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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-26

nrS JEAN CHRISTIAN BULLITT, who Is
lWwith her parents In London, will be among
the debutantes of the season. Mr. and MIS-
Buitt and Miss Bullitt expect to said from
Europe about October II. Miss Bulltt Will be
introduced at a tea in early December
number of entertainments have been planned
In her honor. Among others Will be a depu-
tante luncheon, which will be given by Mrs
James Francis Sullivan
Miss Mary Frances Fisher daughter of DR..
and Mrs Henry NJ Fisher, of Alverthorpe,
Jenkintown will make her debut in the late
fall. The date for her tea has not yet been
selected.
Clement Buckley Newbold and his daughter
Miss Mary B. Newbold who were among those
marooned in Europe at the beginning OF the
war. arrived in New York yesterday. They
reached their home. Crosswick's House, Jenkn-
town, yesterday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs John r. Fell will give a Pierrot
and Pierrette costume dance tonight at the
Whitcmarsh Valley Hunt Club. About 100
guests will attend.
The first of a series of three subscription
dances will be given tonight at the Delaware
River Club in Torresdale These dances will be
composed of Joseph NJ. Patterson, 3D. Walter
W. l.. Fotterall and A. B. Mitchell
number of ladies will act chaperones for
the dances, among them being Mrs Walter S.
Massey, Mrs. Henry d. Patterson. Mrs. George
r. Bower Mrs. William B. Chamberlin. Mrs
c. A. L. Fotterall, Mrs. William Wiltshire and
Mrs Thomas E. Coale.
Several dinners will be given before the dance.
Among those who will entertain Will be MISS
Mary Victoria Green.
Mr. and Mrs. Barclay Johnson who spent
this month at their Cape May cottage have re-
turned to their apartment, 26i South Sixteenth
street Mr.. Johnson's daughter, Mrs. Thomas
C. Sims and her little daughter Miss Sally
Sims who were visiting them at Cape May, re-
turned yesterday to the Lindenwold Radnor
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Russell Jones and Mr. anu
Mrs Joseph wellington Shannon have returned
from a short visit with Mr.. and Mrs Rcharo
V. Mattlson, Jr.. at their home in Amber.
Peyton Boyle and his family have given up
their apartment at the Burlington and have
taken house in Atlantic City for the winter
Mr.. and Mrs Charles ]. Rhoads. who have
been spending some time in the mountains
have returned to their home in Bryn Mawr'
where they will remain until the late fall
Mrs craige Lippncott and her daughter
Mrs Samuel X Reeves. spending few
days in New York at the Wolcott Hotel.
Miss Josephine l.. Bore, who has spent the
summer at Cresson and Atlantic City. will
return next week to her apartments at the
Morris, 81 South Thirteenth street.
Mrs j. Parker Freeman and her daughter
Miss Elizabeth Grifitts, have returned from
Long Lake, after a stay of several weeks
Mrs John d. Megary. Mrs. Freeman and
Miss Anna Megary who have been spending
the summer in Cape May, have returned to
their home at 1874 South 23d street.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-26

A quiet wedding will be soIemuized today IN
New Orleans, when Miss Althca Johnson win
become the bride Of Dr.. Samuel Bradbury Of
Wayne avenue and Coulter street
Miss Johnson Is the daughter Of Mr and
Mrs. Wilmer Johnson ana is immensely popu-
lar In New Orleans. After an extended we'd
ding trip NIr and Mrs Bradbury will live at
% East 18th street. New York
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-26

their camp at Southwest Harbor. Me-, and
opened their home on Highland avenue.
Mrs. Shepey W. Evans. of Highland avenue
returned home this week from visit to the
Maine coast.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-26
MRS. WARREN WALKER


lately her home in Milford Conn Doc
School House ane prior to
their home2
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-26

Mr.. and Mrs. John r. Fell will give Pierrot
and Pierrette costume dance tonight at the
Whitemarsh Valley Hunt Club. About 100
guests will attend.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-26

Mrs. Craige Lipplncott and her daughter
Mrs. Samuel X. Reeves. are spending rev
days in New York at the WoIcott Hotel.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-26

Mr. and Mrs. E. Russell Jones and Mr.. ana
Mrs. Joseph wellington Shannon have returned
from short visit with Mr.. and Mrs Richard
" Mattlson, Jr.. at their home in Amber.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-26

