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3 there hanging. B& detached, faraway voice. prised me that I could hear at all Out was one of elation. was the only reporter into the mine as a rescue worker. the foreman had told ote. burly man, naked from the waist "tp. He directed me to follow the / 20 men filing into the drift to start work. whift would stay at the 3,600-foot Tevel station until time for reitef. We were to work 30 minutes. Then ‘We coukt rest for: an hour. wounded casy. "ture at the station was not bad. Mining is not so bad after all, 1) thought. _ @arkness—darknens except for the} _ sharp fiames of light shooting out from their miner lamps. hen. ‘We went along. "es iF edeooth, even top and sides. were sharp in Mine Reporter and Other Irving Moore, San Francisco News the Kenwedy mine, ee BY IRVING MOORE Nine men crowGed Into the skip, a big square bucket, solid steel, six feet high, 1 was the ninth, Then boards were pat ever our heads, a wire frame work placed around the top of the bucket and nine more crowded in. Two bells! ‘The big drum on which the Was coiled began to move siowly, then faster and faster We. wore below th rface travel ing downward at rate of an express t Nobody poke Water dripping from the = shaft SPlashed and spattered over us From the second we left th surface the air changed, the workd below was se different. We seemed to be engulfed in an incomprehensible something | Which was not alr, yet w beat on our ears like the crash- | ing of thunder. My ears pained. | I thought the drums would burst. I wanted to put my | hands over them, The other men with their miner Jamps throwing wavery light on their faces did not seem to feel the} painful pressure But 1 silent stood hands 1 wanted to yell like the others, “That was the 3,500-foot level.” | One of the miners had spoken tn It sur} I coughed to find out if I could Tear my own voice. My ears pain-| ed terribly. A scraping of feet over our heads. | ‘The skip came to a jarring stop, Robbed up and down like a toy bal Toon and stopped 3.600 feet below the surface of the earth. crawled Here I to have got My firet thought as I B was accepted by the other men| as one them. | - Water dripped from the timber | ) ing. Wet, grimy men just off shift} Waited to climb in the skip. were mostly silent, “six hours of torturing work. } They worn-out with | Marovich! Report to Marovich, | A big, ‘The other 20 men on the same me Besides, the tempera 1 followed the men thru the For more 200 feet the drift was fairly but muddy. It got hotter as The air got worse. seemed impossible to “breathe. 1 stumbled along t tine cri. was not straight, with | ‘There! turns and curves. 1 j mi ‘Mat wear 00s, Bat. 500, $1, $1.50, $s, Sr tise WEEE COMMENCING NEXT SUNDAY NIGHT ‘Matinecs Woedneotay and Saturday SEAT SALE THURSDAY Ou bd TH ane or << 4u$T StH0MGs | Looe DY SRCES LPI IME 5 A MH LAGGHTER | Mights: $2, $1.50, $1 and 500 Saturday Mat.: $1.50, $1 and 500 Bekgain Mat, Wednesday: $1 WHILE THEY’RE PLENTIFUL WE'LL SELL ’EM CHEAP Ice Cyam Watermelon Yood © Bliced Be Sliced Cucumbers . Be Head Lettuce fe |i) Stuffed Pepper Se |]! Stuffed Tomato he Baked Potato ... Se Corn on Cob. Be Fried Kggpl ote Baked Apple ..... Apple 8 Plum Saue Fresh Sliced Peaches, WING’S CAFETERIA Viewt Ave. | | \f Mud, Heat, Gas Argonaut From Experience Unde ee eee self pretty, and look on the outside world as a hard, cold place Sweat was pouring off my body| Where money-earners grub, | lin stream: absence of oxygen She can pour tea in charming fashion, entertain at any in the air made breathing ditfiewit.