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is not an exceptional ease: there are hundreds, perhaps 
thousands, of such cases to be fouud on these prairies. 
| know personally of a great many, and selected his 
because [ have been more intimately connected with 
it than with any of the others. 
WHAT A WOMAN CAN DO. 
One morning, during our visit in Illinos, Mrs. 
Sanford called to see us. [ had known her some 
years before as the wife of a merchant who seemed 
to be doing a good business in the town near by, but 
after his death it was found that there was but 
little left after the debts were paid. She. had 
opened a small millinery store, and its profits af- 
forded her and her three children a support. . 1 think 
it was a meager one, and there seemed to be nothing 
better ahead. 
“T came to inquire about Dakota. Mr. Taylor,” 
she said, “ and ne ask if you think phere: as any place 
out there for me.’ | 
“There is certainly plenty of room there,” I an- 
swered; ‘‘ but whether it sacag be best for you to go. 
is ahard question to answer.’ 
“ That is the question I want answered,” she said. 
‘‘[ work hard here, and am barely making a living. 
Busines gets no better, and I don’t think it ever will. 
In all that great territory it seems to me there ought 
to be sume place where a woman who is. able and 
willing to work can lay aside something from year — 
to year for the time when she. can no longer work.”: 
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