oman who ever argued a case in this State. Anne Bradstreet was for
years a marked character in Albany courts, but her claims for
justice were regarded as an amusing lunacy.

In 1880, Governor Cornell appointed Miss Carpenter on the State
Board of Charities.

In the suit of Mr. Edward Jones to recover $860 which he alleged he
had loaned to the Rev. Anna Oliver for the Willoughby Avenue
Methodist Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, of which she was pastor, a
verdict for the defendant was rendered. Miss Oliver addressed the
following letter to the court:

_To his Honor, the Judge, the Intelligent Jury, the Lawyers and
all who are engaged in the case of Jones vs. Oliver_:

GENTLEMEN:--Thanking you for the politeness, the courtesy, the
chivalry even, that has been shown me to-day, allow me to make of
you the following request: Please sit down at your earliest
leisure, and endeavor to realize in imagination how you would
feel if you were sued by a woman, and the case was brought before
a court composed entirely of women; the judge a woman; every
member of the jury a woman; women to read the oath to you, and
hold the Bible, and every lawyer a woman. Further, your case to
be tried under laws framed entirely by women, in which neither
you nor any man had ever been allowed a voice. Somewhat as you
would feel under such circumstances, you may be assured, on
reading this, I have felt during the trial to-day. Perhaps the
women would be lenient to you (the sexes do favor each other),
but would you be satisfied? Would you feel that such an
arrangement was exactly the just and fair thing? If you would
not, I ask you on the principle of the Golden Rule, to use your
influence for the enfranchisement of women.

_New York, 1881._

Mrs. Roebling, wife of the engineer in charge of the construction
of the marvelous Brooklyn bridge, made the patterns for various
necessary shapes of iron and steel such as no mills were making,
after her husband and other engineers had for weeks puzzled their
brains over the difficulties.

When Frank Leslie died, his printing-house was involved, and Mrs.
Leslie undertook to redeem it, which she did, and in a very short
time. Speaking of it she says:

"I had the property in reach, and the assignees were ready to
turn it over to me, but to get it, it was necessary for me to
raise $50,000, I borrowe