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Show GREAT SINGERS WERE MINERS Underground Workers Have Contributed Con-tributed Largely to the Ranks of Famous Operatio Artists. A foreign dispatch calls attention to a wonderful phenomenon which has been manifesting itself In the coal fields of Belgium and In other mining districts. From the ranks of the miners, the underground, molellko workers, there has come a series of great singers, not Just one or two, but a number. The great Dufresne, Bounties, Ansseau of the Opera Continue of Paris, Dcscamps, a famous fa-mous Faust, nnd many others were all miners. Of couse, we all know of the unusual rise to fame of the rollicking rol-licking Harry Luuilcr, whose Irrepressible Irre-pressible lilting mirth had Its origin In a Scotch mine. But these conspicuous conspicu-ous examples are not all. It is reported re-ported that in tne conl mines of Liege the men have the habit of singing its they work, and often with magnificent magnifi-cent effect. |