| or all times, she knows all the niceties of society, and clings- | Already I felt weak and sick. MY) oh, how she can cling—to her “big, brave husband.” museles were not tuned to this kind [also ‘realized why I jtempt to get back my breath. The {bunch. The men just off duty stag- jonly man hard it by the grilling Abother man lay doubled up on Si the ground. Where his face showed for stout women. Sizes | thru the muck it was yellow, 39 to 49. | deathly | Seareely a word was spoken | about their entombed comrades. Belted Tuxedo: Seasonable | labor, It had to be done, | Sweaters ° Felt Hats . Perhaps a little more necessary 3 comfortably knit styles, The most popular Hats of than some work | with long sleeves and Tuxedo the weavan are here! 10 styles, | But, nevertheless, work for which | collars, Many plain and fancy — all colors, satin lined, banded, they were paid. The chance of | colors, with belts, and plain, Medium and smalt winning the $5,000 reward for} shapes: breaking thru first was little diw| Comfort $3 95 cusved. , : "We are working as hard as wolf Kid Shoes ‘ Women’s 1 00 can. Npbody knows just where we! Women's Soft VielKia Righefit Spats ° laure working, so what's the use of} Bhoes, with geod strong soles; iiinkinn deen che ehedel It went? Bal and blucher cuts; plain,and “RightWit” Brand, and they ‘amount to anything when it's di-| Up toes, with rubber heel do! In taupe, silver and gray vided among 160 men.” Sines 3.to 8. haacsene wventirent of those es ’ who expressed an opinion, The Ialiany taiked among them Have You Girdle jselves. I could get very little from them except that they hated the} Saved Top work in the mine and that. they,| This Month? like the other men, feared the gas} Get the habit of that might come thru when the! walking through the Cor- [final barrier to the Argonaut was | OTE TL en nya | broken down. { that the littl savings (More Tomorrow) | make the big one i t Nn 1,000 Men Work on | "thn THE SEATTLE STAR Rescu Workers |Which Makes the Be tter » Wife ife, the Business Girl or} the Stay-at- Home? Stagger | | | BY C ground NTHIA GREY S ’ Who makes the better wife? pen Joat my sense of direction Is it the girl who steps from her father’s home into her} }1 had pletured the peing dug) husband's home? jetraight,.to the Ar at shaft Or, is it the young business woman who bangs a factory bar Weer ey “ ben wy "go jn. | COOr—Covers a typewriter—shoves a sales book——some bright | sani pre trail, aude fou "| afternoon for the last time and marches into a home of her! It began to ket lower, 1 had to/ Own? | }double up, bending back and leas! Much, much has been written and said on the subject. }to kk m striking the Jassed! The home girl is almost sure to know how to keep her- | @ Ga, F elds taal hae Of the dozens of girls whom I have known who stepped) from college to a husband, or from a social season to a bril-| carried out unconscious and started back. At my station !/'"¢@ talue-of her dollar should possess a working knowledge « full burrow was waiting | The girl who has worked wilt ex-|of the haynta and habits of migra ‘Then 1 realized why the men|Ptet fe regulate her marriage on a|tory birds and be well informed re- only worked in halfhour shifta. 1 |2attnership baste garding the federal pame laws of the had been ad-| And if she has made any kind of state in which they reside. It ts a job in the Jumber | 2CCt## Of her business Life—it's alateo desirable that applicants shall vided to get | prett sofe r * ke we had « oe ame 7 ehitilen as a cared pretty safe det that she wilt make | ha ad experience in pame-law en- | lowed in marriage forcement Persona desiring to take Phew goon d pO wesc etn ys, of course thie tom should find owt! She's bound to be more exacting, | from ected Commiadion | with a great desire to fail flat perhaps more critical of her hus-\when the next exe exami the aervice nination will take in the muck. I was no longer [band than a clinging wine. place and file papers a man. A beast propelled by | 17 1 were a man—but then, I'm ore | sight of the barrows and 8 not! Approximately how many persons | vague knowledge that they | _ in the United States atteod Sunday must be wheeled. P. B