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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA, UTAH D. HQWBEN SMITH i,, ARTHUR PORT O BELLO AUTHOR, GOLD of W N U SERVICE COPYRIGHT ETC Br BRENTANO'S iibinulon the gun In order to Insure Hint m.v progress should he silent. When I was parallel with the sumac We sppnt two days with these peoI si. light shelter und r a patch ple, recuperating in preparation for clump the stern task ahead of us. After of wild hluekherry hushes. Cautiously screen which was 1117 parting with them we continued In parting and painful I was thorny leisurely fashion eastward, keeping to able iew the Keepers from the well to the north of the Great Trail of the Long House und avoiding as much rear. 'They were ensconced In what was evidently a permanent t entry ih possible contact with t lie Beyond the sumacs was a low pest. whose Omidas und Mohawks countries wo traversed. Some ten bark hut masked with houghs. At The hows days after leaving Oswego we found their feet were ourselves on the verge of that un-- t they held were employed for the purracked domain which was roamed by pose ot adding mystery to their at luck. the Keepers of the Doom Trail. 1 worked In order to assure Unit our deparmyself a little mote In the rear of their position, then rose quietture would tie free from the observa1 tion of spies we left our last camp ly and drew knife and tomahawk. has an amateur at casting .the ax, but after dark and in two parties, this was no time for hesitation. I and myself going in one direction and Ieter in another. I'uug It with all my might, and yelled Our meeting place was a grove on the nearest approach I could compass lo the ttie hank of a creek, one of the tribuThe tomahawk struck one of the taries of the Mohawk. We reuched it without observation, and lay in conKeepers with the flat of its blade, fell cealment most of the day, starting lag him. The .other savage turned ugithi in the late afternoon and moving tjuickly and loosed his arrow at me, He warily through the forest, following timing wide in his confusion. no particular course, hut addressing Itooped for his musket, but I was on ourselves rather to the effacement of him with my knife and he was forced to leap hack and meet me on even all evidence of our passage. and Peter came We discovered noiliing, and the next terms. day and many others went by with po running between the trees, whooping better luck. Our provisions were ex- encouragement. They arrived In the nick of time, for hausted, and we were compelled to live from hand to mouth upon such the Cahnunga 1 had tried to tomacould snare or hawk was on Ids feet, ready to shout game as kill with his tomahawk and certes he me as I dodged the knlfeblade of his vyas wondrous proficient in both arts. But we kept on, hearing always eastward and quartering tiie country iu every direction. In the very midst of this deserted wilderness we came upon what we sought. We had abandoned the headwaters of the Mohawk and were following one of its middle branches, a shallow stream with pebbly, shelving hanks, wading close inshore so as not g to disturb the di rubbery. We all saw it simultaneously a tattered, weather-staine- d fragment of tauvus, caught ou a snag in the current. I fished it out with my musket barrel. " A declared Peter Immediately. "And safely Identified, I added, putting my linger on un unmistakable thistle iu green paint with three-quarteof a letter "M" above It. A mile farther on exclaimed and pointed upward to the trunk of u tall elm. Partly shaded by the foliage of the lower boughs a deep blaze wus revealed in the bark. We waded ashore and investigated. Tiie underbrush was as thick us elsewhere, but presently Ieter gave a heave with his hull-lik- e shoulders and mate. The Seneca brained this man u whole section of growths, which had with the butt of his gun, and Peter been laced together with vines ou a methodically tripped my adversary and helped me pinion him. hacking of boughs, lifted paused long enough Beyond stretched u narrow .alley, vvhoi-carpet of grass showed it to to remove what was left of the scalp of his victim, then crossed to us und lie seldom traveled. If this he not the Doom Trail tis sot Ills bloody knlfy to the throut of the survivor. worth a look none tiie less," 1 whisIs it to he torture or a quick death. pered. dog! he demanded. Cuhnuaga Ieter nodded, and slipped through The red eyes of the Keeper glared the opening. I followed him, aud at him. Death," the man spat, und brought up tiie rear. to