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The TEMPTRESS > * BY H. M. EGBERT : =^i (Copyright. 1315. by W. G. Chapman.) The little Welshman and Van Trevor looked at each other in the rich man’s library. The little Welshman was ob- j viously in need of a job. Van Trevor thought. A sense of compassion rose up In him as he inspected the shabby figure. “Well. Mr. Evans?” he inquired blandly. ‘I have come with reference to that advertisement for a man to catalogue your books,” said Evans. His heart was thumping madly; he was desper-1 ately afraid Van Trevor would see his need and cut down the salary. ‘You are acquainted with the class ics, I believe?” inquired Van Trevor. “Yes. sir. I studied Greek and Latin ! at Cardiff university. I know French and German, a little Hebrew, some Spanish —” Van Trevor extended his hand cor dially. “My dear fellow, that is sat isfactory.” he said. “The work should last about three months. You under stand it is not permanent, of course?” he added. “I only need it for the summer, sir,” replied the little Welshman. “1 am studying at the Theological seminary. I have a means of working off our board after the term begins.” He hesitated. The use of the plural form had betrayed what he had not been anxious to reveal. “My wife and myself.” he explained, hesitating. Van Trevor nodded. “Well, my dear I fellow, about the salary.” he said. "Would —er —forty dollars a week be ; satisfactory?” The little Welshman could not re strain a gasp. He had expected twen-1 ty. he had hoped daringly for twenty-j five. “That’s settled, then,” said Van Trevor. “And now, Mr. Evans, you “She’s Too Good for That Little Shrimp.” must lunch with me and meet Mrs. ; Van Trevor.” Mrs. Van Trevor proved to be a lit tle, vivacious brunette. She shook hands with Evans cordially, and they sat down to lunch in a magnificently furnished room, while a butler served them. Evans was conscious of a painful diffidence. A gentleman by birth, a long period of hardship had made him self-conscious. He wondered whether he was using his knife and fork cor rectly. The Van Trevors seemed sticklers for etiquette. In Wales one met all classes upon a free and easy basis: here there seemed to be a con ventionalized ritual, a little different, and puzzling. The Van Trevors drew him out about his wife. “You must bring her to see us,” said the rich man’s wife, as they parted. 11. Leila Evans’ beauty and copper hair was the sensation of Mrs. Van Tre vor’s afternoon. The girl had been married six months. She had run away from a wealthy home in Cardiff to go to America with the little Welsh man. Those six months had been of unmitigated hardship. Her illusions of happiness in the New World were shattered. She loved her husband, but she hated the sordid barrenness of life In furnished lodgings The visit tc the Van Trevors had opened up a new vista of life for her. She clung to Evans' arm as they left the house together, “Dear,” she said, “Mrs. Van Trevor has asked me to come to the house ,every day to act as her secretary. What do you think of it? She is go ing to pay me twenty-five dollars a week!” Evans was overcome by emotion. “They are splendid people. Leila.” he said. “Who would have thought that we should find such good friends in New York? It looks like a prosperous future for us, doesn’t it. dear?” Elsie Van Trevor and her husband sat together in their drawing-room after the guests had gone. “What do you think of them?” asked Van Trevor. “She's dear,” said Elsie. “She’s too good for that little shrimp. Too good altogether.” “Poor little devil!” said Van Trevor. “He told me he’s saving up for an op eration on his ear. He says it’s like ly to prove serious some day if he doesn't have it done.” “She's too good for him,” his wife repeated, following her train of thought. “I don’t see how she came to marry him. If I have any chance I’m going to open her eyes. Why, he isn’t even a gentleman, dear.” Ml. Elsie Van Trevor had gone to their bungalow at the seashore and taken her secretary with her. The little Welshman was cataloguing the books in the library alone. He missed his wife greatly. It was their first separation. Somehow he felt that Mrs. Van Trevor’s sudden friendship for Leila boded ill for them both. But Leila had been crazy to go; there were to be house parties and all sorts of gayety. and later Evans was to be invited for a day or two. Somewhere a bell had been ringing furiously all the morning. The little Welshman wondered where it could be. He threw up the window and looked out. Suddenly a violent pain shot through his head, as if a knife had pierced him. The bell was in his own