The silver lance., 1897-08-27
OUR sALTED PLACER.
Washed From the Rich Deposits on The Lance
Exchange Table.


There are many things in the Klon-
dixie region that glitter but are not gold,
chief among which is the iceberg Not
withstanding its splendid appearance,
it assays but little in anything except
disappointment to those who regarded
the farthest pastures as the most invit-
ing-Eik Mountain Pilot.
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Frank l. White, formerly publisher OF
the Huron, Kansas, Herald, but who
sold that paper some two years ago and
went to Denver and started the Rocky
Mountain Editor, is once more in the
country newspaper business, having re-
Gently gone to the Crystal, Colo. SILVER
LANcE.--Pointers and Newspaper West.
49,
The columns of the SILVER LANCE
give abundant evidence of activity among
the mines in that part of the county.
The ground up thee is full of all kinds
of wealth snd some day that locality will
be regular hive Of profitable industry.
And by the way, the LANCE has about
tbs neatest, c,eanest face OF any paper Of
our acquaintance. If it would box that
head it would be entirely up to snuff
Gunnison Neics.
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Two or three good sales are now pend
ing in our camp. Perhaps this should be
kept quiet, as it's notorious fact there
are a good many deals knocked out by
parties who have not the sense to mind
their own business, and by some who are
classed as the american hog" who
either want "divy" out OF everything
that is transferred in the camp or they
will raise heaven and earth to break up
a sale. The old-time camps got rid of
that kind of hog by having them sun
cured on the limb of tree. 1t was
called jerked meat. -.Siirerfon Standard
~
Verdi is philosopher surely. He is
now eightyfour years of age Tor will be in
a couble OF months), just the time when
most old men are telling that, notwith
standing the years, they feel as young as
ever. Possibly Verdi may be doing the
same, but that is not all that he is doing.
In his time he wrote no end Of music,
and among the rest one Grand Requiem
Mass. Now as the di5cords Of the world
are growing harsh on his ears, he has
possibly wondered whether poor music
at his obsequies might not disturb his
last sleep, for in his study at Montaca-
tina he is writing the requiem for his
own funeral. What will it be like? Sol
emn, for it is death; stately. for it is to
signal the passing of great soul; sweet,
for it is to be phonograph to express all
the wonderful melody that the parting
soul contained, and, beneath all, an un-
dertone of hope to strike upon the ear
as upon the eye in the springtime comes
the vision of a flower growing beside a
bank OF snow. We can imagine the JOY
of the old mans heart as, measure by
measure, the music unfolds under his
pen, and can almost imagine the conver-
sation he holds with himself, some
thing like this: "a glorious bar; Mozart
could not have put more power into it,
THAT is passing sweet, how Beethoven
will congratulate me upon that when we
meet, pretty soon in the sunshine
THAT is lofty and deep, the soul of Haydn
will thrill at that" "Now, to represent
the rattle of the earth and stones, upon
the casket, had better try it myself, or
steal some strains from Wagner" Then
the old man chuckles and says: This is
the most cheerful business that l have
undertaken since l wrote drinking songs
in Ronco,e, when was a boy, for the
villagers" Then at tunes his old pride
comes back may be, and as be fingers
over measure he may say: This music
is to accompany my soul out over the
divide; as the strains Of it die away on
nv ears will those which are to come
from where music was born be SO much
more grand and deep? The air will be
clearer, the instruments no doubt will be
perfectly tuned and there will be no
chumps in either the orchestra or among
the singers, but for the music itself
wonder how much my divine gift has
been hampered by this crazy old tene-
ment to which it was sent, and which
now, pretty soon, is to crumble and fall
away.-.SaIt Lake Tribune.