KAZAN ' crest along his spine rose menacingly. again now— the h>»l mourning cry of run’s spirit and courage returned to him. The soreness left his limbs. Ills 1 Sandy Jumped to his feet. Gray W olf ftfV out on the plain. “Guess I know what you're flggerlng W llh a whine Kazan was on his feet, buttered Jaws healed. And after the l on," he said. 'T v e had your kind be­ tugging at the babiche. Sandy snatched fourth day each time that Sandy cam* with meat he greeted him with the fore. The d— wolves have turned up his club, aud leaped toward him. challenge of Ills snarling fangs. Me | you bad. an* you'll need a whole lot of "Down, you brute I" he eomiimnded. club before you're right again. Now, In the firelight the club rose aud fell Trigger did not heat hliu now. He look here.” with ferocious quickness. When Mo- gave him no llsti, no tallow aud meal— Sandy hud tuken tho precaution of Trigger returned t ' the fire he was nothing lull raw meat. He traveled bringing a thick club along with the breathing hard again. He tossed his five miles up the river to tiring In the hablohe. He picked It up from where dull beside the blankets he tun! spread fresh cntrutl of a caribou that had been he had dropped It In the sand. Kazan's out for n lied. It wus a different look­ killed. Hue day Kandy la-ought an­ strength hud fairly returned to hint ing dub now. It wus covered with other man with him and when the stranger came a step too near Kazan now. He was no longer dizzy. The blood and hair. Jarnos mist had cleared away from his eyes. Several times that night Knzan heard made a sudden swift lunge al him The Oliver Before him he saw once more his old Gray W o lfs call, lie whined softly In man Jumped back with a startled oath. Ourwood enemy, man— man and the club. All of response, fearing the dub. lie watched “ H e’ll do,” he growled. "H e’s light the wild ferocity of his nature was the fir«' until the last embers of it died or by ten or fifteen pounds Ihuu the roused In an instant. Without reason* out. and then cautiously dragged him­ Dane, but he's g o t the teeth, an' th' itig he knew that Gray W olf w as gone, self from under the snag. Two or quickness, an' lie'll give a good show CerrrtgO* by lb« Bobbs-lferrUl OnsipaHi and that this man was accountable for three times he tried to stand on tils before tie g o e s under,“ her going. He knew that this man feet, but fell buek each time. Ills legs “ I ’ll make you a bet of twenty-five CHAPTER XIV.— Continued. had also brought him his own hurt, and were not broken, but the pain of stand­ per cent of my share (hat he don't go — 15 — what he ascribed to the man he also ing on them was excrudutlug. He was under," offered Kandy. It was Into In tho afternoon when attributed to the club. In his newer tint and feverish. All (hat night he had "iHMutl" said the other. “ How long Kazan and Gray W olf anno out on u undertaking o f things, born o f freedom craved a drtuk of water. When Kandy before he'll be ready ?" sand bar tivo or six miles down-stream. | and Gray Wolf, man and club were one craw-led out from between tils blankets Kandy thought a moment. Kazan was lapping up the cool water and Inseparable. With n snarl he In the early down he gave him t*oth “ Another week," he said. "H e won't when Sandy drifted quietly around a leaped at Sandy. The man was not ex­ meat nnd water. Kazan drank the wa­ have Ids weight before then. A week bend a hundred yards above them. If pecting n direct assault, and before he ter, but would not touch the meat. from today, w e il say. Next Tuesday the wiud hail been right, or if Sandy j could raise his club or spring aside Sandy regarded the change In him with night. Docs (tint suit you, Harker Î" had been using his paddle. Gray W olf Kazan had landed full on his chest. satisfaction. By the time the sun was Marker nodded. would have detected danger. It was The muzzle about Kazan's Jaws saved up he had finished tils breakfast und “ Next Tuesday night," he agreed. the metallic click-click of the old-fash­ | him. Fangs that would have torn his was ready to leave. He approached Then lie added, ‘TU make It a half of ioned look of Sandy's rifle that awak­ \ throat open snapped harmlessly. Fu­ Kazan fearlessly now, without the club. my share thut tin* Dane kills your wolf- ened her to a sense of peril. Instantly ller the weight of the dog's body he Untying the babiche he dragged the dog." she was thrilled by the nearness of it. fell back, as If struck down by a dog to the canoe. Kazan slunk In the Kandy took a tong took at Kazan. Kazan heard the sound and stopped \ catapult. suud while his captor fastened the end ‘i 'l l Just tuke you on thut,” lie said. drinking to face it. In that moment As quick as a cat he was on his feet o f the hide rope to the stern of the Then, as he s h o o k llarker'a hand, " I Sandy pressed the trigger. A belch of again, with the end of the babiche canoe. don't believe there's u dog between smoke, a roar of gunpowder, and Ka­ twisted several times about his hand. lie pushed off, bow foremost. Brac­ here and the Yukon that cuu kill the zan felt a red-hot stream of tire pass Kazan leaped again, uml this time he ing himself with his paddle he then be­ with the swiftness of a lightning-flush was met by a furious swing o f the club. (TO UK CONTINUED.) gan to pull Knzuu toward the water. In through his brain. He stumbled back, It smashed against his shoulder, and n few moments Kazan stood with his his legs gave way under him, and he sent him down in the sand. Before he forefoot planted In (tie damp suud at SCIENCE AND WAR A UNIT crumpled down in a limp heap. Gray could recover Sandy was upon him, the edge of the stream. For a brief In­ W olf darted like a streak off into the with all the fury of a man gone mail. terval Sandy allowed the babiche to Members of French Military Expedition hush. Blind, she had not seen Kazan He shortened the babiche by twisting it fnll slack. Then with a sudden power­ In Balkans Are Devoting Much wilt down upon the white sand. Not again and again about his hand, und ful pull he Jerked Kazan out luto the Time to Both. until she was a quarter of a mile away the club rose and fell with the skill und from the terrifying thunder of the strength of one long accustomed to its The French military expedition In white man's rifle did she stop and wait use. The first blows served only to the Balkans, following the example of for him. add to Kazan's hatred of man. and the the armies of Napoleon and Marshal Sandy McTrigger grounded his canoe ferocity and fearlessness o f his uttucka. Mai son In carefully preserving und on the sand bar with an exultant yell. Again and again he leaped in. und each classifying all objects o f nr<-his>b>glrul “ Got you. you old devil, didn't I?" he time the club fell upon him with a Interest discovered by the troops, has V cried. “ I’d ’a' got the other, too. If I'd force that threatened to break his gathered data that It Is thought will 'a' had something besides this d----- bones. There w ns a tense hurd look throw much light on the primitive his­ old relic!” about Sandy's cruel mouth. He had tory o f Macedonia. He turned Kazan's head over with never known u dog like this before, and Objects unearthed In trench digging the butt of his gun, and the leer of sat­ he was a bit nervous, even with Knzan at the front In Macedonia nnd In tho isfaction in his face gave place to a muzzled. Three times Kazan's fangs construction o f field works In the In- sudden look of amazement. For the would have sunk deep in his flesh hud trenched camp nre assembled at Sn- first time he saw the collar about Ka­ It not been for the babiche. And If the lonlkl all duly labeled, with full de­ zan's neck. thongs about his Jaws should slip, or tails o f their discovery. “ My Gawd, it ain't a wolf,” he break— . Organized research Is being done so gasped.. “ It's a dog. Sandy McTrigger Sandy followed up the thought with fnr as circumstances permit. Three —a dog!” a smashing blow that lauded on Ka­ flying columns have been sent to cover zan’s head, und once more the old bat­ particularly Interesting regions to CHAPTER XV. tler fell limp upon the sand. Mi-Trig­ make soundings with a view to the ger's breath was coming in quick gasps. preparation o f archeological churls or Sandy’s Method. He was almost winded. Not until the maps. McTrigger dropped on his knees In club slipped from his hand did he These columns have alrendy collect­ the sand. The look of exultation was realize how desperate the fight had ed Information o f Inestimable value, gone from his face. He twisted the been. Before Kazan recovered from with specimens o f poetry, fragments o f collar about the dog's limp neck until the blow that had stunned him Sandy ceramics, with datn ns to the depth at he came to the worn plate, on which he examined the muzzle and strengthened which they were discovered. could make out the faintly engraved it by adding another babiche thong. letters K-a-z-a-n. He spelled the let­ Then he dragged Kazan to a log that “ Slavery” in South America. ters out one by one, and the look In his high water had thrown up on the Timid, cringing, taking off his bat face was of one who still disbelieved shore a few yards away and made the Strengthened It by Adding Another resjiectfully to every white man he w hat he had seen and heard. end of the babiche rope fast to a dead Babiche Thong. meets, the Indian o f the west const “ A dog!” he exclaimed again. “ A snag. After that he pulled his canoe o f South America Is a pitiable ob­ dog. Sandy M .Tr.gg r an' higher up on the Band, and began to water. Instantly he sent live canoe Into ject, says World Outlook. beauty!” midstream, swung It quickly down with ; ; for the night. In the cities he shures with the He rose to h:t feet i.: looked down For some minutes after Kazan’s the current, and began to paddle burro the honor o f being everybody's on his victim. A p-xjl of blood lay in -ttinned “en*- « had become normal he enough to keep the babiche taut about burden bearer. No one but an Indian the white sand at th-.