t Three Marriages ' Bh that Did Not Fail M It ) MUS ,1(11 IN I. liOlllVSON OP S1IIU2Y i:ii:n si: i:ty-two yi: its In TIIHY IIAVH IIHHN M li M It AND MUS IlKNUY T IlKKHi: Oh' ().lll HICKS' MUIUIHI) SIXTY Y 1-3 WIS Til in II UK lenient C. I'nlc married I'ldcllu Mjcis .liiitiuiry I. I.Mtl. ill Vn ' nilm t Mr. Coh- wns limn in ciuirloiie. M. Septeinlier 'J7. LSI". Mr- Coli- wits liorn ill MmIhIic. V.. .Inly III. I.y'l. mill wns brought I'l1 'ii Xi'i'iiKiiit. .Mr. Mini Mrs Cob-him-In-on mcmliors of the .MclhodM I pi;c(iiiil church I'nr over hull' n i ciilur.N . Al the itm "I' - .Mr. Cole lie -mii tlic carpenter iriiili'. liili lie followed most ol' the time since. Thoj I'l-nli ill Sibley, In. .Inlin I. Coliln-on married Sura I'lshcr I'iiIiiii'I' In M 1 1 i 1 1 1 In Hecem her ivj-i. Mr. Is !i:!; Mrs. KiiIiIiimiii N !M. They reside nt Slli v In with their dittiulitor. .Mrs. . Mile Kolilnsoti Itrooks. wife ut' (' M Itrooks. county attorney of ( isccnlu futility. I own. Mr. unit Mrs. Itolilnson have lor iiiiiny yt'iirs been uifiiiliot'.-. of t In Methodist l-pKri ip:i I clnircli Mr. Kolitnsoii was n iiioiulier of the .Miilnc legislature at i it 1 -fi'Vcil In Hie civil war In !cin-r.-il lirnnt's army before I'etersluiri:: wns n mcnilicr of the rirst Maine heavy artillery ami was wounded liei'iire l'eterlinr In .lime, isi; Henry T. I'.eclio was linrii April '.i. 1VJ1, in the tow n of ( itilhlf rlnnd. V Y. He married .lane A. .Mes-dcU August II. IMI. and went to Chi ago In .March, l.s.Vi, where he carried mi a carpentering and contractor business until 1SS'', when he came to Omaha, and retired from active busi ness. IIi now lives at '-'III Caldwell street. .Mrs. .lane ltcelie was liorn August -1, IMT.. at Cnlhlerland. X. Y. Mil. AND MUS I'LHMHNT (' COKK OK SlllhHY IIAVH IIHHN MAItltlKD SIXTY-ONH YI-3AUS.' hi tii in Has Man Any Wrongs Due to Woman (Copyright. 1101. hy S. S. McCluru Co.) 11AVI3 hail nearly sixty-live years ex perience of living III oilier peoplo'w lioaie.s. In my oiRhtocntli year I began the profession of teaching school, which was com nun il u ii I ii 1 1 i lit l cl ly for over twolvo yearn, uud during nearly all of this time I hoarded la pii,iit families. When I was nlioat :IU I be canie greatly Interesteil In tlio temperance question ami soon nf forward In that of anti slavery, with the result that, la a little while, 1 nsolved to abandon touching nnd ili-voie my efforts toward settling these probli-niB. After a two years' struggle with llie forau-r I became- coavlaced that women always would bo helpless to ulfect nny per manent temporaai-o reform without thu bal lot ami I laid aside active work In that lino In order to aid la securing their enfran chisement. I remained In the anti-slavery movement, however, until emancipation wa3 secured In ISO!!, and 1 am still laboring to obtain the suffrage for women, as I havo done without ceasing for half a century. This anii'li of an Introduction has seemed in-ii-hsary ta order to show my authority for spiaking on the- subject of "Man's Wrongs." Then; never were two as unpop ular reforms as the abolition of slavery and the enfranchisement of women, and there foro those who championed both of them were indeed social outcasts, with scarcely a place to lay their heads. There was no money In the advocacy of either. Wendell I'hillips, who, even In those days of com paratively small payment, could get $100 for aa address, was obliged to lecture oa untl-slavery for nothing as long as such lectates wore needed. All the speakers nnd workers In this ratiso woro compelled prac tically to donate their services. In that of woman suffrage the conditions woro still more stringent, for, while In every neigh borhood there were some families who were strong "abolitionists" and would tako care of tlioso who went about the country to arouso public sentiment, there wero many I'onimunltlea where woman suffrngo had not n friend and whero hardly one family would offtr food or shelter to the very few coura geous Individuals who dared attempt to edu cate the public mlad on this question. Some I'oi-ftiiiiiil ll iierlenee. As these speakerH were without funds they were obliged to ueeept whatcvir hos pitality could bo seiured and never to go to a hotel except In case of dire necessity. I should not like to cuter into the harrow ing details of many of my own pi rsoaal experiences In homer, wljeie loiidlibms