THE SALISBURY WATCHMAN, SALISBURY, N. C. FRUIT LAXATIVE FOR CHILD "California Syrup of Figs" can't harm tender stomach, liver and bowels. Every mother realizes, after firing her children "California Syrup of Figs' that this is their ideal laxative, because they love its pleasant taste and it thoroughly cleanses the tender little stomach, liver and bowels with out griping. ' When cross, , irritable, feverish, or breath is bad, stomach sour, look at the tongue-, mother! If coated, give a teaspoonful of this harmless "fruit laxative," and in a few hours all the foul, constipated waste, sour bile and undigested food passes out of the bow els, and you have a well, playful child again. When its little system is full of cold, throat sore, has stomach-ache, diarrhoea, indigestion, colic remem ber, a good 'inside cleaning" should always be the first treatment given. Millions of mothers keep "California Syrup of Figs" handy; they know a teaspoonful today saves a sick child tomorrow. Ask at the store for a 50 cent ; bottle of "California Syrup of Figs," which has directions for babies, children of all ages and grown-ups printed on the bottle. Adv. Soldierly. General Bliss was relating remi niscences of sham battles. "I had a young friend, Captain Exe, who could never be worsted in sham warfare," he said. "Exe one day started to lead his valiant company at double speed across a bridge to storm a height, but a young captain belonging to the opposite-side rushed up and shouted: " 'Hi, Exe ! You mustn't cross that bridge! Don't you see the notice? The bridge is supposed to be de stroyed.' 4,,It is, hey?' roared Exe. 'Well, then, we're supposed to be swimming across. On, boys, and at 'em.' " Used All Over the Civilized World for More Than 50 Years. Stomach troubles seem to be almost universal the last few years; I mean Indigestion in many forms, internal nervousness, caused by incompatible food fermentation, coming up of food, sour stomach, headache, apparent pal pitation of the heart, habitual consti pation, intestinal indigestion, caused by a torpid liver, and a general break down with low spirits and depressed feeling. Green's August Flower was Introduced in this and foreign coun tries fifty years ago with wonderful success in relieving the above com plaints. Sold by dealers everywhere at 25c trial bottles or 75c family size. Sole manufacturer, G. 6. Green, Woodbury, N. J., U. S. A., Australia and Toronto, Canada. Adv. Couldn't Say Much. "You have sworn to tell nothing but the truth." "Nothing but the truth, your honor?" "Precisely." "Then, judge, with that limitation upon me I might as well warn you that I'm not going to have much to say." LIFT YOUR CORNS OFF WITH FINGERS How to loosen a tender corn or callus so it lifts out without pain. Let folks step on your feet hereafter ; wear shoes a size smaller if you like, for corns will never again send electric sparks of pain through you, according to this Cincinnati authority. He says that a few drops of a drug called freezone, applied directly upon a tender, aching corn, instantly re lieves soreness, and soon the entire corn, root and all, lifts right out. This drug dries at once and simply shrivels up the corn or callus without even irritating the surrounding skin. A small bottle of freezone obtained at any drug store will cost very little but will positively remove every hard or soft corn or callus from one's feet. If your druggist hasn't stocked this new drug yet, tell him to get a small bottle of freezone for you from bis wholesale drug house. adv. Didn't Correct Her. "That dame asked me for some con summated lye," said the grocer's new boy, witha grin. "You didn't correct her, did you? asked the grocer. . "Aw nix! I'm onto me job better dan dat. I jest handed her a can of consecrated lye an said nothinV Kill the Flies Now and Prevent disease. A DAISY FLY KILLER will do it Kill thousands. Lasts all season. All dealers or six sens express paid for $1. H. SOMERS, 150 .Ue xl&iq Ave., -tsrooiuyn, js. x. Adv. After a man has kept you awake all night by his snoring he usually lla you that he didn't sleep a wink. GREEN S AUGUST FLOWER J WM By Jamoo OUvor Ourwood Copyright by the Bobbs-MerriU Company. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS LIFE KAZAN KNOWS THE JOY OF PERFECT FREEDOM HOW HE MEETS THE CHALLENGE OF A HUGE GRAY WOLF. ftazan is a vicious Alaskan sledge dog, one-quarter gray wolf. He saves his master's life and is taken along when the mas ter goes to civilization to meet his bride and return with her to the frozen country. Even the master is afraid to touch the dog, but Isobel, Kazan's new mistress, wins his devotion in stantly. On the way northward McCready, a dog-team driver, joins the party. Inflamed by drink on the following night, McCready beats the master in sensible and attacks the bride. Kazan flies at the assailant's throat and kills him. Fearful of punishment, the dog takes to the woods and wild life. CHAPTER IV. Continued. After lhat cry Kazan sat for a long time on his haunches, sniffing the