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Evening star., 1921-05-15

crowd his luck. Thought he had the
boss on a leash, ! expect. Go to it.
If you think this pair of female hicks
could do better than me and Mike" !"
says he. Help yourself"
| 5000" says Popogoulis. looking
him over cool Thanks for nothing"
Then he turns to me. How much you
want?" he asks.
Well talk about, that when you've
checked up sales after the first
| week." says 1.
That brings a satisfied grunt out
of him. When you could go on the
job. eh?" he demands.
Give US twenty minutes for quick
| shift and we'll be here" says !.
Popogoulis may be no mental speed
artist as a rule. but this seems to be
his day for prompt action. "All right"
| says he, and whirls on the youth.
| Take it off," he tells him.
"Eh?" says the other.
| You're fred" says Popogoulis. Get
out"
He got. And naturally he doesn't ask
me to kiss him goodbye. 'sYou fish
eyed Moll." says he. iii queer you
for this"
"oh, chirk up. Buddy" says I. ANY
blood purifier firm would be glad to
use that face of yours as a before
| taking ad. Try 'em out"
So that's how we happened to land
III NO. ~ Oh the OTduSed0e cHdlH dHu
got started as pair of Hebes Of the
Golden Bowl. Seemed little odd at
first, with so many folks staring In
at US at such close range. And for
the first day or so. with all this white
tiling around, / couldn't get over the
idea that we had been dropped into
a bathroom with the front out But
it's odd how soon you can get used
to anything, isn't it? By the middle
Of the week I felt as though I'd al
ways been there. began to get a line
on most of the regular customers. and
could ladle out the thirst quenchers
as fast as they showed in their nickels.
AS for IneZ. she was 'contented as
| lady Holstein resting in the shade
at noontime. Wasn't there movie
two blocks down the street? And
couldn't she look out to the circle and
see a constant parade of taxicabs and
| limousines. not to mention 5th avenue
buses and sightseeing chariots, And
who knows what reanls Of romance
she could read in every one OF them?
During the dull spells I would
watch Inez curious. as she stood there
with her elbows on the counter, gaz-
| ing out that way and yankfng her
gum slow and placid. She isn't so
hard to look at. you know, especially
| in that near-nurse's costume with the
white straps over her wide shoulders
and the little white cap p,nned on
! top of all that pile of braided wheat
colored hair. and her white throat
marble pillar in front Of bank. OF
course, there's a good deal Of her.
It's fairly we'll distributed. though.
And that y-and-vanilla- mix ed
complexion !of hers helps some. .
| do fit in we'll with the background.
Like you belonged. A regular queen
of the booth. you are"
Evening star., 1921-05-15

Genuine allspice certainly does give
an agreeable aroma and taste to-
food"
Not far from the spice bushes. but
where the land is drier, one will fnd
sassafras. Aromatic. pungent and
fragrant. it was we'll spoken of by
the early seventeenth century lmmi-
grants to America, and even today
those persons whom perhaps some
of you would call provincial" hold it
in regard. Sassafras is widely dis
tributed in the United States and it
is very common in the Chesapeake
basin--in the valleys of the Potomac.
Patuxent, Rappahannock, York and
and creeks. 1t grows along every
road and path in the coastal plain
and it strikes it's roots into the
colder. sitter soils of the. Piedmont
rr"",h hn.
One sees sassafras nearly every
where in the rich woods and the poor
"old fields" on the Atlantic side of
the continent. Nearly everybody born
in rural America has tasted the tea
that is made from the bark stripped
from sassafras roots. and tttle pun
dies of this bark are found for sale
in the markets of all cities in the
south There is no boy. no girl
country-bred, who has not chewed the
green twigs and the spring flowers of
sassaf5as Almost Almost r,;ttsbo srsrsbody y,.had has
leaves of the sassafras tree. and
which are the first leaves to turn
red in the fall. though the tree is
not the first to set red or yellow
bouauet in the landscape. While
some of the leaves turn red under
the influence of little cold. many
others on the same tree remain green
after other trees are all red or yell
low. And there is this curious thing
about sassafras, that on the same tree
in autumn there will be green leaves.
red leaves, pink leaves and yellow
leaves.
In THE Flora of the District of
Columbia" prepared by the Smith
sonian Institution. one finds this ref
erence to the sassafras: "A tree
usually of moderate size. with us
rarely exceeding ten meters; aromatic;
flowers appearing about the middle of
April before the leaves: leaves vari
able on the same branch being some.
Evening star., 1921-05-15