- - n i f Kazan * lay motion:*- watching Ktindy Me- his victim's neck. In spite of his sick­ will be seen with even the smallest nose. After a moment San ;v bent ever Trigg*:.--. Every bone In his body gave ness and injuries Kazan was now com­ package and you < un engage a descend­ to see where his bul.-t had »truck. His him pain. His Jaws were sore and pelled to swim to keep bis bead above ant o f the "children o f the sun” to Inspection filled him with a new and Weeding. Hi* upper lip was smashed water. In the wash of the canoe, and carry home anything from half a greater Interest. The heavy ta.l from where the club had fallen. One eye with Handy's strokes growing steadily pound of tea to a 2U0-pound trunk. You the muzzle-loader had s*ru'-k Kazan was alrno«t dozed. Several times stronger, his position became each mo­ pay him what you will, he dares not fairly on top o f the head. It was a Sandy came near, much pleased at ment one o f Increasing torture. At chaffer about price with n white mnn. glancing blow that had not even broken what he regarded as the good results times bis shaggy bead was pulled com­ On the great plantations anti In the the skull, and like a fl;.-h Sandy un­ of the beating. Each Mine h<- brought pletely under water. At others Sandy mines the Indian is a virtual slave. derstood the quivering :.nd twitching \ the club. The third time he prodded would wait until he bail drifted along­ There Is no free agricultural labor on o f Kazan's shoulders and legs. He Kazan with It, and the dog snarled nnd side, and then thrust him under with the west coast. Four days u week, had thought that tney were the last ■•napped savagely at the end of It. the end of his puddle. He grew weaker. the peon must work for the great land­ At the end of a half mile he wns muscular throes of death. But Kazan That was what Kandy wanted—It was holders ut the munificent wage of ten was not dying. He, was only stunned, an old trick of the dog-slaver. Instant­ drowning. Not until then did Sandy cents n day. The rest of tin; time he pull him alongside and drag him Into and would be on his feet again in a few ly he was using the club again, until may devote to bis own acre or two minutes. with a whining cry Kazan slunk under the canoe. The flog fell limp and gasp­ which must feed and clotho his ing In the bottom. Brutal though Sandy was a connol-seur of dogs— of the protection of the snag to which he family. dogs that had worn sledge traces. He was fastened. He could scarcely drug Sandy's methods had been, they bad worked Ms purjfoze. In Kazan there had lived among them two-thirds o f his himself. Ills right forepaw was Origin of Lace-Making. life. He could tell their age, their smashed. Ills hind-quarters sank un­ was no longer a desire to fight. He no A romantic legend Is sill) current longer struggled for freedom. He knew value, und a part of their history at a der him. For a time after this second among the peasants of Europe concern­ glance. In the snow he could tell the beating he could not have escaped bad that this man was bis master, and for ing the origin of lace. A h the story the time bis spirit was gone. All be trail o f a Mackenzie hound from that he been free. goes, a lover, who could offer his be­ of a Malemute. and the track of an Handy was in unusually good humor. desired now was to l>e allowed to lie In trothed no costly gift, one flay brought the bottom of the canoe, out o f reach Eskimo dog front that of a Y’ ukon " I'll take the devil out o f you ull to her n leaf which lie bad plucked husky. He looked at Kazan’s feet. right,” he told Kazan for the twentieth of the club, ami safe from the wuter. In the forest. Th«- club lay between him and the They were wolf feet, and he chuckled. | time. “ There’s nothin’ like beatln’s to Kbe accepted It ns n true token of Knzan was part wild. He was big and ; make dogs an* wtnuala live up to the | man. The end of It wns within a foot love, nnd preserved It with care. In or two of bis nose, nnd what he powerful, and Sandy thought of the mark. A month from now you'll be time the lover went away— to the war, coming winter, and of the high prices worth two hundred dollars or I’ll skin smelled was his own blood. perhaps— and never returned. For five days nnd five nights the "ta t dogs would bring at Bed Gold you a live!” The maiden prized the leaf then ns City. He went to the canoe und re­ Three or four times before dusk Journey flown .stream continued, nnd a sacred treasure, nnd when she found turned with a roll o f stout moose-hide Sandy worked to rouse Kazan’s ani­ McTrigger - process of civilizing Kazan only the delicate vtdnlng left o f her babiche. Then he sat down cross-leg. mosity. But there was no longer any was continual iri three more beatings keepsake, she took needle and thread ged In front of Kazan und began mak­ desire left In Kazan to fight. Ills two with the club, and another resort to the and tried to copy the falryllke web. ing a muzzle. lie did this by plaiting terrific beatings, and the crushing blow water torture. On the morning of the And thus was made the llrut bit o f real babiche thongs in the same manner o f the bullet against his skull, hud -Ixth flay they reached Ited Gold City, luce.