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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-09

SSNLIELL, l suppose,we'ro going 70 see
w a lot of Helen" Scott said that
night as he percheG himself on the top
of the white-enameled washtubs while
Ruth messed around" as he called II,
with the dinner things.
Ruth held her face down to hid a
sudden flush and then was angry with
herself for doing it. Why should she
feel embarrassed should she feel
herself as a disadvantage" She opened
the oven door and stopped down TO
turn the steak over. 1t sputtercd an
grily and the gas flame burned up
brightly. When she Strengthened up
she answered his partial question.
mot as much as | had thought
"How's that? Anything wrong
NO. but she is going to work.
Scott jumped down from his perch.
Good old Helen, that's fine. I'm
tickled to DEATH
"Why should YOU be so glad? Helen
doesn't have TO work. II seems silly to
me"
Il think it's fine because she doesn't
have &c do anything. That's just the
point. Besides, Helen would never be
happy staying home and doing nothing
after she has had such an exciting eX-
1tTlclltt over there PpIODpS " oui
talk the other night, here's the first
example OF the wars influence on tho
women"
Ruth was silent. and as she and
Scott carried in the dishes for dinnel
sho tried to analyze her thoughts ant
emotions. She felt angry and irritated
and yet why couldn't she agree will
Scott that Helen was fine and that I
was the best thing in the world for heI
and hat she deserved all kinds of credi
for it? Suddenly she knew why. BE
cause she resented Helen's doing more
han she herself was prepared to do
1t was all right for these other wome,
who had always lived different lives
these friends of SCOTS, or women in tn,
abstract whose pictures one saw in th'
magaZlncs. or whose nameS ono heart
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-09
And So They We're Married
Episode Three jealousy
BY. HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR
Copyright. 1919. bv Public Ledger Co.

mentioned, but Helen was different.
Helen was one of Ruth's closest friends /.
n girl who had been brought up In ex-
actly the same way. Helen knew no more
than she. Ruth, herself. did. Therefore.
Helen's going into the field Of business
made Ruth feel almost guilty. Not that
Scott could low her more 10 she became
interested in some work outside of her
home she could not believe that. but lie
certainly approved of Helen In a far
more enthusiastic manner than she
thought necessary.
why are you so quiet, sweetheart 2"
Scott asked at dinner. Nothing has
happened today hat YOU haven't told
mo of. has it?"
mot a thing
What Is Il. them"
Nothing, Scott. nothing ut all, only
that | sometimes think that I am no
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-09

Scott was particularly attentive -
Ruth that night and any other time h
would have been entirely happy. but ebe
was unable TO put out of her mind the
idea that Scott did not admire her as
he did those other women who did
things.i Just then she would rave given
anything 10 announce that she, too. had
a talent that she could utilize, to have
seen his eyes light up with admiration
would have been sveeter TO her than
to have received his caresses at that
and during the evening.
She even pulled away from him when
he put his arm about her. as they stood
together in the center of the living room.
and he caught her back against him.
burying his face in the softness of her
throat.
For a moment she was satisfied. After
all. she thought with n throb of triumph,
did men really know what they wanted?
Certainly most Of the m wanted love in a
woman more II they did companion.
ship.
Tomorrow, something hitherto uncon-
sidered happens in Ruth's Iife.)
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-09
Soaps, Cleansers, PoIishes

y. < &. Naptha. "A cakes 25c
Ivory Soap Flakes. -. pkg. 10c
Good Laundry Soap. ok. 4hc
Old Dutch Cleanser. can Sc
Good Cleansers can 4c-4hc
Ion Ami cake SC
boy Powder pkg. sc
Gold Dust pkg. &c. 25c
Electro Silicon box Sc
Al Metal Polish. can 7c-lOc
Putt Polish Oiquid), can 9c-l6c
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-09
tRleL, FRANK s.
Wounded. NAhCUSSl.
killsd -.

street Robert j.. Spiccr, S6iS -rinicum
avenue Samuel amer, 225 South
Third street Arthur l.. KEENAN,. 1879
Mitflin street Sergeant William Nichols
Thompson. $50 North Thirty-scvCnth
street Corporal james j. Mccarthy,
2li4 North Second street Corporal Ben
jamin Ncifcld, G29 North Marshall
street, and William Stauffcr, Willow
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-09
Like a Breath
the Pine Woods

SOZODONT refreshes the mouth,
keeps the gums firm and the teeth
clean and wholesome; its agreea-
bic favor and comfortable after
feel' have made SOZODONT pop
ular for over sixty years,
The Washington times., 1919-10-10
CURFEW LAW SAVES
80 GIRLS AT CONEY
280 Stopped as They Entered
Questionable Places-25 Had
Run Away From Homes.

