The Centre Reporter Cenre Ha. I THE OLD-TIME PARLOR. There used to be In almost every ru- ral home in the country a sacred room ~~the “parlor.” Every reader is prob ably familiar with it, for it still exists, though not so universally as it did Years ago, when no home in the land, in village, hamlet, or on farm, was considered complete or well-equipped without this dismal apartment-—care- fully shuttered in against alr and sun- light; a jar of waxwork on the center table; a collection of curious odds and ends on the what-not in the corner; mottos and chromos on the wall; a viv- id ingrain or Brussels carpet on the floor. The sound of festivity sel dom penetrated the gloom of this par lor, says the Philadelphia Press. At rare intervals distinguished visitors were received in it witnesses of wed ding or funeral It was never a pleasant room; it smelled damp and dusty; the children stood in awe of it; and yet it was their mother's pride. Happily the day of the pentup, un savory parlor is fast passing away The children, going out into the big ger world with observant eyes, Fa. upon flinging open the doors and win and a rush of pure air. They have made a living- room of a tomb. their childhood the kitchen was the was scrubbed every day, ventilated al and hospitable while the ghastly for bidden precincts of the than twice a year—during the {nev itable spring and fall housecleaning It is only recently that they have dis covered a way of canning dec eggs, and there are bakers in the large cities who are so devoid of honesty that they would as soon use rotten eggs as fresh ones Thus a market is created, and but for the fact that state under its pure food laws car step in and condemn this unfit for consumption, the problem cre ated by cold storage would have beer by, says the Rochester Herald not beyond the bonds of that meat which has been coldstored to the point of decay is treated in the same manner. No one ever hears ol it being thrown away. And now the london police have discovered that the prisoner convict ed by finger prints, and who, it was re ported, had established his Innocence by indisputable evidence that, the army at the time he could not bave been gullty, was after all =» fakir He stole another man to bolster up his defense with it at the discovery, guilty man from escaping and re-estab {fishes the fingerprint theory as infal lible at gone But for a time the fakir had both the london police and the finger print theory “groggy.” since it prevents Secretary Dickinson has just issued & report on the militia of this country that shows how little the minds Americans are turned away from peace and toward war He announces that in 1810 the strength of the organ ized militia forces of the nation is only 119.660 men, an increase but 3.113 in seven years, says the Boston Globe of of to a thousand as many clergymen printers, manufacturers, grocers, butch ers, stenographers or masons in the the fact is true A Butte man who is belng sued for breach of promise is charged by the plaintiff with having called her Dear Tobacco.” $10,000, since he was not cut, or a mere plug historical or sclentific nature. This should spur the Indiana school of nov: elists to renewed efforts thing. A Ban Francisco man says he will rot before he pays alimony to his di vorced wife, but it Is belleved he will change bis mind before decomposition gets a firm hold on him, It may be theoretically possible to transport 10,000 men across the Alps in aeroplanes, but with the example of Molssant and Hoxley In their minds the chances are that 9,000 of them will refuse to be transported in that way. China will sacrifice 200,000,000 gueus for the artificial hair market this year, and all will be sent to America. The joke on the Chinese is that they don’t know that puffs have gone out of fashion now, AMERICAN HELP FOR PERSIA to Reorganize Its | Finances. W. M. SHUSTER IS TREASURER GENERAL. Experts W. Morgan Shuster, of Washington, Will Be Appointed Treasurer Gen- | of the Empire, Other Americans Will in the Work Which Will Least Three and Assist Him | Take eral Four | at | Years, Washington, D. C Persian government its this city, will be appointed treasurer | general of the empire. Mr. Shuster, who reorganized the Philippine cus toms service and revised the Philip-| pine tariff law, is one of five Ameri- cane who will be employed by Persia in its financial rehabilitation The Persian Parliament recently passed a law authorizing the gov ernment to seek five American ex- perts to reorganize the finances Persian charge in Washington upon took up matter with State Department, which suggested the names of five Americans tent to undertake the task In addition to the tr eral, the Americans &n