12 B HOUSEHOLD TALKS Henrietta D. Grauel Nuts , "I have a venturesome fairy that shall seek Tho squirrel's hoard and fetch thee fresh nuts." Among our wonderful crops this year nuts stand out in tremendous numbers. We know their wholesomeness but we do not often stop to find a place for them in our daily foods as we should. Another thing we should give thought to is the possibilities of new flavors in our every day dinners. Nuts give this and, with the aid of a food grinder, make possible splendid desserts. The so-called English walnut grows plentifully in our southern states and Ihe finest variety has a shell so thin it can be crushed with the fingers. It is rightly named Grenoble and bears when it is eight years old. Like olive trees, nut trees bear on and on year after year and are splendid producers. We wonder why more are not raised so they can be in reach of every one, but as usual the middle man looks after any over supply, so the market is never flooded no matter how big the out put is. The black walnut tree is a marvelous fellow; its remarkable size is attained in its early years and afterwards its strength is used in producing rich, wholesome food. There is a black walnut tree on the Roslyn Farm, Long Island, formerly owned by the poet Bryant, that is known to be 195 years old and is 30 feet in circumference three feet from the ground. The chestnut tree is another that at tains great age. The French have tra ditions about certain trees that are still standing that are known to have been told for a thousand years. We have some old chestnuts in our language too. The pecan is attracting more atten tion now than it ever has, for scientists CLASS HONORS AT TECH Seniors Lead the School—l2s About 80 Per Cent. With the announcement of the honor roll at Technical High this morning for the term just ending it was found that 125 students had, gone beyond the 80 per cent. mark. The Senior class claims the highest percentage in proportion to the number of students in the class, while the Sophomore and Freshman classes run even, both having 43 names on the roll. The class leaders are as follows: Seniors—Charles Chayne, Franklin IMetzler, John Todd, Charles Kutz, Karl Khuey, Stephen Anderson, Jesse Bern heisel and William Scheffer. Juniors—Russell Lowry and John Wachtman. Sophomores—Stewart Blair, Lester Zimmerman. John Knouse, Musser Mil ler and John Paul. Freshmen —Fred Beecher, Beard, Charles Keller, Rupp, John Peters, Don ald singer, Stauffer and Wertzler. IT PAYS TO USE STAR INDEPENDENT WANT ADS. Cumberland Valley Railroad In Kit act May 24. 1»14. Train* Leave Hartiibun— For Winchester and Martlnsburg, at 6.05, *7.50 a. m., *3.40 p. m. For Hagerstown, Chambersburg and Intermediate stations, at *5.03, *7.60, •11.53 a. in.. '3.40. 5.33. •7.40. U.o< p. m. Additional trains tor Carlisla and Mechanicsburg at 9.48 a. m., 2.18. 1.2). £.30. 9.30 D. m. For Dlllsburg at 6.03. »7.50 and •lI.M a. m., 2.18. •3.40. 6.32. 6.30 p. m. •Dally. All other trains daily excep' Sunday. J H. TONQB, H. A. RIDDLE. Q. P. A. Supt BUSINESS COLLEGES GET IN THE GAME ~ Success is won by preparing in DAY and NIGHT SCHOOL SCHOOL of COMMERCE 15 S. Market Sq., Harrisburg, Pa. / - >, iLBli,. BUSINESS COi^uE 321> Market Street Fall Term September First DAY AND NIUHT DOEHNE BEER % A Brewery construction which admits of perfect % % cleanliness of floors, walls and ceilings. Perfect vent Z tilation and equipment. Best and purest Malt, Hops t t and Ingredients. 2 | Skilled Brewmaster—Proper Management | 1 RESULT } BE H El hgTadeproduc i B L E | I DOEHNE j % Bell 826 Order It Independent 318 ? "It Brought The || Again and again |i —almost every day JfR J** !; —we are told that * I \I il ;: ads in our classi- A >L i ■ |i fied columns are ef- n IT A i i |; fective and bring | !i i| most satisfactory il TRY THEM NOW i; Bell Phone 3280 Independent 245-246 il have found that this slow growing tree can J)e hastened in its development by grafting it to the Grenoble walnut. One feels inclined to plant a pecan tree in the front and back yard with out a moment's loss of time —-until they read how long it takes for it to mature sufficiently to bear. The hickory, butter-nut, almond, hazel and Brazil nuts are all excellent for making nut butters and confections and nut bread. