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CHAPTER XX. When the District Attorney called the name of Martin Kemperton, Dave Scanlan looked round with unconcenl e expression on his face and hoped that none of the jurors had noticed it. A respectably dressed, comfortably | stout man of middle age took the wit- | ness stand and stated that he was a | dealer in small arms and that he was always careful to observe persons to whom he sold revolvers. "Do you recognize either of the de- fendants as a person to whom you sold | a revolver?" asked the District Attor-, ney. "Yes. The defendant Scanlon." "Do you recall any of the circum- stances?" "It was the day before the murder ocemrred. He came into my store in| the afternoon and said he wanted a re- | volver. I asked him nb questions, but | he told me he was a night watchman and his employer wanted him to carry a gun, He bought a 38-caliber revol- ver and a dozen shells." "You are positive this is the man?" "Yes. of him in the paper the day after the murder I recognized him." Dave was talking in eager whispers with his lawyer, whose face was grave and attentive. The jurors watched them while the witness returned to his i geat in the back of the room. | Jérry had listened to Kemperton's ! testimony with amazement. Tha man seemed to be telling the truth. Yet! Dave, in spite of his declarations that he had made a clean breast of every- | thing, ad never mentioned this trans- action. Jerry was not reassured by his excited whisperings and the law- yer's grave face; Mrs. Scanlon, pale, nervous, yet bent on comforting her hoy, leaned forward in her chair and pressed and patted his arm all un- heeded, 1 The District Attorney had no more witnesses. Maxwell called Hans Berg- mann to the stand. A broad-shoulder- ed, thick-chested man of about thirty, with a heavy, Tentonic face, stiff, light hair erect upon his head, skin pale and blotchy, eves small and shifty, testi- fied that on the night of the murder | Schlupfe; whom he knew well, had been in his pool-room until it closed at midnight. Asked how he could be sure it was the night of the murder, he re- plied that Otto Wangenheim came in at about half past eleven and said that there had been a shooting over on Eighth Street, less that a quarter of a mile away. Schlupfe, who was standing by at the time, had remarkedJ that a fellow was a fool as well as a crook. to go into the hold-up business on Righth Street. "He said that if he was going out with a gun to rob somebody he'd pick on somebody worth while," testified Bergmann. ! Cross-examination -by Trask failed to confuse or shake the witness. He declared stolidly that he could not be mistaken, that he knew Schlupfe well, that Schlupfe spent many an evening in his pool-rdom. Otto Wangenheim testified that he was a harber and that on his way home from his shop at a few minutes past eleven on the night of the murder he saw a crowd gathered in the doorway of Walsh's store. On joining it he learned that a man had been shot and killed less than a quarter of an hour before. He had tried to see the body, but two policemen were guarding the door and he was unsuccessful. He had gone at once to Bergmann's pool-room end had been the first there to an- nounce the news. He remembered that the men who gathered round him were Bergmann, -Schlupfe, Goldstein, and Kupelmayer. i A Both Goldstein and Kupelmayer cor- roborated Wangenheim. Moreover, they testified that they had been play- Arthur Sirad Pier /// . @opyrighs Houghton Mifflin Company BF arrangement with Thos Alles come of this war, for fact that it has elimir "the superficial woman. mm main superficial but she cannot re- main influential and prominent. It is amazing, when one pauses long en- ought _to consider the fact, how com- pletely the women agitators and pro-| pagandists of five years ago have disappeared. Their calling' is 'done and they have withdrawn from the ing pool with Schlupte for at least two A ta on thefirst cold day. hours before Wangenheim came in with the news of the murder. were unsavory-looking young men; and' Wangenheim, with his lopsided head and thick, weak lips, was not a prepossessing . person. 'But they all told their stories with apparent frank- ness, Other witnesses were produced to testify to Schlupfe's good character-- the liveryman in whose stable he had once 'worked, the alderman from his district, the butcher who had employed him as errand boy eight years before, the keeper of the bar-rogm that he was accustomed to frequent and that never saw him drunk or disorderly, and final- ly his uncle, who had a teaming busi- ness and had sent Schlupfe to buy some horses in the town where he had been arrested. The horse dealer ap- peared and corroborated this testi: mony. The -proSecuting attorney cross-ex- amined none of these witnesses. Trask's efforts to trip them up or to discredit them resulted in failure. Maxwell recalled Jerry for cross-ex- As