http://uk.reuters.com/article/argentina-mining-idUKL1N1JA1ES

Yeah, I don’t think they have any intention of implementing any of Trump’s policies. The Senate of course is the most corrupt body on the planet. As far as its’ effect on the markets, I have no clue. Seems to me they can move these markets any way they want – at will.

Repealing and replacing the Federal Reserve certainly will never happen in our lifetimes short of a civil war. I doubt Trump even understands our monetary system well enough to know the destruction they’ve heaped upon the citizens of this country.

Looks like you made a good move selling this am. I expect everything pm will be lower before the close.

Best

I am looking at everything from coconut oil to the effects of sleep deprivation in the hope of finding something which will retard , if not reverse the symptoms .

The link is appreciated !

that nothing will really change in the Elite Swamp estate, until the U.S. takes back the constitutional law this Country was built on, and that includes printing of its own Gold backed currency. If that day ever happens, then Trump’s promise to return control of Washington back to We The People, will have full and REAL meaning. I am not so naïve to not understand the Dark Side he is up against.

We pray, we stack, and we hope. 🙂

Probably low on his To Do List at present, but I can hope. 🙂

The Fed’s track record over the past 100+ years is not very good. Trump would have history and the facts on his side. I still cannot fathom how a private entity is allowed control over OUR money !

Dumped my JNUG and USLV this morning. For several reasons. I FINALLY reclaimed my account high for the year on 5/24 and wanted to lock the profits in. I figured three consecutive Up days in the PM’s would be challenged. ( Is that allowed? ) lol

And I wanted to watch the Yellen effect on the markets to give a clue to what the PM’s are ALLOWED to do next. Been doing a little nibbling with the PM stocks the past few days in attempts to line up for a run UP this fall.

Would like to hear your opinion on how this ‘Trump Effect’ will play out in the Stock Markets this fall. It appears the Dems and Rhinos have neutralized his efforts to accomplish anything meaningful such as balance budget, tax cuts, Obamacare, and perhaps even building the wall. I read it as all of this will reflect itself in less optimism on Wall St, and aid the PM’s. Eventually.

Plenty of dry powder on the sidelines, just waiting for another clue as to which way to bet next. Going to pull some ‘fishing funds’ out shortly for some planned August/Oct trips. And trying to scrape up some extra bucks for purchasing the phiz. Perhaps the Power Ball Lotto ticket last night will solve all my dilemas. LOL

Best to you, Farmboy

As R640 says: Resilience doesn’t pay the bills

They’re still playing whack-a-mole with the shares but they’ve had plenty of opportunities to take everything pm down and they haven’t done it yet.

Alex Valdor rules the scum this time around. 🙂

I think Farmboy won a round as well. 🙂

http://principia-scientific.org/breaking-fatal-courtroom-act-ruins-michael-hockey-stick-mann/

Whats up? Bonds up means rates down.

http://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=BONDS&p=d1

There’s your dollar bid, right on cue.

Nothing says “confidence” like a stronger USD – especially when Yellen speaks…

Then sling the likes of Greenspan, Bernanke and Yellen in the slammer for eternity………then go after the front runners like Lloyd and Jamie and give them hard labour for eternity….Lloyd and Jamie on a chain gang, breaking rocks all day !!!!!!

Love him or hate him, this is a pretty good interview.

http://www.kitco.com/news/video/show/Kitco-News/1639/2017-07-10/RERUN-Why-Frank-Giustra-Says-The-Gold-Price-Is-Managed

Yellen’s Dovish Turn: Concerned About Inflation, Sees Not Much Room For Rate Increase

Fed Chair Janet Yellen’s prepared remarks confirm her previous stance that they will keep normalizing their policy stance (no matter what), bringing forward the timeline for unwinding the balance sheet, and adding that “rates won’t have to rise much further to get to neutral.” This seems like a ‘dovish’ tilt, and judging by the reaction in stocks (higher) and the dollar (lower) it agrees.

All that selling of PM’s and buying of Dlrs over the last 40 mins, achieved nowt!!!!

but Yellen will be up on the Hill testifying before Congress today. Any questions you think they should ask her? I gots one. ” How  much advance notice do you think you will need before we Audit your organization?”

