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|[Srday, Dec. 27,1913.
Love and the r!«
Wicked City
BT BERTON BRALEY
(Copyrighted, 1913, by the Newspaper Enterprise
Association.)
Eleanor was a bright girl clerk in the biggest store
in Caryville. She was pretty and she was very much
alive, and she knew her business. The owner of the
Caryville store crowded four dollars a Meek on her
for her services.
There came a traveling man who represented the
wholesale department of a big city firm. While he
was waiting to talk to the manager of the store
where Eleanor worked he entered affably into con
versation with Eleanor, who was not very busy. He
discovered in her a young woman who understood
her work thoroughly. When he heard the amount
of Eleanor's pay check he snorted.
"Four bucks per!" exclaimed the traveling man,
"why that's a joke. The city is simply hollering for
girls who know as much about the dry goods busi
ness as you do, and you're wasting your talents in
this hole of a town."
"Believe me," said Eleanor, the innocent littlo
country maid, "but I don't exactly see the whysome
ness of all this. What's your game?"
The traveling man grinned.
"Sister," he said, "if you don't object to that fa
miliar form of salutation, I'm married and have five
children. The oldest will be your age before long.
I'll let you look me up in all the moral-improvement
societies you please, and you can write to the firm
and learn all about me. The fact is that you're a live
person with a head on your shoulders, and I'm al
ways picking up that kind of people for the house
when I can. I'll write you about the job if I land it
for you."
He landed it, and that brings us to the spectacle—
the dreadful spectacle of a country girl going to the
great city to toil for eight hours a day in a store for
twelve dollars a week. She used to work twelve
hours for her four dollars in Caryville.
True, Eleanor was not exactly in the dark as to
the DANGERS OF A GREAT CITY. She had
read all about them in the magazines, and the local
minister, who had once been in Chicago before the
fire, gave her plenty of warning. She was fully pre
pared to snub any man on the train who might wish
to be nice to her, and she had her hatpin ready if
she were mobbed by abductors and kidnapers at the
city terminal.
• • •
Having been warned not to take a cab, Eleanor
abode by the warning, but she noticed casually that
all the cabs drawn up in the station bore the name of
a firm which even out in Caryville stood for sobriety
and stability, and she thought that Romance must
have departed from the cab business as well. This
certainly wasn't what happened to Nellie, the Beau
tiful Cloak Model, nor to the heroines of those mas
terpieces which she had cried over at home.
A policeman told her which car to take, and she
boarded it. Here, also, there were plenty of young
men, but they apparently did not know she was on
the car, for the seats were full and they busied them
selves in their papers that they might not notice her.
Eleanor was growing almost impatient. She didn't
see why something couldn't happen that she had
been warned against. The boarding house to which
she had been directed after she stepped off the car
was very respectable looking.
Hilson, the manager of the little country store
WILL TRY TO
GROSS OCEAN
* ST. JOSEPH, Dec. 27. —Wil-
liam Bastar and Jack Vllas are
building an aeroplane they will
try to cross the Atlantic next
spring to get the $50,000 offered
by a London paper.
