Time passed on, and one evening during the winter of 1903 Miss Mary McDowell, of the University of Chicago Settlement, was talking at a Union Label League meeting, and she brought out some facts from what she knew of the condition of the women workers in the packing-houses, showing what a menace to the whole of the working world was the underpaid woman.

Yes, the menace was thereso many crimes, so much filth, side by side with so many tears, and so much patient goodness; so extraordinary a mixture of the best and the most vile, a humanity in little, with all its defects and all its struggles.

XVII THE DILEMMA OF DEMOCRACY We have seen that the gravest menaces of democracy are the faults in mind and character in the multitude.

Vos menaces ne me font point de peur.

As the weeks passed by and the months, and still no Zeppelins came, the menace became a jest.

But when the menace of treason became an aggressive act, he saw very clearly the inevitable necessity of arms.

Perhaps the most serious menace to the successful preservation of game on this tract is its proximity to the White Mountain Indian Reservation.

Some things about it are real, but the whole combined menace is only an illusion, not a thing which actually exists at all.

Yes, the menace was thereso many crimes, so much filth, side by side with so many tears, and so much patient goodness; so extraordinary a mixture of the best and the most vile, a humanity in little, with all its defects and all its struggles.

A Deck Hand, however, protested that as he had eaten one of his mittens the Silent Menace was already in part his property.

Therefore the menace to her fair fame in their preservation is not a question involved.

Surely the dark and terrific menaces of Mr. Falkland were rather the perturbed suggestions of his angry mind, than the final result of a deliberate and digested system!