Thanks for the ‘killer’ coffee this morning. If it is coffee that checks me out of this world, I guess I can live with that. 🙂

Back to my post of shoveling coal. Would be nice if the Gold Train can get over the hump and pick up a little steam. Hoping we can wrap up this week with a solid win in the PM’s.

Crossing the Crooked River… Don’t worry, we’ve got support!
http://www.railpictures.net/photo/621125/

The think tank Institute for Economics and Peace recently published the Global Peace Index 2017, which reveals the safest — as well as the most dangerous — countries in the world.

2017 Report: Safest countries in the world happen to be White + Japan
Sweden not on the list since mass immigrationhttps://t.co/6vFSKwqVDu

— Lana (@LanaLokteff) July 4, 2017

The report ranked 163 countries based on how peaceful they are. The rankings were determined by 23 factors, which included homicide rate, political terror, and deaths from internal conflict.

Overall, the report found that 93 countries have become more peaceful since last year, and that 68 countries have become less peaceful. Therefore, the world has become a marginally better place since 2016.

Of the 12 safest countries, eight are in Europe, with New Zealand (2nd), Canada (8th), Japan (11th), and Australia (12th) also making the list. The United Kingdom ranked 41st, while the United States ranked 114th, dropping 11 spots since last year.

Among the most dangerous countries were Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

Here are the 12 safest countries in the world, along with their respective peace scores:

12. Australia – 1.425

11. Japan – 1.408

10. Ireland – 1.408

9. Switzerland – 1.373

8. Canada – 1.371

7. Slovenia – 1.364

6. Czech Republic – 1.360

5. Denmark – 1.337

4. Austria – 1.265

3. Portugal – 1.258

2. New Zealand – 1.241

1. Iceland – 1.11

The Project Gutenberg EBook of

The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras

and Other Stories, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories Author: Various Release Date: May 5, 2007 [EBook #21340] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LITTLE GOLD MINERS OF *** Produced by Taavi Kalju, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

“COLOR! TWO COLORS! THREE, FOUR, FIVE—A DOZEN!”

THE LITTLE GOLD MINERS
OF THE SIERRAS

BY

JOAQUIN MILLER

AND OTHER STORIES

FULLY ILLUSTRATED

BOSTON
D. LOTHROP & COMPANY
FRANKLIN AND HAWLEY STREETS

Copyright, 1886,
by
D. Lothrop & Company.

CONTENTS.

[Pg 7]

THE LITTLE GOLD MINERS OF THE SIERRAS.

Their mother had died crossing the plains, and their father had had a leg broken by a wagon wheel passing over it as they descended the Sierras, and he was for a long time after reaching the mines miserable, lame and poor.

The eldest boy, Jim Keene, as I remember him, was a bright little fellow, but wild as an Indian and full of mischief. The next eldest child, Madge, was a girl of ten, her father’s favorite, and she was wild enough too. The youngest was Stumps. Poor, timid, starved Little Stumps! I never knew his real name. But he was the baby, and hardly yet out of petticoats. And he was very short in the legs, very short in the body, very short in the arms and neck; and so he was called Stumps because he looked it. In fact he seemed to[Pg 8] have stopped growing entirely. Oh, you don’t know how hard the old Plains were on everybody, when we crossed them in ox-wagons, and it took more than half a year to make the journey. The little children, those that did not die, turned brown like the Indians, in that long, dreadful journey of seven months, and stopped growing for a time.

For the first month or two after reaching the Sierras, old Mr. Keene limped about among the mines trying to learn the mystery of finding gold, and the art of digging. But at last, having grown strong enough, he went to work for wages, to get bread for his half-wild little ones, for they were destitute indeed.

Things seemed to move on well, then. Madge cooked the simple meals, and Little Stumps clung to her dress with his little pinched brown hand wherever she went, while Jim whooped it over the hills and chased jack-rabbits as if he were a greyhound. He would climb trees, too, like a squirrel. And, oh!—it was deplorable—but how he could swear!

At length some of the miners, seeing the boy must come to some bad end if not taken care of, put[Pg 9] their heads and their pockets together and sent the children to school. This school was a mile away over the beautiful brown hills, a long, pleasant walk under the green California oaks.

Well, Jim would take the little tin dinner bucket, and his slate, and all their books under his arm and go booming ahead about half a mile in advance, while Madge with brown Little Stumps clinging to her side like a burr, would come stepping along the trail under the oak-trees as fast as she could after him.