soon as I saw the picture ' amination, and asked him if Scanlan/ in his confession had admitted the pur- chase of the revolver as descrihéd by Kemperton. Jerry was obliged to say he had not. "How do you happen to be appear- ing to-day without your uniform?" "I object!" shouted Trask. "If Your Honor please," said Max- well, "I believe it is competent to bring | out any facts that may tend to im- peach the veracity of a witness." The judge allowed the guestion, and Jerry answered: "I'm not wearing the uniform be- cause I've been suspended from the force." "That will do, Mr. Donohue." Maxwell glanced with a triumphant smile at thie jury. He chose not to put his client on the stand. Dave Seanlan took the chair. = « : Confused, hesitating, making state- ments and then changing or retracting them, Dave caused Jerry's heart to sink. In regard to the revolver he said that Schlupfe had told him the one { who'was to use the weapon had better not be the one to buy it. Schlupfe.had given him the purchase money and had waited in the neighborhood of the store until he emerged. Heé never would have bought the revolver if he had believed that Schlupfe meant to do more than intimidate people with it. He hadn't included the story of the re- volver in his confession to" Officer Donohue because he didn't want to make himself appear worse than he was--and in view of what had happen- ed the purchase of the revolver would have seemed a suspicious circum- stance, and he hadn't felt it necessary to mention it, 2 Making these explanations, Dave ap- parently felt that he did not carry con- viction; he wavered and stopped up- on an uncompleted, halting sentence. Trask guided him through the story of the crime." He had met Schiupfe by appointment at the corner of Fifth and Tanner Streets at eleven.o'clock; they had gone along Tanner Street and then up Burchard Avenue, and then down Eighth Street looking for places where it might seem safe to attempt a hold- up, and finally they had passed Walsh's store, and then, attracted by the de- serted aspect of it, had turned back and entered. When he described the shooting, Jerry squirmed and gripped the edge of his chair in painful ap- prehension; he believed Dave, but he knew that Dave was not making others believe him. The stillness of the courtroom grew more and more omin- ous, as Dave gropingly, diffidently de- livered his narrative. The jurors and the judge were watching him with un- concealed doubt and suspicion; through first one hand and then the other, while she gazed at Dave with an oring fixity and earnestness; Schlupfe and Maxwell leaned back in their ehairs comfortably and smiled in open scorn; Trask stood close to his 'what Jou met Schlupfe and arranged with m to embiArk on a series of rob- beries?' . 7 "I'd. Just come out of the reforma tory where I'd been for a month." "Why had you been in the reforma- | seriously (in girlhood days) but has | "blossoming unseen" at this age of | Mrs. | Scanlan sat pulling a handkerchief feeble limelight of those days exact-| ly as the tiny summer gnats disap- To-day the women who are doing things that count are women who be- 'gan to do things thoroughly at the very commencement of their career. They never called it "career," by thé way, never named it in fact, except to themselves, and then this process of selfZdiscipline and self-improve- ment was, more often than not, sim- ply called "making a living" or "do- ing the very best I can." The world was full of just such women whose one passion was to do the work in hand in the very best way it could be done. = Advancement, pecuniary gain, material benefit were not even Be ondaty. The work was the thing! No training was too severe if only éx- cellence crowned the work, These women were truly the wise virgins, more concerned to keep their lamps filled and the wicks in perfect | working order than about the accom- | plishments that fill leisure hours. Their call has come at last and thir lamps are needed---every one of th There is not a woman in the world to-day who has improved her talents { from the time she began to view lifé {a most important mission to per- form. work. There is no such thing as: | the world, if one's training has accom- | plished all that it should. The | "shelf" on which women have resign- { edly laid themselves for years has { been taken down apd even the grand- !