BIRTHS DOUBLE BEATITSNUMBER Pennsylvania Statistics For May Are Unusually Interesting PELLEGRA KILLS ONE VICTIM Typhoid Fatalities Drop to Sixty, Pneumonia the Leader —Large Pro portion of Mortality Due to Sui cide and Railway Accidents. (Special llarrisburg Correspondence.) liarrisburg.—Births in the month of May were just double the number of deaths, the, number of new resi dents of the State arriving being 16.- ;»82 and the number of deaths 8,452. The mortuary statistics for the month show that pneumonia was the cause of most deaths, 791 being credited to this disease alone, while typhoid fev er, which formerly claimed hundreds a month, was the cause of death in but 60 cases. Tuberculosis of the lungs caused 756 deaths, the second highest. Interesting statistics in re gard to violent deaths show that May had ffi suicides, 102 persons were kill ed from railway injuries and 64 in mines, other forms of accident result ing in the deaths of 422 persons, so that the total number of deaths «>ut of 5.452 not caused by disease wast£4. The number of deaths in early infancy was 581. The statistics of causes of deaths show the following: Typhoid fever, 60; scarlet fever, 53: (liphthferia, 111; measles, 84; whooping cough, 88; Influenza, 41; malaria, 3; tuberculosis of the lungs, 756: tuberculosis of oth er organs, 129; cancer, 427; diabetes, 69; meningitis, b's; acute anterior po liomyelitis, 6; pneumonia, 791; diar rhea arid enteritis, under 2 years, 233; diarrhea and enteritis, over 2 years, 64; Blight's disease, 529. Saved Mothe-'s Life. "If you don't let my 'mom' be I'll stab you with a butcher knife," words uttered by 7-year-old Gertrude Mesae mer, were probably the means of sav ing her mother's life, according to evi dence when Harry Messemer, of Kn haut, was art-aigned before Alderman Windsor, charged with attempting to kill his wife by choking, beating and finally attempting to cut her throat with a razor. Messemer, in default of $1,500 bail, was placed in jail pending the fall term of court. Probably the most damaging evidence against Mes semer was produced by his small daughter, who entered the bedroom at the height of the attack. The little girl asserts that her father kicked her mother, choked her, and finally, grab bing her around the waist, deliberate ly pushed her hair from around her throat and made a slash just as the little girl rushed between. While the little girl's strength was of no avail, it gave her mother time to recover, and she warded off the slash intended for her throat with her arm. Mrs. Messemer's body is a mass of bruises. Cleansing the Juniata. While the State Fishery authorities are taking steps to remove pollution from the upper reaches of the Juniata, the State H»alth Department officials are working to remove the sewage of towns which drain into the stream famed in song and story. As a result of energetic work on the part of Com missioner of Health Dixon's men. the conditions along the river have been surveyed and complete information is at hand. The town of Port Royal has been given direction by Dr. Dixon to disinfect the sewage which now flows into the river. The plans for the sew er system and the sewage disposal plant at Mt. Union, one of the rapidly growing towns along the stream, pre pared by J. Murray Africa, the engi neer, have been approved by Dr. Dix on and the disinfection of sewage will begin. The sewage plant is to be started on six months' notice. View of Capitol. Speaking of Capitol Park extension, it is remarkable the manner in which people throughout the State have been following it tip and how many are dis appointed when they pass through the rity on trains when they find that the buildings are still in place. "I have noticed time and again people on iny train looking out of the windows for glimpses of the new State House as we go by State and other streets," said the conductor of one of the big Penn sylvania trains, V'and they always seem disappointed that they cannot get a better view of the building." Milk Law Violations. Thirty-two arrests for violation of the milk laws were ordered by the State Dairy and Food authorities in Chester, Franklin, Hucks, Bradford, Luzerne, Erie, Columbia and Monroe counties. Bradford and Luzerne had the largest number. To Amend Charges. Empire Lime Kilns of Bellefonte, has filed a petition with the Railroad Commission for leave to amend its complaint entered in May last, against the Central Railroad Company of Pennsylvania, wherein discriminatory switching charges were alleged, to now include a new count that the switching rates charged from its sid ing to what is known as the Pennsyl vania Junction near Bellefonte are ex cessive and prohibitory, effectually preventing their making anv ship meats to points on the Penn. If. R. Co. SNAPSHOTS AT STATE NEWS All Pennsylvania Gleaned to/ Items of Interest. REPORTS ABOUT CROPS GOOD Farmers Busy in Every Locality— Churches Ra-ising Funds for Many Worthy Objects — Items of Busi ness and Pleasure that Intere&t. Newberry is to have a fine new Pennsy station and office building. Thomas Willis was elected Health Officer of South Bethlehem. Shippensburg is shipping 200 bush els of huckleberries a week to the big cities. Lycoming county's Cc»irt House at Williamsport