I'm @ business woman, f achooln? | Several times I fell in the oe aamaogaon panna . we iilhaaini Jt mud, } Each time something made ge get up and start on. I staggered from side to #de,| striking the jagged sidea of the drift with my head, my arms and| my back. By my own mere mo-| tion, not by any was I moving. Finally the end of the half hour! camé. 1 could scarcely craw! back | to the station and rest, At the ata-| | THE BON MARCHE Bancag BASEMENT Busy Salespeople — Humming Cash Registers—Busy Wrappers—Every Day! Such Activity Means BIG BARGAINS !! The Last Word in Lace and Silk Dresses 445 Six styles of combination conacions effort, | tion I felt flat on my back, breath. dng the foul gasfilied air in an at- other men sat sround smoking. Some of them were look ing at me. One laughed: “That's what you get for getting] | drank.” | That pleased me.« After all, 1 had! some pride left. 1% would rather! have them think I was sick from drink than that 1 was unable to do! what they considered a man's work. | After the first half hour of the} rest period I was breathing more} easily. Still the alr was foul, un. satisfying. Twenty men were at) the station, nearly all of them! smoking. Yet the air was so full of gas fumen that the cigaret smoke was not noticeable talking and} The, air was dead, stilt. The Dresses, Georgette and satin, | smoke’ curled slowly upward. Not} combined with light, beauti- jan odor in the air ekcept gus ful lace.in many designs— Little wisps of gas could be seen some with pleated side floating thru the air like minia nels. You'll never regret | ture cloude. Sickening only, not panes. ee | deadly this investment. Sizes 16 H The crew that had relieved us to 42. { {now was relieved by the other gered into the station. I was not the Extra-Size Coats $15.00 Navy blue and black Stylish Wool Coats, lined and interlined with Farm- ers’ Satin; in extra sizes strain. “You lose your breath, can't enteh it,” one of the men kept repeating. He flopped down on ® mouldy plank, shak- ing in every limb, “I'm shaking, but not because I'm, seared,” he said, you ‘That was the that Light Company Line ELLENSBURG, Sept, 25.—More} a aor men “ad fet he now to Rf ie r a Pink brocaded, with free be working on the Pacific Power & wain! ob yours : for > i i re Light company line helng built: by Kopay! hip; for the medium figure. fhe Stone & Webster corporation be (AE ESE EER J Sizes 21 to 30, tween Derringer, an the White river, and Wenatchee Cynthia Grey: o Tells How “She Routed Man in Her Home Olympia Woman Spurns Help if Police *: I didnt know he wag in the room / him. | TheBonMarché PIKE STREET—SECOND AVENUE-—UNION STREET eer: the Home AX” it’s the surroundings—the furnishings that create the atmosphere—which really Glorify the Home. Not expensive things, but well-chosen, harmonizing draperies, pure white, linens, comfortable bedding and floor cover- “All these are here at prices remarkably low. D An Exceptional Offer in 36-Inch Cretonnes at “yon - ings, ete. 29c Oh, such loyely Cretonnes and at such a low price—so nice for bed of living recm draperies, coverings, aprons and pillows. 36-Inch Overdrape Madras $1.50 Yard Such attractive floral designs of contrasting colors, woven with artificial silk—in rose, blue and tan, A full yard wide. Tuscan Net Curtains $5.00 a Pair Plain and faney weaves, finished with fringe at the bottom, I most effective inexpensive curtains, very pewent a The Parquet Linoleum $1.95 Square Yard A special buy brings Linoleum at this price, Exceptional quality and fine finkish—wood and straightline desi Please bring your measurements with yc and bedrooms. for kitchens, hall» 16 Axminster Rugs at $12.75 Each Good looking floor cevorings—yet inexpensive. Size 46x6-6; good designs and colors; desirable quality Cozy Blankets— Plaid Blankets $3.50 50 pairs, heavy, 64x80; blue. pink, tan and gray Plaid Blankets $4.50 