Show DINING DANGERS T3 special to the DEMOCRAT from Silver Sil-ver Ciy yesterday telling of the death of two miners by an explosion in the Eureka mine is bi v f sh evidence of the many dangers atteu Is I t upon the extraction of the precjUS atals from the earth These two nine > Kennelly and Sullivan Sul-livan ntu 1 r what hundreds of men do oacii ny n < l of which we who rarely if ever ei or a mine never think loading a hole preparatory to blasting Miners miy be rough men but they have to be men first of all to be niLiOrs The pick and the drill are their fyjjs but they are used where the sunlight never has been and never will be They are used in a semidarkness and in their use there is an ever present and constant danger The fate of these two men tells of the danger and the manner in which they met their death is conjectural and based on supposition In the morning they went to their work in health and strength but the evening saw not their return while their fellow workingmen work-ingmen carried the news of their sad fate along with their dead bodies Was to there a man on that night shift who did not say himself Perhaps the morrow may see me in deaths embrace as I now see them 1 Nor is the danger arising I I I from the use of explosives the only one to which the miner is subject for at almost any moment the earth may settle and entomb him alive True these are the r i i dangers of rarer occurrance but they are there and no miner escapes the deadly lead poisoning entirely and how many strong men we see become emaciated emaci-ated and seem but shadows of their past selves One needs but look at the inmates of our hospitals to see the sad work which this same poisoning does to the miner who is ever in danger Can we wonder then that the miner demands de-mands a higher wage than his fellowman fellow-man who tills the soil Is he not entitled en-titled to it and would it not be wrong to ask him to accept the same wage that those who encounter less danger accept |