| Show TWINS GREW FAT A MUTER MINER BRINGS HIS BABIES FROM THE YUKON over the pass told it would bo be impossible until the children could walk barn within the borders of 0 a land owned by the united states and yet farther away from the renter center of thel their r own country civilization than any other oilier child or children Is the distinction i which nill mill follow joseph arid and bernard day through gli life fire says bays a seattle corre pon dent of 0 the san francisco call they are two year old twins ant and ar lived in this city on tile the steab steamer A r wit wil lapa direct from Ala alaska suit the place or of their birth Is not tile only thing remarkable thus far ar in their lives for till uie life ald aid of their father they made ili order to reach juneau an anil I 1 make ce connection I 1 with till the WIIl apa pa a trip ot of many days coming iron from the yukon minina district still and the grand brand but dangerous summit by the pass others many years their seniors have attempted to snake make that same t trip t p anil and were never heard ot of again but th the L babes are alive and well and abil they can not talk they hope to some day be able to discuss the tr trip I 1 I 1 as I 1 it t comes to them from the lips of 0 their father U day the story of their birth ot of their kable trip and other facts connect connected rd with them li Is one ona that lops dors riot not find its way into print very often U day Is a miner he be la Is a bag lint looking man mail and tor for years year 3 before lie decided to RO go to alaska he worked in the silver inanen ot if the east lie he was waa experienced in his business arid and when nhen lie made it a trip to alaska four years ago aco suid and took a look at the country he made anade up lit his mind that he be would como come hack back to the united states slates S ail and get eel hla bin w n ire ife a brido bride of a row few months anil and return to tile tho land ot of gold cold lie he came back and his ire who was wai rt at that time lime living with some well to lo do relatives in ili a roubert of glnn consented to return with him tro to alaska alaica site she was not very strong but hail bad plenty of and in the raring with nith the air aid of 0 her hu husband shand she reached the yukon mining district in safety A GROAT agn CAT EVENT her coming was a great ecat event arril amons the miners lint but one or two women hail had ever been aifong them anti and those hall held field alakl from the common mrs day tonic an ai interest in them and to tot ing happiness to their lives just tv tio 0 years yearn ago aco slip nho rave gave ill blithe ill 12 inin ill bivs they were ile big and healthy an and of had eyes that thal were black as coal atilt ami cheeks as rest red as LS apples tin tile exact da data le of their bill 11 wai wor wa i s ot october etotle 11 an and 1 the place sixty ellk creek never did the coming of any one riot not even a of the hardy men inen who carry tile the mall create such ni a fervor in tho yukon alq adli triet allness will who cattle came down recen recently tl say that for three ni months after the iirth of the twins mr air and mrs ira pay day I 1 preat j from miners faraway who nho heard of ill new arrivals they were acre the alio hist flirl chil children dien ever born in tho hi yukon and they were pette 1 suld and caressed and humored an ai a i though they wore were the children of dorile great king on tune june ald 1 I this near car yra mrs tiny day who 0 I 1 iad had n not I 1 been C n well w 11 ll since tho the birth of t alie h children died and in there was general tu inning in tile the camp wondered abat become of nf tire twin awlik 4 day told tall his friends that in the lie fall lie ho would take lake them mom to the file united states anti and place I 1 liam ulah their inci mothers relatives i at minneapolis the rhe miners sit it him and said that it would be for hini him to mike the trip until the bables babies were old enough to walk two months asro ago tiny det decided ailed to ilav tile the yukon with his hir little on onea th the miners generally pene rally tolle of the opinion that flint it would mean death ir fr the children cli ildren tin and 1 I probably pio bably for the father tt fr he undertook tile the filp day waa dot determined lie ho laid thit to to heep tile the children at six slyly ty abille aille would mean EL a life ot cit li le norance morance and suffer iniz so early in ili july D day sly started rot for juneau with tile the prides of the yukon before his its cippa iture old anti and hardened miners still shed tears still and prayed for the safety of the he children day bald that it they lied died lie he would die with them FATHER CARn carotid TID THUM they were diessel it in clothes of heavy woolen cloth and si as it may seem inada the trip the greater I 1 part or of tile the way strapped on cit the shoulders of their father lie he carried them thein similarly to tho the way indian women warned pack their papooses oses about they alicy were n L great burden when tile length of tho trip Is 1 taken into consideration and the further tact fact that day had a pack of provisions and blankets to carry cany with him blin day states that at tile the weather wa nas cold and when his babies would not even cry he would think that for probably bably they were benumbed by the cold then lie he would take st i peer peep at them and they would either be laughing or sleeping once lip he says they amused themselves all ail day long playing play with mith his ions hair when night came on and lie was rea ready d y to rest day would remove the children from hla his back and they would sleep in his arms not one once did they ever so EO much as erv says day tile the trip across till the slI summit of lh ill pass was uns tile the most severe of oc tit all hut but the little ones stool stood it nil light though pay lay pays s th ll ca ey must have haie suffered some som because lie he slid did blui ReIr limes in ili tire the summit unit dav with avith the long till aud and t lie davv hea vv baidon liu iden slipped and but for fat ili ahe pi etlou inca on oil lus full haick 1 i V lie hin saya 11 ho 0 eg lie ic would IMI hinr lvin up bunc down dowil anti n nd their cooles lie ho pays ailin anti and lie ho would glo on juncaj was masi finally leached beached arid and saty there tile babes were weighed and it t was found foula that they lint had grown fat at their journey they remained there it ft little while and asien when the hr willapa Wll Wil lapa arrived took passage on it I 1 for tire the sound in ili a lay day or two day will leave with arith his sons for where they will be placed m with it i cla tives rind and educated old did miners say oay the trin will si go down ai tho most remarkable kable ever made froin the yukon district to Julle act spokesman review |
