THE PATTON COURIER George Marsh Copyright by ‘THE PENN PUBLISHING CO. W.N.U. SERVICE CHAPTER XI—Continued Fe Cautiously, with ax poised for a quick blow, he moved in on his shoes, measuring with his eyes the length of the chain on the snow when straightened by the leap of the trapped beast. But the carcajou did not spring and thus open himself to the blow from the menacing ax. Instead, his smoldering red eyes followed the circling Brock, his body slowly pivot- ing to face his enemy. Again and again Brock tried to lure the beast to leap to the end of the chain, within, range of the poised ax, but with uncanny instinct the wolver- ine refused to spring. Provokec at his failure, Brock turned to get his gun from the sled and, wit’ the risk of injuring the pelt, shoot the brute, when he had an idea. “By golly! I'll poke him into it with a stick!” he cried, with a doubtful look at the plunging Flash struggling to free himself from the rawhide which he. . him to a neighboring tree, So, cutting and trimming a sapling, Brock again approached the fifty pounds of living dynamite, that watched him, head lowered, lips curled in a red snarl With a cougb of rage the carca- Jou crusl.ed the extended pole in his Jaws, and with a twist of his head tore away a foot of the spruce stick. “Mad, eh?” teased Brock, thrilled with the excitement of baiting the most savage denizen of the forest. “I'll mae you jump yet!” And th- boy fiercely prodded the hairy body. With a scream the infuriated beast stiffened and sprang into tke ir. Drop- ping his pole, Brock leaped back be- yond the radius of the chain. As he did, the taut chain jerked the wol- verine to the snow. Stepping in, Brock swung the lifted ax, but again the beast left the snow, and ax and hairy body met in mid air with a thud. As the boy struck again, the carca- Jou again leaped, tearing his hind foot free of the trap while the ax head buried itself deep in the snow. Springing back, Brock shieldec his head with raised left arm as the mad- dened beast hurled himself upon him, The shoulder and back of the skin capote were slashed like cloth, as the long skinning knife of'the boy plunged deep into the ribs of the raging beast. Again Brock thrust desperately under his upraised arm at the demon whose teeth gripped the back of the the skin capote while razor-like claws ripped the hide to ribbons. Then, a great body catapulted into battling carcajou and boy, husling them to the snow Siruggiing to his knees, free of his enemy, with smeared knife blade aimed for a thrust, Brock stared at the battle in the snow beside him. In a blurred melee of slate-gray and brown, snarling their hate as they fought to the death, thrashed the husky and the wounded carcajou. Hampered by the snapped traces, col- lar and belly-band of the harness though he was, the charging dog had found his mark as he leaped to the aid of his master. Straight to their goal the great canines of Flash had driv- en through the thick neck muscles of the wolverine. Desperately the beast, weakened from the knife thrusts, writhed and twisted to reach the husky with the flying flails of his claws. But the tusks of Flash, seeking the spine behind the skull, never lost their conquering grip as they knifed their way to their goal. Neck clamped from the rear in the vise of the husky’s tusks, his cruel paws snapping helplessly on air as he coughed his hate, the wolverine fought to reach his enemy with his feet, but as he squirmed to slice the great body, always with a wrench, Flash threw him and kept to the beasts back, thus avoiding the slash of the claws. Then, as the excited Brock hung over the battle in the snow with poised knife, the rust-brown body suddenly ceased to writhe; the blood- slavered jaws gaped widely in a red grimace, the great forefeet, with their knives of claws reached out in a last quivering slash at the alr. The long fangs of the Ungava had wrenched through to their mark. The spine of the carcajou was broken. “Give it to him, Flash!” gasped Brock, suspicious, doubtful of what he saw. “Give it to him, boy!” Lifting the head of the brute, his teeth still locked, Flash shook him with great wrenches of his iron neck. Satisfied, with a low rumble, he fierce ly nuzzled his stiffening enemy. Then with the dead brute between his fore- legs, Flash proudly lifted his slant eyes to the master, “You killed him, boy!” cried Brock, proudly. “You