10 HOUSEHOLD TALKS Henrietta D. Grauel Wearin o' th' Green The green of springtime is still toned down gently with the browns tin>! grays and other sombre shades of Mother Nature out of doors. Hut this month we will wear the green in honor of Paint Patrick. .lust why this old gen tleman should be honored history is a bit hazy in telliug. We used to think : lie drove the snakes from Ireian 1 but just lately a spoil-sport proved cuii clusively there never were any 011 the Emerald Isle. Never mind, we'll use his color boldly and even dare to twine it with yellow and so set all our aesthetic nerves acquiver. Spring is coming and golden daffo dils 111 beds of green prove it and prim roses and hyacinths in the markets seem to coax us to buy them for our future satisfaction. There are fashions in flowers and this season roses are more popular than ever. Perhaps this is because the trouble abroad prevented the shipping ' ot^jizale^s^>ttier^mjx>rt«^ / \ Quinine Pills 100 25c* .' Don't ask for Quinine Pills 6c or 10c worth at a time, but buy 1 them by the hundred and save the difference. We supply our customers with Quinine Pills 100 in the bottle i at the extremely low price of 25c. Readily soluble, thereby giv- j ing you just as immediate result ' as though you took raw quinine. Forney's Drug Store ! 42f$ MARKET STREET —————. I" II II I ■I ■ ■■■■!!■! I 111 D. B. KIEFFER & CO.S ANNUAL SHE OPENING SALE | 1915 150 Head of Horses, Mules & Colts at PUBLIC SALE ON FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1915 At the Farmers Hotel, M. Snyder, Prop. jj MIDDLETOWN, PA. WHMIWWMIMIWWWWWHWWWMMMWWWWWWWWIWWWW We Will Sell the Fol* lowing Live Stock. 1 Sal* Eagins at 12.30 P. M. 40 Head of Extra Good, Big Finished Draft Horses Weighing from 14 to 16 hundred pounds each. The kind with plenty of Size, Shape and Quality that belongs to a Good, Big Draft Horse. Wiil have some closely mated teams in Greys, Blacks and Bays, weighing up to 3000 pounds to the pair, suitable for Ice, Coal or General teaming. Also Good, Big, Single Truck Horses, a good smooth lot of big fellows ready lor work. These horses range iu age from 4 to 8 years. 35 Head of All Purpose, Carriage and Fancy Driving Horses Among this lot of horses you will find All Purpose Horses. Business Horses, Farm Chunks, Single Line lieaders, Carriage Horses and Fancy Drivers, and some few fast stepping horses, both trotters and pacers, and in fact a horse to.suit almost any person, young or old, that is looking for a good horse, as we have taken the greatest care in selecting this bunch of horses. These horses are all young and chancy and are broke to all harness and city objects and are the kind that have the Size, Style, Action and Conformation that belongs to a horse of this class. These horses range in age from 4 to 10 years. 25 Head of Horses and Colts Shipped bv \\. M. Grove last fall, and sold by us during November and December, 1914, to the farmers in and around'the surrounding counties, who have fed and broke thein for the market. Among this lot of horses you will find Good. Big Draft Horses, Farm Chunks, AH Purpose Horses and a few Drivers. Also a few well mated teams in Greys, Blacks and Bays. These horses and colts are all acclimated and broke to all harness and ready for the Spring work. Range in age from 3to 6 years. 25 Head of Commission and High Dollar Horses Ranging in age from 4 to 12 years, and weighing from 1000 to 1400 pounds each. 25 HEAD O Of All Descriptions Ranging in age from 2 to 15 years, and weighing from 700 to 1200 pounds each. D. B. KIEFFER & CO. Sale Friday, March 26,1915, at 12.30 P. M. at Middletown, Pa. the finest of the bulb plants that we 1 are accustomed to see each spring. •Inst shamrock or oxalis, as.gardeners 1 call it, is enough for a center piece for , the seventeenth of March. It takes only a suggestion of color to make the lunch or dinner table bright and only a few Irish flngs or favors to please your family or your guests. A menu that will carry the color scheme might include: ('ream of Spinach Creamed Kricasse of thicken Peas Mashed Potatoes Asparagus Lettuce, Onion and Celery Salad Pistachio Ice Cream Angle Cake ti recti Tay The green tay may be a punch made with a pint of strong green tea, a (lint of orange juice, a can of shredded pine apple. one cup of sugar svrup and crushed ice to dilute pleasantly. Deco -1 rate punch bowl with smilax. Iu all entertainments one wants three things, congeniality of guests, dainti ness of service and