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THE CRIME OF and real responsibility. Tb Die epprenticeety Journeyman printer % the big shop where Th wea @ splendid pom ¢ . rare away the bowey of porcr © day, two years eariier, when hin far) © Widowed mother end ay oister Tom Morrissey was hurrying he Founding & corner, ) & Hallowe'en bonfire, Tr cheers each new ww freah fuel The cheers ewelled to howls of the Gre from a side street, carrying ty had Gesterously lifted from ita piece As the two fire Tom recognized one of them ant older than himself--son of the towns foremost lawyer-politician. Tom also saw what none of the donfire builders at fret noted, » ly, that @ policeman (who evidently had watched the mate robbers from @ distance) wae running Loward (he antes Tom could call a warning the policeman charged down upon the lade. One of then yelled: “Hert yr" and the group meited as if by magi: boys ecatiered in all directions igto the darkness beyond the flare of ere trot Henry Rokeson Gashed across the street toward th invitingly open entrance to an y ae an past Tom his toe caught on edge of the curb and he sprawied headlong. Tom stopped to lift young Kokeson te his feet. Hut the mon delay had been enough for the policeman to overtake him. The bluecoat nabbed Henry by the colli eubmission. In the same seized Tom Morrissey. “In the name of the law!" sputtered « the officer. “And if either of you re- slot, I'l pull my gun on you. I saw the two of you pinch that gate.” “You did not,” denied Tom indi ‘m just on my way fre esting Novelization By Mrs. Wilson Woodrow FEEDER IEG Oe FORO OOF Now Being Presented et the Leading Picture in Greater oiled tele delel dled ad New York FOOTE O ee OE Ee Story No. 4 MISFORTUNE | en of separate stories Henry dragaed Mabel from the ror thrust her out by ob Morrissey doorway j window, da?" yelled “What have you ely with ® though sister, ye fom, springing at him, with hers Henry, seizing him by tb king to tear the truth from hin dealing with the con inviting judgment upon both actual guilt He grappled tier i i na her to re. bare roared hed figures were nt egaingg @ moment @ step souné. weveral years You witnes aiualld poverty of “Mother! Mother n bia knees ing the idea ung himself up light again § Morrissey’ bed you hound? inging at him, “What with Henry, the throat as ¢ eeking to tear the truth from iim. natehed up @ chair and Mgt it crashing down upon Tom's stunned and helpless, ipsed to the floor, first thought, when he came to sn hour later, in a poliee nan like you with cl the wttack for the frat time in two fearful ervaing him by Toke warning by it sok Tom's ca e and entor @ smashing blow at Morrie “Where is Mabel aelf-contra! » faring head 4 little while kitchen and get yourself some supper of ten dollars aidestepping left hander 1 HIS asmailant’s eves, dangerously with a flung rock strong enough truth about « Mobels name inte For bor sake 1 must keep Morrissey-— d convicted on @ charge ef assault—faced @ time in Bie said the Judge, your peers has found you guilty. This is your third y You are@ and confirmed criminal It ul duty to sentence you to years’ impris- wonderful to have you Hut he broke the bridue none and went ckward under the trained musculat drive of hin fist ry's reeling feet missed the top fell sprawling art of the very Hiteh lay. buried. to break the ¥iolen thouxh without Rokeson family brought him a nigh pointees of tl the kitchen their allotted ye fell upon a crumpled letter that lay on the floor where it had dropped from Mabel's blouse, satisfaction He picked tt up and his eye rallroaded to State prison on suddenness t left him bewildered and breath. fell on Henry eving dismay he read the mis- s snatching up his hat he rushed from the house. shaking him into peace esture he Morrisey 1 efficiently at je good Wages, he sous thanks to the Rokeson tnftu- he go to prison another Ltoke- servant to the Hbrary, where b thrifty and had a wise head for sna clal management Aw a result he was able to buy on ntw a pretty cottage on Hud- installed his in- @ minimum of twenty onment at hard labor,” the Rokesons and ched hand and said coldly in eply to his fervid greeting hardened criminal, and that Roke would like to kee him well disciplined. Morrissey's Jnstal the shop. I stopped here a second gon Lane, where to “You didn't see me do it,” deciared situations, but many more must share, it really is deter- mined “Who's Guilty?” valid nother and sister Mabel, mother's life depe psition, pleas of treatment Rokeson. “I was on my way Line Beker sen car tatnere ‘office when { sickly tother, in her own home a ‘ome Roticed this fellow and another man going toward the fire with 4 gate be- tween them, when"—--—~ in short, to nt you to be my wife,” The Evening World’ crush the hardiest spirit cy of the merciless, Much that is horrible goes on be- (End of Fourteenth Episode.) Beauty last and with her ts never learns of it “You saw me doing that?’ gasped normal school, grew Tom incredulously. 