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s -"5" - :- ,i2 rex,.' r "i " "rfl .VI VI N Fii-H ItU re- in - - Y r a j CHAPTER XXI. Continued. "Bah! don't mention that word to -me again. I am sick of your hypocrisy. You don't deceive me, let me tell you. Tour plea of cowardice is a convenient subterfuge. Every fact-points to your being in league with these adven turers. A coward wouldn't have taken the risks you have taken. You saw the man hiding in the stairway; you saw him about to fire on a helpless girl; and you raised no hand. Am I talking plainly enough?" I looked into Locke's eyes, glaring with rage and contempt, and I laughed aloud. It was actually a relief to have my weakness exalted to the plane of deliberate villainy. "Laugh, my friend, but I am not to be deceived by a laugh." "And now that I stand abased In my Baked deviltry?" "I give you five minutes to make a J full and complete confession. If at the end of five minutes you still re fuse. I shall have you promptly arrest ed for being a partner in the Intrigues of the Countess SarahofT. for masquer ading as Sir Mortimer Brett, and for being an accomplice in the murder of Miss Brett" Five minutes! The time was not long. I knew Locke would keep his word; but more than ever I was stub bornly resolved to refuse taking him into my confidence. Could I tell him my reasons for act ing as I had done? Could I tell him that I had set out on the romantic quest of saving a life for the life that had been lost? Would he believe that? At least without appealing to the wom an who had set me that task? To drag in her name was impossible. The minutes passed swiftly. So this was the end of my task! Disgrace and imprisonment! I had warned Helena that might be the case. I looked across the valley at the pin nacles of the Castle of Happiness. What a fool I have been! "Your time is almost up," said Locke grimly, looking at the watch ha had placed en- his knee. "And Miss Brett is walking in the garden over there. Do you wish her to see you marched off to prison?" On the contrary, it was she who must set me free! I would put her to the supreme test Now if she trusted me as she had promised, I might yet escape from the awkward dilemma. I rose to my feet, i called to her, "Miss Brett!" She came to us. My maneuver so completely astonished Locke that he stared at me speechless. "Miss Brett," I said quietly. "Mr. Locke has taken upon himself the task of bringing me to justice. He finds me guilty of complicity in the in trigues of Madame de Varnier. He re fuses to believe that I am acting in your behalf. I cannot blame him for his suspicions. The facts are almost wholly against me the surface facts. I do not even deny most of them. But he has woefully misconstrued my mo tives In every case. I refuse absolute ly to tell him what those motives are. He has threatened me with arrest un less I make to him a full and complete confession without delay. Mr. Locke, as I have said, is acting on the behalf of yeur mother and yourself. Person ally he has no right whatever to make any complaint against me." "Miss Brett will be the last person to shield you from punishment when she knows the truth," interrupted Locke, bewildered at my audacity in appealing to her. "Among other things. Miss Brett," I continued eagerly, "he accuses me of being an accomplice in your attempted murder in the stairway." "There are facts more tangible than that." said Locke significantly. "But I refuse to listen to them." said Helena, reassuring me with a quiet glance. "I am not so ignorant of these facts, perhaps, as you imag ine, Mri Locke. I have every confi dence in you. Mr. Haddon. As to caus ing your arrest, that is absurd." "Thank jou," I returned, with a pas sion of gratitude in my heart. "You will hear from me before midnight. If at the end of that time you do not, I think it would be well for you to con sult Mr. Locke. He knows a great deal of which jou are ignorant." "Be sure of this, sir, I shall not wait until midnight to enlighten Miss Brett." cried Locke, his face purple with anger and chagrin. "Mr. Locke, let us understand each other." said Helena, and even Locke felt that her decision was irrevocable. "Mr. Haddon is my friend. I refuse to believe him guilty of dishonor, much less of deliberate crime. I refuse, and my mother will refuse, to press any charge against him. More than that, we trust him to help us in our dif ficulties." Locke closed the face of his watch with a snap. "If you have come to that decision," he said with assumed carelessness, "there is nothing more to be said. If I can be of service to you, you will find me at the hotel at midnight, as the chivalrous Mr. Haddon has sug gested." We were alone. But Helena was of no mind to receive my thanks or my assurances that I had been absolutely ignorant that Locke or any other had been in the stairway. "Until 12 to-night," she said. "Until 12 to-night," I repeated. I lifted my hat and walked swiftly to ward the chateau. CHAPTER XXII. The Secret Staircase. "We trust him to help us in our dif ficulties." Those were the words Helena had spoken; she trusted me, who had been called coward, to accomplish "what the cleverest and bravest man must have i.'