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366 World's Peace Congresses held since its organization. Among its publications are two official papers, one for adults and one for children, and two books called "Voices of Peace" and "Gleanings on the Subject of Peace and Arbitration." The department, in connection with other peace societies of the world, observes the third Sunday of December each year as Peace Sunday. Able lecturers are busy, going about a great deal of the time educating public opinion in the interests of this important work.

Mrs. Bailey has travelled extensively in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the United States. In helping to advance other reforms, also, Mrs. Bailey has been active. Together with two or three other prominent ladies of her State, she has been trying for years to obtain a reformatory prison for women in Maine. The outlook toward good results of their untiring efforts now seems encouraging.

Mrs. Bailey became president of the Maine Equal Suffrage Association in 1891, and held the position for six years. She was one of the judges in the Department of Liberal Arts at the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893, having been appointed by the Board of Lady Managers. At Washington in. 1895 she was elected treasurer of the National Council of Women for three years. Similar positions she has held for many years at a time in the work of her church. Three times she has received appointment from the governor of her State to represent Maine on the National Board of Charities and Correction.

For many years Mrs. Bailey has been in the habit of aiding, both financially and by letters of encouragement and counsel, young people of limited means who have shown themselves desirous of obtaining a good education in order to take part in the work and reforms of the world. As her proteges pay her back the money loaned them, she passes it on to other ambitious young persons of her acquaintance, and thus the beautiful work continues. At her home, "Sunnyslope," Mrs. Bailey practises the doctrine which she advocates so enthusiastically—the "brotherhood of all mankind under the white banner of peace"—and welcomes guests from every land. Mrs. Bailey puts her horses, carriages, and boats at the command of her visitors, while each morning usually finds her for several hours at her desk, with her faithful secretary sitting near, receiving and sending out letters and other manuscripts to promote the interests of the cause she loves.

Mrs. Bailey's home is delightfully situated in a town containing five large lakes and fine mountain scenery. The church of her choice stands on a slight eminence on the south. On her beautiful grounds gravel walks are laid out among choice flowers and plants, with a fountain throwing up sparkling spray. A greenhouse joined to the dwelling supplies flowers all the year around for the pulpit of the church and for the comfort and cheer of "shut-in" friends and neighbors. Mrs. Bailey's friends often remonstrate with her against the strenuous life she lives, fearing that her strength may not be equal to so much effort, but she smiles as she replies, "I must be among those who wear out, not those who rust out.' There are few, if any, of the philanthropists of the world who more enjoy their work than does the subject of this sketch. Truly does she live " not to be ministered unto, but to minister"

H. H. J.

USIE CHAMPNEY CLARK.—Near the summit of Nonantum Hill, which marks a boundary between Newton and Brighton, Mass., the subject of this sketch was born. Her parents, James Clark and Welthy Jane (Park) Clark, came of sterling stock in the Green Mountain State. The maternal ancestors, Daniel Harrington and Welthy (Ladd) Park, were of Puritan descent, the progenitor of their line, Richard Park, being a landed proprietor in Cambridge, Mass., in 1636. The paternal grandparents, Nathaniel and Betsey Clark, claimed for their posterity a faint strain of North American Indian blood.