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J 1 The People Ought c # to Know 1 Itch relieved in 30 minutes by Woodford's Sanitary Lotion. Neve; foil*, Bs|d by Graham Drag Co, THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. K^ZAR SYNOPSIS." I CHAPTER I—Kazan, the wild sledge dog, one-quarter wolf and three-quarter "husky," distrustful of all men bec&uae of their brutal treatment of him, learns to love his master's wife when she Is kind n him In new and strange surroundings. CHAPTER n— He shows snarling enmi ty to MeCready, who la to accompany Thorpe and his wile to the Red River camp, CHAPTER ITT—Kazan knows that Jfo- Cready Is a murderer. MeCready stealth ily caresses Isobel's hair and Kaxan at tacks him. Thorpe whips Kazan. Me- Cready tries to murder Thorpe and at tacks Isobel. Kazan kills him and then, fearing the club In punishment, runs away Into the forest. CHAPTER TV—'Torn between love of his mistress, the fear of his master's club and the desires of the wolt nature In him, be at length Bends forth the wolf cry. CHAPTER V—Kazan runs with the wolves, fights their leader, becomes nuu ter of the pack, and mates with Qtay Wolf. CHAPTER VT—Kazan and the pack at tack Pierre Radlsson, his daughter Joan and her baby, but In the battle Kazan turns dog again and helps drive off the wolves. CHAPTER VTl—Kazan's wounds an dressed and be Is tied to the sledge. CHAPTER Vlll—Pierre and Kazan drag the sledge. Gray Wolf follows at a dis tance. Pierre dies, 40 miles away from their home on the Little Beaver. CHAPTER XI. The Tragedy on Bun Reck. All that day Kazan guarded the top of the Sun Rock. Fate, and the fear and brutality of masters, had hereto fore kept him from fatherhood, and he was puzzled. Something told him now that he belonged to the Sun Rock, and not to the cabin. The call that came to lilm from over the plain was not so strong. At dusk Gray Wolf came out .from her retreat, and slunk to his side, whimpering, and nipped gently at his shaggy neck. It was the old Instinct of his fathers that made him respond by caressing Gray Wolf's face with hfs tongue. Then Gray Wolfs Jaws opened, and she laughed In short panting breaths, as if she had been hard run. She was happy, and as they heard a little snuffling sound from between the rocks, Khzan wagged his tall, and Oray Wolf darted back to her young. The babyish cry and Its effect upon Gray Wolf taught Kazan his first les son In fatherhood. Instinct again told him that Gray Wolf could not go down to the hunt with him now—that she must stay at the top of the Sun Rock. So when the moon rose he went down alone; and toward dawn returned with a big white rabbit between his Jaws. It was the wild In him that made him do this, and Gray Wolf ate ravenously. Then he knew that each night here- after he must hunt for Gray Wolf— and the little whimpering creatures hidden between the two rockg. The next day, and still the next, he did not go to the cnbln, though he heard the voices of both the man and the woman calling, him. On the fifth he went down, and Joan and the baby were so glad that the woman hugged him, and the baby kicked and laughed and screamed at him, while the man stood by cautiously, watching their demonstrations with a gleam of disap probation In his eyes. "I'm afraid of him," he told Joan for the hundredth time. "That's the wolf gleam In his eyes. He's of a treacher ous breed. Sometimes I wish we'd never brought him home." "If we hadn't —where would the baby —have gone?" Joan reminded him, a little catch In her voice. "I had almost forgotten that," said her husband. "Kazan, you old devil, I guess I love you, too." He laid his hand caressingly on Kazan's head. "Wonder how he'll take to life down there?" he asked. "He has always been used to the forests. It'll seem mighty strange." "And so—have I—always been used to the forests," whispered Joan. "I guess that'* why I love Kazan—next to you and the baby. Kazan—dear old Kazan I" This time Kazan felt and scented more of that mysterious change In the cabin. Joan and her husband talked incessantly of their plans when they were together; and when the man waa away Joan talked to the baby, and to him. And each time that lie came down