"7f4c9a69-10ec-4d53-9ad9-a5f746aacde3"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "B.C. Historical Newspapers Collection"@en . "2015-11-26"@en . "1880-12-24"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/hqueek/items/1.0081947/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " THE HAZELTON QUEEK\n\nVol 1 No. 2. Friday December 24, 1880. \t\t\t\t\t Gratis\nChristmas 1880\nThis word recalls the tenderest recollections. It employs the imagination in producing the best of pictures. The family circle of our early days. The portraits now speaking. The father\u00E2\u0080\u0099s manly tones that ruled us lads and the fond looks beaming from mother\u00E2\u0080\u0099s honored face makes this picture eloquent. Her eyes sparkle as her boys and girls gives the Christmas fare a merry welcome. Were there ever such roast beef and plum puddings, jack on the pins, and bonbons as those of the old home. \n\u00E2\u0080\u009CWe feast there again in thoughts? [The sharing] of] mutual confidences? [Illegible] than any later fruits feed of our maturer life. The pleasures of memory are like port wines, the older the better, fetched from childhood they are more relished for a short time than the pleasures of hopes. Let us roam among the old haunts and restore the simple memories of boyhood. \nSo shall the heart brim up with emotion more potent in suffering the hard placed times\u00E2\u0080\u0099 foot has trodden down than any other any spring of joy opened by its tenderer hand. It is too true that that once hopeful heights, ending in woeful depths, heave to be recrossed in the excursions of thought. Many a stormy cloud obscures the faraway joys of childhood based on the Christmas blazing hearth.\nBut we need not [Illegible] needed to learn wisdom from them. Speed back to when household fires were not half as bright as their dear faces as we see them again. What if an angel has veiled some of them. The same hand will draw the veil, and the faces lost awhile will smile upon us with ever purer eyes. Then pleasures nobler than any earth affords will link with theirs, and ours, for ever inside our Great Father\u00E2\u0080\u0099s house.\n*\n\nThe Honest Miner\nHe is a most interesting and peculiar animal, not described in natural history. Very shy and generally conscious of his own social differences and [illegible jealous?] to a life [illegible] to first [illegible].\n He is a great one to form a good idea of a man\u00E2\u0080\u0099s character at the first glance. His close and continued interest with all sorts and conditions of man has given him great proficiency in this respect. He loves gold not for its own sake, who so lavish as he when he has it but for what he thinks he can get for it. He cannot understand how a man with, say, a million can he anything but perfectly happy. He has always a pet scheme of what he will do when he makes his pile and how he will spend it. His idea of a pile varies from five thousand dollars to a million and a half and he would like to have it is [most spending power.] \nHe puts not his trust in banks and he thinks they are all got up for the express purpose of getting a man\u00E2\u0080\u0099s money and then breaking. He often has an idea that he could make lots of money in the wholesale liquor business. He is invariably of a sanguine temperament.\n[ Several lines illegible ] \nHe cannot afford to save. He should sell out sometime to someone who can. He has been the pioneer of whatever civilization the people on this coast can lay claim to. He is only at home and only seen to advantage in the mountains and in a civilized community he is an anomaly.\n*\nTo the Editor if the Hazelton Queek\nWill you allow me to ask if any of your readers can inform me which district of California gold was taken out in such enormous quantities that the word \u00E2\u0080\u009Counce\u00E2\u0080\u009D was entirely disused and that of \u00E2\u0080\u009Cton\u00E2\u0080\u009D used instead.\n Ignoramus.\n*\nTo the Editor of the Hazelton Queek.\nWe have probably all heard and read about \u00E2\u0080\u009Cfish\u00E2\u0080\u009D being the most brain producing of foods. Granting this, why is it that the aboriginals of the country are apparently so different in brain power. Perhaps some of your readers can enlighten me on this point. Truthful James.\n*\nAmos C. Youmans, dealer in dry goods, groceries and miners\u00E2\u0080\u0099 effects. Hazelton, Forks of the Skeena. (illegible).\n*\nImportant Telegraph Despatches\nDirect to the Queek\nIreland.\nGeneral Peter O\u00E2\u0080\u0099 Leams, head centre of the Fenians in the United States, has landed on the Irish coast, and is fast organizing an army with which to invade England. Success is considered certain, as the majority of the English people are known to be adverse to a monarchical form of government, as the Irish are to any at all.\nIt is our sad duty to inform our readers, that while some Indian children were playing at \u00E2\u0080\u009Ccoasting\u00E2\u0080\u009D a little girl was violently thrown from the sleigh and fatally injured. The sufferer died on Sunday evening last.\n*\nDivine Service is held in the school house every Sunday at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. and on Wednesday at 7 p.m. All are invited to attend.\n*\nThe Hudson\u00E2\u0080\u0099s Bay Company has on hand a general assortment of groceries, provisions etc.\nA Merry Christmas to all.\n "@en . "Transcript provided by Geoff Mynett in 2022. To download the transcription, click the \"Download Metadata\" button and select \"full-text.\""@en . "Newspapers"@en . "Hazelton (B.C.)"@en . "Hazelton"@en . "Hazelton_Queek_1880-12-24"@en . "10.14288/1.0081947"@en . "English"@en . "55.2558330"@en . "-127.6755560"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . "Hazelton B.C. : Hazelton Queek Office"@en . "Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Digitization Centre: http://digitize.library.ubc.ca/"@en . "Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives."@en . "The Hazelton Queek"@en . "Text"@en . ""@en .