head. And the pain was stab bing without cessation. He screamed with the agony of it. He tried to stagger across the room, collapsed, and moaned upon the floor. He saw Van Trevor standing over him. a look of fear in his eyes. Then through a period of Unconsciousness he grew to a dim realization of the jolting ambulance, the hospital, the white-capped nurses, and the sicken ing stench of the ether cone. He opened his eyes to find himself in a bed in the hospital. His head was swathed in bandages. “You’ll do finely now.” the nurse said, and he opened his eyes a second time to see Van Trevor at his side. "How are you. my dear chap?” he asked. “By George, that was touch and go. but the surgeon says you re all right now.” “You haven’t told my wife?’’ asked Evans weakly. “No. 1 thought it best not to alarm her,” answered the other. Van Trevor never came again through the slow days of conva lescence. Evans' letters to Leila were unanswered. Gradually a sick ening fear began to come over the lit tle Welshman, a sense of some (in definable tragedy. At last, when two weeks had passed, he was permitted to leave the hospital. He hurried to the Van Trevor house. The butler, who opened the door, stood in his way. “Mr. Van Trevor left a letter for you, sir,” he said, handing him a mis sive. The little Welshmen opened it. It stated briefly that flic work had come to an end. and included a check for five hundred dollars. Evans tore the check to pieces and turned away from the house in blind agony and rage. IV. The bungalows stood side by side in their trim plots at the edge of the shore. Near by. at the huge hotel, were music and dancing, and the mirth of holiday-makers. Many couples, strolling along the road, looked askance at the seedy little man, with the bandage about his head, who walked hurriedly toward the bungalow at the end of the row. In the shadow of a pine tree Evans halted. The bungalow was ablaze with lights. He heard the voices of Van Trevor and his friends, and the tittering laughter of his wife. Then came a laugh that made him clutch at his heart —Leila’s. Then suddenly the little Welshman seemed to become inspired with a strong personality that had never been his. He strode through the open door into the living-room, and stood there at the door. He saw a look of fear in Van Trev or’s eyes, astonishment in the guests’, wonder in Leila’s. The little, shabby man suddenly dominated the situation. “Hugh!” exclaimed Leila, leaping to her feet. “You are ill! What is the matter?” “I have come to take you home, dear,” said Evans. Mrs. Van Trevor advanced with mincing steps. “This is Leila’s hus band.” she explained to the group. “He has been unwell, you know. Mr. Evans, it would really have been more seemly to have written.” “Come, dear,” said Evans, taking his wife’s arm in his. In that moment he saw all the struggle in the girl’s soul; the old love and the new- pleasures. It was a hard test for her, beaten by the storms of uncertainty. “Leila is certainly not going away with you,” exclaimed Elsie Van Trev or angrily. “This is an outrage? Leila, dear, we will protect you.” With a swift, passionate gesture Evans tore the bracelets from Leila’s arms, the pendant from her neck, and cast them down. And, while they still stared at them, they were gone, and Leila clung to her husband’s neck in the darkness. “Hugh, dearest!” she wept. “What w-as it? Why didn't you write? 1 didn’t know you had been 111. They wanted me to get a divorce —O, Hugh, if you hadn’t come they would have made me do anything —anything. Keep me! Guard me! Never leave me again?” And in her husband's clasp she felt at last a safeguard against the dan gers that had beset her. and knew that thenceforward their real life would be together. His Disinclination. “Come, muh brudder,” invited Dea con Hawhee. addressing a stranger who had wandered into the revival meeting, “don’t yo’ want to j’lne de heavenly band?” “No. sah; but I t ankee for de bid, dess de same!” was the polite reply. "1 done played de tromboon in a minstrel band all last | season, and isn’t got mo’ dan half muh sal’ry twell plumb yit!"