The first of a series of three subscription
dances will be given tonight at the Delaware
River Club in Torresdale. These dances will be
given under the care of special committee
composed of Joseph NJ. Patterson, I'd, Walter
W. l.. Fotterall and A. B. Mitchell.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-26

Miss Josephine L. Borie, who has spent the
summer at Cresson and Atlantic City VIII
return next week to her apartments at the
Morris, 81 South Thirteenth street.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-26

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles ]. Rhoads, who have
been spending some time in the mountains
have returned to their home in Bryn Mawr
where they will remain until the late fall
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-26

Several dinners will be given before the dance
Among those who will entertain will be Miss
Mary Victoria Green.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-26

A number of ladies will act as chaperones for
the dances, among them being Mrs, Walter S.
Massey, Mrs. Henry d. Patterson. Mrs. George
r. Bower Mrs. William b, Chamberln. Mrs.
c. A. L. Fotterall, Mrs. William Wiltshire and
Mrs. Thomas Z. Coale.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-26

Peyton Boyle and his family have given up
their apartment at the Burlington ana nave
taken a house in Atlantic City for the winter
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-26

Mr.. and Mrs. Barclay Johnson, who spent
this month at their Cape May cottage have re-
turned to their apartment 264 South sixteenth
street. Mr.. Johnsons daughter Mrs. Thomas
c. Sims, and her little daughter, Miss Sally
Sims. who were visiting them at Cape May re-
turned vesterday to the Underwood. Radnor.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-26

Clement Buckley Newbold and his daughter
Miss Mary B. Newbold, who were among those
marooned in Europe at the beginning of the
war. arrived in New York yesterday. They
reached their home Crosswick's House, Jenkin-
town, yesterday afternoon.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-26

Mrs. j. Parker Freeman and her daughter
Miss Elizabeth Grihitts, have returned IRON
Long Lake, after a stay of several weeks,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-26

Miss Mary Frances Fisher, daughter OF Dr.
and Mrs. Henry NJ. Fisher, OF AlVerthorpe'
Jenkintown, will make her debut in the late
fall The date for her tea has not yet been
selected
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-23
FOUR-YEAR TERMS OF OFFICE.

From the Triton Gazette.
In his speech at Alma last week
Mr.. J. Randolph Anderson went into
more details of some of the matters
touched on in his Marietta speech.
He advocates four-year terms of office
for all state and county officers in
stead of two-year terms, as at pres
ent.
A difference he makes in the office
of governor and in the other state
and in the county offices is that the
state and county officers are eligible
for reelection while the governor is
not.
If this plan is carried out the peO-
pie will get better service, for the
governor will be practically removed
from politics so far as reelection is
concerned, and with a longer term of
office the governorship will not be SO
popular as a stepping stone to some
thing else.
State and county officers under the
present plan are nominated in the
spring or summer and elected the
next October. They do not take up
their duties of office until the first Of
January following and by the time
they have been in Office a year they
are confronted with the problem of
reelection.
If man makes a good officer he
should be elected again, so why not
give him a four-year term at once
and be done with it?
Mr.. Anderson's plan for biennial
Of InCiCl t11rp will S9Vp
the state about $4,000 every other
year if it is carried out. His plan
for four-year terms of office would
save the state over a million dollars
every four years in the expenses of
nomination and election and cam
paign expenses of candidates, not to
mention the great loss Of time both
to candidates, public officials and the
people. A loss which, after all, the
people bear
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-23
JANE DOE AS A MENACE.

