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CATCHING THE UNWARY.

Twelve Useful Articles. Send Me ONLY
10 Cents. and I VIII Send You BY Return
Nail Twelve Separate Handsome Articles.
Useful in Any Home"
IL took all the capital he could scrape to-
gether TO insert his little four-lne adver
tisement in the cheap weekly. He relied on
the income-if income there should be-to
purchase his stock once the money was
gone he began 10 have his doubts whether
any one would be so foolish as TO answer.
Four days after the advertisement ap-
peared the hall bedroom was swimming
with mail The letters came by hundreds,
and every one inclosed 10 cents in stamps.
He worked day and night sending back TO
every inquirer the twelve handsome and
useful articles-to Wit. twelve needles.
The first few packages he bought at
retail store: then. when he discovered that
he had actually made strike, he went
directly to the wholesale men and asked
for terms. At the end of month his mail
had almost grown too heavy for him 10
handle. lie had recovered his original in
vestment. had paid for four other inser-
tons in larger type, had paid cash for his
needle purchases and had a good stock on
hand. a balance in the bank and notice
from mis- landlady that he must move out
or stop his mail.
As the little business grew through ad-
vertising in other publications on more
generous scale. the young man was still
thinking hard He knew the whole thing
could not last long. Some day every one
in America who was capable Of sending 10
cents in answer TO his advertisements
would have been furnished with his paper
Of needles and would send for them TO
more. and as he grew accustomed TO the
feel Of money and to the pleasure OF man
aging his establishment well. he began to
look about for some way Of putting IT on
solid foundation.
From the start he had run it honestly.
The mysterious twelve articles were only
needles. but he had always seen IN II that
they we're good needles, and had taken IS
enc with the wholesalers more than once
On that point He had found that he knew
mora about needles than some OF the large
dealers did. and he saw that there was an
onening for the man who could sell needles
nv maH-calling them by their right name
and giving good sound value for the
money
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House Mystery Burned Down. Murder Secret Still Umevaed
Owners Fortune Oddly Madeleine Son Killed Under Peculiar Crcum
Son Caused Death of Girl Motor AccdenOd
Mans Skull Beaten in by Unknown ntuders Lawn

it desirable to leave his country and come
to- America He brought his young wife
with him. He had befriended the elder
Rosenheimer in Germany. and in America
he was friend TO his orphaned son. His
affairs did not prosper and he brooded over
his reverses.
Young Rosenheimer had kept in touch
with his fathers friend who liked his
CHEEKY optimism So. when an intimacy
sprang up between the lad and the emil
grants daughter. her parents did not dis
courage it, There may have been no con-
nection between the two facts. but the
year after Rosenheimer had abandoned
his trick advertisements he married the
girl He had barely come of age, and she
was younger than he.
They had three children: two sons and
a daughter. All the young people mar
ried very young. and all stayed under their
parents roof. At ll6th street and Seventh
avenue they had great house standing
ir a yard that was filled with roses The
mail order business had the basement:
the Rosenheimcrs. elder and younger,
filed the rest of the house The Roses"
on No Mans Land was built with four
time. it had been a happy family.
Before the house was finished the memory
Of a tragic mystery had been built into its
very structure "Bennie' Rosenheimer. the
eldest son. was taken from under the
wheels Of New York Central train one
day at the l25th street station. crushed and
dead He had two dress suit cases with
him. and it was said that he had slipped
and fallen under the wheels. II was said,
too that he had not been unwilling 10 die.
Such stories were certain 10 spring up in
view Of what happened after Within
week his wife had married another man
and disappeared, and the space in the
new house that was 10 have been the
eldest sons apartment was rearranged and
divided among the other suites. The Roses
was a large house. even for large family.
It's white wooden gables could be seen for
miles across country 70 the east. 4
veranda ran around II. n faced north
ward toward the road. which ran Just be
yond a. narrow lawn. To the east and
south the land fen away in open slopes
for three or four hundred yards. all part NJ
the estate. which was bounded by turn
in the road and by Hutchinson River"
nlliN tf"Shf Nii'H iHh Ni'hH wv TDA'ii
erly side az the bottom Of the shallow
valley.
