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- 'Why that brow of gloom, my
iss I.' ion(' v -You look as if you had owl with
ss
sone sittldtai anti guilt disappointment,"
madam. said, plas fully, after they had
Rightful Heir „,, tie to ST rot oga : and t he stubleettess
f the movement disturbs and perplexes
exelmuged greetings.
that 3liss Dalton and her father have
"Ansi sa I have. I have just learned
The
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110 hatred to Editha, and then be- his face.
stewed ft passing glance upon her new "Yes, 1 an arrange it," but she sighed
:tee nein' tutees, as she said it, for she 0i10 really began -
That glance made hint start and ! ii !i wake up to a little life, tool she
ato‘v a more searching look upon Mad- (beaded ;mg ehange.
ant Sylvester; then be grew a 81111de1l , She had been se calmly content since
and deep crimson, while 0 loels of great slie had mime to a definite understanding
anxiety setled on his, face. with 31r, Tressalia, and she wondered
Ile turned and looked back again aftan ' with a teeling of sadness stealing over
lw had driven by. I her. what she should do without her
'Ibere can be but one face like that jisols„, rowid,
in the world. 1 irust look into Ode," he She had grown to depend upon him
muttered, uneasily, for amusement; besides, he heard regu-
"1110 was that lady and gentleman huts. from 11)1(14, and though she did not
with whom 1 saw you to -day at the Red -J 1000 gsemsejeags it even in her own
wood Library?" he asked Editha that
I heart, yet those letters from over the sea
evening. , were the greut events of the week to
111.s. Sylvester and her brother,'
she replied,
"31th, S3dvester!" repeated Ale Define.
with a slight emphasis on the title.
"Mr. Tressali introduced her as 310)10)0
Sylvester. Do you know anything about
herr she asked, looking up in surprise.
"Alit 311'. Tressalia knows her, then?
Mere is she from?" he returned,
thooghtfully, and not heeding her quer,-
tion.
"From Paris, France; they are French
people, and extremely agreeable."
Mr. Dalton's face lost something of ita
habitual glow at this information, and he
appeared ill at ease,
"Fin! strangers, then, here. Does
Tresiddia know that intimately?" and
he shot as searching, anxious glance at
his daughter.
"Yes. he Wag telling me something of
madam's. history a day or two ago."
"What, 'have they been here any length
01 11)1)01" interrupted Mr. Dalton, with
a frown.
"Less than a week, I believe."
"Yes, yes; go od with what you were,
going to bulk -me," he again interrupted,
"Ile said madam had 00,c11 a great deal
of trouble -there was Some misunder-
grinding between herself and husband.
who, by the way, was ent Anwalettn,
which resulted in their separation after
they had been married only a year. But
she appears like a Very lovely woman to
me," 13111140 repliedwith a dreary' looki
.80 she remegthered how she had beet(
drawn towatd the, beautiful stranger.
311.. 'Dolton Watehed her !keenly out of for Ter
Up' soseas of .segs; ho w„, eggegg, ' es, Sir, Miss Dalton left a note,"
8)14(0(1 1111)1 ,11111TOUS 1110111 00010.
thing; the corners'of his mouth twitched
convulsively, while:he:kept clasping and
and:tering his Minds in an excited; way.
He paced the fly in silence for a few
neaneets, then alapptly left the roonL
Half an hour after be returned, and,
while pretending look over the news-
paper, said:
"Editha, I've about concluded that 1'O
like a look at Saratoga; 11 10 ,j'ust the
height of the season 000'; everything
will be lovely ,and Newport is getting a
little tame."
- '"Taane, papa. Why I Nought there was
50 1)1800 like Newport to you!" she ex-
claimed in surprise.
"I know; Newport is a sort of summer
her.
tit,: was sorry to go away without 13'
1110)10)1 noire intimately aequainted with
1111(101)1 Sylvester, for she had been
strangely drown towaril her, thinking al-
most constant13. 01 114')' and her charming
'nays ever (ince her introduction to her,
tlit, owning she kept hoping
that 31r. Tveissalia would drop in, that
she might tell him of the elumge 11)
their ohms, half wishing that he wouhl
join himself t0 their party and accom-
pany them.
