The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-01-22

If a morbid man wanted to commit
suicide and did not have just quite
sand enough, let him flee to Alaska and
III bet he Will get the little sand he
lacks and take the short trail to king
dom come" without much delay But
at the same time some of the scenery
is grand, one of the finest sights ever
saw was the full moon rising over the
top OF one mountain peak on the other
side of the valley 1t outlined snow
covered craigs, valleys, gulches l can
not describe. l must leave 1t to your
imagination, can't find words to de-
scribe the effects.
Now few words as to our menu. lt
is thouht to be one Of the very hard
things of this Countrywide living. 1t
depends good deal on the man or
men. It's surprising what an amount
of change one can get out of a little
variety. We have lots of dried fruit
peaches, apples, apricots and plums,
and they have got these things down
fine at Seattle, and one with plenty or
| fruit need not take citric acid or any
| thing to counterfeit scurvy. We nave
| good bread and butter; of course after
we leave here the butter will be gone.
Slapjacks, meal, johnny cakes, made or
oatmeal and flour, fried in bacon. we
have boiled rice, plain and with fruit
and raisins. Let everyone take plenty
of rice it has such delightful playful
| way of swelling you know. A little or
it goes such a long way. I recollect the
| first time l ever boiled rice was in a
Noank fishing smack. I came near
swelling the deck plank off and ribs out
of that smack that day. The captain
was very pious, you know, and liked
above all things to argue about the
Bible, but he softly whispered some
| cuss words that time.
| We have raisin and plum duff, fried
ham, bacon, pork and beans, which is
another good thing too we have COM
pressed German soups in little cakes.
They are good and have some jaw
breaking name on each package, but
funny to me they all look alike and
have surprising like taste about them
\ but of course they must be different,
they could not be the same with such
names attached to them. We have APP
! pie, plum, apricot, and peach pie, boiled
4 beef, ham with gravy of flour and rice,
coffee, tea and cocoa. boiled and baked
ebans and warmed-over beans, oatmeal,
dried potatoes from which we make
Saratoga chips; dried onions and they
are A No. /. You can smell them for
miles when we are cooking them. They
cost in Seattle fifty cents a pound but
there is a big bulk in a pound OF onions
and more than fifty cents worth Of
flavor We have apple dumping and l
won't tell you any more because you
win think 7 am stretching things lit
tie.
What / miss the most, I am free to
confess, are friends and home ties.
dread this more than all the hardships
of Alaska. s
There has beena few cases Of frozen
feet on the pass in every case caused
n by hob nailed shoes or boots which
draw the frost. There is doctor at
Sleeps Camp and If the feet are not
too, far gone he saves them. I have not
heard Of any amputatfons yet. He puts
their feet in a pail of cold water and
something in it that makes the water
fairly sizzle, I haVean idea it is white
vitrol or some such stuff 1t does the
business however and he gets $40 cash
and the fellow is glad to get his feet
Everything up here is cash you know.
Now in regard to desperate charac-
tiers. that kind you know that point q
gun at you If you cross them a little
and let you look down that gun to lei
you see what Is in the thing, and tel
you to hold your hands up and point
out the north star. | have looked fol
them, at a safe distance of course. anc
never saw one, and thieying is a rare
thing. You can pile UP your goods any
! where on the trail or go off and leave
} your tents, just shut, it up to keeE
the dogs out, and when you come bach
} everything is just as you left it.
!, Oh, it is not safe to steal, there would
: be lots of determined men with guns
STOW up if the fellow was caught, OF
worse yet, he might run up against one
of those ropes hanging from tree witt
one of those awful slippery knots in it
that kind, you know, that fits so tight
He might have time to say his prayer
I but he would have to do his singing
t up among the angels if he shad time
l to repent. Oh, no, if was hungry.
would look first for work; If that fail
! ed, would beg; if that, too, was fail
ure | would go out in the woods anc
quietly pass in my checks You see
] could have lots of time to pray anf
: sing and no spectators. 1t would make
no difference if, when I sang, / didn'
strike the right key, your maker ant
creator would be the only witness, Yol
y might just as well do this way as t.
steal and be caught at it. There is M
a other way only to make an example O.
anyone caught at it for the benefit o
. all.
/. And now good bye ali. I slipped ava,
n from New London very quietly and i
/ surprised many of you, but you see
J, am awfully in hopes | can have th'
!. brass band and redlights and the hand
: shaking and so forth when I come back
t It's the things we hope for up herr
n that we can be at least moderately sue
k cessful, if not one of the very fortunat,
a ones; we'll, perhaps I will write agail
n sometime further on, if this don't tir'
:. you too much. Yours truly,
w. E. PENDLETON.
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