The Centre Reporter
Centre Hall,
Parenws and educators
will interested in the experiment
now being tried in Cincinnati
public schools of establishing a class.
recom for bright
which would appear to be the logics!
of the for
The proposition
that it is unfair to hold the
apt or clever child in the of
the mediocre as it is to speed the dull
pupil he maintain
appeals as reasonable
sense. It will argued with
force that the which
provisioa for caring for the backward
pupil cannot be justified without pro
vision is made for accompanying the
nore
be
the
especially
accompaniment classroom
backward pupils
as back
ranks
cannot
to a pace
and common
be much
system makes
needs of those who can advance
rapidly than the average, says the St
Paul Pioneer Press. The proposition
simply for the
to schooling of the plan, that is gen
erally and followed in the
business
chances of promotion and all the ad
vantages of
those employed to advamsce rapidly In
one line another. This
been the the school
system has been adjust:d to meet the
of
provision made for those
provides application
adopted
world, where wage scales,
are based on the ability
or has not
rule in where the
requirements the average pupil,
with special
The net result of
for
below the average
retardation,
to
have decid
system
of
fit th
Lie
unsatisfactory
this system has been
which the pupils are not blame.
The Cincinnati
ed that the
make all children
cational is
general and particularly
bright pupils, whe
clal
and equitable method.
educators
old trying te
edu
ic
the
same
pattern
unfair to
are to be given spe
attention sensible
under
8 more
the
La
“common
Board
The
of in-
in-
ban
the
In putting its
drinking cup,”
of Health
public drinking cup
fection
dividual drinking vessel under all cir
on
New York
is doing a good thing.
is a carrier
and the habit of using an
cumstances might be good to acquire.
There are folding cups of metal, rub
ber and even of paper, which one can
keep about the
comfort
without dis
get trifling
pense. Scarlet fever, diphtheria, influ.
enza and even trans
missable, trans
mitted, promiscuously
water glasses and teacups
person
and can at ex
tuberculosis are
and are frequently
through
The famous auto expert who broke
new
his
is
his neck in an effort to establish
speed records might
life in a better
true, can out If
manufacture can the
strain put upon it by these speed ex
periments, but if he finds
trary the knowledge is seldom of
him,
serve even the minor purpose of being
& warning to others. The need of the
age is to learn more how to enjoy life,
rather than rushing
through it
have given
it
human
terrific
ca A man,
find
stand
ise
easily
to the con
any
use to does its
nor acquisition
faster ways of
England is worried over the $75.000.-
000 annual inflicted
rats. Most thinking people,
what worries
destruction by
are, and
is the meas-
ures for wiping out the pests are re
ceived by the rodents with cheerful in-
difference
most that
A New Yorker
asked permission
change his name.
1.000.000 000
named Jones
of the
It behooves
of that
monicker to arise in protest,
has
to
the
honored
courts
bearers
A Texas man snakes
last year for prices ranging from 25
cents to $2.50 each. Nobody can justly
complain that the price of snakes is
high.
sold 187.000
A Frerch physician injected radium
into a worn out old horse and made it
frisky as a colt. There is hope for
our ancient racehorses and baseball
players.
A sclentist says that a normal man
has large feet and a normal woman
small feet. This seems to settle the
question outside of Chicago.
An lowa professor claims that cold
weather In spring is good for the fruit
crop. Evidently the wolf cry from
Georgia was a false alarm,
A Harvard professor has solved the
riddle of the sphinx, but it is safe wo
assert that be doean’t know why the
harem skirt is.
Wealthy men cannot always do as
they please. A judge wouldn't allow
Cornelius Vanderbilt to cross his legs
in court.
Let us not abolish the tat just yet
Doctor Young tells us that the rat is
the original and busy conveyor of
germs,
New York reports the theft of $15,
000 worth of hair. That's what comes
of leaving it around on the dresser,
wn
HAD SANCTION
OF ROOSEVELT
Judge Gary Relates Inside Facts
Regarding Steel Deal.
WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE.
Chairman of Execu ive Committee of
United S ates Steel Corporation
Lays Bare Everyth ng to
the House Committee.
Washington Judge E
chairman of
of tl United
tion,
the executive
jet States Steel Corpor
«tt 1 x 5
staniey ill
House
absorption of
told the
committee of the
details of
nessee Coal and
United States
Gary told the
yl
averting a
HYECTIIHNE *
the
Iron Company b
Steel Corporati
Judge
his corporation
pont Morgan in
financial upheaval in 1807
Judge id before the com
sO
lisastirous
Gary
mittee the
Roosevelt:
phone fron
York had
of th
Was on,
financial
purch
Corporat
and
© res
ase
Iron Cor
Takes issus With Gates
Judge i phi
the statement
Gates
(ary
before
taking
ry
that the
Coal
ed States
and I
Stee]
“squeeze,”
RED LOPEZ EXECUTED
Put to Death by Guards While on
Way to Prison
Red 1.
