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THE CAROLINA WATCHMAN, SALISBURY, N. C. - m t t f t,,i tnfi if.il,,TiiTiitiitiifiifnfiiAAitiAA TtTttTTTtTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTv t The Story of a Dog That Turned Wolf By James Oliver Curwood Copyright Bobba-Merrill Co. CHAPTER XVI! I. Continued. 18 Silently, swiftly the wolf now in every movement, Kazan came to his feet. He forgot the chain .that held Mm. Ten feet away stood the enemy be hated above all others he had ever known. Every ounce of strength in his splendid body gathered itself for the spring. And then he leaped. This time the chain did not pull him back, almost neckbroken. Age and the ele ments had weakened the leather col lar he had worn since the days of his slavery in the traces, and it gave way with a snap. Sandy turned, and in a second leap Kazan's fangs sank into the flesh of his arm With a startled cry the man fell, find as they rolled over on the ground the big Dane's deep voice rolled out in thunderous alarm as he tugged at his leash. In the fall Kazan's hold was broken. In an instant he was on his fejt. ready for another attack. And then the change came. He was free. The collar was gone, from his neck. The forest, the stars, the whispering wind were all about him. Here-were men, and 'off there was Gray Wolf! His ears dropped, and he turned swift ly, and slipped like a shadow back into the glorious freedom of his world. x hundred yards away something stopped him for an instant. It was not the big Dane's voice, but the sharp crack crack crack, of the little pro fessor's automatic. And above that ound there rose the voice of -Sandy McTrigger in a weird and terrible cry. CHAPTER XIX. An Empty World. "Mile 'after mile Kazan went on. For a time he. was oppressed by the shiv ering note of death that had come to him in Sandy McTrigger's cry, and he slipped through the banskians like a shadow, his ears flattened, his tail trailing, his hindquarters betraying that curious slinking quality of the ; volf and dog stealing away from dan ger. Then he came out upon a plain, and the stillness, the billion stars in the clear vault of the sky, and the keen air that carried with it a breath of the Arctic barrens made him alert and questioning. He faced the direc tion of the wind. Somewhere off there, far to the south and west, was Gray Wolf.' For the first time in many weeks lie sat back on his haunches and gave the deep and vibrant call that echoed weirdly for miles about him. Back in the banskians the big Dane heard it, and whined. From over the still body of Sandy McTrigger the little profes sor looked up with a white tense face, and listened for a second cry. But instinct told Kazan that to that first call there would be no answer, and now he struck out swiftly, galloping mile after mile, as a dog follows the trail of its master home. He did not turn back to the lake, nor was his direction toward Red Gold City. As straight as he might have followed a road blazed by the hand of man he cut across the forty miles of plain and swamp and forest and rocky ridge that lay between him and the McFar lane. All that night he did not call again for Gray Wolf. With him rea soning was a process brought about by habit by precedent and as Gray Wolf had waited for him many times before he knew that she would be waiting for him now near the sand bar. By dawn he had reached the river, within three miles of the sand-bar. Scarcely was the sun up when he stood on the white strip of sand where he and Gray Wolf had come down to drink. Expectantly and confidently he looked about him for Gray Wolf, whin ing softly, and wagging his tail. He began to search for her scent, but rains had washed even her footprints from the clean sand. All that day he searched for her along the river and -out on the plain. He went to where they had killed their last rabbit. He sniffed at the bushes where the poison Ijaits had hung. Again and again he sat back on his haunches and sent out his mating cry to her. And slow ly, as he did these things, nature was working in him that miracle of the wild which the Crees have named the "spirit call." As it had worked in Gray Wolf, so now it stirred the blood -of Kazan. With the going of the sun, and the sweeping about him of shadowy night, he turned more and more to the south and east. His whole world was made 1 up of the trails over which he Bad Sronted. Beyond those places he did mot know that there was such a thing .as