Centre Reporter Centre Hail, Pa. CANDY SALES FALLING OFF. “This feminine craze for being slen- der has knocked the out of our hn " sald the man in charge of a dovtowh branch of a big candy concern. “Some men who were good for at least $10 worth of candy each week never come inside the door now, and trudging past the of fruit I made up my mind their wives and daughters or sweethearts have taken BR stand against candy. One man with BR wife four daughters, %o be a splendid the other day home with a viper as with a 6-pound box of candy, although a year ago he used to buy two bH-pound boxes each week, says the New York Sun. We notice difference in small sales employed in offices, There's not half the number of Yor half-pound boxes, though our sales of sweet always big, as lots of business women nibble it instead of taking a regular luncheon The continual running In of office boys to execute commissions for the stenographers and telephone operators ds getting to be a thing of the past, and lemon drops the sweets these business girls will eat. geems to bottom 18iness, them package 1 see with a when store who used told come and customer, me that he'd as soon the same to women calls chocolate are are about only Every mother's daughter be dead set against gaining an ounce of flesh, and until it's fashionable to be piump again I we'll notice this difference Suppose in sales” has come a wall concerning and pre From Wisconsin at the dense ignorance geography with which high paratory school graduates come up to the university. Recent tests made by the departm geology 4n fir year physiography have Weloped diff Among Rhe freshmen whether Rhine is In Asia or 8 has developed #nformation as to cities as Vienna, Ven Hongkong whereabouts of the 44 de erence opinion an astounding the location iI in ng 23 trv and In tryi Pyrens casus, Himalaya and Sierra mountains gnost half the five, Post. Jn which nel any falrly know, only men tested were recorded as making fis 8ays fact, In ded on iy tutor one-sixth & satisfactory showing. A young woman of Brookly: ® promise to her father pass through the New York hou iable gowns UTC Her ¥ action times what the gow: the young woman wa severe puntlshment Collector Loeb, who has been a most successful has women allke, ties than fines flagrant violat gpite of this than men and probably of them are prison. and ge seven dut ‘hased abroad cost the served notice that more will be of severe penal for law. n imposed fons the warning women more taking & chance, itil some g0 to are still will not stop u compelled to The departure of the United States battleships which are French and English reminder of the famous cru When the fleet it will consist of sixieen same number that earlier trip. There can the welcome that awaits the visitors. T one regret in connection proceedings is this uperb American warships will tuate the lack of cantile marine. y to visit ports is a % ise around the world is assembled at sea vessels, the made the be no doubt of he with the that showing of accen an American mer A thief who stole a gold spike used to fasten the first rail of a new rail road In Pennsylvania found it only gold plated. Such base decep- tion as this, resulting in painful mor. tification and disappointment to a man acting in good faith, is plainly repre. ‘hensible and comes under the same category as selling a goldbrick. was The difference of 33,000 between the first count of Tacoma’s population and the second Is a measure of the mistake of too much enthusiasm in padding census returns. Had Taco. ma been satisfied with a modest ten or fifteen thousand inflation It might have succeeded, but this overdoing of things is generally disastrous. The Washington chief of police be lleves that wife-beaters should be lashed. Theoretically, this ment, which exactly fits the crime, ia indorsed and recommended on all sides. Practically, it is Ignored even where the law has put it on the statute books. Naturally, the wife beating goes on. When a man is his own janitor he wastes little time pounding on the pipes. ROUNDING UP THE LEADERS Mexican Jail Full of Political Prisoners. MEN TRUSTED BY GENERAL MEDARD. Several Of Them Now Under Arrest Juan Service Vaca Captured By Secret Officers — He Is Said To Have Planned Attacks Upon Par- Ban- Hand-to- *al and Other Towns—Two Bits Killed In a Fierce Hand Conflict, The nding up the of thi many Mexico City sroment is rapidly leaders and revolutionary (Special). EOV- rou leaders In political movement, the political prisoners. One of the most important captures is Juan B i Vaca, who is alleged to have lald the] plans for attacks Parral and | other places in region. Vaca has been brought placed in| prison. He is said to h of Madero's righthand m have laid plans for all over the supervised on Parral. After the plans m rebels were Vaca fled ango up to the of secret the on that here and been on ave en, and t attacks on towns but in per of the republic, the planning tararr! iscarried thoroughly } southward throug! i Dur of the St capital 14 + 3 % wry be Jalisco, where he was captured Bervice uiroz Cardenas, and J. Rafael fm Cervantes, capt from ortant susp a hav © Jiquipa Paladin, ure, INSANE OVER TOLSTOL Boston Woman Quit Home, Going To Chicago. ro (8 ial). Wireless On Warships In War, lea has been he wireless