The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-09-24

I~9G who can tell
where II les
Was the thought that came To the listen
srs - Clinic Hill told them In simple
words the story Of the horrors Of his life
Ia Alaska.
To those who had known him a. an
earnest student. an athlete who feared no
foe on the gridiron or the c.ndsr path.
the story waa . revelation For. in words
OF unvarnishsd truth. II was . record OF
heroic endurance. indomitahis viii, never
falling courage In one they had CHASED
~ among themselves. No bcasting.
Wanting tale. lat . mare recital Of the
facts apd, God knows, they were enough.
IL was a plain tale. told In a plain.
Straightforward way. without thought OF
sslf. and AZ horror piled on horror. the
listeners shuddered. while he who had
lived II all who had endured IL all. re-
msinef anmoved
He had drained his cup Of bitterness 20
the utmost dress In the darkness. the
cold and. above all. the loneliness OF that
Alaskan cabin. buried In the snow with
the badly OF his father.
Alone with himself and his God. he had
fought the battle. single handed. against
sorrow as sr.at a. no will ever know:
against suffering an acute as ts given 10
man TO endure. and beside his loved dead
III that buried cabin. he learned the les
son OF how TO suffer and yet be silent.
IL Is beyond the hope of comprehension
that the ordinary reader should be able
10 realize. even In part. the horrors Of
Clinic HIS life IN Paradise valley
There are some things one must endure
FOR themselves before they can know and
sympathize with the sufysrings OF others
and his life In Alaska r. ono OF them Ii
II with reluctance he speaks OF a. with
bitter sorrow he remembers - In all It's
awful details and what he has described
IL bat the shadow diInly cast upon our
lives Of the awful things he met. fought
and conquered
The frozen body OF my father lay
over there In the corner HID from my
Saxe by the inky darkness: had no IRE.
ne light and nothing 20 make either with
except few matches What provisions
! had cooked were frozen solid and could
no, be eaten uatis thswed out.
II was buried alive In twelve fee, Of
snow and At tbe earliest could not hope
for help 10 arrive for months. conlh
not walk and when crawfed around IA
the darkness wa@ ia constant pain
Gan you imagine a more terrible stu
alionr
'ch, the loneliness Of II, the lon.Itnssz
of ii. And in that way / had lived Tor
days ard weeks With bu, ere hing IA cheer
me-~the lsstle giean os light once each dsy
waen ! cooked my frugal n.ei ard now
that my last comfort was gone can YOU
wonder that then felt Ike sivlnx 10 ~
not 20 disease. 20 the horrors Of ionsi,nes-
and starvation. rhe terrors OF cold ara
darknese' II vas awful. how awful no
words 81 mine can tell YOU" ard ,ha
speaker shui4ered a. me recollection.
When ci1nis r. nm lsst Seattle for
AiasNs some 40 years ago. hs left his
plsee In the ~niar cisss at the university
lea comfortable home ami started a;t
In tse world With no more experience 81
the real han'ss'pz and suffering OF ~.
Than any ciher YOUNG man rsisei as he
had eeeH. lie returned O cay or two ago
and The narrative Of h.s -ssrertnxs and
pfivaiiefSs IN Ais-ss makes story as ter.
Fsse 80 e "a eaa sna interesting Tn.
school boy has lived through more bard
shfp tn two years ,aen falls 70 the lot O.,
most nica. even In Alaska. IN q Hse.itr~
Mr.. Inn tells the story simp,y arr Win
ths' mofrssy Characteristic Of brave men
u r. a story tsaf ne~ts no ensn~ushrr-r,.
TIE plain facts thar follow arc enough.