The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-05-13

with self-seelllng men whom Mix,
despised uhat he could not be induced
to come again. Mackay used to say
Mike Burke won't associate with me
since l became A millionaire"
Most of the discoveries of mines
and have known many of them in
many lands-have prOfited but little
from their apparent luck BY profit
ed l do not mean financially. adj
though not many retained their sud
denly acquired wealth for long: I re-
fer 10 the larger profit of happiness.
What shall it profit a man if he gain
! a bonanza and lose his health. his
friends or his purpose i'm life? Some
OF my friends who lived on bacon and
beans, on flapjacks and camp coffee
for 10 OF 20 years. and retained a Wig
orous mnhood succumbed easily to
French cookery. to small hot birds and
big cold BOTTLES Ii is better to be a
healthy prospector than a dyspeptic
millionaire or even a bilious billion
aire. 1t is the penalty of sudden
a q
new acquaintance; he loses the good
friends of his poorer days. often not
from snUbbisilness or any willingness
to be separated from them. but sim
ply because new and costlier way
of living creates a barrier between one
set of companions and affords
bridge to another set Comradeship is
largely dependent upon pr0pinquity.
similarity of tastes and the sharing
of the same daily experiences. The
prospector loses his pals when he
moves from the log cabin to the
brOwnstone mansion or the marble
hall Another factor Of unhappiness |
is the loss Of a purpose. To the pros
pector the search for the mine has a
zest that goes when once the search |
is ended; his best moment is THE one |
in which his pick prizes loose the |
chunk of rich mineral or that in .
which the blast exposes fun stopping I
width of glittering ore. That is the
moment of his achievement. To some
it is permitted to see the sinking of
shafts. the building of mills. and the
realization of the dream of greatly
productive mime but to most this Sc
luel is denied because they have to
forego ownership of their discovery
The peak Of their curve is the actual
hiding; after that their portion is
lat, stale and umprofitable NV sym
1athy goes to the prospector when he
s tmnsplanted from the pine clad
Mountains of his wide domain to the
narrow streets of a crowded city He
$ fish out of waiter. a bird in a
age, a stranger i'm a strange land /,
His happiest moment is not when he
las all that he can eat and drink. all
he painted women that money can
,uy or all the luxury that wealth Gun
Robert Service has ex-
'ressed the idea: .
The men who can't remember when ~
they learned to swing a pack. ~
or in a lawless land the quest be II
gan;
he solitary seeker aTaHh his grub d
stake on his back. f
The restless buccaneer Of pick and =
pan,
m the messas of the Southland. on
the tundras of the North fl
You will find us, changed in face q
but stiM the same: ~
nd it isn't need. it isn't greed that ia
send MS flaring forth {
ITS the fever. It's the glory Of THE Il
game C
7 think Of the prospectOr as having II
aached the crest of his career when HI
q climbs to the top of the range and ~
,ol1s on te other side, eyes wide with y
CpectaitiOn and arms ou'tstretched If
18th eager hope, standing like Balboa t
silent upOn a peak in Darien." or like
rancis Drake, who went went forth n
,om the quiet lanes of Devon. a
Iot knowing if he went to life or "a
death. q
or caring greatly. so that he we're u
true Ii
o his own eleepless and unfaitering e,
soul. "a
hitch could NOT choose butt hear the e'
ringing call I'll
cross the splendors of the Spanish OF
main IN
rom ever fadine. eyer new horizons, Pr
nd shores beyond the sunset and the m
sea" an
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