The Marshall republican., 1909-07-09

pennies at all out here except in
the postoffice. Very few g.eer-
backs are seen, bu: goll pennies
are plentiful.
1 am enthusiastic about the cli-
mate. The air is just thin enough
to make you breath deep in spite
OF yourself. The temperature IS
almost ideal, nights are coil the
year round they say, at leas. they
are now and the days are co d too
until three o'clock, when a b-erze
springs up and makes it cool. This
climate is preferable to that OF Cal
.ifornia proper being cooler by day
and dry all the time. When this
! summer you persp.re by day or
toss upon your bed by night, think
how del:ciously cool / am, and be
happy.
A days drive from my parsonage
Is Lucky Boy" this is the new sill
yer camp that is creating such a
sensation. It's purchase pricc has
already scared into the millions. 1t
is as full OF chunks OF silver as a
pudding is OF raisins There is no
church there, and the honorable
saloon keepers have decreed that
there shall be none. However, a
preacher a few days ago da-et to
visit the camp, ana some six humid
red miners gathered in the open'
air to hear him. The oder was not
the best. Some were m micking,
Others re%marking, You don't say
so" others laughing and others tnlk
ing, while still others were cordicl'
nv inviting the minister to go to
Helena, Montana. But when the
hat was passed they threw in al
most a quart of silver, all of it be-
ing coined excep. n lump the s'z,
OF a walnut.
You have heard Of the "Bad Man
from Boiie." Really he is leso m
ed. He hasn't a bad reputation any
more. 1 am a days stage drive
from Bodie. II is 1000 feet higher
than my parsonage snow ice AMI
| billiards are on the bill o. fare
there the year around, in August
as in January. But you can't freeze
him out for the gold is there. The
mines of Bodie are certainly stay
ers they have produced tens OF
millions in their time ana the end
is not yet.
I am also only a days drive from
Lake Tahoe. I defy the champion
liar OF the world to come out and
exaggerate the beauty, pictures
queness and sublimity of this world
famed summe resort. In my
mind the English language is fail
ure here. Mountains skirted with
/ pines, capped with snow, shot thro
with sunlight, and rendered radi-
ant by the glory OF the dawn-the
lake, twelve miles by twenty three
in the censer almost OF incredible
depth and everywhere clear clear
as liquid oxygen, SO that the trout
rs, SO or even a hundred feet below
seem almost at hand. And then at
night to see the armament of stars
one above. and one below in the
water, both equally bright, equally
beautiful.
Many hotels in the midst OF parks
skirt the shore Hotel Tahoe at the
foot of the cross ian emblem pencil
ed by snow on the neighoring peak
Is the assembling place of the trav-
cling aristocracy. By economy you
can stay there for six to ten dol
lars a day. But the rooms as well
as the grounds are creations, such
as are rarely seen anywhere And
the silver, cut glass ana fine china
of the table is only in keeping with
the fessts laid ther.n g itAered wi h
out regard to expense anl p.epar-
ed by masters in the culinary art
There too, you meet charm,ng hai'-
esses-but here you meet d!scou--
agement. They will share you"
canoe on a moonlight night-but
papa goes along, and the fair god
| dess absolutely refuses to fall into
the water even when it is shallow.
Cordially,
L. o. Smith.