But if a jack-rabbit, or a deer, or a fox crossed Jim’s path, no matter how late it was, or how the teacher had threatened him, he would drop books, lunch, slate and all, and spitting on his hands and rolling up his sleeves, would bound away after it, yelling like a wild Indian. And some days, so fascinating was the chase, Jim did not appear at the schoolhouse at all; and of course Madge and Stumps played truant too. Sometimes a week together would pass and the Keene children would not be seen at the schoolhouse. Visits from the schoolmaster produced no lasting effect. The children would come for a day or two, then be seen no more. The school[Pg 10]master and their father at last had a serious talk about the matter.

“What can I do with him?” said Mr. Keene.

“You’ll have to put him to work,” said the schoolmaster. “Set him to hunting nuggets instead of bird’s-nests. I guess what the boy wants is some honest means of using his strength. He’s a good boy, Mr. Keene; don’t despair of him. Jim would be proud to be an ‘honest miner.’ Jim’s a good boy, Mr. Keene.”

“Well, then, thank you, Schoolmaster,” said Mr. Keene. “Jim’s a good boy; and Madge is good, Mr. Schoolmaster; and poor starved and stunted motherless Little Stumps, he is good as gold, Mr. Schoolmaster. And I want to be a mother to ’em—I want to be father and mother to ’em all, Mr. Schoolmaster. And I’ll follow your advice. I’ll put ’em all to work a-huntin’ for gold.”

The next day away up on the hillside under a pleasant oak, where the air was sweet and cool, and the ground soft and dotted over with flowers, the tender-hearted old man that wanted to be “father and mother both,” “located” a claim. The flowers[Pg 11] were kept fresh by a little stream of waste water from the ditch that girded the brow of the hill above. Here he set a sluice-box and put his three little miners at work with pick, pan and shovel. There he left them and limped back to his own place in the mine below.

And how they did work! And how pleasant it was here under the broad boughs of the oak, with the water rippling through the sluice on the soft, loose soil which they shoveled into the long sluice-box. They could see the mule-trains going and coming, and the clouds of dust far below which told them the stage was whirling up the valley. But Jim kept steadily on at his work day after day. Even though jack-rabbits and squirrels appeared on the very scene, he would not leave till, like the rest of the honest miners, he could shoulder his pick and pan and go down home with the setting sun.

Sometimes the men who had tried to keep the children at school, would come that way, and with a shy smile, talk very wisely about whether or not the new miners would “strike it” under the cool oak among the flowers on the hill. But Jim never[Pg 12] stopped to talk much. He dug and wrestled away, day after day, now up to his waist in the pit.

One Saturday evening the old man limped up the hillside to help the young miners “clean up.”

He sat down at the head of the sluice-box and gave directions how they should turn off the most of the water, wash down the “toilings” very low, lift up the “riffle,” brush down the “apron,” and finally set the pan in the lower end of the “sluice-toil” and pour in the quicksilver to gather up and hold the gold.

“What for you put your hand in de water for, papa?” queried Little Stumps, who had left off his work, which consisted mainly of pulling flowers and putting them in the sluice-box to see them float away. He was sitting by his father’s side, and he looked up in his face as he spoke.

“Hush, child,” said the old man softly, as he again dipped his thumb and finger in his vest pocket as if about to take snuff. But he did not take snuff. Again his hand was reached down to the rippling water at the head of the sluice-box. And this time curious but obedient Little Stumps was silent.

Suddenly there was a shout, such a shout from Jim[Pg 13] as the hills had not heard since he was a schoolboy.

He had found the “color.” “Two colors! three, four, five—a dozen!” The boy shouted like a Modoc, threw down the brush and scraper, and kissed his little sister over and over, and cried as he did so; then he whispered softly to her as he again took up his brush and scraper, that it was “for papa; all for poor papa; that he did not care for himself, but he did want to help poor, tired, and crippled papa.” But papa did not seem to be excited so very much.

The little miners were now continually wild with excitement. They were up and at work Monday morning at dawn. The men who were in the father’s tender secret, congratulated the children heartily and made them presents of several small nuggets to add to their little horde.

In this way they kept steadily at work for half the summer. All the gold was given to papa to keep. Papa weighed it each week, and I suppose secretly congratulated himself that he was getting back about as much as he put in.

