’REAT CRIME OF
WHITE SLAVERY.
Much has been said upon the sub-
ject of ‘‘strong drink’’ as a moral and
social evil. While we verily believe
it to be the worst of all vices because
of the great majority that indulge in
' its use, yet there follows close in its
“wake the great evil of the ‘‘White
Slave Traffic.”” This is very demor-
alizing to the welfare of our country.
The reason that we have heard so
little concerning this great evil liesin
the fact that it is carried on only in
the cities, and while it is an extensive
trade in those places, we are thankful
to know that it does not exist in the
outlying town throughout the country.
There is danger, though, in the fact
that if the evil is not arrested the
dealers may become more bold in
their criminal pursuits and thus ex-
tend their base trade to the smaller
places.
The fact that this ‘‘slayery?’’ exists,
and that hundreds, yea thousands, of
pure young girls, the future woman-
hood of America, are iured away by
the ‘‘slave ma ters” and made to eke
out a miserabi : existence in the vile
resort of the brothel den.
These young slaves are of much
more profit to their masters than were
the negro slaves of the south. They
. are placed on a level with brutes. If
any object they are beaten or starved
sie. into submission, Hundreds of girls
rfid, 4% are dying in our great cities, having
© q = W'} been captured and taken prisoners in
: those vile resorts. Death is the only
relief for their suffering, many dying
before they reach the age of twenty-
one years.
The story of ‘‘Luella’’ will win the
~ Sh hearts of all who read her sad story,
whieh is given in full in the, ** White
Slave Book.” Working to help her
mo her su} port her little brothers and
sisters, Luella toiled hard for $3.50
per week. Upon hearing of an em-
ployment agency which offered $10
per week, the young girl wrote the
agent and was directed to take a train
‘on a cer ain date for C , and she
would be met at the train and con-
ducted to the establishment. ;
with the joy at being able to do so
much more for those at home, Luella
buoyantly set out on her journey.
She was met by a reverend looking
gentleman in ministerial garb, and
being tanght piety at home, this girl
. of seventeen felt safe under the care
of a minister. She was hurried to he:
destination, and once inside th
house the door was locked. A
woman came, forward and explainea
to ber her duty. The child cried and
begged to be allowed to retucn home.
Ne She turned to the man hE
roight Hef there dnl begged h i to
Bt her go, whereupon he sneered at
“Wer. He had meanwhile changed his
tlerical clothes for the fashionable
: Hi of his elass ‘‘Are you not a
minister cried the girl.” ‘“That is a
. masquerade you know.”
ed this girl to write her mother an
occasional letter he himself of course
reading all the letters. She was al-
lowed to send one dollar each week
‘to her mother for a period of two
years, but was threatened with her
life, if she would breathe a word, of
what had, happened to her, to any of
the visitors that came. >
8 Three years after her departure
as , from home she was found by a chari-
ny g table lady and was sufferino from a
ne | most loathsome diseasé. Her hair
nd : was gone, and her system poisoned
re “by thevirus until she was dying by
li- inches, the end came twenty-four
bt-- hours after her discovery. That par-
1 ' ticular establishment was raided and
er , discovery proved that during the
n, ‘three years the girl had earned for
ke , “her master through immorality $9,468
oh, a very profitable slave indeed.
bh, y After she had served her purpose
mn. a a and was no lenger.of any use she was
20 : carried to a shed din the rear and left
er- ! to die. Her groans attracted the at-
tt ; tention of the woman who rescured
ad her. This woman learned from the
oss J girls lips enough evidence to convict
: | her torturers. This is only one of
by ! many instances recorded in the White
er, Slave book. Read it and convince
as 8 yourselves that something ought to be
nia 1 done to put a stop to this demoraliz-
nd ' 3 ing business. i
the # The fact that this crime does not
kes exist in our home towns need not pre-
ive : vent us from doing all we can to bet-
ts. | ter the helpless hopeless condition of
Lp . f our sisters. Every one can do some-
kL “4 oo N thing. What are you going to do?
eat is 3 Ask yourself that question.
r at The work of rescue has been started
the but it meeds support. The fact that
OW: | these vile dens are wholly disguised
rec 1 and it requires a thorough knowledge
ous 5 of the city and its waysto accomplish
em- i anything, explains why the progress
ALS = is slow. The most that has been ac-
Ite . complished so far in the way of res-
the cue work, has been done by members
ing of the Women’s Suffrage Club.” So
im- much for Women’s Suffrage. The
startling announcement is brought to
ster iight and discloses the indifference of
Filled |
trick of the trade’’ he said ‘‘a sort of |
For two years this proprietor allow- |
There are many people who db not
| recognize the aim of the Suffrage
movement and for that reason they
are not in sympathy with them. This
country of ours is in a critical condi-
tion both politically and morally.