—Kansas City Star. Grease the Nail. | All mechanics know that a nail ! when oiled or greased is much more readily driven through hard woods. Elmer S. Ellis of Pomona, Cal., has devised a receptacle for grease or ! other lubricant, to be contained in | the handle of a hammer into which i the nail can be inserted and with drawn without wasting the lubricant and at little loss of time. —National Magazine. General Omission. People occasionally announce theli intention of “summering” or “winter ing” here or there, but oddly enougt they never say they will “fall” oi “spring” in any place in particular. Plans for New Public Buildings Are Deferred WASHINGTON. —The long-pending plans for construction of new buildings for the state, justice and commerce departments, south of Pennsylvania avenue, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets northwest, will not be taken up, at the earliest, before the v lapse of two more years. W ord has S° ne out t 0 the heads of these an d . A /SHOULD j partraents that congress will not be V^\ WORRY J as k ed appropriate for federal con struction before 1917. The reas ° n for this p° s tp° nement yl is econom y a t a time when the treas \" y TwCTwisk ury is in a depleted condition, to- Uhl||rLi%A gether with the prospect that con y gress will be asked to appropriate for —— **the national defense. The labor, justice and commerce departments now occupy leased buildings. The two former have complained about their inadequate quarters. The commerce department arranged with private capitalists to erect its present home on a five-year lease at an annual rental of $65,000. The tract south of Pennsylvania avenue, between Fourteenth and Fif teenth streets, was bought by congress a few years ago with the announced intention of putting up buildings for three departments. Steps to appropriate for them fell through, however, and since then some of the properties on the tract have been leased by the government by the year. Lock and Key of Peking Interested These Two TWO young Chinese men stood before a glass case over at the museum. That the exhibit on its lower shell had caught the interest of the two was evident from their suppressed excitement of speech and the care with which one of them copied the informa tion on the accompanying card. it A ' Curiosity is contagious. As soon _ j f < u as the Chinese had passed on another r,. -■' -A ** person who had been watching from |<- - . j j’ JT the fish pond went over to the case. A ■- At first sight the exhibit looked like a cistern pump of old and rusty iron, and lying by it another piece of the -— — same ancient metal that might be a sort of lever, say, about three feet I long. Its dramatic interest for the Orientals lay in the printing on the card: “Lock and key to the city gate of Peking, known as the front gate, di rectly opposite the emperor s palace. This gate was taken by the United States marines, August 14, 1900. In the spring of 1900 the perilous situation of the members of the American legation at Peking, and their complete isola tion in the midst of a murderous population demanded prompt action for their relief. The commandant, division of the Philippines, was instructed by cable, .June 6, 1900, to send at once a regiment of infantry to Taku, and Maj. Gen. Adna R. Chaffee, U. S. V., was selected to command ” "Please move so's we can see.” The person who had been reading the card made way for a heavy shouldered, double-chinned, big-waisted young woman in silver-gray crum pled from travel, and freak white shoes that bulged over at the sides like raised dough. And she was clinging to an undersized and obvious bride groom. When she saw what there was to see the young lady elephant said to her undersized one —with an artless disregard of the fact that other people have ears; "Lordy, Jim; I thought it rausterben somethin’ worth lookin’ at the way that woman was starin’ —comerlong.” To them the lock and key of the city gate of Peking was only so much rusty, time-gnawed iron. So, naturally, they turned to metal more attractive. And when the case was clear the Chinese men returned. ,* A • • New Air Fighting Gun That Shoots Both Ways ANEW air-lighting gun is undergoing experimental trial by the aviation corps of the United States navy department. It is the invention of Commander Cleland Davis, U. S. N., and fires a 15-pound shell carrying about one pound of high explosive —enough —y to blow a flying machine to srnither- C'A -a- eens or to inflict dangerous damage upon a Zeppelin or other dirigible. v_. Commander Davis is the navy’s ( _ 'wf: c - foremost inventor. It was he who not X. long ago originated anew kind of 0 torpedo gun which is under considera '^-j|—tion by the department. " One remar hable feature of his f \j mK= \VTI ' ' r - “aero gun” is that it shoots both X-/ the middle, where the big cartridge is introduced. In the rear part of the cartridge are packed 15 rounds of buckshot, between which and the projectile is the firing charge of smokeless gunpowder. When the shell is discharged at the muzzle the buckshot is simultane ously thrown out at the butt end of the tube, which is of the same diameter throughout its