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The Woman's Tribune

subscription list was greatly lessened, and little by little some of the old subscribers were lost although many of them continued to be loyal to Mrs. Colby, not only during the life of the paper but afterwards in all her work.

Amid all these discouragements and without aid and at a constant financial loss, Mrs. Colby carried on her paper in a manner that was absolutely heroic. Unable to pay for printing she learned to set type, and often was at once editor and compositor, sometimes even running the press. For a time she had her own little outfit in the basement of her house in Washington, where she did everything from writing the editorials to folding and mailing with her own hands. Often, when subscriptions were slow in coming, she was obliged to wait for days in order to get the money to pay the expense of mailing, but amid all she was courageous and optimistic, always expecting some favorable turn of fortune. It was this optimism which led her to remove her paper to Portland, Oregon, contrary to the advice of all her friends. She hoped by going there to be aided and assisted in many ways and believed that while helping in the campaign she would be able to present the Tribune and thus procure new subscribers, but, on the contrary, in Oregon she met with unexpected opposition and serious discour 36