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To oop, the Organs in har- mony---when a BEECHAM'S PILLS : 'Sale of Any Medicine in the World Sold everywhere. ln boxes, 28¢. herries ! ed berries and: goose- rries, direct from the uit growers, to arrive uesday. _ Order early.! ° JR B:Gage, | | Montreal Street | », # o- { and no dinner, | be adjudged it "In fact, we had no difficulty whatever Yank stretched himself upright. "Look here," he said decidedly, "let's get a little sense into ourselves. Here's our pore old hoswes standing with their packs 'on and we no place to stay and we're scratchin' away at this bar like a lot of fool hens. | There's other days comin'." Johnny and 1 agreed with the com mon sense of the thing, but reluctant- Doubleday, Page & Ce. . entered a cool grecu with shadows and (he rare, cansidered notes of. soft voiced birds. Just over our threshold, as it were, was the suf lit, chirpy, buzzing, bright colored busy world. (Overhead a wind of many piace, peopled voices humped through the pine tops. | The golden sunlight tlocded the moun tains opposite, flashed from the stream, lay languorous on the meadow. Long ed gap in the bills behind us to touch with magic the very tops of the trees over our heads. The sheen of thie pre cious metal was over the land CHAPTER XII . The First Gold. { bars of it slanted through an unguess- | | | E arose before daylight, pick. | | eted our horses, left: our \X/ dishes unwashed and hur ried down. to the diggings | just at sunup, carrying our: gold pans, or "washbowls," and our extra tools. { The bar was as yet deserted. We set to work with a will, taking turns with | the pickax and the two shovels. 1 { must confess that our speed slowed down considerably after the first wild | burst, but we kept at it steadily. was hard work, and there is no deny- | ing it, just the sort of plain hard work {the day laborer does when he digs | sewer trenches in the city streets, worse, perhaps, owing to the nature of | the soil. | those few" years of bard labor in tbe | diggings, from '49 to '53 or '04, saw | more actual manual toil accomplished | than | turning we now understood. | and were dismayed at thé labor it had We Actually Panned Our First Gold! ly. Now 'that we knew how, thusiasm surged up again, We want- | ed to 'get at it. The stranger's eyes twinkled sy mpathetically. "Here, boys," said he, "I know just | how you feel. Come with me." He snatched up our bucket and | strode "back to his own claim, where | he filled the receptacle with some of | the earth he had throtva out. "Go pan that," he advised us kindly. | We raced to the water and once more stirred about the heavy contents of the pall untill they bad floated off | with thre water. In the bottom lay a-| fine black residue, and in that residue | glittered the tiny yellow particles. We | bad actually panned our first gold! Our friend examined it eritically. "That's about a twelve cent pan," our em- Somehow In a'vague way we had | gnreasonadbly expected millions at a twist of the wrist,- and the words "12 cents," had a rankly penurious sound to us. However, the miner pa tiently explained that a twelve cent pan was a very good one, and indubj tably it was real gold. Yauk, being older and less excitable had not accompanied us, to the water side. "Well, boys," he drawled, "that 12 cents Is highly satisfactory, of course but In the meantime we've lost about $000 worth of hoss and grub." Surely enough, our animals had tired of waiting for us and had moved out | packs and all. We hastily shouldered | our implements, "Don't you want to keep: this hia next me?" inquired our acquaintance. We stopped. "Surely!" 1 replied. we do itz' "Just leave your pick and shovel in | the hole." 3 "Won't some one steal them?" "No." "What's to prevent?" I asked a lttle skeptically. "Miner's law," he replied. We almost immediately got trace of our strayed animals, as a number of men had seen them going upstream. "But héw do {in finding them, for they had simply Ol owed up the rough stream bed be- tween the canyon walls until it had opened up to a gentler slope and a | hanging garden of grass and flowers. Here they had turned aside and were Jeelling. We caught them and were t heading them back wien Yank stopped short, "What's the matter with this here?" he inquired. "Here's féed and water near, and it ain't so very far back to We looked about us for 'the first time with seeing eyes. The little up sloping meadow was blue and dull red with flowers, below us the stream brawled foam . flecked among black rocks, the high hills rose up to meet ithe sky, and at our backs across the | were doing our share that morning, | especially after the sun came up. We | wielded our implements manfully, piled | our debris to one side and gradually | achieved a sort of crumbling uncertain | shovelful whose lower third consisted | promptly forgot both lunch and our | bling from his own claim. was ever before performed in | the same time by thé same number of | men. The discouragement of those re- They had expected to take the gold without toil required. At any rate, we thought we | excavation reluctant to stay emptied. About an hour after our arrival the | other miners began to appear, smoking their pipes. They stretched themselves lazily, spat upon thelr hands and set to. Our friend of the day before nod- ded at us cheerfully and hopped down into his hole. | We removed what seemed to us tons | of rock. About noon, just as we were | thinking rather dispiritedly of knock- ing off work for a lunch, which in our early morning eagerness we had for- gotten to bring, Johnny turned up a of the pulverized bluish clay. We own weariness. "Hey!" 