Dfj> Saving MISS e both to this and succeeding generations? New, as to the statistics of the government ex perts, we have nothing later than f900, and even at that time they were inadequate. We are not to have-an other full report until 1912. Accord ing to the last census report, taken seven years ago, 4,833,630 women over 16 years were employed in gainful oc cupations. This number does not in elude girls under 16, who crowd every trade and line of work, and it does not include the women and young girls and children who work in their own homes. About 6,000,000 women and girls, or 18 per cent, of the total female population in 1900, including girls under 16, worked for pay, and I believe that at least a third again as many would be found to-day. There is a vast and ever-increasing army of women and girls practically enslaved by our present industrial conditions. The largest number of women in 1900 employed for pay were in domestic and personal service, or more than 2,000,000. Figures on Industries. The manufacture of cloth and cloth ing employed the second largest num ber, or nearly 1,500,000. Agriculture came next, employing pearly 1,000,000. Women outnumber men in dressmak ing, millinery and the unclassified sewing trades which occupied two thirds of a million workers. The only other trades properly so-called that show any such proportion of women, are the shirt, collar and cuff making, the overhall and overcoat industry and paper box making. Since nearly every thing we buy from hats to shoes, comes to us in paper boxes, the im portance of the latter trade can be easily estimated; 82 per cent, of its workers are women. The other indus tries show smaller proportions of wom en in 1900. However, among tobacco and cigar operators, two-thirds are women, and of the bookbinders more than half. Of those engaged in the nursing profession 90 per cent, were women; in laundering, 85 per cent, and in domestic service, 82 per cent. The only remaining important occu pations given over largely to women were stenography and typewriting, with 77 per cent., and teaching with 73 per cent, women. Married Women Who Work. Now, about women who work after marriage. Roughly we might say that In 1900 two-thirds of the dressmakers and seamstresses remained at work after marriage, as well as nearly half of the cotton mill and tobacco factory operatives, boot and shoe workers, tailoresses and milliners. As condi tions are now, with low wages, these cannot afford to pay for the proper care of their children while they them selves are at work, and the condition of the children of married working women is often deplorable—such as will breed disease, vice and crime when they reach maturity Reforms Suggested. It may seem very materialistic, but to me it seems of first importance that wages should be high enough to make it possible to keep the race upon the earth, with proper food and sufficient clothing. In 1900 one-fourth of all women in bakeries and an equal num ber in glass factories, though more than 16 years old, received only an av erage of $3.50 a week, the year round, while in the manufacturing of cloth ing the same proportion were paid less than three dollars a week. And yet we wonder that women are tempt ed by the comforts and luxuries with which vicious men are ever ready to lure them. What is to be done? We must get at the facts by scien tific investigation, make those facts familiar to the public, encourage legis lation, even constitutional amend ments, if need be, and last, and most important and essential of all, help the organization of women into trades unions. To the argument so often offered that women cannot be unionized I can only reply that women are organized to-day, and organized most successful ly, not in one or two, but in a score or more trades and professions. I be lieve it is not exaggerating to say that more than 50,000 women are pay ing dues to trades organizations to day. Indeed, the women’s .trades union has ceased to be a novelty, and it must be only a matter of a few years before the trades union woman will be the rule rather than the excep tion among the millions of her sex who toil for their daily bread and that c? their children. “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time,” began the man who is fond of moral reflections. “Well, what more do you want?” in terrupted his political friend. “Any better game than that would be too easy.” NATURAL BRIDGES IN AMERICA. World’s Greatest Ones So Far as Known Are *n Utah. • It is not generally known that the three greatest natural bridges in the world—at least so far as present knowledge goes—are located in an almost inaccessible portion of south -eastern Utah. The country is uninhabited and un inhabitable for the greater part, the only settlement of any account being the small town called Bluff, on the San Juan river, and the nearest rail road station being Dolores, in Colo rado, 105 miles eastward. The country of the natural bridges can be reached via Bluff, going by wagons to the latter place, then by horses with pack train. Last year a member of the National Geographic society equipped an expe dition with surveyors and artists and . sent it out to make a careful study of the bridges. No one should think of going into this region without hav-. ing thoroughly studied all'the condi ,. lions. T*>e few guides, that have been there have a very limited knowledge of the country, and the main and side canyons so cut up the country that a party may easily become lost. Of the three great arches the Au gusta bridge is the largest, the meas urements being: Height, 256 feet; span, 320 feet width in narrowest part, 35 feet, and thickness, 83 feet. Next comes the Caroline bridge, 'with height. 