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Each Episode Suggested by a Prominent Author Serialization b; HUGH WEIR and JOE BRANDT Produced by the Universal Film Manufacturing Company [Copyright. ISlb. by the Universal FUm Manufacturing Company.]

> SYNOPSIS. Dudley Lamtgan. district attorney, because of his fight on the vice and liquor trusts, is killed by an agent o t a secret society, the committee of fifteen. The fight Is continued by bis son. Bruce, who Is elected district atlortfby. When Lamlgan saves the children of one of the conspirators this man agrees to expose the trust and is murdered. Dorothy Maxwell, whose father Is head of the Insurance trust, over the dictaphone hears of a plot to kill Larnlgan. with whom she Is In love. She warns him. be escapes, and two more of I fhe conspirators are killed. When Bruce j Larnlgan goes to Chicago to fight the I grain- trust he Is assaulted and thrown I overboard. He Is rescued by his brother Tom, who takes up the fight. Dodson. bead of the grain trust, fearing exposure, kills himself. Tom Larnlgan opens a fight on the textile trust. Ayree, the head of the trust. In an effort to kill Tom. kills his own son. Tom. Ben Travers and Stevens go after the railroad . monopoly. An attempt Is made to wreck the special train on which Tom and Ben travel. When Kitty Bockford. the railroad president's daughter is saved by Tom and Ben the railroad president declares he'll help expose the grafters. The conspirators next pi«e to Involve this country In war In order to sell munitions. Bean, an Inventor, makes a machine to blow up an Interned warship. Tom Larnlgan gets Bean drunk. He gives away the plot, and CarBey, another of the graft conspirators. Is T-

"Old King Coal" Suggested by JANES FRANCIS DWYER. Author . of "The Spotted Panther." "The White Waterfall," and "The Blue Moon"

W UN'N— this sort of nonsense ! I ■ has got to stop!" said Stan- j WW ford Stone, with a grim menu j ing in his tone. "Every time j these Larnlgans escape from your traps. I'm beginning to think that you j forget that I'm In a position to en- i force the orders I give you." "Well— I got an idea/' «ald Dunn. "It! looks good. Bean's sore — he's afraid j ^ , he won't get any more money. He j thinks Tom Larnlgan put over something pretty raw. and he's got It In for ' him. So here's the lay out Bean says j that if he can get Into the Larnlgans' flat he can fix things so that anyone who goes Inside the front door will sever come out again! I say— It's worth while. Let him make good." Dunn went off to find Bean. And an hour or so later he telephoned to Stone. "Bean's been there— and you never saw a prettier Job!" he reported, enthusiastically. "He's got the whole place wired — and every wire leads to some explosive!" "Pine work!" said 8tone. "I believe you've got them this time, Dunn. Well— ,We got ^udley Larnlgan when he was

"Let him coma! I've got ways oi taking care of him!"

district attorney of New York, and It would be a strange thing If we couldn't put these two sons of his out of the running!" Stone was smiling as he made bis way to the home of Roger Maxwell, head of the Insurance Trust and the father of Dorothy Maxwell, the girl whom both Stone and Bruce Larnlgan loved. Dorothy alone knew the truth concerning Stone, and. though she loved Bruce, and hated Stone, she was constrained to silence because she knew that her father was in Stone's power; that he was deeply involved in the criminal machinations of the gang that the Larnlgans had sworn to run to earth. Stone had threatened, more than once, that if she betrayed him be would see to It that her father was Ruined, and she bad. therefore, had to be content with doing what she could In secret to help Brace. And In this, for some time, she had had the aid of BBtty Rockford. her best friend, whose betrothal to Tom Larnlgan Dorothy ex pec ted to be announced at any time. Dorothy saw Stone come In; she knew that olresdv a number of othei

