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Show THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH i 'Che i -B- CHAPTER VII Continued Arthur D. Howden Smith 14 i The three dummies were then posed to the satisfaction of Author of dis- striking flint and steel to wood, a bright blase sent chasing each other around of the glade. "Peter, he said, you had best take post by that boulder on the other side of the tire, Ormerod and will lie together upon this side. You need not think it necessary to keep me by your side, I said indigT'is not the first time 1 shall nantly. have heard musketry. A gleam of humorous Intelligence chased the gloomy ferocity from the Seneca's face. does not doubt the alor of his brother, he said, but Ormerod has never fought with They are dogs, but they are skilled In forest war." He sunk down behind a boulder next to the one by which I stood. Cor iner had been swallowed by the dancing shadows beyond the fire. 1 and dropped beside like hint dusted fresh powder into the pan of my musket, drew tomahawk biid knife from their sheaths and laid them on the ground within reach. It must have been at least two hours after we had taken cover that touched my arm, and the light from the glowing bed of coals revealed a feathered head crouching forward where the trail entered the glade. It hovered around the edge of the firelight like a monstrous reptilian fiend, body bent nearly double, a glint of sieel showing whenever tlie hands moved. Presently he withdrew into the trail, and it seemed that two more hours dragged by on leaden feet, although It was probably less than half that time. The tire was lower, but did not need to warn me when the It was as If a Keepers reappeared. mist of evil preceded them. My senses were nlert, and I saw the first feathered head emerge from the trail and each oce of the six who followed their leader. I counted every step of their approach until the yellow puint which streaked the ribs of the one nearest t me glimmered in the light of the PORTO BELLO HOLD, Etc. and, some rotten the shadows tlie cou flues i y- (lB by Brentano'i.) Service VVNU Cah-inuiga- I i i i i I j i The Hat cun go to the torture-stak- e and not answer that question, Corlaer, he said quite simply. We will take you to tlie nearest village and let you make good your boart, threatened The Cahnuaga sndled. If I told you, none the less should J suffer at the stake, he said, for the (Mistress Ga-go-s- a of the False Faces) knows all. Do your worst, Chief of the Long House. A tinge of mockery colored Ills voice. He sure that whatever you do you cannot equal the ingenuity of the Yes, I think you will come to know more about them some day, Iroquois. I seem to see pictures in tlie firelight of a stake, and a building with a tower and a bell that rings, and dance around many of the V Hah you, and your pain is very great. Aye, sounded the' you are shrieking like a woman ; as he fired, and instinctively I you aimed iny piece at those ocher-tinteHe sprang, not at tlie Seneca but ribs and pressed the trigger. The re- at me. His hands were around my port of my musket carried on the throat before I could move. His eyes echoes which had been roused by the blazed Into mine. His teeth gnashed Senecas. Corlaers discharged as I at my face. A gout of blood, thick bounded to my feet. and warm, deluged me. The next The Calmnagas yelled in surprise ; thing I remembered was seeing throe of them were thrashing out their bending over me. lives on Iiut the four surMy brother is whole? he asked vivors did not hesitate. They fought anxiously. like the devils they really were. Yes, I said, sitting up and rubfine of them was on nm Immediatebing a very sore throat, except that I shall not be able to swallow for a ly, bounding over the toulders with screeches that split the night. Ills time. You were choked, brother. knife and hatchet cut circles around And the Cahnuaga? my head then chopped at my bowels. I Its activity was That dog Is dead. Do you sleep extraordinary, and be fought better than I, for he knew now, for the dawn grows neur and we his weapons and they were strange must be upon our way. I stirred to wakefulness when the to me. it was tlie realization of this which first pink light of morning was