The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-09-22
MANKATo FREE PRESS.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER e, 1859.
The Matrimonial Mine.

Inc matrimonial NINE.
The other night, old Blinkus, seeing
his son getting ready to go to the
ball, proceeded to give him some
wholesome advice on women:
"TOm, my boy." he said, filling up
his pipe, Il see you are getting fancy
toys Oh for a ball. Now, / don't oh
ject TO balls, or any other kind Ut
amusement, but l want to give you Il
little advice. Tom. Look out for the
women you meet there. A man who
goes around after women is "a good
deal like u prOspector hunting for Il
mine. You see woman at u ball,
and she's all frizzled up and rugged
out in silk, and powdered and painted
wherever her skin shows itself. These
surface groupings look pretty well
but ii you locate on the strength of
'em you will get fooled every time.
a woman Of that kind is just like Il
sailed mine. Don't you take any
stock in her. She won't wash. Ii
You want to prospect such location
u little further, slide up and take an
assay of her conversation. All, my
boy! Three per cent. of intelligence.
twenty-five of fashionable etiquette,
and the rest irivolity. conceit, ignor
ance and vanity, mixed up in about
equal parts. Drop her right away.
Such rock won't pay to mill. II you
got patent for the claim you'd
never see u dividend come out of II
as long rs you lived. The assessments
to keep up the upper work in repair
and the lower levels from caving in
would land you in the poor house OH
Il lightning express, and some morn.
ing you'd wake up to find your claim
relocated 10y somebody else"
The old man shook the ashes out OF
his pipe and continued
sometimes you'll strick plain
girl in "a common sort OF dress. She
wont be good looking, may he, and
won't have any airs. The surface
indications won't show much, but
before you've prOspected long you're
likely to come To some good indica
tions that will pay to follow up. Ricll
stringers of conversational quartz
and spurs of intelligence showing ~
finer the deeper You 20. Pretty soon
you'll strike IL well.deiined VEN OF
practical sense. That's the sort of {;
mine To freeze to. Locate il as Sooi
~ possible, and get out your patent
papers. and you'll have u regular
bOnanZa to fall back on for the rest OF
your life. Ifyou think the good claims
are all taken up, You are badly fooled
This town s full Of EN-. I'm IN old
prOspector, and I've travelled around
Il great deal. If my time wasn'l
taken up with my own mine, l know
where there are lots Of prime lsca
tiOns only wanting some practical
miner to come along and develop. ~
wOman's heart, Tom, is mighty
curious thing. Take it in all it's
spurs. angles, ramifications and sinu
Osities, an it's more of Il puzzle and
mystery than the whole ComstOck
lode. Some fellow try u work it, and
by pure luck strike it rich right off
in places where old experienced min
ers never s'pOsed there was anything
Gittin' the title to the property amt
the only thing; it's keeping up the
proper developments, and seeing that
jumpers don't get in and encoach
upon your claim. Some of these
domestic mines require an awful lot
of machinery and some of 'em can be
run OH about nothing. Whenever
you can get one of 'em and find you
can't run it to your advantage, the
best thing to do is TO throw up your
job as SUI, erintendent and shut down
the works. Virginia City Chronicle.