Show THE SAUNA CALL SAUNA UTAH KEIAH gopak JosepkC Iincoln Author of Place Cy "Whlit aJcer'a Etc CapfnEri IQiutratitiu bij Ellsworth Young CopriAtlJoy by DlAflJtOT - CompmMf M 8YN0P8IS ta Mrs Keilah Coffin auppoaed widow n to arranging to move from Trumet following tha death of her brother for whom ehe had kept home Kyan Pepper widower offera marriage and laa Indignantly refueed Capt Elkanah leader of the Regular church offera Kealah a place a housekeeper for the new minister and she decides '0 remain in Trumet Keilah takes charge of Rev John Ellery the new minister and gives him advice as to his conduct toward members of the parish Ellery causes a sensation by attending a meeting Ellery's presence Is bitterly resented by Eben Hammond leader of the for her Grace apologizes meeting guardian and Ellery escorts her horn Ins Eben the rain Capl Nat Hammond son becomes a hero by bringing the packet into port safely through foga and storm Ellery finds Kezlah writing In letreter to some one inclosing money She is curiously sponse to a demand startled when Informed of the arrival of Nat Nat calls on Kkah and It develops that they have been lovers since youth Daniels remonstrates with Ellery for attending meeting Ellery Is caught by the tide and Is rescued Ellery by Nat They become friends meets Grace while walking In ths fields and learns that she walks there every takes dinner The clergyman Sunday Annabel the Sundays with the Daniels herself to exerts captain's daughter make an Impression on him She notices with vexation his desire to get away She every Sunday at a certain time watches him through a spy glass Nat again Importunes Kezlah to marry him Ke says he has had a quarrel with his father who wants him to marry Grace She Ellery asks Gracs to marry him confesses that she loves him but Bays Elshe fears to displease her guardian kanah Daniels tells Eben about the meet-lngs between Ellery and Grace Eben declares he will make Grace choose beGrace finds tween him and the preacher him In a faint following the excitement of Elkanah’s visit Just before he dies Eben exacts s promise from Nat and Kezlah Grace that they will marry breaks the news to Ellery and later ha received a note from Grace saying she la to marry Nat and asking him not to try to see her again Keilah tells the story of her own marriage with a man who and turned out to be a who was reported to have been lost at sea and of her love for Nat whom tha rannot marry because the husband la alive Captain Nat sails for Manila to He says he and be gone two years Grace have decided not to marry until and It Nat Is overdue he returns feared that he has been lost at gets a letter from her husband saving he Is coming back Grace goes on A a visit to relatives of the Hammonds vessel flying distress signals Is discovered off the coast party to Ellery goes with sufA man Is found hoard the vessel of rest the the fering from smallpox He Is taken to an rrew having deserted abandoned shack on shore and Ellery helps nurse him Before he dies It Is discovered that he Is Kezlah’s husband ElIs found In quarantine lery left alone wandering In a delirious condition hy Grace She takes him back to the shanty and sends for help XVI— (Continued) CHAPTER Early the next morning Just as day the horse was breaking a buggy rocked and which drew It galloping bumped down the lighthouse lane Dr Ferker his brows together and his lips set with anxiety was driving He had been roused from sleep In the hotel at Hyannls by a boy with a tele"Come quick" It read "Mt gram The sender was Noah Ellery alck” At the ropes Ellis the light keeper early as it was he found a small group waiting and gazing at the shanty The lightkeeper was there and two or three other men They were talking earnestly "How is he Noah?” demanded the doctor Jumping to the ground “I don’t know doc” replied Ellis “I ain’t heard eence last night when I telegraphed you” “The devil!” Dr Parker swore Im“Who Is with him then? patiently You haven't left him alone have you?” Noah hesitated once more "No-he ain’t alone She’s there" Kezlah Coffin?” Who? "She? ' "I don’t callate Keziah’a heard It We was waitin’ for you ’fore we yet said much to anybody But she’s there — the — the one that found him You he was out of his head and wanBee derin' up the lane ’most to the main road and she'd been callin’ on Kezlah and when she come away from the ahe heard him hollerin' and parsonage ” goln’ on and — "Who did?” glanced at "Why” — the lightkeeper doc 'twas his companions— "why And she fetched Grace Van Horne him