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The Press., 1921-04-07
Ingenious Saffron Imitation.

A curious and ingenious imitation of Spanish saffron has been brought to light by chemists of the United States Agricultural department in a recent consignment of dyestuffs. Saf- iron, obtained chiefly from southern Europe. is a yellow dye consisting of the stigmas of the crOcus. and, as more than 4,OO0 flowers are required for an ounce, the material Is some what expensive. Samples of the sus- pected importation proved on analysis to be flowers of a common plant re- sembling the Scotch thistle. These had been cOlOred with red and blue dyes, weighted with saltpeter, bOrax and glycerIne, favored with something like saffron oil, and crinkled to give a close resemblance to the dried croeus stigmas.
The Press., 1921-04-07

you mustn't be 50 frighffullY proper.
 The girl laughed in spite of herself and the man, considering the moment favorable gently slipped an arm about the slender figure 4beside him.
 Now, Alicia. let's promise to get married when we're old enough" said I the grownup hoy at her side.
 "All right. Let's" the girl answered, as if in q dream. -.--.. :.
 "WelI, I haven't got an engagement ring, but we'll be engaged if k"
 "John, you-" she began weakly.
 Alicia, I knew you'd relent in the end," he said moment later in tones of sober happiness.
 But I'm afraid I've done wrong" " the girl replied. "And what'll do when he cOmes?"
 "I'll take care of that said Foster in no uncertain tones.
 The next morning when she went down to breakfast her mother tossed handwriting of Charles Saunders. Her face paled as, unnoticed, she rushed to her room and locked the door. In a daZe the words thrObbed through her mind:
 He'll be here today or tomorrow and what'll he think of me after my pr0miseY" At last she tremblingly slit the envelope with hairpin. The let ter ran:
 "My Dear Alicia-Today is your birthday, I remember, and something impeIs me to write to yOu-fOr Ol times sake. You have doubtless for gotten me long ago in your maze of other admirers, but often my mind goes back to dear. peaceful Sunburst and our boy and girl affair. This will al- ways be one of my memory treasures.
 "I hope no doubt that you have long ago settled down to be the adOred wife of some lucky fellow in SunburSt, while am the proud father of a two mOnthS-Old daughter.
 We named her Alicia, by the way, after an aunt of my wifes.-
 Heres best wishes for a very happy birthday and many more to come. Your old friend,
 "CHARLES SAUNDERS"
The Press., 1921-04-07
FIND PEACE IN THE HILLS
Envy of Their Brothers in the GrImy Cities.

No doubt, you all who live in the roaring towns, would think we are a strange folk who live in the hills. We have ways that are as different from the ways of the city as one thing could possibly be from another.
 Now, there is a man in our hills who has a little piece of land cleared away up in the solitude of a canyon. The sun follows that canyon all the day long and fills it with a golden glory. And the wild horses of the rain ride over it. And on the land which the man has cleared with his own hands he makes rutabagas and spuds and kale and all kinds of things grow.
 He has nine bean rows there, and hive for the. honey bee. If all the factory whistles in the world were never to blow again; if all the wheels were to stop, and the mills shut down all the way from Dan to Beersheba, this man would never need to. give the matter a thought. He could eat ten times day and have plenty left for stray tramps.
 But that isn't what makes him a strange man. It is that he plays a flute, and that once every week he walks ten miles to meet other folks who play fiddles- and cellOs and cIari- nets and things like that. Once a week they gather together in the hills at a rendezvous, and they make music : till the dawn breaks across the noun tain tops.
 Axe they not strange folk? Maybe you all will wonder at them, and will not understand why they are not in the roaring town listening to men making speeches, and street cars wail- ing and wheels crashing.
 And yet, as life goes along, these folk are very happy and very content Besides the music they make them selves, they hear the crickets singing and bend an ear to the "pied frogs orchestral"
 ;, Some would think them foolish, and others would call them wise.-Los An- geles Times.
The Press., 1921-04-07
NO SECOND PLACE FOR HIM
Corny HusISs Ambition Certainly Was l. Not Noble, but t Was His $ Ruling PaseIon.

