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Show to pat his head. Then, perfectly reas sured, he made a scythelike sweep and knocked a midget out of sight “We had now gained 20 yards, and lay a saloon “Tib sighed in a minor, but made no still retained the ball. reply until he had scanned the ice- | game,’ begged Tib, prancing up and were left alone down behind Rudolph and studying the “We built a rogsing fire, for despite freckled wavelets with an ancient glass. Then he observed, ‘If my old | field the month the round was covered “The visitors, still failing to appre with cotton batting and the raw eyes dont’ deceive me, there’s a thread | ciate that they had been working the breezes owned the beach. We were of smoke out yon.’ pl “I gave a hoot of joy. It was the wrong combination, now drew back ed to note the Innuits had disaplong enough to toss up a few orisons peared from the map when the storm sealer to the rescue. ‘Hurrah for the Ί to their tribal deity, and then came Olfen’s letter Was not Saucy Liz!’ broke loose ‘‘Only Lizzie knows naught of our smash against our center before we After we very reassuring, you know. could budge. Dear, dear! how foolish disheartened Tib, had fixed up the hut we paid another embarrassment, ‘and is taking her time. The queryis, of them, sir, when they could have visit to the bears. Tib’s control over run the ends! them was some thing uncanny. They can we hold out till she arrives” ‘*Speaking of maidens,’ I trembled, | ‘*‘Boom-a-lacka! boom-alacka!’ 1 seemed to dope out everything he said, and on the “rst day he taught them to ‘we have Minnie and Maude—’ howled, recalling a fragment of the old I'd forgotten ‘em,’ mused Tib. ‘If form pyramids and do several stereoyell, while Tib spoiled an off-side play they can lend a helping hand we might typed tricks with his club and called on the left gain the beach and keep the foe | end again to lead off ‘What an elegant football squad they'd make,’ I carelessly observed on guessing for an hour, and then win “But it was Rudolph’s turn to score, | the third morning, as he dealt out the out.’ and every bear knewit, and Maude ‘An hour!’ I cried. ‘Just time for fish wouldnt stir a peg. But they fought | where they were just the same, and as “Tib stood transfixed for a minute, two halves!’ “He grabbed me by myshoulders, each bear was nowheavily laden with and then cut a_ pigeon-wing of unvenomous activity, there was enough adulterated ecstasy. ‘An inspiration, sir, and gazed lovingly into my sparkling orbs. Then he lisped: ‘My child, Billy!’ he cried, and straightway beheathen fur clothing spoiled to keep a we'll start the first half now; and it's city's worthy poor as warm as toast gan planning for a Polar Bear eleven. all winter. Inside of six seconds twice He said he would borrow the four our kickoff’ “*Nenook! Nenook!’ howled the as many of the foe were sent ricochetbrutes already with the show to make up the squad, adorn themall with big rabble, now garbed in a delirium ing in a variety of directions; and in 60 seconds we were pushing the whole mitts and muzzles, so as to reassure tremens of bravado. “*The smoke is thicker,’ I joyously the timid spectators and then chalcrowd away. But they did not get lenge college teams wherever the cir- reminded my companion, as πο be- clear before Rudolph, angry at missing came absorbed in studying the dancing his turn, got it through his thick cus went “‘Give me some pointers on that and advancing enemy. “*They can't be the regular Innuit deadly pleasantry and watch me transarticle,’ he murmured. ‘They must be late it into the bear language,’ he comsome half-caste people. The Simonmanded pure Innuit hasn't any more temerity “And nearly all day I fed him footthan a sage hen, except when tackling ball lore and grounded him in the seia bear.’ ence of the game. Then as the storm “They're bunching for a rush!’ 1 showed no symptoms of weakening yelled; and the clamor for Nenook he got to work with his pupils, he and was now so uproarious that I had to I playing with them. For nine grounduse my hands as a trumpet in order to gainers we certainly were clever. And reach Tib's dull ear. the bears enjoyed it immensely. Tib ‘*Bring out the squad,’ directed he. taught them to tote. a deer-skin ball ‘Have Rudolph play center.’ nd go through three simple maneuv“And with our seven players in line, rs, not at all unlike thereal article, with Tib and me at quarter and half “Minnie and Maude were at right back, wetrailed around the corner and and left ends respectively, and huge on to the Arctic gridiron and faced Rudolph in the center. To call Mim the would-be-champions. They had ex nie’s name meant for her to lead off, pected the bears, and, being used to with the other six following in close that kind of trouble, were loaded with formation and we styled it the | an antidote in the shape of bons burglar-proof wedge. And Maude’s tipped spears. And yet the shaggy name meant a similar play at left end. orderly array puzzled them and But our chef-d'auvre was when Ruwarned that we were there for no dolph threw back his flat-topped head parlor pastime. Seeing us come to a and in bruinese invited his companhalt they foolishly assumed a massed ions to fill in the vacuums created by formation, like a revolving wedge, and the moving of his giant form. For pure brusquely advanced to try us out. realism in bucking the line his stunt “Hello, Minnie!” **Minnie!’ cried Tib, and that blitheat center had the other two combina| some lass began to make a detour to tions plucked to a tawdry finish. We noodle that the other side was behavthe right, with the others ambling ing like river-drivers. And in one offregretted while rejoicing; for it re joyfully along behind. Well, sir, it side play he gathered four of the verquired no prophet to see that only a simply swept the gang off its feet. It freight train could cause him and the min in his generous arms, and with a was all done so quickly and neatly nth power of energy in his wake to might 0-0-0-of of satisfaction strained that we'd flanked them before they hesitate even, and it would never do the collection to his bosom. When he saw a light. Then Minnie halted and discarded them over our heads they to spring the joke on the same college waited for us to form the line. lay very still and their captain had to twice. “Then the chief took a sip from his “But, sir, for a picturesque effect it call in the substitutes. was purely supernal. it would have@ag@n and coughed out a signal, and “‘Great game!’ I panted, in’ the the beggars speedily presented a new placed your heart three palpitations to breathing space allowed by the Kinackfront and again prepared to rush. You the good just to study them as they ers’ retreat to the rum keg. see, we had an elegant chance to cut caught on to the varsity spirit and “‘Got to keep moving, or they'll bag for the beach after the first end-play, crouched in line, eagerly awaiting the us yet,” bawled Tib. And our boys— but our players had been trained in the signals. And after they got so they now digging up a sulky streak, began corral, where they were forced to halt could perform each hurricane dash beckoning energetically with their after making 30 feet. So the benightwithout a flaw, Tim and I fell on each steel arms for their rivals to mix it ed romps had absorbed the impres other’s necks and shed tears of disup again, instead of waiting for our sion that ten yards was their limit on tilled joy. signals. You see, sir, we were in a any one play. And, of course, Tib and ‘*They are so blessed human, Billy,’ tight place—wedidn’t dare leave our I did not care to wander about on the he sobbed, in apology for his emotion. breastworks, and the squad was unbeach alone while waiting for the And he gave each champion a fish. wieldy to handle. The game, too, was sealer to arrive. “Then came a dampener to our vastly different from the merry prac ‘*What are we tarrying for now?’ I spirits that caused us to forget the the whole cried, as the other line again ap- | tice in the corral gridiron for the nonce. I had gone to bunch were disgusted 1 their proached, this time more rapidly, and the beach at thefirst intimation of usual honorarium of fish was net fort! | seemingly oblivious to fear clearing weather, but instead of sightcoming. Tib and I rea 1 our lives ‘*Minnie wont’ work twice in suc ing the sealer I beheld four big oomi| depended on their kee g toget eession, yelled Tib Maude must acs, well filled with jovial murderers. and we both worked overtin Oo tic come next, or they won't play. We It required no second glance to see their vanity. But what ved taught ‘em to alternate, and we that they were our late neighbors, and | the ball. Each nine-foot warri mustn't try the left end until the crowd in the bow s of each ferry stood a spear been taught to center ] or her whole gets nearer.’ soul on thattrifle, and true to their “As the last word was barked, Kintraining they obeyed orders and re ack’s Prides were upon us, trying to fused to desert their colors buck the line. But when it came to three jumps. ‘An inshore wind,’ he ing more offensive than some stout clubs. ‘I'm afrvid it’s all up if they rush us,” I solilogvized, sullenly. ‘They number at least t vo-score. cried, in explanation., ‘I've got to save Liz. Stay here and I'll beat back at thefirst let-up.’ And his lank form was lost in a swirl of feathers and we | | And Maud Carried Along with Her the Bunch οἵ Deer-Skin. BEABEALAEATBEBEALAEAkBkBey f Tiberius Smith | | | | | | | His Grizzlies’ Football Team Makes Good. By HUGH PENDEATER weIRSaSRRSBSSSRS | | | | | | (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.) | “Immediately after Tib’s encounter | “Up to the north we climbed, the | with Chuck McBurr we started on our coast growing ever more bleak and | long trip to the land of graft and gra- | desolate—past Nome and its gold ciousness, and after a long, tedious sanded shores, stopping at Chuck jaunt caught the home-bound steamer, Cape just long enoughto pick up some skirted Labrador and finally sneaked native hunters, and ultimately round ing the shoulder of Alaska, where the through the Strait of Belle Isle and full force of the cold-storage zephyrs reached the blessed St. Lawrence, caused our stanch little craft to grow! “‘Now for sweet rest and the innocent spectacle of a cow chewing her its way among theice-floes like some aquatic bull dog. And such a buffet cud in some Vermont vale,’ I sighed, luxuriously, when we'd been in Mon- ing! You see, the month was August and an off-shore wind was frisking the treal for a day. “*Telegram for you, sir,’ said the cut-glass out to the open, thus giving us our only chance of creeping in to portly crook who mismanaged our hothe coast. tel. “*The boss says we are to catch “The moment the Saucy Liz poked the Saucy Liz, sealer, at Vancouver, her head inside the cape four native and take a mild little run north to whale boats put out to meet us, and Kinack, on the tip of Point Barrow,’ the captain sighed his disappointment. mused Tib, eying me furtively. ‘For,’ he explained, ‘if Olfen’s Innuit “‘Not to win several bets,’ I pro- tested indignantly. “Til wire him a refusal,’ he declared stoutly. “Inside of two hours he was back, emiling genially. con Whang-Bang cried joyously. ‘Pay Monsieur Garand pack up,’ he flock has returned he'll never leave them, and we've had our little jaunt for nothing.’ “But Tib, slapping his fox-skin gloves briskly together, refused to entertain this unwholesome suggestion, and intimated that inasmuch as our boss had spent enough money on the trip to buy carpet slippers for every barefooted owl in the country, we must take back something, if only an iceberg. “Thedesire to trade kept the natives “It seems that my patron's exchange about the sealer, and we three, Tib, | of wires with the chief had revealed the captain and I, slid in to shore an errand so dear to the inclination of my leader that he had recanted and | alone. Then the captain hurried us had tossed in an enthusiastic affirma- inland several hundred yards to a low, stone house banked high with dirt -nd tive, signed by our joint names. I was plugged with moss, and called on the disgruntled, of course, as we were missionary to appear and welcome us not strapped to the ultimate coin yet, But the door remained closed. ‘Father and I had wanted to enjoy a strawhat | Olfen!’ he cried again. and forget chilblains a bit before allowing the bleak Arctic environment “And then—great Scott, sir! but my | to again encompass our clustered acheart certainly skipped seven throbs; tivity. for from around the cornerof the hut “But Tib was all gayety, playful as paraded seven of the biggest polars I a kitten, little realizing we were about ever saw. And the whole outfit reared to glide from the perpetual embrace with one accord and eyed us com of the chilly tomb solely through my placently. At our apparent concern second-hand varsity lore, It transpired the captain laughed and assured us we were on our way to capture the they were tame as kittens. Then he Kinack pennant and dub ourselves the boldly advanced and said, ‘Hello, Minchampions of Alaska, but we had no nie!’ and stuck out his fist. And hang radical hint of the glory, not even me, sir, if Minniie didn’t return the after we had berthed aboard the Liz. chaste salute most amiably! “And, to abbreviate, that night found us on the C. P., booming, so far as I was concerned, very disconsolately westward. “The captain of the