The Red Cloud chief., 1890-01-17
BY THE OLD OPENING.
Tho Risk Tony Took In Returning
tho Lost Diamond.


Not very long ago thorc lived In the
beautiful Wyoming Valley in fcnnsyl.
vsnia = hoy named Tony Tamlyn, or,
rather, he lived at the head of = great
r~Hvine, which cut its way down into the
valley through steep mountains.
The house In which Tony lived was .
it'll" one-stcry cabin Of two rooms. ono
Of thcm with littlo In II besides = cook
stove and table. the Other with nothing
In II except two beds. Perhaps I ought
10 say that this was tho house. that the
hoy ate and slept in, for he hrof out Of
doors, and NJ did his sister Apolionia.
except when She was needed to help her
mother.
In the gray, rocky bottom OF the ra-
vine raa . fierce little white brook that
mover had time 10 make itself deep. but
foamed and fro,hcd and sput,crcd all the
way down ~ the valley.
On the right rose n wall Of the m.
vine. sloping q little. and richly grccn
with hcmlock. and on the left . very
strange sight indeed. . ''straightup"
vail Of ycliowish rock about nifty fcet
high. c~heQucrcd with . row of ten great
k)ack squared. These squares are great
>ypcningA high enough ~ serve ~ door.
CAays for the tSllest RiAnts. and II you stop
inside your foot viii fall upon = = solid.
fat almost smooth black floor extending
back many hundreds Of feet, and di~ap.
pessin2 into the blackcst darkness. II
you look up there ID . smooth, shiny
hl~,k ~.,oilioO .ul suopor,Iuu hi. ~s.o-
derful ceiling ~ wide intervals, Are
enormous black pillars twenty-five foot
In circumference. spreading out . little
- they touch thc rvvf fS;; fifteen feet
above your head.
II you will look closely. you will so
that not only arc floors. ceilings and
pillars ell Of one material. but they are
slso actually In n piece. The material
II coal, and the openings are the en-.
trance 10 . long workcd-out coal mine.
II you were TO go to-day Ia yisi, .
mudern working coal mine, the only
part you could see above ground would
ture containing machinery for hauling
up aud breaking the coal. and you would
rave 10 60 into the earth some hundreds
Of feet. BY means of an elevator. To 6nd
tho place where the coal comes from.
Hut many years age, when people fret
hogan TO look for coal. they often found
II cropping out" At the surface. and At
this particular spot where Tony and
'.Ap" lived. there cropped U one Of the
largest veins of coal ever found --twcnty.
four feet thick. 10 II came about that
this rocky hill Was all dug out and
turned isto an asthsacitr palace.
Over on the other side Of ths hill Vas
. sc~, vertical opening OF shaft" and
every mornins Tony's father. Who wss
q miner. went down the rsvine and
around the bass Of the hili-s distance
of . mile and . half 20 his work. but
there Vas . much shorter Say II one
chosr To take IL, and tha, was through
the 'old opening"
Following the l~onadcsrf,ed "gans.
ways for . quarter Of . mile 90 80. you
would rome out upon tho great annuity
breaker. ~ith It's roar. and its dust and
It's culm-pilc. However. this ~ss re-
Rardcd ~ . dangerous thing to do. and
the children were hold repeatedly nsvcr
IN attempt H. but this caution wss hardly
necessary. for II ever they ven,urrd beck
among the dark pillars, tho blscknsss
WAS ~ dense. ard the feeling Of damp
aess ~ usplesasnt. that they ~err glad
enough 70 rua Into the sunlight again
All In and about the great doossays
IL the old opening, and among the stsss
chips OF ID. slippery lcdse osss.de. ssrs
found pieces containing 'tmprcssioos-
Of fcsns and other leaves that had four
ished green and frcsh nany years b.
fsre. and ayins. hSd left their ssipssr~i
0os6siA upDa tbs s~kA
1Thess uere al~o othss pseces oover~A
viii vhss might b. ihoasht the molAs
In vhkh dsisty eassd ~s-shei,s he'd
heea caSA Again skcre would come to
light small ssrtioas Of ~tree-ss~szA. path.
1000 end bark ell sgrned 70 sssae.
y1nsids ssre other sssaAes sd ksssu-
thiRss. chsnks ~ coal coss~d 9Th
SalpAas. that LOOKED sluso~s - ~ shsy
ses~ crested with ~golA-oshss chsnks
eossssA stth THAT srsasA Hike bar
sisAsA sosnA Of ses~l-ssA Must hesstl-
sul II ell sists at ''nlahvs" e0l. vtSA
sAsis osle<~ playing tsse sscA ssAss -
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