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|' pursuing and killing at will, even him. He still bore the scent of traces, and Kazan pivoted slowly, his eyes half though he did not eat all he killed. and o f man. The pack would have torn closed. A second Hint) tlie wolf leaped But there was no tight In the rab him to pieces. The first Instinct of the and Kazan threw tip Ills terrible Jaws, bits. They »lied too easily. They were wild is that of self preservation. It sure of tli.it fatal grip Just III front of very sweet and tender to eat, when he may have been this, a whisper back tlie forelegs. Ills teeth snapped on was huugry, but the first thrill of kill through tlie years of savage forebears, empty air. With the nimbleness of a ing them (Missed away after u time. He that made Kazan roll In tlie snow now cat the wolf hud gone completely over wanted sunn tiling bigger. He no long and then where tlie feet of the pack Ills hack. er slunk along as if he were afraid, or had trod the thickest. The trick hail fulled, nnd with a us if he wanted to remain hlddeu. He That night the pack killed a caribou rumble of the dog snurl In tils throat, held his head up. Ills hack bristled. on the edge of tlie lake, and feasted Knzun reached tlie wolf In n single His tull swung free and bushy, like a until nearly dawn. Kazan hung In the bound. They met breast to breast. wolf’s. Every hair in his hotly quiv faee o f the wind. The smell of blood Their fangs clashed and with tlie whole ered with the electric energy of life and o f warm flesh tickled hi* nostrils, weight of Ids body, Kazan (lung him and action. He traveled north and and his sharp ears could catch the self against the w olfs shoulders, west. It was the call of early days— cracking of bones. But the lnstluct clean'd Ids Jaws, and struck agnln for the dnya away up on the Mackenzie. was stronger than the temptutlon. the throat hold. It was another udsa— The Mackenzie was a thousand miles Not until broad duy, when the pack by a hair's breadth—and before he away. had scattered far and wide over the could recover, tlie wolf's teeth were He came upon many trnlls in the plain, did he go boldly to the scene of burled In the back of Ills neck. snow that day, and sniffed the scents Copyright by th« Bobbs-Merrlll Company. left by the hoofs of moose anil caribou. the kill. He found nothing but nn area o f blood-reddened snow, covered with mnl the fur-padded feet of n lynx. He bones, eutrulls and torn hits of tough How Kazan chooses a mate followed a fox, and the trull led him to hide. But It was enough, and he rolled and learns the Joys of bossing FOR T H E F IR S T T I M E IN a (dace shut In by tall spruce, where In it, and burled hlS BOM In what was a wolf pack Is described vividly the snow was beaten down and red left, and remained all thut day close to H IS L IF E K A Z A N K N O W S In the next InetallmenL dened with blood. There was an owl's It, saturating himself with the scent THE JOY OF PERFECT head, feathers, wings anti entrails lying of It. l l U U k CONTIN UALI.» F R E E D O M — H O W HE here, and he knew that there were That night, when the moon nnd the 1 other hunters abroad besides himself. MEETS TH E C HA LLEN G E Rtars came out again, lie sat back with Toward evening he came upon tracks fear nnd hesitation no longer In him, WHEN ONE’S LIFE IS SHAPED OF A H UG E GRAY W O L F . In the snow that were very much like and announced himself to his new com his own. They were quite fresh, nnd Not In the Cradle, But From 12 Is Id rades of the greut plain. there was a warm scent about them Years of Age, Prof. Earl The (>ack hunted again thnt ulght, or Kazan Is a vicious Alaskan that made him whine, nnd filled him Barnes Declares. sledge dog, one-quarter gray again with that desire to fall back up else it was u new pack that startl'd wolf. He saves his master's life on his haunches and sentl forth the miles to the south, and came up with a " T h e hand that rocks the crndle and is taken along when the mas wolf-cry. This desire grew stronger doe curlbou to the big frozen lake. Tlie rules the world?' Nonsense; It only ter goes to civilization to meet in him as the shadows o f night deep night was almost ns clear as day, nnd handles ilio muti-rial. The time of the his bride and return with her to ened in the forest. He had traveled from the edge o f die forest Kazan first shaping of life is from twelve to eight the frozen country. Even the