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Show THE HEROISM OF MINERO. Writer Payn Eloquent Tribute to Workers In Rocky Mountains. In "Winter In tho ltocky Mountains," Kathorlno Sumner pays a tribute to the miners of the mountains. From tho article, which nppears In the Ern Macazlnu, wo quote: "The hardiest and most courageous of the human race are the miners who Inhabit tho mountainous regions. They peud their lives delving, for the gold which almost Invariably passes from their rough, toll-stained hands to enrich en-rich tho already rich. They aro used to danger. It Is a part of their lives. A promising claim, half way up the mountain side, must not be abandoned bccauio a quarter ot a mile of thick timber nar it has been hurled down Into the canon by an avalancho the previous winter. They tako tho chance of snow slides as thoy do that of warming giant powder, and picking out missed shots. Dally they snow-Ehoo snow-Ehoo across the track of avalanches, taking the risk knowingly. Nothing but the event Itself will stop them, and then the end of all risks for thorn. "It is not so much what the mountaineers moun-taineers are In their dally lives that make them remarkable. It Is what thoy are capable of when a crisis orlse8. If a comrado Is overcome by noxious vapors and (alia In tho stopo or drift, or Is Imprisoned In a burning rnlno, or burled In a slide, It Is amazing amaz-ing and pathetic to witness tho self-abnegation self-abnegation that Is shown by tho mountain moun-tain miners. They rush to the assistance assis-tance of unfortunates, laying down their own lives with absolute disregard. dis-regard. No risk Is considered when thero Is the slightest chance ot rescue for a comrade, or of even tho recovery recov-ery of a burned, or mangled, or frozon thing for a woman to mourn over." |