The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-11-02
A Stock Chapter.
The Nevada MOnthlY,l

LIN ANSN"N"
Behold the prospector who VANDERBILT over
the face of the earth.
He traverseth the hills and p.icketh the
BARI en- mountains with his pick.
The pangs Of hunger grippe his bowels in the
morning, at night he lieth down with only a
blanket to cover him.
And the graybacks come forth and rend
him.
And he llfteth up the voice of lamentation
in the wilderness and cries aloud to heaven:
-"Why hath this affection come upon me,
and why do the terrors OF hell encompass me
around about?'
And while he sleeps the wolves devour his
substance.
And when he tindeth the groupings he dig
geth in the ground and tacketh up the loca-
ton notice on the board.
The he hieth to the valley and saith to the
capitalist:
"Eearken unto me, for l struck it big.
"Here are the samples from the ground,
and behold the gold maketh lousy the rock
with richness
And the twain return, to find others toiling
upon the claim.
And the prospector graspeth his gun, say
ing:
sect yc gone from here, for this is holy
ground"
And a fire coming out of the bush smites
him on the hip, and he calleth with a loud
voice:
IL am done for; pull of my boots"
And they hasten to take oil his boots, and
the fragrance of his socks reacheth even unto
heaven.
And he giveth up the ghost and is gathered
to his fathers.
And behold others work the mine, and they
float the stock in the cities of the valleys.
And all buy thereof. The washwomen who
worry the raiment Of the wealthy, the clerks
who measure tape, and the impoverished
devils who write for the press.
"Let us 60 in before the boom cometh."
And the assessment is levied, and they cry
aloud:
What thing is this that coine.h upon lis ?"
And no one can answer them.
And with one accord they all pungle, say
ing:
''This is the last
And in TO days another call from the main
offices comes unto them, and they rend heir
clothes and blaspheme nightly.
And the insiders make merry, one with an
other, saying:
behold, This hole in the ground will bring
great riches"
And the superintendent writeth another
letter, proclaimlng the wealth of the north
crOsscul:
"3ehold, the breast is in ore and the slopes
drop fairness.
The bonanza cometh in Oh the south side
and chlOrides proclaim their greatness"
And the stockholders lit up their nose
and say:
.'Behold, We smell the dividends close at
hand"
An they held OH even until the voice of the
caller in the board proclaimed not the name
OF their stock unto them, aud they are sore
troubled and say among themselves:
Are not they the deceivers of mem"
And they curse the day that they were
born, and cry aloud
"Where are these men?
Let us lay hands upon them and smit'
Them"
And they searched diligently among thu
habitations of the money changers, and flint
them not.
Because they are in the country of til,
Ga Is, making merry at the chief capital.
And they return not,and the mine remain
IA hole III the ground, two fatiioms deep, unit
this day.
Hearken ye TO the voice Of wisdom, AM
observe diligently the words of the prophet
That thy name may be great in Israel, an
thy possessions increased upon earth.
DUBLIN, Oct, ct. w. Sullivan, mem