all day, but he was not tired. There saw the caribou run out on the lake a een years old ; thut Is the formativa was something about ulght, now that third o f a mile away. The pack was period. master is afraid to touch the All great educators know there were no men neur, that exhtlnrat- about a dozen strong, nnd had already that." Earl Buriles salii lu ids lecture dog, but Isobel. Kazan's new split Into the fatal horseshoe forma ed him strangely. The wolf blood In mistress, wins his devotion in on Jean Christophe at Pittsburgh. It him ran swifter and swifter. Tonight tion. the two lenders running almost was tho lust of slz studies in gt-ulua stantly. On the way northward ubreast o f the kill, nnd slowly closing It was clear. The sky was filled with McCready, a dog-team driver. glveu by Mr. Barnes before the Uni sturs. The moon rose. And at Inst in. Joins the party. Inflamed by versity Extension society. With a shnrp yelp Kazan darted out he settled back In the snow and turned drink on the following night, "Nothing is more tragic than the re- his head straight up to the spruce tops, into the moonlight. He was directly In McCready beats the muster in latlon of genius to professional life,” the path of the fleeing doe, nnd bore and the w olf came out of him in a long sensible and attacks the bride. said Mr. Barnes. “ Genius is solitary mournful cry which quivered through down upon her with lightning speed. and Individual, can never he fulfilled Kazan flies at the assailant's Two hundred yards away the doe suw the still night for miles. throat and kills him. Fearful of him, nnd swerved to the right, nnd the until it goes out from tlie routine and For a long time he snt nnd listened punishment, the dog takes to leader on that side met her with open staya out. I f genius were respectable, after that howl. He had found voice— the woods and wild life. Jaws. Knzan was In with the second like you or me, he would he mediocre a voice with a strange new note lu It, leader, nnd leaped at the doe's soft like you or me." and it gave him still greater confidence. throat. In a snarling mass the pack He had expected an answer, but none C H A P T E R I V — Continued. closed in from behind, and the doe Racial Differences. came. He had traveled in the face of went down, with Knzun half under her A new bleu Is ttint races of men may the wind, and ns he howled, a bull body, his fangs sunk deep In her Jugu lie differentiated chemically. Just as After that cry Kazan sat for a long moose crushed through the scrub tim lar. She lay heavily on him, hut he did they are separated by easily seen phy time on his haunches, sniffing the new ber ahead o f him, his horns rattling not lose his hold. It was his first Mg sical or anatomical peculiarities of freedom of the air, and watching the against the trees like the tattoo of a kill. His blood ran like fire. Ho deep black pits in the forest about him, make-up, ludr, skin, etc. In tlie blood clear birch club as he put distance be snarled between his clamped teeth. as they faded away before dawn. Now o f Oennuns a count of 4.S70.UUO white and then, since the day the traders had tween himself and that cry. Not until the Inst quiver had left corpuscles per cubic millimeter lias Twice Kazan howled before he went the body over him did lie (mil himself first bought him and put him into been made, while u similar count lu the sledge-traces away over on the Macken on. and he found Joy in the prnctlce of out from under her chest nnd forelegs. blood of French lias shown nn average zie, he had often thought of his free that new note. He came then to the He hud killed u rnbblt thnt day nnd of 8,000,000; ami it is believed that dom longingly, the wolf blood in him foot of a rough ridge, and turned up was not hungry. So he sat hack lu the other racial differences quite as notable urging him to take it. But he had out of the swamp to the top of it. The | snow nnd waited, while the ravenous will be revealed when a wide compara never quite dared. It thrilled him now. stars and the moon were nearer to him , pack tore at the deud doe. After n lit tive study Mint 11 have been tnude. The There were no clubs here, no whips, i there, and on the other side o f the j tle he came nearer, nosed lu between study us suggested would Include the none of the man-beasts whom he had ridge he looked down upon a great j two of them, and was nipped for his In density of organs, viscosity of the first