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NEW CONGRESSMEN On Census Returns South Gets Increased Representation. NORTH WILL MAKE OBJECTION. South's Population Figure? Creating a Sensation-Presage Pol?tica! Power r?nd Importance-Probable Fight Ahead Between Sections. J Washington, Special.-The amaz ing growth in the South and South west already is becoming the sensa tion of the 1910 census. Fifty-one counties in Texas shov> a population of S17,475 in 1910, as compared with 552,906 in 1900, * gain of 46 per cent. j This percentage maintainec throughout Texas will mean a gair of l,403,60o people in the State, oi a total population of almost 4,500, ooo. For Nueces county the Census Bu reau reported a population of 21,955 in 1910, as against 10,434 ten yean ago, an increase of 110 per cent. Knox county showed a 500 pei cent advance, and Tom Green count} close to 400 per cent. Returns from other States ari scattering. Without: exception, the Yfgures from Oklahoma and from th? "Old South"-Louisiana, Mississippi Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama record startling increases. On the present basis of represen tation in Congress, a member to every 194,000 of the country's population the returns from only forty-one coun ties entitle Texas to another membei of the House. If the ratio of increase "is maintained, Texas will get seven additional members, and have a dele gation -consisting of twenty-three. The scattering figures from, othei parts of the South and Southwest, most notably Oklahoma, presage a like advance in political power and importance, v For this reason, talk of renewing the Northern demand for limiting Southern representation is becoming general. The Northern Republicans are practically sure to make aaothei effort to pass a force bill, under which representation would bt based upon the vote cast instead of upon thf census returns. A bitter sectional fight is sure te follow. Finger Nail Growing cn None. .. Washington, D. C., Special. ' ^. There was a man in Washington Fridav with a finger nail growing from the end of his nose. His name is J. B. Norris, and he hails from News Orleans. Some months ago he had the greaten part of bi? nose cut away, and the surgeons endeavored to mend the de fect by grafting his little.finger inte the gap. After several months the root o' the nail which thb surgeons had failed to remove, began to sprout, anc now the patient is afflicted with s claw on the end pf his phobosci3. i He left for New Orleans, where h< will re-enter the Torro Infimarv tc have the surgeons rebuild- his nose with their planes, saws, and clis?is. Well What is "Fitten T'eat?" Washington, Special.-Proseention? . against manufacturers of ice cream cohes containing borax are to be in stituted by the government under the pure food law. * Larse seizures of cones were made reteatly in different parts of the couuiry by inspectors of the depart ment of agriculture. Analysis of the cones seized disclosed the nresencc of borax, a property which has been held to be deleterious to the human stomach. Flour Jumps Fifty Cent-; a Barrel. . Jefferson vii le. Ind., Special.-Th< '^.high price of wheat and prospects ol \ poor yield in man- localities are the reasons assigned by dealers fo: the jump of 50 cents a barrel or flour, which has been announced here Farmers say that orchard grass ha? . begun to sprout in the shock becnusr of the recent heavv rains, and that the loss will he heavy. Bi? Gun Causes Another Accident Fort Monroe, Special.-Eleven ar tillerymen are dead and ar number of others seriously injured, including two officers, as the result of the bloiring ? out of a bre?ch block in a 12-inch; gun at the De Hussey battery dining the . coast artillery practice Thursday. The accident happened while stu dent officers were endeavoring to sink a fleet cf tov.-ed targets, represent ing an imaginan- hostile fleet, pro ceeding ' toward Washington. The battery was uudcr the immediate command of Sergeant Harry Haas, of the 69th company, United Staues coast artillery. A _;_ Prominent Citizen a Moonshiner. Nashville, Tenn., Special.-A' dis patch from Anniston, Ala., says Unit ed States revenue officers have re turned from Cleburne county after having destroyed one of the largest moonshine stills that has been located iir years in the home of Charles Pes neli, one of the most prominent cit izens of the county, who lacked only 20 votes of receiving the nominator for sheriff in the May primary. N? arrests were made. A Tramp's Gratitude. Macon, Ga., Special.