I The Result of a Ruse By M. C ENGLAND Copjrtsut, igio, br Associated Litararr Press "Jen, It Is rather warm." ' Lillian Bently answered her part ner mechanically as she sank Into cbalr after their dance. It had been the fifth waits, and, so far, Paul Orm itead had not been near her. Hereto fore be had always come to her first md claimed as many dances as she would give him, but tonight, for tome reason, he bad absolutely Ig nored her presence. She leaned back and her gaze wandered across the room to where be stood with Leah Elllcott, bis fair bead bent above her, Leah's face, with Its dark, vivid col oring, and deep, glowing eyes, raised to his. Her heart contracted pain fully. Was he angry with hert 8ie had done nothing. True, she had re fused to go to the play with him the following Friday, but only because Tom Saunders, her partner In the last dance, was coming that night for dinner. Tom was an old friend, very old friend, and often cam to dine and spend the evening with her; yet for some reason Paul had seemed hotly to resent ber refusal of bis in vitation when she told htm the cause. How could he be so unkind so stupid! She stirred restlessly. Tom Saunders closed the fan be bad been wielding and rose. . "Lillian," he said, "won't you coma outside for a few minutes? You are pale And the air will do you good." She assented listlessly and ' they passed out into the warm spring night and wandered slowly down the garden path. I "You must put on your scarf, dear," he said. "The night Is warm, but it From Her Window She Watched Him. won't do to risk anything." Taking It from her, he draped it gently over ber head and shoulders, then with a sudden movement took both her bands and crushed them between his own. "Lillian dear," he whispered, with break In his voice. Her eyes grew startled. She drew back. "Why, Tom, what is it? What do you " ' "Don't you know, sweetheart? Surely you know that I love you have always loved you? Lillian " "Tom, stop! Vou mustn't I did not know how could I? I never dreamed " His face grew white. "Walt, Lil lian," ho pleaded, "I don't want you to answer me now. I have taken you by surprise I know only too well hat you would say. But please wait wait till Friday night, when I come. I know, perhaps, It is no use, but do Just that one little thing for me. Walt, and tell me then. Will you promise?" "1 will promise, but " "Then that is all I want. Come bow; we will go in." ... As thay walked back along the path Paul Ormstead strolled toward tliem, a cigar held casually between fcla Augers. Lillian thought be looked t ber strangely as they passed, al most, she thought, with a flash of re sentment, suspiciously. "I'm tired. Tom," she said. "I be lieve I'll go home. Will you find my brother for me?" The remainder of the week passed feverishly for Lillian, who dreaded the coming of Friday, when she must burt Tom so dreadfully. She bad never dreamed of such a thing, never thought of loving blm how could he when her heart was filled with Mother? I3ut Tom was so good, so thoughtful. Would It make a differ ence? Would he cease to be ber friend? Somehow she couldn't bea. the thought of that Friday afternoon, as she sat up stairs in her room, looking out over the warm spring landscape, the maid brought her a card. "Mr. Paul Ormstead." Her heart beat turaultuouBly. What could be have come for, now? She had not seen htm since the night of the dance, and she was very angry with him. She hesitated. "Very well, Annette," she said, final ly. "I ll be down." When she came lntc the room Paul Ormstead met her with an assured smile. "I Just ran In," he told her, "to see If you had changed your mind about tonight" and then I will send somebody to re pair It." "Yes; but I know mother will be disappointed. She said we ought to sell within an hour." Mr. Bamford had seen several good looking girls before. In this ase, how Ingenuous ones. In this case, bow ever, thing; were different If they hadn't been he wouldn't have coughed and blushed and stammered out: "Why why, I am a real estate "Changed my mind?" she repeated coldly. "Certainly not! Why should I do that?" He seemed nonplussed. "Now don't be angry, Lillian," he protested. "I thought maybe you would decide to let Saunders come some other night and go with me." "Do you suppose," she asked, with Increasing hauteur, "that even If Tom had disappointed me I would consent to go with you after the other night?" "Oh, that!" Ho laughed compla cently. "I knew you would be put out about Leah. But couldn't you see, dear, that I only did It to make you Jealous?" "Jealous?" An angry light stole Into her eyes. "Why er yes," he stumbled, less assuredly now. "You know girls never do know their own minds till something like