THE
DEVIL'S
DUE
By JOHN H. GARNSEY
(©) by Short Story Pub, Co.)
N THE first place there were two
men. There was no
friend, and his mother,
merely succeeded in getting
killed, and does not count in the story.
One of men
dle by hanging, and the other was as
good gs dead, for he was an imbeclle.
He had mind, and shortly would
have brain, but his at, strong,
god-like body was as good as ever. It
was one of those punishments for an
cestral crimes that
take great and good men in this. world
woman,
Reddy 's
who
condemned to
these wis
no
no
sre
sometimes over
ame moment clean out of
himself into
said that his soul
in that
vinced that he must have been a g
ly dissipated man, for the
that such calamities d
nothing. However,
had mind
he had been one of the most
stepped
oblivion Some
had
instant, while others were con
forsaken
reat
doctors
SA)
0 not come from
Robert
where a
Bisman
no now, year
promising
young business men in the great west
ern city where the
are “Hustle;
The
alias F
gan,
and
hustle;
other
rank 1
half
min wis
alias
kn
fessional
Reddy
ent tre
place he
and t
and
In the
knotty
he was
wi
very fertile
second place
in form
n
vas red, fler
a decided
nted abominabl
omi were sh
z stabbed his 1
1 to the
he had
be
ings with | xtent
all of them, been tried
1
sentenced i"
bosom friend, her nose bs
from one of Reddy's caressing blows
had been before the
tries nmuted on
he
board we
t sole sup
the
and so she cursed them and left
f There
after the
port, but yuidn t
to his fate was no one t
for him hangman
his work, so the prison phy
hat i
hig death, but they sald n
Then
doctor,
ahout
the phy
and nearly
sicians un
derstood science 1rteht profit by
Doctor Isenberry
who happened
tabert Bi 1
gician
“Professor
hurg says
removing
it's
Bisman
rain, hasn't
“Y ag
“He'
disease
certain
hns
he?”
die anyway, thoug
fined
nn
the f
»
even
fo
f
of
is con
to
may
entirely
ront
cerebrum
head, it
“He certainly will
“Now, the presence of
brain Jisman’'s head
clearly. Suppose we took it out?
might
chicken
its head
part
be,
die.”
is dangerous,
in
live as an automaton, just as a
does when front pe
ig removed , why
in the plac ©
would
another brain
9 It
do
put
body.”
10t put
the decayed
harm, and it might
words,
Of
one do
no
good, In other
dy
|SUppose we Lee min
1
=
into man's
the devil
that the wv il
but I want to try
“Isenberry, you beat
“Well—I'm willing
shonld have his due
this experiment.”
The upshot of it was that the doe-
tors agreed, and the
Bisman’'s estate also
he not told what
was; simply that it was
Reddy Jack went to
accompanied by a priest,
made grimaces all the way.
asked if he had anything to say be
fore the black cap was adjusted, he
grinned, and made a dive at the sher-
iff, whom he caught by the throat and
choked severely before he could be
shaken loose. The black cap was
forced on his head, and the drop fell,
cutting a very choice and particularly
vile curse in two as the knotty little
neck broke. The newspapers were
disappointed, because they hadn't fore-
seen such a sensation, and Reddy left
this world with everybody's curses on
nis head. Then, before his hody was
rold, It was cut down, packed In a
tank full of hot water, and whisked
off to the hospital,
Six eminent surgeons, clothed In
long white gaberdines, were awaiting
the arrival of the wagon, and had Bis-
man stretched out on one long table,
while another was ready for the re-
reption of Reddy's still warm and
Ump body. When the rumble of the
wheels was heard, three of them com:
conservator
agreed, though
was the operation
the
menced operations upon Bisman's
head, and the other three received the
remains of Reedy, and followed sult,
Bisman's cerebrum was in a frightful.
