G. W. Bain of Kentucky, next to John B. Finch, Mrs. Woodbridge's most winning orator, wrote:

"It was the best run campaign, so far as temperance work was concerned, I have ever known. Neither party committee handled forces with such generalship as did Mrs. Mary A. Woodbridge, nor were there ever better division commanders than Miss Duty and Mrs. Prather of Cleveland, or Mrs. Leiter of Mansfield."

A Baltimore paper said: "One of the brainiest women in America is Mary A. Woodbridge. She organized and led the Second Amendment forces in the late struggle in the Buckeye State. It was the testimony of all who fought under her that the campaign could not have been managed with more skill. It is simply wonderful how she did so well when we remember that every leading politician opposed her; and men in official positions tried to thwart her plans. Telegrams were retained, and letters went astray and money was poured out like water."

The expense of that ever-memorable campaign on the part of Mrs. Woodbridge was $30,000. She had ten times as many speakers in the field as all other interested parties and circulated ten times as much literature. Yet it was computed that others expended in that campaign $500,000. The query is, What was all that money used for?

A letter from the president of the South Carolina W. C. T. U. will illustrate how the struggle was watched from the outside, and with what feeling the news of the result was received:

CHARLESTON, S. C., Oct. 11, 1883.

MRS. MARY A. WOODBRIDGE :

I am weeping with you, dear friend, over your disappointment. We prayed for you throughout our state, and my faith was so strong. I am almost sick over it, but

Delay with God is not denial,

Though He His answer long withhold;

'Tis His appointed furnace trial

To separate the dross from gold.

"We must through much tribulation enter the kingdom," I am convinced. I have not taken one day's holiday this summer, and I feel, as I am sure you must, a little the worse for wear. However,

When I tell Him I am weary and fain would be at rest,

That I'm daily, hourly longing for a home upon His breast,
He answers me so sweetly, in tones of tenderest love,

I am coming soon to take thee to thy loved ones now above.

So I am working and waiting, sometimes discouraged, and then taking heart, but fully resolved to die fighting for "God, and Home and Native Land."

Again accept my heartfelt sympathy, but be not cast down, for has not God promised that "He will fulfill the desire of them that fear Him?" and "No weapon that is formed against them shall prosper." There must be light somewhere, though like Job we are saying, "Oh, that we might find Him" in this disappointment.

God bless you,

SALLIE F. CHAPIN.

The result as reported by ballot was: Whole number of votes cast, seven hundred twenty-one thousand three hundred and ten; for first amendment, ninety-nine thousand eight hundred and forty-nine; for second amendment, three hundred twenty-three thousand one hundred and eighty-nine. Thirty-seven thousand four hundred and sixty-seven more favorable votes would have carried the state for prohibition. They were certainly cast.

After the contest was over, Mrs. Woodbridge stated the cold, naked truth about the fraud as follows in her own paper, the Amendment Herald:

THE FALSE PROPHETS.

The False Prophet has been making a temporary headway in Egypt. The False Prophets have also been given a temporary chance in Ohio. They said, "You will not have prohibition in Ohio this year," and now they point to the result and say, "We told you so." They are having their justification, apparently, but by no means in reality. The great thing, the mighty thing, the thing to ponder upon

and consider is that more than one-half of the votes of Ohio were in favor of prohibition, that more than one-half meant to vote for prohibition, and that more than one-half really did vote for prohibition. They were outwitted, sold out, cheated, and swindled by the politicians-that is all. The managers who had the matter in official control were tricksters, and did by underhanded means what they could not do by an open show of hands. When the legislature submitted the second amendment to the people it was expressly declared that "Prohibition of Intoxicating Liquors -Yes" should go on the tickets, and no provision was made for a 66 no anywhere about it. "This," says an exchange, was published in almost every paper of note in Ohio for six months. There was not a politician in the state who was not familiar with the form prescribed by law, yet the managers of the dominant parties had the cheek to boldly violate the law, and perpetrate a trick to defeat the will of the people by printing 'Yes-No' after the second amendment, knowing that it would confuse the judges and in haste be counted 'no' instead of 'yes' as it should be according to law and justice." This is plain talk, and it also has the merit of soundness. It was not through mere haste but by deliberation that many of the judges of election of both parties counted these ballots against the amendment, when they knew that they had been cast in its support. Enough boxes have already been looked into to show that a fair count would have given the amendment a total vote nearer four hundred thousand than three hundred thousand. The False Prophets are none the less false because a mean trick and a slippery chance have given apparent justification to their malign prophecies.

