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Show CHILDREN IN MINES. Parade to enow How Many I.lttle Ones Were Forced to Work. A parade of 2,000 slate-pickers, run. ners, drivers, doortenders and helpers from the mines of Scranton, Pa., and vicinity was the feature of Saturday-Tbe Saturday-Tbe parade was planned to show how many children who ought to be in school were forced into the mine by reason of their fathers being paid poor wages. Fully a third of the boys in line appeared to be about 9 or 10 years old, and inquiry among them elicited the startling fact that not a few eight year-old children were numbered in the paraders. , |