of Philadelphia. To Mr. Love the
society is indebted for many valuable suggestions as to the best
means of becoming an effective co-worker in the cause of human
progress.

Our colored friends, who have control of the Douglass Institute,
have testified their good will toward the movement in giving the
society the use of an apartment in the building, free of charge.
This is the one instance in which we have met with encouragement
in our own community. We have sought it in high places, among
those we supposed to be friends, and found it not. It appears to
be the nature of fine linen to dread the mud splashes of the
pioneer's spade and pick-ax, and for silk and broadcloth to
shrink from contact with the briers of an uncleared thicket;
hence our sole recourse is to appeal to those only who are
dressed for the service. We are conscious that we have entered
upon no easy task; but, ashamed of having so long left our
Northern sisters to toil and endure alone in a cause which is not
one of section but of humanity, we come forward at last to assume
our share of the hardship, trusting that what we have lost in our
tardiness may be made up in earnestness and activity.

From various papers we clip the following items:

At the election in Baltimore, January 20, 1870, there were three
women who applied to be registered as voters at the third-ward
registry office. Their names were Mrs. L. C. Dundore, Mrs. A. M.
Gardner and Miss E. M. Harris. Their cases were held under
advisement by the register.----In 1871, a Maryland young lady,
Miss Middlebrook, raised over 5,000 heads of cabbage. On
Christmas, she sold in the Baltimore market 500 pounds of turkey
at 20 cents per pound.----Mrs. H. B. Conway of Frederick county,
has established a reputation as a contractor for "fills" and
"cuts." She has filled several contracts in Pennsylvania, been
awarded a $100,000 job on the Western Maryland railroad, and now,
1885, is engaged in the work of excavating a tract in Baltimore
for building-sites.

Miss R. Muller has for several years been engaged as subscription
and general correspondence clerk for the Baltimore _Daily
American_. She was the first woman to be employed in that city on
newspaper work during the present century. In the chapter on
newspapers it will be seen that Anna R. Gree