Show MISS TAYLOR The Tribune of this morning makes an extract from the Springfield Republican about Miss Helen Taylor the stepdaughter stepdaugh-ter of John Stuart Mill and sajs she has accepted a nomination to Parliament Miss Taylor is known to most of the world as a reformer and womans rights I woman Reared as j she was among the most advanced thinkers of England and the age the disciples of the elder Mill and Bentham and the able and brilliant men who were of the school of the Westminster she coud not be other than what she is in her public life Her mother if we may credit what Mill says of her in his autobiography was one of the most remarkable women of any age and his devotion to her was as jrreat as the devotion of Dante to the ideal Beatrice or of Petrarch to Laura It was of Helen Taylors mother that Mill says Her memory is to me a religion and her approbation the standard by which summing up as it does all excellence 1 endeavor to regulate my life It is a noble tribute to any woman and one that is rarely paid by so great a man It seems strange that Mill who was so true anil devoted to his wife Miss Tailors mother should rest forever in the same city where Petrarch first saw Laura and knew love But in the old papal city he sleeps and almost within the shadow of its palace walls The infidel and unbeliever finds peace within the precincts where the Church was wont to be supreme and where heresy never found a place And to Avignon each year comes Helen Taylor and over the grave of the apostle of liberty strews flowers and sees that the hedge around the grave where he sleeps is kept as pure and beautiful as was the soul that of her and her welfare was so careful care-ful and tender t The old French lady who keeps and watches over that grave and shows it to the wonderer and worshipper tells as she shows it the story of Helen Taylors annual pilgrimage pil-grimage to the grave of John Stuart Mill and says M Mill was the great Englishman Eng-lishman whom all the world knew and and he loved Arignon and here he chose to sleep forever And Mlle Taylor ah she is a good and beautiful woman I nr |