Centre Reporter Centre Hall, Pa. DO INCHES MAKE THE MAN? Until the time of the war between Russia and Japan the short man was obliged to defend the prowess of his kind by citing Napoleon as an exam. ple of what short persons could do Balzac, the great French whose height was a trifle more than five feet, often half whimsically, often seriously, endeavored to show a con- nection between short stature and ex. cellence, novelist, It was also a source of con- solation to him and to other men who were not in the tall class, to read in history that the Roman conquerers were short. Put after the Russo-Japa- nese war it became evident to all that stature had nothing to with the case, unless, perhaps, the victory of the little Jap proved that the short man was the superior of the tall. But now municipal authorities in our cities, who say that a tall po- iceman {is better than a that a tall fireman {s the superior of a short Boston Globe, Five feet 74 is the limit of shortness to tolerated some, while others the a quarter of an inch. Others would low- er it balf an Supersti- tions die children, and, although far fro of giants, cling the hat inches make the do come the short and fireman, says inches be say lower standard inch We are more. hard. m awe age we to notion t man, Great Britain has just launched of the biggest of the dreadnought bat tleships which the steadily adding to the navy. American thing in this the information which has leaked out, notwith in which naval secrets are guarded, that the guns the arranged much one government i8 And that ideas good for some are connection is shown by he careful way standing t will United the latest design, on new vessel like those on States battleships of so that they can be fired one above an- other striking power at a given point of our ble points to all concentrate tremendous Build and ers warships giving valua- the world It will be when every boy who goes to t a good day in school ca unfail n multiply and when the rule of three and is tions, in bly, read distine he will have a has says Philadelphia Inquirer addition to that he can tly and spell correctly write legl gl betie than been con In trying we have ways of {ents skirts guch 3 woman who del to women wear. hot hile COUrse A her limbs before submiting herself to the dangers of the handicapped, unhampered physically, she likely would lack the ing begin to come Of ble £ n accide inevita. its are {berately binds iighway Is doubly Or even intelligence to dodge a street car. New York was four A man in gent to prison for five-cent looking-glass. right. A man his opportunities in the face of such shining examples ought to be shut off from the rest of society. for stealisg a It served him who makes so little of years A bank in Spokane is fssuing anti- septic money. Still, while sanitary banknotes may fit in better than the others with the progressive ideas of the age, as far as the others are con cerned, with all thelr germs, we love them still. “Did Washington swear? asged periodical. We don’t know, but some enlightenment could be furnished {if we knew whether Martha's dresses were buttoned down the back. o Some genius has Invented a ma chine for testing operatic voloes. It will not help much unless it makes it possible for the operator to go away and leave It after he sets it going, A New York street car jumped the track and ran into a saloon. An amas. ing instance of the power of sugges tion; the car driver was doubtless very thirsty. Considered as an aerial racer the carrier pigeon may not be quite up to date, but its motor seldom if ever gots out of order. ——— A man has been found starving himeel! because he feared the end of the world was at hand. There must be such a thing as the rash bravery of cowardice, A writer sagely remarks that there is no excuse for drowning. Unfor tunately, apologies are never offered, It's a wise man who ean guess two times out of three which way the cat is going to jump. . CLOUDBURST CAUSES DISASTER R. 1. TRAI srr Twelve Lives Lost and Eleven Others Injured. BIG STEEL BRIDGE WASHED AWAY. Train Ruanning at #High Rate of Speed Plunges Into Gap———FPassens gers Carried Into With Wreckage and Drowned Dead Are Nearly All Members of Going from Kansas City to Denver. Crew — Passengers Clayton, Kan. (Special) persons lost their lives and 11 others suffered injuries in wreck west bound Rock Island train running to Denver from sas City. The the result of cloudburst, which carried out a steel bridge and turned what is normally almost a dry bed into a torrent many yards wide. The water washed out nearly a thousand feet of track also The train, running at full speed, plunged into the gap The locomo tive and the mail car went into feet of water The chair car almost telescoped the smoking car ahead of it. Several passengers i cars were killed almost Others were carried into stream with the wreckage and drown- ed It was many before the bodies could be a passenger Kan- wreck was a n these two instantly the raging hours recovered Passengers in the Pullman and other day were hurled their berths or seats by the Those who were able the storm and gave ance they could the Was impossible sometime tempt to the dead. Uninjured passengers hurried Clayton, two miles away, coaches what assist injured it 10 of into 10 for extricate bodies BEL all killed smoking car those (Special) Ww ‘hicago Gen Manager »" this wrock i, engineer and and fis or DASSenEers €y >. Eight in Norton throe athe under cars been taken to d have ausas."”’ The message was by the isior superintendent m the » of the wreck SAIL OVER THE ALPS. Chavez Badly Hurt Near End of Perilous Flight, nodossoia, Italy {81 inl) The great feat of crossing Enow- barrier between Italy in a was accomplished the young FPeru- " ¥ + 1 y capped Alpine Switzeriand and heavier. than-air machine by George Chavez, via aviator The plucky however, lies hero of the in the Domodossola hospital badly injured as the result of an accident that occurred just as he had completed the arduous and perveracking portion of a iask he had set out to accomplish-—a flight from Brig, in Switzerland, across the Alps to Milan, in Italy, In all a dist- ance of about 75 miles. Both his legs are broken, thigh is fractured and his body badly contused, but the physicians in attendance are of the opinion that these hurts will not prove fatal and that unless unlooked-for complica- tions ensue Chavez will be about two months exploit, moat his left is 14 Months for Heart Broker. Chicago (Special) Isaac Warns, “broker in hearts.” styled himself, was sentenced Judge Landis to serve 14 months the Federal prison at Fort worth for using the mails to defraud Warns confessed that he had used R by in of his marriage bureau. lars, depicting the sadness of lonely old age, were read in court One of his books, sent to prospective custom- ers, was entitled “The Way to Win a Woman's Heart,” It contains the following passage: “You do not know what it is to live alone, uncared for; unknown when old age over- ils uo SE epnijog ‘noi saxM norrible agony.” Firemen Rescued. Chicago (Special). Fire in the twine plant of the Deering Harvester Works caused $200,000 loss. Mem- bers of the two companies of firemen were overcome by smoke in upper stories of the plant, but were rescued by comrades. Colombia-Venezuela Break. Bogota, Colombia {8pecial) There hasbeen a rupture between Colombia and Venezuela. The Vene guelan Government telegraphed the members of the Venezuelan legation to lave Bogota and await instructions at Panama, The nature of the com: plication is not known here. Great uneasiness has been caused by this turn of events. Up to evening the Foreign Office had received no ox- planation of the matter, nor had the Venezuelan legation any information which would throw light on the situs- tion. TO PREVENT RATE INCR An Organized Fight Against the Rail roads---Truth is Wanted, Kan, to the Topeka, (Special) Organized opposition proposed INCreases in freight rates was begun here at 150 1 of commercial and public o Middle Western States, | The fight against the proposed rat to be carried on principally before railway a conference of more than presenta tives ganiza tions of | to | Interstate Commerce Commission, | The resolutions adopted declare for equitable in if the roads can show that present rates are un d a in OwWs Lhe present of are nmereiase rales ran remunerative: deman decrease if i i i rates mvestigation sh rates are (00 restriction high; ask a pre found remunerative; call for | Federal Interstate sent rates advance if a mandatory aw, making it the Commerce ( make a valuation { property, { ment piysical and demand a of anti-{rust he meeting was opened with Ktubbs of riygiq 1 IAWS { dress by (raovernor Governor Rtubbs reviewed the {and ended by declaring “my ho eeting will demand from th this mn ¢ naked truth Murdo American rangle Hor MacKenzie Live virman of § ifs PREFER SOLDIERING. Baseb: Among Player and Reporter Arc Those Who Enlist. A MOTHER'S LONG CHASE. Traveled 15000 Miles to Find Her Kidnapped Daughter. Special i THIEVES ARE CAPTURED, Three of the Four Who Stole Coun- | try Fair Receipts. Me n who sto Three of ntasm Special four m le a box ot ny IR the day's receipts at the Cumber at Gorkam Fourteen hundred was found upon them. threw away 2300 when were captured near dollars of the One of the he realized t ere the officers where they might find it The men gave their names as John Mor gan, K. Miller and King. whereabouts of man known. LE the ¥ or James iE The is not LIGHTNING KILLS FOUR. Storm Wreaks Death in a Town in Colorado. Springs, Col. Lightning Killed four persons during a storm in the vicinity of Eastonville and Elbert, 25 miles northeast of here. The dead are: Mrs, Gus Klatz, of El bert, Col.; Mrs, Julius Elotz, of Klowa, Col.; James Bland, of Plattaburg, Col, and William Lolcama, of Eastonville, Col. Colorado { Special) ~~ sr———_ Groom 78 and His Bride 30. Louisville, Ky." (Special) ~