originality of enter tainment. At an informal affair like this one the guests will furnish wit aud fun. If you have any doubt about this you might furnish a Blarney stone for them to kiss and so honey tlioir tongues. It may be placed 011 top of a step ladder or on some elevation, for lone must always climb to reach the Blarney stone. Queen Mab, whom poets write about, iwas an Irish queen of ancient days. ' and if someone impersonates her at i your party perhaps she will tell some i of the touching Celt legends of other | times. Then there are the lovely Irish . songs and poems to be read and sung I and famous Irish people to be remem ' bered and recalled to others' mem- I ories. i The party part of seventeenth of | March entertainment should be as de lightful as the dinner part. | Officer—''Did you get those bruises | | in an accident ?" Sad Guy—"Yes; I didn't think the i other fellow would fight."—New York! j tilobe. ITARRISBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT. MONDAY EVENING. MARCH 15. 1915. vimoj&CD. HABOLD MCCMTtirl| ) Author cf The Place °f Honeymoons, etc. M* CCPY/iJGNT 0Y THE BOB&i-ftOWLL CQWHNY W CONTINUED Elsa forgot those about her, forgot her Intended humiliation of the man at hej side. He denied that he was an individual, but he was one, as intfr j esting a one as she had met iu a very long time. She, too, had made a blun der. Qulc'- ' form opinions, swift to Judge, slu d guilty with the com- Nodded Pleasantly to th© Colonel. mon lot, who permit impressions in- Jtead of evidence to sway them. Here was a man. "We have gone far afield," she said, a tacit admission that she could not refute his dissertations. This knowl edge, however, was not irksome. "Rather have we not come to the bars? Shall we let them down? In the civil and military life on this side of the world there are many situa tions which we perforce must tolerate. But these, mind you, are settled condi tions. It Is upon new ones which arise that we pass judgment. I knew noth ing about you, nothing whatever. So I Judged you according to the rules." Elsa leaned upon her elbows, and she smiled a little aa she noted that the purple had gone from his nose and that It had resumed its accus tomed rubicundity. "I go on. A woman who travels alone, who does not present letters of introduction, who . . "Who attends strictly to her own af fairs. Go on." Imperturbably he continued: "Who seeks the acquaintance of men who do not belong, as you Americans say." "Not men; one man," she corrected. "A trifling difference. Well, it 1 arouses a disagreeable word, sus picion. For look, there have been ex amples. It isn't as if yours were an isolated case. There have been ex amples, and those we apply to such af fairs as come under our notice." "And It doesn't matter that you may be totally wrong?" His prompt answer astonished her. "No, It does not matter in the least. I Simmered down, it may be explained In a word, appearances. And I must ■ay, to the normal mind . . "The mediocre mind."' "To the normal and mediocre mind, appearances were against you. Ob serve, please, that I did not know I J was wrong, that you were a remark able young womau. My deductions were made from what 1 saw as an out sider. On the Irrawaddy you made ! the acquaintance of a man who came out here a fugitive from justice. After you made his acquaintance, you sought none other, in fact, repelled any ad vances. This alone decided me." "Then you were decided?" To say that this blunt exposition was not bit ter to her taste, that it did not act ] like acid upon her pride, would not be true. She was hurt, but she did not •' let the hurt befog her sense of Jus tice. From his point of view the colo- | nel was in no fault. "Let me tell you j how very wrong you were indeed." j "Doubtless," he hastily interposed, "you enveloped the man in a cloud of i romance." "On the contrary, I spoke to him and sought his companionship because he was nothing more nor less than a ghost." "Ah! Is It possible that you knew 1 him in former times?" "No. But he was so like the man at home; so identical in features and build to the man I expected to go! home to marry. . . ." "My dear young lady, you are right, j Mediocrity Is without imagination, stupid, and makes the world a dull place indeed. What woman in your place would have acted otherwise? In stead of one apology I offer a thou sand." "I accept each and all of them. More, I believe that you and I could get on capitally. I can very well imagine the soldier you used