4? ""IP. -1, - ' Jsr 'A V'" V -- . 1: V1 j 1 S A f - - . THE CAROLINA WATCHMAN, SALISBmiXi M . 0. f r n : : r t it";' ft' ,-rm ft- I' I 4 i YV irifY-.KJ i' i - it II Br r- T v V V 1 V V V v fly James Oliver Curwood V 8 gjl ' Ifrj IIOIOX Copyright by the Bobbs-Merrill Company. : CHAPTER XVI. 16 Professor McGill. Bed Gold City was ripe for a night of 'relaxation. There had been some gambling, a few fights and enough liquor to create excitement now and then, but the presence of the mounted police had served to keep things un usually tame compared with events a t wrhundred miles farther north, in the Dawson country. The entertainment proposed by Sandy icTriger and Jan Harder met with excited favor. The news spread for twenty miles about Bed Gold City and there had never been greater excitement in the town than on the afternoon and night of the big fight. This was largely because Kazan and the huge Dane had been placed on 'exhibition, each dog in a specially made cage of his own, and a lever of betting began. Three hundred men, each of whom was paying five dollars to see the battle, viewed the gladiators through the bars of their cages. Harker's dog was a combina tion of Great Dane and mastiff, born in the north, and bred to the traces. Bet ting favored him by the odds of two to one. Occasionally it ran three to one. At these odds there was plenty of Ka zan money. . Those who were risking their money on him were the older -wilderness men men who had spent their lives among dogs, and who knew what the red light in Kazan's eyes meant. An old Kootenay miner spoke low in another's ear : "I'd bet on 'im even. I'd give odds if I had to. He'll fight all around tne Dane. The Dane won't have no method." "But he's got the weight," said the other dubiously. "Look at his jaws, an' his shoulders-" "An' his big feet, an' his soft throat, an' the clumsy thickness of his belly," interrupted the Kootenay man. ' "For .heaven's sake, man .take my word 1'or it, an' don't put your money on the JDane!" Others thrust themselves between them. At first, Fazan had snarled at 11 these faces about him. .But now ie- lay back against the boarded side of the cage and eyed them sullenly Irom between bis f orepaws. The fight was to be pulled off in Har ker's place, a combination of saloon and. cafe. The benches and tables had been cleared out and in the center of the one big room a cage ten feet square rested on a platform three and a half feet from the floor. Seats for the three hundred spectators were drawn closely around this. Suspended just above the open top of the cage were two big oil lamps with glass reflectors. It was eight o'clock when Harker, IcTrigger and two other men bore Ka zan to the arena by means of the wood en bars that projected from the bottom of his cage. The big Dane was already in the fighting cage. He stood blinking ! bis eyes in the brilliant light of the reflecting lamps. He pricked up his ears when he saw Kazan. Kazan did not show his fangs. Neither revealed the expected animosity. It was the first they had seen of each other, and a mur mur of disappointment swept the ranks of the three hundred men. The Dane remained as motionless as a rock when Kazan was prodded from his own cage . into the fighting cage. He did not leap -or snarL He regarded Kazan with a -rdubious questioning poise to his splen tdid head, and then looked again to the vfixpectant and excited faces of the wait ' ing men. For a few moments Kazan stood stiff-legged, facing the Dane, Then his shoulders dropped, and he, too, coolly faced the crowd that had Ex pected a fight to the death. A laugh of derision swept through the closely seat ied rows. Catcalls,' jeering, taunts flung .at McTrigger and Harker, and angry -voices demanding their money back ijningled with a tumult of growing dis content. Sandy's face was red with .mortification and rage. The blue veins in Harker's forehead had swollen twice their normal size. He shook his fist in the face of the crowd, and shouted: "Wait ! Give 'em a chance, you fools!" At his words every voice was stilled. Kazan had turned. He was facing the Dane. The Dane had turned his eyes to Kazan. Cautiously, prepared for a lunge or a sidestep, Kazan advanced a little. The Dane's shoulders bristled. He, too, advanced upon Kazan. Four feet apart they stood rigid. One could Jhaye heard a whisper in the room now. Sandy and Harker, standing close to the cage, scarcely breathed. Splendid in every limb and muscle, warriors of . a hundred fights, and fearless to the point of death, the two half -wolf vic tims of man stood facing each other. None could see the questioning look in their brute eyes. None knew that in this thrilling moment the unseen hand i, -of the wonderful Spirit God of the wil derness hovered between them, and Jthat one of its miracles was descending tipon them. It was understanding. ; Meeting, in the open rivals in the . '-traceathey would have been rolling '.