Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-08-15

in Liverpool to take the train for Lon
don.
Going to the station, bought my
ticket for FraDkfort--that old town
was destined to see SO much Of during
the next few years. On my journey
would pass through Cologne, and from
there the railway skirts the bank of the
Rhine
travelled through Belgium and some
parts of Germany by daylight, and was,
as most Americans are who travel on
the continent, shocked to see the en-
Payments Of women. Soon after leav-
ing Brussels l saw the, to me, novel
sight of number Of women shoyeling
coal, handling the shovel like men. In
other places / saw them laboring in tho
briclyards, digging and wheeling clay,
and everywhere they were to be seen
working at mems work in the fields
A traveller in my compartment proved
most entertaining companion. He de-
scribed himself to me as one who went
about pottering over a lot of antiquities
and fooling around generally.
But my friend, the pottering old an
! tiquary, gave me something of a sur
prise At Chnlons all of our fellow
travellers in the compartment left us,
Two Of them were yoluble Frenchwom-
en-, and they kept it up with amazing
energy for the six hours from Brussels
| to Chnlons AT every unusual swaying
| of tho car there would be yolloy Of
"Mon Dieus" and ear piercing oxcla-
nations. and il was certainly a relief
l
| Bringing out a box OF cigars and my
! companion producing flask Of vino,
| we soon became confidential. Presently,
| to NV great amusement, nv old anti
| ouary, warmed by the wine. conlded 10
me that he was detective police officer
/ and chief Of the secret seryice at Ant
werp, that he wns then working ON
| fnmous cnse md had been sbadowing
| mo Of tbe Indies who had iouruoyed
with ma from Brussels. Before leaving
Brussols be had discovered his ounrry
was 10 opit tho train. and ma no had TO
60 ON 10 Mnvcnco bo had Turned tho
bpsiness oyor 10 "A confederate
was youpg. and no doubt he Thought
mo innocent CertainIv he did not with.
hold Ms copddonce. This is the case be
was investigating;
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tho pnmc os Van Tronn liyiry In Ant.
yyern a ,vidoyer 10 vanrs of ngo tho
fntber NJ n yro,vnnn family and many
times ~ grapdfotbar II had Neon bis
custom IN 60 10 Radon Pnden every sur,-
NOR spepding ,nonev freely both IN
Measure mud In tbo lannon's gambling
resorts tbero Tho last time no had moi
p, ,,o,ro, "a, Cor,,teas Wir7erodo ono
~ tbo none, odyo,,t,,,oss,s IN ho found
tbcrc md sneodilv Hec,me infntuotrd
mis- Won Tror,n WINS ~ descendant az
old Admiral Vnn Tronp who IN thc
MIGHTY iifo and deat, strngglo bet,veor
unIi,nd ana Snoir aud In |bo t,,,, ,ynrs
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fano and CLAW NJ uoIIond II, ona case
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,ha sess md corried tho Dutch 1a,,
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all tho Van Tronns and botl, Ind coma
on nccpnulatipg Tor moo wears
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aud no tho so,,,,ol sbo,,,s l,,o,,, ho,. 80,
Sba v,os 40 hod neon beontifnl ,,,as
stil COMEDY with Good acrro fair
bnirod lint with stool hlno eycg sbo
snoLo many Ianoroges and bad d,yolt in
ivory land from petorsbrro IN por;s
IL IL needless 10 telI how they frst mst
or NJ tie introcv th,t snrS,s, ~, NO.
tvce, thcr, brt I will ,roroIv ca, In
passing that within tvo DAYS ~ tSo;r
tlrst meeting he Ind giyor her n n,ag,,it.
iccnt diaunnd hraca1et which had 1on,,
in His family more than a century This
alarmed b;s t,.o dana,,to.s -, ,l.' n.s
tcrri0ed M the marc s,,snicior tbnt u,o;,
father was in earnest np1 ,nisLt r .,,,i' :.
blv nresont them, Win n stanr,dtI,o.
3 above nll n con,norntivelv vonng stan.
mother and so fnr 90 nbvsiono won't
: "A mnenitcant animal Win nrn,,,iso ~
: long life, so long that her rights ~
dover would make n ont in tbe Van
Tromn estates ond treasnros ,,,';"i,
might wall corso tho ola aa,r,r,I "a
rouse hinseS from his three cer,rr W
slecn In Dordrecht chrrch ana ono,
moro wall thcsa ,,l;,,rsas a, tha 49,,
go - N'S LAWN