The Chronicle-Telegram from Elyria, Ohio • Page 3

Blood of the Children Br M. EGBERT Novelised frcin Motion Picture Uruir.u if' the Same Nunik. Produced theUrii- Filnj Mfir Company i. "Go to bed, Alice. I must work late tonight." Senator Woodward kissed his wife fondly aa she met him at thp door of his library; he looked a the lingering figure i i i "You must tell me first about the meeting, dear.

How was your speech received." "Well. Alice, but it is an i battle. The vote i be close. i I believe the bill i be passed tomorrow, and child labor this state i be a i of the past." "Thank Hod!" she ran red, ol.isp- Ing her hands together "Hut if the bill tails a carry on tho i i 'I he people are a i no stone i i i to a us. 1 saw i and Davis in the au dience tonight." "They c- you, dear." "Hut i i the bill if they can.

However, shall Good-night!" She came a i Kised him. looking a i i a a She i out He to desk ami resolutely i entered i two arcis on a a a glanced at in wonder. "Show he announced, and to pace floor, i him selt for a was to renie i i DM i i i i i ot the largest cotton i in the state. Da 1 is a Te, and a nev, to i a largp a of i i a i i his i uterprise. "Senator i a began i "I am a i ss man and a few f'ne ph-Ms, to i i 'I ptirpi'-e ot our th i i be a a a i to up vou are a i i th" labor i i i i a i a i d.

rais Ing his head and i blood a i i i i i i a i i doll.irs--to you a his a pressed a on a "How i i I honor" 1 he flared i I Me i mg i i i i ni i i i i a i i i "I--I--" He broke i i rasre, as i i i i i i he i i i i i ho.irsi null i a a i i i i I on the i counlng since she entered the jfMio. 'If you will lake my advice. added, 'you will leave the mills aa BOOU aa possible "The forenmti shot a glance at ber earning a comfortable wage; he hud Alice to marry him, but she had refused. He had promised to a hei out of the i and establish her In a i '1 hough no words of love had passed between them. Alice hud foreseen tiie day when the young man whom I have not yet named would auk her to be his wife.

She preferred i at least, she loved i and not the foreman "As for i as soon as he heard the doctor's words he realised that he was powerless to save, the life of tho woman he loved. He must relinquish her or--watch the deadly lint choke her to death as it had choked his sister. Hardly was the child's body cold when he left the bedside, left her to the last mercies of others and sought the neighboring saloons, to drink and forget "Hut the man's nature was too forceful for him to become a besotted a Gradually a single purpose began to dominate his mind. He would devote himself single-heartedly to the acquisition of power. would be as merciless as the men who had robbed him of slater and sweetheart in a single, day.

His nature had a to gall; and there is little a one cannot do who gives his heart to it. ''Ten years later he owned one of the biggest mills in the state. He was a rich man. He was the most of all the men who exploited the labor of children. His employees were nif i machines to i "Hut he a subscribed liberally to your for the i i or Senator a gentlemen.

Whpt a i a the man is no more--at least, the i i a goaded him has a en his a long ago. Yet you i not a to seek tar for i my i nds." The mill who bad long since i i i i pretense of disinter- -sted boredom, glances They sure, now, of Senator spoke. He i Manna; i vacancy, his like a of a statue. It i a fully ons 'oiis (Jt hi 1 Motors' presence. 111.

"Tie a up Irorn his desk as a rrl! a about opf i door. i a i i a moaned a and I i hat's i he demanded an- was becoming a human ng All the i womaul crleo rang In till eari 'Murderer! "Thpy got ber out. but the maa foilowed her, hatless, through utreftB. as If she hud hypnotized him, whlk' crowds watched the madwoman nnd (he i owner, creeping behind her, a i her, hearing her freo- zied c'rh'H. Presently, aa in a dream, he found himself standing beside the bed on which lay Nettle, dead.

"And with that sight and the remembrance of another child murdered in the same way by the accursed Hat, tup last bond in the man's soul burst. c' ran from the house, back through the streets, Into the countryside. "liut, stumbling through mire and marsh, he saw nothing but the white faces of the murdered children. He ran on, on. till the day died; he plunged through swamps and tangled undergrowth.

When he could run no more he sank down in an oozy river bed and. clawing at the mud, saw blood 1'iere. "Once, in his delirium, as he stretched out his hands imploringly, he saw the bright figure of a child transformed stand at his side, her AND PERSONAL MENTION Mrs. i CiiHhinp; i of Cleveland, are i or Ivli i paronts, i j. r.essnei, i i i i abspric'p i i i i 1 i a a i I a Mrs.

