Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1913 — Page 2

EVEN UNTO DEATH

Story Concerning Love and Death in the Frozen Wilds of the North.

By JACK LONDON.

It might have been due to mere coincidence. It might have been because there are undreamed-of bonds between the quick and the dead, and it might have been that Bat MorganBton felt a blind consciousness of the future, when he turned suddenly to Frona Payne and asked, “Even unto death?” Frona Payne was startled for the moment. Her shallow nature would not permit her to understand the strength of a strong man’s love; such things had no place in her fickle standard. Yet she knew men well enough to repress her inclination to smile; so she looked up to him with her serious child’s eyes, placing a hand on each brawny shoulder, and answered, “Even unto death. Bat, dear.” And as he crushed her to him, halfdoubting, he passionately cried, “If it should happen so, even in death I shall claim you, and no mortal man shall come between!" “How absurd,” she thought as she. freed herself and watched him untangling his dogs. And a handsome fellow he was as he waded among the fierce 4>rutes, pulling here and shoving -there, cuffing right and left, and dragging them over and under the frozen traces till the team stood clear. Nipped by intense cold to a tender pink, his smooth-shaven face told a plain tale of strength and indomitability. His hair, falling about his shoulders in thick masses of silky brown, was probably more responsible for winning the woman’s fleeting affections than all the rest of him put together. Yet when men ran their eyes up and •down his six foot two of brawn, they ■declared him a man, from his beaded moccasins to the crown of his wolfekirf cap. But, then, they were men. She kissed him once, twice, and yet a third time, in her shy, trusting way; then he broke out the sled with the gee-pole, “mushed-up" the dogs as only a dog driver can, and swung down the hill to the main river trail. The meridian sun, shouldering over Hie snowy summits to the south, turned the tiny frost particles to scintillating gems, and through this dazzling gassamer Bat Morganston disappeared cn his journey down the Yukon to Forty Mile. Down there he was accounted a king, ip virtue of the rich ■dirt which was his after the dreary years he had spent in the darkness of the Arctic Circle. Dawson had no claims upon him. He did not own a foot of gravel in the. district, nor was he smitten with its inhabitants —the che-cha-quas that had rushed in like jackals and spoiled the good old times when men were men and every man a brother. In fact, the only reason for his presence, and a most unstable one at that, was Frona. He had harmessed his dogs and run up on the ice ’to renew the pledges of the previous summer, and to plead for an early date. Well, they were to be married In June, and he was returning to the management of his mines with a light heart. June! —the clean-up promised to be rich; he would sell out; and then, the States, Paris, the world! Of ■course, he doubted —most men do when they leave a pretty woman behind —; but ere he had reached Forty Mlle he no longer mistrusted, and by the time he froze his lungs on a moose hunt and died a month later, he had attained a state of blissful optimism. Frona waved him good-bye, and also with a light heart, turned back to her father’s cabin; but, then, she had no ■doubts at all. They were to be married in June. That was all settled. And it was no unpleasant prospect. To tell the truth, she thought she would rather like it. Men thought a great deal of him, and it was a match not to be ashamed of. Besides, he was rich. People who should know, said he could at any time clean up half a million, and if his American Creek interests turned out anywhere near as reported, he would be a second MacDonald. Now this meant a great deal, for MacDonald was the richest miner in the north, and the most conservative guessers varied by several millions in the appraisement of his wealth. . _ Now be it known that the sin Frona Payne committed was a sin of deed, not fact. There were no mail-teams between Forty Mile and Dawson, and as Bat Morganston’s mines were still a hundred miles intcvthe frozen wilderness from Forty Mile, no news of his death came up the river. And since he had agreed to write only on the highly improbably contingency of a stray traveler passing his diggings, she thought nothing of his silence. To all iptents, so far as she was, concerned. he was alive. So the sin she committed was of a verity a sin of deed. By no method may a woman’s soul be analyzed, by no scales may a woman's motive be weighed: so no reason can be given for Frona Payne giving her heart and hand to Jack Crellin within three months of her farewell to Bat Morganston. True, Jack Crellin was a Circle City king, possessed of some of the choicest Birch Creek claims; but the men who had the country did not rate him highlv. and his only admirers were to be found among the sycophantic tenderfeet who generously helped him scatter his yellow dust Perhaps it was the way he had about him and nerhap* 't was the Imoulsivaffinity of two shallow souls; but be it that it may, they agreed to marry

