way. while the quarter that was wolf filled hla reddened eyes ns he saw the Odd Facts About Babies. still revealed Itself menacingly In Ids last of the girl. He knew, now, that he win leaving fangs, ami In the vengeful glare o f his Incubators for halites were used by eyes. her forever, and there was an ache lu the undent Egyptians. Three times the man— his master— Ids heart that bail never been there be In many countries the belief Is held eume out o f the tent, ami shouted loud fore, a palu that was not of the club or that babies born at produely twelve whip, of cold or hunger, hut which was midnight are endowed with occult ly. “ Kazan Kazan— Kazan I” Three times the woman came with greater than them nil. and which filled powers. him. In the firelight Kazan could see him with a desire to throw back Ills In some parts o f Ireland a belt made her shining hair streaming about her, head and cry out his loneliness to the of woman's hair Is placed about a new- as he bail seen It In the tent, when he gray emptiness of the sky. j born baby to keep evil uplrlta away. Back lu the camp the girl's vole« had leaped up ami killed the other If you rock an empty cradle, you will man. In her blue eyes there was the quivered. j rock a new baby Into It, la a superstl* "H e Is gone." same wild terror, and her face was Mon that la aliiioat overywhero prevn- The tmill's strong voice choked a Ill- | lent. white ns the snow. “ Kazan Kazan— K azan!"— ami u!l thut part of him that tic In the British museum are specimens “ Yes, he Is gone. He knew and I of tuibles' feeding bottles dating to be was dog. ami not wolf, trembled Joy ously at the sound of her video, uml he didn't. I'd give- a year o f my life— If I tween six und seven hundred years be almost crept in to take Ids heating. But hadn't whipped him yesterday mid last fore Christ. fear of tho club was the greater, and night. He won't come back." KAZAN SAVES THE LIFE OF HIS MISTRESS AND THEN DE •Statisticians tell us that 2fl.ono.000 he held hack, hour after hour, until lsohel Thorpe's hum! tightened «*» babies are Imrn Into the world each CIDES TO BID HER FAREWELL FOREVER now It was silent aguin In the tent, Ids arm. I year—-about seventy a minute, or more ami he could no longer see their shad “ He w ill!” she cried, “ lie won’t than one every second. ows, and the tire was dying down. leave me. lie loved me, If he was uav- Everywhere and alwnya more boyf Kazan is a huge anil vicious Alaskan sledge dog, one-quarter gray Cautiously he crept out from the age und terrible. And he knows thut I than girls nre Imru Into the world, thO' wolf. He saves his master’s life and is taken along when the master thick gloom, working his way on his love him. lie'll come buck— " proportion approximately being 1,040 goes to civilization to meet his bride and return with her to the fro • l . l s u n ! " belly toward the packed sledge, ami male Infants to 1,000 female. zen country. Even the master is afraid to touch the dog. hut lsohel, From deep In the forest there rama what remained o f the burned logs. Be Twin babies are not always born on Kazan's new mistress, wins his devotion instantly. On the way yond that sledge, hidden in the dark a long walling howl, filled with a plain the same day. A little while bark a northward McCready. a dog-team driver. Joins the party and Kazan ness o f the trees, was the body o f the tive sadness. It win Kazan's furewell workman's w ife nt Barrow, In Laura* tries to attack him. Even lsohel finds it hard to quiet the dog. Kazan man he had killed, covered with a to the woman. shire, England, gave birth on Febru knows that McCready is had all through. The others do not. blanket. Thorpe, his master, had ary 24 to a sou. Mix weeks later a girl draggl'd It tiiere. wus tmrn. These babies, said the doc K a zan 's real life atory begins He lay down, with his nose to the tor. were undoubtedly twins, notwith w it h the next In stallm en t. Just C H A P T E R I I I . — Continued. feet, his back tense and bristling, his warm coals uml his eyes leveled be standing tfu* unusually long period In as the good and bad In man are limbs rigid. He saw McCready’s huge tween his forepaws, straight ut the tervening between the two births. co n stan tly In conflict, so the Later, after Thorpe and his wife shadow on the canvas, and a moment closed tent-flap. He meant to keep dog and w o lf straina are con had gone Into their tent, it began to later there came u strange piercing cry. awake, to watch, to be ready to slink Americans to Become Human s ta n tly In conflict In Kazan. snow, and the effect of the snow upon In the wild terror o f that cry he recog off Into the forest at the first move McCready puzzled Kazan. The man nized her voice— and he leaped toward ment there. But a warmth was rising Penguins Unless They Walk was restless, and he drank