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Show - WOMAN'S exponent; G I of the exercises was the unveiling on .Wed nesday afternoon of a large" Bronze Tablet, commemorating the first meeting.. The tab-fjwzs placed on the, outer wall of the church building that now occupies .the contkact.: U feadi-"nes- ground where stood the old Wesleyan Chap el where.the. meeting was held in 1838., On one side of the tablet, modeled in ex quisite relief, stands a graceful, earnest and intelligent looking woman, .dressed in the fashion in vogue at that period. Her right arm hangs restfully at the side, the hand holding the paper on which was written the call for. the meeting. The left arm is ex tended and the hand holds a wreath over a smaller tablet on which is inscribed the fol -- lowing:- is our desire that Superintendents of Stakes and Ward Presidents will.be energetic in presenting. this matter to the class of young women who would, be desirable of more triin-e- d dents, as we are in great-neenurses for the peopled It is important that students, as far as possible, commence with the clas3 at its beginning, on.th6 21st of September next. For further particulars write to Mrs. Phebe Y. Beatie, 55 North West Temple Street, Salt Lake City. d . - , . Mrs. Matthews was the woman member of the International Jurv of Awards on Sculpture at t'ie St-- , Louis Exposition, and is the first and only woman to be given this honor in any country. She has done many notable works of art, some of which have given her an international reputation. Her busts of PresidentsfLincoln, McKinley and Roosevelt, Chaplain McCabe, and Cardinal of Elizabeth Gibbons and the Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott, Francis Willard, Susan B, Anthony (the latter taken from sittings given by Miss Anthony) and Mrs. Croly, (Jennie June) the founder of women's clubs; have received high praise. General Secretary. Emma A. Empey, " Gen. Sup. of H. S. Nurse Work. Phehe A Beatie, Secretary. . REUNION AT SENECA. SUFFRAGE FALLS. Standing out bold and clear among the many great events that marked the phenomenal progress of humanity the world over is one, the during the nineteenth-centur- bas-relief- y anniversary of. which was celebrated in Seneca Falls, New York, May 26th, 27th, and 28th of this year. In that city in July 1848, was held the first organized meeting ever held by women in the world's history, to demand equal participation in the framing of laws and all other matters concern- GOth was called by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and l.i u prominent men and women from different parts of the country, among them the great orator and statesman, Frederick Douglas. The resolution passed at that meeting was the clarion cry that, before the century had . franchise." The' tablet is considered by many critics to be the finest that has been made in this dountry in a long time, resembling in many ways the work of the late gifted Saint Gaud ens. " It wasmodeled by Elkabeth St. John Matthews, the sculptor, of New York City. "B.vritsiiEiiA W. Smith, Genera! President. .Emmeline B. Wells, . - - 'On tins spot . stood Wesleyan Chapel, where the first Woman's Bights Convention in the world's history was held, July 19th and 20th, 1848.-- . At that meeting Elizabeth Cady Stanton moved the following 'resolu tion, which was seconded by Frederick Douglas; ''Resolved, that it is. the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves the sacred right to the elective . It s Ex. She delegation.chose her to fill his place. now wears the gold badge of a regular delegate. Mrs. Clarke the daughter of one of the pioneer settlers. She was born in Utah, in 1850. While still a young woman she began to take part in public affairs. For a long time she has been active in politics, and she was at one time of the State Equal Suffrage AssoL ciation. She ran for the State Senate in 1896, but was beaten by a Democratic landslide.' Mrs. Clark-s- j s Roosevelt is her first choice for the next president, Taft her second. She believes in equal suffrage, and says it works well. She is the mother of eleven children, and brought the photograph's of eight of them to the convention. Being asked her profession (she is now a d she woman), anwered, "I have been '" a mother." Far-mingto- n; vice-preside- a gray-haire- -- . J -- - ' from-Europe- ,s pjJU?.v - I have been invited to say something in regard to the record our family has made as colonizers, but would like to refer first to cur early experience in the Gospel. My' parents were believers in", the Bible r.nd fairly well versed in its teachings but not members of any ect. - My father saw the inconsistency of the various creedahe had come in contact with, and had con- . t .1 .1 XUUIlUcU . .. . l.rrt iijucc f 4 UJUIJJ Ul nrlcnAodnnr uvvvtwwi . . nl"f rT y fessing a belief therein, by comparisons