Show Ctniik Wrki1r WO Picking oar way through the pur pliih mud and tones below the Krm we diicowtd a little old woman 1a boring over pita of nnmillti cop r ore We had to look twice betore we could aware oar eive of her KZ not only WM her drill perplexing I there WAS an unreality and weirdneM in her person 8ae WAS very smelt almost dwftfah with bent iboulderi and wrinkled4Jh ndi and lace her kin tad the texture ef parchment and vise cariowly mottled with blue her fiair WM thin and wiry She turned very old but her eye had A krewd and penetrating quicknew and her moments were utterly with put decrepitude Indeed the applied lenel to verk with tho willing vigor of a strong young man and toe work coaiiated of ahoreling heavy blocks of ore into mall wago reetinf on m temporary tramway Shovelful alter ihovelfal was thrown ia with an easy muscular swing and with much more activity than the average navvy ever exhibit Her petticoati ended above her ankle and were Btained with the hue ot the copper ore her ihapelete legs were muffled up in wool len wraps and her feet incased in tubttantiai brogans She was not apparently ap-parently uncomfortable bodily but her face had ia it a look of uncomplaining uncom-plaining suffering of unalterable gravity of at habituate sorrow which had extinguished all poesibility of a mile Notwithstanding a question we put to her she need the words Please irfa form of interrogation interroga-tion which we often heard in the neighborhood of Bedruth You seem to be old for such hard work we repeated Deed air I dont know how old I am but Ive been at it this forty year Im not young any longer thats Bare she answered in a clear voice with scarcely any accent ac-cent Are you married No sir nobody would ever have me she continued without relaxing from her gravity or delaying her work for a moment nobody would have me or go with me as I was always subject to fits terrible they are I still have em once or twice a week sometimes always with a change in the moon How do you account for 111 Why before my twentyfourth year I was in the service of a lady who threw me down etaire and that changed my blood 00 when the moon changes I have the tit Little can be done for them when the bloods changed This superstition was a matter of profound pro-found faith wih her but otherwise ber manner was remarkably intelligent intelli-gent She told us that her wages were fourteenpence twenlyeignt < I yentaa aay aid when we unnecessarily unneces-sarily said sne must be tired of work at such a price abe answered in a I bitter tone No nee being tired you + ate tued theres the workhouse for you tine aad nearly filled the wagon by this time and two younger women drebbed ua she was but more vigor ousluokmg l came to help her and alter spitting on their hands which were us large and as hard as any mans they applied themselves with ahovela to te heap of ore falling into a macbin like swing ef the body as they scooped up the heavy rock Iwu men afterwards joined them and wnen toe wagon was loaded they propelled it along the track toward tne mill the women sharing in the work equally with the men it mooed they did not use even greater Elections Jihe employment of women underground under-ground is now forbidden by law the gradation resulting from it having ten perceived by English legislators Duly when it had become giiious but of thirteen thousand persons auaged in the mines about two thousand t are women who are employed em-ployed in variousiparts of the process 3f dressing the ore In the simpler jperations very young girls are aneful and at the mill we found a large number of them the daughters jf miners usually some 01 them pretty and all of them nerdy clothed md intelligent even pert in manner They can all write ana tney have an appetIte tor hteratureur the Adol pnusAdeline sort wuicn they devour In nenny instalments when their work is I slackW H Rideiog in Bur ers Magazine for November |