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V T THE ATLANTA ULUKU1AJN AND JNLW» • P \ I ' OUR ANTEDILUVIAN ANCESTORS! •'opjnght. 1913, lmermiuoiuil News Service. | VP* (C>PJ>Ap) / Interest in the polo match to be played at Fort McPherson next Wed nesday, has caused a number of ex pert horsemen and women to go out to the Fort for practice and to learn something of the gamp, for future- play. It is probable that the next match after this initial one will fea ture a ladies team. Friday afternoon. Mrs. John Hill. Miss Josephine ‘Windle, Miss Margaret McKee and Miss Louise Wir.dle were out playing a bit and learning points of the game from some of the young officers who are to play in the polo match of next week. A large audience, composed of representative Atlantans will wit ness the match. The players will in r elude several out-of-town experts, and the officers' team of Fort McPher son. Society is much interested in the polo match, which is the talk of the f town just now. Miss Rice Hostess. Mis9 Annie Sykes Rice entertained at an informal tea at the Piedmont Club Friday afternoon for her guest.?, Miss Daisy LeOraw and Mb’s Hettie Sibley, of Birmingham, and for Mrs. Flaude Shewmakes. guest of Miss * Louise Alexander, of Augusta. Twenty girls were invited to meet these visitors and they were served tea on the terrace. Miss Rice was gowned in white crepe with a sash of blue. Her hat was trimmed in plumes. Miss Bibley wore a white shadow lace afternoon frock with touches of j ink, and her little French bonnet of j ink hemp was adorned with pink roses Miss LeCraw was lovely in white and her hat was white with blue ostrich feathers. Mrs Maddox’s Party. In compliment to Mrs. J. P. B. Al lan’s guests. Miss T^^othy Robbins, of Birmingham. an< flr*i ss Margaret Bransford, of Nashv4Te. Mrs. W. I. Maddox entertained at bridge Friday- afternocn at her home .on Howard street. The living room, where the card tables were nlaced. was decorated with yeMow flowers. In the dining room tea was served after tho game and the table had a centerpiece of pink gladioli and as ters. The prizes were tapestry vanity cases and silk hose. Mrs. Maddox received her guests wearing a black and white voiie with touches of green. ♦ Assembled at carc’.o wer.* MHsses Tinsley Harrison. Helen Jones, Mar garet Buckner Clifford West, Leonora Maddox. Nellie Kiser Stewart. Eliz abeth Morgan, Lillian Logan, Helen Douglas, Margaret Ashford. Lula Dean Jones. Josephine Stonpy. Mr Julian Prnde Mrs. Charles Dowman, Mrs. W. W. Rushton Mrs. Victor R. Bmith, Mrs. Maude Maddox Johnson and Mrs. J. P. B. Allan. Postell - Fairman. The marriage of Miss Louise Pos tell and Mr Hal C. Fairman took place Wednesday evening. July 30. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. N. B. O’Kelley, the couple leav ing afterward for a trip through Western North Carolina. After Au gust 15 they will be at No. 343 East Eighth street. Silver Lake Party. Mr. B. S. Barnes, Jr., gave a motor truck party Thursday evening in com pliment to Miss Sarah Hooten’s guests. Miss Annie Hooten, of Se- noia; Miss Rozzie Lee, of Concord; Miss Ida Tartiey, of McDonough, and Miss Luckye Harper, of Jonesboro. The party motored to Silver Lak'\ where they enjoyed a picnic party. The guests were Misses Carrie Jer- nigan, Theodora Hicks. Ilene Torian, Florence Torian. Agnes Long. Luctle Mitchell. Messrs. Ben Bethel, Jack Boling. Harry Boling. Sidney Dum, Ernest Bell, Glynn Bell. Owens. Ed win Stanford, Gibson Hooten and R. L. Holbrook. Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Barnes chap eroned the party. Mis*, Wooolley Hostess. Miss Marian Woolley will entertain at an informal party Friday evening in compliment to Miss Mary Mur- phey’s guests, Misses Edna Crawford and Lyra Sw.ft. of Columbus, and Miss India Youn <; of Quitman. Miss Woolley has invited to be her guests only the friends w r hich the vis itors have made since they have been with Miss M^irphey. W. C. T. U. Meeting. The Atlanta Frances Willard Worn- Stork and Cupid Cunning Plotters Many a New Home Will Have a Little Sunbeam to Brighten It. There U usually a certain degree of dseaU In every woman b mlrul to the probable pain, die trees and danger of eUlld-Wrth. Bui, thanks to a most remarkable rtunedy known ae Mother's Friend, all fear la banished and the period la one ef un bounded. Joyful anticipation Mother'* Friend L* used estemaUy It Is > most penetrating aprUoaUon. makes the mutcles of the stomach and abdomen pliant so they expand easily and naturally without pain, without distress and willi none of that peculiar nausea, nareoueneas and other symptoms that tend to weaken the pros pective mother Thus Oupld and the stork sro held Up to vensrntton: they are rated as cunning plot ter* to hersld the coming of a llMle sunbeam to gladden the hearts and brighten the homes of a host of happy families. There are thousand** of women who have used Mother’s Friend, and thus know from experience that It Is one of our greatest contributions ta healthy, happy motherhood. It !• sold by all drug gist.- ut 1! per bo*tie. and Is especially recom mended as a preventive <>f raking hreaats and all Other such Cist teams. Writ- to P-ndfeld Ftp/pi'afar Co.. 131 T.amar Bldg . Atlsutr. »’> for . Jr v r : , » lab .>nok —moumag «£ £**■*’* an’s Christian Temperance Union will jiold its regular session Thursday aft ernoon at 3:30 o’clock in the Sunday school room of Trinity Church. Civic Club Meeting. There was a meeting of the Third Ward Civic Club this afternoon In the bandstand at Grant Park, at whicn time some new plans for the work of the club were outlined. Dinner Party. Mrs. Fannie Atkinson Clarkson en tertained at an informal dinner Thursday evening for two bridal cou ples, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Carey and Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Alexander. Mrs. Wil liam R. Boyd completed the party. Mrs. Ottley’s Luncheon. Mrs. John K. Ottley entertained .it luncheon Friday for Mrs. Robert Mad dox and Mrs. John Little, both of whom leave next week to be away ' until fall. The table was decorated with old- fashioned garden flowers and the place cards were appropriate to the “bon voyage” party. Twelve guests were entertained. Dance at East Lake. There will be the regular week-end dance at East Lake Country Cluo Saturday evening. Dinner will oe served on the porch from 6 to 8 o’clock. Al Fresco Party. Mrs. Claude Shewmake will ente**- | tain at an al fresco party Friday evening for her gue<** Miss Louise j Alexander, of Augusta, and for Miss Annie Sykes Rice’s guest, Miss Le Craw, and Miss Sibley, of Birming ham. PERSONAL Miss Harrie Stockdell, of Athens, is the guest of Mrs. Harry English. Miss Annie Hollingsworth will leave Friday for Washington and Baltimore for a stay of two w'eeks. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jackson and Mr. Howell Jackson leave soon for a visit in Maine. Mr. S. T. Clotfelter, of Birming ham. is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Hollingsworth at 359 Forrest Tvenue, Miss Effie Boykin is having a pleasant visit in Athens as the guest of a house party entertained by Mrs. C. D. Chandler. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Hollingsworth returned to-day from St. Simons Is land, where they have been for two weeks. Mrs. Essie Beall has returned from Nashville, whe**e she visited her son and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Beall. Mrs. William J. Garrett and Mrs William R. Boyd leave Saturday to spend a month with Mrs. Warren Boyd at her summer home at Se- wanee, Tenn. Miss Sally Eugenia Brown and Mrs. Frances Fort Brown, of Chat tanooga, have taken a cottage at Ha vens. Me., where they will reside un til October. Miss Cora Brown has returned to her home on Pryor street after spending several weeks at “New Ca naan,” the country home of her brother, Mr. Walter Brown. Mrs. Len G. Broughton and Mr. Leonard Broughton, Jr., of London, England, are the guests of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Broughton at their res idence, No. 102 West Twelfth street. Miss Eflfie Parker has as her guests