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LUKE 



the sordidness of the ancient city. There are 

 produced in Lucknow silver, copper and brass 

 wares, embroideries and cotton fabrics, and the 

 place is an important educational center. The 

 population is about 260,000, of which three- 

 fifths are Hindus, while the rest are Mohamme- 

 ians and Christians. 



LUCRETIA, lukre'shia, a heroine in early 

 Roman history, the virtuous wife of Lucius Tar- 

 luinius Collatinus, who was bitterly wronged by 

 Sextus, son of the seventh king of Rome, known 

 is Tarquin the Proud. After telling her story 

 .n the presence of her husband and father and 

 icr cousin Brutus, Lucretia slew herself with a 

 iagger. Her death was the signal for an upris- 

 ng. The Romans took oath that never again 

 ,vould they have a king in Rome, and they 

 Dlaced two consuls at the head of the state, one 

 if them being Brutus. The king and his sons 

 ivere expelled from Rome and never regained 

 power. See CONSUL. 



LUCRETIUS, lukre'shius, TITUS CARUS 

 'about 99 - about 55 B. c.), a Roman poet of the 

 irst rank. The only information concerning 

 lis life is found in a brief summary written four 

 centuries after his death. It is said he died by 

 lis own hand at the age of forty-four. His 

 *reat work, De Rerum. Natura ("Concerning 

 ;he Nature of Things"), a poem in six books, is 

 ?till unequaled as a philosophical poem. Its 

 ?reat object was to free mankind from the fears 

 D death and the life hereafter. This poem has 

 .nfluenced the writings of a number of the fore- 

 most poets of England; this is evidenced in 

 Fennyson's Lucretius. 



LUD'INGTON, MICH., the county seat of 

 Mason County, is a freighting center of impor- 

 tance and a summer resort. It is on the east 

 shore of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the 

 Marquette River, fifty-four miles north of Mus- 

 kegon and eighty-five miles northwest of Grand 

 Rapids. It is served by the Pere Marquette 

 Railroad and a fleet of car ferries which trans- 

 fer freight cars across the lake to ports in Wis- 

 consin and the northern peninsula of Michigan. 

 There are also electric interurban lines, and 

 steamboat lines to, Chicago, Milwaukee and 

 other lake ports. The area of the city is two 

 md a half square miles. Scandinavians and 

 Germans constitute nearly fifty per cent of the 

 population, which in 1910 was 9,132; in 1916 it 

 was 10,367 (Federal estimate). 



A breakwater constructed by the government 

 it a cost of $1,000,000 furnishes the city one of 



he best harbors on the lake. Epworth Heights, 



wo miles north of Ludington ; a student's mili- 



tary training camp north of Epworth Heights, 

 and Hamlin Lake, six miles north of the city, 

 are resorts which attract many summer visitors. 

 The city contains several parks, the county 

 courthouse, a United States weather bureau sta- 

 tion and a Carnegie Library. Ludington mami-i 

 factures lumber, formerly a more extensive 

 industry than at present, game boards, watch- 

 cases and printers' supplies, and has a large 

 trade in grain and fruit. 



A settlement was made in 1859 and named 

 for Pere Marquette; the explorer was buried 

 here, but later his body was removed to Point 

 St. Ignace. In 1871 the place was renamed in 

 honor of James Ludington, a lumberman, and 

 in 1873 it was chartered as a city. E.A.N. 



LUDWIGSHAFEN, loot viKs hah' fen, a city 

 of Southwestern Germany, lying directly across 

 the Rhine from Mannheim, and noted as the 

 commercial center of the Rhine Palatinate. It 

 was founded in 1843 by Louis I of Bavaria, as 

 an outpost against Mannheim. The largest 

 chemical factories in the world, the Badische 

 Aniline and Soda Works, are in Ludwigshafen, 

 and since the opening of the harbor in 1897 its 

 trade has developed greatly. There are manu- 

 factories of cellulose, fertilizers, flour, vinegar 

 and malt, sawmills, iron foundries, breweries, 

 brick works and woolen factories. Population, 

 1910, 83,300. 



LUGANO , loo gah ' no, LAKE OF, known to 

 the Italians as Lago Ceresio, lies at the foot of 

 the Alps, 889 feet above sea level. It is four- 

 teen and one-half miles in length and is situ- 

 ated partly in Lombardy, Italy, partly in the 

 Swiss canton of Ticino. The name is (ferived 

 from the town of Lugano, the only important 

 place on its banks. Picturesque villas stud the 

 lower slopes of the surrounding hills, which 

 abound in vineyards, olive and orange groves, 

 and forests of chestnut and walnut. From 

 Monte Salvatore, 2,982 feet in height, a beauti- 

 ful view of the picturesque town and lake is 

 obtained. 



LUKE, SAINT, "the beloved physician" who 

 accompanied Paul on two of his missionary 

 journeys, and who recorded in the third Gospel, 

 which bears his name, and in the Acts of the 

 Apostles, many events of the time in which he 

 lived. He was probably born in Antioch, where 

 he received a good education, not only as a 

 physician but also in literary lines. When Paul 

 went to Troas on his way to Macedonia, Luke 

 joined him, and from that time on he was an 

 intimate friend and companion of the apostle, 

 assisting him much through his knowledge of 



