Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1892 — Starting New Worlds. [ARTICLE]

Starting New Worlds.

Some veare ago I crossed over tin Sierras into the new mines of Nevada, then a part of California. I saw an old friend standing at the month of his mine shouting out his commands in monosyllables down the shaft. New cities gleamed below; mines opened above; progress thundered through the land. “What are yon doing there?” 1 cried. He took in the horizon under his hat, bit off the end of his cigar, looked at the new cities below, the tremendous mining engines all about the tunnels piercing tae mountains above, but did not speak. “Why, what on earth are you all doing over here in Nevada?” I again shouted. “Worldbuilding !” And that was all this silent man, now a United States Senator, answered. It Was enough. He made that word then and there, I think. He coined it as from liis new silver.— Joaquin Miller. At Athens, Ga., a negro child was born with a full set of teeth. Nature evidently designed that darky kid to have a fair show from the start, especially if there were any watermelons that needed immediate attention.