HUNDREDS WANT
TO SEE BANDIT
-; LOS ANGELES, Dec. 27. —Po-
lice had to clear the front of the
jail »o the sheriff could get John
Bostick, th« confessed train , ban
■ dit and murderer; out to take him
i over; the scene \ of ' - the robbery
-which , Boßtlck says \ was commit
ted to get money , for his; I sweet
heart, m. hotel chambermaid. ; h
RESCUES SEVEN
■V*l WASHINGTON, f.% Dec. = 27.—
| Revenue Cutter Miami rescued
" the : master and seven : men ! who
had' abandoned the British bark
cutine Malwa.l;:':'-;'v \ '■*•-' -• f;
SHIP IS WRECKED
: \*i NEW YORK, Dec. I—Danish1 —Danish
research 5 ship 4 Magrethe ;r was
i wrecked In ■' the • Danish West In*
dies. ■i-.x^'-Tih iri' ■ V- \ ■$'■ i 1
HURRY, LADIES
I;* PARIS, Dec. 27.—Seven of the
blggeat: dressmaking places have
' been |closed: by the > sheriff *:;• and
! $240 gowns are sold by the sheriff
■jfor i%^^.^£S,'-'Z"7 rm^ •*■ r,; itt
LEGAL HOLDUPS
I |S* CHICAGO, Dec. 2 .—Lleuten
ant Governor Barratt O'Har* In a
: speech last night said the big fees
1 of 1 lawyers art Mr.'lagsJlsad^bol**
'MANY; DESERTIONS;
Chicago, d«o. 27. —m«« sol
<t»rs in the second division at the
I V. 8. • army 3 deserted \ Ui aa^sUyfd
taat real
Here are Your Hats'--Lots of
Them—Cost Only $500 Each
A BARGAIN SALE RUSH IN A MEXICAN HAT STORE.
.--> A Bit l xor a j MB»SC«n I OMmifsrvi:
—« Matloan g«Btl*maii — ««ta no
I*oß than $200, and aonMUtnaa
$500.
\» It dejiendo .upon' the' amoant of j
r«al gotd and Btlrwr which tm u««J
from which she had come, had once kissed her when
she stayed overtime to help him on the books, and
the son of the owner had tried to get her fired when
she refused to go buggy riding with him; and if these
were village ways, she knew what the city store
would bring. Of course she did. She had planned
exactly how she was going to repel the advances of
the floorwalker and perhaps of the department man
ager in her new job, and she had made up her mind
as to the best method of disposing of the rich young
roues who would probably loiter about her counter.
The trouble was that there were no advances to
repel. The floorwalker was forty-five and married,
the department manager was too busy to notice every
new girl in the place, and the rich young men never
loitered except to match the samples they had been
asked to match by their wives or their fiances.
She surveyed herself in the mirror to see if her at
tractions had vanished, but, though she didn't, as
she put it, "throw any bouquets at myself," she
found she was as good looking as ever —and that was
pretty good looking.
"Kid," said the young man who sold linens at the
counter across from hers —this was at the end of a
week —"what do you say to us in a couple-a seats in
the balcony for the 'Hidden Princess' tonight, and
maybe a little of the chilled stuff at Huyler's after
ward?"
Eleanor flushed without and thrilled within. Here
was danger! here was adventure; here was one of the
real terrors of the great city! True, the tenor was
a nice-looking boy with slightly freckled face and a
turn-up nose and frank blue eyes and a humorous
twist to his mouth; true, also, there was not much gilt
and glitter to his temptation, but evidently he was
the lurking evil, and she almost embraced him.
"Sure," said Eleanor; "call for me at the house,
321 Blank street about 7:30 and I'll be with you."
"Can't come to 321," frowned the Tempter; "had
a row with the landlady there because I kept one of
her boarders out longer than she thought I ought to.
If she saw me she wouldn't let you go. Suppose you
meet me at the west gate of that little park two
blocks from where you live 1?"
"Park it is, then," Eleanor said, delighted with
the thought of playing thus with fire. For she knew
the Tempter must be wonderfully fast and danger
ous if he feared to come within sight even of her sen
sible, likable landlady.
They were in the last seat of the car when they
started for the theater, and if the Tempter put his
arm about Eleanor it is nobody's business but hit*
and hers. Eleanor knew that she ought to be shocked,
and alarmed and all that, but she rather enjoyed
playing with temptation, and, besides, she liked the
Tempter. So instead of making him take his arm
away, she leaned back on it and smiled at him. She
even patted his hand. It was hardly to be expected
of Eleanor that she could be offended at having an
arm around her. In the village, people went on
straw rides and sleigh rides and buggy rides and pic
nics, and if your male escort didn't hug you or kiss
you, you considered him rather a muff and wonder
ed if he didn't like you. Which may be very wrong
—it all depends on the point of view.
