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The
Centre Reporter
Centre Halil, Pa.
ALIMONY AND DIVORCE,
is sure to be charged with “woman's
Inhumanity
be
woman,”
the
for proiessing to
shocked at multiplicity of di
total abolition of alimony, says Omaha
Bee She conceives the
alimony to be the chief
vorces granted to women
prospect of
cause of di
and
Undoubtedly many de
take
and
pimple graft
signing women can consistently
mo exceptions to these charges,
it is not to be questioned that some
unscrupulous lawyers will co-operate
‘with women for the
taining financial emolument
the operation of the
But that alimony, or the desire to ob
the prevail
women
of ob
through
purpose
divorce
dain alimony, constitutes
ing cause
seeking legal separations
husbands, it is hard to
more than it
Just to
ing alimony.
to recognize that there is such a thing
and purpose of
from
believe,
safe or
any
would be wise,
do away with the law provid.
for Society has come
as a justifiable divorce, and there is
certainly
needing
the man from
woman
from
such a thing as a
and deserving
support
whom she geeks and ob
tains a divorce, and to abolish alimony
would work hardship on n
ape children, alike blameless
causes as well ag the
aration
Has everybody
There wa
trepidation and
comet?
the
aroused by
stead of
ise of
derer,
RCTO8S
once, and so
cerned, it Is
comet Is not
tance from the
be seen
is further
the sun
The C
been so
port
have left
they
their own
anadian authorities have
disturbed
much over the re
that 15,000 American
dian northwest
have
admission
families
States
claim tha
anada
entered Car
s
i
Perhaps 8
to investigate
A Loui
combined p
tongs. With
gtrument you
from your
pick it out
part,
why
auyone take
much trouble purpose of
curing a pickle
if it
must go
will lose charm
has affording the
young man an opportunity to show the
girl how he can handle the oars He
will never followed by
a life
comes
with Very anoe Canoein
YORue
been in
its
always
congent to be
saver
One of New York's fashion experts
makes the interesting
that milliondires are the best
dressed The millionaires ap
pear to be bearing up as hopefully as
could be expected
announcement
not
men
“A hearty laugh is a good thing for
indigestion,” says one of doe-
tors. In these days the trouble is
to find the thing that will provoke a
hearty laugh.
the
One of the ministers candidly an
nounces that automobile secorchers
have no chance to go to heaven. But
there are probably no automobiles in
heaven, anyway.
Why Is It so astounding that a man
in an aeroplane can go faster than a
bird? Doesn't a man on a Jocomo
tive go faster than a greyhound or &
race horse?
If the cow shows Its appreciation
of music by giving a bigger vield of
milk, why not try the esperiment on
chickens during the egg famine”
Aviators seem annoyed because an
airship was wrecked by a flag pole
Yet a flag has a right to fly ag well ae
a biplane
Fears have been expressed 441
the weather bureau has misind
the warn wave flag
BY COL. HARVEY.
“A Plea for the Conservation of
Common Sense” That ls Meeting
With Cordial Approval.
A strikingly strong article by Colo
nel George Harvey in the North
American Review, for September, is
written In a view of such hopeful
ness for the American future that it
has attracted wide attention. The
article Is entitled, “A Plea for the
Conservation of Common Sense” and
it 18 meeting with the cordial ap
of political opinion throughout the en-
tire country. In part Colonel Harvey
BAYS:
“Unquestionably a spirit of unrest
dominates the land But, if it be
true that fundamentally the condition
of the country ig sound, must we
necessarily succumb to despondency,
abandon effort looking to retrieval
ang cringe like cravens before clouds
that threaten? Rather ought
we not to i
analyze conditions, search
for ci 8, find the the dis
even now only in
th
hen after
appl;
likely to
only
root of
CXInin
nitat o aia ut
Capital an Labor No
srecedent
made along
a? " 5»
jualifica
how
iz coward.
contribute
his
dear
from battle, so it
not to
well-bel
my own
tizen
share to the ng of
America is
she novrishes me, and [ will
her and do my duty to her,
whose child, servant and civil soldier
country
Ty
land;
tava
love
1 am
As the
my body
happiness of
each muscle
and nerve drop of blood doing
its work in piace, so the health
and happiness of my country depend
upon citizen doing his work in
his place.
“These young citizens are our
hostages to fortune. Can we not
safely assume that the principles ani
mating their lives augur well for the
permanency of the Republic? When
before have the foundation stones
of continuance been lald with such
care and promise of durability?
“The future, then, is bright. And
the present? But one thing is need
ful. No present movement Is more
laudable than that which looks to
conservation of natural resources.
But let us never forget that the great.
est inherent resource of the Amer
jean people is Common Sense. Let
that be conserved and applied with.
out cesaation, and soon It will be
found that all the {lls of which we
complain but know not of are only
such ans attend upon the growing
pains of a great and blessed country,
DA RABBIS
and
upon
health
depend
and
its
each
Spiritualization,
Religion saouid be native it
should be concrete and applicabls,
Religion js the natural expression of
living, not a set of actions or of hab
its, or a posture of the mind added to
the daily life. The type of religion
therefore, is conditioned on the Kind
of living, and the kind of living is
conditioned, in its turn, very large
ly on the physical and eceonomic ef
foctivancas of lige. The religion of
the open country should run deep into
the indigenous affairs of the open
country.