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS "Is there any way nf discovering if cocoa and chocolate are adulterated? What is an easy test? Reply-.—The only way to determine if these foods are impure is to have them analyzed. Your city or state chemist will do this for you. Dr. Olsen says low grade qualities of commercial cocoas and chocolates often contain beef-sterin, cocoanut-oil, corn starch colored with analine dyes and iron ox ide. But the best grades are made of pure ingredients and are absolutely wholesome. I am told that a little soda added to dried beans makes them cook more quickly and also makes them tender. Is this true and when is the soda added f Reply.—A pinch of may be added to the beans while they are boil ing and you will find that what you have been told of its action is true. Indeed you can sefi how it counteracts the acid in the beans by watching the chemical change that immediately takes place. When baking beans add one fourth of a teaspoon of baking soda to the half cup of black molasses you pour over them and when it foams add enough hot wnter to fill the cup. The flavor will be much improved. PARALYZED BEFORE TRAIN Station Agent Rißks Life to Save Man Stricken on Tracks York, Pa., Feb. B.—At the risk of his own life, 11. F. Beok, station agent at Glatfelters, south of this city, pre vented Harris Lentz from being ground to pieces by a Pennsylvania passenger train. Lentz, who is 80 years old, was stricken with paralysis while crossing the tracks and fell helpless between the rails while a passenger train was coming upon him less than 100 yards away. Bock rushed to the stricken man's assistance and pulled him to a pla.ee of safety just as the train whiz zed pa9t. JILTS FIANCE AT ALTAR Girl Angered When Necklace Is Not Received and Switches Affections Kubpinont, Pa., Feb. 8.-; —Accusing her intended husband of having failed to buy her a gold necklace, as he had promised, Miss Mary Barmesk tore up the marriage license as the ceremony was aibout to be performed. Bazel Dizezich, a diac-artlled suitor, hoard of her action and hastened to her side. '' I will wed you,'' she declared, "provided you buy me a gold necklace wihh a diamond pendant in it." He promised. anAl together they went to a jewelry store and picked out the one she desired. FENCE OUTS BOY'S THROAT Coasts Into Barbed Wire, but Proves Hero Under Repair Towanda, Pa., Feb. B.—A barbed wire fence into which Levi Own, 10 years old, coasted, cut his throat from ear to ear, and nearly scalped hira. Only the prompt work of a surgeon, who used 20 switches to close the wounds, saved the boy's life. One sharp prong missed his eye by a quar ter of an incb. The l»a(d' refused to take an anaesthe tic while the doctor was patching him up, and bravely smiled through the blood which flooded his face. Highly Flattered "Your glasses," she said, "have made a great difference is your appear ance." "Do you thank sof" he asked. "Yes. You look so intelligent with them on."—Chicago Herald. HARRISBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT, MONDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 8, 1915. nn peg | WL o MY / d HEART mmm By J. Hartley Manners A Comedy of Youth Founded by -Mr. Manners on Hi* Great Play ©f the Same Title—lllustration* From Photographs of the Play Copyright, 1913. by Dodd, Mead tf Company (CONTINUED.) "Sleepin" In bis grave, poor man." "Why. then, you're Miss Margaret O'Connell?" "I am. How did you know that?"' "I was with your uncle when be died." "Were ye?" "He told me all about yon." "Did he? Well, I wish the poor man 'ud ha' lived. An' 1 wish he'd 'a' thought o' us sooner—he with all his money an' me father with none an' me his sister's only child."' "What does your father do?" Peg took a deep breath and answer ed eagerly. She was on the one sub ject about which she could talk freely —all she needed was a good listener. This strange man, unlike her aunt, seemed to be the very person to talk to on the one really vkal subject to Peg. She said breathlessly:. "Sure me father can do anything at all— except make money. An' when he does make it he enn't knpe it. He doesn't like it enough. Nayther do I. We've never had very much to like, but we've seen others around us with plenty, an', faith, we've been the hap piest—that