Jered imprisoned by Fi
Cananea, Sonora
in
FUT TE
been
convey
sents
When
at Canane
end
“He tri
guards
prison
Lopez's
somhbrere
Opposes Hanging of Women
Tn Wi
SYAsD
Caleb Powers,
President Taft to
the
Lomax, a
to death
tive
asked
if possible,
Mary
sentenced
her hus-
Presi.
first
Represen
Kentucky
nBreavent
prevent,
ngton.
of
in this city of
woman,
Of
the
execution
colored
for the murder
band Mr. Powers told
dent that Mary Lomax the
woman condemned to death by a
eivil court in Washington. Mrs. Sur.
ratt, hanged for complicity in the as-
eassination of President Lincoln, was
sentenced by a military court The
President promised to the
case carefully.
is
consider
Why Jurge Wes Leniert
St. Louis “1 expect some day to
go before the Great Judge, and at
that time I will hope for lenfency
That is reason | am
offenders in my court.”
the lenient to
Thus Unit-
Judge D. P. Dyer
H. A. Totach, of this city, who plead.
ed guilty to making moonshine oleo-
margarine and threw himself on the
mercy of the court,
olin ssid sin RS
Indicted for Bribery.
Nashville, Tenn.-—The Davidson
county grand jury returned an ine
dictment against E. C. Goodpasture
on a bribery charge, Representative |
J. Q. MeDonald, of Overton county, a
Republican, accused Goodpasture of
offering him $1,500 before the logis
lature met to vote with regular
Democrats on organization, and to
repeal the liquor manufacturers’ law
and the election law. The Tennessce
Anti-Baloon League pressed the
rested.
1
HUNDRED AND TWENTY KILLED
Fort'ess at Man gu
Many Lib-
eraip Arrested.
Explosion in
in Nicaragua--
ate Department Interested,
inens
hig rocely
content
he general
mm eirele
tisaster
ganess ir
rather
Governmet
OVERTAKEN BY LAVA
of Asama
Pligrims to the Summit
Meet Sad Fate.
Victoria, B. C News was brought
from Japan by the Canadian
that when the annual festival of the
shrine, on the summit of Asama vol-
cano was held May 8, and several
hundred pligrims who had ascended
to the shrine were returning. the vol-
there was serious
loss of iife. A tremendous report,
felt as far distant as Tokio, was fol-
lowed by a column of lava and smoke
rising several hundred feet and the
pilgrims were showered with molten
lava.
Some were found at the
summit after the eruption shriveled
up by the red inva Searching
parties found many bodies with the
clothing, hair and portions of limbs
corpses
hot
WENT PLUCKILY TO DEATH
Lit = Cigarette and Ask:d Firing
Squad to Aim Well,
San Diego, Cal, — Capt.
Vegas, of the rebel forces at Tiju-
ana, Lower California, Mexico, who
shot and killed a Mexican named
Pachico during a row, was taken out
and executed by a rebel firing squad
soon after sunrise,
The firing squad was composed of
FOILS SLEUTHS
BATHTUB CRIME
| Woman's Letters Show She
| Used Two Names.
HUSBAND IS ON THE GRILL.
| Mrs. Sche b, Found Dead in Bath-
tub in New York, Got Lettsrs at
Dittarent
Father and Mother
Places From.
TO TRY LORIMER AGAIN
Martin Resolution Adopted After
Seven Mours' Debate.
Washington Senator Lorimer, of
faces another investigation
The
will be sub-
of on
privileges and elections, composed of
Republicans and four Dem.
ocrats, four of whom voted for the
conviction and four for the acquittal
of the Senator last The
method selected is regarded as the
latest thing in jury trials.
It took seven hours’ debate to
agree upon the system, and it was
finally adopt#l by a vote of 48 to
20, being substituted for the plan
urged by Senator La Follette of turn.
ing t case over to five senators
who were not members when the
was voted upon before and,
therefore, were supposed to be un- |
biased.
of his colleagues
conducted by a
the
3
commitien committee
four
session
he
Case
County's First Execution.
Clarion, Pa --Clarion county had!
ite firet legal execution Thursday
when Vincent Voychek paid the ex- |
treme penalty of the law for the!
murder of Andrew Stunka, near!
Riemershurg.