From the New York World.
Jane Doe was left a widow with
no money and five small children.
Refusing to give them up to institu-
tions or for adoption, she took in
sewing and by marvels of industry
and privation maintained a home. AS
the children grew bigger the girls
helped their mother after school and
the boys got small jobs, bringing
home their wages and going to night
school to complete tneir education. In
time they grew up to better work and
pay, the girls became teachers and
Mrs. Doe could take things more
easily. And people who knew the
dangerous creature actually praised
Jane Doe! Her courage, her fidelity
to duty and her devotion to her fam
lily were matters of which the mis-
guided neighbors spoke in highest
terms.
This amazing and almost incredi-
Bile statement needs explanation. The
fact is, her infamous career reached
it's climax of inquiry some years ago.
People had not then learned from
expert testimony before the federal
that work taken home was a menace
to the community and that children
should never do anything profitable
until they are sixteen-an age at
which an idle boy may have learned
to be a gangster and an idle girl the
easier ways of the street
Jane Doe and Mary Doe and little
Jimmy Doe and the. rest must 60.
They are a menace. Too long they
have imposed upon the patience of a
community only now enlightened as
to their real character. But whether
we shall dispose of them by sending
the five little Does to the asylum so
that happy, care-free Jane can sing
merrily in a factory even an omnis-
cient uplift has not yet determined.
Upon that point the taking of testi-
mony may begin next year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-23
LIFE AMONG AFRICAN PIGNIES.

From the Pathfinder.
Members of a London club were
RECALLED recently by lecture in which
Mrs. Powell Cotton told her expe-
riences among the sO-called pigmies
in the heart OF the African continent
She went to Africa to marry her hus-
band and the first fourteen months
of their married life were spent in
and near the Ituri forest. According
to her description, life in that print
tive country is not without its ad-
vantages, for everything is as simple
as can be conceived. Housewives are
entirely free from the domestic wOr-
ries that often torment women in
civilized lands and the tyranny of
fashion is an altogether unknown
quantity. Sufficient clothing for an
entire year can be carried in single
suitcase and nothing more costly or
substantial than a small tent illumi-
mated by a candle is required for a
dwelling. One must be reconciled,
however, to sharing this habitation
with enormous rats and powerful
mosquitoes.
The pigmies are described by Mrs.
Cotton as mighty hunters, terrible
enemies and steadfast, true friends.
The matter of clothing worries them
not at all. For babies a string of
beads and a circle or two of iron are
regarded as a generous wardrobe and
even in mature life an apron of bark
cloth with a few leaves for Orna-
mental purposes quite satisfy the de-
mands of fashion. The natives look
with favor on the birth of boy babies
and with a spirit of resignation on
the birth of girls. However, when
they grow up, girls are considered of
slightly more value. The prospective
bridegroom is Obliged to stir himself
in order to collect five hoes, five
sickles, three spears, thirty arrows
and twenty neckbands for the pur-
chase of his bride. He is spared this
labor. however, in case he IS so for
tunate as to have sister, for then
he has only to trade her for the girl
of his choice.
A simple shelter shaped like bee
hive, four feet high, built of plant
poles driven into the ground and
matched with leaves is the home in
which pigmies begin their earthly
careers. AlU6I 0OlllS tAlliCJ hO"S'OA'
they are placed by themselves in a
small hut about the size OF an ordl-
nary dog kennel. The restrictions
implied by the words don't and
mustn't are practically unknown to
them in childhood. They enjoy
kind of anarchistic freedom of action.
Dancing is the chief form of recrea-
ton as they grow older, but the
dance of these little people is in
class entirely different in every way
from the tango. Mrs. Cotton has
prophesied that the pigmies' dance
may be shortly introduced in London
and other centers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-23
Mortgage Citation.

Oliver Orse VS.. ]. E. Toombs.-
Georgia, Terrell County.-In the Su-
perior Coudt, May Term, 1914.-It
being represented to the court by the
petition of Oliver Orse that by deed
of mortgage dated the 9Th day of
1911, j. E. Toombs con-
veyed to the said Oliver Orse the
following property towit Two
houses in, the City of Dawson, Ca,
at corner of Orange street and First
avenue. Each house contains four
rooms, ceiled, lightning rodded and
insured (fre insurance five years, for
the purpose of securing the payment
of a note made by the said j. E.
Toombs to the said oliver Orse, due
January Is, 1912, for the sum of
$5S5.0O, which note is now due and
unpaid. 1t is ordered that the said
J. E. Toombs do pay into this court
by the first day of the next term
principal, interest and cost due on
said note, or show cause, if any he
has, to the contrary, or that in de-
fault thereof foreclosure be granted
to the said Oliver Orse of said mort
gage and the equity of redemption
of the said J. E. Toombs therein be
forever barred, and that service of
this rule be perfected on said j. E..
Toombs according to law.
VIM. C. WORRILL, J. S. c. P. c..
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-23
MODERATE CROP PROBABLE.