to the cabin during the week that followed, he grew more and more rest less, until nt last the man noticed the change In him. "I believe he knows," he said to Joan one evening. "I believe he know* we're preparing to leave." Then he added: 'The river was rising again today. It will be another week before we can start, perhaps longer." That same night the moon flooded the top of the Hun Bock with a golden light, and out Into the glow of It came Gray Wolf, with her three little whelps toddling behind her. There was much about these soft little balls that tumbled about him and snuggled In his tawny coat that reminded Kazan of the baby. At times they made the same queer, soft little sounds, and they staggered about on their four little legs just a* helplessly as baby Joan made her way alPout on two. He did not fondle them, as Gray Wolf did. but the touch of them, and their baby ish whimperings, filled him with a kind of pleasure that he had never experi enced before. The moon was straight above them, find the nlght^Mß almost aa bright oa day, when he went down again to hunt for Gray Wolf. At the foot of the rock a big white rabbit popped up ahead of him, and he gave chase. For half a mile be pursued, until the wolf Instinct In him rose oyer the dog, and he gavft up the futile race. A deer he might have overtaken, hot small gamo the wolf must hunt aa the tax hunts It. nmT he BognhTtoTstlp through the thick ets slowly and' as quietly BH a shadow. He was a mile from the Sun Hock when two qnlck leaps put Gray Wolfs supper between his Jaws. He trotted back slowly, dropping the big seven pound snow-shoe hare now and then to rest When he came to the nrfrrow trail that led to the top of the Sun ltock he stopped. In that trail was the warm scent of strange feet. The rabbit fell from his Jaws. Every hair In his body was suddenly electrified Into life. Wfiut he scented was not the scent of a rab bit, a marten or a porcupine. Fang and claw had climbed the path ahead of him. And then, coming faintly to him from the top of the rock, he heard sounds which sent him up with a ter rible whining cry. When he reached the summit he saw In the white moon light a scene that stopped him for a single moment. Close to the edge of the sheer fall to the rocks, fifty feet below, Gray Wolf was engaged In a death struggle with a huge gray lynx. She was down —and under, and from her there came a sudden sharp terrible cry of pain. Kazan flew across the rock. Ills at tack was the swift silent assault of the wolf, combined with the greater cour age, the fury and the strategy of the husky. Another husky would have died In that first attack. But the lynx was not a dog or a wolf. It was "Mow-lee, the swift," as the Sarcees had named It —the quickest creature In the wilder ness. Kazan's Inch-long fangs should have sunk deep In its Jugular. But in a fractional part of a second the lynx had thrown Itself back like a huge soft ball, and Kazan's teeth burled them selves In the flesh of Its neck Instead of the Jugular. And Kazan wus not now fighting the fangs of a wolf In the pack, or of another husky. He was fighting claws —claws that ripped like twenty razor-edged knives, and which even a Jugular hold could not stop. | Once he had fought a lynx in a trap, and he had not forgotten the lesson the battle had taught him. He fought to pull the lynx down, Instead of forcing It on Its back, as he would have done with another dog or a wolf. He knew 1 that when on Its back the fierce cat was most dangerous. One rip of Its powerful hind feet could disembowel him. Behind hlra he heard Gray Wolf sob bing and crying, and he knew that she was terribly hurt Ho was filled with the rage and strength of two (logs, and his teeth met throilgh the flesh and hide of the cat's throat. But the big lynx escaped death by half an Inch. It would take a fresh grip to reach the jugular, and suddenly Kazan made the dendly lunge. There was an instant's freedom for the lynx, and lu that mo ment It flung Itself back, and Kazan gripped at Its throat —on top. The cat's claws ripped through hls« flesh, cutting open his side—a little too high to kill. Another stroke and they would have cut to his vitals. But they had