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Show 0000. - ini All is Not Gold that Glitters. nc " up Blasttd Holies A Giiiled Buliblo Tc Punctiu-ed. in, Ciold! Min luuo IoiirIiI, blul and died for it, and will Jo E0 again. The ."' j beggar wants gold tlint ho may lie rich; the rich man wanta gold that he may ho richer. XI, e sun of toil sweats J'F for gold or did, before tin: hard -j metal was inflated with greenhack.s nnd the politician "tspouts" lor gold, pc The bootblack "shines" for gold or e nicklea enough to procure it and the 11 demagogue blazons for the same metal. The alchemist, the gcnic.thc second edition of Aladdin, jwho in this day could compound and manufacture manu-facture tho stufl'rtt pleasure, would have the "softest" tiling of Anuo on Domini 1S7:1. lie could purchase a frc kiDg, or bottle an emperor; lie could own a Congress or run a Gov- an crnor; he could do all things not im- Lie possible. But it is not uf gold we would relate, but of "stain," of "salt," ofa "sell," of anything lather then cold. And we wouldtell it on an inllatcd pu principle, for in tlieno times aro not Lir. all specie stones inflatrd'.' uy Mother earth has turned only few somersaults in space and shown rough Utah the light of day but few times, th since it was tii'st rumored, then as- lat sorted, then confirnud by the cxlii- jr bition of the substance of things hoped for, that gold, tho genuine an- rT nferous nictiil. hm boon rltscovurtil u 111 unlokl and iinmoa-iurablo rii:inti- Llql; La, - lof j- miles of the Queen City of the mono- tains. Chunks t'io size of tho Uo-man Uo-man Coliseum were as pebbles on the sea shoro as compared with the migli- ar tv clitfe which beat back the ocean's ni wave. The quarry where the pave-I pave-I mcnt for the New Jerusalem was to bo procured, had been m discovered and located according to to the mining laws of Parley's l'ark. th The intelligence was sub rusa for a few hours, but what mortal could cage such news and exist! It was let ' out, for the thought was loo mighty or for one man to contemplate alone. The excitable men of this region generally have "been there" on gold stampedes, and, of course, they arc bl not so verdant us greener ones. But 01 there wero veidants; and we blush to p mention wc will not mention him one who had gron U a noble man-it man-it hood on the Coast, had become not Ci wealthy but "good," had sounded his lc Demosthenic tones iu the fanes of c. justice and from the political stump; 0 one who had ruled over the Web-icct t and trusted in "section seven" for the redemption of ion, and tho appointment of Vuwn" . ship, district and county olh-oflicera olh-oflicera not othcrwiao provided for; lie it was, who, having grown grey on the coast of mining wonders and salted nothings, was a trusting verdant. .Shades of the Coal Samaritan! Those L- highly-'XiIbrcd yellow stories and the love of lucre, with an occasional squint at the rock, were too mucli tor his confiding nature, and ho suc-- suc-- cumbed nibbled at the tempting bait. The letlgc had nccn curraiuu iui 1 I, the especial agrandizement of his Ex- ccllcncy; the increasing of that $V "t 500 per annum without perquisites ;rr" snd for the making wealthy of less than a half dozen personal friends. 1 co The source of prospective high life , and future sumptuous!) ess was visited ( in sUte, and the glittering metal wa? cilltd i:i bi;s of ,-ack, in ochre, in 'quart, and cosily castles in the 1 air castles do E.qmgne ream : as if by magic, their diamond he tipped turrefs. The naked eye easily discerned tho inlaid c streaks of wealth; hut to satisfy the unbelieving the Bpcehnoca were -mb-jectal W tho fii-ey test of chemical science The result was gold, more 1 cold ! and jet the specimens were "poor ones." Feet nsccndcj, hope took a tinner hold on suUnco and doubts were buried. And the end was not yet. An expert of met-II met-II K alliferous fame and geologic attam-ments attam-ments was sent to the El Dorado :i and lo chipped, and dril cd, ami - broke the rock.apd ji re and dug the ground and collected r. specimens, and was disgusted and several Other things; but he found no' gold neither a "color," nor a region where it is possible for. the metal to m exist, unless Fiieburg niBtitution0 arc ballooned and the bottpm 13 knocked from mineralogy. T, And 00 it is at the present, ihc mansions of grandeur vanished m the v dust of tUe alkali plains; tho lab" r annum must still pay for luxuries ami bo tithed for the .support 0 Wash ngton "ring" missmnaries; and IM a downcast politician exclaims wHh a lN' greater then he, AU is vanity and vexation of spirit." |