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Show A Different Meaning. One. of the principal owners of a promising gold mine was expatiating on its merits to a capitalist and pros pective investor. He described tha vein in which the miners were working, work-ing, showed his specimens of th ore, and backed up his statements with the written opinions of experts. "Well," admitted the capitalist, "it looks as if it might be a good investment. in-vestment. As my old Uncle Hiram would say, it has ita 'p'ints.' " "Pints!" exclaimed the owner, carried car-ried away perhaps by his over-anxiety; "why sir, we're in quartz right nowl" |