each other in June, and to jouney on down to Circle City and set up housekeeping after the primitive manner of the northland. The Yukon broke early, and soon after that important event, the river steamer, Cassiar, captained by her brother, was scheduled to sail. The Cassiar had the mingled honor and misfortune to be both the treasureship and the hospital ship of the year. In her strong boxes she carried five millions of gold, in her staterooms ten score of crippled and diseased. And there were also lower country traders and kings, returning from their -winter labors or pleasures at Dawson. Among these —a little anticipation of the event —were listed Mr. and Mrs. Jack Crellin. But when the sick and heart-weary lifted their voices to heaven at the cruel delay, and the goldshippers waxed clamorous, the Cassiar was forced to sail before her time, and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Crellin were yet man and maid. ‘‘Never mind, Frona,” her brother said; "come aboard and I’ll take charge of you. Father Mahan takes passage at Forty Mile, and you’ll be snugly one before we say good-bye at Circle City.” Plimsol marks, boiler inspectors, and protesting boards of underwriters, not yet having penetratetd the dismal dominions of the north, the Cassiar cast off her lines, with passengers, freight and chattels packed like badly assorted sardines. Wolf-dogs, whose work began and ceased with the snow, and who grew high-stom-ached with summer idleness, rioted over the steamer from stern to stern or killed each other on the slightest provocation. Stalwart Stick Indians of the upper river regions, lightened their heavy money pouches in brave endeavors to best the white man at his games of chanced or outraged their vitals with the whisky he sold at thirty dollars the bottle. There were squat Mongolia, denatured Malemute and fhnuit wanderers from the great delta two thousand miles away; not among the whites was the jangle of nationalities less pronounced. The nations of the world had sent their sons to the north, and the tongues they spoke were many. At Forty Mile more passengers and freight were crowded aboard. Among the pilgrims was Father Mahan, and in the baggage was an unpainted pine box, corresponding in size to the conventional last tenement of man. The rush of life has little heed for death, so this box was piled precariously upon a pyramid of freight on the Cassiar’s deck. But Bat Morganston, having lain till the moment of shipment in a comfortable ice-cave, did not care. Nobody cared. There were no mourners, save a huge wolf-dog, to whom the taste of his master’s lash was still sweet He crept aboard unnoticed, and ere the lines were cast off had taken up his accustomed vigil on the heap of freight by his master’s side. He was such a vicious brute, and had such a fearful way of baring his fangs, that the other canine passengers gave him a wide berth, choosing to leave him alone with his dead. The cabins were crowded with the sick, so the marriage began on the stifling deck. It was near midnight, but the sun, red-disked and somber, slanted its oblique rays from just above the northern sky-line. Frona Payne and Jack Crellin stood side by side. Father Mahan began the service. From aft ceme the sound of scuffling among half .a dozen drunken gamblers: but in the main, the human cargo had crowded about the center of interest. And also the dogs. Still, all would have been well, had not a Labrador dog sought a coign of vantage among the freight. He had traveled countless journeys, was a veteran of a dozen famines and a thousand fights, and knew not fear. The truculent front of the dog which guarded the pine box, interested him. He drew in, his naked fangs shining like jeweled ivory. They closed with snap and snarl, the carelessly piled freight tottering beneath them. At this moment Father Mahan blessed '.he two which were now one and Jack Crellin solemnly added, “Even unto death.” "Even unto death.” Frona Payne repeated. and her mind leaped back to the other man who had spoken those words. For the instant she felt genuine sorrow and remorse for what she had done. And at that instant the two dogs shut their jaws in the deathgrip, and the long pine box poised on the edge of its pyramid. Her husband jerked her from beneath as ft fell, end on. There was a crash and splintering; the cover fell away; and Bat Morganstoq. on his feet, erect, just as in life, with the sun glinting on his silky brown locks, swept forwarfl. It happened very quickly. Some say that his lips parted in a fearful smile, t.hat he flung his arms about Frona Bayne and held her till they fell together to the deck. This would seem Impossible, seeing, that the man was dead; but there are those who swear that these things were done. However, Frona Payne shrieked terribly as they drew her from beneath the bodv of her jilted lover, nor did her shrieking cease tfil land was made at Circle City. And Bat Morganston’s words were true, for today, if one should care to journev over to the hills which He beyond Circle City, he will see. side by side, a cabin and a grave. Tn the one dwells Frona Payne; In the other. Bat. Morganston They are waiting for each other till their fetters shall fall away and the trump of doom break the silence of the north. . troDjrrlght. by Dally Story Pub. Co.)

