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Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-12-13

so far as the application OF the
work is concerned. is the same as
if he has owned the whole.
Under this contract nearly thousand
dollars worth of work was done on
and about the Panaca shaft, more than
three times as much as was required to
bring the claims of the company within
the provisions OF Art - OF the mining
law, and give them a vested right to the
ground which could be lost only by aban.
donment.
This would have been equally true il
there had never been any consolidation
contract or deed from Pulsifer to Ham
lin, and il it should be decided that the
locators held their claims according to
the mistaken calls OF the record, which
would put all the work which was done
on the segregated claim of Pulsifer who
took no part in it, independent of Art.
7 Of the mining laws which is to the same
effect, it has always been held in Cali
fornia, and in this State that work to
hold a mining claim need not be done
within the limits of the claim. It has
been held to be work on q claim to run
tunnel towards it through the land OF an.
other. If this is so, and IL Sherwood,
Hamblin and the others thought the best
method of prospecting their own claims
was to sink on the groupings exposed on
Pulsifer's claim, by means Of which
they might not only determine the value
of the vein, but trace it to their own
claims, the law permitted them to pursue
that course, il Pulsifer had no objection.
The only difference that would have re-
suited in this supposed case would have
been that Pulsifer' claim would have had
no share in the benefit of the work
though done exclusively within it's lin
its. But in fact the work was done for
that claim as we'll as the others; by Ham
bin who had an interest in it. and. as
above stated, the members Of the CON-
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-11-26

FICrITIoUs WEALTH.-The recent panic
shows the power of phantom. 1t is SIM
ply paper earthquake We can observe
no real cause for all this financial alarm.
The great industries of the land are not
dying nor dead The real wealth of the
country remains. Agriculture has flour
ished the past year, and the granarles OF
the land are full. Mother earth has open
ed her vaults below and has given us coal.
iron and salt, limited only by our capacity
to appropriate them. The white wing of
commerce has gladdened every sea and in
terchanged the products of every land.
The real fountains of wealth are not
disturbed. The public health of the coun
try has been graclously preserved and
labor has sung the song Of the ploug hman
and the harvest home The tide of travel
still rolls on without interruption. Schools
throng with students. The country puts
on beauty, and the city puts on strength.
Where is the trouble? 1t seems one of
those unexplained phenomena that at times
disturb the quiet and progress of the social
and business world 1t is doubtless the
result of the fictitious methods by which
I the business of the country is carried on.
The sure paths OF fortune, often winding
and laborous, are forsaken for direct
and quick way to wealth which is hazard
GUS and uncertain. If successful it is
brilliant and startling. So men get weary
of agriculture, of the anvil, of the loom,
of the mine and the plodding profession,
and dash away into the stock market and
the exchange to take the tide OF fortune
as it rolls. We admire the man who gets
rich out of a good, grand business, OF
which the world has need. The mason,
the builder, the physician, or the author
who makes a fortune from his own indus
try and skill, blesses the world and honors
himself He augments the worlds capital
He does not need to look every morning al
the reports of the gold market to know
how much he is worth.
If men would 60 to the solid mines o.
wealth which God has hidden for theil
work. we should know less of these tinan
cial commissions Wealth is not itself 1
fiction. 1t has a weak bottom. The lie
,, gitimate king Of fortune does not have hi'
throne in Wall street. He is a rural mon
arch and loves the fields. He puts on tn
miners cap and goes below and digs ou
the treasures of nation. His minister
are not cunning diplomatists, but veteran
, workers with plough, hammer, pen or ar
lists brush. The panic will subslde. Som
men will learn its lesson. Wealth Wi
: still live in the rocks, the streams and th
a soil, and from thence we shall still, wit
Gods blessing, be supplied.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-11-26