back to the shanty and then come and got me to telegraph you” But Parker did not wait to hear the rest He ran at full speed to the door Grace herself opened of the shanty It “How Is he? demanded the doctor at "I think he seems a little easier He’s In any rate he’s not delirious Oh I’m bo thankful you’ve there come” “Is that the doctor?" called Ellery weakly from the next room "Is It?” "Yes” replied Parker throwing off Mr Elhis coat and hat "Coming lery” send her “For God’s sake doctor Don’t let her stay Make her away go! I’ve got the smallpox and If ehe stays she will die Don’t you understand? she must go” "Hush John" said Grace soothingdear” ly "Hush Dr Parker stopped short and looked at her However he waited no longer tut hurried in to his new patient CHAPTER XVII In Which Kezlah Decides to Fight The news was flying from house to Breaksouse along the main road fasts were interrupted as some neighbor rushed In to tell the story which mother neighbor had brought to him her Mr Ellery was very sick and It was feared he had the smallpox Grace Van Horne was with him had taken him back to the shanty and insisted upon staying there until the doctor came At the Daniels’s bouse the servant girl rushed Into the dining room to serve the toast and the story at one swoop Captain Elkanah's dignity deserted him for an Instant and his egg Annabel's spoon Jingled to the floor face turned a dull red Her eyes flashed sparks "Pal” she cried "I— I—If you don’t do something now I’ll never — ” Her father shook his head warning-l"Debby” he said to the maid "you needn’t wait” After Debby departed reluctantly the kitchen door had closed Captain Elkanah eaid: “My dear we mustn’t te too hasty In this matter Remember Mr Ellery Is very sick As for— for the Van Home girl we haven’t heard the whole truth yet She may not be there at all or it may be Just an accident — ” "Accident Pa you make me boll Accident! Accidents like that don’t If you let her stay there or happen if— Oh to think of it! And we were calling him a hero and — and everyHero thing! he stayed there Just so she might — ’’ "Hush! hush child!” “I shan’t hush Pa are you going to let him disgrace himself with her?” “No no Probably there ain’t any Idea of his marrying her If there Is—’’ “If there la you put him out of ths church and out of town And aa for her— And we’ve been having him here at dinner and — and have— Ohi I shall die! I wish I was dead!" Then followed hysterics and agony whose greedily listened to by Debby ear was at the crack of the door Captain Elkanah soothed and pleaded and tried to pacify It ended by his promising to Investigate and if necessary take steps ‘Immejltly” Lavlnla Pepper sprung the mine on her brother Kyan wsb horrified He had grown to be one of Ellery’s most devoted worshipers One of the very first to hear of the minister's illness was Keilah Coffin Mrs Parker told her and Kezlah started for the beach before the tale of Grace’s part tn the night's happenings reached the village She did not wait for a conveyance hardly waited to throw a shawl over her shoulders but began to cover the three miles on foot of She had walked nearly the distance when Captain Zeb Mayo overtook her and gave her a seat in his chaise They said little during the drive the shock and anxiety forbidding conversation At the ropes was the Bame larger now and Dr Parker’s group horse was hitched to one of the posts "You can’t go In Mrs Coffin" said Black "The doctor give us his Thoph orders not to let nobody get by I guess nobody wants to but all the same —” Kezlah paid not the slightest attention to Mr Black She stooped beneath hla arm under the rope and was on her way to the shanty before they realized her Intention The living room “She Must Marry Him Or He’ll Die” empty but at the Bound of her some one came from the room That some one waa Grace adjoining Dr Parker appeared holding up a hand for silence "Hush!" he cried “He’s quiet now and think he will sleep Don’t talk here Go outside If you must talk— and I suppose you must” Grace led the way Fortunately the door vas on the side not visible from the spot where Captain Zeb and the Kezlah bewilrest were standing dered and amazed at the girl’s presence followed dumbly "Now auntie” Grace whispered turning to her "you want to know how he is of course Well I think he thinks The too so doctor la better But why did you come here?” “Why did I come? Why because my place was here I belonged here For the love of mercy's sakes what are you doin’ here? With him? And the smallpox 1” was step Captain