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Rh Harriet Ward Beecher Stowe, if not her superior. Her posm, "Lucilla of Montana," and her novel, "Poor Ben," have been very highly spoken of by competent critics and newspapers.

She has contributed some very fine articles to the A. M. E. Review, and in all matters to which she has applied herself she has well succeeded.

This lady was born in Washington, D. C, and is a graduate from the normal department of Howard University; has taught more than ten years in the public schools of that city. As a teacher and disciplinarian she bore a high reputation. Upon one occasion she desired to exchange her school of a higher grade for one of a lower, because of the latter being nearer her home. She did so, but in this exchange she entered a school that had been noted for bad order and being extremely unruly.

When she had been there a few weeks the superintendent called one day and said with regard to the excellent condition of the school, "Miss Tilghman, how am I to account for this change?"

As a child she exhibited great talent for music, and possessed a wonderfully sweet and sympathetic voice that touched every ear that heard it. Once when Bishop