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AR1S, Oct. SO. (Special correspond-
enc.) I have been looking Into the
Frenchman's share of the white
man's burden. It attracts but little at
tention outside his own country, but It is
a bfg load, and it costs him more than
J36.Wi.0M a year. There Is a Jlinlster of
the Colonies at Paris, who has charge of
the expenditures, and in addition the
Province of Algeria and that of French
India have representatives in the Cham
ber of Deputies to present the special
wants of their countries.
Few people realize the extent of the
French colonial possessions. They are
groater than those of any other nation
excepting Great Britain. They are 20
times as large as France itself; they
cover an area greater than all Europe,
and in Africa alone they are as large as
the United States proper. France has
more ground in Asia than in France, Its
South American possessions are as big
as the State of New York, and it has also
Islands in the "West Indies, In Australasia
and the South Seas. Parts of Its terri
tory are thickly populated. In all there
are more than CO.000.000 Inhabitants, of
"Whom the majority are as barbarous as
any people on the face of the globe.
France's Most Prosperous Colony.
The best of all the French colonies is
Algeria. The French like it most, and
they are spending the most money on it.
They are building railroads throughout
xne principal parts of It, and. they have
already constructed about 2000 miles of
wagon roads. All of the ports are being
Improved, and every town of any size
lias now Its French quarter. The country
has a good postal service, and there are
more than 500 telegraph offices, through
"which 2,000,000 messages are sent every
year.
Algeria has already considerable com
merce, its Imports and exports approx
imating $100,000,000 a year. The most of
tills trade is with France, and the French
look upon the country as their chief
granary and market garden. It lies just
across the Mediterranean, so near that
faet steamers can reach it in 24 hours,
and that the ordinary, every-day passage
is 27 Tiours. "Winter vegetables and trop
ical fruits are now sent by the shipload
to Marseilles, and thence distributed to
all the cities of France, and even to Paris
and London. The time to Paris is less
than 40 hours.
Algeria in 1903.
Bet first let me tell you something
about Algeria. It is one of the best coun
tries In Africa. Watered by the moisture
from the Mediterranean winds, it has a
rich soil and one of the most delightful
climates on the face of the globe. It Is
a. land of mountains and valleys, backed
uy Uie sandy plateaus of the Desert of
Sahara. Its area is about four times as
large as that of Pennsylvania, and Its
population comprises about 4,000,000, of
whom 300.000 are French.
The natives are Berbers and Arabs,
with an admixture of Moors, Turks and
negroes. The Berbers belong to the same
race as our own. They are farmers and
very Industrious. The French use them
as laborers, and with their aid are setting
out vineyards, olive groves and orange
orchards.
They also cultivate the soil for them
selves, raising rich crops of wheat and
other cereals.
One of the chief exports- of Algeria Is
figs, of which 27,000,000 pounds are export
ed in a year, and another Is dates, which
come from the date palms scattered over
the country, and especially throughout
the oases of the Sahara.
In Algeria the French have materially
Improved the condition of the people.
Thy have ostabllshed primary schools in
every part of the country, and also
sckels of higher education and cnmmnnni
coilagas. ThoreVre 100,000 students In the
primary schools, about 5000 In the high
schools and a large number in the col
leges. About 51,000.000 Is now being an
nually spent on education.
Africa's French Metropolis.
The capital of Algeria is Africa's French'
metropolis. It Is the City of Algeria, con
taining about 100,000 people, being consid
erably smaller than Tunis, but far more
important In commerce and trade. The
French have spent millions of dollars on
the harbor and in beautifying the city. A
long pier has been built so that the largest
steamers can come in without danger.
Great warehouses have been constructed,
and there are fine hotels and good business
buiicJngs. The town has street cars and
electric lights, and altogether the lower
parts of it look more like Paris than
Africa. The same condition prevails at
Oran, the chief port of Western Algeria,
and at Constantine. a thriving city In the
east, each having its French quarter.
French Tunisia.
