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PAGE SIX 2KT QOm by dACK LL LOND ON. -"«vx >MBwM /v A\ >-WSSSRd3 jH™ wt~' ' f ' PROLOGUE. Itisthe“Hi! You! Mush on! Chook! Chook!*’ spirit —the vim, dash and “go" of a hustling mining country like the Yukon —that Jack London has put into these Smoke Beliew stories. Mr. London writes of real men —men whose daily job is to join issue with danger and sudden death with never a whimper. You can't help feeling the thrill that runs tn the veins of these iron muscled giants of the gold fields, particularly since Jack London, a good, husky figure of a man himself, has been through many of the adventures he writes about and has the knack of taking you along and of making you “hit the trail ” with him. “Smoke," once a tenderfoot, now a sure enough sour dough, has the test of his life in one story and is saved from defeat by a mere girl, in another he drops, as he supposes, to sud den death to save the life of a friend. Beyond question Jack London has struck the rich “mother lode" of fic tion in these wonderful sto ries. CHAPTER I. The Taste ot the Meat. IN the beginning he was Christo pbet Beliew. By the time be was at college be bad become Chris Beliew. Later in the bohemian crowd ot San Francisco he was called lx it Beliew. And in the end be was known bj no other name than Smoke Beliew Nor would it have happened bad he not bad a fond mother and an iron uncle and had lie not received a letter from Gillet Bellamy. "1 have just seen a copy of the Bi I low,” Gillet wrote from Paris. “Ot course O’Hara will succeed with it But he’s missing some tricks. Go down and see him. Let him think they’re your own suggestions. Above all. don’t forget to make him tire that dub who’s doing the musical and art criticism Another thing. Tell him to kick around and get some gink to turn out a live serial and to put into it the real romance and glamour and color of ban Francisco. ” Anu down to the office of the Bil low went Kit Beliew faithfully to in struct. O'Hara listened. O’Hara agreed. O’Hara tired the dub who wrote criticisms Further, when O Hara wanted anything no friend could deny him. Before Kit Beliew could escape from the office he nad become an associate editor, had agreed to write weekly columns of criticism till some decent pen was found and had pledged himself to write a weekly Installment of 10,000 words on the San Francisco serial- and all this without pay. The Billow wasn t paying yet O'Hara explained. Luckily for Kit be bad his own In come. Small it was compared with some, yet it was large enough to en able him to belong co several clubs and maintain a studio in the Latin quarter. Yet be was always broke, for the Billow, in perennial distress, ab sorbed his cash as well as his brains There were the illustrators, who pe riodicaily refused to illustrate; the printers, who periodically refused to print, and the office boy, who frequent ly refused to officiate. At such times O’Hara looked at Kit, and Kit did the rest When the steamship Excelsior arriv ed from Alaska, bringing the news of the Klondike strike that set the conn try mad. Kit made a purely frivolous prop< >sition. -Look nere, O’Hara.” he said. “This gold rush is going to be big—the days of ’4b over again. Suppose 1 cover It for the Billow? I’ll pay my own ex penses ’ O’Hara shook his bead. “Can’t spare you from the office. Kit. Then there’s that serial.” The next Kit beard of the Klondike was when he dropped into the club that afternoon and encountered bis un cle. “Hello, avuncular relative.” Kit greeted. “Won’t you join me?” He ordered a cocktail, but the uncle glanced with irritated disapproval at the cocktail and on to his nephew’s face. John Beliew came of the old jhard and hardy stock that had crossed Copyright, 1914, by the Wheeler Syndicate. th»- plains by ox ream in the fifties an-1 in him was thi* same nardnesa and the hardness of a childhood spent in the conquering ot a new land. “You’re not living right. Christopher I’m ashamed of you Your father was a man. every in< hos him I think he'd have whaled all this musical and arus tic tomfoolery out of you.” “Alas! these degenerate days.” Kit sighed. The older man was on the verge ot choking with wrath, but swallowed it dow n and managed to articulate. “How old are you?’ “1 have reason to believe”— “1 knifw 1 weuty seven You tin ished college at twenty two. You’ve dabbied and played and frilled sot five years. Before God and man. of what use are you? When I was your age I had one suit of underclothes I was riding with the cattle in Coluso. I was bard as rocks, and I could sleep on a rock I lived on Jerked beet and bear meat lam a bettei man physi cally right now than you are You weigh about ■ 165 I can throw you right now or thrash you with my fists.” “Il doesn’t take a physical prodigy to mop up cocktails or pink tea ” Kit murmured deprecatingly “Besides. 