Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-30
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 For this tower the builders of St. Peter's utilized the trunk of giant cedar, so old that it is the sole survivor of a mighty for est, and 80 large that two men can hardly link hands with each other around it. The church is built close against 1t, and the tower, with its open belfry, the conical cedar roof supported upon pillars, and the cross that gleams above it, is of nearly twice the height of the building. The bell rope passes down through the roof of the church, 80 that it can be pulled from the inside by the rector, who is also bell-ringer, and chorister. Should it be necessary to visit the belfry there is a slanting ladder from the roof of the church to the cedar leads to the belfry, 8 trip hardly to be un- dertaken but by one of steady nerves.
 All about this curious tower has grown girdle of ivy, doing it's best to glorify the rough trunk of the cedar. Not quite sat- isfed with always creeping upward, it reached out to the roof of the church, found, or made for itself 8 cranny under the slopins caves. and entered. There it clung, and grew, and clung again, until it masked the whole roof inside with beau tiful covering of leaves, so that not only the ancient tower, but the easements and the ceiling are "ivy-mantled" in living green
 WOMEN IN LIBRARIES.
 A calling for which women have proved their fitness and in which they have at tained 8 recognized position is that of the librarian.
 Women have contributed to the litera- ture of the subject, they hold honorable positions in the American Library associa- tion, and they, moreover, show much fidelity and patience in subordinate offices. A woman with a gift for organization, with executive ability, business habits and @ wide knowledge of books and authors joined to real love of literature, and en- thusiasm for her work, may take high stand in the profession, and, moreover, receive 8 fair though not magnificent re- muneration for her labor
 In twenty-four libraries in our large cities three hundred and eighty women are employed, receiving from s240 to $1 ,500. The average salary is greatly re- duced by the large number required to do mechanical work in comparison with the few needed for supervisory and inde- pendent work. Thirteen women who libraries, or whose ability was encouraged in the school of experience, receive an average salary of S1,15O. The thirty seven women trained in the Library School, once of Columbia College, but now attached to the State Library at Albany, receive an average salary of $900, thirteen of them being paid $f ,090 each, and the lowest salaries being $500. Seven women who are librarians of State libraries receive from $625 to $1 200.
 As in other professions, natural ability and special training assist the worker to the dignities and emoluments of a re- sponsible position. Where an assistant can expect but from three hundred to five hundred dollars, one who is good cata- loguer may expect from six to nine hun dred dollars, while woman at the head of a library, or of department in large i- brary, may receive a salary of $1, 800 with g possible increase 10 s2,0O0. It is quite worth while for young women book-lov- CTS, who are business-like and faithful, and strong both mentally and physically. to take the required training, always look ing beyond the drudgery of the assistant to the dignity of the highest positions. They haYe fair chance; let them take ad vantage 6f it. HILARY.