NEW YORK, Oct. 1O.-The curfew
law is strongly advocated by Mrs. Ell
len A. O'Grady, fifth deputy police
commissioner Through the efforts OF
Mrs. O'Grady, eighty girls were res
cued from imminent danger during
the COney Island season.
The records OF these cases became
known yesterday through the reports
Of workers at COney Island, under
the direction Of Mrs. O'Grady. It was
their practice to follow young girls
with male companions who went into
questionable places.
The women detectives stopped the
girls, took their names and addresses
and notified their parents. Twenty
five of the ESQ girls stopped in this
manner were found to have run away
from home.
Mrs. O'Grady said that "deplora BILE
conditions" at Coney Island had led
her to establish watch over the ac-
tiOns Of young girls. She said she
had often received complaints from
public school teachers who said the
children came to school in the morn
ing half asleep and unable to begin
their lessons correctly.
The Washington times., 1919-10-10
NURSE DEAD, GIRL
MAY BE DEPORTED
Wandered From Pittsburgh
to Baltimore Alone, She
Tells Police.

BALTIMORE, Oct. 1O.-Discovered
crying in a dark corner OF the steps
OF st. Michaers Catholic Church,
last night, Ida Morena, a pretty six
teen-year-old Sicilian girl, who said
she wandered here alone from Pitts.
burgh, told the police Of the eastern
district a pitiful story OF finding her
self friendless in a strange country.
Unable to speak English, she de-
scribed through an interpreter to
Mrs. Mary West, the matron, how,
overcome with grief, she went to a
railroad station and boarded the first
train she saw, after the death OF her
nurse and protector with whom she
came to this country two months ago
from Sicily.
The girl, who vas well dressed, was
seen in the doorway by a boy who
took her to the home Of DR.. Augustine
PalmisanO, who also is a native OF
Sicily. Mrs. Palmisano and her ward,
Miss Katharine Bush, became inter
ested IN the girls experiences, and
offered to take her into their home
AS a matter Of official formality
she was taken to the police station,
where an interpreter was used to OBJ
tain her story.
After an investigation, Lieutenant
Lastner decided to hold the girl pend
ing the fixing Of her status with the
United States immigration authori-
ties.
The Washington times., 1919-10-10
DUPLICATE KEY
Thief FLOOTS ROOM

The room Of Arthur F. washington,
235 Pennsylvania avenue northwest,
was entered by means Of a duplicate
key last night and articles OF cloth
ing valued at f21 stolen
Gaining entrance through a rear
window. thieves last night stole q
watch valued at sos and So in bills
from the home Of r. =. MilOr, 1915
Jackson place northeast
A set Of harness valued at $65 was
stolen last night when the stable in
rear Of 1899 NJ street northwest was
entered by breaking the lock on the
door. The harness was the property
Of Thomas J. Miller, 14i0 Thirty
fourth street northwest.
John H. Pye, 1lO5 Q street north
west reported to the police OF the
Eighth precinct last night the theft
Of a rainCoat valued at 50 while he
was in a pool room on U street north
west.
The Washington times., 1919-10-10
SEEK REVENGE ON
BOLSHEVK CHIEFS
, ,UOssaCk General Tells Of
Atrocities Committed by
Reds Ia Don Raid

NEW YORK, oct. 1O.-sixtsen at
ftempts on the lives Of leading Boil
Ghsvists have been made in one week
according to q dispatch to the Daily
Telegram from Copenhagen, based on
messages from Moscow via RevaL
states a copyright dispatch to the
World from London. It is said in
MOSCOW that the Menshevilzis and So
lcial Revolutionists have resolved to
iavenre themselves on Bolshevik ter
rorists by killing ten Bolsheviks for
every one Of their own number vic
timiEed.
A representative Of Denikin's gov
ernment the Cossack General Kras-
noG, gives a frightfuI account Of the
last Bolshevik invasion Of the Don
district. He says they threw their
victims into boiling water or fastened
them 70 sails Of windmills and have
Otherwise proved themselves not only
unurderers. but also savages whose
deeds vie with the worst examples Of
medieval cruelty.
The Washington times., 1919-10-10
DRY CAMPAIGN IN
FRANCE LAUNCHED
American PrOhibitionists Said
to Be on Ground for
Crusade.