struggled close to the edge of the rock wall, and suddenly, without a snarl or a cry, they rolled over. It was fifty or sixty feet to the rocks of the ledge below, and even as they pitched over and over in the fall, Kazan's teeth sank deeper. They struck with ter rific force, Kazan uppermost. The Kazan's Teeth Bank Deeper. shock sent blm half a dozen feet from his enemy. He was up like a flash, dizzy, snarling, on the defensive. The lynx lay limp and motionless where It had fallen. Kazan came nearer, still prepared, and sniffed cautiously. Home thing told him that the fight was over., He turned and dragged himself slowly along the ledge to the trail, and re turned to Oray Wolf. Gray Wolf was no longer In the moonlight. Close to the two rocks lay the limp lifeless little bodies of the three pups. The lynx had torn them to pieces. With a whine of grief Ka zan approached the two boulders and thrust his head between them. Gray Wolf was there, crying to herself In that terrible sobbing way. He went in, and began to lick her bleeding shoulders and head. All the rest of that night she whimpered with pnln. With dawn she dragged herself out to the lifeless little bodies on the rock. And then Kazan saw the terrible work qf the lynx. For Gray Wolf was blind—not for a day or a night, but blind for all time. A gloom that no sun coold break had become her shroud. And perhaps again It was that Instinct of animal creation, which often Is more wonderful than man's reason, that told Kazar. what had hap- Forjhe knew now ttiat she was GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1917 Helpless— more helpless than the little creatures that had gamboled in the moonlight a few hoars before. He re mained close beside her all that day. Vainly that dny did Joan cull for Kazan. Her voice rose to the Sun Bock, and Gray Wolfs bead snuggled closer to Kazan, and Kazan's ears dropped back, and he licked her wounds. Late In thfe afternoon Knzan left Gray Wolf long enough to run to the bottom of the trail and bring up the snow-shoe rabbit. Gray Wolf muz zled the fur and flesh, but would not eat. Still a little later Kazan urged I her to follow him to the trail. He no ; longer wanted to stay at the top of the Sun Rock, and ho no longer wanted i Gray Waif to stay there. Step by step ' he drew her down the winding path away from her dead puppies. She would move only when he was vory near her—so near that she could touch his scarred flank with her nose. They came at last to tlio point In the trail where they had to leaptlown a distance of three or four feet from the edge of a rock, and here Kazan saw how utterly helpless Gray Wolf hod become. She \v}>'ned, and crouched twenty times before she dared make the spring, and then she Jumped stiff legged, and fell In a heap at Kuzun's feet After this Kazan did not have to urge her so hard, for the fall Im pinged on her the fact thnt she was safe only when her muzzle touched hor mate's flank. She followed him obedi ently when they reached the plain, trotting with her foreshoulder to his hip. Kazan was heading for a thicket In the creek bottom half a mile away, and a dozen times In that short dis tance Gray Wolf stumbled and fell. And each time that she fell Kazan learned a little more of the limitations of blindness. Once he sprung off In pursuit of a rabbit, but he had not taken twenty leups when he stopped nnd looked back. Gray Wolf had not moved an Inch. She stood motionless, sniffing the air—waiting for him! For a full minute Kazan stood. Also wait ing. Then he returned to her. Ever after this he returned to the point where he hud left Gruy Wolf, knowing that he would find |ier there. All that day they remained In the thicket. In the afternoon he Visited the cabin. Joun and her husband were there, and both saw at once Kazan's torn side and his lacerated head and shoulders. "Pretty near a finish flght for hlra," said the man, after he had examined him. "It was either a lynx or a bear. Another wolf could not do thut" | For half an hour Joan worked over him, tulklng to him all the time, and fondling him with her soft hands. She bathed his wounds In warm water, and then covered them with a healing salve, and Kazan wus filled again