The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-12-27

next day my brokers' Office was for
rent and I was en- route for Alabama
by the overland road. Although 1
had never lived in the State, I was at
the time Of my election constitutional
ly eligible, for the Constitution does
not require that a Senator shall be a
citizen, but only an inhabitant' of his
State, and for two months before the
election I inhabited Alabama, to an
unlimited extent. was elected and
afterwards reelected. 7 made her a
good Senator, if I do say it myself, and
lasted longer than most of the car
pet-baggers.'
There is fascination in the pursuit
of the precious metals that accom-
panies no other avocation, and in it
men and women cheerfully endure the
hardships and encounter dangers. In
1885 my wife and !, enthused by re-
ports of great silver discoveries, wan
dered into a new camp in Eastern Or
egon. From a box of Scraps 1 ex-
tract letter now yellow with age,
which was written by her to an East
ern friend and never mailed. She says:
Our cabin stands among the pines
and looks the eternal mountains in the
race. The last CLEAN OF the setting
sun is thus left for MY ever-straining
eyes, for they are always searching
Tor some landscape for suggestion.
What strange bits have filed away
Tor thought-bitS broken from every
corner of the earth. A glimpse of the
Swiss glaciers, pearly and prismatic,
reaches OF rose and gamboge from
Italian sunsets, phosphorescent swirl
OF tropic seas, conglomerate belchings
or Colorado upheayals, stretches of
distant peaks, leaning magicwards,
swathed in the warmest of Arizona
tnts, pulsing fields of green buds and
boughs, and golden gates with watery
hinges-a world full and nothing lost,
for word turns the backward KEYS
of memory and the picture is revealed
again.
"On the other side Of the brush fire
my husbands Chinese cork hat CLEANS
among the green pines like the helmet
of Navarro, only a good deal ragged
and besmeared with combination of
brush-burning results and restaurant
tarnish, and no modest pen can do
adequate justice to his pantaloons.
The general dissolute appearance of
this article of wearing apparel is en-
HANGED by certain bagginess eloquently
suggestive of limited rations, while
little knobs at the knees attest the
unrelieved stress at this point, which
stress is confined by tenacious touches
OF pine tree gum. Indeed, the rear
presentation of the entire figure,
shoulders and elbows as well, reminds
one of Japanese subjects technically
under conventional treatment, severely
outlined, and shorn of lights and
shades. My own conditions are not
such as to warrant boasting. I use
lard for toilet, resin soap for my bath,
worn out lawn tennis shoes, broken
boned corsets and silk stockings
patched with muslin after the most
! approved esthetic crazy quilt design.
1t is for the hope to have and to hold
in the glittering legacy of nature, said
to be hidden among these snow-capped
hills that we, with others, undertake
hardships and privations, and sleep
upon cots and hay, and occasionally
skip beef, buttermilk, and desserts and
go without newspapers, and wear linen
guiltless of starch or fiat irons, and
only clean through the process of hand
/ laundrying in basin.
THE miners-blessings on the big
hearts under the blue shirts-bring us
specimens and samples until the
mirror upon my improvised toilet ia
bic reflects more sulphurets than
brushes and more chlorides than
combs. The latest addition is a
thirty-pound dornock covered with
greasy little 'greenery-yallery' flakes
of pure chloride of silver More dis
coveries on both sides of the creek are
reported. If but one in twenty fulf1lls
expectations this will be the largest
mining field in the land