badge of honor which marked our friends for a few hours at
least. It is a pertinent fact that, while the opposition
insist that women do not want to vote, in a single county of
this sparsely settled territory 222 women did vote in the
midst of a severe storm. In a series of articles signed
"Justice," published in the Bismarck _Tribune_, we find the
following:

The women of Dakota do desire the power to vote. One year
ago a majority of the commissioners of Kingsbury county
signed a request that at an election to be held March 4,
1884, the women should, with the men, express their wishes
by vote upon a specified question of local policy. The women
immediately responded, prepared their separate ballot-boxes,
placed them in charge of the election officers by the side
of the men's boxes upon the same table at De Smet and other
towns, and voted all day side by side with the men, casting
throughout the county 222 votes. A more orderly election was
never known. No self-respect was lost and no woman was
lowered in public esteem. Clergymen, lawyers, merchants,
farmers, all voted with their wives, the ballots going into
different boxes. One thousand men voted in the county. The
day was stormy and snow deep on the ground. If 222 women in
one county would without previous experience spring forward
to vote on a week's notice, is it to be supposed they do not
appreciate the right?

JUSTICE.

Mr. Pickler, who had taken an active part in the discussion on
the amendment, received many letters of thanks from the friends
of woman suffrage throughout the nation, and made his
acknowledgments in the following cordial letter to Mrs. Matilda
Joslyn Gage:

FAULKTON, D. T., April 20, 1885.

_Matilda Joslyn Gage, Syracuse, N. Y._:

DEAR MADAM: Your kind letter addressed to me on the Woman
Suffrage bill, at Bismarck, would have been earlier
acknowledged had it not been that I suffered quite a severe
illness upon my return from the legislature. I beg to assure
you that words of encouragement from such able and
disting