-Shortly be f?pre the Klondyke gold boom, W. V. Miller, a motorman of this city, then living in Atlanta and known af ?Kid" Miller, met J. F. Curley, o miner, stranded and without funds. He took him in and fed him, gav*? bim . :n&ney with which to travel as far as ?Kranngham. That was the last he i>ver heard of the bread cast upon Ihr daters, until be received word that Curley had died in Dawson City and i eft him a fortune estimated at $500, 000. .j? DEMOCRATS IN DIVISION. Two Congressmen Nominated in Sixth North Carolina District-Godwin Faction 1 .independsat' ' -Republi cans Will Enter Field: Wilmington, N. C.. Special-Be cause the chairman of thc executive committee, and temporary chairman of the sixth district congressional convention in session here, refused to recognize delegates from New Han over and Cumberland counties for the reason that they had been "appoint ed" instead of elected, ia violation of the Democratic plan, it is claimed, the executive committee, during a re cess of the convention, deposed the, chairman and re-elected another] chairman who admitted the delegates from the counties in question. Oscar L. Clark, of Sladen, was nominated on the 143d ballot at 1:20 a. m. Friday, defeating Congressman Godwin and the other three candi dates. The Godwin faction held a "con vention" Friday morning and by de claring that Godwin should have eleven of New Hanover's votes and six of Cumberland's, nominated Han nibal L. Godwin of Harnett on the first ballot. Supporters of Godwin declare that no matter who makes the race for Congress in this district H. L. God win will be in the fight and that no effort will be made to have the mat ter submitted to the State executive committee. There is no doubt about the Re publicans putting out a nominee and it now looks like a three-cornered fight. Godwin's forces declare that he can win out over the field no mat ter how- many are in the race and in fact this declaration was made by J. C. Clifford of Harnett in placing Godwin in nomination. Sheriff Balls Seven With Two Pistols. Elliott, Miss., Special.-Five ne- j groes were killed and two others were mortally wounded Thursday when Deputy Sheriff Cauley, who was endeavoring to take them into cus tody ou a minor charge, advanced on the officer with farming imple ments as weapons and with the avow ed intention of "cutting Mm down.': Bearing a warrant charging the seven with assault. Cauley and two citizens, deputized to assist 3iim, went to the home of Henry Beck, r colored farmer, near Elliott. As thc posse approached, the negroes ceased their work in the field and grabbing pitchforks and other fanning tools, made for the deputy. Cauley, how ever, opened fire with two revolers before the billigerents came within striking distance, and. before thc others of the posse had gained their wits five of the attackin? party were dead and the remainder wounded. The deputy surrendered. Several days ago an attempt was made to effect the capture of the ne groes but the arresting officer with drew when they employed similar tactics to those of Thursday. R. E. President Left Scandal Chicago, Special.-Death ?came to Ira G. Rawn, president of the Monon Railroad, supposedly from a bullet fired by himself, but certainly on the eve of possible exposure as a central figure of what is declared may be one of the greatest railway scandals of the country. Counsel foi- the Illinois Central Railroad when confronted with var batim copy of questions and answers at a recent investigation of the com pany's affairs, admitted that the foundation had been carefully laid with intent to show Mr. Rawn as pri marilv responsible for years of crook ed car contracts. His ansvrers, ho. - ever, had been steadfast denials cf the implied charges. Buck's Stove Co. Surrenders. Cincinnati, 0., Special.-A peace agreement has been reached between the Stove Founders' National Defense Association and President Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor. This, it is believed, will end. the pros ecutions by the Bucks Stove Com pany against officers of the American Federation of Labor. Boy Dives Upon a Stingaree. West Palm Beach, Fla., Special Death in an almost unheard-of form waited for Laurence S. Baker, an 11-year-old Jacksonville lad, when he dived from a boat while in Lake Worth Thursday. A stingaree, a huge, flat-bodied and gruesome species of warm-water' fish was lurking under the boat. One of the barbed spines which this fish car ries on its whip-like tail, pierced the boy's neck, cutting into the juglar vein. He rose to the surface, crving for help and bled to death within four minutes. , French Justice. Tours, France, By Cable.-A rag picker named Joseph has confessed to the assassination Apri] 21, 1930, of five children of a farmer named Brierc, in the vicinity of Charires The father of the children was found guilty of the murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. He died in prison. Negro League Secures Roosevelt. New York, Special.-Booker T. Washington called on Col. Roosevelt Firday to ask him to speak before, the National Negro Business Men's league, which is to hold a session in this city on August 17, ]S and 19. Washington is president of the league Col. Roosevelt promised to make an address on August 19. On tho fol lowing day Washington is to sail to Europe to collect material for. a series of articles for a magazine on the condition of the laboring masses in Europe as compared with that o? the negroes in America. I TEXAS LOOKING PRK Prohibitionists Split and Anti? Candidate is Nominated. AN EMBARRASSING SITUATION Wet Kan cn Dry Wave-Vote or Prohibition Amendment to Consti tution Cairisd ty 20,000. ' $450,000,000 Cotton Exported. Washington, Special.