Before quite the end of the third month, Jim struck a thin bed of blue gravel. The miners who[Pg 14] had been happily chuckling and laughing among themselves to think how they had managed to keep Jim out of mischief, began to look at each other and wonder how in the world blue gravel ever got up there on the hill. And in a few days more there was a well-defined bed of blue gravel, too; and not one of the miners could make it out.

One Saturday evening shortly after, as the old man weighed their gold he caught his breath, started, and stood up straight; straighter than he had stood since he crossed the Plains. Then he hastily left the cabin. He went up the hill to the children’s claim almost without limping. Then he took a pencil and an old piece of a letter, and wrote out a notice and tacked it up on the big oak-tree, claiming those mining claims according to miners’ law, for the three children. A couple of miners laughed as they went by in the twilight, to see what he was doing; and he laughed with them. But as he limped on down the hill he smiled.

That night as they sat at supper, he told the children that as they had been such faithful and industrious miners, he was going to give them each a[Pg 15] present, besides a little gold to spend as they pleased.

So he went up to the store and bought Jim a red shirt, long black and bright gum boots, a broad-brimmed hat, and a belt. He also bought each of the other children some pretty trappings, and gave each a dollar’s worth of gold dust. Madge and Stumps handed their gold back to “poor papa.” But Jim was crazy with excitement. He put on his new clothes and went forth to spend his dollar. And what do you suppose he bought? I hesitate to tell you. But what he bought was a pipe and a paper of tobacco!

That red shirt, that belt and broad-brimmed hat, together with the shiny top boots, had been too much for Jim’s balance. How could a man—he spoke of himself as a man now—how could a man be an “honest miner” and not smoke a pipe?

And now with his manly clothes and his manly pipe he was to be so happy! He had all that went to make up “the honest miner.” True, he did not let his father know about the pipe. He hid it under his pillow at night. He meant to have his first smoke at the sluice-box, as a miner should.

Monday morning he was up with the sun and[Pg 16] ready for his work. His father, who worked down the Gulch, had already gone before the children had finished their breakfast. So now Jim filled his brand-new pipe very leisurely; and with as much calm unconcern as if he had been smoking for forty years, he stopped to scratch a match on the door as he went out.

From under his broad hat he saw his little sister watching him, and he fairly swelled with importance as Stumps looked up at him with childish wonder. Leaving Madge to wash the few tin dishes and follow as she could with Little Stumps, he started on up the hill, pipe in mouth.

He met several miners, but he puffed away like a tug-boat against the tide, and went on. His bright new boots whetted and creaked together, the warm wind lifted the broad brim of his sombrero, and his bright new red shirt was really beautiful, with the green grass and oaks for a background—and so this brave young man climbed the hill to his mine. Ah, he was so happy! [Pg 17]

HE TOOK THE LIMP YOUNG MINER IN HIS ARMS.

Suddenly, as he approached the claim, his knees began to smite together, and he felt so weak he could[Pg 18] hardly drag one foot after the other. He threw down his pick; he began to tremble and spin around. The world seemed to be turning over and over, and he trying in vain to hold on to it. He jerked the pipe from his teeth, and throwing it down on the bank, he tumbled down too, and clutching at the grass with both hands tried hard, oh! so hard, to hold the world from slipping from under him.

“O, Jim, you are white as snow,” cried Madge as she came up.

“White as ‘er sunshine, an’ blue, an’ green too, sisser. Look at brurrer ‘all colors,'” piped Little Stumps pitifully.[Pg 19]

“O, Jim, Jim—brother Jim, what is the matter?” sobbed Madge.

“Sunstroke,” murmured the young man, smiling grimly, like a true Californian. “No; it is not sunstroke, it’s—it’s cholera,” he added in dismay over his falsehood.

Poor boy! he was sorry for this second lie too. He fairly groaned in agony of body and soul.

Oh, how he did hate that pipe! How he did want to get up and jump on it and smash it into a thousand[Pg 20] pieces! But he could not get up or turn around or move at all without betraying his unmanly secret.

A couple of miners came up, but Jim feebly begged them to go.

“Sunstroke,” whispered the sister.

“No; tolera,” piped poor Little Stumps.