new freedom of the air, and watching the deep black pits in the forest about him, as they faded away before dawn. Now and then, since the day the traders had first bought him and put him into sledge-traces away over on the Macken zie, he had often thought of his free dom longingly, the wolf blood in him urging him to take it. But he had never quite dared. It thrilled him now. There were no clubs here, no whips, none of the wan-beasts whom he had first learned to distrust, and then to hate. It was his misfortune that quarter-strain of wolf; and the clubs, instead of subduing him, had added to the savagery that was born in him. Men had been his worst enemies. They had beaten him time and again until he was almost dead. They called him "bad," and stepped wide of him, and never missed the chance to snap a whip over his back. His body was cov ered with scars they had given him. He had never felt kindness, or love, until the first night the woman had put tier warm little hand on his head, and had snuggled her face close down to his, while Thorpe her husband had cried out in horror. He had almost buried his fangs in her white flesh, but in an instant her" gentle touch, and her sweet voice, had sent through him that wonderful thrill that was his first knowledge of love. And now it was a man who was driving him from her, away from the hand that had never held a club or a whip, and he growled as he trotted deeper into the forest. He came to the edge of a swamp as day broke. For a time he had been filled with a strange uneasiness, and light did not quite dispel it. At last he was free of men." He could detect nothing that reminded him of their hated presence in the air. But neither could he smell the presence of other dogs, of the sledge, the fire, of compan ionship and food, and so far back as he could remember they had always been a part of his life. Here it was very quiet. The swamp lay in a hollow between two ridge mountains, and the spruce and cedar grew low and thick so. thick that there was almost no snow under them, and the day was like twilight. Two things he began to miss more than all others food and company. Both the wolf and the dog that was in him de manded the first, and that part of him that was dog longed for the latter. To both desires the wolf blood that was strong in him rose responsively. It told him that somewhere in this silent world between the two ridges there was companionship, and that all he had to do to find it was to sit back on his haunches, and cry out his loneli ness. More than once something trem bled in his deep chest, rose in his throat, and ended there in a whine. It was the wolf howl, not yet quite born. Food came more easily than voice. Toward midday he cornered a big white rabbit under a log, and killed it. The warm flesh and blood was better than frozen fish,- or tallow and bran, and the feast he had gave him confi dence. That afternoon he chased many rabbits, and killed two more. Until now, he had never known the delight of pursuing and killing at will, even though he did not eat all he killed. But there was no fight in the rab bits. They died too easily. They were very sweet and tender to eat, when he was hungry, but the first thrill of kill ing them passed away after a time. He wanted something bigger. He no long er slunk along as If he were afraid, or as if he wanted to remain hidden. He held his head up. His back bristled. His tail swung free and bushy, like a wolfs. Every hair in his body quiv ered with the electric energy of life and action. He traveled north and west. It was the call of early days the days away up on the Mackenzie. The Mackenzie was a thousand miles away. He came upon many trails in the snow that day, and sniffed the scents left by the hoofs of moose and caribou, and the fur-padded feet of a lynx. He followed a fox, and the trail led him to a place shut In by tall spruce, where the snow was beaten down and red dened with blood. There was an owl's head, feathers, wings and entrails lying here, and he knew that there were other hunters abroad besides himself. Toward evening he came upon tracks in the snow that were very much like his own. They were quite fresh, and there was a warm scent about them that made him whine, and filled him again with that desire to fall back up on his haunches and send forth the wolf -cry. This desire grew stronger in him as the shadows of night deep ened in the forest. He had traveled all day, but he was not tired. There was something about night, now that there were no men near, that exhilarat ed him strangely. The wolf blood in him ran swifter and swifter. Tonight it was clear. The sky was filled with stars. The moon rose. And at last he settled back in the snow and turned his head straight up to the spruce tops, and the wolf came out of him in a long mournful cry which quivered through the still night for miles. For a long time he sat and listened after that howl. He had found voice a voice with a strange new note in it, and it gave him still greater confidence. He had expected