It was a warm night, a delicious, balmy June
night, and after they came out of the hot theater and
after they had their ice cream they wandered in the
little park where they met. Eleanor knew it was im-
to trim It. For the Mexican I
ep«r«iin^:«ip«n«»^when It comes j
to hla* hit: or taU "iladdli^^i^a I
lite ordtniury j? cabal!»ro w««r«|
a hat | which t weighs * from i six ', to
eiffct ' pounde. v Again It :d*c«i>da
THE TACOMA TIMES.
upon the metal trimmings.
The real swell sombrero -, is
made of felt, and hand made at
that, by some poor hombre's fam
ily, which receives, say, two pesos
for pressing the felt Into shape
and repressing^ it. . -. C:
Then the Mexico City or Guad
alajara or Chihuahua hat man
-gets It, ' and does the rest.'. .;
The crown of ; the ordinary
sombrero is from 16 to 20 in
ches high, and the brim, if spread
out flat, would reach 10 Inches,
but,' curled up as it is, it doesn't
cover the Mexican's rather nar
row shoulders." ...' ; '•'•■ - - .V '.■;
The : peons wear Btraw.hata
summer | and ■ winter —if ■ you I can
say there is any ' -winter in Mexi
co— their hats:are not worth
10 centavos, or ' 6 cents American/
each. ;;.'; '■■•;.".','.-■■.-,•'.." ~»k;,-v
strangleho
death in cell
■V NAPA, Cal., Dec. s. 27.—Chas.
Perkins, Insane p asylum g inmate,
strangled to death O. Fragbla and
Bmil Weiff, two 4 other patients. -,
Artillery Corps - ":$?: %r*
t ;' Sf?- ■ i'Sls Discharged
•;'"•. Because;' of t; lack v, -of R lntereat
among tho"men \in the First com
pany .;■•■■ Coast Artillery .-i's Reserva
stationed }at Tacoma, the
company , was ; mustered | out thli
week; and dlamissed. ■ Coincident*
ly Adjt. Gen. Fred Llewellyn or
dered First Lieut. .C. B. Blethen
of | Seattle;. toVt; take examination
for captaincy and : announced that
a"i new national '-je guard t company
would >be organized . In * Seattle ot
once. - .-?- „»-.. • ;'
SfM^'.-i ■ . .. ..tH«sra^Si
-i radar? - ■ vrsmr-.»ii- : 'K »t ■^$0m
FRUIT GAXE^WASiiI
UTTLE BIT OLD
I @i George H R. ' Oagood I of p acoma
partook of a piece of fruit oake
I Christmas day % that g had ' ; been
I made ; for tha wedding supper lof
his | uncl*.' ; Warren 1 Root, of 4 Vei>
I mont, 70 year* ago.
| fe^a^Al»ftß»'OOJt«^^^
'I NEW OKLEANB, Deo. 17.—Bank
I examiner l» going ov«r t th« aooounia"
I 1 of JT.?, W»!t*r, Dansiver, *■ prominent
>flnancler I liar*. Who my«teriou*ty
prudent, knew that it wasn't as planned, but she had
wandered in the cemetery at home with many men,
and, besides—this was Adventure, and had she n»t
desired Adventure? So she talked somewhat fooi
ishly to the Tempter, and she let him hold her hand,
arid she let him put his arm around her again, and
sue'even let him kiss her. And then when she knew
tHifffc, under the magic of mid-summer and the moon
and the witchery of the night and the gladness of
youth and the madness of love, all her resolution
was gone, and when she was prepared to resist —
and .yet to surrender; when, in fact, she found her
self as weak as the weakest of her sisters of whom
she had read, and, after all, only a human being, a
warm-blooded, impulsive girl who was easy prey—
why, just then the Tempter drew forth his watch
a*i(i said:
' V "Girlie, it's 12 g. m., and I've got to beat it for my
downy if I'm going to work tomorrow. I'll just
about get a car now. I guesS you'll want a little
sleep yourself. I'll take you back to the corner near
est to the boarding house. I sure like you, kid, and
I want to see you again. How are you fixed for to
morrow night?"
