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KAZAN ONCE MORE PERFORMS A GREAT SERVICE AND
WINS JOAN'S LIFE-LONG AFFECTION.
Synopsis. Kazan, a vicious Alaskan sledge dog, one-quarter wolf,
saves the life of Thorpe, his master, and is taken, along when the.
master goes to civilization to meet his bride and return with her to the
frozen country. Even Thorpe is afraid to touch Kazan, who has been
made savage by brutality, but Isobel, the dog's new mistress, wins
his affection instantly. On the way northward, McCready, a dog team
driver, joins the party and at night beats the master to insensibility
and attacks Isobel. Kazan kills McCready, flees to the woods, joins
a wolf pack, whips the leader, takes a mate, ' Gray Wolf , and soon af
terward : drives off the pack which had attacked Pierre, a sick man,
his daughter, Joan, and her baby. Kazan submits to adoption through
kindness. Pierre is near death, , -. v . .
CHAPTER VIM Continued.
Kazan's alert eyes saw Pierre start
suddenly. He rose, from his seat on
the sledge and went to the tent. " He
drew back the flap and thrust in his
head and shoulders.
"Asleep, Joan?" he asked.
"Almost, father. Won't you 'please
come soon?"
"After I smoke," he said. "Are you
comfortable?"
"Yes. I'm so tired and sleepy "
Pierre laughed softly. In the dark
ness he was gripping at his throat.
"We're almost home, Joan. That is
otir river out there the Little Beaver.
If I should run away and leave you to
night you could follow it right to our
cabin. It's only forty miles. Do you
hear?"
"Yes I know"
Torty: miles straight down the
riyejv You couldn't lose yourself, Joan.
Only you'd have to be careful of air
holes' in the ice."
otft you come to bed, father?
You're tired-r-and almost sick."
fTes-rfter I smoke," he. repeated.
.'JoTiiisill.rott keep reminding me to
morrow1 of ther airholes? I-might for
get " XoaVcan always i tell , thenv for
the" ibibwandYthea are"
whiter tAf ;ot$ laestpf .thknd
likea spng Will 70Vt reinembeiv-
" j;v ' Keire"Idr6ied. the' t
tent-flap and re-.
turned Jt61 theflre. '. He staggered as
hele4. :' a ' .
"Good nighty boy " he said. "Guess
rd better go in with the kids. Two
days more forty miles two days "
Kazan watched him as he entered
the tent. ' He laid his weight against
the end of his chain until tha collar
shut off his wind. His legs and back
twitched. In that tent where Radisson
had gone were Joan and the baby. He
knewtthat Pierre would not hurt them,
but he knew, also, that with Pierre
Radisson something terrible and im
pending was hovering very near to
them- He wanted the man outside
by the fire where he could lie still,
and watch him.
In the tent there was silence. Near
er to him than before came Gray
Wolf's cry. Each night she was call
ing earlier, and coming closer to the
camp. He wanted her very near to
him tonight, but he did not even whine
in response. He dared not break that
strange silence in the tent. He lay
still for a long time, tired and lame
from the day's journey, but sleepless.
The fire burned lower ; the wind in the
tree tops died away; and the thick,
gray clouds rolled like a massive cur
tain from under the skies.'-. The stars
began to glow white and metallic, and
from far in the north came faintly a
crisping, moaning sound, like steel
sleigh runners running over frosty
snow the mysterious monotone of the
northern lights. . After that it grew
steadily and swiftly colder.
Tonight Gray Wolf did not compass
herself by the direction of the wind.
She followed like a sneaking shadow
over the trail Pierre Radisson had
made, and when Kazan heard her
again, long after midnight, he lay with
his head erect, and his body rigid, save
for a curious twitching of his muscles
There was a new note in Gray Wolf's
voice, a wailing note in which there
was more than the mate-call. It was
The Message. And at the sound of it
Kazan rose from out of his silence
and his fear, and with his head turned
straight up to the sky he howled as
the wild dogs of the North howl be
fore the tepees of masters who are
newly dead.
Pierre Radisson was dead.
CHAPTER IX.
J- Out of the Blizzard.
' It was dawn when the baby snuggled
close to Joan's warm breast and
awakened her with its cry of hunger,
y rSfee opened her eyes, brushed back the
thick hair from her face, and could see
where the, shadowy orm of her father
- was lying at the other side of the tent.
He was '.very quiet, ana she was
;; pleased that he , was still sleeping. She
' knew that: the day before he had be
v&7 Taear -to exhanstionv1 and so for
; half; an hour longer .she' lay quiet,
coping stfffly the baby Joan.v Then
she' arose cautiously. tucked : the baby
: in the.warni blankets and furs, put on
her heavier garments, and went out
side. .
