The Centre Reporter S—— Centre Hall, - - POLITENESS, The decay of French politeness has become a subject for passing concern on the part of the French themselves. ft has been frequently remarked by visitors to France, who have alleged a change in French manners within same phenomenon land. Scientific meteorologists pooh- pooh this. put of the question for climate to be materially affected except by Iimper France; some contend that the Most of those taking part in the con- identified and correctives applied. attribute it to women, “especially ele gant women whose ill-manners have no limit,” as one expert submits. Is the matter worth serious considera- tion? Or, rather, should not the symptom be welcomed? Is not po liteness itself a sympton of decay, lke the beauty of old cathedrals, the mellowness of long-stored vintages, or the art of telling the truth? Man in a natural state is not remarkdble for good manners and will lie cheerfully. That school which holds that the de cadence of a people may be traced by observing its cultivation of the habit of telling the truth would prob- ably reason that the diffusion of po- liteness is in the same way signifi cant, if a less important barometer of failing physical and intellectual virility. A robust entity does not bother about etiquette. Modern life is complicated. It Is swift. We live at high tension. The sins of society people have become inured to them. Neurasthenia, one knows, is often the inevitable, though much-to-be-deprecated, result of going the pace, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. But what is one to think of neurasthenia in the poultry yard? Comes a publication which devotes itself to poultry and other of the farm. In it a correspondent writes of the symptoms of one of his hens—listless, nervous, indifference to food and society. And the editor replies that the symptoms are those of a nervous disease, and he declares that the only cure for the hen is the rest cure in some quiet retreat, away from the feverish atmosphere of the poultry yard. This ie a withering in- dictment of present-day civilization A neurotic hen-—think of that! A debutante of last season, no doubt, who should now be in the full feath- er of glorious youth a victim of uerves! toples The form of Curtiss biplane which travels on the water and land as well as in the alr is winning admiration at San Diego. The machine is a standard biplane equipped with bl cycle wheels and a pontoon about three feet wide by twelve feet In length placed immediately beneath the aviator with its long axis at right angles to the planes. At the extremities of the lower plane are two small triangular copper tanks, whose function is to prevent the planes from cutting too deeply into the wa- ter. Mr. Curtiss seems to have for his novel craft. The suggestion that it be known as the hydroterro aeroplane shows closer acquaintance with the classics than with the habit of the American people to insist upon cutting long words short. the United States and amounted to $16,415,000, million more than the February loss last year and $300,000 in excess of the February loss In 1909 this was average monthly loss during twelve months last past There is nothing alarming nor is there any thing encouraging in the fire loss fig ures of the first two mont of the present year. On account of a heavy loss in January, they are eight mil Hons In excess of the total for the million below that for the correspond ing period of 1908, Because a Chicago man Insiste upon being a candidate for trustee of one of the large New York life insurance companies, the company has been obliged to spend about $50, 000 In having ballots and proxies printed in eleven different languages and mailing them in sealed envelopes to all parts of the world. He is the only candidate on the so-called policy holders’ ticket, although 86 trustees are to be elected. It was a wise law which made provision for poliey-hold ers’ tickets, but in this Instance It has not been advantageous from a financial viewpoint, at least. FOR PUBLIC CONTRC VAIL FOR REGULATION AS WELL AS PUBLICITY. SAYS BOTH HERE TO STAY by the President of Western Unlon and Telephone Companies. Public regulation of public service It ought to have come and it ought to and Telegraph company and the Western Union Telegraph company. port to the seventy thousand stock: publieity in connection with the affairs of such concerns was well stood, nobody in financial circles had anticipated so frank an avowal of full public rights in the shaping of their general conduct. It came conse quently as a surprise, not only be cause of Its povelty and squareness, but also on account of the unqualified ecquiescence of a board of directors comprising such eminent and conserv- ative financiers as Robert Winson of Kidder, Peabody & Co, and Henry L. Higginson of Boston, Henry P. Davi gon of J. P. Morgan & Co.; Senator W. Murray Crane, George F. Baer, T. Jefferson Coolidge Jr, Norman W Harris, John 1. Waterbury and others President Vall's declaration is her alded zs the first recognition by those in high corporate authority of the jus. tice of the demand that the public be regarded as virtual partners in all matters that pertain to the cdmmon welfare. He goes directly to the point. “Public control or regulation of public service corporatiorp