we have." She only stopped to take breath be fore on she went again: "There have been times when we've been most stnrvin', but me father nev er lost his pluck or Ills spirits. Nayther did I. When times have been the hardest I've never heard a word of complaint from me father nor seen a frown on his face. An' I'm sick for the sight of him. An' I'm sure he is for me—for his 'Peg o* My Heart,' as he always calls me." She uncovered her eyes as the tears trickled down through her Angers. "Don't do that," he said softly as he felt the moisture start Into his own eyes. "I don't often cry." she said. "Me father never made me do it. I never saw him cry but twice in his life — once when we made a little money an' we had a mass said for me mother'!! soul an' we had the most beautiful candles on Our Lady's altar. He cried then, he did. An' when I left him to come here on the ship—an' then only at the last minnit.'" In a moment she went on again: "I eried meself to sleep that nH-'ht I did. An' many a night, too, on that steamer. "An" 1 wish 1 hadn't come—thnt I do. He's mtaslu' me every minuit—nn' I'm missin' him. An' I'ui not guin' to be happy here nytber. "I don't want to be a lady. An' they won't make me one, ayther. If 1 can help It- 'Ye can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear,' that's what mo father always said. An' tliut'B what 1 am. I'm a sow's ear." She stopped. "I'm afraid I cannot agree with you." She looked up at htm and said In differently: "That's what I um. I'm a sow's ear." "When the strangeness wears off you'll be vi-ry happy. You're among friends." Peg shook her head und said bitter ly: "So. I'm not. They may be rela tions. but they're not me friends" He turned to Peg and said: "When they really get to know you, Miss O'Connell, they will be Just as proud of you as your father is— as—l would be." Peg looked at him In whimsical as tonishment: "You'd be? Why should you be proud of me?" "I'd be more than proud If you'd look on me as your friend." "A friend in It?" cried Peg warily. "Bure 1 don't know who you are at all." and she drew away from him. She was on her guard. Peg made few friends. Why this man calling him self by the outlandish name of Jerry should walk In out of nowhere and of fer her his friendship and expect her to jump at It puzxled her. Who was he? "Who are ye at all?" she uked. "Mo one In particular." answered Jerry between gasps. "I can see that" said Peg candidly. "I mean what do ye do?" "Everything a little and nothing really well." Jerry replied. "I was a soldier for awhile; then 1 took a splash at doctoring, read law. civil engineered in South America for a year; now I'm fanning." "Farming?" asked Peg Incredulously "Yea. I'm a fanner." Peg laughed ns she looked at the well cut clothes, the languid manner and easy poise. "It must be mighty hard on the land and cattle to have you farmtn' them," she said. "It Is," and he, too, langbed again. She started up the staircase leading to the mauve room. Jerry called after her anxiously: "No, no. Miss O'Connelll Don't go like that" "I must" «ald Peg from the top of the stairs. "What will 1 get here but to be laughed at an' jeered at by a lot of people that are not fit to even look at me father? Who are they, I'd like to know, that 1 mustn't speak his name in their presence?" Suddenly she raised her hand above her head, and In the manner and toue of a public speaker she astounded Jer ry with the following outburst: "An' that's what the Irish are doln' all over the wnrrld. They're driven out of their own country by the Eng lish an' become wnndherere on the face of the earth, an' nothln' they ever earn 'II make up to tbem for the separation from their bomea an' their loved ones!" She finished the perora tion on n high note and with a forced manner such as she had frequently heard on the platform. She smiled at the astonished Jerry and asked him: "Do ye know what that Is?" "I haven't the least Idea," be an swered truthfully. "That's out of one of me father's speeches. He father makes grand speeches. He makes them In the cause of Ireland." "Oh, really! In the cause of Ire land. eh?" said Jerry. "Yes. He's been stnigglin' all his life to make Ireland free, to get her home rule, ye know. But the English are so Ignorant. They think they know