ly decayed but Reddy's was
sound, and it was a matter of a very
short time exchange the brains,
unite the principal arteries, and send
Bisman's blood through the criminal’'s
brain. The nerves were united as far
possible, the skull
placed, the patient,
state,
to
as cap res
still
was
and brenth-
that he
Then thera
to a couch
move his head
to do but wait. And it
walt, For a time
it seemed as if the patient was going
would
But in about ten days he moved
of his hands, The surgeons
and it was agreed that
through
=O
could not
wis nothing
was a dreary too,
to be completely paralyzed, or
dle,
SiX
would
And
menced
he in
Gradually Colne
himself slowly, and
He was stone deaf and
of
impaired, and he seemed to have only
But
present
months
pull
did
niove
some
he he
to
to look about
no his =ight
sense taste;
wi had
Bisman for
intelligence,
what not been
18
in Rober several
Developments
When the developments came, they
might have been calculated
st that
upon
As Bisman assumed
his the
were
in ju way
more control over speech,
thi ame
5 of Red
called
words it ca is lips
He
nurse
from h
iv Jack
the
Vis not
thie wore SWore
vile
kiss
what
was
trying to
could hear
him,
not
remonstrance
insisted « having bev
Hi
Se his expense all
who were w the
He
about
10
and hen
swore again
time, and,
commenced
wis able to
Isenberry
1
up
Doctor
ved
whether
to
& memory, (oo see
h iver
would
Reddy Jack
ww] what
and
curious
He
”
ing
“0
in
slowly
in
look grad
Sire
Doctor lsenberrvy, whom
d for the first time
i
nered to the
on how led
ont
Reddy
profanity
Auto
's Motive Power
©] DACK mer.
to teil
in
concern
in
residence
iS One
remote interior
» carried our gasoline
and the
understand
he says,
natives
how this
3 illed stinking wa-
the cs [ I tried
of the car
whose
wgallon cans
the
potentate in
mechanism
explain
petty vil
stopped,
“I had
and knew th:
hauling 1
plained
with surprising results
having engine trouble
it 1
wiore 1 could proceed
that
wen
must do some
overs
1 ex-
the cylinders must be
cleaned
wi are the
cylinders? asked
and to
1
if
trouble, 1
with =ayving that
of them and they
must be cleaned before the trip could
gave
contented
there were four
be resumed,
“Imagine my surprise when I went
to the car morning, find
men, each busily ergaged
and scrubbing a wheel,
are you doing that for? I
next to
four
“What
|
|
cleaned and therefore we clean
Hint for the Credit Man
How often has Bill Jones, we'll say,
told you he would pay that old bill
when he sold his crops in the fall?
And then—the harvesting season
comes and goes, but you see nothing
of Bill and the money.
Good Hardware tells of a Maine
dealer who knows how easy it is for
the Bill Jones’ of his town to forget
their overdue bills and spend the cash
elsewhere, He solves the problem
this way.
The next time he meetzs Bill, he
says: “Bill, I want some good pota-
toes such as you raise, and I'll send
the truck out to get your crop, if you'd
Just as soon sell ‘em to me as any-
body at the full market price.”
Of course, he has arranged to re-
sell the “spuds,” but the fact is that
now Bill can't spend that money until
he gets it from the hardware man, and
when he gets It, he can't very well
dodge that old secount,
BOGE DEE PAGE POEESIIF SPER
NELLIE
‘REVELL S ays:
rrr inrasveratneives
UST what tact, that indis-
] pensable part of social life, really
is even Webster finds it hard to define
concretely, But of the
iHustrations of its nature came
the lips of a friend of
Gen, Thornwell Mullally, U
A negro, he told had
the rank of orderly a captain
the expeditionary In the
ter's the was left
with the warning to treat
with tact. Sam
the captain that tact was
long suit, but after the oflicer's
parture he looked up a colored friend
and him what instructions
were,
“Now,” inquired Sam, “what Is dis-
tact? 1 how
most
perhaps one
best
from
Brig
mine,
S. A.
achieved
of
lat
in
his
as
me,
10
forces,
absence negro
charge,
white
sured
command
des
told his
hayere know to
do it."
“Ah'H
plied his friend
in Ah
Waldawf, One
shoffeh
opened a
lady
got to
enlighten yore intelleck,” re
“When Ah wuz back
de
wuz
Ah
dah wuz
Ah shet
YO pah
ton’
on
de States wuz wukkin' at
day, when Ah
vacurum-cleaneh,
doh,
in de
quick an’
Dat ‘Beg
but boy
10 A
barfoom and
ft n-settin' tub.
