,
While laboring so assiduously for the
public and often beyond her strength,
her home and family were not forgotten.
All parts of the house, from the oil
paintings on the wall to substantial re-
pairs, show the work of her hands. Work
/ for God and humanity was too pressing
t. allow her to fritter away much time
upon mere style; and some incapable of
/ understanding the extent of her plans
and the conservation of her efforts may
have criticised. But no wife and mother
was more mindful Of the real comfort of
her household; and no son ever received
more loving and intelligent training
than hers. She hath done what she
could.
Hers was a religion which prays at
the same time it is doing. Never osten-
/ tatious, she left her works to speak for
/ her. Her limitations as to health prob
/ ably interfered somewhat with her prom
inence in State and Nation; but they may
not have lessened largely the intrinsic
value of her work.
A previously enfeebled state of the sys-
TEN resulting from overwork during the
hot weather and an acute stomach attack
in August left her unable to resist an
exposure to the typhoid germ. After
fighting the disease for several DAYS
alone, physician was called in on Sept
10Th; her husband was summoned home
by telegraph the next day, and later her
sou was called from the University of
Chicago and a sister and husband from
Cumberland Gap The best efforts of
physicians and trained nurses were una
vailing. At $40 a. M, Sept. 25th, the
day she had planned to go to the w. c.
T. U. State Convention, she was re-
leased, and those who knew her best
were left in tears. H.
| FORMER KENTUCKIANS ANXIOUS
FOR THE DEMOCRATS TO WIN.
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