existence. And in that world, small in his understanding of things, was Gray Wolf. He could not miss her. "That World, in his comprehension of It, ran from the McFarlane in a nar row trail through the forests and over the plains to the little valley. If Gray Wolf was not here she was. there, aria" tirelessly he resumed his quest of tier. INot until the stars were fading out of the sky again, and gray day was giving place to night, did exhaustion and hunger stop him. He killed a reb- KAZAN bit, and for hours after he had feasted he lay close to his kill, and. slept. Theit he went on. The fourth night he came to the little valley between the two ridges, and under the stars, more brilliant now in the chill clearness of the early autumn nights, he followed the creek down into their old swamp home. It was broad day when he reached what had once been his home and Gray Wolf's, and for many minutes Kazan stood silent and motionless sniffing the air. Until now his spirit had remained unbroken. Footsore, with thinned sides and gaunt head, he circled slowly through the swamp. All that day he searched. And his crest lay flat now, and tbvre was a hunted look ill the droop of his shoulders and in the shift ing look of his eyes. Gray Wolf was gone. Slowly nature was impinging that fact upon him. She had passed out of his world and out of his life, and he was filled with a loneliness and a grief so great that the forest seemed strange, anil the stillness of the wild a thing that now oppressed and fright ened him. Once more the dog in him was mastering the wolf. With Gray Wolf he had possessed the world of freedom. Without her, that world was so big and strange and empty that it appalled him. Late in the afternoon he came upon a little pile of crushed clam shells on the shore of the stream. He sniffed at them turned away went back, and sniffed again. But the scent she had left behind was not strong enough to tell Kazan, and for a second time he turned away. That night he slunk under a log, and cried himself to sleep. Deep in the night he grieved in his uneasy slumber, like a child. And day after day, and night after night, Kazan remained a slinking creature of the big swamp, mourning for the one creature that had brought him out of chaos into light, who had filled his world for him. and who, in going from him, had taken from this 'world even ! the things that Gray Wolf had lost in her blindness. CHAPTER XX. The Call of Sun Rock. In the golden glow of the autumn sun there came up the stream over looked by the Sun Rock one day a man, a woman and a child in a canoe. Civilization had done for lovely Joan what it "had done for many another A Strange Fire Leaped Through His Body. wild flower transplanted from the depths' of the wilderness. Her cheeks were thin. Her blue eyes had lost their luster. She coughed, and when she coughed the man looked at her with love and fear in his eyes. But now, slowly, the man had begun to see the transformation, and on the day their canoe pointed up the stream and into the wonderful valley that had been their home before the call of the distant city came to them, he noted the flush gathering once more in her cheeks, the fuller redness of her lips, and the gathering glow of happiness and content in her eyes. He laughed softly as he saw these things, and he blessed the forests. In the canoe she had leaned back, with her head al most against his shoulder, and he stopped paddling to draw her to him, and run his fingers through the soft golden masses of her hair. "You are happy again, Joan," he laughed joyously. "The doctors were right. You are a part of the forests." "Yes, I am happy," she whispered, and suddenly there came a little thrill into her voice, and she pointed to a white finger of sand running out into the stream. "Do you remember years and years ago, it seems that Kazan left us here? She was on the sand over there, calling to him. Do you remember?" There was a little trem ble about her mouth, and she added, "I wonder where they have gone." The cabin was as they had left it. Only the crimson bakneesh had grown up about it, and shrubs and tall grass had sprung up near its walls. Once more it took on life, and day by day the color came deeper into Joan's cheeks, and her voice was filled with its old wild sweetness of song. Joan's husband cleared the trails over his old trap-lines, and Joan and the little Joan transformed the cabin into home. One night the man returned to the cabin late, and when he came