4 “I did,” reiterated Henry, “and I'm ready to ewear to it. 1 H “Come along, the both of you Broke in the policeman. “You can tell it to-morrow to the Judge, And he added, “you won't neither of you need to tell His Honor nothing at all, last released and tells his story. und beauliful young womani: timony is branded in his free hours, mother with her and Mabel with her lessons, or taught w tricks to bis fufty yellow wrel puppy, “Huteh.” as the lie of an And the abuses go mer- and Health Column ——epvep Conducted by Pauline Furlong ae from prison at and Was sent Tom was released the end of his term, his native town with Rokeson-ruled police had instructions to watch him He was glor- because 1 saw the whole thing and I Harvard Stre can swear to it.” as a dangerous character. teutious thor His once buoyant step had taken Through This Column Miss Furlong Will Reply to Women ‘ated only by a “You'll swear yourself off the force back gar if you make that charge against me,” pick blustered Hen on the “prison drag.” His formerly shoulders were bent. tanned and ruddy from the rear and showy man- Readers’ Questions Regarding Exercise, Diet and Other Means of Preserving Good Health and Good Looks. » “Do you know who grounds of « hug ‘mplexion wi x VS » My father sion (oitinnie ronesone™ oo This mansion's grounds, “Bure be ain't George Washington?” and as hopeless as those of a beaten — His heart was dead within him, Copyright, 1216. by The Press Puntishing Co, buck all the way t TOM STRUCK TOO HIGH TO SCORE A KNOCKOUT, BUT HE SENT HENRY REELING BACKWARD. litt'e paten of queried the biuecoat in elephantine beth sides of Ton im. “They're all the sons of in- h'l folks when we arrest ‘ec Hinkle Rokeson's boy der is higher than the other, which ts the best exercise to follow?” All stretching and deep breathing kreatly help you. flesh were scars witness to nameless cruelties. marred, body and soul, he was turned out upon a world tha (The New York Evening World.) ity, about which so many Teaders write me, is caused by wrong nly believed 1 was at fault, en all about it long before pain—and he merely landed on hi back, with afl the breath and ail the fight knocked out of him, uly Henry Kokeson crawled to He did not want his mother to see body, lest the sig The mansion was owned by Hinkle 14 forgot ar of his Now. Huteh's twisted might make her cry, he burted his four-footed And as for the dogs and the ghvors must put up \e Soukin'e be runnins the streets and grounds, fronting on Hudson Lane, Chickens, why, 1 gates, Come alon: Stretch the arms upward, aa though eating, and it is a common disorder, trying to reach the ceiling with the n forewarned to shun or pup- he was an ex- his Kennel of prizo With inconveniences sometimes. Don't worry about Hutch, either, big rose bush in a ¢ Then, heavy-he He kept the ken scratched hands over his broken nose, At the town's single police station Winping bulldogs ty Hall) the two boys nel thus ren Gee ariticien ontre A grumpy lieu- that the barking of the dogs would Would want to harm a jolly temant and then consigned to the not disturb hi eame call. clam Henry Rokeson, by means of a five the folk who lived on Hudson Lane, busy hired man, dollar tip to tho Morrisaey, not Wanting to worry his mothor and Ngers, Many times a day. overdo these until you are strong and more practiced with them, OLIVE OIL—MRs, “1 am quite thin and want to uke olive oil if it will benefit me, How much should I take each day? tablespoontul_ at each meal, three times a day, part of sweet And hundreds just like him are sent forth from prisons every day to take up ugain the burden of life with just the sane hideous handicap, Another event of local importance occurred on the day of Tom's release. Henry Kokeson came home from His term of service as at- | tache there had expired. His ‘father | months earlier his hands and his clothing, had suffered badly trom the unloving embrace of the rose bush, and his ¢ gun to swell, slowly into the Morrissey's ment that supper was ready, Mabel had a better time than she dat the pavilion dance that evening, base of many That their bow iKLt keep aval both of you, a d stop hindering your FRANK @G, was not good to As he bent to his garden work Tom heard two m One June afternoon, a few minutes Lon on the fu Tom Merriasey re. that divided his lot from the end of The sun Was still {1@ Rokeson rman, had a tele. did not concern or interest Hinkle enaage sent to hie father, Rokeson at all woman can cure this condition by making an intel- t blazed a murderous! undying hatred Glaring up at Tom from betw '# voices in conversa- wide of the picket fence And the evening flew by Sister, Mage No effort before 6 o'clock, on gay Wings. her pleasura to send word to them, He was often turned from work. th Henry had come back to take into his hands the reins of the civic and