! America. from Great Britain or Ireland, any
goods. wares. Or merchandise whatsoever. or
from any other place, any such goods, wares
from Great Britain or Ireland. nor will we,
after that day, import any East India tea
from any part of the world nor any mo
iasses, sirups, paneles coffee or pimentO from
the British plantations or from Dominica nor
wner from Madeira or the Western Islands.
nor foreign indigo.
I'VE will not import nor purchase. any
slave imported after the first day Of Decem-
ber next; after which time, we will wholly
discontinue the slave trade; and will neither
be concerned in it ourselves, will We hire
our vessels. nor sell our commodities or man
ufactures to those who are concerned in it.
.'As non-cOnsumption agreement, strictly
adhered to, will be an effectual security for
the observation of the non-importation, We, as
this day we will not purchase any
tea which a duty hath been shall be
paid: and from and after the first day of
March next will not purchase any
East India tea whatever: nor will we. nor
shall any person under US purchase or use
any of those goods. wares or merchandise,
know. or have cause to suspect. were inn
ported after the first day Of December, ex
cept such as come under the rules and di-
rections Of the tenth article hereafter men
toned"
There was much more matter in
this document. Any merchant who
sought to import goods from Great
Britain or sell such imported goods
was to be boycotted by the COM
munity. The word boycott" was not
used. 1t had not then come into our
language. The prohibition was
phrased that if any merchant sought
to break the non-importation agree
ment. ION such unworthy conduct
being well attested. it ought to be
made public; and on the same being
so done, we will not, from hence.
forth. have any commercial connec-
tion with such merchant
The Congress recommended the for
nation of committee in each coun-
ty. city and town to see that the
boycott was observed. And that is
the genesis of the organization of
so many committees of safety" and
to have been member of one of those
colonial committees of safety was a
matter of pride and honor and many
descendants boast today that this an
cestor or that ancestor was mem
be- Of the committee of safety of
Evening star., 1921-05-15

faced young gent in charge has just
struggled into a dirty white duck
coat and is inspecting himself ap-
provingly in the mirror that forms
the back Of the establishment.
Every neat and tasty" says I.
trade and I see no Help Wanted
sign out"
So we walks on few blocks. But
when IneZ gets a notion running on
that ingle track mind of hers moth
ing but a burning bridge ahead will
"It would be SWELL" says she. "in
that white place."
And I had to explain all over again
why I thought the youth with the
pimple. face didn't yearn for our help.
What you really need. though. to reg
lister a thought with Inez, is to lock
her up in a room with a nonstop
record that will repeat without going
hoarse.
We've got white clothes too" in
I'VE have" says I. Come along
back
And we found the orangeade place
livelier than when we had first seen
it, A short, stubby man with crinkly
black hair had somehow got himself
in behind the counter. too. and he
was shaking his fist menacing at the
young gent in the near-white coat.
"Loafer" says he. Twice you are
late this week. 1 catch you again
this morning. Yes! And when you
come what you do. hey? Nothing
but look at your ugly mug In the
glass. For two cents I give you the
chuck out"
Here's the two." says I. stepping
in and showing couple Of pennies
across the counter.
Hey" says he. staring at me.
IT'S your proposition" says L but
I'm willing to finance it,. 1 think
you're perfectly right. too.
you to crash in on this?
Nobody, Dearie." says L Don't
you know a surprise party when you
see one?"
snarls. "Heh, Mr.. Popogoulis?
What you want. you?' demands
the other.
Now were getting down to brass
tacks, Mister" says /. my great lit
tie idea was to boost along the va
cancy SO we could fill it for you. 1nez
and me. I mean. This is Inez. brows-
ambitious, but she's confided in me
that a career as dispenser OF orange
ade would suit her exactly. Shed be
wonder at it. Only you'd have to take
the pair of US. Well? Is 1t trader
~
AT which Pimple Face snickers
n Look at the freaks that wants to
do me out of my job. Popogoulis,"
says he. "Oh, say
And Popogoulis looks. Would I
want a voddy-ville sketch team in
herer he asks. Say. who are you.
anyway"
Sorry haven't my card case
along" says !, but I'm Triiby May
Dodge. just in from Duluth, MINI.
And my blond friend is Miss Inez
Petersen. who came with me. We
always travel double, too. But listen.
Mr.. Popper-whosit. we're not half SO
comical as we may look. These are
our Superior Street costumes that we
haven't had time to change. Give US a
chance to get into some snowy white
uniforms and well be different
parties We're expert soft drink Jug
glers. too. Nearly a year in Druot's.
which is the classiest ice cream par
lor between Chicago and the north
pole. No mistakes in orders. no funny
work with the cash register. Oh, we're
good, Mister"
HUH" says he. You say it easy"
Which is where Pimple Face tries to
Evening star., 1921-05-15