But he W13 11001110g (1(0 0'011111g with
Afailtrin Sylvester, and 1001101 to see Ed.
Wm as early as possible the next morn-
ing.
But in this lit W00 disappointed, for It
gentleman friend sought hun to 'give hia
advice upon,the merits of it horse that he
11010 iontleinplating buying, and before
the bargain was eompleted FARM; was
gone,without even ft word of good -by,
ClIAPTER XXXVIL.
11 was two ii -'bods in the rif tornitiot
when at length Paul 110s8 11,1 11 ileVbeil
011011 Editbo's parlor door.
It, was opened by the chumbermaid, of
whom he inquired for Aliso Dalton,
"She is gone, OU'," NV00 the unexpected
reply.
"tionet Where?" he exclaimed, intim
itch,' surprised.
"1 don't know, sir. They left on the
11001) boat."
"Did they leave no word -)lo 1110500)10
Die (sari answered, media:big it front the
depths of her poeleet.
Paul eagerly fore it aper and devoured
its contents;
'Dear Friend,--Pepa has maidenly de-
cided that Newport is 'thine,' and lowsis
for Sitratoga. ll'e 1)11' to leitey ein
13 o'clock hoot, and do not know Mai
we shall return. I shall not soon forget
the. days yeti leave made so pleasant ter
0)0, 004 the great good your cheerful se-
ciety has done 010. I would rather stay
than go, but I think it 1)0441 111 yield to
papa's wishes. I hoped to seo yoit be-
fore we left, hilt suppose you were en-
gaged, Please give ins. kind retain -
Menai; to Medame Sylvester. Au re -
10!)'. "2,11) lm."
home to me, and. and of coarse, these is,. "What the 11.11110 of Jupiter 00))1(0 Place like 1)0)110; but, if You do not. Love nude him take this sudden start?"
mind, 1'd like a. eliangeier a little while.' Paul Tressalia muttered, with a clouded
"Cannot 3'0)) go llithout me? I am brows as with 0 terrible feeling of 1nne-
ver0' comfartoble here,": Editha asked liness he sought his own rooms, "eau
with a sigh. 1:i:rifling transpired to upset his equili-
She had no ?heart for gayety, and she brhunr he oentinnetl. "It !mist have
441415 really Ifappler just now there .0t lieed Vee(. 01)11414start, Po' oI do not
New -
pottnotwithstanding her 001,001)
011 10 coutemplated any such thing
to 31r, Tressalia that she did not en: )'1 110i( „. i
„:„„gg,
'joy Newport -than she had ever, hoped De sat n loo time thinking the matter
to be agaie. • ' over, and longing to follow them imedi•
"No, indeed," he returned, (111)011134' anol
01113'.
decidedly. `,`J 111jakle so Ile knew WIN. would miss his care
leaving you alone while you a
awl attention, while, as for him, it
lelicate1 and besides, 1 0011001 spat e 3()11 ,
Iklitha-you and I are l'ath'er alone 10
this busy . • s
She looked up id" surprise at him at
this unusual remark. It tle00 wary rare
occurrence for him to address her in such
at. affeotionate mother.
It almost seemed to'her, with the dis-
trust she bail lately had of bini, that
there was some sinister motive prompt-
ing ahi sudden change; but she stifled
the feeling, end answered:
"Very well, I will go to Saratoga if
you lilse. When do 1(111) wish to stortl"
1"110 -morrow, if you can arrange it,"
311. Mitten replied, 11(0 01011)1 lifting from
seemed as if the sun had seddenly been
mit out of existence,
Alt, DeWitt had not treated bin] with
his usual politeness this summer, and he
was notsure but that he had done this
purposely, in order to remove Editha
from his society, and, if that wits the
ease, ho doubted the propriety of going
after them.
These reflation.; were interrupted by
the entrance of a servatit, who brought
him et mini,
It proved to 110 that of Madam Sylves.
ter, aad lie immediately went down to
the 0000'P1100' 0011(1, taking with him the
note Editha hod written.