-fii.the tbrws of terrific battle. But here ; 'ame tlut j&u (ppi of brotkrabood. RHffl In the final moment, when only a step separated them, and , when men ' ex pected to see the . first mad ltmge, the splendid Dane slowly raised his head and looked over Kazan's back through the glare of the lights. Harker trem bled, and under his breath he cursed. The Dane's throat was open to Kazan. But between the, beasts had passed the voiceless pledge of peace. Kazan did not leap. He turned. And shoulder to shouldeir splendid in their contempt of man they stood and looked through the bars of their prison into the one of human faces. , A roar burst from the. crowd a roar j of anger, of demand, of threat. In his I rage Harker drew a revolver and leveled it at the Dane. Above the tu- mult of the crowd a single voice stopped him, "Hold !" it demanded. "Hold in the name of the law !" For a moment there was silence. Every face turned in the direction of the voice. Two men stood on chairs behind the last row. One was Sergeant Brokaw of the Royal Northwest Mounted. It was he who had spoken. He was holding up a hand, command ing silence and attention. On the chair beside him stood another man. He was thin, with drooping shoulders, and a pale smooth face a little man, whose physique and hollow cheeks told noth ing of the years he had spent ciose up alone the raw edge of the Arctic. It was he who spoke now, while the ser geant held up his hand. His voice was low and quiet: "I'll give the owners five hundred dollars for those dogs," he said. Every man in the room heard the of fer. Harker looked at Sandy. For an instant their heads were close together. "They won't fight, and they'll make good team-mates," the little man went on. "I'll give the owners five hundred dollars." Harker raised a hand. "Make it six," he said, and they're yours." Make it six The little man hesitated. Then he nodded. "I'll give you six hundred," he agreed. Murmurs of discontent rose through out the crowd. Harker climbed to the edge of the platform. "We ain't to blame because they wouldn't fight," he shouted, "but if there's any of you small enough to She Had Faith That He Would Come. want your money back you can git it as you go out. The dogs 'aid down on us, that's all. We ain't to blame." The little man was edging his way between the chairs, accompanied by the sergeant of police. With his pale face close to the sapling bars of the cage he looked at Kazan and the big Dane. "I guess we'll be good friends," he said, and he spoke so low that only the dogs heard his voice. "It's a big price, but we'll charge it to the Smithsonian, lads. I'm going to need a couple of four-footed friends of your moral call ber." And no one knew why Kazan and the Dane drew nearer to the little scien tist's side of the cage as he pulled out a big roll of bills and counted out six hundred dollars for Harker and Sandy McTrigger. CHAPTER XVII. Alone in Darkness. Never had the terror and loneliness of blindness fallen upon Gray Wolf as in the days that followed the shoot ing of Kazan and his capture by Sandy McTrigger. For hours after the shot she crouched in the bush back from the river, waiting for him to come to her. She had faith that he would come, as he had come a thousand times before, and she lay close on her belly, sniffing the air, and whining when it brought no scent of her mate. Day and night were alike an endless chaos of darkness to her now, but she knew when the sun went down. She sensed the first deepening shadows of evening, and she knew that the stars were out, and that the river lay in moonlight. It was a night to roam, and after a time she moved restless ly about in a small circle on the plain, and sent out- her first inquiring call for Kazan. Up from the river came the pungent odor of smoke, -and in stinctively she knew that it was this smoke, and the nearness of , man, that was keeping Kazan from her. But she went no nearer than that first cir cle made by her padded feet. 1 Blind ness had taught her to wait. Since the day of the battle on the Sun Rock, when tire lynx had destroyed her eyes, Kazan bad never failed her. Three tiipA j-he called foi bitt In the earlj night. Then she made herself a nest under a banskian shrub, and waited until dawn. Just how. she knew when night blot ted out the last glow of the sun, so without seeing she knew when day came. Not until she felt the warmth of the sun on her back did her anxiety overcome her caution. Slowly she moved toward the river, sniffing the air and whining. There was no longer the smell of smoke in the air, and she could not catch the scent of man. She followed her own trail back to the