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Zurich Herald, 1919-05-16, Page 6To Prove Our s A Tea- -Pot Test is Letter than a page e oi m the : uvest & Fin est Favored Tea 111.0012Y can purchase. T 04' a.4 ir 13y CF.E.TRUDE ROBINSON. PART 111. I cage with the men, leaving; the other Long letters from Millie's '11 t c.o 1eecuer to await the return trip, for ere exalting. There lizd been a'. tour were too heavy a load. They �• t got up safely and the men were lift - revolution in the domestic economy! hard-. e'1 out, Then the boss started down Her father, once alive to the ever-' . his \\ sae e had suffered from again to get his helper, and the part- shipwork and lack of eenve riencc x, had ly over - burned rope holding the cage not onl )rovhieit her with an di:- broke; itfell part way down the shaft � dent servant but had Metalled :is many a.ui stns.•:. They managed to get the labor-saving contrivances as possible.' boss bet ',he ower mawith n t twisted s douin.ei i He had even given her an allowance. the pit. They feared the smoke and "And it is all due to your spirit in gases would stifle hint before he could rebelling at conclitioi that were be reached, the fire was rearing up needlessly hard," wrote her mother; the shaft now and until it was put "If I had had a. little courage when out no rescuing party could get down, I rfirst trtarried everything would even after the cage was cleared away. have e been different." Milly laughed A. care -in the year before had filled gleefully as she put the letter away to the old south mouth of the slate and preparedfimrftor, down and one ub quarry and there was no other means the infirmary floor, this tuberes of of entrance save the one where the the specially irksome nfews ofe her ai dc:it haci occurred. A party was veryprobation. All the nevi s made her ,.tempting to blast a way into the oanxious b go fatherhhShe could new passage, from the outside, but not imagine her dfrinhis near !t was a hazardous task. So much role. She but she refrained from tent -na of Wily gathered as she hastily scanned Arthur. bage was impatient io See the 5celumn. Then her eyes fell on h�A r mother the vacation time arrived.' the trapped man's name—Arthur Milly rolled away her uniforms and, Thompson! aprons, put on her jaunty new blue She dropped the paper and looked rerge suit and started for the station.' straight ahead. She had lived near. On the way she bought a paper; big tse quarry for years and knew the headlines stared her in the face: i terrible danger of such a trap as now "accident in village. Slate quarry imprisoned the man whose ring she at Danby eaves in, following explo-, carried in her bag. She had peen cion. Two men caught in pit." Then meaning to make him take it back be - followed the details: A ,steam-engine; fore the vacation was over. "Fools," down in the north cutting had explod-, she murmured to herself, "not to try ccs. The shock dislodged some sup- the old south passage! It might not ports and the cave-in resulted. Two; be completely filled in. She had ven- men were at the bottom of the shaft j tared in it as far as the Devil's Pool laying a fuse to blast a new passage. Thi: went off prematurely, and not only caused a fire but filled the pit with deadly furies. The boss and a volunteer, a young farmer who was passing had leaped into the cage and Iowered themselves into the pit in „spite of the vapors rising and the How the time passed before the —danger that the cage might refuse to train reached the Denby station she work. They had excavated the two did not know. She was only ConsCicus men, stunned only and not seriously! of one thought—"try the south pas - hurt. The boss had gone up in the; sage -try the south passage!" If -.-. j thought -transference amounted to — • anything, some one digging uselessly at the new north outlet would surely think to explore the old mouth! pools that gurgled up through the floor of the olcl quarry she slowly. made her way. She had long since discarded the hampering raincoat. Her dapper little toque had been caught off by a projecting beam of the old roof. She understood then that she must be far above the old level, that she must be crawling through a lane formed by the settling of the debris that had filled the pas- sage. But she haci no sensation of either fear or hope. She only knew that she must keep doggedly on, She lost all track of time. Present- ly she began to descend, At length she was able to stand upright, A. few minutes later and she found herself in one of the large chambers at the entrance to the new cutting, She had once been through the new, quarry with her father and the boss as guides, and remembered the location. If