0 0 Co 0 • 49 0 0 0 0 0440 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
A Boston schoolboy was tall,
weak and sickly.
His arms were soft and flabby.
He didn't have a strong muscle in his
entire body.
TF physician who had attended
the family for thirty years prescribed
Scoit's Emulsion.
NOW:
To feel that boy's arm you
would think he was apprenticed to a
blacksmith.
ALL DRUGGISTS; 50c. AND 111.00.
0 0 0 0 Ce 0 4444 0 0 0 0 0
me esetasling13,
"Dime; 314t11 1 ant dismayed, for I had
...Lee to call and be introduced to Papa
I and ask him to spare his
oiarnikee daughter to me for a few days.
‘,.1. are going to join a party to the
White llountains, Red 1 thought if I
isiold tempt Miss Dolton to aecompany
I... tee 01010101. would do her good,"
madam r-ain, with regret,
"It would have been benefieial to her,
and it was very thoughtful in you to
remember her," replied AD. Tressalia,
emelt pleased at this attention.
. "Do not give ine any credit for what
is purely selfishness 00 my part," madam
said, laughing. "1 an over head and
ears in love, as they say here, with
your lovely little friend, and I wanted
her under the sadow of my 0091 wing
tor 0whil44 to get better acquainted with
and the lady's thee WRS very wist-
fill. notwithstanding, her playful speech.
"I wanted miderstand their sudden
flight -for such it scions to me," return-
ed ND, '100sal1es moodily.
"Thee you did not know anything of
her intention?"
"Not a itheath, until about half an
hour ago, tvlisn I knocked at 11144 Dal-
ton's (100r, and the chambermaid gave
1110 this mite," and he handed it to her,
"What a pretty hand she writes," said
madam, smiliog, as she noted the dell'
('4)1(1 chirography upon the perfumed en-
velope.
Site read it through, growing grave as
die marked the regret the note expressed
at being obliged to go away.
1Ier eyes lighted with tenderness at
OW mention of herself, but she started
as if in sudden pain, her fair face flush-
ing it vivid crimson, as she read and in-
voluntarily Tepeated the name signed at
the bottom.
"Editlitt! 3410, Tressalia, you never told
me what your friend's 110100 is," and he
thought her lips quivered slightly, as if
a the gionannbranee of 00100 sad incident
4.1 thetgetst.
"No; 11 usually call her 311ss Dalton
when spanking of her to others. It is
she dearest name in the world to 100,"
he added,. with a slight huskiness in his
voice "though I never utter it without
pain."
'Et tu,' madam said, softly, noting the
pain in his faee, and knew all about it
at maw. "I thought you said.-" she
began again, and then suddenly stopped,
as if she were trespassing upon 1011)13'
(1211 terows.d.
"I know to what you refer," he replied.
"I thought when yoit asked me if I was
'Particularly inlerested' in her that yon
meant to infer an engagement between
but --1 may as well eoldess it -I
have loved her hopelessly for two years."
Madam sighed llettVily,
"Why is 11 1111)1 the world atways goes
wrong for sone; people?' he asked pas-
sionately notflonging for syMpittliy 1100'
that he had begun to unburden his
beast and realizing t1ls0 that now 13111040
nes game Newport W110 a blank to 1)110,
ant faring that his boasted 'friendship"
hail not lwen so disinterested after alb
why, unless to fit ws fur 001110.
thia gbetter than earth's fleeting pleas -
III es There are some people in the
wocld who would never own allegiance
to tiro Cunt King, 1( 11(03' 11'000 not dri-
ven to Him by sorrow. It were better
to suffer a few years here than to 10100
the bright Forever," madam said, mus-
ingly, and as if talking to herself ratio
or htati 13, '11101, "But," she edded,
iag off 1101' dreautiness, "tell MC more
'1 1 this beautiful girl and yew unfortun-
ate regard for her -1 001 au old and pri
viloged friend, you know, and the name
'Edible has a charm for ine W111011 nil]
only cease when 1 cease to live."
