Evening star., 1915-05-16
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR MAY 10, 1915
This discloses the finding Of
The Pot of Gold
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one dOeS not know tnat f1elnrlcn was
quite so generous as those Others. And
there was Albrecht, who returned at the
end of the year to Germany with the
foundation for vast fortune and Karl
who, if his true name were given, would
to this day be remembered in New York
City as millionaire and-but what of
| them? Most of them We're comfortable
when the end came and Dutchmans Gulch
was done: all save the generous kOnrad,
whose assets We're sums lent to friend and
stranger alike, now scattered into the un-
known, some other claims that were of
problematic value, and a record of good
will. Men who had never seen him re-
ferred to him as good fellow; but half
the wrecks of the world are "good fell
lows" And the good fellow of today is
the "poor fool" of tomorrow, when his
ability to pay has vanished; and the glad
hand of this minute is the "cold shoulder"
of next week, when the strings of the buck
skin bag are useless and the yellow dust
is all gone.
Even Heinrich realized that Dutchmans
Gulch was worked out, and he was among
the first to depart. He went to place
which still exists, and with plenty of capi-
tai opened general merchandise store
which was long famed as the largest in a
circle of many miles, and prospered, as do
all frugal men. Heinrich admitted that
Konrad was fool.
Konrad fell to work, still cheerful and
undismayed; but the ground on which he
had based his hopes for a continuance of
money proved almost barren. He began
to learn the value of the ounce of gold
in the purse, and to regret those which
had so freely departed; but he did not lose
faith in humanity. 1t seemed incompre-
hensible to him that of all those he had
assisted in his own epoch of prosperity
none now came forward to help him. A
still harder realization was to be borne
when, in Distress he attempted to collect
some of these funds so generously de-
posted in the bank of good will. The
bank took advantage of the clause that
requires long notice, and declared mora
torium.
A year slipped along, in which time
California had achieved population, maps,
government, and the happy days of easy
finds were forever gone. Camps no longer
sprang into existence in day. 1t seemed
as if every foot of land had been pros
pected, as if every stream had been pam
ned for the cleaning shine of gold, as if
all there was had been found and torn
from bedrock, leaving denuded, mocking
surface of worthless slate. 1t was the
time when adversity tried the souls of
men, winnowed the good submerged the
valueless, and waited only to see who
should endure. Shadows clouded even the
optimist, who struggled on, resolved to
avoid defeat and to profit by his sadly
learned lesson.
A MOTHER year was torn from the cal
endars, and now, broken in purse,
sometimes derded, the discoverer of
Dutchmans Gulch found work as he
could. And work was scarce; for in that
deluge of men who swarmed to the land
of promise in those days of the early
and golden sos were many others, even
more unfortunate than he, who were
glad to find employment of any kind.
There was competition in the quest for
food.
Konrad had wandered far, and was
spent, on that day when he turned his
face back to the Big Divide and sought
the place of plenty where Heinrich pros
Dered and grew ever more PROSPEROUS,