an answer, but none came. He had traveled in the face of the wind, and as he howled, a bull moose crashed through the scrub tim ber ahead of him, his horns rattling against the trees like the tattoo of. a clear birch club as he put distance be tween himself and that cry. Twice Kazan howled before he went on, and he found joy in the practice of that new note. He came then to the foot of a rough ridge, and turned up out of the swamp to the top of it. The stars and the moon were nearer to him there, and on the other side of the ridge he looked down upon a great sweeping plain, with a frozen lake glis tening in the moonlight, and a white river leading from it off into timber that was neither so thick nor so black as that in the swamp. And then every muscle in his body grew tense, and his blood leaped. From far off in the plain there came a cry. It was his cry the wolf-cry. His jaws snapped. His white fangs gleamed, and he growled deep in his throat. He wanted to reply, but some strange in stinct urged him not to. That instinct of the wild was already becoming mas ter of him. In the air, in the whisper ing of the spruce tops, in the moonand the stars themselves, there breathed a spirit which told him that what he had heard was the wolf-cry, but that it was not the wolf call. The other came an hour later, clear and distinct, that same wailing howl at the beginning but ending in a staccato of quick sharp yelps that stirred his blood at once into a fiery excitement that it had never known before. The same instinct told him that this was the call the hunt-cry. It urged him to come quickly. A few moments later it came again, and. this time there was a reply from close down along the foot of the ridge, and another from so far away that Kazan could scarcely hear it. The hunt-pack was gathering for the night chase; but Kazan sat quiet and trembling. He was not afraid, but he was not ready to go. The ridge seemed to split the world for him. Down there it was new, and strange, and without men. From the other side something seemed pulling him back, and suddenly he turned his head and gazed back through the moonlit space behind him, and whined. It was the dog-whine now. The woman was back there. He could hear her voice. He could feel the touch of her soft hand. He could ee the laughter in her face and eyes, the laughter that had made' him warm and happy. She was calling to him through the forests, and he was torn between desire to answer that call, and desire to go down into the plain. For he could also see many men waiting for him with clubs, and he could hear the cracking of whips, and feel the sting of their lashes. For a long time he remained on the top of the ridge that divided his world And then, at last, he turned and went down into the plain. CHAPTER V. Leader of the Pack. All that night Kazan kept close to the hunt-pack, but never quite ap proached it. This was fortunate for him. He still bore the scent of traces, and of man. The pack would have torn him to pieces. The first instinct of the wild is that of self-preservation. It may have been this, a whisper back through the years of savage forebears, that made Kazan roll in the snow now and then where the feet of the pack had trod the thickest. That night the pack killed a caribou on the edge of the lake, and feasted until nearly dawn. Kazan hung in the face of the wind. The smell of blood and of warm flesh tickled his nostrils, and his sharp ears could catch the cracking of bones. But the instinct was stronger than the temptation.. Not until broad day, when the pack had scattered far and wide over the plain, did he go boldly to the scene of the kill. He found nothing but an area of blood-reddened snow, covered with bones, entrails and torn bits of tough hide. But it was enough, and he rolled in it, and buried his nose in what was left, and remained all that day close to I of it. That night, when the moon and the stars came out again, he sat back with fear and hesitation no longer In him, and announced himself to his new com rades of the great plain. The pack hunted again that night, or else it, was a new pack that started miles to the south, and came up with a doe caribou to the big frozen lake. The night was almost as clear as day, and from the edge of the forest Kazan first saw the caribou run out on the lake a third of a mile away. The pack was about a dozen strong, and had already split into the fatal horseshoe forma tion, the two leaders running almost abreast of the kill, and slowly closing in. With a sharp yelp Kazan darted out into the moonlight. He was directly in the path of the fleeing doe, and bore down upon her with lightning speed. Two hundred yards away the doe saw him, and swerved to the right, and the leader on that side met her with open jaws. Kazan was in with the second leader, and leaped at the doe's soft throat. In a snarling mass the pack closed in from behind, and the doe went down, with Kazan half under her body, his fangs sunk deep in her jugu lar. She lay heavily on him, but he did not lose