Zehedea baring "Hush I can’t help it I don’t care shipped worked for them I don’t care for anything any more with the Insurgents I’m glad I waa the from sunrise to sunset and after Zeb I’m glad I caipe of a politician and one to find him and help him No was something what matte happens — to me — I’m knew whom to “get at” He sought I never was so glad before I bis fellows on the parish committee glad Mrs Mayo love him Aunt Kezlah I can say it and labored with them ta you for you know It— you must and the doctor’s wife championed tbs know it I love him and he needed cause at sewlrg circle They were He was calling my lively those sewing meetings and ths me and I came He might fur flew Dldama Rogers and Lavlnia name when I found him have died there alone In the wet and Pepper were everywhere and ready to Think what agree with whichever side seemed cold and I saved him to me” that means likely to win a It was by no means The door opened softly and Dr ParCaptain Elkanah ker came out struggle spurred “He’s asleep" he said "And he’s on by the furious Annabel marshaled better much better And I'll tell you bis forces find proclaimed that Ellery won’t if else make too having disgraced the Regular Society you something much noise about It — he hasn’t got the should tio longer occupy Its pulpit He Is pretty close to brain Hs hinted concerning a smallpox fever though but I guess he’ll dodge contribution toward a parish house that this time with care On the something the society needed If ElKezlah I'm glad you came lery was discharged whole the contribution This young lady” with a movement of would probably be made not otherthe head toward Graoe "has done her wise And this was a point worth part She really saved his life if I'm considering not mistaken Now I think she can Daniels also wrote to his Influential go away and leave him to you and me friends of ths National Regular SoI'll pretty nearly guaranteo to have ciety But Captain Zebedee had fore— him up and out of this this pesthole stalled him there and both letters In a fortnight" were laid on the table to await furHere was joyful tidings the better ther developments s As for the for being so unexpected Kezlah they were wild with rage and leaned against the boards and drew a Grace was formally read out of their Grace said nothing but communion long breath after a moment she went Into the Meantime Kezlah installed as head house nurse at the shanty was having her “That’s a good thing too" com- troubles was The minister mented Parker watching her as she better slowly but surely gettinggetting betwent "I wanted to talk with you Keter The danger of brain fever waa zlah Coffin and right away Now then at an end but he was very weak and there’s something up something that must not be excited bo the doctor I don’t know about and I rather guess said you do Young women— even when a wish to talk He had expressed they’re her kind and that’s as good with his housekeeper “Pve got somea kind as there le — don’t risk smallpox thing to tell you Aunt Kezlah” he for any young man they pick up cassaid weakly “Some news for you ually" and — and “All right docKezlah considered Kezlah brisk“Cat’s foot!” tor” she said when she reached a de- ly' "don’t start snapped in tellln’ me news cision I’ll tell yon the now “all right I’ve got ny hands full aa ’tlB whole thing" News’ll keep and you won’t If yon She went on to tell all she knew of talk another minute” her parson’s love story She could manage him It waa with Dr Parker listened Grace that she had her struggle First “Hum!” he said thoughtfully “I see and bluntly ahe told the girl that her What made her change her mind so leaving was useless The secret was You say or you gather out It had been made public suddenly? Every from what Mr Ellery told you that one knew she was in love with John o marry him and he with her she had all but agreed Their engagement She cares for him that’s sure Then was ceran established all at once she throws him over and Grace was greatly tainty agitated accepts Nat Of course her uncle's and very Indignant sudden seizure was a shock and he “Who dared say so?” she demanded wanted Nat to have her hut she Isn’t “Who dared say we were engaged? the kind of girl to be easily swayed It’s a wicked lie and— It’s not true But never mind that that doesn’t Who Is responsible Aunt Kezlah?” count now Let’s look at things as “Well I suppose likely I am much She’s here and as anybody deary” they are this minute folks know it As they do know It "You? You Aunt Kezlah?” they’ll begin to talk and the