in the A pungent whiff of saved me. Fending awkwardly with eastern skies. knlle or hatchet against a foe whose wood smoke filled my nostrils, and I handling of them was tlie result of turned over to watch Corlaer frying bacon and maize calces. lift long training, I was at a disadAfter eating, I fell into my place bevantage. So I changed the tomahawk.. to my tween the Dutchman and In live minutes tlie forest had left hand, and grasped the knife by tin hilt as if It were a sword, thrust- - closed around us. The glade of last lng with it point first instead of slash- .nights adventure was shut off as coming as the Indian did. And now my pletely as if it existed in another skiil at fence was in my favor. world. There remained no more than The Culmuagas knife was no longer the bare groove of the trail and the jlavi. mine. We were on equal terms encompassing walls of underbrush uud nr rather tlie advantage inclined overhead tlie roof of tree boughs. toward me. Bewilderment showed in That, afternoon we forded the Motlie Indian's face, lie did not underhawk to the southern side some disstand Ibis fighting with passes uud tance above (near parries and swift, stabbing assaults. Danube, X. Y.), tlie Upper Mohawk My chance caine the next time he custle. And now for the first time we charged me, goaded into desperation began to meet oilier travelers. Sevby ttiese strange tactics. I aimed a eral Mohawk families shifting their smashing blow at ids head with the abodes on account of i:or crop conditomahawk, and, as lie lifted Ids own tions in their old villages; a parly of hatchet to guard, I thrust for his belly, Oneidas of tlie Turtle elan journeying parritd his knife and ripped him open. on a visit of condolence to tlie Mos His dealh yell was in iny ears as I hawk Turtles, one of whose a band of had Moliuwk over see his and looked to body just died; leaped hunters returning from the spring how my comrades were doing. had just killed his man and limit. I.y these latter tlie senior was running to the help of I'cter, who scut word to of tlie Mohawk Wolf clan, had two assailants on his hands. As cl. urged with the warding of tlie eastcame up, the Dutchman 1 ern Door, of our encounter with the closed witli one, dashed the defending C.thnuagas and its result. weapons aside mid grasped the strugThe evening of the third day we gling savage in ids powerful arms'. Tlie last Cahnuaga turned to floe, but camped in the Oneida country at the did not oven attempt to base of a hill, which the trail encirpursue him. Without any appearance cles and which for t hut reason was called of haste tlie Seneca balanced his tom(Around the ahawk. drew back Ids arm and hurled Hill; present site of Utica, N. V,.). it after tlie fugitive. The keen blade crushed tlie mans skull before he had passed from the circle of firelight, ami sauntered across ami sculped him. That time did not Tlie meeting of the congress of the miss, brother, he observed to me as Uoyal Sanitary Institute recalls the 1 watched with fascinated horror the strong opposition which' sanitary rebloody neatness with which be disonce encountered. The Times formers ids tusk. patched 1854 in rejoiced that Chadwick bad rePeter brought up his captive and a ceived pension which would enable in man down front of us. tossed the him to leave dirt and disease alone: he Oof. that was a goodt fight and Chiron, In the form Aesculapius commented placidly. Chadwick auJ Doctor South-woo- d Mr. of Why a prisoner, Peter? asked Smith, have been deposed, und cbof-er-a we prefer to take our chance of 5)1 We ask him of der Doom to be bullied thus rest and the Corlaer. Trail, reiir-Into health." He Jerked the nian to his feet Another complaint was that their deTrail? .'.loom he Where is der activities had established a perpetual manded. The Cahnuaga, badly shaken though Saturday night, and Master John Bull was. drew himself erect and folded was scrubbed and rubbed and till the tears run into hla Ida arms across bla painted chest a. Ga-go-- war-whoo- p ! i d i i i t the-rock- i i ? ' --- roy-an-eh- roy-an-e- h is . Colds Pain Neuralgia Headache Neuritis Toothache Lumbago Rheumatism DOES NOT AFFECT THE HEART Accept only Bayer package v hich contains proven directions. Ilandy Bayer lioxes of Also bottles of 24 and 100 of trstta mtrk of Bfiror Minwfscttjr Aiplria Is th Phone Directories The Bell Telephone system last year published almost 25, 0(X), 000 copies of 2,000 different directories nt u cost of approximately $10,000,000. The paper used weighed 00,020,000 pounds and required 20 solid trains of 25 enra each to haul It from the mills. The paper cost $2,400,000, blood-brothe- tablets Druggists. 