sealer, we quick“Tib, you know, always had a hypnotice way with animals, and he, too, ly discovered, was an old employe of tripped forward and slapped another the circus, and had often collected odd elf on the flank. Mr. Bruin slowly chunks of Arctic life for the big dropped to all-fours and rubbed his shows. We had been with him once on an Iceland trip. His quest now was a massive white head lovingly against mighty one, being nothing less than a mypatron's sealskin coat. whole village of tame polar bears. “But no missionary had appeared, Needless to say, he was playing secand finding the door unfastened we ond fiddle to my patron when it came entered. The room was deserted, but to annexing such important brutes, on a rough table was a letter adand even I began to lose my melandressed to the captain. In it Olfen excholy frown when I appreciated the plained that he was about to leave on fat bonus awaiting a successful out- a chance sealer then off shore, as to come of the venture. So gradually remain longer meant death. By the waxing almost human in my deportdate of the note he had been gone ment to Tib, we sailed away from the || about a week. ‘A strange tribe has realm of the open-work sock. settled here,’ he wrote, ‘and while their “You should know, sir, that there is superstition leads them to avoid the A Large Bottle Affectionately Clasped hut, as they believe, because of my no better card for a menagerie than by the Chief. bears, that I must be an evil spirit, the Ursus maritimns; and despite his they nevertheless threaten to kill me. natural ferocity and the fact that he or harpoon-brandishing midget, intiThey cry out { am Nenook Shaman, | mating with easy grace that I was is the greatest meat-eater among his the Bear Spirit, and it is only a ques- next. furry fellows, the big beast can be These simple gesticulations tion of time when they will attack me tamed and is unusually acute of peralone evinced that they were in rare Poor, ignorant savages! If I were fettle for acting roguish and Paule Reception. All the up-to-date animal shows have polars that will do all | younger I would stay, regardless of vere would have been distanced at the the risk; but I find my last days are sorts of tricks and never growl. But first quarter had he endeavored to as it costs like sin to get them, and as | suddenlyfilled with a desire to see the keep tabs on myflitting footsteps flowers, and I cannot wait for you. If it takes time to make out their nat“Tib stood in the doorwayas I blew uralization papers, an opportunity to you come and my pets arestill here, | within his ken, and he had already pilfer a whole bevy of the deep-coated be kind to them detected the menace. He dragged me entertainers is a chance no quadruped captain had slowly “After the inside and closed the portal, just as king can allow to die of neglect spelled this out a scratching at the the amiablerattlesnakes beached their me to open it, door caused and there “The four-footed treasure-trove was boats and set up a song of rancor was a nine-foot, sixteen-hundred-pound the property of one Olfen, an aged Then they did a little green-corn dance toy sitting on his haunches and polite and set our football stars to growling missionary, said the sealer. The old Tib said the old boy with a cloud of spears and arrows.( | man had been deserted by his Innuit | ly salaaming. was hungry and, finding a_ stock of | was puzzle "ἃ to know what had surfeft charges aad had filled in his time dried fish, we led the seven into their ed them with courage until Tib indi snaring and domesticating the varrock corral behind the hut—and say cated a large bottle, affectionately mints. The Saucy Liz was the first for endurance in gastronomic stunts clasped to the bosom of the chief boat in two years to obtrude on his those fairies had all the old Roman Then we detected in the middle dis privacy, and as he was short of fodder gluttons reduced to light-weight dys the intrusion was welcome. He tance a ster-looking keg. It was peptics. obvious they ha procured the fire had accepted the sealer’s proposal that he come to the States and live in comwater from the sealer while the cap Just as we had cemented the en tain was ashore with us fort at the expense of the circus tente cordiale by the simple donation while his pets earned his ease by| a cloud of snow capered over the hut Of course w searched the hut fér traveling in the menagerie. j and the captain gained the open in trappings of war, but could find no plunging they were rotten; too light you know. And say, sir, they ought to have been penalized 30 yards for treading on our center’s toes and thrusting at the guards with their ticklers. “*All ready!’ howled Tib, reaching between the center's feet to kick a study in oils on the nose. ‘Maude!’ “And away they gambolled to the left in search of ten yards more of leeway. And Maudecarried with her, sir, the bunch of deer-skin. You see, we had to fetch it along to give the bruins their cue. Bless their old hearts! It was all a game to them. “But this play was attended by a beautiful melee, as we'd waited a few seconds too long, and as our guards had never lined up against even a scrub eleven before, and consequently were a bit dazed and rather punk on the defensive. However, they man aged to break up the interference after a fashion, and finally, somewhat winded, we were one family again | | | | ‘*They’re coming!’ I warned, as the mob of round forms waddled to a right-about face and canté red forward “‘Keep close to Rudolph,’ cautioned Tib. And then, ‘Center! 4-11-44!" The numerals meant nothing, and were thrown in only for good measure. 3ut at the familiar call Rudolph plunged forward to buck the advancing line with every other ounce of bear flesh trailing on behind, with a fringe of paws cuffing at the sides to spoil interference, while Tib and I scuttled along between the two bulky lines And I was overjoyed to see Maude emulate Rudolph’s system and pluck a hostile right tackle out of his clothes with one neat sweep of her hooks. “Tib and I tried to reach the brutes’ close-set ears with expressions of praise, but they were well-nigh deaf. ened by the hoarse clamor of their assailants and forgot for the moment they had been civilized. But that cen. ter-play, sir, brushed all records of strenuous endeavor to the background and, as Rudolph failed to remember the confines of the corral, we ad vanced to within 200 yards of the beach. “But the captain of the Kinackers absorbed a pint of stimulus and I could see we were in for livelier doings. The first two plays had foozled ’em a trifle, but now they were up and ready and very wise. So far they had “Then, as we thought we were to suffered no injury, thanks to our have a breather and time to quiet our teaching the bears to use but little men, that happened which Tib and I strength in anticipation of the college had feared from the start. The heath games to come. Ergo, they waxed con ens began to open up, preparatory t fident and decided that Nenook had running the ends and flirting with us lost his medicine. bipeds. The first dash came so near “They didn't seem to realize that to netting Tib I decided the pennant their spear-work had excited the home was surely lost. You see, the dear, old team and that our right guard's ugly furry idiots were again trying to re dark-stained shoulder was a source of member our mott< eS and maintain a annoyance ta him as he compared it life-lease on the leather; hence they with fts silvery-white companion, But } were but mildly c mus when six rum they got an inkling when a rzash tackle inflamed full-backs aked in from from thier side ducked in ar eived the tand as a unit nailed my atron a crack that sent him 30 feet our big boy handed out this bunch of slee; I dented several fat faces with my| germs he turned in the middle of a club be ξ ay crew buckled on growl and seemed to apologize to Min en I went to the mat, and nie for his rudeness had ᾳ eded.to nine be “But the jab had puzzled the poor eade ate his vocal beggar, and onl Tib’s k gans suffi gurgle, “Down! proval kept him from chasing his man And then Gertrude, bless her a de And I jumped four feet on high just ‘ mure little lass of about twelve hun- guard; left pounds, playing with wheeled and nearly finished us to eliminate our encumher zeal But to collect the invaders brances. you would have needed a large quanIt retity of the best blotting paper. quired just two sweeps of Gertrude’s ywerful paw to dig us outof the debris When once on our bewildered feet we saw that one end-rush had cost us Our right guard would never For the life of me, sir, I play again. could not help but pause and rub his head as he tried to rise and take his old position, He closed one eye in nut, as if saying: ‘Great footAnd there was a blur in my lamps as | dragged myself behind shattered squad. The six accepted in all as a game, though perplexed by their you see rt neighbors’ roughness ‘Line up for the last half!" wheezed Tib, wiping the blood from his eyes. ‘The sealer's in and dropping boats. One more sCamper and we'll be clear.’ ‘‘Nenook! Nenook!’ horsely yowled the beggars, pointing exultantly at our prostrate guard “And say, I actually loved those gigantic, white sillies as they tossed back the challenge in six growls; and true blueto thelast, all ranged up be side Rudolph, who, hugging the ball against his now brown breast, turned his foolish head to catch Tib’s signal. “And Tib, believing his players had lost tabs on whose turn it might be, cried, ‘Center!’ for the second time, and, sure enough, Rudolph bowed his form and lunged ahead for another irresistible buck. “The exchamps, however, catching sight of the approaching boats, neo longer tried to run the ends, but to our great felicitation met us fair and squaare in one last, tremendous effort. As they closed in we enjoyed the worst scrimmage of the game. I'll confess, sir, the visitors played snappyball and showed lots of ginger; and as our boys indulged in many a hearty nip and rake, they handed it back right smart. Why, even in that last mo ment they gave every promise of lum ging home the cup “For the first few yards we tore down the shingle briskly and simply waded through the heavy underbrush of jabbing arms and kicking legs, Tib and I doing no real husky work, just staggering along. 3ut as our players became more infuriated, and paused in the game to hold personal altercations, I surrendered mylast hope. “To accentuate our despair, just as we had nearly come to a standstill and Rudolph, busy cuffing a native, refused to heed the signals, we lost our left tackle, a promising young player, but a bit hot-headed. ‘*Rudolph! Center!’ again choked Tib. “And dear, dear! If the old sport didn’t turn his red eyes, stop gunning for pelts, grab up the ball and once more begin to plow ahead. And the other four loyally fell in behind and swung through the big hole he had made in the unsavory mass of alleged humanity. Thus did we come to the water's edge. “And the enemyseeing the last half had been played scurried back to the boats somewhereup the coast. ‘‘How can we get these five life preservers aboard?’ panted Tib, as he wrung the captain’s hand Can't do it now, bawled the captain, dancing in merriment as, he nailed a retreating seven-hundred-dollar bunch of furs with a hatchet. ‘The wind is again inshore, and we've not a second to lose if we'd save our hides and Liz.’ So, after all, we had to leave the bears. But despite the scarcity of the minutes, we ged ourselves to each and sorrowfully shook a paw in’ parting. As we zed back from the sealer We sawthem sitting in a row, the center still holding the ball, and we watched them until their huge, white coats melted slowly into the drifting veil of snow. “In another week we were back again, but could find no bruins “But up there somewhere in the eternal cold is a fraction of Alaska’s first eleven, ready to face all comers. I often see them in my mind’s eye stanchly standing off a gang of na tives; and although their old trainer's voice will direct their plays no more, I can see them pegging down with ponderous energy the championship of the Arctic Circle. And do you know, sir, I've often wondered if in their wanderings they affectionately tote about that absurd wad of deer-skin; and if, on pleasant days, they indulge in a little quiet practice in memoriam of their first coach. At least, I know they are loyal to one another, and mayhap to-night are forming up for the last game. And if, perchance, only one of the rugged quintet remains, I have no doubt but he will go down gamely, with only a few yards to gain. Health in Perfumes. It is a well-known fact that workers among lavender beds seldom take infectious ailments, and those engaged in the perfumery trade are singularly free from them. A good perfume, in the old days, was considered an excellent disinfectant. The doctors then used to carry walking sticks with silver or gold knobs, These opened with a lid disclosing a tiny vinaigrette box, which the physician held to his nose when entering rooms containing pa tients ill with any infectious diseases Truth Not Partisan. A fallacious doctrine, whether founded On a false of inion or sprung from a bad intention, is only designed for special circumstances, and conse quently for a certain time: but the truth is for all time, even though it may be misunderstood or smothered for a while Since it has not every ipion the interests of any Superior mind will beits at any time.—Schopea- |
