ERR
"The Centre Reporter
CENTRE HALL PA
VERSATILITY IN THE ARMY.
Is there anything that cannot be
There is nothing. For example, take
Colonel Goethals and watch him con-
struct the Panama
WOMAN TRAPS
BLACK ANDER
Gives Him $500 When He Calls
for Money.
DETECTIVES WERE WAITING.
Journal. It was a surprise party.
service publication which makes
known the achievements of these
heroes justly remarks that “a great
deal of praise is due the bachelors for
without the assistance of the ladles
of the post.” says the Chicago News.
For example: “The dining-room and
den. in themselves very handsome,
tions and ferns. The beautiful pale
on the mantel and library table In the
den. In the dining-room a large vase,
filled with the same gorgeous flowers
adorned the table. As a souvenir of
the occasion a large bouquet, tied
with pink tulle, was presented to each
of the young ladies present A de
dainty sandwiches, and a mild punch
was served during the evening” Is
ft not plain that these bachelors are
artists and poets as well as warriors?
What bachelor outside the service
could tie a bow of pink tulle around
a bouquet? Doubtless, also, any one
of the five, like Cyrano, could compose
a ballade while preparing to transfix
an enemy on the point of his service
sword. Gentlemen, a toast, standing,
to the army men who can concoct a
Welsh rabbit which will not kill either
at close or long range.
“A little harmless flirting with nice
people with whom you are acquainted
will do much to rest the tired mind
ter the arduous duties of the school
room.” This is one of the suggestions
to young women schoolteachers made
by an elderly lady on relinquishing
her position as teacher in the Boston
public schools after 49 years’ service.
“Be a live wire every minute, and
don't eat too much,” is another bit of
advice. This kind of advice from a
learned and experienced school
“marm” will make most people “sit
up and take notice,” for in our opin-
fon it is much worse than indiscreet,
to say the least, says the New Or
leans Plcaqune. As a cure for brain
fag, flirting is entirely to
though some years ago we heard it
highly recommended for other all
ments, and we thought it pleasant to
“take.” Wonder how this teacher held
her job for 49 years? She must have
had a strangle hold on it
new us,
A Hindu philosopher and scholar
who has been visiting this country de
clares we have all the heathens we
can manage at home, and that the
money sent abroad to make converts
is wasted and could be better spent
in missionary work among the
“Greeks at our own doors.” He also
made some caustic comments on prac
tical Christianity in the United States.
Sometimes the oriental mind displays
unexpected but comprehensive accur-
acy of observation of Western super
fority.
The object of the organization
which calls itself the Non-Smokers of
America {8 to secure the enforcement
of laws, ordinances, regulations and
rules against smoking in public places
in the United States. The man who
endeavored to incorporate it in New
York include several
educators.
There was no
statement from
not made application for incorporation
ich denied the application.
non-smokers can begin over if they
choose.
an order of the Bupreme court to al
low her divorced husband to visit their
baby, and the justice whose authority
was thus defled, asked: “What are we
going to do about it?" Being a jurist
of wide experience and knowledge of
human nature, he admitted that all
the courts going were no match for a
woman once her mind was made up.
The amount collected at the port of
New York from fines, penalties and
forfeitures amounted to over $2,000.
000. Honesty, from this showing, is
not only the best policy, but also the
cheapest in the end.
A Washington woman has applied to
the courts to get her alimony increas
ed because she is unable to live on
$600 a month. The courts might rec
smmend a course In domestic econ
smy for the lady.
of Chicago,
Aged B9 Years, Gets Threaten-
ing Letter Damanding Cash
=-Police Were Waiting.
Chicago.— While C. K. G. Billings,
was hanging up a new world's trot-
ting record at Cleveland his mother,
Mrs. A. M. Billings, of Chicago, de-
gpite her 89% years, was making a
little record of her own in capturing
& would-be bdlackmailer, or black-
who are alleged to have
in true Black Hand
John Mills, a colored man, who
says Cairo, Ill, in his home, and
John Hendricks, a white man, about
87 years old, and whom the police
styled a “hobo” from his appearance,
Thursday Mrs. Bili-
ings received a letter damanding that
$600 be wrapped in a bundle of old
clothes and given to a man who
would call today and ask for work,
“"package.’’