-Cotton, cop per, illuminating oil, wheat-these ar ticles in the order named, formed tin most important articles exported frorr the United States during the fiscai year just closed. The value of the cotton exported was $450,000,000, ol the copper $83,500,000; of thc illumi nating oil $62,500,000, and of th< wheat $47,000,000. . Dallas;, Te::., Special-Oscar B Colquitt, an anti-prohibitionist, wai Saturday nominated for Governor bj a plurality which will probably reach 60,000. Cone Johnson and William Poindexter, the prohibitionist candi dates, have only about a thousand votes difference between them. These are now in favor of Poindexter, bul may change as some heavy ohnson counties are yet to come. Former Attorney General Davidson is about 20,000 votes behind Poin dexter and Johnson. The pixjpositi :-n to submit to popu? lar vote a prohibition amendment to the constitution has carried by probably 20,000. This presents the situation of a:i anti-prohibition Democrat being nominated' with a party demanding the submission of a prohibition amendment confront ing him. This was caused by the prohibitionist split on candidates. 25,000 Less Bars. St. Jobn, N. B.. Special.-There are approximately 25,000 less or bars within the jurisdiction of the national division Sons of Temperance of North America than existed two years ago. according to a' report made at the annual convention of the organization in session here last week. "John D.'s Place" Cause of Pretest. Cleveland. O.. Special.-Because he placed ia the window of his saloon a sigu reading '"This is John D.'s place," John D. Schnapps was ar rested. The complaint was filed by.Frank F. Marmann. who says he is a friend of John D. Rockefeller. Marmann says Mr. Rockefeller is known as ''John D.," and bc asked what the oil man's Sunday school pupils would say if they chanced to I pass the saloon and say that sign. Scnapp;; argues as his name is John D., he has a perfect light tc use it on his sign. Hit Bank for a Million. Louisville, Ky., Special.-August R?pke, assistant secretary and book keeper of the Fidelity Trust Com pany, one of the soundest financial institutions in Louisville, is believed to have made away with $1.140,000. the entire surplus of the concern, according to a statement made by John W. Barr, president of the com pany. R?pke is in the county, jail, where he has been foi* ten days, un able to .furnish the sum of $25,000. R?pke was a heavy speculator and lost large sums, it is said, on Wall Street and the Chicago board of trade. / Can Market Molasses Whiskey. Washington. Special.-A complete agreement has been readied regard ing the way in which molasses-made whiskey may lie marketed by the in ternal revenue officials and all that is now necessary is the perfunctory approval of Acting Attroney-GeneraJ Fowler. Church Will Operate Grocery Store. Washington, Special.-As a means of raising funds, with which to erect ?a new church here the congregation of the Second M. E. church will operate a grocery store. The congre gation has purchased a store and thc pastor, Rev. William Hogan, has been put in charge. The name has been chang-ed to the "Square Deal Gro cery." Eight Hour Limit. Washington, Special. -Attorney General Wickersham has ruled that the eight hour limit will apply to work done on and for a battleship in the government shipyards. This decis ion allows the manufacturers of ar mor which is intended for a warship to be built in a government yard to work their employes on such armor as many hours as the employes will stand. The attorney general holds that the recent act making appropriations for vessels to bo capable of no other con struction. 1 Postal Supplies Depot. JVashington, Special.-Brunswick. Ga., has been designated by order of the Postoffice Department, as a gen eral distributing point in the South east for postal cards, stamped envel opes and stamped wrappers. The department will send, beginning Au gust 1, these supplies in carloads to Brunswick to he distributed to post masters in that section of the South a3 they may he required. The Explanation. Washington, D. C., Special. To the failure of a safety mechan ism to operate when a sudden and powerful pull was given by an ar tilleryman in attaching the lanyard is now laid tb? responsibility for the accident winch cost the lives of ll men at Fort Monroe, Va., during battle practice. Such is the con clusion of Gen. Crozier, chief of ordi nance, U. S. A., who attended thct practice and who has been in touch with the inquiry made by the investi gating beard. _ CAPITAL FACTS. Interesting News Gathered in the District of Columbia. rHE AMERICAN CONGRESS. Personal Incidents and Important Happenings of National Import Published for the Pleasure and In formation of Newspaper Readers. Must Inspect Bags. . Chief bug inspector of the Lnited States is the latest title acquired by Secretary of Agriculture Wilson. It is up to the