-, found a written receipt for a certain
purpose. That she preserved, afterward recommending its use to a female
friend, and finding it worked well, opened her C--- street office, and
sold the medicine at a high figure. Another story is, that she was once
a pretty bar-maid in a tavern in the suburbs of London, came to this
country when about twenty years of age, made the acquaintance of a
physician, and acquired some medical knowledge; was an astrologer and
clairvoyant for a time, and afterward adopted her present profession.
She is said to have considerable knowledge as to her specialty, which is
probably the fact.

"She is said to be worth fully a million of dollars. She has practised
her peculiar branch of medicine for many years, and with uniform success.
Every one knows it, yet none can bring her to justice. She is too
careful and too rich for that. Her immunity from punishment has been
entirely owing to the fact that she only takes safe cases, never
practising on a woman who has been pregnant more than four months. Her
charge is $500 a case. Need there be any better confirmation of the
assertion that the rich are greater votaries of the crime of abortion
than the poor? Yet every crime has its punishment. Madame ---'s is her
loneliness. She has made frantic efforts to get into some part of
society better than the lowest. But the rich women who resort to her for
'relief' (this is the word used), turn their backs upon her in public.
Madame --- has a daughter, and she offered a quarter of a million to any
man laying claim to respectability who would marry her. But her daughter
is yet unmarried. Her eldest daughter ran away and married a policeman,
and is now happy in being disowned by her own mother. Madame --- has her
mansion, and carriages and horses, and every luxury riches can bring.
All but position."

Yet this woman and her associates continue to ply their fearful trade,
and day after day in this great city this terrible slaughter of innocent
beings goes on, and it will go on until the law makes the publication of
the advertisements of these wretches, and the practice of their arts and
the sale of their drugs, criminal offences.

It must not be supposed, however, that the best customers of the vendors
of medicines for producing miscarriage and abortion are those who seek to
hide their shame. It is a terrible fact that here, as in many other
parts of the country, the crime of destroying their unb