length. The buckshot, needless to say. is not meant to do the adversary any damage. Its discharge merely serves to take up the recoil of the weapon. This, up to the present time, has been the principal difficulty encountered in efforts to solve the problem of the aeroplane gun. To fire large explosive projectiles from a flying machine has seemed impracticable because the recoil of the gun would upset the delicate balance of the warplane, im periling its safety and that of its navigator. It is for this reason that nowadays no more formidable weapons than light machine guns, weighing about 20 pounds and firing ordinary rifle bul lets, are installed on the armored aeros. Why They Cheered Transfer of George E. Downey CHEERS on the transfer of George E. Downey from the post of comptroller of the treasury to a place on the court of claims arose from at least one department in which Downey had curtailed expense accounts that were de scribed as verging upon graft. In . (\\rO\!V^ some instances, it is admitted in the L 7 iNtllf L comptroller s office, the apparent ItQheat’ “graft” was perfectly regular under I / hone in / vLXyTL. \ . the law, but even in these Downey T TOPICS / held it to be illegitimate and declined A, WfflL to approve vouchers which technical ly seemed to be correct. For example, an army officer sta- gjjji Ifrfr I ] tioned in the tropics put in a claim J for his “fuel allowance” of $75 for . “heating his home,” and threatened the comptroller’s office with dire con sequences when it declined to honor the bill. Under the law of the United this officer was entitled to this allowance; under the law of common sense Downey put his foot down. "This is only one of almost a thousand instances demonstrating the negligence, carlessness and recklessness with which congresses pass laws, especially under the army, navy and other appropriation bills,” said an official of the comptroller’s office. Also it is said to be “very customary” for an army officer to rent a house for, say, S4O and charge the government the maximum of S6O, allowed him for his quarters, while some officers’ wives are said to rent houses from the real owners and in turn lease them to the government at a higher rate for their own families’ occupancy. Many other irregularities also have been exposed under the Downey regime. So now the alleged beneficiaries of the reported irregularities have cheered the departure of Downey. POSTSCRIPTS A Chicago Inventor’s burglar proof window sash is provided with bars An Illinois inventor has patented a that rise from within the window guitar with two sets of strings on frame as the sash is lifted, which one person can play duets. Ladybirds are of great service to the A Massachusetts man has patented gardener by reason of their destruc pads to be worn inside trousers to tion of plant lice, among which they keep the knees from bagging. lay their eggs, |and as the larva come An Englishman has invented a fly to life they on the lice, killing instrument that works with a Water issues from an artesian well trigger and resembles a pistol. on a Georgia firm with sufficient force A combination ladder and scaffold to light its owner’s house and barn With many uses that folds as compactly with electricity and to give him power as a stepladden has been patented. for small machinery. THE SEA COAST ECHO. BAY ST. LOUIS. MISSISSIPPI tOD SALAD DISHES TO MENU People Today Eat Too Much Cooked Food That Is Frequently Lacking in Nutritive Qualities. It hcs long been a joke how cats and dogs, when out of sorts, fly to ?rass or some kind of green food for relief. The animal knows by in stinct what only a few human beings are beginning to learn from expe rience—namely, that nature has pro vided vegetables of the leaf order, rich in mineral salts. These salts pos sess a double power —they not only combine with the acids and poisons in the body, rendering them power less, but they also drive them out Df the system altogether. It is not too much to say that no great mental, moral or physical prog ress can be made without an ample supply of this vegetable food. Salad is the one ingredient of our regular diet which we cannot afford to do without. Some people say salad is cold and indigestible, but cabbage, if eaten raw, needs only two and a half hours for digestion, as against five hours when boiled! The boiling of green foods lestroys the original organic combina tion of the mineral salts. The blood of a healthy person should be alkaline —that is, the op posite of acid —and it is the alkaline salts In vegetables which bring about this healthy condition. Many thousands of men and women Df all ages suffer