-LAjS-,li - .J( rk..J . iV " rf' hesitated at promising. For one can not promise with reason to attempt successfully the unknown. It was the vagueness of my mission that made it so perplexing. One cannot tear apart lover from lover as one tears a piece of paper. And yet, if Sir Mortimer were living and still enamored of his mistress, I had promised to attempt even that. If, on the other hand, Si'r Mortimer were dead, I was to essay a duty even1 more difficult: to rescue his great name from dishonor. Before midnight, then, there were two things to be accomplished: I must know the truth from Madame de Varnier concerning Sir Mortimer Brett, whether he were living or dead; I must rescue Captain Forbes. It was to be a double duel. The first to be fought was Madame de Varnier. the weapons to be of her choosing, cunning and wit; the second. Dr. Star va, and he had already shown me what weapons he preferred. To arm myself for my fight with him I supposed would be a simple matter. But when I made inquiries for a gun smith's shop I learned to my dismay that there was none in Alterhoffen. I was compelled to return to the cha teau empty handed. The terrace was deserted. I crossed it, close to the castle walls. I intend ed, it possible, to enter the hall unob served by the little door under the winding staircase through which I had followed Dr. Starva. I looked cau tiously into the great room through one of the mullioned windows. No one was about Once within the cha- "Until Twelve teau, and the door locked. I gained my room, and rang the bell for the servant Jacques, the lackey who had shown me to my room the night be fore, answered the call. "It is half past one," I cried impa tiently. "Is Madame de Varnier not ready for luncheon?" The man looked his surprise. "Luncheon has been waiting for your Excellency. I came to your room some time ago, but there was no an swer when I knocked." "I had been wandering about the chateau," I replied carelessly. "So luncheon is ready. I hope I have not kept Madame de Varnier waiting too long?" "Madam begs to be excused. Lunch eon is served for Dr. Starva and your self." I followed the man to the room where we had dined, not at all pleased at the seclusion that she affected. I was impatient for action. Nearly 12 hours were to elapse before midnight but there was much to be done before then. And if she persisted in not see ing me, I wondered how I was to force my presence on her. In the meanwhile I must attempt to learn something of Captain Forbes's deten tion. I lunched alone, and well. The ab sence of Dr. Starva was only to be ex pected. Even so brazen a villain as he would hesitate to meet me with un concern. During the struggle in the porter's lodge no word had been spoken by either of us, hut certainly he could not have been ignorant of my identity any more than was I of his. When we again met, therefore, it would be as avowed enemies. Frankly, I did not look forward to that meeting with pleasure. The fate of Captain Forbes pointed too obvious a moral. I had put myself deliberately in Starva's power by my return to the chateau. If I were unmolested it would be because my services were indis pensable. I had lighted my cigarette. Jacques was noiselessly gathering up the things. I had determined to take him into my confidence. I believed itwas he who had brought me the note. I suspected that he was not ignorant of my leaving the chateau. He had ac- --JI it' tL.r- T- ..i - J bbbbbV'sbbbbbuI IsmUlnBEXBBBBBBWsBBBWsBBBBBBBBBBiiVJC It RLjIKi. Ill il " . IW BKssBMlnUU'sYftWsMSBBBB'Bv- n rXSlraMif V. . 0 BsBTlSBBff BBBssmal lllmmnssf -"' l bbbbbbsH IV Bbsm niansBBBBBBB " "iZ'- WlilB' wJimWm Hi iHHMmv S? WLMM'M Wlllnll 1 HlliHx III 'II 1'nfffflMI I lllKlflaV'- fl II ijill 1 HRr m iHmV H lE """'fc.BmT rsaSf H Biff I In I mnsHVs'fvVnDBBBBBBBmBBBmn ffiHSfl II H H HI NIMMsir s"i7Z Icepted my excuse too readily. At any rate, I believed the fellow could be bribed. I demanded carelessly: "And Dr. Starva? Is he, too, con lined to his room?' The man shrugged his shoulders. Evidently he held Dr. Starva in no great consideration. , "One knows nothing of1 him. He u mysterious, this Dr. Starva." I looked at the man keenly. The adjective was significant "Everything about this chateau la mysterious, it seems to me," I re marked cheerfully. "Last night, for instance, I could have sworn I heard the shout of one in distress." "Is it possible, monsieur?" "And when I retired, I found a note on my pillow. I would give a hundred francs to the man who placed it there if I could find him." "There is nothing too difficult to be discovered with diligence, your Excel lency," he said softly, his crafty eyes cast down. "So you were the faithful messen ger." I took out my pocket-book. "A little letter is a simple thing, and since it was not sealed. I knew that madam would not object" He smiled greedily on the notes that I had laid on the table. "Ah. you are loyal to Madame de Varnier?" "Very loyal, monsieur," he returned with perfect seriousness. I intended to test this admirable loyalty. I was forgetting Captain Forbes. I proceeded cautiously. "Am I the only guest of the cha teau?" I demanded, toying with the notes. "There is Dr. Starva, as your Excel lency knows." "And he is a man of mystery, you tell me. 