for this Society, but dassent tell 'em to him, for his idees and mine on
this subject are as fur apart as the two poles. He talked awful bitter to
me once about it, and I sez to him:

"Philander, the world is full of good men, and there are also bad men in
the world, and, sez I, did you ever in your born days see a bad man that
wuzn't opposed to Woman's Suffrage? All the men who trade in, and profit
by, the weakness and sin of men and women, they every one of 'em, to
a man, fight agin it. And would they do this if they didn't think that
their vile trades would suffer if women had the right to vote? It is the
great-hearted, generous, noble man who wants women to become a real citizen
with himself--which she is not now--she is only a citizen just enough to be
taxed equally with man, or more exhorbitantly, and be punished and executed
by the law she has no hand in makin'."

Philander sed, "I have always found it don't pay to talk with women on
matters they don't understand."

An' he got up and started for the door, an' Josiah sed, "No, it don't pay,
not a cent; I've always said so."

But I told Philander I'd let him know if I see anything appropriate to the
C.S.S. Holdin' back with a almost Herculaneum effort the mottoes and
badges that run through my mind as bein' appropriate to their society;
knowin' it would make him so mad if I told him of 'em--he never would
neighbor with us again. And in three days' time we sot sail. We got to
the depo about an hour too early, but I wuz glad we wuz on time, for it
would have worked Josiah up dretfully ef we hadn't been, for he had spent
most of the latter part of the night in gittin' up and walkin' out to the
clock seein' if it wuz train time. Jest before we started, who should come