to be. I am going to ask you what you know about Mr. Warrington." "This, that he Is not a lit companion for a young woman like yourself; that a detracting rumor follows hard upon his heels wherever he goes. I learned something about him in Rangoon. He Is known to the riff-raff as Parrot ft Co., and I don't know what else. All of us on shipboard learned his previ ous history. And not from respectable quarters, either." "If I had. been elderly and without I pnysicai attraction*T" fiisa Inquired I sarcastically. "We are dealing with human nature, | mediocrity, and not with speculation. It is in the very nature of things to < distrust that which we do not under stand. You say, old and without phys ical attractions. Beauty Is of all things most drawing. We crowd about it, we crown it, we flatter it. The old and unattractive we pass by. If 1 had j not seen you here tonight, heard you talk, saw in a kind of rebellious en chantment over your knowledge of the world and your distinguished acquaint i ance, I should have gone to my grave believing that my suspicions were cor rect. I dare say that I shall make the snme mistake again." "Did you learn among other things ! what Mr. Warrington had done?" "Yes. A sordid affair. Ordinary peculations that were wasted over gaming tables." Warrington had told her the truth At least, the story told by others coincided with his own. But what was it th-it kept doubt In her mindV Why should she not be ready to believe what others believed, what the man himself had confessed? What was it ; to her that he looked like Arthur, that he was guilty or innocent? "And his name?" She wondered if the colonel knew that also. "Warrington is assumed. His res) 1 name is Paul Ellison." "Paul Ellison." She repeated it slow j ly. Her voice did not seem her own. i The table, the lights, the faces, all re j ceded and became a blur. CHAPTER XV. A Bit of a Lark. Mallow gave Craig one of his favor ite cigars. The gambler turned it over and Inspected the carnelian label, realizing that this was expected of ! him. Mallow smiled (omplaccntiv | They might smoke a* good as that at I the government house, but he rather i doubted it. Trust a Britisher to know a good pipe-charge; but his selection of cigars was seldom to He depended upon. "Don't see many of these out here," was Craig's comment, and he tucked away the cigar in a vest pocket. "They cost me forty-three cents apiece, without duty." The vulgarian's pleasure lies not in the article Itself so much as in the price paid for it. On the plantation Mallow smoked Burma cheroots because he really pre ferred them. There, he drank rye whisky, consorted with his employees, gambled with them and was not above cheating when he had them drunk enough. Away from home, however, he was the man of money; he bought vintage wines when he could, wore ; silks, jingled the sovereigns whenever | he thought someone might listen, bul lied the servants, all with the childish ; belief that he was following the foot steps of aristocracy, hoodwinking no one, not even his kind. "I'm worth a : quarter of a million," he went on. j "Luck and plugging did it. One of j these fine days I'm going to sell out and take a whack at that gav Paris. There's the place to spend your pile. I You can't get your money's worth any place else." Paris. Craig's thought flew back to the prosperous days when he was ply ! ing his trade between New York and Cherbourg, on the Atlantic liners, the j annual fortnight in Paris and the Grand Prix. He had had his diamonds, then, and his wallet of yellow-backs; ! ' and when he had called for vintage j ' wiues and choice Havanas it had been for genuine love of them. In his heart I he despised Mallow. He knew himsell to be a rogue, but Mallow wlthoul ; money would have been a bold preda ! tory scoundrel. . Craig knew also thai ' lie himself was at soul too cowardly to be more than despicably bad. He envied Mallow's absolute fearlessness, his frank brutality, his strength upon " which dissipation had as yet left no mark; and Mallow was easily forty ' five. "When you go to Paris, I'd like to go J along.'' "You've never let on why they sent - you hiking out here," Mallow sug 1 gested. "One of my habits is keeping my i mouth shut." "Regarding your own affairs, yes But you'/e willing enough to talk when it comes to giving away th( I other chap." "You can play that hand as well af ' I can." Craig scowled toward the i dining room doors. "Ha! 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