Half Friendship [pp. 531]

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it was developed in Nevada County, where
I experimented on Comstock ores. The
introduction of this process led to the invention of quite a number of iron pans.
The most noted inventors in this line
were Zenas Wheeler and Thomas Varney. Not only these but other mining inventions have traveled into foreign lands,
notably the Huntington pan, and the
Paul pulverizing barrel. This barrel is now
masquerading in Europe and Australia as the
"Gruson ball mill." This is my invention,
as the United States Patent Office record
will show.
California's advancement in mining and
its appliances has just begun; her golden
reefs are yearly developing into an industry
that is as extensive as are the mountain
ranges and as lasting as are the rocks.
We have mechanical appliances and explosives that afford cheap extraction of gold,
and experience that insures the highest per
cent of returns. With such a field before
us, what should be our future?
A/martin B. Paul.
HALF-FRIENDSHIP.
Q THIS half-friendship! how I hate the thing!
Giving so little, promising so much,
Professing, never doing-there's the sting
A false-faced weakling,-I'll have none of such!
True friendship is a perfect, priceless gem.
Its greatest glory is its flawlessness.
My friends must give to me, as I to them,
Their best or nothing,-I'll accept no less.
I want the perfect music, or no song;
I want the perfect love, or none at all;
Right is not right when coupled with a wron,g;
Sweet is not sweet when touched with taint of gall.
The forger's gilded coin lacks gold's true ring,
And this half-frienldshlip-how I hate the thin!
Tlillia? [f. Anderson.
1895.]
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