that opens their eyes. If they think they're losing a chap, why, then " "And so you believed that when I thought I was losing you I would dis appoint Mr. Saunders at any cost and accept your invitation?" Lillian's voice was dangerously soft Paul Ormstead fidgeted uncomfort ably. "Oh, come now, Lillian, don't be hard on a chap. There's no harm In a little ruse like that. Lots of fel lows do It. And, honestly, you've no idea bow hard it was to keep away from you. Why, when I saw you go out in the garden with that Saunders chap I just couldn't stand it. I fol lowed along to make sure he wasn't trying to flirt with you. You saw me do that, so you know I was thinking of you, even if I didn't appear to be." Lillian rose, and there was no ef fort now to conceal the scorn and anger In her voice. "Mr. Ormstead," she said, "I have never really known you until today, and I must confess that the acquaint anceship is one which I have no de sire to prolong." And she turned and left him. From ber window, she watched him stride angrily down the path and out of sight Some minutes later another form swung Into view, coming up the road toward the house. It was Tom, dear Tom, for whom she cared very much, but whom she. must hurt. Must she hurt him? As she thought of Paul the contrast Tom's big, warm, generous nature, a strange sweet emotion surged through her heart. Suddenly ber bead dropped on ber arms. She burled her face deep, revealing Just the tip of a very pink ear. "Oh, what a little fool I've been," she murmured. "What a stupid little fool!" , Declined. "Have some of the Welsh rarebit, Djonson?" asked B Jones as he stirred the golden concoction In the chafing dish. "No, thanks, BJonsey," returned BJonson, patting his stomach ten derly, "I am unalterably opposed to all corporatlou taxes." Harper's Weekly. The Advice Seeker, "When a man asks mo for advice," said the good-natured . person, "I al ways And myself getting into a dis cussion." "Well," replied Mr. Slrlus Barker, "most of us ask for advice because we would rather argue than work.'' Born Aristocrat. "Haughty chap, that fellow. He won't loaf anywhere but in a bank." "He was thnt way from youth. As a kid he wouldn't play in any dirt worth le3B than 940 a front foot" Accommodation the Life of Trade. It was an overcast, Indeterminate ft of a day, but the drug clerk was cheerful as he whistled behind the Prescription desk and chatted with a 'fiend in the front shop. Presently a customer came In and made a small Purchase. "Fine day," he remarked. "Great!" replied the clerk, enthus iastically. The customer went out and was fol lowed by another. He, .too, made a mall purchase and commented on the weather. "Moan weather," be romarked. "Beastly!" said the clerk, dolefully. "Getting warmer," remarked a third utomor. ' "Hot!" said the clerk.'. Ten minutes passed. Another Indi vidual drifted - In from the outside orld and made purchase. w "Chilly, Isn't It?" he said to the tiers. "Colfi as the polel" weed the clerk, a shiver. His friend bad listened to these bx changes with Interest. "See here," he demanded, "what kind of weather do you think this Is, anyway?" "Same kind as the customer," re plied the drug clerk. Youth's Companion. Careful Calculation. "Mike," said Plodding Pete, "dere's a farmer up de road dat says he'll give you 12 for day's work." "What t de use of teruptln' me when you know I ain't got de time. You orter understand dat out o' practice like I am, It 'ud take me at least six weeks to do a day's work." No Danger. Mrs. Rhymer (at telephone) Come quickly, doctor! Baby has swallowed one of his father's poems. Doctor (at other end) Do not wor ry. Soft food Is the proper thing for babies. Judge. oc-? LIFT UP YOUR EYES AND LOOK vBy BISHOP WILLIAM A. QUATLE Montreal, Cauda imtsasaTiorouaaMSMMii,itasjii-aa Text: In everything- Rive thanks: for this la the will of God in Jesua Christ concerning you. The. (:18. Have we not set the Bong of the Christian life to much to the tune of difficulty, danger and sorrow? "In everything give thanks," I am pretty certain, will. In the multitude of in stances, be translated as meaning that whatever difficulty or distress enters your life, be of grateful mood. Do not murmur. Be glad through whatever roughness the water wear as we voyage across their uncertain blllowii. I am certain of two things In this matter. First, that this Is how this Scripture is pretty generally viewed, and second, this is not what it does actually mean. It does mean that, but it means indefinitely more. A farm is on a landscape; and he who confounds farm and landscape is not seeing things as they are. Difficulties are to be encountered and sorrows are to be met and they are to be met with the mood of manly