From the Savannah News.
That good prices for cotton are
beneficial not only to the cotton grow
ers, but to the country. at large, is
strikingly shown in the official state
ments by the department of COM
merce,
For eight months ending April 80
this year, the total foreign exports of
cotton amounted to SAFE, 900 bales,
valued at 1866, 9O1,340. For the cor
responding period two years ago
the big crop year-the exports were
1O,139.286 bales, valued at 1894
936,627. That is, although this years
exports were ,664, 27S bales less, the
value this year was actually s31, 1854,
713 greater, owing to the higher
prices.
OF course the higher prices this
year were due to the more moderate
size of the crop. This effectually dem
onstrates the absurdity of the asser-
lions made by some economic writers
that the bigger the crops the better
it is for the whole country, producers
included.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-23
THE "SPEEDERS" AGAIN.

From the Madisonian.
And the streets of the city shall
be full of boys and girls playing in
the streets thereof. '-Zachariah SO.
In writing of the restoration of Je-
rusalem to Gods chosen people the
old prophet used the above passage
to describe the elysean days that were
to come to the Jews. He said that
There shall yet old men and old
women dwell in the streets of Jeru-
salem, and every man with his staff
in his hand for every age; and the
streets of the city city shall be full of
boys and girls playing in the streets
thereof"
The prophetic vision evidently did
not extend to the present age. This
prophecy is not being fulfilled in this
twentieth century in American cities
and towns. The playful children have
been forgotten in the mad rush of the
grown-ups for pleasure, as they go
speeding along in their automobiles.
No more do they play in the streets,
but when they dare even to cross our
leading thoroughfares, they do so at
the peril of their lives!
We believe that this Is a matter of
such vital Importance that, if neces-
sary to enforce this ordinance, po-
liceman should be stationed on every
corner with instructions to make
cases against all speeders.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-23

After nearly fifty years OF peace,
almost a half century of harvests,
we are told by the bankers that in
casting up accounts throughout the
state it developed, at the beginning
of the year 1914, that something like
nineteen million dollars more of over
due farmers notes were brought over
from the preceding years than on any
other January in the history of Geor-
gia, says a contemporary. 1t is not
a very good showing Our boosted
growth of wealth and progress seems
to be largely imaginary.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-23
Back to BarbariSm.

Hints of the revival of the barbaric
in modern alleged-to-be civilized life
are not difficult to discover. For in
stance, notes contemporary,
the favored accompaniment for
dance consists of a piano, drum and
cymbals, the drum and cymbals being
the essential features OF the combina-
ton.
This is distinctly a return to the
dancing music of the savage, where
the tom-tom, with POSSIBLY rude
flute. furnish all the needed harmony
and melody, which is very little. The
accentuation is the important thing,
and there is nothing like the drum
to produce it. Really, the piano is
concession to the spirit of an unduly
softened civilization, while the drum
is the expression of what some OF
our modern novel writers are fond OF
calling elemental"
Then there is the tall feather rear
ing itself. aloft from the reigning
headgear. If the curious in such mat
tiers will look over a recent issue OF
the National Geographic Magazine,
wherein various savage tribes are
profusely pictured, they will see the
same ornamentation for headgear Of
tho women of queer and picturesque
places in remote parts of the earth.
Only. in these cases, there is the per-
petuation of a custom handed down
from one generation to another
through long periods of time. 1t is
a custom of the country and not
fitting back of the fashion of the
moment to the ways of lOng-forgot-
ten barbaric ancestor.
The fashion of the war-whoop may
come along almost any day.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-23
For State Treasurer.

