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Show GIHLS WORK IN A MINE. A Itcprohotnlblo introduction of Foreign Custom mi Amorlriin Soil. Four uthhtM! young g!rl:4 find daily employment at a small coal mine in the Mahoning .ii;ey. several miles from Shamokln. ?ays the Atlanta Constitution. Constitu-tion. The colliery is owned and operated op-erated by Joseph Mans, n hurd-work-ing'German, who says he has simply introduced in-troduced the eusteni of his fatherland in having hi. four daughters ns.il.tt hka in, preparing the fuel for market. The girls are six-footers, good looking look-ing and well formed, each tipping the scales at about 200 pounds. Kate, aged 20 years, has charge of the breakers; Annie, aged HI, runs its initn pumps and breaker engines like a eter.in engineer; en-gineer; Lizzie, aged 18, drives a mule j attached to a gin for the purpose of hoisting the coal frofli the slope, and I Mary, aged 10, sees that the slate is j picked from the coal by her little broth- I ers. whom she helps in tho work. The girls wear short skirls, not bloomers, ns might be supposed. .Mans formerly uorked in the mines at Khamokin, but during the last 12 years, with the lussisntuee of his wif who runs the farm, and their daughters at the mine, he has managed to buy this coal mine and a large amount of timber land besides. -" |