Evening Star Newspaper, August 18, 1924, Page 17

_(Continued from Yesterday's Star.) The men outside shouted and ap- plauded, while Beauty Smith, in an ecstasy of delight, gloated over the ripping and mangling performed by White Fang. There was no hope for the mastiff from the first. He was too ponderous and slow. In the end, while Beauty Smith beat White Fang back with a club, the mastiff was dragged out by its owner. Then there was a payment of bets and money clinked in Beauty Smith's hand. . White Fang came to look forward eagerly to the gathering of the men around his pen. It meant a fight and this was the only way that was now vouchsafed him of expressing the life that was in him. Tormented, incited to hate, he was kept a pris- oner so that there was no way of satisfying that hate except at the times his master saw fit to put another dog against him. Beauty Smith had estimated his powers well. for he was invariably the victor. One day three dogs were turned in upon him in succession. Another day a full-grown wolf, fresh-caught from the wild, was shoved in through the door of the pen. And on still another day two dogs were set against him at’ the same time. This was his severest fight and, although in the end he killed them both, he was him- self half killed in doing it. In the fall of the vear, when the first snows were falling and mush- ice was running in the river, Beauty Smith took passage for himself and White Fang on a steamboat bound up the Yukon to Dawson. White Tang had now achieved a reputation in the land. As “The Fighting Wolf” he was known far and wide, and the cage in which he was kept on the steamboat's deck was usually su rounded by curious men. He raged and snarled at them, or lay quietly d studied them with cold hatred. Why should he not hate them? He rever asked himself the question. He knew only hate and lost himself in the passion of it. Life had becoms a hell to him. He had not been made for the close confinement wild beasts endure at the hands of men. And yet it was in precisely this wav that he was treated. Men stared at him, poked sticks between the bars to make him snarl, and then laughed at him. They were his environment, thes> men, and they were molding the clay of him into a more ferocious thini than had been intended by nature. Nevertheless, nature had given him plasticity. Where many another ani- mal would have died or had its spirit broken, he adjusted himself and lived, and at no expense of the spirit. Pos- sibly Beauty Smith, arch fiend- and tormentor, was capable of breaking White Fang's spirit, but as vet there were no signs of his succeeding. 1t Beauty Smith had in him a devil White Fang had another, and the two of them raged against each other un- ceasingly. In the days before White Fang had had the wisdom to down and submit to a man w club in his hand: but this wisdom now left him. The mere sight of Beauty Smith was sufficient to send him into transports of fury. And when they came to close quarters, and he had been beaten back by the club, he went on growling and snarl- ing and showing his fangs. The last growl could never be extracted from him. No matter how terribly he was heaten, he had always another growl; and when Beauty Smith gave up and withdrew the defiant growl followedl after him, or White Fangysprang at the bars of the cage bellowing his hatred. When the steamboat arrived at Dawson White Fang went ashore. But he still lived a public life, in a cage, surrounded by curious men. He was exhibited as “The Fighting Wolf,” and men paid 50 cents in gold dust to see him. He was given no rest. Did he lie down to sleep he was stirred up by a sharp stick—so that the audience might get its money’'s worth. In order to make the exhibition interesting, he was kept in a rage most of the time. But worse than all this was the atmosphere in which he lived. He was regarded as the most fearful of wild beasts and this was borne in to him through the bars of the cage. Every word, every cautious action, on the part of the men, impressed upon him his own terrible ferocity. It was so much 2dded fuel to the flame of his fierce- ness. There could be but one result, and that was that his ferocity fed uron itself and increased. It was another instance of the plasticity of his clay, of his capacity for being molded by the pressure of environ- ment. In addition to being exhibited, he was a professional fighting animal. At irregular intervals, whenever u fight could be arranged, he was taken dut of his cage and led off into the ~00ds a few miles from town. Usual- fy this occurred at night, s0 as to avoid interference from the mounted police of the territory. After a few hours of waiting, when daylight had ceme, the audience and the dog with which he was to fight arrived. TIn this manner it came about that he fought all sizes and breeds of dogs. It was a savage land, the men w. mavage and the fights were usually to the death. Since White TFang continued to fight it is obvious that it was the other dogs that died. He never knew uefeat. His early training, when he fought with Liplip and the whole ruppy-pack, stood him in good stead There was the