Secretary now, ac cording to the new bug law, to see that all insecticides and fungicides and other brands of death-dealing con coctions are up to the standard. Just how the inspection of sundry insect powders on the market will be made is puzzling the Secretary. A commission is now investigating the manner of enforcing the new law which went into effect recently. Over 1,000,000 Immigrants Admitted Nearly 25,000 of the immigrant} who arrived at United States ports during the fiscal year ended June 3C last were denied admission by immi gration officials and were com pell ec to return to the conn tries from which they came. Various reasons wer? assigned for refusing to allow them to remain here, including those ol physical defects and the probability of their becoming public charges. The fiscal year 1910 was a "mil lion immigrant year," the first foi several years, the total number ad mitted being 1,041,570. To Fight; Open-Shop Policy. Organized 'abor in the District ol Columbia has begun to lay plans foi a systematized fight against the open shop policy. At a meeting of the presidents oi the 80 loeai trade unions and of th< executive committee of the Cenrta Labor Union, $10,000 was pledged a? the nucleus . of a defense fund te carry on the contest against the em ployers' and various other associa tions which have Jyeen seeking t< establish on a firm!' footing the open shop system. The men ey will be given by thc various unions, and >T?ere will bf raised, as needed, by assessment. Texas City Holds Record. Among, cirios of its size, San An tonion, Tex., holds the record of un delivered mail matter. Letters and packages found to b< non-deliverable by the post-office dur ing the last fiscal years reached tin tremendous total of 42,495 pieces. Ol these 2(3,525 had no return address and for tiiis reason had to be sent te the dead letter office. Most of th< pieces were letters, though there wen also many packages and several posta mon ev orders. Printing 3,000,000 Carcte a Day. The Government Printing Office liai reported to the Postoffice Departmenl that since the new postcard presse; have been installed the daily output is now approximately 3,000,000. Young Men Needed for Soldiers. The United States needs an armj of young, aggressive men, is the opinion of Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood who is in Washington getting ir touch with affairs before assuming bis new duties as chief of staff ol the army. Counterfeit Of $2 Bill. The appearance of a very pooi counterfeit of a $2 silver certificate has been reported to the Treasury Secret Service. It is of the series ol 1S99. with a portrait of Washington The note apparently is printed fron crudely made wood cut plates. To Name Peace Commission Soon. The personnel of the universal peace commission, provided for in the closing days in the last session of congress, will be named in the near future. Friends of the project still are hopeful that former President Roosevelt will accept the chairman ship. Five memb?rs will constitute the commission, all to be appointed by the president. It must report within two years. $40,000 Saved on Twine Contract. During the next fiscal year the Postoffice Department expects to use about 1,125,000,000 yards of binding twine. Postmaster-General Hitch cock has authorized the making of a contract for the purchase of this twine from the Planet Mills Manufac turing Company, of Brooklyn, N. Y, nt about 8 cents a pbund. deliveries to be made in various parts of the country. The contract will amount to $225,000. This is a saving of approximately .$40,000 as compared with previous years. $170,000 For Electric, Light Bulbs. Contracts have- been let by th? Treasury Department for electric light bulbs, of which the Government uses approximately 1,000,0000 a year The contracts aggregated about $170, 000. Four types of bulbs have been ordered. They are the carbon fila ment, which will cost 12.92 cents each; metalized filament, 14.85 cents; tanta lum filament, 29.70 cents, and tung sten filament, 40.08 cents. Pension Divisions Merged. Commissioner Davenport, of the Pension Bureau, has consolidated three divisions of his bureau into one branch, to be known as the Civil Wai Division. The consolidated office will handle all pension claims growing out of the war. The division grouped under one head were the Eastern. Western aud Southern divisions. The commissioner also has treated thc Re moval Division which will be charg ed with the removal from the liles of all thc superfluous, papers con tained in the great mass of pension records. Patriotism and ideals of People ' Noted by Traveler. PRESIDENT TAFT TALKS OF IT. Chief Magistrate and Family Cruising Along Coast of Maine-First Visit of a President to That Section. Eastport, Maine, Special.