this uprising of women is
a hopeful sign, yet it cannot make one law black or white. It
may, for a time, mold public opinion, but depraved passions and
appetites need wholesome laws to restrain them. If women would
only see this and demand the exercise of their right of suffrage
with half the zeal and unanimity with which they storm a man's
castle, it would be granted. This is the only ax to lay at the
root of the tree.

Springfield, Ohio, has just had a case in a Justice Court which
attracted much attention and awakened much interest. A woman
whose husband had reduced his family to utter want by
drunkenness, entered a suit against the rumseller. An appeal from
the drunkard's wife to the ladies of Springfield had been
circulated in the daily papers, which so aroused them that a
large delegation of the most respectable and pious women of the
city came into the court. But the case was adjourned for a week.
During this time the excitement had become so great that when the
trial came on the court-room was full of spectators, and the
number of ladies within the rail was increased three-fold. Mrs.
E. D. Stewart made the plea to the jury. A verdict was rendered
against the rumseller. An appeal will be taken; but the citizens
of Springfield will never forget the influence which the presence
of women, in sympathy with another wronged woman, had upon the
court. And what added power those women would have had as
judges, jurors and advocates; citizens crowned with all the
rights, privileges and immunities justly theirs by law and
constitution.

Of the work in Geauga county, Mrs. Sophia Ober Allen, of South
Newbury writes:

In the winter of 1851-2, Anson Read circulated a petition praying
the legislature to protect married women in their property
rights; and from that time the subject of women's rights was
frequently discussed in social and literary gatherings. In 1871,
Mrs. Lima Ober proposed to be one of six women to go to the
township election and offer her vote. Nine[293] joined her, but
all their votes were rejected, the judges saying they feared
trouble would be the result if they received them. From that year
to 1876 these heroic women of South Newbury persisted in offering
their votes at the town, state and presidential elections; and
th