VAGARIEs OF STARFIsH.-One Of the
Williams College Natural History Expedi-
ton writes letter to the New York Post,
from which the following is an extract : In
going from Lynn to Nahant, we passed
over that magnificent beach, two miles
long, so we'll known to all Lynn and Ma
hant visitors, and which, all things con-
sidered is one of the finest beaches on our
Atlantic coast. Gently sloping, smooth,
covered with compacted, whitish sand, it
is one of the finest of bathing beaches
when it is covered with the tide, and one
of the finest places for driving when it is
bare. The horses hoofs and the wheels OF
the carriages, hardly more than indent the
sm both surface, so perfectly are the sands
on this beach compacted together. On
this long beach-the Lynn beach-we
fingered, and here we reaped rich har-
vest of shells which old ocean had cast up.
Here we found bivalves of various forms
and sizes, spindle-shells aud whelks; ano
now and then a starfsh and sea-urchlr
were stranded upon the beach and wer'
eagerly secured by our enthusiastic collec
tors. And even the delicate jelly-6she
were found in all their perfection wher
they had just been left by the waves an
the tide. One of the starfshes or =" five
, fingers" as they are often called, whic
was here secured, is of remarkable scier
tl6c interest, as it SO completely illustrate
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-11-26

AN OLD CoiN.-The Benares correspond
ent of the Mussoorie Season writes 20
have inst seen a curiosity of the olden
time, which, as relic of the palmy days
of Ind, [ must describe to your readers.
1t is a hundred mohur piece, a verltable
gold coin worth sixteen hundred rupees, OF
a grand and stately aspect, suited to its de-
scent and its great value. 1t is four
inches in diameter and half an inch thick
and its disk is covered with cabalistic
looking characters, some being bits OF
Persian poetry, and others, more prosaic,
setting forth its date. 1t belongs 70 the
reign of Aurungzebe, and bears date OF
the Mohammedan era which is about l07I
of ours. One wonders IN how many hands
great, noble, and famous-the old coin
has been since that date was first craven
on its golden face. 1t looks very fresh
and new, in spite of its eight hundred
years, and it is not likely to have been
much knocked about, as sixteen hundred
rupees is not a sum which changes hands
every day"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-11-26

COLORADO SCENERY.-The entire dis
tance from Denver to the Springs COM
prises an endless variety of scenery, which
startles the traveller who sees it tor the
first time, however familiar he may have
been with its descriptions. The weird
formations of red sandstone here first ap-
pear on the plains, and in the clear atmos-
phere the foot hills seem but few miles
distant. How deceptive distance may be
in Colorado must have been demonstrated
to the tourist who arrived at Greeley on
the 5 P. NJ. train, and announced his inten-
tion of taking walk TO the mountains
(seventy miles distant) before supper.
When overtaken by his comrade on
hor setback, some five miles from the town,
he was so disgusted to find the mountain no
nearer than when he started that he ac-
tually refused to step over one OF the small
irrigating bitches, saying that in such
country it might expand into river
The scenery over the Divide " is par
ticularly beautiful at this season. the earth
being covered with carpet of Persian
device, but woven in the loom of nature
and tinted with simple dyes. The deer
green of the low scrub vale, not over {
foot high; the bright scarlet Leaf OF thu
poison ivy, turned by the early frost; th'
wild sage, of gray-bluish green blending
with the natural tints of the dried yet un'
cut grass, made a tapestry more beautlfu
than the old Gobelin's.
The scenery is not the only attraction il
passing over the " Divide" The settler
house, herds of cattle, irrigating bitches
-four and saw-mills, all prove that Colorad
has made rapid strides in the past tel
years. Then much of her -four was brough
from the East in sacks, while it is nov
hipped to New York and Boston. No
that there is short crop in the East, bu
on account of the superiority OF Colorado
-four. l am told by practical housekeeE
ers there that bread and cake are alway
light, and that every edible for which fou
is used is made with half the labor as 8
the East.-CorreSpondent Inter-Ocean.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-11-26

THE WIT OF DoG.-Winks, for his
part, after an hour or two of it, got bored
with the levity of the conversation, and
rustled about so that he was put out OF the
carriage, to run for the benefit of his health.
He went along for a mile pleased enough,
gathering dust in clouds about him. But
when he intimated desire to be taken in,
the boys, hard-hearted beings. laughed in
the face of Winks. a run will do you
good, old fellow" said Dick, with cruel
satisfaction. A short time afterward,
am sorry to say, dreadful accident, ma
ture unknown, happened to Winks. He
uttered heart-rending shrek, and ap-
peared, Immediately after, making his way
toward the carriage, holding up one feath
ery paw in demonstrative suffering. The
anxious party stopped Immediately, anc
Winks made his way toward them, labor
iously limping, and uttering painful cries
But when, all adjust as he was, this hypo
critic was lifted into the carriage holding
up the injured member, and was laid upoI
/ the softest cushion to have it examined
words fail me to express the sardonlc grlI
with which he showed his milk-white teeth
There was no more the matter with tn
little villains paw, my gentle reader, thai
with yours or mine.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-11-26

