e recollection
of their patience and long-suffering is overwhelming. They form the most
striking human exemplification of divine meekness and submission, the
world has ever seen, and bring to mind continually the passage, 'He is
brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers
is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.'"

During the continuance of her labors, Mrs. Hoge was frequently the
recipient of costly and elegant gifts, as testimonials of the respect
and gratitude with which her exertions were viewed.

After a visit to the Ladies' Aid Society, of West Chester, Pennsylvania,
she was presented by them with a testimonial, beautifully engrossed upon
parchment, surmounted by an exquisitely painted Union flag.

The managers of the Philadelphia Fair, believing Mrs. Hoge to have had
an important connection with that fair, presented to her a beautiful
gift, in token of their appreciation of her services.

The Women's Relief Association, of Brooklyn, New York, presented her an
elegant silver vase.

During the second Sanitary Fair in Chicago, a few friends presented her
with a beautiful silver cup, bearing a suitable inscription in Latin,
and during the same fair, she received as a gift a Roman bell of green
bronze, or verd antique, of rare workmanship, and value, as an object of
art.

Mrs. Hoge made three expeditions to the Army of the Southwest, and
personally visited and ministered to more than one hundred thousand men
in hospitals. Few among the many efficient workers, which the war called
from the ease and retirement of home, can submit to the public a record
of labors as efficient, varied, and long-continued, as hers.

[Illustration: MRS. MARY A. LIVERMORE
Eng^d. by A.H. Ritchie.]

MRS. MARY A. LIVERMORE.

Few of the busy and active laborers in the broad field of woman's effort
during the war, have been more widely or favorably known than Mrs.
Livermore. Her labors, with her pen, commenced with the commencement of
the war; and in various spheres of effort, were faithfully and
energetically given to the cause of the soldier and humanity, until a
hard-won peace had once more "perched upon our banners," and the need of
them, at least in that specific direction, no longer existed.

Mrs. Livermore is a native of Boston, where her childhood and girlhood
were passed. At fourteen years of age she was a medal scholar of the
"Hancock School," of that city, and three years later, she gradua