in there was a I glow of excitement in loan's blue eyes, and a tremble in her voice when she greeted him. "Did you hear it?" she asked. "Did you hear the call?" He nodded, stroking her soft hair. "I was a mile back in the creek swamp," he said. "I heard it!" Joan's hands clutched hfs arms. "It wasn't Kazan," she said. MI would recognize bis voice. But it seemed to me it was like the other the call that came that morning from the sand-bar, his mate?" The man was thinking. Joan's fin gers tightened, little quickly. She wras breathing a "Will you promise me this?" she asked, "Will you promise me that you will never hunt or trap for wolves?" "I had thought of that," he replied. "I thought of it after I heard the call. Yes, I will promise." Joan's arms stole up about his neck. "We loved Kazan," she whispered. "And you might kill him or her." Suddenly she stopped. Both listened. The door was a little ajar, and to them there came again the wailing mate-call of the wolf. Joan ran to the door. Her husband followed. Togeth er they stood silent, and with tense breath Joan pointed over the starlit plain. "Listen! Listen!" she commanded. "It's her cry, and it came from the Sun Rock !" She ran out into the night, forget ting that the man was close behind her now, forgetting that little Joan was alone in her bed. And to them, from miles and miles across the plain, there came a wailing cry in answer a cry that seemed a part of the wind, and that thrilled Joan until her breath broke in a strange sob. Farther out on the plain she went and then stopped, with the golden glow of the autumn moon and: the stars shimmering in her hair and eyes. It was many minutes before the cry came again, and then it was so near that Joan put her hands to her mouth, and her cry rang out over the plain as in the days of old. "Kazan! Kazan! Kazan!" At the top of the Sun Rock, Gray Wolf gaunt and thinned by starva-' tion hoard the woman's cry. and the call that was in her throat died away . in a whine. And to the north i swiftly moving shadow stopped for a moment, and stood like a thing of rock under . the starlight. It was Kazan. A strange fire leaped through his body. Every '. fiber of his brute understanding was afire with, the knowledge that here was home. It was here, Jong ago, that he had lived, and loved", and fought and all at once the dreams that had grown faded and indistinct in his memory , came back to him as real living things. For, coming to hifci faintly over the plain, he heard Joan's voice! In the starlight Joan stood, tense and white, when from out of the pale mists of the moon-glow he came to her, cringing on his belly, panting and i wind-run, and with a strange whining j note in his throat. And as Joan went to him, her arms reaching out, her lips ; sobbing his name over and over again, j the man stood and looked down upon "i them with the wonder of a new and . groflter understanding in his face. He had no fear of the wolf-dog now. And , as Joan's arms hugged Kazan's great '. shaggy head up to her ho heard the whining gasping joy of the beast and ! the sobbing whispering voice of tin; girl, and with tensely gripped hands he faced the Sun Rock. "Good heavens !" he breathed "I be- : lieve it's so " As if in response to the thought in his mind, there came once more across the plain Gray Wolf's mate-seeking cry of grief and of loneliness. Swiftly , as though struck by a lash Kazan was -on his feet oblivious of Joan's touch, j of her voice, of the presence of the man. In another instant he was gone. and Joan flung herself against her husband's breast, and almost fiercely took his face between her two hand?. - "Now do you believe?" she cried pantingly. "Now do you believe in the God of my world the God I have lived with, the God that gives souls to the wild things, the God that that has brought us all together once more home !" His arms closed gently about her. . "I believe, my Joan," he whispered. "And you understand now what it means, 'Thou shalt not kill?'" "Except that it brings us life yes, I understand," he replied. Her warm, soft hands stroked his face. Her blue eyes, filled with the glory of the stars, looked up 'into his. "Kazan and she you and I and the baby! Are you sorry that we came back?" she asked. So close he drew her against his breast that she did not hear the words he whispered in the soft warmth of her hair. And after that, for many hours, they sat in the starlight in front of the cabin door. But they did not hear again