as. She was a preacher for three years, but refuses
to be any longer because, she says, under the discipline as
it now is, the church has no right to license a woman to
preach. Trying to do her work inside the church in which she
was born and reared, she has had to combat not only the
powers of darkness outside the church, but also the most
contemptible opposition, amounting in several instances to
bitter persecutions, from the ministers of her own
denomination with whom she has been associated in her work
as a preacher; and through it all she has toiled on,
manifesting only the most patient, forgiving spirit, and the
broadest, most Christ-like charity.

The R. R. C. A. has been in existence two and a half years, and
has already many hundreds of members in this and adjoining
counties, through the indefatigable zeal of its founder. Mitchell
county has the honor of numbering among its many enterprising
women the only woman who is a mail contractor in the United
States, Mrs. Myra Peterson, a native of New Hampshire. The
_Woman's Tribune_ of November, 1884, contains the following brief
sketch of a grand historic character:

Marianna T. Folsom is lecturing in Kansas on woman suffrage.
She gives an interesting account of a visit to Mrs. Prudence
Crandall Philleo. Miss Crandall over fifty years ago
allowed a girl with colored blood in her veins to attend her
young ladies' school in Connecticut. On account of the
social disturbance because of this, she dismissed the white
girls and made her school one for colored pupils. Protests
were followed by indictments, and these by mobbings, until
she was obliged to give up her school. For her fortitude,
the Anti-Slavery Society had her portrait painted. It became
the property of Rev. Samuel J. May, who donated it to
Cornell University when opened to women. Miss Crandall
married, but has now been a widow many years. She is in her
eighty-third year, and is vigorous in mind and body, having
been able to deliver the last Fourth of July oration at Elk
Falls, Kan., where she now lives and advocates woman
suffrage and temperance.

In the introduction to Chapter VII., Vol.