broke his neck—a car- cajou’s neck—and not a bad slash on you! By the great horned owl, you're a wonder!” Then, in the custom of his kind, the sonquering dog ralsed his pean of vile tory over the body of his foe, in long drawn howls that waked the silent forest, Throwing off his tattered coat, Brock examined his ripped duffle shirt and the scratches on arms and back. “Flash!” he cried, “we're two lucky birds! That deer skin was so tough, I'm hardly more than scratched. I got him with that first stab—close to the heart—took the fire out of him, I guess.” Brock leaned over and ex- amined the thrusts in the body of the dead carcajou. “Yes,” he added. “And ome hind foot was ruined by the trap. If he had had a fair chance to get a pur- chase with his teeth in my shoulder, he would have slashed my old hide to pieces, boy.” Luckily for Brock the wolverine had hung on his shoulder and side barely an instant—the first snap of his jaws, owing to the thick skin coat, only breaking the skin, and his punishing claws hardly getting into action when the knife thursts into his lungs and the charge of Flash shook him off. And it was fortunate for Flash he had not met an un- wounded carcajou. The neck hold he had got in his leap, had saved him from a ripped pelt. Finding that neither he nor his dog were hurt beyond painful scratches, Brock donned his torn capote, and hurried back to the main camp to treat the slight wounds on shoulder and left arm, and get his duffle coat. And so, through February, the boys labored on their trap-lines, unmolestec by their enemies north of the big lake, while they added to the already rich catch of fur which might never see Hungry House. * - . ® . * . Onabani-gissis, the Moon of the Crust on the Snow, was ten days old. Higher and higher, each day, swung the sun over the white wilderness of the Yellow-Leg headwaters. With fur un The First Hard Crust Would Find Them Headed North, and surplus outfit securely hidden in the cache in the swamp, Gaspard and Brock waited for the usual break in the weather, when, for a time, the March sun would daily soften the snow surface and the following frosts, at night, form a crust which would bear the weight of men and dogs, mak- ing sledding a delight. With provi- sions for three weeks, cooking outfit and blankets, lashed in the tarpaulin wrapper, on the big sled, the first bard crust would find them headed north. Deep into the country the Crees were trapping for the red- bearded free-trader wintering on the lower Carcajou, they were going in search of news of the death of Pierre Lecroix., That there might be no re turn south over the March crust; that the Peterboro, slung from spruce, on wires, in October, to avoid the por- cupines, might not, in May, run the roaring Yellow-Leg, bound home for Hungry House. the boys fully realized. (TO BE CONTINUED,) Fish’s Headstone The purpose of the white stone-like objects found in the interior of the fish's head has not been very definitely determined, but most of the small boys who catch fish think these stones are lucky pieces and seek them for the mere purpose of pocket pieces. It is generally agreed that these stones are in some way connected with the fish's auditory faculties, but according to an- other theory they belong to the fish's static sense, a term referring to the complex process by means of which fishes are enabled to maintain equilib- rium in water. The stones are almost entirely mineral compositions, being soluble in weak acetic acid. They show annular or periodic rings of growth, somewhat analogous to the annular rings of trees, and are fre- quently used to determine the age of fishes. Pioneer in Cataloguing Thomas James, the first librarian of the Bodleian library, Oxford, where he held office from 1600 to 1620, was the pioneer of English librarians He compiled the first complete printed catalogue of a public library arranged in one alphabetical order and was the precursor of the suject-cataloguer. Good Manners All good manners have something theatrical in them; they are not nat. ural; they are a performance and the best inspiration toward acquiring them is a fine desire to be agreeable to | others.—American Magazine, ‘ TIRED MOTHER OF is SIX KILLS BROOD AND SELF BY GAS Discouraged Woman Turns on All Jets in Apartment and Waits. New York.