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The Centre Reporter
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CENTRE HALL PA
THE SERVICE OF BIRDS
Among the creatures that
service to mankind the
a foremost place. It is their function
to suppress the insects that play
havoe with the farmer's hard-earned
crops. Fifty-three per cent of
of the dis
Horse
to consist of the larvae
ease disseminating mosquitoes,
flies are the burden not only of horses,
but of other valuable stock, and the
larvae of this fly are the natural food
of several species of birds. The fever
t'ek, so injurious to cattle, is the
natural food of the killdeer and the
plover. Corn, cotton and other crops
are destroyed large extent by
grasshoppers, and there are at least
23 species of birds that feed upon
grasshoppers. Grass lands and grain
crops in general suffer greatly from
various Insect pests, :
stroyed In vast multitudes by
The greatly dreaded boll weevil is
food for the plover, the killdeer and
others of the feathered tribe. It is a
birds fol-
fo a
which are de
birds.
common experience to see
lowing the plow and consuming grubs
that ictive to
other plants,
of the planter should
be protected by right legislation.
are destn garden and
These friends
in
valuable
every state
The announcement by a Boston phy
gician that electrifying
of crowded apartments will make dull
pupils bright and Indolent workmen
active may be worth looking into. It
fs pessible that it would even ma<e
drowsy churchgoers attentive to long
sermons. There is a stimulating influ
ence in ozone, and this the
current, as employed by the
is sald to diffuse in the
Of courde, it cannot
for fresh alr Ozone is not oxygen,
and oxygen {is indispensable to life.
If it proves as beneficial as the doctor
affirms the will giv
welcome, but the extent
ment
very
the atmosphere
electric
doctor,
atmosphere
be substitute
world e it a cordial
of its employ
governed
costs
necessarily will be
largely by what it
The Chicago health
who conde
and
rearing of chil
choly truth, [t
persist in cities as a necessary
but parents who can give their
dren the benefit the larger,
life of a separate
hesitate
board secretary
mns all flats as bad morally
physically—unfit places
states a
Hy
is likely
dren
r that they
of
bome should
to do so
A rich
wealth
ed his
other millionaires
walling the t
but whom the
the burden
gested itself
man in {llinots, who found
toc much has distribut-
to the
always be
millions pre a hint
who are
irden of their money,
shedding
er apparently sug-
to thought of
has nev
Historians tell us that Julius Caesar
rank
comes
there
Julius Caesar. But
hardened skeptic
fore" cls
beer, French scientist
the
such
and a
to bat with announcement
WAS no person as
the most
hesitate
even
would be
aiming that there is no such
thing as beer,
Menus with the eat ple
tured in lively colors are a new thing
in a fashionable York botel
Doubtless the artist employed is he
who painted a large red miter
decorate the walls of the New
aquarium
food You
New
ot
to
York
The rescue of a “rat” at a New
Jersey resort reveals the fact that
fickle femininity has forsaken a long-
trusted financial depository for anoth-
er, as when the “rat” was placed In
the hands of its excited owner she
drew from its hairy depths a roll of
money. Now a woman will be sure of
ber personal wealth if she only keeps
her head--that is, keeps it intact
After walking some thousands of
miles across the country, a man and
his wife are In Boston greatly Im:
proved and increased In weight. Walk-
ing is decidedly more healthy than
riding in sleeping cars, but it takes
more time and costs more money, un
less the pedestrians rely on handouts
from the agricultural population.
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end of the year they will not carry
trunks more than 70 inches long. The
theatrical profession and mercantile
travelers will have to make up for this
restriction by giving their trunks the
aspect of sky-scrapers.
Lisa,
ft. No doubt he has scores of better
pletures of his own painting.
May we remind you, worthy house
holder, busy with the manifold cares
that a modern civilization imposes
upon you, that this is a good time to
have your furnace overhauled and put
in order for the coming winter?
10 DISPLAY OUR
NAVAL STRENGTH
Fleets to
Mobilize.
126 WARSHIPS IN
The Vessels, Which Will Have a Com-
bined Tonnage Of 693,844, Will
Assemble At New York
and Los Angeles.
The
and
Washington mobilization
the Atlantic Pacific
New York and Los Angeles (x
to November 2 the
ing of force
ever floated in the waters of this |
fleets at
tober 30
will mark gather
the greatest naval that
probably will
pi He
States
sphere. This
assembling of
with the U
standing
maritime pow
at the rate of
building plans of Germany that
within three ]
up to second
nited
second in the list of great
it i8 certain Ltnat
lopment of the shi
nati
should se«
additions to
double
existing
the COt
le ast
by the
{
gontem plate 8
naval program
struct
two battleships vearly
The
public the
assembled
New York
the number «
the 135
man Emperor
the 126 Amerl
tremendous
tons, are
the German
Second Greatest Display.
par
for the
Angel
ombined
and Los
does
vessels the
sums
really
fleet
Atlantic fleet will c« jae
all classes, with a
placement of 577.568 tons, "and i
Pacific fleet, f 118,243
tons. The combined fleets will It
clude 82 le the Ger
man Ameri
can =
the
man
8 armored
France
The
MOT
mi
vessels of total
vessels ¢
arm
fleet
battles?
iunmbered 28
armored
fleet incl
cruisers
assem
10
view last summ
much
in ot}
play
none
name
which assembled
arminreodd
al il t
weaker
er shir
Cruisers
ROOSEVELT DIGS ARBITRATION
Most Treaties Are Merely Promissory
Notes.