PARIS, Oct. 1O.-American prohi.
bitionists are preparing to open q
fight to make France dry" accord.
ing to the Paris edition Of the Lon
don Daily Mail today. The newspaper
reports the arrival here Of Robert
johnson and Frederick ShackletOn
who have been in charge of its prepa-
rations for the prohibition fight in
Great Britain.
They are said to be awaiting 'am-
munition" before reopening their cru.
sade here, and meanwhile are living
in an obscure hotel.
Pamphlets, which were printed in
French in the United States and
which were intended for distribution
in this country, were found to be so
full Of mistakes that they could not
be used.
Il will be necessary TO reprint all
Of the campaign literature.
The Washington times., 1919-10-10
SEEK YANK VICTIM
OF APHASLA HERE

Private Harry f. Ross, who lost
his memory following the battle OF
the scissors and who wandered blind
ly about France and the United
States until he suddenly recovered his
senses in Huntington, w. Va, last
week, and wired his mother, who
had long given him up for dead, is
being sought in Washington today
by the Potomac Division of the Red
Cross.
After waiting impatiently for an
answer to a wire. in the Red Cross
station at Huntington, on October l.
Ross is said to have left. 1t is be-
lieved he relapsed into his fit of
aphasia-
The Washington times., 1919-10-10
ADVERTISED BOGUS
MONEY mold DAYS
New York Firm Offered Bills
Cheap and Dehed Author
tiles to Detect Them.

PETERSBURG, Va, Oct. 1O.-Noney
was cheap in Petersburg hfty years
ago, II you didn't object to the kind.
The following Quotations" were fur
nished by a New York firm to one
OF the most devout members Of a
Petersburg church fifty years ago:
NEW YORK, Sept. IS, 1859.
Dear Sir: Believing you to be
true blue, we will introduce for your
consideration a matter which win be
the means Of putting many thousands
OF dollars in your pocket in a very
short time. We have now on hand.
ready for circulation, $3.50, 900 in 81.
50 and IS bills. They are the best
counterfeits ever put on the market.
and we defy the Treasury Department
and the experts themselves to detect
them. They are the same size as the
genuine, are printed on irst-class
paper, are correctly numbered, and
are so exceedingly well executed in
every way that they cannot possibly
be detected even by the aid OF a pow
erful microscope.
I'VE have them put up in packages
Of $500 each. We will sell you $500
Of the 81 bills or 50 bills for 800:
$1,000 for $3.50. We shall charge you
5000 per $1,000 on the IS bills, as the
engraving Of the plate cost US con-
siderably more than for the others.
II you desire to feel your way we
will send you $500 for S5 or $40, and
you may pay the balance in I'VE or
ten days. Any railroad agent will
take them, because he cannot detect
them. We are advertising that we
defy any bunch OF detectives TO hnd
US, unless you or some one else would
blow on US. You can very easily
make $4,000 before November. Act
quick.
Depend on Il, as long as you are
true to Us you viii never be without
funds"
The Washington times., 1919-10-10
Conditions UnbeaFabIe.
WOMEN'S FRATERNlTIES
TO HOLD CONFERENCE

Representatives Of eighteen wom-
ems college fraternities will hold their
annual .Pan-Hellenic conference at the
New willard Hotel, on October I6.
During the meeting the editors OF
al magazines published BY women's
fraternities will discuss the BENEFITS
OF their publications, and every effort
VIII be made to feature these naRa-
zines for the betterment OF college
life. Mrs. Mary c. Love Collins. OF
Lexington, Ky.f Is chairman Of the
convention.
The Washington times., 1919-10-10

Of the rodents rushed through the
main gate Of the min, seurrisd up
Third street, and disappeared IN the
resident quarter.
The rates, which lived on scraps
from the workmen's dinner pail. ap-
parently found the bnl Of fare rather
lean since the Walkout.
The Washington times., 1919-10-10
SLEEVELESS UNDERWEAR.

PRlSHTINA, Serbia, Oct. 10
American sleeveless underwear has
become the fashionable dress for
children in Serbia this summer. The
Red Cross distributed several hundred
suits OF underwear to the poor. Thev
tnought the garments much too fine
Tor unoerclothes and sent their child
rem to school dressed in underwear
only
The Washington times., 1919-10-10
NonwhT Dnr voTr

CHRIsTIApTIA. oct 1o--lhe vote -
which Norway adopted tho rrotltitlcn
of whiaEeW brandy and ether rtron
strongly against tha proposition. only
1880 voting Cor 90 a. compared VITA
10000 in oppoGltiou-
The Washington times., 1919-10-10
MILLIoN GET OLD CoLTHEs.

ican Red Cross mission to the Balkan
states estimates that more than H.
100000 people in this section OF Eu-
rope have received "Cast-off' cloth
ing gathered by the organization in
the campaign in America last spring
The Washington times., 1919-10-10
RATS JOIN WALKOUT
At OHIO IRON WORKS

sTEUBENvuLE, Ohio. oct. 10
Even the rats have gone on strike at
the Labelle Iron Works here. Ac-
cording to a citizen whose reputation
for veracity Is unquestioned, a dozen
The Washington times., 1919-10-10

