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mmmmmmmmmmmm m ( idling mass, from which came sfirieks. "1 just don't know.how itvhap pened. It was all confusion, Bjut I .remember how, afterward, the children were thrown into the pa trol wagons. "The police would not allow me to go to the patrol wagon, nor to enter the police station. I went to a lawyer, but we could not get the cases up before the next .Tuesday, and the children had to stay in jail in the meantime." "Did the police show any war rant?" asked Henry. "No. They just fell on the crowd when they came on the sta tion platform." "Did you see the police club any womon or child?" "I do not remember what I saw. Everything was confusion. All I could understand was that something awful had happened, and that the women and the chil dren were just a struggling mass, surrounded by the police." "Do you, of your, own knowl edge, know that you had the con sent of the parent sof every child you took to the station?" asked Henry. "We had the consent in writ ing from each one." "One man," she explained lat er, "was arrested for trying to" send his own children out of Lawrence." She said that detectives had visited the homes of children who were about to leave Lawrence and had threatened to arrest the children and place them in pub lic institutions. . Miss Margaret Sangler, a train ed nurse, was called to the stand to describe the condition of the children who had been sent to New York from Lawrence. "There. vere 119 in the first batch that came to New York. Only four of the 119 wore un derwear, and the weather was hitter cold. Samuel Goldbert, 16 years old, who worked 'for the American Woolen company for five months, added to the knowledge of the - committee. The boy said he received $5.10 a week maximum. "But then, when we are five minutes late,, they take off an hour's pay, and we hive to' pay five cents a week for water," he added. "What kind of water?" asked Henry. "Canal waterj' said the boy. HOW IT WORKS u A lecturer who had recently re- . turned from China was sneaking to a class in a public school. "There is one custom," said a young .girl, "that I can't under stand arid that is the Chinese custom of committing suicide by eating gold leaf. I can't under stand how gold leaf can kill." "The partaker, no doubt," smiled the lecturer, "succumbs i from a consciousness of inward gilt" If you are wise ' You'll take no dare ( To lay off winter Underwear.