were far from favorable. On one occasion, when I funded myself nicelv situated to spend Sunday. I learned the Inn-band was s.i lo lently oppisul to my being under his n.of that I hut i-H'illy fathered up my belonging .mil depart' d lute Saturday night. At other time I fi uud i he husband was so slrougb In fa vol of the doctrines I espoused that he tind Invited me to the home in direct up pi'Hitlnn to the wishes of the wife. There were not many phases of human nature whi'h I did not encounter In those enrly days As the years rolled nil, nnd tho ques tion of womnn suffrage grow in public favor, some of lis lecturers rer.ehed the dignity of being paid for their survlres, but when I was llnaiiilally able to go to a hotel I was not permitted to do so, because then there were so many friends who ottered en tertainment, and It was considered an ad vantage to "the cause" lor me to accept private hospitality ami meet people la a social way. Traveling aliuont constantly for tnoie thna llfty years, I have sojourned for a short or long period with thousands of families In all parts of the country and hav" had suili opportuultlis tor the stud) of domestic conditions, as, it may lie said wit limit exaggeration, have been alfiirded to few, if any other, women. The quest inn has been often asked If this Is the reason I never married. It may be one of them, but while I have witnessed a great deal of sorrow In married life I have seen also a vast amount of peace and happiness, especially In later years, since the position of women has been so much Improved. Mini Ills On ii l-l-nil'r. Am my entire life for the pact half century has been devoted to redressing the wrongs of women, It has been generally assumed that I did not believe men sullcrcd any wrongs. Such Is not the case, Inn, as man always has had things pretty mm Ii liU own way nnd has been In a position whcio it wii3 very easy to take care of himself, I never havo felt that, In Ins defi use, ho needed the help of myself or any other woman. From the beginning Ii was he who made tho laws which govern the mar riage relation and ho mado them all In his own favor. If they were not cnfoiccil ho hud only himself to blame, as the i utile executive power was In his hands. llo possessed, moreover, the absolute autocracy which lies in holding the pocketbook, for ho held not only his own, but. ali-o hi, wife's, llo was not kept in subjection b tho threat of being- deprived of ids chlldien, for he had been very careful to vest their solo custody anil control in himself, lie further more had used his unlimited authority to frame such divorce laws as would li dd the wife in check, secure almost unlimited fn c ilnm for himself and leave her r ici Ically no redress. Ah the crowning act of sov ereignty he ii served for himself i lone all opportunity for that most neci - ary ad junct of development the higher education- and. In nddltlnn, he appropi laled the moiiey-inaklng occupations of the world. I'tnler such circumstances it Is quite natural that "man's wrongs" should not hnvo con sumed a very large part of my time or effort Man Alone ltesiiinsilile. During the last forty years there has bcon a gradual ovolutlon in the status of womnn. legal, educational, Industrial ami social, nnd. In exactly tho same railo her w longs have decreased. Doos this neces sarily imply that man's wrongs have ln cnnu'd? Woman herself would not wish to purchnse her rights at such a prbo. She does noi njny a privilege today which man has mil granted to her ami which ho could not take aav If he so desired, for men Still iiiiiRiitute the legislative, execu tive and virtually the whole government power. Women simply have ne-eptid the rights bestowed upon them ami If men are wronged 'thereby thoy must hold them selves responsible. The law which al lows a wife to retain her own property docs not depute i lie luialmnu m ills and bu still hub inu iiiiliieusu aiU.uii.igo in owning all ihey accumulate .ego. hut, so lie Milium no wiong in this rsieci. In an bin. nine ol tho siutct lie continue to hoiil tile soie guardianship oi Hie c 111 nl t on ninl in i iiorfo uiiio sialics a equally with the uiotbor. The ihvorco laws, fiauud by man alone, no noi perpuliute a wioag against himsoli wluu they permit a woman only the same muses for the separation which are allowed to a man. Thu opening of the gie.it universities of thu country to women has