Ajjaining Algeria is Tunisia, which is
now under the protection of France. It
has an African bey as its nominal ruler,
but it is the French governor who tells
him how to act and handles the cash. A
great many Improvements are being made
there since the French took charge of
the country. The canal which has been
built connecting the City of Tunis directly
with the sea has greatly improved com
merce, and today there are lanre wharves
along the banks of the canal, equipped
-nun modern lifting engines, cranes and
port railways. Tunis is the biggest city
on the African seaboard, and its trade
is with all parts of the Mediterranean sea,
and -especially Europe. It is connected by
railway with Algiers and Oran and by
caravan with all parts of the 'Sahara.
The population of Tunisia Is almost two
millions, consisting chiefly of Bedouin
Arabs, Berbers and about CO.000 Jews.
There are also 40,000 Frenchmen and 82,000
other foreigners, of whom 67,000 are Ital
ians. The French have been doing much to de
velop education there. They have estab
lished a large number of schools in Tunis,
and in the interior have 50) primary
schools, of wnlch one-third are for teach
ing girls. The bulk of the population Is
Mohammedan, and these girls' schools are
to a large extent a new thing. Tunisia
has now (XX) mllesvof-railway and several
thousand miles of-telegraph lines. It has
a small trade with the United States, ten
days being required to go from Tunis to
New York.
The French in the -Sahara.
One of the queerest possessions of the
French is tho Desert of Sahara, They
claim to own the whole western half of
it, having a territory about half as large
as the United States proper, comprising
hundreds of oases and the best caravan
routes. A big trade Is carried on across
tho French Sahara from the rich coun
tries of the Soudan south of it to Algeria
and Tunisia, and it is now proposed to
build a railroad over these sandy wastes.
This railroad will be about as long as
from New York to Salt Lake. It will go
from the Mediterranean southward into
tho Sahara, and will then branch out,
one line going to Lake Chad, where It
will connect with a line to Dahomey and
the Atlantic and the other going in a
southwestwardly direction to Timbuktu
and the regions of the Upper Nile. The
road can never bo more than a military
one, and it is doubtful whether it would
pay Its running expenses.
In the Desert.
Today all travel across the desert is by
camels. The beasts are raised especially
for freighting, and there is a regu'ar
business of breeding them for caravan
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THE SUNDAY OREGOSIAtf, PORTLANDS NOVEMBER 15, 1903.
A good riding camel is worth 5100, and
a good freight animal can be bought for
$50. Many of the caravans have 500 cam
els. 50,000 camels coming every year across
the Sahara to Timbuktu. These caravan
routes are as well laid out as railroad
routes There are no special tracks, but
the guides understand Just where to eo
j and they aim to take in the chief oases
on the way.
The French metropolis of tho northern
Sahara is the oasis of Biskra, which Is
reacned by railroad from Algiers. Hero
there Is quite a lnrge foreign colony, nu
merous French and other Europeans go
ing there for their health.
Biskra Is 150 miles south of Constan
tino, and it takes a day's ride on the
train to reach It. The oasis Is three miles
long and not more than a half a rnile
wide at Its widest place. It Is one of the
largest of the French oases, having a pop
ulation of about 10,000. Including 1000
French troops and about 1300 civil .Euro
peans, mostly French and Italians. The
place Is noted for its dates, of' which it
has 10.000 trees, producing about 5000
tons of dates every year. The trees are
carefully Irrigated and each tree is taxed
by the government.
French Soudan and Timbuktu.
The French have an enormous territory
known as the French Soudan, lying south
of the western part of the Sahara. This
CHIMMIE
yBMEMBER me telling you about de
hJ goil me modder and Mrs. Murphy
" fetched in off de street, when dey
found her crying just because she was
getting punched in de face by a nice young
man who wanted more money dan she
had? Remember dat! Sometimes you
hear dose young men mentioned In de
papers, and dey Is named "Cadets."
Well, as I was telling you, me modder
and Mrs. Murphy is getting chesty wit de
success dey has In business. Dey does
fine and fancy laundry for Miss Fannie
and de swells Miss Fannie steers against
em. It isn't dat dey has so mush wolk to
do dat dey is getting boodle bloated; It's
because dey was put wise by Duchess on
how to charge for de woik.
Listen: dere is notting dat tickles a
French goil so much as de chance to run
de money end of a job. When me modder
takes In Murphy as a partner in de laun
dry Duchess goes to em wit me, and she
says, "Modder Fadden," she says, "leave
me see de bill you is to send out for all
dis fine hand laundry woik," she says.