the Navy, report of use of t ships of annual equipn apparatus has and devised ent bureau, been enable the long-distance aerial be taken dow placed by a short the yardarm «¢ instruments behind deck. The of the Navy have been improved and commu had nightly bet West, to onnect carried ar shore the wireless yery i ation is now and Ke: ween Colon Never Had a Bonnet, Denver, Col. Mrs David Goldstein, of a wealthy junk dealer of this city, Is probably the only woman in the United States who has gone on record as having owned a hat This was testimony Friday in a suit separate maintenance. Attorneys for the husband declared this was due to Mrs. Goldstein's religious belief, | but the woman herself said It was because her husband would not spend the money, although she de- clares he is worth in the neighbor- hood of $150,000 and has an income of $10,000 a year. Killed By Flying Mouse. Grand Rapids, Mich. (Special). A steel-cased house containing dyna- | mite exploded at the plant of the! Alabastine Company, southwest of the city. One plece of the building | was hurled 200 feet and struck eorge Munsee, a laborer, killing! him Instantly. Munsee was 60 years old and leaves a family. No cause is assigned for the explosion. {Special}. ife C pid ‘Worked Hard, New York (Special). If busy times in the Cupid Bureau at the! City Hall may be taken as an indi. cation of prosperity, Manhattan and the Bronx may be regarded as dee e¢idedly on the up-grade. Tabula tions just completed for the 11 months of the year 1910 ending with November show that 31.668 mar. riage licenses were Issued during that period, against 21,507 for the entire year of 1908. In December, 1009, 2,806 licenses were lssued. DIAZ BEGINS EIGHTH TERM Seemingly a Happy Termination of Recent Turmoil. Mexico City (Special). —"It gratifying to me to say that my heart full of faith in the progress of the people, 18 known how to conquer by its own ef- forts a place among the lovers of toil, after having proved {ts valor in patriotic defense of country and that never, as today, could I deciare that Mexico belongs definitely to the group of nations assured of stability, cause against the firm guarantee peace which we possess, no influence, tending toward its dissolution now or ever be able to prevail “As the relations between Mex and the United Ons, tO States and never have they ore The above authorized mes- age of President Diaz to all nations on the day of his inauguration r A8 IENLI Ie RS FAed the Mex executive ican nation Relief When Over, Peaceabl RAppy / . . and seemingly thy rh Hroughn assed, King Ailig A HUMAN SACRIFICE. Mrs. Killed Herself Not Infect Shunk Might Nay Others, atse worrk d home er evealed the motive ear that she would b eading tuberculosis in RILLED HIS BROTHER. Was Trying To Protect Him a Moose, Against In a his bro- ial) protect Montreal, Que effort (Spe desperate to ther, Fred of Phila- delphia, from the charge of a wound- ol bull moose, W. T. Rodgers fired everal shots from his rifle, one of | whic h killed the young man Mr. Rodgers, griefstricken over the accident, passed through here en route to Philadelphia, The fatal shooting occurred on the shore Coulonge Lake The body was brought down to Ot- Rodgers and sent Fred. Drexel Rodgers | Drexel Rodgers, Weds His Stepdaughter, Lewiston, Me. (Special). —Obeying | the dying wishes of his wife, Freder- | ick B. Dolley, of this city, has mar- | MISS TAFT AS THE DEBUTANTE Brilliant Coming-Out Party at the White House. FLORAL DISPLAY WAS BEAUTIFUL, | Two Thousand Guests Form the Offi- cial Circle, and Residential Society Calls To Make Their Bow To the Daughter Of the President—Mr, Taft In the Receiving Line— Ladies Who Served At the Re- Table Wore Fetching Gowns—Brililant Scene, freshment B,C. WHE Lhe Washi White trac ngton, House to tion BOCIO noon when about official, dip t ciety were party of Miss and attract dent and Mrs ¢ +3 4 fourth of th ne tl antes, Nelli Toward the presidents a and mobiles sil n vent down Ww 0 y i on west and the and those that outlined ades and O13 House ber gateways CAllle BITTEN BY A FISH. All Sail To Man's Life. Favor Vessel Carries Port To Nave JAIL FOR BIG DEFAULTER. Man Whe Took Million and Half Gets Moderate Louisville, Ky Rop) ounis Se ntence. { Speci him with of the pany. The total of his defaleations was $1,450. The was reduced by recoveries ‘ £$1.150.000 Ropke ten to Penitentiary, aa0a given sentence of from this Ropke was pany’'s ban) iis offenses secretary the COm- king department Philadelphia. In an ef- Stir . fot { Special) Hatpins Philadelphia fort to curtail the long hatpin evil in this city an ordinance was intro- duced In Councils providing that no person upon public streets or on conveyances shall be permitted to wear 8 hatpin the exposed point of which extends more than one-half inch bevond the crown of the hat the | i i i | { vided. Councilman Schumacher, who Introduced the proposed meas ure, declared that lives of per- sons on street cars and pedestrians are haperited. the Forgot Dynamite Cap. York, Pa. (Special). Trying to repair an electric bell with a piece of wire, without noticing a dynamite cap attached, Adam Hoffman lost the tips of two fingers and the thumb of | i his right hand when the cap explod- ied. Henry Della, who was watch. old stepdaughter. bride's mother when the child was! five yéars old. HU RT YEARS AGO, ne DIES. Davidson ‘Was Injured In Auto Accident, Columbus, ©. (8pecial).