Arthur had not been too much hurt he surely would have thought of this way to liberte. But there was no time to be lost; already whiffs of smoke from the fire choked her, She ran to the other end of the .hamber and felt along the wall for the open- ing into the corridor. As she fumbl- ed along with nervous fingers a,flash of light struck her eye. There was the sound of someone beating the walls with a pickax or hammer. "This way!" she called. Her voice rang uncannily through the vacant chamber. A mufflel but vigorous "Hallo!" was her reward. The light flared again to the left and ahead. She understood in an instant that the recent explosion had partly closed the passage into the centre of the quarry. Arthur was working his way through. The passage was dos- ed to nearly the level of her shoulder. She went close to the opening and called again. "Ay! ay! I'm coming," echoed a voice from the gloomy depths ahead. She could do nothing now but wait. Fifteen minutes later Arthur's head, framed in the light from a match, ap- peared in the opening. He stuck fast at the shoulders. MilIy caught hold of him with both hands and pulled. With a rending of cloth and a rattl- ing of slate refuse he finallx wriggled through. one day the preceding summer. It had looked as though there were a narrow opening the other side. Per- haps some one had thought of it by this time? She picked up the paper and read every word of the harrow- ing description again. Eatij All grades. Write for prices. TORONTO SALT WORKS G. J. CLIFF TORONTO TIL Ft- MITT ma Is ON BCH CM OF ?fJY� EA S W. C L.AR l'C L1AMM 41VIO.1•.. ' Maly!" he gasped, when he stood beside her on the floor of the littla chamber. "Never mind! Don't ask questions now. Are you hurt?" For answer he struck another match and held it in her face. "Milly!" he again ejaculated. "Let's get out of here," exclaimed There was no one to meet her at the station; she exnectecl it would be so. Every available man, she knew, was Working away at the ruined shaft or in the digging gang. As she walked rapidly up the snowy road a blast shook the valley. She could see the smoke rising. She gritted her teeth and walked on. The blast tv`i a terrible ande. It trust be they he l given up all hone of using the shaft. Once she thought she caught the first tones of the siren that would be blown A Modern Fairy Tale. - The mother was putting her child to bed. "lf you will be real quiet," site said, "I will tell you the story about tho prince who killed a dragon and rescued a beautiful princess." "011, mother," protested the child, "that story is too undemocratic for the present day. Tell me the fairy tale about the Government official who killed the profiteer and rescued the ultimate consumer," the girl, "before anything else caves, in. It's likely to, any minute." Crawling out of the passage, 'Ar -1 thur leading with a prof usdon...of lighted matches to blaze the way,' was no such terrible proceeding. as the entrance had been. They skirted, the Devils Pool hand in hand and fin-' ally emerged into the dimly lighted cave mouth. When the first ray of sunshine smote them in tbe face, Milly, for the first time in ht = fainted. When she recovered con- sciousness a few minutes later she v bank outside the ATE" FL „ AR N IS T Stands 'o gh wear and resists water For Sa3e by ai2 Dealers. was lying on a snot cave mouth and Arthur was anxious- ly looking into her face. She sat up with a determined start. "I'm dread- fully ashamed! I never fainted be- fore." • "You had good reason to," said he, "You never hauled a great bulk of a fellow out of a quarry hole before. You saved my life, I guess, Milly, for when you called I was headed straight for the wrong corridor.- I'd,j lost my hearings with the smoke and • all. I never dreamed that the right -passage was choked with the cave-in. I never could have squeezed my bulk through the holes I navigated if it hadn't been for the excitement of seeing you. But how did you get here and how did you happen to think tot the Valley the rescue of this old passage?" the whistle of a steam-engine. She tn' Nev e omind,nnow, her Arthur. Come, around to -night and we'll talk > it - ri f{iiai'ri', instead over. If you are rested enough you o-rght to go up over the lull and stop to the farm. Aoris}. watt: 1.a1 �n � ti hour brought her to tbe foot of the 3 {hose Tien who are working like mad disuse;. n,z:.rry dump. Oa the other I to. dig you out. The whole valley is side of the hill elle knew the men's holding its breath to hear that siren •I blow. Brit don't you dere to tell any one about me. If you c"a I'll never sneak to you again in all the world. I'm going home -through the woodlot." Comfort Lye is