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Prospector |

HE prospector is the free lance of his ¢ own. crusade, in- =
4 dividually considered; but socially looked at, he is the _-
scout—the eyes, the feelers, thrown out right and left into -

a new country by the advance guard ‘of civilization—the
tentative expansion of industrial enterprise. He is more of
a man of ways than of means, but the lack of means is

-usually compensated for by his great expectations, and ~
that places him at.a stroke upon an equal footing with the ..

eldest sons of our old nobility. | He is the noblest specimen
of ‘manhood that medern conditions have produced—self-

reliant, independent, | courageous, generous in thought as.
well as in deed, sanguine to a fault, enduring hardships:
cheerfully, fall of. resource and good humor—a perfect

knight in everything but shining armor,

The prospector looks the country over, pries into every :
we and corner, examines every ereek and crack .he comes
‘leaves no stone unturned” as the saying goes; sniffs

oat the lair of the ‘iron pirates,’’ discovers hidden indica-

tions of ‘“‘quarts’’ full of gold and ‘“‘pints’’ of contact lead-*.

ing thereto. He follows the float upstream instead of

down, and. does many other. equally contradictory things .

both fascinating and unintelligible to the outside mind.:

He is the hunter par excellence, ‘his vocation being
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rightly termed a pursuit and his game a quarry.
to say, whenever he locates a claim he calls it “mine,”
And that is why the prospector and J are such fast friends
—what’s his is mine, and what’s mine is my own! - He is
the only man I know of that knows how to turn dirt into a

paying proposition, or who can ‘slip his hand ‘into a pocket’

full of gold and transfer the contents’ thereof into his own
pocket ‘without wronging anybody: in that case it is not

_tnine, of course; it is a strike—the signal for all idle hands
to start working industriously.

“It will thus be seen that the- ordinary conception of
meum and tuum does not apply to the prospector, He is a

_law upto himself, and lives in-a world peculiarly -his own,
While: in the prospective stage he is richer than at any

other time, and turns over millions with the ease and dex-

terity of an expert financier; he does not handle’ money, of
_ course. What millionaire does? But he speculates largely,
as evening: by evening-he sits by. his camp fire and cooks.
_his'beans and bacon. ;
en ‘hair; -way back east, or. his dear ‘old white-huired mother
and makes elaborate and. sometimes extravagant: arrange-
ments for their ease and comfort in the immediate future;
incidentally he buys a motor car, or invests ina yacht, or

He thinks of the girl with the gold-

plans an- extended trip to Europe with the girl he loves as

‘ soonas ever the ceremony. is over in the dear little old :

church.in his native village. .As he sits mending his moc-

| ¢asin or patching his pants with the illustrated portion of a,
~. flour ‘bag, he remembers that dear little old ehurch needs® ’
—yepairing badly, and he decides there. and. then to have it’:
i thoroughly restored and fitted up anew. before’ the:wedding. -:
. Why, that’s a very lovely. thought! - It lasts-him.a whole.
“= evening, ° ‘as, reclining on his: -couch. of. balsam boughs, he :
smokes. his pipe and watches the faces come and £0. among 8
‘the blazing logs. - no
-It is an intellectual treat to have: ‘a chat with a. pros-
7 His strenuous life, spare living,. keen: observation a
:-and'elose contact. with Nature day by day,- his nightly com- -
‘tmunion | ‘with: the stars,.. the. light of hope that never fails. o
him, his bright dreams of the future interwoven with vis- od:
of ‘the past, all centreing round. the assurance. that.
: abundant . tiches are his: for ‘the finding; ’ ‘give to his: eyes.
By hat: look of. wonderful depth and distance, unknown. to the.
7. eyes ‘of other men, marking him out as one who, if he hay

jeceedeéd ‘in‘actually laying -his’ hands .on the: preciou

: netal, ‘has at any rate, enjoyed the most splendid prospects, :

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