financial power that had slipped from Hinkle Rokeson's dead fingers. In the multiplicity of his interes in Vienna the memory of Mabel Moi wasped incoherent. you for that! the nutritious] Krape juice with it, if you cannot take those of Hinkle Rokeson They were evidently in- ambler roses and honeysuckle that *Pecting the kennels, sring out old C Vil get you, Paynter's brother brought up a maa Elsie's white d into a slight frown of displeasure as she recognized the father's lust dollar and last scrap of Vil get you Tom took # step forward forehead puck mploa Colborn,” and those which Fine Scorn. detained nex all in fontson knew simplest they would not be troubled at his guldenly through wr) in as he and his celimate were bor left alone er in thelr barred enry order the Morrissey ang ‘Tom presently hea look at that over # flower Kk cause this or other disagreeable and Ho was Heary Rokeson, Plodding Pete, suddenly became tempered rissey had half faded from Henry's | toge' cubbyhole Tom turned fiercely to Mabel we id you tell that lie for?” tu he demanded. “Why did you say you few me eteal the gute?” my "What did you trip me for as | Por more than a year Henry's eyes But as the sight of bis old | unhealthy surroundings revived ancient recol- leetions, so the thought of Mabel now flashed back upon him with an Irre- eine waka ae 1-wire scratch on his shoulder.” etane man @ meal o' victuals?” You 80 away from here, or I'll call ing Rokeson. bed, rear. word, without so much 4s @ backward avoided, Super-acidity may cause ab- normal appetite, which is very differ- ent from hunger, Surplus acid in the system causes 2 admiration as she passed ou the street, He laud at last ad- to himself that man open a heavy wire door tn . Out trotted taking in all its 4ssive white bulldog, perhaps eighty muscles bulg © peaceful beauty of the scene kenne the gate for disappeared Tom mechanically began to mon With It awoke the former yearning stoop-shouldered ba qwet loveliness and the dear home at- past you?” countered Henry, Wel ito aust fierceness, “And then why "Phere that hovered w 4i4 you grab me and hold me til the cop coulé catch up with us?” surface of his glos- His eyes fell on the irritation of the mucus «membrane of the stomaoh and Over-eating and wrong combinations man plowin’ corn in the next field pylorus. your husband?" benignantly : the resolve he had once made that she should be his wife. Ho inquiries at once tuken to spending much time near his boundary fence, when at work in the Morrissey above ed inte Korma among its roots. In whose sweetnesy “I didn’t!” cried Tom. “You stum- B® tejolced bled on the curb, just in front of me. I was trying to help you up when"-—— “T paw yor it!" snarled the other, “And no one’s going to play @ trick like that on Hinkle Rokeson’s son without getting paid back for it, It ain't on the free list in this tec dv @ rotten turn to any one of my father’s name. You'll be sorry for thie to the last day of your life!” “I tell you I didn't trip you up raisted Tom. “And I didn't try to old you. I"——~ The door of their cell swung open ‘The leutenant and the doorman and & Well dressed man in civilian clothes stcoé in the dim-lit corridor outside. | of food also cause super-acidity, and Jall of these | avoided before relief can be expected. Less foods of all kinds and copious drinking will quickly tail in joyous gr k what I said, I've got I have, If you've 4 Meal o ‘victuals for a poor wat houre he had learned the uninspiring history of the girl's life during the past two yeart ‘Tom's trial-—fruitless as his defense had proved—had eaten deep into his On his departure to prison the little cottage had been given up and sister, since ld no longer continue paying the Joan association's instalments t.pon It They had moved to a room suite in @ poor quarter of the “God is good to to himself, don't believe vown as richly blessed ax Lam. heard this afternoon of her inte to go with Elsie Paynter to the a heart in im n't die quite he'll keep his oU’ me, unless Life isn't very easy for is tt, Huteh?" dishevelied, face distorted with swelling and with into his father’s study ling as he spoke, “I aplayed paws brushe is another man In thinned trove 4 on the white d against Henry's 4 dusty marks ashington Star, ad laid bis own He had gone to the dance, had, with some dificulty, found out who escorted xiris Was blsie's brother, and had, t lint of 4 good deal of diplomacy acquaintans duction to Mabel Mabel was anything but happy. te meet the man who had once done her uch a bad turn, Patvemely faseina( ing when he chose, task at the flower bed, ome of us after all, rut a Word & at the affectionate brute’s awkward one buckskia ¢ vered a tremendous kick nto &Nd called by his mother “We didn’t expect you home so ear- on the ¢ Letters From Readers LIVER SPOTS—J. D. writes: you please tell me | liver spots? one anuss of them; in very hot weather,” The weather nor