Telecomics presents the miner forty-niner.

I spent five months with a wholesale grocery and miners supply firm, Elder and Smith, Fourth and J streets, Sacramento, and three months in the mines as a drummer, or solicitor and collector for the same firm.

You know how?" "I helped a miner man once for a week.

The Modern message of the miner prophets.

That which we consider the most delicious and exhilarating portion of our common beverage, porter, contains carbonic acid gas, commonly known by the "spirit," and which the poor miners dread with the utmost horror, like the Arabian does the destructive blast of the simoon.

We ascend out of the gloomy mountain-nightsunlight flashes around"Good luck to you!" Most of the miners dwell in Clausthal, and in the adjoining small town of Zellerfeld.

"I should recommend yer," the miner called 'Zekel said, as the party were talking matters over that evening, "to rig yourselves out miner fashion.

When their tired eyes had got accustomed to the mingled smoke and glare, the travellers could see that in the space beyond the card tables, in those back regions where the pianola reigned, there were several couples twirling aboutthe clumsily-dressed miners pirouetting with an astonishing lightness on their moccasined feet.

All the pent-up love of the men for their own little ones from whom they had been parted for so long they lavished on the tiny stranger, but all his affection and his whole heart belonged to the rough miner soldier who had brought him in.

And had I not heard lonely miners tell of times when they gladly would have walked ten miles to shake hands and talk a few moments with a child?

They never have loved each other, and in their present mood it wouldn't take much to set the miners alight.

They carried a kettle, an axe, some quinine, a box of the carbolic ointment all miners use for foot-soreness, O'Flynn's whisky, and two rifles and ammunition.

Many others, after a time, contract coal-miners asthma and consumption, which gradually undermine their health.

That's always the way with these miner chaps.

In the delay before starting, we observe several miners descend through the black and most suggestive trap-door, each bearing a tin can in his mouth, as a good dog carries a basket at the bidding of his master.