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Show COMPLETE SILENCE. Tn the ear accustomed to the con stant sound of a living world, Hn stillness of a coal mine, where tb miles of crosscuts and entries and the unyielding walls swallow up al sounds and echo Is a silence that U com dote; but, as one becomes ac ; customed to the silence through loin: hours of solitary work, sounds become audible thai would escape an ear lesj trained The trickling murmur oI the gas; the spattering fall of a lump of coal, loosened by some mysterious j force from a cranny In the wall; tho sudden knocking and breaking of a stratum far up In ihe rock above, or j the scurry of a rat off somewhere in the darkness strike on Ihe ear loud and startliugly. The eye. too, become- trained to penetrate the darkness; but the darkness Is so complect e that there is a limit the limit of the rays cast by the pit lamp. Joseph Husband Hus-band In the Atlantic. |