Weekly Trinity journal., 1877-05-12
MATRIMONIAL MINES.

The other night old Bhnkus, seeing his
son getting ready to go to a ball, pro-
ceeded to give him some wholesome ad-
Sice on women.
TON, my boy" be said, filing up
his pipe, II see you are getting your
togs on for ball. Now l don't object to
balls, or any other kind OF natural smuse
ment but l want to give you little ad
vice, Tom look out for The women you
meet there. A man who goes round af-
ter women is a good deal like a prospect
or hunting for mine. You see a wom-
a at ball, and she's all frizzled up and
rugged out in silk, and powdered and
D linted wherever her skin shows itself.
These surface groupings look pretty well,
but If you locate on the strength of 'em
you'll get fooled every time. A woman
Of that kind is just like sated mine.-
Don't you take any stock in her. She
wont wash. If you want to prospect such
location little further, slide up and
take an assay of her conversation. All,
my boy ! Tnree per cent. ofintelligence,
twenty 1--we of fashionable etiquette, and
the rest friyolity, conceit, ignorance and
vanity, mixed up in about equal parts.
Drop her right away. Such rock won't
! ay TO mill. Ieyou got patent for the
aim you'd never see a dividend come
out of it as long rs you lived. The as
se>sments to keep the upper works in re-
pair shd the lower levels from Gavin in
would land you in the poor-house on d
lightning express, and some fine morn
ing you'd wake up to find yer claim re,
10 ated by somebody else"
The old man shook the ashes out of hi.
pipe, and continued:
Sometimes you'll strike = plain gin
in a common sort OF a dress. She won't
be 60 ID looking, may be, and won't have
any airs. The surface indications won't
show much, but before you We prospected
long you're likely to come TO some good
indications thatll pay to follow up. Ricl
etringers Of conversational quartz anC
spurs OF intelligence showing up finely
the deeper you go. Pretty soon you !
strike wcll-defned vein Of solid prsct
cal sene. That's the sort off mine tC
freeze to. Locate it as soon as possible
an get out your patent papers, and you
have regular bonanza to fall back or
for the rest Of your life. If you think th,
good claims are all taken up, you AT,
badiy fooled. This towns full OF 'em
I'm an Old prospector, and I've Travelled
round a good deal. If my time wasn'
taken up with my own mine, | know
where there are lots Of prime -location
only waiting for some practical miner tt
come along and develop. A woman
heart, Tom, is a mighty curious thing
Take it in all its dips, spurs, angles, ram
idcations and sinuosities, and its more o
apuzzle and mystery than the Who'll,
Comstock lode. Some fellows try tc
work it, and by pure luck strike it rich
right of, in places where old, eIperienc.
I'd prospectors never s'posed there wa,
anything. Citing a title to the proper.
ty amt the only thing It's keeping uI
the property developments, snd seeing
that jumpers DON'T get in and encr.ac b
on your claim. Some of these domestic
mines require an awful lot OF money fol
machinery, aud some of 'em can run on
about nothing. Whenever you get one
OF 'em and find you can't run it to sd.
vantage, the best thing to do is to throw
up your job as Superintendent and shut
down the works. Virginia Chronicle