learned to distrust, and then to sweeping plain, with a frozen luke glis trusion. blood, and the gcueral chemical rela hate. It was his misfortune— that tening in the moonlight, and a white j As Kazan drew hnck, still hesitating tions of the various parts of the body. quarter-strain of w olf; and the clubs, river leading from It off into timber | to mix with his wild brothers, a big It is pointed out Unit the results might instead of subduing him, had added to that w-as neither so thick nor so bluck j gray form leaped out of the pack nnd clear up the mystery of the Immunity the savagery that was born In him. as that in the swamp. drove strnlght for his throat. He had of certain races to certain diseases, ex- Men had been his worst enemies. They And then every muscle in his body Just time to throw his shoulder to the platit tlie ent-nnd dog utitlpnthics of had beaten him time and again until he grew tense, and his blood leaped. From attack, and for a moment the two same races, and show us why certuln was almost dead. They called him far off in the plain there came a cry. rolled over and over In the snow. T h e y instincts and appetites are so persist “bad,” and stepped wide of him, and It was his cry— the wolf-cry. His Jaws were up before the excitement of sud ent in various people. Doctor Barlllon never missed the chance to snap a snapped. His white fangs gleamed, den battle hud drawn the pack from foresees that the chemical test o f races whip over his back. His body was cov and he growled deep in his throat. He the feast. Slowly they circled about would even greatly aid In xhuplng Im ered with scars they had given him. wanted to reply, but some strange in- : each other, their white fangs bnre, migration anil marriage laws. He had never felt kindness, or love, stlnct urged him not to. That instinct i their yellowish backs bristling like until the first night the woman had put of the wild was already becoming mas- ! brushes. The fatal ring of wolves W a r on Mosquitoes. her warm little hand on his head, and ter o f him. In the nlr, In the whisper- I drew about the fighters. The New Jersey Mosquito Extermin had snuggled her face close down to lng of tlie spruce tops, in the moon and It was not new to Kazan. A dozen ation association lias asked (lie legis his, while Thorpe— her husband— had the stars themselves, there breathed times he hud sat in rings like this, lature o f that state to appropriate $l<)0,- cried out in horror. He hud almost a spirit which told him that what he i waiting for the final moment. More not) for prosecution of scientific w ar burled his fangs in her white flesh, but had heard was the wolf-cry, but thut it than once he had fought for his life fare on mosquitoes. Tills sum will he in an instant her gentle touch, and her was not the w olf call. within the circle. It was ,the sledge- supplementary to funds provided by sweet voice, had sent through him that The other curne an hour later, clear dog way of fighting. Unless man Inter counties, cities nnd towns In the state wonderful thrill that was his first nnd distinct, that same wailing howl ut rupted with a club or a whip It always for the same purpose. Bart o f the knowledge of love. And now it was a the beginning— but ending In a staccato ended in death. Only one fighter could work consists in drainage of extensive man who was driving him from her, of quick sharp yelps that stirred his ! come out alive. Sometimes both died. salt marshes, filling In lowlands, study away from the hand that had never blood at once into a fiery excitement And there was no man hero—only thnt ing the habits o f the Insects, oiling held a club or a whip, and he growled that it had never known before. The fatal cordon of waiting white-fanged pools, etc. It Is expected thnt in the as he trotted deeper into the forest. same Instinct told him that this was demons, ready to leap upon and tear course of tlie campaign more than ism,. He came to the edge of a swamp as the call— the hunt-cry. It urged him to to pieces tin* first o f the fighters who • Mm acres o f now useless land where day broke. For a time he had been come quickly. A few moments later it was thrown upon his side or back. Ka tin- Insects propagate will he redeemed filled with a strange uneasiness, and came again, and this time there was a zan was a stranger, but he did not fear and made agriculturally nvniluble. light did not quite dispel it. At last reply from close down