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About The Forest Grove express. (Forest Grove, Or.) 1916-1918 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 18, 1917)
K— KAZAN The S t o r y o f a D o¿ That T u rn ed W o l f By JAMES OLIVER CU RW O OD C o p y rig h t B obb o-M orrd l C « . WITH W O N D E R F U L ANIM AL INSTINCT. KAZAN S E N S E S D E A T H N E A R HIM. A N D L O V I N G J OA N. D E C I D E S T O S T A Y BY H E R T E M P O R A R I L Y Kazan, a vicious Alaskan sledge dog. one-quarter wolf, saves the life of Thorpe, his master, and is taken along when the master goes to civilization to meet his bride and return with her to the frozeu coun try. Even Thorpe is afraid to touch Kazan, but Isobel, the dog’s new mistress, wins his affection at once. On the way northward M o Cready. a dog-team driver. Joins the party and the following night beats the master insensible and attacks the bride. Kazan kills M o Cready. flees to the woods. Joins a wolf pack, whips the leader, takes a young mate. Cray Wolf, and a few nights later drives off the pack which had attacked human beings and protects a sick man. his daugh ter, Joan, and her baby. Won by their kindness the wolf-dog submits to adoption by Joan. This day the chief thing thut he came to understand was (hat the little creature on the sledge was very pre cious to the girl who stroked Ills head and talked to him, nnd that It was very helpless. He learned, too, that Joan was most delighted, and that her voice was softer and thrilled him more deeply, when he paid attention to that T h e fine, b r a v e d o g s t r a i n In little, warm, living thing iu the bear K a z a n c o m e s to the f r o n t a g a i n skin. in a c r i s i s a n d once m o r e he For a long time after they made p e r f o r m s a g r e a t s e r v i c e — a s de camp Pierre Iludisson sat beside the s c r ib e d in the n e x t in st a llm e n t . tire. Tonight he did not smoke. He stared straight Into the flames. When nt Inst he rose to go into the tent tTO UK e o N T I N U K I » ) with the girl and the baby, he bent over Kazan and examined his hurt. “ You’ve got to work In the traces to R E C O R D S P O S I T I O N O F S T A R S morrow. boy,” he said. “ We must make the river by tomorrow night, lr N e w A s t r o n o m i c a l I n s t r u m e n t , Known a s the B l i n k M ic r o s c o p e , I s a we don’t— ” V a l u a b l e In v e n tio n . He did not finish. He was choking back one o f those tearing coughs when One o f the newest of astrounmlcnl the tent-flap dropped behind him. Kn- Instruments Is the blink microscop«. znn lay stiff nnd alert, his eyes tilled with a strange anxiety. He did not The principle Involved is similar to like to see ltndisson enter the tent, that of the moving picture machine. for stronger than ever there hung that In the latter the film used consists of oppressive mystery In the air about ' a series of pictures, each u little dif him, and it seemed to be a part of ferent from Its predecessor. If these ! are presented In rapid succession tho Pierre. series Is fused into one picture In Three times that night he heard faithful Gray W olf calling for him which the succeeding differences ap deep In the forest, and each time he pear ns motion. The hllnk microscope answered her. Toward dawn she enables one to compare a photograph came in close to camp, once he (-aught of a jH>rtlon of the heavens with an the scent o f her when she circled other of the same region taken sev eral years inter. An Ingenlus contri around In the wind, and he tugged and vance brings first one then the other whined at the end o f his chain, hoping plate into view in rapid succession. If in the Interval between the two ex- jsisnres a star In the region has changed Its |M>sltlnu appreciably It will appear to move and can be detected at once. Formerly If was necessary to measure cnrefully the isisltlons of all the stars on both plates In order to d o tect those with large proper motions. Such stars are sometimes called "run away” stars. V II— C o n t in u e d . his breast, where the pain seemed rend- —7— ing him. Pierre knelt beside her. He was “ Frost-bitten lung,” he said, speak- proffering something. and Kazan ing straight at Kazan. “ Got it early in smelled meat. P>ut it was the girl's the winter, up at Fond du Lac. Hope hand that made him tremble and we'll get home— in time— with the shiver, and when she drew back, urging kids.” him to follow her, he dragged himself In the loneliness and emptiness of painfully a foot or two through the ! the big northern wilderness one falls snow. Not until then did the girl see into the habit of talking to one's self, his mangled leg. In an instant she hud Hut Kazan's head was alert, nnd his forgotten all caution, aud was down ! eyes watchful, so Pierre spoke to him. close at his side. “ We’ve got to get them home, and “ He can't walk,” she cried, a sudden there s only you and me to do it,” he tremble in her voice. "Look, mon pere! said, twisting his beard. Suddenly he Here is a terrible cut. W e must carry j clenched his fists, him.” | hollow racking cough convulsed "I guessed that much,” replied Rad- him ngain.