Senator Hiram Johnson said in an after-dinner speech:' <, "The radical movements of the day have achieved at least one good thing. They have taught our boys that there are nObler ambitions than the one to become a millionaire.
 "When was boy the millionaire ambition was drilled into all of us, but today such an ambition seems as wrong-headed as Cornelius Husk.
 "A traveller stopped his auto in front of old Corn Husk's place and said:
 How far is it to Quag, strangerT
 Corn took his pipe out of his mouth.
 "'Asked anybody else that there question: he inquired.
 "'Yes; I asked the blacksmith down the road. .~t
 "Huh! Ye asked links Robson, did ye? Wall, how fur did Jinks say it was?
 "'He said 1t was two miles,
 "'Five miles is the correct fgger, stranger
 "WIth a disappointed oath the stranger puSneQ on agaln. 10 ms as tOnishment he reached Quag in 8 few minutes. Instead of being fiNe miles away, it was hardly a mile.
 ''The next week he happened on Corn Husk a second time.
 "LOok here he said. Why did you tell me 1t was five miles from your place to Quag? It's only about R mile.'
 "'Jinks HObsOn told ye it was two miles, didn't he?' said Corn calmly. Wall, Jinks thinks he's the biggest liar round these parts. I told ye 1t was five miles. stranger, sO's to show the gol-durn cuss he's got hard man to beat, by crimus, when he tries to git the best of COrny Husk.'"
The Press., 1921-04-07

she must be faithful to her promise, yet the persistence of her old lovers attentions was awakening emotions that she had considered long ago dead After an hour or more, she went to her room and removed an old package of letters from her trunk. Taking up the top one she glanced at the post ] mark-it was only six years old, yet it seemed centuries to the girl, and, of late, she was growing to think of herself as an old spinster. With a gesture of impatience Sshe began to read the message that she already knew by heart. She always read this letter when she had a fear of wayer. ing loyalty, so, mechanically, she let her eyes run over the lines once more Dearest: I know you will wait for me, even though it be years-and will come hack to you. Charles
 She went over the words carefully in an effort to breathe the old life into them, but somehow nothing seemed as it should be and the sight of every thing depressed her. As she glanced out the window she noticed that even the reflection of the sun on the green leaves had cold and lonely cast. The voice of her mother calling her down to supper brought her back to the pres ent with a start.
 "COming in minute" she answered as she hastily powdered Her face and tried to remove all traces of the re cent storm.
 She went through the meal mechan- ically as she answered her parents ab- sentIy, the meanwhile thinking that in a very few years she would take the letters up to the attic, where such things always dwell, and resign her self to sbinsterhOOd.
 Each time John called she fortified herself afterward with the wornOut letter and renewed her VOW of loyalty. Each time her thoughts wandered to John she rebuked herself with vehe- mence. .... Weeks later Alicia was sitting on her porch one summer afternoon when her attention was attracted by a familiar figure coming down the street He wore wide-hrimmed fioppy straw hat and carried in his hand two fishing lines and an old can of unmistakabIe contents.
 ''John Fosterw exclaimed the girl, running to the edge of the porch as the man turned in at the gate. What on earth. are you up to now?" .e
 We're going fishing in the meadow behind the house, and we're going to make believe we're boy and girl again just this afternoon" he. ended with hint of pleading in his voice. ~
 The girl hesitated, but her eyes glowed.
 ..GO get your hat," the man com manded '"rhe pink one with frilly stuff under the brim."
 After all, there was no harm in gO- ing fishing you couldn't ostracize yourself just because you had prom ised to stick to the other man.. So, Alicia went.
 Down in the meadow along the brook where it was cool, and shady the two sat breathlessly watching their floating corks. When his line bobbed he squeezed her hand ecstatically
 You mustn't do that, ' she protested. Don't forget, smiled Foster, that you're only ten years old today, and
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The Press., 1921-04-07
The Memory Treasure
By CORONA REMINGTON