is undergoing notable improvements Franklin is critically inspecting its daily supply of milk by railroad from New York State. While cutting limbs from a tree at Tamaqua, George Isleb, aged 75, fell to the ground and was killed. To raise money the Doylestown Na ture Club will collect a carload of old newspapers. Frank Sherer, of Lowhill, plucked from a peach tree a branch three feet long bearing 11 ripe peaches. Blood poisoning, due to a fractured leg. caused the death of Leo Relir, 65 years old, at Reading. From injuries received in a fall down stairs a week ago 4 Daniel Ward died in the Allentown Hospital. Through a premature explosion of dynamite in a Lancaster quarry Koy Miller, 20 years old, may lose both eyes. William Sprecher, of Ephrata, caught a 5 1 4-pound bass, and, on opening it. found a hook and a yard af fish-line. _ At Freeland, I'eter Droback. a mill er, aged 30 ,was electrocuted by com ing in contact with a live wire in Jed do No. 5 colliery of G. B. Markle & Co. Isaac Stauffer and Dawson Mossier, of Lancaster, killed a snake, and on opening it found in it 62 snakes, meas uring from three to five inches. Amnion Rhoads, of Worman, pulled an aching tooth with a pair of big pinchers rather than goto a dentist, and almost bled to deatii. The recent humidity has enabled corn and tobacco in York county to overcome the setback it received dur ing the preceding unseasonably cold period. A man at Mechanicsburg, who con fessed to Court to the theft of a 99- cent paint brush that belonged to a neighbor, was sentenced to six months in jail. Falling 11 trough tl.e floor of a 'Straw house, a horse owned by Frank Temp lin, of East Nantmeal, Chester county, broke its back in two places and was then shot. Peter 1). Wanner, who 27 years ago purchased a life ticket for S3OO, allow ing transportation on Reading trolley cars, has sold the ticket back to the company for SIOOO. While William Wltmeyer, of Bethle hem. was returning from a trip to the upper end of the county he was in the train beside a man who engaged him in conversation and who at the same time picked Witmeyer's pocket of SSO. Samuel C. Todd, Executive Controll er, and Mrs. Todd have returned to Harrisburg from a two weeks' trip over the lakes from Buffalo to Duluth. On the way home they visited in Char leroi, Detroit and other places. While Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Christian were taken a stroll around Island Park, near Bethlehem, a huge branch was torn from a tree by a sudden gust of wind and fell on the woman's head. She was rendered unconscious. There is such a rush of work at the Pottstown plant of the McClintic-Mar ahall Construction Company, which is finishing a $6,000,000 contract in the Panama Canal, that scouts are being sent to various places for laborers. At a meeting of the Allentown School Board the directors questioned the S2OO bill of the auditors, who re cently surcharged them S2BOO. It is claimed the law allows the auditors $5 a day, and the directors want an itemized bill. Former Councilman Joseph N. Mar shall and family, of West Chester, are at Atlantic City for a lengthy stay. Street Commissioner John C. Heed was the guest of Mr. Marshall and the two went out to sea and removed one hundred line sea bass. STOLEN HORSE KNOWSJDWNER Easy to Prove Iwnership and Identify Animal That Is Sold. FARMER CALLED "HO, BILL" There Was a Whinney of Delight and the Nag Ran from the Stall and Rubbed His Master's Sitoulder. Darby.—Leaving it to the animal it self to recognize him, Elwood Powell, one of the best-known farmers in Springfield township, proved himself the owner of a valuable horse that bad been stolen from him and sold to a liveryman named Owens, in Perryville, Md. Powell's horse was stolen on the night of July 31, and was advertised w ith SIOO reward for its return. A few days ago, Powell received an anony mous letter, telling him that he would find his animal in Perryville. It is Bupposed that the letter was written by a colored man who is under suspi cion of stealing the animal. Powell went on. but it wasn't quite enough when he described his animal as hav ing a double curl in the left flank, two white hind fetlocks, that he was six years old, 15 1-2 hands high and weigh ed !»30 pounds, and that he had refus ed $250 for him. "Why, the horse knows me," said Powell. Going into the stable where the steed was confin ed, Powell said: "Ho, Bill!" Instant ly there was a whinney of delight and the horse came running out of its stall and rubbing its nose agaiust its own er's shoulder. "I guess he's yours," said Owens. "He certainly knows you." Finally Find Acid Thrower. York. —A sensational vitriol throw ins of five years ago has been revived with the arrest in Lowell, Mass., of Mrs. Mildred Cartledge, under indict ment here for the crime. The woman, who fled from the city after dashing acid into the face of Miss Cora Krout, •whom she accused of intimacy with her husband, was only recently locat ed. The indictment was promptly se cured, tlie statute of limitations beins no bar to her prosecution. The acid throwing occurred upon a public street here, June 15, 1007. Francis J. Cartledge, the husband, was superin tendent of the York Knitting Mill, and the Krout girl was an operative. As