Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-09-12
SAILS NOT GOLD THAT GILT
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For the past eight OF ten days a citi-
zen of Eureka has been wearing on his
shirt front a diamond pin; not an ordi.
nary diamond, but a young kohinoor,
of size and brilliance something like
that depicted on Tweed's bosom in
Nast's cartoons. The citizen vas strut
ting along Main street, last Saturday
afternoon, proudly conscious of being
the wearer of the bigge<t dilmond in
Eastern Nevada. 1t M altered not that
the jewel was not his W property;
he was just as proud of it "a If he was
its owner, and felt that the fict of his
being allowed to wear it Y4.a special
mark of trust and contidcu @ reposed
in him by the ma whose property 1t
was. The real owner has recently re-
tured from a visit to the enaeDnial,
and brought the pin with him. inform
ing his acquaintance here thai he had
paid a fabulous sum for it in Philadel.
phia, which vas religiously believed
by all to whom it was told. As we
have sail, the wearer of the diamond
was slrutting along Main street Satur
day afternoon-but his strut was only
for a brief hour. The eagle eye of
Comfy Assessor Powell fell Oh that
pin, and. though his sight was for the
moment dazzled by the brilliant rays
which the stone shed around promis
cuously, he was not to be deferred from
performing his duty to the strict let
ter. His mind was made up; he
would assess that pin. Approaching
the gentleman, he asked:
What do you value that pin at?"
"Oh, i don't know exactly" said the
man with the diamond, drawing him
self up proudly, Somewhere along
about seventeen thousand. | guess"
"Well, I'll jlst lake youroSnv alua-
ton for it and assess it al seventeen
thousand
"Oh, blazes, it amt my property.
You better go and see Mr.. Blank; |
don't want four or five hundred dol
lars taxes socked on ME for wearing
another mans PIN"
"All right" said the polite Assessor,
"I'l go aud see Blank" and away he
posted to find that gentleman. The
owner of the pin being found, he was
politely requested by the Assessor to
fix a valuation on the diamond for as
sessment as personal property. When
he had recovered from the fright and
astonishment occasioned by the re-
quest, he asked:
Can you assess a fellows wearing
apparel?"
Certainly not, but that Stone is not
wearing apparel"
''Isn't it part and parcel of the wear
ing apparel when us affixed to the
shirt, and would YOU assess the shirt
on q mans back?"
snow, look here" said the Assessor,
getting his mac up, ~ won't s and any
more of this foolishness; I'll just fix
the value of the thing myself"
"What do you appraise it at?"
Seventeen thousand dollars!"
"Great snakes! 1t lacks several dol
lars of being worth that; it's nothing
but a 'snide,' and / only gave eight
dollars for il at the Centennial"
The Assessor doubted; but An exam
ination of the stone by a jeweler con
tirmedthe assertion that it was "snide."
When the man who had been so COM
p~lacently wearing this seventeen thou
sand dollar diamond pin learned the
real state of the case, he said he wished
that he were dead, and that he realized
the full forca of that passage in the
Scriptures which declares that ''all's
not gold that glitters"-or diamond
either.