1 t9, 1920. by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.) )
 You know, Alicia, I've always loved ] yOu-ever since we were kids together. Remember the time I proposed to you 1 when we were fishing in the brook l down in your fathers meadow? That was a wonderful June day! I can close my eyes and see the shadows trembling on the water yet" Alicia Conway smiled reminiscently as she glanced up at the serious blue eyes of her companion.
 That was long time ago." she sighed softly, "but you talk Ias if the meadow were miles away instead of right back of the house, where it always was"
 You were ten and I was sixteen, but that wasn't the last time I asked you to marry me-" he said disregard ing her remark.
 "NO, remember" the girl answered.
 ''Yes, it, was seven years later, and you gave me my walking papers for good and all. You were simply in- fatuated with that Saunders fellow"
 John, you ought not to talk that way-you know I loved hln, and do yet, and I shall wait for him just as he promised to wait for me-"
 "Alicia, you may not realize it, but you've got over loving him long ago, and you're only keeping your promise out of cOnsc:entiousness."
 You ought to be ashamed of your self, John Foster, and you must not speak to me like that again. I'll ask you never to refer to the subject after this."
 With a frigid little nod Alicia 'ex- cused herself and went into the house.
 Miss Conway threw herself onto the couch in the living room and burst in to tears. She kept telling herself that.
The Press., 1921-04-07
LONG RECORD OF BLooDsHED
Emperors of Japan Have Met Deaths of Violence From the Begin
 ming of History.

There is probably no nation in the world that has ever treated it's em- perors so cavalierly as Japan has done to within the memory of living man, Raymond M. Weaver writes in Asia. EmperOrs have been depOsed by dog ems, emperOrs have been killed in gen. erOus numbers. One, YOmei, was stabbed without ado; one, Sujin. was assassinated by an emisSary of the prime minister; the young Anotku was thrown into the sea to die like rat, intimate circles, that Komei. father of the late Emperor MutsuhftO, died not of smallpox, as is the official report. Junnin TennO was strangled on the island of Await, and one imperial per- sonage (Daigo ID managed to escape from the distant island to which he was relegated, hidden under load of dried fish. The number of crown princes slaughtered is too numerous to record. In the fourteenth century two rival houses defied each other for a period of 59 years, and the present emperor is descended from the branch branded by later historians as illegiti- mate. Ko Moranao, worthy of the fourteenth century, is credited with having told his followers to "take the estates of the emperor if they wanted estates. A living emperor is a mere waster of the worlds substance and a burden upon the people. He is not nec- essary, but, if we must have him, a wooden eff1gy would answer the pur- pose.". For centuries the government was in, the hands of the mayors of the palace, who set up one infant SOW ereign after the other, depOsing each as he came to mans estate. From 1298 to 1904 there were actually no less than five ex-emperOrs living at one lime,
The Press., 1921-04-07
Llahsohlp's PsrIlOus Voyage.

ships were imperiled when NanttIck- ct Shoales beacon, the leading mark for transatlantic shipping making port at New York, was torn from its lone ly and important station by a hurri- cane. After inquiry from several ships that missed the floating beacon and almost anxious search by wire less cOmbing of the seas, the mystery of the lightship's disappearance was solved when she put in at New Bed ford. The lightship had been thirty six hours making port on run of 100 miles. The hurricane, which blew her away and snapped the moorings, reached a velocity of ninety miles an hour. Mate l.. O. Johnson, her keep CT, said that 1t was much as he and his fifteen men could do to hold their own. Light vessels are not built for speed, and their emergency equipment is not often called on.
The Press., 1921-04-07
pletnraanns cnntom.

A unique and picturesque custom In Korea Is the handing down of fam- fly hat from father to eldest son. This hat, made from thes hair of family an- cestors, is a priceless possession, and Is so carefully handled that 1t does not wear out for generations.
The Press., 1921-04-07
ReIief.