and womanly, resignation to the wide-working will of God. But that wo are to be grate ful for the clouds rather than tho sunrise and the noon und tho blessed open sky is to me absurd and a list less Interpretation of the good God our Heavenly Father. To bo glad on a holiday Is as devout as to be end on a funeral day. We shall not need to reset our estimates of GcC and his will concorning us before we are In har mony with his mood. He Is the glad God of out-of-doors and the happy singing things whether they be birds or children or women or strong men. This anaemic notion of religion Is un wholesome because it is untrue. God gives no assent. A good man and great said this: "In everything give thanks." Nobody but a good and great man could have said It. The sentiment Is like Mount Lycabettus from whoso top all of hlstorled Greece lies under the eyes without straining an eyeball. All life lies at the base of a mount of vision and of praise like this: "In everything give thanks." The fact which is meant to be lifted into light at this moment is that there is a devotional element In" all things whatsoever. We say grace before meals, except wo be heathen. We often say grace before labors and battles without or within and reading of books and taking of Journeys and husking corn or going to picnics or a ctroll through sun burnt fields for the Bheer love of the crisp grass under foot and the hot sky overhead. We do narrow beyond the permis sion of God this thought of devotion or we must be nt church or prayer meeting or at family prayer to be de votional. Thoso places and occifv tions are greatly good, but they do not monopolize the moods of devotion. The devotional frame Is the deep con sideration. Are we open to devotioa for all things as Paul was? It Is meet to give thanks for the bird voices, and a good way to give such thanks Is by listening to tha voices. That Is worth weighing. To love things enough to give things heed is a mood of gratitude, whereas not to care enough for things to aotice them is a first-class specimen of Ingratitude toward God and his doings. The cricket's chirp is a species of poetry which may well set the heart singing after its fashion, too. Such a little warmth makes the cricket set his heart to song. Were we as good at the voicing of our gratitude as the cricket of the hearth, what a shout of chorusing would tho great God hear from men. The religious nature is wiser and wider than many religious folk are given to supposing. Christianity is gonoroslty. "Thank God!" How often have I found my own given to that gust of gratitut.o "thank God!" And I am not slow to believe God hears such prayer and smiles with gladness to hear it. Why should we not give thanks for the finding of a wild flower or the striking graceful ness of a child at play, or the toss of apple branches lit with bloom, or the blue Jay's note with its musical un rauslcallty. No, secularittoB are JuEt theme for praise and prayer. We have no call to ask for things for which we have not call to nnswer to f)od 'n r-v taneous words of thanks. "I thank you" Is a phrase which tho dobuuuir uso frequently. Courtesy Is a good habit for a body's own sake. To be genteel is a soul-lnstlnct of fineness, and If a man or a woman lived alone and brok bread with himself, (al though such u way of living Is not necessary or to be desired. It one is alono and has no . relatives. . then should such a one borrow some child, or, better, some homeless body, some body human, not feline nor canine, to keep alive the humaneness In one's own soul), he would do well to say: "I thank you" when ho passes food to himself, for bo would the method of good manners be kept alive and the social Impulse would be hearkened, to "Father, I thank ' Christ; and "in everything gic thanks," says his brainien v And for one I will take this advice and will And provision for devotion in everything, books, folks, church, la bor, song, tears and cares. And for the least and largest to the God and Father of our Urd Jesus Christ will make my adoration for the Christ my Saviour and my King. ' Will of Right. God has given every man the will to do right, the will to succeed and to persevere. That will Is ours as long as we keep It under control and do not allow It to become subservient to our passions and our weaknesses. I;ev. T. H. McDonald, Koaian Catho lic, IHIca. To be beaten but not broken; to strive and contend for tho prize, and to win It honestly, or lose It cheer fullyla all this thoro Is testing and trVntng of character which Is worth all that It costs us. Bishop Potter. CHURCHES AND THE SALOON Decrease in Number of Ohio Dram Shops Followed by Increase in Church Members. An analysis of the Presbyterian churches of Ohio