with that i old restful desire to remuln with her ■lwnys, and never to go back Into the forests. For an hour she let him lie on the edge of her dress, with his nose J touching her foot, while she worked on baby things. Then she rose to prepare supper, and Kazan got np—a little wearily—and went to the door. Gray Wolf and the gloom /f the nlglit were calling him, and he answered that call with a slouch of his shoulders and a drooping head. Its old thrill was gone. He watched his chance, und went out through the door. The moon had risen When ho rejoined Gruy Wolf. She greeted his return with a low whine of Joy, and muzzled him with her blind face. In her helplessness she looked . happier than Knzan In all his strength. From now on, during the days thai followed, It wus a lust great fight be tween blind and faithful Gray Wolf and the woman. If Joan hud known of what lay In the thicket. If she could once huve seen the poor creature to whom Kazan was now ull life—tho sun, the stars, the moon, and food —she would have helped Gray Wolf. But as It was she tried to lure Kazan more nnd more to the cabin, and slowly she , won. 1 At last the great day came, eight days after the flght on the Sun Rock. Kuzan hud taken Gray Wolf to u wood ed point on the river two days before, and there be had left her the preceding night when he went to the cabin. This time a stout bablehe thong was tied to the collar round his neck, and ho was fastened to a staple In tho log wall. Joan and her husband were up before It was light next duy. JTho sun wns Just rising when they all went out, the man carrying the buby, und Joun leading him. Joan turned and locked the cabin door, and Kazun heard a sob In her throat as they followed Ihe man down to the river. The big canoe wns packed and waiting. Jonn got In first, with the baby. Then, still holding the bublche thong, she drew Kazan up close to her, so that he luy with his weight against her. The sun fell warmly on Kazan's back as they shoved off, and he closed his eyes, and rested his head ou Joan's Inp. Her hand fell softly on his shoul der." He heard again that sound which the man conld not hear, the broken sob In her throat, as the canoe moved siow 'y down to the wooded [mint. Joan waved her hand back at the cabin. Just dlsappeurlng behind the trees. "Good-by !" she crledly sndly. "Oood by—" And then Die burled her face close down to Kuzun and the buby, and , sobbed. The man stopped paddling. "You're not sorry—Joan?" he asked. They were drifting post the point now, and the scent of Oray Wolf same to Kazan's nostrils, rousing him. and bringing a low whine from his throat. "You're not sorry—we're going?" Joun shook ber head. "No," she replied. "Only I've—al ways lived here—in the forests—and they're—home!" The point with Its white linger of sand, was behind them now. And Ka zan was standing rigid, facing It. Tho man called to blm, and Joun lifted her head. She, too, saw the point, and suddenly the bablehe b*Ush slipped from her fingers, and n strange light leaped Into her blue eyes as she saw what stood at the end of that white tip of sand. It Was Gray Wolf. Her blind eyes were turned toward Kazun. At last Gray Wolf, tho faithful, under stood. Bcent told her what her eyes could not see. Kazan and the man-smell were together. Alld they were going— "Look 1" whispered Joan. The man turned. Gray Wolfs fore feet were In the water. And now, as the canoe drifted farther and farther away, she settled back on her haunches, raised her head to the sun which she could not see and gave her lust long walling cry for Kazan. The canoe lurched. A tawny body shot through the air—and Kazan was gone. The man reached forward for his rifle. Joan's hand stopped him. Her face was white. "Let him go back to hert Let him go—let him got" she cried. "It Is his place—with her." And Kazan reaching the shore, shook the water from his shaggy hair, and looked for the last time toward the woman. The canoe was drifting slow ly around the first bend. A moment more and It had disappeared. Gray Wolf had won. CHAPTER XII. The Days of Fire. From the night of the terrible fight with the big gray lynx on the top of the Sun Rock, Kazan remembered less and less