for tne week-end Misses Willie and Helen Nowell, of Augusta, who have teen the guests of Mis» Lucile Good rich. and Miss Mary Lou Terrell, of Flovilla, Ga. Miss Hettie Sibley, of Birmingham, and Miss* Louise Alexander, of Au gusta, will spend the week-end with Miss Marguerite Ward at her home on Spring street. Mr. Reuben Tidwell, of Denver, who is spending the summer with his grandfather on the Williams Mill road, will be host at a dancing party Friday evening. Miss Lilian Williamson, who has been visiting Mrs. Ralph Everett In Dallas. Texas, for two months, is in Galveston and before returning home next week she will visit in Houston. Mrs. H. C. Shewmake and Miss Frances Webb, who are the guests of Mrs. Claude Shewmake, will re turn to their home In Douglas on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Stubbs. «>f Quitman, are at the Piedmont Hotel on their way to New York, where thev will spend the remainder of the sum mer at Lake George. Miss Stubbs, of Cedartown, will join them for the trip. The Rev. W. T. Hollingsworth and wife, of La Fayette Ala., are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Hol lingsworth. Mr. Hollingsworth will occupy the pulpit of the Georgia Ave nue Presbyterian Church during his stay in Atlanta, which will be until September. Mrs. J. S. Kinsey has returned from Wrightsville Beach. Early next week Mr. and Mrs. Kinsey will leave for a trip East. Before returning, they will visit Washington, Atlantic City, Boston. Buffalo. Niagara Falls Toronto and the Great Lakes, stop ping a few days at Old Orchard, Me. The return trip will be made by- boat. =~<*5r:<W 4 aJWH The Mill DENIES PLOT TO KILL Mrs. Silva Hawkins Takes Stand in Own Defenst in Gaines ville Court. tv r w “Can you tell me why they are all staring a t that young lady?” “Can I? Why, sure. That’s Miss Stonehatchet with her new slashed skirt! in the air about it!’ The whole town is up Fine Bear Specimens Reward Carey’s Efforts—Captured in Yellowstone Reserve. Money Bill Blocks Midsummer Vacation WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—With the certainty that the Glass currency bill cannot pass the House before Sep tember 10 and that the Senate will consume at least two months consid ering it if it be considered at all, Congress faced the alternative to-day of remaining on the job here (omin ously or upsetting the President’s jrogaam by blocking the bilL A big, wild grizzly bear and two cubs will be added to the Grant Park Zoo next week. They were shipped from the Government reservation in Yellowstone Park Friday and should reach Atlanta not later than next Wednesday. Manager Dan Carey received a tel egram Friday morning that the bear and cubs had been shipped. He said that their cost to the city of Atlanta, in addition to the express, would be just $62. When Marager Carey visited Wash ington in May, 191 , to attend the playgrounds convention, he took up with the Government the matter of getting a grizzly bear for Grant Park, and has kept steadily at It. More than 50 letters have been exchanged between Manager Carey and the Government officials, It appearing at times that there would be no chan:*e of getting this prize specimen, but Manager Carey kept sieadily at it anJ the telegram stating that they had been shinned was the culmination. Yellowstone Park is the only place where It Is possible to obtain a real grizzly bear, and the expense was in curred in the capture, no charge be ing made by the Government. In the open market a specimen of this kind—the weight of the bear and cubs being 1,400 pounds—would cost several hundred dollars. U. S. Makes Railway Pact With Mexico WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—The In terstate Commerce Commission to day rescinded Its action in denying the interchange of free transportation between Mexican railroad officials and officials of lines in the United States. Shipments from the United States to Mexico which are held on the bor der because of inability to transport them farther on account of disturbed conditions will be turned either to the original shippers or disposed of by the railroads upon one day s notice. Such authority was grant T to the carriers to-day by the cot,f .isston. Another Line Added To Southern System MACON. Aug. 1.