Arizona republican., 1891-07-08

will know that it is far safer to remain in the saunk's rear than to get ahead of him, because when he attacks with his favorite aromatic means of offensive de- fence he projects himself forward (as it werel l have, then, in my city, had a skunk keep the trail about fifty feet ahead of me, at pace which indicated little alarm at my presence, and, d. my best. could not frigiten the animal, nor could l get aheal of him or her. If l ran he ran: if walked he concurrel in rapidity of pacc. l darcI not ap- proach too near the animal. would rather break il noon tn, "slcrel divin- ity" which, they say, "doth hedge king than trans >sreSJ tl, proper bounds to be observel with reference to a skualc Let king do his best. and he cannot punish an intruder as can skunk.
 The skunk is really pretty creature. Its tail droops over its back, like the plumes of the Knight of Navarro. It is an object whica can really be admired visually at a distance. Do not be allurel by him to too near approach. Beware! he's fooling theer
 At last it dawned upon the collective mind of the Copperhead company that their superintendent, the Enthu siast. was digging too much and getting down too little. They accepted his resignation. It mlttered little to him, for by this time his mind was overwhelmed by another stupendous minin. scheme, to which the Ccpperhead was barely priming. He had the happy talent of living Tn these golden visions which, to him, were per feet realities. He he'll the philosophy that the idea, the hope. the anticipation of Il thing is sometimes moro "the thing" than the thing itself.
 The Enthusiasts rich mines lay prin- cipally in his head, but his belief in them gave him as much pleasure as if they really existed. It was like marry ing, sometimes. Tho long sought for. longed for, wished for wife or husband turns out, as a reality, u very different being from what he or she was deemed while in process of being longed and sought for. The long longed for may have been estimated an angel. The ohSSi' "tci "cuAoSA, Eidy pio'c Lo nave been myth. The reality may be Q devil, or within few shades or degrees of devil.
 | So the shaft was sunk, as they said, properly and scientifically, by the new superintendent. The rock got harder as We went down, the ore less, the vein narrower. the quantity of water greater, the progress slower. the weekly expenses first doubled and then trebled, the stock became less coveted, and as to reputed value, reached that fatal dead level which really means that it is on its down. ward descent. The shareholders faces became longer and longer at their weekly Sunday afternoon meetings in the So- nora court house
 The Copperhead claim and Copperhead city subsided quietly. The shareholders became tired of mining for coin to pay assessments out of their own pockets. They came at last to doubt the ever glow ing. hopeful assertion of the Enthusiast that from indications he knew the lore was forming" The inevitable came. Copperhead city was deserted by it's hu- man inhabitants. The skunk, the snake, the squirrel, the woodpecker and the buzzard came again into full possession. anl bitterly regretted that had not sold more it ten dollars a foot when l found the stock a drug at ten cents. PRENTICE MULFoRD.