Even So!

Even a smart man has to get up early in tbe morning to get ahesd o' a fool woman.

PATERSON STRIKERS FED BY THE I. W. W.

Men, women and children in the bread line established by the I. W. W. at Paterson, N. J., for the feeding of the mill strikers and their families.

NOVEL LAW POINTS

Prosecutor’s Contract Declared Against Public Policy. Woman Was Enjoined—Verdict of Lone Star State Judge Who Traveled on a Railroad Pass Satisfied His Conscience. Chicago.—ln a case beforii the supreme court of Michigan involving the division of the profits of a law partnership, it appeared that the plaintiff was an attorney with an established practice while the defendant was a young lawyer with no experience. Under an agreement by the partners, when the plaintiff was prosecuting attorney he promised not to run for office again, but to assist the defendant to be elected. After defendant was elected it was agreed that the salary of the defendant as prosecuting attorney should be divided between the lawyers. The court holds that such a partnership contract is against public policy, because it is in effect an assignment of the earned emoluments of a public office, and is void and unenforclble. In support of a recent application in the supreme court in Brooklyn by a wife for an injunctoln against another woman to restrain her; from alienating the affections of the plaintiff’s hus-. band a decision of the Texas court of appeals was cited. This case arose out of a writ of habeas corpus sued out by a man sent to jail for contempt of coprt so violating an injunction prohibiting him from associating with the plaintiff’s wife. The court upheld the injunction and -aid; "The suit was brought for damages on an alleged partial alienation of the affections of the plaintiff’s wife, and it was averred that on account of the past conduct of the defendant in that suit plaintiff was apprehensive and had just grounds to fear that by the continuance thereof the wife’s affections would be entirely alienated. There would consequently be a breach and destruction of the matrimonial contract existing between the parties by which plaintiff would entirely lose the affections and services of his said wife. These, it must be conceded, were of peculiar value to the plaintiff; and it would seem that he would have a right to invoke the restraining power of a court of equity to prevent the utter annihilation of his wife’s affections and the utter destruction of the marital agreement” The court held that the ir junction did not violate unlawfully the defendant’s right as a citizen or unlawfully interfere with his freedom of speech. A judgment rendered by a Texas justice of the peace, as reported by Law Notes, is in part as follows: “In the first place I am going to rule right as I see it regardless of the fact that the plaintiff Johnson is a friend of mine, and the railroad company has in the past issued me a pass and that I hope to again ride on their road free. There are two things evident from the evidence. There is a lie out somewhere, and a number of turkeys were killed on the G. H. & 8. A. Railroad company’s right of way. The quail seen by the witnesses Ayers and Scott must have been large ones, or the chicken hens seen by the witness Johnson must hate been small ones. But, be that as it may, the number of turkeys killed were about 50, and they were not fully grown. Again, both parties were negligent—that is a fact. The company for allowing grass to grow on its right of way, and the plaintiff for allowing his turkeys to run upon the railway property, although there is no' law against turkeys running loose. Now, if both the company and Mr. Johnson were at fault I do not' see how either could object to paying for his mistake. Therefore, the railroad will pay Mr. Johnson for killing his turkeys the sum of sls, and Mr. Johnson will pay the costs of the suit. In rendering this judgment I have no apologies to make and my conscience is clear, as I believe I have done right. If I have made a mistake I have done so unconsciously, but after weighing all the evidence I feel that I am for once right Do you? J. Littleton Tally, J. P. Pre. No. 1, Goliad county, Texas.**

WANT HUSBANDS, NOT VOTES

Mayor Gaynor Explains Militancy— Not Enough Men for All, Fair - ~ Sex Desperate. New York. —Women become militant suffragists because they have no husbands, and for that very reason there is no need of apprehension in this country of the bomb-hurling and window-smashing type of vote seeker, according to Mayor Gaynor. These and other sentiments on the subject of votes for women were expressed by mayor in an interview he gave at city hall. The mayor believes that if all the women make up their minds they want

