ss Shelly was made by Professor J. D. Curran,
an old friend and teacher.

All very well, but how much better to have placed Kate Shelly
(bearing the name of one of England's great poets) in the
University at Des Moines, and given her a thorough education,
from the primary through the whole collegiate course, and the
school for law, medicine, or theology. A girl capable of such
heroism and self-sacrifice must possess capacities and powers
worthy the highest opportunities for development. Kate Shelly,
with the scientific training of a civil engineer, might shed far
more honor on her native State than sitting in ignorance and
poverty on the banks of the Des Moines river with a gold medal
round her neck.

The Patrons of Husbandry, having at one time as many as 1,998
Granges in the State, admit women to equal membership and equal
rights. They have the same privileges in debate as men, and an
equal vote in all matters concerning the Grange. The Grangers do
not seem to fear that the children will suffer, or home interests
be neglected, on account of this liberty given to women. Miss
Garretson is State agent and lecturer for this order, and has
accomplished much good by her labors among the people of the
rural districts. She claims equal rights for woman even to the
ballot. The Independent Order of Good Templars passed resolutions
unqualifiedly committing the grand lodge of the State in favor of
granting suffrage to woman, and pledging themselves to labor for
the furtherance of that object. Temperance women who have
heretofore opposed the enfranchisement of their sex, and objected
to mixing the two questions, are coming to see that a powerless,
disfranchised class can do little toward removing the great evil
that is filling the land with pauperism and crime, and sending
sixty thousand victims annually to a drunkard's grave. They have
prayed and plead with the liquor-seller; they have petitioned
electors and law-makers, but all in vain; and now they begin to
see that work must accompany prayer, and that if they would save
their sons from destruction they must strike a blow in their
defense that will be felt by the enemy. Hence the Christian
Temperance Union, which at the outset declared itself opposed to
woman suffrage, has now resolved in