The wholesome, kindly, sincere words came like a
dash of fresh cold water in Eleanor's face.
She awoke out of her spell and smiled at the
Tempter.
"Tomorrow night's all right," she said. "But I
gotta get home now, you're right. Need my beauty
sleep. Let's beat it for the house."
"Ta ta, kiddo," said the Tempter as he left her at
the steps without offering to kiss her good night;
"see you in the store in the morning."
Rich Man, in Memory of
Dead Wife, Adopts Waif
OAKLAND, Cal., Dec. 27. —
This Is the story of "Little Bill"
and the practical philanthropy of
a millionaire.
The philanthropic millionaire
i« Howard Hamilton Hart, who
struck it rich in the Klondike
during the early days of the Alas
kan rush, and now owns a mag
nificent villa on the heights here.
Hart Is a direct actionlst in
philanthropy. Uttle BUI, and
Howard and Ortha, three or
phans, adopted members of the
S1 •^^^'^^A^^M^^^iM
Hart household, testify toi this.
Howard and Ortha are eight and
; seven, reap««tiT»lr.^3i«Sfc^^S
r Little > Bill "is the; third charity
i baby. Now a little more 1 than j a
year I old. 4he h was abandoned |on
the : Hart l doorstep. A . note was
pinned to his white woolen dress.
It read, "My name Is BUI."
;r Little | Bill arrived p Just aftet
Mrs. Hart died. 1 Sn« had been her
husban d 'b % comrade 0 for 1 twenty i
'years. She had "mushed" across
■tbe froion » tundras of J the»North
i*nd h*d : driven ' the \ shafgy mala
mutiss i and % undergone I tl»l hard
*Wp«ioftrmll[»nd^iaoant«ln!«Bd
•he t lum ofctn 1 J»"5 ssbbbbbW Ifl
«4opttns MHoir«rd \ aud *s Ortho,^
"little Bill," who wtut left a
watt on the doorstep of the Hart
mansion, and Howard Hamilton
Hart, the millionaire miner who
took Little Bill in, and is raising
two other orphans in memory of
his dead wife who helped him
build np his fortune.
foundlings.
"Poor little fellow, we will call
him Little Bill," said Hart, when
the butler placed the child before
him. Little Bill had found a
home. There is a wonderful chil
dren's playroom In the Hart man
sion—rocking horses, building
block*, picture books, a sand box
and a swing, and clevely con
structed cats and doge and potties.
Everything that a baby's heart
desires.
The mother of Little BUI haa
not forgotten him nor the klnd
aem ot the millionaire. An an
onymous letter can* to Hart from
Love and the ij
•*-? Wicked City
Illustrated by Alexander Popini
That was the first of many times they were to- fj
gether. The Tempter was a good spender for a chap £,
with little money, and, though he was not in the \r
taxicab class, they went to amusement parks and on S
steamer rides -and to vaudeville and moving-picture $
shows, and Eleanor was much hugged and kissed, 5
and liked it and fell in love with the Tempter, who j
never in all that time said to her a word which was i
wrong, though he did say plenty that were foolish. i
Until— ft
"Kiddo," said the Tempter, after a month of this,
"I'm getting tired of hem' a good fellow for nothin'. §
All my roll has gone on you, and what do I get out of m
it ? A few kisses and a hug or two and the chance to 5
stick around with you for a few hours now and then. n
It ain't enough. I'm through, unless —" X
"Unless wh-what?" trembled Eleanor. She had 1
forgotten, in the weeks that had passed, all about I
Temptation. She loved the Tempter and had come I
to trust him, and now—the castles which she had I
built were crumbling about her. I
"Unless," the Tempter was saying, "unless you 11 I
be sensible. I've got a bully little flat all fixed up. *J
Me and another fellow have been livin' in it, but he's M
got married now. We can be mighty quiet about it ■
so the boss won't <^et wise and fin- us. After a while M
I got another job comin' up where they aren't so A
particular." "M
"So you want me to come and live in the flat in- ■
stead of him?" Eleanor said, her mouth quivering. H
"Sure, but I don't see why you're so sad about it. I
We'll have a great time. What do you suppose I've
been rushin' you all this while for, just to spend my I
money ?" the Tempter asked with a grin—an evil I
grin, Eleanor thought. I
1' I—l didu 't know, "she faltered; " I thought may- I
be you—you wanted to m-m-marry me." I
"Marry you!" shouted the Tempter, who wasn't
a Tempter at all, "of course I want to marry you.
