Morning journal and courier., 1893-11-07
GOLDEN sEARRIGHTs.

It Is always darkest inst before day, and 1t has been so very dark lately for invest OTIS In guaranteed mortgages and other sure things that 1t seems reasonable to look with some confidence for the resppearance of golden, glittering sun which shall be a light unto the feet of said investors, and enable them to again walk in the path of prosperity.
 Usually the suu rises in the East, but if we are not mistaken the sun for which we look is about to rise in the West. Indeed, its first beams seem to bs already illumin ating Butte City, Montana, and 1t will probably soon be fully and gloriously glowing. Of course, lucky Irlshman is the first to be shone upon. He had some hens, who, when they were not talk ing politics or sitting ss Board of Lady Managers, were hunting eagerly for nice fat worms. Their owner was hungry one day and killed one of them. He found that the undiscriminsting or finely dis eliminating creature had filled her crop full of nuggets of gold. He therefore req soned that if one of his hens was a gold mine the others would bs, and when he had killed thirty-one of them he 'tcleaned up" and found that he had gold nuggets worth $3S7.55, an average of sl2. 50 hen. Much encouraged he bought fifty more hens and sent them out prospecting, The first of the lot when killed had $2 80 worth of gold in her crop. Even at this rate he will have good profit, for he can sell the hens for food besides getting the gold out of them.
 There can be but one result of this start ling discovery. People are tired of mines. They can't be dsluded any longer even with non -sssesssble mining stock at two cents share. But hen-gold scheme or a gold-hen scheme has in 1t that which will cause hope to leap again and the depleted pocketbook to reopen. Any goose can see that hen that costs only fifty cents or so and will pick up SIP. 50 worth of gold is Q good thing. And we suppose that it may be found that 1t isn't really necessary to kill the hens to get the gold. If 8 man can have his vsrmiform appendi X cut of and live surely hen can have her crop cut open several times and be as good as ever. Just think of au original investment of fifty cents producing $25, $37.50, or even $50. What better could be asked Even the green goods men don't promise anything better than this. It will SC, and as soon as the Anglo-Americsn Hen Gold Collecting Company Uimited) starts there will be rush for the stock. What a pleasing picture there will be to put be- fore investors. Just imagine it. A boundless gold field thickly dotted with ! earnest hens pecking for gold as eagerly as Man pecks for it. While thousands upon | thousands of such hens are seen in the act of pecking, long procession of hens which have proatably pscksd is visible vending its way toward the boss, their crops bulging with gold. The boss is seen performing surgical operation on a crop, surrounded by large pile of the yellow proceeds of such operations, while
 skillful helpers sew up the cut crops and
 turn the hens loose to peck again. All ii
 hustle and activity and all is gold that
 glitters.
 Save your money till the gentlemanly
 agent of the new company comes around
 He will offer to guarantee your investmen
 If you want him to, but don't be particulal
 about that. Keep your eye on the pictur,
 and sail in. Bask in the rising sun, ever
 If 1t does rise in the West. And what
 pleasing thought that out of the West
 where so many millions of the money o
 eastern investors is sunk, there may ye
 come to such of them as have any none
 left richer returns than they ever hope
 for, even when the boom was on. Tn
 promise is boundlesa. There are million
 of hens that can be bought cheap, ant
 there Is untold gold for the hens to pic
 up. The goose that laid the golden egg
 was 6 fine creature, but she wasn't oil
 cumstance to tho host of hens from whic
 the Anglo-Amsrioan Hen Gold Collectin Company Qimite6 will harvest golde