^ lsson. “ For that reason I brought the | H om e. he panted, clutching his blanket. Mon Dieu, listen to that!” I ‘ best. It s eighty miles straight north From the darkness of the forest I —t,° the Churchill—nnd I pray to God there came a low wailing cry. ¡w e ll get there with the kids— before Kazan lifted his head and a trem- niJ ^un^s out- He rose to his feet, and staggered n bllng whifle answered in his throat. It little as he walked. There was a collar was Gray W olf calling to him. It was a miracle that Pierre Radis- about Kazan's neck, and he chained After that he son should put the blanket about Ka him to the sledge. zan, and carry him in to the camp, dragged throe or four small logs uj>on without scratch or bite. It was this i Are, and went quietly Into the tent miracle that he achieved, with J o a n 's "h ere Joan nnd the bnby wpre already arm resting on Kazan's shaggy neck as aRIeep. Several times that night Kazan she held one end of the blanket. They ^pard the distant voice of Gray W olf laid him down close to the fire, and aft- i ra,dng for him. but something told him er a little it was the man again who tI*at Ae must not answer It now. To- brought warm water and washed away | ward dawn Gra>' W olf came cl,>s« 1« to the blood from the torn leg. and then the camp, and for the first time Kazan put something on it that was soft and replied to her. warm and soothing, and finally bound C H A P T E R V III. a cloth about I t All this was strange and new to Ka T he Message. zan. Pierre's hand, as well as the Kazan’s howl awakened the man. He girl's, stroked his head. It was the man who brought him a gruel of meal and came out of the tent, peered for a few tallow, and urged him to eat, while moments up at the sky, built up the fire. Joan sat with her chin in her two and began to prepare breakfast. He hands, looking at the dog, and talking PaGpd Kazan on the hend, nnd gave to him. A fter this, when he was quite j *dm a cI'un'£ meat. Joan came out “ I Guessed T h a t M u c h ." comfortable, and no longer afraid, he a few moments later, leaving ¿he bnby heard a strange small cry from the asleep in the tent. She ran up and , that she would coine In and lie down nt furry bundle on the sledge that brought kissed Pierre, and then dropped down his side. P.ut no sooner had Rndisson on her knees beside Kazan, and talked his head up with a jerk. moved in the tent than Gruy W olf was Joan saw- the movement, and heard to him almost as he had heard her talk gone. The man's fuee was thinner, to the baby. When she Jumped up to the low answering whimper in his and his eyes were redder this morn throat. She turned quickly to the help her father, Kazan followed her, ing. His rough was not so loud or so bundle, talking and cooing to It as she nnd when Joan saw him standing firm- rending. It was like a wheeze, ns If took It in her arms, and then she ly upon his legs she gave a cry of something hnd given way Inside, and pulled back the bearskin so that Kazan pleasure. before the girl came out he clutched It was a strange Journey that began his hands often to his throat. Jonn’s could see. He had never seen a baby before, and Joan held it out before into the north that day. Pierre Radis- fuce whitened when she saw him. him, so that he could look straight at son emptied the sledge of everything Anxiety gave way to feur In her eyes. it and see what a wonderful creature It but the tent, blnnkets, food and the Pierre Radlsson laughed when she was. Its little pink face stared stead furry nest for baby Joan. Then he har Hung her arms about him, and coughed ily at Kazan. Its tiny fists reached nessed himself In the traces nnd to prove that what he said was true. out, and it made queer little sounds at dragged the sledge over the snow. He j “ You see the cough Is not so bad. him, and then suddenly it kicked and coughed incessantly. my Joan,” he said. “ It Is breaking up “ It’s a cough I ’ve hud half the win- I You cannot have forgotten, tnn cherle? screamed with delight and laughed. At those sounds Kazan’s whole body re ter,” lied Pierre, careful that Joan saw It always leaves one red-eyed and laxed, and he dragged himself to the no sign of blood on his lips or beard. weak.” girl’s feet. “ I ’ll keep in the cabin for a week when It was a cold, bleak, dark day that followed, nnd through It Kazan nnd “ See, he likes the