While the members of the Women’s
Suffrage Club realize that woman’s
sphere is in the home and if a home
is to be as the ideal home woman
must preside, yet they with keen in-
stinct cau foresee that if something
is not soon done in way of reforma-
tion there will not be any homes to
preside over. Husbands will, if con-
ditions are not bettered, spend their
time and money at the saloons and
club rooms, and thereby neglecting
both their homes and country to such
an extent that there will not be
enough available men men to fill the
positions of trust in our country. For
this reason women desire an equal
right with man in. making the laws of
the land.
I can truthfully say for woman if
sho were allowed to make the laws,
there would be no liquor manufac-
tured or sold, no gambling, no cafes
in the underworld, no White Slavery,
no turkey trot, in fact none of the
blasphemous things that make for
immorality.
God created woman because He saw
that it was not good for man to be
alone. After man had beenZcreated
God repented that He had made man,
but the Scriptures does not record
that He ever repented the creation
of woman. Furthermore God took a
rib from Adam’s side and made Eve
so that she should be his (Adam’s)
equal.
Women’s Suffrage means Jequal
rights with men on a political basis,
but on a moral basis never. Women
do not want to bring themselvesidown
to a social level with man, who drirks,
fights, cheats, gambles, ete. Of
course there are exceptions to this
rale but honestly now, isn’t nine-
tenths of the men guilty of those
things. Could you blame women for
moral equai?
It is the aim of Woman if they are
allowed: to voice their sentiments
equally with men in behalf of the
welfare of our country, to restore
this country to the peaceful era in
which it stood during the latter part
of the eighteenth century.
If allowed to establish a reforma-
tion in the way of removing the many
vices to which weak man falls a viec-
im it may then’ be possible to bring
man up to a social level with woman
in this new era of moral virtue.
In conclusion let. me say that this
rerrible plague of White Slavery
should be abolished. It will fire your
‘nthsiasm to the highest pitch to read
oe book of WhiteSlavery. ~Remem-
ber it contains only absolute truths;
aot a single statement” of fiction.
This book may be obtained at mere
cost by addressing the undersigned.
= MAY CHRISNER MCCAULEY.
STATE ROADS.
Harrisburg, Pa., March 17.—Bills
calling for over a score of additions
50 the list of State highways as laid
out in the act of 1911 creating the
road system of Pennsylvania are be-
fore the present legislature and are
considered on Capitol Hill as a re-
markable indication of the interest in
the movement for better highways in
the Keystone State.
These bills would add roads to the
main highway system in Huntingdon,
Clarion, Mercer, Bradford. Centre,
Chester, Berks, Armstrong, Cumber-
land, Perry, Bedford, Lehigh and
Wyoming counties, all of them con-
‘necting with main highways as now
mapped. The provisions of the bills
are to the effect that on and after
certain dates these roads will be
known, as main highways and be con-
structed and maintained by the State
Highway department.
The appearance of these bills is in-
dicative of that sentiment for im-
proved roads which has been spread-
ing in Pennsylvania and which the
Peansylviaia Moioc Faiscatidond fi
cials, who have been investigating
matters, have found in almost every
section of Pennsylvania. State con-
struction and control of highways is
ment of good roads in the Keystone
State, and the demands from rural
counties like those which have asked
for additions to the main] highway
system pretty c.early demonstr:fe
that people.are no longer satisfed
with the old order of things.
To build these additional routes The
proposed. $50,000,000 bond issue will
have to be drawn upon. This I gig:
lation is now pending in the gen: ra’
Assembly and if passed this year will
go before the people for ratification.
It is the idea to build the main high-
ways from the proceeds of sales of
bonds and to provide for maintenance
out of current revenue. That this
plan has popular support is apparent
from the manner in which additional
State highways are being asked of
the legislature.
Less Manual Labor,
the inale officers of the city. They
busi thing wrong, as tl
as they
are indifferent or in league with the |
You seem to like my ples.”
—“It’s de ¢
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not wanting to be their social and
regarded as essential to the establish-|
ONSIDER the lilies of the
£¢ field.”—Matt. 6:26, 28, 29.
‘What has this text to do
with Easter day? Let us
think awhile Life and death;
the battle between life and death;
life conquered by death; and
conquered again by life. Those
were the mysteries over which the
men of old time thought, often till
their hearts were sad. And because
our forefathers were a sad and earn-
est folk; because they lived in a sad
and dreary climate, where winter was
far longer and more bitter than it is,
thank God, now; therefore all their
thoughts about winter and spring
were sad; and they grew to despair,
at last, of life ever conquering death,
or light conquering darkness.
All living things would ‘die. The
very gods would die, fighting to the
last against the powers of evil, till the
sun should sink forever, and the world
be a heap of ashes. And then—so
strangely does God’s gift of + hope
linger in the hearts of men—they saw
—beyond all that, a dim dream of a
new heaven and a new earth, in which
should dwell righteousness; and of a
new sun, more beautiful than ours;
of a woman called “Life,” hid safe,
while all the world around her was
destroyed, fed on the morning dew,
preserved to be the mother of a new
and happier race of men. And so to
them, heathens as they were, God
whispered ‘ that Christ should some
day bring life and immortality to
light. .
“So it pleased the Father,” says St.