So de old lady she shows Duchess de
charges she's made, and Duchess she
laughs, and she asks for a pencil, and' she
says, "Modder Fadden," she says, "you
Is flying in de face of Providence," she
says. "How long would dese swell cus
tomers you has got from Miss Fannie
stop along wit you if you make dese
charges?" she says.
"Is dey too much?" asks de old lady,
getting a scare. "I charges for de tings
I has to buy and use, and enough for a
dollar -a day for Mrs. Murphy and me;
dough we could get along wit half a
dollar."
Duchess she didn't say notting, for she
was getting busy wit de pencil and paper.
Pretty soon she shows her figure woik to
de old ladles, and dey near fell in a fit.
"Sure, Hortence," says me modder,
"dey'd send me to jail, if ever i made
such charges as dose!"
"We're not selling em. fine linen, but
laundrying it," says Mrs. Murphy, her
eyes popping at de figures Duchess made.
"Of a soltalnty." says Duchess, "you
will not keep dese good customers, If you
do deir woik cheap. Charge em tree
times what you was going to, and den
you will have so many customers who
will hear about de high prices, dat you'll
need help to do de woik."
"Does de swells like for to pay out
money?" says me modder.
"No," says Duchess, "dey holes to. But
dey likes to be known to have de- tings
dat costs money, and dat is all dls.firm
needs to know."
Duchess is right on dat lay-out,' too,
all right. A felly I knows what's do usher
In a teeater say, dat must be a peach of
a jotf-he was telling me dat de mug
what is to give de opray what starts in de
middle of do afternoon, and runs till de
strip goes half way across the continent,
the British territories of Nigeria, the Gold
Coast, the Sierra Leone, and also Liberia
and the Kameruns being cut out of it. It
reaches the Atlantic Ocean in several
places and embraces the French Congo,
Dahomey and Senegal.
This territory Is practlcaly unexplored,
but It Is'being rapidly opened up. A mili
tary government has been established at
Timbuktu and along the Niger, and the
other provinces are coverned from Dakar.
in Senegal. It is at Dakar that the French,
uovernor-uencral of West Africa lives,
and there are the chief offices with sec
retaries and clerks. Each province has a
Lieutenant-Governor, but all report to the
Governor-General at Dakar.
Dakar is noted for Its excellent harbor,
which Is now being widened and deepened
by the French. The city lies right under
tho shadow of Cape Verde, and is con
nected with St. Louis, the capital of Sene
gal, by railway. It has four French
steamship lines, which make regular pas
sages between it and France, and there
are British and German lines to Liverpool
and Hamburg.
Improving West Africa.
The French are just beginning to develop
their West African provinces. They are
laying out railroads in French Guinea and
deepening its harbors. They have built a
jetty about 1000 feet long at Conakry, the
capital and chief seaport, and they are
cutting wagon" roads into the interior.
In Dahomey there are 6000 natives now
FTVDDEM'S
i morning, he was up against it how to
make de people come and take a elghteen
hour dose of music dey didn't know any
tlng about. If It was" rag-time, and good
enough, dey might make de audience stop
all day and all night. But dis piece was a
piece dey calls "De Fall of Percy" no,
dafs not quite It "Percy-Fall." dat's it.
Nobody in little old New York could bo
rounded up who cared five dollars wort
wedder Percy fell or stood up; and as I
was saying, de mugs what had put up de
long green to fetch Percy here out of de
tall timber of Germany, dey was wonder
ing what 'ell. Nobody couldn't see de
use of Percy at fie per. He might be a
nice young man, and fell far and hard,
but why fiye per, and an all .night session
for to see Percy? New York began to get
funny, over Percy, and de frost was gad
derlng on de box office, where Percy was
to fall. Some one sajs charge only two-and-a-half
a trow, and see if de lnwrs
of classic music won't step up to de cap-
vu.i o unite, .ism, p cnee, an a
But, p'chee, all de folks
.IRQlonl mnalA rlA. .Jtrl..-
wnac loved classical music, dey didn't
have de price at two bones and a half,
and der was getting ready to leave Percy
fall Into his grave, when a slick hin
who knew his way around de town as well
as Duchess, he says, "Go to!" he says.