from anemia, from having lived almost entirely on cooked food. To those long accustomed to high j ly flavored food, salads will at first | seem tasteless, but a liking for them comes with use. Salad should be very carefully washed in several changes of clean water. This is essential. During ' washing the leaves should be well picked over and inspected. Leaves should be torn, not cut. When done, they can be allowed to soak for an hour, or overnight, but not longer in cold water, to which a tittle lemon juice has been added to increase the crispness of the leaves. | The Japanese use the petals of many ■ flowers for salads. Chrysanthemums, I stocks, violets, roses, nasturtiums and ■ dandelions are especially good, as they : possess strong antitoxic powers. PARSNIP NOT GIVEN ITS DUE i With Proper Preparation the Vegeta ble Should Be One of the Great est Table Favorites. I Do you ‘like parsnips? If you don't. I why don’t you? If they cost as much as French artichokes —which have far less flavor —wouldn't you like them? Perhaps the reason they have never appealed to you is because they are so common that they are fed to the cat tle. Often our likes and dislikes for food are based on such reasoning. Of course, parsnips must be careful ly cooked to be really worth the eat ing. Baked parsnips have a delicious flavor. To prepare, them, wash them and pare them and steam them until tender. Then slice them lengthwise and put them in a baking dish, with butter and pepper and salt sprinkled over them. Bake them until brown in a moderate oven. Parsnip salad is made of parsnips that have been steamed until tender, sliced crosswise, dredged in flour and fried brown in butter. Chßl them and put them on lettuce leaves and add a teaspoonful of chopped ham and one of hard-boiled egg chopped fine to each plate. Sprinkle a little chopped parsley over them and serve with mayonnaise. Parsnip fritters are made from mashed boiled parsnips. To a pint of it add a teaspoonful of flour, a well beaten egg and salt and pepper. Make into flat cakes and fry brown. Scalloped parsnips: Mix two cup fuls of cold, mashed parsnips with two tablespoonfuls of butter and cream enough to make smooth. Put in a pudding dish, sprinkle wdth buttered bread crumbs and bake until brown. . White Bread. Into your bread mixer put one cup ful of flour, one tablecpoonful of salt, three tablespoonfuls of sugar and a heaping tablespoonful of lard. Then pour in one pint of boiling water; stir until smooth and allow to cool Add one quart of luke-warm water and one-half a yeast cake dissolved In one cupful of luke warm water. Then add flour enough to make a firm dough; knead until smooth. In the morning mold into loaves and al low to raise. Bake for one hour. This recipe makes three loaves. Italian Mold. Cook two tablespoonfuls of rice un til tender in a pint of milk in a double saucepan, with tin very thin rind of a lemon. Sweeten to taste, add three sheets of leaf gelatin and the yolks of three eggs. Let cook in a double saucepan a few minutes longer to cook the yolks; add the whites, stiffly beat en and two tablespoonfuls of cream. Pour into a wetted mould and turn out when stiff and set. Fine-Grained Cake. One egg. one cupful sugar, one-hali cupful of butter, one and one-half cup fuls flour, one and one-half teaspoon fuls baking powder, one-half cupful milk, flavor. Bake In round tins. Put together with jelly. Frost with a ta bleapoonful butter, one cupful of pow dered sugar, little milk and flavor. Put this cake together with whipped cream. Cabbage and Rice. Boil one head of cabbage weighing about two pounds, in salted water un til done. Boil in another pan, cupful of washed rice. Drain, when cooked, of all but a little water. Fry one onion In four slices of salf pork. Mix these all together and boil up for one minute. Season to taste. Original Molasses Cookies. One-half cupful sugar, two table spoonfuls of butter and lard, cream together with sugar, one-half cupful molasses, one-half cupful sweet milk, one-half teaspoonfui ginger, one tea spoonful soda in flour, flour enough to roll; roll thin and bake in hot oven five minutes Value of Hardship. “So you’ve been camping?” “Yes,” replied the sunburned man. “Of course you had a good time?” “No. It rained almost incessantly, the insects nearly ate me alive, and I didn't catch any fish. Still, 1 derived a great deal of benefit from the expe rience,” “I must say you are optimistic.” “Yes. Before I went away I didn’t know how to appreciate a hall bed room.” TOUCHES OF ECZEMA At One© Relieved by Cutlcura Quite Easily. Trial Free. 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