182 feet; span, 350 feet; j width, 60 feet, and thickness 60 feet. The smallest is the slender, graceful Edwin bridge; height, 111 feet; span, 205 feet; width, 30 feet, and thickness, 10 feet. The Augusta bridge was so named in honor of the wife of Horace J. Long, who in 1903 visited the bridges with James Scorup-. Mr. Scorup, it ap pears, had visited these bridges pre vious to that time, and in showing Long the way to them stipulated that the second one should be named the Caroline, after his (Scorup’s) mother. So far as Scorup knew the bridges were first discovered by . Emery Knowies in 1805, and he himself vis ited them in company with two cow boys, Tom Hall and Jim Jones, in the fall of that year. The next party to visit this section, so far as known, was that promoted by the Salt Lake City Commercial club during the winter and spring of 1905. The Edwin bridge was named at this time after Edwin F. Holmes, who or ganized that party and who also equipped the latest expedition. These bridges, composed as they are of light sandstone, might seem to be wearing away very rapidly. Such, however, Is not the case, for in the caves beneath the Caroline abutments were found ancient relics, including pottery and well-preserved fiber san dals.—National Geographic Magazine. The will of Daniel Fenstermacher. of Lynn township, Pa., probated re cently, leaves to his wife the farm house and -contents and gives her the privilege of planting each year until her death one row of sweet potatoes and two rows of Irish potatoes. She is also to have the use of the well on the farm and the gates leading to the ^public roads. The; estate disposed of is valued'at $20,000. ", 5 TABLE DELICACIES DAINTY DISHES SUITABLE FOR ALL OCCASIONS. Something New In the Line of Break fast Preparations—A Quick Des sert—Preparation of Rib bon Sandwiches. Dainty Breakfast Dish.—Equal parts of toast crumbs, chopped boiled ham, and a small piece of butter. Put in buttered muffin rings and break an egg on top. Place in oven until egg is just the right consistency. Slip a pancake turner under them and re move to a warm platter, then gently run a knife around the ring, removing it and leaving your muffin shaped dainty. This may be garnished with crisp pieces of bacon. Quick Dessert.—Beat the whites of four eggs, add four tablespoons sugar, four of cocoa. Bake in a pudding dish in moderate oven about 15 minutes. Serve at once with whipped cream. Raspberry Ice.—Three tablespoon fuls of sugar, one cupful of raspber ries, one-third cupful water, one tea spoonful of lemon juice. Sprinkle raspberries with sugar, cover, and let stand one hour; then mash and squeeze through cheesecloth to press out as much juice as possible. Add lemon juice and freeze. Juicy Roast.—Heat some beef fat in an iron pan or broad kettle. Put the meat into it and with a fork stuck in the fat part turn until it is a fine brown on all sides. This is done to keep in the juices. Put into a hot oven elevated from the bottom. Now in five minutes you will find the top dried, which will make it necessary to dip the hot fat from the pan over the top of the meat. Repeat every few minutes. Add no water to the pan. When half done add salt and pepper, as it will toughen if seasoned before. Vegetable Soup for Hay Stove.— Clean soup bone and put in large hay stove bucket; add water, salt and pep per to taste; two carrots chopped fine; one good sized onion; two bay leaves; six allspice berries; one-quarter cup of rice. Cook one-half hour on fire. Then remove to hay stove and leave ten hours. Ribbon Sandwiches.—Ribbon sand wiches are pretty on the plate. Rye bread and white bread in alternating layers, with cream cheese between, or Boston brown bread and white bread, or graham and white will give the ribbon effect. Another idea requires three square, thin slices of white bread and two corresponding slices of whole-wheat bread. Butter a slice of white bread and cover it with a fill ing made of egg paste, then put upon it a slice of whole-wheat bread and butter that and cover with egg paste. On top of that place another slice of white bread and repeat the operation, with white bread and whole-wheat bread, alternating until you have used all your five slides. A Good Suggestion. Often and often you have stood by the kitchen table laboriously trying to clean the silk from green corn. Of j course, you know just how difficult this can be at times, especially when < the silk is deeply imbedded. Have a small brush for this purpose—the vegetable brush will do—and you will be delighted in finding how much more quickly you can