"You is playing de scale de wrong way.
Play It up, not down," says dis Johnny-on-de-spot.
"How's dat?" says de backers, whoso,
feet was most dreadful cold.
"Don't drop from five to half of dat," he
says. "Double five. Make it a tenner a
seat to see Percy fall, and send for de
police to help you keep New York from
mobbing de ticket office, to get seats for
de fall."
. Say,-1 needn't tell you what was doing.
You seen It in de papers as well as me. A
mont' before Percy was due for a fall,
you couldn'tbuy a ten dollar paste board
for twenty. Dafs got notting to do wit
what I was telling you about, only, say!
Wouldn't Duchess make a Chlm Dandy of
a boss- for de opray -de next time a gold
brick is to be Hung at de dear public?
What! . ,
Well, Mrs. Murphy said she could never
go to confession again if she charged de
price Duchess put down, so Duchess, to
ease de old ladles' 'souls, she done de
charging herself. Every time she raised a
charge she felt nearer heaven. De chec'ks
came In all right, and orders for mora
wolk, and de firm had to get an assistant.
Dat was what I was going to tell you
about. De goll.dey took off de street was
getting strong in de hospital, for modder
used to take her dinky goodies for to eat,
and Mrs. Murphy used to 'jolly her when
she could visit do hospital; and de doctor
says de goil was stronger dap she ever
was, and could go out. Me modder seen
dat nice little cadet man loafing around
de hospital, and 'de gbll must knowed he
'was dere, for she says she didn't want to
go outno furder dan de cage of'de East
River, what is handy for dose like her dat
hasn't any use for no odder part of d.e
city. Dafs what dey calls de '"wharf
route out of trouble." Oh. yes, people
who takes dat route has a handy mind at
a joke, now and den.
Modder and Murphy sees what Is bod-
at work on a railroad which will event
ually extend through the country to Lake
Chad, and there connect with the line
across the Sahara to Algiers. Fifty -miles
of this road has already been constructed,
and the work will be steadily pushed.
rTlailroads are being built In the French
Congo, and also from St. Louis, in Sene
gal, eastward.
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African Cotton Fields.
These West African colonies aro un
healthy. Dahomey Is hot and malarious,
and the French Congo Is noted for Its
fevers?. The French can never develop
the country, except by native labor. Thej
understand this, and are acting according
ly. They have set out plantations in Da
homey some distance back from the coast
and are raising cotton there for shipment
to France. The cotton is better than the
American, and I am told that it brings a
higher price In Europe. Cotton fields have
been laid Out In the French Congo and'
elsewhere. The labor is cheap, costing
not more than 10 or 20 cents a day. In
some of the colonics the people are very
Industrious.
Education goes on apace. There are mis
sionaries in nearly all the colonies, and
mission schools, as well as government
schools. In tho Congo colony alone 36
schools have been established, and a pro-
portlonatfe number In Dahomey and on
the Ivory Coast. AH these colonies trade
chiefly with Europe. They buy bright-col-
LETTEK
dering de poor goil, and dey says dat dey
would take her past de young man, so dat
ho couldn't harm her, and den she could
go on her way.
"De only way I has is de wharf route,"
she says.
Den de old ladles says what was de mat
ter wit dem taking de goil home wit dem,
and giving her a job at de line laundry
woik. Dat's what dey done. De nice little
man followed 'em, and locates where de
goil was; so modder writes me would I
come down dere on me next day off, and
give dat young man a little attention.
"Sure," I says, "and tank you kindly,
moddor, for de chance. I'll be dere."
Say. we puts up a picnic of a job, for
fair. It was easy to see dat de young
man was laying for a time when de old
ladies would be.far from delr own fireside.
He'd felt delr open fists, and was shy of
an encore. We figures it out dat if dey
was piped off by Inm leaving de place he'd
make a hurry sneak up to de room and
try to scare de goil away wit him. So I
goes In by de back way; de goil goes into
& friend's room across de hall, and me
: Tnnddftt !inH ATiirnVi rpv phnKPS flllt wit'
delr baskets on delr arms, like dey was
off on a marketing trip.
