The copper era., 1904-04-28
METALIFEROUS MATRIMONY.
How Loved and LOSt-in Mining
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 About four years ago, had a ninety days option on as ue a body Of Ari- loua womanhood a. ever did the jigger act oyera wash board or mucked out dough pan. No better article ever em.uated from the stope of virtuOus
 felicity. At one time We had fully de- c-J-d To close the deal but before l could get a patent, the ground began
 to creep. For the first thirty days,
 u- drir.cd along iu the rarest soft ..arJouata- O' human beautitude that
 ever ven. oger the tram. The shade
 of green c~ept in merging into crys-
 taIlz-d jealousy, and before l could
 timber up the misunderstanding, we
 had So small cave, and the stope was
 bali full of the black oxide of dis
 .g~I. This stope had been worked
 mot -a- from the breast Of the drift, d. s- had found fine bunch of the chIoridc5 Of perfect contentment at
 that point. After this little cave, we { made up and proceeded on our way,
 bot pretty soon the country became rather well sp-inkled with the sul- phides Of mutual distrust. All this N.'mc, the original locator did not seem t relish the idea of taking me into partueStip in the capacity of son-in- law. an,N he sided in with a COW boy ~ao had ,slsvl-..s22==.A the proposition years be, la'boy, doubtless at the old mans instigation, filed an adverse on my application for patent ! Notwithstanding all Of this. I was abl, ] 10 obtain an extension on the option ! flr ninety days. During the first ! thitv days thereafter, I sunk for the
 -ulphidcs Of reconciliation, I crosscuj . ia the hopes of striking a ledge Of the
 old gold sentiment, bu: | ran into a
 .oDglomcrate imposed Of perversity
 and di-inclinatiOn. cement9d with
 gossip I drifted along in the hope O
 G.d.ug some indication Oi the chlo-
 rides of confidence. Occasionally
 .hiu streak of the tale of coquetry
 eolld creep in and boom my stocks tc
 'he hundred mark. but they soon fell . w'th shat "dull sickening thud" that , characterize7 a 100 pound bar Of blister copper a7 they dump it into the load j ing pit at the old Copper Queen smell ! tcr At last I raised, in the hope of
 catching a body of the original sur . face carDOnatcs of fond recollection a,
 least. but ran into d gob of disaster, ,T... ..I |, l -yenitc of suicide did not catch me a. ] l slid to the bottom of the stump Of djspair. As 1 climbed painfully up l the ladder of defeat and humiliation, getting into good air, untaiuted with 'hc power smoke of desperation, un- choked by the dust of distrust, and re- moved from all those forms Of strife l and disappointment which are en- l countered in the shafts, tunnels, ! drifts, stopes, winzes, raises, spurs, l dips and angles of matrimony, and from all other forms of human misery with which that relations is gobbed up.
 ! evidently started out on the con- tact between gullibility and filtration | followed the trend Of susceptibility after the indications Of common sense had angled of, and naturally broke { into an immense deposit of tough luck. She made powder monkey Of me all the way through. Now, real | ize that I shall never have the plasure l of showing wicker work car along 1 the trail of life full of the concentrates 1 of croup and sumner complaint.
 Never shall the aroma Of the golden pumpkin pie. provide a silver lining for the cloud that hangs over my dis maj shack. Never shall cease to re- | fleet upon the beauties of a sorting table loaded down with the prime at fractions of domestic glory as I muck | oat my boarding house dinner bucket. | with ~itS same old dose tbat would ! cause an angel tO weep or drive the | devil to suicide. Never shall I be ! fred for failing to be at the collar al the appointed time. then hired back | tue next morning at advanced wages | aud paid of in Caresses Of forgiveness. | have pulled out Of the field, the l property has gone into the hands Of | that cowboy receiver. Since that, si | new extensions have been added to l the combination, and, after all, the 1 oldest one was named for me.