d it from a woman. How happy I was when
she signed the check, and how beautiful it seemed to me to see
one woman helping another. I borrowed the money in June, and was
to make the first payment of $5,000, on the 1st of November. On
the 29th of October I paid the $50,000 with interest. From June
to the 29th of October, I made $50,000 clear. I had also to pay
$30,000 to the creditors who did not come under the contract.
While I was paying this $80,000 of my husband's debts, I spent
but $30 for myself, except for my board. I lived in a little
attic room, without a carpet, and the window was so high that I
could not get a glimpse of the sky unless I stood on a chair and
looked out. When I had paid the debts and raised a monument to my
husband, then I said to myself, 'now for a great big pair of
diamond earrings,' and away I went to Europe, and here are the
diamonds." The diamonds are perfect matches, twenty-seven carats
in weight, and are nearly as large as nickles.

In Lansingburgh the women tax-payers offered their ballots and were
repulsed, as follows:

September 2, 1885, the special election of the taxable
inhabitants of the village of Lansingburgh took place, to vote
upon a proposition to raise by tax the sum of $15,000 for
water-works purposes. The measure was voted by 102 for it to 46
against. But a small amount of interest was manifested in the
election. Several women tax-payers offered their votes, but the
inspectors would not receive them, and the matter will be
contested in the courts. The call for the election asked for an
expression from "the taxable inhabitants," and women tax-payers
in the 'burgh claim under the law their rights must be
recognized. Lansingburgh inspectors have on numerous occasions
refused to receive the ballots thus tendered, and the women have
lost patience. They are to employ the best of counsel and settle
the question at as early a day as possible. Women pay tax upon
$367,394 of the property within the village boundaries, and they
believe that they, to the number of 317 at least, are entitled to
votes on all questions involving a monetary expenditure. In
Saratoga, Clinton, and a number of other places in this State,
where elections in relation to water-works have taken place, it
has been held by legal authority tha