The Great Unheard Of

"Gold mining," remarked the enthusiastic boonier, "is what pays its followers glorious returns. Why, gentlemen," and his roice took the fine oratorical turn of a man with a few claims to sell, "I knowaman who made a buudred thousand dollars in a month." "Ugh," granted an old fellow who looked as if he had been there, "what aboul She hundred thousand who didn't?" and the question seemed to cast a chili over the