12 of F1ti)llcscl4 Lives Sauecf by Parrot parrot which lind never talked probably saved from injury or death members of the family of B. M. Coni, of Oakland City, Ind., when nwukened to find his home on fire, with the flumes making such headway that they threatened to prevent escape of persons in bedrooms. Indianapolis News. A Says Dangerous Varicose Veins Can Be Deduced at Homo Rub Gentlyand Up ward To war cl ounce bottle of Moones Emerald Oil and apply night and the Heart as Blood in Veins (full strength) morning to the swollen, enlarged Flows That Way. veins. Soon you will notice that they are growing smaller and the treatIf you or any relative or friends are ment should be continued until the worried beenuse of varicose veins, or veins are of normal size. So penebunches, the best advice that anyone trating and powerful Is Emerald Oil In this world can give you Is to ask that even Tiles are quickly absorbed. your druggist for nil original two- - Your druggist sells lots of It , Sam's Trouble Sam Johnsing and his girl Vldrola Jackson were perambulating along the boulevard-o- n Saturday night when they met a handsome young colored Indy who gave Sam n .very vicious look. Vlctroia noticed the look and demanded : Whos dat woman dat looked at you jos ns if site owned you? Youze gwine hah er linrd time explainin ter me who she Is, Sam Johnsing. To this Sam blurted out: Tze gwine hab or Iienp-In- t harder time tomorrer night explainin to her who you is The Wrong Knowledge Dr. Charles II. lnrkhurst, the famous clergyman, said on his eighty-fourt-h birthday fit Lake Placid: The young know too much, and at that its the wrong kind of knowledge. Even little children novvudays A schoolteacher chalked the Roman numerals XXX on the blackboard. What does that mean, children?' she o liked. "The class of children giggled In a shoc1i0dTVTiy, und a little girl piped: 'Kisses. " Exchange. r. As a mans wife thlnketh. so he is. What thin partitions thought divide. Tope. sense from o o rail-road- j I roy-an-e- . j j j eyes, and his teeth chattered, and bis fists clenched themselves with worry and pain. What would the writer of this protest say If he could see tlie public health service today? According to his standard by this time Master John Bull ought to have been washed altogether out of existence aud poured away with tire soapsuds. Mauchestt Guardian Weealy, First Lithographer Aloys Senefelder, a poor Bohemian dramatist, resident In Munich, ucci dentally invented the art of lltboxr phy. Disabled Veterans Are Scattered Over World According to fleur'-- announced bj the American legions national rehabilitation committee In Washington disabled American veterans of the World war are scattered in almost every p. rt of the vvorll. A total of 317 veterans nro Isirg cari-i- l for In hosp'tnls outside tlie United State? mi dei- - contract with the United Staten veterans bureau. Timse men are In tlie Canal Zone, Hawaii. PhlMi..iro islands, Porto Rico. Guam, Carrot;!. Belgium, British West Indies, Ion mark. England, France, India, Ireland Norway, Ittaiiinia Italy, Scotland, Sweden "Vale uil daily prepared for Infants in arms and Children all ageS. avoid imitations, always look for the signature of nn each pack.'ipe. Physicians everywhere recommend To k British Public Balked at Sanitary Methods 1 Proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for e eut-ber- i Here we had a stroke of what turned out afterward to be rare good luck. Whilst we were making camp a group of five canoes of the birch-barwhich is used by other nations than tlie IroCop ur This Department upiUe4 by lb Airrlrn Legion New Service.) quois approached from upstream, and their occupants camped beside us. These Indians were Messesagues, RADIO PUT TO USE whose country lay between the two BY LEGION POSTS great inland seas, the Krie and Huron lakes. They