What do you think I'm trying to do, hire a house
keeper 1?"
"I—l thought—"
He had a sudden thought. I
"Girlie," he said, "would you have come without I
any wedding?"
" —I—oh, you'll hate me if I tell you," she cried.
"Little girl," he said, and his voice was very ten
der, "I see that you would. Some guys might be
apre, but it makes me happy to know you think
fnough of me so you'd come anyhow. That means
some love, girlie, and I know it. But you're going to
come all proper and right."
Eleanor nodded.
"Billy," she asked, "what was the row you had
with the landlady?"
"Why, I took one of the boys out with me one night
from there and he got drunk. It wasn't anything
really my fault, girlie. "4* 1
"And while I'm at it let mo put you wise to som« I
thing. This city ain't so bad as a good many of thea*-^ J
story writers paint it. Most of us guys come from. * 1
little towns like yours, and we do.it change an awful j
lot. There's plenty of bad ones here, but the most \
of the city push is fellows that works hard and goes i
to bed early and behaves themselves and finds a gil^ §
and gets married. Shall I cop the license tomo» \
row? 7' I
"Sure," said Eleanor. \
(THE END.) §1
LIFER IS SET FREfr
LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Dec.
27.—Jasper Ralney, state prison
life termer, who broke a silence
of 20 years recently, when, on
his knees, he begged Samuel Sea
ton, Gov. Hodges' pardon clerk,
to have release on parole granted.
KISSING IS SURE "0. K."
NEW YORK, Dec. 27. —"Kiss-
ing does not cause the spread of
germs. Love makes a natural
Immunity tot all germs."
The "germ maniacs" were ut
terly routed by this statement
SOME NERVY ROBBER
MASON CITY, la., Dec. 27. — A
robber who held up Lincoln Pence,
a blind man, who runs a small sture
near the city, rubbed hla revolver
against the victim's face In order
IT IS A FIRE BABY
ERIE, Pa., Dec. J7.—While fire
men were trying; to aave the resi
dence of Ouy T. Jaitlce, a baby was
born In a part of the house not af
fected by the flames. The firemen
knew nothing of the Incident until
the announcement was made by
The Bank of California
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
K>*il llshad 1804.
Capital and Surplui . $16,300,000.00
tan Francisco Portland Twou fltattlj
TACOMA BRANCH
Vbe BMkk of Caitlomia BatMttao, Smhm.
i^»^> ' » ■ ~|r**V __ mitt —i>tn
PAGK TBXEM.
tiaß left the prison. He will be
free as long as he observe* th* '
parole regulations.
Ralney had served 20 years on
the charge of murdering a wom
an with whom he quarreled at
Paola, Kan.
made by Miss I,lnd of Hugeby,
the noted Norwegian scientist
end anti-vlvisectionlst. whan eh*
addressed the conference of th«
church of the Holy Trinity In
Brooklyn.
to prove that he was armed. Then
Pence, who had hesitated to turn
over the small amount of money
that he carried, puickly compiled
with the holdup's command. j
'the I father as they wer« about £'t»y£ •*. II I
leave. I
l&tii cabribw v' PASSKJfCUUtg jffß - I
ST. PKTRRBBUKO, Doc J7. - . I
Sikorsky (lew for hour* In hla aero- *>.'■. I
plane 1 Friday and t carried flO pa** 'F&lt
■tngeri anda lot of ballast ' ~'f 1