10 HOUSEHOLD TALKS Henrietta D. Grauel "Home is where the heart is" poets sing, but women are practical enough to know that the house must he com fortable if homelike contentment is to abide iu it so they are ever on the out look for helpful details. The question of keeping the house well heated is most important iust now and this includes more than merely keeping up the fires. A well heated huuse is one where fresh air is heated and circulated, not one where stale air is made heavier and heavier hour after hour until lungs rebel and headaches and colds result. The better the scheme of ventilation you have in your house the less difficult it will be to heat it, for air does uot move of itself. The hot air rises to the tops of your rooms and stays there and unless fresh air is constantly enter ing it becomes impure. An open fire place is an excellent ventilator. In Back-log Studies, Charles Pudley Warner pays earnest tribute tu the open fire's health keeping qualities and to its coziness, too. 'The fire place is a window into the most charming world." . . . Then he tells how to make the fire; "you want first a large back log. not resting on the andirons, this will keep the fire forward, radiate heat all day and late in the evening fall into a glow of coals like the last days of a good man . . ." So few houses are built now-a-davs with open fire places. "A furnace takes si much less work," a woman often savs, buti the dust made by the open fire or the trouble of emptying the a: hes is as nothing compared to the enjoyment of looking into this "win j DOEHNE \ A Roer brewed with a double purpose— > > To please the palate as a beverage; « S A liquid food in the truest sense of the words. > < Made from the best selected hops and malt. ' > | Brewery unexcelled for Purity and Excellence of I | Product. < DOEHNE > Bell H'JflL Independent 3tß S 810 COAL DEAL CLOSED J. V. Thompson Sells Land Valued at 925,000,000 to Syndicate Wavnesburg, Pa., Dec. 3. J. V. Thompson, of Uniontown, yesterday closed a deal with a N'ew York syndi cate involving the transfer of 41,000 acres of virgin coal ,'uid valued at he- i t>veen $25,000,000 and $30,000,000 The land is underlaid with original ( Pittsburgh seam coking coal, the finest :, in the world. The acreage represents all of the un sold lands held by Mr. Thompson in , northern tireen county. Heading the syndicate which secured the land is one of the most prominent ! investment bankers in the country, and J it has been stated here that he repre- | sents the United States Steel Corpora- j tinn. hut no confirmation can be had 1 of this report. HORSEMAN KILLS HIMSELF Charles Lawrence Remorseful Over De serting ftis Wife Allentown, Pa.. Dec. 3.——>T had $32 in his clothes. Hi? letter re- j quested decent burial an.l asked what } was left of his money be sent to his sister, Mrs. A. Kuntz, of Porter, lnd. (THE WORDEN PfllNf AND ROOFING CO. H- M. F. WORDEN, Proprietor. »iSfag, Slate and Tile Roofs, f Damp and Water Proof ing, Paints and Rooters' Supplies Genuine Pen Argyl Inlaid Slate for Flat Roofs. J HARRISBURG, PA * ■ BUSINESS COLLEGES \ HUG,. BUSINESS * Market Street Fall Term September First DAY AND NIGHT r Stenography, Stenotypy if DAY aod NIGHT SESSIONS Enroll Any Monday SCHOOL of COMMERCE 15 S. "arket Sq., Harrisburg, Pa. Cumberland Valley Railroad , In Ktfect May 24, 1314. Irllln* Leave llurriaburK— For Winchester ana jlartinsburg, at 0.0. i. • 7.■*>o a. ill., *3.4U p. m. For llagcrftuwn, Chan;ueriburg and intermediate stations, *j.U3, •T.iu il.jii a. in.. *«.4u. j.Jj, 11 uw p. m. Additional trains for Carlisle and ' ilechanicsburg at J. lk a. m„ 2.15. 3.27 u ..M, a.;su u. m. ' 1 For Dilisburg at 5.03, *7.50 and 'll.oj 1 a. m.. 2.18. *0.40, ...32. ti.3o p. m. •lialt.v. All other trains daily except! jSunday. J 11. TONGS. i li. A. lUDDL.E. G. P. A. Supt. I Home-Making dow." Besides no one carries ashes from the grate through the house any more. It >s now customary to have a chute beneath the grate through which (the ashes go into the basement. Such a chute is also made beneath the cookstove. A pipe passes from the base ment up through the kitchen stove and the ashes dump into a zinc lined barrel beneath. But in some parts of the country | fuel is still abundant aijd there January does not seem any 1/tss joyful than lune. for every house has its open tire place. There is a difference of opinion re garding best fuel for open fires. The sea coal or ("annel coal is beautiful for its flames are constantly changing, but it burns out quickly. Oak is the ideal back log and seasoned hickory for fore sticks. Indeed hickory is the best wood ever laid on an open fire or placed in a cook stove. In cities a wood fire is to be obtained only by those with a mint of money at command; the j.as grate, the hot air ,furnace and other modern conveniences have supplanted it in our homes but not in our affections. Someone has written lately about the .joys of faggoting. This is a thing Americans have never had to indulge in. Imagine our middle class women ! pinning up their skirts, fastening their skirts, fastening their hair under snug bandanas and marching out to the woods in a hunt for small twigs to be tied in bundles and carried home on their backs and burned. It would be fun. though, as the writer says, and ! much more healthful than some harder :things our