'I suppose it not impossible that he has his friends." "Friends?" he asked, and he gave to the word a strange note of uncer tainty. "Did not one call on him last night just before I retired?" "I have understood so." "And he has come to the chateau as Dr. Starva's own guest?" "Certainly, Dr. Starva's friends have visited him here occasionally." "The chateau is so Immense that one would find it difficult to be sure To-Night," She Said. that one knew the whereabouts of all Its rooms." "If I might take the liberty, I should say that your Excellency would be in terested in making an inspection of the chateau. The view from the tow ers is superb." "And these towers are readily ac cessible?" Jacques shook his head. "Monsieur has said that the chateau is immense. One might find it difficult without a guide." "And you will be that guide," I said with assurance. He shook his head still more vigor ously. "Impossible! Madam would object Besides, there is Alphonse." "Alphonse? Who is he?" '"He is madam's confidential serv ant" "At least you can tell me the way to the towers." AAAAMMMAMMMMWMIMMMAMAMMMWWMMMAMM Long Hours Curavaneers Have Little Rest, Accord ing to Sailor. "They oughter start labor unions in the Sahara desert," said the sailor. "You work 21 hours a day there. That's too long, ain't it? "It's the fashionable fad to winter in the Sahara, and last January, us lyin to in Phillippevllle for a cargo of dates, I bought a third class ticset to Biskra, and pushed from there to Touggourt with a camel caravan. - "It was fine. The sun shone, the air was like wine, the sand was as white as salt We seen mirages phantom cities, with white domes and minarets, palm gardens, and girls walkin' on the flat roofs of the white houses, lookin' at you with dark, wistful eyes. "We had a cargo of beer for. the French soldiers in Touggourt Ghar aia, Ouargla, and the neighborin' towns. "But what I wanted to speak about - i.HL,.. -V vcS, ,! - t . a... 1 have never been to the towers, the man persisted. v "Then the staircase is concealed? I asked sharply, irritated at his hy pocrisy. ' "I have seen the tapestry 'near the gallery move very strangely," he blurted out Captain Forbes, then, was impris oned in one of the towers. The stair case leading thither was concealed be hind a secret door hidden by a tapes try. This door was near the gallery. So far so well. But I remembered that there was one central tower, flanked by three smaller towers. In which of them was Captain Forbes held a prisoner? I came to the point directly.' To fence with the fellow was wasting time. "The rooms in the towers them selves must be Interesting. In me dieval times they were no doubt used as dungeons, if there can be dungeons in the air. In which of these towers does Dr. Starva usually lodge his friends?" I asked the question not without trepidation." I was tolerably sure of my man, but for the moment I feared that I had overshot the mark. He poised a tray on his palm and shumed hastily to the door, as if he were' frightened at the information .he had already given. "You have forgotten something," I said carelessly, and tapped the notes on the table. He hesitated; then, re turning, snatched at them. "When one has ascended the secret stairway," he said in a low voice, "one finds oneself in a bare room. That Is the central tower. It ft a triangle In shape. At the corners of the triangle there are three doors opening on three smaller rooms, the dungeons, as mon sieur calls them. One of these rooms is the oratory of madam. Monsieur knows that madam is very religious. When madam is not to be seen she Is at her prayers." Again he seized his tray, but I had still another question to ask. "Which of these rooms is the ora tory? And- in which does Dr. Starva lodge his friends?" "But monsieur, I do not know," he stammered, and again seized his tray. "You know very well, if you think," I commanded. He rubbed his nose, a gesture curi ously reflective and agitated. He turned himself about like a top as he tried, or pretended to try, to remem ber toward which points of the com pass the various rooms faced. "Monsieur knows that the chateau, itself does not face either south, north, east, or west The oratory is to the 'south. No; it points to the west The locked room. Dr. Starva's, that Is to the east. But no truly, your Excel lency, it is impossible for me to re member." He fled from the room, the dishes on his tray rattling in his perturba tion. But he had told me much. I knew that if I could find the secret staircase to the towers, if I could force open the door behind the tapestry. I might bag both my birds with one shot Captain Forbes in his prison, or Madame de Varnier at her prayers it was all one to me. CHAPTER XXIII. A Terrifying Apparition. I did not hesitate. There was no time like the present' This servant had been false to Madame de Varnier, false to Dr. Starva. He would betray me with as little compunction if it were made worth his while. I walked slowly up the grand stair way leading from the hall. I gained the gallery that ran about the hall, meeting no one. I pretended to be in terested in examining the designs of the tapestry. I tapped the wall as I moved deliberately along. It seemed to me quite solid in every direction. I began to think that Jacques had been playing with me. As I stood there hesitating,Alphonse, the confidential servant of Madame de Varnier, appeared suddenly before me. Either his tread had been catlike or the secret staircase was very near. .. I thought I read consternation on his face. I leaned over the carved railing of the gallery, gazing down into the hall. "Am I not to see Madame de Var nier before long?" "I shall tell madam