ROOSEVELT DEFINES
HIS POLITICAL CREED
The Colonel Discusses the New
Nationalism.
MAKES HOT REPLY 10 MIS CRITICS.
He Declares His Doctrine to Be Only
the Application of Old Moralities
to Modern Conditions — He Insists
That There Is No Revolution and
No Appeal to Mob Rule — Wants
Corporations, But Would Regulate
Them.
Bay, N. Y.. {
dore Roosevelt says that he
Oyster Theo
is not talking
revolution in declaring his new political
creed. Neither is he making an appeal to
defense of his
nationalism” he de
that he was merely urging the
to modern con
mob rule. In a stan
doctrine of the “new
ap
plication of old moralities
same time he replied
been op
lenouneed
with spirit {« 4 who have
posing News
ked at
QUITS COLLEGE
White House and As
Her Mothers
PANAMA CANAL PROGRESS.
Big Increase In Excavation for Month
of August,
August
$b al
' he total $
isthmus. Th amonntof
was 2 813.462 cubic vards place 531i 1%
ment, against 2 400,288 yards in the pre
The increase is ac
for by the fact that there were §
days in August
inches rainfall
Working than
with two
{oncrete
Jo nu
dams and
146 553
laving in the
steadily mg
great
1
locks also reased,
131.653 vards in July
THUGS ROB AGED WOMAN.
Attempt to Give Alarm,
Columbus, (0. {Special}.
Miller, a
plone at Taylor's Station, near
awoke and found two robbers at her bed:
side. They botind her with ropes and
searched the house, but found only 89
widow, aged BZ vears,
here
WHITE DEFEATS CURTISS
Englishman Thereby Wins $3,000
Harvard Cup.
1 LN i
Boston { special )
Driving
monoplane at approximately
minute, Claude Grahame White, the Eng
lish aviator, brought to a successful clos
his first American engagement by defeat
ing Glenn H. the Am fl
and gpead champion of the Rir,
na special match speed test at the Har
vard field at Atlantie He de
feated Curtiss by 16 and 4.5 ses in a
five-and.a-quarter-mile race. White there
by won the 23.000 Harvard cup and made
a new speed mark for the field by going
the course in 5 minutes 47 4-5 seconds
White added to his winnings the
John Hays Hammond Cup, the second
prize for a special bomb throwing econ
test lalph Johnstone
tor, took the first prize, the City
Curtiss, 17
rican
world’s
aviation
On as
also
the Wright avia
of Bos
ton cup.
This
Harvard
marred by
of nearly a
English
with
luding
meet,
was the cone day of
and it
rihy
aviation
the first notewd ACC
fortnight’'s flying A
Boe, an flier, who has had
nek
ond machine
seriously injured himsel
we field ho
taken in
NEW $10, NO NEW GOAT.
When Woman Set Out
Buy a New Hat
‘ragedy
WHEAT CROP A BUMPER
Yield May
Year
Mail Pouch
Was
Stolen.
[ Kew i
™ A
SORitie, 18 missed
postal
1 he pack-
government trail to
and § supposed x loseal
thorities to rave been stolen,
waa sent over tiv
Valdez, Se men have been at
work on/the mystery for several days,
oret service
Desperado Shot Down.
Ada. Isaac
Birmingham, { Special)
i for murder, was
shot to death by
miles south of Springfield.
a posse of citizens four
The
killed. Glover killed Capt.
ty, last Sunday. The murder was with
provocation, it is said. About 50
armed men with dogs found the negro in
fire with a pistol and shotgun. Fifty
filled with bullets,
Slays Woman, Kills Himself.
Oshkosh, Wis. (Special). ~Mrs, Louisa
fell, breaking her ankle,
pants. The robbers escaped,
AA os
Sad Story of Love.
Memphis, Tenn, (Special) Ending a
yomance which was to have terminated
in a marriage, but was disrupted by death
in Memphis, Mrs. Olive Weiler, a widow,
28 years old, wired her mother for funds
tq ‘return home to Philadelphia, She
had come to this city fo marry John
Gregory, the sailor, whose body was
found floating in the Mississippi River,
Mrs. Weiler read the news of his death
in a local paper which she had pur.
chased with her last nickel, The body
of Gregory was sent to Warren, R. IL
killed himself.
Gigantic Post Card.
Enid, Okla. (Special). —~What is be
loved to be the largest post card ever
mailed was sent to a firm of attorneys in
Austin, Tex. The card is 26 inches long
and 38 inches wide and weighs a fraction
fess than four pounds. Jt was sent by
Isaiah Armond, of Enid, having written
several letters fo the law firm and re
ceived no reply, determined to ges an
answer or be satisfied the communication
reached its destination. Hoe had the ecard
mado by a printing company. Tt is as
large as Fy regulations permit and re
quired $1.20 for stampa.
a
| ON GOOD TERMS WITH WIFE
THEFT 13 SOLVED,
m » |
lhe Money Disappeared Over
Three Years Ago. |
CASE WAS SECRETLY WORKED UP.|
George W, Fitzgerald, Who Was An |;
Assistant In the Chicago Sub-|
treasury, Arrested as He Was Leav- |
ing His Brokerage Offices—Several | sare bi wid dag.