—J. H. Palmer, former chief clerk of the Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad, will be general manager of the combined Hawkinsvllle and Southern and Gulf Oine Railroads. The Gulf Line was yesterday purchased by the Hawkins- ville and Southern for 1261,000. The entire system, extending from Grovania, through Hawkinsvllle, Ashburn and Sylvester to Camilla, is a subsidiary of the G. S. and F., which is lri turn controlled by the Southern Railway. Society Women in Pajamas Dance at Narragansett Ball NARRAGANSETT PIER. R. I., Aug. 1.—Stories of a gay party a‘ the Point Judith Country Club, at which several of the women guests are de clared to have danced in pajamas un til sunrise, are being circulated her** and are almost as much of a sensa tion as the hunt for the jewel thieves. Borne of the best known young ma trons and maids of New York and New England society were among the guests. Turkish costumes are said to have vied with the pajamas. One observer says fifteen of the women wore ankle watches. Detec tive* guarding the country club, it is said, to learn something of the jewel thefts, were ordered off bv Malcolm Stevenson, who was giving the party. 3 Held as Frauds on Georgia Complaint ARCADIA, FLA.. Aug. 1.—Sheriff J. L. Dishong has arrested G. W. Bish op. D. E. Moorefield and a third per son on a telegram from Atlanta tell ing him to hold these men for Greene County, Georgia, authorities. The men, it is alleged, were doing business under assumed names, G. W. Bishop, alias G. Baker; D. E. Moorefield, alias M. E. Dorsey, alias D. E. Ennis; and G. Moorefield, alias E. Moore. The latter escaped. It is said they claimed to be organizing a stock company to manufacture soft drings, the plant to be erected in Tampa. The promoters, it is alleged, cashed about $2,000 in notes received for stock, at Arcadia. They had $1,325 on them when arersted. Mrs. Bishop and two children were with the party. Parents Steal Bride From Young Eloper MOBILE, Aug. 1.—Reese Brar.Gey, of Atomre. Ala., is reported to have eloped with Miss Ethel Cornell, daughter of an Atmore mill superin tendent, and married her at Cause, Ala.. Thursday. On returning to At more last night the young bride, it is said, went to break the news to her parents, who promptly locked her up in her room and refused to let he/ communicate with her husband. The young husband threatens to make trouble. SLATON TO GREET Mayor Woodward Also Will Wel come Delegates to National Convention Monday. Governor Slaton and Mayor Wood ward are expected to welcome the delegates of the Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers of America at the opening of the convention at the Piedmont Hotel next Monday morn ing at 10 o'clock. Delegates are arriving in Atlanta on almost every train, the executive board being present and in session. There will probably be five hundred delegates and visitors. C. H. Barnes, president of the At lanta Federation of Trades and the Atlanta Building Trades Council, is being urged to enter the race for na tional president. President O’Sullivan has held the office for several years, but there has developed considerable opposition, and. in case Mr. Barnes enters the race, there may be a hot contest. Mystery in Suicide Of Postmaster's Aide BRADENTOWN, F^A„ Aug 1.— Lewis Lawrence, for years assistant postmaster of this city, committed suicide this morning. No cause is ap parent. He was in good financial cir cumstances and his home life was ideal. He opened the postoffice and then went to breakfast while his wife was at the office. Going to the river bank near his home, he soht himself through the head. GAINESVILLE. Aug. 1.