—Mary Pasos celebrated the first anniversary of the birth of her youngest child, Alfreda, recently. Alfreda was sleeping, as were the other five children, when Mary tip- toed silently through the three bed- rooms and a kitchen they called home, on the third floor of No. 493 West street, turning on the gas. When every jet in the three rooms vas open—and there were five—Mary returned to the kitchen. She flooded the oven in the range with gas, then opened the oven door. She pulled a chair up to the white enameled table and sat down. Husband Works Nights, Jose, her husband, hadn't come home. He probably wouldn’t be home for hours, maybe not at all that day. Sometimes he didn’t come for sev- eral days. When he finished his night’s work on the dock across wide West street, where he earned $27.50 a week, he would go down to No. 359, where he helped his brother run a poolroom. Mary was thirty-five. Fourteen years ago, when she was twenty-one and so much prettier than now, she had married Jose. A year later Celia came. Celia was thirteen now and such a help to her. In two years She Was on the Floor. there was Beatrice, and in two years more Joseph was born. It was four years more before there was another addition to the Pasos family, but Fate was dealing to Mary off a cold deck. Felina and George were born on the same day. Then, only a year ago, there was Alfreda. Mary sat at the white table and stared at nothing. In six months there would be another child. Seven—she would not go on. Neither would she leave her four girls to live the same life she had led. The boys—well, maybe the boys could fend for them- selves—but no. How could she sep- arate them? How could she take the girls and leave the boys behind? Neighbor Smells Gas. About five hours later, at 11 o'clock, Mrs. Mary Murphy, who lives on the floor below, smelled gas. She found ’atrolman Joseph McEvoy on the corner. They went down and got Joe at the poolroom. The three broke in. Mary had fallen off the chair—she was on the floor with her feet under the table. In the bedroom next to the kitchen they found Alfreda and Felia in the same bed. The covers were pulled to one side and trailed from the bed. These were pulled back and Felia’s twin brother was found doubled on the floor. In the next room was another bed. Joseph and Beatrice and Celia were there, Beatrice and Celia with their arms entwined. All were dead. “Poor girl,” mourned Mrs. Murphy. “Six kids and another comin’—no wonder she got tired of life.” Boy Crippled Ten Years Again Able to Walk Fayetteville, W. Va.—After being bedfast for nearly ten years, a help- less cripple, Ashton Ellison, is again learning to walk in a children’s hos- pital. When he was six years old Ashton suffered an attack of arthritis, which left his legs useless and his arms the same way. He was taken to the hos- pital for treatment eight months ago. After several operations had been per- formed and a system of braces de- vised for him, the boy now is able to walk with the aid of crutches. He also has the use of his arms, which are undeveloped. Novel Idea New York.—A theory that artificial fireflies as big as peacocks will pro- vide immortal light for man comes from Prof. Newton Harvey of Prince- ton university, who has made a long study of amimals endowed with lum- inescence, Girls in Holdup Brady, Texas.—Three girls, led by a youth, held ap a bank here, taking $5,000 in currency and making their escape. sfededoledesdedotofootedototedoiiofoodegofodo Cop Goes to Cell x in Girl’s Place % Pittsburgh,—Patrolman Fa- 3 hart Saba wasn’t quite clear as 3 to just what law was being vio- + lated when a young girl resist. ed his wooing, but he was sure * it either was against “the law or ought to have been.” So *% when Miss Katherine Certich g rebuffed him after the two re- *% turned from an automobile trip he arrested her. ) He took her to the North Side police station and then en- countered an obstacle. Saba never had heard of the crime 3, “lese majeste” and wasn't sure oe Fate o¥ oe of oe oF oe oF ole %e oe Fe Fe oe - A ERR RRR RR RRR ERR ERT oi a8 oF o% oF oe of oe oF oe of oe oF ie oF oF even if he had heard of it. He ** took his problem to Captain Block in order to find out with Just what crime the girl should be charged. Captain Block listened to the patrolman, he listened to the girl and then he ordered the cop locked up. Saba was fined $10. 