ector for the eighth district, employed two
young ladies as clerks, Miss Brown and Miss Price, the former of
whom is said to be his best clerk. She is the sister of Mrs.
Smith, the circuit clerk of Laurel county. The successor of
General Sanderson, employs his two daughters as clerks, and they
receive the same pay as men who do the same work.

Many women in our State manage their own farms. My mother, during
my father's absence as minister to Russia, took his farm of 2,500
acres (he making her his attorney), paid off a large debt on the
property, built an elegant house costing $30,000, stocked the
farm, and largely supported the family of six children, with
money which she made during the war. She fed government mules,
and did it so well that she would return them to camp before the
time expired, in better condition than most feeders got theirs.
She is now, 1885, conducting her own farm of 350 acres, selling
several thousand dollars' worth of wheat, cattle, and sheep
annually, giving her personal attention to everything, at the age
of seventy. During the adventurous and perilous period of my
father's life she shared his dangers, and was ever his mainstay
in upholding his hands against slavery; and in that crowning
point of his life, when he was mobbed in Lexington, my mother sat
at his bed-side, and wrote at his dictation, "Go tell your secret
conclave of dastardly assassins, Cassius M. Clay knows his rights
and how to defend them."

Two of my sisters, Laura and Anne, and myself are practical
farmers, each having under her immediate superintendence the
workmen, both white and black, on 300 acres. We raise corn,
wheat, oats, cattle and sheep, buying and selling our own stock
and produce. We took possession of the land without stock or
utensils, and by our observation and experience, prudence and
industry, have greatly improved the lands and stock, and annually
realize a handsome income therefrom.

Miss Laura R. White of Manchester, sister of Hon. John D. White,
who ably advocated our cause in congress as well as in his own
State, was graduated with marked honor from the Michigan State
University in 1874. Since that time she has studied architecture
in the Boston Institute of Technology one year, worked as
draughtsman in the office of th