sand-bar, and in -the fringe of thick bush overhanging the white shore of the stream she stopped and listened. After a little she scrambled down and went straight to the spot where she and Kazan were drinking when the shot came.. And there her nose struck the sand still wet and thick with Kazan's blood. She knew it was the blood of her mate, for the scent or mm was au about her in the sand, mingled with the man-smell of Sandy McTrigger. She sniffed the trail of his body to the edge of the stream, where Sandy had dragged him to the canoe. She found the fallen tree to which he had been tied. And then she came upon one of the two clubs that Sandy had used to beat wounded Kazan into sub missiveness. It was covered with blood and hair, and all at once Gray Wolf lay back on her haunches and turned her blind face to the sky, anO there j rose from her throat a cry for Kazan that drifted for miles on the wings of the south wind. Never had Gray Wolf given quite that cry -before. It was not the "call" that comes with the moonlit nights, and neither was j it the hunt-cry, nor the she-wolf's , yearning for matehood. It carried with it the lament of death. And after that one cry Gray Wolf slunk back to j the fringe of bush over the river, and lay with her face turned to the stream. A stranse terror fell upon her. She had grown accustomed to darkness, j but never before had she been alone in that darkness. Always there had been the guardianship of Kazan's pres ence. She heard the clucking sound of a spruce hen in the bush a few yards away, and now that sound came to her as if from out of another world. A ground-mouse rustled through the grass close to her f orepaws, and she "snapped at it, and closed her teeth on a rock. The muscles of her shoul ders twitched tremulously and she shivered as if stricken by intense cold. She was terrified by the darkness that shut out the world from her. and she pawed at her closed eyes, as if she might open them to light. Early in the afternoon she wandered back on the plain. It was different. It frightened her, and soon she re turned to the beach, and snuggled down under the tree where Kazan had lain. She was not so frightened here. The smell of Kazan was strong about her. For an hour she lay motionless. with her head resting on the club clot ted with his hair and blood. Night found her still there. And when the moon and the stars came out she j crawled back into the pit in the white i sand that Kazan's body had made un- j der the tree. With dawn she went down U the edge of the stream to drink. She could not see that the day was amost as dark as night, and tljat the fray black sky w;as a chaos of slumbering storm. But she could smell the pres ence of it in the thick air, and could feel the forked flashes of lightning that rolled up with the dense pall from the south and west. The distant rumbline of thunder erew louder, and she huddled herself again under the tree. For hours the storm crashed over her, and the rain fell in a deluge. When it had finished she slunk out from her shelter like a thing beaten. mies at the front will be strengthen Vainly she sought for one last scent ed and sustained if they be composed of Kazan. The club was washed clean, Again the sand was white where Kazan's blood had reddened it. Even under the tree there was no sign of him left. Until now only the terror of being causing to be promulgated, pursuant alone in the pit of darkness that en-, to the direction of the selective ser veloped her had oppressed Gray Wolf.l: vIce law,, cover the remaining steps With afternoon came hunger. It was! of the plan for calling' into the ser- this hunger that drew her from the sand-bar, and she wandered back into the plain. A dozen times she scented game, and each time it evaded her. Even a ground-mouse that she cor nered under a root, and dug out witn her paws, escaped her fangs. Thirty-six hours before this Kazan and Gray Wolf had left a half of their last kill a mile or two farther back on the plain. The kill was one of the big barren rabbits, and Gray Wolf turned in its direction. She did not require sight to find it. In her was developed to its finest point that sixth sense of the animal kingdom, the sense of orientation, and as straight as a pigeon might, have winged its flight she cut through the bush to' the spot where they had cached the rabbit. A white fox had been there ahead of her, and she found only scattered bits of hair and fur. What the fox had left the mobse birds and bush jays had carried away. Hungrily Gray Wolf turned back to the river. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Naming Cities for Dates. What is, perhaps, the oddest of all ways to select a name for a city Dr street is to name it for a certain date, and yet this has been done in Brazil for hundreds of years. It was on January 1, 1531, that a Portuguese captain, Alphonso de Souza by name, entered the mouth of that marvelously beautiful bay, on the shores of which now stands the capital of the vast re public of Brazil. Thinkinf that he was sailing into a great river, he named the stream Rio de Janiero, or Januar river, and all through the centuries the - name has remained. IIULLU ISSUED 01 WILSON PREPARATIONS FOR MOBILIZA TION HAVE ADVANCED AN OTHER STEP. Proces of Selection Will Likely Not Be Made Known Until Drafting Time is Near. Washington. Preparation for the mobilization of the first contingent of rtSK nn trnnna nf th( new national armv advanced another step when President -ntr,-i iaoi roomiainna tn Wilson promulgated the regulations to govern exemptions from military ser vice. In the order in which they must come there are three steps in the or ganization process of the national army as prescribed by Congress. They are registration, selection and exemption. The first step has been carried through. The regulations issued cover in detail the operation of the . third step, exemption. Information concerning the second step in the series is still lacking, and officials are guarding closely the meth od by which selection is to be applied. The exemption regulation announc ed that the boards will be advised of the selection process later, although none of the steps prescribed except the organization of the boards can be carried out until the selection machin ery has furnished the names of the men Whose fitness and desirability for army service the boards are to judge. There is one hint as to how the selec- tIon machinery is to work. The local boards are directed upon organization to take over from the reg istration precincts the cards and lists of the men registered on June 5, and, Cers, customhouse clerks, workmen in as their first duty, to provide a serial Federal armories, arsenals and navy' number for each registration card. I yards, persons in the Federal service This has given support to the belief j designated by the President for ex that the selection is to be by number j emption, pilots, merchant - marine sail- Keports were current recently mat tne selection drawing was to be made in Washington. May Delay Announcements. ; i Presumably the process of selection will be announced only a short time before it is put in operation. When that will be is not known. September 1 has been the tentative date set for calling the 625,000 of the first contin gent to the colors for training. Prog ress with construction of the sixteen divisional cantonments for the troops will govern the action. It is believed there will be no serious delay. The exemption process will not take a great deal of time. It is difficult to calculate the time- the local boards will needin passing on the cases that come bpfore them. The regulations provide that decision in any individual case shall not be delayed more than three days by the local board, or an addi- iiuuai u to ua;o nucu appeal is iaa.au to the district boards. The whole pro cess probably can be carried through in less than thirty days. There were no surprises in the ex emption regulations. The task of pass- i lag upon the individual cases Is left . entirely to the local boards. While the ! president reserves the right to desig- . nate industries necessary for the pub- ! lc good, the question of whether re- (ention of any Individual engaged in these industries is essential is left to i the boards. In a statement accompaning the announcement of the regulations, the resident called urnm the boards to do their work fearlessly and impar- "ally and to remember that "our ar- of men free from any sense of injus- ,tice in their mode of selection." The statement follows: The Statement. "The regulations which I am today vice of the United States qualified men from those who have registered; those selected as the result of this process to contribute, with the reg ular army, the national guard and the navy, the fighting forces of the na tion, all of which ' forces are under the terms of the law placed in a po sition of equal right, dignity and re sponsibility with the members of all other military forces. "The regulations have been drawn with a view to the needs and cir cumstances of the whole country and provide a system which it is expected will work with the least inequality and personal hardship. Any system of selecting men for military service, whether voluntary or involuntary In its operation, necessarily selects some men to bear the burden of danger and sacrifice for the whole nation. The system here provided places all men of military age upon an even plane and then, by a selaction which neith er favors the one nor penalizes the other, calls out the requisite number for service. Calls For