more You me are in love with “Yup they talk the farther from the truth him at any rate you said so And Nat poor you’re here with him ain’t you? If they’ll get— most of ’em chap is dead so her promise to him you two ain’t engaged you ought to Is canceled Ellery will get well if be” She argued and pleaded and If she leaves him coaxed and at last when she began he isn’t troubled he'll go to pieces again so she mustn’t Grace to think ehe had prevailed leave And she can’t stay without at? Brought forward another objection explanation I say let’s give the ex- She bad given her word to her uncle planation let’s come right out with How could she break that promise to enthe announcement that they’re a dying man? She would feel like a gaged” traitor and— she’s a "But the "Traitor to who?” demanded there’s the church" "Not to losing patience housekeeper "Well I know It But he never was poor Nat for he’s gone And don’t you And she suppose that he and Efcen understand so popular as he Is now a Isn't by any means where they are? things better now Why Zeke Bassett and Do you suppose that Nat wouldn’t the rest have been finding fault with want you to be happy? I know he her and calling her a backslider would for I knew him” That’ll help Then you trust me to when the long unsettled was still It fact the whoop up her heroism and talk was over but Grace agreed not that without her he would have died to leave the minister at present She Come on! I've would stay where she was until he We can do It Kezlah tackled a good many Jobs but match- was himself again at least Kezlah with me and It waa hurtln’ her a considerable Here was I steady sober hard working soft spoken good natured loving and kind neat and orderly fond of home sensible and liberal and fair minded and she had to sit away back and keep her mouth shut when the neighbor women was holding a knockfest on their husbands Well then I bought them books "She’s a changed now woman There’s a light In her eyes and a spring in her step that hadn’t been there for years before I signed that It waa sure a sur agent’s contract prise to me the gift of eloquence ehe showed We used to sit together she darning socks and me evenings reading the paper and hardly a word between ue till I went to bank up the fire for the night Now she’ll talk by the hour If I bring the conversation around to ’Uvea and Public Epeeches' and it makes her happy Now that he’s got sixteen volumes of evldenca to prove I'm a chuckle headed Idiot and an Improvident spendthrift and a selfish skate that won’t deny hlmaell nothing while hla wife’s sickenin' for a decent hat she’s beginning to ap predate me Bhe’s a whole lot more affectionate than when she couldn’t lay her finger on a flaw in me That’s the way with women every time "Anyway I don’t see what in thu der you're around here for with your hands in your pockets and Get busy with that your mouth open brasa work you flat faced loafer and when you've done that go and fix up that radiator In 62 and then come and report to me In Mike’s Place I’m going to do a little agency business to find The Basement Philosopher B KENNETT HARRIS (CopjrrfclH 19U br W G Cbesoan) “The agent blew In this morning to rubber” the Janitor Informed his assistant "He waa disguised in a fur coat with the collar turned up and a fur cap with the peak pulled down but I spotted him by the tip of his nose as soon as I laid eyes on him You can’t mistake an agent’s nose I seen him pushing it into all the entrances as he come along the street and then take it into the court and he waa getting It smutted up around the coal bins when I anook up behind him and He thought it waa a tenant coughed at first and started to run but he come back and we hid behind the furnace while I made my report " ’Well Mr McCarthy says he Tve no fault to find on the whole’ he ‘There’s been complaints made says about you of course’ he says ’but I don’t think that you’re much to blame Just keep ’em smoothed down that’s all Don’t try to bluff ’em Smooth ’em down Well I must be going’ he ‘Tell that gink in 32 that you’re says me around any day and that expecting you’re quite sure I’ll fix up things Tell ’em all the same’ satisfactorily “So off he goes and makea his report to the estate and draws his fine elegant salary for the work that I’m doing and then drops In on the coal dealer and makes a little deal which is a good deal and I wrastle with the slate and slag that’s In the coal and stand for the kicks that the tenants make about the heat It’s a wonder that gazabo doesn’t make me