ANEcDoTE OF ETHAN ALLEN-The ID
stract from the old Catamount tavern led
ger, preserved by George w. Robinson
Esq, of Bennington Center, on which is
Ethan Aliens Z" Grog Bill for the year
1885, and which our exchanges are gener-
ally copying, recalls little story that
Mrs. Billings, the landlady of the Bill
lings tavern, mile or two south of
this village and then one of the princi-
pal taverns between Massachusetts, line
and Lake Champlain, used to relate !:
" The General, coming up from visit to
Connecticut and hurrying back on account
of some alarming news, to meet with the
council of safety at the Catamount tavern,
stopped at Billings, and, when the landlady
came to the door, he asked her to bring
him a mug of flip (which meant gill OF
rum, fred.) As she handed him the grog
he said, You may make me another one,
madame Quickly returning with the
second ration, she inquired, Gen. Allen,
where is your man tor this ? Il think
madame, that am man enough for half a
pint of rum,' he quietly replied, as he de-
monstrated the fact by swallowing the
second mug.-Bennington Banner.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-11-26

How STORMS AcT.-A paper recently read
before the Academy of Science In New York
by Prof. Loomis gives some curious facts in
regard to the laws governing storms in this
country. Their almost invariable direction
is northeast. A westward travelling storm
is sometimes seen, but very rarely. The
rate at which such storms travel in crossing
the United States, until they get to Maine,
averages about thirty miles an hour, or about
700 miles day. There is, however, diff
ference at different seasons of the year. A
March storm marches at the rate of forty
miles an hour, while in April they settle
down to twenty-five miles. One singular
act given by the Professor is the habit OF
storms stopping when they reach Maine and
New Brunswick, as if they were tired, and
hanging about for a time. This is ascribed
to the high lands of the interior, which check
the further progress of the storm and set ii
back upon itself to find an outlet elsewhere
or gradually subside. The people of that
sections are certainly not envied those vista
tions.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-11-26

LOVE OF DREss,-Teach little girls to
make themselves as pretty as is becoming,
with all the puffs and bows and ribbons
that may be consistent with peace of mind
and unselGshnes, and untouched honor
but teach them also that this is but small
part not only of what pertains to the coz
duct OF life, but to the attainment OF posi-
tlon and worthy influence. The first thing
is to be. But Nature has so made men
and women that they care also to seem
to seem pleasant and desirable in each
others eyes. Who shall say that this,
too, is not powerful motive to excellence ?
Let US not scorn it, but use it. No father
but rejoices when his son turns from the
athletic but somewhat rude sports Of his
male mates, and begins to seek and to en-
l. JOY the gentler gayeties offemale society!
No mother but is pleased to think her
BARNS respected like the lave. In each
sex the desire to please, whether its own
or the other, is instructive and blameess.
Yet so delicate is it that it can hardly be
touched without danger. 1t can hardly
be guided except indirectly. To say to
| glIlS-dS l. udNC SOiuCtlulCS hCdlN ~ ooi0
men like this, men dislike that, therefore
be thus and so, is coarse and cruel and
servile. Yet can the honorable, the high
minded mother, teacher, friend, with digni-
ty and sweetness, guide her girl to wo-
manhood reserved, commanding. reason
able, however piquant, merry, and arch ;
guide her to q fitness for companionsnlp
with the wisest and the greatest of men
as well as for solace to the weak and er-
ring guide her into attractiveness and
grace and ornament, which are to be at
tanned only by virtue of unconsci BUSINESS
uprightness, and unhampered individuality
One is troubled to see beauty wasted a:
other gift OF God. A lovely little maider
making herself lovelier before the glass t.
greet and gladden. the eyes Of all behold
ers is not sorry sight, if beneath the visi
BILE loveliuess lie tender heart, minC
under good control, strong and active
will. But to see a silly little girl rely OIL
her colors, and contours, and neglect men
tai culture, social grace, one might almos
say Christian courtesy-this, indeed i
melancholy. Her selfish little heart, he
barren little mind, lord it already over he
cheap, superficial beauties, and will sool
leave nothing behind but dreary waste
Her little victories are temporary, her lit
tie failures lasting. She can never be
power. She can scarcely help being
: drag. Her companions must be amoni
5 the commonplace, not to say vul gar, TO
5 sle has nothing in common with the lofty
t and grand. Sne would gasp on the heights
She can assimilate nothing beyond the ma
5 terial There is danger that she will 500
be unable to rise above the mean, Will
there is yet time, let her learn that i
both sexes, in all ages and all worlds, t
be weak is miserable, and though petit
men and petty women may well enoug
t consort large souls love largely.-Ga
, Hamilton an Harper's Rnznr'
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-11-26

