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RURAL LIFE WORTH WHILE Conference Seeks to Adapt Religious Environment to Farm. Conservation of farm life as the source of Ihe action's greatest manhood is the! aim of New Jersey's lirst Country j Church Conference, which opened to-, day at State College. Clergymen and laymen representing every rural county in the State attended. The conference takes the place of the usual Farmers' Week program, the subjects usually treated at the later sessions having been assigned for institutes and county board of agriculture meetings. Dr. W. il. S. Demurest, president of Rutgers College, presidejl, and welcomed the delegates. He expressed the belief that a greater duty confronts th State in its attitude toward the rural community than merely leaching the farmer to grow better crops, and suggested- that the reason that many of the country's best families are getting away from the farm, despite the increased efficiency in crop production, is that the social and spiritual life of the country community has not kept step with material advancement. How one township is settling the problem of making farm life brighter was told In interesting manner by Rev. jt. H, M. Augustine, president of the Hanover Community League, in Middlesex county. Here a man with a vision of what the ideal rural community should be like has brought bankers, merchants, farmers, school teachers and clergymen into associated activities that have produced a model community life after which national movements for country life betterment ore being patterned. nmr~tlie time -has passed when the country church is satisfied with the <. college divinity student, who aspires to a city pulpit as soon as he can shake

the rural dust from his shoes, was the dominant note in a round-table conference conducted by Dr. J. I- Searle. president of the Theological Seminary of Ihe Reformed Church of America, and Dr. Kdwin I,. Earp. of the Drew Theological Seminary. Dr. R. M. ' West spoke tonight on "The I.ife for | Which the Rural Community is -—HPALL THROUGH THE STATE — Delegates are arriving at Scrnnton in large numbers for the State Educational Convention. — Harleton saloonists again oppose annexation of West Hazleton to the city with a doubling of license fees. — Hazleton's Country Club was partly unroofed, and several new buildings rocked off their walls by Sunday's —Francis J. Torrance has been elected president of the Western Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane Building —In a blinding snowstorm at Myerstown, a Rending train ran down and killed Aaron Blecker. aged 03, for 30 years employed on the road. —Miss Katherine Koons. an aged nurse, was perhaps fatally hurt at Carlisle. when she was run over by a horse driven by two unidentified young —Father William Graham, of St. I'at rick's Church, Pittsburgh, who refused to return to Ireland to claim millions in the Hare estate, has been badly injured by burglars. —The Public Service Commission hea'il objections to ordinances of Frackville granting permission to the Sc-huvlkill Railways and Electric Company' to use its highways.

INSURABLE DOMESTICS Workmen's Compensation Board Names Hotels, Hospitals, Etc. Harrisburg, Dec. .—At a meeting today the Workmen's Compensation Hoard adopted a rule that the term "domestic service" as used in the new compensation law, which goes into effect January 1. applies only to service in a private homo, and does not applyto service in a hotel, hospital or other institution. Under the law farm labor and domestic .servants are exempt from compensation benefits, and the ruling ; of today makes this term apply i<> private families only, and proprietors of boarding Houses, hotels, etc., will lie required to comply with the terms of the At the same rime the Board exempted 43 organizations and corporations from the necessity of taking out State or corporate insurance, being sntished that they 'can meet all claims against them from current revenues. Among those so exempted were the school districts of Philadelphia, Scrnnton and Lebanon and the cities of Brad lord and Altoona. FROM OTHER VIEWPOINTS line. AS a prime war necessity, it is be Government inquiry might soothe the feelings of consumers without Impoverishing John U.— New York- World. Norway has at last discovered who put the "Jay" in •Fjord."— Boston Transcript. Maybe It would be a good plan for the British to ask an armistice of the Central Powers while they wash out their dirty linen In public.— Rochester Herald. There are some evidences that the Ford peace expedition is growing a little tired of itself.— Cincinnati Times-Star. Lloyd George says that whether England wins or loses the war depends on the labor unions. That is a statement to be remembered. It is not unlikely that it will find a place in the history books. - Charleston News and Courier. Horse meat has been placed on the New York biU of fare by the Health Board. A saddle of colt ought to be palatable.— Detroit Journal. Maybe the Vienna papers that consider the American note "uncouth" consider it polished conduct to shell women and children.— Cleveland Leader. The value of the principal furui crops in the United States this year was something more than $5,500,000,000. and yet there are those who think the present prosperity is all a matter of war munitions.— St. Louis Republic. What better proof that America is thej land of opportunity than that Mrs. Del, Drago, of New York, is able to give $2.-1 000,000 to suffering Italia us?- Louisville Courier-Journal. Reports that Colonel Roosevelt himself suggested the Gary dlnut-r revive iinpres- , slous of a personally-conducted overwhelming demand.— Washington Star.

