Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-12-23
Money AND wHAr II AAKEs
OF a NAN.

II Is truly remarkable what q differ
enc money will mako with some men.
We have an excellent opportunity now
Of observing the great change. since .
goodly number Of our citizens have re-
Gently become well-to-do BY the late rise
in stocks, Who were comparatively poor
before the lights Of miners candles cast
their rays on the great BONANZA We
will not SPEAK Of tho man who still holds
on 10 his stock. but OF him who has sold
out
Our first illustration will be Of the
man who bought California at about $40
and sold when it reached 5000. He hangs
around the stock board every morning
watching each quotation with the inten-
sity Of a bird OF prey watching its vic
tim. When California makes its ap-
pearance his c~ountenance will undergo
q marvellous change, IL assume . hsnd-
ish expression; his eyes wander over the
figures rapidly at first. then slowly; then
he draws nearsr and squints; at last,
when there Is no longer room for q
doubt, he rushes fmntically across the
street. calls for q glass Of beer. seats
himself at a table. pulls forth . piece Of
paper and q pencil and then commences
to figure up what he has Lost by selling
too o Oh! for the quill OF q Dick
ems. that We might draw q pan picture
OF his thoughts. He Is the mar who
never stops to think that he has made
Sl60 on q share. He only takes into
consideration the fact that the stock is
worth $500 new and that he sold when
it reached 5000. His friends handy him
and he is utterly miserable.
Our second illustration Is the man
who got out Of Consolidated Virginia at
its highest figures. He In the happy
man: he 10 q prophet. Ask him and he
will tell you that In less than q week
you can buy any stock on the lead for
$50. Every man that he meets he shakes
by the hand. invites him to drink. tells
him how he bought at $50 and sold for
$500. The lucky seller is always very
cautious not TO conhds his lucky
venture 10 Q man who Is Hat broke. Oh,
mol Not he. Should q dead broke hap
pen to strike him for a piece, he Ia re-
pulsed. He, the lucky. has all his
money still in stocks. so he says. He
positively hasn't q $40 piece about him;
but IL half n dollar will do, he'll give 1t
up. And so it goes. When the lucky
man hadn't but $40. he would give up
$40 Of il 10 q suffering friend; but now
how different. He wants 10 go to the
Centennial; wants 10 make . trip around
the world. In fact he really don't know
what / o d, with either himself or his
money.
Our third and last illustration Is q
true one taken from life; but no more
50 than the previous onss There Is a
printer employed up in Virginia City,
who for the last i've years has not had q
dollar to call his own. Somehow. last
October, he made a raise OF $3.50. and
he then made up his mind 10 salt u doun.
He salted il by putting II in Best K
Belcher at SiG-buying 30 shares. Its
better than any show 10 watch that man
now. Every morning before the list
makes its appearance, be appears to be
on pins and needles, and his proof
shows horrible errors in composition.
just as soon as the quotation appears he
Is off. No more work for him that day.
When no goes to San Francisco he says
he will hire n suit Of rooms ut the Grand
Hotel. He used to stop at the What
Cheer when he visited tbs Bay before.
"some NAV weep, and some may laugh"
81 runs the world away"
So it is with men upon whom wealth is
suddenly thrust. Some weep because
they have not enough. Others laugh
becauss their less lucky brethren have
o equalled than in the strife for
wealth. and others still bemoan their
fate because all their friends. relatives
and acquaintance have not become rich
as well. SC that they may never have to
assist them.
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