expert accountant, who a8 assistants to the eral, and a assistant, pointees will be under the Persian Minister of F and their contract minimum of ments practically pleted for the appointmen other experts, and th be announced shortly The advent of the Americans in Persia will be in line with the policy of the regime of the empire introduce foreign tsfent in various capacities for the purpose of mod- ernizing the administration of the country Mr. Shuster experience To assist the in reorganizing finances W. Morgan Shuster of | ‘he there the the compe Casure? filled inspector gen positions to be are those of will treasurer taxation, with The An ap- director of 1eTICAN the direction inancea for a Arrange have been 11 3 Will De three vears com- theses will of 18 names new to has had of abroad In of the United States government From 1898 to 1801 he was in Cuba chiefly in the customs service, and in 1901 he was appointed collector of customs for Philippine Is- lands, having charge of reorganiz- ing the Philippine customs service and revising the Philippine tarift laws Upon the recommendation of President Taft, who was then sec- retary of war, Mw. Shuster was ap- pointed by President Roosevelt in 1908 secretary of public instruction in the Philippine Jslands and a mem- ber of the Commission He is a member “the bar of Supreme Court of the United States and of the federal Appeals, well as Court of many the Years BErvice the of the Court of Customs of Appeals as the Supreme A and District Court of the of Columbia £10,000 FOR A CALY, Record Price for Youngster Seven Weeks Old. Only Brockton city, his seven Mass WwW. F has announced the old Royal bull calf, Aggie Cornucopia 8i lantha, to W. H. Miner, purchase price being $1 highest amount, it is ever paid for a young bull was, figuratively, born spoon in its mouth being world's champions The dam was Aggie Cornucopia Pauline, owned by Mr. Field Pau- line ia the world’s champion senior four-year-old The sire ia Colantha Johanna Lad, also owned by Mr Field He paid 38.000 for the bull Both sire and dam are products of previous world's champions Mr. Miner operates a 7.000 acres at Chase, N. Y He is stocking his farm with the hest horses and cattle that he can secure A few days ago he sent an expert to this city and the purchase price was agreed upon Daniel feld, of this of gale weeks’ of Chicago, the 6.000 the believed, The bull with a silver its dam and sire farm of VISIT OF FRENCH SQU ADRON. Will Stop at New Orleans and the Naval Academy. Washington, D CC Lieutenant Benoist d'Azy. the French naval attache, called upon Acting Secretary Winthrop at she Navy Department to notify him that the French squadron in the West In- February 23 and 25. As the Mardi Gras festivities begin on February 28, it is believed the French sailors will probably remain until that time There are three vessels In the squad- ron—-~the Conde, the Gloire and the Admiral Aube. The same vessels also will pay a visit to the Naval. Academy at Annapolis between Mareh 12 and 17. RMI U0 Couple Commit Suicide, Itaaca, N. Y.—Mr. and Mrs. Jadez Townsend were found dead with but. let wounds in their heads by their son, Linn Townsend, upon his return | from his studies at Cornell Univer- pity. The Townsend home is about! three miles from the city, where Mr, | Townsend conducted a dairy farm. It is believed by the family that each TOMBOF MILLIONAIRE ROBBED From Cemetery Erie, Body natching that may equal the daring grave ghouls who stirred the country more than a quarter of a century when the of A. T, #Eo body SBtewart, New York's merchant, this section in indignation at was stolen, has of Pennsylvania its daring as noth- Ing has since the sensational kidnap- ping which occurred in this vicinity Years ago The mausoleum of one of the most families of this section of the state was desecrated A body is missing from the vault of the family of the late Congressman William L. The police of neighboring communities within crime was made by two through the Erie family was Imme- and a watch was cemetery midnight made that not in the vi The women discovery walking The notified in the at after all assurances were the missing body cinity diately WHE Is Mrs. While ed of MeCollum's Body. the police grave-robbing, no to the The first Ld ame from he amily, have been inform the ed name is attach body them Missing information to the but is known, public « READ ¥ no name is given it that the body taken by the is that of Mrs. McCollum, sis- ter-in-law of the late My Col The OWevYer, ghouls the body held police believe vandals also AWAY the bodies tonaire and his wif Investigation contain Collum had caskets are se! had seals before the mets be carried away That the casket