Paul, “to gather together in Christ
all things, whether in heaven or in
earth.”
In him were fulfilled. and more
RD
than the dim ongiRse, swe
‘childlike dreams, of heathen poets
and sages, and of our own ancestors
from whom we spring. He is the de
sire of all nations, for whom all were |
longing, though they knew it not. And |
now we may see, it seems to me, what |
the text has to do with Easter day. |
| Be not anxious, says our Lord, for
your life. Is not the life more than
| meat? There is an eternal life which
depends not on earthly food, but on
the will and word of God your Father;
and that life in you will. conquer
death. Consider the lilies in the field,
All the winter they are dead, uhsight- |
1y roots, hidden in the earth. What
can. come of them? But no sooner
does the sun of spring shine on their
graves than they rise into sudden life
and beauty as it pleases God, and
every seed takes its own peculiar
body. Even so is the resurrection of
the dead.—Charles Kingsley.
ADOPT CUSTOMS OF EUROPE
Old Country Ideas for the Celebration
of Easter Have Found Favor
in America.
In many homes in America there
have been transplanted some of the
old country Easter customs. One of
these is the Scotch custom of egg roll-
ing. On EHEaster morning the entire
family practices this custom , with
brightly decorated eggs, boiled so hard
that there is no danger of their crack-
ing. Very few of the English customs
have been transplanted, however, al-
though the various shires of England
have notably quaint Easter observ-
ances. |
In Shropshire and Herefordshire, |
and especially at Shrewsbury, it is the |
custom to make for Easter a rich and
expensive cake that is known as sim-
nel cake,
raised cakes, with a crust made of
fine flour and water with saffron col- |
or addedeto give it a deep yellow col- |
or. The cake itself is a very rich |
plum cake, with candied lemon peel !
added. The crust is of the consist |
ency of set cement. There is a tradi- |
tion that Herefordshire women have
used simnel cakes as footstools. and |
These simnel cakes are |
| ‘Sunday afternoon. The source of the
| .benefaction consists of twenty acres |
bi
| the battlements for our relief.
| pretty wedding Thursday afternoon,
| when Miss Jeannette
| Royal Rhoads,
| united in marriage by the Rev. I. H.
IT 1s Enown that the cake Is commons
‘ly boiled in order to be made edible.
‘The simmnels are usually marked with
.a figure of Christ or of the Virgin,
thus preserving the religious signifi-
cance of the day.
Another special English Easter cake
is the Biddenden cake. In the parish
of Biddenden there is an endowment
‘of unknown date, supposed to have
‘been made by two women named
‘Preston, for making a distribution of
cakes among the poor every Easter
of land, commonly called the “bread
and cheese” lands. Six hundred of
these Biddenden cakes and 270 loaves
of bread are distributed under this
‘endowment.
The Great Beyond.
The return of Easter is one of our
Lord's ways of letting down a ladder
to us that we may climb to the stars
and gee a little of the great beyond.
Toilers of the plains below, we often |
miss the flashing lights throwd across
En-
riched in soul we shall descend to-
morrow to follow again the well-worn
path of duty. But there will be a
cheer upon the lips and a song in the
heart, for we have dwelt a little in the
heights, and the consummation of our
hope drawetf nigh!—Rev. M. Camp-
bell.
RECENT MARRIAGES
IN THE COUNTY.
The parsonage of Trinity Lutheran
church, Somerset, was the scene of a
Shaulis, and
of Ralphton, were
Wagner.
Miss Winifred Marshall, of Hoovers-
ville, and John A. Berkebile, of Johns-
town, were married at Hooversville,
March 12th, by the Rev. John K.
Huey, pastor of the Hooversville
Miss Olive M. Layton of Windber,
and Edgar Raymond Wagner, of
Johnstown, were married at Windber,
March 12th, by Justice of the Peace
Robert G. Colborn.
Miss Katharine Brubaker of Shade
| township, and Vernon D. Naugle of
Paint township, were married at
Davidsville, March 13th, by Rev. D.
W. Lecrone.
Miss Mary Jabe Shoff, and Herman
F. Krause, both of Boswell, were
married at Curwingville, Pa., March
13th, by Rev. 1. P, Hawkins.
Miss Grace Connelly, and George
M. Mostoller, both of Somerset town-
ship, were married at the parsonage
C. Zener. :
Miss Marie Swager, and Paul H.
Baker, both of Somerset township,
were married at Somerset, March
14th, by Rev. V. C. Zener, pastor of
the Somerset United Evangelical
church. )
Miss Mary Ada Shaulis, and Harvey
E. McVicker, both of Somerset, were
married at the parsonage of the Som-=
erset United Evangelical church,
March 16th, by the Rev. V. C. Zener.
Mrs. M. Kenner of Greensburg, and
Frederice A. Shaulis of Somerset,
were married at Somerset, March 17,
by Rev. V. C. Zener, pastor of the
United Evangelical church.
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to mpure blood. ‘Burdock Blood Bite
vsr+ 88 a cleansing blood tonic, is well
rec mmended. $1.00 at all stores.
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