1 wasn't brought up right Now, if when I was a youngster I had taken some of those intensely masculine vacations you go in for-I wonder why you didn’t invite me sometimes?” The older man looked at his nephew with unconcealed disgust. “Well, I’m going to take another one of those what you call masculine vacations Suppose I asked you to come along? Hal and Robert are going in to Klon dike, and I’m going to see them across the pass and down to the lakes, then return”— He got no further, for the joung man bad sprung forward and gripped nis hand “My preserver!” John Beliew was immediately sus picious He had not dreamed the in vitation would be accepted. “When do we start?” “It will be a hard trip You’ll be in ihe way.” "No, I won t, I’ll work.” "Each man has to take a year’s sup plies in with him There’ll be such a jam the Indian packers won t be able to handle it Hal and Robert will have to pack their outfits across themselves That’s what I'm going along tor-to help them pack, if you come you’ll have to do the same.” "When do we start?’’ “Tomorrow.” “You needn’-t take it to yourself that your iectuse has done it,” Kit said at parting “1 just had to get away somewhere, anywhere, from O’Hara.” ******* Kit Beliew landed through the mad ness of the Dyea beach, congested with the thousand pound outfits of thou sands of men. This immense mass of luggage and food, flung ashore in tr—Hz r. r. ! OFm*' <*■>' Z / SsS? 1 Kir I I.'U i 'a*' V'W ’ n MvW ■ V<A Aw i/ _ 1 cm M * A Young Woman Standing In the Door way Had Caught His Eye. mountains by the steamers, was begin ning slowly to dribble up the Dyea valley and across Chilkoot. it was a portage of twenty-eight miles and could be accomplished only cn the backs ot men Tenderest of the tenderfeet was Kit Like many hundreds of others, he car ried a big revolver swung on a car fridge nelr. A strapping six foot In dian passed h u. carrying an unusual- ly large pack Kit swung tn behind, admiring the splendid calves ot the man and the grace and ease with which he moved along m ler his bur den The Indian dropped bis pack on the scales in front of the post, and Kit joined the group of admiring gold rush ers who surrounded him The pack weighed 125 pounds, which fact was uttered back and forth in tones of awe. “Going to Lake Lindeman with it. old man?” Kit asked The Indian, swelling with pride, grunted an affirmative. Here Kit slid out of the conversation. A young woman standing in the door way bad caught his eye. Unlike other women landing from the steamers, she was neither short skirted nor bloomer clad. >he was dressed as any woman traveling anywhere would be ‘lressedL The might beauty and color of her oval saw held nim, and he looked over iong looked till she resented, and her own eyes, long lashed and dark, met ms in cool survey. From bis face they traveled in evident amusement down to the big revolver at his thigh I'hen her eyes came back to his, and in them was amused contempt. She turned to the man beside her and indicated Kit. The man glanced him over with the same amused contempt. “Chekako.” the girl said The man. who looked like a tramp In ms cheap overalls and dilapidated woolen jacket, grinned dryly, and Kit felt withered, though be knew not why "Did you see that man with the girl?” Kit’s neighbor asked him excit edly "Know who he is?” Kit shook his head. "Cariboo Charley He was just pointed out to me. He struck it big on Klondike Old timer. Been on tht y ukon a dozen years. He's just come out.” "What does "chekako’ mean?” Kit asked “You’re oue; I’m one,” was the an swer— “tenderfoot ” Kit’s first pack was a success Op to Finnegan’s Crossing they had man aged to get Indians to carry the 2,500 pound outfit brom that point their own backs must do the work. They planned to move forward at the rate of a mile a day. It looked easy—on pa per. Since John Beliew was to stay in camp and do the cooking, he would be unable to make more than an occa sionai pack So to each of the three young men fell the task of carrying SOO pounds one mile each day. If they made fifty pound packs it meant a daily walk of sixteen miles loaded and of fifteen miles light, “because we don't back trip the last time,” Kit ex plained llie pleasant discovery. Eighty pound packs meant nineteen miles travel each day, and 100 pound packs meant only fifteen miles. “1 don’t like walking,” said Kit. "therefore I shall carry 100 pounds.’ He caught the grin of incredulity on bis uncle’s face and added hastily: "Of course I shall work up to it i’ll start with fifty.” He did and ambled gayly along the trail. He dropped the sack at the next camp site and ambled back, it was easier than he had thought. But two miles had rubbed off the velvet of his strength and exposed the underlying softness. His second pack was sixty five pounds. It was more difficult, and he no longer ambled. Several times, following the custom of all packers, he sat down on the ground, resting the pack behind him on a rock or stump With the third pack he became bold He fastened the straps to a ninety-five pound sack of beans and started At the end of a hundred yards he felt that he must collapse. He sat down and mopped his face “Short hauls and short rests,” be muttered “That’s the trick.” Sometimes he did not make a bun dred yards, and each time he struggled to his feel for another short haul the pack became undeniably heavier. He panted for breath, and the sweat streamed from him. Before be had cov ered a quarter of a mile he stripped off his woolen shirt and hung it on a tree. A little later he discarded his hat. At the end of half a mile he decided he was finished. As he sat and panted his gaze fell upon the big revolver and rhe heavy cartridge belt. “Ten pounds of junk!” he sneered as ne unbuckled it Lie did not bother to bang It on a tree, but tiling it into the underbrush. His short hauls decreased At times a hundred feet was ali he could stag ger, and then the ominous pounding of his heart agaimV his eardrums and the sickening tottering of bis knees com peiled him to rest. And his rests grew longer But his mind was busy. It was a twenty eight mile portage, which represented as many dilys. and this by ill accounts was the easiest part of it. “Wait till you get to (’hilkoot,” otb •ms told him as they rested and talked, where you climb with hands and feet.” “Wait till you hit the canyon You’ll nave io cross a raging torrent on a sixty foot pine tree No guide ropes, nothing, and rhe water boiling at the <ag of rhe log to your knees. If you ail with a pack on your back there’s no getting out of the straps You just stay there and drown.” He and the sack of beans became a perambulating tragedy. It reminded him of the Old Man of the Sea who sat on Sindbad’s neck. Again and again he was nearly seduced by the thought ut abandoning the sack of beans in the nrusb and ot sneaking around the •amp to the beach and catching a steamer for civilization Before tin- mile pack was ended if ever a man was a wreck bp was. As the end of the pack came in sight he trained himself in desperation gained he <amp >n<- ami pitched forward on his face the hearts on his hack It did tot kill turn but he lay for fifteen min des hcton* he could summon sufficient shreds ot strength to release himself from the straps. Then he became THE RIVER FALLS JOURNAL deathly sick anti was so round oy Robbie, who had similar troubles of his own “And I am twenty seven years old and a man,” he privately assured him self many times in the days that fol lowed. There was need for it- At the end of a week, though be bad suc ceeded in moving bis SOO pounds for ward a mile a day, he had lost fifteen pounds or bis own weight His face was lean and haggard. All resilience had gone out of his body and mind He no longer walked, but plodded, and on the hack trips, traveling light bis feet dragged almost as much as when he was loaded. He bad become a work animal He fell asleep over bis food, and his sleep was heavy and beastly save when he was aroused, screaming with agony, by the cramps in his legs. Every part of him ached He tramped on raw blisters When they bad moved the outfit across the foot logs at the mouth of the canyon they made a change in their plans. Word had come across the pass that at Lake Lindeman the last available trees for building boats were being ent. The two cousins, with tools, whipsaw, blankets and grub on their backs, went on, leaving Kit and his uncle to hustle along the outfit John Bellew now shared the cooking with Kit, and both packed shoulder to shoulder Time was flying, and on the peaks the first snow was falling. To be caught on the wrong side of the pass meant a delay of nearly a year. The older man put his iron back under 100 pounds. Kit was shocked but he gritted his teeth and fastened his own straps to 100 pounds. It hurt, but he had learned the knack, and his body, purged of all softness and fat. was beginning to harden up with lean and bitter muscle. Also he observed and devised He took note of the bead straps worn b\ the Indians and manufactured one foi himself, which he used in addition to the shoulder straps. It made things easier, so that he began the practice of piling any