strove gnaw at the hands which Here in tills Liddell path the forest noises became remote. Kven the birds held him.' "Then speak truly. Who travels ceased to twitter overhead, aud tiie Doom Trail today?" of tiie made treetops slightest stirring We warch always." ".Nobody. us drop to earth jn expectancy of atpricked bim slightly. tack. Y'et when the attack came we You watch assented the always, were taken completely by surprise. "Yes. And who conies?" We were all of us alert, hut tiie first Seneca A shout echoed through the forest warning that we were under observad arrow aisles. The red eyes of the Cahnunga tion was a which sang between Peter and me and tlareil exultantly. Ills mouth opened. " buried Its head in tiie grout'd. drove his point home, mut"Dondt fire, whatefer you do," tered Peter as lie threw himself be- und the scream ended in an awful buhliling gasp. hind tiie nearest trunk. The shout was repented. and I copied Ills exThe 1 found crashing of brunches sounded myself on tiie right of ample. tiie three. Tiie others hud selected as si.nia heavy body ran along the Doom Trail. standing trunks. 1 had chosen, per"Did you hear that screech?" a some fallen which foresi force, giant wind had overthrown. I crawled along shouted a rough voice. Yiius! lied, uie hear him. He liery tiie trunk into the tangle of roots, und like feller feel soniet'lng lie not much front there gained a clump of hushes like." hole from about which the it growing had been torn. arrow had Tiie ceased quivering und I Idly followed tiie angle of its inclination. My eyes traveled forward anu focused v pou a hideous painted face which peered An American woman, visiting Turfrom a screen of sunntc. Tiie watcher motioned behind him, key with tier three daughters, enaud k seond painted visage glided to gaged un old Turk Iu conversation. a his side. seeking to It developed that the Turk was wishmu in woman, the broker wives, or out their draw the end fire, thrust and the first watcher in- ing to have some fun wirli 1dm, usked. his scalp-locstantly drew bow and sent un arrow "At what value would you place my eldest daughter, supposing that she ttiat grazed tiie trunk. were for sale?" Tits Turk mentioned The a for while. Nothing happened a sum that was flatteringly high. "And Keepers waited, and nad Peter remained under cover. 1 toy second daughter?" the mother next Mirveren the situation. From the hole inquired. A still higher price was la which I lay a depression of the was fixed, age of course, being the ground ran eastward past the lair standard. The highest price of all for the youngest daughter, a cf the Cfthnuagas lr the sumac dump. was-se- t 1 started to ctawl up It, dragging my little flapper. "And now, said the nusket after me, hut before 1 had mother, "what price for n.er Tie ? omu;ly gone a dozen feet 1 was whlifod to Tutk was do dljVmaL CHAPTER XI Continued 22 Omni-d.iga- niu-.ket- war-whoo- close-growin- pack-cofer,- i gate-fashio- e greeu-featliere- "Yaaa-aaua-nau-a- h green-feathere- Fat, Fair and Forty Peter nuaged me, and seized the bow and quiver of one of the deud Keejiers, We crouched be side the bodies behind the aumra screen. My gun was still where 1 had left It In the gully by which I hud ap proached the lair of the watchers. In Its stead I solected the musket of the man the Seneca had Just knifed. A third voice was raised In the Cahnunga dialect, which was a corrup tlon of the Iioquois speech nud per fectly understandable to my comrades "Qua,' O Keepers wlm wutch," shouted the third sjienker. "We acquaint you that we Hpproaclu We have with us the Ued Due und tin P.laek One. We renmiued quiet, but Peter pos sessed himself of the gun of the second Cuhnuaga and plaeed It where he could reach it us soon us his own piece was discharged. They were approaching over the trail wine!) forked into the one we had followed from the stream with the pebbly banks. And at this point apparently they came to the junction of the two branches. The Indian who had shouted before repeated his hail. "Them Ke pers done gone away, Ited," declared Tom. "M.lilie some Haquas (hostile term for Mohawks) come dis way. The Keepers chase 'em out o' lijuii. ! Im agoln to tind out, re turned Polling. lie trotted out of the mouth of the trail Into the open space on the brink of the muskrat swamp. lie called back after Nobody u casu.J look around, (iuess the Keepers got ufter somebody or else the lazy dogs have turned In for a sleep. PU lind out later for sure. Now you rustle them pucks up, and I'll get the dugout