Loyalty. "The successful operation of this law and of these regulations depends necessarily upon the loyalty, patriot Ism and justice of the members of the boards to whem Its operation is committed, and I admonish every member of every local board and of every district board to remember that their duty to their country requires an impartial and fearless performance to the delicate and : difficult duties in trusted them. They should remember as to each individual case presented to hfm that they are called upon to Vindicate the most aacred rights of the individual and o preserve un tarnished the honor of the nation "Our armies, at the front will be, strengthened and sustained if they bs composed of 'men free from any sense of injustice in their mode of selec--' tion, and they will be inspired to loft ier efforts in behalf of - a country which, the citizens called Upon to per form high public functions perform them with justice, fearlessness and impartially." ' IS To Post Names. Upon organizing, the local boards will take over from the registration boards, all registration cards, whicn they will number serially and list for posting to public view. Then, after having been advised of the method by which the order of liability for ser vice shall be determined and of the j 1uota to be drawn from its territory Kir. i "us credits for enlistments in the i t "c lanal guard or regular army) each I ooard will prepare a list of persons designated for service in the order of their liability, .post the list, give it to the press and within three days send notice to each designated person by mail. "As the men so notified appear, the boards first will make, a physical ex amination in accordance with special regulations to be provided, bearing in mind that all persons accepted by them will be re-examined by army surgeons. If the physical examina tion is passed successfully, then comes the question of exemption. "Persons who must be exempted or discharged by the local board in clude: Those Exempted. "Officers of the United States, of the states, territories and the District of Columbia, ministers of religion, students of divinity, persons in the military or naval service of the Unit ed States, subjects of Germany, all other aliens who have not taken out first papers ; county or municipal offl- orSi those with a status with respect to dependents which renders their exclusion desirable (a married man with dependent wife or child, son of a dependent widow, son of a dependent, aged or infirm parent, or brother of dependent orphan child under 16 years of age) ; those found morally defi cient and any member of any well recognized religious sect existing May 18, 1917, whose creed forbids partici pation in war and whose religious convictions accord with the creed. As to Dependents. "Claims for exemption because of dependents may be made by the man himself, his wife or other dependents, or by a third party who has personally I investigated the case. A claim made by the husband must be accompanied by supporting affidavits signed by the wife and by the head of a family re siding in the same territory. A claim by the wife or a third party must be accompanied by two supporting affi davits signed by heads of families. Similar rules govern claims on the grounds of other dependents, the de pendents of third parties being author ized to file claims with supporting affidavits. In each case the board must be satisfied before it grants ex emption or discharge that the depen dent or dependents actually are sup ported mainly by the fruits of the man's mental or physical labor. Appeals Can Be Made. Local boards are required, subject to appeal, to pass upon claims for ex emption or discharge within three days after the filing of affidavits. District boards must decide appeal cases within five days after the clos ing of proofs and their decisions are final. If the ruling of a local board is affirmed the person in question stands finally accepted for military service. In passing on claims for exemptions on the ground of employment in- ne cessary industrial and agricultural oc cupations, the district boards must be convinced that the particular enter prise affording such employment ac tually is necessary to the maintenance, of the military establishment or na tional interest during the emergency "The evidence must also establish," the regulations say, "even if the par ticular industrial enterprise is found necessary for one of the above pur poses, that the continuance of such person therein Is necessary to the maintenance thereof and that he can not be replaced by another person without direct, substantial or materi al loss detrimental to the adequate I and effective operation of the particu- lar industrial enterprise or agricul tural enterprise in which he is en