By this time it was broad day, and
she breathed a sigh of relief when she
saw that the storm had passed. It was
bitterly cold. It seemed to her that
she had never known it to be so cold
in all her life. The fire was com
pletely out. Kazan was huddled in a
round ball, his nose tucked under his
body. He raised his head, shivering,
as Joan came out. With her heavily
moccasined foot Joan scattered the
ashes and charred sticks where the Are'
had been. There was not a spark left.
In returning to the tent she stopped
for a moment beside Kazan, and pat
ted his shaggy head.
"Poor Wolf!" she said. "I wish I
had given you one of the bearskins 1"
She threw back the tent-flap and
entered. For the first time she saw
her father's face in the light and out
side, Kazan heard the terrible moan
ing cry that broke from her lips. No
one could have looked at Pierre Radis
son's face once and not have under
stood. After that one agonizing cry Joan
flung herself upon her father's breast,
sobbing so softly that even Kazan's
sharp ears heard so sound. She re
mained there in her grief until every
vital energy of womanhood and moth
erhood in her 'girlish body was roused
to action by the waiving cry of baby
Joan.Thejo! she sprang tojherfet
and ran out through the tent opening.
Kazan tugged at the end of his chain
to meet her, but she saw nothing of
him now. The terror of the wilderness
is greater than that of death, and in
an instant it had fallen upon Joan. It
was not because of fear for herself. It
was the baby. The wailing cries from
the tent pierced her like knife-thrusts.
And then, all at once, there came to
her what old Pierre had said the night
before his words about the river, the
airholes, the home forty miles away.
"You couldn't lose yourself, Joan." He
had guessed what might happen.
She bundled the baby deep in the
furs and returned to the fir bed. Her
one thought now was that they must
have fire. She made a little pile of
birch bark, covered it with half -burned
bits of wood, and went into the tent
for the matches. Pierre Radisson car
ried them in a waterproof box in a
pocket of his bearskin coat. She
sobbed as she kneeled beside him
again, and obtained the box. As the
fire flared up she added other bits of
wood, - and then some of the larger
pieces, that Pierre had dragged into
canlp. The fire gave her courage.
Forty miles and the river led to their
home! .She must make that, with the
baby and Wolf. For the first time
she turned to him, and spoke his name
as she put her hand on his head. After
that she gave him a chunk of meat
which she thawed .out over the fire,
and melted snow for tea. She was
not hungry, but .she recalled how her
father had made her eat four or five
times a day, so she forced herself, to
make a breakfast of a biscuit, a shred
of meat and as much hot tea as she
could drink.
The terrible hour she dreaded fol
lowed that. She wrapped blankets
closely about her father's body, and
tied them with babiche cord. After
that she piled all the furs and blan
kets that remained on the- sledge close
to the fire, and snuggled baby Joan
deep down in them. Pulling down the
tent was a task. The ropes were stiff
and frozen, and when she had finished
one of her hands was bleeding. She
piled the tent on the sledge, and then,
half covering her face, turned and
looked back.
Pierre Radisson lay on his balsam
bed, with nothing over him now but
the gray sky and the spruce-tops. Ka
zan stood stiff-legged and sniffed the
air. His spine bristled when Joan
went back slowly and kneeled beside
the blanket-wrapped object. When she
returned to . him her face was white
and tense, and now there was a strange
and terrible look in her 'eyes as she
stared out across the. barren. She
put him in the traces, and fastened
about her slender waist the strap that
Pierre had used. Thus they struck
out for the river, floundering knee-deep
in the freshly fallen and drifted snow.
Halfway Joan stumbled in a. drift and
fell, her loose hair flying in a shimmer
ing veil over the snow.' With a mighty
pull Kazan was at her side, : and his
colds muzzle: touched her: face as she
drev herself to her feet. For a mo
ment Joan took his shaggy head be
tween her two hands.
"Wolf!" she moaned. "Oh, Wolf!"
She went on, her breath coming
pahtingly now, even from her brief ex
ertion. The snow was not so deep on
the ice of the river. But a wind was
rising. It came from the north and
east, straight in her face, and Joan
bowed her head as she pulled with Ka
zan. Half a mile down the river she
stopped, and no longer could she re
press tne nopeiessness mat rose to
her lips in a sobbing, choking cry.
Shorty miles! She clutched her handjs
at her breast, and stood breathing like
one who had been beaten, her back to
the wind. The baby was quiet. Joan
went back and peered down under the
furs, and what she saw there spurred
her on again almost fiercely. Twice
she stumbled to her knees in! the drifts
during the next quarter of a mile.
