KAZAN
The Story of a D og That Turned Wolf
By J A M E S OLIVER C V R W O O D
Caexright Ih tb b j-S terrili C'rx
WEYMAN. THE NATURALIST. AND HENRI. THE HUNTER.
MAKE THE STRANGE DISCOVERY THAT A DOG AND A
BLIND WOLF ARE M ATES— THEY MARVEL
i faring dire punishment after killing a man who attacks his mis
tress, Kazan, an Alaskan dog. one-quarter wolf, takes to wild life and
mates with Gray Wolf. Weeks Inter, drawn by memory o f woman's
kindness, Kazan saves the life o f Joan and her baby, and with Gray
W olf establishes a lair on Suu Rock, near Joan's home. Gray W olf Is
blinded and her pups are killed by a lynx. Joan, her husband and
her baby leave the country, so Kazan and Gray W olf go northward.
CHAPTER X III— Continued.
I Then it was that one o f Henri's hid-
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den traps saved him from a second at-
Weyman was with him when they tack—and death. Steel jaws suapis-d
struck fresh signs of lynx. There was over one of his forefeet, and when he
a great windfall ten or fifteen feet leaped, the chain stopped him. Once
high, and in one place the logs had or twice before, blind Gray W olf had
formed a sort of cavern, with almost leaped In, when she knew that Kazan
solid walls on three sides. The snow | was in great danger. For an Instant
was beaten down by trucks, and the ' she forgot her caution now, and us she
fur of rabbit was scattered about, j heard Kazan's snarl of pain, she
llenri was Jubilunt.
¡sprung lu under the wlndfull
Five
“ We got heem—sure!” he said.
traps Henri had hidden In the space
He built the bait-house, set a trap In front of the bait-house, and Gray
and looked about him shrewdly. Then Wolf's feet found two o f these. She
he explained his scheme to Weyrnau. fell on her side, snapping and snarl-
| lings, and when It was tlnlshcd, the cutlrcly from thè show and wlnd. Gray
Wolf look posHomiloti of It Immodlatoly.
two prisoners were placed In It.
Itefore the dog was put In with Gray Sho tlatteiied berseli oul on ber belly,
Wolf, Wcyuiau closely examined the and punteti lo show Kiizan her con-
worn and tootli-iuurked cellar about teulment and sallsfiuilon. Rimiti kepi
dose ut her side. A Vision carne lo
his neck.
liini, uiirciil and dreainllke, of lime
On the brass plate he found en
graved the one word, ''Kazan," and woliderful night under thè stara ago«
and Iiges ago. Il scomod wheu he had
with a strange thrill made note of It
funghi ilio leader of thè wolf.pack, and
in his diary.
young Gray Wolf had crcpi lo hls siile
A lter this Weymnu often remained
after bis victory and limi glven ber-
at the cabin when llcurl went out ou
stif to hi in for mate.
the trap-line. A fter the second day he
The luilr had now hogun to gmw
dared to put his hand between the sap
over Gray Wolf's slghtloss eyes. Sin*
ling bars and touch Kazau, and the
had cessoli to grlevo. to rub her eyi<s
next day Kuzun accepted a piece of
wlth her paws. lo whlno for thè suo-
raw moos* meat from his hand. Rut
llght, thè golden limoli and Ilio stara.
at his approach, Gray W olf would al Slowly she began to forget Ihnt sh*
ways hide under the pile of balsam In had ever scoli Ihose thlngs She could
the corner of their prison. The in Hot run more swiftly al Kaznn's llank.
stinct o f generations and perhaps of Scent and hearing had become woo-
centuries had taught her that man derfuliy keen. She could wlnd a curi*
was her deadliest enemy. And yet. hou two mlles distaili, and thè |ye*-
this man did not hurt her, ami Kaxun
elice of man she could pick up ut an
was not afraid of him. She was fright even greater dislalico. Gii a stili night
ened at tlrst ; then puzzled, and a she had heard thè splash of a trout
growing curiosity followed that. Oc hall' a lidie nwiiv. And as th*M tW#
casionally, after the third day, she thlnge- scout and hearing becnme
would thrust her blind face out of more and more developed In her, those
the
balsam and siilIT
the air when
- same senses became
,
, less active
... in iva-
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.
