Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1854-01-26
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TEN COMMANDMENTS.

his tail his whole body has passed before me; and
followed him till his huge feet stood still before
rusty clabboard shanty; then with his trunk ex-
i tended, he pointed to candle-card tackled upon
shnsle, as though he would say read, and Tread
| THE MINERS TEN COMMANDMENTS.
| l. Thou shalt have other claim than one
| II. Thou shalt not make unto thyself any false
claim. nor any likeness to mean man. by Jump
ing one: whatever thou fndeth on the top above,
or on the rock beneath in a crevice underneath
the rock-for | am a jealous dog and will visit
the miners round with my presence, to invite them
on my side ard when they decide against thee
thou shalt have take thy pick, and thy pan, thy
shovel and thy blankets, with all thou hast and go
prospecting" both north and south, to seek good
diggings; and thou shalt find none Then when
thou has returned, in sorrow thou shalt find that
thine old claim is worked out, and no pile made
thee, to hide it in the ground, or in an old boot
beneath thy bunk, OF in buckskin or bottle under
meath the cabin. but has paid all that was in thy
purse away: worn out thy boots and thy garments
SO that there is nothing good about them but the
pockets, and thy patience be liked unto thy gar
ments and at last thou shalt hire thy body out
TO make thy board and save thy bacon
Ill. Thou shalt not go prospecting before thy
claim gives out. Thou shalt not take thy money,
nor thy gold dust, nor thy good name, to the gam
bling table in vain for mote twenty one, roulette
faro, lansquenet and poker, will prove to thee that
the thou puttest down, the less thou shalt
take up; and when thou thinkest of thy wife and
children, thou shalt not hold thyseIf guiltless, but
insane.
4 ". Thou shalt not remember what thy friends
do at home on the Sabbath day. lest the remem-
brance may not compare favorably with what
thou doest. Six days thou mayest dig pick
all that thy body stand under; but the other
day is Sunday, when thou shalt wash all thy dir
ty shirts, darn all thy stockings tap all thy boots
mend all thy clothing. chop all thy whole weeks
ire-wood. make up and bake thy bread and boil
thy pork and beans, that thou wait not when thou
returnest from thy long tour weary For in six
days labor only thou canst not work enough to
wear out thy body in two years but if thou work.
est hard on Sunday also thou canst do it in six
months and thou, and thy son. and thy daug ghter.
thy male friend and thy female friend. thy NOR
ais and thy conscience be the better for it /;
but reproach thee; should thou return with
4! thy wornout body to thy mothers fresde, and
thou strive to justify thyself because the trader
and the blacksmith, the carpenter and the mer-
chant, the taors, Jews. and buccaneers defy God
and civilization, by keeping not the Sabbath cay,
and wish not for day of rest, such memory,
youth and home made halowed.
V. Think more of all thy gold and how thou
canst make it fastest than how thou wilt enjoy
it, after thou hast ridden, roughshod, over thy good
old parents precepts and examples, that thou may
est have something to reproach and sting thee.
when thou art left alone in the land where thy
fathers blessing and thy mothers love hath sent
thee
VI. Thou shalt not kill thy own body by work
ing in the rain, even though thou shall make
enough to buy physic and attendance wi,h-nei-
,her shalt thou kill thy neighbors body by shoot
ing him except he give thee offence-,hen upon
the principle of honor, without principle thou
mayest even though by keeping cool" thou hadst
saved his life and thy conscience.
VII. Thou shall not grow discouraged, and think
of going home before thou hast made thy "pile !"
because thou hast not struck lead" rot found
"a rich crevice, nor sunk hole upon pocket"
lest in going home thou shalt leave four dollars
per day, and 60 to work, ashamed at fifty cents,
and serve thee right for here, by staying, thou
mightest strike a lead and fifty dollars day. and
thy manly seIfrespect, and then go home with
enough TO make thvself and OTHERS happy
VIII. Thou shalt not pick out specimens from
the company pan and put them in thy mouth
IN thy purse. Neither shalt thou take from thy
cabin mate his gold dust 10 add 10 thine, lest he
find thee out; and straightway call his fellow mi
ners together and they hang thee, or give thee
fifty lashes and two hours 10 leave the country,
brand thee like horsethief with r upon thy cheek
to be "known and read of all-Californians in par
ticular. And if thou steal a shovel OF pick or
pan, from thy toiling fellow-miner, hanging will
be too good for thee, and thou ask to be kicked
and cowhded for thy pains. and forever hang
down thy head
TX Thou shalt not tell any false tales about
good diggings in the mountains to thy neighbor,
that thou mayest benefit thy neighbor who hath
mules and provisions. and tools, and blankets he
cannot sell-lest in deceiving thy neighbor, when
he returneth through the snow with naught save
MS rife he presenteth thee it'll the contents there
of and like dog thou shall, fall down and die
X Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors gold,
nor his claim, nor undermine his bank in the fol-
lowing lead nor move MS stake, wash the
tailings from his sluice's mouth, nor throw up
dirt upon his bank. And if thy neighbor have his
family here and thou love and covet mis- daugh-
ter's hand in marriage, thou shalt pop the ques-
ton like man, lest another more manly thar
thou art, should step in before thee, and thou
ct her in vain; and in the anguish of disappoint-
ment. thou shalt quote the language of the great
and say, Let her rip and thy future life be that
of poor, lonely, despised and comfortess bache-
lor.
The end.
A LITTLE OSE THRowS IS-Thou shalt not
dig up public road, unless thou ranst afford TO
fix il again good as before, otherwise thou in
jurest the teamster TO benefit thyself and he curse
thee every time he passeth. Amen.
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