10 HOUSEHOLD TALKS Henrietta D. Grauel Several Staffs of Life We say "Bread is the staff of life," but after all bread is only wheat, or rye, or corn, or some cereal well cooked. Kvery nation has its favorite "staff." Ours is wheat and most of our bread is made of this, but the Scotch High landers used to carry parched oats as their onlv provisions on their border forays, 'rile American Indian was sat isfied with corn parched and ground, and it was only when tn cainp enjoying all the comforts of home that time was taken to boil the graiu and make it into cakes. No other nation has such a wealth of cereals as we enjoy; corn, oats, rice, w-heat and barley are always to be had, and every one of these is offered to us in form of flour or as a cereal. As a consequence we have a greater variety of breads than other people. So great ha« the cereal output be come that we have ihvented new cereal diehe9. We are manufacturing fortv two varieties of "predigested" or "ready to eat" breakfast t'oods. All of them are wholesome and, if you do not object to their high price, great helps to the hurried mother of a fam ily, at breakfast time.« Lately we have had a "new" wheat called Durum; it comes from Russia and is exceedingly rich in nutritive properties and is used for macaroni and similar pastes as well as for the best "whole wheat" bread. Of all the "staffs" it is the strongest. Though Durum wheat flour is new to us it has long been preferred abroad, * X llf You Are Looking! For a Pure Beer— *3» T »> * Made of the finest Malt and Hops—Sparkling Fil- | | tered Water—and Purest Yeast—by the best Sani- ? % tarv Methods. Order DOEHNE Beer. f j DOEHNE ! Beliß2«L Independent 318 % SOLD POISON IGNORANTLY Druggist Claims He Did Not Know Liq uor Was Wood Alcohol 'Middlebur.y, Vt., Dec. 31. —Dr. D. A. Bisbce, a Bristol druggist, on trial here, charged with having caused the death of four persons by selling them poisonous liquor, did not know the liq uid was wood alcohol, according to his testimony yesterday. "I intended to sell spirits contrary 1o law," he admitted. "I sold from four to five gallons of alcohol a week, but I certainly would not have sold the liquor which is alleged to have caused these deaths if I had known it was wood alcohol. All those who died were my friends, some very personal friends." Bisbee asserted that the liquor came to him labeled "cologne spirits," from a Troy, X. Y., firm, and that he was not aware of the real nature of it. 2,4(N) HANDS TO RESUME WORK N. Y. Central Employes Ordered Back on Full Time Indianapolis. lnd„ Dec. 31.—An nouncement has heeu made by the New York Central that the Beech Grove shops will reopen on January 1, and that they will be in full operation from tlat time on. giving employment to about 2,100 men. These shops have been closed several weeks. E. ,T. Mullin, superintendent of motive power on the Big Four, said the company expected to operate the Beech Grove shops with a full force of employes throughout the entire vear of 1915. BTEAMSHIPS ftftarmuacT liolf. Teun>«. Roatlnf, Ilathlng, and Cycling TOUT* Inc. Hotel*. Shore Kicnraloon. l.owfM Knfen. Twin s c "RFRMimiAfr 10 518 T °ns | screw J" 3 - ULUITIIIUIAH displacement. ' Knateat. nnif«( unil only atrainrr Innd lUK pamram-r* at th. dork In Bermuda nl(k to school children. "If education is to be truly free, the means of obtaining it must be available * all cases," said Mr. Ross. "Such a plan would lie much more economical, both in money and time, than is the system of individual owner ship. The same books would serve dif ferent pupils in successive years." Unguarded Love Vanishes Lewistown, Pa., Dec 31.—William liacrea, a widower, 40 years old, was held for court yesterday, charged with 'breach of promise by Miss Luev Pat ton, his 19 vear-old housekeeper. Miss *Patton alleges she was induced to take a trip to visit friends at Btate College, and, returning, found a rival supplant ing her. The tumble rhat followed caused a counter charge of assault and battery. ] HARRISBITRG STAR-INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1914. | Story of i the Blood ' 1 Red Rose IKathlyn Williams | ■ttiniiiiiiutuiiiiiiiuimiiitimuimtiiiuiHiiiiiiKttH § From the Photoplay bw JAMES OLIVER S CURWOOO I fg I With Illustrations from the Pro- sP I duction %f the Seltff Polyscope Co. H iiumiiHiiiiitiimimiiiiHiiNiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuniiiiHmHiiiiiiifflnißimumiinP (U>pjrmbl, lUi. br tile Uellg i'oljscopo (Jo.) Continued Sancha resolved that now was the time to exact ot his mistress the [ promise he had ions sought Above t all else in the world the queen de- j sired the death of the one who