AWAY In a8 wagmen | indicated tracks snow about the mauso- leum four. in for and that the ransom intended to carry of the mill showed ths ng the been body of ried away wall, breaking box sealed in a ehi heen used and body were « ried in the The sOme inst footprints of and, dis- end Ances, six men are where the ed Offers Reward. ABB $1, oern of a ible about a point wagon might be plac Cemetery The Erie C fered a reward mation that lead to the and conviction of the ghouls desecrated the mausoleum. Later de- that the body ot McCollum had been casket before iis mausoleum Parts were found scattered vault Although force of detectives are mak- of the city emetery iation of of 000 for infor Arrest Ww ho will velopments indicate Mrs. Anna M taken from moval from of the caske! over the floor of the a large ing a thorough a trace of the re the re the search shbheres or ind not the missing body has been fo LOCAL OPTION FOR ALABAMA. Bill And Is For It, Montgomery, Ala By a 5% to 44 the House of Representa tives passed the Parks Opt hill As the Senate ia overwhel House Passes the Senate Yotle oF Local known ningly in favor of a on 1 . an helle ‘arks bill ; on and b next C0 n ei ¢ The of the # bill provides number that petition for an of "wet Or ’ week (sovernor Can on question provides or distilleries and eries TO BE 41 STORIES HIGH. to Be York. Seattle's New Skyscraper the Highest Outside of New Wash The way of erection story building in this city tate of the late C. M. Smith, of Syra- cuse, N. Y., was removed, when the council committee that has been go- ing over the plans voted to grant the permit The local agent for the Smith estate informed the commit that he skyscraper, which will be the highest office building In the world outside of New York city, will begun within the next six weeks ttle, obstacle of a 41 by the es Sea last the the if tee Twenty Years For Lyncher. Newark, Ohio Judge Weygandt overruled the motion for a new trial Carl Etherington, a dry" detective, who was found guilty of manslaugh- ter for complicity in the lynching of Carl Etherington, a "dry" detective, in this city last July and sentenced McKinley to twenty years in the Ohio penitentiary Rear<-Admiral Terry Dead. Washington, D. C Rear-Admiral Silas Wright Terry, retired, operations of the Civil War, died at his Washington home of pneumonia He was a native of Wallania, Defeat Anti-Reciprocity Bi, St. Paul, Minn.-—-The House by a vote of 63 to 50 defeated the resolu. the defeat of the Canadian reciprocity agreement. A similar resolution is pending in the Sen « sonsultd Service nin Passes, Washington, D. C, HOUSE INCREASES ITS MEMBERSHIP House For Ten Years. BASED ON THE 1910 CENSUS REPORT. Democrats, Aided by Few Win Fight Representation — Reapportionment of 1910—New Republi. cans, for Increased Under the Census Four Additional Representatives, Washington, D. C.—— After March 4, 1813, the Senate concurring, the House of Representatives will con- sist of 433 members sult of an all-day | House over struggle in the question of reappor- | tionment, which finally resulted the passage of the Crumpacker fixing the size of the House years, commencing with the BSixty- third Congress, at the number stated for will each, statehood, they representative up so 436 # 4 ry reapportionm to one the the Ale admitted given bringing Under plan no st following be he total new ent loses & member The states gain the number in dicated Alabama, 1; Cal do, 1; Florida, 1 1; Illinois, 2; Louisiana, 1; husetts, 2; Michigan, 1; Mi i Montana, 1; New Jersey York, 6; North Dakota, 1: Oklahoma, 3; Oregon, 1 vania, 4; Rhode kota, 1 ington, 2; The House ours in the bill for Colora idaho Massa nia Georgia, 1 nnesoila 9 island, 1; Texas, 2; Utal Virg Be nt discussing and ant West Inia more t Han vouing up various proposed amend offered 3 York mendment Represents and represefation i54 to 986 Champ ( ive Bennet, of New designed to cut down was YOLs iark, of increase in M iss i, membership ork of perforn the num floor ring deandared House an that the uid continue real wi to he ed In committees ber of rep: the would lifference MONUMENT TO LINCOLN. Senate Passes Senator Cullom's Bil With Amendments, The the House Washington, DD. C Senate Wednesday amendment iding ington of an to the memory of The House place Senator Cannon the sion rence concurred House 's bi in Cul g to Benator lom i111 prov for the erection appropriate monument Abraham 80 amended the hil apd permanent Root Senate and adopted Lincoln l as to Speaker commis concyr- Cullom on Senator moved by the the motioa was unanimously The 5 & « Bf $2.000 000 proposed monument ls to cost S80 INDICTED AT DANVILLE, ILL. This Is Result of VoteSelling Probe In