100 pairs Skangoft Cotton Plaid Blankets, for long wear; yellow, helio, pink and blue size 66x80. Huck Towels at 12'%4c Each Fine for every day use 17x31 inches. Pure hemmed, ready for use. size white; 100 dozen heavy size 36x42, things that Pe Lessons every at SECONL OOR . The A place always at prices easy to pay. Take ing—it will pay you Pillow Cases 25c Each bleached Pillow Dressmaking Classes $2.00 Course Monday, Wednesday MAIN FLOOR—THE BON MARCHE FOURTH FLOOR—THE Plaid Blankets $4.75 1 think we were about $00 feet | liant wedding, not more than half a dozen are different from Commits Sulcide from the 2,600-foot level station the model. I’ve sketched BT, LOUIS, Sept Two years stengllnrsy man in — v4 ou But, for the business girl? | jafter his myate ‘pe from gual agai 4 s. She will understand her hushand—understand his attitude ia caeeied ecae k ‘ here Was illard, ed and gulet, enotgh space to allow a wheelt toward his business. She knows what an important part in himnelf here today in his ped, row to be turn sgainst the, his life his work plays. His office will never be a place to fashionable section of the suburba wall of the drift while a full run into, to her—to nod patronizingly at the phone girl and Villard, who is « Was kid could be whee past thé stenocravhers, and t a @ eked naped in the railw ation in Chi- - t graphers, and beg an extra check. AN you have to do,” he said . the fall of and hel yp opel i torre P'4\ The girl who has worked is not likely to plague her hus- _dacaige A goa on aan here to the next atation then bend with household cares when he comes home. She will not he manage¢ Just how has bring back the empty one here.” |ask him to run petty errands for her downtown, murmur. ever been It sounded eany, But I wax al! dig i < ready nearly exhausted, T sat down A oy Seen ae % in. the mud and walted. Part of thelr (ale only a minut Mise Grey wilt receive callers) | sree Petey J eae - ere ; 6a Cheese Toasted and men had bh placed at stations be. |” “ pe shop |] tm her office Monday, Wednesday ||, 4/ #8. Peter Jorgenson and her home, 8 miles north of Olympia, near Boston harbor, Loss Totals $20,000 hind me, ‘The others went on tol mafeh fis rithon. Yeu pass « O*]} ang Friday trom 1 to? p.m, and|!f/rom which she routed a man who attacked her Saturday. Her weapon was a teakettle.| sityamoorw, ore. sent tn ward the end of the drift, where |¥our way to the office |] on Tuesday ang Thureday from || The picture shows the patched door thru which it passed. The children are Thora, 3, and o was a gentle arcana tien tne Ahoy muck was being) The prt hoe worked veil | 1 a m. to 12 m. each week. 1) Peter 4 who were asleep in the house at the time of the attack, and Katherine, 6, who was|cheeno in thin dairy center today. € “gh out of the shaft [know the a rming mean at school. Phe Mohler cheese factory belonging waited, but not for long Nlerrands for v Bhe wil Ito Rudolph ifel burned yesterday as darkness around me except |know that even if he posses the shop || Writing. y « ' ; ; ver ll reg around m r pt : 2 ms A. : vy gia P| ne. ‘ ‘Then I grabbed that tea ket 4 around,” naild Mre. Jor-, And it Ien't true that I called ik a lonn of $20,000, including $6,609 the lamp in my cap threw | /@ mes a day—that it is irritating | tle full of bot water and let it A o pel - worth of cheese light a few fect down the drift, [and unpleasant to remember and|admit. Would the stay-at-how fly right at him, And you id Git in the other room,'” he told = police in Otympla.” ante Mes ina Down the drift I saw a light ap-|Perform houschold er to send me some catf-défense le | have seen the dirty coward run,’ | Sergenson. “My neighbors dé PORTLAND, Sept. 25.