The Centre Reporter CENTRE HALL. PA PHILOSOPHY AND PLASTERS. For the most part mankind has learned to accept the varied happen ings of life in a philosophical spirit TOWN FLOODED DAM GIVES WAY forgetting the inspired adage which recites that sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof, continually look ahead for trouble. big snake in the Bronx zoo was found to be suffering from bronchitis, The ordinary remedies were given and in addition the reptile’s throat was wrap ped with adhesive plaster for a dis tance of six feet—the unusual space being covered, perhaps because it Is difficult to tell where a snake's throat ends and the rest of him begins, And DOW an uneasy correspondent writes to his daily paper and asks how the doctor and the attendants propose to remove the plaster. It is possible, that this inquiring person has had trouble with plasters and knows how unpleas ant it is suddenly arate the stickers from the human skin But, why worry about the snake? Why look for trouble even before the plas ter begins to draw? When the grup er time comes and the usefulness of the big muffler is ended, it the will slough he might his skin to sep is possible cobra the plasters as A writer contends that for nition of as & man can as he pleases.” might be much advanced in favor «f the proposition that it is the plas where woman can do as she pleases— at least she generally does. Well, why not? Who the home? Every ideal home charms to woman's part its making. Man Is aware of that, and the American man ge Berally accepts woman's exclu sive dominion in @ un questioned ris to finance the the } ius provides for hin the defi “the place whers There “home do makes owes Its greatest t in home of her & privilege being enterprise and to enjoy comfort ge presiding that a New his It is man had 8 lady pin, the side of the “lid” reported Haven by from ently to con recently eye put out 's hat which protruded suffici nect with any one occupying the same street car seat deadly sald with the owner of the ornament. Whatever may be favor of hat deal damaging testi mony can be brought against it, and {it Is reasonab in that If it was an adaptation “mere” man it would long into “bas her make a feat in y's” ment, a “milad orna great of ly certa of ago forced But and bave been the woman, with her hat pin, tion difficy de been” class. supreme power, combina it to Foot-and-mouth three hs of Haute-Savole and thre southern France disease, which broke out mont ago in the province has spread rapidly is now atening central and Pigs, ted. The a sheep and cat tle affec are best rge the reference to this It out of a coun sCou to most strin- is keep by ry ent system for Imports a ty o # > 3 - of live stock. The example of France demonstrates that the disease is hard to fight when it once gets in And now the pu re food experts are after some of the charging, soda fountain drinks. other things, that they are habit forming. Corrobora tion might be had from the swain of the summer girl, who views with alarm the rapidity with which one ice among cream soda follows another. A good deal of sympathy out to Hetty G an Incautious moment he announced that he intended marry within a year and had not picked out the gir! But he now says he will not marry a New York woman And he is care fully remaining in New York. has gone reen’'s gon because in to The latest fish story comes from Pine Brook, N. J., where, it 1s claimed, an angler cast for fish and pulled up a chest of sllverware. The fact that the story does not come from Win sted, Conn., leads us to place some faith in ft . A recent order prohibits profanity on the part of those engaged in the construction of the Panama canal. The privilege is no doubt reserved for crit ics of the work. sn. A stranger wins $100 by betting that “cholr” and “quire” mean the be seized as gambling paraphernalia? with a chauffeur is away behind the times. The proper stunt now is to fly away with an aviator. It has been discovered that an octu. pus can be scared to death. This is true only In the animal world, not in the industrial When cholera germs tackle caviar they meet a foe they cannot cope with by Floods CAUSED BY HEAVY RAINS A Number Of Business Houses and Dwellings Destroyed-—A Three Story Hotel the First Structure To Go. Wis The Falls, & town situation at of Lacrosse, Black River habitants, which was swept by a flood, when the of the Black swollen ent rains, wa through of La crosse Water Power Company dams a Hatfiel than was even feared when 2.000 In walters by red the the embankment ¢ by far is worse the flood swept upon the town Half of the business section has i been together with of the said by taken refuge make effort their stores and homes, that Whether destroyed, residence district, and it is townspeople who high the the on land unable an for protect will be wiped out lives have been lost tain Thus fi accounted for The Destruction Total. 