ready. lie dragged a canoe hollowed from a tree trunk from Its hiding place In a lied of reeds, and produced two paddles from the prostrate trunk of n hollow tree. But we paid scant attention to hint. Our eyes were fastened upon the odd procession which emerged from the trail in obedience to his summons. First walked the negro Tom, a huge pack bowing his enormous shoulders. After the negro, In single file, curne eight Calmuagas, each with a large or pack braced ou a burden frame. They curried their muskets in their hands. "Weve got to hurry If were goln' to get everything ferried over the grumbled Bolling. swamp tonight, Waall, what's bitiu you? Tills question was addressed to a Cuhnuaga who, In uusllnging bis burden frame, hud chanced to see the arrow iu the ground which the Keepers had shot in their first attempt to bait us. The Cuhnuaga pointed silently to the shaft. ! swore Bolling with a start. "By "Dye see that, Tom? Something's t happened here." Bolling glanced about hltn uneasily. "The Keepers have gone, thats "What most sure," he announced. likely happened was some party broke In here, and the Keepers chased 'em." He chuckled wickedly. "Aint no blood nor nothin' around, so it 'pears likely the Keepers got the Jump on em." who had been occupied iu extracting arrows l'roui a quiver and setting them In a row before him with points lightly thrust Into the ground, now notched a shaft. Shall we begin, brothers?" he whispered. "Hold your fire until 1 run out of arrows." "Ju, agreed Ieter. "Budt do uol shoot Ued Jack or der nigger. We will , safe them if we can. "You can take on the negro," I spoke up. "Leave Bolling to me." Ieter looked doubtful. " he "lie is a goodt necommenced to urgue ; hut ars chose that moment to open his bombardment, and the Dutchman's remonstrance went for naught. A green arrow streaked across the grove and buried Its barbed bone head in the chest of one of the Cahnuagis. The man shrieked and tore at the shaft with Ids hands. His companions n scattered right and left. But s no them His gave respite. shafts filled the air. The green arrows drove into the packs, quivered in tree trunks, pierced another unfortunate. The Cnhnuagas let off a ragged volley which whistled over our heads. discharged the last of his arrows and reached for his musket. We saw two of the Indians collapse. Ieter caught up his second musket shot ugain. and he and Tvvas impossible to miss. Besides Bolling and Tom, only two of the enemy were left. Knife and hatchet for the rest," said Are my grimly. brothers ready?" (TO BE CONTINUED.) THE WORLDS Poet Impressed With Huge Electric Signs Ill DAYS OF OUR Marinetti, the Italian futurist poet, suddenly appeared as the chumpion of electric signs and apiiealed to Signor Mussolini to reconsider the Duces deALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE n cision to abolish advertising Women In the big Italian elties. This causes toy Iua4, Ctomiuy ) Own Medicine the Manchester Guardian to remark thut not only professed futurist poets The Sepoy Mutiny The wise pioneer women learned to FEW pots of grease cost many have found an element of vast fascigather, In woods and fields, the remedies the Indians nation iu electric advertising. When thousund lives and nearly used. From the In India, ubout hulf a ceutury Rupert Brooke first arrived In New rafters of colonial ago, besides inaugurating one of the York and saw the nightly display on houses, bung great Broadway he was greatly impressed. bloodiest trugedies ever enacted. bunches of dried Indias history, down to the Seven- "The recurrent appearance and disroots and herts. From these, in teenth ceutury. Is largely a chronicle appearance of vast flery toothbrushes, times of sickness, of barbarism, Internecine wars, inva- medicine bottles, flaming and Immortal the busy mother sions und Oriental intrigue, wllh a celestial underwear, appeared to him brewed simple and like a nightly conflict of tiie gods, T growing European influence In the powerful remedies. for fighting endlessly, Indecisively most accessible districts. Tiie vast From roots and Imhobs, Lydia E. country was teeming with wealth of New York." One female figure Pfnltham.a descenda sort Halt attracted Europe's covetous pressed Brooke more than the Mona I.isa. It was "all aflame against the ant of these sturdy pioneers, made her eye. The Portuguese won a commerVegetable Compound. The beneficial cial foothold there, only to he driven darkness, beautiful, archaic like an effects of this dependable medicine are from power by