Show hillet Hill tt owe year soe edison the lk electric wizard wn woe convinced that platinum existed in north he lie lent sent william irl larl hidden an accomplished maoni mineralogist in lit search of it professor Iro tenor hidden little knew know at tile time how full of 0 remit results to him tl if at p penult u is uit 0 of f Is clatl ili t I 1 num nu 01 would be ali could not aud bud tin Us desired mineral but he found ome some thing far better at alexander county a quiet part of 0 t the lie ata bbate I 1 e many m ellei iles from torn a railroad he iru was directed by mr air J A D bt stevenson evenson to fern gem bearing ground and anal looking a little more nar bowly found oice some gemi gems tie lie pur par classed ome some returned to mixon nod and reported his hi maln quest of platinum then went to north La carolina rolina he ile at once began to develop the mine allua blik bli k lag ing k ina ta simple way he gratin ally made the opening larger and larger until it tie a mine presented the aspect of a quarry out of this rude pit in to tin the earth were taken unnumbered gem gems ono on hitherto un on known to chis mr air J lawrence Smi st louis an in eminent scientist gave 11 hidden 1 amt now and hidden ite its the equivalent of the tile id diamond lamond in value because instantly lut atly the iti its tender anted green crystals cry tal ita its in lit jonsto hardness and ui Us new beauties when cut out were Ita charmi charms from the jay day of iti its discovery ta to tie tl present it bw bass ben bers a kopelm lisk U t apply supply uit the demand tor for it IL every hid denite fouhy it already iud long in advance ad iut but strange so a li is this fleshing green uil tail raile raLls of the earth the place of its it birth Is I 1 yet tranger stranger the laborera laborers who ire are working in the mine handle their alth ith the greatest grea care to they in on oil tie the watch fur for pocket pockets I 1 ogg ably f fur 0 r nil ril I 1 lour our tl tie a digging goe goes on oil and said nu no pocket tl Is truck tl the pick goo goes into au all opening with careful fingers tl if e earth is 11 partially removed rem oveil and finally tl ti e miner feel feels with his hi hands every po por r tion ofus of the rail 0 III 1 of its opening I 1 it t may happen rh that t ills life search la in in lit vain but it is I 1 oftener the case that I 1 Is 1 fingers touch little eryfili that are so 0 o embed ded in the idea sides of the bocks that th their 0 it point points alone project 0 idward they are re carefully cin fully picked out ailed lips all 11 II are berels perhaps lucre there are a dozen kinds of gems or it may be that there ther are only borne times gem worth hundred hundreds of dollars are thin thus tak en from rion on pocket alining All ning ii it austry and tradesman Trade amao |