1 been not The bulldings have but in flooded, destroved The water flowing mined one building after as each collapsed the debris nost part was Tremont Hotel, ture, the first tions cou } v yO unaer tremendous ume another, and for the AWAY Was id he ti town wrecking of finding it a di then valuable pos None of the saved ture thougt of tt ie 18eives, gegsions CRE wt fear burst T! h 81 1dden rise the two Water Po which withsatod wer i lasted th wl CAsSe Farmers Taken Unaware apprehension PHILADELPHIA'S SCANDAL. Warrants for Arrests Of Several Lead ing City Officials. Phila rest Henry Warrants on chairmar tee Th are fraud the gation Catlin senatorial commis men will ¢ but will accept service through thei attorneys and appea not be taken enstods r for a hearing Demonstration For Reyes. San Texas the Antonio, Arrangements friends of Reves, Mexico, upon his ar It iweisco 1 Madero were made here by Bernardo demonstra from New agents of take part Search is to serve Reyes Jen of for a ation rival here cted that will demonstration for a and headquarters for Orleans Frar in ng as home if ex the bel made residence Colombians Insult Peru. Bogota, On wving Cathedral, where they had attended a meeting presided over by the Arch bishop of Bogota, a mob stoned the Colombia the coat of arma. This is the second at. Is considered grave. The previous at tack took place in July and was due Two More Dams Burst. Chippewa Falls, Wis Two dame went out in this city Friday and one at Bloomer. The country is flooded The Chippewa River has risen eight feet, and is overflowing its banks. Water Is running in the streets gs a Two bridges near Stanley and one at Owen went out In the flood. This is the heaviest deluge experienced along the Chippewa River since June, 1004, Copyright. 19110 For.s--No Shots hit the Ships ¥ UeCRUSe iselogs RARE HONORS PAID SCHLEY. Naval and Military Forces and Hosts Of Friends At Funeral. nors seldom aclerizet anda friends posed the pr f Adn kurch t« mrades and Admiral con worted the from St. John's ( place in impos Church body « the sur lief expeditios Cape wreaths from the Admiral 1884, i iban Legation and Schley at Sabine in and other sources ROOSEVELT TO HUNT WHALES Big Sea Game. L.ong Beach, Cal After hunting bear in Colorado, elephants in Africa and various other game in his own country, Col. Theodore Roosevelt, it to hunt whales Captain Loop, whose powerboat is | fitted up for the pursuit, is authority for the announcement that Colonel PEOPLE’ 8 MONEY PILING uP, Than Three Months, Washington. deposits in the national banks are in. creasing. From June 7 to September | 1 these deposits grew from $634,100, 000 to $6564.200,000, an increase of $20, 200,000. Of the 7.801 national banks in existence a month ago 3.014 had savings departments. { i : USEVELT AVOWS GANAL GRAB the People Benefit of Doubt, Gave DEFENSE OF HIS ACTION Who Acted Be WEerg—— Scores Critics Say He yond Constitutional Po “Tin Pres Can E x¢ dent uses.” ng i A re gpoOr he 8 of course, manufacture ingenious th ure aem Opposed By Speculators. the GXCuses for 10 exercise Concerning the ta the Com from igsevelt saves canal righ pany. Mr. R« “Evers Govern negotia the French mpany and csonta agree with the ail has been Doubtless in Paris, and extent in New were Bev ulators who and sold in the stock market with a view to the varying conditions apparent from time to time in the course of the negotiations, and with probable outcome of the gtep taken ment in connect with payment in it entered tions the tO ts ONCE 3 4 accordance with the tives meg into was taken itmost care, and every det made public perhaps to a York, there leager bought a view to the negotiations.” Aeroplanes for Tripoli. Nine military aviators, with eight monoplanes and two bi plans, will be sent to Tripoli. The aviators will be commanded by Cap- tain Piazza, who won the from Boulogne to