~SAY.n GROWLS THE YOUTH,
.WHO ASKED YOU TO CRASH IN ON
THIS!"
"NOBODY, DEARIE," SAYS 1.
~DON,T YOU KNOW A SURPRISE
PARTY WHEN YOU SEE ONEs"
Evening star., 1921-05-15

co II must have been nearly fifteen
~ minutes before I came scurrying
up to the window where the beaded
gown was still hanging. But no Inez
was gawping at 1t. She wasn't any
where in sight. either up or down the
avenue. and Inez is visible at quite
lCoi,tinued on Filth Pase.l
Fair play., 1921-12-31
ACCIDENT.

Twelve miners In cage were
plunged 200 feet down the shaft of the
kincaid coal mine, ten miles west of
Taylorville, ILL.,, when Engineer John
Seletto lost control of his engine. Only
one miner escaped injury. Four of
them were hurt seriously.
The United States torpedo boat de-
stroyer Graham was rammed five miles
on Sea Girt, N. j., by the Panama
Railroad ship Panama, bound for New
York, with 107 passengers, mostly em-
pl0yes of the Canal Commission.
The first death Of passenger riding
on an Illinois Central suburban train
since the roads suburban service,
which carries 100000 passengers a
month, was established 30 years ago,
occurred when two trains colllded near
the 31st street station, Chicago.
Fair play., 1921-12-31
State BOARD REsC|NDs
ITS VACCINATION ORDER
RULING WOULD REQUIRE VAC
CiNATiON OF TRAVELLERS.
Extensive Treatment Already Effective
Enough, Declare Health
Officials.

Kansas City, MO.-The Missouri
State Board of Health met here and
rescinded its order of December 5 re-
quiring all persons travelling on rail-
road trains on and after December %
TO present certificate of vaccination
against smallpox to the train authori-
ties.
This O-der was made because of the
virulency of the epidemic at Kansas
City, where out of total Of 304 cases
1O7 died. Several deaths have Oc-
Cured elsewhere I'm the state and the
board ascertalned that those who died
had contracted the disease at Kansas
City.
DIR. Max c. Starkloff, health commits
siOner Of st. Louis attended confer
ence here with the state board. This
was held preliminary to the resembling
ing Of the boards resolution. Repre-
sentatives of the Kansas City Chamber
of Commerce and the Kansas City
Board of Health. DR.. Bullock, health
director of Kansas City, and State
Health Commissioner Enloe OF Jeffer-
son City, also attended.
Fair play., 1921-12-31
A Feeling of Security