was more beautiful than Lerself. There tore now surely the queen would give any promise as the price she would | pay to one who woitld encompass her merciless wish. ' Duleiiiea,'' Sancha said, "before I do for ihee this harrowing service— at risk of my life should the king perchance enter the secret chamber belore I have done—for this service, ' 1 say, thy promise of thy love shall ! be my reward." Tlie queen, shrewd and well taught in the ways of men, understood the veiled threat. She knew that Sancha implied that unless she gave tho promise of her love Sancha would find a way to fail again to encompass the girl's death; and thus the one who was more beautiful would still live to be compared with her maj esty. "The promise of my love thou hast, Sancha, - ' the queen said, shrewdly foreseeing that she would refute the ! promise and repudiate his advances, ! once he had executed her will. She gave Sancha, with significant smile, a dagger. "Now go!" she said. "And see that thou losest not thy courage till that stiletto is stained with the blood of Godiva " Sancha bowed himself from the queen's chamber and hastened to the lower region of the palace. He reached the room over the death dun geon, wherein was the iron grating through which he peered down and saw Paulo, the doomed prisoner, lying asleep on the floor of the oubliette. Sancha then mounted the stone steps of which the queen had spoken. At the top ho found the door her maj esty had described. Sancha opened this door—and stood within the se cret chamber. The king and Godiva had, up to this time, not yet entered. And Sancha concealed himself behind the curtains at the side of the couch and waited. It was soon after the chamberlain had thus secreted his person in the secret chamber that the king and Go diva entered as already described. And now, maddened by the girl's scorn of his kingly attentions, the monarch of I rania seized her roughly and smothered her face with kisses, the maiden struggling desperately in his arms. And Sancha, behind the curtains, toyed with his stiletto and awaited the opportunity to execute the queen's will. "Presently." he thought, "the king will leave the gtrl to her own devices. : Exhaustion will speedily bring sleep j to her eyes. And then—then. I. San cha, will silently steal upnn her—-and she will nevermore awake." CHAPTER VIII. The White Rose. But now, in the secret chamber, the | unexpected happened— unexpected, at least, in Sancha's reckoning. For the king, instead of tiring of Godiva's re calcitrant ways and leaving her till a time more propitious for his purpose, made still further desperate love. And again the struggle was on. Forth and back across the chamber they fought, the girl fighting not to live, Hut to j die; for ever and anon she would . make a desperate lunge with intent to seize the dagser which the king wore in a short scabbard dangling from i his leathern belt. Rut ever and anon the king would frustrate the girl's i tragic design, till finally his majesty [ caught the dagger from its scabbard and hurled it far beyond the maiden's reach. Then came a further unexpected happening. The king, in rage, opened the door that revealed the stone steps leading down to the room that was over the palace dungeon. And through this door the king dragged Godlva. Sancha, concealed behind the cur tains, perceived that now indeed all opportunity to assassinate the girl was gone. He rushed from his place of concealment and pressed the secret ' spring that opened, the panel in the wall. Through this aperture Sancha stepped into the king's apartment, closing the painting behind him. Then through the palace corridors i Sancha hurried till he came to the ' door of the queen's own apartment. This he entered very cautiously. The queen was pacing the floor in ; eager expectation. "The trophy!" she demanded 'Where, again I ask you, Sancha,— where Is the bleeding heart.'" "Alas!" replied Sancha, "this night ' we are doomed to be the victims of many tricks of fate. Just as I was J ready and waiting to do your bidding, I your majesty, the king tore the girl [ from the secret chamber and thrust ! her down into the room that Is over | the donjon. What his majesty's pur- ' pose can be, who can say? Mayhap he Intends thrusting the girl down into the oubliette to suffer the fate of her lover, the.peasant huntsman, Paulo." "So thou hast failed again, Bancha." said the queen with fine scorn. "Fool! j I will kill her myself." j And with that she snatched the sti i letto from the belt of Sancha and swept from the chamber. In the room above the dungeon the king and Godiva were holding final parley. Said his majesty: "Here, sorceress