gaged." President Final Power. Later the President may from time to time designate certain industries or classes of industries that are neces sary and the district boards will be so notified. It will be the duty of each board, however, to ascertain the avail able labor supply for such industries outside the men called for service and to take the result into consider ation in determining such things. "If, in the opinion of the district board," this section of the regula tions concludes, "the direct, substan tial, material loss to any such indus trial or agricultural enterprise out weighs the loss that would result from failure to. obtain the military service of any such person, a certifi cate or discharge may he issued to him. x x x." Certificates of exemption will not necessarily be permanent. They may be revoked with changing conditions, or may be granted only for prescribed periods. Girls! Use Lemons! Make a Bleaching, Beautifying Cream 4 $, The juice of two fresh lemons strain ed into a bottle containing three ounces of orchard white makes a whole quarter pint of the most remark able lemon skin beautifier at about the cost one must pay for a small jar of the ordinary cold creams. Care should j be taken to strain the lemon juice 1 through a fine cloth so no lemon pulp j gets in, then this lotion wTill keep fresh t for months. Every woman knows that lpm nn In is used to blench and re 4 move such blemishes as freckles, sal lowness and tan and is the ideal skin softener, smoothener and beautifier. Just try it! Get three ounces of orchard white at any pharmacy and two lemons from the grocer and make up a quarter pint of this sweetly fra grant lemon lotion and massage it daily into the face, neck, arms and hands. It naturally should help to soften, freshen, bleach and bring out the roses and beauty of any skin. It is simply marvelous to smoothen rough, red hands. Adv. Bathe in Moonlight. The pale moonlight that bathes each night the several hundred frame build ings at ForC Benjamin Harrison which house the student officers and the reg ular army men, shines also over the tents of two Indiana National Guard companies, the Fit st Indiana field hos pital and ambulance company No. 1. Late in the afternoon is bath time with the student officers, and with the regulars, and the" bathhouses, one for each company, are about the busiest i places at the fort, especially after a round of trench-digging. But the men of the field hospital don't care for bathing in the afternoon. Night time is the time for them. Their bath houses are as open as the air, the bathing facilities provided consisting only of showers set up in the open back of their camp. . So, late in the evening, guards are set out, and forms, pallid in the moonlight, emerge from the tents, run to the showers, shiver in the cold water, and beat a hasty retreat to the tents. Indianapolis News. ELIXIR BABEK WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD IN THE PHILIPPINES. "I contracted malaria in 1896, and after a year's fruitless treatment by a prominent ! Washington physician, your Elixir 12 a be k ; entirely cured me. On arriving here I came down witn tropical malaria the worst form aDcl sent home lor Jlabek. Again it proved its value It is worth its weight in gold here." Brasie O'Hagan, Troop E, 8th U. S. Cavalry, Balayjfcn, Philippines. Elixir Babek, 50 cents, all druggists or by Parcel Post, prepaid, from Kloczewski fr Co., Washington, D. C. Disproving a Theory. The man who had a theory vvai ex pounding it. "Everybody is more or less of a poet," he said. "There's not a person on earth, and there never has been a person who hadn't a spark of divine afflatus. It's only a matter of degree of inspiration of power to express, that makes the difference." "I disagree with you," put in. an auditor, positively. "There was one man who couldn't have been a poet." "Who was that, may I ask?" "Adam." "How do you make out that Adam couldn't have been a poet?" "Why, that's simple. Poets are born and not made." Cleveland Plain Dea er. Little Bodily Energy in Potatoes. A pound of potatoes yields hardly one-fifth as much body energy as a pound of rice, cornmeal, or wheat This is partly because they are much Aaore watery and partly because a larK" portion is discarded with the skins. Part of this loss Is inevitable because the skin itself is not usually considered good to eat; but the more carelessly potatoes are pared, the mort of the valuable edible substance go with the skin. Force of Habit. "I want three eggs and boil them three minutes. I am hungry how soon can I have them?'1 "In a' minute, sir." SI dsp nod) asm MM - - '"rw im i i a if i I jt- .V I 'O . , B, , ... i ... ., - ; . . :,-f:L . V ... ''V. v ' ,1 if. i ' ' '' il mmH it-' 'V.j.1 iii in mi' Jl iVwi.MAuMjmiiiiai- i Mm