| Show r r A REPRESENTATIVE MAN l In yesterdays DCMOCKVT there was l brief mention of asnowslido in Bayhorse p 1 Idaho which carried away the cabin or s 0 R Putney A rescuing party found t I only three logs left and the old man a tightly wedged between them dead 1 Possibly the dead man had no imrao fts t dlato relatives to mourn his death and t y beyond the kindly wishes of his brother miners who will tenderly bear him this t-his grave and sympathizing say over it i Good by Old Put1 you always kept a i Htifl upper lip ho will pass like many another of the pioneers in the grand I army of labor Into the realm of for gutfulness But as a representative man of the venturous advance guard of the working column that has penetrated the mountains and laid bare the precious metals which furnish the lifeblood of the world let us top by the way to cast a pebblo on his lonely grave One sometimes some-times feels a wrongful contempt for f men as they congregate in great cities intent only on gratifying mere amma appetites But as they are found facing 4 danger and death in tho mountains at 7j piospectors and working miners one t w learns to respect if hot to admire their hclfielianco their courage and very often their supeiioi intelligence Eulogy frequently out of proportion to r I a Ii t1 their deserts Is lavishly bestowed upon public men whose positions l bring them Into conspicuous notice But the lonely prospector in the mountains I whose personal qualities and services asa I as-a benefactor of the moo really entitle I Rlln to more credit falls by the way and I none so poor as to do him reverence Not 1 to tho cities but among the pioneers of civilization in the wilderness nnd on the sea must wo look for the highest typo or practical manhood Not all whom we fled in the van of the worlds labor column are heroes but there is n larger proportion propor-tion of them to be found there than in the crowded thoroughfares hero scrubs are in the majority Cabins rather than palaces are the places where kingly men are to be found Today unnoticed and unknown except to u few congenial con-genial souls there ate to bo found In the mountains of Utah true knights of I labor who walk the hi > lfl places of f the earth and with pick and powder blast wrest from Nature her lockguarded treasures It is a relief and a pleasure to nit down with them in their log cabins of an evening to note tho well thumbed books on the hanging shelf to ifteii to their intelligent manly comer ation und to know that in danger and peril Incident to the life they lead they are equal to every contingency to which their comrades 01 themselves may he exposed ex-posed |
