Centre Reporter Centre Hail, Pa. AGE AND HUMAN USEFULNESS At what age are men at thelr best? i Doctor Osler, which he afterward re rpudiated, that the ty-five, or thereabouts, that it is fol Jdowed inevitably by waning powers, chloroforming all who threaten to sur- vive the age of sixty, waukee Evening Wisconsin. erally conceded that thirty-five rather the beginning than the end of the prime of life, and that the vig orous human individual who lives sanely and cheerfully may do more in some important fields of activity after he has acquired the ripe judg ment that comes with experience than in the heyday of the thirties and for ties. Dr. T. M. Crothers of Hartford, Conn., has come forward with laration that is quite as interesting as the disowned, and that ought to attract equally wide at tention, He says that “there are many reasons for believing that we carry around great reserve powers, and are seldom appeal certain which tically says that man | from that on to eighty his very best because lif experiment, gition where ers to the Crothers insists ory in this, a great variety nately are bec the years go a dec one Doctor Osler with unknown us energies which old age give and th used, at in a unexpected, and prac He also sixty ought to be at to these powers may vigor entirely lengthens overcomes life our disease.” ast and “the e is then no tained a po pow Doctor no the and he has at he best can use all his adva t ¥ at ntage.” there is t “is sustained by facts which A travels ARO was mi hard Philadel; per capi Kansas excels It is and hia ta the Leavenvy days ago dozens the grounds in paid for them the wheat mere the roads they had ons which Eave isfac bile iricts, man of tnachine in hia hand it." And he usi ng himself on a par wit can afford every year. and corn sensation of gliding ss where a year condemned the frightened th confidence and This them a is what the our « tion. has achieved in y di It has made a modest toiler a It 8 and sald, it. new resources has m buy a new any who to model The rap age is such as to cause many to ht of the fact that some chief industries are of co modern origin. Cotton ning has come to be one of the foremost of manufactures in this and other coun tries, says the Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin. But in the present form it has been in existence less than hundred years, the first cotton-spin ning mill in the United States having been started in 1811 at Fall River Mass. That city is preparing to serve the centenary of the business, and next year will have an imposing celebration. It may be of interest t know that when cotton was started Fall known as Troy, a name tained until 1834. Cotton goods of various kinds are made in Troy, N Y., and vicinity, and the anniversary of the origin of cotton spinning will enlist attention. idity of development in this loge of our om mp aratively spin a ob manufacturing River was re there was isk which Wonders never cease. treatment because her husband per they are never kissed. No the poor men have been trying un. successfully to strike a happy medium @ince the world started. Boston is developing a taste for shark meat. There is some uneasy feeling In Wall street lest the taste #pread to Gotham. A Virginia school board has estab. lished a rule that its school teachers of the softer sex must not attend dances. The board should explain whether this action is taken because the teachers are not good enough to appear at dances or because they are too good, The arrest of a man one hundred and seven years old shows how care fully we are protected from menaces to our community, COTTON'S NEW HIGH RECORD Short Crop Shown By Govern- ment Estimate, MAKES EXCITEMENT IN THE MARKET. Publication Of the Report Causes a Sharp Advance, Making New High Records For the York—Memphis and New Orleans Season In New View, . York ernment’'s annual cotton crop was publish caused a very =s prices of all ing new high records for in New York market, contracts seling at 15 64 equal to $1: above the closin u vious day. At this sensationally h The of ed Friday advance veries, mak the New (Special). gOV estimate and harp in active deli the ¥ oo points, Savy speculators, but the American excluding Ii ing in buying tions, and after 15 50 to 15.30 market There crop of nters, 8 orde rs Om break Le CR 100 juickly ralli a qui May to Was last m firm at wi to the closed 48 points, May cont compared wi f night ice of t las SAFE WITH 815.000 STOLEN. From Night. Le vi Mysteriously Disappears press Office In the Minneapolis surrounds small $15,00 from press Compans Charged With Extortion. New York (Special Michael Yolkman Cruise of a ¥ son of ral A HeLa i were Mag! ther examinat + sirate O'Connq was told pers on be ren if he graft the burean rests fol treet corner paid told would £200 his story to over vender ¢ 01 ar licenses and the lowed Cyclone Sweeps Spain. ‘erebere, France here been {8pecial) state that swept by 15 8 rece pain that ved has razed Wes a ov everythi in its all vessels sank harbor of Corunna and of persons Seville the river ing 1¢ valley ory and many boa I Several sn in a number drowned At rose 10 feet, flood. al persons were wounded near Bil- Wore Savy er Taft's Double Dead. Chicago (Special). — “Big Currier, deputy United States shal, who bore a striking semblance to President Taft, his home here, at the age Currier, about the Federal Building for 20 years, stood 6 feet 31% inches in his stocking feet and weighed 350 pounds, Tom" mar- re of 64 Tonps Nato Hot Metal. Barnesville, O.