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\\ eytnau was at the cage, making
I ZUII.
friends with Kazan. Rut she would
He began to depend upon Gray Wolf.
not eat. Weyniun noted that, and each
She would polut out the hiding place
day he tempted her with the choicest of u partridge Ilfty yards from the*»
morsels of doer and moose fat. Five trail. In their hunts she became the
days— six— seven passed, and she had leader—tin(11 game was found. And
not taken a mouthful. Weyman could a s Kazan learned to trust to her In the
count her ribs.
hunt, so he began Just as Instinctively
“ She die," Henri told him ou the to* heed her warnings. If Gruy W olf
seveuth night. "She starve before she reasoned. It was to the effect that
eat lu that cage. She wunt the forest, without Kazan she would die. She had
the wild kill, the fresh blood. She I tried hard now and then to catch •
tw o tre e year old— loo old to make I)nr,ridge or a rabhlt. but ah* had nl-
ilx lllzt.
.
Kuzun meant lift* tu her.
Henri went to bed ut the usual hour. And— If she reasoned It was to make
but Weyman was troubled, and sat up herself Indispensable lo her tante.
late. Midnight came.
it was her habit, spring, summer
tie rose, opened the door softly, and ,ind winter, to snuggle close to Kazan
went out. Instinctively tils eyes turned
p,. u np her beautiful bead resting
westward. The sky was a bluze o f | on hls neck or back. If Kazan snarled
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CLOGS THE KIDNEYS
Take a jfliiss of Salts if your
Hack hurts or Hlndder
bothers.
If you must have your meat every
' . a't '¡'t. but" flush"your kidneys
w|lh „ „ i , , <„.,..IM|„llll||yi rays a noted
authority who tells us that meat forms
uric add w hich almost paralyzes the
ing them skillfully under leaves and toward the windfall, Henri pi »luted to knew that it was Kazan crying for hls hacj mB,je Kazan absolutely necessary , r 1 m bad you haie rln-utnatlr twinges
moss uud snow, and all were far the tracks of Kuzun and Gruy Wolf, freedom.
to h<ir
— and now. In a differ- The urine gets cloudy, fuit of a«dl-
enough away from the bait-house so and his dark face lighted up wltti
Leanlng against the side of the cubiti (>nt wn.
became moro and mor* nient, the channels often get sore und
that the trapped lynx could not spring pleasure and excitement. When they was un ax. Weyman seized It. and hU
„„„I
Kazan They wer* happy Irritated, obliging you to seek relief
them in his struggles.
reached the shelter under the mass of ' " ■ » , » » ...........
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th.'tr
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.'ir ? X L
“ When they tight, w olf jump this fallen timber, both stood speechless
way an' that— an' sure get in,” said for a moment, astounded by what they two of the sapling burs were knocked Unr„ lv
, hoy e „ beyond the limits
urlnou„ WMt0 ^
four
Henri. “ He miss one, two. t’ree— but saw. Even Henri had seen nothing out. Then Weyniun drew hack. Gray
ounces of Jad Salts from nny phar
of the swamp to hunt.
he sure get in trap somewhere.”
like this before— two wolves and « W olf found the opening first, and she
macy here; take a tablcspnonful In a
That same morning u light snow fell, lynx, ull In traps, and almost within "dipped out Into the starlight like a
glass of w ater before breakfast for a
Once more III fortune comes
making the work more complete, for reach o f one another’s fungs. Rut sur 1 shadow. But she did not tlee. Out
few days and your kidneys will then
to Kazan and Gray W olf— they
act fine. This famous Halts I h made
it covered up all footprints and buried prise could not'long delay the business in the open space she waited for
come Into contact with brutal
from the add of grapes and lemon
the telltale scent of man. That night of Henri's hunters instinct.