frequently the tent. The leash stopped him, from out o f the gray ash of the flre iTO Uhi C O N T IN U E D .) More, Says Student of Feet. from the flask that he had used the choking the snarl In his throat. He saw tted, and Ids eyes closed. Twice— three night before. In the firelight his face the shadows struggling now, anil there times— he fought ldmself hack Into INN America's physical foundation— the grew redder and redder, und Kazan came cry after cry. She was culling to watchfulness: hut the lust time his SCENES IN A CHINESE feet and legs of tier citizens Is un could see the strange gleam of his his master, and with his master's name eyes came only half open, and closed heavily aguin. H o m e ly In d u s try the M ain F e a t u re of sound, If w e are to believe I*. A. Valle, teeth as he gazed at the tent in which she was calling him ! who has made a study of feet. I f we H o s te lr y In te res tin g ly Described In his sleep he was leaping again nt his mistress was sleeping. Again and “ Kazan— Kazan— ” 1 do not discard the present monstrosi by A m eric an T ra v e le r . again he went close to that tent, and He leaped aguin. and was thrown up the end o f his chain. His Jaws snapped ties In footwear und get Into the habit listened. Twice he heard movement. on his back. A second anil a third like castanets o f steel—ami the sound The building was a long, one-storied of walking, using our legs and fi«et The last time, it was the sound of time he sprang the length of the leash awakened him, and he sprang to his Thorpe’s deep breathing. McCready into the night, and the bublche cord feet, his spine us stiff as a brush, ami mud hut, with thatched roof. We en Instead of the automobile und street hurried back to the fire and turned his about bis neck cut into his Uesh like his snarling fuugs bared like Ivory tered. Behold what the frontiersman car, he says we will become human face straight up to the sky. The snow a knife. He stopped for an Instant, knives, lie had awakened Just lu time. had creuted ! The long room was the penguins. He culls attention to the fact that was falling so thickly that when he ' gasping for breath. The shadows were There was movement In the tent. His scene of homely Industry. From the lowered his face he blinked and wiped I still fighting. Now they were upright! I master was awake, and If he did not center rafter hung u big oil lump, shvil- Dr. Lloyd Brown, the examining phy- dlng Its rays over u patrlurchul fuudly stclnn of Harvard, found that M»fl his eyes. Then he went into the gloom ' Now they were crumpling down! With e s ca p e - lie sped swiftly into the thick spruce, us busy us n hive of bees. By the clay of 740 members o f the UMfl fresh and bent low over the trail they had \ a fierce snarl he flung his whole w*eight made a few hours before. It was al once more at the end of the chain. ! und paused, flat und hidden, with only stove aut the gruudfuther feeding the man class stood In a manner thut In tire with twigs, und tending u brood at dicated "a isitciitliillty for sickness," most obliterated by the falling snow. There was a snap, us the thong about children playing on u dirt floor hackl'd and that 470 o f the f>00 students hod Another hour and there would be no his neck gave way. hurd, swept clean. From one cornet foot and logs so Imper foot that they trail—nothing the next day to tell who In half a dozen bounds Kazan made came the merry whir of grinding mill were Ineligible for inllltury duty. ever might pass that they had come the tent and rushed under the flap. stones, as a blindfolded donkey walked this way. By morning it would cover With a snarl he was at McCready’s Lack of leg exercise Is supposed round and round, while a woman In red everything, even the fire, if he allowed throut. The first snap o f his powerful to tie tile cause of this condition. with n wonderful headdress gathrrt'd it to die down. McCready drunk again, Jaws was death, but he did not know Mr. Valle says that the American up the heaps of yellow corn meal that out in the darkness. Low words of an that. He knew only that his mistress woman has neglected herself for so oozed from the gray atones. More insane joy burst from his lips. His was there, and that he was fighting for long that her legs and feet are suf women In red threw the bright meal head was hot with a drunken fire. His her. There came one choking gasping fering malformations. There Is no high In the air, winnowing It of Its heart beat madly, but scarcely more cry that ended with a terrible sob; It longer In her log the beauty of chaff; others leaned over clay mortars, furiously than did Kuzan’s when the was McCready. The man sank from the classic line. Popular Science pounding condiments with stone pen- dog saw that McCready was returning his knees upon his back, and Kazan Monthly. ties. with a