of hell, who hast riven the king with passion for thee, shalt tnou remain till thy spirit breaks and thy will disintegrates and be comes as a supple twig that will bend in my bands." • And he flung her upon the iron grat ing that looked down into the dungeon. And there she lay inert. "Look!" the king said "Down yon der, at the bottom of this well of death lies thy lover, Paulo. Behold him—lying within the shaft of moon light that strikes upon him from von der hole in the wall—behold thy lover, Godiva, in my power with death not tar away. See that thou dost quickly become more tractable and that thou consentest to remain within the pal ace as my willing guest—else thou, I too, shalt be let down into this don- J jon to join thy lover. But, mark j thee, not until after thy lover's soul shall have left his bodv and his bones are picked by the rats.'' Godiva shuddered but made naught of reply. And the king with a last shrug of contempt for the girl who had dared defy his kingly will, mounted the steps that led to the secret cham ber. Godiva now called softly down to the sleeping prisoner at the bottom of the well-like dungeon. 1 "Paulo, my Paulo!" ehe called, i "Awake!" Paulo, thue called from sleep by the voice he so loved, sat up and rubbed "Fool! I Will Kill Her Myself." his eyes. Then looked he aloft to the iron grating and saw lying thereon his dear love robed all in white. "Godiva, my Godiva!" he called. "How earnest thou in this place? Has the king taken thee captive? Oh, my Godiva, better that thou wert in thy grave!" "List, my Paulo," Godiva said. "And look!" She produced from her bosom the vial containing the potion given to her by Hagar the witch "Canst see what my hand displays to thee, niy Paulo?" she asked. " 'Tis ; a potion of which 1 am about to par take. For escape from the king there is none. Hagar the witch gave to me this magic potion that now will save me from worse than death. I have but to swallow this powder and lo! Paulo, then shalt thou witness trans formation that will please thee, since ' it will release me from the fate that surely will overtake me should I re main in this place in mortal form. Into a white rose I shall be changed. And the rose, as Hagar said, will never iie. And thou—surely thou wilt find a way to escape at last from this place. And then, in thy freedom, thou must take the white rose which will be my very self—thou must take the white rose, 1 say, speedily to Hagar the witch and she will change the rose back to Godiva, thy own love. For Hagar alone has tliis power. And so, my Paulo—see! I will come to thee!" With that Godiva emptied out the contents of the vial into her hand. And from her hand she partook of the powder. And she swallowed the magic potion and lay upon the iron grating still as death And then, behold! The form of Go diva vanished and in ita place a white rose appeared and fell between the iron bars down into the uplifted and welcoming hands of Paulo, the huntsman. CHAPTER IX. "Where I* Godiva?" Meanwhile King Leofric re-entered the secret chamber and passed through the secret panel iu the wall and en tered his own apartment, where hr flung himself on a carved chair an pondered morosely over th& way of maid with a king. And now into the apartment came the Queen Dulcinea. The stiletto she concealed under her mantle. And the fire of jealousy burned in her eyes. "Sire,' she said, confronting the king, who was startled as at an ap parition, "thou hast brought to this castle, this night, a maid from the forest. 1 would see her. For curiosity j consumes me. I would have sight of one whom thou couldst for a moment believe could take my place." in a rage the king sprang up. 1 "Who hath betrayed the king?" he cried. .lust then the cringing form of San clia, the chamberlain, appeared. "Thou, Saneha! Wae't thou be trayed to the queen what has trans pired this night?" "Nay, sire," replied trem bling with awful fear at the king's wrath. " 'Twas not I. 'Twas some varlet. of the castle who, perchance, saw the maiden entering to thy pres ence." "Stop!" commanded the proud queen. "It matters not whose was the betraying tongue. It is sufficient that I know, sire, of the maiden thou hast concealed here Thou art a wicked man, eire, as thou well know est. And this maiden I Intend shall |C. E. AUGHINBAUGHj I THE UP-TO-DATE PRINTING PLANT J | L. L. KUHN, Secretary-Treasurer | I PRINTING AND BINDING Now Located in Our New Modern Building || | 46 and 48 N. Cameron Straat, Near Market Street I BELL TELEPHONE aoia fe Commerical Printing Book Binding few We are prepared with the necessary equipment . . 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