vividly the old days when he had been a sledge-dog, and the leader of a pack. He would never quite for get them, and always there would stand out certain memories -from among the rest, like fires cutting the blackness of night But as a man dales events from his birth, his mur rlage, his freedom from a bondage, or some foundation-step In his career, so all things seemed to Kazan to begin with two tragedies which had followed one fast upon the other after the birth of Gray Wolf's pups. The first was the fight on the Sun' Rock, when the big gray lynx had blinded bis beautiful wolf mate for all time, antihad torn her pups Into pieces. He In turn had killed the lynx. But Gray Wolf wus still blind. Vengeance had not been able to give her sight. She could no longer hunt with him, as they had hunted with the wild wolf packs cut on the plain, and in the dark forests. So at thought of that night he always snarled, and his lips curled hack to reveal his Inch-long fangh. The other tragedy was tlii going of Joan, her baby and her husband. Some thing more Infallible than reason told Kazan that they would not come back. Brightest of all the pictures that re mained with him was that of the sunny morning when the woman and the haby he loved, and the man ho endured be cause of them, had gone away In the canoe, and often he would go to tho point, and gaze longingly down-stream, where he had leaped from the canoe to return to his blind mute. So Kazan's life seemed now to be nude up chiefly of three things: his hatred of everything thftt bore the •cent or mnrk of the lynx, his grieving for Joan and the baby, tfnd Gray Wolf, it wus natural that the strongest pus ilon In him should be his hutred of the lynx, for not only Oray Wolf's blind ness and the death of the pups, but even the loss of the woman and the baby he laid to that fatal struggle on the Sun Rock. From that hour he be came the deudllest enemy of the lynx tribe. Wherever he struck the scent of the big gray cat he wus turned Into a snarling demon, and his hutred grew day by day, as he became more com pletely a part of the wild. He found that Gray Wolf was more necessary to him now than she had ever been since the day she had left the wolf-pack for him. He was three quarters dog, and the dog-part of him demanded companionship. There was only Gray Wolf to give him that now. They were alone. Civilization Was four hundred miles south of them. The nearest Hudson's Bay post was sixty miles to the west. Often, In the days of tho woman and the baby, Oray Wolf had spent her nlgbts alone out In the forest, waiting and calling for Kazan. Now It was Kazan who was lonely and uneasy when ho wus awsy from her side. In her bllndne** Gray Wolf could no longer hunt with her mate. Hut gradually a new code of understanding grew up between them, and through her blindness they learned many things that they had not known be fore. Hy early summer Gray Wolf could travel with Kazan, If he did not move too swiftly. Hhe ran at hi* flank, with her shoulder or muzzle touching him, and Kazan learned not to leap, but to trot. Very quickly be found that he must choose the easiest trails for Gray Wolfs feet. When they came to a space to be bridged hy a leap, he would muzzle Gray Wolf and whine, and she would stand with ears alert— listening. Then Kazan would take the leap, and she understood the distance she had to cover. Hhe always over leaped, which was a good fault. In another way, and one that was destined to serve them many tlrnes In the future, she became of greater help than ever to Kazan, ftcent and hear ing entirely took the place of sight. Each day developed these sense* more and more, and at the same time there developed between them the dumb lan guage whereby she could Impre** upon Kazan what sho had discovered by scent or sound. It became a curious habit of Kazan's always to look at Gray Wolf when they stopped to listen, or to scent the air. After the tight on the Hun Hock, Ka zan had taken hi* blind mate to a thick clump of spruce and balsam In the river bottom, where they remained un til early summer. Every day for weeks Kazan went to the cabin where Joan and the baby—and the man—had been. For a long tlrno ho went