Helen came back from the seashore without a husband" "And was her father angry?' Mot at all. He was afraid she was going to bring home 8 husband for him to support."-BOs. ton Transcript
The Press., 1921-04-07
M.klro I4 Easv

To facilitate the scheme for taking the nnger-prints of infants in Amer iea. it Is proposed to make the impress slons in jam.-The Passing Show Uondon1.
The Press., 1921-04-07
BUSINESS DIRECTORY

EHRlS NATUSCHKA, Mer- VI chant Tailor, Room ], 1,.warrens Block, Staf- ord springs.
The Press., 1921-04-07
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The Press., 1921-04-07

M ID. O'CONNELL. Attorney at LNAs law, Gary's Block, E. Main street.
The Press., 1921-04-07
The Difference.

"A good housewife Is very. different. from good hnshandman." 'sHoW so?'' She.ste always sewing tears.r
The Press., 1921-04-07

MICHAEL ROBERTS, Auction 4I1 eer. At your service. Residence. West SsAnord. 1sept1y
The Press., 1921-04-07

GEORGE TONNE, Surveyor, 47
 N Westford Ave, Box 7Bs, Tel. 72-14. 'ly44
The Press., 1921-04-07
Rats Cause Loss to Cane Growers.


 Cane gruW CTS m t'tHfu i:ivO estimate their annual loss ut $T:,G4i due not only to the cane actuaiiy destroyed, but also to the fcrmen 'tion set up in the cane juices in the stalks that had been gnawed upon. hhus reducing the purity and the SucrOse content. This Inss was based upon he estimate that only One-half of per cent of stalks were Httacketl, hy rats; but in reply 10 inquiries. Ihe estimates made by different planters varied from per cent In per cent Of stalks attacked by rodents.
 New Ship Lines. A report from Brazil says that new steamship lines are contemplated be- tween Italian, and Brazilian ports.
The Press., 1921-04-07
J. BELANGER & SON
THE BOTTOM OF YOUR FOOT

THE BOTTOM OF YOUR FOOT That's where your daily work and walk affect you. It is important that your soles and heels are right, that they are made of pliable, yielding leather, yet the kind that is tough and durable and will give hard service. We put that kind of sole and heel on your shoes. We re- pair shoes for all the family from baby to grandparent.
The Washington herald., 1921-12-12
Massachusetts Avenue Park.

SPRING ST
rms. b.. hwh. 80 no.
Hsrry wsrdmal. 1850 st NV N SIan
AN EXCEPTIONALLY WIDE -EMI-DEr
house: BreuninEer built; lsrre rooms
anf bath; h.w.h.: elec. lights: colonial
front porch snf double rear porches; hard
wood floors and trim; concrete cellar with
laundry trays lsvatory etc; house 70
screened throughout: Hnp large sud wide
yard: ample garage SpacN: this property 10
rricsd less than inside row houses Price,
so. 5nn. sttra-fivr terms WILLIAM 4
PHILLIPS 1909 y Y. sve. Main IS.
HINTwOCD ri sI3 no. 10 rms. smI-.
81 ono cFsh. HARRY l. CHEW. EOS Cont
Trkt Bldf 1910
The Washington herald., 1921-12-12
Mount PIeasan..

