Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1920 — THE FAR CALL. [ARTICLE]

THE FAR CALL.

Synopsis — John Lavington. a poet, visionary and Impractical, and Mary Martin, the daughter of rich and worldly parents, hear the call of love and unite their livea. They go to a email Michigan city, whore John finds work in a stove factory and on Bundays writes vereee. The Martins try in vain to get the happy wife to leave her husband. Mary begins to breathe for two. John loses his job. He appeals in vain to the Martins Mary goes to the hospital and never returns. Thus comes into the story Cornelius Lovington. The father leaves town and the city farms out the child. After two years the father returns and takes his little son with him on his worldwide wanderings. The father becomes addicted to a mysterious drug, koresh, with odors of wine and cinnamon and returns with little Con to die on his wife's grave. Con Is again fanned out, glows up in the underworld and is saved to better things by happy chance. Bo much by way of introduction to the hero of the strange edvenfurea of "Yellow Men Sleep." These begin when Con takes by force a small leather sack from Chee Ming, the Chinese butler of an acquaintance.