STICK TO OFFICEHOLDERS I New Bucka County Officials Make Few and Slight Changes. Doylestown, Pa., Dee. — . -Appointments in the Bucks county row offices were made today, and ail who are to serve under the newly-elected county officers and who take up their duties the beginning of the New Year are already in the office-holding class, as folWillium U. Murphy, of Bristol, reappointed Deputy County Treasurer. Burroughs Mlcheiior. of Mechanicsvllle, appointed deputy by Recorder Horace G. Boeder, of Newtown. A. Harry Clayton, of Doylestown, retained as deputy by Register of Wills Oscar 0. Bean. The present Deputy Sheriff, Nelson K. Leathernian, has been reappointed by Sheriff Charles Gam, of Morrisville. Clerk of the Orphans' Court Charles Brown, of Bristol, has appointed Johu W. Birkey. of Bristol township, as deputy. The present Clerk of the Quarter Sessions, William F. Kelly, has been ap- ■ pointed deputy by Clerk of the Sessions Joseph Slack, of Penn'a Bark. POVERTY OFMUDFLATS Atlantic City Meadow Squatters Found in Wretched Condition. Atlantic City. Dec. r:.— The destitute condition of people of the houseboat colony who squat in squalor on the meadows between the Pennsylvania and Reading Railroad lines, near the entrance of (lie resort, aroused the ' city authorities to action today and the > squatters will be compelled to move. , Several of the colony were found in n half-starved condition. Benjamin ' Chambers, aged "king" of Hie squat- ' lers, was in such weakened condition that it was impossible to move him to . the City Hospital and he may die. 1 Chambers iiad lain in a bunk in his I houseboat since Friday night without , a thing to eat or drink. The colony is composed of poor fish- 1 ermen and their families who have ' been hard hit by the frigid weather. They drag old barges upon the mud- . flats and then construct shelters aboard 1 for their homes. '

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II SHOW FULL SNAP AND GINGER COMING JAN. 17

There's One of the Greatest Dance Features Ever Seen, "Sita," Presented by MLLE. SIMONE DE BERYL The Charming Widows, a his bur--.vhi.-li is new in every detail! will conic ro the- Trocadero Theatre week Januas' one of the top-notch attractions on the American Circuit, is a big druwini card, and the advance sale of tickets is some of the best known entertainers in the Held of burlesque, and in all there are thirty-five people, including twenty show is resplendent in new and stun eial stage settings and novel elcctrica. effects. The management lias tried to get away from the stereotyped brand of burlesque, and has interjected a variety of novelties into the production. Probably the most interesting feature is the boardwalk runway, extending form the stage right through the audience to the lobby of the theatre. On this runway many of the musical numare introduced, and this gives the audience n close view of the girls. Eddie Dale, the clever little German comedian, is the coinmandqs-in-cliief of the fun brigade, and his able lieutenants include Sam Carlton, Hebrew funster; Jimmy Cooper, in a straight role; Paulino Palmer, "The Ginger Girl;" Ada Lum, prima donna; Dainty Ilcleu Stanley, ingenue: Hugh Skelly and Harry Peterson. The claim is made that the chorus is the handsomest aggregation of girls in burlesque. The girls are not only young, but tliey are also excellent singers and dancers as well. The musical numbers include the latest popular songs, as well as "Wanda," "There Was a Time'' and "Sailing Down Honeymoon Bay," which were written expressly for the show. The lirst part is supposed to take place on the grounds of the Chantilly Yacht Club, in France, and the story has to do with the laughable exKriences of Herman Klutz (Eddie ale) and Izz.v First (Sam Carlton). In the second act the scene shifts to the Polo Grounds at Long Island, and Klutz and lzzy are still involved in laughable mixups. Vaudeville specialtics will be interpolated. The added attraction is "Sita," in which Mile. Simone l)e Beryl is featured in a sen- I Rational dance. This act will be presented with special eostiimes and stage

The Up'to*date Burlesque Theatre it. I jj THE TROCADERO THEATRE. The above picture shows the favorite burlesque as caught by the camera of Mr. Dickinson, of 1020 Arch street- . This theatre is the real burlesque house, where clean, up-to-date burlesque shows are seen. Manager Bobby Morrow believes in giving his patrons the best in the theatrical lir.e; hence the big crowds that are seen daily at the Trocadero. It's a theatre where you meet pleasant people who greet you always with a welcome smile and where grouch has no time.

IN ALL PARTS OF JERSEY —Daniel Mumford, of Woodbury, has sot aside seven acres of laud for the exclusive use of the Gun Club. —Since the boom struck Paulstioro last August. 98 houses have been erected and —Justice of the I'eace Daniels has started a crusade against crap-shooters at Gihhstown, and arrests are to be made. —An entertainment will be held at the YVillf.imstowii M. E. Church tonight, to swell the fund for a free reading room. —The monthly meeting of the Camden county Firemen's Association wn< held • hj8t^ night in the Onklyn Fire Company —High winds on Sunday ripped off a section of the tin roof of the Broad Street M. E. Church. The Interior of the edifice was undamaged. —A "Holiday Dance" will be held In the Hlghtstown Opera House tomorrow evening, under the auspices of Engine Company No. 1. — The church of Westville, Me -In,"-'' ioucd watch night service, beginning 10.30 Friday night.

—Most of the ice houses in South Jersey are still empty, the first crop having melted while the farmers were waiting for a heavier freeze. -The Atlantic County Board of Chosen Freeholders will elect Samuel \\ interbottom. of Egg Harbor, director at the organization Saturday. — William Clnwgcs. retiring chief of the Burlington Fire Department, has been presented with a silver shaving set by I tie Board of Engineers. —When a bicycle which he was riding struck a rut In the road, at l'auisboro, throwing lilm heavily to the ground. William Seeds was badly Injured. —I. C. Savltz, former Assistant Stale Commissioner of F.diicntion. will address ihe next meeting of the Westmont I'ar-ent-Toncher Association, on Jannary 10. —The annual dance of the Millvllie theManumuskin Hall. The proceeds' were donated to the Public Library Association. — M. M. Borden, of Colilngswood. an expert on municipal water supply, will lecture on the bacteriological condition ot water, at the Hnddoufielu Y. M. C. A. tonight. —Noah Stcelm.m. a Millvllie fireman, =<= suffering with tetanus, the result of ',-:d tooth. His jaws are looked vnysiclnns are making every effort to save his lite.

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