accomplish the work. Another good suggestion is to use the scissors to “snip” beans which are free from strings. The work is done more rapidly than when one takes the time to tediously perform the work by hand. Eggs Baked in Tomatoes. Cut the tops from as many firm to matoes as you desire to prepare*—one for each person to be served—remove the centers with a knife or spoon, sprinkle generously with salt and set in the oven until partly cooked. Re move from the oven and carefully break a fresh egg into each tomato, sprinkle with sf.lt and pepper and add to each a small lump of butter. Return to the oven until the eggs are set. Serve Immediately. Orange Fluff Is Delicious. Beat three cupfuls of milk In a double boiler, stir in three scant table spoonfuls of cornstarch dissolved in a little milk, one teaspoonful of butter, one-half cupful of sugar, the beaten yolks of two eggs; cook for five min utes, then add the grated rind and the juice of two oranges. Beat the whites of two eggs into whipped cream. Sand Tarts. Stir to a cream one cup butter and ft cup and a half sugar. Add three eggs, whites and yolks beaten separ ately, one tablespoonful water, and a half teaspoonful baking powder sifted with enough flour to make stiff enough to roll. Roll thin, on a floured board, cut in squares, sprinkle sugar and cinnamon on top and bake. Luncheon Dish. Take one can of good corn, same amount of dry baker’s bread. Break into small pieces. Then add the whole of three beaten eggs. Salt and pepper to taste. Mix the whole and fry in lard and butter. This is a fine dish, and doubles the amount of a can of corn. Ginger Cake. One egg, one-half cup butter, filled with boiling water; one-half cup sugar, filled with molasses; two scant cups of flour; one tablespoonful gin ger, one teaspoonful cinnamon, one even teaspoonful soda, dissolved in boiling water. Beat thoroughly and bake in moderately hot oven. Doing Up Ruffled Curtains. To do up ruffled net curtains, stretch out on a sheet after starching. Pin just to the ruffles and leave until dry. • Take up and iron only the ruf fles, dampening as you go along. This will leave the curtain perfectly straight. Pressed Meat. Cold boiled beef chopped; cold boi.ed eggs sliced; moisten beef well wi-h stock in which it was cooked; season with salt and pepper. Put lay er of beef in jar, then eggs, alternate ly. until all is used. Press. SPANS SEAS TO JOIN CHILD. Deported Syrian Travels 33,666 Miles for Daughter's Sake. North Adams, Mass.—To outwit the Immigration authorities and Join his eight-year-old daughter here, a Syrian who arrived in this city traveled over 33,666 miles, expended a small for tune in transportation, and consumed six months’ time. The child was brought by her father to the city last winter. The girl found a home, but the father was deported, making the distance traveled when he again arrived at Beirut, Syria, 13,506 miles. He reembarked within a few days for Rio Janeiro, Brazil, 7,425 miles away. His intention was to enter the states at a gulf port, not daring to trust himself again to the immigration officials of the larger eastern cities. While in Brazil he reached the con clusion that it would be better had he started originally for Canada. At the first opportunity he embarked on a vessel for Colon, whence he crossed the isthmus of Panama. It required several weeks’ waiting before he final ly embarked on a sailing vessel for Victoria, B. C. He arrived early in May at British Columbia, he had add ed 8,400 miles to his itinerary. In June he journeyed from Victoria to Montreal, 3.291 miles. He then de termined upon a final cast and headed for the United States. At this point he had no trouble in crossing the line from Canada and made 335 miles from Montreal to Boston. The night he ar rived in that city he covered the final 100 odd miles still separating him and his little girl. TO ILLUMINATE NIAGARA FALLS. Mist and Water Will Flash All Colors of Rainbow at Night. Niagara Falls, N. Y.—The contract has been closed for the night illumin ation of Niagara falls, and the pro posed plan for lighting the mighty torrent will be the greatest feat ever conceived in electrical illumination. The falls will be illuminated for the first time August 15. The illuminat ing scheme calls for nearly 50 large searchlights, several of them the largest of their kind and capable of throwing a beam of light a hundred miles, and the new color scintillator, a late invention. The projectors will be located below the falls in two bat teries, one at the water’s edge and the other on the high ground of the Cana dian side. Every Inch of the two falls will be under light. The new color scintillator is an at tachment fitted to the searchlights by which the beams of light can be made any color at will. Thus the mist and water bathed in all the col ors of the rainbow, will surpass any thing in spectacular effect save the great Northern Lights. The proposition is to illuminate Niagara on a scale in keeping with the surroundings. It is said by the illuminating experts that the rays of colored lights when flashed in the air will be visible at Rochester and Tcronto. MOSQUITOES HOLD UP TRAIN. Millions of Pest Swarm Into Coaches Near Badgley, la. Des Moines, la.