. ] W u-fAMilsO fl.Al MODERN HI Nc
occupy nc lot 20 by I49 frrt and ARA ne cd
in apartments. first floor apartment has :
rooms and bath: second floor rooms and
hath. occupied hy monthly tenants 80 =
rental ~ So month each; garage. toms
can b" arranged price. 81. oCu SHANNON
iJ'IiS. ~ 'irh - Main 23j'
JUST WEST or MuINr PLEASANT can
Inc: SPLENDID tapestry brick house - foai
w.d" and '.rraining u large rooms AVID y
hH'hS. hot water heat. elect-i.Itv. -ard,Eaod
h""rs. screens. 'nrir" property in excellent
condition, possession and terms. priro Sli
,no. SHANNON LUCHS. 7I3 IAN st.
Main 23i5
BARGAIN. on ONE OF THE RFSr
streets In Mount Plea overlook ne
Rock Cox Park rooms and hath: colonial
'front.' porch and doul lc rear porchc~. modern
!. "''EH respect. including metal weather
STRIPS garage immediate possession: terms
Price sll, mo. SHANNON & LTCHS ia
18th ct Main 2345.
BRICK HOUSE or G ROOMS ,vn p,Tu
with deep rear lot and brick garage. from,
and douhl" rear po.cheS. ho' ratr- be,t
,.t"tricity and ga. hardwood frrr~ and
trim lmmediat" possession: price. 81 500
SHANNON ITCHS 7l3 l4h St NJ a3t5
ONTARIO PLACE Mr. col RD-roI
k' ~ rms. \ b INV h.: gas & cleo
garage. cars: Sl@.5no: Sl.Tnp cash md
H""r inrui~l'' ~Iuu Joey r,, WI DNIkE 4
co. 9th HnI II rr-nkIr G,ri
COL RID, Mr.. 18TH ST. rms. -.
~. u, " j.. ''"'.. Sl3."I", two AL RI '.r-.
"ILbMAN 4 co. 9Th y II. Franklin atoi,
GIRARD. Mr. 18TH = rms. - ant;
space for gar: 50 500 NrNEY rl,ATTy
%. 726 14th = NV. oxford Bldg NJ 2aso.
'HinHoNI ST; Nh ltTH-l3 rms; ? .
18th & Col. I'd NV Col asa
NEAR 1irH & MONROE srs.-e room. /,
HT i'm wd ssis@p10l Rj5, $500 MOORE
NEAR 18Th & MERIDIAN srs.-7 room,
wood R@aSi P PI5r $4,000. MOORE & HILL
MoTYT DETERMINATION
on Park road This ~I p s5T%s P po,a.
hardwood ["%"t c,n %.'h a, .-T , Gec lights
alley; garage: very at,rartiyc home.
chased ON a;,rnc, i"'t terms N"' T SS prT
~ PHILLIPS, 400 y Y. ave. Main Hs.
barh: prirc, Sli'50i MOORE & HI q
Woodward Bldg.
COR 9TH ST-LaTg. 10, ~
D, WI; elect nne condition: $40, 900: easy
20. sS"snts' DAVIS d STEELE. 1920 n. Y.
u"
hooHI fLEAsAsr-Slo.93.
SrTty modern; well-huilt colonial
mouse, nouse. large rooms: bath; h.-wh.: cleo
rsrerc IT,, "" - "a pn,e" aI,ss 'osm 20,
bascment. Inr,Sr~ o1rIn,rprt 80 1870
car he ricoir nrrarroJ WNS puIT
LIPS. 1900 y Y ave Main os
- - : 1;----,,, ,
DAVID f BARRY, iso7 II 81 nv NV iso,
- = -, ~ -, u -. NV, N ''o''
The Washington herald., 1921-12-12
Columbia Heights,

ACROSS FROM NEW sACREb HEART
Church-Sl4 on: 3-Story brick; II rooms:
. tiled baths: steam heat; gas: electricity:
hardwood floors. garage. D. L. BARRY.
1901 II ct Main 1901
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Georgetown.

BIRD & WIS. AvE.--Brk.: rms b.: la
trobe hi. WM. X. HARTUNG. HOS 18Th
at. Main 373.
BOTH a OLIVE ST; s4.SOO-SiI rms, b. I:
brk.: newly pspered. WI. K HAIR
TUNG. 1luS 10th st. Main s7s
GEORGETOwN-s7.s so.
Fine little home located In the best
Georgetown section; rooms: hath
h.-w.h.; elsc. lights: large side lawn:
lot 4oNl36; ample garage space. II is
now occupied by the owner spd i'm
mediate Possession can he arranred.
wM. 5. PHILLIPS, 1909 y. Y. ave.
Main gS
Mr.. s4TH 4 o-s-story prr. = rI,,, p.rr
IS. $50. terms ss rent
W r Kraft & Co.. 1888 n ave NJ saa
WIS. AVE. & SSRD ST: 50. 5O0-sever rms
b.; large yard. wM. K HARTUNG, HOS
18th st Main 37s
CAMBRIDGE PLACE a 3OTH ST: 81 go.
Nine rms. B.. rm. for gar. wM X
HARTUNG, HOS 10th II. Main sT3
Bisbee daily review., 1921-10-05
ROLLED DOWN STOCKING ARE
DENOUNCED AS SLOPPY AND
OLD FASHIONED. BY DANCER