The neighbors soon grew accustomed 10
the sight Of the two grayha haired old per
sons who made their daily trip 10 their
Offices in the city. Mrs. Rosenheiner was
nearly as much interested in the business
as her husband. one or the other Of them
was at the office every working day. and
usually both. People liked To see them 90
past together He was large and stout
with a round, smiling, specialized face and
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SOMETHING MORE HONEST.

Tie studied advertising and the mai
order business. and, first last and All
the time. needles, I'll he had Judged the
onentne Then he steered straight into
II There have been plenty and to spare
~ repltable concerns which have de
generated into swindling schemes But
for an out and out trickster TO develop
his catchpenny game" into Legitimate
and honorable business IS thing that mas
NOT happened often in the world. II taxes
more than stubborn ability. 1t takes a
stalwart and deep grounded seh-respec''
such as able men do not always possess
Long before the twelve useful articles
advertisements had lost their power,
Rosenheirner was through with them ana
well launched on his new career.
II was about this time that another iorce
entered Rosenheimsrs life. HIS father'
vhonn he never had seen, had ned from
his native town in the North OF Germany
after q bitter outourst of anti-Je"isn reei'
ing A little later teacher IN the pubic
ecbools. a Young man Of strong conVio-
lions and strong loyalty. defended the jews
SO theoretically at that crisis that he round
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conscious i'm bed For years her heart hd'
been weak. and the doctor feared she was
diving. She could tell them nothing In one
of the old mans inner pockets they iouiiu
a wallet with 500. which any thiet wouiu
have been able to feel through his Columns
Even in one of the pockets that had been
turned out there was So which had not been
taken. The police began 10 doubt the
theory Of robbery.
They could find no trace Of the weapon
with which the murder had been done
They searched along the wall and found
deep footprints in the earth where the TWO
men had first climbed il. but there was no
trail which they could trace away from the
spot Bloodhounds were sent for, and at
II o'clock. trfe more than two hours
after the crime. the dogs were on the
scent.
They followed it readily, straightaway
from the house. across the little river
through the woods on the opposite oanK
and up hill to the railroad, half a mile
away. There they lost II completely
train had been due to leave the Pelham s'a-
ton for New York twenty minutes atter
the murder.
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THE TAILoR's APPRENTICE.

t,o ,,ss horn after his fathers death II
....- lid in a poor jewish home ON 'he
,-o,, side Of New York city. Ills no'hei ;
I'm lof- him absolutely unattached WIN
,.,. ,,,,, vav 10 make in the world ne
&c .,.,re,,ticed 10 a tailor tignt hs'e,l
o,a ,.a, who drove hard bargain an"
,o,t, NOT tolerate the abominauon ol "
,eo.ine machine inside his shop.
One dav the tailor caught MS app'e,I''O y
rravoiv conversing with the ne" ''"",
,o,,pe man lust out Of the seminar
,.,edistelv thereafter the rahol maze 80
.,.,i,e remark 10 the tailor about ''' Pr
en-, sge Of progress and the eNceileHl WI =
mat the sewing machines "ouiu U''
,.ricb the tailor few into rage IT. Hi"
tered nothing that the youngster
that he and the RABBI we're talKlfs p"i'-'
Coz sr,ueeuent. and that the sewing mo
rn,,ee they had spoken Of had hothlhs ~
- rt.b the shop Young Rosennelrher .
So. ..,r~er,icesbip ended there and theh
re had talked TOO much- H..
tt.-a t,ck followed the nov closely. -
eo, work IN swestshop, and TWO "een'
isrer was caught slipping A rouIo iouii'
tet,e- NJ protest under the door OF inc
rronrietor's home He was dismlsseo a.
,he r,neleader Of the employees. he hireo
himself n another tailor posing a. an aG
conprshed workman His employer roos
him A. his word and for his hrst JOB turner
over 2 long legged customer paruouiai''
hard 70 n. who wanted a pair OF trousers
The boy wrsstled with the work IN the shop
for two or three days. and tound tha' II
Vas making a mess Of II. Then ne snue
eied n away n his room and locked MN
self IN with H. determined not 70 go psck
~ the shop til he had the trousers maze
u his mind
Again and again he ripped out seams ana
readtusted pockets, until after two days
away from his employer he had finished
what was really a workmanlike Job. He
hung the trousers over 4 chair back ana
went 70 bed He was awakened by screams
ana the alarm Of IRE
re dressed himself in the first things
that came 20 hand. and among them were
the new trousers Cropping through the
smoke IN the hall below. he encountered
ysnlcsuicken woman, who was saving
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A DECEITFUL ADVERTISEMENT.