his hold. It was his first big kill. His blood ran like fire. He snarled between his clamped teeth. Not until the last quiver had left the body over him did he pull himself out from under her chest and forelegs. He had killed a rabbit that day and was not hungry. So he sat back in the snow and waited, while the ravenous pack tore at the dead doe. After a lit tle he came nearer, nosed in between two of them, and was nipped for his in trusion. As Kazan drew back, still hesitating to mix with his wild brothers, a big gray form leaped out of the pack and drove straight for his throat. He had just time to throw his shoulder to the attack, and for a moment the two rolled over and over in the snow. They were up before the excitement of sud den battle had drawn the pack from the feast. Slowly they circled about each other, their white fangs bare, their yellowish backs bristling like brushes. The fatal ring of wolves drew about the fighters. It was not new to Kazan. A dozen times he had sat in rings like thisr waiting for the final moment. More than once he had fought for his life within the circle. It was the sledge dog way of fighting. Unless man inter rupted with a club or a whip it always ended in death. Only one fighter could come out alive.- Sometimes both died. And there was no man here only that fatal cordon of waiting white-fanged demons, ready to leap upon and? tear to pieces the first of the fighters who was thrown upon his side or back. Ka zan was a stranger, but he did not fear those that hemmed him in. The one great law of the pack would compel them to be fair. He kept his eyes only on the big gray leader who had challenged him. Shoul der to shoulder they continued to circle. Where a few moments before there had been the snapping of jaws and the rending of flesh there was now silence. Soft-footed and soft-throated mongrel dogs from the south would have snarled and growled, but Kazan and the wolf were still, their ears laid forward Instead of back, their tails free and bushy. Suddenly the wolf struck in with the swiftness of lightning, and his jaws came together with the sharpness of steel striking steel. They missed by an inch. In that same instant Kazan darted in to the side, and like knives his teeth gashed the wolf's flank. They circled again, their eyes grow ing redder, their lips drawn back until they seemed to have disappeared. And then Kazan leaped for that death-grip at the throat and missed. It was only by an inch again, and the wolf came back, as he had done, and laid open Kazan's flank so that the blood ran down his leg and reddened the snow. The burn of that flank-wound told Kazan that his enemy was old in the game of fighting. He crouched low, his head straight out, and his throat close to the snow. It was a trick Kazan had learned in puppyhood to shield his throat, and wait. Twice the wolf circled about him, and Kazan pivoted slowly, his eyes half closed. A second time the wolf leaped and Kazan threw up his terrible jaws, sure of that fatal grip just in front of the forelegs. His teeth snapped on empty air. With the nlmbleness of a cat the wolf had gone completely over his back. The trick had failed, and with a rumble of the dog-snarl in his throat, Kazan reached the wolf in a single bound. They met breast to breast. Their fangs clashed and with the whole weight of his body, Kazan flung him self against the wolf's shoulders, cleared his jaws, and struck again for the throat hold. It was another miss by a hair's breadth and before he could recover, the wolfs teeth were buried in the back of his neck. How Kazan chooses a mate and learns the joys of bossing a wolf pack is described vividly in the next installment. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Gold in History. Gold was known from the earliest historic times, and is mentioned in the eleventh verse of the second chapter of Genesis. At first it was chiefly used for ornaments. The trade of the gold smith Is mentioned in the fourth verse of the seventeenth chapter of Judges, in connection with the overlaying of idols with gold leaf. n FARM LOAN ACT (By Frank R. Wilson, federal loan bu reau, Washington, D. C.) Farm lands have always been re garded as the safest security In the world. But loans made against farm lands have generally exacted a higher interest rate than loans on other good security. j There are several reasons for this. Such loans are not readily transfer able, i. e., marketable. Farm loans are usually desired for long periods. A loan for less than five years is usu ally of little value to the farmer. If the loan Is made for the purpose of buying land the farmer's chance to pay it off is to make the money out of the land. It is against reason to expect that land will pay for itself in five years. Well-managed commercial banks cannot make a business of lending money on farms and carrying the loans themselves. It is not good banking. It ties up their funds in permanent investments and if persisted in con tinually would ruin any bank. This fact limits the supply of local