that lonely cry from the Sun Rock. Joan and her husband ? understood. "He'll visit us again tomorrow," the man said at last. "Come, Joan, let us I, go to bed." j Together they entered the cabin f And that night, side by side, Kazan and Gray Wolf hunted again in the j moonlit plain. THE END. A New Creation. Margaret, aged eleven, had just re-j turned from her visit to the zoo. j "Well," said her mother, smiling.) "did you see the elephants -and the giraffe and the kangaroos?" j Margaret looked thoughtful. M "We saw the elephant and the giraffe! and the dang-ger-roos." , "What?" said Mrs. Blank. "The dang-ger-roos. It said 'these animals are d-a-n-g-e-r-o-u-s.' " Wine for French Fighters. In the year T915 the French gov ernment distribute 18,000,000 bottles of wine among th? nrmies, each man: and officer receiving half a liter a day. Last year there was a considerable increase, the total amount requisi tioned reaching 700,000,000 bottles. VERS ARE PAYIKG FOR LIBERTY BONDS MORE THAN SIXTY PER CENT OF ISSUE HAS ALREADY BEEN PAID. ONLY 20 PER CENT 00E NOW Out of the Proceeds The overnment i Has Redeemed Certificate of Indebt I edness Financial Activities Break Records. i Washington. More than sixty per cent, of the $2,000,000,030 liberty loan already has been paid into the treas ury. The treasury statement, the first issued in twenty-four days, shows pay ments June 30 on the liberty loan ac- ;:0otmt ot ?i, 385,0 J4,45b. ' , nly twenty per cent, of the loan :?r $400,000,000 was due June 30, the v;two - Payments of two and eighteen per -Per cent respectively, being due June -15 and June 28.. The amount thus vol untarily paid into the treasury by sub scribers ahead of time totalled but $15,000,000 under a round' billion dol lars. , Out of the proceeds and other reve nues the government has redeemed treasury certificates of indebtedness, ssued in anticipation of the loan, amount to $620,000,000 June 30. The "balance was deposited in feJiral re .se,rve and national and state banks ';Jnd trust companies throughout the McAdoo's plan for distributing the de- j posits among as many institutions as j possible. A total of 8500.062.218 was I deposited in banks other than federal reserve banks June 30. The heavy payments on liberty loan account ran up the government balance of cash on hand June 30 to the record figure of $1,064,086,250. This was after the treasury department had re deemed certificates of indebtedness amounting to $626,000,000. The last day of the fiscal year also ranked high in ordinary revenue receipts, the total being more than $20,000,000. r Hundreds of thousands who bought sprcailed baby bonds, those of $50 to $100 denomination, availed themselves of the privilege of paying in full at once. GOVERNMENT WORKING ON INSURANCE PLANS Washington.' The federal govern ment's plan for insuring officers and men of the army, navy and marine corps against death and injury while in service, broadened into a complex program which would provide gov ernment allowances for families of soldiers and sailors, and the rehabili tation and training of injured men tof fit-them for making a livelihood after the war. ' The- program was discussed at con ferences among officials of the war, naS-Ty treasury, commerce and labor departments, the labor committee of I the'- council of national defense and th presidents and other high of fiders of leading insurance compa nies of the United States. ; Issuance of insurance policies from ; $r,000 to $10,000 on officers and men at ordinary peace time rates, the gov ernment paying the extra cost, indem nities for total or partial disability, and administration of the entire -'seme by the government's war risk insurance bureau, which is at pres ent insuring officers and crews of American merchant vessels, are among the outstanding features of (he proposed program. Three Young Ladies Drowned. a. "f Mobile, Ala. Misses Gussie Riley, ' tJoVa Nelson and Ethl W'oodman j 1 wre drowned while bathing in a ; . iVer near Moss Point. Miss., ac- J ' donling to advices received here. All j ' jvlre members of prominent families In? that section. The bodies were re- j i crtvered. :4uther Burbank is Seriously III. f -;,'santa Rosa, Cal. Luther Burbank, !