The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-27
SOME LEADING EDITORIALS.

nftnor, C0n1e0 another CnepteI IN Inc us-
tory Of the American. illustrating his phys
ical prowess and never say determine
tion. That h rough road, due north ty
sea and land. up to the very confines OF
the Arctic zone and encountered In tie
cold shadow Of falling winter. bit rot'ce,
II you please. the hundreds AMI thousands
Of Americans who cheerfully chance its
sufSerings and Its perils.
It is not very prudent, those who do not
60 will say. and very foolish, on the whole.
for men to leave safety and comforts to
face the Arctic sky, the hardships OF the
mountain trail. the treacherous torrents,
the glaciers fail, the perils OF the forest
and the flood But, come to think Of IT.
prudence and caution have not been for
the last hundred or two years American
characteristics. The reputation Of the
American within that period has been built
on what 1t has done and dared.
There Is no occasion to bubble about the
exact meaning OF the expression American
race. II means the breed OF men who have
been born, or reared or have settled or
been acclimated in the United States Of
America; whose heaven Is the blue Ameri-
earth. 1t Is men OF that race who are
facing the rough times In Alaska. who are
climbing the mountains with loads on their
backs. who are making their camps In the
mud and snow. who are fording the Icy
streams, who are shooting the rapids In
their canoes, who are launching their boats
on the lakes, who are striking out on
wilderness journey of a thousand miles. as
II 1t were summer evenings excursion
TO the next village, regarding rain, snow.
sleet, mud, ice, rocks. tangled woods ana
roaring waters as nothing.
The attention Of the world Is also d.
rected to the way these men are standing
trail and die, but the men push tn. Noun
tain, not glacier, nor rising river, nor
storm swept lake stops them. Ani they
do not die under 1t all, either. The most
that Is said Is that great suffering may
ba expected. The American bound TOT
Klondike has not even acknowledged maj
he has begun to suffer yet. He Is not in
the habit Of complaining OF these little and
unavoidable inconvenieces Of travel.
The fact should also be noticed trat
these Klondike endeavorers belong TO al
classes and conditions OF Americans. we
have in this country no special class OF
human beings born to live poor and EN-
dure hardness" peasants. serfs. Kinds or
that sort OF thing. Nobody IN this land
is born in ditch and destined to live and
die in enc, and Is set apart. as II were,
to stand the brunt Of peace and war. When
II comes to accomplishing any work re-
quiring the exercise OF muscle and nerve,
whether it Is opening up gold mine in
the coolest corner OF the 'sorld or going
into the fire line on O battlefield, Americans
OF all kinds go in as II 1t were as much
one mans privilege to die early as an
others. Among the Klondikers are some
old miners and prcspectors and mountain
men, and there are a great many more men
from city homes, and other comfortable
places. men now sleeping on the ground
who never slept outside Of a bedroom before
this trip. There are lawyers and doctors
and almost certainly clergymen. and all
taking their luck together and alike. be-
cause II is In the bone and the blood and
the race to do II.
1t is all Ineligible enough when We re-
member that this Klondike business has
been going on In some fashion CIR another
for more than hundred years. The truth
about gold will be wrung from Alaska by
the same sort of men who fought lack the
wilderness with all the terrors 1t contained
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. the same
who made play spell Of the conquest of
California. These people having set their
hand to the pillow have never yet looked
back
The American will, OF course, add Alaska
to his other conquests and whatever 1t
costs him Will, when the task Is done.
speak of 1t lightly. These bard times
which he is at present enduring ne will at
some period speak Of as the good old times
and the flush days. and when he Gets his
gcld--as he will--he will never be found
starving to death beside his treasure. AL
ready 1t is announced that great ST ip-
ment OF eggs, poultry and other kindly
fruits OF the earth Is on the way to Daw-
son city. An American dealer reasons that
when tho honest miner has made his waV
through flood and frost and danger and
destruction and death to the object Of his
destination he will enjoy himself with eggs
at s25 dozen and whole fried chicke rs at
proportfonate figures. for that n the
American manner and the custom at tbe
country. >
From Leslies Weekly.
A NEW BIBLE.--A new Bible is being
published. Is called the Polychrome.
because 1t is printed In many colors In Or
der to show the various manuscripts from
which the text was derived and Indicate
the time when the book was written. Pro-
iessor Paul Haupt. who Is one of the
scholars engaged in the work, informs us
that each part is In the hands OF the most
distinguished authority In that special
"ofh III the world. The effort lis to con-
centrate the best scholarship of both hemis-
pheres upon the production of translation
that shall be as absolutely accurate as II
Is possible to get. The aim is the correct
translation OF the Bible into the best OF
modern English. 1--WE do not intend IL to
supenede the authorized version, saws
PROFESSOR Haupt, ''preferring that It shall
De IN the nature OF commentary upon
that; but we do desire II to supersede the
revised version, for that simply DESTROYS
the beauty OF the authorized version with
out making 1t much clearer" 1t VIII com
Tort the faithful to know that none OF the
great facts or doctrines OF the Bible are
changed In this translation. The mos, ex-
act scholarship does not materially effect
the accuracy OF the greatest hook the world
has ever known. "s'1
ABIDE from its spiritual Significance the
blbie seems TO be miracle in itself. II IA
now read III over 800 languages and dia
iects, ard through the Bible focie.ies alcne
curing this century more than 200 600 All,
copies OF 1t have been distributed. The his
TORY o. the translation may be found In any
encyclopedia, but he main point Of inter-
tSt Is that the King la MAI yare,ar go.