The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-09-10
THE WEISER SIGNAL.
THtNATRINONIALNI NINE.
An Old Prospector Gives His Son Some
Good Points

Good Points.
The other night old Blinkins, see
ing his son getting ready to go to a
ball, proceeded to give him some
wholesome advice on women.
"Tom, my boy" he said, filing
his pipe, II see You are getting your
fancy toys on for ball. Now l
don't object to balls, or any other
kind Of natural amusement; but l
want to give you little advice,
TOm-loOk out for the women you
will meet there. A man who goes
round after women is good deal
like prospector hunting mine.
You see women at ball, and she's
all frizzled up and rugged out in silk
and painted whatever 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 women of that kind
Is just like sailed mine. Don't
you take any stock in her. She won't
wash. II you want to prospect such
location little further, slide up
and take an assay Of her con-
versation. All, my boy! Three
per cent of intelligence, rs Of
fashionable etiquette, and the rest
frivolty, conceit, ignorance 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
dividend come out of it as long as
You lived. The assessments to keep
the upper works in repair and the
lower works from Gavin in would
land you In the poorhouse on
lightning express, and some fine
morning you'd wake up to find your
claim relocated by somebody else I"
The old man shook the ashes out
Of his pipe and continued:
''Sometimcs you'll strike plain
girl In q common sort Of dress.
She won't be good looking, may be,
and won't have any airs. The surface
indications won't show much, but
before you have prospected long
you're likely to come to some good
indications that will pay to follow
up; rich stringers Of conversational
quartz and spurs Of intelligence show
ing up finely the deeper you go.
Pretty soon you'll strike a we'll
defined vein of solid practical sense.
That's the sort of mine to freeze
to. Locate it as soon as possible,
and get your patent papers, and
you'll have a regular bonanza to
1all back on for the rest of your life
If you think the good claims are all
aaken up, you are badly fooled.
This town is full EN-. I'm an old
prospector, and I've travelled round
= good dealr II my time wasn't
taken tip with my own mine, know
where there are lots Of primo locations
only waiting for some practical
miner to come alodg and develop.
A woman's heart, Tom, is mighty
curious thing. Take it in all its dips
spurs and angles, qualifications and
etneosities, and it's more Of puzzle
nd mystery than the whole Com
stock lade. Some fellows try to
work it; and by pure luck strike 1t
rich right of, in places where old,
experienced prospectors never sup
posed there was anything. Citing
the title to the property amt the
only thing. it's keeping up the
developments, and seeing that
jumpers don't get in and encroach
on your claim. Some of these
domestic minss require an awful lot
pr money for machinery, and some
of them can be run with but little
waste. Whenever you get one of
'em and find you can't run it to adj
vantage, the best thing to do is to
throw up your job as superintendent
and close up the ks.-Vinginia,
New, Chronicle.