she hurled the contents of the bottle she had concealed under a raincoat, Mrs. Cartledge cried that she would spoil whatever beauty her husband had found in the girl's face. Her aim was true and her victim, who was con fined for a time to the York hospital, still bears the scars of the searing acid. After accomplishing her pur pose Mrs. Cartledge had hurried to her home and locked herself in, later slipping out of the city. When the hubbub calmed she came back to York and, though a child \v>.s born during her stay at her old home, the authori ties failed to detect her presence, searching for her far away. She also lived near Sixtieth and Cedar avenue, Philadelphia, during a part of her ex ile. Her immunity at the time was attributed to the possibility of threat ened revelations by her involving prominent Yorkers in scandal. Locked House Hid Horror. Shippensville.—- Failing to observt any of the family about the home of Bert Dearolph, a painter, one-half mile from Wentling Corners, neighbors broke into tlie house and found Dear olph and his wife, aged 40, and the lat ter's daughter, Irene, aged 18, dead. Mrs. Dearolph had been choked and the top of her head blown off with a rifle, which lay on the floor. The daughter had been shot in the breast. Dearolph had one end of a rubber hose In his mouth, the other end being at tached to a gas jet from which the gas still was escaping. He had tied the hose in place carefully with a string For Real Public Ut'ilities. Kaston.—By a resolution of City Councils, Kaston's delegates to the coming convention of the League of Cities of the Third Class were in structed to present a bill providing for a public utilities commission in this State similar to bodies now existing in New Jersey of the fact that the league will indorse the bill, and that it will be introduced at the next session of the Legislature. Disinfect Robbed Valley. Sunbury.—A man giving his name as Fred Hunter was arrested in Elys burg, charged with committing robber ies in and about that place. After a Justice sentenced him to jail the in habitants decided to rush him to pris on as soon as possible and thus clear the peaceful valley of even suspect robbers. An automobile was procured and the prisoner was taken to jail. To Extend Yards. Marysville.—The Pennsylvania Hail road Company has asked for a price on the land between what is known as the "westbound hump" to *he west bound yards, for the extension of those yards. The ownerß have asked $30,000, and it is said the company will take over the tract shortly, possi bly at a price somewhat lower. It is said that the whole improvement will cost about $1,000,000 and will necessi tate tiie moving of the State at that point back some distance from it* present line. MUMFIONAL SURMSINOOL LESSON (By E. O. SELLERS, Director of Evening Department, The Moody Bible Institute, Chicago.) LESSON FOR AUG. 25. THE VISIT TO NAZARETH. LESSON TEXT—Luke 4:16-30. GOLDEN TEXT—"He camo unto his own, anil they that were his own received ! him not."—John 1:11. Cannon Parrar has Bald that this 1 visit of Jesus to his home In Naza reth is "a most striking commentary ! upon" the words of John, which form ' our Golden Text. Those words are 1 the epitome of this lesson in a very real sense. The young prophet had : been proclaimed by his counsln John 1 the Baptist as he who was to come. He had performed his early Judean ministry, which includes the visit of [ Nicodemus, and the meeting of the woman of Samaria. John had been | shut up in prison and Jesus was about | entering upon that wonderful Gali | lean ministry. In this lesson we can see him as he returns to his boyhood home, to those old and most familiar scenes of his youth. Day of Vengeance. "As his custom was" (v. 18) he en tered the old familiar synagogue to take part In the worship, praise and discussion, as hail long been his cus tom in this his home town, llere it was he had learned of the law and the prophets, here he had heard the 1 prophecies discussed, here he had un doubtedly participated in the discus sions In the days gone by. for after the worship be is asked to conduct the reading of the second part of the | service, a selection from one of tho ' prophets, undoubtedly that portion for the regular reading of the day. His method of reading was very significant. Finding a portion from the prophecy of Isaiah, chapter 61, he reads that portion as we now have it recorded, comprising verse one and in verse two to the first punctuation mark, a com ma. This, said he, Is being fulfilled i before your eyes, implying that the 1 concluding portion, that which refers to"the day of vengeance of our God." is yet to be fulfilled or performed. Just what his expositia® may have been Luke does tiM tell vis, although he leads us to believe that he made a definite claim of being the Messiah | —"this Scripture hath been fulfilled." \ They wondered at his gracious words, | but such an assumption from the 1 tongue of this son of the village car ; penter was more than a challenge; it j sounded of blasphemy. It Is one thing to listen to beautiful platitudes, but for one to assume authority such as i this at once arouses antagonism. To make this still more plain, he j makes a specific application. To para- I phrase