not depilved one man of iliu exact chance lor an education which ho possessed befolo this was done. I. nt ) in I'Vlllllle Ciniilif lltloii, '1 bus far, It must bu admitted, thu rights wnich have boon obtained for women huvu not resulted ill wruugb lor men, ami In oau direction only can there bu any founda tion for an opposite claim, thu uu uaticu of women into imliiturial competi tion. This Is a vast and luuuy-slded ques tion, if thu advent of nearly -1,000,010 women into wagu-eariilng occupations had displaced arbitrarily that number of nun and left them permanently out of work, this would, indeed, bu n grievous wrong and wlthuut adequate compensation. Vast iiuinbors of thesu toilers, however, are en gaged In industries peculiarly adapted to women, which nieu would nut care to fol low, and tho quarter of u century dining which women havo been entering thlu domain has developed humlieds of addi tional vocations for men through inven tion, exploration, utilization of electricity, opening of nuw territory and countless other avenues of employment. It must also bo borne in mind that every one of these 1,0(10,00(1 women is icllevlng some man of the burden of her support. She In albu, ab a general thing, maintaining otln th hetddes hcrM'lf, ami all would become wholly dependent upon men if women were withdrawn from the wage-earning Held and relegated to comparative idleness within tho homo. If women have Inllli'ted wrongs upon men by accepting lower wages, it has been from necessity, not choice, and men, with their long experience, their poweiful organizations and their great political In lluence, must seek the remedy not In at tempting to dilve out these new workeiS. but in finding a way to assimilate uud Utilize them. They must follow the uiothodH adopted by the nation in dealing with the aliens who come to our shores accept them, niitiniille them, train them In citizenship and convert them into an cle ment of strength. Ail liuliiui- it llli I In- Men, III considering the general aspect of this question "Men's Wrongs" I am unable to see t lint In the state at large they mffor any. except such as are the portion of all humanity In the present complex pro'-esscs of our development. In struggling against these, men have always an innm use ad vantage, because they have a voice In tho rovornmeiil and can control those who make ami execute the InwH. Without this power they would bo helpless Indeed- as weak and defenseless iib women and be cause they nie Invested wlih this authority their wrongs do mil cimiimuid so keen a nympathy as those sultered by the feminine half of humanity. Doubtless, ill requesting m views on tills subject, II was intended that Ihey should apply to the domestic grievances of men, but my long inllence In public life compels me Involuntai lly to talf the blunder outlook llrst. is It not si range that when we speak of domestic wrongs we think only of those connected with husbands and wives not with any other members of thu household.' All those cruel laws which so long disgraced our statute books applied only to the uiaribd -never to single women. Why has It always boon defined nccesMiry thus to hedge about, restrict and degrade man luge, which should be the highest, hol!ct. most teclp rocnl ami respected of all the relations of life" u l.iiiiKi-i- an Viitoeriit. 1 cannot go so far as those who d -dare that the beginning of the new cen tury sees the wrongs of wiuieu entirely swept away, but whun lie inoiy nvcr.i to the early part of the one which has Just passed into time, I can note such a lissenlng of these wiongs as the world seldom has beheld with any other class of people in the same length of time. Has this been accouip.ililed by an In crease In the wrongs of men'' I think not. One might ask whether the eman cipation of the slavis did not wrong the masters In a sense It did. but It only took away from them an aiithoiiiy which ihey never rightfully possessed mil only deprived them of property which they held in dellaiici' or the inoial law. It pro duced a chaos of conditions which are mil yet fully adjust! d, but whbh at hut will lie settled to the luimeasuiable ml vantage of both. Man Is not the doiinsilc autocrat he UM'd to be and It is probable that 111 the icvolt against Ills supreme authority the womi u of the household do not In all cases pay him the respect due to husband ami father In some Iiiitanccs