—Girls’ World. that one does in making a web o f a made him sick. He lay with Ills head nnd McTrigger put up bis tent close to snow-shoe. In ten minutes he had the between his forepaws, his eyes closed, the river. Somewhere he obtained a Smallest Canadian Province. muzzle over Kazan's nose and fustened and did not see McTrigger. He paid chain for Kazan, und after fastening Prince Edward Island Is one o f the securely about his neck. To the dog’s no attention to the meat that was the dog securely back o f the tent he maritime provinces o f Canada, nnd the collar he then fastened a ten-foot rope thrown under his nose. He did not cut off the blbuche muzzle, smallest province of the Dominion, hnv- o f babiche. A fter thut he sat back know when the last of the sun sank “ You can't put no meat In n muzzle,” Ing an nrca o f 2,18-1 square miles. Tho und waited for Kazan to come to life. behind the western forests, or *wben he told bis prisoner. “ An’ I want you population at the lust census wns 111,- When Kazan first lifted his head he the darkness came. But ut last some­ to git strong an’ fierce ns hell. I ’ve 1P8. Charlottetown, the capital, has could not see. There was n red film thing roused him from bis stupor. To got an Idee. It's nn Idee you can lick about 12,000 population. The province before his eyes. But this passed away bis dazed and sickened brain It came your weight In wildcats. W e il pull off Is administered by a lleutennnt gover­ sw iftly and he saw the man. Ills first like u call from out of the far post, and a stunt pretty soon thnt’ll fill our nor, appointed for five years by the Instinct was to rise to his feet. Throe be raised his head and listened. Out pockets with dust. I ’ve done It afore, governor generul o f the Dominion, who times he fell back before he could on the sand McTrigger bad built a fire, nnd we can do It here. W olf an’ dog— nets through nn executive council. stand up. Sandy was squatted six feet and the man stood in the red glow of s’elp me Satan hut It’ll bo a drawln’ There Is n legislative assembly o f SO from him, holding the end of the ba­ It now, facing the dark shadows be­ card 1“ members, elected for four years, half biche, and grinning, Kazan’s fangs yond the shoreline. He, too, was lis­ Twice n day after this he brought by property holders and half by man­ gleamed back. He growled, and the tening. What had roused Kazan fresh raw meat to Kazan. Quickly Ka- hood suffrage. s By woir r ; EXCELLENT WAR CROF Poultry Offers One of Best Ways of Increasing Food. Fowls Feed Mors Economically Thar Any Othsr Farm Animal W hin Carefully Handled— Little Capl- tal le Required. Poultry has born called the crop that never falls. It offers one o f th» bent ways o f Increasing food produc* tlon on short notice. Poultry use* feed mure economically probably than any other class o f farm animal when it li carefully handled. It will produce ■ pound o f meat or eggs on four ixuindi •if grain when protein concentrates ar» fed. Pullets will begin luylng In from rt to 8 months. Cockerels are ready for market at the age of 12 to If weeks. There Is good money In poultry nnd eggs If the flock Is prtq>eiiy managed Very little capital Is required and ex pensive stock nnd equipment nre uu necessary. Careful management nut! feeding nre more lm|x>rtuiit than ex­ pensive i-qiilpment. Baying hens should be allowed te moult naturally. The common Idea thni If hens arc compelled to molt early they will quickly fenther out and com mence laying early In the fall Is i t roneous. An early molt Is not a sign o f early fall production. Usually th« Into-uioltlng lien Is the heavier pro vjvt ¿y l S i Trap Nett Tells Profits. N, duccr. In fact a lack o f fenther growth Is one of the points to consider when selecting hens for winter Inylng. Very often show birds tire forced Into summer molt by n restriction ol feed. This Is done so tbnt the birds may be In full fenther once more fot the early show season. This should never be practiced wllh utility stock. It will cause production to stop and weaken the hens at ii time o f the year when full strength Is needed. It 1» unwise to change the general character of the feed. The addition o f some oil- carrying Ingredient, however, such as sunflower seed, will aid In the develop­ ment o f new feathers. the sides. fJlrculnr holes from !10 to 40 feet apart, made with a post-hole digger, may then be dug In Iho bottom of the trench. Into these holes the bugs will fall In large num­ bers, where they may be killed enslly by sprinkling kerosene oil over them. A log dragged back nnd forth nlnng the furrow Is useful In keeping tho bottom nnd sides In good condition luring dry weather. 8ave Every Thing. Remember thnt tho question Is not whether you personally tuny feel thnt you can afford to wnstn fo o d ; the point tz that the nation cannot afford ko have any food wasted by anybody.