The Centre. Reporter
CENTRE € HALL PA
SN ——— Se ———— —
WAR IN THE TIPPING NUISANCE.
If the commercial travelers of this
country really do go after the tip.
ping system with all the power they
they can nearly, if pot en
tively, destroy it. Their national pres-
ident avows his determination to rally
upon
foots up
United
ap
pusSsess,
to an assault
he says,
year in the
figures even
facts, tipping is more
to individuals, it is
a0 enormous tax upon business that
should not be tolerated It has made
parasites pot only of a horde of ser
vants, but of certain lines of busi
ness, which thus, through underpaid
employes, prey upon other businesses
Tipping might find some plausibility
if it amounted only to gratuities to a
fuithful servant seeking to please, but
everybody knows that it goes far be
yond this, says the Omaha Bee. The
tip Is more often given, not for extra
service, but to get any kind of serv:
ice at all. It is not surprising that
commercial travelers think of organ
izing a united attack upon tipping
The surprise is that they have not
don? go long years ago. They prac
tically live on the road, In hotels and
trains a good part of the year. That
sort of life 1s hard at best. To make
the most of it they pay tips that they
may obtain a living existence, so to
speak. The commercial travelers can
destroy the tip if they will. They can
gel no-tip hotels when they unitedly
demand them and they can get, at
least, some Improvement in condi
tons even from the sleeping car com-
pany. If they have
the thanks everyone who ever
travels away from home
the organization
this graft, which,
§50,000000 a
States. If
sroximate
those
the
than a nuisance
succeed they will
of
Theoretically
best watches
but actually
Lime every
watch does
the
perfect,
Bays a
today
jeweler,
of
they
day
are
both gain and lose
Even if the good
not vary one second at
the end the 24 the expert
insists, it has both gained and lost in
that time. Jf it Is wound in the mor
ing, It runs fast, and toward the next
morning runs slow, thus equalizing
the time. He says the best
should be wound twice a day and then
at only two-thirds of the capacity of
the mainsp . thus preventing either
binding or extremes of strong or
weakened spring. The balance Wheel
was expected to equalise differences
of mainspring tension, but really this
is not the case to what is called per
fection
of hours,
watches
TILE
of
The utility the all steel traig as
a lilesaver was demonstrated in New
Jersey last week when such a train
taking a crossover switch at 50 miles
an hour was completely deralled and
Here would bave been a
Lorror inwplving the crushing and
burning to death of imprisondd pas
sengers had the coarhes been of wood.
the coaches did not col
lapse and did not burn, and the only
casualties were the deaths of the en-
fireman. The passengers
were not even taliured
overturned
jut steel
Eineer and
BANDITS AGTED
AS MAIL GLERKS
Registered Mail.
POSSES SEEKING BANDITS
Them Under Sacks Of Postal
Matter—Leave the Train
When It Slows Down.
The
on
robbed
Cal.
express,
mail car of
the
of all
registered mal! by two unmasked men
Three clerks and
gagged the
the car while the train
Red Bluff and Redding.
pulled into Redding at 6.40 A
the robbers, their
ped off
The train left San Francisco at 8
M. When it stopped at Red Bluff,
miles south of
thrown
One of the three
Redding,
Oregon
was Eastern
mail were bound
by robbers, who entered
was between
The
M.,
drop.
and
CArrying loot,
and escaped.
20
P
this place,
sacks were out and
taken on. mail «
was about to leave the car
two bandits moved past him into the
car and closed the door
“What's up?’ exclaimed
Ryan, a clerk
“This is a hold-up,” coolly
one of the the t
a revolver
and their
gagged by
When
wood, 17
bandits acted as clerks
mail, arousing
Anderson, five les furth
peated the
familiarity
When the
West
tO reCely
responded
rio with
E. Warner
bound and
bandit
reached
Red Bluff, tt
in exchanging
At
the Ire
men, COvering
Ryan, Robert
assistant, were
the ‘secon
the train Cotton
miles north of
without suspicion
m er,
ormance, showing
clerk's dut
stopped at
the
ies
clerk, was
The
h sid
lake, local
¢ the
George
waiting mail ban
dits thr
of the car
directions
were regular
ew open the doors of eac
and
Westlake h
mail clerks
the car and
one rece
walked off in opposit
gack into Was
that no
ved it
feohle
ght of the clerks
iater he heard a
covered the pli ¥
gacks had been pil
Ryan had managed to loosen his gag
Strewn over the floor were the wrap
pings mail packages
Every sack registered mail had
been looted seeking the
bandits
ers
ed on then
of hundreds of
of
Possess are
SEEK TO SAVE WOLTER,
Betterment League Pleads For Ruth
Wheeler's Slayer.
New York
the crime
condemned
brutal in the ar
Betterment League
Dix a plea that his se:
muted
league
ment
Wolter lured Rutl
year-old girl, to his
gaulted and murdered her
her body in an open
the fact that
Albert W
one of the most
this
gent to
ie spite
for whieh olter is
to die is
nals of
tence
TiBEOnImMent
to life
is opposed
apartm ‘
and burned
fireplace
DIED FROM MOUSE BITE.
OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS
(apy
Shapghal
Lions «
from
the
the
United
Germs
WHE
Japan,
which
on Decembe
ing the prese
“The
Shao Yi's
riendly
roken off
Mancha
in 1
proposals,
th
efraining
light
ests of a
Wu Ting
regret at
lay in
respecting
and
a national
recent t
events
ing to render
already
jeopardizing
the su
powers
“There!
Wu, “it
the republ
pelled to
peace have
the
she
ire.’