You naturally feel secure when you
know that the medicine you are about to
take is absolutely pure and contains no
harmful or habit producing drugs.
Such a medicine is DR.. Kilmer's Swamp
Root, kidney, liver and bladder remedy.
The same standard of purity, strength
and excellence is maintained in every
bottle of Swamp. Root.
1t 10 scientifically compounded from
vegetable herbs.
1t is not a stimulant and 10 taken h
teaspoonful doses.
1t is not recommended for everything.
1t il natures great helper in relieving
and overcoming kidney, liver and blad.
der troubles.
A sworn statement of purity il with
every bottle of DR.. Kilmer's Swamp.
Root.
If you need a medicine, you should
have the best. On sale at all drug stores
in bottles of two sizes, medium and large
However, if you wish first to try this
great preparation send ten cents to Dr..
kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y, for Q
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this observation-disclosures
Fair play., 1921-12-31
Condensed Neus Items
SHORT STORIES TERSELY TOLD FOR
THE BENEFIT OF BUSY READERS.

An expenditure Of approximately
$43,00O,00O for rivers and harbors In
the fiscal year 1923, exclusive of pro
posed $7,5O0.OOO for the Muscle Shoals
(Ala.) project In the Tennessee River,
is recommended by Maj. Gen. Beach,
chief Of army engineers, in his annual
report to the Secretary of War.
Miss Steen Scorup, a high school En-
glish teacher, who recently defeated
her brother, z. c. Scorup, for the post
Of mayor Of Salina, Utah. declared she
intends to advocate good roads and
to improved water system.
The open competition plan of the
American Hardwood Manufacturers
Association was declared by the Su-
preme Court at Washington restraint
upon trade In violation of the Sherman
antitrust law.
Fair play., 1921-12-31
MISCELLANEOUS.

The steamship Cabotla, arriving at
Portland, Me-, brought $1,000 cases Of
Scotch whisky from Glasgow. 1t was
shipped to Canada, however.
Two 16-year-o,d school boys were
shot by marine guard on SeabOard
train No. between Columbia and
Savannah, s. c., while attempting tO
ride the trucks home from school at
fairfax.
Pat Grove. reformed kidnaper OF
Edward A. Cudahy, Jr., at Omaha, 21
years ago, is in Washington to present
plans to Congress for aiding the ex.
soldier and for improvement in meth.
DDS Of caring for prisoners.
A committee Of Ardmore Okla.) citi'
zens was appointed at mass meeting
to report to Gov. J. B. A. Robertson al
Oklahoma City on conditions In Ard
more and Carter County relative to
law enforcement.
James W. Cannon, widely known
textile manufacturer and father-in
law of David II. Blair, United States
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue
died at Concord, N. &.
'The short skirt is hygienic, If moth
ing else can be said In its favor" Mrs
Elizabeth o. Middleton Of Kansas City
Mo-, director Of the Worlds and Ma
tional Women's Christian Temperance
Union, said in an address to a grouI
of high school girls at Philadelphia.
Urbain Ledoux, the "Mr. Zero o
the recent unemployment crisis, begaI
a one-man picketing campaign agains
the arms conference. LedOux, while
parading in front OF the Pan-Americar
Union Building. carried his heart-cOv
cred umbrella, Bible and lighted
lantern.
Fair play., 1921-12-31
LABOR.

G. II. Markham, president Of the Illi-
hois Central Railroad, Chicago, ad-
dressed letter to all employees Of the
road calling on them to repudiate men
who claim to represent you and your
sentiments" and who have engaged In
a campaign of abuse and villification
to discredit the managements Of the
railroads in the eyes Of the public"
Rebellion against "hellish autoc-
racy" was defended at Springfield, ILL.,,
in statement issued by President
Frank Harrington of the Illinois Mine
Workers, whose executive board has
refused to comply with the command
of the international union that finan-
cial support for striking Kansas min.
ers we withdrawn.
Fair play., 1921-12-31
CRIMINAL.