— low-workmen, Charles Kendall, moulder’s helper, leaped Into a cupola! of white-hot metal at a foundry here. | The man's flesh was entirely consum- ed and only the bones were recover. | ed. Kendall had been separated from his wife for a number of years, Three Killed By Teain. Lodi, ©, (Special) .~~Joseph Year- gon, 70 years old, and his wife, the same age, and their six-year-old grandson, Ross Phorley, were killed, when a rig in which they were driv- Ing was struck by a fast limited inter urban train. The rig was smashed to pleces and the bodies of Yeargon and his wife hurled through the air a distance of 50 feet. The little grandson was partially protected by the body of his grandfather, i | WITH CONGRESS | Campaign Expenses Filed, The campaign committees of the Republican and De mocratic parties filed their lists of contributions and expenditures for the recent CONngres sional campaign in Congress, The Democratic lists show expenditure of $27.771.22 The Republican committee received and expended $74 The reports the Democrats about much win the election the Republicans to lose it The Republican Treasurer C that the committee hand when The a total 2 843.30. indicate that it third as it cost as cost one- to report, filed by H. Duell, shows had $47,030 the campaign opened harles on Demoerats received sums greater than $100, Treasurer FP. G. Gar They had $13,258 in treasury when the and ved less than $160 only 3 in according report tO rett's reced T7480 sums of Was noted name he Ballinger Moon Appointed. HAD NO OPPONE zYT. Crittenden Ark... Had tion Without Compe tition. tiie . Ark. (§ al County, Flee. all af ws ners of Ba flo 9 OK ountry « sires be ierk SULTAN DIES IN BATTLE. Battle Between French Tribesmen Goes On. pecial) The Sultan of im than of his Have slain fierce between and Br. Pio Fierce and Paris (8S re 700 tollowe rs been in tribesmen French Africa, according advices received fr there the dead several iegalese sharpsh ie side of the French are among the More than 1. have been The fighting Is still going fighting soldi > $y “ fo £ Orate in French ra in he o official if om Among officers Thirty HITLY are Ser ooters on 3 slain aon wounded on. ROB Wihow OF 88.000, | BY MAC VEAGH Secretary of Treasury Advocates Business Methods. KEYNOTE 5 RETRENCHNENT Asked For An Appro- priation Of $714,414 ,861 To Cover i: Congress Is ment — Ordinary Receipts mated Monetary System ing—Customs Frauds. Was Economy Keynote retary D..Q beats all hington, (Special) that records is ft of of WAR of the annual re Franklin MatVeagh Department, whieh por sent Thursday ture Congress Other fea extension are currency mn, ational banking USE EACH OTHER AS TARGETS. Comrade While With Rifles, Boy Killed By Play. ing and saw dusk, WAS NOT MURDERED. Belief That the Robbed First Disproved. M who Aged Recluse Was in nr ia i Mra Wil reciuse near Caldwell, « was pot robbed and murdered, as it was be finding of a pot erva home, voble county not The melted gold in tt the robbery irobably of disproves theory her bed is known to have stood. Mrs. Williams, it was known, kept sum of money in her home, Detroit, Detroit, Mich. (Special) climbers entered the residence of Mrs. | J. Elizabeth Buhl, widow dore D. Buhl, 1610 Jefferson avenue, while the family were at dinner and | escaped with $8,000 worth of jew- Hindus Afflicted With Hookworm. San Prancisco (Special). Eleven Hindus out of 13 who arrived here on by de- issued who under orders Medical Inspector Glover, worm, Population Of the Dakotas, Washington, D. C. (Special) —- Population statistics of the Thir- teenth Census were issued by the Census Bureau Wednesday for the following States: North Dakota, 677,056, an increase of 257.910 or RO.8 per cent. over 319,146 in 1500. The Increase from 1890 to 19000 was 136,427, or 74.7 per cent. South Dakota, 683,888, an increase of 182, 318 or 45.4 per cent. over 401,870 In 1800. The increase from 1890 to 1900 was 72,762 or 22.1 per cont, ' a i i DECAFPITATED BY A TRAIN. ‘Man's Effort To Save Boy In Storm Proves Fatal, Phillipsburg, N. J (Special) | Harry M. Kern, a tonnage clerk in the Pennsylvania Railroad yard at this place was killed in a peculiar manner He was on his way to work and was accompanied by a boy. The boy fell In the snow while Kern was