In local option dis tricts, by Rev. Frederick N. McMil lan, chairman of tho committee on evangelical work of the synod of Ohio, shows a suggestive increase du during the past two years in the num ber of communicants, says United Presbyterian. From this report it ap pears that the decrease In the num ber of Ealoons is followed by a nota ble Increase In the membership of the churches. The reasons assigned are that when men are drinking they have no money to sufficiently clothe their wives and children that they may attend church with any degree of self-respect. The families of drink ing men are discouraged and lack heart to appear in places of religious concourse. Mr. McMillan says: "Re llglon and whisky will not mix. Drink lng men keep women and children away from church through shame, fear, poverty and want of heart. Many a woman says: 'I haven't the heart to go to church when my husband is drinking; he doesn't want us to go to church, and I will not go because my children and myself cannot dress as well as others.' " This want of heart Is one of the most depressing conditions that can befall any one. The sense of disgrace on account of being the companion of a drunkard, has kept many a wife shut up In her solitary homo, nursing the vultures that are eating out her very heart. Tho consolations of the gospel would give her hope, but oh the humility of It; the human nature of it! The dread of appearing where her very presence would be an adver tisement of her own humiliation no doubt accounts for many sorrowful wives falling to Identify themselves with any church. It requires no argument to show that the avernge drinking man will not go to church. He takes no Inter est In such things. Ills companions are not there. There is little in com mon between him and those who wor ship God. He is at the extreme anti podes of society. His moral sense is benumbed, and the whole association of the saloon is to deepen and Inten sify opposition to reygion and purity of life. When God plants a church the devil comes to plant a saloon nearby, if he tan. He must hold his own converts. If he can. He must win over some of the church members, If he can. He must lay hia fiery skew ers to burn the feet of the children, if ho can. The way to destroy the Influence of the devil over the lives of men and women. Is to destroy the works of the devil. The saloon system Is the great barrier between the drinker and the church. Its destruction means saner moments for the drinker, when he can think more of the things of the king dom of God, and the things, too, that will promote the betterment of his home. It gives his family an oppor tunity to take heart, to regain hope, and to look upon life with some de gree of Joyfulness. There is no doubt but there would.be a greater disposi tion on the part of the drinker's fam ily, and the drinker himself, to at tend the public worship of God if he spent his money at homo nnd for his home. A reformed husband and fath er means sunshine to the home, und the grateful family will have on espe cial reason for expression of gratitude to God by a public profession of his name. Every argument that supports the saloon opposes the church. Sarah Bernhardt and Women Soldiers. I remember when I first appeared as the Due de Relchstadt, I thought to myself how little disadvantage sex is to a woman who wishes to play a dis tinguished part, not merely on tho stage, but In real life. Women are only weak when their characters are weak. Surely Louis XVI. did not think women were weak when bat talions of them were surrounding his palace nt Versailles. My experience, has shown me that Frenchwomen are more resolute, moro fearless, moro competent than the women of other nations. They would not plead their sex in the face of the enemy. Just as Jeanne d'Arc was a born military leader, so, in case of a crisis today, many women would bo found who, if men were pusillanimous, would cry with Lady Macbeth: "Give me the dag gers!" Sarah Bernhardt In tho Strand. Alcohol and Tuberculosis. Dr. Jacques Bertlllon, the chief of the finger-print department of the French police, has published an ar ticle on the connection between al cohol and tuberculosis. Dr. Bertlllon says that of the causes which In France favor the development of tuberculosis the most Important Is tho alcohol In beer and spirits. He de clares, however, that the best enemy of tuberculosis Is wine, In the 28 departments which form tbe northern parts of France, where elder, beer, spirits especially brandy ore much drunk, the deaths caused by consumption were 230 per 100,000 Inhabitants in 1906, while the propor tion was 140 In the other departments of France, where wine is the favorlta drink.. A Dlotum. It Is a frame of