Big Ventures He Had Started Since! he knew conte in
He Left Government Employ—The |
Indictment Kept a Secret, |
Chanler Put Out Over Publicity
Given Private Affairs,
{ pe
Lier
x
on on the part of M
carrying out «
Progress
piatled Hs
terms wilh
an antenup
Or 53 3
said thal
had
wife wher & iI shat
i ven i ang that
ry A id ’
gned Devoted Robert
| true statement of his feelings
best of
» -
y the
ner ne |
23 w
i Bi expressed tf
Mr Har-
er’s statement only
Chicagre { Special Lioare 4
MICago pecial COTE ve ris added to Mr. Chan
gerald, a former assorting teller in the | the remark that he disctiss the
Chicago Dublreasury, was arrested by j®iualion since there wa ys mit won lo
charged | My
A
deputy United States marshals,
shorne,. of
ng & Osborne,
g Mme,
enun
ing 10 say rumor
r the antenuptial sgreement
sisted
CONS
rou
with the theft o 173,000 ths Cus
i t th f $173, i Lavalieri's representatives in this
ously disappeared fron try, had not} about the
treasury on February 10, 1907, Ontest over
arrested on
ndiciment
Fitzgerald was
warrant
cretly by
DAREQ On an
rne’s
rand jury on
a Federal
17, 1910. The
icliment
existence of
Was suppressed
PP
}
ABRUZZI-ELKINS
The Duke Said to Have
. . age BET a3 Engagement.
FARMER HANGS HIMSELF, De ;
Disheartened Because Unable to Buy
jack Old Farm.
Minn Qrerial
¥ x
Nary, in
pie
3
pke,
Tabard
iubbara
rriage of
1 a ernd allows three § f 172i and Miss Katherine
Nary and 1 declares,
* that
o the marriage,
Abruzzi himself
or personal reasons.
les hime
res i pot chosen “wi it of cor adiction, the
i half mile from the ; full consen
main traveled road near the farm which that the Duke
Knopke formerly owned. A farmer pass off the match
ing near the tree saw the body of
Knopke and cut it down, but life had
long since been extinet.
The suicide of Knopke, who is mar
ried and has a family, is peculiarly
pathetic. He came to Nary several years
ago from Minneapolis, where he worked
in a saw mill, and finally bought a farm
He became discontented, sold
Not long ago
the deed was a
Six Feet of Bronchitis,
New York (Special I'he Bronx Park
Zoo python has the bronchitis, six feet of
it. and from his actions he indicated that
he considered himself the hardest luck
animal in the outfit The zoo physicians
are having the utmost difficulty in treat-
ing the python, not kbowing just how far
down his bronchial tubes extent, and
fearing that if they apply their remedies
too low, stomach disorder may result.
Rix feet of what is believed to be the
python’s neek have been wrapped in
porous plasters,
his place and went West,
the farm, but had not sufficient
funds to make the deal. Three weeks
ago be told his wife he was poing to
North Dakota to visit his two brothers
and secure funds to again own his old
home. He disappeared and the next
time he was seen was when the dead body |
was found dangling at the end of a self. |
adjusted rope.
Killed Over 15 Cents
i Galatia, HL (Special) Walter
| Holliday was shot and killed by Joseph
| Wiggins at a ball game between the
{ Thompsonville and Galatia teams. Holli
Trenton, Ky. (Special), — Robbers! day was acting as gatekeejsr and was
foreed an entrance into Bank of | endeavoring to collect 15 conte, the price
Trenton and stole $100, all in copper of admission, from Wiggins. Wiggins
cents. The other funds in the safe were | fled and is being purened by a posse with
not disturbed, blood hounds,
Sold the Pope's Hair. What Automobiles Cost.
Rome (Special) It was noticed some. | Washington (Special), — Statements
time ago that Anthony Graziadsi, ome © "that Western banks were loaning money
the Pope's personal attendants, was 4, freely for luxuries, particularly anto-
spending far more money than his wages mobiles, have Jed to the gathering of
as a servant justified, He was carefully | some statistios in Texas.
Wateud, ad it eas learned Jhat whan. Tha bankers there estimate the value
ever the Pope had his hair ent, Grasiadsi |
gathered the shorn locks and sold: them Of 11 automobiles in the state at $43,
to the faithful, epesially foreigners, thus | 000,000, which is more than one-half the
making several sand lire annually. | combined capital of all the state banks.
When char with doing this by Mon. | They also estimate the annual deprecias
signor Ascaitelli, prefect of the apostolic | tion for which there is no remedy at $15,
aces, Graziadsi confessed and was ies (00, , of four times the annual fire
A Ai
Bank Robbers Get Coppers.
the
dns
|
missed. Josses of the state