The Kazan, and for n moment the two
Juice, combined with lit »la. and I ibn
men, those of the mining coun
Kazan and Gray W olf passed within a wolves lay first in hls path, and he stood there, looking at the cabin. Then
been used for generations to flush and
try In the Northwest. Read of
hundred feet of the windfall, and Gray was raising his rifle to put a steel- they set off Into freedom, Gray W o lfs
stimulate sluggish kidneys, also to
important
developments
In
the
W olf’s keen scent detected something capped bullet through the base of shoulder at Kazan's tlnnk.
neutralize the acids In urine, so It no
next
Installment.
strange and disquieting in the air. She Kazan s brain, when Weyman caught
In the swamp Kazan and Gray W olf
longer Irritates, thus ending bladder
informed Kazan by pressing her shoul him eagerly by the arm.
weakness.
found u home under a windfall. It
der against his, and they swung off
Jad Halts Is Inexpensive: cannot in
“ H a lt !” he cried. “ It’s not a wolf. was a small, comfortable neat, shut In 1
(TO lit: CONTINUED.)
jure, and makes a delightful efferves
at right angles, keeping to windward It’s a d o g!”
cent llthia water drink.
o f the trap-line.
Henri lowered his rifle, staring at
A Humble Worker.
For two days and three cold starlit the collar.
Weyman’s eyes shot to WASHINGTON’S WILL POWER
He does not h»ok like u very linpor-
The Retort.
nights nothing happened at the wind Gray Wolf.
She was facing them,
fall. Henri understood, and explained snarling, her white fangs bared to Kept His Pugnacity In Subjection, but
I,art of “
automobile organl-
"T w o wrongs don't make a right.
to Weyman. The lynx was a hunter, the foes she could not see. Her blind
Occaslonally He Allowed Pas-
zutlon. this stooped, grizzled man, hut Still----- "
sion to Have Sway.
the president of a great motorcar com*
like himself, and also had its huot-line, eyes were closed. Where there should
A senator was discussing the food
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pnny, according to Popular Helene* control bill.
which it covered about once a week. have been eyes there was only hair,
"W h ile the hill has Its drawbacks,"
On the fifth night the lynx returned, and an exclamation broke from Wey
It Is related of John Adams that ^ "'ith ly . says that Magnet Rill save,
he
went on, “ there would he worse
went to the windfall, was lured man’s lips.
when Stuart exhibited hls portrait of h*s Hal'iry “ do*‘‘" tl,ne* ov, r '‘v'‘rjr drawbacks without it, and so we can
straight to the bait, and the shurp-
General
Washington.
Mr.
Adams
went
dB*
,‘f*
works-
KhI'*
or
•
uramer
“ L ook !” he commanded of Henri.
face our opponents like the lady.”
toothed steel trap closed relentlessly “ What In the name of heaven— "
to see It. A fter gazing at It for sev- or " » » * " • **“ * « « * ^
may he seen
‘" M y love,’ her husband said to this
over its right hindfoot. Kazan and
‘One is dog— wild dog that has run ernl minutes he exclaimed. “ That's the w« lk,nf i «low ly about the automobile lady, 'you spend all your money get
Gray W olf were traveling a quarter of to the wolves," said Henri. “ And the portrait of a man who knew how to
hl" * * ' ' * " * ‘*d ,,n
‘fro" nd: ^ ting your palm read.'
" 'And you, dear,’ she retorted,
hold hls tongue, whirl) this old fool
If«
hI" nickname from the fact
u mile deeper In the forest when they other Is— wolf.”
that hls tools consist solely o f a tin 'spend all yours getting your nose
heard the clanking of the steel chain
never
d
id
!”