Mayor Gaynor.

to vote they will vote, and the men may as well understand it first as last. But the great weakness of the women’s cause is that they do hot all stand together. Some of the mayor’s trenchant remarks on the question are; “There are lots of men who should not have the vote. I know a dlstin-

CHILD KILLED BY SENILITY

Slx-Year-Old Girl Bore All the Symptoms of Extreme Old Age. Cleveland. —Rosie Gryelck, 2107 Robin avenue, Lakewood, is dead of “old age,” though her seventh birthday was not until next August The little girl’s hair was as gray as that of the aged women who are ending their long lives in the sun at Warrenville. Not only had her hair turned gray, but many other characteristic changes, which appear with the passing of middle life, accompanied the progress of the rare malady which caused her death. Her steps were faltering, and her hands withered, while wrinkles lined her face. Her parents and her younger sisters had become accustomed to these changes. So had some of the neighbors. Many others who visited the house, learned for the first time of the little girl whose life had so been telescoped that while youth was yet beginning, old age came on. To. many of these visitors this was an awesome thing. They cfossed themtoelves and talked of it in whispers. Coroner P. J. Byrne visited ths home after the child's death and reiterated the statement that she had died of “old age.” Raymund’s disease was given as ths cause of death. This unusual affection, as medical textbooks show, is named after Dr. Maurice Raymund, who first described it in 1862. It has its seat in the heart and results In A diminished flow of blood to the lungs. The final result is a malnutrition

guished man who said only damned fools vote, and he is a high state official. "I am willing to let all the women do all the voting and let the men tell them how to do it. Is there any suffragette in the world who would not give up her principles for a nice man? “In Great Britain there are about 1< 500,000 women who have no men and they are rather desperate. Aq soon a* every woman has a man, the women get to be very peaceful. I do not blame the women for getting mad. They ought to tear down all England. But voting will not get them husbands and they will be as bad off as ever. PT feel both jolly and bully about the subject of equal suffrage. Bpt we certainly do not want to bring any new source of discord into the household“The political result would be the same (with all women voting) in this country. »The women would say 'Let father attend to this matter; it bothers our little heads too much.' “The English suffragettes who are committing crimes would be locked up here. The men, whether policemen, judges or jurymen, do not like to hurt the women, and that is the weak point in the case.” The mayor said that he was quite willing to classify himself as a suffragist

BABY BEGGARS HER FATHER

Savings of Steel Worker Thrown from Train Window Leaving Family Stranded. New Castle, Pa.—According to word received here from Fernando Russo, a steel worker now at Harrisburg, Pa., his savings were thrown from a train near Philadelphia by hie baby, Jose. Russo, and his family are stranded. Russo, his wife, and children, were returning from New York, where they went to meet a relative, when the savings of several months were thrown away. The parent gave bis baby his pocketbook to play with, and Jose tossed it out of a window. The family traveled from Philadelphia to Harrisburg on a freight train.

Poor Town for Lawyer.

Penn Yan, N. Y.—This Is no tow® for a lawyer. There k/ not a single, civil or criminal case in Yale county undisposed of. and there will be no cases to be tried before the semi-an-ual term of the country court this month. Yale county has a population of 108,700.

which brings about changee, which commonly accompany old age. The immediate cause of the child's death was dropsy, i

GEM PACKAGE IS OVERLOOKED

Diamonds Valued at $3,000 Lost from Express Wagon Finally Found by Driver. Baker, Ore.—While $3,000 worth of diamonds lay in the middle of Center street Express Messenger Ruqsell Browning passed tbe busiest half hour of his life. When he was not wiping the sweat from his brow he was searching the pavement The diamonds were in a package consigned to a local jeweler from ai Chicago firm. Instead of placing them in his chest with the other sealed packages. Browning threw them carelessly in the bottom of the wagon. When he stopped to deliver the package at its destination it was missing. Cold beiads of sweat stood out upon his brow when he thought of the loss.

“Big Tim" to Visit Europe.

New York.—-Congressman Timothy D. (“Big Tim") Sullivan, whose affairs have been in charge of a committee for four months, has so nearly recovered his health that he is making plans for a summer trip to Europe, according to Sheriff Julius Harburger, who has been the Bowery statesman’s friend through many hard-fought campaigns. Harburger, who visited Sullivan at a farm where be is resting in West Chester county, also said "Big Tim" was hoping to take his seat 1$ congress next December.