tenacity with which he clung to the earth. No dog could wnake him lose his footing. . This was the favorite trick of the wolf breeds—to rush in upon him, either directly or with an unexpected swerve, in the hope of striking his shoulder and overthrowing him. Mackenzie hounds, Eskimo _and Labrador dogs, huskies and Male- mutes—all tried it on him, and_all failed. He was never known to lose his footing. Men told this to one another, and looked each time to see t happen; but White Fang always isappointed them. Then there was his lightning quickness. It gave him a tremendous advantage over his antagonists. No matter what their fighting experi- ence, they had never encountered a dog that moved so swiftly as he. Also to be reckoned with was the immediateness of his attack. The average dog was accustomed to the preliminaries of snarling and bristling and growling, and the average dog was knocked off his feet and finished before he had begun to fight or recovered from his surprise. So often did this happen, that it became the custom to hold White Fang until the other dog went through its preliminaries, was good and ready, and even made the first attack. But greatest of all the advantages in White Fang’s favor was his ex- perience. ~He knew more about fighting than did any of the dogs that faced him. He had fought more fights, knew how to _meet more tricks and_meticds, and had more tricks himseit/ while his own method was scarcely to be improved upon. As the time went by he had fewer and fewer fights. - Men despaired of matching him with an -equal, and Beauty Smith was compelled to pit wolves against him. These were trapped by the Indians for the pur- pose, and a fight between White ¥ang and a wolf was always sure to draw a crowd. Once a full-grown female lynx was secured, and this time White Fang fought for his life. Her quickness matched his; her ferocity equaled his, while he fought with his fangs alone, and she fought with her sharp-clawcd feet as well. But after the lynx, all fighting ceased for White Fafig. There were no more animals with which to fight —at least, there was none considered worthy of fighting with him. So he remained on exhibition until Spring, when one Tim Keenan, a faro-dealer, arrived in the land. With him came the first bulldog that had ever en- tered the Klondike. That this dog and White Fang should come to- gether was inevitable, and for a week the anticipated fight was the mainspring of conversation in cer-!} tain quarters of the town. CHAPTER 1IV. The Clinging Death. Beauty Smith slipped the chain from his neck and stepped back. For once White Fang did not make an immediate attack. He stood still, ears pricked forward, alert and curious, surveying the strange ani- mal that faced him. He had never seen such a dog before. Tim Keenan shoved the bulldog forward with a muttered “Go to it” The animal waddled toward the center of the circle, short and squat and ungainly. He came to a stop and blinked across at White Fang. There were cries from the crowd of “Go him, Cherokee!” “Sick'm, Cheroke “Eat'm up But Cherokee did not seem anxious to fight. He turned his head and dlinked at the men who shouted, at the same time wagging his stump of | a tail good-naturedly. He was not afriid, but merely lazy. Besides, it did not seem to him that it was in- tended he should fight with the dog he saw before him. He was not used to fighting with that kind of dog, and he was waiting for them to bring on the real dog. Tim Keenan stepped in and bent over Cherokes, fondling him on both sides of the shoulders with hands that rubbed against the grain of the hair and that made slight, pushing- forward movements. These were so many suggestions. Also, their effect was_ irritating, for Cherokee began to growl, very softly, deep down in his throat. There was a correspond- | ence in rhythm between the growls and the movements of the man's hands. The growl rose in the throat | with the culmination of each for- ward-pushing movement. and ecbbed | down to start up afresh with the | beginning of the next movement. The end of each movement was the | accent of the rhythm, the movement ending abruptly and the growling rising with a jerk. This was not without its effect on White Fang. The hair began to| risc on his neck and across the ! shoulders. Tim Keenan gave a final | shove forward and stepped back again. As the impetus that carried Cherokee forward died down, he continued to go forward of his own volition, in a swift, bow-legged run. | Then White Fang struck. A cry of startled admiration went up. He | had covered the distance and gone in more like a cat than a dog; and | with the same cat-like swiftness he | had slashed with his fangs and| leaped clear. i The bulldog- was bleeding back of | one ear from a rip in his thick neck. He gave no sign, did not even snarl, but turned and followed after White Fang. (Continued in Tomorrow's Star.) —_—— i Soap Powder as Insecticide. 4n ingenious farmer in Wyoming has found out that soap powder makes a good insecticide for plant pests such as ruin nasturtiums, sweet peas and similar_flowers. 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