The bubbly play of wit, the chesty laughs, the resonant voices of men when glass in hand they shut the grey world outside and prod their brains with the fun and folly of an accelerated pulse.

They attempted to have children. London's workers laughed at his efforts to play big-time rancher [and considered] the operation a rich man's hobby. "
In 1914 the New Age Magazine quoted a paragraph from The Eastern Star another Masonic publication.

John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney January 12 1876 – November 22 1916) was an American author journalist and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. He is best remembered as the author of The Call of the Wild and White Fang both set in the Klondike Gold Rush as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire" "An Odyssey of the North" and "Love of Life".