women do to economize. KILL CHUM WITH STRING Two Boys Convicted of Manslaughter in Cruel Form Houlton. Me., Dec. 3. —By order of Supreme Court Judge Haley a verdict of manslaughter was returned yester day in the cases of Louis and Herbert Cote, brothers, aged 16 and 14 years, respectively, charged with murdering a playmate, Hartley Webb, last June. Both lads were sentenced to the State School for Boys during their minority. It was charged that the Cote boys attacked Hartley Webb and Victor Porter while fishing, removed the other boys' clothing and left the victims in the woods with shoestrings tied about their necks. Webb died of strangulation and the Porter lad was in a state of ex haustion when found. DOCTOR VICTIM OF CALLING Contracts Blood Poisoning From In strument Used in Operation New York, Dec. 3. Dr. Stephen C. Pettit, of Brooklyn, is in a serious con dition at his home from blood poison ing, contracted from an instrument he used in an operation eight weeks ago. His life has been despaired of several times, but yesterday attending phy sicians announced that they had hopes of his ultimate recovery. The poison attacked Dr. Pettit's left leg between the thigh and the knee. Four weeks ago a part of the bone of the leg was removed. Dr. Pettit has been in practice in the Gravesend sec tioil for 17 years. DYING MAN BETRAYS MURDER Declares Two Hotelmen Shot Whiskey Agent to Death Hazletou. Pa., Dee. 3. —The authori ties are investigating the confession of a patient at the Ashland Hospital, who, while dying, said that two Girardville hotelmen had robbed and siain John I. Miller, of Hazleton, a wholesale whis key agent, who disappeared in 1908 and whose skeleton, with two bullet holes in the skull, was found on the mountain between Ashland and Girard ville two years later. WAR MOURNER ENDS LIFE Puts Bullet Into Brain as Daughter Has Dinner Ready Pottsville, Pa., Dec. 3.—Despondent because his communication with rela tives in the Prussian war zone had been suddenly cut off. Michael Heller, of this city, aged 72. a retired cooper, committed suicide by discharging a bullet into his brain yesterday after noon, The rash act was perpetrated while his daughter, Mrs. Charles Klitsch and her husband, were about to sit down to dinner. Miner's Skull Crushed S'namokin, P a ., Dec. 3.—John Nov ick. a young miner, wa« found near his home yesterday with his skull crushed. He was senseless, in which condition he has retna.ned ever since. The butcher shop of John Bush, close by, had been robbed of SSO by three unidentified burglars shortly before Noviek was dis covered by several voung men. It is thought as the burglars were escaping they met Xoviek in a narorw passage way and assaulted him. Fire Destroys a Home Selinsgrove. Pa., Dec. 3.—The resi dence of W. 8. Hancock at Independ ence, seven miles south of Selinsgrove, 1 was destroyed by tire yesterday. The cause of the fire is unknown. ¥ Artistic Printing at Star-Independent. 1 HARRISBITRG STAR-INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 3. 1914. THE PELOVED ADVENTURER «2^^MKn«NPKiiiiAa A Novelized Versioa of the Motion Picture Drama of the Same Name Produced by the Lnbin Manufac taring Company. Illustrated With is®! Photographs From the Picture Pro lubin manufacturing compant Continued f CHAPTER 111. An Affair of Honor. THE SUU of late spring was streaming warmly luto the apartment in shabbily respect able Saxton square which be cause of KhriuUiujj rent rolls and prodi gally heedless benevolences hud come lo represent the "town house" of Lord Cecil, i>eer of England. The great mauslon that for a hundred years had been the abiding place of his family during "the season" still stood in Port land place, but some person of no con sequence at all, a millionaire trades man of the city, the disdainful James. Lord Cecil's "man." believed It was. now held state In Its famous loug drawing room. Cecil being occupied wii»j the morn ing's post. James was at liberty to uhalie his head with loving mournful ness. For .lames this was demonstra tion of emotion quite extraordinary. From the score of invitations and tradesmen's bills, which were Indiffer ently pushed aside. Cecil selected a let ter. the handwriting of which lie recog nized with a smile of pleasure. It was dated from the Horse Guards' club, and from the strong, careless scrawl one might readily surmise something of the character of Lieutenant Robert Whltmore Burton Stanley, aged twen ty-two. The note read: Dear Vncle—At last Roue has promised to marry me, and I am the happiost man alive, though el.e makes some foolish con ditions ns to no (.'ambling and I mustn't even look at another girl. S'.ie leaves town this afternoon for the summer. Y'l affect, nephew. ROBT. STANLEY. A glow of real happiness came into Cecil's kindly eyes. Of all the world since the death of his beloved younger brother the dearest to his lonely heart had been the impulsive, care free young soldier and ltose Middlehurst as fair and sweet as an English prim rose, who cherished for Lord Cecil a love such a» she would have given her dead father. Cecil's pleasant dreams were broken by a slight altercation at the door The faithful James was barring the way of an importunate visitor. "You may show the lady in, .Tames," Cecil said quietly, and there entered a woman of shabby sjenteel appearance, whose first