club! The club he placed on thrust his fangs deeper into his Men were hurrying here nnd there end against a tree. Then he took a enemy's throat; he felt the warm blood. with firewood, cooking for the travel lantern from the sledge and lighted It. The dog's mistress was calling to ers. One end of the room was re He approached Thorpe's tent-flap, the him now. She was pulling ut his shaggy served for these wayfarers, hut the lantern in his hand. neck. But he would not loose his hold k’ung nt the other end was divided “ Ho, Thorpe— Thorpe!” he called. — not for a long time. When he did. Into sections. From each rafter over There was no answer. He could hear his mistress looked down once upon leach section swung quaint little cra Thorpe breathing. He drew the flap the man and covered her face with her dles; In each cradle was u little brown No T r a n s f e r . hands. Then she sank down upon the aside a little, and raised his voice. baby, each baby tended by n larger ".Tibbies married for money, yon blankets. She was very still. Her face “ Thorpe!" child. Far nway from tho loud clamor say?" Still there was no movement Inside, and hands were cold, and Kazan muz ■ of the western world, wo fell asleep "Yes.” and he untied the flap strings and zled them tenderly. Her eyes were In n clean Inner room, to the soft noun! "W here's the money now?" of swinging cradles nnd grinding mill thrust in his lantern. The light flashed closed. He snuggled up close against “ Still right where It was when he stones.— Alice Tisdale, in Atlantic. on Isobel's golden head, and McCready her, with his ready Jaws turned toward married for It.” stared at it, his eyes burning like red I the dead man. Why was she so still, he wondered? coals, until he saw that Thorpe was j P e r fe c t W a tc h . Family Secrets. A long time passed, and then she awakening. Quickly he dropped the “ Is your fiither When a part o f the Shnckleton c n e - moved. Her eyes opened. Her hand flap and rustled it from the outside. a commuter, lit dltlon to tin- Antarctic land was ma “ Ho, Thorpe— Thorpe!” he called touched him. tle boy?” rooned at Elephant Island they had Then he heard a step outside. again. "N ot yet, sir, only one timekeeper, mill It hung over It was his master, and with that old This time Thorpe replied. W ai Kazan's F a re w e ll the n blubber stove for four months. In but I 'spect he’s thrill of fear— fear o f the club— he W om an. goln’ to be. ^ the smoky atmosphere o f a hut made “ Hello, McCready—is that you?” went swiftly to the door. Yes, there board tun say ho o f stray pieces o f wood, blocks o f Ice, McCready drew the flap back a lit was his master In the firelight— and in his head showing from behind a tree. odd bits o f canvas and nn upturned was goln’ to git tle, and spoke In a low voice. his hand he held the club. He was He knew that his master would not boat. But this Is only a part of Its hls sentence com “ Yes. Can you come out a minute? coming slowly, almost fulling at each spare hlrn. Three times Thorpe had history. The watch belonged to the muted.” Something's happening out in the step, and his face was red with blood. beaten hirn for snapping at McCready. man who had charge of the motor woods. Don't wake up your w ife !” But he had the club! He would beat The laid time be could have shot him The Usual Piece of Mind. He drew back and waited. A minute him again— beat him terribly for hurt if the girl had not saved him. And sledges, and It was reported thut In the two and one-half years of the ex "Pa, mother's lookin’ for yer." later Thorpe came quietly out o f the ing McCready; so Kazan slipped quiet now he had torn McCready’s throat. pedition this watch wus never altered, "W hat’s she want o f me now?" tent. McCready pointed into the thick ly under the tent-flap und stole off into He had taken the life from him, and never stopped going and gained Just “ She don't wiint nothing of yer, but spruce. the shadows. From out the gloom of his master would not spare him. Even one minute. she soys sbe’a goln’ to give yer some “ I'll swear there’s someone nosing the thick spruce he looked back, and the woman could not save him. The following Incident from nn Eng thing.” around the camp,” he said. “ I’m cer a low whine of love and grief rose and Kazan was sorry that his muster had lish paper shows how Important e tain that I saw a man out thero a few died softly in his throat. They would returned, dazed arid bleeding, after he chronometer Is on nn expedition of Very Much So. minutes ago, when I went for a log. beat him always now— after that. Even had torn McCready’s Jugular. Then he this kind. “ I hear Chloe was much cut up by; It’s a good night for stealing dogs. she would beat him. They would hunt would have had her always. She would At one period, In order to accom William's conduct, Mandy.” Here— you