| Show J. J t r j 7 TRAGEDY OF THE KLONDIKE Terrible Cold F Found Easy Victim In j Careless Traveler z f Klondike river is fed by numerous numerous numerous' soda springs and even the winters winter's cold fails falls to close th them m entirely Walking on ore the edge of the Ice near y the shore a miner one day slipped into six inches of water In a m moment moment mo- mo ment he was out and hastening to the brush hard by to light a fire before ii his feet froze R Rapidly he cut a few fragments of wood with his heavy j pocket knife But the unlighted match J dropped from his already chilled finders fin fin- P PI I fiers ders for he had rashly removed his mittens In order to use the knife with more freedom Then he lighted a second and a third and finally several t at one time lint Lilt either his haste or perhaps a sigh of the air caused them to fall in the snow All this time the frost was seizing his limbs his body his heart his mind He turned to the fatal mittens which he never should have taken off oft but his already frozen fingers could only lift them from the ice where they had fallen and after y a vain attempt he hurled them from him and strove once again to light lighta a last match But it was too late |