Paul Tressalis, glad to have so sweet
o confidante, related all the story of his
love for the fair girl, his disappointment
on learning of her affection for Earle
\\Layne, his hasty summons 110100 10 take
possession of his supposed inheritance,
which lost half its eltarra when he knew
that Eilithi«muld not become its mis-
lays 0101 his wife,
iltt lost him lie had been obliged
to resigu Weeliffe to Eat le, who also
hoped to mala. /lois Dalton's mistress
there, and who had returned so full of
joy and 1)p° to claim her 08 his own.
liTeit came the story of her styange
abduction, her release front her aptor's
power bv low lover, and then, When they
believed their trials were all at an end,
the dreadful blow same which hall near-
ly broken both their hearts, and had
seined 111313' to weer Editha into her
gr'ar'17'liat a sad, wonderful story it is.
ss And saill. suppose, atter the discovery
which ruined the life of your 00)144-
1 0, 011.010 thither to test ('004 fate once
agaiigt" madam said, her eyes beaming
gentlest of sympathy upon the rejected
lover.
"Yes; but I might have known better,"
he ailswered, bitterly, an(1 with a sigh
that was ahnost 0 sob heaving his broad
elitist. "I might have kmovn that a love.
like hers, 00 pure, 00 strong, and noble,
ml.t
'.0 .4 by won by another.
-Truly things (to seem to go wrong
sometimes 111 this world," 100(10111 said,
sadly, and thinking of the poor, sweet
child, who had missed through such deep
ntter. Then suddenl:,,,t looking 11p at her
coinpanion with a keen glance, she con-
tinued. "1"01) have suffered, 103. friend,
dettply-yoli suffer now, even though you
strive so nobly to overeome it! bat -
would sant deem me ver3. unsympattletie
if 1 should tell you that I believe it will
be better for you, after all, not to have
tarried Editha Dalton, even though She
meld have given her wounded heart into
your keeping.?"
"Wliy should you say that?" he asked.
"She is not, exaelly fitted for you -Veil
might have passed a quiet, peneeful life
together, but you could not have met all
the wants of her nature, nor she of
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than she is fur hers; and beautiful, tal-
ented, lovable tbOugli she May be, there
would have mune a lime in your lives
whet: tom both would have disenvered
there 15010 soinothing wanting to fill out
iimmetre 41 your happiness."
"Yon spunk like 0 prophetess," Pool
'Eressalia said, with a sad, sheaths:1
1 have not lived my lonely life for
aught," she 011sWOrell, WWI a sigh. "1
have stinlicd human nature in all its
phases, and, from what I know of you,
I feel that the 10000111 w11001 you 0100)141
marry should he quiet, and self-contained
11 k' yolirsel 1, with a little teuelt of 004.
'4(0 iii her life to mate your own, and
nearer your ago."
"1 shall never marry," he said, with a
pale and suffering filer, and yet wonder-
ing at his companion's strange words,
while ,somehow his thoughts involuntar-
ily' look a swift flight, 'and he W 111
the quiet, parlor of a vibe -dad gothic
villa a gentle wannam• with a sweet,
thollith sAtl, face, wilich, next to Editra
Dalton's, he had once toldlouoelt was
no, most heautifol his eyes had ever
rested upon, while her voice, with its
pinintive mush?, iota vibrated upon his
head as the gentle summer breezes Vi-
bratos 110011 the strings of an molten
harp.
lle had called it sympathy then. \\bulb/
the mystic future, 08 it drew on apace,
gradually efface this bitter pain from
his heart, (ind lie fiod beneath It a new
0011)0 WTittillt there?
"Von may think 00 1100', but believe
Ines l'aul. my friend, you will find her
7'0t»)1 1)1') gentle, beautiful woman wheel
you 1.110111(1 marry," madam said, 11) reply
10 his remark about not marrying.
"1113. dear madam,l' he:returned, witIta
smile end a shake Of -Ids bead, "you are
het
boihling mastitis in the air, -which the
lightest breath will dissipate. A man
1.011 near love but once, and I have loved
1111111)0 Do1100."
`"That may be trne," madam smilingly
osseettel1 "bit the first fierce, wild 3400'
441(11) may not always be the wisest love.
\Voit a little, loon and, and we shall see.