‘Beg
ni
pH
dat doh S67:
don sul.’ vi hit wis
"THteness,
I }
when Irvin
geashore
"We
Beach,”
The car, was not worl
wore on to Long
wrote, “to
Our way
he take a swim
ing properly and
ved at our destination
arri
after some delay we were
when we
ill-tempered
On the beach we found about seventy
were in
only get
around by crawling on their hands and
Three voung soft,
faces pulled along
the sand with their hands
colored girl hopped along
They
good ti
and
He did not h
for everyone who read the paragraph
must healthy
ill-tempered
five crippled children. They
bathing suits Some could
knees girls. with
swoet themselves
little
fond.
having a
for a
fun.”
append a
{ne
like an
au
whi ig
were ali | ng and
We
then
me watched them
3
wi joined in the
to
ile
moral,
ave
wondered what
to
have
people had become
about,
clans
It amazing to one who had
been shut in for five years to see how
In that time. 1
fon't mean only clothes, for everyone
would be disappointed if they didn't
was
When 1 left Broadway taxicabs were
any color; now they've all got jaun-
dice, while store fronts, methods of
window display, the traffic.control
system, electric sign messages and al-
most everything else, all have altered,
though it probably has been imper-
ceptible to those who have seen it
happen day by day.
Even styles in musical comedy are
different, and for the benefit of those
who prate about “the good old days”
my opinion is that present fashions
are better. So far as { have been able
to observe human nature hasn't
shanged-—thank God.
sensi unin
The New York Sun and Glebe car-
ries a headline reading, “Uses Ax on
Girl Who Refuses Him.” My, aren't
the men getting rough! We girls
don’t know what to do to please them.
if he does that for refusing him, what
would he have done to her had she
married him?
(Covvright by the MoeNaught Syndloste Ina)
for Long
Smartness of Clothes Is Im-
portant; Duds Should
Be Conservative,
Traveling is one of the fine arts, an
Important phase of which is the cholee
of proper clothes, Particularly to the
feminine is
ative, notes a writer
New York Herald- Tribune, and
should never be bizarre or
Conservative, tasteful is what
most in a stranger arriving
or route, and that be the
basis of the traveling costume,
The ideal of the woman traveler is
to arrive at her destination, no matter
how long the journey, looking if
she had that moment left the hands
of a deft and experienced mald This
sounds difficult of achievement, but to
I.ilke
nomad, smartness imper
in the
vet it
aggressive,
fashion
chic is
admired
en should
ns
the habitues it Is relatively easy
everything else, It requires care and
First and most Important
the choice of the actual
fit.
made
Comes
traveling out
Whether the Journey to
by or there
are two qualities essential to the sm
It ro
does
be
ig
train automobile,
art
traveling
material
and It mm
dress,
that
he
how
not oren
15t of a color th
the
alwnys
readily dust.
travel
fatal
tints form a
2 ROCTNS
defect in any
backgre
i dust and the
attract
is quite
Sr
#OO0t us
perfed t. hut
safe
Full Length, Moleskin.Lined
Suitable for
Coat
Traveling
Mee
A
ous
round
— '
times finished
th
loose enoug
belt
. \ 1 ‘ y
for the handkerchief and powde
i ory
design
are all included by this clever
er,
ine
HOE
who never puts 85 ve
on a traveling suit
Uneven Effects Shown
I neven effects
One of the manifes
skirt
and there
decorate
of the in
arbitrarily spotted
cluster of plaits
Yyogue
here A
may only
or circular fullness
may concentrated at
Uneven neck lines and one-sided ef
of scarfs and draperies, even of
be one side
collars, play this same game but skill
Is necessary to its success, The slop
ing decolletage with the single
der strap is well established
In balanced treatments greater em
phasis on the sides may be &xpected.
shoul
would be straight will often indulge
in a side seam inverted plait, Clusters
of plaits each side from the hip down
will be stressed in coat and dress
models alike,
Hat of Green Fur Felt
One of the most charming of the
tittle French hats just imported is of
green fur felt. The crown Is high and
the sole decoration consists of a huge
spike of rhinestones which is thrust
through the crown, holding it in three
short folds at one side.
