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"Good, good, fine, fine!" Timmons shouted "That's the racket!"

"But," Dolly went on, sweeping the faces of theto the audience, "this stalwart bunch of Nature's nobleot sense enough to vote That's it, Mrs Timmons, they think at the bottom of their hearts that women have skulls as thick as a pine board They don't know this: they don't know that so that intuition is the greatest faculty given to the huest share of it Oh no, wohtn't to be allowed to take part in any io, a sie--Joan of Arc--noticed that thethe military affairs of her country, and she took the enerals and diplomats and convinced them that she knewlistened to her, gave her power to act, and she rode at the head of thousands of soldiers to victory first and a fiery death later Now, Warren Wilks will tell you that a wo but rock a cradle, scrub a floor, or look pretty, according to her husband's disposition or pocket-book

"Then, after all, did you all knohile you are talking so --that if it hadn't been for a wole vote cast in all these United States? In fact, you wouldn't be sitting here now but for that wo my history class the other day) Coluet aid to e, and nobody would listen to him He was taunted and jeered at everywhere he went Men every bit as sensible as we have to- day said he was pluive up as he rode away from the court of Spain on a mule, when Isabella called him back and furnished the money out of her own pocket to buy and man his ships Folks, that is the kind of brain Warren Wilks and his croill tell you ought to be kept at the cook-stove and the wash-tub Oh, woiven the vote in time, don't you bother!" Dolly said, with renewed conviction "We can't have progress without change I never thought about it myself before, but it is as plain as the nose on your face It has to come because it is sile person is not a perfect law, and many a woman has found herself in a position where only her vote would save her from disaster Women are purer by nature thanto say to-night Now, I' late and I want everybody that feels like it to vote on my side Stand up now All in favor, rise to your feet That's right, Mrs Timmons--I knew you would wake up Now, everybody! That's the way!" Dolly aving her hands like an earnest evangelist, while Wilks, with a look of astonish to his feet to offer some sort of protest