“ And blind!” gasped Weyman.
bucket nnd n Mg steel magnet, red.’ " — Exchange,
as the lynx fought to free itself. Ten
The portrait does Indicate that the
“ Oul, blind, m’sleur,” added Henri,
strapped
to the end o f a shovel handle.
minutes later they stood in the door falling partly Into French In hls amaze original could he reticent, but It nlso
It Is hls duly to save nutomobll« t in «
Dr. I ’ierce’s Pellets are best for liver,
o f the windfall cavern.
ment. He was raising hls rifle ugain. shows that h<* could control himself. by removing from the rondwny every bowels and stomach. One little Pellet
It was a white clear night, so filled Weyman seized It firmly.
The square, massive Jaw, the full, nntl nnd piece o f metal that might for a **xative three for a cathartic,
with brilliant stars that Henri himself
broad-based
nose, nnd the compressed cause a tire puncture. Thousands of
“ Don’t kill them, Ilenrl,” he snld.
could have hunted by the light of them.
“ Give them to me— alive. Figure up lips express pugnacity and passion, cars are run over this roadway to
Another Look.
The lynx bud exhausted itself, and
the value o f the lynx they have de such as require a strong will to keep the testing place, and without the pro- i n i,,<»k for work,” a man one# aaid
lay crouched on its belly as Kazan
stroyed, and add to that the wolf them In subjection.
cautions taken by Magnet Bill the cost A Jolt came around Ills way
and Gray W olf appeared. As usual.
Sometimes even Washington allowed for cut nnd punctured tires would { lie gave one look and turned Lis head
bounty, and I will pay. Alive, they
Gray W olf held back while Kazan be
amount to ninny thousands o f dollars
And looked the other way.
are worth to me u great deal.
Heav his passion to have swny.
gan the battle. In the first or second
When Glover's Marblehead fisher yearly.
— Washington Star.
ens, u dog— and a blind w olf— mates !”
o f these fights on the trap-line, Kazan
men and Morgan’s Virginia riflemen
He
still
held
Henri's
rifle,
and
Henri
would probably have been disembow
were engaged in n rough and tumble
Glass Plates Replace Films.
° n the Quiet.
eled or had his jugular vein cut open, was staring at him, as If he did not fight, Washington leaped from hls
Glass plates, readily printed from
"Gh, G eorge!" exclaimed the bride
yet
quite
understand.
had the fierce cats been free. They
Weyman continued speakieg, Ids horse over the bars of the camp fence, negatives, are being used In place o f of six short months, looking up from
were more than his match in open
dashed among the rioters, seized two j expensive films, In producing motion ’ I " ’ paper she was perusing, “ here is
fight, though the biggest o f them fell eyes and face blazing.
brawny riflemen by the throat nnd pictures for the home. In the Ih-ttlnl Bn »'cou n t of a woman who was sud-
“ A dog— and a blind w olf— mates I” shaking them at arms' length, subdued uppnrntus, about GOO small views are d,n,y »trlcken dumb du rin g.a thun-
ten pounds under his weight. Chance
had saved him on the Sun Rock. Gruy he repeated. “ It Is wonderful, Ilenrl. not only them, but the whole band.
rontnlned In rows on a single plnte 11 derstorm. I)o you suppose her bus
W olf and the porcupine had both add Down there, they will say I have gone
It was the victory due to command hy 8 Inches In size, and such n plate hand will love her still?”
ed to the defeat of the lynx on the beyond reason, when my hook comes ing strength, presence and manner. replaces 70 or 80 feet o f film. The
“ Sure thing,” replied George. "Any
sand-bar. And along Henri’s hunting out. Rut I shall have proof. I shall
The men saw that they must obey, and lens Is moved mechanically along the | d™ erven ’ the'1
' h a p p y ''T a ti'"o f"1 a n " old’
line it was the trap that was hls ally take twenty photographs here, before they obeyed.
row», nt each end that change from bachelor,
-Exchange*,
Even with his enemy thus shackled you kill the lynx, I shall keep the
one row to the next Is made without
he took bigger chances than ever with dog and the wolf alive. And I shnll
flicker.