Billings promptly
Mrs. notified a
the official police to their aid They
the grounds of
the Billings home at 1424 West Lake
street today, when M appeared
“l want a job about the horses
here,” Mills said the who
answered the door and
been coached by Mrs. Billings in her
part.
“We have no suc
replied.
“Well, then, how pack-
age?” Mills is said to have asked
At this point the maid
mysterious visitor into the house and
notified Mrs. Billings,
the infirmities of her
bed.
The mald was given a
old clothes but Was
concealed within it, and
handed the negro, asking him
wait for a few moments. Then
detectives were notified and Mills’ ar-
rest followed
He expressed surprise at his deten-
tion He declared he came
Chicago from Cairo and that he met
a stranger who gave his name as
John Hendricks at a saloon in West
Madison street Hendricks, he sald,
asked him if he wanted earn $50
Mills was willing, and, he said, he
Was to the Billings home
and ork
and ilar about the package
He pay upot
completion of } isgion
Mills,
cers to a West Side saloon, where he
£11
PAB
to
maid
who had
h work here,”
about that
d
invited th
ie
io
in
owing
Was
who,
YOAars,
bundle of
there no money
this she
to
to
the
that to
to
told vieit
to ask the questions about =
in partie:
was to receive his the
isn
after his arrest, led the offi-
pointed out Hendricks, who ig a Ger
man, and speaks a little English, He
was sullen and fused to answer the
questions put by the
Millis said that was the
Hendricks and knew nothing of
threatening letter received by
3illings
Irs
him
he
to police
of
the
Mrs
tool
PAINTED STOWAWAYS RED.
Steamship Ofticials Near Cana! Zone
Adopt Drastic Measures.
Washington
touching at
Some of the vessels
ports of the Panama
Canal Zone are resorting to unique
and drastic measures discourage
stowaways, a great number of whom
in the past few weeks have attemp-
ed to reach the zone The crew of
a ship bound for Colon recently dis-
covered several stowaways aboard,
painted their heads and faces with
to
then landed them
which they came.
As a result of extreme vigilance
on the part of steamship officials,
vessels are now entering the canal
porte practically free of stowaways.
at the port from
Mutiny In Portugal,
of insubordination
in this city,
sergeants were arrested and im-
prisoned in the fortress here. A part
being denounced, committed suicide
by cutting his throat.
Quakes in Californias,
San Bernardino, Cal.
most severe earthquake shock felt in
this vicinity in years shook the busi-
that the occupants fled into the
streets. The damage was trivial. A
previous shock had been felt earlier
in the day.
Army of the Philippines.
Detroit, Mich.—Gen. P. J. H. Far-
reil, of Chicago, past commander of
the Army of the Philippines, was the
principal speaker at the reunion of
the organizatifon, which is now being
held here. General Farrell pleaded
for more patriotic exercises in public
schools. “Something should be
done,” he sald, “to increase respect
for the Stars and Stripes and kindle
a stronger feeling of patriotism
among the school children of the
United States.”
IN CHICAGO
hoes
A.
(Copyright, 1811)
THE TRUSTS IN
UIRE STRAITS
Perkins Says Corporations
| Cannot Exist.
Stee! Director Tells
That Corporations Cannot Con-
tinue Operations ana Con-
form to tne Statutes.
Perkins,
United
Washington George W
inancier and director of the
tates Steel Corporation, made some
striking recommendations with refer-
ence to the government's control of
orporations A witness before the
House Steel Trust Investigating Com-
i mit he declared that existing laws
were seriously threatening big busi-
tee,
ness interests and their rigid enforce-
ment was rendering it impossible for
corporations
in conformity with the statutes
to continue operations
Some of his observations follow
That great corporations, grown
up under demands of existing condi-
ould 1 longer successfully
under the Sherman Anti-Trust
j.aw as now rigidly enforced
That the government's
of the Standard Oil
served as a waving of a ‘red flag’
Warning corporation
I nited States
tions, ¢
exist
dissolu-
Company
of
tion
in the
i He
fo every
o the limit
regulation
Forced to Viclate the Law.