hopefully, looking each day or night to see dome sign of life there. Hut the door was never open. The board* and *apllng* at the window* alway* remained. Never a *plral of smoke rose from the clay chimney. Grass and vines be gan to grow In the path. And fainter and fainter grew that scent which Ka zan could still find about It —the scent of man, of the woman, the baby. One day he found a little baby moc casin under ono of the closed win dow*. It wos old, and worn out, and blackened by snow and rain, but he lay down beside It, and remained there for a long time, while tho baby Joan — a thousand miles away—was playing wjth the strange tog; of civilization. j Tfien Be returned to Gray j the spruce and balsam, f The cabin was the one place -to which Gray Wolf would not follow him. At all other times she was at his side. Now that she had become ac customed to blindness, she even ac companied him on his hunts, until he j struct game, and began the chase. Then she would wait for him. Kazan usually hunted the big snow-shoe rab bits. But one night he ran down and killed n young doe. The kill was too 1 ' heavy to drug to Gray Wolf, so ho re turned to where she wus waiting for liliu and guided her to the feast. In many ways they became more and more Inseparable as the summer lengthened, until at lust, through all the wilderness, their footprints were always two by two and never one by one. Then came the great lire. Gray Wolf cuught the scent of It when It was still two days tc the west. The moon, drifting Into the west, be came blood red. When It dropped be hind the wilderness In this manner, the Indians called It the bleeding moon, und the air was filled with omens. All the next day Groy Wolf was nervous, and toward noon Kuzan { cuught in the air the warning thnt she i had sensed many hours aheud of him. Steadily the scent grew stronger, and by the middle of the afternoon the sun ; wus veiled by a film of smoke. The flight of the wild things from the i triangle of forest between the junc ' tlons of the l'lpestone und Cree rivers ' would hnve begun then, hut the wind i shifted. It was a fatal shift. The lire i was raging from the west and south. I Then the wind swept straight east i ward, carrying the smoke with It, and luring this breathing spell all the wild creatures In the triangle between the two rivers waited. This gave the tire time to sweep completely across the base of the forest triangle, cutting off the last trails of escape. Then the wind shifted ngaln, nnd the flre swept north. The head of the tri angle became a death-trap. All through the night the southern sky was filled with a lurid glow, and by morning the hent and smoke and ush were suffocut- Ing. I'nnlc-stricken, Kazan searched vain ly for a means of escape. Not for an Instant did he leave Gray Wolf. It would have been easy for him to swim across either of the two streams, for he WIIS three-quarters dog. But at the first touch of water on her paws, Gray Wolf drew back, shrinking. Like all her breed, she would faco flre and death before water. Kazan urged. A £ Gray Wolf Drew Back, Shrinking. dozen times he leaped In, nnri swam out Into the stream. Hut (Jmy Wc.lf would come no farther than she could wade They could hear the distant murmur ing roar of the Are now. Ahead of It fame the wild things. Moose, caribou and deer plunged Into the water of the •treams ami swam to the safely of the opposite Hide. Out upon a white finger of sand lumbered a big black hear with two cubs mid even the culm took to the waU-r, and swam across easily. Ka zan watched them, and whined to Gray Wolf. And then out upon that white flrger of sand came other tilings that dreaded the water as Gray Wolf dreaded It: a hlg fat porcupine, a sleek little marten, a fisher-cat that sniffed the air mid walled like a child. Those things that could not or would not swim outnum bered the others three to one. Ilun dieds of little ermine scurried along llie shore like rats, tlielr squeaking lit tle voices sounding Incessantly; foxes ran swiftly along the bank*, seeking a tree or a windfall that might bridge the water for them; the lynx snarN-d and faced the (Ire; and Gray Wolfs own tribe—the wolves —dared take no deeper step than