at home, fearing there would be a row, but everything was conducted with decency and in order.  The chairman, Mr. Rosa, welcomed the ladies to their new duties in a very complimentary manner.  Donald McMartin stated the law as to what persons were eligible to vote in school elections.  Mrs. Horace Smith filled the office of teller on the occasion with promptness and dignity, and Mrs. Elizabeth Wallace Yost was elected trustee by a majority of seven.  It is strange that intelligent women, who are supposed to feel some interest in the question of education, should be so indifferent to the power they possess to make our schools all that they should be.

This was the year of the presidential campaign.  The Republicans and Democrats had each held their nominating conventions, and all classes participated in the general excitement.  There being great dissatisfaction in the Republican ranks, we issued a manifesto:  “Stand by the Republican Party,” not that we loved Blaine more, but Cleveland less.  The latter was elected, therefore it was evident that our efforts did not have much influence in turning the tide of national politics, though the Republican papers gave a broad circulation to our appeal.  Dowden’s description of the poet Shelley’s efforts in scattering one of his suppressed pamphlets, reminded me of ours.  He purchased bushels of empty bottles, in which he placed his pamphlets; having corked them up tight, he threw the bottles into the sea at various fashionable watering places, hoping they would wash ashore.  Walking the streets of London in the evening he would slip his pamphlets into the hoods of old ladies’ cloaks, throw them in shop doors, and leave them in cabs and omnibuses.  We scattered ours in the cars, inclosed them in every letter we wrote or newspaper we sent through the country.

The night before election Mr. Stanton and Professor Horace Smith spoke in the Johnstown courthouse, and took rather pessimistic views of the future of the Republic should James G. Blaine be defeated.  Cleveland was elected, and we still live as a nation, and are able to digest the thousands of foreign immigrants daily landing at our shores.  The night of the election a large party of us sat up until two o’clock to hear the news.  Mr. Stanton had long been one of the editorial writers on the New York Sun, and they sent him telegrams from that office until a late hour.  However, the election was so close that we were kept in suspense several days, before it was definitely decided.

Miss Anthony left in December, 1884, for Washington, and I went to work on an article for the North American Review, entitled, “What has Christianity done for Women?” I took the ground that woman was not indebted to any form of religion for the liberty she now enjoys, but that, on the contrary, the religious element in her nature had always been perverted for her complete subjection.  Bishop Spaulding, in the same issue of the Review, took the opposite ground, but I did not feel that he answered my points.