and arguments from the Bible. When Apostle John Taylor landed in England as 'a missionary in the spring of 1840. be called to see my father because he was a brother-in-law- , though they had never met. Not find- ing my father at home, he left," promising to He had scarcely got call the next day. beyond hearing distance when my mother remarked to George Q. "That is a man of God." She was more spiritually minded than my father, and was thus early impressed in favor of the missionary and his message. On calling the next day Elder Taylor explained the Gospel and found the family Most of us interested and eager listeners. were convinced of its truth from that day. My father, however, put "Mormonism" to the same test he had other creeds, with little doubt at first that he could prove it equally faulty. To his surprise, he soon found that the missionary and his creed stood the test. He spent several days reading the Book of Mormon, at first with the hope of disproving its claims, but at its con clusion remarked that "A bad man could not have written it, and a good man would not have dared to, if he had not been inspired of the Lord." The family embraced the Gospel, and soon began to feel a desire to: migrate 'to Mother was impressed from the America. first that she would not live to cross the sea, but did not waver in her determination to She felt that for the go on that account. . " : children's welfare and development they should be with the body of the Church, and Mrs. Lucy A.Clark of Brigham City.Utah, with true martyr spirit she was willing to was the only woman Jelegatejn the National. oanrifio oron ot- llfr in. aAmnIieU fVo4Republican Convention. She was first elect- end." My father favored sailing to New ed as an aJternate, but one of the delegates York, that being the shorter voyage, and for was not able to go to Chicago, and the Utah the additional reason mother had a brother closed, was to ring in every civilized country in the. world, rousing women from their lethargy of the ages; awakening to the gross injustice of their position in the world; of the extreme cruelty of many of the laws enacted concerning them, particularly those which related to property and other rights. That the women of the world are aroused to the importance of securing their just rights is evidenced by the battle they are so strenuously waging in the United States, England, conservative Germany France and the Latin nations. Even in Turkey, Irididr; China and Japan they have taken up the agitation. In Finland," New Zealand, Aus Woman's o a rntil tralia, and in several of our own states they- have already secured full rights to the electJune 20, 1908. . .... ts ive franchise. Theexercises at .Seneca Falls was attend-e- d Lady Henry Somerset calls attention to by thousands of men and women coming the fact that 2,584 different petitions for from different parts of the country; and a woman suffrage have been sent to the British . . number The principal event Parliament. . Ann Cannon zt Ill HIV, VJIIH 11 lk1.1Li KJJ Nurse claps ciely taught by Dr,; UiMVC s Koberts, I pledge to hold myself in to answer all calls made, upon me by the General Superintendent of Belief Society Nibses, or the President of the Stake to which I belong, to. nurse for" Charity for fifty days, and in addition for whatever pay shall be designated by my Superinterident for the of .graduation, term. of two years after-da- te and I shall not be exempt from this duty unless through personal sickness. . And I als,o agree notjto accept. any case of nursing on my own account, .during the said two years, 'without, previously consulting my Superintendent. : .... (Signell.)....: V CANNONS AS COLONIZERS;. nt Vi - -- and two sisters living there. Mother, how- ever, opposed it, claiming that her relatives, not believing as they did, would only be a hindrance instead of a help to the children when left witlfout her to watch over them indeed," mighf prevent them from going any farther and influence them against the Gospel. So the longer voyage to New Orleans instead of to New York was decided upon. Wfi HflliPn from T .1 vprnnnl in Ronlo tyi V o 1842, and mother became eick the next dav. Her suffering was pathetic and her patience and resignation remarkable. She never once regretted having started, and though her love for her children and anxiety for their future led her occasionally to express the wish that she could live to care for them, it is doubt ful if she ever for a moment believed that she. would. She lingered for six weeks and WAR tViPn hnriprJ in f no aoo An 4Kb nlnnm oFthat occasion! No words can fully de scribe the sorrow of the motherless children and father! Our hopes in the Gospel alone supported us. Tn time the voyage, which in our anxiety had seemed so interminable, came4o an end.. At last we halted tempoThen followed V. rarily at New "Orleans. -- - |