baby!” she cried. we get home.” Even Kazan, with that strnnge beast the man tugged nt the fore o f the “ Mon pere, we must give him a name. knowledge which man, unable to ex sledge, with Joan following In the What shall It be?” “ Wait till morning for that,” replied I I,Iain- calls instinct, knew that what he trail behind. Kazan’s wound no longer the father. "It la lute, Joan. Go Into said was not the troth. Perhaps It hurt him. He pulled steadily with all the tent, and sleep. We have no dogs was largely because he had heard other his splendid strength, nnd the man now, and will travel slowly. So we men cough like this, and that for gen never lashed him once, but patted him erations his sledge-dog ancestors had | with his mlttened hand on hend nnd must start early.” With her hand on the tent-flap, Joan heard men cough as Radlsson coughed back. The day grew stendlly darker, and In the tops of the trees there was — and had learned what followed it. turned. the low moaning of a storm. More than once he had scented death “ He came with the wolves,” she said. Itarkness and the coming o f the "L et us call him Wolf.” With one arm in tepees nnd cabins, which he had not she was holding the little Joan. The <mtered, and more n once he hnd storm did not drive Pierre Radlsson other she stretched out to Kazan. sniffed at the myst- j of death that Into camp. “ We must reach the river,” was not quite present, but near— Just he said to himself over and over again. “ W o lf! W o lf!” she called softly. Kazan’s eyes were on her. He knew as he hnd caught at a distance the “ We must reach the river— we must that she was speaking to him, and he subtle warning o f storm and o f fire. reach the river— ” And he stendlly And that strnnge thing seemed to be urged Kazan on to greater effort, while drew himself a foot toward her, 'T ie knows It already I” she cried. very near to him now, as he followed his own strength ut the end of the at the end o f his chain behind the traces grew less. “ Good night, mon pere.” It had begun to storm when Pierre For a long time after she had gone sledge. It made him restless, and half into the tent, old Pierre Itadlsson sat a dozen times, when the sledge stopped to build a fire at noon. The on the edge o f the sledge, facing the stopped, he snifTed at the bit of hu- snow fell straight down In a white flre, with Kazan at his feet. Suddenly manlty buried In the bearskin. Each deluge so thick that It hid the tree Pierre the silence was broken again by Gray time that he did this Joan was quick trunks fifty yards away. W o lfs lonely howl deep In the forest. ly at his side, and twice she patted laughed when Joan shivered and snug his scarred and grizzled head until gled close up to him with the bnby in Kazan lifted his head and whined. “ She’s calling for you, boy,” said every drop o f blood In his body leaped her arms. He waited only an hour, riotously with a Joy which his body and then fastened Kazan In the traces Pierre understanding^. He coughed, and clutched a hand to ¡ did not reveal. again, and bucktod the straps oooe CHAPTER more about his own waist. In the silent gloom that was almost night Pierre carried Ills compass in his hand, and at last, late In the afternoon, they came to a break in the timber line, u m l ahead of them lay a plain, aerosa which Itadlsson pointed an exultant hand. “ There’s the river, Joan,” ho said, his voice faint and husky. “ We can camp here now and wait for the storm to pass.” Under n thick clump o f sprue« ho (Hit tip the tent, and then began gath ering firewood. Joan hel|»od him. As soon as they had boiled coffe« and eaten u supper of meat and toasted biscuits, Joan went Into the tent nnd dropped exhausted on her thick tn*d of balsnm boughs, wrapping herself nnd the baby up close In the skins nnd blankets. Tonight sin* had no word for Kazan. And Pierre was glad that she was tisi tired to sit beside (hit tiro and talk. Thousand K i s s e s a n H o u r . Think of being kissed l.issi times an hour, six hours at n stretch. Metter still, think of these 6,000 kisses In six hours, with time after each for a little soit, sweet love note, and, perhaps. I f yon nr** sentimentally nnd affection ately Inclined, you may be able to pic ture the performance which huppened in I.nnghorne, I'a. It has set the tongues flying. To make matters worse, the two lov ers who Indulge*! In this pleasant pas time had an audience. They were watched by none other than n dignified professor, anti, far from minding tho intrusion, as if proud of their accom plishments, the two sweethearts Cooed and sang to each other and kissed, kissed and kissed. The sweethearts are pnrrots, and proud of It. They are not the every day, plain variety, but nre o f brllllunt ami gorgeous plumage and hall from Australia.