| Roger ID. Eastlake, navy petty Off
Ger, charged with the murder of his
wife, Margaret Eastlake, at their home
at Colonial Beach, Va, on Sept. 80, last,
was found not guilty by d Jury In
Westmoreland County Circuit Court at
MOntrOse Va.
Charles Jaeger, Gary, Ind, owner of
an express company. and Mrs jaeger
| were arrested charged with defrauding
| the government in connection with
$15O,OOO in United States bonds which
Mrs. Jaeger claimed last April she
round in Chicago taxicab.
Counterfeit internal revenue stamps
of face value Of 100000 and 6O,OOO
| counterfeit labels of well-known
brands of whisky were seized by fed
| eral agents In raid on South State
street shop, Chicago
The "Rogues" Gallery-a public ex-
hibitiOn of photographs and descrip-
tions OF criminals-abOlished by Sam.
uel ,Allender. former chief of detec-
tives, six years ago, will be re-estab-
lished at police headquarters, St Louis,
Immediately.
The district attorneys office at New
York has received word from Dallas,
Tex, Of the arrest there of ]. Frank
Lilly, indicted here two years ago for
grand larceny, after his brokerage con-
cern had failed with liabilities of al
most $1,OOO,OOO.
Seven corporations, one individual
manufacturer and nine officers of cor
porations engaged In the manufacture
and distribution of terra Gotta, who
recently pleaded guilty to violation Of
the Sherman antitrust law at New
York. were fined $1,000 each.
Col. George II. Scruton, editor of the
Sedalia (Mo) Democrat, who during
the war was quartermaster and COM
manding officer of the A. Il. +. relief
camp at Is-Sur-Tille, France, where q
former soldier swOre twelve soldier
hangings took place, declared that the
story was deliberate fabrication.
Fair play., 1921-12-31
DOM EsTIc.

Directors of the New York Central
Railroad Company adopted plan for
calling in outstanding stocks OF the
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St.
Louis Railroad and the Peoria and
Eastern Railroad, both Of which 1t
controls.
The railroads are in no position
financially to conduct further expert
ments in reducing rates and that such
a practice would result in restoration
of railroad business Is illusiOnary. This
was the gist OF testimony before the
Interstate Commerce Commission by
representatives of the carriers.
Continued improvement in business
conditions. both in this country and
abroad were foreseen by treasury Off
cials. Discussing the worlds business
outlook, they declared that marked
Improvement both at home and among
foreign countries, could be seen.
The body of Representative John A.
Elston Of California was found floating
in the Potomac River, near Washing
ton. A note found In the Congress-
mans coat said he was caught In a
chain of circumstances which spelled
ruin"
The light cruiser Concord, one Of
the ten of this type being built by the
government, was launched at Cramps
Shipyard, Philadelphia. The cruiser
was sponsored by Miss Helen Bagley
Buttrick. Of Concord. Mass, after
which place the ship was named.
Speaking to an audience Of from 35.-
900 to $4,000 people from the wireless
telephone at MedfOrd Hillside, Mass,
Roger w. BabsOn, foremost business
statistician of America, delivered the
first business address ever given via
the radiphoue, to the largest audience
which has ever heard "a business talk.
A tentative agreement to return the
Kiao Chow Tsinan Flu Railway In
Shantung to China within nine months
was reached during the conversations
between japanese and Chinese dele
gates at Washington.
Thirty Protestant church denomina-
tions, through the representatives at
the Federal Council Of the Churches
of Christ of America, Chicago, prOmul-
gated their program for permanent
world peace, outlined obligations which
|they declare America owes the world,
and called upon the government to rec
pgnize their principles.
Fair play., 1921-12-31
CONGRESS.

