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Updated: May 26, 2025
It was here that the problem of working frozen ground was first confronted and solved; here that the first "miner's law" was promulgated, the first "miners' meeting" dealt out justice.
He tells me that Harvey is an enemy of mankind; a man who is seeking to disrupt civilization; that every word he utters is intended to inflame the minds of the people; to incite them to anarchy. "And Harvey, can his words be false when his actions are so generous? What prompted him to give the miner's widow a thousand dollars?
"Have you two got any knives?" inquired Mr. Wilder, looking at Tom and Larry. "Sure," replied Larry, and he told of the old gold miner's presents and his advice about always carrying the pieces of thong with them. "Silas is no fool," smiled the ranchman. "If you remember all he told you, you won't get into trouble.
His great, warm personality enfolded her; he worked tirelessly, as though he was determined to infuse her numb veins with his own vigor. When the prospector would have aided him, he wished to do everything alone, and directed the miner's attention to Frederic Morganstein, who showed signs of returning consciousness. But the intrepid little man failed to respond.
"She is a young woman with a mission a sort of female Moody and Sankey rolled in one and she calls herself the Miner's Friend. She is so full of good works, don't you know, that she has not time for domestic duties; and so Carlyon pere and Carlyon frere have a roughish time of it." Malcolm's thoughts instinctively reverted to his mother.
The man beside her holding his broad brimmed miner's hat in his hands, his unused gold pan, pick and shovel, at his feet. For a background a tent, a bit of the river, and bridge. In the "After" picture the scene was changed. Dejection was depicted on both faces. Their clothing was soiled and their implements had seen usage, but were now flung upon the ground in disorder.
The prospect was one of great hardship and even suffering to those not accustomed to a miner's life; but to these hardy men of Alaska, inured as they had been to the cold of this northland, it was a real pleasure trip which was looked forward to with keenest interest.
Take Colonel Pa'tridge's fine house on High Street, stuck in right between Miner's meat shop and old Bill Jones' drygoods an' groceries an' I don't know which is the commonest lookin' of the two." "There you air right, Miz' Petrie," agreed the Widow Beasely. "Miner's got so dirty around his shop I mean that I hate to buy a piece of meat there."
When finally the features stirred, disturbed by forces far down, he had come to that make-believe orchard of spruce twigs. After a while he folded the drawing to put it away, but as his glance fell on the contents of the box, he laid the plan on the table to take up the miner's poke tucked in a corner made by a packet of letters, and drew out Weatherbee's watch.
One of two soldiers whom we met coming from the opposite direction pointed at what looked like a small miner's cabin half covered with earth, screened by a tree, as the next headquarters which we were seeking in our progress. It was not for sightseers to take the time of the general who received us at the door of his dug-out.
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