A continuous succession of
City of Many Names.
the lynx under the windfall.
pay you, Ilenrl, a hundred dollnrs
W O M E N A R E NEED ED TO
No capital city lias changed Its name plates tnny he passed through, and the
The cat was an old warrior, six or upleee for the two. May I have them?” so often as Constantinople, which was change from plate to plnte Is made au
H E L P IN W A R
seven years old. His claws were an
Ilenrl nodded. lie held his rifle in originally known as Lygos. In B. C. tomatically without Interruption of the
inch and a quarter long, and fu rred readiness, while Weyman unpacked his G.'8 this name was discarded for that scenes thrown upon the screen. In a
Women can be usefully employed In
like scimitars. Ilis forefeet and hls left camera and got to work. Snarling of Byzantium, which remained In use still simpler apparatus, the views nre ' T m 1" “ - ’Jl?
>» making up the
• . i
t it
* -
ho WI cth kit», And it thoiiNiifir] other wiivb
Mndfoot were free, and as Kazan ad fangs greeted the click of the camera- until the capture o f the city by Septi
printed HP rally up..n nonlnflnn.mahle Many American womenaro weak, pah! or
vanced, he drew hack, so that the trap- shutter— the fungs of wolf and lynx. mus Severus, who rechristened It disks o f cellulnidllke mnterlnl, each se> [anemic from woman’s Ills. For young
chain was sluck under his body. Here Rut Kazan lay cringing, not through Itoraa Nova.
On making It hls cap- j rles being limited to the capacity o f girl. Just entering womanhood; for women
Kuzun could not follow hls old tactics fear, hut because he still recognized ital, Constantin»* the Oreut endowed It one disk or record,
nt »lie erltlenl time; nursing mothers; nnd
every woman who Is “ run-down," tired
o f circling about his trapped foe, until the mastery of man.
with Ills own name, nnd It is still Con
or over worked — Hr. I ’leren’s Favorite
it had become tangled in the chain, or
Henri shot the lynx, and when Kazan stantinople among western nations.
Truly Superior.
Prescription Is a special, safe, and certain
hod so shortened and twisted it that understood this, he tore ut the end of This nurno, however, Is Ignored by the
Speaking of American superiority, help. It can now be had In tablet form
there was no chunce for a leap. He his trap-chains and snarled at the Turks, who since they obtained pos Princeton Is reported to hnve an un-
Nothing stands so high, as n remedy
had to attack face to fuce, nnd sud writhing body of his forest enemy. session o f Constantinople have pre klssed senior, because he has never for every womanly nllment. ns “ Favorite
denly he lunged in. They met shoul Ry means of a pole and a bablche ferred to call It Stnmboul.
seen n woman worthy of hls lips. Every Prescription " It's the only medicine for
women put up without alcohol.
der to shoulder.
Kazan's fungs noose, Kuzan wus brought out from un
man can't be a hermit.— Pittsburgh
I>r. Pierce's Favorite Prescription Is an
«napped at the other’s throat, and der the windfall and taken to Henri's
Dispatch.
Picnic in a Tree.
Invigorating, restorative tonic, n sooth
(missed. Before he could strike again, cabin. The two men then returned
ing nnd strengthening nervine and a posi
In n public park o f Tacoma, Wash.,
fthe lynx flung out its free hindfoot. with a thick sack and more bablche, the stump of n huge cedar tree hits
tive remedy for the functional derange
For Use In Hls Church?
painful disorders, nnd chronic
And even Gray W olf heard the ripping and blind Gray Wolf, still fettered by been hollowed out to form n shelter
A clergyman Is th< Inventor o f a ments,
weakness peculiar to the sex
Wound that It made. With a snarl the traps, was made prisoner. All the for picnickers; the top o f the stump light bar to he held against the tipper
Write Or. Pierce. Pres. Invalids' Hotel
¡Kazan was flung back, hls zhouid«r rest of that day Weyman and Ilenrl Is capped by n platform which Is now lip by clamps fastened In the nostrils and Surgical Inst. Ruffalo, N. Y.. In full
confidence or send 10c for trial package
(torn to the bone.
worked to build a stout cuge o f sap- used as a bandstand.
tablets.
to prevent snoring.— Houston P o et