—A swarm of mos quitoes, millions in number, literally stalled a Minnesota & St. Louis rail road train at Badgley the other night. For two hours the heavily loaded train was tied up by its fight with the pests and the 120 passengers were al most crazed before they escaped. The attack was made early in the evening, just as the train started te pull out of Badgley. Because of the hot weather the win dows in the passenger coaches had been left open and the mosquitoes, driven from the marshes by the rain, swarmed into the cars, attacking the passengers. For a while the pas sengers attempted to fight the pests with handkerchiefs and hands, but as they increased in number and ferocity the conductor was finally appealed to and stopped the train. For two hours the train was stalled, while the passengers, driven from the coaches, built fires along the right of way, making a dense smudge which afforded them a little relief. The smudge was then carried into the coaches and the mosquitoes finally driven out. Many of the passengers had hands and faces almost eaten raw by the attacks. Historic Flag Exhibited. Washington.—The historic national banner of stars and stripes, which inspired Francis Scott Key to com pose “The Star Spangled Banner,” and which floated over Fort McHenry, Chesapeake bay, during its bombard ment by the British on the night of September 13, 1814, has been placed on exhibition at the Smithsonian in stitution in this city. The flag is the property of Eben Appleton, of New York, who has loaned it to the gov ernment. The banner is 28 by 30 feet and will be draped on the wall in the hall of history of the institu tion. “New Citizens” Break Record. Washington.—All immigration rec ords in the history of the country were broken by the aggregate returns for the fiscal year of 1907, which end ed on June 30, last. The total num ber of alien immigrants landed in America during the year was 1,285, 349, as against 1,100,735 during the fiscal year of 1906. The increase was about six per cent, over the greatest number of immigrants that ever ar rived in America heretofore in a sin gle year. Doyle Will Hunt for Jewels. London.—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, anxious to justify his reputation as a real Sherlock Holmes, has offered his services to Sir Arthur Vicers, the Ulster king of arms, in unraveling the mystery of the loss of the jeweled in signia of the order of St. Patrick, which was recently stolen from Dub lin. Berlin, after a careful study of the proposition, including returns from Jamestown, has decided not to hold a world’s fair in 1913. American cities without money to cast to the birds will probably live up to that standard. 'CAMERA AS AID TO POLICE The Bertillon system has been amplified in such a way that the photo graphs now' taken bear a much more exact relation to the originals photo graphed than was possible under the old system. The distorting effect ob tained by the use of the ordinary camera and method is well illustrated in the second of our photographs, in which the part of the body that is nearest to the lens is enlarged and out cf all proportion to the rest. 1. A room divided into sections, and arranged for the Bertillon system of photographing criminals and dead bodies. 2. A photograph taken in the ordinary way by an ordinary camera, showing the distortion caused by the usual method of photography. 3. The arrangement that enables photographs to be taken by followers of the Bertillon system in such a way that the figures in the resulting prints are absolutely true to scale with the figures photographed. 4. A perspective pho tograph taken under the new Bertillon system, which makes possible the pro duction of negatives that in no way exaggerate the object photographed. ONE MAN’S TROUBLES. HE IS A MEMBER OF THE NAVY YARD BAND. Fred Beversee, Trombone Player, Or dered to Pay $36 a Month Ali mony When He Makes but $32. New York. — Frederick Beversee, who plays,the trombone in the navy yard band, is trying to figure out a plan by which he can pay his wife $36 a month alimony out of a total in come of $32 a month. All the mathe maticians in the navy yard and in his lawyer’s office have failed to get any satisfactory answer to this hard prob lem. but Beversee must have an an swer. • If Beversee doesn’t pay his wife $4 a month more than he earns he will be in contempt of court and some hard hearted judge may lock him up in a little room so small he will not be able to slide his trombone. Beversee has been ordered to ap pear in special term over in New York county and explain why he has failed to pay the $36 a month for the last two months, and also to explain why he shouldn't be adjudged in contempt of court and locked up in some hot jail for the summer. Lawyer George Hiram Mann, who has a big practice among the people attached to the navy, will be in court to help Beversee explain, and, also to make the court see the injustice of demanding alimony in greater amount than Beversee can earn. Beversee is able to prove that his present cash in come is only $32 a month, which he gets