she. gripping and panting, and half choked by heot and smoke, Kazan came to Gray Wolfs side. There was but one refuge left Bear them, and that was the sand bar. It reached out for fifty feet Into the str«-am. Quickly he led his blind mate toward It. As they came through the low brush to the river-bed. something stopped them both. To their nostrils had come the scent of a deadlier enemy than tire. A lynx had taken possession of the sand bur, and was crouching at the end of It. Three porcupines had dragged themselves Into the edge of the water, and lay there like balls, their quills alert and quivering. A fisher-cot was snarling at the lynx. And the lynx, with ears laid back, watched Kazan and Gray Wolf as they began the Inva sion of the sand bar. TO BB CONTINUED. WHOOPING COUGH. One of the most successful prep arations in use for this disease is chamberlain's Cough Remedy, 8. W. McClinton, Ulandon Springs, Ala., "Our baby had whooping cough as bad as any baby sould have it. I Chamberlain's Cough Kennedy and it soon got hlni well.. Obtainable everywhere. adv. Even the weather cheered up a little after JolTre arrived. FOR A SAFE AND SANE FOURTH OF JULY The North Carolina Insurance De partment has Issued a call to oltlxea*, to merchants and to city and town officials in warning against the care lens use and In faot tne use In any manner of lire works In the celebra tion of Independence Day, July 4. The use of (Ire works in thla celebration in North""Carolina in the past has not been extensive but there seems t» have been a tendency in recent years to make more use ef them. This (Its- play when handled by the most expe rienced person hi dangerous and In Lbs hands of Inexperienced people and ot children is a menace to 'both life and property. Insurance Commissioner Young In a recent statement said: "In this year when every effort looks to conservation and prepared ness It seems to me that the people of North Carolina ought 40 refrain en tirely from the use of fireworks. The kind of patriotism North Carolina and America needs this year is not the kind that burns money uselessly and endangers property and especially property where foodstuffs are stored. The patriotism that will count now Is the kind that makes for self denial and the conservation of every energy. The kind that looks to the bending of every effort which lend support 0 the government In the war of unknown extent upon which tt has entsred. "I hope that every city official In North Carolina will see to tt that no fireworks are sold or used for the celebration of the Fourth of July. And the sure way to do this is to pea* ordi nances forbidding their sale. It Is a time now when every precaution should be observed to prevent Area. And tho handling of firework*, how ever careful may be the operator, Is hazardous to life and property." Most smokers would Indignantly ra sont the charge that they are net "good citizens" but the burden of proof would seem to be on them In light of flgurea prepared by Wilbur B. Mallalleu, General Manager National Board of Fire Underwriters, on the causes ot fires In tho United States for the year 1915. which show a total Are loss of $4,505,963, attributable to carelessness.— Michigan Fire Marsh alls Bulletin. May 31 1* named by the Corporation Commission a« the date for hearing arguments for and against the propos ed increase In Intrastate freight rates la North Carolina •. Two hall storms that hit Wilming ton and outlying districts did damage to crops, fruit trees and buildings that Will run fur Into the thousands of dollars. of Ponder county met at Burgaw to receive and canvas* the return* of the stork law election held last Saturday. Official and unofficial return* gave the vote as follows: For stock law, 153; against stock law, 852. Z. Pari*, Sr., one of the oldeat citi zens of North Carolina, died in Pam lico county, Monday, May 21st. He waa tho father of Itev. Ur. Z. Paris, well known throughout the state. He waa 93 yeara old and had been a leader In 111* county In agriculture, commercial, achoo! and church life. Private llarry J5. Orrell, of Company A. KngineerH, while on guard duty at the Pedee river bridge, twelve miles east of Hamlet, kas killed