man Is looked upon very much as a iiuichlnc for the manufacture of money ami women do not rccogulc any obligation even to lake good care of tho machine My heart has ached many a time ovci the wretched housekeeping which many iinn are com pelled to endure, and especially over the poor cooking When by Industry and fru gality a man Is able to s'-cure a bonne and provide the food, he Is grb voiisly wronged by the womnn who cannot propeily admin ister the home alfalrs and iransiniilc tho law materials Into healthful, palatable dlshe-i; and this is equally true In regard to the woman who Is Ignorant of or In different to the principles of economy nnd thrift Sunn- Trnm-ille "t I, lie, III tills day of leaillon ugaliM tin- nar IOW and Isolated life of the past It is pos sible that many women ie gb" t homo duties for the leas, matinees, tin receptions, the clubs, the i(.nenllons. the endless recre ations and activities whi'h so suddonly hiio opened out before iliem and that men do not always find the .wmion of their families waiting to greet them with the regulation smlln when th return from the cares of tho day and the dlstnu tlons of the night. One of the t rrlble tragedies of life Is when tho father discovers thai tho woman whom he selcl'd to be the mother of his children is utterly iintltted for this great responsibility. Il iuui bo a heart-hieaking expeilence for that husband who lias inudu a name and a place 111 tlie world to realize that the wife Is wholly iiuupprcclntlvu of all except the social position which the) may hoi me for her. To the man of scholarly ami lelltied habits there must he the bitterness of deatli in thu dally companionship of one who has mi taste for intellectual pursuits or per sons and whose mind and heait are alike shallow. The husband whose wife re puillatiH domestic diilloi ami Insists on living In hotel or boarding house, or Is so restless that she Is sat mil il nowhere, has a right to ft el that he has been cheated In inairlagc, nor Is life any sweeter to him who mint llstili to a dally recital of gossip, fault-limllng and the miserable small talk which form the enilie icpertoirc of many women. Yes. men have their wrongs in domestic life and the list might be i xt tided to cover many more than tho above enumerations. 1 1 ii tun ii untitle Is still very Impcifict and we aie a long way yet from the ideal mar I luge. The piohciiI Is a period of readjust ment in the i i-lii t ImiK ol men ami woiiitii and Ibis is especially truo In regard to those of the family The tendency In every direction toward the granting of inure rights should bo act ompanied by an earnest ell'orl to Ichhcii all u longs. The iccognl lion by men of the wrongs of womeu lias led to llie Innumerable changes for the heller which have Inkcu place during the last half century Womuii should not nl low themselves to be outdone in Justice or generosity, but as far as lies In their power should millgale or radii ale the wrongs of men and lie especially careful not to add to them. II Is a singular fuel, however, i,it tin re is almost no com plaint on the part of men themselves. ! II that In so slum a space of time they liiiM- lid mm' Intimidated'' Or is II thai tiny mushier llielr ease beyond icllef and pn-fer lo endure In silence? Or can ll be thai these alleged 1 1 la Ih and trlbulat loin aie purely Imaginary and that In icalliy there are no such things as "man -wrongs''" Sl'SAN II ANTHONY Kssay on People A li-year-old Chicago schoolgnl submitted the following composition oil "People:" "I'euple are conipo-ieil of gills and boys, also men and women Hoys are no good till they grow up and gel man led. Mi a who don't gel married are no good, either (ill Is ale young women who will be ladies when they graduate. Woman was iiiade lifter man, nnd my Uncle Hob says she has In en after Ii I in ever since. The l.oid looked disappointed after he bad made Adam, and he said lo himself 'If nt llrst you don't succeed, try, try again ' So lie tried again and made Kve; then he wns satisfied lloys ate an awful bother, thoy want everything thoy sen except soap. If I had my way half the boys In the world would be girls and tho other half dolls. My ma Is a woman and my pa Is a man. A woman Is ii grown-up girl with children. My pa Is such a nice man that I goers he must have been a girl when he was a llltlo boy. That's all I know about propln at the prenm writing."