by perma- nent commissions.” he says, “has come and come to stay. Control, or regulation, to be effective means pub YHeity: it means wsemi-public discus- sion and consideration before action; it means everything which is the op posite of and inconsistent with effec tive competition Competition -—ag- gressive, affective competition-—means strife, Industrial warfare; it means contention; it oftentimes means tak ing advantage of or resorting to any means that the consalence of the con- testants or the degree of the enforce ment of the laws will permit “Aggressive competition means duplication of plant and investment The ultimate oblect of such compet! fon is the possession of the fleld wholly or partially; therefore It means either ultimate combination on such basis and with such prices as will cover past losses, or it means loss of return on Investment, and eventual loss of capital However it results, all costs of aggressive, un- controlled competition are eventually borne, directly or indirectly. by the public. Competition which is not ag- gressive, presupposes cooperative ae tion, understandings, agreements, which result in general uniformity or harmony of action, which, in fact, in not competition but is combination, unstable, but for the time effective When thoroughly understood it will be found that “control” will give more of the benefits and public ad vantages, which are expected to be will obtain them without the public burden of either the public deficit. the advantages without any of the disadvantages of state ownership are secured, state ownership doomed.” Weekly, economics and politics. And it is high time we did If evolution Is to sup plant revolution as an efficient force Unreliable Physiognomy. T am a profound disbeliever in phys fognomy. Features are false mask of Intelligence. ness men who look poets who look like busigess Men of genius Invariably look idiots, and if you pick out the man | who looks most eminent in a party men. I always distrust men who look mag: | nificent. Nature Is a stingy creature. | parsimony is Shakespeare. peare’s face. his poetry, monplace ~—Adventures In London. Vegetable Fancy Work. Little Mra. Bride had almost every thing to learn about housekeeping, but she was so enthusiastic in her Interest that every one was glad to help her, “l have some particularly fine as paragus,” the marketman told her one day, and he displayed a bunch for her admiration. “Picked not three hours 880,” he added. Mrs. Bride looked at It with unaf fected amazement. “Does it grow like that” she asked. *1 always su the cook braided pposed the ends of iL"—Youth's Companion. TY PERISH IN BIG MINE FIRE i i Four Hundred Men Stampede in Race With Death. EXITS SHUT OFF BY FLAMES. Fire at Foot of Shaft of Pancoast Colliery, Near Scranton, Pa. Causes Explosion and Fills Mine With Smoke. most has Beranton, Pa. One of the serious mine disasters which | ever visited this section of the | Ing country occurred at the little vil- lage of Throop, a short distance from this city, { 0 and 60 men and boys were snuffed out. Among to ave those known in charge of the United States mine rescue car; Isaac Dawe, a fire boss, end Walter Knight, a foreman Evans’ death the result defective oxygen-charged armor Charles Enzian, the noted expert in general charge of mine work for the Federal government, was also overcome and is to be in & critical condition tonight As rescuers entered the stumbled these seen head was a of rescue said mine Over three was Joseph his he to wrench it had work Evans open alr he had gas from died evidently Was quickly as j } CRT iv AA ORE inhaled so burning a fe WHE Sims much the within Ww experience Evans Up to a late hour nearly of bodies had been plied at tom of the shaft, but it advisable surface died was thought them to the dwin i heen erected and h of the ere vere congrepgaied tA rei by GATED and chi and hoy suddenly snatched fre grief was piti years clingls women vig wl men wih mothers of the family anguish and sister and None mutilated, been ERses boys of the bodies recovered was death doubtless caused by inhaling flames and liar with tions Pancoast Colli finding of the there was practically the other impri NPT: bodies of the great majority and boy Walter Knl Dawe being foreigners, F and Fire Boss two Americans thought to have perished The fire at the from » Teman Alfred who Aare are ght gtarted in an engine house ng of a slope le Diamond vein 5h foot from the surfaca TI 400 men in the mine when the fire start ed, 0 ings into which the slope led oper ading the o {f them in the work These 60 were at work in a “blind” tunnel at the end of the slope ahout 6 O AIMED AT THE CZAR Resolutions in House to Abrogete the Treaty With Russia. Washington, D. C-—Representative Sulzer, of New York, introduced in the House a joint resolution directing the President to terminate the treaty be tween the United States and Russia because of diseriminaion against American citizens of Jewish origin Similar resolutions also have been in troduced by Messrs. Harrison and Goldfogle, of New York. The resolu tions were referred to the Foreign Af fairs Committee, of which Mr. Sulzer is chairman. Resolutions on this sub ject which were introduced last gion failed of passage. A favorable report is predicted this session 808 Makes 148 Fire Dead. New