The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-10-26
DOTH GOOD FELLOWS;
u A MINING CAMP TALE
Told in the Klondike BY . Miner
Who Had Followed the Gold
Girdle Over the Cloec.
nv CT wARMAN.
Copyright. 1907. by Gu Wdrra,.

Beside the crystal Klondike. on the
trunk Of a fallen tree. We sat talking OF
tho town Of Dawson. 81 the various camps
and the country generally Some men
we're polling and roping along up the swift
stream with hatboat filed with supplies
A prospcctor. floating down from Do
minion. who had Just shot rapid with
Peterboro. waved his hand and my COM
panion waved back. The man in the boat
held up a brown bag filed with du.t-his
harvest OF the yellow corn OF the
Klondike.
The old miner pulled his white beard
to one side and spat far out into the stream.
staining the river as he had stained the lower
fringe of his mlistache. and remarked that
Dawson would never be taken by miner
for mining camp.
II was all very we'll he said 10 talk OF
law and order, and il looked well in the
outside papers, but if Fort y-niner or
Fiftv-niner came 10 the Klondike, as he
had come 10 breathe once more the free.
wholesome atmosphere Of Early Days. that
man would go back 10 the camp of his boy
hood. with its electric lights, trolley cars
and painted houses, deeply disappointed,
Il have made money in everv mining
camp that have seen, said he, Il have
travelled abroad for pleasure, prospected
and found gold. In South Africa and
Siberia wherever | struck a stake 81 drove
drill found the pay-streak
It's the simplest thing in the world
10 follow this grde Of gold that belts the
earth We know il best whore il crosses
our own country, SO wide that II covers
the whole Wes, from Colorado 10 the
Coast
Then il sweeps up through British CO.
umbia. spreads ont over Alaska ana the
Hudson Ray country and follows the Yukon
down to the Behriig Sea, Cross this cold
pond aud YOU pick up The pay streak again
and follow il across siberia ana so around
the earth.
And all along ,his trail YOU find The
prospector- on the sands Of Africa, on h"
shows of Siberia hunting. hoping, living
in a dream that can never be realized, be-
cause if he find fortune, hc will have eN-
halIsted the anticipation to such an extent
that the realization will only sadden him.
There will be- momertdry thrill. and
then will come the realization that his
dream l. over. Having become suddenly
rich and discon'ented, he = riveS for pleas
ure in the things that money buys,
He will travel round the world, a. hav"
done, panning the sircams and searching
The faces of all the irowning clhS. When
ne hears of a new field he will Join the mad
rush in the hope. NOT of finding a fortune.
but the old camp of his boyhood days.
All" he unused stroking his snow-white
whsliers, III il were Hs easy TO find happi-
ness IA it is to find gold, should be always
hobpy ... a., ,,,a. n.o.,,o,or ,,0
ole who fall forgsts hi, name, wdnders
out into the dunes 81 tn" dllit~, dies and Is
forgotten.
More of This talL there was, from which
| gathered that this hoaiv proprietor vas
III. 4. Ia d
thor. was Il helpful lesson IN his life.
There We at. eide h" side Ink" stack of
rcd and a stack of whit" chips ON q green
cloth. u- the sam" ii"irEt Xix lect Of
rarin would do either al ". poih ind'-
p.udcnt: ono independently rich, 80 that he
could pay his debts the other Independently
poor 50 I hat the Shclih, IT h" came. could
lind nothing.
Yet, in spite Of that fact. one WIS sd,
disappointed and tired. the ~ her cheerful
and iull Of interest IN N" g'"a show called
l.i;"
y, fore ". started lhc OLD man told me q
sturv.-a story that | had h"Hrd ia seattle,
which H. part Of III" forgotten history
oi tn. Wcs' that W., hui j. 10 more, ard
hi, il the story sel ont to tell.
The Torty-nineT tells n with prid" 20
,how that IN" rough mca and heroic women
vino ba2ad ~" trails from the Mis- ouii +"
the Pacific bad big hearts hat were alaays
in the proper place.
Many yeas ago, IN q INNING camp Tar
out in the vide, wild Wet, there lived a
man and woman bctn good fellows.
without bcuehi of clergy they aOpd" to-
gether for many moons. fell out aud fina ll!'
separated
Now, for tie first time ~" woman realized
how much she loved the man, and the man
became avar" that IA" lesi had X az out Of
hi. lie. or course. shc, being o woman.
could DO nothrr. aud hr, h"ing p man,
would DO nothing; :" they mot, nodded
and passed eaCh other and all the Will"
loNe grew ~iGonC"'.
An tho rcopl, IN the camp came soon 10
know of their troubles and all eympai hi2cd
with thorn for they were both good fellows
Finally. the man gave in, called ON the