a short distance ahead. As he started back to help the boy a freight train came along and he was run down and had his head and one arm cut off. Kern was 28 yenrs old. Recluse Barned To Death. Caldwell, ‘Ohio (Special). Mrs. Minerva Williams, 85 years old, a recluse, was burned to death In a fire that consumed her home, 15 miles southwest of here. Neighbors found her charred body in the ruins. Mrs. Williams, it was rumored, had $5,000 in currency concealed in the house, and it is believed that thieves who robbed her set fire to the house. The coroner of Noble county is in- vestigating. CORN KING OF THE CROPS Secretary of Agriculture Makes Annual Report. D. C. (Bpe« short of omnis value of farm products is the statement of of Agriculture in his report for 1010, just published. no time in the world’s history has country produced farm products within one vear w a value reach- ing $8,926,000,000, which is value agricultural products of for 1810 The value of m products from 1899 to the preg year hb been progressive with iIf.the 1288 fe in Washington, Nothing Rrasp Hal) can or the fence the year, Secretary nual an- ith the of the this country as value of the at 1f is 1K8, or al- for the census “During this per- agricultural pro- f 12 dur iu Tn > $ farme of this ucts of value of this vear placed 10, the most double the year 11 of for 1053, value YEArs ago u 4 . lod nexampled duet a period o YOArs aj i Years, Ww hie i the have steadily advanced in p and Seon per ki yaiue wealth and in idence ii en : i ¢ Yona oo 5 4 is Owieadge agricuita r ' 0 nroducts ! products 0 G0 16086 AYETARe® crop Years Other ( rops In Cars VON STEUBEN STATUE. Tribute To Soldier, Nation's Noted German WwW military h/ "4 Conti- i ilhelm Prussian ized ie disastrous win- Forge, and put it in successful cam- American Wednesday ader wi the Army Vall ey 0 Teorgar ential at Ais after t! ter to con on paigns that ution, was velled sta ] the quartet rials erected at Square the The tue of con nagnificer the four Our « n rners fayette in for. their of the The others whose thus honored mbeau and ti inguished aid cause ie lent of genius American coloni memories have Lafayette, eigners who to the OR been are Rocha FATAL FIRE IN HOTEL. A Woman Dead and Danghter Dying In Poughkeepsie, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. (Special). — One woman is dead and another fatally burned as the result of a fire which destroyed the Thompson House, a fashionable boarding place A score of other boarders were forced tp flee to the streets in scanly ap- parel Mrs. Susan Jenkins, aged 76. and her daughter, Louise, aged 26, were hemmed in by the flames in their room on the fourth floor. Mrs Jen- kins died soon after being taken to the streets by the firemen, while the daughter is dying in the Vassar Hos- pital. The fire started in the furnace room. FATAL GAS EXPLOSION, ———- Infant Killed and Five Of Family Injured, Templeton, Pa. (Special). The infant child of Alexander French was killed and five other members of his family were Injured when his house was blown to pleces by a natural gas explosion. The family was asleep when the explosion occurred. The floors dropped into the cellar and the wrecked bullding, taking fire, was en- tirely consumed. "LIVE | OF THE South tion 3ethlel The Federas America,” is the for the uplift of this country, Hew — #8 Mag: is a £ between pose strikes material and welfar * of the working: Protestant, bonds Pros estabe ties em. of People in title of a of workingmen which new society bas been organized by A. Varluky, pastor of . John's Yar Church The idea have a better underst andin capital and lab €ic., and to prome« intellectual men, be they Cathe "he Sedo dor which il Cee da of which ng stores be In O13 Bere, £ ue { can me or cumulation ten shares ual HOW wails the £3 4% # Out al were blown and pre AWAY floors the cellar Jury returned ol charges of mun child and of she true bill alsg returned against John Wright, whe is charged ith the murder of John Scott at Rockdale, during a quarrel Media The Grand a true Joseph Green, dering his in sot A was wi Chester. James F. Stewart died at his home in Ridley Park after be ill for many months, aged 56 He is survived by a widow children For about » was with meat inspector, «Mrs. Sarah Cope Doylestown by hanging herself wi clothes Hne. She is survive three children. Lancaster The family andl friends of John Ruth, a well-known cigar manufacturer, Are greatly worried over his mysterious disappearance more than a week ago. Ruth, whe is 68 years of age, was last seen on a local market. Many of his friends fear foul play. Reading. <— Mary, the five-year-old daughter of Franklin Troutman, of Host, was burned to death. The child ‘was left alone in the kitchen and upon the return of her mothar she found the child In agony, with her clothes burned from her body.
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