-Begin ning his ten dnys' stay in Maine President Taft reached the northeast corner of the United States Tuesday. It -was the first time a chief magis trate of the nation had visited this section of the State and for Mr. Taft it completed travels to the four quar ters of the country. He has not been to Key West as President, but he said that his tours of the United States always deeply impressed him with the homogeneity of the people-their aims, ambitions and the ideas of true American citizenship being every where the same. In his speech here the President, after stating that the proper way to understand the country is to go to the four corners and the places be tween, said: "Now I have been at Seaitle, San Diego, to the Southern-most point of Florida and now at Eastport, and I have found the same people, the same patriotic spirit, the same progressive civilization at each of these four points and also between them. When a man has had that privilege he may be said to understand the American nation. It is true that they talk a little more through their noses in this part of the country than they do far ther South, but the style of woman's bonnet is just thc same here as it was way down in San Diego. "I hope that in this audience I am addressing there are some Canad ians. You are close enough to them to know them and to value them as neighbors. Canada is a great coun try and we are just learning how great a country it is. Speaking for the administration we are convinced that a closer commercial relation with Canada will be well for both coun tries and if in the next year we can come to any agreements by which our commercial relations will be closer we shall think ourselves fortunate. We have reached a rime when neither ought to be envious of the uthcr, but each ought to be convinced that tho more prosperous the one the more likely the other is to be prosperous and that the growth of the trade of one means the growth of the trade of the other. It is pleasant to see that all the controversies between Great Britain and the United States w?iich in the past have been many are now settled or are in course of settle ment by arbitration. That is the first time in the history of the two coun tries when that could be said." President Appoints Colored Man. Washington, Special. -Whitfield McKinley, a negro real estate agent of this city, has been appointed col lector of customs here, the technica designation of the office being thc port of Georgetown, D. C. News of McKinley's selection by President Taft was received here Tuesday from Secretary Norton at Beverly. It is stated that the appoint ment signifies the recognition of ne groes in important Federal positions. McKinley came to Washington from Charleston, S. C., in 1884. ~and has taken an active part in politics. ? 1,800 Michigan Men Join Strike. Detroit, Special.-Tuesday night it was estimated that at least 1.S00 employes of the Grand Trunk in Mich igan have struck or are out of work as the result of thc strike inaugurat ed on that road Monda}'. Approxi mately 800 miles of railroad are idle as far as freight traffic is concerned and the passenger traffic is said to be considerably delayed at several points. To Make Insecticide Rules. Washington, Special.-A board of Government officials has been appoint ed to carry out the law of the last session of Congress to prevent the adulteration and misbranding of in secticides and fungicides. A series of regulations governing the manufacture of articles covered by the act will be prepared. In cidentally the Treasury Department if interested in the matter for the rea son that tobacco, which is subject to an internal revenue tax, is one of the ingredients of many of the pre parations of the character coming within the stope of the law. Break Up Officers' Foolishness. Washington, Special.-As a conse quence of the report'of a court of in quiry that unsatisfactory conditions 1 existed in the marine corps largely as the result of many officers having been in Washington too long, the headquarters staff with only a few exceptions was Tuesday ordered to new posts in different parts of the world. Woman Lawyer Scores a Victory. Chicago, Special.-Mrs. Mary .E. Miller, a woman lawyer, won a de cided victory before Judge Gibbons in the Circuit Court when after an hour and thirty minutes' deliberation, the jury that has heard her suit for $50, 000 attorney fees against the three ; Lloyd brothers, grandsons and heirs < of John Bross, once Lieutenant-Gory I ern or of Illinois, voted for a verdict \ of $32.51)0. This is the largest fe* J ever granted a woman lawyer ir America. The case has been on tria for nearly three weeks. THE NEWS MINUTELY TOLD The Heart of Happenings Carved From the Whole Country. Although cut in two by a locomo tive on the Reading Rail>ay at Land dale. Giovanni Mattera lost only a pint of blood, lived 1 hour and 12 miutes and was conscious until within 10 minutes of his death. Had one wheel run over him, the doctors said he would have died almost instantly. Eut the wheels of both the engine and tender passed over him and thus gave him a lease cf life that physicians call remarkable. As the wheels roll ed over Mattera, the tremendous weight welded the skin together in such a manner that the lower part of the trunk was virtually cowed togeth er,'thus preventing the