“Get out! Leave me!” groaned the young red-shirted miner of the Sierras.

The biggest of the two miners bent over him a moment.

“Yas; it’s both,” he muttered. “Cholera-nicotine-fantum!” Then he looked at his partner and winked wickedly. Without a word, he took the limp young miner up in his arms and bore him down the hill to his father’s cabin, while Stumps and Madge ran along at either side, and tenderly and all the time kept asking what was good for “cholera.”

The other old “honest miner” lingered behind to pick up the baleful pipe which he knew was somewhere there; and when the little party was far enough down the hill, he took it up and buried it in his own capacious pocket with a half-sorrowful laugh. “Poor little miner,” he sighed.[Pg 21]

“Don’t ever swear any more, Windy,” pleaded the boy to the miner who had carried him down the hill, as he leaned over him, “and don’t never lie. I am going to die, Windy, and I should like to be good. Windy, it ain’t sunstroke, it’s”—

“Hush yer mouth,” growled Windy. “I know what ’tis! We’ve left it on the hill.”

The boy turned his face to the wall. The conviction was strong upon him that he was going to die. The world spun round now very, very fast indeed. Finally, half-rising in bed, he called Little Stumps to his side:

“Stumps, dear, good Little Stumps, if I die don’t you never, never try for to smoke; for that’s what’s the matter with me. No, Stumps—dear little brother Stumps—don’t you never try for to go the whole of the ‘honest miner,’ for it can’t be did by a boy! We’re nothing but boys, you and I, Stumps—Little Stumps.”

He sank back in bed and Little Stumps and his sister cried and cried, and kissed him and kissed him.

The miners who had gathered around loved him[Pg 22] now, every one, for daring to tell the truth and take the shame of his folly so bravely.

“I’m going to die, Windy,” groaned the boy.

Windy could stand no more of it. He took Jim’s hand with a cheery laugh. “Git well in half an hour,” said he, “now that you’ve out with the truth.”

And so he did. By the time his father came home he was sitting up; and he ate breakfast the next morning as if nothing had happened. But he never tried to smoke any more as long as he lived. And he never lied, and he never swore any more.

Oh, no! this Jim that I have been telling you of is “Moral Jim,” of the Sierras. The mine? Oh! I almost forgot. Well, that blue dirt was the old bed of the stream, and it was ten times richer than where the miners were all at work below. Struck it! I should say so! Ask any of the old Sierras miners about “The Children’s Claim,” if you want to hear just how rich they struck it.[

monica lewinski turns 44 this month!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XylQ92P11Lk

Booz, Tobacco, Nicotene and now Coffee. Everything will kill us, every damn thing.

Does anyone really want to live to be 100 and in diapers?

All I ask is that it happens quick regardless of age. 🙂

Heavy drinkers and smokers drink a lot of coffee and so do people who sit around all day. So what killed them their lifestyle or coffee? My Grandfather drank gallons of coffee and he was healthy right up to the day he died at 99. Mind you he worked hard all his life and was trim, Cheers.

I’m glad you found love again even though you will never stop loving her as it should be or say normal for a abnormal tragic situation.god did not mean for man to be alone. He left out women I think because it’s harder to let go I think.
Heres some important information on dementia, although there is different forms the only trial that ACTUALLY reversed it.

A lot of reading but here’s the start
The results for nine of the 10 patients reported in the paper suggest that memory loss may be reversed, and improvement sustained with this therapeutic program, said Bredesen. “This is the first successful demonstration,” he noted, but he cautioned that the results are anecdotal, and therefore a more extensive, controlled clinical trial is needed.
The downside to this program is its complexity. It is not easy to follow, with the burden falling on the patients and caregivers, and none of the patients were able to stick to the entire protocol. The significant diet and lifestyle changes, and multiple pills required each day, were the two most common complaints. The good news, though, said Bredesen, are the side effects: “It is noteworthy that the major side effect of this therapeutic system is improved health and an optimal body mass index, a stark contrast to the side effects of many drugs.”
Buck institute
http://www.buckinstitute.org/buck-news/Memory-loss-associated-with-Alzheimers-reversed

Anyone trading off anything ZeroHedge posts probably is going to have a problem. Bearish since the 09′ bottom and posting only negative articles will give you a certain clientele (idiots like me), but trading off their headlines will make you broke.

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