by a freight train. Ill* remains were brought to llamlot, prepared for burial and *ent to Wilmington, his former home. He wa* the eon of K. It. Orrell, of Wil mington. Clint N. Ilrown, an qjd newspaper man of Salisbury, died at hi* home «ev«ral mile* from the city. Hl* body wa* found In the bed, he having died peacefully some time after neighbor* left him. He had been In 111 health hut It was not thought that he wa* In nore serlou* condition than be had been recently. What la said to be a precedent for Chamber of Commerce work In the United State* wa* set by tho Hender lon c hamber when tho Hoard of Direc tor* last week adopted suggestion* In creasing the number of the director* by four and making one ot these a woman, the first tlmo. It Is declared, tuch ha* occurred In this country. The mobilization ot the labor avail able In the cities and towns of North Carolina for the benefit of the farmer* who are suffering for lack of labor I* the latest movement in the campaign being waged by the North Carolina Food Conservation Commission for In creased production of food and feed stuffs In this state. According (o a telegram received at Hendorwohvllle from A. L. White of Spartanburg, work on tho great water power development at Tuxedo, seven mile* from Hendersonvllle, was be gun last week. The contract has been let to Wllllard. Ooui A Co., by the Blue Ridge Land Company, a corpora jon mad* up of Charlotte and Spar tan burg men. The contract calls for a dam 121 feet high, which will back the water* of Green River so a* to sub merge over four hundred acre*. Soon on the battlefields of France a' Ambulance bearing the nam* "bi. %JMe" on its aid* will be run ning mercy; two States ville boyi h e driver*. At a gath ering of the „ 'of Statesvllle at Broad Street ctau. -o than >I,OOO was raised to make w *lO to fur nlsh ambulance and drwe.. H U be raised shortly. Julian Morrlso. ion of th* late J. K. MorrUon of Btates vllle, ha* volunteered and been ao c*pted a* an ambulance driver. NO. 16 GRAHAM CHUHCH.I>IREC TOUT. | Graham Baptist Church—Rev. W. . ; R. Davis, Pastor. Preaching, every first and third ';•£ Sundays at 11.00 a. m. and 7.00 p. '' m. Sunday School every Sunday at 9.46 a. m. A. P. Williams Suptj Prayer meeting every Tuesday jit 7.30 p. m. Uraham Christian Church—N. Main Street-Rev. J. P. Trait'- Preaching services every Sec ond and Fourth Sundays, at 11.00 a. m. Sunday School every Sunday at 10.00 a. m.—E. L. Henderson, Super intendent. New Providence Christian Church —North Main Street, near Depot- Rev. J. Q. Truitt, Pastor. Preach ing every. Second and Poorth Sun day nights at 8.00 o'clock. Sunday School every Sunday at 0.46 a. J. ▲. Bayuff, Superin tendent. Christian Endeavor Prayer Meet ing every Thursday night at 7.4 ft. o'clock. Friends—North ot Graham Pub lic School— Rev. Fleming Martin. Pastor. Preaching Ist, 2nd and 3rd Sun days. Sunday School every Sunday at 10.00 a. m.—James Crisco, Superin tendent Methodist Episcopal, south—cor. Main and Maple St„ H. E. Myers Pastor. Preaching every Sunday at 11.00 a. m. and at 7.30 p. m. Sunday School every Sunday at 4.46 a. m.—W. B. Green, Supt. M. P. Church—N. Main Street, Rev. R. S. Troxler, Pastor. Preaching first and third Bun day* at 11 a m. and 8 p. m. Sunday School every Bunaav at 9.46 a. m.—J. L. Amick, Supt. Presbyterian— Wat Elm Street— Rev. T. M. McConnell, pastor. Sunday School every Sunday at 9.46 a. m.—Lynn B. Williamson, Su perintendent. Presbyterian (Travora Chapel)— J. W. Clegg, paster. Preaching every Second and Pourth Sundays at 7.90 p. m. Sunday School every Sanday at 1.30 p. m.—J. Harvey White, Su perintendent. Oneida—Sunday School every Sunday at S.SO p. m.—J. V. Pumo roy, Superintendent PROFESSIONAL CARDS E. C. DERBY Civil Engineer. GRAHAM, N. C* Nalloaal luksl Alai—» IT«'| BURLINGTON, N. C, ■DOB IS. let Nalloaal tali BalMlaa. Tkonr 17* JOHN J. HENDERSON Attorney-a t-Law GRAHAM. N. C. Dlllc* over Nalloaal Bask el Alaauaea J\ s. coos:, Law, 1 RAH AM, N. 0, Offloe Patterson Building Hocond Floor. , . . , , UK. WILL s. ma, JK. . . . DENTIST . . . • raham, - - - - Narth Carellaa JKKICE IN HJMMONB BUILDING ACOH A. LONO. i. 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