men, prominent in the Graft trust, were In the house. ■ "We'd better keep our ears open. ' Kitty," she told her chum. "1 think . | those men are planning some new dev- j . Dtry." "I beard Mr. Welsner talking about ] I interference with his business," said ' Kitty. "He said that If any outsiders j i came skulking around the coal mines ! they'd better look out — that there was ! [ trouble enough there already without 1 | j bringing In any more from outside." I I "They'll talk in the library," said 1 ' Dorothy. "If we slip In there now and go into the little alcove, we can cnrl up [ In that big settee. If they find us we ! can pretend to be asleep." ' They put their plan Into execution, j and, as they expected, they soon heard i the voices of the members of the syni dlcate— the survivors of the original 1 fifteen. Stone spoke first I "Welsner— you need'nt worry," he i said. "I saw Larnlgan Just now— met > him as be came from the station. He's " taken his mother and his brother down i to the country. He explained to me that he wanted- them to be where it • was safe and quiet, because be had to go down to Pennsylvania!" "And you'll keep him away, I suppose," said Welsner, with a sneer. "Me — I don't trust you or your arrange ments. Stone! You've had plenty of chances at these Larnlgans, and you've messed up every one of them! Let him come, say I! I've got ways of taking care of him If he turns up!" The two girls couldn't hear all of the conversation. It was Welsner 's voice, i heavy and powerful, that was most plainly audible; Stone, from a more I highly developed sense of caution. : pitched his tone low, so that only an J ' occasional word that he uttered was i clear and distinct. And so the two ; girls did not realize that Tom would > ' be In peril even before he left New I I York; they thought that for him the ] 1 I danger would begin to be acute wben ; j be reached the coal fields. As soon as ( ; they could they stole out and managed ! to get away unobserved. I "Suppose we went down?" suggested Dorothy. "Down to Pennsylvania? I ] [ j don't believe Tom realizes the dangers i j he will face down there — and we might i ' save his life! I'm sure we could be of j I "I'm willing." said Kitty, eagerly. | Tom. meanwhile, had gone unsus- ; pectlngly toward his flat. He meant j to accept Stone's invitation. Stone could, he knew, give him valuable in- \ formation as to conditions in the coal fields, and he had offered to do so. ( He did not see the spy who lurked In | the lower hallway . of his apartment house; It was with the utmost uncon- ( cent that he Inserted his key In the door. He stopped for a moment, hold- , log the ( oor open with his foot, and heat down to stroke a ait that had rubbed against his leg. The cat, be guessed, must belong to his neighbors. Then he straightened up, and pushed the door open. Bnt Just then a moose ran across the doorslll; the cat sprang after It, In hot pursuit Instantly there was 4 blinding flash; a deafening roar, and a great explosion hurled Tom half way down the stairs. He was braised and shaken.-: but be was not seriously hurt; no bones were broken. And, even as be picked himself up the spy, hear- j lng the explosion, ran off to report thai he had walked Into the trap. Stone was appalled and astonished ) when Tom came, as he had promised j to do. Bnt be was able to conceal his ! astonishment and his dismay. "Yon must spend the night" he told | . Tom. "You can get an early morning ; train— you might as well have one I more night of comfort Pin afraid j you'll And it pretty rough down In j I the coal fields. The hotels are poor, i and everything Is upset and disor- i t ganlzed by the strike, so that tt will : be even worse than usual." , Tom agreed, and Stone, after Tom ! had retired, sent for Dunn. ( "He's fooled us again." he said, bit- i tsrty. "I don't know how— and 1 don't | | care! Bnt— I've arranged a last chance j I for you! He's In this apartment. ! asleep! You can get through the win j j dow— and this time talse no chances J" j I "Suppose I'm caught— It's murder 1 you're asking me to do!" gasped Dnhn. ! , growing pale. . "You've done it before— and I still ! have the proofs!" said Stone, fiercely I "Which would you rather do— have me , band those proofs to the prosecutor. , with the certainty that you'll be con , vleted. or take the chance that you j won't be caught? Who is going to , ratch you? There's no one to give the I alarm except myself!" Dunn hesitated. But be knew that [ Btone held the whip hand. "I'll do It." said Dunn, gloomily. "All right." said Stone 'There's the way yon can get In." And at once he went downstairs and ! notified the hall boy that he had seen