Vim baltilV--
oue is 00 01:curse/1 by fate,
No, one so utterly desolate,
1111t some heart, though unknown,
:Responds auto his own,'
But meantline, 1110(0 a strange, impres-
sible longing to see more of this 110011(00
048 girl, whose life bus been so sadly
- flighted at the 001001 3410, Tressalitt,
think, 1 wonlil like to see a little of Sar:
toogn myself, and I feel confident that
i !Miss Editha would not feel sorry tosee
ber 1(10101 a)1ain."
"130 3011 think sol" he asked, eagerly.
111 sure of it. This little note
breathes of a strong regret that she was
obliged to go awn). at all. 1 am afraid
' she will wilt again if she eamibt be taw
dor genial infloenees."
Madam's face was full of a strange,
4(1 -1) ful teederness as she spoke, and
- Paul Dessalia wondered why she should
feel so strongly drawn toward &lithe.
It was a matter of wonder to ttll.
"Does that 010011 that you think we
loul better follow Air. Dalton and his
deughter to Saratoga?" be asked.
"les; but filst 1 must go 1.0 the
White 310unte,100, since 1 proposed the
tyip, and others would be disap-
-
1101)1101 11 it was given up. I most go:a-
p1:10' my trip to Saratoga . until my re-
turn," returned madam, with o biolt
which plainly said she wished she hail
not planned the trip to the »muntaina
- at all.
:1)ptevdonder-----" Paul began, rola
tbu
3t,"1
"Well? AIM so do I," botglied hia
companion, efter waiting 0 00)11 'at 0101
ho (lid not go on.
"1 was pondering the question whetter
it Ls beat 101' me to go to Sitrittegel at
he said, gravely.
"And why not 7"
is really on 1110 pill, it
Would perhaps to better for mr, to ve•
• 1 urn 11 oiler to England 11101 not 00), her
again."
"Does it Mot you so, my f0101017"
asked madam, pityingly. "Yon must
confiner that, if possible, though 1 tny-
self know' how hard a thing it is to do,
and it 00V1101 00141 advice to give. But it
would give me pleasure if you would ac-
company us to Saratoga. \\'o know
- nothing about the 1110 atid outs of the
place, and it would really be a eomfort
to lmve a. pllot.'
"Then that settles the matter. wilt
go with you," lie said,
"Not if it is to interfere with ans. ne-
cessary business," madam said, hastily..
yet decidedly.
"It will not, 34 have no business ---1
heitiNi,ye,110 011(1 1)1 life 1100'," 111' added, but-
t"Come with ns to the mountains,"
Madam Sylvester said, with tt sudden
thought. 'You need 0 little Milk:kilts
comforting as well 110 1\ liss Dalton„ and
I believe 1 am just the one to take you
in hand. Will you come?"
"Yes, thanks; I cannot resist. 1 he-
lieve you charm everyone with whom
you Come in contact," he answered,
laughing, and glad to be invited.
"That is pleasant to hear, We will
make our trip as short as possibly, and
then fly to the far -finned spriags of
Saratoga, to think of thou: mystic wet-
. Yrs."
And so „it Was arrnived, and Paul
Tressalia Was drawn irresistibly to (to
this winitan's bidding, yet wondering nt
himself for doing it, and Mac and morn
stirprkid to See how Eilitha had fascin-
ated her.
Bet e0111(1 not know how rapidly
an 1)) ('(0(1413 hand Wa1, turnieg the pages
of life, and that he was soon to road a
strange story in that mystic book of
fate, which Heaven so seldom deigns to
open to mortal esres.
cap he continued.1
A FAMILY JAR.
BELGIAN WOMEN TOILERS
.44440+++01•: • : ++++, •-• •••.,:444nPld
ltorietirs for the nevaneeincin a 1', 4'11410 Still atotlipi. 0110001.11mile section of King
h000 mud 31111 abundant vorlm
'1' -240 the Inuit of King Leopold is ;o4,3 further behind tho tioics in ils 1,01-
munt of the gentler 800 than any other noun -
try of Europe.
licre woman still 110e00 the manual labor
of the land as she Once 010 it 011 over the
World. Tho Vohs: ot pilogross, whose mod-
ern mite is spelling emancipation every-
where else, has not yet sounded for the 00'
1(1,41) of the little strip of laud mileR
112 that rejoices in the name of kingdom,
The Belgian woman is the nation's fann-
er, miner, laborer, and Inothanle. She toils
from dawn tin sunset 01 the heaviest kind of
worrkh,e0and noue pities or makes au 01,1,001ro
The little country, of whose extstente she
to the corner stone, is one 01 100 most dense-
lY populated 10 the world, and every square
mile of territory must support 485 persons.