—Mrs. Sil va Hawkins, on trial under a triple Indictment with James and Bartow Cantrell for the murder of her hus band, Arthur Hawkins, at Bellton, to-day took the witness stand and denied that she had anything what ever to do with a plot to kill her husband. She declared that the Cantrell boys murdered him because he was opposed to tbeir operating a still, and that there had been trouble be fore the killing between the Cantrell boys an<J her husband. All testimony has been heard and arguments of counsel have begun. It is the general belief that the State has built up a strong case against Mrs. Hawkins, evidence showing that she had tried to get strychnine and had threatened her husband’s life because of her affec tion for James Cantrell. Letters were introduced purporting to be from her to Cantrell, and in them were many endearing words. Colonel W. M. Johnson, for the defense, claimed the Sheriff had no right to force a confession from Mrs. Hawkins. Exhibits Her Limb To a Blushing Judge DENVER, Aug. 1.—Mrs. AlmaDitt- man will get $10 to-day because aft er much hesitation and several blushes had played tag over his ju dicial countenance, Judge Benjamin F. Stapleton personally inspected her silken shod nether limb. Counsel for Mrs. Dittman. in a damage suit for injuries to her knee, alleged to have been inflicted by Michael Dittman, insisted that th( court determine the extern o' hi* client’s injuries by a personal exam ination. The examination was conducted In chambers, and, on his return to the bench, the court ordered Dittman to pay $10 damages and court costs. What’s T.R. Up To? Hist! Enlisting Men To Conquer Mexico Editor’s Note.—The riddle is solv ed. “What Is Roosevelt doing?” the public has asked. Here Is an an swer by an ingenious and enter prising Texas correspondent. What ever its merits or demerits, it is worth reading. AUSTIN. TEXAS. August 1.—Gov ernor O. B. Colquitt was to-day pro vided with what purports to be re liable and inside Information to the effect that Colonel Theodore Roose velt has quietly organized four regi ments of volunteer cavalry of the Rough Rider type, composed of train ed riders and marksmen of Arizona. New Mexico and Western Texns. It is alleged that the real purpose of Colonel Roosevelt’s present visit to the Southwest is to direct the selec tion of men for the military division and that he will soon have It in readi ness to enter Mexico in event of hos tilities with that country. The circumstantial report says fur ther that Colonel Roosevelt is carry ing on ibis work with the knowledge and sanction of the United States War Department. He will be placed in command of the brigade if war should come, it is said. PICKS ASSISTANT ATTORNEY. CHATTANOOGA, Aug. 1.—District Attorney L. M. Coleman, of the United States Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, has recommended the appointment of L. S. Pope, of Pike- ville, as his assistant. Pope is a member of the Tennessee State Sen ate and a leader of the regular demo crats. ‘Society Girls Not as Modest as Actresses' CHICAGO, Aug. 1.—A report sub mitted to Mayor Harrison to-day bv bis legal adviser on the subject of cabaret shows said: “The dancers In the cabarets 1 vis ited wer° modest when compared to some women —society ladles—who were sitting in the audience. Some of the women who were there to bf amused were in greater danger ot catching cold in the chest than any of the cabaret performers.” CHARLESTON OFFICIAL DEAD. CHARLESTON. A*ig. 1.—Clerk of Council R. G. O’Neale died to-day of heart failure. He was the Mayors secretary 20 years and Council Clerk seven years. He was president of the Fellowship Society and prominent in fraternal and club circle*, Negro ‘Peeping Tom’ Threatened by Mob GADSDEN. ALA.. Aug. 1.—To sav. him from a mob the police of Attalla at 2 o’clock this morning brough Frank Martin a negro “Peeping Tom,” to Gadsden and delivered hi., to the county authoiitbs. The negro was caught at midnig peeping into a window where socici. women were retiring. Memphis Business Man Kills Himself MEMPHIS. TENN., Aug. 1.