the Dutch, who In time Immortal Greek figure." lierre Van vouched for by hundreds of women. were crowded out by English and Innsscn, in the Atlanta Constitution. Mrs. Wm. Kraft of 2833 Vinewood Ave., Detroit, Mich,, saw a Plnkham adFrench. Lust of nil, the French were vertisement in the "News one day and routed by the English, until, by lTfid, Could Co No Higher made up her mind that she would England practlcully ruled Lidia, (live, Afler the last game of the 1024 the Compound a trial. At that time give she Wurren Hastings, Lord Cornwallis and worlds series, which was played In was very weak. "After the first botother governors brought ti.e whole Washington, Bitchy Harris youthful tle, she writes, I began to feel better territory either directly or indirectly manager of the Washington Senntors and like a new woman after taking six under British swoy. was hustled Into a taxi to Join the bottles. I recommend It to others and always keep a bottle in the house. The natives were untrustworthy. municipal parade. Presently (Bucky Mrs. Gust Green of 401 Lincoln Park The Iitdiun potentates whose power tells the story. In his book, Playing Rockford, Illinois, found was checked mid a horde of funutics the Game"), the taxi was held up by Boulevard, herself in a condition similar to that whose religious rites had beeu curof Mrs. Kraft. I was weak and runa traffic policeman. tailed by the foreign rule were ever the Vegetable "Only the President can get by down, she writes, butme and I feel Compound has helped stirring up revolt against their new here," said the cop. better now. I 'recommend It to all masters. Hence it was necessary to "Man, I got Bucky Harris In this women who need more strength. maintain a large army In India. Engbns!" the driver came bnek. land could uol spare a sufficient force Why didnt you say so first?" the of white men for the purpose, so ortraffic man protested. "On your wav!" ganized native regiments, under BritThen I knew," ndds Bucky, "Hint ish otHcera, and trained them along I had reached the top." Kansas City European lines. These native troops Times. healing by prompt application of were called Sepoys (from Hie Persian word "sipalii, signifying "soldier), Make-u- p With Airbrush and proved splendidly elficlcnt in reIn some theatrical performances nnd peated campaigns. Thus, by 18jd, nil In the movies, It Is often necessary to India seemed sufe and moderately conon a larger portion tent under British domination. True, pat a "nmke-up- " Accordion's Centenary there were countless fanatics and un- of the performer's body. In ordinary The Etude says that the accordion manner of procedure, this require scrupulous native rulers wdio waited Is this year celebrating its centenary, considerable but the time, operation only tiie opportunity to rebel; hut for has been recently hastened by tho use though it was not till 1829 that Dama long time they lacked the chance. ian produced the perfected Instrument That 6ame chance" came nbout In of an nltbrush. The coloring matter In Vienna. Is practically sprayed over the surface an unforeseen fashion. Like most misfortunes of this sort, It was to bo covered and much time Is saved brought nbout and then augmented by blunders on the part of the British government. Several English regiments had been withdrawn from northern and central India to serve iu the Crimean war. haarlcm oil has been a worldOthers were away in Burmah. These wide remedy for kidney, liver and departures left barely eighteen whlto Bell-an- s bladder disorders, rheumatism, 6 regiments available for action. SevHot water lumbago and uric acid conditions. eral of the most Important arsenals Relief Sure and garrisons were in charge of the Sepoys. At about this time the EnS field rifle was adopted for use among the Sepoys. In loading tiie rifle It was necessary to bite off the end of the cartridges. These cartridges were 25t and 75$ Pkg&Sold Everywhere correct internal troubles, stimulate vital coated with grease. They were also organs. Three sizes. All druggists. Insist In foreThe packed glazed paper. on the original genuine Gold Medal. going facts seem mere trifles, yet they brought on a bloody Insurrection. The Sepoy regiments were made up of Mahometans and Buddhists. As the or t h a r Irritation. English very well knew, the Buddhists Tha old alraplo remedy I" ZX and Mahometans ulike are forbidden (hot brlngi ooaforttns relief boot. Ita, all drayyielo I. by the most sacred laws of their reBall BotbaLlaoVarkatj ligion from eating or even handling pork. At