take the lantern! I f I him down, und beat him when they have loved him. She did love hlrn. And plish an arduous march, Sir Ernest “ Ho she was, ma’am, so she wag.i wasn’t clean fooled, we’ll find a trail found him. he would have followed her, nnd fought Shackelton told hls companions to dis But it wasn't conduct, mu'um, it wa4 In the snow,’ From out of the glow of the fire he for her always, and died for her when card all their personal belongings. It hls razah.” He gave Thorpe the lantern and turned his wolfish head to the depths the time came. But Thorpe had come 4 wus Imperative to inarch "light." Sir picked up the heavy club. A growl rose of the forest. There were no clubs or In from the forest ngnln, and Kazan Ernest himself set the example by Birds of a Feather. in Kazan's throat, but he choked it stinging lashes out in that gloom. They had slunk away quickly— for Thorpe throwing away Y l sovereigns (per Billy— Huy, what do dey mean by back. He wanted to snarl forth his would never find him there. meant to him what h 11 men meant to haps, had they been treasury notes a amoker's set? warning, to leap at the end of his him now: the club, the whip nnd the Instead o f gold be might have retained For another moment he wavered. Jimmy— Dat’s n cinch. I t ’s dc crowd leash, but he knew that if he did that, strange things that spat fire and death. them), and everything else went but whut hangs round do cigar sforai they would return and beat him. iSo And then, ns silently as one of the wild And now— six pairs of sox, one pound of tobacco he lay still, trembling and shivering, creatures whose blood was partly his, 1 horpe had come out from the tent. and one pouud o f cocoa— und tha Self-Evident. and whining softly. He watched them he stole away into the blackness of the It was approaching dawn, and In his watch. "Talking ubout until they disappeared—and then wait night. hand he held a rifle. A moment Inter age, Miss Nancy ed— listened. At last he heard the C H A P T E R IV . the girl came out, and her tiand caught W a s Still Sore on G retts . crunch of snow. He was not surprised seems to bo hold the man's arm. They looked toward to see McCready come back alone. He I have u little niece ugeil four und ing her own." the thing covered by the blanket. Then n nephew aged eight. They had a little Free F ro m Bonds. had expected him to return alone. For “ You bet ahe he knew what u club meant! There was a low monning o f the she spoke to Thorpe nnd he suddenly qunrrel before being put to bed. Each d o e s . Nobody McCready’s face was terrible now. It wind In the spruce tops os Kazan slunk straightened nnd threw back his head. had to repeat hls evening pruyer. Lino else has ever suc "H-o-o-o-o — Kazun — Kazan — Ka repeated hls as he had been tnught ceeded In getting was like a beast’s. He was hatless. ofT Into the blackness and mystery of Then added, “ Don’t files* (iretta, God; hold of it.” Kazan slunk deeper In his shadow at the forest. For hours he lay near the zan !” he called. A shiver ran through Kazan. The she ain’t no good.” —Cleveland Leader. the low horrible laugh that fell from camp, his red nnd blistered eyes gaz his lips— for the man still held the ing steadily at the tent wherein the ter man was trying to Inveigle hlrn back. Likely. club. In a moment he dropped that, rible thing had happened a little while He had In his hand the thing that "Your w ife goes to tho country, M om entous Decision. killed. and approached the tent. He drew back before. Maude— ” Oh, Gertie, what a lovely eh 7" the flap and peered in. Thorpe’s wife "Yep." He knew now wbat death was. He “ Kazan— Kazan— Ka-a-a-a-znn I” he engagement ring! How I envy you l" was sleeping, and as quietly as a cat could tell It farther than man. He shouted again. "Oh, you I Kicking over the tracea Gertie— "You needn't, dear. When It he entered and hung the lantern on a could smell It In the air. And he knew Kazan sneaked cautiously back comes to the point. I’ve either got to i bit, eb t" nail in the tent-pole. His movement that there was death all about him, from the tree. He knew that distance marry him or give It back.” “ Well, not exactly. But I had 4 did not awaken her, and for a few mo and that he was the cause o f I t He meant nothing to the cold thing of poker party at the house the Other ments he stood there, staring—staring. lay on his belly In the deep snow and death that Thorpe held In hls hand. Ha night. And I’m afraid she'll be ki3t*. Optimistic Thought Kazan watched McCready as he en shivered, and the three-quartera o f him turned his head once, aud whined soft- Ing over the traces when she dtta; Every rnaa'i experience la a tered, and suddenly the dog was on his that was dog whined In a grief-stricken ly, and for an Instant a great longing doe to all. tack I” jTArœsu OUVERT CVRWQDD- SOME SMILES