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ys the tiny h a sss buds' and young leaves from --~ So economical Because, piss ill-grown s yields so generously in the teapots CHAPTER XX.--(Cont'd) The most industnious: efforts during that interval were unavailing. Schiupfe's witnesses were all of shady meputiation--eo much it was ear establish; but they none of them a eriminal record. = So far @s tracing their movements on the night of the murder was concerned, Trask found it in the few hours at his disposal uite imposible, He was able the next morning by skillful cross: examination to anger them and set them in a bad light, but that was all With the evidence all in, the District Agttorriey rose and addressed the jury. He was aware, he said, of the solemn responsibility imposed upon him; if in a professional eagerncis to gain a verdict he endeavcred to pervert or misinterpret the evidence that had been given in this case, he would be unworthy of the office that he held. He conceived it to be the duty of the attorney for the State not primarily to seek a conviction, but to estab- {ish the truth; and he trusted that so fong as he remained district attorney he would be fairminded enough, when the evidence dispor at the trial proved not to support an indictment, to admit that he had been in error and to atone as best he could for exce: of zeal. In this case the matter as regarded one of the defendants was simple. Scanlan had acknowledged a cortain meesure of guilt; the only question was whether he had acknowl- edged the full measure that belonged to him. He had purchased the me- volver, he had purchased the shells with which the killing had beén done, he had been forced reluctantly to ad- mit these facts; his story implicat- ing Schiupfe.as more gulity than him- self might be true. Only, if it were true, a number of men had lied, had perjured themselves, had bought --there could be no other word for it--to save the neck of a cold biooded murderer, He could not feel sure enough that this was the case to press for the conviction of the de- tendant Schlupfe.r If the jury felt that the testimony of all those who had appeaved in behalf of Schlupfe should be discredited and that he was guilty of the crime in the manner described by Scanlan, it wag their pri- viiege and their duty to report him guilty; but he himself could not in justice to his own conscience urge the jury to being in such-a verdict. As 40 the defendant Scanlan, he would have to press for a first-degree verdict." His confession had been only pantial; whether he or some confederate had actually fired the shot could not affect the measure of his guilt. That was complete, and was established by his reluctant admission of the purchase of the A Oirer and the shells. The murder wag cold-blooded, premeditat- ed, and without any extenuating cir: cumsbance. dogree against the defendant Scam- | , portion of your earnings week: Iy, or monthly, ¢ our {© . PARTIAL {| Payment PLAN =~ A verdict in the first: ir lan was not merely warranted, but: was demanded by the evidence-- which the District Attorney then pro-! ceeded to analyze. Maxwell followed the District A¥ torney. He assured the jury that he would take but little of their time; | indeed, considering the argument which they had just heard, he felt it { hardly necessary that he should speak! at al. He wished, however, to pre-} { sent to them some additional reasons' | why they should not permit them-| {@eives to be greatly influenced by! { Scanlan's partial confession and | {testimony of the suspended policeman { Donohue. One hesitated to believe i that there was #nything in this case| [partaking of the the mature of a { frame-up; but it was nevertheless to {be remembered that Scanlan and the. | suspended policeman Donohue were | clase friends® of long standing, that | they had taken part in the riots at the | Purroy Works,--ricts that had been | suppressed only by the calling out of {the sfate troops,--and. that the two! {men had become intimate, as joint law-breakens always do. It was not inconceivable that the suspended | policeman Donohue had effected a | compromise between his easy con-. scienec and the impulses of fi 1 i ship and had suggested to Si a! {means of evading the extreme penalty | for his crime, = The testimony fixing ian alibi for Schlupfe at the time of | the murder was too varied and com- plete to be disreganded or disbelieved; | the question why Scanlan whould have {tried to incriminate an innocent man' | and this particular innocent man' | might never be solved. Ome could | but offer a hypothetical explanation, {The suspended policeman Donohue | | had once seen Scapan and Schiupfe together; when he found his friend { Scanlan involved in. the difficulties ! created by an untruthful confession, he had, with the same desire to be! | helpful which had prompted Aim to! | release the fleeing Scanlan,-suggested | {that $chlupfe might be the confed- erate/in the crime; and Scanlan in his | cowardly desperation had grasped at' J+he suggestion. ~ Schlupfe's arrest, and indictment had followed. The sirspended policeman Donohue had al-| ready been sufficiently discredited by | events. Scanlan's confusion on The: | witness stand, his abviously trumped-! up story about the revolver, were suf-| ficient evidence of the fact that he had been lying, Maxwell closed by des! claring that he had no other duty or| desire than to secure justice for his | cliefit, and that in atbackin Scan'an's' confession and the suspen police- | man Donohue's testimony, he was animated by no spivit of "vindictive- | ness. { Jerry sat and listened, wave after, | | wave of impotent indignation coursing' | through him, his face crimson, his hands clenched. He wished the blood |» not rush into his cheeks at the titter which followed each referen {to the suspended policeman Donohue. | | Quite apart from the attack upon him- | jed | that dread grew and grew, in his heat. , { That # was in Mrs. Scandan's heart | also Jerry 'knew, for her face was! { more rigid and colorless and her ye { more terrified. She sat leaning for wand, clinging to Dédve's arm i ee 2 i i 4 i accounting. No matter how modest your children feeding right, sleeping Jmproperly used; suppose she Holding The Home Trenche How shall we best hold the try home trenches? . How fo against surprise attacks of diseases emergencies and increasing obst: 1 How maintain the morale of = fighting farm forces? How buil up the resistance of the rural re- serves? And how nourish the on- coming soldiers and laborers, the boys and girls now under war age? Questions like the above are now fairly asking themselves way out in country places as war-time needs be-- gin to demand of every family its ut- most tribute. However humble and unimportant 'a home mother has hitherto considered herself, she must now stand in the lime light of public have been her past deeds, in the eyes of herself or others, Canada is calling upon her to manifest the ways and means by which ghe/tan now serve her nation. You know this is no fancy picture of what is being asked of every farm woman:". "Are your sons fit for fighters, for farmers? Are your daughters skilled in plain work of the home, of the field, of some other use- fol, unfrilled calling? Is your hus- band of sound body for his years, so that he can step into the gap left by the boy and do &man's work? - Are right, growing right--Ilike the husky | little animals they should be? And you---are you big-minded enough and sufficiently strong of body to com- pass all that the time expects of you --foed saving and substituting, Red Cross service, extra number of chick- ens, a larger garden, more canning, more remodeling, more skimping and more 'less' of everything than ever before 7" At the last ditch; aren't these the matters that are up to the farm wo- man just now? If her boy fails to! pass his physical examination because, of a bodily defect that might have been prevented in childhood; if her husband is weakened by stomach trou- ble; if she herself is not equal to the' tasks that have multiplied upon her-- how far might these things have been avoided if ghe had been a more think- ing and efficient manager? Suppose she had understood foods and what they do for stomachs and livers and muscles and nerves when had | known how to "manage" to better ad- vantage and had had her house ar- ranged with the system of a 'work- shop to lighten toil; and suppose, she had bought labor-saying utensils and machinery and had plumbing installed -- would she not have been in a bet- ter position to serve her family, the Red Cross and her nation? But it is "never too late to mend" even to mend 'a woman's ways. And that there are farm women who are doing this very thing, we have evi- dence: Through their organizations they are studying what foods will do, they are showing one another handy tools and exchanging ways they have discovered to "short cut" their routine y held are thinking, testing task as never before in all time. * " come daily habit with many a homie woman, although she might ¢ scoff if you suggested that she is "studying." But, isn't she doing just that--studying her, ning a home on a new basis--one that| will allow her to give more gener- ously of her resources, her family and} herself to her country in its time of peril? : How To Make Jelly. Fruits to be used should be sound, just ripe or slightly under ripe, and gathered but a short time. Wash them, remove stems and cut large fruits into pieces. With juicy fruits, add just enough water to prevent burning while cooking. In using fruits which are not juicy, add water amtil two-thirds of the fruit is cover- Cook slowly until the fruits are Strain through a bag made ed. soft. of flannel or two thicknesses of cheese: cloth or similar material. Instead of sugar use % ¢up corn syrup to * cup of fruit juice. Boil the juice' to one-third its" volume and add the corn syrup. Boil rapidly. The jelly point Ts reached when two drops run together and fall as one from the side of 'the spoon. Skim the juice, pour into sterilized glasses and cool as quickly as possible; Seal with layer of paraffin and a cover of metal or paper Fruit juices \may be canned now and made into jelly when it is more convenient and cooler and the supply of sugar makes it possible. Boil su- gar and juice for five minutes. Pour into sterilized bottles or jars, Put into hot-water bath, with the water reaching to the neck of the contain- ers. Allow to simmer 20 to 80 mi- nutes. Seal air-tight and carefully label each container, Your Children's Teeth. The quality of every child's teeth is partly determined before he is born, when the embryonic teeth are grow- ing. gons why the mother's diet and gen- eral hygiene should be watched and every means employed to keep her in excellent health: The child's first teeth can be s0 pre- served that he arrives at the age of | second dentition 'without- a_ decayed tooth, and the permanent set c through in perfect condition, but this will depend more upon the care given than upon outside help. . together; it suggested very careful co-operation on the part of witnesses, hat = Scanlan hed in- tended "to rob the store he admitted, and for that he deserved eg But it had never been in his'mind to kill the storekeeper, and the hand that had pressed the trigger and sent the Dufiet on its fatal missior was not The judge's charge was favorable neither to Scanlan nor to Schiupfe. 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