that your Excel lency is waiting." ' "If you please." I walked carelessly down the long corridor that led to my room. I closed the door, but I was careful to hold the handle in my hand, and in an instant my eye was at the keyhole. He had paused irresolutely, looking down the corridor toward my room. Evidently he was dismayed at having been surprised by me. He was hesi tating whether he should return to warn Madame de Vanler. Luckily he did not hesitate long. He vanished round the corner of the corridor. In an instant I had fol lowed him. As he lifted the tapestry he touched a spring. A door opened noiselessly. "One moment Alphonse," I cried. '(TO BE CONTINUED.) in the Sahara was the hours of the caravaneers. Them poor fellers worked 21 hours a day. One stop of three hours was all they took, and part of that time had to be spent in feedin and groomin' the camels. "Camels can get along, it seems, with three hours' rest a day,, but men! Them caravaneers of ourn had little donks, the size of a Newfoundland dog, to ride on. and they'd lie on their stomachs acrost a donk's back, head hangin' down on one side, feet on the other, and in that position they could sleep hour after hour whilst the donks trudged on in the sunshine through the white sand." Poor Lo. Gunner I see where one of the far western towns is going to have In dians on the police force. Guyer How appropriate! I sup pose they will be referred to as the "copper colored coppers." Chi cago Daily News. 1 ' ..l.T-A. 'I, f 0MAHVV trJCTRJC itNBfEDQN H BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBU3BBBBBBBs!iSBBBBBB fl New York. According to the last census report on women at work In the United States, it has been learned that they number almost 5,000,000, or to be very exact, 4,833, 630. - Such, at least, were the figures at the time of the collecting of the last census, in 1900, and in the ensu ing seven years it is generally com puted that they "have Increased their numbers fully 2,000.000. In the reports of the twelfth cen sus the detailed classification of bread winners, with respect to the kind of work In which they were en gaged, distinguishes 303 occupations. Women are represented In all but nine of these occupations. Naturally no women were reported as United States soldiers, sailors or marines; nor were any reported as members of the fire department or as car driv ers (though two were reported as mo tormen), or as telegraph or telephone linemen, or as apprentices or helpers to roofers or slaters, or as helpers to steam boiler makers. But the reader may note with interest as well as surprise that there are already within these United States five wom en pilots; that on the steam rail roads are ten girl "baggage smash ers," 31 fair brakemen, seven con ductors, 45 engine drivers, 26 switchmen, yardmen and flagmen; that we have 43 carriage and hack drivers. . As to New York Women. These figures represent the status of working women of the United States generally. What about the working women of New York city particularly? What are they work ing at, and why do they work? Are they entirely dependent upon themselves, or are they working for pin money or to have a good time or fine clothes, as is so often charged? And last of all but not less interest ing, are they married? Of the thousand women asked these questions by the New York Her ald, 25 were nurses, 25 milliners, 50 seamstresses and dressmakers; 100 were paper box makers, 50 cigar mak ers, 100 department store saleswom en, 50 tailoresses, 50 shirtwaist mak ers, 50 laundresses, a hundred type writers and stenographers, a hun dred teachers, a hundred workers on novelty goods and workers in fac tories of various sorts, such as tin can making, bonnet making, artifi cial flower making, etc. Nine hundred and twenty-five an swers were received, from which the following facts are deduced: The working women of New York city are as a general thing working not for pin money or to give them an increase in the luxuries of life, but because they have to work to keep themselves and perhaps others from starvation. Working women of New York city do not look upon marriage as the un mixed blessing, the great and only end of woman. While not adverse to it on general principles, she does not accept it either with the eagerness or the complacency which the working women of a generation ago did un der the same condttioas. Testimony of Women. No better or surer proof of these generalizations could be offered than the words of the women and girls themselves upon the subject "I am a laundress," writes one woman in a two-page communication accompanying the blank report sent to her.1 "I am a laundress and I am not on the job for my health. To piece out other income! Well, I guess not I am working because if I didn't my three kids .would be in the Protectory and I'd be. God knows where. Yes, I'm married. I'm mar ried to a man who has never been able to get along very well, though he-ain't a drinking man and he has no bad habits except he's lazy." "I am a paper box maker and I work because I have to support my self and my sick mother and two younger cnuaren. wnich I manage to do by sewing nights on special work NATURAL BRIDGES IN AMERICA. WerM'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 tions. The few guides that have been ou Swing. four Nilliofia reitiinine ofthc jJnJtedSfetb&s H6H Distinct Occupations