Tragedy In Auto Race
Indianapolis, Ind. One life was
sacrificed and several men were in-
jured Tuesday in the first 500-mile
motor race on a speedway. The
great test of skill and endurance was
won by Ray Harroun, driving a Mar.
mon car, in 6:41:08, Closely press.
ing Harroun for the victory was
Ralph Mulford, with a Lozier, whe
finished second, and David Bruce-
Brown, who drove a Fait to third
GETS CHANCE TO REORGANIZE
Court Decides Against
Tobacco Trust--Sent Back
to Lower Court,
Washington The government
victory the
trust’’ the
of the States
American Tobacco Com-
its corporations
of
gweeping aver
tobacco when
Supreme Court United
the
and to
the
pany allied
be violation
law
the
privilege
operating in
Sherman anti-trust
3
by t}
directing combination
of Inter-
in the
unless it dis-
law
eight
is regarded to have
iat
forbidden the
stale commerce be placed
hands of a receiver
in bh ony with the
n
or a the most,
+ court
bacco corporations
Stand-
ard
whose dissolution
Company of New Jersey,
weeks
Both
ARO
the first
ff the
ally
Tic
AFTER TRUST CHIEFS
Pomerene, of Ohio, Introduces Reso-
lution in Senate
BURNED AT THE STAKE
Horrible Crime Charged to Bandits
in Mexico
Mrs
alints
sisters
from Swaegey
Are
The
put to
letter states
death at the
hands of Mexi
for failure to
knew had
she driven
without food shelter
hours, but finally reached
of friendly Americans
f ban
+1
an
give
Mrs
from
he Swaesey writes
and was
for fifty
the
camp
was home
and
CHICAGO'S $25,000,000 STATION
Structure Sa d to Be World's Finest
Passenger Station.
Chicago, 11] The new station of
the Chicago and Northwestern Rail-
way in this city, one of the largest,
most costly and most magnificent
passenger terminals in the world, was
opened to traffic Thursday Costing
nearly $25,000,000 and with a right
of way area of 37 acres, it is re
garded as a marvel in modern rail-
way station construction
American Treasurer at Persia.
Teheran, Persia.-—~The National
Council adopted a proposal of the
Minister of Finance investing W.
Morgan Shuster, the American finan-
cler, who recently was appointed
treasurer general of Persia, with the
most extensive powers for the con
trol of the finances ol the country.
Expected Gold in Streets,
Chicago. ~-Believing he could plek
up gold and silver on the streets of
Chicago, Emil Huff, a Toledo, Ohlo,
youth, spent all his money getting
here. He brought a basket to hold
the gold. The police will send him
home,
Restrict Drinking on Trains,
Springfield, Hl -- Drinking , on
trains, except in buffet and dining
cars, is prohibited In Hlinols here.
after. Governor Deneen signed the
bill having that effect.
TAFT HITS FROM
THE SHOULDER
Denounces the Underhand At-
tacks on Reciprocity.
SCORES SPECIAL INTERESTS.
Measure Eiab-
Address Before
Western Economic
Reviews Proposed
orately in
Society
LITTLE DANGER IN SMALLPOX
Oniy 82
Cases Out of 20,000
1808 Were Fatal,
in
4
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ELECTION SET FOR OCTOBER 1,
La
Decree
President De Barre
issues
A Notable Wedding
Havans T id i
v TT § ’
iItaVvale 1 UC ©I00F Gaus I O13
Pres
fa
Gomez anuela
ent 2. T=
ried
ant
chief of
bril
ceremony
Saturday
am Bann ah
LOIOne]
even’ “culen-
Julio orales
Navy
ello,
he Cuban palace
the
Bishop
COrps
attend-
& are said to ag-
3
was iantly ili
{
i and
was performed by
The full di; atic
and members of the cabinet
ed The bridal gift
gregate $500,000.
Estrada
i0n
Kaiser Favors Cupid.
Berlin.— According the Berlin
Leitung, an announcement will be
made on June 17 of the betrothal of
Princess Victoria Louise, only daugh-
ter of the Kaiser, to hereditary
| Prince Adolf Frederick Mecklen-
burg-Strelitz. The paper quotes the
| Kaiser as saying “I do not intend
to sacrifice my girl for politics. She
shall marry for happiness above all
else.”
to
of
illegal to Treat in Tacoma.
Tacoma, Wash Saloon men from
all parts of the city were booked at
| the police station when seven de-
| tectives made 21 arrests for alleged
violation of the city's anti-treating
| srdinance, which prohibits treating
{ in saloons. The constitutionality of
{the law will be attacked by the
| saloonkeepers.
A —————
Woman Fights Mighwayman,
New York.--Miss Rebecea Cross
man downed a highwayman who at-
tacked her on the street by grabbing
him around the knees and so delay-
ing him until a policeman caught
tim. Her chatelaine bag, containing
$178, was In the man's hand when
te was captured. He sald he was
Joseph Martin when arraigned in Po-
fice Court and he was held in de-
fault of $3,000 bail.