After that there was a stretch of
wind-swept ice, and Kazan pulled the
sledge alone. Joan walked at his side.
There was a pain in her chest. A thou
sand needles seemed pricking her face,
and suddenly she remembered the ther
mometer. She exposed it for a time
on the top of the tent. When she looked
at it a few minutes later it was 30 de
grees below zero. Forty miles! And
her father had told her that she could
make it and could not lose herself!
But she did not know that even her
father would have been afraid to face
the north that day, with the tempera
ture at 30 below, and a moaning wind
bringing the first warning of a bliz
zard. The timber was far behind ker now.
Ahead there was nothing but the piti
less barren, and the timber beyond
that was hidden by the gray gloom of
the day. If there had been trees,
Joan's heart would not have choked so
with terror. But there was nothing
nothing but that gray, ghostly gloom,
with the rim of the sky touching the
earth a mile away.
The snow grew heavy under her feet
again. Always she was watching for
those treacherous, frost-coated traps
in the ice her father had spoken of.
But she found now that all the ice and
snow looked alike to her, and that
there was a growing pain back of her
eyes. It was the intense cold.
The river widened into a small lake,
and here the wind struck her in the
face with such force that her weight
was taken from the strap, and Kazan
dragged the sledge alone. A few
inches of snow impeded her as much
He Was Very Quiet.
as a foot had done before. Little by
little she dropped back. Kazan
forged to her side, every ounce of his
magnificent strength in the traces. By
the time they were on the river chan
nel again Joan was at the back of the
sledge, following in the trail made by
Kazan. She was powerless to help
him. She felt more and more the lead
en weight of her legs. There was but
one hope and that was the forest. If
they did not reach it soon, within half
an hour, she would be able to go no
farther. Over and over again she
moaned a prayer for her baby as she
struggled on. Sjie fell in the snow
drifts. Kazan and the sledge became
only a dark blotch to her. And then,
all at once, she saw that they were
leaving her. They were not more than
twenty feet ahead of her but the
blotch seemed to be a vast distance
away. Every bit of life and strength
in her body was now bent upon reach
ing the sledge and baby Joan!
It seemed an interminable time be
fore she gained. With the sledge only
six feet ahead of her, she struggled
for what seemed to her to be an hour
before she could reach out and touch
it. With a moan she flung herself for
ward, and fell upon it. She no longer
heard the wailing of the storm. She
no longer felt discomfort. With her
face in the furs under which baby Joan
was buried, there came to her with
swiftness and joy a vision of warmth
and home. And then the vision faded
away, and was followed by deep night.
What happens to Joan and her
baby after she falls unconscious
on the sledge is told graphically
in the next installment.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Dried Buttermilk on the Market.
Commercialized dried buttermilk is
a new feed. The first carload of it
reached Chicago for a company which
controls the output of 20,000,000
pounds annually. It is to be used for
special mixing feed for fattening poul
try and hogs. Chicago Herald.
Sill
ay:
(By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of
the Sunday School Course of the Moody
Bible Institute.)
(Copyright, 1917, Western Newspaper Union.)
LESSON FOR MAY 20
THE IMPORTANCE OF SELF-CONTROL
TEMPERANCE LESSON.
LESSON TEXT Isa. 28:1-13.
GOLDEN TEXT Every man that striv
eth for the mastery is temperate in all
things. I Cor. 9:25.
Wine- in the Scriptures is spoken of
under four aspects. First, social; that
as illustrated by its use at the mar
riage in Cana. We must not, however,
confuse this wine with the spirituous,
strong drink of this present day. Sec
ond, medicinal (Prov. 31 :6-7 ; I Tim.
5:23). These passages do not com
mand us to use it as such, and God
has very graciously revealed to us
in modern medical research the futil
ity of the use of alcohol in the matter
of medicine as a remedy. Third, sacri
ficial wine (Matt. 26 :27-29 ; Luke 22 :17
20), and, fourth wine is spoken about
as productive of the woes of men (See
Amos 6:1; rieb. 2:15; Prov. 23:20).
It is also mentioned by way of contrast
(See Eph.' 5:18).
The Scriptures speak of drunkards
in four different ways: (1) They are ;
to be stoned (Deut. 21 :20) ; (2) Drunk- j
ards lead to poverty (Prov. 23:21); j
(3) Drunkards are to be separated
from other men (I Cor. 5:11); (4) !
they are to be finally separated from
God (I Cor. 6:9).