—Richard proaching, Then I made out the| And yet the girl's business train-|/'d be glad to print them—Oynthia Mre. Peter Jorgenson swung the [ told him to get out of the bouse| that, I don't have to have any », Northern Pacific fireman, wheelbarrow, the man behind tt ing will keep her thoroly sane How many one obtain a position lich Kettle at an ainary figure as 1 he grabbed at my apron — to look after me. Tecan | 1 hete today from burns and doubled up less than four feet high.| Bhe will not worship her husband's eral ne warden? What is\uhe described how she had used it punched him in the stomach take care of myself. | scaldy received when his switch en He stopped in front of me and with-| werk or ° unduly ba mary, duties, etc linet Friday afternoon to beat off the with my fet and he doabled over Mr, Jorgenson and af of the neigh-| gine collided with a box car in the out saying a word grabbed the) A girl's businces training will make United States game wardens re-\masked beastman who attacked her kind of fanny amd reached for | bors were attending an auction sale) yards yesterday empty barrow and started back her @ more efficient housewife, too. | otive an entrance salary of $1,500 per|in her home near Kosten Harbor his rear pocket. I thought he [about @ mile distant at the time) -— + 1 was still pa ike # tired A budget will have no terrors for|annum and necessary traveling and| Mrs. Jorgenson waa at work had a gun so I grabbed the tea | of the attack. Twp of the ehtldren, |and had holes eut in pes his eyes, dog. I took ho the barrow, | Aer. customed to the well-oiled subsistence e@penscs, the latter nét\kitchen when sche suddent kettle and swung it at him, BF | Thora, aged three, and Peter, aged| Bhe said she believed he *had My hands slipped on the muddy | wheels of her business, she will,|fo exceed $5 per day, whed awaylaround and naw the masked ducked and the kettle went over |four, were asleep in the bedroom. | watched the house until he saw.her handies. A few feet and the wheel! satwrally turn to the most efficient from headquarters, Appointments to standing at her elbow. He o his head and thru the glass in | The little boy awoke at the noise and | husband depart and then had « missed the planks, which were sub: lays of housekeeping thia position are made from lasts of |her into the other room end she re-| the door, was tadly frightened, accomiing to | inside. ; merged in the slushy slime. About! /Meving had her own money, she cligibles obtained as a result of ex-|funed. When the fiend grabbed at; “Then ran out of the house and | the mother. | “I didn’t do anything brave,” — 150 feet further on the next sta-;"Hl Know the value of money— lamination held by the United Mtgtes|her Mre. Jorgenson showed fight and, | acrosn t eld into the woods, If| Mrs. Jorgenson said that her as | she said. “I just protected my- tion. Finally I got there, He took |"¢lther overestimating nor under-|¢ivil service commission, Persomelin the souffle that followed, ‘bented |he hadn't run out of the house I was|sailant was small, of light build, and) self, and believe me, I'l punch, my full barrow, I took his empty |*#timating. She wilt know the buy-|taking an examination of thie kind | him going to throw the stove lids at|hed very white hands, He wore a| any prowler that comes around mask that covered bie entire raperies—Curtains—Floor Coverin. 36-Inch Double-Faced Terry Cloth—Extra Value Another big shipment of this pretty and excellent wearing Tervy Cloth—in most wonderful colorings and designs so much in demand. NE popular for paneled curtains. Keru only. 40-Inch Curtain Marquise Splendid quality, mercerized, double-thread construction, and expec! You'll like it for making ruffled ofrtains. White only, with various sized dots and cluster dots. Drawnwork Bordered Marquisette 25c You'll find it very inexpensive to make curtains of this Bord- ered and ecru, BON Inexpensive Linens—Towels tei ir Plaid Blankets $5.00 100 pairs, some cotton, some Heavy, wool finished, 66x80. inch. Very warm. 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