for a department store," writes a girl who further appends at the bottom of the blank a statement of her age, 23. Many Love Their Work. Answers such as these were re ceived, not by the score but by the hundred, as In almost every Instance the women not only took the trouble to answer the questions put to them, but to elaborate their replies with a rich embroidery of personal detail that had been quite unhoped for, and which proves of special value in gathering a table of statistics of this kind. In the case of 210 of the re plies the correspondents express themselves vigorously on the ques tion of why they are at work. Twenty-two of this number declare In con siderable detail that they work be cause they love to work, and they would do so anyway whether they had to or not The other 188 express the very opposite sentiment They are working, as their letters reveal, often from stern and bitter necessity and not at all from choice. All but 37 of the 210 are supporting other people besides themselves. Of the total 925 who answered the question 807 supported, either entirely or in part either a father or a mother, younger brothers or sisters, or, where married, children, or children and hus band. Of the 925, ten confessed to supporting lazy husbands, and 15 were married to men either invalids 'or semi-invalids, whom they supported either entirely or during certain por tions of the time. There were 240 married women altogether, and out side of those who supported their hus bands either entirely or in part all the rest stated that their earnings were es sential to piece out the husband's and father's wage. Of the 4,833,630 women reported as engaged in gainful occupations at the time of the twelfth census, 1,124,383, or almost one-fourth of the total num ber, were returned as servants. The next most important occupation is that of farm laborer, and the number of women reported as following this occupation was 456,405. It is pointed ont that 442,006 of these female farm laborers were reported from the south ern states and that 361,804, or 79.3 per cent of the total number, were of the negro race. Also, 277,727, or 60.9 per cent of the toal number, were mem bers of the farmers' families, repre senting the wives and grown-up daugh ters, assisting In the work on the home farms BY GERTRUDE BARNUM. Organizer of Woman's Trade Union League. The Herald is doing an excellent work In endeavoring to find out facts about working women from the wom en themselves. Usually the last person consulted on the subject of industrial conditions is the worker, the one who, by all rights, knows most about it When I hear of an investigation I tremble. People collect such one-sided evidence and proceed to issue re ports which are accepted as gospel the moment fliey are nicely set up In type and bound in light green with a few prominent names on the title page. Meanwhile the situation of the un named workers who are holding up the platform for us to strut on remains as before. t Most Striking Point One thing strikes me at once la looking over the reports, and that is that, with pitifully few exceptions, the women are working without joy in their labor and working not from choice but from stern necessity. I be lieve that these returns, too, represent truly the state of mind of the vast majority of working women of Amer icathat we have in this land of the free fully 5,000,000 women to-day in gainful occupations driven and bound to work from which they shrink with all their souls. That is why I am ac customed to speak of it as slavery. It is not necessary to produce fig ures to show that the average wage earned by women and girls In New 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 An- 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; 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 cf the wifeof Horace J. Long, who in 1903 visited the bridges with James Scorup. Mr. Scomp, it ap pears, had visitdd 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 Knowles in 1SS5, and he himself vis ited them 'in company with two cow York Is not saslcient for tTses to Hvw on properly.. What sense is there sn spending a year's work in finding ont what sort of a life a working girl live on six dollars per week. there Is such a crying need of spend ing that year in some effort to raise that wage a wage which Is breeding; conditions dangerous alike bsth to this and succeeding generatlens? New. an to the statistics tof the goveramdnt perts, we have nothing later than 1900, and even at that time they were inadequate. We are not to nave 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 clude 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 en Industries. The manufacture of doth and cloth ing employed the second largest num ber, or nearly l,509,00t. Agriculture came next, employing nearly l.OOO.OOf. 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 he easily estimated; 82 per cent of Us 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 Werk. 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 toll for their daily bread and that cf 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." 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 pofatoex 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. -- i i7i iTH tnnitir --r. '-iwil my V MWhri Ij , r, n i tt m-j i I h Tri-IM"! 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