--nqjted horticulturist, is seriously ill j : his home here from overwork and j LaScold. He is 68 years old. j SUBMARINE IS SUNK if BY AMERICAN GUNNERS 4 HI Paris. An American steamer re- fclntly sank a large German subma- Ir&ie according to a dispatch to the flumps from Havre. i jlwhile on a voyage from the United sS&ates the steamer was attack?d by fjf submarine, and replying to its fire, ifnt thirty-five srells at the underwa- iflr boat, which assumed a perpendic ' jjjar position and disappeared beneath ffie water. Merman raider is r. m. a t a. a r A V S '!3S if- An Atlantic Port. A British steam which arrived here from Calcutta liorught word of German attempts to Hop trade between the far east and finglish and American ports. Ths s officers said the waters oft pouth Africa had been strewn with seines recently and that two steamers, fie of 5.000 tons and another of 3,200 tlnrs, which' had net been reported Iflnce they left Capetown, 'were be .''fW.r.d to have been lost. FOOD CONTROL BILL PASSED BY SENATE ADMINISTRATION MEASURE WILL BE RE-WRITTEN THIS WEEK. TO WILSON IN TEN DAYS Bill Gives President Broad Authority . Over Control of Foods, Feeds, Fuels, eKrosene and Gasoline. Washington. The administration food control bill, virtually written af ter five weeks' bitter contest, was passed by the Senate, eighty-one to six. Conferees from House and Sen ate have begun work and leaders hope the measure may be in the President's hands in ten days. As revamped, the bill gives the President broad authority over foods, feeds and fuels, the latter, including kerosene and gasoline, provides ad ministration by a food board of three members instead of an individual; au thorizes federal fixing of coal prices, requisitioning and operation of mines, and authorizes a minimum guaranteed price of not less than $2 per bushel j for wheat at primary markets. The Senate prohibition sections, prohibit- j ing manufacture of distilled beverages 1 during the war and directing the Pres- j ident to buy all distilled spirits in j bond, was substituted for the House ! "bone dry" provision and will be one 1 subject of difficulty in conference. Senators voting against the bill were: France, Maryland; Hardwick, Georgia; Penrose, Pennsylvania; j Reed, Missouri; Sherman, Illinois and i Sutherland, West Virginia. I Many Amendments. I I Scores of amendments were dis- j posed of, but the principal features j were the lincorporatibn of the ; amendment autnorizing the minimum wheat price, and another by Senator Pomerene's greatly broadening the government's power to bjandle the coal situation. The government's guaran tee for wheat wuuld be payable at all principal interior primary markets un til July 1. 1919. The Senate rejected, 46 to 35. an amendment by Senator Norris to have the food board instead of Congress fix the minimum price. The Pomerene coal amendment, in corporated by the overwhelming vote of 72 to 12, directs the President through the federal trade commis sion, or other agency, to fix coal prices, wholesale and retail, regulate the entire industry and, if necessary, j take over and operate coal mines and ; fix prices of labor. ; On a final vote, the Senate refused j 60 to 23, 'to place the bill's adminis tration in the hands of an individual. ; Senators understood the administra j tion would endeavor to have the con- j ferees substitute the original House , provision for a single administrator. ; Appropriation in the House bill of j $150,000,000 was left unchanged by j the Senate, which added an appropria tion of $10,000,000 for federal pur- j chase and sale of soda nitrates for fertilizer. Another important Senate addition to the bill provides for a joint congressional committee to su pervise war expenditures. It was pro posed by Senator Owen. To Prevent Hoardjng. The Senate also added provisions against hoarding of foodstuffs and for regulation of grain exchanges, author izinz the President to close them if necessary to ' stop speculation in fu tures. The bill limits government control virtually to 'he original subjects of the House measure, foods, feeds and fuels. In lieu of the House bill's broad provisions for licensing food dealers. The Senate bill limits federal licensing to the following agencies and these only which have products in interetate cold storage and packing houses, farm implement factories, coal producers and dealers and wholesalers of des ignated necessities. The House bill's provisions for fed eral requisitioning of necessaries is limited to the Senate redraft to food, feeds and fuels and other supplies for military purposes only. Govern ment purchase and sale of foodstuffs, to maintain reasonable prices, also is limited by the Senate bill to fuel, wheat, flour, meal, beans and