We ask attention to these bills for a practical purpose. Congress should be urged to act upon them at once. The present session is the short one, ending March 4th. If this session closes without passing these bills, the whole subject will be deferred almost indefinitely. The next Congress will be a new one; the Members to some extent will be new; the committees maybe wholly so, and they may need years of petitioning, educating and inspiring to move them to proper action on these essential topics. No time can be lost. No influence is so great upon the average Congressman as letters directly from his constituents. We therefore urge every reader of these pages to write at once to the Member of Congress from his district, or to others whom he may know, asking for prompt and energetic efforts for the passage of these bills. On another page of THE MISSIONARY will be found the admirable address of President Seelye, presenting the paramount importance of religious effort on the part of the churches in behalf of the Indians. We are in full accord with this view. But the Government has also its responsibilities, and all that it does in the lines we have suggested will only facilitate the work of preparing the Indians for what we wish them all ultimately to be, intelligent, self-supporting Christian citizens. * * * * * WHAT SOME WOMEN ARE DOING. REV. A. H. BRADFORD, D.D. This is woman’s era. Her influence and presence are in all spheres. Within a quarter of a century there were few in stores, and none in public offices. To-day they are clerks, operators in the factories, teachers in schools; they are in telegraph, and telephone, and post-offices; they are artists and traders; a few are captains of steamboats; a few are lawyers; now and then one ventures to preach; and even the mysteries of Wall Street are not terrifying to them, for they have commenced competition with the brokers. Women have already won recognition in the practice of medicine, and are among the most successful practitioners in all great cities. They are among the most popular lecturers. At least one of the most successful publishing houses in New York is owned and managed by a woman. In business and on the platform she has ceased to be a curiosity. The power of woman in politics is not appreciated, but it is one of the most vital forces of this century. No Anarchist in Paris could influence the Faubourgs quicker than Louise Michel. In the history of Nihilism in Russia no names have been regarded with more devotion by those struggling for wider liberty, and none more dreaded by the existing order, than Sophie Perovskaia, Jessy Helfman and Vera Zassulic. Charles Dickens never exhibited a truer insight into human nature than when he made a woman the impersonation of remorseless vengeance.