Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-01-18
Sunrise IN THE KLONDIKE.
A Description of How liz Lo"hS ~
One who Has Seen Ii.

JOAQUIN Miller writes as loilo"S :"
Frank Leslje's Monthly .,.
II never crossed my mind oeiore' Ou
nou, In this dead calm that has lollo"eu
a month Of stormy stampedes ana eN
elements. / have nina 10 rish S"N
nrude's displeasure and be DIT Doy'sh-
even childish l have not pluckeo any any
roses for a long time nor saI 49, only
iioht for months and months Hos 60 e.,
lisut 10 sins,Ia glean1 of sunlight for a rev
minutes up at the mouth OF Eluoiauo % -
high hilltop opposite ana ran o
breath out Of me TO Try ana p,he sIin is
II and keep IL with me. But the sun NJ
Getting in his wedge OF gold now o,a,
inst a little bit further In petWeeil1 49, ~
black blocks Of night, every uaS to-dav
Ell ike a halo on the head OF sleSa'
rr' Lei peak across the Klondike, anu;
forgive my folly, started t 10 Us i con-
reach IT, silly? or c9uIssi ma Rave gone
through fire. floods, anything that Saal
r,iSSt mass at almost any price. 10 LeS,,
To- Touch. TO make familiar Win once hi0'0
a little bit of real soliu sums r,,n down the
! s,ad rail TO the Klondke-then NOT any ~,
| trail AT all only the icy river va s,,,rs
great uplands of blocks ana 9 rPPs a lion was
| and angles Of broken Ice; Inc IIUn and
asIaen 80 fast asleep This stormy an LII
swift little river. that mas sha ahar ~ "a n
whole world for a year, as tne so ~ 10
! lion might Startle ING &c 10 This snow
! sei =, 80 waist was its shroud anu w
| cra1ite walls of the canon It's Collsi n,
q ripple Of water In the Zee Ssra r ~ rivers
sroaze from the bottom, not from thS M, ~
| i'll other well-regulated rivers. 49,
| Treeze first at the mouth, gorge anu anu other
up there first NOT al sue the he whole unde,
World here is solid ice all summer anu "'
w,nter-all the year. IL. 60 ice-noint.
u climbed from ice-polnt 10 He H. ~
The winds had blown tne mo LID as a
~ a. others soft and dusty, up u
~ wSaist But IL was great run 70 wal wa,
lou through this from point 10 Posiir a. a.
-" furthsr shore of this dead river ~
.ilo tno,,d and coffin was reached, an
IT,, the climb (The klondike Is "iue
49, NOT deem | waded it In topooots' p 1ry
footed many times last sulnInei ~
. snowshoes had not been thoush' III ~ -
s,,Iyper Sav. What could anybody thlhk
> w., The newborn baby sunlight ana ~ IN
Sona Of standing once more Wltn "
sun on the mountain top me cninD ,ad
4 nard and steep and hazardous; L nl' I,
| 80, nov nm from one clump OF IceS
my 49, rho snow is not deep under IN
= 49, took off my fur coat, unput.on
"a nv slSin vest. frightened my pelt' az
a. last. breathless. wet all over sIVU 20
Stood where the sun had peen' ~
e 49, vonder. down the YUKON, on VI VI
n ,onrnost neak of a far out-reacnliJ spy
- sfthe Rocky Mountains where the sho
y OF tne - fhere nv great golden Gag
IT is asIay Ills piumes were folded fadIn
- ! and he was gone IN su""0
20 fore the pursuing night -. "a,
d. III l,ar thusi This is the story or III
er W. nav climb from peak TO peak, al
h s Me " the golden sunlight goes ever
ye s before pillar of fire that we M
Of never never lay hands upon And who 6o,, won 0,i
~ have It otherwise? a savage a p h;,n i ~,
re s W. IN II but ne will still be savae
to oa d1g m II is tn the endeayor the aspratio
be she ais makes manhood. Better 20 be beat
in any battle Of fe t than never aa a az ma
20 ~ have dared do just foolish We
se t tvyes If YOU choose to call them FOOLS
'e- iooI<ing for the light; the high; brig
W. light above. rather than the biackn'
below. And this has Kept me youhs
de strong and exultant.