pota toes. The House provision for authority to requisition factories generally was curtailed by the Senate to factories, packing houses, mines and other plants needed for military or other public use connected with the common defense. Neither House or Senate draft pre sents the original administration pro posals for government control of clothing and maximum price fixing. premier kerensky hastens to front London Premier Kerensky has started for the front at the instance of the Central Committee of Soldiers' end Workmen's delegates, according to a Renter dispatch from Petrograd. Dispatches from Galicia state that the breach in the Russian line is eight miles wide and ten miles deep. The Bouhse Gazette says that a meeting of delegates from regiments at the front it was resolved to turr over all authority t M. Karensky. A FRIEND'S ADVICE Woman Saved From a Seri ous Surgical Operation Louisville, Ky. -"For four years I suffered from female troubles, head aches, and nervousness. I could not sleep, had no appetite and it hurt me to walk. If I tried to do any work, I would have to lie down before it was finished. The doc tors said I would have to be opera ted on and I simply broke down. A friend advised ms to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound, and the result is I feel like a new wom an. I am well and strong, do all my own hnuaA waA onH have an eight pound baby girl. I know Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound- saved me from an operation which every woman dreads.'- Mrs. Nellie Fishback, 1521 Christy Ave., Louisville, Ky. Everyone naturally dreads the sur geon's knife. Sometimes nothing else will do, but many times Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound has saved the patient and made an operation un necessary. If you have any symptom about whicn you would like to know, write to the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn. Ma3s., for helpful advice given free. KIDNEY Is a deceptive disease thousands have it and don't know it. If VOll want CVinrl r-aonlf-a TROUBLE you can mane no mistake by using Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney medicine. At druggists in fifty cent and dollar sizes. Sample size bottle by Parcel Post, also pamphlet telling you about it. Address Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., and enclose ten cents, also men tion this paper. PILOCURA CURES PILES The New Internal Treatment S5c and 60c a box. Send for sample today. Mailed free. Pilocura Company Washington, . C- Faith. have you "Bobby, prayers?" "Oh, ma ! Why must said your God knows what I want. I go over the same old ground night after night?" Life. REMARKABLE LETTER FROM A WELL . KNOWN WASHINGTON DRUGGIST. Id reference to ICllxlr Babek the great remedy for chills and fever and all malarial diaeaset. "Within the last five months I have 6old 3,600 bottles of Elixir Babek for Malaria.Chills and Fever. Our customers speak very well o-f it." Henry Evans, 922.F St., N. W., Washington, D. O. Elixir Babek 50 cents, all druggistSwOr bj Parcel Poet, prepaid, from KloczewuM la.CoM Washington, D. C. "Skidding Jane." A certain distinguished and noble member of the cabinet applied for the use of a government motorcar the other day to use on "business of na tional importance," as the phrase goes. He was sent a car driven by a very smart and attractive looking chauf feuse, says the London Chronicle. About four or five houAs later his lord ship1 appeared in a towering rage and asked what they moan by sending him a woman who drove in a most reckless manner, endangering his life from the moment he got into his car. "Oh,-they must have sent you 'Skid ding Jane !' " said the officer in charge, nonchalantly. Mathematician Wanted. "I understand some big lots of pota toes have spoiled," remarked Mrs. Corntossel. "Yep," replied Farmer Corntossel. "I'm waitin' fur our boy Josh to come home so's we can talk it over with him." "What'll Josh know about It?" "He has been studyin' the higher mathematics. I want him to figure out how many peelin's folks'll have to save in the kitchen to make up fur the waste of a carload of potatoes." Women always have a suspicion that they are entertaining angels unawares. Pittsburgh employers pay out $1,500, 000 a day in wages. and Maltsdlorigy skillfully blended and processed make a most delicious food in flavor as well as a great body, brain I and nerve builder. S "tbordb a Qooson
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