blood from es caping and abo preventing hemor rhages. Shock killed Mattera, but he conversed w;th hie friends for more tLan a hour before death. Jimmie Holderby, the smallest man in Missouri, died at the home of his father, G. R. Holderby. of Kirks ville Friday. The funerai was large ly attended by Kirksville citizens wh? were personal friends of the little man. Jimmie was 28 years old and stood 3 feet 6 inches high in his stocking feet. He formerly acted as driver of one of his father's ice wagons, but the two prospered in the ice business and retired wealthy sev eral years ago. Jimmie was in strik ing contrast in size to the Missouri giantess, Miss Ella Ewing, a farmer's girl, who lives a few miles from Kirksville. Miss Ewing is 8 feet t" inches tall. She is believed to be the tallest woman in the history of the world. Ira G. Rawn, president of the Mo ??n Railway and one of the best known railway men in the country, was shot and killed by a burglar at his home in Winnetka, 111., a suburb of Chicago, early Wednesday. Twenty representative negroes and a delegation of whites, under Chair man McLeod, of the Democratic State Committee, visited Mayor Fitzgerald and made vigorous protest against the production of "The Clansman,,: now being played at the American Music Hall, at Boston. The Georgia Senate bas passed a bill declaring the drinking of intoxi cating liquors on passenger trains a misdemeanor, punishable by fine oi imprisonment. Joseph BennorSyChild sneezed him self to death, in a restaurant in New York. After shaking pepper into his soup he was seized with a fit of sneez ing and ruptured a blood vessel. He was 51 years old. As a result of 12 years' study of the problem of aviation, Robert J. McKinley, a Brooklyn inventor, has become mentally unbalanced and :s confined in a hospital for observation and treatment. Sam B. Dobbs, of Atlanta, was re elected president of the Association of Advertising Clubs of America, at Omaha, Neb. Boston was chosen as the place to hold the 1911 conven tion. Wm. Plunkett; at one time chief j operator for the Associated Press, at ? Louisville, Ky., was stricken with heart failure at his key in a down town brokers' office, at New New York, and quickly expired. He had been an operator for twenty years. General reports from all parts of British Columbia, confirmed by dis patches to Premier McBride, land minister Ellison and other otlicials at the Victoria, place the aggregate loss of the present week by forest fires at not less than $1.000,000. while fully $500.000 more will be lost in the enforced suspension of affected indus tries. Collector Loeb has ordered the cap tain of the Italian liner Duea di Ge nova to pay a fine of $7,870 for fail ure to put on the shin's manifest two "sleeper" trunks containing valu able lar-es brought to New York in Mav. 1909, but never claimed. Miss Carrie May Glover, daughter of ex-Mayor and Mrs. Charles L. Glover, was married at South Nor walk, Conn., to Thodore L. Adams, who was best man nt the wedding of the bride's father. Mr. Adams is e retired business man of Reading and 75 years old. His bride is just past 20. The father of the bride not only gave her away but returned the com pliment of 45 years ago and acted as .best man for the bridegroom. As the result of a mosquito .bite received while performing an autopsy in the Newark City Hospital, Dr. James S. Ford, of Newark, came near losing his life. It was announced at the hospital that a series of opera tions performed for the purpose of stopping the spread of the poison had proved successful and that the sur geon is now out of danger. Accord ing to the specialists who have been in attendance, the mosquito had evi dently gathered up poisonous sub stance from the cadaver over which Dr. Ford was working. These were injected into his blood when the mos quito bit him. The moon has lost its legal stand ing in Pennsjdvania. Joe Goshen, at Pittsburg, through his counsel, sought release from jail on the ground that, according to ihe moon he had served the month's time to which he had been sentenced. Jud?e Robert S. Frazer handed down a de cision that in legal or.criminal mat ters the moon has ever since 1821 by ruling of the .supreme court, been eclipsed by the calendar as a measure of time. The population of Chicago has passed the 2,000,000 mark, according to estimates based on the 1910 school census made public. The to tal minor population of the city is S14.115, an increase of 00,708 over the census of .1909. Samuel Gompers directed a great battle for years against the Buck Stove and Range Co.. which now agrees to employ union labor. One of the features of the struggle war the sentencing of Gompers and John Mitchell for contempt of court. arm Topics coooooooooooooooc , SAFE TO TRUST. The man who cheerfully sets ti? spade where his wife directs, and lends himself willingly to her desirei io the flower garden, has in him the vital elements of good citizenshij ?id is a safe man to trust. NOT GOOD LAYERS. Hens that begin as pullets to show si;rns of developing spurs very rarely make good layers; they will be found slow to come to the laying age, and their eggs will not be very numerous, ocr, as a general thing, will they ?rove very fertile. NOT GETTING RICH. At present prices of beef in the tn ?at markets the consumer feels that the farmer must be getting rich rals ?nr; cattle. However It is very often i long ways from producer to con sumer, a^d what the latter Is taxed ts no criterion as to what the former .eceives. JOYS OF THE COUNTRY. 