One day he saw advertisement In a
cheap story paper, reading;
How to Write Without Using Either
Pen or Ink Send Twenty-Five Cents and
We VIII Give You Full Details OF This
Great Secret Process Amuse Your Friends!
Startle Your Family! OF Great Aid In
Communicating When in Distress
Rosenheimer mailed o cents to the sd-
dress that was given. In reply he got a
single square sheet of paper. on which was
printed with 9 rubber stamp:
Use Pencil"
That answer was the text for long ana
serious deliberation by the curious young
man. He had thought Of using pencil
when he read the advertisement, but II
sounded so specious. so promising. so niys-
FERROUS. that he had sent the money not
withstanding
There must he thousands - persons as
curious as he he reasoned. who would take
the same bait There was no downright
lie in the affair though II was certainly
deceitful He had brains as well as the
men who put in the advertisement Why
could he not use the same trick, more hon
estly. 70 make a living?
He studied the advertisements Of the pa
per. searching for hints and reading be-
tween the lines They disguised him. lie
could see on the surface that nearly all
were plain frauds. lie, at least, would not
take peoples money for nothing. he would
give some real value in return. Then, as
his eve passed over the reading matter
Of the sheet it struck the title of story,
The Six Men Of Mystery"
He read the story through and found II
wretchedly dull. Then he asked himself
why he had read II. Because the title was
good one. he answered himself. He had
wanted to read the story 20 find ont who
those six men were and what was the diff
ference between them. Then came the
great idea he had been cropping for. He
had got down TO the first principles Of hu-
man nature. and from them he evolved an
advertisements of type which has since
become common enough. but which was
then new discovery.
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o>-c after roof and walls had gone
~, under a spouting. whirling
,o,.er of fire. the great middle chin
,hick as a Northumberland elm.
- Glowing and gaunt among the ruins
:. soeued 10 sway and totter. but that
:. bave bcen because 10 was seen
'...,,h the tremendous heat that gushed
y. s-,,,, the flaming cellar Then. through
" ~ ~ca- and swapping OF the fire. the
81 NJ streams and the calls OF nremen'
,,sre sounded the wild honk OF an auto
lsno horn growing with amazing swift
=. ,nrough the darkness Another IN
-, and a yellow tsXicah tore down the
80 and drew M with whirrins OF
--,-se close 10 the gate. where the heat
- rncomfortably. even over the breast
high stone wall -, =
p.fors the car was fairly stopped
w., keen faced young man mao nurS'
.... and pushed up TO the line Where Inc
,-i--.-c 6ren1en stood. steaming and smell
- .reir faces from the heat. The same
-. there was a cry. for the great
.,.s,.,,a,- had swayed forward. There was
no mistake this time. The square. s'uoUo,
-- +c,nled over and fell. hucklins IKE
q, actor who falls with loosened knees -
:. -. hurst Of sparks and flame went gusn-
NC un 10 the stars.
Tho, was the last Of The Roses, house
80 -,vsterv and fear and the village peo-
- abo vere there and knew the somore
-. that clustered about IT found a
-. even in the fall of its chimney
p. IS Grange they said. that II had huns
,.,., -aadv n fall. and yet had waited
Or its master 10 arrive. And some OF 'ne
women declared that it bowed toward MN
a. il went down. 49,,
D.. docs not take a fantastic imaglnauon
49, coo how. I'm its ten short years INV
.orss got It's name for blood and mystery
..a rrby with all its beauty of appoint
.,sc-e and surroundings. il stood Wi'hou
..,sr- Even wealthy, educated toih
.h AZ could afford the style Of SUCH
,.,ki,ks residence. did not relish II LOT
living place when they had heard us Sho'
and gloomy history.
r,e Roses stood In the village 81 70
.,r i'm Westchester County. on SWEEP
--o,,+t,er,, clone OF the rolling hills to'
go before the house was built the piac'
,.be-s II stood had had bad name
a.. ,rovn as NO Mans Land, oecaus'
co. sor,A reason no proprietor appeared IL
Lss, II free Of undesirable occupants IN
-~o,,,6 WAS on the main ROAD 10 ~
,-s-ron. not far from the railroad sIa IN
.-. ,-ieu- was excellent. a httie stree"
oou.sd near by. with woods beyond. an'
.t.-a vas plenty Of level ground eAceliel
to~ baseball
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marrow track east OF the house he convert
ed into q gravelled avenue. with lines OF
silver poplars. In front Of the house was
a narrow. crescent shaped drive with a low
iron gate at either end and path coming
straight up 10 the door from the sidewalk
beyond another gate in the wall.