words disclosed the profes sional beggar. "Give the lady £5. .lames." Cecil di rected. interrupting a plaintive tale ■with a courteous how, and resumed th - reading of h'.s letter. Cecil was reading the postscript of Robert's note. It ran: The beastly bank people keep writing that I have overdrawn £471 Just when I need new polo ponies Adil that much to my allowance this quarter, like n good old nunkie, will you? ROB. Cecil rose, glancing at James. aud bis hat and cane were immediately placed in his hands. Then he strolled out. an indulgent smile hovering about bis lips, but James, examining the con tents of a battered rash box, sighed and shook his head in troubled thought. • •••»•• At the comfortable house which Rose had maintained since her majority a year before, with the nominal ibaper ouage of an ancient and vague relative. Lord Cecil was affectionately greeted by the happy girl. A few minutes aft erward Hubert entered, ami Hose hur ried away to prepare for her journey to the country. "Aw. that bank thing, y' know, un cle!" Bob suggested casually. "The silly asses have sent me another no tice. It's positively a nuisance. By Jove, one would think they needed the money." "Thanks awfully, sir," he said a few minutes later as he carelessly pocketed the check Lord Cecil handed him. "If Rose doesn't hurry we shan't catch the express. I'm goln' to see ber on. of course, only I wish I could run down with her, but I'm on duty this after noon." Just ten mlnntes later Rose entered nnd was conducted by the two men to the waiting cab. .Cecil said good by and walked away, his heart. In Its own peculiar way. as light as that of the laughing Hob. When off duty that evening Bob sought his club. The center of inter est In the smoking room appeared to be a guest about whom a jovlnl group had gathered. Some one called to Bob. and he was introduced to M. Lemolne. who greeted him with an easy and polished cordiality. "Don't know who he Is, really, bnt seems to be a gentleman." a young lancer Informed Robert. "Count or baron or something, I believe. Rather good fun." , Into the careless conversation some one dropped the name of the Countess Lurovlch, and M. Ijemoine broke Into sparkling smiles. "The countess! Ah! The womon glorious! Of a charm, I assure you. and of camaraderie to make one of de light. Ton do not know her? Them I shall present you. At once! She hon ors me with her friendship, and her friend's friends are hers, this so -won derful woman." "Bhall we try It on?" the lancer ask- Ed aside, grown suddenly reserved. "Might be somethin' of n lark," Bob replied. "I'm for it." "Right-o!" the lancer acquiesced, and a few moments later M. Lemolne was gayly conducting a Rmall party from the club. Robert was not soon to forget his first meeting with the wo man who moving in that peculiar world which, without being of it. touch es garments with the world of rank and fashion, the doings of which sway thrones and trouble nations, but con cerning which few know ought, and those have bought knowledge with sorrow. In a burst of confidence a cer tain royal personage had once descrlb ed the countess as the most fascinating woman in Europe and the one most slrnble to avoid. To Robert, aglow with youth and love that can even see a diamond In a bit of broken glass ihinir.g in the glitter, she was simply glorious. As the countess looked into big eye* r strange tiling happened. For the first time in her life this woman, for whom a hundred men hod broken their hearts and suffered shame aud death, felt a swift thrill of emotion. "He is ki love with love and some girl, not you." her keeu, cold brain whispered. "You must bind htm with other chains than those of chance cir cumstance." "We will sit here awhile, mon ami. and become acquainted," she said as she languidly tank into a screened di van. On a table within easy reach were glasses and liquors. "Drink, young warrior," slip quietly laughed, motion ing for Robert to take his place beside her. And the most fascinating woman in Europe exerted herself as never be fore. even in those days when crowns "Wi will «it her* awhile, mon ami," she said. had been pawns in her games; also the liquors were potent, and Bob drank deeply. "We had best join the others now," she said. "They play a little game for friendship. We will try our fortunes," she added, and Robert followed dazedly to the small adjoining room from which came ihe whir of a roulette wheel. "I tell you I don't want to play," Robert declared sullenly, but the countess pouted, and peevishly he placed a small bet. "Welcome, mou brave!" iert took the prof fered pen and wrote an I. O. U. pay able on demand for £4.000. The trap had sprong. As he was leaving the Countess. Lu- whispered in Robert's ear: "Do not worry for the little debt. He follows my commands and will not press for paymtmt, for thou art to be my deflr friend." 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The 600 hands thrown out ot' work by the tiro three weeks ago at the Vocum Broth ers' plant resumed work and the 10. al Eisenlohr factory, employing 600 more, resumed operations. Boulder Kills Miner Pottsville, Pa., Doc. 3.-—Thomas rhincan, about 50 years old, was in stantly killed at the Eagle Hill col liery east of Port Carbon yesterday bv a big boulder which fell from the top. iIT PAYS TO USE STAB INDEPENDENT WANT ADS.