Abstinence from strong drink is en- j
joined in the Scriptures under three
heads: (1) the priest and Nazarite j
(Num. 6:3; Luke 1:15) ; (2) the ruler
(Prov. 31 :4) ; (3) those who are to
worship Jehovah (Lev. 10:3).
This particular lesson is taken from
a portion of Isaiah's prophecy where
he is anticipating what is about to hap
pen to Samaria, and uttering his warn
ings unto Judah.
I. The Steps of Intemperance. First,
Disgrace and Dishonor (v. 1). The
city of Samaria is compared to a
chaplet of flowers on a drunkard
brow, which shall be trodden under
foot because of his inebriety. Drunk
enness seemed to have been so wide
spread as to become a national sin.
Second, Disease and Degeiracy (v. 2):'
The pride of beauty spoken :pf in verse.'
one is to "fall to' the earth." This
glorious beauty was after all only a
JfArtlner flXwer" (J Ppt. 1 -24. The
is aescriDea.in a tnree-ioia way: vx;
As a "tempest of hail" ; (2) as a "de
stroying storm ;" (3) as a "tempest
of migtv waters overflowing." The
though' contained is that of wide
spread and overwhelming destruction.
Back of tnis work of devastation and
destmctiou and desolation was the
wratn of God against sin (Ch. 2:4-9).
All earthly pride shall be trodden un
der foot. Samaria, "a fading flower,"
was to bb greedily eaten up by the on
coming enemy.
II. Those Reached by Intemperance.
Strong drink causes men to err in their
conduct, in their moral insight, in their
I
judgments. It reaches the beautiful
(v. 1) ; it reaches the learned (v. 7) ;
it reaches those in authority; in fact
all classes. It leads men to the depths
of degradation and to the loss of their
wills (v. 8) ; it makes men to become
beasts, wallowing in their own vomit.
Not only Samaria, but "these also"
(w. 7 and 8), that Is people of Jeru
salem have erred through wine and
strong drink. Even the priests and
the prophets had and do so now (See
Ch. 56:10-V2; Micah 2:11). The priests
were especially inexcusable because of
the plain directness of God's word
(Lev. 10:0-10; Ezekiel 44:21). The
result of their intemperance was that
they utterly failed in their official
acts. They reeled in vision and stum
bled in Judgment. The use of wine
and strong drink made their social
gatherings filthy and disgusting. Tem
perance is the habit of abstaining from
everything that destroys. It is the con
trol and right use of God's good gifts
for service. Intemperance is lack of
control or the wrong use of God's
gifts in self -indulgence.
III. Th Lesson in Contrast. Jerut
salem vs. Samaria. Samaria's crown
of pride was not the glory of God.
Its beauty was a fading flower (v.. 4),
his wisdom contemned through the
ignorance of Samaria (vv. 6, 7, 12),.
his strength versus their weakness and
wickedness (vv. 6, 13). God teaches
y contrast as well as by direct
precept. Verses nine and ten may be
taken as a mocking answer of the peo
ple to God's prophet. Isaiah intimates
that the time to begin our instruction
is in childhood (v. 9), that precept
must be upon precept, and line upon
line, here a little and there a little.
There never is a time when we can Itst
up in this struggle against the mighty
evil of intemperance.
Take as a reply (v. 9) this would
seem to indicate that God took them to
be babies just weaned. If the prophet
himself, is the speaker, then Jehovah
Is represented as teaching knowledge
to babes and not to the self-sufftcienL
It is these whom he "makes to under
stand his message" (K. V. ), and the
method of his teaching is precept upon
precept. If we will not hear God's
loving and patient call to repentance;
he will speak to us through cruel ene
mies. If we will not teach our chil
dren, if we will hot keep everlastingly
agitating this question, he will use oth
er means (v. 11).
Lesson
She Is Nemesis of Wildcats.
f Miss Catherine Modine of northern
Curry county, credited with being the
champion bobcat huntress of the state,
has filed application for one of Uncle
Sam's homesteads in the timber re
serve. Miss Nodine and her shePn
dog have accounted for more than 100
wildcats and lynxes, says a Brandon
dispatch in the Portland Oregonian.
With her mother, she successfully
conducts a stock and dairy ranch near
Denmark, doing their own plowing,
fencing and land clearing. There is not
a man on the place and there is not a
better-developed ranch for its size in
that neighborhood.
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have begun to disappear, while the
ones have vanished entirely.
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Adv. ' . . "
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"Father, . said the sweet young
thing, "allow me, to present my friend,
Mr. Numtoscull."
"Don't present him to me," snapped
father, glaring at his victim. "I
wouldn't have him as a gift."
If your eyes smart or feel scalded.' Ro
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