BANKS IN FINE SHAPE.
Comptroller Of Currency issues Most
Complete Report.
Wasnt
United
ington That the banks of the
States are in a state of most
salth,
moet complete report on the cor
of
Comptroller of
vigorous he was shown in the
sition
by the
the banks ev compiled
the C
er
urrency
thousand three
banks
r thei 2
Twenty-four hun
and
the
dred
to
June 7 last
the previous
Analysis of
flitles shows loans of £15.(
investment in bonds, etc,
000: cash on hand, 817
capital, $1.652.400,000; suroius
profit, $2.065.000000; individual
posits, $£15.907.000,000
geventy-one reported
Con ndition
more than
iptrolle
1.276
year
the resour
on
reported
and lia
00.000
and
de.
To Fight Tobacco Reorganization.
Milwaukee, Wis. At a meeting
the Western Leaf Tobacco
Association iminary
were taken to fight the reorganization
the American Tobacco Company
The meeting was attended by repre.
of fortyfour prominent
of
pre
"He Was Not Dead,
Chicago. — While being carried into
an undertaking establishment on the
West Side David Easley, 22 years old,
of La Grange, 111, who was thought to
be doad, suddenly regained conscious
ness and shouted: “Take me out of
here, I'm not going to die yet!” He
was taken to a hospital for treatment
and may recover from injuries recelv
ed when he was struck on the head
with a rifle while quarreling with Ros
poe Holtzs over a woman, to whom
both men had been showing attention
ARMY TO STRKE QUICKLY.
Arabs Joyfully Accept the italian C
tion—Nineteen
Land
Of
Transports
Livision
ian Army.
cupa
the Second
the
ital
PATCHING IT UP
France and Germany Arrana
Moroccan Controversy
PEACE NOT FAR OFF,
Emperor William and the Cz
Bring It About.
ar Ma y
State Depa
ag the
Lmperor
zt of Ital
working «
and the
gin
the Portes
s posit
peace bet
far off and
istice. n jeant
Veen
Turkey
arm
|OON
ean be »
that
Tripoli
Italy
BLOCKS A RICE TRUST.
Incipient Combine In Philippines Is
Given Death Blow,
Washington Trust busting has
the Philippines,
General Forbes has
traders to raise the
of the Filipinos’ staple food
Suspecting the combination and act
ing on the Insular Bureau's suthority,
Mr. Forbes
where Gov:
blocked a
of rice
of American
in bulk in
at cost to
ened natives,
corn to
IndoChina and for
the famine-threat
rice
CANNOT GET A CONVICTION.
Fifth Man Freed In Connection With
Negro's Lynching.
West Chester, Pa. Efforts of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to
gecure a conviction in connection with |
the burning to death of Zach Walker,
the negro, at Coatesville, failed again
Tuesday, whea a jury acquitted Oscar
Lampey, who was charged with being |
a member of the mob that lynched |
to be freed of a murder charge in con
nection with The lynching.
10 OVERTHAG
Revolutionists Take Hankow
and Other Cities.
Well Organized
—-Reve
Sen,
utionists Plan To Make Dr.
Of Anti-Manchu
Presi
Leader
Party, dent.
issued that
their prop
AN ARMISTICE ARRANGED.
Peace Between [taly and Turkey Now
In Sight.
1¢ armistice
which
iving
here
between
German
sOme
has prac
ee ot
aithough not
Urey 107
omacy has heen str for
: : % wl
it is believed
ime,
tically been conch ided,
vet announced
it is
ation
will
hostilities
as official
ferstood that the
ilitary
fered »
und transpor
Italian m
inter
of expeditions
ith, but that
will cease
Jerlin as
equivalent ending of the war,
or at least warlike movements.
which will now be succeeded by
tiations looking to a settlement
not be
quarters
in
in all
considered
to the
the
This in
nego
Want To Grow Cotton Abroad.
Berlin The International Commit
tee of the Cotton Spinners and Weav:
ers’ Boclety debated at Jength the
| question of cotton growing in
American countries. The committee
sent a request to the various govern
ments to continue energetically their
| experiments in the cultivation of cot
ton, without being influenced by
{ prevailing low American prices,
Gov. Smith To Quit Nov. 15.
Atlanta, Ga. — Hoke Smith announc-
ed that he will relinquish the Gover.
norship of Georgia November 15, pre- |
{ United States Senator, to which office
hoe was elected by the ladt Legislature. |
Schiey Estate $20,000.