That Is is able to do su is only becausm of
Vie industry, the slavish williagness of the
(women of tho country to do the klud of work
front which other nations have freeil her.
The soil of Belgium Is well adapted to
agriculture. The once impassable morasses
of the tilorini and the Menapit have been
drained and converted Into fertile fields, sur-
rounded by dense planiations. A system of
canals helps the Scheldt, and the Maas (0
than watt, of Irrigating the land, and the va- -"er-
stations of 01101nte front very InE summers '
extreely eold winters give advantages for Made Well and Strong by Dr. N.:,
m
the prat:at:au et varied farm staffs that 100
Lliar,11,1M:1 to the neighboring country of lloi-
dths seed 0000 by nature would never
"So you want to be my son-in-law,
"Can't say that I do, brit T want to
marry your daughter arid I Burmese
there's no
reminino population finds its live -
401)4,0 working in the oyster parks. The
women don breeches 111,0 a Man, and labor
howl as the slrongrst of 11,410 0000, 11,
fliers, brothers or husbands.
Naturally Where this is permitted in Leo -
ma's own realm, that country Au which he
resides, and of whose conditions he enn not
10 ignorant, it is 110t to be expected 11,04.
be would be over Lieroptilous as to what goes
on in the far off Congo, from whence he de-
rives the fabulous Income 1010011 makes him
one or the richest sovereigns in Itlrerte,
Congo native 001000 arc still used for do-
ing the heavy carrying of the caravans and
they lift and, haul loads that would test the
strength of the strongest man.
'here Is nobody to protect ho,,, nune to
protect. for the native Dense 111011 has no
regard whatever for the comfort of his own.
Ile regards them Rs Interior to himself In
tvery respect, and only fitted for drudgery,
Nor du the Belgian soldiers protect. They
an only for the money they pan retura tt,
their king from the great rubber Industry,
and he is too busy with the sines of the kind
of Cleo de ,Merode to bother about Mlle:
to seaman.
SUFFERING WOMEN
be reaped if tlie work of doing it were to be
left to man.
Tim population of the country, soros 7,'
0)0,14114, is divided into the proportion of
three rural dwellers to one who lives the
city anti probably the same proportion of Wo-
men nod children ns against mea who tett In
the fields.
0' "(((1-1,1 of habit have made roan regard
the BeIghin 110111011 as 0 natural wage earli-
er. If he is industrious he works in the
factory. while she goes out and raises the
farm produce that Is oaten on hls table, and,
when there Is a surplus, geld
Young women and old think nothing of
worklar, 0 twelvethour day In the fields,
where (0)10)), barley, rye, oats, hemp, flax,
bons, dye plants and chicory are prepared
for the markets.
In the hundreds of acres davotud to vine-
yards, where is produced a 10(0, but not fa-
niOus wine, it ts women who do the bulk of
the work ,and (1)0 gourmand who drinks 0
boll( of wine with a 0010(1111(00(1hhe wo-
as wo-
man to thank for lits enjoyment.
nut It to net alone at farming that t
1nen of boopold's realm tall for their keep,
e actu-
Ioermlible as it may seem, they ar
ally miners, anti no small part of the valu-
able mineral output Of the country results
from 11,01)'efforts,.
In the 'United States It has always been 0s that
upplied
ngorous
g lt to
matter of concern with humanitarian
In order that the world might be s
with coal men must do all the ,Io
work incident to mining and grAthi
the market. Touching articles ha \io been
brtttea on the clanger of sinking shafts, of
blasting the coal from its natural state with
dxbnluiln, of getting it to the shaft and ear-
r;t ing It to the surface.