York. Death claimed the one hundred and forty-aixth victim of the Triangle Walst Company holo- canst Friday, when 16-year-old Annie ‘he girl died in after being 8t. Vin- uncon« Government Seizes Rifles, Douglas, Ariz. — Two cases of ARTIC PATION (Copyright, WL) CRAIGE LIPPINCOTT A SUID’ Prominent Publisher Shoots Himse! in Philadeiphia--1il Health as Motive. Craige president the J patron, Philadelphia old. of Lippincott pub B. Lippincot clubman years of the firm art ing pany, man of prominence, shot his } imseelf in hi ge Square by follows: iasued 5 AR § of period o OTArY aberration Craige LI dent of the J. B. Lippincott Company killed hin ppincott presi ot and ¥ ! Coroner's Statement, kil v it OLIVET? tt nee! pinco led hi re svidently purchase deed Only sver been discharged SOUGHT BY THE JAPS 12.700 Square Miles of Bay Now For Sale. Tacoma, Wash The of arrangements Flores Hale estate, practical com for comprising lotion the sale tha on the penisula of need by Ezra P Nebraska, The land Eastern men land is said to have been sought by Japanese government for a coaling station recently Savage, is Was anno ex governor of who one the owners avyndicate of The the dicates have have been figuring on the purchase. One of these syndicates has an option; which one is not an nounced El Paso, Texas Regardless of Washington denials it can be positive. atated that the massing of Ameri iy for the purpose stated in these despatches recently. The troops were massed as a warning to Japan that it must cease ta pressure Mexico for a coaling station; it served also as a warning to Diaz that might do well not to consider such a proposition and as an assurance that he need not be frightened about turn. ing down the yellow man's proposal This comes from a man ag close to the | Mexiean foreign office as any Ameri- can in the United States, a man who has many social autograph letters from Enrique Creel, Jose Yves Limantour and even Porfirio Diaz precisely : Spells 2,500 Words, Bowling Green, Mo. “Rep. | pulcher,” spelled Miss Margaret Pat [ terson the two P's ended the and OL ROOSEVELT 1S PEACEMAKER Suggestion From the Insur- rectos in Mexico. THEY WANT A COMMISSION Propose Commission Be Made Up of a Man Named by Diaz, One Named by Insurrectos and Third an American. Peace efforts have uy death Madero blow to t The Evarist WHS BR BovVerd convict Arrangements go 10 that ke d £0 he car his son's y few days for and fa funeral father's funera - ¥ . Sap Antonio na nis which the mand The real snag upon tiations now hinge is UU the insurrectos for a « nego- of m to Diaz it is Madero Diaz remain in office willing Diaz carried out e de ommissi out the pledges of understood that Francisco | willing to let that the insurrectos are rms which promised to grant are the guidance of a commission is to be composed y named by Diaz, a man named Maderists and a disinterested has Commission of his outsider the insurrectos have mentioned as possibly Theodore Roose. velt and possibly President Taft, but more likely Roosevelt, because the offi cial position of Taft would make it rather indelicate for him to act. The insurrectos are known to have pro posed such a commission with one of these two men as the chairman or third party This would virtually mean a triple or government head for Mexico, with Diaz a mere figurehead the promised reforms are put into execution. As the American mem. | ber would hold the balance of power, | he would practically be the dictator | and reformer of Mexico : If Limantour and the Diaz cabinet | will agree to this, the peace meeting will be held. As soon as an answer on this subject is definitely received { : i : leouri, with Miss Ruth Crenshaw, the winner, still standing. The signed from a 8t. Louis firm to El Paso, and thence to this city, were fal agent for the Department of Jus- tice. Campaign Publicity Bin, Washington, D. C.—Representative MeCall, of Massachusetts, reintro- duced in the House a bill providing for the publicity of campaign contri. butions In congressional elections prior to the election. Mr. McCall's bill last year passed the House, but was amended in the Senate to provide publication after the election. As eampaign publicity is one of the Democratic plans for the extra ses. sion, it is lkely that the MeCall bill will be laid aside and a similar bill introduced by a Democrat passed. ¥ friends and relatives of the contest {auts, who for 17 hours, with only an occasional intermission, had with. stood the bombardment of words un- til 10,000 had been given out. wd ———— IDSA 0 Oil Peddlers Fined. Richmond, Va.--In test cases be. fore ‘Squire Cheatham, of Chester field county, for peddling oil, the Standard Oil Company, National Oil Company and Richmond Oil Com- pany were fined $250 each for the gale of oil from their wagons and the driver of each was fined $100 additional. Appeals will be taken. To Restore Canteen, Washington, D. CA Bill to restore the army canteen was introduced by jeave for the of President Madero eC amp TAFT’S MESSAGE TO CONGRESS Reciprocity Only Ques lon Taken Ud by President--Considered it His Dnty. Washington, D. C.