more than me father. If they'd do what me father tells them sure there'd be no more throuble in Ireland at all." "Really?" said Jerry quite Interest edly. "Not a hit of throuble. I wish me father was here to explain It to ye. He could tell ye the whole thing in a couple of hours. I wish he were here now just to give you an example of what fine speakln' really Is. Do you like speeches?" "Very much sometimes," replied Jerry guardedly. "Me father is wondherful on a plat form with a lot o' people In front of him. He's wondherful. I've seen him take two or'three hundred people who didn't know they had a grievance in the wurrld-the poor oratures—tbey were Just contented to go on bein ground down an' trampled on an' they not knowln' a thing übout it—l've seen me father take that crowd an' in five minutes afther lie had started spakin' to them ye wouldn't know they were the same people They were all shout In' at once, an' they had nmrther In their eye. an' It was blood they were afther. They wanted to reform some thin'—they weren't sure what—but thoy .vanted to do it. an' at the cost of life Me father could have led them any where. It's a wonderful power tie was. Do ye like lienrln' about me father?" the asked Jerry suddenly, in case she was tiring him. Jerry hastened to assure her that he was really most interested "Well, so long us vor not fired I'll tell ye some more. Ye know I went all throne!) Ireland when 1 wan a child with me father in a cart An' the po lice an' the <-unstn biliary used to fol low ns about. They were very frlsbt ened of me father, they were They were jrrnml days for mt>. Ye're KIIR !ish. rneliheV she n«ked him «nddenlv "I urn," said Jerry. lie almost felt Inclined to apologize. "Well, sure that's not your fault. Ye couldn't help it. No one should hold that against ye. We can't all be born Irisli." "I'm glad you look at It so broad mlndedly," said Jerry. She stood restlessly a moment, her hands beating each other alternately. "I got so iouesouie for me father," she said. Suddenly, with a tone of definite re solve in her voice, she started to the stairs, calling over tier shoulder: "I'm goln back to bim now. Good by!" Jerry followed her, pleading insist ently: "Wait: Please wait!" She stop|ied and looked at him: "Give lis one month's trial— one month!" he urged. "It will be very little out of your life, an' 1 promise yon your father will not suffer through it except in losing you for that one little month. Will you? Just a month?" Be spoke so earnestly and seemed so sincerely pained and so really con cerned at ber going that she came down a few steps and looked at him Irresolutely. "Why do yon want me to stay?" she asked him. "Because—because your late uncle was my friend. It was his last wish to do something for yon. Will yon? Just a month 7" She struggled with the desire to go away from all that was so foreign and distasteful to her. Then she looked at Jerry and realized, with something akin to a feeling of pleasure, that he was pleading with her to stay Rnd doing it In such a way as to suggest that It mattered to him. She bad to admit to herself that she rather liked the look of blm. He seemed honest, even though he were English. After all, to ran away now would look cowardly. Her father would be ashamed of her. This stuckup family would laugh at her. Instantly she made up ber mind. She would stay. Turning to Jerry, she said: > "All right then. I'll stay—a month But not any more than a month, though." "Not unless you wish it" "1 won't wish it—l promise ye that One month 'II be enough In this house." "I am glad you're going to stay." "Well, that's a comfort, anyway. Some one 'll be pleased at my stayln'." To Be Continued. If you don't do your best it's foolish to try to convince people that you could have done better. —Detroit Free Press. SC. AUGHINBAUGH I THE UP-TO-DATE PRINTING PLANT II I J. L. L. KUHN, Secretary-Treasurer E I I PRINTING AND BINDING (I I Now Located in Our New Modern Building " I ||| 46 and 48 N. Cameron Street, Nsar Market Street II A BELL TELEPHONE 2013 W I Commerical Printing Book Binding m I We are prepared with the necessary equipment Our bindery can and does handle.large edition I to take care of any work you may want—cards. work. 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