a burglar, trying to get Into his rooms; Treachery was the very , breath of Ufa to Stone "I caught a burglar far you. Mi Stone", said Tom, when lie ar.'.r SiM»< returning, with two or three oi I be eg) ployees of the house. "He's tied u(j i. there!" "Good workP'^ald Stone. The SMif had missed bis rotation : nnyui.c win had seen him then. an. I hud known, tod, what his real [dail would have been, would have bteu .'ouvlpced oi i | that- lii him u great actor w'as lokt tithe stage. He concealed hri fnry. libdismay at the sight of Tom Larnlgan who had once more escaped. Tom bac been too much for Dunn, that was all Down In the coal country Dorothj and Kitty saw much of the misery in evitably attendant upon a strike- The miners were grim and determined ; cer tain elements among them had begin j to riot and to try to destroy the prop ' erty of the raining companies. The mi ; litis and the state police suppressed all I violence ruthlessly, but the temper of the men was growing uglier, and tnere i could be no doubt that, sooner or later. - they would organize and seek to settle the matters in a pitched battle. | Bnt the two girls, although they saw much that was of vital Interest, did J not, for a long time, discover where Tom Larnlgan was, nor what be was ! doing. Tom, as a matter of fact knew that he could not hope to accomplish j much unless he was able to discredit j Welsner. It was Weisner's claim that j the shortage of coal, and the resultant

{ The Temper of the Miners Daily Wat Growing Uglier.

j high prices In the cities, were charge- i | able to the strikers, and this had done ] i much to inflame public opinion against the men. Tom, on the othcr band, was ; sure that Welsner was resorting to an j ; old trick, and holding back great re- j So he was making his bunt off the I ■ beaten path, looking daily, for some I evidence that would support his belief, since lie knew that a guess, no mattci ) how close it might pfove to be to the ; I truth, would be useless against sucb j | And one day. on a specially built eldj lng, he found a long string of coal cars, fully loaded- There was proof of the most glaring sort that he bud been ] right, for, across tbe track, a shanty j had been built by tracklayers— right in the path of the loaded cars! Tom began at once to take notes and photographs and in this occupation Welsner surprised him. "Who are you? What right have you got to come butting In?" asked Tom, angrily, wben Welsner began tc abuse him. "I'll tell you who I am— and In a hurry!" said Welsner, with an oath. "I'm Welsner— the boss of this whole country, and don't you forget It!" Tom's anger was too strong for his discretion. In a moment he and Weis ner were grappling. In a primitive, sav age combat Tom, with a fair field could have killed his opponent hut some of Weisner's henchmen hurried to his assistance, and In a few mlnntee Tom, unconscious and bound, was thrown Into the tool shanty. Welsner, raging, went up the hfil along which I the siding ran, and stopped, at the top. I where tbe first car stood. Suddenly > an evil light came Into his eyes. | "He wants tbe coal moved, does he?" i he snarled. "Well— moved It shall be!" At once be sprang to the car, unI coupled It and began to try to move tt so that getting on the grade. It j would roll down upon the shanty by the force of gravity. And at tbe same moment Dorothy i Maxwell, who chanced to be within hearing, understood his purpose, and suspecting t hat Tom was in the sbanty, ran desperately toward It The car gained momentum; Dorothy saw that she would lie too late. But Kitty I Rlckford, nearer the bottom of the hill, j j understood Dorothy's frantic gestures. I She ran toward the shanty, not | knowing what she would see, bnt real- ! fifing that there was some danger for some one Inside, since she could see | the car racing down. And, Just in time, she dragged Tom outside — and a moment later the car ploughed 1 through the frail structure, smashing tt to kindling wood. The two girls freed Tom. And then they saw a group of men gathered on tbe hill about half way up. Tom went up; he returned, sober faced. In a few moments. "Weisner's foot caught as he started the car— caught In the brake." he said. "He was dragged along and killed." Tom could not avert much of the trouble that followed, but Weisner't death and the government action that followed Tom's report brought about a speedy settlement of tbe strike. Ant! one more name was crossed off thi original list of fifteen i