LTENRYP.FLETCHER,
/ who has been Amer
lean ambassador to Mex
lea since 1915, is being
mentioned in Washington
as the possible successor
to Thomas Nelson Page as
American ambassador to
Italy.
The Washington times., 1919-10-10

HAN KILLED AS BUILDING FALLS
DURHAM, n c., Oct 1O.-In an &C
cident which happened late yester-
dov afternoon when q building in the
burfness district here collapsed. Lacey
Gibson. contractor, was instantly
killed, and one man, Jim Potts, car
poBter, seriously injured, while three
The Washington times., 1919-10-10

With your fingers! You can lift off
any hard corn soft corn. or corn be
tween the toes, and the hard skin
calluses from bottom Of feet.
A tiny bottle Of "FreezOne" costs
little at any drug store: apply a few
drops upon the corn or callus. In
stantly II stops hurting, then shortly,
YOU lift that botheTsomP corn or
callus right of, root and all, without
one bit Of pain or soreness. Truly.
No humbuEi
The Washington times., 1919-10-10

MAJ. GEN JAMES G.
IVA HARBoR7, chief of
the American mission to
study oonditic ls' in Ar
menia and Cauvasia, who
was shot at twice near
KarsOn, but who escaped
injury, although one Of his
Chauffeurs was wounded,
according to adviCes that
have reached the British
war Office at London.
The Washington times., 1919-10-10
DENIES POISON WAS
PART OF "HAZING"
Report Discovery of Letter by
H. C. Witherstine Saying He
Was Depressed at Annapolis.

ANNAPOLIS, Nd. Oct. lO.-Capt
Wat 7. Cluverius. assisting Admiral
A. h. Scales to learn the facts in
the reported hGEing episode at the
Naval Academy, discovered a signed
| statement from Henry c. Witherstine,
OF Philadelphia, who last Monday
| swallowed a dose OF iodine.
Young Witherstine maintains IN
his letter he did not drink the iodine
as part OF a hazing stunt" but that
he was not getting, along well at
the academy and wanted to get
away.
Witherstine's letter as transferred
to Rear Admiral Scales by Captain
Cluverius, commandant OF 'midship-
men, reads as follows:
WitheFstIne's Letter.
Il drank the iodine hurriedly, and
without thinking, on the impulse OF
the moment I did not stop to pour
IL out but just grabbed the bottle
and drank It.
Il didn't want to come to the
academy. / didn't like Il from the
beginning. but stayed through the
summer in order not to disappoint
my father, and to give Il a test
When the academic year opened, I
got behind in my studies and didn't
like the atmosphere OF the whole
place.
Il was not subjected to any haz-
ing. I was run like the rest, and
no more than others OF my class,
such as standing at attention, doing
stoop falling, answering questions.
etc. Il wasn't the running, but inst
that I couldn't stand the " hole place.
thought I could never get along
here and that made Il hard, and /
wanted to get out I don't blame Il
on any running or hazing or any par
ticular thing.
There was no immediate reason
or particular thing that caused me
to drink IL. Nothing unusual had
happened just before q. I had Just
got back from drill and was dis
eouraged and depressed. I don't
know what made me do g."
Conditions UnbeaFabIe.
Officers OF the academy deny any
knowledge on their part OF hazing
but haEing talk Is sin the air." and
II has been reported that "pIebesr
have pronounced the conditions at the
academy unbearable.
Witherstine, Phillip II. Seltzer. OF
Lebanon, Pa and Oliver Marvin, Of
Newcastle, n. H, who are in the hos
pital suffering from attempts at sui
eide, are reported to be improving.
oliver Marvin is suffering from a
nervous breakdown. and officials to-
day said that he would be discharged
as soon as his condition permitted.
The Washington times., 1919-10-10

others, all carpenters, escaped in.
jury.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-22
HUN REFUSAL
SEEMS CERTAIN
Statement Issued at Berlin Is
Really Summary Of
Preamble.

