Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1891-09-05
THE MATRIMONIAL MINE.
An Old Prospector Gives His sor
Some Good Points.

The other night old Blinkins, seeing
his son getting ready TO 80 TO ball,
proceeded to give him some wholesome
advice oh women.
"Tom, my boy" he SAID, filling his
pipe, II see you are getting your fancy
sogs on for u ball. Now | don't Object
TO balls, or any other kind OF natural
amusement; but want TO give You
little advice, Tom--iook out for the
women sou viii meet there. A man
Who goes round after women is good
deal like prosnecior hunting mine.
You see woman ut ball. and she's
NIL frizzled up and rugged out in silk
and painted wherever her skin shows
itself. These surface groupings look
pretty we'll, but il you locate on the
strength of 'em yoa'll get fooled every
time. A woman of that kind il just
like saited mine. Don't you take any
stock in her She won't wash. II YOU
waat to prospect such location a
little further, slide up aud take nm
assay of her conversation. All, my
hoyl Three per cent ri intelligence,
Is OF fashionable etiquette, and the
rest friyolty, conceit, ignorance and
vanity mixed up in about equal parts.
Drop her right away. Such rock won'i
pay TO mill. II You got patent Tor
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 work.
- tanA : L.
poorhonse on lightning express, AM
come fine morning you'd wake up I,
ind your claim relocated by somebod,
else"
The old man shook the ashes out .
his pipe and continued;
"sometimes you'll strike plain cir
in common sort OF dress. Sh,
won't be good looking, may be. aus
won't have any airs The surface in
dieations won't show much, but be
fore you have prospected long YOUR
likely 10 come TO some good indica
tions that viii pay To follow up; fiel
slripgers OF conversational quartz an,
spurs Of intelligence showing up iinel
the deeper You 20. Pretty soon you'll
strike well.detined vein of solid prac
teal sense. That's the sort OF min
10 freeze 10. Locate IL as soon rs pos
sihla, and get your patent papers, an,
You'll have regular bonanza Ia fal
back ON for the rest Of your life.
ron think he good claims are all take
up, you are badly fooled. This tow
il full Of 'em. I'm an old ptospectol
aud I've Travelled round good dea
Ii my time wasn't taken up with m
own mine, know where there are lot
of prime locations only waiting il
some practical miner TO come alon
and develop. A womans heart, Ton
IL a mighty curious thing. Take il |
al its dips, spurs and angles, ramit
cations aud sinuoslties, and its MOI
Of puzzle and mystery than III
whole Comstoek lode. Some fellow
try TO work il; and by pure luck sirik
it rich right off. in places where oil
experienced prospectors never SUI
posed there was anything. Gittin
the title to the property amt the anl
thing; it's keeping up the develol
ments, and seeing that jumpers don
set la and sncrs neh on yonr CLAIM
Some Of these domestic mines requi
an awful lot Il money for maehiner
and sune u them can be run with Ii
little waste. Whenever yon get one
en- aud iinl yun cant run ID 10 a
vantage, the best thing 10 do il
lhfU~ up your job - sapeEin'ende
aud eluse up laa wuTks.-Nia2ini
New, chEua.ele.