liver have no con- kKled with laughter as Cham. Pion Colborn tumbled prone inte dust under t) imped crestfall Look at mo surged, choking- er and to run a playfully affec cheap three- to get rid of ntive back Is just swine did this, His father bi “I hoped we would have this re ack into his ken- pike dnto amazed ques- 1," neighboring box factory. wages she and her mother had barely nared to keep body and soul to- “You've been wantir that chance me to accept to go to Vienna, tache to the United States dumb animal like that “Well, is nor But Pm glad Hut 4 replanting the nas mused Ton, of my business Jusually the result of reteined waste ‘Yom recognised the civilian as Hinkle seemed to be doing so well.” Rokeson, whom he had often » on the street. ‘Tho eratwhile austere lieutenant was peaith at; as he addressed Henry Rokenon, “Mr. , son,” he sald, “Orticer Harding made one of his bonehead breaks when he arrested yo: He &@ chuckle-headed dodo bird, anyhow. and a disgrace to the force, I've And now a new Mrs. Morrissey, alwa fallen seriously had sald that year in the Adirondacks could sav . And “a year in the Adirondacks Js not paid for out of the wages of a box factory operative. complication matter in the syste | exercise, deep free action of the bowels and water) drinking will remove them, DIET—RALPH T. writes: please state through for one of your interesthd men read- bone-building. healthful muscles, strength and power Mueh outdoor | “They were,” said Mabel, “but pple pet him tn- your saying it meant a big career for of those prize 1 don't want to, even yet, I'l make a bargain with you: to Vienna, without any further kick, y first to send him a prison done to me, and I'll start for Vienna the day after him tading to ne 1 of kicking: him. his planting. Mabel emerged from the a cheery goodby walked down the but Short garden path to the stree ‘py had follo d now frisked dong gleeful in the prospec: Hot at the gate she sent chickens of St nothing but a unsophisticated Mis father's wealth and the glamour of his wriggling with embarrass. 8! few « into our yard lu the whole bed. Wasn't it horrid?” spell of their own u and smiled contentedly as he heard ‘Then he wrote a note and n front of her son was as fr myself of & walk \ld the elder Rokeson Resinol Ointment, with Resinol big bulking man like reprimanded him good and plenty for hare the blunder he made in bringing you “bi here. And | hope you'll wccept the ¢.%« Loy of the police department physical exercises are scle builders, if nourlshing foods a rich the blood, upon diet consists ‘I ought to have pull enough Virst of all, ty much what he attack you on the too glad to get the exers third dance he wa usually stops itching dsaasdiy, 88 the trouble is due to some serious internal disorder, and easily heals most ca in this town to get pr factory by his own valet Mabel was 8 end of a hard note was handed to her, no, Hutehie! Go back to mas- You can't walk with me this eve- for home at the ‘8 work, when the Bhe read it h they feed, | f eggs, milk, street or in’ "You must be ke her his wife but optimist “That's all right, Heutenant,” said eet hours at the shy Henry magnanimously as he walked you out and joined his scowling father, te “Bay no more about it, Mistakes are struck him as she walked homeward, and in crass wonder she read: “Dear Miss Morrissey: returned from Europe and chanced to fruits, vegetables, salads, grains and nuts in their natural state. i MOUTH BREATHING—JOHN Mf. He trotted over to Tom, 1 zema, rash, or simil skin or scalp erup other treatments may ha would enrage his father jar tormenting too deop In love to » for that, or he puppy, find always liable to happen. I'm content stoutly to accept your apolog: Tom Morrissey, delighted at the timely rescue from a night tn the damp stone cell, eorridor in Henr: wake, aie ts you. ay he said respect- to Hinkle eson, ‘for’ Ay back there, you! prevent mouth breathing and snoring at night?" strap to keep Lie upon the front of | and turn the head to one | decided to go for a walk on his own account THE FIFTEENTH EPISODE IN THE SERIAL “WHO’S GUILTY?” Will Be Published THURSDAY, Aug. 10. ysicians have pre- oF over 20 years, hing that ‘could If you will do me the honor to call at my house at 8.20 this eve ning I should like to tall over with you a position t position that will bring you in more scribed Resinol and it contains harm even a baby’s delicate akin, Resino] Soap, used for baby pent chalings and e ntand Resinc) Soap It's a stimulant told me to-day that if T keep mouth closed. tepped out into the on T have tn mind butts of Hu pushed it open wide > wriggle out An operator mother to the A st you will avail yourself of a it will permit me ture of the spine, in which one ehoul- CURVATURE OF THE SPINE—| “In case of eurva- no longer tn aight UY and Hudson Lane, having turned the cur. roared the urbank with flowers, while y ITH K. writes this opportunity