were on their way to Fort Among the many big endeavors of Orange or Albany to trade their winter catch of furs, which lay baled in tbe American Legion tills year, the radio broadcasting programs by Lethe canoes. posts and state departments, the gion had had They told they latter provided for by mandate of the trouble with tlie Sicur de Tonty, commander of the French trading post of national convention held in Ihilu-delphiare proving to be a wonderLe De Troit (Detroit, Mich.), which As nearly ns possible, had been established in their country ; ful rucchis. and that in consequence De Tonty had some state department of lint Legion broadcasts each week.. There are nubeen obliged to flee and they had demerous Legion loeal posts that have cided to sliit their trade to the lCug-lisweekly programs, and one post in Okencouraged them lahoma City holds ils weekly meetings in tills design and described to them the high quality and quantity of the by radio on account of tlie members being scattered over n large territory. goods they might expect to get in exIladio lost No. 404 of Dallas, Texas, change for their furs at Albany. On tlie fourth day tlie trail abanrecently installed its officers by radio, A doned the headwaters of the Mohawk, typical illustration of how the fast shallowing in depth, and headed piogranis are received by tlie general westward across the mile-widdivide public is Hie case of tlie Hudson counof land which separates the waters ty committee of New Jersey, which has been broadcusting from station flowing into tlie Mohawk and Hudson WAAT (235 meters). Jersey City. river from those flowing into Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence river of Tlie programs proved so popular in December that tlie committee arCanada. . 1 had my first view of the long ranged for nn "American Legion houses of tlie Iroquois at the Oneida hour" from 7 to 8 p. in. every Castle, (A head on a Tuesday, and Is now preseuting them pole), which was situated on the each week. We give each post in tlie country a Oneida lake. They were impressive chance to supply talent which is made buildings, sixty, eighty, one hundred and sometimes one hundred and twenup entirely of Legionnaires," James ty feet in length aud from twelve to II. Clarke, county adjutant, reported fifteen or twenly feet wide. We went to national headquarters In Indianfls a matter of course to the lodgings We have post orchesapolis, Irid. of the Oneida Wolves, of whom tras, singers, monologists, story tellaccording to the Iroquois ers, comedians and a variety of other and they numbers. Many of the Legionnaires code, was a have had professional experience. We placed at our disposal a guest chamber, the first next to the entrance of also Include in our program short the (Bark house), together talks on the work of the Legion, with all the 'firewood and food which making our programs both entertainwe required and an aged squaw to ing and educational. cook and wait upon us. Besides using the radio to inform From tlie Oneida castle the Great the public of Legion work, the LeTrail bore westward past gion is now employing It to educate (Deep Spring), which lay on the Legionnaires how to talk French. boundaries of the Onondagas, whose The lessons are broadcast from beautiful valley, with its morror lake, Station WKNY (the Hotel Roosevelt) was the fairest country I have ever from 7 to 7 :15 p. m. each Wednesday. seen unless It be the matchless home The wave length is 371 meters. The ua Senecas. The of the trail led teacher is Mile. Alice Blum, famous through the three villages of the tribe, in the World war for teaching tlie which were scattered along the banks troops nn easy way of learning to of tlie Onondaga river northward of talk enough French to answer practhe lake. tical purposes. The lessons are espeIt was a rich country which we cially built for the second trip to traversed, a country fit to be the home France. of a race of warriors. The people we met, In the villages where we sometimes slept and ate or along the shaded Legion Wedding Feature slot of the trail, ivere pleasant and of Welcome to R. R. Rand courteous. They eyed me curiously, When State Commander Itufus It. but there was never any unseemly Rand of, tlie American Legion