|' 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.