“hat the very reason subsidiary
companies of a great corporation can
violate the law without knowledge of
the officers of the holding company,
{# the law which prevents such a cor-
from operating and ruling
subsidiary concerns instead of
merely advising them
“That one great stride toward
averting financial panics in New York
could be made if the government
would prevent banks in Chicago and
the Middle West loaning money on
call in New York during the sum-
mer at cheap rates and suddenly
calling it back in the fall for the crop
movement, making high money and
trouble in the New York market
poration
the
‘ernment bureau which could give
accurate information to the public as
to the conditions of corporations
would be an active inducement to the
people to make wise investments
“That one of the most striking de-
velopments of the present system of
conducting business on a large scale
{1a the dividing of great interests into
| the hands of many investors rather
{than concentrating them in the hands
of a few.”
Witness Pounds Table.
Mr. Perking made the foregoing
eloquent and forceful in his declara-
tions He frequently emphasized his
! remarks by waving his arms, pound-
| ing upon the witness table with his
| fists and rising from his seat to ad-
| dress the committee,
Mr. Perking made other interest-
ing statements. He sald there was
ore monopoly in the country and that
valuable ores constantly were being
was being studied and soon
be available.
would
Death at a Party.
Detroit, Mich. —Miss Ruth Bryan,
aged 23 years, whose home is In
Hudson, N. Y., is dead as the result
of burns received while attending a
party at Birmingham, a village 12
miles north. While searching for
her pocketbook with a lighted lamp
she tripped over a rug. The lamp
exploded, enveloping her in flames.
She was brought to a Detroit hos-
pital, where her death occurred
Thursday.
A BIG DECLINE IN
CROP CONDITIONS
Department of Agricultural Is-
sues Corn Report.
{
|
|
Franch Eteamer Emir Founders After
Col islon---Twenty-seven
of Crew Rescued.
| Gibraltar.—The French steamer
| Emir foundered five
{ Tarifa, Spain,
| Gibraltar,
in the
The ship salled from
io'clock Wednesday
| Moroccan port.
{dense fog, she collided with the Brit-
| Ish steamer Bilverton, bound from
| Newport, England, for Taranto, Italy.
| The crew of the latter rescued 27
{of the Emir's crew and passengers.
i The Silverton later put in here with
{ her starboard bow stove in and her
forepeak full of water.
The Emir floated only a
minutes after the collision Sixty-
nine passengers and 24 of the crew
{ went down with the ship. Those
{saved were 12 of the crew and 15
| passengers All the passengers were
French
here at 8
few
SENATOR W. P. FRYZ DEAD.
The Btate of Maine
its senior Senator and an almost
lifelong, faithful servant when Wil
liam Plerce Frye died Tuesday at
the home of his daughter, Mrs
Helen White, in this city The end
at 2.556 P. M At his bedside
Mrs. White and his other
| daughter, Mrs. Alice Briggs, who also
resides in Lewiston Although he
i been {Il for a e, death
| came suddenly.
Came
were
had long tim
Total Production of 2 620,221,400
Busheis Against 3,1.5,868,000
for Last Year--Oasts Hoigs
Second Place.