collect the rents He sure would If he wasn’t scared I’d find out a way to hold out on him “Agents are nesB’ry evils I supThere’s all kinds of course-bo- ok pose agents insurance agents station agents and road agents but whether thev use an order book or blank leases myself MUSIC b’Jiminy!” MAKES COW GIVE MILK American Farmer Will Impart DiscovBrethren— ery to Hla European Other Oddities Made Public It seems there are plenty of ways of making money in this big world if we only caught one of them at the right time and the right place For instance a Nebraska farmer has Just departed for Europe with the Idea In mind of teaching the dairymen ccired Here goes making Isn’t one of ’em to tackle that” was here Kezlah was delighted But she work after her own heart still hesitated ehe said “you’ve forgot ‘Doctor’’ one thing that’s Grade herself Would she marry him now knowing it may mean the loss of his ministry and all any more than she would at first? I don't believe It” 'That’s your part Kezlah You've got to show her she must marry him or he’ll die see?” Keziah’s hesitation was at an end Her face lit up "I say good!” she cried “And now I want to give you a piece of advice your course for the first leg as you might say: you see Cap’n Zebedee Mayo” Cap’n Zeb is the first “Humph! man I mean to see” Captain Zeb listened with his mouth and eyes and ears open Mrs Mayo was with him when the doctor called and ehe too listened Well!” exclaimed the captain when the plea for support was ended Well by the flukes of Jonah’s whale! Talk about surprises Old lady what do you say?" Zebedee “I eay go ahead Go If Mr Ellery wanted to marahead! sister and I knew he ry Jezebel’s really wanted to I’d — I do believe I’d And Grace Van help him get her Horne Is a good girl Go ahead” "Say doc there’ll be a lively row and I kind o’ like It” said Captain Zeb There was and It was lively enough to suit even Captain Zeb Dr Parker on his calls that day was assailed with a multitude of questions conGrace’s cerning presence ' at the He answered them cheershanty fully dilating upon the girl’s bravery her good sense and the fact that ehe had saved Mr Ellery’s life Then he confided as a strict secret the fact that the two were engaged Before hla hearers had recovered from the shock of this explosion he was justifying the engagement Why shouldn’t they marry If they wanted to? it was a free country The girl wasn't a any longer and besides— and this carried v eight in a good many households — what a black eye the marriage would be for that crowd at the chapeL with the preliminary was satisfied She felt confident of winskirmish ning the victory and in the prospect for others she was alof happiness most happy herself Yet each time the mall was brought to the shanty she dreaded to look at It and the sight of a stranger made her shake with fear Ansel Coffin had threatened to come to Trumet If he came she had made up her mind what to do was to meet The parish committee hie Captain Elkanah had announced of moving that John Ellery Intention be expelled from the Regular church no There was to be no compromise he must be asking for a resignation in disgrace thrown out discharged county papers were full of the but they merely reported squabble the news and did not take aides The fight was too even for a few days before One afternoon the date set for the meeting Elkanah and two or three of his henchmen were on the piazza of the Daniels They home discussing the situation Annabel and downcast werp' blue room shedding "was in the sitting tears of humiliation and jealous raje on the haircloth sofa (TO BE CONTINUED) that When Fish Go to Bed Did you know that fish go to bed In Prof Dyche state fish winter? says: and game warden for Kansas have “Sure thing fish have beds seen them piled up four and five fish 10 S feet at least by deep for a space Usually they find a place below a log or some kind of an obstruction In a stream where there Is an eddy They their positions there maintain don’t know I without much effort whether they sleep or not but Ash will spend most of a winter In that way extremely “When the water gets They cold the fish become sluggish can move around a little but they lose even be can all their alertness They caught by hand In All you need Itto do has the Ice after Is to cut a bole been frozen over for some time Some fish will come to the hole for air It Is unhand to matter slip your an easy der the fish slowly and you may lf( him clear of the water before be makes a wiggle the Cypress more than water tanks defy decay a