mind bore, as It was a trams of mlcd tbore. To feel ously cherish the sanity of existence. To labor, albeit In what ft turmoil of grim stress, with the twlnkls of mirth In your heart and tho light of com passion la your eyt. Never to give over tbe pursuit of beauty In all things. Never to abandon the Ink ling of dreams, ' however vagus and dim In the dust of dally endeavor. Thus shall you Increase ths percep tion of your soul and realise ths Joy of Ufa. Robert Bowman Peck. THREE QUESTIONS Sunday School Ustoa for Stpt 18, 1910 Specially Arranged (or This Papar LESSON TEXT-. Matthew 22:111-22. -4'l. Memory verses S7-J9 GULDEN TEXT. "Render therefore unto Caesar the things wliloh ore Caesar'; and unto Ood tho tilings that are Goda." Matt. 22:22. TIME Tuesday. April 14. A. D. 30. The same day as our last leason. PI.ACK. The Court of tho Temple In Jerusalem. Suggestion and Practical Thought. The rulers of the Jews had deter mined on the death of Jesus (Mark 11:18), and were now seeking some way of ensnaring Jesus into express ing opinions which could be used as an accusation for which he could- be con victed in the courts. But by Jesus' an swers Divine truth was made more clear. The question was asked by a wily combination of two parties. It was, Is It lawful to give tribute to Caesar, oi not? The Pharisees sent their disci ples, learners, students, who would come as those who wanted to learn, and not as the teachers who, being supposed to know, would appear to be merely wanting to entrap Jesus, "A cunning device." These would repre sent one side of the question, opposed to paying tribute to Caesar. "Fierce opposition was offered to tho tribute law . . . which was regard ed os an impiety, Inasmuch as no Lord could be recognized but God. . . . Others offered opposition to the legal ity of the tax, while one leader. Judah of Ganialn, associated with a Pharisee named Zndok, formed a party to work solely oa this line of attack. Then ven geance was sworn against whomso ever shauld transgress the Mosaic law, and the Zealots were pious assassins who imposed upon themselves the sa cred obligations of killing all trans gressors of tho law." The Herodlans were adherents of the Herods, who owed what power they possessed to tho Roman govern ment. "They vied with the Sadduces In skepticism, and with the Greeks In licentiousness, pandered to tho vice and cruelty of the Herods and truckled to the Romans." Thii.se represented the other side of the question, favoring tribute to Caesar, nnd opposed to the Messianic hopes of the Pharisees. No matter which side Jesus took It seemed imposs.'ble for him not to seri ously damage his cause. If he decided for cither Jarty, the other would bo his enemy. He was sailing between Scylla and Charybdts. If he said It was not right to pay taxes, he would be In col lision with tho whole Roman power, which would regard and treat hlra as a criminal. His career would be ended. If he said it was lawful for the Jews, the great mass of the people would be against him, and be would lose his hold upon them; for they hated the Roman government, and one of the first and greatest things they expected of the Messiah was deliverance from this subjection to a foreign power. "The taxes were a constant cause of revolt." They say unto hJm, Caesar's (pronounced Kalsar by Romans and Greeks. It Is the German kaiser and Russian czar). "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's." The image and superscription on tho coin Implied the sovereignty of Caesar. The Jews, by using the coins, In so far were served by the Roman govern ment. They therefore owed it some service In return. This service was the payment of taxes. "And unto God the thlngu that are God'B." God as your maker, preserver, giver of countless good gifts, one of the choicest of which was the gift oi his Son, their Messiah, had a right to claim love and obedience from them. Fulfil those duties as faithfully as you should those to an earthly ruler. Hrlng your whole life under the sway of con science and righteousness. This ap pealed to their conscience. It was no evasion of the question, but wn.t tho statement of a great principle which applies to all ages. Christians have to live In countries where the government is not perfect, and it Is their duty to be good citizens in them, the best citizens they have. This was one of the ways by which Christianity conquered tho Roman em pire. To have fought the empire with their worldly weapons would have been ruin; as Christ himself said: "For all they that tak? the sword shall perish with the sword" (Matt. 26:62). They conquered by obeying Christ's precept "Render unto Caesar the things thnt are Caesar's;" and they did this best by his further command to "render unto God the things that are God's." God's image is stamped in the soul of man. It is sometimes soiled In th mire of sin, dimmed by the friction of worldly cares, bent and distorted by wrongs done and wrongs received; but every man was created In the Image of God. This makes It possible to be re stored, to receive tbe fuller, sweeter, moro perfect Image of God's holiness! It calls us to "render unto God the things that are God's," our hearts, our love, our devotion, our lives. When Tamerlane was In his wars, one of bis captains dug up a great pot of gold, and brought it to him. Tamer lane asked whether !t bad his father's sump upon It; but when oe saw it had tho Roman stamp, and not his father's, he would not own It. A lawyer, a scribe, a student and teacher of the law, asked, "Master, which Is the great commandment of the law?" Tempting fcira, testing him to see what kind of an answer the wise teacher would give to one of the stock questloui which divided the Jewish teachers Into rival schools, for be realized that Jesus bad answered wisely the Sadducee's question (Mark). Jesus began his answer by stating the great fact that tho Lord our God tho Lord Is one. This describes and designates the God we are to love su premely. Jehovah, the God of Israel, Is the one absolute, self-existent, eter nal Ood, and he alone. He Is ths Cre ator, Ruler, Preserver, Guide, Saviour, Father, Source of all good. One of tbe best servlcos science has done for re ligion Is tho completeness of tbs proof that there Is but one Ood, by proving tbe unity of material, of force, of gov ernment throughout the known uni verse. The unity of moral law U an other unassailable proof. ., HUDSOR WAS A HAN Of MYSTERY Woman Tells Why She Killed Her Husband. SAYS HE THREATENED HER LIFE. Says That When She Married Him She Knew Nothing About Him- Eva Workman, Who Aroused the Jealousy of Mrs. Hudson, Declares That She Married Hudson at Ocean City, Salisbury. Mil. (Special). Mr. KW.j bcth Ann Hudson, who shot and killed her husband, Tobias Hudson, in the olliee it the State' Attorney here, is not How the cool and elf-poncd woman slit was shortly after the tragedy. The de-p circle iihoiit her eye und the nervous twitch of her mouth us she speaks betray the great nervous triiin under which she is laboring. "Yes. of course, I am orry I killed my husband," ilie sail when interviewed in the jail. "I loved him. How would you like to see one vou loved belter than v'onr life, one for whom you would willingiv lay down your own life, dead mid at your own hands?" Walking up to the liars of her narrow cell, Mr. Hudson grafted them in her nervousness n she 'talked. "When I married Tobia 1IiiiU.ii 1 ha I already been married twice before, an 1 for the first time in my life real hap piness came to me. I was 112 year of age and Mr. Hudson win III year older when we were married. He came to Cambridge from Ilaltimore, he told in.-. Whether he has any relative 1 don't know, and he would never talk to n,e along that line. When we were lirst married we lived happily for a time, but soon stories came to my ear of his at tention to other women. And (lien he eomnieticed leaving ine for weeks nt a time, nnd, returning, would (rive me no satisfaction a to where he had been. "About n year ugo he left and did not return. He brought suit for divorc:' in the Circuit Court of Dorchester canity, tint lost his case. Says He Threatened Her Life. "Last Wednesday, when I came to Salisbury, I purposely di'guis-'d myself in deep mourning. I did this because Mr. Hudson hud threatened to kill me, and I feared he would do so if he met me on the street. After he wus arrested nnd held under bond he promised me to return to me again, and this was what I most ardently ilesirci?, 1 was longing for him anil ready to receive him back with open arms, lint much as I loved 1 1 i i ii 1 could not trust him, and when I saw him Thursday night riding with that woman I knew his promise would not be kept. "I wanted to see him again and try to persuade him back to me and 1 askeil Mr. Huiley to get him for inc. When he eanie and we were talking I realized that I had lost him. He told in.' the Workman woman hud left town, and I told him of seeing them riding together the night before. I asked him to let nu lla ve some money nnd he suid he had none. I reminded him of the li'2.10 bond which had been returned to him and he got up und said : "Well, if that's all you wanted with me. I will go. There are not enough police in Salisbury to arrest me again.' , Overcome By Grief; Shoots. ''lie arose und reached for his hut and cane, which were lying on top of the iron safe. I saw him getting ready to go und leave me and I knew it was for good. My grief and my