/mothers are, to-day, coming in for honorable mention as being respon- | sible for the "soldier lads" in France. i Every woman who was prepared is doing a real part in the world's work and those who preferred veneer and superficiality to genuine worth of character are being 'refused admit- tance, every day, into coveted fields of endeavor, Prepare for work and { the task will find the worker! i rl emer i . Diet For Children. The essential diet for the 'children js 'an 'abundance of simple, easily digested foods, earefully prepared and of sufficient variety to form a balane- ed diet. Food must supply! the child with material for bodily growth and with energy for the constant and abundant activity. For this reason it is ims] portant to have 'exact knowledge of food value; they should be constantly kept in mind, The building foods are milk, eggs, fish, legumes and meats; of this last item very small' portions should. be given. It is best to replace the meat! portion of the diet with poultry dur-! ing 'the summer. The fuel foods = are milk, butler, starchy végetables. Mineral salts are necessary for a proper balance; they are quickly available in fresh fruits, green vegetables and milk. | Together with these foods. there should be 'plenty of pure drinking wa- ter, so that the food may be properly | digested and the waste eliminated. | The world is waiting for her' . | poor but in homes where there is' an green leafy vegetables, Whe ing up the menu, these ideas be Kept vividly in mind. The English idea of fee dren undey twelve years of age apart from the family dinner table, is fol- Jowed by many parents. This practice gives the mother a chance to plan provide foor that will be suitable and at the same time digestible Tor the lit- tle folks. = Then again this meal is arranged an hour eaflier than the re: gular family meal, the mother may sit down in comfort, knowing that the children -have eaten a meal that. supply them with material ior growth mak- should _A Few Suggestive Menus. Breakfasts ~~ 0° Orange Jujee Cornmush and Milk Toasted Barley Bread and Butter i | food feeding chil- and and|at the front may be Who of us will eat what sh conserved for the the front? The hearts of Canada' are sound and in this finish. ~ Food is & first class 1av will of war and Sanadiane ao Siew ibs dt will be time enough to. ] E and energy. tions in Canada when the peopl 2 Canada refuse to conform to efforts to conserve: food Britain and the Allies, and the Cana- dian Army at time comes a controller, will be needed. to~go to waste, the Board has ordered er, Richmond, days. v not purchase or take delivery of any the food commodities or manufacture, sell or deal in bread or any product . of wheat or other flour. ade in at Grea the Allies and the Canadia Canadian' Army at| A hearts of the people of this war 49 8 munition ra- of Dn ts 5. Gibson, 101171 st St.; m, | ( for Great! pj Jane Deteoit, 10820, 101s must remain d un granted by the Food Board. the intention of the Board to take front. When that iceman, not a food of o licensing rules. oi "For selling flour to American hzens for export and for gelling sam For allowing two: batches of dough Canada' Food » Ar thur Seott,' baka e., to close for seven 'During this _peried he must The War Trade Board of Washing- Milk \ 7 ------. Stewed Fruit Cornmush and Milk Omelet Baked Potato Milk Dinners Baked Potato + Creamea Carrots Lettuce ~ Cup Custard, w= Milk 2 Broiled Fish Spinach {i "Lettuce Stewed Fruits Milk re Stewed Chicken Boiled Potato Lettuce Beans Apple Sauce Milk ¥ Suppers : Oatmeal and. Stewed Prunes ! Toasted Barley Bread and Butter Finely Shredded Pineapple : ' Milk ; Cream Toast, using Cornbread. | Rice Pudding with Stewed Fruits Milk | Omelet | Boiled Potatoes Apple Sauce ' Milk | Many children who suffer from mal- nutrition are cross and irritable Wor dull; sometimes they are lacking in- alertness. Where there is any re- daction of ' the vitality there is al- ways a possibility of suceptibility to digease. This lack of the proper foods is found not only in homes of the abundance. The knowledge, of the right quantity and quality of food to maintain the proper standards of growth and de- velopment is vitally important Tagtor in child life. I would like to make a plea to the mothers not to give their children pennies for cheap candies, or | worse yet, to allow them to buy the ice-cream cones of the street mer- chant. ® Many a mother would faint if she could pee the surroundings in which these so-called: delicacies are manu- factured. Cheap candies contain in- grédients that may prove harmful and thus pave the way for more serious intestinal disturbances and perhaps, who knows, a serious illness. Be firm and do not permit the children to have these questionable products. Rather give them fresh fruits, home- made cookies and then know that your | lr child will perhaps, escape much suf- ferings. 4 Tm Pomerey's saloon and gave me a drink, and then we got to talking together, tand he told me his scheme." "§o' he persuaded you: then to join it? : "Yes, * after about: half an hour's tal " x % ' "Ting was in Pomeroy's saloon?" "No: we just had a drink in there, we went and sat ona bench k in front of City Hall." ter that you agreed to in no more questio 'cross-examine. LY, dE J cen ho 8 5 0 1 l "|trying to. establish an . Trask was able to intrbduce evi: isi dence discreditable = enough' Schiupfe. ~ He showed that Schlupfe. H. M. 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