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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.
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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,
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p. m.
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£.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.
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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.
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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.
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have done better. —Detroit Free Press.
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