Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-09-12
CALLS NOT GOLD THAT GILT
TEgkS.S

For the past eight or ten days a citi-
zen of Eureka has been wearing on his
shirt front a diamond pin; not an ordi-
nary diamond, hut a young kohinoor,
of size and brilliance something like
that depicted on Tweed's bosom in
Nast's cartoons. The citizen was strut.
ting along Main street, last Saturday
afternoon, proudly conscious of be ing
the wearer of the biggest diamond in
Eastern Nevada. 1t matter-d not that
the jewel was not his own property;
he was just as proud of it a. if he was
it's owner, and foit that the fact of his
being allowed to wear it Ha.a special
mark of trust aud cOn.idence reuOSed
in him by the man whose properly it
was. The real owner has Recently re-
tured from Il visit to the Centennial,
and brought the pin with him. inform
ing his c~quaintances here that he had
paid a fabulous sum for it in Piiladel
phia, which vas r%eligiousiv believed
by all to whom it was told. As we
have said, the wearer of the diamond
was strutting along Main street Satur-
day afternoon-but his strut was only
for a brief hour. The eagle eve of
Comfy Assessor Powell fell on that
pin, and. though his sight was for the
moment dazzled by the brilliant rays
which the stone shed around promis
cuously, he "a 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:
6 What do Wi, vyolrtn thof min of 9 -
ooh, l don't know exactly" said the
man with the diamond, drawing him
self up proudly, ~''somewhere along
about seventeen thousand, l guess"
"Well, Til jnst take your "n valna-
ton tor i. and assess it at seventeen
thousand"
"Ob, blazes, it amt my property.
You better go and see Mr.. Blank; 1
don't want four or five hundred dol
lars taxes socked on me for wearing
another mans pin."
"All right" said the polite Assessor,
"Il go and 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 it's affixed to the
shirt, and would you assess the shirt
on a mans hack?"
"Now, look here" said the Assessor,
getting his mad up, 81 won't sand any
more of this f~oolishness; I'll just fix
the value of the thing myself"
"What do you appraise it at?"
"Seventeen thousand dollarsw
"Great snakes! 1t lacks several dol
lars of being worth that; it's nothing
but a 'snide,' and I only rave eight
dollars for it at the Centennial"
The Assessor doubted; but al exam
ination Of the stone by a jeweler con-
frmedthe assertion that it was ''snide."
When the man who had been so COM
placently wearing this II thou
Sand-dollar diamond pin learned the
real state of the case, he said he wished
that he We're dead, ard that he realized
the full force of that passage in the
Scriptures which declares that Calls
not gold that glitters"-or diamond
either.