The FACTS ABOUT THE SILvER.-The
President of the United States has made
a prediction that the smaller silver coins
are about to come back into circulation,
and be has further predicted that "cur-
rency will never 90 below silver after
that" As there was cause that drove
out the silver in 1862, and has kept 1t out
ever since it is obvious that that cause
must be removed before the silver will
come back and it is not quite obvious
why the same cause, if it should be re-
newed, would not drive the silver out
again, even after it had come back. The
same thing that carried currency below
silver before will work the same effect
again if allowed to do so. The truth is
that principles as unerring as gravitation
determine all these things; and prediction
to be worth anything, must be squared to
these principles.
These smaller silver pieces were pur-
posely debased by the Mint laws, in order
that they might not under any circum
stances abandon the circulation. They
were not made a standard, but were pur
posely put in value far below the standard
They are not legal tender for debts, ex
cept to the amount of So. Their coming
back into the circulation ought to be, anc
will be, universally welcomed; but thai
will not be at all the restoration of tht
specie standard The specie standard il
the gold dollar, weighing 23.22 grains o
pure gold.
The standard silver dollar has alway
weighed 371.25 grains Of pure silver bu
a dollar in dimes, quarters or halves, onl.
weighs 1856 under the present Mint laws
SO that silver dollar is worth 9.42 pc
cent more than a nominal dollars wort
of the smaller silver coins But the silye
dollar itself is worth more than the stand
ard dollar, according to the present valu
Of silver in gold.-N. Y. Erening Post.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-11-26

the wonderful power which these animals |
have OF renewing portions OF their BODY
when they have been removed.
Here we found starfsh with one long
arm or finger and four very short arms,
the four SHORT ones all being of one and
the same length, showing to every one ac-
quainted with these curious animals that
the starfsh had once upon time lost four
of its arms smultaneously-bitten of, per-
haps by hungry fsh-and that the ami
NAL, with only mouth and one arm, had
reproduced four arms-now smaller, to be
sure-in th places from which the four
original ones had been removed. And
this is what starfshes are doing all the
time. No sooner do they lose an arm than
another begins to grow in its place. Some
kinds of star-like animals, as the " snake
tailed starfishes," F." or britte-stars, have the
power Of breaking themselves in pieces,
and then the portion which contains the
mouth will in time become a perfect ami
NAL
Even some kinds of starfshes proper
have this power-one kind, at least, known
as Luidia, which lives off the coast of Eng
land-and an amusing anecdote is related
Of one of these by that eminent, now la
mented, naturalist Professor Edward
Forbes The learned Professor went
dredging for this curious starfsh, Luidla,
and when he had secured one he laid 1t on
one of the seats in the boat but wher he
would take it to carry it home, he found
that the starfsh had broken itself in pieces
thus rendering it nearly worthless. Know
ing that these animals are quickly quoted
by being put in fresh cold water, the Pro-
fessor took with him, the next time he
went a-dredging, a bucketful OF such
water, that he might put the Luldia into
it as soon as it was caught. Seeing that
he had fine one in his dreg, or net, he
sank the bucket Of water in the sea nearl J
to the top, that by skiIlful movement he
might transfer the Luidia to the cold wa
ter so quickly that the animal would be IN
the cold water before it would have time
to 20 to pieces. Bnt the Luidia, suspect
ing, for augbt know, what its intended
fate was to be, Immediately broke itself in
to many pieces, and began to disappear
through the meshes of the net; and th'
Professor says, in his narrative of the oc
currence, that he imagined that ne saw oil
one of the pieces containing an eye wink
of derision as it passed out into the sea
The eyes of the fishes, you must know, arr
on the tips of the fingers or rays, one ey
to each tip, thus enabling them to loo
five ways at once. But the vision is be
lieved to be very imperfect.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-11-26