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ol IjPlh a i Canton a i a in a at the i a i i Hn a appnpy i i i a The Child's Arms Had Been Caught in the Machinery. "Murderer, Let That Word Ring in Your Ears." menacingly. What they saw in his face restrained apparently, tor grasping i hats, they crossed the loom a the door. "Stop!" Woodward had flung the word a them like a command They turned "Come back, Sit I have something to say to you 1 want to spin some more phrases; I want to tell a stoiy." They look their chairs again, pro- testingly. "I want to tell you a that bill means to me," said Woodward "I a to tell you the rccoid of one man's life." II.

"Twenty years ago an ambitious young man worked in the cotton mills His little sister employed theie, also, nnd a young a we will call simply Alice. He loved her, as did the foreman, a coarse type of man, perhaps, but socially as high as he and the girl. They were all workers in the i together. Mill workers are the white trash of our state, gentlemen, as you know. Nobody pays them much consideration.

"No, not even when the lint enters the children's lungs and renders them receptive to the deadly tuberculosis germ The little girl was seized with a hemorrhage' in the mills The voung man carried her home, attended oy Alice, his jweetheart, and the foreman, who came sympathetically to aid The hemorrhage did not cease '1 can do i for said the doctor "He turned to Alice, who had hardly for jour'-elf, answered OIIP of the rr "-MI i "1 IIP i a had bppn caught a i i arc! pmashed i i to i i The doctor had an- i.onncf-d a a a i was inevi- a The man a i the story un- conscious only of a i a a i low 1 voiced, surly crowd hat i the i eat oflipe. a i a he ordered. 'If i i Uil.p proper care of i for i irmtlu r's lo-t two kleJa in somebody. 1 i i was her Now ue done tor "The man got thorn out of the ofTire, i Thr a a i man to ipsunie Ins he sjw a a i i had a the floor be- his desk It a stained with I he ben 'a blood. "He i it gingorlv and pitched i i a i a i i nt had i some forgotten UK inories in his brain, din) he did not let so a i as usually.

In he i he armed at a decision He i cut the a wages a i more I ptotits too a and there was too i a grist for i to fear a i "At the null door, as the man en- i he sjw a assembled ibout a i i i by a OihlU enoiiL'h, the ragged, emaciated dp IP i those memories again. Ot did the child remind i There had been a little girl, long ago. flesh of his flesh, blood of his blood. "The child was bleeding from the and the mpii were trying tf the flow. The lint had got into her lutigs, too.

It was always the lint, the lint--hs breathed heavily, for the a i seemed full of it. And Nettie's lace had set him to remembering-- was it? Alice! Why should she a him i of Alice? "Me rushed out of the place and into his office. He sat down at his desk His coat sleeve overturned a bottle ot red ink, which widened upon the table into a pool, and dripped down, just as the blood "He leaped to his feet, now overcome with horror. He stared about him. At the door a woman beat with her clenched fists.

They were trying to keep her out. She flung them aside and stood before him, a raving, half demented woman, with hate in her eyes. Who was this that shouted at i He staggered back. Alice! "He heard her frenzied cries. 'You are a she was cry ing.

'You killed my child--Nettie-my child. She is dead, and you killed her, as you have killed a hundred more for your accursed gains, derer! Murderer! Let that word ring in your ears until the blood of the children is cleansed from your "And the man, glancing involu'nta rlly down, saw his hands red from the Ink stains "He shuddered; something was rending his soul asunder flis cramped soul fluttered for freedom, the bonde Ol a dozen years were breaking. Tht arms forgivingly stretched out above his heail He knew who that was-Nettie, thp messenger of peace to him And. looking beyond her, he saw the children playing, a happy band, freed from the cares of life and its toil and misery. Hut as the man rose ecstat ically to crave forgiveness an angel i a flaming sword pressed him away.

'You murderpd these children's bodies; you cannot touch their souls, it Deemed to say. "They found him at dawn and carried him home. And because all his a had not brought him a single i one woman, who had loved him before the greed devil entered his heart, came to him and nursPd him hack to life--Alice, bereft of child and a and alone." i and i stared into the senator's facp. There were tears in i pyes, for the story, simple in itself, was enhanced by the dramatic i i of it and the flaming sense of justice that i justice in their parts "He sold his mills when he rerov- erpd, gentlemen," said Woodward "with the i a i that no child labor was ever to be used there. Tho agreement was a binding one, and was kept.

For ten years more the man devoted himself to the task ot abol is-hing child labor in cotton mills. And now, at last--" i who had been whispering to Davis, rose up, interrupting him "We a to be allowed to shake hands i senator," he said, "and to gue that hundred thousand to help kids. And we're with you in bill--both of us." "And said the third man. Woodward's hands were clasped In a grip that bespoke the sincerity of the null owners. It seemed like a dream when he found himself alone at his desk again.

But on the table lay the check Davis had written. IV. "Who were your visitors, dear?" Inquired his wife, entering. "You must have had important business. I heard you cry out 'At so strangely What did it mean?" Senator Woodward clasped her In his arms.

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