I was telling you de old ladles has two
rooms, now. I goes into de inside one,
and waits for de nice young man. I hears"
him sneak in, and den he tries de door
where I was, and he says for her. fink
ing she, de goil, was dere, to open It; or
ho'd trun it down, and give her a extry
boating, to boot. I taught It was time
for me to make my entrance, as dey .say
In de play books. Say, It was a good one,
all right. When he seen dat he'd been
talking to me," and .not to de goil. dat nice
young man tried to do a jump to de fire
escape, but I nailed him.
Never' mind what r done to him. It's
not much to brag about, to take proper
care of cattle like, dat nice young man.
but all do care he needed, I give him wlt'
a little extry trun in foe good measure.
When he had breat' enough to say any
t'ing. hosaj;s, ''Please, -now. may I,go,
he says.
"Dis lsonly de.cqltain-ralser,". I says.
"Do hair-rateer comes on when de women
folks is home."
When Murphy and modder comes", dey
brlngs all de American ladles on def block;
de old families, you know 'who'd -lived
dere,, like me modder and Murphy, ever
since dey comes from de old sod, and long
before de Ginnles and Chinks comes Into
de district
.Honest, Pwjsh one of dose laddie-boys,
what can take down what a mug says In
wire screen marks, had been dere to take
down de tings dose. American ladies had to
say .to dat nice young man. I've, heard
some langwudge of de kind Mr. Paul calls
"picturesque" in me life, but de best I
ever heard before sounded like de small
talk of school girls alongside what dose
good ladles said to dat young man. You
wouldn't tlnk dat just wolds could coil
j up i man liKe aose iangwuage coiiea up
mm. .uen .uurpny taxes a Broom nanaie,
an she winks to me, and I gives de young
man a place across me knee you know
de kind of a place modder used to make
and Murphy got busy. De copper on de
block he comes In looking for murder, but
when he sees what was doing, he looks
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ored calicoes, beads, knives and notions, f
trading Ivory, rubber, palm seeds and I
palm oil for them. So far the only thing
they get from America Is our leaf tobacco.
which Is sent there In hogsheads, being
first shipped to Liverpool. The freighi
rate from Liverpool to Dahomey is about
three-fourths of a cent a pound.
The French in Madagascar.
The French have materially changed the
conditions in Madagascar. They have
claimed to own that Island for hundreds
of j ears, but it is only seven or eight
years ago that' It was formally declared a
French colony. The Queen was then de
posed and carried to the French island of
Reunion, whence she was afterward taken
to Algers. -
Madagascar is the fourth largest Island
In the world. It hns more land than
France, aad Its population is 2.500,000.
About one-third of the nath'es are Hovas,
a most intelligent people, who until the
French came were the controlling element
pof the Island. In addition to them are the
Sakalavas on the west coast and other
tribes on the east, north and south. In
the coast towns there are many Arab
traders and -also many negroes from Af
rica who were brought In as -slaves.
The Capital of Madagascar.
The Island" of Madagascar consists of a
high plateau with a fringe of unheal thy
fdr"est around the edges. Its chief port
Is Tamatave, on the east coast, and the
capital Is Tananarlvo, In the heart of the
plateau. The French are building a rail
road from one to the other. It will be
over 100 miles long, and 35 miles have al
ready been built. . '
Tananarlvo stands on a ridge 50 feet
j high in the center of a rich farming
country. It has comfortable two-story
houses, and the Hovas, who form Its chief
Resemblance Between Exploiting the Business of Grand Opera and
j t Fine Laundering; j
like he'd found de room, empty, and he
goes out.
Well, when Mrs. Murphy's right arm
was tired, I don't tink dere was an inch
of whole skin on de part of dat young
man's- body she'd been aiming at.
Just den Duchess comes in, and she says
was we having a party, and modder, she
says it was a picnic, and Duchess goes
over to a tub of water dat had done duty
for washing, and she says, "Dis is my
contribution to de picnic," she says, and
she dumps a bag of salt In do tub of
water.
Wit, dat de party screams wit laughing,
and I picks up de young man, and doubled
him up, and sits him In de 'tub for to
pickle him. When de salt and water had
got well Into de place dat was shy of skfh,
de copper comes back, and modder makes
a charge of housebreaking against de nice
young man, and de copper runs him in.
Dat night when I was fussing about de
wood lire in de library I hears Whiskers
say to Mr. Raul, he says, "All dis talk
of vice in New York Is rot," he says.