a very powerful cleanser. It is used fcr cleaning up the oldest and hardest dirt, grease, etc, Comfort Lye is fine for making sinks, dreier.; and closets sweet and clean. Comfort Lye Kills rats, nice, roaches and insect pests. Comfort Lye will do tbe hardest spring cleaning you've got. Comfort Lye is good for making soap. It's pewdered,perfumcd and 100% pure. • 0 announce n - e °: =. v She slid not answer. She was htint- of the trapped than, but it was only' , r e' mechanically tcnk the road that branched off to ;he south month of of the - hi" hway 'were working. Another blast told of their con- tinued effort to force an opening into the partly eat d new passage. She cc,u1.1 sniff the smoke. from the Waving, her hand gaily over her e}tenl.:at , Milly started down the path . shaft. She crossed the t,rnoi enure_ f ed a fence and wit a little way lipto the wood -road th+ +gh the trees the d in the' back to her fathers rm. The reran ;; filled parti lllledill, At ] mouthast e ofoa the ole} vas abort to protest, but the glitter. opening. Sirs knew that a tiny pas- el scmcining on her hind stayed him. sage ran in for at least severalyard•. 'Willy was wearing his ring! He She determined to try it herself. If ternrd and clambered joyously up the it looked encouraging she would tell hill to announce his own reecue. the men, if she couldn't get through (The Fed.) herself _ She put her bag inside the cave, took off her coat and slipped on a raincoat she had with her. 'She found,! luckily, a pickax on the drift. She; crowded in a few steps, The passage j widened, then it nearly closed. She struck viciously with her pick at the black heap in front of her. With a gurgle and rattle the whole mass sceme.d to drop. Milly understood and shuddered. The men had told her about the Devil's Pool beneath this art of the drift. Though it had been .art up eopntdess times it alwa;r's pwall{,wed whatever was. thrown into it and in time 'appeared as dee.p its ever. It was to the right of the regular passage, she remembered. She turned to the left and felt a e tuhious way along the wall. It was now pitch dark where she was, but she must make sure that there was tl way `open into the new eutting before calling theta away from the work on the other side. They would probably laugh at her for her foolishness, anyway. Climbing over' heaps of refuse, making a path through a seemingly closed passage, wading tbrour'h the countless little. Bittersweet, A golden moon to mods the empty hours— And greening hills, white clouds. all life aware; Sweet smells of warming earth and songs of birds, All things you ever loved— And yott•--not here. And r, have wished again for frost and fee For atQr 11 to slirend my world with Ales of grey, For earth to tell the earth "there is no hope" It's easier—than spring With you --away. 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He is a frequent visitor to his London ,estate. Part of the property of his duchy, through no fault of his, but ow- ing to faulty land laws, is not a credit to the country, and the earnest desire of His Royal Highness is to improve it. Asked what he thought of some of the scenes he saw in the slums shortly after his military duties enabled him to pay a visit to some of the poorer districts, "it is simply damnable," the Prince replied. Now lie is determined improvements in the housing of the poor 511511 be undertaken as speedily and effectively as possible. His interest its the duchy -is so Strong. that he persuaded his mother, the Queen, to accompany limn one after- noon to see the duchy property round about Kenningtbn ,and get her advice on some of the things lie had already seen. His Royal Highness had been there such a short while before that the surprise of the tenants was great when they learned that both Queen and Prince were among them. ;-le took the Queen to see "Professor" John Buer, aged seventy-nine, the old- est circus clown in. England, who in telling about this proud episode in his eventful career said: -- "The Prince made a previous visit a fortnight ago and I entertained him with an account .of my travels, for, you know, I've been all over the world and performed in nearly every city in Europe. When the Prince loft me be said: --`I shall conte and see you again.' I didn't know when he was going to come but this afternoon there was a knock at my door and when I went to see who had called there was the Prince standing outside with a number of people. Brought the Queen. " `May I conte in?' be asked, and as he stepped into the room he said, 'I've brought someone to see you to -day, Mr, Baer.' I looked around and saw it was the Queen. 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