This is an awful arraignment of the muddy, slimy politics of a great state when a moral question was the issue. Whoever else was false; whoever else sold out his birthright honor for a mess of pottage, and covered himself with shame by helping to perpetuate a great vice among a people, one name that came out of that campaign radiant with imperishable lustre was Mary A. Woodbridge.

Although she felt that her cause was counted out, yet, overjoyed at the wonderful endorsement of the principle of

prohibition at the polls, she called upon her followers for a special thanksgiving service in these words:

It would seem that no state has so great reason for thanksgiving as Ohio. Here was first heard the call to women, as that given to the apostles by our Saviour. Here, where the liquor traffic has its strongest hold upon commercial and political circles, has been given the largest vote for prohibition known to history.

The interest which culminated in that vote can be steadily traced from the day when the baptism of the Holy Ghost and of power was granted to woman.

In return for the goodness of God in making Ohio His chosen place for this work, and His continual blessing, even to the present hour, we believe her thankoffering will exceed that of any other state, and to both state and national societies will be furnished "sinews of war " for the coming victorious battle.

May the Lord grant to one and all a renewal of Pentecostal grace, that with consecration and sacrifice we may joyfully bring unto Him our offerings, and in obedience to His word, "Go Forward."

In her annual address before the National W. C. T. U., a few weeks later, Miss Frances Willard paid this deserved tribute to her ever loyal friend: "Who dared to dream at our first convention in Cleveland, that nine years later this wondrous battle autumn would in these magnificent states find the white plume of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in the front ranks, like the Henry of Navarre? Subtract the prayers and work of woman from the long struggle in Iowa, and how much would be left? While a more heroic fight and better planned than Mrs. Woodbridge led in the glorious Crusade state is unknown to history's annals. When, before, was there a vote in whose presence politicians on both sides were dumb, and the 'vest-pocket' ballot with which men were fitted out at home was the leading feature of the day! Whatever the 'count' may finally reveal, we point to the admitted 323, 189 votes for prohibition as the grandest result of woman's work ever seen."

NEWSPAPER WORK.

Looking over the books of devotion which Mrs. Woodbridge had with her in Chicago upon which she fed her soul, the writer found a redline-edition volume of poetry by an English lady. The fly-leaf had this inscription:

"To my beloved Friend and Comrade, Mary A. Woodbridge, with deep appreciation of her love and loyalty. From Frances E. Willard. Christmas, 1893."

Her last Christmas gift to her "beloved"!

The title page reads:

"Verses by Christina G. Rossetti."

Underneath this Frances Willard wrote: "Who ought to be Poet Laureate, and would be if she were a man!"

Here is a window through which we may look in and read the inmost thoughts of the most gifted women of our day. They feel and know that they are not yet rated at their true worth. Alas! that it should be so. The Son of God was born of a woman. His infant head was pillowed on her mother-breast. This is woman's century. The most illustrious sovereign living is a woman. And yet this most gifted singer in all her realm must be denied her meed of honor, because, forsooth, it pleased God to have her born a noble-souledwoman!

WE

Saints are like roses when they blush rarest,
Saints are like lilies when they bloom fairest,
Saints are like violets, sweetest of their kind.
Bear in mind

This to-day. Then to-morrow;

All like roses rarer than the rarest,
All like lilies fairer than the fairest,

All like violets sweeter than we know.

Be it so.

To-morrow blots out sorrow.

-Christina G. Rossetti.

E have already observed that during the great Amendment Campaign, Mrs. Woodbridge launched into journalism. It was not the result of any ambitious plan of hers to pose as an editor in the newspaper world. It was a grave necessity which pushed her out into this