served
afterwards in Laramie City; and so great has been the change in
that town in the habits of the people and the quiet appearance of
the streets on Sunday, as compared with other towns in the
territory, that it has been nick-named the "Puritan town" of
Wyoming, and, I may add, rejoices in its singularity.

And how was this most successful experiment in equal rights
received and treated by the press and the people out of the
territory? The New York illustrated papers made themselves funny
with caricatures of female juries, and cheap scribblers invented
all sorts of scandals and misrepresentations about them. The
newspapers were overflowing with abuse and adverse criticism, and
only here and there was a manly voice heard in apology or
defense. I copy these extracts as a sample of the rest.

"LADY JURORS."--Under this head the New Orleans _Times_, the
ablest and largest paper in the South, said:

Confusion is becoming worse confounded by the hurried march
of events. Mad theorizings take the form of every-day
realities, and in the confusion of rights and the confusion
of dress, all distinctions of sex are threatened with swift
obliteration. When Anna Dickinson holds forth as the teacher
of strange doctrines in which the masculinity of woman is
preposterously asserted as a true warrant for equality with
man in all his political and industrial relations; when
Susan B. Anthony flashes defiance from lips and eyes which
refuse the blandishment and soft dalliance that in the past
have been so potent with "the sex"; when, in fine, the women
of Wyoming are called from their domestic firesides to serve
as jurors in a court of justice, a question of the day, and
one, too, of the strangest kind, is forced on our attention.
From a careful review of all the surroundings, we think the
Wyoming experiment will lead to beneficial results. By
proving that lady jurors are altogether impracticable--that
they cannot sit as the peers of men without setting at
defiance all the laws of delicacy and propriety--the
conclusion may be reached that it will be far better to let
nature alone in regulating the relations of the sexes.

The Philadelphia _Press_ had