Washington
Admiral Winfield 8. Schley,
(ing to a petition filed here by his
{his will, does not exceed twenty thou
{ sand dollars.
FIERCE BATTLE WITH INDIANS | |
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Leaders Of the Rebels
Hold Back the Chamula
Indians—Loss of State
Troops Small.
Tuxtla Guitierrez,
Fighting late
Chiapas, Mexico,
Monday afternoon for
the possession of the little of
‘hajapilia, held by Insurrectos whose
trength was estimated as 900, a force
if volunteers ing 100, killed
30 rebels captured 108, 18 of
The loss to the
given as less
town
number
and
were wounded
vernment forces is
killed
reports
ian a dozen
Early
troops
is now Kk
the
that the state
but
encounter
beginning
troops
were
little opposition,
that
met with
nown the
fiercest since the
The
(Col
Ball
imander of the rebels,
the
al 1
ifjority
insurrection slate
Wore Paz
the
commanded by Manuel
"General Antero inas is
name of the con
and according to prisoners he
the nr of his force
His second in
command “Colonel”
killed
three
was
The fourths
War
armed
ances
NATIONAL DEMOCRATS JAN. 8
Plans To Meet On Jackson Day In
Harmony Dinner
FOR HIGHER.-PRICE COTTON.
Proposed Conference
By
Colguitt's
dorsed Five Governors.
i exa
ASSAULTER LYNCHED.
Negro Is Taken To the Scene Of His
Crime and Hanged By a Mob.
the
message reaching here
Honea Path states
was hanged to a tele
there sho
Boats Sunk.
dispatch fo a
from Pera says
Turkish torpedo hoats Tokat
Abed, Alpagut and
turning from the lonian Sea
surprised by an Italian near
\ October 8. A smart engage
and three of the tor
damaged
escaped by
Torpedo
London A
agency
london
that
Hamid,
Antalia, while
News the
re
were
squadron
yviilene
ment followed
boats
sank
ing a
pedo
and
hoist
were
The
ign flag
severely
fourth
fore
Parcels Pact With Panama.
Washington Postmaster
Hitchcock announced that a parcels
post convention with the Republic of
‘anama had been agreed and
would be as as
possible
General
upon
made effective early
Money For Indians.
Washington. ~The Sacs and
of the Mississippi tribe of Ind
Foxes
ians in
| receive their
full pro rata share of the $1,020,000
trust funds now in the treasury
their credit as soon ar they
citizenship
to
ARSuUmMe
Life Sentence For Kidnappers.
Chicago. Guiseppe Nicolosi and bis
Carmello, were sentenced to
life imprisonment after they had been
found guilty by a jury of kidnapping
five-vearold Angelo Marino
Senators To See Canal.
Washington. <A party of
Saturday on the steamship Ancon,
They are
| Brandegee (Republican, Connecticut),
chairman of the Committee on Inter
oceanic Cavals; Bristow (Republican,
Chilton (Democrat, West
Page (Republican, Vermont):
(Republican, lowa), and
%
vy
STATE
CAPITAL
NEWS
Outside Firms Withdraw.
Four manufacturing f
gent the
guaratitee that i of
rims
CAnaGY into Hiate
mplied wit
AWE were { #1 to withdray
goods from sale, becay
ports to Dairy and For
Foust y
demonstrated
wag adulterated (ver
samples of «
OUs
the
were
andies were taken |
parte of the Btate
ChHemic
not
In one cas
turer was
DEINE take
Wants Old Ticket
Redeemed.
y
3
Harrisburg Curbing Condemned
inspection,
Dairy
Air School.
HATE
€or
and an
§ CORR
will be opened
Pennsylvani a Charters
charter heen
Water Cot
& have
Capit
Electric
Indiana County,
also
operate
and Allegheny
quarters at McDonald,
to be $5.04
{ry
in
Gach
Pastors Petition Wilson.
The Harrisburg Ministerial Associa-
tion passed resolutions requesting Sec
retary of Agri ure Wilson
not to preside at the jonal
convention at Chicago resola-
tions will be forwarded
tary.
James
brewers’
The
the
Py
na
Secre
e by Samuel B
ndent of Public
ratified hy
Alexander,
mural
of
If arrangements 1
Rambi,
Grounds and Bulldings, are
the State Board, John Ww
of New York, will paint
decorations for the north
the capitol.
Super inter
the
corridor
One Vote Nominates Man.
RH. Koch, Republican and Citizens’
candidate for Judge of Schuylkill conun-
ty, was declared the Prohibition nomi.
nee as well, because on the official re
turns he received a single vote under
that party caption
Centipede 1s Harmless.
The centipede or “thousand legger,”
as it is better known in many parts of
the State, is just ak harmless in these
latitudes as a butterfly according to a
poison
with which Keystone State centipedes
are credited with is not strong enough
to harm anyone, but to enable them
to overpower their enemies or prey.
Dr. Burface says that the prejudice
against the Insects is unreasonable
and that they destroy much vermin.