The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-13

cosmopolitan. Al
most before knew it we had swapped
duh placldity for the hysterical
blast and blare Of Broadway. Only
the change was so radical near
~ inconvenienced seven motormen by
oeing run over before my patron could
drag me aside and into the permanent
Idice of a circus.
Wen Just stop and say how dye
do. said he, grabbing me by the collar
and encouraging me to enter.
Not anything with equators in it,
Z groaned, as the head sheik fell on
-,ur necks.
In response, the handspring pat
ed me lovingly on the back and led
rs TO big map and asked us to
guess. held my hat over Patagonia,
Tor two years before Tib and had Wis.
'-ed that joint.
Something with blondes in it, |
hegged. for | saw Tbs eyes spark.
ing as he cooked his head in the old
way and benevolently studied the
rhart.
OF course, if he wants giants,
7nurmured Tib and a light not OF sea
rr land cleaned in his brown eyes Us
ne formally agreed to try his dangdest.
= knew there was no use in endeavor-
fng to dissuade him, and needless of
The threatening gongs ! slOuched along
N his wake, unwittingly on my way
10 dramatic situation that for pure
tntensity of emotion was to render
''riday's dimped footprint a merely
Hretty climax.
AS ill-luck would have it, the man
3ger possessed a slight Tip from a
MOravian missionary, who had been
dOing lecture stunt after a long stop
IN the edge of the arctic circle Armed
with this shadow of hint. my patron
UOw led the way to Brooklyn and un.
fortunately landed the lecturer 1t re.
Auired deep display of heart interest
IN the tiat-faCed, stubby fat-eaters back
acme before our man would veer
around and answer indisCriminate
questions. Then he opened up and
'old us of the lost race of Anakim,
aud Tib murmured in my oftear,
There were giants in the earth in
those days.
The missionary hastened to ex-
plain he had never met any Of these
big people. but halfasserted his belief
Ehat they could be found somewhere
up there in the interior of Greenland.
Ate added. significantly. they we're
amply protected from circus collectors.
not only by peculiar territorial and eli
matte conditions, but also BY sheer
avOirdupOis. He had first learned Of
fhis overgrOwn race. he continued.
from the Innuits. In fact several of
g'is freely perspiring children. who
ought TO have been in better business
declared that they had met with stray
specimens while penetrating the far
worth. But il all the legends and stale
stories were true. our quarry would
not readily eat from our hands.
Yet the more he rambed, the more
lids eyes twinkled, and he was all
aSloW to- learn more of these museum
possibilities. Consequently. three ad-
'titional hours found MS in Philadelphia
Sn search of old sea-dOgs, who prowl
about the Greenland waters yearly in
Their CryOlite ladened barks. The mis-.
SiunaTy had furnished lis with the
name of one of this ilk, a man who
vas Il crude expert upon the abnrig-
mes Of the polar ice cap and who had
racentiy returned to civilization On
inding him, Tib easily managed to
make him talk. and the old salt startled
rs by declaring he had seen some of
che GOhaths in mining settlement
near lviEtut bay. lie pictured them
As being from seven to nine feet tall.
out apOlOgized for the former aud ex.
plained they probably had been i'm.
properly nurtured He believed they
celebrated their at homes in the
5nrglar-pTnOf regions Of the ultimate
north. and had rambled down TO the
southwest coast because of terribly
severe storms and the Sub.Zero stunts
Df the thermometer
This was enough for my patron.
and another day saw us in cOnsuta,
zion with the spring of the cir
Gus The upshot was. we took passage
on a cryolite bark Immediately, bound