Ww
ashington
A
condition of
* “PY - 1 ;
iremendcous
de-
EF
ciine in the
Crops
Vi
eral throughout the co and
intry
traceable to drouth and Intense heat,
occurred during the last
by monthly
Department of Agric:
port is t
issued fo
month, as
indicated
the
the report
ture
of
ihe
re
1€¢ Worst, as to general crops
any single month since
1901
The area most sly
extends from New York and Pe
vania westward to the Rocky
tains,
serio affected
nnsyl-
Moun-
embracing all of the great corn,
and bay producing States in
The estimates follow
Corn 69.6 per cent
a normal, compared with 80.1
July 1; 79.3 per
August 1, 1810, 51.2 per cent
the average for the past ten years on
that indicated
: bushels, compared
“ew. B
bushels, i161
wheat
th
ie country
Condition, of
per
st “
cent on
on cent
and
date; vield per acre
27.4
and
with
the £
final yield,
i
“ bushels, the averages
ros
wheat
IShels
§.044,000 bush
inst
the
imated
year, and
000 bushels, AYVETraEe Al~
the past five years
The yield per acre is about 14.56 bush-
els compared with 15.8 in
1910, and 15.5 bushels average
for the past five years The quality
is 92.0 per against 82.6 per
cent. last year
Bpring Wheat
els fi
450,130
n
ual production in
bushels
the
cent,
Condition, 68.8 per
cent. of a normal, compared with 73.8
per cent. on July 1; 61.0 per cent
1910, and 82.3 per cent
average Indicated yield per acre,
10.1 bushels, compared with 11.7
bushels in 1910 and 13.5 bushels, the
average for the last five years
All Wheat-Indicated yield per
acre, 12.8 bushels, compared with
14.1 bushels in 1910, and 14.7 bush-
els the five-year average
Oats-——Condition, 65.7 per cent. of
a normal, compared with 88.8 per
cent. on July 1; 81.5 per cent. in
1910, and 82.2 per cent. the ten-
Year average Indicated yield per
acre, 23.2 bushels, compared with
fe
ia
the ten-year
els the five-year average
The amount of oats rem
farms until August 1 is est'mated at
64,342,000 bushels, compared with
63,249,000 bushels on August
and 52,663,000 bushels the
average amount on farms August 1
Ninety-six Miles an Hour
1.08 Angeles, According to a veri
fication just completed by the Aero-
Champion, the local
what Is
aviator, made
flew a distance of seven miles at a
speed of 98 miles per hour,
pion used a racing monoplane pur-
wind at his back flew from Domin-
guez fleld to Long Beach in less than
five minutes,
Taft's Private Roof Garden. y
Washington. A new roof garden
has been opsned In Washington, It
is located at 1600 Pennsyivania ave-
nue, where President Taft lives when
Congress keeps him here and admis
gion is strictly by invitation. Every
mild evening since the President's
family went away the White House
dinner has been served on the top of
the west wing of the structure that
connects the executive mansion with
the offices. The President, SBecretary
Hilles and Major Butt are usually the
only diners,
WILLIAM P. FRYE.
United States Senator from Maine
the ¢
resign his ee.
president pro tempore of the Senate
at the beginning of the present spec
ial session of Congress, although he
retained his membership in the sen-
Senator Frye afterward
his journey the
which al had is home
For weeks yndit was
not considered necessarily danger-
Up to week in
spending much
time in reading or in having
some member of his read to
him
lL.ast week the Senator's
took a serious turn, but
lied, and this week his physicians ex-
he might re.
Tuesday af-
a come
fortable after.
ward it was seen that he was sinking
rapidly, and at 3.55 he died
Forced by ondition of his
health to position
ale sOONn
made last to city
Ways been I
_ROYETa his od ion
ous last ne rested
comparative comfort
of his
family
{liness
he soon ral
pressed the hope that
As
he appeared to be in
cover iate as 8.15
ternoon
condition Shortly
Bids for the Cabras 'siands
IL.isbon The Portuguese govern-
ment is considering whether it will
allow Senhor Abrei, owner of the
Cabras Islands, off the Portuguese
coast. to sell them to a foreigner
Abrei says that an American capital-
ist has offered him $206,000 for the
property and that the same amoun
has been offered by the British Mar-
coni Company
man also has
islands
made a bid for the
Hat Pin Injures Eye
New Haven, Conn F. Carrol
Bulkeley, a broker, may lose the
sight of one eve as the result of an
encounter with the hatpin of a wom-
an who sat next to him on a car from
Southington. The pin
eral inches beyond the woman's hat,
(and when she turned to speak to a
friend the point
eveball and the
i seratched.
