The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1905-09-15
CONDUCTED BY.
MRS. A. r. MILLER
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tray Of diamonds. After Roscoes argu-
ment the jury brought 10 verdict Of
not guilty aud the judge discharged the
prisoner The poor man Was so moved
that ne fell upon the neck of his attor-
ney and wept tears of gratitude. Short
ly after the man disappeared, and Couk-
lin felt for his diamond stud, 81 600
brilliant, and found it was gone-clipped
clean Conkliu raised a howl you could
have heard 10 the white house. Marilla,
who happened 10 be present, only laugh
ed and said: Roscoe, this is part of
the game We are playing. Take your
medicine, Everything We do, We do for
ourselves The ego is the all. He has
your diamond-your have your ego and
il is quite as dazzling as the diamond
Let the carbon go!'
Possibly the fact that Marilla is COM
fortably rich. and has been all her life,
is factor in her equanimity, which
word, by the way, Buddha said is the
greatest one in sny language. That the
woman has ever been a veritaole Puri-
tan in her life, even her enemies admit.
She is one with the rogues, but she is
still not of them She has no words Of
blame or censure for anybody, even for
they who misunderstood her. The rog-
oil lvae
she does not have to.
in her sympathy Marilla is not maud
lin. She does not try 70 usurp the place
OF Atlas, She does her work and forgets
it. She says a good memory is a fine
thing, but fine forgettery is finer. She
shakes none of your misdeeds before you.
She says: If you have been a fool, for
get it, for the world never will until you
do To Marilla righteousness is only
form of common sense, and wickednes
is a mistake.
Once Marilla went TO England car
rying a letter of introduction from Chief
Justice Chase to the chief justice of
England. Marilla called on his lordship,
who was just getting ready to take the
bench; he asked Marlla 10 sit with him
on the bench and SO in raiment not eX
pressed in fancy, Marilla accompanied
his lordship and achieved the distinction
of being the first woman who has held
down the woolsack in England
"Marila was appointed a United
States commissioner by President Grant,
and gave decisions that are quoted for
their crystalline quality aud rare good
sense. AT that time Washington judges
were in the habit Of giving cumulative
sentences by which man might be i'm
prisoned for debt for life on some trivial
otfense. Marilla had way Of letting
such prisoners 60 free, and giving her
reasc ns why, that caused such procedure
to become obsolete forevermore in the
District of Columbia.
1T is sometimes said that woman is
the worst enemy of her sex; but Maril-
las life has been devoted to the defense
of women. Most of her clients have
been women, and much of her business
has peen to collect debts due to working
women by rogues who sought to defraud
them.
"She has argued for equal rights for
half century. She was an abolitionist
with John Brown and Wendell Phillips,
and stood side by side with Fred Doug
lass when to do so was TO invite insult
and ignominy. She has raised her voice
10 behalf of the children in mills, mines
and factories, and wherever she has
found man, woman or child standing
alone, accused by society or law, by their
sides she has taken her stand"
September Philistine.