A STRANGE DEATHBED-The 400 train
from Worcester contained three persons, an
aged woman, her husband and her daughter.
The first mentioned evidently was an invalid,
and the care and tenderness with which she
was treated by the other showed plainly the
love which was in their hearts. A few min
utes after the train had left Worcester, 1t
was noticed that the mother had become
restless and uneasy, and it soon was evident
that she was in great distress. Every means
was taken to make her comfortable, but all
were in vain. When the train was half way
between Worcester and South Framingham,
she died in the arms of her daughter as
quietly as a child would fall asleep. They
laid her down on the seat covered with
shawl, and thus the journey to Boston was
continued. Many person who had not
seen the tragic event paused as he passed
through the car and looked curiously at the
bundle, but satisfied himself with the sug-
gestion that it was sleeping child. The
old lady, it was ascertained. had been for
three weeks patient at the Insane Asylum
in Worcester. She had improved so much
in health that it was determined 70 remove
her, and while doing SO she passed away
| Globe.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-11-26

die" said Captain johnson. kneeling
kindly over him. doctor" said the
wounded soldier, feebly, "will you write
to my mother and tell her l died bravely
doing my duty with my face to the foe,
and that l thought of her when dying p
Yes," said the doctor with dim eyes and
a husky voice, Il will write to her and
tell her, too" But suddenly sprlnglng to
his feet, with an indignant voice he said ::
Why, confound it, man, you're not hurt
a bit. It's only your canteen that's shot.
Get up, will you" Bradley raised up
slowly, felt himself all over, with an ex-
ceedigly foolish countenance, and craWled
back to his position amid the uproarous
laughter of the whole regiment. For
months after that, on the march and IN
camp, and sometimes in the stiffness OF the
night, you would hear voice in one dl
rectiou demanding: What shall l tel
your mother ?" And perhaps half dozeI
responses would be heard: " Tell her
died with my face to the foe," and then
Bradley would come out and hunt for th'
man who said it, He seldom found him
but when he did there was sure to be
fight.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-11-26

PERPLEXITIEs OF A Postal CLERK
Some of the ingenious puzzles submitted to
the distributing clerk in the Chicago Post
Office have been thus pleasantly sketched :
" Many of the superscriptions which come
through his hands are among the most
mysterious of ciphers-unintelligible from
the writer's not knowing what he wanted
to write, rather than illegible through care
lessness in writing. When a countryman
of Gustavus Vasa, for instance, still hiber-
mating upon his native hills, sends a let
ter to his brother in this country, and
writing from memory, memory not much
trained in letters at that, superscribes it
Seederabst lenco Ia,' he has succeeded in
mystifying the average human mind con-
siderably regarding the intended destina-
ton of his missive. Not at all the Post
Office clerk, who at once sees that Cedar
Rapids, Linn County, Iowa. is meant. So,
too, when from the Bremen bag a greasy
packet futters out, addressed TO Hate Lac
Co H. it is, no doubt, difficult to discern,
after the letters of the legend have been
evolved from the chaos in which stiff
list and vllllanous pen have lett them,
that the packet is intended for some one in
'Half Day, Lake County, Illinois, and
thither it therefore goes. But when the
only address to be made out from another
and that by no means sure, so vague arc
the forms Of the letters-is 'Cholyhutvillt
Co Ill., then it is that brain tells IN the
distributing business. Brains finally re
suit in solution of the palimsest, anc
Joliet, Will County, Illinois, is the inter
probation thereof. In like manner Yer
seaux incauque Co America is a super
scription which could have emanated from
nowhere else but Francis decided tc
mean Warsaw, Hancock County, and i
is found that Illinois has such town, il
such county, so the letter is forwarde'
thitLer, and has. doubtless, gladdened o
saddened the heart of its object befor
now."