membrane was
Canadian Cabinet Changes
| forecasted several
made by order-in-council. Minister
of Marine Bourdeur goes on the 8u-
preme Court Bench In succession to
| Judge Girouard. The Hon. Rudolph
Lemieux ls transferred to the port.
| folio of marine and Dr. H. T. Beland,
| of Beauce, comes into the cabinet as
| postmaster general,
U. 8. to Get Four lslands.
Washington.—The United States
government will shortly come into
full possession of four islands-~Naos,
| Flamenco, Perico and Culebra—in
Panama bay at the Pacific entrance
to the Panama canal. The Pacific
| Mail Steamship Company has accept
ed the awards of a joint commission
by which that company will receive
$44,000 for its half interest in and
fmprovements on the islands. The
remainder of the title to the islands
already rests in the Panama
Company.
STATE
CAPITAL
NEWS
“Collar Rot” in Fruit Belt.
The “collar rot,” with a
penchant trees,
A pest
for apple and fruit
prevalent in
eastern part
reported
orchards In
of the State,
Btate Zoologist
from the South Mountain
belt,” one the best known apple
raising sections in Btate The
rot was reported a few days ago from
Franklin county, orchards
the of Wavnesboro were at-
The “eollar rot,” which af
fects the trunks of trees, is one of the
worst pests and got.
rid of, and Dr. Burface {8 much con-
over the reports, for unless
pest will work havoe In
sections which ©
best apple belt
eastern of the country
plang visits to the regions which have
vy
the north.
has been
Burface
“apple
to
of
the
in
where
vieinity
the hardest to
cerned
rhecked the
one of the 188 WON
fame as the
part
ted go ne to give first-hand
instruction in methods for eradica-
tion and fears that unless something
ig done at
of
an early
iarge
day by the own~
ers orchards they will suf-
The zoologist says that the best
Means getting rid of pest
to cut out the parts
solution A
infected trees will
fer
of the is
infected and
paint them with some
study of be made
to obtain more information as to the
bacteria causing the trouble
May Finish Painting.
of Public
decided
Miss Oakley
ite Board Ground
i
JILER await
Nag
Can
aj
Arrangements
the work
ft agreed
Governor's Appointments,
Railroad.
A charter was issued at the Capi-
Manatawney Railroad
Company to construct and operate an
line Dougiass-
Spangville, Berks county
je $100,000 and the in-
sorporators are Milton J Person,
Bethlehem, president, who
most of the stock; John Palmer, Jr,
Jersey City: Stephen Robinson, Jr,
Audubon N. J: Lewis E. Hutch-
macher, Bethlehem: Charles M. Al-
len. Bavonne, N. J.;: Danijel J. Dris-
coll. Reading, and Robert L.. Runyon,
Allentown
Charter Berks
tol to the
pight-mile between
ville and
The capital
controls
Tener's Jaguar Cubs,
The twin jaguar cubs sent to the
Governor by a friend in Arizona, will
probably grace either the Zoo at
Philadelphia Pittsburgh, within
the next few weeks. The cubs were
removed from the crate in which
they made their transcontinental
journey to a cage with iron bars and
await word from the Governor as to
their final home. They will be cared
for under the direction of the cura-
or
until the Governor is heard from.
Linguist Out for Mayor,
David Goldberg, one of the best-
known interpreters of the Fennsyl-
vania Railroad Main Line and a
prominent Republican of the Eighth
Ward, took out papers to be a can-
didate for the Republican nomina-
tion for mayor. Goldberg speaks a
dozen languages and says he will
make an active canvass.
The first steps in the crusade of
the State against the chestnut blight
under the quarter million dollar ap-
propriation made last winter will be
started Thursday in York county. A
corps of men under direction of the
Deputy Forestry Commission will
take the fleld and after about two
weeks will organize 8a new corps to
combat the blight in Franklin and
Perry counties and then inspect the
western counties. They will concen
trate about Philadelphia later in the
year,