at heroic hour. It is an inspiration and
an ennobling of all the faculties that they have once been lifted
above all personal aims and transient interests; and for all who
caught the true meaning of the moment, life can never again touch
the low level of indifference. The officers of the State
Association who were most active in the canvass are here
mentioned with a word as to their subsequent efforts:

Mrs. Harriet S. Brooks, whose services have so often been
referred to, after working in three States for the
privileges of citizenship, is devoting herself to the
congenial study of sociology, and her able pen still does
service.

Ada M. Bittenbender was admitted to the bar May 17, 1882,
and from that time until the election gave undivided
attention to the duties of her office as president of the
State Association. The campaign song-book, the supplement
folded in the county papers, the columns of notes and news
prepared for many journals in the State, the headquarters in
Lincoln from which, with the assistance of E. M. Correll and
Mrs. Russell, she sent forth documents, posters, blanks and
other campaign accessories, sufficiently attest her energy
and ability. She is now a practicing lawyer of Lincoln, and
was successful during the session of the legislature of 1885
in securing the passage of a law making mothers joint and
equal guardians of their children.

Mrs. Belle G. Bigelow of Geneva was an active and reliable
officer during the canvass of 1882, and is now prominent in
the temperance work of Nebraska.

Mrs. Lucinda Russell of Tecumseh, for two years the
treasurer of the State Association, edited a department in
the local paper in the interest of the amendment, was one of
the campaign committee, and spared no effort to push the
work in her own county. Her sister, Mrs. Jennie F. Holmes,
was one of the most efficient members of the executive
committee. She drove all over her own county, holding
meetings in the school-houses. The efforts of these two
women would have carried Johnson county for the amendment
had not the election officials taken advantage of a
technical de