his words, he said, "doubtless you are saying, young man perform here in Nazareth some of those mira cles you performed over in Caper i naum, but I say you would not accept | me even then, for no prophet is ac ' ceptable to his own countrymen." Then he goes onto Illustrate by an Incident from the wife of Elijah, also one from tho life of Elisha. Graphic Lesson Story. In teaching this lesson we can em phasize the need and the importance of public worship, the observance of a day set apart for that purpose and the public reading and exposition of God's work. We can also lay stress upon .Testis's knowledge and use of the Scriptures: also his emphatic ap proval of inspired prophecy as ap plied to, and fulfilled in his own life. In teaching the young scholars these truths, the graphic lesson story will be all and probably more than can well be covered during the lesson hour. For the older scholars, one question for discussion would be, why does the Son of God speak of or claim the "spirit of the Ixjrd upon me?" Of course he was anointed after John's baptism as an example to all his fol lowers, but here we take it as mean ing that the Spirit is upon him in a real manner for service and for power in service. He is to witness and to minister. He is to teach and to heal. He Is to preach the Gospel to the poor and deliverance to those bound with the chains of ceremonialism and of sin. He is to heal broken hearts and diseased bodies, to set the captives free and heal the bruised ones. Verse 18 is a sad picture of the state of a man without outside help. But Jesus came into the world for this express purpose. John 8:12, 13; Matt. 1:21. "This prophecy means me." "Come unto me." was indeed a bold proclama tion. Did they believe? Are you making such bold claims for your Mas ter and Lord? Some will reject, of course, but let us remember that "God giveth the increase," ours truly to wit ness, to sow the seed. I. Cor. 3:6. Why this hostility? (1) Jealousy, "Joseph's Son." (2) Contempt, was he not one of them? Was this not also a slur upon his name? (3) Ilia allusion to Elijah, going outside of Israel for sustenance. Do not forget the searching fact that there were those who knew him best through long association, yet they reject him. Our peril is to know him and yet reject his fellowship. Let us emphasize that verse in John's Gos pel which foliows the Golden Test (1:12), "But to as many as received him to them gave be power to become the Sons of Goji." More Time Needed. "You must get three weeks vaca tion this year." "Why?" "Two weeks aren't enough.^ "They're all I can get." "I don't care. You've got to have three. Last year I had to come home with two new dresses that I hadn't had time to wear." BARBER'S ITCH ON FACE 2121 Moore St., Philadelphia, Pa.— "About twenty-three years ago I con tracted a severe case of barber's itch. The trouble began on the left side of my face and extended down to the neck and around to the right 6lde of my face. The pimples came out with great Itching and I scratched and made sores. They caused me much pain and Itching and burning and great loss of sleep. I suffered for four years and tried everything I heard of and different remedies. I had them lanced and it caused my face to be disfigured and disgusting to look at. "Finally I began using Outicura Soap, Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Resolvent. I saw a great change from the first. I was entirely cured in three months of the terrible disease and there is not one single mark on me." (Signed) Wm. J. Holmes, Apr. 6, 1912. Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each free, with 32-p. Skin nook. Address post-card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston." Not So Bad. "I don't see how you can find life worth living In such a small town." "Oh, it's not so bad. We probably have just as many scandals here as there are in your neighborhood." To be sweet and clean, every wom an should use Paxtine in sponge bath ing. It eradicates perspiration and all other body odors. At druggists. 25c a box or sent postpaid on receipt of price by The Paxton Toilet Co., Bos ton, Mass. 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I was soon rid of the trouble.'* Sample frees S"!no!o¥n7™ ■ are also most effec tive for ecxcma, baby rashes and chaJings,, bad complexions, dandruff, and falling hair. Your druggist sells them, but for generous free samples of each, write to .Dept. 10K, Itcsiuol Chew. Co.,Baltimore,Md. A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY, In this ago of resoarch und experiment, ail n&tnr* Is ransacked by thescientlflcfortbocomfortand h&p- Klnessof man. .Science haw Indeed ruadeylnnt strides i the past century, and anions the—by no least important-discoveries in medicine Is thatox Therapion, which has been used with great SUCCORS Kronen Hospitals und that it is worthy the attentioa of those who suffer from kidney, bladder, diseases, chronic weaknesses,ulcers.skin eruptions plies. Ac., there is no doubt. In fact it seems evident from the big stir created ami specialist',, tbati THERAPION Is destined to cast into oblivion all those questionable remedies that were formerly ttm sole reliance of medical men. 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