2 * fesfedesfesfesdeootesfutigotiofetedodedotedefotogotoiol A RR RRR oF 0% o% oF o¥e of oe of ote oe o% fe oe fe oe “RED” CAGLE FINDS HE’S ONLY CADET Football Star Must Pay for Breaking Rules. West Point, N. Y.—Back of the grim gray quadrangle in West Point Christian K. (“Red”) Cagle, the army's great all-American halfback and the cadet corps’ hero, must do a dreary penance with the nimble feet that won him fame. Every Wednes- day and Saturday he must mareh, strictly at attention, until he has ham- mered out his penalty on the hard gravel for 22 hours. He does it on his own time and he does not complain, although it bars him from track competition this year. All his extra and precious minutes must be spent marching up and down a 100-yard stretch of gravel, because he broke the inflexible regulations of West Point, The captain of next fall's Army foot- ball team owes his dilemma to miss- ing a boat at Hoboken. He was sup- posed to catch it. It was a breach of discipline. In the eyes of the West Point faculty, there is no “Red” Ca- gle, meteoric football star. There is only Cadet Cagle, second classman, Second battalion. As he strides, hour after hour, exe- cuting a snappy “to the rear march!” at each end of the 100-yard stretch, his bearing is a little proud, for he is proving that he is fit to be an officer and a gentleman, as he will become by act of congress when he is gradu- ated. He is proving that a potential officer of the United States army can accept harsh discipline as unflinch- ingly, as later he may pass it out. “Red’s” offense was comparatively trivial, if any offense can be so re- garded in West Point. Cagle came to New York city recently with a party of cadets on an educational trip. This particular mission was a visit to the Museum of Natural History. The cadets on the party were dis- missed late in the afternoon. were granted their freedom until 11 :45 p. m., when they were to board the 11:45 p. m. Weehawken ferry for transport to Jersey in time to catch the midnight train for West Point. What the dashing football star did with his liberty is not known. But it seems that he left himself too little time to reach the ferry. Refused Divorce, Man Kills Sweetheart, Self Columbus, Ohio.—E. E. Welsh chose death for himself and his young sweet- heart rather than continue the four- year illicit love affair which he be- lieved never would be legalized. Welsh's body and that of his stenog- rapher sweetheart, Eleanor Porter, were found in his motor car near New Albany. On her finger—the engagement fin- ger—was a cameo ring he had given her. In another box in his pocket was a gold wedding band, which he could not legally give to the girl be- cause he already was married and his wife refused to divorce him. Welsh, forty-three, was auditor and secretary of the Gwinn Milling com- pany. He had a fifteen-year-old daugh- ter and up to four years ago the fam- ily had appeared happy. Several months ago Welsh and his wife separated. A farmer discovered the two bodies in Welsh’s motor car. Coroner Joseph Murphy said there was no question that Welsh had killed the girl and then committed suicide. Bandit Kills Victim; Car Driven by Woman Chicago.—A bandit with a blond woman chauffeur stepped out of a sedan on the South side and aimed a sawed-off shotgun at Harry Winters and Arthur Leland as they drew up in another car with a payroll for the H. E. 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Hubert Wilkins, the noted Australian explorer, upon his arrival in Chile from his base at Deception island stated that he had met with an unexpected menace in flying in the Antarctic, “The plane on numerous occasions,” the explorer. said. “was hampered by immense flocks of birds which flew into the path of the ma- chine in such numbers that hundreds were killed by the propeller, Luckily, however, the plane was not damaged.” Wilkins established the existence of more than 1,000 miles of coast line in the region situated to the west of Weddel sea. During one of his aerial trips of 3,000 miles he was unable to find a successful landing place and therefore failed to make interesting discoveries which might have been of great geographical importance. He did succeed in discovering, however, that Graham land, which figures on all maps as part of the Antarctic conti- nent, is merely a series of islands sep- arated by a strait from the mainland. —Pathfinder Magazine. 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