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Rh social circles. She became a member of the Order of Good Templars when fifteen years of age, and took an active part in advancing its principles. When eighteen years old, she was elected to the highest office in that order for women in her State. She became a member of the Woman's Relief Corps in December, 1885, and became the first president of her corps. In February, 1886, she represented the corps in department convention of Illinois, where she was elected department treasurer of the order and delegate-at-large to the California convention, where she went in August On her return she published a journal of her travels. In February, 1887, she was elected department president of her State, and ruled with an economy and dignity that placed the order foremost among the States of the Union. In February, 1888, she was made department counselor of the Illinois Woman's Relief Corps and a member of the national pension committee, in which she served two years. In the Milwaukee convention she presented the recommendation for the adoption of the present site of the National Woman's Relief Corps louse in Madison, Ohio. She recommended the certificate of service for the army nurses of the late war, and was afterward appointed by the national president to prepare a design for the same, which was adopted and issued by the national order. She was one of the board of incorporators of the National Woman's Relief Corps Home. In 1890 and 1891 she served as national instituting and installing officer. In the national convention in Detroit, Mich., in August, 1891, she was elected, national president of the Woman's Relief Corps, Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, the largest charitable organization on earth.

SANDERSON, Miss Sybil, opera singer, born in Sacramento, Cal., in 1865. She is the oldest daughter of the kite Judge S. W. Sanderson, chief-justice of the supreme court of California. She passed her youth in Sacramento. In childhood she was fond of music, and at the age of eight years she was engaged in composing music, which she scrawled in childish characters. The strength and beauty of her voice became early apparent, and her parents gave her a careful and thorough education in music. She desired to train for an operatic career. In 1884 she went with her mother to Europe. She studied for a year in the Paris Conservatoire, and then returned, in 1885, to Sacramento. In that year the whole family, with the exception of the father, went to Paris, where they remained until June, 1886, when they were called to return to California. Miss Sanderson went to Paris the third time and renewed her studies with Massenet, who predicted a brilliant career for her. She made her debut as Manon, in the opera of that name, in Amsterdam, 6th February, 18S8. Massenet selected her to create the role of Esclarmonde, and in the first year she sang that opera one-hundred times to crowded houses. On 8th November, 1890, she made her debut in Massenet's "Mignon" in Brussels. In 1891 she appeared in London, Kng. Her success on the continent was more marked than in England, as the continental critics are better judges of music and voices than the English critics. Miss Sanderson has a pure soprano voice, reaching from E flat to G in alto. The lower tones are not remarkable for either strength or quality, but in the middle and upper registers her notes are phenomenally clear, musical and full in volume. Her debut in Paris was made on 16th May, 1889, when she astonished the music lovers and critics with her rendition of the florid music in "Esclarmonde." which was written for her by Massenet. She ranks with the greatest singers of the age.

SANDES, Mrs. Margaret Isabelle, industrial reformer, born in Glasgow, Scotland, 21st May, 1849, of an old and wealthy Scotch family. Her parents came to this country when she was quite young, and finally settled in Milwaukee, Wis. When the Civil War broke out, her father and oldest brother were among the first to respond to the call for volunteers, and both served until the end of the war.

While they were serving their country at the front, Mrs. Sandes was actively engaged with other girls of her age in making lint, bandages and garments to be sent to the troops in the field. She is thoroughly American. At the age of sixteen years she became the wife of Henry R. Sandes, late Adjutant of the 3rd Wisconsin Cavalry and nephew of Sir Charles Henry Coote, M. P., premier Baronet of Ireland, and in 1867 settled in Chicago, 111. For many years she has been a member of Bishop Fallows' church, and has always been active in church and charitable work. She never engaged in public work until she became identified with the Woman's Relief Corps auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, of which her husband is a prominent member. She held the position of president of Woman's Relief Corps No. 23 for four successive terms, and has been department inspector, department junior vice-president, and served on the department executive board and as national aid in the same order. She has always been an active, earnest worker for all charitable measures. She heartily endorses all legitimate means for the advancement and benefit of women. She has two children, a son and a daughter. She was one of the original nine women appointed by the local directory of the World's Fair, and acted as secretary of that committee until the national commissioners convened, and she went to Washington with the mayor and other influential citizens to aid in securing the site for Chicago. She was appointed alternate lady manager of the