once It was claimed by native rulers, agitators and fanatics that the fat of swine was used in greasing A beikutifol tmipUiton tbe deulreof evorr wtuan the cartridges aud glazing the paper. and tb admiration of Tr? turn. K KKivlOL A To this wus added the rumor that the will nrodtioeltforonly H2na ttoonjandof womo will tcftUfy. f'RKK BOOKLET. Auk voarlal government was seeking to force the or writ lr. O. IL Borrj 0to., lpk W.fcrft Micfaigaa Ave., Chicago. native troops to embrace Christianity, by making them violate their own A Beauty Shop in a Bottle Dr. Scholls Zino-pad- s stop all pain creed. At once fanaticism blazed Into A fhnnilcal Mastorplwo lntornul nl Exthan any other known quicker ternal Uejuvenatlon of lh Hkln furious revolt. A devout Christian method. Takes but a minute to quiet sndHIoor). Money Paog Ouaratitaa could not be more Indignant at being TWIN HE.VITV LAHOKATOKIEM the worst com. Healing starts at Trent Bids.. Miami, Fla. Miami flank once. When the com is gone it never commanded to stamp on. the crucifix IVrmanrut Horde. HnrUrnbber oompooltlua comes back. If new shoes make the than were these Moslem and Hindu I.Ht Indefinitely. Warp pi oof. Rwtular prloa spot touchy again, a Zino-pa- d devotees at the order to detile their IS. 14. half prior fw dya. Seaophoneo 12, because Thats Oin.ir.r, , so Harry Wlntl-- rhanipairn.UI. stops it instantly. souls by handling and tasting pork-fa- t Zino-pad- s remove the cause Several Sepoy regiments refused to pressing and rubbing of shoes. receive the cartridges, and even reare mediDr. Scholls Zino-pad- s belled. They were disbanded, und tiie cated, antiseptic, protective. At all government tardily .called In the druggists and shoe dealers 35c. hated articles of ammunition. Ea , On May 2, 1ST7, a cavalry regiment For Indigestion, Dyspepsia, etc. was ordered, by error, to bite the Relieves Distress after Hurried 'Lino-padgreased cartridges, In loading their Meals or Overeating. Being a guns. They refused and were forcibly Put one on the pain Is gone laxative, It keeps the digentle This was the slgnnl for disarmed. tract working normally. gestive general revolt. At Meerut, a few His Objection & 90c. At all Druggists. 30c miles northeast of Delhi, the Sepoys "But. father, his Is such a flue old c. GREEN, Inc. WOODBURY, N. J. 6. and townsfolk rose together, masfamily tree!" sacred the British garrison and white "Yes. hut he comes from the shady residents and marched to Delhi. They side of It." Sydney Bulletin. W. N. U., Salt Lake City, No. captured the latter city and made It the headquarters of the mutiny. The whole Bengal presidency revolted and Europeans were massacred wholesale amid the most unspeakable outrages. Nana Sahib, maharajah of Bithur, loudly proclaimed his loyalty to the government, hut at the first opportunity went over to the mutineers. On his solHe besieged Cawnpore. emn promise of the garrison at last surrendered. As soon ns they were at his mercy he murdered them, massacring 210 English women nnd children who had sought refuge la For the town. Lucknow and other cities garrisoned by the English were bekitchen ot pantry-upst- airs bedroom Living room, st egd. and throughout northern und or down every room in rhe house can be made bright snd attractive clean end central India British rule was nearly sanitary with King Wall Finish. extinct Easy to mix easy to apply and so economiThe government at last awoke to the mentioned a price that was equivalent cal that a dollars worth Is usually more than to $17A) In American money. Tiie peril. Armies tinder Havelock, Outroom. enough to decorate tho average-sizemother was rurlous. Never, she said run, Campbell and other generals were Don't spend single penny for decorating tmrflyou had she been so Insulted. After tie eent to stamp out the mutiny. Luckkooar more bout (Kit remarkable will ftnl&h, write now was relieved when at the last today for Color Chart ihovrinf 19 beautiful colors to rating tiie Turk, she walked tiaughtll.v choute from end name of dealer searert too, away, leaving tiie marriage hrukei gasp, nnd within a year the final THB CHICAGO WHITE LEAD A. OIL COs 15th St. end 8. Western Ave., CUieego, HU speechless, and probably wondering sparks of Insurrection were quenched. vvliat ou earth he hud done to uuuoj Then the British wreaked featful ventier. geance on their bsaten foes. The mutiny brought about a radical change In Englands mode of rulZlast From Kansas In ing her East Indian possessions. 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