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630 possessed the gift of composition and wrote for children's papers before the age of fourteen. She was educated in a small private school, where her natural tendency had full play. On 25th June,

1883, she became the wife of Henry A. St. John, a former civil engineer, now a resident of Ithaca, N. Y. They have two children. She is president of a Working Girls' Union and has given her sympathies, her time and her pen to forward that cause. She frequently contributes articles upon religious, benevolent or educational subjects to the religious press, in particular to the "Sunday-School Times," and has written two or three short stories. Her one preeminent interest in a literary way has been Wordsworthian. She was a member of the English Wordsworth Society and a contributor to its meetings. In that way she formed friendships with prominent Wordsworthians, among whom is Prof. William Knight, of St. Andrews, secretary and founder of the Wordsworth Society. She has collected the largest Wordsworth library in this country, and probably the largest in the world. The library contains all the regular editions, the complete American editions of the poetry, autograph letters, prints, portraits, sketches and relics associated with the poet. In 1883 Mrs. St John, with her husband, visited the English Lake Region and saw every place associated with Wordsworth from his cradle to his grave, and alluded to in his poems. One result of that visit was a "Wordsworth Floral Album," the flowers, ferns and grasses in which were gathered by her own hand. The chief fruit of her life-long study of the poet has been her "Wordsworth for the Young" (1891), with an introduction for parents and teachers. The object of the book is to bring the child to nature through Wordsworth.

SANDERS, Mrs. Sue A. Pike, national president of the Woman's Relief Corps, born in Casco, Maine, 25th March, 1842. She is descended from families on both sides that were prominent in colonial times and the Revolutionary War. From both sides of her family about twenty enlisted in the late Civil War. Her father was a lineal descendant of John Pike, who came from England to America in the middle of the sixteenth century and settled in New England. Her father, Harrison W. Pike, went west with his wife and seven children, in 1854, and settled in Bloomington, Ill., where he died in 1887. Like most men who went west in those days, he accumulated wealth. Mrs. Sanders, with her brothers and sisters, was educated in the State Normal University, of Normal, Ill.

She was a teacher in the public schools of Bloomington, Ill., up to the time of her marriage, but the most noted of her schools was that which she taught during the war in the country near her home It was there she taught children, whose parents were what were then known as "Copperheads," sympathizers with the secessionists. Notwithstanding the sentiment that surrounded her, she kept a little Stars and Stripes hanging over her desk. One day she returned to her school-room to find it broken from its staff and lying upon the floor. She gathered it up and nailed it to the wall. It hung there the rest of the term. That was the first flag-raising in a public school. Ever since that day she has advocated the placing of an American flag in every school-house and church of the land, and her idea has been made popular all over the country. She further advocates that the Bible, ballot-box and American flag should accompany one another at the polls. She was secretary of the Soldier's Aid Society of Bloomington, Ill., during the war, and corresponding secretary for the sanitary commission branch of that city. She became the wife of James T. Sanders, of Jacksonville, Ill., in 1867. She is the mother of three children. Since her marriage she has lived in Delavan, Ill., where she has been prominent in all charities and