loneliness over came me. 1 drew the revolver nnd tired. Sorrow und sadness ure the lot of man kind and 1 hnve hud my share. My hus band told me once that he had killed u man up in Western Maryland." Eva Workman Has Disappeared. The whereabouts of Kva Workman ure still unknown. It was reported here that Hudson' life was in-tired in her f.ivoi for $111,0(111, but no verillcut ion of this could he obtained. I The cil.se iigainst Mrs. Hudsioi will be tried ut the September term of court, b.1 pinning on September 20. It i- eK-et,-d that the court will assign counsel to con duct the prosecution, Mr. Raihy being mi important witness. BOSTON HAS 670.5H5. Runs St. Louis a Close Race for Fourth Place. Washington, I). C. (Spcci.il I. The population of Huston. Mass., is ii7il..'S,, nil increase of li)!l,(i!i:i, or 111. II per cent, us compared with .1iio,s02 in limit. Toil was announced by Director of the I'cii.-u Durutid. This puts Iloston out of the reach id ilaltimore, the population of which lias not yet been announced, liostou will stand tifth, next to St. Louis, which lias ilM7,O20, und Hultimore will com- next sixth on the list. Pittsburg is the sev enth city, ranking next to Ilaltimore. A decade ago St. Loins outranked Ho Ion by only 14,:i4tl, and the present ecu sua leave St. I.ouis ahead by 1)1.444 There wus hut slight change in the rati of progress in the two cities. St. I.ouis inurease from JOOO to 1010 being 10.4 and Itoston beating that by 2-10 of on MT cent. Huston's population -0 vears ugo wa 44K.477. The increase from 1SII0 to I'.llll) fu 112.41,1, or 2.1.1 per cut. The population of Kingston, X". Y., is 2.1,0118, mi increase of l..-17:t, or 5.11 ier -etit., os onipiircil with j4.A'i,1 in li'oo. l'oiighkeepsie, X. Y., hu -T.tlllll, an in crease of :I,!I07, or Hi. 3 T cent., us com pared with 24.020 in 1000. New ltnehelle. X, Y-. has 2H.K07, mi in urease of 14.147, or Oli.l per rent., us compared with 14.720 in 1000. A Check on Nepotism. Washington, D. C, ( Special). Deter mined to enforce the rule which prohibits the appointment to the classified service c( more than two meniU-r of the same family, the Civil Service Commission bus addressed a letter to all the executive department and Independent olhcea In the District of Columbia seeking its co operation. The various departments are requested to require all persona who re port for appointments to execute the usual form of declaration of appointee, including a statement as to the mem bers of the family ia the aervice. Some Cheese This. Appleton, Wis. (Special). What is aid will be the largest cheese la the world, will be made in Appleton ' this week fcr the National Dairy Show at Chicago, October i. Tbe weight of the cherte will b 4.000 pounds. It will be 15 fart In diumctcr snd about 4 feet high. STATE HAPPENINGS Chester. Joseph Skyrpek, a two-year-' old boy, was accidental I v drowned in a. tubful of water while hi widowed mother, .Mrs. Josephine Skvr.pek, was sitting on the front door-steps of her home. The child had wandered into the home of his aunt. Mrs. Mary Gzernick, next door. The tub, which was on tbe kitchen floor, aroused the curiosity or the little fellow, who climbed over the side of the tub and plunged into the water, lie wa evidently stunned by striking his head against the lottom of the tub. The mother became detracted when she learned of her son's death. Shamokin. During a terrilic ruin and electrical storm in this region, St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, at Kupniont, was blown down, the structure being partially built of wood and in course of construction. Might workmen, who were in the church ut the time, had narrow escnpea from lieing killed bv falling tim ber. Pottsville. Frank Hover, of Lancas ter, wus instantly killed, und Samuel Holt, of Struiisstown. H-rks countv, wa fatuity in jured, ut ( trwigsluirg. when they were precipitated from the roof of h dwelling, which they were painting, ti the ground a ilistunce of nhiuit 20 feet." The accident wus due to tiie breaking of a rope. They struck on their heads. Hover's skull being crushed in and Holts siiirerit:g with n severe compound frac ture, which gives little, if any, hope for hi- recovery. Hoyci. who wu's 3.1 year of age, removed to Orwigsburg frotn'l.an ci.stcr recently, and was married just a few months u'.'o. Holt also recently came to (Irv.