'shouted our friend, scram- "Easy with the rocks! What are you conducting here, a volcano?' He peered down at us. "Pay dirt, hey? Well, take: it easy. It won't run away." Take it easy! As well ask us to quit entirely! We tore at tHe rubble, which aggravatingly and obstinately cascad- ed down wpon us from the sides, We scraped cagerly for more of that blue clay. At last we hdd filled our three pans with a rather mixed lot of the dirt and raced to the river: Johnny fell over a bowlder and scattered his wraful far and wide. His manner of scuttling back to the hole afier more reminded me irresistibly of the way a contestant in a candle race hurries back to the starting point to get his candle relighted. We panned that dirt clumsily and | | certain belligerency mingled with sur- It! | Johnny was 'the same. ohily 1 | log. It Lad struck me since that | | | | { | hastily enough and undoubtedly lost much valuable sand overside, but we ended each with a string of color. We crowded together, comparing our pans, Then we went crazy. I suppose we | bad about a quarter of a dollar's worth | of gold between us, but that was not | the point. The long journey with all ! its hardships and adventures, the toll, the uncertainty, the hopes, the disap- pointments and reactions had at last their visible tangible conclusion. The ny flecks of gold were a symbal. We Yor te aloud, we Kicked up our heels, we shook haids, we finally joined hands and daueed around and around. We worked with entire absorption, quite oblivious t6 alk that was going on about us. It was only by accident that Yank looked up at last, so I do not know low Jong Don Gaspar had been there. "Will you look at that?" cried Yank. Don Gaspar, still in his embroidered boots, his crimson velvet breeches, his white linen and his sombrero, but 'without the blue and silver jacket, was busily wielding a pickax a hundred feet or so away. His companion, or servant, was doing the heavier shovel work. "Why, oh, why," breathed Johhog St last, "do you suppose, if he must mine, he doesn't buy himself a suit of dun- garees or a flannel shirt?" "I'll bet it's the first hard work pe ever did in his life," surmised Yank. "And I'l bet he won't do that very long," I guessed. But Don Gaspar Noone .to have | more sticking power than we gave him credit for. We did not pay him much further attention, for we were busy with oui own affairs, but every time we glanced in Lis direction he appear od to be till at Our sack of sand was growing heayler, as, indeed, were our limbs. As a matter of fact we bad been at harder work than any of | eve softeding to 4 twinkle, "816 a day | now five days. | meal of vittles in that time. | fixed up our camp a mite. | or 1 long hours, beneath #& score hing sun, | |.without food and under strong: excite | ment. We did not know when to quit, | but the sun at last decided if for us by | | dipping below the mountains to ths | 'west. | The following days were replicas of | tthe first. We ate hurriedly at odd | times; we worked feverishly; we sank | into our tumbled blankets at night too | | tired to wiggle. But the buckskin sack | | of gold was swelling and rounding out | most satisfactorily. By the end of the week it contained over a pound! | But the long hours, the excitement | and thé ipadequate food told om our nerves. We snapped at each other | impatiently at times and once or twice | came near to open quarreling. Johnfy | and I were constantly pecking at each | other over the most trivial concerns. | One morning we were halfway to | the bar when we remembered that we had neglected to picket out the horses. { It was necessary for one of us to go | back, and we were all reluctant to | do so. "I'll be -- if I'm going to lug "way | up that hill," I growled to myself. "I | tied them up yesterday, anyway." Johnny caught this. "Well, it wasn't your turn yester- day," he pointed out, "and it is today. I've got nothing to do with what you | chose to-do yesterday." "Or any other day," 1 muttered. "What's that?' cried Johnny trucu- lently. "I couldn't hear. Speak up!" We were flushed and eying each oth- er malevolently. - "That'll do!" said Yank, with an un- expected tone of authority. 'Nobody will go back and nobody will go ahead. | We'll just sit down on this log yere | while we smoke one pipe apiece. I've got something to say." Johnny and 1 turned on him with a | prise. Ydnk had so habitually acted the part of taciturnity that his decided air. of authority confused us. His slouch had straightened; his head was up; his mild eye sparkled. Suddenly I felt like a bad small boy, and 1 believe After a mo- ment's hesitation we sat down on the "Now," sald Yank firmly, it's about time we took stock. We been here We ain't bad a decent We ain't We ain't been to town to see the sights. 'We don't even know the looks of the man that's camped down below us. We've been too danged busy to be decent. Now we're goin' to call a halt. I ghould jedge we have a pound of gold tharabouts. How nmech is that "Well, it wasn't your turn yesterday." he pointed out. worth, head "Along about $250." said Johnny aft- er a moment, "Well, keep on figgerin'," does that come to apiece?" "About $80, of course." "And dividin® eighty by five?" sisted Yank. "Sixteen." Well," drawled Yank, his steely blue Jonny? Yon ean figg i in yore How much per- is fair wages, to Le sure, but nothin® to get wildly excited over" He sur veyed the two of us with some humor. "Hadn't thought 'of it that way, bad. you? he adked. :*Nuther had I until last niglg. . I was so dog tired I | couldn't sledp, and 1 got to fggerin' a little on my, own hook." "Why. 1 éan a4 better than that in gan F rangisco, with bate the work!" 1 cried, "Maybe tor awhile," said Yank, "but here we got a chance to make a big strike most yoy time and in the mean- time to nifke 8 wages. But we ain't goin! to do it any quicker by kill- in' 'ourselves. Now, today is Sunday. 1 ain't no religions man, but Sunday is-a* good day to quit: I propose we go back to camp peaceable, make a decent plice to stay, cook ourselves up a squar' 'meal, wash out our clothes, visit the next camp, take a look at town: and enjoy Ives." . Thus vanished first and most | wonderful romance of the gold. Re- -duced to wages 'it was somehow no longer so marvelous. The element of uncertainty was always there, to be sure, and an inesplicable fascination, but no longer had we any desire to dig up the whole place immediately. I suppose we 'pearly as much earths, but the fibers of our minds were relaxed, and we did If more easily and with less nervous wrar and tear. (Continued Next Saturday) Another Insurance Deal Reported. London, ful 27.5~1t is reported that the sorb the Marine Insurance Company, the Marine Insurance Co. has a sub-| scribed capital of £1,000,000, of which £600,000 has been paid in. 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