Show MINERS RAINBOWS A man who spent the winter of 1S9S In Dawson City was relating some of his experiences to a party of friends In the corridor of the Grunewald last night From November clear on to March said he It was far too cold for any kind of work and all we could do was to huddle around the fires and talk I was the most talkative winter of my life yet there was one topic wo never exhausted in fact we Invariably drifted around to It no matter where we started That was what we would do when we got back to Gods country with a big stake A good many of the boys had the gold already stored away In tin cans under their bunks but not one of us doubted that he would strike it rich before he left so we were all on an equality when It came to discussing future pldns I remember a big jovial Irishman by tho name of OHalloran who had accumulated 1200 ounces worth about 18000 and who used to declare the first thing he would do when he got home would be to buy a I hack lie was always a day laborer before he came to the Klondike and his life had been nade up of long stretches of hard work and miserly saving sav-ing followed by brief and glorious drunks In which he rode In hacks with his legs through the windows chanting bacchanalian hymns To him hack 1Jtlng represented tho climax of human hu-man luxury and to have 0 hack of his I own in which he could ride continually contin-ually without being braced for fare was the pinnacle of his dreams Imagination Im-agination could so no further Another I lucky gold hunter was a young man named Andrews who had been a waiter I In a Frisco restaurant and whose fa mlliarity with numerous hightoned delicacies acquired by studying the bill of fare gave him considerable social prestige He used to tell what he would eat when he got back and the recital never failed to Interesta large audience audi-ence Now tel us wot ycr goln to order for dc ongtray somebody would I suggest and he would proceed to reel off a section of menu card In French while his listeners licked their chops and rolled their eyes In ecstasy After a long diet o bacon and beans An drewss 1 monologues were positively i maddening One of the slmplcstmind sJmplcstmlnt 1 ed of the crowd was a chap from Iowa I who could never be induced to express I a wish for anything except a suit of 5 pink Bilk underclothes He knew a I faro dealer at Seattle who possessed such garments and their weird beauty I together with the fact that they cost 435 a set had appealed powerfully to I I his Imagination He had fully 520000 planted1 in an old oil can but he never I allowed his fancy to roam beyond the pink silk underclothes I trust he is wearing them now but I doubt it Tho I only man 1 knew who made a really acf curate forecast of nis proceeding when he struck civilization was a l big pro professional prospector named Joe i Burn who had cleaned up about 15000 on Bonanza creek As soon as I hit Frisco lie said I will get good and drunk then Ill go to some gambling joint and blow In my money then Ill I land In the cooler We came down on cown th6 same boat and his prediction was fulfilled tothe letter I got him out of the station myself New Orleans TimesDemocrat TimeRDemocrat S |