The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-09-20

Must l. then. must I. then. leave this town
And you my love, stay here?
II HE singer. celanfaced and cherry-eyed. bent
and added water to a pot of simmerng beans
and then, rising, stick of drewood I'm hand
drove back the crcling dogs from the grub box and
cooking gear. He was blue of eye and his long hair
was golden, and ii was pleasure look upon his
rusty freshness. new moon thrusting a dim
morn above lhe white line Of cose-paced snow-capped
pines which hinged the camp and segregated it from
az me world Overhead SO clear it was and cold. the
Slal9 danced win quick pulsating movements To the
southeast an evanescent greenish glow heraded the
opening reveIs of the aurora boreais
Two men, in the immediate foreground. lay
the bearsln which their bee. Between the skin
The blankets rolled back For shelter there
fly az their backs-a sheet of canvas stretched be-
down unoD he siS 's, tt o J sat on y sied
drawn close to the blaze mending moccasns To the
right heap Of frozen gravel and rude windlass de-
Tor the pay streak To the left four pairs of snow
shoes stood erect showing the mode Of travel which
behind.
That schwabian folk song sounded strangely pa
thec under the cold northern stars and IT did not do
the good who ounged about the fire after the toll
OF the day It put dull ache into their hearts and
IeaIning which was akin to belly-hunger. and sent
their souls questing southwark across the divides to
For The love God. sigmund, smut up,' expostu-
lated one of the men His hands cenched pain
July 5u' he hid them from sight in the folds of the
And what for pave Wertz?" Sig1nund demanded
'Why shall ] not sing when the heart is glad?"
about YOU man and think of the srub we've been de-
nlng bodies with for the last twelvemonth the
way we've lived and worked like beasts"
Thus 8bjured Sgrnund the golden-haired surveyed
ali aud The frost trimmed wolf dogs and the vapOr
Rreaths of the men,
And why shall heart be glad?" ne laughed
1T is good; it is an good As for the grub He
doubled mp his arm and caressed the swelling bceps
we not been paid like kings? Twenty dollars to the
pan the streak is running. and be eight
leet mick II is another klondike-and we know it.
Jim Halves there by your elbow, knows it
plains not And there's Hitchcock! He sews moe
casns like an old woman and waists against the
Only YOU can't wait and work until the up
only you cannot wait. You want to go back the
states. So do I and 1 born there. but I wait
when each day the gold i'm pan shows up yellow
butter the churning But You want your good time
I rot sing
In year. in year when The grapes are ripe.
Then if YOU sun are true my love.
II viii be our wedding day.
In q year in in a year. when my time is past
Then I'm live in your love for aye.
Then If YOU still true my love.
To viii be our wedding day.
The dogs. bristling and growing. drew in closer
The freight There mOnotonous crunch. crunch
Of webbed shoes. and between each the drag
Fitting sugar. sigmund broke off from his song to
hurl oaths and irowood the animals. Then the
light was parted by fur clad figure and an Indian
her squirrel shin parIsa and stood in their midst Sig
nund and The men the bearskn greeted her as
made the siei that she might sit beside him
And how goes il. Sipsu?' he asked. talking. after
her fashion. in broken English and bastard chinook
is me munger still mighty i'm the camp? And has the
witch doctor yet found tho wherefore game is
scarce and no moose i'm the land2'
Yes: even There is little game and we prepare
10 the dogs Also the witch doctor found the
cause Of all this evil and tomorrow will ne make sac
Iifce ana cleanse the camp
And what does the sacrifice chance to be-a new
born babe or some poor devil OF squaw. old and
shaly. who is TO the tribe better of the
VayT'
1T CHANGED not that wise: for the need was great
end he chose none other than the chiefs daughter;
none other than T. Sipsu."
Hen" The words rose slowly to Hitchcock's IpS
end hrmlned over fun and deep in a which be-
spoke wonder and consideration.
~ Wherefore stand by n forkug of trail YOU
nd l. she went on calmly. and have come that we
i105y look once more upon each other and once more
she born Of primitive stock and primitive had
sheen her traditions and her days. she regarded
stoically and human sacrifice part the natural
order. The powers which ruled the daylight and the
dark the flood and the frost the bursting of the bud
and the whitening OF the leaf angry I'm need
OF Precipitation. This they eXaCted in many ways
death in the bad water. through the treacherous
crust by the grip Of the grizzly wasting sickness
which fell upon man i'm his lodge till he caughed
and the life OF his lungs through his mouth
and nosrils. Likewise did the powers
in the thoughts OF the powers chose unerringly
il was very natural. Death by many ways. vet
was il an after decentralization of the an
powerful and inscrutable.
But Hitchcock came OF later world breed. His
traditions were less concrete and without reverence
and ne said .'Not so, Spsu. You are young and vet
in the full joy OF life The witch doctor is fool and
4 his choice is evil This thing shall not be"
She smiled and answered. Life is kind and
Tor many reasons First. il made of twain the
white and the other red. which Is bad Then
crossed our trails. and il parts them again: and
we can do nothing. once before when the gods were
angry, did your brothers the camp They
were three big men and white. and they said the
thing shall not he But they died quickly and the
thing was"
Hitchcock nodded that he heard half turned and