money for farm loans, and partially accounts for high interest rates on them. Provides Needed Agency. The farm lands of the United States constitute a great mass of valuable assets against which money ought to be borrowed at fair rates of interest. But it has been a chaotic mass of value.' No agency has ever undertak en to assemble this mass of assets into negotiable form so that it could be readily handled as a marketable se curity. Now the government steps in and provides this agency. It says to the farmer who wants to Use his land as security : "You join a national farm loan as sociation and contribute your mort gage to a great federal land bank pool of mortgages. We have provided the machinery for this purpose and adopt ed rules for its operation so that the interest of all will be safeguarded. When your mortgages are massed to gether, a federal land bank will take these mortgages and issue bonds against them; sell the bends to inves tors, and re-lend the money to farm ers. The pooled mortgages of the farmers of the United States will be security for every bond. The high character of this security means that people who have money to invest will jump at the chance to put their sav ings up against your security at a low rate of Interest. We will let you have this money at actual cost to us, plus not to exceed 1 per cent to cover the cost of operating this money-assembling and money-lending ma chinery." " Attractive to the Investor. Then Uncle Sam turns to the in vestor and says: "We have enabled the farmers of the United States to give us their massed mortgages. We are offering you bonds which are in reality first mortgages against the farms of all who join this pool. It is the best se curity in the world, because every dol lar a farmer borrows is represented by $2 worth of land plus the stock each farmer has purchased in his local association. To make these bonds even more attractive, so as to eventually give the farmer a lower interest rate, we have exempted them from all forms of taxation. Even Uncle Sam will not collect any tax from them, nor from the income upon them. No state or municipality may tax them. We have made these bonds in small denomina tions from $25 upward so their pur chase will be easy among people with small savings, and we will have the bonds printed and engraved by the government bureau 6$igravlng and printing to protect them against coun terfeiting, and the United States se cret service will watch over them." So the farm loan act, In addition to providing money for land purchase and farm development, provides a new form of security which ought to be come one of the most popular In exist ence, because it is based on the land values of the entire country. Mill Employee at Eighty-Nine. Lawrence, Mass., , boasts of an eighty-nine-year-old mill worker, the Boston m Globe states. His name is George Ainsworth. He has been a mill operative in one capacity or other for 79 years. At ten years old he entered one of the big mills in York shire, England, where he was born. He came to America when he was twenty-three, and has worked in dif ferent mills in New England as a first class weaver. For many years he was an overseer. At present Mr. Ains worth is employed in the Washington mill of the American Woolen com pany as a warp twister. Mr. Ainsworth's eighty-ninth birth day anniversary was celebrated by a full day's work, as usual, from seven o'clock in the morning to sir o'clock at night. Cause for Hilarity. "Jim Simpson was sitting at a table near me the other day with another man, who was telling the most tire some stories, and Jim nearly laughed himself into convulsions." "No wonder. The man was his rich uncle." His Idea. Bachelor What would you suggest for a distinctive costume for married men? Benedick (of 25 years' standing) Chain-mail. Puck. 1 z j! IV. From the Point of View of ' ;! the Investor. WOMAN SICK TWO YEARS Could Do No Work. Now Strong as a Man i Chicago. 111. 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It is seldom that more than one ounce is needed to com pletely clear the skin and gain a beautiful clear complexion. Be sure to ask for the double strength othine, as this is sold under guarantee of money back if It falls to remove freckles. Adv. A fish diet may not strengthen the brain, but a little fishing trip invigor ates the imagination. Makes HardWork Harder A bad back makes a day's work twice as hard. Backache usually comes from weak kidneys, and if headaches, dizziness or urinary dis orders are added, don't wait get help before the kidney disease takes a grip before dropsy, gravel or Bright's disease sets in. Doan's Kidney Pills have brought new life and new strength to thousands of working men and women. Used and recommended the world over. A North Carolina Case N. A. Spence, Sr., 423 - o. vyiimingign ci.. xva- wy suffered for years from kidney trouble, I had backaches and pains through my loins and the kidney secretions were unnatural and fill ed with sediment. 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