The miseries of the breaker boys, who sit
In the dusty whirl and confusion of the lofty
ramshackle !Alluding pleking the slate from
the co:al as it moves before them on long
clitlle,, has often been painted RS a sad pic-
ture of toll and misery that has gone far to
give the coal miners support in their various
contentions with their employers over the
quectiou of wages.
Every now and then some accident, a cave-
in, no explosion or a washout, directs at-
tention to the dangers that beset the Itfia
of the Miner, and 00 indignant and watch-
ful public firers legtelattirea to pass laws in
ordui to give the inan with the pick every
portilble protection.
In this country, the miners, sublet -1 of so
much solicitude, are men, but In Belgian the
1:41110 dangers, privations 0101 exhausting
work tiro the portion of WOMan,
In all the 1301g10 101,111 women work at
the surface, handle coal, push wagons and
do the work that breaker boys accomplish in
the Balled States. In some of the mines they
aro not permitted to go below the surface,
but. in others they actually compete with the
yule miners.
Se 10 all the venires of the various min-
erals, 01 Liege, where crpper 11 wrought
the black marble quarries of Dant, the
slate quarries of lierbentont and cotinine
11-.i0tlt of Liege, there will he found women
working, and In moth eases very ghttefill for
.00 the groat rents of the Muni industry,
Co trthey avid Bruges, in Wrist, Flanders,
(Meta in East Flanders, 1101.10)el0 In Brit•
Moo. Mechlin 00 Matinee 10 Antwerp, Torni
ney 10 lirtinault, women are employed
great numbeili and arc more skilled than
men, But tie account of their ability Is 0111.
011in the wages paid them, which are for t
tint inert part pitifully small,
When Dowle, us part of his dream of a
modern filen is (lo United States, brought
a number of lace workers from Belgium With
0;0 idea of mskIng a fortune 10010 their
wait, ho made them no extravagant otfors
01 salary, yet their Income was os 100011 in
one ilov as 11 had been in a month in theM
native land.
Dui the lot of these Iluen workers and lace
moneys is a dream 01 hixttry rualuttreil to
what sonic 01(00 Belgian women must mi-
ll is hard to conceive of a \vellum brick -
maker, but they have them in Belgium by
the thouvancl. Their part at the work is to
impure the clay for the molders who actu.
ally make the bricks,
From early la the morning till late even-
ing the Flemish 'woman or girl sits 10 front
of tit mass of wet may, getting ft to the
proper eoust1111011,0, No matter how MA tha
rays of the sun, no matter how the altera-
tions of temperature, the comparative cold
ci 100 010011101, and the intense heat of the
calthlay, expose her to rheumattsm and other
Ills, ,he mutt sticIL to her work, day In and
clay out, and for this toil she receives a
compensation that the :poorest paid shop 0101
10 the United :Rates would aneer at.
Only 'a few hours' ride away is Parts, the
maitre of the worlYs civilisation, and in 0i.
011,0 dire' tM0 11 110010011, where the suf-
fragists are carrying on their battle, for equa
ralltical rights talth mon, but nue 108,0101,
woman knows nothing of this as sate Lags 10'
1,, her clay. Her mother did the same be-
fore her, and she thinks it only her fit por-
tion In the battle of life.
liams' Pink Pis.
!Leers. (lose of Dr, Pink
makes new blood . Every (trop of 100
blood brings the disheartened \moan
nearer to health and happiness. Dr,
Williams' Nils Pills have brought: the
glow of health to thousands of sufferers
who gladly hear testimony to that ef-
feet. One of these is Airs. Elizabeth Dun-
ham, of Vt'ellatal, Ont.,who says: "Vol.
more thou 11, 30111'Was greatly run
down. 1 had sickening hcadarlics and
my heart, would palpitate So violently t
that at times 1 feared death was near.