The work spread over several years lot
the old man considered each part carefully
and saw il through with his own eyes. IL
was in the middle Of June. 1897. that the
last bit of grading had been done to his
satisfaction He paid of the laoorers. took
them into the cellar. gave them bottle OF
beer all around. drank with them and
turned them off.
The next day after dinner the old couple
went for a stroll. as they almost always
did The children were keeping quiet on
the front veranda: Edward Rosenheimer
was boxing with kid" Everett, a pueillst
whom his father had befriended. I'm gym
nasium which they had fitted up in the
basement. The Curnens were on the We
randa with the children.
Ii had been a hot day. and the old people
stayed out till it was quite dark They had
turned to go in. and were half way be-
tween the little river and the house when
they saw two men. whose figures they
could just make ont through the dark. who
cIambered over the low wall by the stream
and started across tho level ground.
81 wonder what those men want.
mammal" the old man said. calling her by
the name he always used. III 20 and
speak 10 them. You walk on
The wife waited under tree. She heard
her husband speak 10 the men loudly be
fore he had reached them. She saw them
turn toward him. Then she could SEQ
nothing Of their figures Suddenly she
heard her husband scream out in sudden
terror Mamma"
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THE PRISONER ACQUITTED.

Meantime another Jury was chosen in
Yeandle's place, and the trial OF Edward
Rosenheimer for murder in the first de-
gree went on. Justice O'Gorman's decision
of q number Of minor points was almost
uniformly in favor OF the contentious Of IN.
defence The most important ~ these was
the reducing Of the charge from one Of
murder In the first degree 10 second degree
manslaughter. In charging the jury the
Justice confine dhimsef 10 THE law IN the
case and TO warning the jury not 10 be
carried away in their deliberations by SYM
pathy for the dead girl or her family. ne
did not review the evidence The jury was
our fifteen minutes. and returned verdict
OF Not guilty"
Then The Roses lost four more tenants.
Gradually II was being deserted First
there had been Bonnie. who never lived to
enter ~: then his wife who had shaken
on his memory and left his friends. then
the old man. who went ont through us
door IN his coffin Now Edward Rosen-
helner and his wife and his Two. sons de-
parted from the house OF in omen. They
took an apartment in the city which vac
convenient 70 the factory.
There remained the three Curnens ana
the mother now old and delicate IN health.
They could ON only few OF the lofty.
handsome rooms. and most or the house.
with It's beautiful furnishings and nne
pictures. which the old man had gathered
with real appreciation. was left cold and
/ tenantless.
/ II was a somhre place 70 live IN. where
I there had been so much hustle and where
/ now was so much silence. and the frightful
/ memories that chung about the place were
/ hardly 10 be borne. For month or two
I after the trial the Curnens and the mother
stayed, then they. too, moved 10 an apart
/ ment in town and left the great house TO a
caretaker.
Even IT'S fan was mystery. The care
| tsker. a Young man Of twenty or there
Continued On seyenfh paSA
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been closed after police investigation.
Later the old man bought roadhouse jnst
across the city line in Westchester County
and leased It 10 the puglist. Again there
we're criticism and police investigation. Not
long before the murder Everett had been
removed and the place turned over to an
other keeper.
Then A man i'm The Bronx told OF nearing
from professional crook that ne NV
crook. had received an offer Of money !"
do up an old man who walked III HIS Raj
den every night
Everett was called before the ponce
satisfied them OF his innocence he Ma"
been staying with the Rosenheimers' ~
said. because he was TO become theF chaul-
feur. The old man was the best friehu nc
had in the world
Whatever the key 10 the mystery NO
have been. it has never been dlscoVeIeu'
There was scandalous talk wnen the ohei
NJ \ reward was withdrawn after a te"
veal.s hut the town officers and the law
yers believed that it was the wiSest thi"s
thar could no done Innocent persons were
being arrested every day and an innocent
man had been killed because OF H.