— Philadelphia Public le d ger. A Bar to C onversation. 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Several other species uiso propagate In like manner. Only One Egyptian Frog. The only known species o f frog which occurs at present In Egypt la the rana escul&ta, the edible imtg eg the eouUneut. Against our will, we have been forced Into the greutest conflict ever known. Our national life and liber ties and those of our children nr« nt stuku, and w « are In this war with very meager preparation. Fortunate ly In Ihe last thris* years to supply the ullles we huv« learned how to manufacture In lurge quantity guns, munitions and other war supplies. This has given us tens of thousands of mechanics nnd artisans so trained that a large output of these war nec essities can be quickly bad. This war has made clear what w « all ought to have known ami that Is that the volunteer system o f service utterly falls In a crisis, besides being 1 obviously unjust nnd undemocratic. Experience shows there Is only on« plan that will work and that Is uni versal military training and service. Aside from the training that will now be given the men eullt*d by the selec tive draft, we must permanently adopt the plan of giving every young man before he enters a business career at least six months of Intensive training to build U|i Ids pbyslqm* and develop him In strength ami virility. Nothing else will do so much for him; these men to be subject to call for service, nml they should be made available for an> kind of service necessary to main tain the army ami navy In lime of war. It Is quite as necessary to plow corn as to ipg trenches. A man may be able to render a higher service to Ills country behind lh<* plow or at a lathe In u workshop than by operating a machine gun In a battle line. Every one must I n * brought to umlerstaml (blit to* owes a duty to his country that In a crisis must he paid In js*r- sonnl service o f such kind as the coun try may require of Idm. No matter what that service may be. six months of Intensive military training Is the best possible preparation he eftn have for It. In return for the blessings and op- [sirtuultics o f freedom we enjoy, we owe our Country ii duty that must be puld even If life must be sacrificed. We have no right to shirk responsibil ity nml endeavor to place the burden til>on others. We must win this war. or God help us. Germany Is ii mighty foe nnd to defeat tier we must go the limit. If we do not win, liberty ami popular gov ernment tuny he lost to tilt* world. There Is one lesson we must now tcuru, that we should have learned years ago. ami that Is never again to be caught In ii position where we nre so completely unready to defend our selves. We must adopt nml perma nently maintain universal military training. Without this our uutlotinl life will never be secure. There Is no assurance that the present will he the last war. Such predictions have been mude after every war. There Is only one wuy ami that Is to be strong and ready. If Is quite probable that If we had been prepared the kaiser would not have trampled upon our rights ami we would not have been forced Into this awful war. Now that we nre In, we must go through to the end nml the harder we light the sooner It will be over. • • • • • • • » • • • • • • • « • • • M l S POULTRY POINTERS ; When chicks lira confined to a lim ited range, the ¿round should he spaded up at frequent Intervals, so as to provide fresh ground for them to scratch In. Any pullet thut d*s*s not begin lay ing before the first extremely cold weather will seldom lay mutiy eggs during I»cccmher am] January. On the farm where pullets hnve plenty of range, hopper feeding gives very satisfactory results; that Is, cer tain food Is put Into a self-feeding' hop per where It Is always available. ! There Is no economy In giving only i »»tie kind of feed, because fowls nml chicks need a vuriety In order to get the required amount o f tile different kinds o f nourishment. A dirty water dish offers a good chance for the distribution o f disease germs, and ull dishes should be cleaned nnd scalded with boiling water fre quently during hot weather. Unless there Is plenty o f gravel or other grit which the fowls can pick up about the plnce, they should always hnve a box o f commercial grit where they can reach It at any time, for grit 1s necessary for perfect digestion. Geese do not need shelter except dur ing cold winter weather, when open sheds may ho provided. I f your flock Is penned up, do not nogleet the moat constituent of the ration. The chief danger In feeding oats lies I d the hulls. It la too expensive to buy hulled oats, and about the only way to eliminate the trouble Is to eoak the oata, or, still better, sprout rtuen