Show mill F PENS PENSION MULE GETS ION U aej 1 aj i jui animal first to know of impending Di disaster kasler gives A alarm a rm j runs away a few seconds second before serious seri cave ave 1 in l n occurs rs ind and min men follow HT harn thereby esi Es ca caping pingo Being buried allver P f sf S sf t louls md ald P pefe ele Is a peni pensioner now Herol sirl alq an long service hr haie lye at listwon last won recognition 1 pete saved sava the he lives af pf ten m men 0 n and for the 06 ire re bainder of his life he will have nath ing to do but eat and sleep and kick hick up his heets pete Is a little bay mule wao for many years has worked in th the iSum S um 1 uzi rolt mit coal oal galmines mines foun miles west if belleville Beli eville he was never idle a day except sundays and roost most of the ame he was ft as fa far r below the surface of chec b earth pulling cars cars of coal through afim th birr narrow ow mine passages i U unlike n like most animals of this pete did not go blind ills his ey eyes are rb I 1 still keen heen and lie he will have no d difficulty biffl choice tidbits of t letl down in the big pasture which afu n future will be his country estate pete ilas has been the pride of the mine since the day when he saved the ahe jives of tile the shift with wh lie he worked ir pulling his little car of coal tb through 0 abill one oneff of the tha mine passages passage s pete pet lud sud denly broke from the brisk wilk walk which was hla his usual gait and started off down the dimly lighted corridor at a gallop the ten men behind him thought he e was running avay aay and they started ater after him into the next char chamber fiber they faill followed boived him and just as they r reached it there was a rumble a roar 1 and a crash behind them the alie roof of the chamber they had just left had given way I 1 lad had they been there they would have been buried under tons tana of rock t petes ears keener than theirs had heard aho warning sound bound and ho he had ad led them to safety in the 25 years ears that tha t pete has ww worked ked in the mine he has been daysi lubelow below ground fifty days in each year he V ahe th q outface a n ra ind and rubbish W while ile in IA the ane tray plod an average of f bour four miles a ablay ai teetotal the total distance ho cohered being 25 opo miles had above ground and followed ed h big is he w would bave gone around the ca earth i artil at P time m e n I 1 lle he hauled h five tons 0 of f coal cal ft a da daya tons or pounds the st wils louis ma ip r kei 0 three id dollars a ion this coal mould w ou bring V i william fint int 1 k g V er 0 the minei mine issued an ia jorqe ua fc pk Is s forever ael relieved lils heiple humble share in adding to foe wealth alth bf i na ila r t 1 thop stops |