of Mindisregard of manners. Even the chilnesota recently made a tour of the dren were polite and hospitable. Second district of that state he was We slept that night in the Cayuga in and the morning forded tlie welcomed in Fairmont by 200 Legionvillage, foot of tlie lake and pursued the trail naires as guests of Lee O. Prentice westward again until it emerged upon post of Fairmont, and entertained with the north bank of tbe Seneca river, n Legion wedding" in which tlie which we followed to the village of bridegroom was held to the ceremony nt (lie point of a bayonet, after sud(site of Canandaigua, X. Y.), on the lake of that name. denly disappearing once. The bride Now we are in the count fy of the was dressed In lace curtains and wore a Tlie wedding notes Senecas, brother, said of Ilinkey Dinkey Parley Voo were when we started tlie next morning. You have seen the homes of ull the .followed witli tiie Shukopce funeral other tribes, save only the Tusearo-ras- , dirge. The flower girls," two husky Legionnaires, tripped along behind the who live to the south of tlie Oneidas; hut none of them is so fair as padre, strewing onion peel nosegays tlie i alley of (literally, and carrying Danish red cabbage The Beautiful Valley), where iny roses, cigarettes and matches. A big ring was cnrrled on a mattress and brethren dwell. when tlie padre asked If there were From a little village that was huddled on tlie near bank of the river any objections to the marriage, one sent off that night a mesLegionnaire insisted that the "bridesenger to carry on word of our coming. groom's" check for the ring had been returned marked no funds." So two days later, when we had passed and the belt of forthe est beyond to the Senecas chief town, Nominal Travel Charges it was to find ourselves expected guests. Warriors and for Visitors to Europe hunters, women and children, along, The second A. E. F. of the Legion tlie trail, hulled und his will offer the chance of a lifetime for friends; and at tlie gate of the palveterans to visit Europe upon pie isade which fortified the village for nominal travel charge. American s was it the principal stronghold of the have grunted oneway fare for Western Door stood the round rlp from tlie Legionnaires himself, the Guardian .of tlie Door, home town to the pan of embarkation. with Ills and for Legionnaires fares Steamship An Elevated Xatue), Paris (literally, from $145.S0 up. bound, range or chiefs, around him. of the buttle Through tlie He was a splendid looking old nmu, his mussive monuments commission and ill ; French tail as government tours to all sectors of shoulders unbent by age, his naked northern France and Belgium where eiiest, with tlie vivid device of tlie American troops were billeted and on wolf's head, rounded like a barrel ; his have been arranged. These gaged shot with gray. He pendant scalp-loctours, starting and ending in Purls. and those with him were In gala dress, aud tlie sun sparkled on elaborate will cost from $5 to $1ii.5li and with ot.e exception Include a visit to one of bead work and silver and gold, ornathe large American cemeteries abroad. ments and Inlay of weapons. Legionnr.ires will be saved more than (TO BE CONTINUED.) $1,000,000 while globe trotting on the continent by Mie elimination of passport and passport vises. ; Provn directions Release It Yourself I j j The Dig Thing White My wife Is very busy. Sires Rinks (teaching Ids wife to drive) Releasor the clutch! Release the going to address a womans club. Whit She's working ou the address, dutch His Wife Dont be silly! 1 havent I presume. -- . 1 ?nt hold of It White ! Love- of the whole human race Is a A No, the dress. man's good deeds are limited, but etui to the mischief be can Winder emotion than most indhldunls there Is no ;an compass. accomplish. s Yugo-Slnvl- a, It Cuticura Comforts Tender Aching Irritated Feet Bathe the feet for several minutes with Cuticura then follow with light Soap and warm application of Cuticura Ointment, gently rubbed x. Thtr ueatment is most successful in relieving cd comforting tired, hot, aching, burning feet. wr-te- 1 p ne OlntnwMit !S r.d OCo, T!-u- 5fc, everywhere, e with S Auiiiia! Uiticw lebenOortw, Hpt. . ium. vx.- a title OKT Cuticura Skaviaa Stick 15c. fr-- |