After the old man died the Villagers olo
NOT sec so much of the people al Inc
Roses The mother was broken utterly oS
her grief and seldom stirred iroin 'n0
house. She had hardly been beyond the
varanda when. several months later she
started for a long stay In Europe WIN he'
daughter. The children were usually
away AT school The business was IN the
hands of Edward Rosenheimer. The people
sau hin, sometimes tearing along the roads
in his high powered touring car almost
lost behind the bulk Of the engine hood'
IL was on June IS, 1901 between S.4V
and $50 in the evening. that the oid man
was murdered on the same day OF the
month at almost the precise moment MS
son was involved in another affair OF blood.
II was the night Of August Is, 1910. at
Q Z ofciooL
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kettle of lard at the risk of her life. They
found their way to the stairs together. The
next instant a stream from the fremens
nozzle came i'm through the window. bring
ing sash and all with It. II struck them
fairly as they stood at the stair head.
The details of what happened then are
blurred from lapse OF time. perhaps. AT
all events. the boy. the woman. the new
trousers. the stream of water and the pail
of lard all rolled down the stairs synchro-
nously. When the fire was out the young
man found that his misfit trousers were
ruined beyond repair.
He did not dare TO go back TO his en-
ployer, so he set out bithely 10 find a new
Job. Years afterward. il is said. when the
tailor was on the edge of ruin. he heard
that Rosenheimer was now wealthy and
came 10 him TO ask for assistance. II was
given in generous measure.
One time and another. at night school
and in off hours. the young man had picked
up a substantial education. One of his
traits which stayed by him 10 the day OF
his death was an almost childish curl
osity the same that had led him TO ask
too many questions of the rabbi II some
times got him into difficulties and 1t often
gained him information that he turned to
good account.
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ON THE SAME DAY OF THE MONTH
HIS FATHER WAS MURDERED
THE SON RAN OVER A GIRL AND
KILLED HER.

a thin gray moustache. enc Was S'oN''
too. with pretty, fresh color IN her cheeNa
She always wore the little fiat black cap Oh
the Lutheran matron. and II became her
well. They were as much devoted 10 each
other as they were when they were mar
ried, and whenever one went 10 the city
alone the other was sure to be at the sta
ton ar night with welcome.
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THE TRAIL OF DEATH.

buggy without lights was driving
northward in Pelham Parkway, not FAR
from the city line. carrying two girls ana
Young man. There was a moon. but n
was buried under thick cloud banks. Sud
denly n touring car leaped out Of the dark
ness behind them. II split the buggy and
sent it's passengers flying before the terri
bic impact The young man, half stunned
himself. CROPPED through the dark for his
companions. one girl was moaning ana
alive the other dead. The automobile had
gone.
Aid came in a few minutes. An angered
chauffeur put his car over the road at
seventy miles an hour. and. mile away
he came upon a large machine which had
sropped while its driver knelt trying 20 re-
pair IT, The pursuer saw that the head ~
the car was damaged He shouted
DO YOU know there has been an accident
down below and woman killed.
He got no answer
"If you're men, he pleaded, for God 9
sake come back with me and see what
you've done"
For reply the little driver clambsred into
his seat and started the car. The chauf
feur read the number As II lunged away.
and gave II to A policeman. II was Rosen-
hemer's car.
Yet the chauffeur had not seen all that
passed in that stop by the road man
from Pelham. who was out driving with
his Young daughter. had come up just be
fore They saw two men wrench awav
something which seemed 10 have been
wedged about the forward wheel guard OF
the machine Az FIRST they could not tell
lust what the thing was. But as one 81
the men swung IT in his hand and heaved
II into the bushes beside the road they saw
Il clearly. II was a splintered buggy wheel
They drove close 20 the car as they went
by. and recognized Edward Rosenheimer.
He was arrested and tried for murder. tie
did not deny having been the driver Of the
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car The contention of the detenoe vas
that he had not been driving ~ hlsn speeo,
that the buggy was withoui hgh's '''
on the wrong side Of the road, implyins
"contributory negligence on the part
Of the occupants. and that the men IN the
automobile did not know that they had
struck anything until they stopped to re-
move tho buggy wheel Then they heard
the chauffeur who had come after them.
He told them he had taken their hummer
and would give it 10 the police, so they
had driven on