BERLIN, May %. (By the Associated
Press, THE German cabinets declara-
ton, issued officially and exclusively
through the Associated Press Tuesday,
that Germany would decline to sign
the peace terms as presented to her
at Versailles, reflects the underlying
note Of the official reply to be made
TO the allied and associated powers. In
fact. the statement as whole vir-
tually represents the preamble of the
document which Count Won Brockdorff-
Rantzau, the head Of the German dele
cation, Is expected to deliver at Ver-
sailles.
This document will be complemented
by specific proposals and counter-pr :
posals which Will bring the volume OF
the reply up to about 60 typewriter
pages. This is exclusive OF the yari-
GUS notes already transmitted, an
nouncement of which was made by the
German delegation In Tuesdays com
munication to President Clemenceau of
the peace congress
The delay of several days in framing
the reply has been due to the absence
Of confirmation from Count Won Brock
dorff- RantZau and his associates at
Versailles OF decisions reached at Ber-
lin. The Germans have been carrying
on delibera tions at no less than three
plaCes-Versailles, Spa and Berlin--this
separation making more difficult the
work OF coordination and unifying the
steps decided upon. In Berlin there
appears to have been the greatest diff
Guilty, as the work of getting the peace
commissioners and the national assem-
bly, in agreement is said to have been
much delayed through the constant in
terventioA Of the party leaders.
The German counter proposals will
be of definite character, and some
Of them will be so framed as to invite
or suggest revision of the present
terms
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-22
MAJESTIC SINKS
STEAMER R ECLIPSE
Excursion Boat Clearing for
St. Louis When Accident
Occurred at Wharf.

Sdeswiped by the big excursion
steamer Majestic at 1880 o'clock
Wednesday night, the packet steamer
Eclipse, Of the Lee line, was sent to
the bottom of the river She was
moored at the lower end of the Lee
line wharfboat Listed to her port and
on the off shore side Thursday, the
Eclipse was lying in about 20 feet OF
water that deepens toward the stern,
which was swung outward toward the
channel.
Two mules on the, Eclipse. drowned,
comprised the casualties Asfed g'
Capt. Rees Lee, Of the Lee line,
stated that at present The damage done
could not be estimated, but he was
confident that the Eclipse would be
raised by divers and wrecking crews,
who Thursday were working at top
speed to float the steamer before the
falling water would maroon her on the
wharf
The Eclipse plies in the Memphis and
Ashport trade and arrived in the local
port early Wednesday. She was sched-
uled to leave for Ashport FRIDAY morn
ing. Most of the cargo had been shifted
to the Lee line wharfboats when II
few members of the crew turned in
for the night.
The Majestic, after discharging a big
crowd of eXcursonists at the wharf be-
low the postoffice, swung out shortly
after IL o'clock bound for st. Louis.
with Pat Duffy, pilot, at the wheel
She was getting under headWay as she
approached the Lee line steamers.
There was a strong northwest breeze
blowing and furry of wind, catching
the big boat, swung her in shore be-
fore Duffy could straighten her up.
The Majestics port bow nicked the
port bow of the Eclipse, crushing in
her hull. Members of the crew aboard
the Eclipse were jolted from their
berths, but got to the Wharfboat with
their belongings. Before the watchman
could get to the mules on the outer
side of the lower deck they were sub
merged The packet sank in about 12
or Is minutes.
The Majestic suffered the wrecking
of her stage and its rigging and the
nosing of her guards on the port side
was torn away. She is owned by the
Majestic Excursion company. Capt. VIII
Jeffords is her commander
Capt. Wichard is commander of the
Eclipse, but was not aboard when she
was bumped Divers will bulkhead the
Eclipse's hull where she was hit and
1t was the opinion of rivermen Thurs
day that she would respond promptly
when the water was pumped from her
hull She Is resting easy and appar-
entity there is little danger of the boa
breaking to pieces.
Repairs were completed on the Ma
jestic by noon Thursday and she cleared
for St Louis, where she will enter the
excursion trade.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-22
SOUTH'S PRESBYTERIANS
VOTE TO RETAIN UNION

NEW ORLEANS, La, May 22.-The
fifty-ninth general assembly of the
Southern Presbyterian church today
voted to continue membership in the
Federal Council of the Churches of
Christ in America, but protested against
the councils deliveries regarding indus
trial, political and economic issues
The church last night expressed it.
self in favor of working for organic
union with the Northern Presbyterian
church by voting to negotiate for clos
er relations with the Northern church
and other Presbyterian bodies after de-
feating, by vote of 1876 to 80, the
proposed plan for general federation
of all Presbyterian bodies.
The act Of the assembly carried with
II instructions to the synod to elect
members of a committee which would
meet with similar committee from
other Presbyterian bodies for formula
tion of a plan OF union. The ad interim
committee will report to the 1920 gem
eral assembly Of the Southern church
at Charlotte, N, G.
The stated clerk of the assembly, DR.
T. H. Law, Of Spartanburg, S. c., upon
instructions from the assembly, tele-
graphed the action of the assembly to
the assembly of the Northern church
in session at st. Louis.