— The President sent to Congress his message asking the passage of the Canadian Rec procity Agreement. The document is short and concerns itself only with the trade pact. Mr. Taft explains he thought his "utmost efforts’ included calling the special session. He said? To the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives: I transmitted to the Sixty-first Con- gress, on January 26 last, the text of the reciprocal trade agreement which had been negotiated under my direc- tion by the Becretary of Btate with the representatives of the Dominion of Canada. This agreement was the consummation of earnest efforts ex- tending over a period of nearly a year on the part of both governments to effect a trade arrangement which, supplementing as it did, the amicable settlement of various questions of a diplomatic and political character that had been reached would mutual. ly promote commerce and would strengthen the friendly relations now The agreement, in its intent and in its terms, was purely economic and ial While the general sub: t was under discussion by the com~ missioners 1 felt ssured that the sentiment of the people of the United a COme which would result in the increase of trade on both sides of the boundary 1 would open up the reserve productive resources of " A Iheasure ne, Canada to the great mass of our own ners advantageous the yutlet for the excess condi- a roducts in~- on at game offer and many of our » public while the confer. g hows. of the agreement, A Te pendin text with the COrrespon z both its pure yecame known to measures it was im- the ripened iabors of the widespread has been considera- nt ma ence DOSE the and | BO De commissioners met with approval his approval strengthened by further of the terms of the agreen The 11 their has developed particulars vol ftnnal ly national scope g is responsive of 1¢ Sixty first Congress, after the full all the details to the different provisions had been it the American wl wy dow ow confirming Representatives t+} text of the arrangement with before before a bill ag they were passed agreement as nego- transmitted to Con This measure falled of action Senate "| 4 wy 14 my transmi people, the tiated and as ETCRE in the In ting message of the 26th of January 1 fully set forth the the agreement and its appropriateness and necessity as a response to the mutual needs of the people of the two coun- tries, as well as its common advan- tages I now lay that message and the reciprocal trade agreement as ind tegrally part of the present message before the Sixty-second Congress, and again invite earnest attention to the congiderations therein expressed I am constrained in deference to popular sentiment and with a realiz. ing sense of my duty to the great masses of our people whose welfare is involved, to urge upon your cons sideration early action on this agree ment. In concluding the negotia- tions, the representatives of the two countries bound themselves to usa their utmost efforts to bring about character of emphasized agreement by concurrent legislation at Washington and Ottawa I have felt it my duty, therefore, not to acquiesce In relegation of action until the opening of the Congress in De. ember, but to use my constitutional 7. R. Lays Corner Stone, Portland, Ore Theodore Roosevelt | arrived in Portland from California, | and laid the cornerstone of the new | club house of the Multinomah Athletic | Club, speaking on the development of | amateur athletics. The Colonel re viewed 30.000 school children. Swallowed Stee! Points. Ithaca, N. Y.-—8Burgeons removed 16 steel compass points from the stomach of Instructor T. J. Williams, placed the points in a capsule for safekeeping and then swallowed the eapsule by mistake, He will probably recover. Plans to Prevent Deadlocks. Washington, D. C.—A bill provid- ing for the election of United States Senators hy a plurality vote of State Legislatures was introduced in the Senate by Senator Root, of New York. The purpose of the measure is to prevent deadlocks In elections, Hits Prohibition Biow. Montgomery, Ala--8tate-wide prohi- bition In Alabama was given a knock. out blow when both branches of the Legislature adopted the Smith liguor regulation bill. This provides that 45 per cent. of the votes of a county may petition for an election to determine continuity in considering and acting upon this most important subject. The White House, April 5, 1911. (Signed) WILLIAM H. TAFT. Against Woman Mayor. Hunnewell, Kan -—After winning the Mayoralty in a fair fight and with a heavy handicap, Mrs. Ella Wilson has been counted out and tha certificate of election goes to her op ponent, O. M. Akers, city clerk. Her prompt action in hiring an attorney to protect her interests, however, may cause a reversal of the proce. dure by which her successful vote was annulled, She has convinced the city attorney of the error. Women to Wear Suspenders, Philadelphia. —Dr. Moses Stearn, many times candidate for Mayor of Philadelphia, sees in the harem akirt the moral uplift of the human race, the physical betterment of woman- hood and the reduced cost of living. Full Time In Pittaburg Mills, Pitteburg. Orders have been is sued this week In practigally all the wire and nail mills of the Pittsburg district to place those plants on full time, owing to the overcrowding of business for the spring season. Another Hero Fund, ' Stockholm, Sweden-——Andrew Car. pegie has donated $230,000 for a hero fund for Sweden, it 1s an nounced. : 2
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