"Most talk Is rot," says Mr. Paul "But
what talk has you In mind now," he sayst.
"Dis talk about vice, and cadets, and red
lights, and strong arm gangs," Whiskers
says. "In de 'lection campaign we has
just been trough talk of dat kind of talk
was too common. It holts de reputation
of de city, and la all lies. Dere is no
cadets nor red lights nor strong arm
gangs, except in de -talk of de wicked men
who makes speeches for to scare cam
paign contributions out of us."
"I fear derc is some vice left," says
Miss Fannie, who used to be in on de
game of doing good down where de most
good Is wanted.
"OK, sdme, no doubt," says Whiskers,
comfortable like. "But not such vice as
"we hears 'talked of. Any way," he says.
"whafvlce dere Is can be cured by moral
suasion. No force or violence Is neces
sary." '
"How Is dat, Chames?" asks Miss Fan
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population, have many people of woatv.
The public buildings otr the Queen are i ow
ued by the French omcial. who an In
truduelng modern improvements o' all
kinds. They have Improved the i orts,
have instituted schools and colleges id
are doing much to better the country
Some French Islands.
France has a big sized island empire.
Madagascar alone is as long as from
New York to Chicago, and as wid. as
from Washington Citj to Boston Just
east of it is Reunion, an island not q lite
as big as Rhode Island, which alsj be
longs to France. It is noted for its plan
tations of coffee, anila and spice.
Northwest of Madagascar aro the Comoro
Islands and the Island of Mayotte, all
very rich in tugar, vanlla and coffee, and
In the West Indies are a number of Isl
ands equally valuable. The chief of the
West Indian islands are Guadeloupe and
Martinique. The French also own the
state of French Guiana on the coast of
South America below them.
France has also Islands in the Pacific.
East of Australia It owns New Caledonii,
which It uses largely as a prison settle
ment. It has the Wallis Archipelago
northeast of the FiJIs, the Huon Islands
northwest of Now Caledonia, the Loyalty
islands fartner eastward, Futuna and
Alafi. south of the Wallis Islands, and
the New Hebrides. It also has jl hirge
number of islands In the South SeaS, and
especially the Society Islands, the most
important of which is Tahiti, with an area
of 600 square miles and population of 10,
000 souls.
The French have also small colonies in
East India and some very large ones in
farther India, such as Tonkin, Annam,
Cochin China and Cambodia, of which I
have written in previous letters.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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nie. "Is tlere less vice down dere dan
dere was when I woiked dere?"
"Yes, Miss Fannie," I says, "dere is
less today dan dere was yesterday."
"Den it Is being cured?" says Whiskers.
"Some of It is cured already," I says.
"How cured?" asks Whiskers.
"Salt cured, sir," I says.
(Copyright, 100:5, by R. H. Russell.)
A Sea Lyric.
There is no music that man has heard
Like the voice of tho minstrel Sea,
Whose major and minor chords are fraught
With infinite mystery
For the Sea Is a harp, and the winds of God
Play oer his rhythmic breast.
And bear on tho sweep o their mighty
w lags
The song of a vast unrest.
There is no passion that man has sung,
Like the love of tho deep-souled Sea,
Whose tide responds to the Moon's soft
light
With marvelous melody
For the Sea Is a harp, and the winds of God
Play oor his rhjthuiic breast.
And bear on tho sweep of their mighty
wings
Tho sons of a vast unrest.
There is no sorrow that man ha3 known,
Like tho grief of the worldless Main,
Whose Titan bosom forever throbs
With an untranslated pain
For the Sea is a harp, and the winds of God
Play over his rhythmic breast.
And bear on the sueep of (their mighty
wings
The song of a vast unrest.
William Hamilton Hayne, In Atlantic
Monthly.
A notable result of the recent Daily
News census of church attendants in Lon
don is the discovery that prayer meetings,
which were once regarded as the vita'
breath pf the life of the church, have ab
most ceased to exist.
Is to love children, and no
liome can be completely
happy -without them, yet the
ordeal tnrough which the ex
pectant mother must pass usually is
so full of suffering,. danger and fear
that she looks forward to the critical
hour with atDrehension a-nrl drpnd
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