along the foot those that hemmed him In. The one he was free o f men. He could detect ! o f the ridge, and another from so far great iaw of the pack would compel New York City as a State. nothing that reminded him of their away that Kazan could scarcely hear them to be fair. Col. J. B. Bellinger wants the city hated presence in the uir. But neither it. The hunt-pack was gathering for He kept bis eyes only on the big gray o f New York elevated Into a new state. could he smell the presence of other the night chase; but Kazan sat quiet leader who had challenged him. Shoul To that end he would have annexed to •logs, of the sledge, the fire, of compan- and trembling. der to shoulder they continued to it adjacent slices o f Connecticut nnd ionship and food, and so far back as he circle. Where n few moments before New Jersey. In hi.s opinion erection could remember they had always been I He was not afraid, but he was not ready to go. The ridge seemed to split there had been the snapping o f Jaws of tlie city Into a state would bring a part of his life. the world for him. Down there it was nnd the rending of flesh there was now power to solve complicated problems, Here it was very quiet. The swamp new, and strange, ami without men. silence. Soft-footed and soft-throated such as transportation nnd food dis lay in a hollow between two ridge From the other side something seemed mongrel dogs from the south would tribution. Should Ills idea he adopted mountains, and the spruce and cedar pulling him back, and suddenly he ! have snarled and growled, but Kazan the new state would possess the unlqu« grew low and thick—so thick that turned his head and gazed back and the wolf were still, their ears laid j distinction of being the only stute in there was almost no snow under them, through the moonlit space behind him, forw ard’ Instead o f back, their tulls the Union without an agricultural area and the day was like twilight. Two or farming population. nnd whined. It was the dog-whine now. free and bushy. things he began to miss more than all 1 The woman was hack there. He could Suddenly the w olf struck In with the others—food and company. Both the \ Gold In History. w olf and the dog that was In him de hear her voice. He could feel the swiftness of lightning, nnd his Jaws Gold was known from the enrllest manded the first, and that part of him touch of her soft hand. He could see came together with the sharpness of that was dog longed for the latter. To the laughter In her face and eyes, the steel striking steel. They missed by historic times, and is mentioned In tha both desires the wolf blood that was laughter that had made him warm and an Inch. In that same Instant Kazan eleventh verse of the second chapter strong in him rose responsively. It told happy. She was calling to him through darted In to the side, and like knives o f Genesis. At first it was chiefly used for ornaments. The trade of (he gold him that somewhere in this silent the forests, nnd he was torn between his teeth gashed the w olf’s flank. smith is mentioned in the fourth verse desire to answer that call, und desire They circled again, their eyes grow world between the two ridges there was companionship, and that all he to go down into the pluln. For he ing redder, their lips drawn back until of the seventeenth chapter o f Judges, had to do to find it was to sit back on could also see many men waiting for they seemed to have disappeared. And in connection with the overlaying of his haunches, and cry out his loneli him with clubs, and he could hear the then Knzan leaped for thnt death-grip Idols with gold leaf. ness. More than once something trem cracking of whips, and feel the sting of at the thront—awl missed. It was The Lady Spoke Last. bled in his deep chest, rose In his their lashes. only by nn Inch agnln, and the wolf A flve-yenr-old girl und a three-year- throat, and ended there In a whine. It For a long time he remained on the came back, ns he had done, and laid was the w olf howl, not yet quite born. top of the ridge thnt divided his world. open Kazan’s flank so that the blood old girl were talking. T m older than Food came more easily than voice. And then, at last, he turned and went ran down his leg and reddened the you,” said the boy, elated over tbs snow. The burn of that flank-wound fact. Said the girl, “ Well, Tm newer Toward midday he cornered a big down into the plain. told Kazan that his enemy was old in than you !" white rabbit under a log, and killed i t CHAPTER V. the game of fighting. He crouched The w’arm flesh and blood was better I m ... . The Conclusion. low, his head straight out, and his than frozen fish, or tallow and bran, Leader of the Pack. "The Smiths rejoicing In the In throat close to the snow. It was a end the feast he had gave him confi All that night Kazan kept close to trick Kaznn had learned In puppyhood crease o f pay their boy has received." dence. That afternoon he chased many “ Ah, so to apeak, basking la the rabbits, and killed two more. Until the hunt-pack, but never quite ap — to shield his throat, and w ait Twice the w olf circled about him, son s raise/ now, he had never known the delight of proached i t This was fortunate for WORK IN HOME GARDEN Number of Vegetables for Use in Following Wintor. j Adequate Supply W ill Do Much to , Make Famlly’ e Fare Attractive and Economical— Cultivation and Storage. There lire a utimber o f vegetnhtea which, though grown in the summer, nr« usually (limited for use In tho fol lowing winter. An iidcquutu supply of these produced in tho homo garden will do much to make tho family's winter fsre more attractive nnd inoru economical. Among garden product* of lids type muy ho named cabbage, carrots, parsnips, turnips, mid rutu- bugaa. To store cabbage, the heads should tie buried in pits or placed it! cellars. One method is to dig ii trench about 18 Inches deep and feet wide and set tin» cabbage upright with tlie heads close together, nnd the roots embedded in the soil. When cold weather comes the heads are covered lightly with straw mid 8 or -l inches of earth put in. Early cabbage cannot lie kept, us it does not stand hot weather well. It should tm tisi-d soon after it has formed a solid head. t'aullflower 1* cultivated in much the same way as cabbage, hut when the bends begin to develop Die leaves may ho tied over them in order to ex- cllldo the light nnd keep Die heads white. Cauliflower requires n rich, Squash and Beet. moist sotl mid thrives best under Irri gation. Tlie tender bends of tills veg etatile are boiled with butter or cream, und also usisi for pickling. Carrots are cultivated lu practical ly the same way ns the parsnip, hut are not thinned so mueh und are al lowed to grow as thickly ns planted. Those not usisi during Do- summer are dug in the autumn mid stored In the same mauuer as pursnlps or turnips, i f there is a surplus It may he fed sparingly to horses nnd mules or ent ile. Turnips require n ridi soil and may t>e grown either ns an early or late crop. For a Into crop it is custom ary to sow the seeds broadcast on land from which some early crop hns been removed. In the North this is generally done during July or August, but the usual time is later In the Hotith. The (limits are quite hardy Cabbage and Carrots. nnd the roots need not he gathered tinUI after several frosts. They tnuy then I h - stored in a cellar or buried In a pit outside. Before storing, the tops should he removed. If nn early crop is desired the seed should he sown In drills 12 to 18 Inches apart ns early In Die spring ns the condition o f the soil will permit. A fter the plants appear they aro thinned to about 3 inches. Tw o pounds of seed are required to plant an acre. The rutahuga is quite similar to tho turnip mid is grown in much Dio samo way. It requires moro spaco, however, and a longer period for ItM growth. It is used to a considerable extent for stock feed and lias the ad va n ta ge of being quite hardy. CARING FOR PASTURE LANDS Good Grazing Cannot Be Expected Where There Is Large Amount of Water— It Paya to Drain. I ’nsttire lands Dint are saturated wtth water cannot lie expected to fur nish good grazing, besides it's very unhealthy for liv e stuck. By ptopw i nnd careful drainage much o f the wet pnd mnrshy pasture land— which now produces only tin pn I a table, tough, fibrous feed, i f any at all— enn ho mndo Into profitable pasturo land, which, when tiled, will be found to bo very productive agricultural land. Palatable nnd nutritious grasses for our flocks nnd herds cannot bo ex pected to grow continuously on slight ed pasture Innd. It will run ou t It) pays to drain it nnd fend It with home made fertilizers evenly distributed with a manure spreader. Eaeler Led Than Driven. Healthy, full fed, iustry farm boy* are easier led than driven. W ell- earned, tactfully delivered words o f appreciation provide a potent leading string.