—Ed ward L. W right, of the brokerage firm of Sayle & Wright, killed himself to day by firing a rifle bullet Into his brain. Ill health was given as the reason for his act. He* was well known in Eastern business circles. No More Spasmodic Corns Got a corn that you have had for years” Tried every imaginable way to get rid of it, yet there it sticks like a liend grinning and torturing you at reg ular Intervals? Away with it! Here's Jacobs’ Magic Corn Liquid, a now scien tific preparation, which will kill it in stantly. The first application stops all pain. There is no possibility of danger from blood poisoning, as there is from cutting, paring, peeling, gouging, pick ing ana other barbarously brutal methods. Jacobs' Magic Corn Liquid will re move any corn, hard or soft; even a stubborn corn of many years’ growth will come out clean, whole and posi tively without pam. Simplest treat ment In the worltl, a scientific formula from our own laboratory, always suc cessful, no pain, no danger It will posi tively stop your suffering to-night. 20c, by mall 22c.—(Advt.) Mulhall Admits He Used His Imagination WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—Colonel Martin M. Mulhall. under vigorous cross-examination before the Senate Lobby Committee to-day, was forced to confess that some of the state ments he made in his letters assert ing his abilitv to get inside informa tion about legislative, matters here and his ability to manipulate com mittees merely were r '* , od-.cts of hij Imagination. This Interests Every Woman Stylish Summer Dresses, Suits, Waists, Skirts and Millinery at Half Price and Summer Not Half Over. And women are invited to charge anything they buy and pay in convenient weekly payments. It’s the easy way — the modern ! way to always be stylishly dressed. Fortunate is the woman who makes up her mind this week to have some elegant summer clothes, for whether she has the ready money or not she can take advantage of the bargain prices now being offered by The Menter Co., and at the same time avail herself of the privilege of easy payments, which are so small that they will never be missed. The most attractive styles that New York produces are on display at the Menter Co.’s store at 71% Whitehall street, upstairs, stairway next to J. M. High Company and every woman reader of this paper is invited to call and in spect the stylish is invited to call and in now being offered at an unusually big price reduction. CHAMBERLIN-JOHNSON-Du BOSE CO. ATLANTA NEW YORK PARIS The Store is Open Saturdays Until 1 P. M. Half-Day of Doubly Fine Savings In the Junior Department—Third Floor Doubly fine savings because two very potent factors bring prices down—we would crowd as much business as possible into the half-day and we would clear out certain lots of dresses and rompers. Your co-operation is necessary. Vi These savings should enlist it. A Your teeth will not take care of themselves. Keep them clean with COLGATE’S T "‘° i RIBBON —« DENTAL CREAM Checks decay-germs and leaves the mouth whole some and non-acid. You’ll like it also because its flavoi is delicious. 25c For Children’s 50c Rompers In sizes two years only. High neck and long sleeves, which means that they arc right for early fall wear. Sturdily made of ginghams. Do not delay— these will not stay here long. 59c For Children’s $1 Dresses Sizes two to five years. Of ginghams and percales in patterns and colorings as neat and pretty as ever $1.00 buys, trimmed with braids; buttons and folds. Long-waisted effects. $ I .98 For$4 &S5 JuniorDresses HALF ForCh’dren’sWhiieDresses 1 I Sizes fifteen to seventeen * years. Of ginghams and percales. They are attractive in many wavs. The patterns of the materials are few; they show novel bits of trimming in yokes; they are particularly neatly fashioned— trim and graceful. Buy them in half-dozens—the savings warrant it. n m rt Sizes one to four years. I KILE Your choice has wide range, every-day dresses and “dress-up” dresses, formerly priced from $1.50 through $2.00, $3.00 and up to $10.00. Sheer ma terials trimmeq with Valenciennes and cluny laces and Swiss embroid eries and hand-embroidery. Long straight effects and long-waisted. Agents for Butterick Patterns and Publications hamberlin=Johnson=DuBose