COt. ROOSEVELT FOR PRESIDENT ! — J Colonel Roosevelt and no "pussyfoot- ; tog-i g The Tribuhne like this candidate and this issue. It regards Senator Root, Its favorite so long as he, had a chance of nomine- - tion as now practically eliminated.* It { cannot interpret any more hopefully tbe failure of the "oxygen treatment" which his candidacy recoirW, in the shape of ■ the manifesto with seventy-five signers. The psrty thinks thst Mr- Root would , not be so likely to win as either Colonel Roosevelt or Justice Hughes, and it | wants him as Secretary of State in the next Republican administration, since it cannot have him as President. We are for Colonel Roosevelt because j we believe the country needs him. No , one else wfll quicken the pulse of the ] . , nation as he will guicken it No one , else will stir the conscience of the peo- i ■ pe as lie will stir it. No one else will ' . inspire patriotism as he will inspire it. | ' No one else personifies the issue which j, _ the Republican party must make as fee | j personifies it. No one else presents so s . effective an antithesis to Wilson as he. |( i j If we are Americans, real Americans, t the Colonel is our man. While timid pol- ! , ' itieians were consulting the census 1 . ' books and counting the German vote he j spoke and the country hearkened. He is | the leader in the fight for Americanism, j and we don't believe in changing leaders when we are going to the front. We are for Colonel Roosevelt in spite | of the fact that wc were against him ! ' four years ago. No one fought him hard- j' er than wc. No one will fight harder [' for hij^. It has not been easy to put I aside our pride, our sense of resentment ; at what occurred in 1912, and the hun- | idred other things that tend to keep | J alive divisions. But we have put them j aside and are putting them aside be- j' j cause we feel that they have no place in a crisis like this. We come out for ! Colonel Roosevelt as a Republican news- | paper, intending to remain Republican, and we feel that in doing so wc are doI ing the beat thing not only for the na- j I tion but for the Republican party. We might have preferred another lead- I I er. but there is no other leader. Justice i , i Hughes might have spoken if he had j I been free to speak. Indeed, we feel sure j

|b .«JJ h... vta, tor 4«ri icanism, had aflneee not been imjmeed ' upon him, and then we should have prej ferred him. But the plain fact is that I he did not speak, that he could not ■p«ak. j If the Justice should be chosen leadnr in tbe fight for a worthier nationalism, he would have to take the torch that Colonel Roosevelt has thus far borne. He would have to accept an Issue that meant its moat only in another man's j hands. Surely in the transfer we should low our stride. Aa a people we should ! feel that we had hung bade, that we hadnt "gone tbe limit" in the true ! American way. Tbe governments of ■ Europe would feel this, too. Hiey would conclude that we meant to temporise. Something would be lost of the moral effect of moving straight on under tbe leadership of the man who represents j the purpose of this country as no one' else does or can. | The Colonel stands for the things The 1 Tribune stands for. These things will I advanced more by bis nomination than by any other nomination that can made. The Tribune must support iliim. Wc arc doing more this year than l choosing a new President. We are choos1 ing which way the country shall go in | the era that is now opening, just as our 1 j fathers chose the nation's path in the i days of I860.— N. Y. Tribune. - I February imports into this country i eclipsed all records in the trade history , J of the United States. Our imports amounted to $193,935,117 which paid ' customs duties in the sum of $19,239,535, . .or an average rate of duty of 9.9 per j cent, compared with an average of from IS to 20 per cent under Republican law. which provided ample revenues , i for running the Government and left the legacy of a fat surplus for tbe Democratic administration to dissipate.. The , I current fiscal year to the end of Feb- , ruary showed a net inward gold move|ment of $280,312,817, while a corres- | ponding period last year showed a net ' | outward gold movement of $94, 119, 800. This gold is coming in to pay the trade | balances of the warring powers and is J part of our war order prosperity in [terms of dollars. - [ Read the Weekly Star and Wave ' 1 ~*

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