Roman Striped Negligee
Wide Roman scarfs are used
make sm negligee that is very
and quite different. In one
the colors are of red,
to
smart
instance
bright blue,
green and black,
Chic Two-Piece Frock
of Orange Silk Crepe
LR ‘ I
pa av a¥a¥a
mS Lava
| This is a two-piece frock of orange
i silk crepe with plaited skirt. The de-
sign consists of the colors blue, black,
and and is an outfit
will to young
yellow,
| that appeal
| women
many
Lace Most Feminine of
All Trimming Materials
ih 3: Hon if VETS i€35
\ 3
Plain Hemstitching Is
Very Easy Operation
1 fF
re Kinas «
severa hem-
in
of
of
the
ti For pla
of the drawn
hem It with
toward you
cotton join thread s«
Pass needle
of the drawn
h
the
iw the throug
needle
the
threads
back through
bottom This
and
¢ needle
threads and
manner
for
te
catch the 1
is one Pass th
of
nest
work
group
in the same
ACTOSK
of
you ean
1
When
complete
in the
a row ging stitching is
vork the other side
same Ww ay
| Cape Coats Promise to
Be Fashion for Spring
From present indications the cape
coat will be a very elaborate coat style
for spring. Quite a number of these
cape coats already are being worn. A
| double-breasted green cloth coat was
made with a short cape bordered with
| horizontal stitching to match. It had
| no fur trimming. but a silver fox was
carried to complete the costume,
It is quite apparent that women this
gengson have selected coats that are
not*only smart, but comfortable, too
Probably annoyed with the single but.
ton coat that blows open with the
slightest gust of wind, many smart
women are wearing cloth that
button from the throat to the very bot.
ton of the hemline,
Yokes
Even though women have long been
emancipated they still wear the yoke
«pith evening costumes, This is one
of the newest features of this year's
{ fashions The yokes are usually of a
diferent shade than that of the gown
| Sometimes they are formed of the
{
{ most delicate of lace.
coats
*
A GRIEVANCE
indignant convict
warden's of-
ansferred to
An extremely
stormed Into
fice and demanded to be t
another cell
“What's the matter
you have, Omaha? inquired the depu-
ty
“It ain't de cell”
oner; “it's dat eggplant |
“What has be done to ¥
“Pulled
it
the deputy
with the cell
replied the pris
lock with.”
on™
de
turn Y—Home
calendar,
Friend
de leaf offn
an’ wuz my
Magazine
BUT AS A MEANS ONLY
When Rover Wags His Tail
Yes « s me, and I 3} w it
en
Needed It Th
WN
around these flat
Using Gne Hand
Oh, sads the fale
handseme Merle
He had his arm
Arpund his
girl
Toofus
At Montreal Toofus hear grand op
era “Romeo and
“Fine music,”
those mnt
“What
hear
young girl’
“Well, that
250 pounds.”
Juli -
Toofus say
very much.’
Jullet?' ask Germaine,
nothing of that
jet
“1 admire
sic
of
|
lovely
yon say
lovely girl weigh
young
Dynamite!
Smith—Dwo and the Mrs
discuss the money question?
Smythe—Yes, we try to, but we're
never able to hold it down to a simple
discussion!
you ever
Bivvy Dizz
Pete— Some of your wash was jump-
ing around on the line last night.
Bogg—That was probably my ath
letic underwear—Princeton Tiger,
Brilliant
Mike-~Well, 1 answered a question
class today
Ike—What answer did you give?
Mike Present.
in
Their Purpose
Angry and Belated Railway Passen
gor--What use are the
figures set
|
General Station Master—Why, If it
weren't for them figures we'd have no
way of finding ont how iate the trains
ure, :
m——"
A Go-Gelter
“lg the motor Car an asset to the
church?” inquires a religious paper.
“Well, of course, It brings a good
den! of business to the churchyard”