from the government for playing the trombone twice a day. In addi tion tfi this he gets a place to sleep and a daily ration. Some of Beversee’s friends have suggested that he raise the extra four dollars by selling his ration; but that would leave him without anything to eat, and, besides, he might run up against some hard regulation against disponing of a ration allowance. Beversee’s wife is suing him for separation. The two lived together quite happily until two or three years ago. They have been living apart for a year. Their son, who is a seaman 19 years old, made an affidavit a year ago, in which he took sides with his mother, and alleges that his papa was a very bad man in his treatment of Mrs. Beversee. Now, Mr. Mann is armed with a new affidavit from young Beversee which tells of the splendid qualities of his father, with whom he fs now stopping. In his new affidavit young Beversee throws some light on the effect of beer and hot weather upon affidavit making; in fact, he makes it appear that the combination of lager and high temperature caused him to make the former affidavit. He says that after drinking beer all day ■in hot weather his mothehr induced him to go with her to her lawyer’s office in the Pulitzer building and swear to allegations which he now declares to be untrue. After Mrs. Beversee's suit had got under way the court ordered her hus band to pay her $36 a month. Bev ersee was able to pay the amount at that time, as he was playing at night with a big uptown orchestra in addition to his employment in the Navy Yard band. He is a musician of high class, and he says that he would be able to get employment out side now but for the meddling of his wife. He paid the $36 a month up to eight weeks ago, when he found it impossible to pay that amount out of his navy pay. JUDGE LINDSEY AIDS LAD. “Wanted to Get Ahead”—Gets Place Paying $2,000 a Year. Denver.—“I want to get ahead, so I came to work for you.” Two years ago Judge Ben. B. Lind sey was Interrupted at his work by a boyish voice. Looking up, he saw a youngster with a shock of bright red hair and mirthful blue eyes. He was wearing knee pants and for a mo ment the judge wondered what the small fellow could do. The vermilion crown appealed to him. So Jay Bacon was kept in the juve nile court and given a chance to ad vance. First he was made a sort of messenger boy and "handy Andy” for everyone. He was given the dignified title of clerk, but the young man is authority for the statement that he frequently did many services beneath the dignity of his title. He had studied stenography at I Home with his stepfather, D. H. Col burn, who is one of the probation officers, and his first attempt at tak ing dictation from Judge Lindsey con vinced the latter that his clerk could hold his own. Then Judge Lindsey was appointed judge of the new juvenile court. Un der the statute creating the court he was to name a stenographer at a sal ary of $2,000 a year, almost as much as stenographers to district judges re ceive. The next promotion had cone to Jay Bacon, for without considering any other applicant Judge Lindsey appointed him to the place. The Plain Thing. The Vassar graduate stood at the corner looking at the threatening atti tude of two angry urchins in thei midst of an eager and expectants crowd. “Are the intents of those boys bellicose?” she asked. “No, ’m,” i-e plied the boy addressed. “Them’s only going to scrap.” Big Dog Adopts Chickens. Five Orphan Chicks Are Cared For by Large Black Brute. Des Moines, la.—Performing all the functions of a mother to five orphaned chickens, a large black dog is attain ing wide notoriety on the east side. The chickens lost their mother in some unaccountable manner and five little screaming fowls made the neigh borhood miserable with their piteous cries. The chickens belonged to M. M. Friedman on East Fifth street, where the dog also belongs. The chickens huddled together after los ing their mother and during the night were taken in charge by the dog, who protected them from the chilly night air. Now the dog has come into con stant attendance on the five chickens and watches over them all day long. Ed Sunberg. constable of Lee town ship, hearing of the strange incident, went to investigate and tried to take one of the chickens out of the box where they bad huddled around the dog. He received a bite on his hand as a reward for his attempt to molest the little chicks and the dog is now left severely alone with his little fam ily. Brick Lost with Body in It. Pittsburg, Pa.—Friends of Herman Unger, the musician who committed suicide in Boston some time ago and who directed that his body be cre mated and the ashes made into a brick, .are much alarmed over the present whereabouts of the brick. It has disappeared and all efforts to lo cate it have been fruitless. The brick was shipped from Bos ton more than a week ago by the secretary of the Boston lodge of Odd Fellows to Morris NosokoC, of this city, the nearest friend of the dead musician. Nosokoff has the price less violins that Unger owned, but he was very anxious to secure tire brick as well. Wise men make mistakes; but on fools repeat them.