1 The country bred boy has a great ..d^antage over his cousin, brought ip in the city, for he may move into he city, and absorb all the ways of* he town; but the city man can never ?ecome a true countryman, however Buoh he may be dissatisfied with his lity life, or long for the country. Per taps mankind- takes to the woods in mdding spring or golden summer, for he simple reason that his ancestors ived there. But while the longing to ;et close to nature during the open cai on is nearly universal the instinct br enjoying the wilderness is much ess widely distributed. Some persons ire happy at getting away from civll zatlon, others who fancy that they vant to leave the town behind are nade perfectly miserable by the lack if '.heir accustomed conveniences.' ?he splash of the water on the boat's ?des or the hum of the reel to such jers ons is no compensation for the ack of ice, the porcelain bath tub or :omfortable beds and rocking chairs. Your true son of the woods, city )red though he may be, counts all the mffuring that belongs to life out of loors as not grevious, but joyous. The liscomforts are not to be compared, n his opinion, to the delights of lamping and fishing and hunting. Perhaps the difference in tempera uent may be traced back to child looc-.. A person may be made almost inything if he is taught young. ;nongh. The psychologists have a .heory that all kinds of instincts man fest themselves for a time in the trowing child and then disappear, un ess special attention is given to their levelopment. This may account in )art for the diversity of feeling to vard nature that exists so unaccount ibly among men and women of oth irwi.se congenial tastes. The woods nay lure, Dut they aren't likely to ?aptivate unless the devotee early learned their ways. The taste for >ut-cf-door life may be cultivated to lome degree, but unless it was devel oped in youth it Is not apt to prove . .obust.-G. E. M., ip the Indiana Farmer. FLIES INJURE CROPS. Much has been written and printed sf late about flies as a menace to hu man health. But not a word has been said about the damage they do to cultivated crops, which in this jouncy must amount to scores of millions of dollars annually. Nearly all diseases of plants are lue lo fungi, usually microscopic Of such character, for example, are the "smuts" of wheat and other grains, the "mildews," the "rusts" and all the long list of fruit "rots" of various kinds. These and ever so many other vegetable maladies are attributable to minute fungi which feed upon the plants. The fungi in question are distrib Dted in a number of ways, but com monly by flies-that ls to say, by the muscidae and sarcophagldae, or, in other words, the house fly and its rel atives, and. the carrion flies. Those insects feed on almost everything im aginable, and, constantly flitting from place to place, are the universal dis tributers of the "spores" (correspon ding to seeds) of all kinds of fungi. Flies are extremely fond of odors. Some that are horrible to ns are mosl agreeable to them. They are attract ed to the cane fields by the smell ol fermenting sugar, and there feed os the sweet sap. Thus it comes abonl that spores of the fungi that cause the common diseases of the cane are found in the excreta of flies caught in the cane field. The "pineapple dis ease" is only one of a number which they are instrumental in distributing Another species of cane fugus is ol large size-a kind of mushroom. One of its spores, left by a fly on the cane, ls washed by rain to the ground, wherein it sprouts. Its vegetation later on produces a curious fruit which takes the shape of a whitish ball. That is to say, the ball Is 8 sort of case, inside of which the mushroom is tightly placed, like 2 jack-in-the-box. At daylight th? spherical box, which Is beneath the surface of the earth, bursts, and with in two minutes the mushroom ap pears above ground, attaining a bighi of three or four inches.-Technic;*' World Magazine. Roar of the Vatican Lion*. Mgr. Schaepfer, Bishop of Tarbea was yesterday celebrating mass in the Lourdes Grotto of the Vatican Gar dens for the benefit of the FrencI pilgrims, when the sound of roarini lions broke in on the singing of th* choir. The disturbance had been canset by the two Hons presented to the Pop? by the Emperor Menelik, which an enclosed in a cage at the back of th? grotto. In order to pacify the beash their feeding hour had to be anuri pated, and they forthwith ceased U disturb the service.-London Express Exports of Hungarian beans to thu United States in 1909 were of th* value of $1,170,000.