-ighmg. He is single. Jetty-burg. The inauguration of Dr. illiam Anthony (iranviile. late of Yale I niversity. as president of Cettvsburg College, will take place on October 20 with ceremonic which, us now planned, will be unusually elaborate. Among the guest expected are (iovernor Stuart, Dr. Woodrow Wilson. Dr. Iru Hemsen. Dr. Martin (i. Hniinl.aiigh and other promi nent educators, in addition to represen tatives from all the principal education al institutions in this section of the country. Harri-hmg. The first wedding to take place in Pennsylvania's Capitol occurred' at noon, when l'etcr .1. Santz and Mis Hertha ller-ey, f cr,s Heads, wera married in the Department of Factory Inspection. The couple arc pari-hioners of Rev. C. V. Il.trtell, chief clerk of the department, who is the Methodist minis ter at Cro-s Roads, and cnue here to have l,jm perform the eeremonv. not de siring the stir of a home wedding. Lancaster. While shooting nt birds on the Kphrata Mountain. Weslev (iroll, of Heading, accidentally shot und probably fatally wounded Norman Keck, who lives near Kphrata. While in the underbrush (irotl' got a line on a bird. Not knowing of the close proximity of his companions, he lired nnd the bullet struck Deck in the che-t grazing the lungs. H,, wa car ried by comrades to tl dice of a phvi- cian where the ball was removed. II U condition is grave. Selins drove. Ity the explosion of the boiler of n steam thie.liiug engine, in Monroe Township. Snyder countv. Xath uni.il Huiley, a laborer, and tw.-'lve-venr-old Kmanucl .larrett were fatally injur ed. Albert Smith, an engineer, was seri ously scalded. Huiley was hurled through an open door in the barnyard. Cloud of steam in tin- barn extinguished several small fires in the structure und saved the building from total de-truction. Shamokin. When oilier appeared at the home of Mrs. Anthony Margie to ur-' rest he! on the i-haiMe of trcpu-iiig und stealing e.i.il on the Mineral A Mining Company'- land, -in- refu.e.! to accom- any the police, at the -ale time begin ning to di-robe in order to scare them n way. Thev threw a horse blanket about at Sunburv. the poli erved an alleged mis- to depart Capitalist Suicide. San Fram-isco lKicial). B. D. Tal ent, retired capitalist, shot and killed himself, Hu left a note saying he had no relatives, snd leaving his body to s medical college.' her. and took h.-r to jail Recently she di-n-Sed a a warrant on her for demeanor, c.iu-ing the i Mi in ha.-te. Pottsville. Court ousted Se' 1 Diiec- tors M. .1. Keiin.i. .1. A. Ilulihan. .lohn Stilt. Martin Mieun.in. K;n;u Mcliowan and Kcujumiu Lloyd, of Rlyt'ic Town ship. These director were unable to II" I" Ill the election of te.n 'lels alld tile) public school are therefore closed, al though they are usually opened in that district in the l.i-t week of .ugtit. The ( otirt will appoint a new board. One of the director of li I I board is under urre-t on a charge (,f biibeiy. Shenandoah. lohn Moseave. ffteen year old, while swimming in the Kohi-' noor Colliery reservoir, was attacked and bitten by u goo d -sii'd snapper turtle, which took u piece of llesh the sie of a silver dollar out of his left arm. The boy collapsed, thinking he was bitten bv u water snike. He was revived with I'ill'n-ulty uinl hi wound cjutet ied. Rending. With the destruction, by lire, of hi home. In (ilenside. u suburb, where he lived alone for the pa-t livn years, Joseph Madncr, nged :i'l years, an Austrian, wus burned to death." Madncr is believed to have had a large sum of money in the house and this was ul dcst roved. Pottsville. Ceo. W. Smith, of Frack ville. several days ugo pared a trouble some corn, using n rustv raor for the purpose. A the re-tilt, blood poisoning act in und gangrene f lowed. Pliviciant were powerless to uid hi ill nnd death re sulted. Smith was 70 veals of age and a veteran of the Civil Wur. Chester. Hos-.i Za.i, a 2-vesr-old girl, fell from a second-story window at her home to the pavement, a distance of 15 feet, suMuiniiig a broken leg and other injuries. She wus standing on n chair looking out of the window and wis press ing on the screen which gave way. The child's condition is ncriou. ' Altoona. Joseph Samski, aged 3,1. was crushed to death by a locomotive in the Pennsylvania's round house when he Ignored a warning not to go liehind the tails. Street Car Dynamited. Colombo, O. (S-cial). A successful attempt was made to dynamite a street rar in Hex ley, a suburb. The conductor was considerably injured and the rar damaged. Th strike ore being held for alleged complicity in recent dyuamit-18- Kills Wife in Quarrel. Ilattienburg, Miss. (Special). Arthur Watson, a traveling, photographer, recently, of Sumrall, Mist., shot and kill ed hia wife Xora, and dangerously wound ed bis mother-in-law, Mrs. John Mccul loch, In a family dispute here. Watsou attempted to escape, but was pursued by ulUceri . with bloodhounds and captured near the seen of tho crime. Consider able fueling exists against YYatson, lul there 1 no fear of nob violenoo.
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