To the People OF Georgia: I am
candidate to succeed myself as
State Treasurer, subject to the action
of the Democratic primary. My can
didacy is based strictly upon my rec
ord and experience in this office,
which are well known to the
people of Georgia, and which
1 trust has been satisfactory.
If, in your opinion, the management
of the states finances under my ad-
ministration for the past several
years has been faithful and efficient
I would gratefully appreciate your
endorsement at the polls in the COM
ing primary. Thanking you for the
support and confidence extended me
heretofore, l earnestly solicit your
further kind consideration of my can
didacy in the present campaign. Re-
spectfully, w. J. SPEER.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-23
Why?

why is a woman like an umbrel-
la?" asked the exchange editor.
Because she's made of ribs and
attached to a stick" replied the in
formation editor. why is"
Wrong. Guess again"
Because she always has to be shut
up when"
Nav. You fatigue me-"
Because she stands in the hall
and"
Nav! It's nothing about stand
ing in the hall"
"A woman is like an umbrella be-
cause nobody ever gets the right one.
Who is"
Ring off! That isn't the answer,
either"
It's better one than you've got"
Don't you reckon 1 know whether
it is or not? Whose conundrum is
this, yours or mine?"
well, she's like an umbrella be-
cause-it isn't because she fades with
age, is lt?'
You ought to be ashamed of your
self"
Il am. Is it because you have to
put it up when it's cloudy and threat
ening?-no, that can't be. Because
she's a good thing to have in the
house. Why is"
You are not within four counties
of it,
Because you can't find any peck
cts in either. Why is
mo choice. Vote again."
Il won't. A woman isn't like an
umbrella. There isn't the slightest
resemblance. You go on with your
work, and let me alone"
Il knew you couldn't guess it. It's
because she's accustomed to reign"
Then the information editor rose
in his wrath, and they were only pre-
vented from doing mischief to each
other by prompt and wholly unex
pected-work on the part of the la
Dor editor-San Francisco Leader.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-23
The Use of Fertilizers,

That the farmers are using con
stantly increasing quantities of com
mercial fertilizers is evident both
from the rapidly growing production
( of soil foods in the United States and
from the marked importation of fer
| tilizer materials.
The domestic manufacture of fer
| tilizers, for example, as reported by
the bureau of the census in 1909,
amounted to $1O4, 100000, or nearly
double the total reported for 1904.
OF phosphate rock the domestic pro-
duction has doubled since 1902, the
total for 1912. according to the Unit
ed States geological survey, being
about 100000 tons, of which
1.OOO,O 900 were exported. Of cot
ton seed oil cake about one-fourth of
the total consumption of 1900, 900
tons is used for fertilizer purposes,
recent estimates placing the value of
the oil cake thus employed, without
first feeding it to animals, at $4,000
600 to 100000 per annum.
The domestic production of sui
phur, which yields sulphuric acid, an
important material in the manufact-
ure of fertilizers, has increased enor-
mously in recent years-from 3,147
long tons in 1900 to 303,472 tons in
1912. exclusive of about 100000 tons
of pvrites. also a source of sulphuric
acid. About 80 per cent. Of all the
sulphuric acid made in this country
is used in the preparation of super
phosphates and other artificial fertil-
izers. Imports of fertilizer materials
have also increased.
Nitrate of soda ranks first in value
of imports of fertilizer materials, the
total imports in the last fiscal year
having exceeded a half million tons
valued at over $20,000,000. About
fifteen per cent. of this is used for
fertilizer. OF sulphate of ammonia
the imports increased from 1000
tons in 1903 to 900 tons, valued
at nearly $4,OOO,OOO, in 1913, and in
the July-April period Of the current
year we have already reached 1000
tons. We also imported $4,000 tons
of calcium cyanamid, popularity
known as "air-nitrogen compound.
The farmers of Terrell and other
Southwest Georgia counties are the
heaviest users of fertilizers in the
state. But they have learned not to
depend upon artificial soil foods alone
for results. Thorough preparation
and cultivation of their land, together
with intelligent application of fertil-
izers. has wrought wonders in the ag-
riculture of this section and made
possible the yield of SO to 100 bush
els of corn and a bale of cotton per
acre where scarcely one-fourth as
much was produced before.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-23
For Congressman.

To the Voters of the Third Con-
gressional District: 1 hereby an
nounce myself candidate for re-
election as Representative from the
Third district to the Sxity-Fourth
(64th) Congress, subject to the pri-
mary of August 18th, 1914. Dur
ing my short term of office l have
earnestly endeavored to serve the
people of the district, and will deeply
appreciate a second term. On &C
count of i'll health, will be physic-
ally unable to canvass the district. l
shall ever be grateful for all support
given me. If elected, l promise to
discharge the duties OF the Office to
the best of my ability. Very sin
cerely, CHARLES R. CRISP.