light, cumbersome piece of luggage on top. Thus he was soon able to bend along with 100 pounds in the straps, fifteen or twenty more ly ing loosely on top the pack and against his neck, an ax or a pair of oars in one hand and in the other the nested cooking pails of the camp. But work as they would the toil in creased. The trail grew more rugged; iheir packs grew heavier, and each day saw the snow line dropping down the mountains, while freight jumped to 60 cents. No word came from the cousins beyond, so they knew they must be at work chopping down the standing trees and whipsawing them into boat planks. CHAPTER 11. The Making of a Man. JOHN BELLEW grew anxious Capturing a bunch of Indians backtripping from Lake Linde man. be persuaded them to put then straps on the outfit. They charg ed 30 cents a pound to carry it to the summit of Chilkoot, and it nearly broke him. As it was. some 400 pounds of clothes bags and camp out tit were not handled. He remained be bind to move it along, dispatching Kit with the Indians. At the summit Kit was to remain, slowly moving bis t m until overtaken by the 400 pounds w.-ib which his uncle guaranteed to catch him. Kit plodded along the trail with his Indian packers. At the end of a quar ter of a mile he desired to rest. But the Indians kept oil He stayed with them and kept his place in the line At the half mile he was convinced that he was incapable of another step, yet he gritted his teeth, kept his place and at the end of the mile was amazed that he was still alive. Then, in some strange way, came v ae ’hing called second wind, and the next n J le was almost easier than the first. The third mile nearly killed him. but. though half delirious with pain and fatigue, he never whimpered. And tl'-en when he felt he must surely faint came the rest. Instead of sitting in the straps, as was the custom of the white packers, the Indians slipped out of the shoulder and head straps and lay at ease, talking and smoking. A full half hour passed before they made another start To Kit’s surprise be found himself a fresh man. and “long hauls and long rests” became his newest motto. The pitch of Chilkoot was all be bad heard of it, and many were the occa sions whpn he climbed with hands as well as feet. But when he reached the crest of the divide in the thick of a driving snow squall it was in the company of his Indians, and his secret pride was that he had come through with them and never squealed and never lagged. When he had paid off the Indians and seen them depart a stormy dark ness was falling, and he was left alone, a thousand feet above timber line, on the backbone of a mountain. Wet to the waist, famished and exhausted, he would have given a year’s income for a fire and a cupful of coffee. Instead, he ate half a dozen cold flapjacks and crawled into the folds of the partly un rolled tent. In the morning, stiff from his labors and numb with the frost, he rolled out of the canvas, ate a couple of pounds of uncooked bacon, buckled the straps on a hundred pounds and went down the rocky way. Several hundred yards beneath the trail led across a small glacier and down to Crater lake. Oth er men packed across the glacier All that day he dropped his packs at the glacier’s upfier edge, and by virtue of the shortness of the pack he put his straps on 150 pounds each load. His astonish i< nt at being able to do it nevp’ ' ’ d CONTINUED NEXT WEEK. * % ( Continued from page three ) will come through your posterity—“ln thee and in thy Seed shall all the fami lies of the earth be blessed.” God’s due time for bringing this bless ing was still future; the blessing could not come until Messiah should come; but meantime God gave to the natural seed of Abraham, through Moses, the Law Covenant, which offered them eternal life and an inheritance in the Kingdom if they could keep the Law. Of course, they could not keep the Law; for it was the measure of a per fect man’s ability, and alas! like the remainder of the world the Israelites were imperfect—sinners. Nevertheless the offer and their attempt to keep the Law brought them great uplift of heart, so that when Jesus came to them a considerable number were ready to receive Him, did receive Him; and He received them. They became sons of God, through the begetting of the Holy Spirit, at Pentecost and after ward. These were the Spiritual Seed of Abraham, begotten of the Holy Spirit, Jesus Himself being the Head. Israel had been hoping for a share in Messiah’s Kingdom; and St. Paul ex plains, “Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for, but the Election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.” The blinded Israelites are still cast aside, but not forever. The Divine blessing shall come to Natural Israel just as soon as Spiritual Is rael shall be completed.