ordantown, was
significant. Even the weekly local column was exceedingly reserved, as
if some prescience of the future had rendered every man and woman
cautious of performing a single act worthy of interest. Nothing was said
of the last meeting of the Ladies' Civic League and Cemetery
Association. There was no flamboyant boasting concerning the various
enterprises.

But at the top of the first column on the editorial page, between two
wide black lines, appeared this notice:

"_Death of an Estimable Christian Woman._"

The obituary of Sarah Hayden Mosely followed below. This was so brief
that it might have been placed in capital letters on her tombstone
without crowding the margins. It appeared to have been written with the
circumspection of a person who desired his readers to understand that he
was in no way responsible for the deceased nor for her deeds. The title
was stereotyped. Every woman who died in Jordantown appeared in the
_Signal_ obituary tribute as "An Estimable Christian Woman."

It was at the next column that every man stared with amazement mixed
with fear and indignation. This contained "The Last Will and Testament
of Sarah Hayden Mosely," the title written in smaller, paler type. The
text of the will followed:

In the name of God, Amen.

I, Sarah Hayden Mosely, being weak in body but of sound and
perfect mind, do make this my last will and testament:

I give and dispose of my entire estate, real and personal, to a
self-perpetuating Board of Trust, the members of which are
hereinafter named.

The said estate shall no longer be known as the William J. Mosely
Estate, but it shall be called the Co-Citizens' Foundation Fund of
Jordan County.

This fund shall not be subject to liquidation, but the income
from it, or such part of it as is necessary, shall be spent each
year in the effort to obtain equal suffrage for the women of
Jordan County.

No part of the said income shall be spent for any other purpose
until the said women shall have the right to vote in all elections
held in the said county.

But after they have obtained the ballot, the said Board of Trust
shall found and maintain at the expense of this fund a department
of Common Law in the Jordantown Female Seminary. And all possible
efforts shall be made to establish here a school of law for the
women of this state where they may re