Venice, Naples New Order Increases Army, Washington. ~The War Department Cavalry regi ments assigned to duty, in the Panama Canal zone, Hawaiian Islands, and the troop, and the infantry regiments serv. ing in the same territory will have 72 men to the company. This order will increase the total strength of the army to 77,682 men. DR. WILEY IN FULL CONTROL Solicitor McCabe Leaves the Pure Foud Boa d--Ch:m st Dunlap Aso Out Washington. In a sudden succes sion of orders initial in the expected reorganization of the Depart ment of Agriculture, Bolicitor George P. McCabe wae retired from the Drug Board, Asso I... Dunlap, closely McCabe, was allowed the President's Harvey W. Wiley upreme command Dr. R. E of as temporarily appointed McCabe by a confer an move Tuesday Pure and Chemist | identified with leave of return, and ( left appa; of the Food absence unti neqnist sid 1a g eniiy in # board oolittle, New York, » he board to succeed Mr changes x + Announced Becretary ing who h son follow Dr. Wile as been on a long vacation They were deemed inevitable in view of the official and sonal before a the past neration ntagonien aireq gional and Dr. Wilev's CONEr ex comm KUImimer Pres ex Attorney Gen aligned § ison ana mmended meth ds he The Board At Odds. : » Food and In denied AVY TO SHOW STRENGTH. Cf Fleets In and Pacific the Atlantic hare quiet display » Bis not bee Whether ‘ n for York and 1 and Pacific bit ys id there the mot mn definite me at New Ang Atlantic fleets coul ot be learn strong that me rely the inter: are Of the the ed, impression is the plan for it was effect on adopted moral tional sity tion Hew Maver is ill uncertain as plan bilization. It place early and the ships at New York the occasion is ex pected to be made so notable that it will be 5 matter throughout the world retary fo the exact 1 take the November, with President reviewing of news WILL WAIT TO BE ASKED. United States Government Will Not Offer Mediation. Washington. State Department offi. cialis after careful reading of the six articles of The Hague Convention bearing upon mediation have failed to find any mandatory provision requir impression, The council of the Inter. parliamentary Union at ite session in error, in the opinion of the officials MISSING MAN TURNS uP. Walks into Parents’ Home After Being Gone 30 Years. Ballefontaine, O-— After being mise. ing for 30 years and given up as dead, Rufus Meisler walked into his par ents’ home at West Mansfield Tues day. He hag become wealthy as a ranch owner in California. He gave no reason for his sudden disappear ance. He left home 30 years ago to go squirrelhunting and then disap peared. CL oven Te sme OVER THz STATE TOLD IN SHORY ORDER \ NE Reading YOArs, ty John Schaeffer a farme r of Bernville, ‘this cout » COmMmm ith aged ited suicide by hanging h self w a rope in hig barn Bon can be assign Carlisle. Thre time in the ( for stealing chi fron guards where a thai Lh os ner Vi oR sireet, Eang risoners ar utting dowt : Pittal piace, a ©x ploded Peter Meswtiy unin the son raised being ly and off, iow 1 ger wet besides lacerat knee his h he povered from AR chestnut man home tightly DORs log as pie Th the wounded The leg here roe carried two was From miles, amputated excessive los not hospital of blood Prevelege ma) the road. any to encroaching property at Mt the out of the Pottsville —~Objecting way trolley force nearer her Carbon, the plans for tracks taking them slightly route of the road, Mrs. Angelo Long, held up & squad of thirty men with a leveled gun for several hours, until interference came on the part of Troop C of the State Constabulary to work but to hotel changes in her property, time (hey attempted to over gtep a prescribed “dead line” she held them up with her weapon, threat. ening to blow off the head of the first Af the the State police arrived, York.—Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Senft, of near Nasjville, wore seriously In jured when an automobile in which they were riding was struck by a pas senger train on the Western Mary. land Railroad. The automobile was wrecked and the occupants were hurl od forty feet. York —Oscar Beard, 25 years old, was arrested and sent to jall here, at ter having confessed to stealing $500 from his grandmother, Mrs. Kate Beard, of Newberry township. Mrs Heard kept her money in a wooden chest, \
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