1 was under the care of a doetor, hat
insteadof improving 1 lost lt,rengtli, Net
my vreight decreased frinigjone hundred
and forty to ninety pounds:- I -was ills -
001100g011, but dodo to give lip
the doctors' treatinept• and try: Dis1(11.
limns' Pink Pills, 1.is1411l;'gla34 I did so,
for after usiag the. Pills 'a few weeks 1
could see a. marked Improvement in my
condition. The headaches loft nic, I re-
gained strength, the distressing heart
palpitation ceased end at the end of two
months 1Watt fully restotest to health
and felt better than 1 had for the IMF)
twenty years. Dr, 1Villiains' Pink Pills
are trttly 1111rvell0t04 and 1
ra0)10t praise them etentgh."
Benet palpitation,' anaemia head- ,'
1101100, loss of appetite, geperal weak.
!less, weariness and a host
other troubles are all the outcome Of.:3!"
bad blood. Dr. Williams' link.
make new, rich, red blood -the pure!,:1,?
blood does the rest. Thot is why those
pills eure all troubles doe to watery
blood or weak, shaky 11011000. There is
Tad a nook or corner in Canada where
you wfl1• 1101 10141 00100 34)1( 1(1(11 110111011
who has been &trial by Ile use of lar.
I Williams' Pink Pills. 011 the word of
your neighbor we ask you to try this
medicine if you are weak, ailing or
run doom. The pills ere 801,1 at 50
cents a box or six boxes for $2,30 at all
medicine dealers, ' or from the 1)r, IVII.
Hams' Medicine 110.1 Brockville, Ont.
I/I PRAISE OF RABIJI,
As Good a Ruler as He is a Cricketer,
A cable front Loinfon says Prince Ban.
jitsieltli, whose trieket achievements in
thitaiii are familiar history to the Bri-
1ish sporting public, has proved himself
to he as successful a Ruler as lie was
sportsman,
Mr. Priestley, m: visited "Itanji„"
tvlio is the Jam of Ice (vintager (India),
and, telling of his inipree3ions, remarked
to 011 audience recently. .
"It was 0 positive delight tri'e'ee how
he applied himself to the Mastery of
State problems.
"They had for an Indian province! an,
ideal ruler, a num who 1134111)1 110 every.
thing lie eould to make S- hisAtate pros,
sperous." Lis
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SURE AND ,SAFE.
11,14,0 Darn Tablea.'.f"I;ag..!,,. tble11s1tt
1,11)4110111,'n tb
ie wolift -fdr,si 'alines
ailments of little „priet.„;,'It. jo -std.
est. We do pot , "Ii, yet.
wfor tlits1
!,3. )
teore
word lot'
Cr1,: fI 1 t thaant 0..
this m5dici.10s.s0!'!,!'.t.s.:'6' ,,ate or
hainfulclinn!';'.'gtfaliYudr7tluielbori,S;ritelvstgroty1
0111111,11111141; ltti] iiiisenas07in
of elii4lid.11.0o(s'1)altt
.r!. Illij'.ls.
Andre Tremblay'. Sayaboi, ()lichee. sas•s;
"1 have proved the- vainfc' 61.13,ahy's Own
Tablets as a eurot"'fts4Ove.g.,eif," of the
troubles that (tffliet 3,61111g' atildren, in-
cluding skin disease, indigestion and
teething troubles." Sold by medieine
dealers or by 10011 at 0) cents a box-,
from the Dr. Williams' Medicine 0L
13roelsvilles Ont,
Had to Shut Down,
Crawford -I hope you still take an
terost in your little boy's studies?
menthes the delight.you used to bike
seeing how many lie could roma.
Cralislow-Pre stopped eleing that.
nets.' or in'.of snr'e11-111Teroeso thi'AndbisAfosoll140-1:17tl'.il'i
Cral)Shaw-110 the boy et 0 11.1101. witint
1 up in a thousands--elhoper's Weekly.
Whrieli is the' fittest private residence in
London ? many Stafford House- t he
Duke of Sutherland, whose property it
is, is considered to supply the answer to
the question. "I'lley hove coafirmation 01
their view in the filet that 11 01(00 of
ib6 Magnifico"111'0;70 frm mY
trnte113r. nut 101 en istie:1!! that 11,ela lo Q110101 V 0.
10-
t0tin exelstimed, when tbrrr.
'yotn, palace," 10 impressed was she
tiouse
wbtli
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