ITHACA, N. Y, Oct 4.-She folded
one slim leg back and then settled
among the cushions. Irene Castle
!Tremaine was ready to talk.
Modern dancing Pit was suggest
ed by the music from restaurant
nearby.
Dreadful! Shakes your teeth
onti" shaid she.
Rolled down stockings?
"A sloppy, old-fashioned habit"
Present-day fashions?
"Unlovely. Too many indefinite
lines. There must be decided sill
houette if smartness and beauty are
to be achieved"
The source of her own gift for
style?
From my mother" And she re-
fuses to modify it.
American women?
They're the smartest, the most
charming and the loveliest women on
EARTH" says Mrs. Tremaine, and then
with her luminous smile, because
American husbands are the most gen.
erous and indulgent husbands"
Home life?
'.Oh. it's just fine" with one. slim
hand Mrs. Tremaine bowled over Joy,
Belgian Griffon, about the size of
your pet cat, and began shaping its
fat. round stomach.
I'm not domestic, though, and If
had to order the groceries I'd never
eat"
Her own dancing career?
'At an end. I'll never dance pro-
fessionally any more. 1 couldn't find
partner. know almost nothing of
what the dance steps for the winter
are liable to be. And I used to like
dancing better than anything else"
She was slapping joys plump stom-
ach again. And Joy loved it. You
could tell by the way he Tipped his
excuse for a tail. Joy is about six
years old and one of those little shag-
gy fellows with nose which you
simply know, by instinct, is there.
He always ACCOMPANIES Mrs Ire
maine on her journeys. And weeps
at the door of the hotel suite when
she leaves for period. Xxi, over
whose woody brown head some IC
Bisbee daily review., 1921-10-05
JUSTICE SHOWS
BURST OF SPEED
Man Is Arrested, Tried, Sent
To Prison For Burglary
Within "a Hours

Stafford, Ariz., Oct. 4. = Arrest
ed, tried and sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary less than "a hours after he
committed a robbery and only seven
hours after the crime was reported to
the sheriff's office here is the record
made in the case of Theodore Shufelt
yesterday.
A store of Les Carpenter of Ash
land. 30 miles west of here. was rob-
bed of 500. At 8 o'clock the sheriffs
office here was notified and deputies
went to the store where they found
fingerprints of the robber. They trac-
ed him to Stafford, arrested Shufelt at
noon. confronted him with the finger
prints, and he confessed. He was
given preliminary hearing in the
justice of the peace court, arraigned
in the superior court, pfesueo gu,s<y
and was sentenced to IA to Is months
in the state prison at 4:30 in the aft
ernoon.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-10-05

years have passed, is less demonstrat
i've.
Mrs. Tremaine is slim, quite as slim
as you expected, with hair just a
tinge red and, bobbed. Her face
wistful, sensitive, eager, vital. Her
voice-heavy. You wonder where all
of its depth and weight stays in so
slim a person And her feet--such
little feett
Her dress was something dark. ac-
cented with a brilliant color which
might have been called red If that
could express it's gorgeousness. There
was collar which stood up and away
little and a string of pearls.
But the pearls-ah, there was the
secret Instead of falling close to
her neck line, they were around the
collar, so they almost outlined her
shoulders and accented their straight
slimness. Herein is a difference that
makes Irene Castle Tremaine real
individual.