A bill authorizing the President to
Axpend $20,OOO,OOO out Of the funds of
the United States Grain Corporation
Tor relief of the distressed and starv-
ing people of Russia was passed by
the House, ia to 81.
The Senate passed the House bill
apprOpriating $20,OOO,O00 for the relief
of the starving and distressed in Rus
sia with two amendments, one appro-
priating $50O,OOO to be used for the
disqualification Of former service men
in Arizona and the other setting aside
100000 for the use of the government
IN relieving unemployment.
Fair play., 1921-12-31
FOREIGN.

David Lloyd George, the British Pre-
mier, and Premier BRAND of France
conferred in the official residence of
Lloyd George at London concerning
almost exclusively the German repara-
tons and Germany's plea that she will
be unable to pay In full the January
and February installments.
1t is reliably reported at London that
the wedding of Princess Mary, daugh-
ter Of King George and Queen Mary,
to ViscOunt Lascelles will take place In
Westminster Abbey. The ceremony
probably will be performed some time
between February 20 and April 1.
A committee representing labor and
Industrial organizations In the Rhine
area sent cable message to President
Harding from Cologne, saying the al
lied armies Of occupation were double
the forces that Germany kept In the
area before the war.
With seven men In Jail at Ardmore
Okla, five Of them charged with the
murder of Joseph Carroll and John
Smith, at Wilson and the finding Of
the body Of c. G. Sims, Ardmore police
man, Sheriff Buck Garrett is keeping
close guard at the Carter county jail.
Advertising Is one of the funda-
mentals of credit, +. Guy Davis. west
ern manager Of the American Newspa-
per Publishers Association, told a con.
ventiOn Of statesmen at Chicago.
Music lovers are mourning the death
in Algiers, Africa, of Charles Camille
Saint-Saens, noted French musician
and composer. NJ. Saint-Saens was SO
years of age.
Wolfe Lindenfeld, alias william
Linde, has bene arrested by the Polish
police at Warsaw as a suspect In con-
nection with the Wall street explosion
In New York, September 10. 1920.
Fair play., 1921-12-31
Hyde RsIeases s1.1oe. 500.

Jefferson City, Mo.--Governor Hyde
has released all Of the money appropri-
ated by the Legislature for new build
ings and repairs at the six state hospi-
tails, amounting to S1,166,35O.
The amounts released follow: Full
ton Insane Hospital, $4,000; st. Jo-
seph Insane Hospital. S2sO,O0O; Neva-
da Insane Hospital, 5000; Farming
ton Insane Hospital, S90.5O0; Colony
for the Predetermined at Marshall,
S137,750 State Sanitarium for Tuber.
culosis at Mount Vernon, 100000.
Fair play., 1921-12-31
Exonerated Of kI.sIno Woman.

Liberty, Mo-. r. Minter, presiding
Judge Of the Clay county court, has
been absolved by circuit court Jury
here Of attempting to kiss Mrs Myrtle
Ulrich Of Richmond, Mo. Mrs. Ulrich,
50 years old and comely, sued Judge
Minter for $4,000. The jury found for
the judge.
Fair play., 1921-12-31
Lost a Sale.

II want" said the very plain girl,
"a book entitled Cultivate Your Nat
ural Beauty"
Here II is," said the clerk, who
wanted to be sociable. "Are you get
ting IL for q friend?"
And the very plain girl put her purse
back into her bag and went right out.
From the Retail Ledger, Philadel-
phia,
Fair play., 1921-12-31
$4,000 900 River Cut to Be Fouoht.

st. Louis, Mo.-Slashing the annual
appropriation of S10,000,000 for work
on the Mississippi River below St
Louis, down to S667O,OOO as suggested
In a report made in Washington by the
chief of the United States engineers,
would be little less than calamity
according to James E. Smith, vice-pres.
ldent Of the Mississippi Valley Asso.
citation, and director of the waterways
division.
Fair play., 1921-12-31
Widow Asks $4,000.

Maryville, Mo.-Mrs. Lavanao Burns
has brought suit for $4,000 damages
In the Nodaway County circuit court
against the Maryville Electric and
Power Company. Her husband, Clay
Burns. was killed when a flagpole he
was helping to remove came in contact
with a live wire.