DESSERTS OF FRUIT

THEY ARE EASILY PREPARER AND CONSIDERED HEALTHFUL, i Tendency to Eat Meats and Other Heavy Foodstuffs During the Sum- ; mer Months Is Rapidly Passing, Says a Writer. . Fresh fruits play an important part in the dietary of people of highest culture and refinement, those who affect beautiful and harmonious simplicity, combined with simple, wholesome and appetizing dishes. They are a delight to tfie eye, delicious to, taste, and easy to prepare in divers agreeable ways. It is a mistake to regard fruits as mere accessories to Idealize an otherwise too-solid and realistic dietary. While fruits differ very materially from such concentrated food as the flesh of animals, they are akin to the cereals and grains, and combined with them will give every element required: as building material for the body; and: the fact that they are of a lighter,: less condensed form is evidence of! their superiority over the grosser materials, too rlph in nitrogen and fleshforming elements when consumed alone and in quantities that are in excess of the requirements of the individual, During the summer, especially, it is very necessary to maintain harmony’ and a healthy performance of the digestive functions in order to become: . one of the enviable serene, self-poised! individuals so rarely met, but soi soothing and refreshing to the overfed, over-stimulated, over-heated, ner-i vous American, who goes on eating: the same amount of condensed food,, regardless of the season or the physiological effect. In a land where all: kinds of fruits are grown in such abundance all the year, it is well: that necessity is rapidly increasing: their use and proportionately decreasing the supply of animal fpod, this, forwarding the march of civilization more rapidly. Fruits are no more perishable than meats, and have the added advantage of being easily preserved in many ways, without lessening their dietetic value, though changing some of their most active principles, perhaps. Fresh, uncooked fruits should not be eaten in quantity after a hot meal, and for that reason are better served for breakfast fruit, or at luncheon, when they constitute thq principal dish. At present we have the strawberry, pineapple, grapefruit, banana, orange, and lemon in abundance, and at fairly reasonable prices. As all these fruits have a rich and pronounced flavor, one does not have to go to any great outlay in making a varied number of very dainty and appetizing desserts.

FINDS NEW USE FOR SALT

Woman Discovers Hew to Make Gas Mantle Lights White After They Have Burned Black. “I learned a new trick the other day,” admitted a man who thinks he knows about all the tricks there are to be known. “I was making a call on a friend whose apartments is fitted with gas mantle lights. The light in the reception room was poor because the mantle had turned, black. But my friend’s wife knew the secret of turning it back to its original color, and 1 stood amazed to see her throw salt into the chimney all over the mantle. The' salt caused the flame • blaze up all around the mantle and-gradual-ly the char disappeared, ana the light was as bright and clear as when the mantle was new. That’s a thing worth knowing.” ■

Chicken Raviolas.

One pint minced chicken, half green pepper, half medium sized onion and three cloves garlic, all chopped fine. Put three tablespoons butter in a skillet; add the pepper, onion and garlic and fry until it begins to turn yellow, but do hot brown. Add on® heaping teaspoon flour, one cup milk or meat broth. 801 l up, then add the chicken, season to taste and allow he cook until thick. Put in a pan or dish until cool, then mold and place in paste. They may be poached or baked from seven to ten minutes. Serve with c*eam sauce with Parmesan cheese grated and sprinkled over, or with tomato sauce.

Water Lily Eggs.

Boil six egfs 20 minutes, cool in a. dish of water, and with a sharp knife cut lengthwise, not quite through, in four pieces. Arrange on dish and' pour a hot sfhee made of thin part of a can of toxfatoes, little onion juice,, pepper, salt, t**ro teaspoons flour and: one tablespoon butter.

Baked Bean Salad.

Mix two cupfuls cold baked bean* with half a cupful of cold boiled ham, which has been chopped fine. Add one minced green pepper and sufficient mayonnaise to moisten. Place on a. bed of lettuce leaves, and just before' serving pour a little more mayonnaise over the top.

For Brittle Nails.

A little vareltne rubbed over the Unger nails at night keeps them from being brittle end makes the skin around the rovts soft and white.

When Making Custard.

When iqaklng custard always add a little salt This keeps the custard, from drying and caking in the custard: pot and adds to the flavor. . ■ • **••’■*