Joecannontown. Chicago Eighty indie! voted hy grand YOtle.ay ments dave heen jury of Ver. 13 million county in the Hing in- vestigation One city official d one official among th named dred additional consideration taken against the exerted inquiry More indictments are under This mean fos Flas ’) " influences action by the jury is a fight to the finish that have continuance to heen against a of the 3 YEARS FOR BANK WRECKERS Crawford Brothers Sentenced For Breaking American Trust Co, Philadelphia Pleading charges wrecking the American Trust Company, of this city, Dr. J Kanler Crawford and Joseph 8 Craw. ford, brothers, and vice-president and gsecretary-treasurer, respectively, of institution, were each sentenced to three years in the county prison and fined $500 in Quarter Sessions Court here guilty to of the Woman 186 Years Old Dying. Fort Werth, Texas -«At the great age of 134 years and undoubtedly the oldest white woman in the world, Mrs. Luey Owens is dying at the home of her daughter, a centenarian, a few miles west of Long View. Mrs Owens was born in North Carolina when the Revolutionary War broke out, and three years later she saw George Washington living person | ington. s. Minister Bars Cook. Copenhagen. —U. 8 Minister Egan, in accordance with the opinion, has written Cook dissuading him from a visit here, fearing un- | pleasant demonstrations. tu Now Baroness Decles, New York Helen Vivien, second daughter of George J. Gould, head prominent families in America, was married at St. Bartholomew's Epis- copal Church, in Madison avenue, to | Baron Decies, an English army offi. leer. She is 18 years old; he is 44. {The church was packed with a bril- liant assemblage representing the second stroke of paralysis to Mr. Townsend. the Senate. This creates ten consu- lar offices and abolishes elghteen. ling of foreign nobility, relatives and friends of the bridegroom. WHOLE FAMILY WIPED OUT and Wife Suicide Pact, Husband Die in a New way up house at stumbled struck out “What York the sta Joseph Barrett, on his irs of the apartment 760 Fulton street, Brooklyn, against a man. Barrett with his right hand are you doing here?” asked, “It's you, Bernard, is What are vou doing here?” "Oh, it's you, Barrett, is the man on the stairs what to do. I've go my family and you do?” “1 think,” said Joe Barrett, “I | would £0 to bed and look for a job in the morning on That's a fellow.” With a nod, the a third-floor flat he it? it?” said “1 don't know 50 cents between starvation What Go turned into climbed man as Barrett floor had WAY Barrett Frank that wife that he in hall seemed de- told his Bernard Barrett met and the Some hours later, at getting up Barrett smelled gas For a time the odor was hara to locate. He a flight of stairs and made ame from the fiat the doors All locked went to his apartment and the fire escape to th apart nent ahove time went up Beruard He He used tried were own In the bedroom of the Bernard Frank chil Apartment Mr iarrett f a Bernard Nis ftvO 8 n dead hed Gag wa cocks in ir Barret Bor 4 Capt IED sires! ¥ father nother each ArTIng dren four George two years old, ng the inspector Dill hat Bernard had beco questioni people Hee on conciuded me 80 despond work wife ide was a well-known He was a iber Athletic Club, Pine- ulton streets, and was the intry as an He ran in short vards up to a quar- and was also a good jumper and hurdler He became a SOME Years ago and con- the Caledonian and Irish- American games, and in contests in all parts of the rountry He was and liked ent because of fallure to obtain that he had join him in Frank ath persuaded his to committing sule Bernard trainer old Union and F all athlete intie men f the aril |IPE known amateur over cot events from 100 a mile ter of ested In successful well BLOWER SECURES 81.800. Held At Bay Outside Bank By Two Confederates, Three the LJ Bank and escaped with ver and Cltizens were hy SAFE Citizens Kansas the l.inwood. robbers n wood $1,800 blew up safe of State in = currency held at bay of the men outside while emptied the two ion inside drawn ivers the reve three retreated fo the outskirts of and disappeared Schenk Files Suit. ing. West Virginia John henk., miliio packer, filed ie petition suit for ivorce Mrs Laurs Farnsworth 2 recent O« DAaan i the fa i) =e AiTe tit in his against Schenk, mous poisoning rial H names Daniel Z. Phillips, a piano an of Wheeling ondent. Pend- ing ring divorcee suit henk ag $25 a week all saleam As of fo CO-Tes] the Day nea < Trees his wife mony Model of Columbus’ Paris The Museum louvre has been enriched what is described as an model on miniature of ship the Santa Maria. Rear Admiral Besson presided at the dedicatory exercises, the feature of «hich was the story of the voyage and discovery of America retold by M. Rompol, archeology Ship. Marine of by excellent Columbus’ the Two Hurt on U. Washington, D. C of one saluting S. Dolphin. An explosion charge of a gun on the American gunboat Dolphin. now at Port an Prince, Halt, caused “ex- tensive superficial burns” to two of her crew, according to a telegram re- ceived by the Secretary of the Navy from Captain Laws, of the vessel. Kidnapper Gets Twenty-five Years, New York. Giovanni Gangi, of kidnapping five-yearold Rosina Glordino, the daughter of a baker, last March, was sentenced by Judge Crain in the Court of General Ses- sions to 25 yours in the state prison. Crippen win Probated. L.ondon.