quarter of a century fov “USED TO SIT TOGETHER EVENINGS 8HE DARNING ME READING THE PAPER" or Winchester rifles and bad language there ain’t much to choose between ’em They’ve all got the same idee— to get your money away from you and play both ends against the middle which is themselves In a general agent he’ll hire way if you hire-asomebody else to do what you want done and they won’t do it— unless they Janhappen to be honest itors The only good piece of work an agent turns out with hla own hands la hla expense account “What’i been the curse of Ireland for generations? If it hadn’t Agents been for an agent and a quick finger on the trigger my old father would have stayed in Connaught where he wanted to stay and not broke hla heart and the heads of respectable citizens on the New York police force I don’t say that I'd have been aa well off In some respects but I wouldn’t have had families to humor and keep up to their right temperatures to say nothing of the of teaching a square responsibility head like you the difference between the vacuum cleaner and the sprinkling hose To think you’d go to work and flood a Wilton stair carpet with city water and then drag up the grass roots outside by electric suction I What’s that? Well you would have If I hadn’t stopped you in time And don’t give me any back talk "As for the boob agents there’s my Lives and Public Speeches of the of the United States’ in sixteen volumes half morocco to speak for themselves Go ask my old woman to show ’em to you and get her to tell you what she thinks of agents It’s one of the easiest things she does and you'll learn more English than you would at night school — more and different And was I to blame for wanting to Improve my mind and qualify myself for the highest and best paid positions? Didn’t that blasted agent as good as guarantee that them books would land me in the United States senate? And am I In the senate? Say they wouldn’t give mo the nomination for dog pelter In this district as long as i’ve worked for the party and for all I've read and remembered about the meteoric career of Charlie Fairbanks No Nels my friend them books certainly did not make my fortune If I hadn’t claimed my exemptions they’d have made a financial wreck of me ‘‘There’s one good thing come out of that It gave the old woman something to kick about We’d been married close on to fifteen years and in til that time she hadn’t had no fault 8OCK8 AND of Europe that you can get more mljk from your cow if you will only play soft dreamy sentimental music near her during milking time American experts appear to be convinced of the worth of his discovery and he is planning to make all Borts of money by convincing Europeans Again in Kansas there is a man who has the honor of being the only "freckle farmer” His occupation consists In transplanting bits of skin from one part of the body to the other and grafting fancy designs and Images In the process They are claimed to be more permanent than tattooing The extraction of grease in queer ways has proven a lucrative means of support for several companies in English towns In 1912 the town of Bradford between England cleared $200000 and $250000 from the selling of grease reoovered from the city's sewage In horse tails there appears to be considerable too profit Judging from the shiploads of them that come In from China Their price varies from 50 cents to $2 a pound and the hairs which are carefully arranged according to the length and color are used in the making of brushes and haircloths Keeps Aeros Right Side Up Moreau a Frenchman who his experiments at Melun asserts that he has discovered the secret of automatic stability for aeroplanes has Just received $2000 from an anonymous patriot and great excitement has been created In aviation if not In military circles by the invenM tion Moreau before he took to aviation was a printer’s workman and he has spent all his savings in perhis Invention fecting The novelty In his design so far M can be Judged from what has been made public consist In a suspended cage that contains the eeat of the pilot and room for passengers It Is described as a pendulum seat and the way It is attached under the frame at a certain point between the propeller and the horizontal rudders Influences the center of gravity which Is maintained constantly at a fixed point by the movements of the pendulum seat M through The "That’s Just man to make Usual Way like the deceit of woher husband beat the carpet” "How was that deceitful?” "She wanted to throw dust eyes” la hie |