Silver Mining

Editor Codrier: - The oíd adage, that "a buined child dreads the fire," ínay be true of chi'dren, but does not seem to be equally true of men and women. It is but a few years ago that the good people of tlris city and Washtenaw county, were told how easily riches were gained by investing In the gold and ailver mines of California. The result was that thousands of dollars were sent from tliia county (much of it from persons who could not aflford to lose it), to bsild up fortunes for a few sharpers. Once more the same game is being played. I do not say that all rnining operations are swihdles, but tliis I do say, and can prove it, that the best of them have risks, which only those possessed of ampie means have a right to take, for while a few have made fortunes, thousands have lost thcir all, and we need not go beyond the limit of our own city to find the victima of thofe who were anxious to help ( ? ) the m to fortunes. Within the lust year a case has come to my knowledsre of a cousin who had tlie small sum of $1,200 left her by her latber, the interest of which was added to by brothers and sisters that she mifdit live comfortably. In an evil hour slie was induced to in vest, in what seeined to lier a road to fortune, a California gold mine, without Consulting any of her friends. To-day, she is worse In body and mind, and entirely dependent oc her friends. A word of advice from one who has had large experience in mluinp inveslments. Ilesays: "If one has inoney that they could see consume into smoke ¦without an axnious thought, tben let tliem íío in on ífold or silver mines or nv other