~The will of Dr. H. H. Crippen, made just before his exeeny- tion in Pentonville prison, and leav- ing all of his $1,342 estate to his sweetheart, Ethel Le Neve, was re. corded for probate Friday. Miss Le Neve is the sole szecutriy. Canners Indorse Reciprocity. Milwaukee, Wis. — The National Canners’ Association In convention here indorsed the proposed reel procity agreement between the Unit ed States and Canada, LIVE NEWS OF THE STATE Nazareth Nazareth A of tment us th, 1808, nolle I0Ee ad- the Norris- Gis Robert E£. Bachm under indie of murder in ca May on April from jail inde before J an Who was to answer a charge the death of five vears, been released pros proceedings u Beott, at Easton judged Insane a crime and committed town insane asylum charged from that ing completely recovered his normad mental condition The prisoner fur- nished in sum of $2000 The dead girl was & niece of Bachman While at =» meeting of a religious sect common known as ‘holy rollers, in a frenzy of led Irene Simi aged 28, has on SAChMAan Was few months after to the He is now institution, hav- bonds the the relig~ ious fer the to death vor, str gir Ang Clifton of Y, Aged eleven from gigters, and a sled coasting T hree ng on Campbell's t terrific the risk her own life, years, of Clifton Heights, saved terrible injury her two little El aabeth, aged throwing them off Were Katherine and he f Were oast! gE down a Eeed intro s 3 led Nee arb- ne, fore sled, Dela many fever out a of LEO P- Township, ch has had htheria and scarlet two years, is with all the members resigning with one because of a grievance against State Board for Prose Aa man all broken quarantine in 1 fown- ship of Aston Two houses are under quarantine in Aston and Health Of- Killen is continuing di ast cases of n the pi Board of Health that body tior the cute failure to to have neighboring ered he ficer James Jd. Connors, of #ix months in to tampering Lackawanna for the Now gerving 1is confessi election retu took all ifing re T wnship, responsibility of the ba box in ward of Tay! borough in the imaries last year. On his tes Gilgalion, M. J. Giynn, and James Maiarkey tial This se he st Hot sixth or june pr mony Robert James Gilgallon femanded acani they Very little interest was sens of £ +h 4 IE PE 7 y o% ’ e Pa 03 Lhe ( n the 2 3:2 ++} re suburb pt $§10.000 to system 5000 position extend the bor- Out of a only 144 and 45 op- popu- i E44 over i= 8% favoring ihe JOAN 1 Reading 1.8 on neing a pimple is fatal William L. I-known Civil War vet ng set in and he Deceased and sery humb proved tO ‘Tan Blood poisoni after intense agony years of age, War, lied about 63 through the CC a scratch Mrs. F. A philologist La- as College, who some time ago fell and fractured his hip, was sirick- n with apoplexy, and is in a critical sondition. Worry over her husband's injury is said by physicians to as ed ivil escaping tsb vunt Hout March, of Faston Sr. wife of the eminent ’ ile the Chester During the hearing giv- lee Johnsens before Justice Gal- at Prospect Park, on the of attacking his S-vear-old there was much anger spectators Fearing would be attacked, two consia- the that the man Justice Galloway com- in default of $1000 Laucks, for York's cone veyed to George E. Neff, this city, as trustee, all of his real estate in Bisir and York counties, this State, and in Harford and Baltimore counties, Md The liabilities of Mr. Laucks are placed at $200,000, and his real es- tate is estimated to be worth $143. 600. York Edwin W vears consMlered one of Catasauqua. Earl Zeerfass, aged 7, and William, his brother, aged 10, while coasting ran against a Lehigh Valley transit car. William was thrown under and cut about the head. Earl got under the rear truck and was instantly killed. Oil City—Two chicken thieves at. tempted to kill W. B. Lyon, a Cran- berry township farmer, when he in- terrupted them at work in his hen- house. Both the robbers opened fire with revolvers, but none of the shots took effect,
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