—Joseph E. Davidson, of Columbus, aged 53, president of the North American Lead Company, which owns prop- erties near Fredericktown, Md.. died here, as the Indirect result of an automobile accident five years ago in which the company's former presi. dent, F. E, Stoneman, also of Colum. bus, was killed. Joseph F. The explo- | gion tore a hole an inch deep in a hickory board. AA RA RAILROAD STATION ROBBED, Robber, Who Knew Combination Of Safe, Got 8700, Orange, N. J. (Special). ~The rall- road station of the Lackawanns Rail ! someone who evidently knew the combination of the safe. The night station agent, who was on duty until midnight, may be able to ald the detectives in locating the robber. PENSIONS BY STEEL TRUST | or. From Fund Not Contributed to By Employes. New York (S8pecial).~—Judge El- bert H. Gary announced Monday that, beginning January 1, 1911, the Unit. ed Btates Bteel Corporation will pay three classes of “Age pensions those of its employes who have ed with the parent subsidiaries for 20 The income for these derived from the U States Corporation and Ca join which no employes contribute into will old Lo gery- or its more company Years or Pensions w ill be nited Bteel ranegle it fund, to and the division classes be as follows: First Penslo by compulsory to employes been 20 Ars longer and reached the for DEATH TOLL OF HUNTERS Hundred and Thirteen Killed In Twenty-Three States. JEALOUS SUITOR'S MAD ACT. Neighbor Because Girl Ree fused Him. Murders cently, when she tk was accepted ¢ A vu let fired through the oor of Banick’s shack killed and is alleged that Lowry shot. her him, fired RACING MEN SPENT 8264.000, To Defeat tion At Albany. New York (S8pecial).— ing associations seeking Eight to defeat tributed $264,000 to the Jockey Club for legal expenses, according to M. Linn Bruce, counsel of the legis- lative investigating committee. Dur- the session of the committee Mr. Bruce ran over the contributions which have been admitted in testimony and used them as a basis for his statement. ‘Rabbits 86 Apiece. Warsaw, Ind. (Special). Five Pennsylvania trainmen were laid off { for a month as a result of stopping their train to hunt rabbits. They | bagged five rabbits, but while they | were at it a through freight crashed into their train. Man Has Kissing Mania. Boston (Special) «James May was adjudged insane in court here and sent to an asylum. He was obsessed with the kissing idea and had tried to kiss strangers in the streets. Sev. eral women have driven him off, recognizing his condition. He got into trouble when he tried to kiss a local policeman. That convinced the court that he was insane. be sl Sogo —————. Since 1902 there have been 45 deaths due to balloons, steerable and nonsteerable. — A ———————— To Put It Mil “They say be has a head.” “1 must admit that he seems to ap preciate himself very much.’ diy. welled ( onstipation ne serious CRON, i thor red bw Pierce's Plea: ant Pell { | three for fin Dr cat hart iL The man who pigs than he babies is the husband and father the dey For COLDS and Gray Mieks' Carvping Heves 1 Cold Bguid Al drug mores reed i i ¢ he chile 54 yey y ' i ¥ Bi £ uw 11 anaGg eects ime . reson . re “mn i 1 Some Consolatior Mrs Ms anxious to ge! Mrs. Park Cage mony Bmart Grammer he won't TO DRIVE OUT MALARIA AND BILD LE JHE KYRTEN Take ANT Lp CHILL TO» ] The formu showing ons Tore and ihe Irur Sealers for 3 Miss Dash? who was, like all extremely of and propose 10 “Th 4 aN ts {LOTS tremely frank, answered: editor, ed. ex- servant ‘Well, to tell Miss Dash prompted anybody else” 1 2 the t ath, 1 think me more than you —————— THEY GROW Good Humor and Cheerfulness From Right Food and Drink. tnt oorieres with good to keep cheerfulness and in the background. A Washington lady found that letting coffee alone wade things bright for ber, She writes: “Four years ago | was practically given up by my doctor and was not ex pected to live long. My nervous sys tem was in a bad condition. “But I was young and did not want to die so I began to look about for the cause of my chronic trouble. I used te have nervous spells which would ex haust me and after each spell it would take me days before I could sit up ln a chair. “1 became convinced my trouble was caused by coffee. I decided to ctop It and bought some Postum, “The first cup, which I made accord. ing to directions, had a soothing ef fect on my nerves and I liked the taste. For a time I nearly lived on Postum and ate little food besides. I am today a healthy woman. “My family and relatives wonder if I am the same person | was four years ago, when [ could do no work om ao count of nervousness, Now I am do ing my own housework, take care of two bables——one twenty the other two months old. 1 am so busy that I hard. ly get time to write a letter, yet 1 do it all with the cheerfulness and good humor that comes from enjoying good health. “1 tell my friends it Is to Postum 1 owe my life today.” Read “The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. “There's a Reason.” wt rey the above letter? A new She Appel from time They Wonuine, true, and full of heme Anything that health is apt good humor
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