The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-09-03
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Brief Rsvfsvs of Important and Interesting
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u~namusfnRIy In THE Rainbow End-Alaska 4"
Herbert s. Stone 4 Coz. by Mrs. Alice Palmer
Henderson. Mrs. Henderson discovered. among
other things. that Eondlks cooking was not all
that 10 might have been. and. coming from
Chicago, she seems 10 have found that manners
In Dawson City lacked rspose. Gum boot An
ME. Muk-luk Lizzie, Cannibal Ike and Calamity
Bill and other arfstocrats OF Dawson we're free
and familiar in their manifestations rather
than reserved and their conduct in what Mrs..
Henderson calls the may dance was ~senrcaiy
up TO that Chicago standard fixed By Mr.. Chat
field Taylor and other polite writer's. In the
Dawson dance halls, Mrs Henderson tells uA
every waltz costs a dollar. and II short. 80
that a. many as possible may be crowded IN
before the dancers shall be too drunk 10 essay
further participation After each uumber the
miners conduct thsir ladies oh. lonz-suner-
ing vordl-to the bar for more Of the derry
liquor. at 80 cents . glass. As the night
wears on the vhiskey openly mocks its victims.
amusing itself with their varying antics. The
Jolly Giant bursts into ribald song. and others
Join him ; q dissolute with hair bleached to a
canary color spies a quiet fellow who Is leaning
against n wall watching the scene. and. Obtain
ing q handful OF salt. sprinkIes him literally
with It. asserting. with hiceouGhs. that he is
too fresh A derisivs howl greets her
drunken Wit. A slip Of q boy becomes
quarrelsoms and insists upon fighting the
crowd he Is with difficulty duleted." Daw-
son City whfsksy. as we are also told. would eat
q hole through q miners safe. so it Is possibly
capable Of amusing Itself with its vtctims'
varying antics and even Of openly mocking
them. It Is not easy to account for the eceen-
~tricities OF raw spirit IN high ATTITUDES.
A. for Klondfke cookinS-is Is a thing to
make the angels weep. Even Boston beans
are beyond the klondiksr's ken. and 1t Is really
pathetic to see the clumsy, helpless miners
trying TO prepare their food and TearninS for
the feshpots OF Egypt. while the provision
avotdabls "eornerines." as in the cnse
Of saltwater Bill" who took his
name from his cheerful habit Of max
ing money Cow like water. and who bought
up every egg Of the first invoice last spring for
5000 TO spite 4 woman and prevent her having
some for breakfast. II tell you" SAYS the
author. there's going Co be an army of con-
tented men back In these States in two or three
years who will eat anything put before them.
even Co crow. with an appetite. an absence OF
grumblinE. and a sense Of deep gratitude
which viii be touching to behold. No need
Of killing the fatted calf for them
ANY old thing will do for me.
and thank you And when the men realize
NL11 G1Gy ~ y law III AlAEul1cENea ONeE
the FIRE. nor wash the pots atterward. their
wives won't know them" Il may be that these
reprobates will return reformed. or. again. it
may be that they will still be unreGenerate.
man being q henighted creature. who deems it
his i~nalisnabls privilege to be forever gr1m-
bling at hts food AZ least the humcrists and
the lady n~ovelists tel rs 50. And they probably
know.
The fact that man should be so foolish as to
give up all his home comforts and TO hunt for
gold AZ all seems 20 Mrs. Henderson tne1pIic-
able. and 4 consideration OF these curious phe-
uonena leads her from time to time TO quota
the poets. Il could rot but recall BIair's
words" she says at one point:
Oh. cursed lust II gold! when for thy sake
The fool throws up his interest IN both worlds.
First starved IN this. then damned IN that to come.
And again. in relating the experience OF \
confirmed gambler who played faro from 8 In
the morning till past I at night and left the
game with Sis to the good:
Gold. geld. gold
Good or bad . thousAnd-eoidi
How widely tts agencies war;
To ave, 20 ruin, 70 curse, 70 bless.
As even the uta.ed coins express.
Now stamped with the image Of Spod ouaer 3eas
And now OF Bloody Mary"
It seems always 20 have been the peculiar priv
flege Of the roer and the philosopher to point out
70 man the utter us~elesSness of gold. while the
casual orator Of every kind has ~strenuously
insisted on the nobility Of an exciting and often
labor.
The Lightly Of labor. the long pedigree IF toll
have formed a favortte theme for generations
Of wel-meaning purveyors Of advice. And yet
man has still hankered after the adventurous
and been prone to seek the pot OF gold at the
End Perhaps he would do better to
keep school or tollow the plough and perhaps
Mrs. Henderson l. right wnen she opinss
that the loyeless millionaire Is poorer than
millionaire. who. with wife and child
beside him. warm in body and in heart. sits by
own ireside watching the flames dance
and change color II 4 man could but place
what the phreuologists call mis- amatory in
on deposit and draw against them, the
world would doubtless be- we'll stocked with
miliiouairps: but in a mereenary world. in
the butcher and the baker ooh for
gold or silver. or for neatly engraved
paper promises 20 pay. the millionaire. whose
sole available capital IS love and the gold that
.Elitrers in the light OF hlS domestic hearth. Is
unfortunately in possession % what the law
yers speak OF as non~-neSotiabls instruments.
Mrs. Henderson. though she deVotes perhaps
4 diSproportionate amount Of space Co the back
slidinGs OF Gum-boot Annie and her trail sister,
hood. writes at all times entsrtainingIy. In
OF St. Paul as "a rough rider for
Christianity" che shows q communicable
familiarity with current literature. and in
sentimental at the siGht OF 4 dead
baby On whose face q Struggling
fell. and telling her readers that she
a. Il she must " shield the dead face from
he prying beam which sought out the secret
rom the elose-shuG eyes"-and immediately
Eetting OUT her camera and taking 9 SNAPSHOT
1t the eorpse-she but proves that It Is the
privilege Of her charming sex TO be not always
consistent.
In an attraetively bound and printed little
Tolume entitled " MeditatioEs on Gout. with q
Consideration Of It's Cure Through the Use Of
By George Il. Ellwangsr Dodd, Mead
To-. a genial philosopher. following In the foot
OF Galeu and Hippocratss, seeks to guide
in their search for = wine that will
hay the panEs OF a highly respectable but
most distressing malady. Which seems to