The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-16
HAP TALKS.

(hese long hot summer days we are
turn our thoughts to cooler places.
hink Of the North with pleasure,
p expedition to the North or South
Doesn't seen TO be such a hardship.
hoes when we are shivcring with cold
winter, The mere thought of snow
d mountains is refreshing, so |
ht would tell the Haps something
that strange and wonderful country
hska, that is tilled with ranges of
lains from whose SUBMITS the snow
mells.
(ral years ago took a trip with a
lnt party Of riends through Alaska
ad an opportunity of seeing some
Of the country. We did not so as
people have gone in the past year.
Is for gold, but made the usual tour
d the sounds and bays. that indent
bore as far as Sitka. That was far
a, though, for us TO formSs fairly
tidea OF the country. IL is simply
flhcent IN its ranges OF picturesque
PAINS, clear running streams and
fr!ai glaciers. The scenery on the
Fnfough which We passed resembles.
sid, that OF Norway. so indented it
oiys and arms OF the sea that
way up into the land.
Tue glaciers. They are the wonder
country and are far grander and
Impressive than those OF Switzerland.
Of the people on board the steamer
Eueen" that took us up to Sltka had
/ lle glaciers OF the old world, but
Feed thar these did not compare with
|%iefs OF Alaska. We saw three
davidson and MuiI-glaciers.
are me most celebrated, but be-
breat.
nave been taking 1t for granted
~ anow what a glacier is, but per-
L, OF you do not. Well. a glacier
~ mass OF ice resembling a frozen
snu the Lakon looked just like II /
nv frozen with waves ripping over /
t'ase' These frozen rivers wind |
y .ne high mountain peaks down 10
t'ss edge. and the Lakon and Muir |
are so much higher when they
~ water than IS surface, that they |
r raaN preelplees OF ice. from which |
',V.1ulhs lall on from time 10 time. (
WYE Ike that OF a cannon. sink 1
~ ne water and. coming up again.
I WIN the current In curious and
mems' The bays in front o; the (
,sasu lsSl were tllled with these
4 siss, Heating gracefully out with
aa looking Ike a fleet OF snowy
! n, "ohaertul shapes. Here was one
rin my hover OF snow. another like
~, A. smell, and so on, Ii was a
49, one could never forget. The
ia 80 olue, rejecting the blue sky
s, ~ mountains round about us with
s,s, SUBMITS, and this fairylilSe
saowships fioRting by.
49,. seaehed the Muir glacier. which
n 49, Of all, the steamer stopped
Nv on and explore il for some
J We walked for miles over the
n WI aasihs, however. TO 10 near
hrss 49, 'hose huge pieces are con-
IA r,as on The glacier is nearly !
rik.s ~ "nere II reaches the water.
AIR. W. IN the mountains Il Is Tod 1
ssn,,s 'sess OF lee until al one neint
M ,nvs miles Wide, Just think
VAN Ice twenty. 1--WE miles w,an,
hlus yer II We saw tiny lakes OF
tvshss tnessky, between hills ~
whSsnS often 10 cross great cracks
| ksnss. "r seemed 10 hear water
q .sh US That was decldsslv
ks,orse ladeed the immense stretch
lIss v. reaching CUT into ,ie
en,, and the intense st,s,nsss
Y ies w. he boom OF a falling
vors as aWiui In the truest sense
sss I s,, ,os whom the glacier was
ehss anped at The foo, ~ i, wSss
% v. sas took our stean,ar a.
/ 4, sac the pleasure ~ hssr,n. Il
n. 1.s NE ia ALASKA u ns .ss,ns
s,hipr s n, and mountains alons, /,
napsaes some hard tack ana tss I
u ma lie had lin enn ,r
o. ,hs :" Yea. ctien camninr III
IL sss wv Wrapped about M his 4
! heaess staea nor 10 care haw eei5 /
4 lesr ae might be Va mis- Nh
rp,s Ma about the Wonderful ,A,nss :
Hap, 1sS 2 show him soaa 'm LIES
,s:,loss , ssn. \. J viii tell them ., /
ls'e IA 81, sseAees tina, he tola us }
"a % SIM strange eountry whss /
,ssl,e an a" sna so cola ana 50 ss.,-
'>s spl,l. beauty, that nna 49,. 7
V 'as eoun,ry is angry \