The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-01-24

in the winter time as they Will trave
twenty miles each day, live on tw,
pounds of food given them once da,
and sleep out in the snow when tht
thermometer registers so degrees be
low zero.
There are a good many hardship:
IN this country to endure. but, still. my
health is good. 1 have gained twenty
pounds in flesh since leaving Homo.
lulu. 1t is getting cold now. 80 below
yesterday and 50 today. This is the
dreariest country in the world to win
| ter in. So little daylight. Every time
you look up you see the cold. blue moon
and it always looks the same and
seems to be in the same place. Last
summer L was longing TO see Just one
little star, l got so tired constantly
looking at the sun. Man is never sat
isfied.
Strange we never prize the music till
the sweet-voiced bird has flown.
Strange that we should slight the VIC
let till the lovely flower is gone.
Strange that summer scenes and sun
shine never seem one-half so fair
AS when winters snowy pinionS cast
their white down in the air.
Lovely Honolulu, 1t is, indeed, the
Paradise of the Pacific and of the
world, but one must freeze in this lone
some NOrthland for six months TO fully
appreciate its worth. 1t is lovely
weather this afternoon though. | saw
the sun for nearly half an hour Every
one in the city rushed out of doors to
look at it.
Tell my friend, Mr.. --, that this
is the boss country for the Irish.
should think that they would all leave
the ovid country and come I'D here
where there is plenty of the 'rale ar
ticle' and neither snakes nor frogs.
There is some sickness here. but
the newspaper reports are much exag-
gerated. The sickness is confined to
the lower part of town, that is nothing
more than a swamp. The wonder is
that all of them do not die, the way
thousands of them live.
Miss ----- asked me for verse
the other day. She said that She was
writing some poetry relative to this
country. On the spur of the moment.
replied with considerable truth:
Men in this country live like hogs,
Fine horses are killed and fed to dogs.
Yes, horses that sold for $500 last
spring are being killed for dog food |
There is a good supply of provisions
here, although some things are quite |
nigh. Hay and oats are worth $500 |
Der ton. Milk has been worth 81 a |
glass ever since | came here, and if one
wants a glass he must engage it from
me to four days ahead One man who
milk himself and yet his COW nets him
little over 800 per day. A physician
With whom l was talking today said
hat some of his patients must have
milk and as there are only two cows in
own they pay five dollars a quart for
and then beg to get it. There is
lenty of beef in the country and it is
ow to- what it has been. 1t retails
'om IS cents to $1.25 a pound
This is Thanksgiving day, and what
0 you suppose We had for dinner.
YELL to begin with, we had regular
otatoes. We went down town and :
lstled one bushel of them. They cost
5 SOC. How is that for a price? Po-
toes to start with, then stuffed beef
cart, chicken, pudding, pumpkin pie
ince pie, chocolate cake, condensed
ilk and some fine biscuit with butter.
MT that something great for Daw-
N? OF course everything was canned
'ods, excepting the real potatoes.
q thing that Mr.. cassie, whom |
ct in Honolulu and who so kindly of
red to assist me, a tenderfoot, in
aching Dawson, must have stopped +
ong the road to bore a hole in the
ound. l have not seen him in Daw- L
n. Some good mines have been
'SlSu up Tic i uhOu, anu he
ay have stopped to examine them
,me Of the creeks are turning out
UGH better than was expected. Do
inion was not thought much of till
is winter, but she is big pay now.
aims that could have been bought
st summer on All Gold for $500, now
ing $4,000. Thousands of bench
aims that were believed worthless,
e proving very rich. 1t will take at
ast twenty-five years to work out the
mes that are open near Dawson and
hers will be found. There are a
eat many quartz hunters in the
0untains. Many small pieces of
artz are found that are half gold
ley must come from some source and
m will find it.