—Rom. 11:25-34. The Kingdom Suffereth Violence. What did the Election obtain? Of what did the faithful “Israelites in deed” become heirs by accepting Jesus and by the Pentecostal blessing? We answer that they became identified with Messiah’s Kingdom and heirs, or inheritors, of the glorious Promise made to Abraham, that in this King dom all the families of the earth should be blessed. But now note that there were not a sufficient number of Jews found worthy to complete the Kingdom class. The Kingdom therefore could not be inaugurated then. God had foreseen this and through the Prophet had promised that some would be gath ered from the Gentiles to complete this Kingdom class. The entire work of the Gospel Age has been the calling of this “elect” class for the Kingdom. If we have rightly viewed the matter, the foreordained number will soon have been found, the election will be at an end, the accepted will be glorified as the Kingdom, and Messiah’s Reign of Righteousness will begin. But notice now the course of all be longing to the Kingdom class, through out this Age. They are not reigning with Christ, but suffering with Christ. Jesus explained this; they are indeed of the Royal Family, because begot ten of the Holy Spirit; they are in deed the Kingdom class, because they are affiliated with the great King; but they have not yet entered into their glory. They will do so only by the power of the First Resurrection. Thus it is written, “We must all be changed,” because “flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God.” Our Lord Himself was the Pattern, the Forerunner of all these. After His consecration and His begetting of the Holy Spirit, He was tested unto death, even the death of the cross, before He experienced His glorious resurrrection change and ascended and sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on High. Similarly all of His followers, after consecration, must be tested, their loyalty must be prov en, before they can share with Him in “His Resurrection.” Partly for tue testing of these, their development takes place in a time when Satan is the Prince of this world, and when his power is permit ted to be exercised against them as it was exercised against their Lord. rn bc message to these is, “The King dom suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.” As our Loid suf fered violence from the Prince of this world, so will His followers; for “the disciple is not above his Lord.” His promise to His followers is, “Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a ciown of life.”—Revelation 2:10. “The World Knoweth Us Not.” So then we perceive that God’s Kingdom class, the followers of Jesus, have been suffering violence, just as did their Leader, for righteousness’ sake. That the persecutors had not known and done their evil work inten tionally, St. Peter intimates when he says to the Jews, “I wot that ir igno rance ye did it, as did also your ulers; for if they had know n, they wo ild not have crucified the Prince of Life.” Hence, in due time their blindness shall be turned away, and they will look upon Him whom they pierced and mourn (Zechariah 12:10); and God will pour upon them the spirit of prayer and supplication, and forgive them and make the experience profitable to as many as shall prove willing. Meantime, for eighteen centuries, the Scriptures declare, “The world knoweth us not, even as it knew Him not.” God’s saintly ones have not been gen erally the great, the influential, either in church or state, just as Jesus and the Apostles were Lot in their day. Nevertheless, the Lord knoweth them that are His. Scattered here and there, during the past eighteen centuries, He has been dealing with them, preparing them, polishing them, fitting them as jewels. And He tells us that at our Lord’s Second Coming He will make up His jewels—they will constitute the Kingdom class; for “if we suffer with Him. we shall also reign with Him.” I am sure you will agree with me that those whom the Lord has been so carefully selecting, instructing and pol ishing in the School of Christ, who have been so effectively polished with the trials and disciplines of evil, will be the very class above all others to whom the glorious dominion of earth may well be entrusted without fear. Only those thoroughly loyal to God and to principle will be In that class. Thursday. January 7, 1915 4*4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4*4 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4*4* 4*-V4* 4* 4* 4* RAYMOND L. 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