SAY
long
genintions
spective
The
POWErs was
YL
Yuan SiN
represents
the repr
Xpress the
ments repress
the
bringing t
The
has
commana
16
14
of
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to representa
al note
ring
ne gent
Powers, comprising
Britain,
Russia,
Great
and
the consuls
i Ting Fang
the consuls explain
ad
He says
nding Tang
ontinued
! were
a of the
Tang Bhao Yi
making
he
justified
uation
ill
Cashier H.
{(Mich.)
Most
Nationa
the
counter
acquiesced In
the estab
}
surprise
¢ long de
cision
ment lo
fer the
{ govern
ntion Reviewing
wes Y of try
& the eements
Yi thus
uan
BET
fang Shao
Bee
that
cCom-
rospects for
pullified by 14
upon whose "
responsibility
iigturbing in-
of
regret
the bo
the pt
oused
WAS ar
vestigation, half to
and half to
Next | found a 4d
became alar
on. The
ily
ALY
’
iui
&11 171 58 $0 .
sumplion med
his repre giartling
re- was
sick
members of
foreign { the 1
to both Tang Shao
.
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i Os
bre
he m
Mr. Jot
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useles
1
:
would
* atter
Premier ' on out
ng-fang,
The
io
fied nson,
examiner,
than
govern ¢
hope that “The tell me
ould result in
a close
in Peking
generals in
that
5.0060
thin time
say ie that 1
d speedily
s
t
he credit
adjusts
ni n ests of
I Bank, Was the
Employe Of
) nt
O'Donno
Albion
yf the
Dearing
love of the
nt put it,
make a loan,
word was al
never
us 10
His
and ques
said, “that
a discrepancy of
think
my curios
a further in
wily
error
32. 1
my in
found
he
oks. | did not
», but
I made
satisfy my couric
the
of
} correct
gCrepancy
continued
result was |
clos
heart and
the bank to
called
me. 1
ided
g to try to straight.
and
We dec
Ourselves noi
the national bank
Kk charge of the in
- th :
in
the
It
of my
forgeries
seems
life,
the
hope
to the b
REAR ADMIRAL EVANS DEAD
| Veteran Seemed To Be In Better
Health Than For Some Time—Fell
into Sleep After Attack, But Woke
Up Unable to Get His Breath.
Washington, — Rear Admiral Robley
[| D. Evans, “Fighting Bob” to an ad-
miring nation, died suddenly Wednes-
{day at his home in this city. Acute
indigestion ended the career of one of
{ the most popular officers of the navy,
He was {ll less than two hours.
Admiral Evans, born 65 years ago
Floyd , Va, arose Wedpes-
apparently in better health and
gpirits had enjoyed in some
time years a sufferer from old
in the Civil War
in
diy
county
than he
For
wounds sus
tand from
matic
tained
recurrent
gout, the
shaken
aged fighter seemed
off the burden of his
He displayed high
and hearty
fo have
! ad ing
| epirits at breakfast
luncheon at noon.
While in his library at 2 o'clock the
Admiral was stricken. Instantly the
| family sent for Dr. 8. B. Adams who,
on arrival, found the patient in
pain. After treatment Admiral
| Evans fell into a restless sleep and it
i was thought that the danger had pass-
| ed Shortly after 4 o'clock, however,
{ he awakened and, raising himself with
| aime that he was
Vand days
ale a
his
|
great
announced
Conscious To End.
breath
4:45
to the end
ant get my
Ak bach
CONC
he said,
At o'clock he
oh
died, ious
The news spread with great rapidity
and caused a profound shock in offi-
ial President WHS One
of the to grief and
condolence. He
circles Taft
express his
sald
irst
REAR ADMIRAL R. D. EVANS.
Admiral Evans was one of the most
successful squadron comma
have had in the Navy for a long time
He was a rigid disciplinar of quick
decision and admirably in the
intricacy machi of cruisers
battieshps and lied in drilling
I am very to hear of his
nders we
ian
advised
of the nery
and
them
ek
BOTTYS
death
Admiral Dewey
he could utter but a few words
wked beyond measure at
death of my lifelong
Admiral vas all he
could say
Secretary
WARE BO Overcome
am shy
sudden
friend, Evans,
Meyer paid
to the officer's memory
By
this tribute
sudden
country loses
brilliant and able
on account
the
the
death of Admiral
one of ite
officers, It
his ability that
him as
fleet that
Although
of
dent Roosevelt selected
in chief of
the
the
uised around world
7
A
i
7 OVEA AL OVER TH. SIE
TOLD IN
SHORT ORDER
STAT
a a —
Bethlehem. While returning from
the Moravian College, Rev. Samuel
8. Warner, a retired pioneer
missionary, fell dead in the
here
Huffs Church.—Victor Baus,
last week attempted to commit suit
by cutting his throat bread-
knife bakery at Greenville,
died from the sellin
Media
Moravian
street
who
Ge
with 8
Fast
flicted
i
inn a
wounds
erect.
3
of
be
A new be
ed this year at Girls’
Refuge Darlington at a cost
about $36,000 The building wil
known as Cotlage No. 25.
cottage will
the House
at
Neff
awarded him
friend,
ihe
Allentown. — William F receiv.
2d the ( medal
two months ago for saving
Amno Sh from
l.ehigh River last 8
arnegie
his
arowni
erer, ng io
itnmer
lunatic,
In-
Barro, a
the Byberry
Red ap
Thomas
escaped from
Ary ium,
Chief of Police Baxton and
Bristol
who
Hers
pane Was
over (0 an attendant {rom
tution
* ’
Mrs. M
Lehighton Bowers
anly years Was
when she tripped and | fell
ing a lighted
spread to
burned
ry
Maly
old, fatally
beyond recognit
South
Miller »
to greet a
she was
knocked
horse
will not
Bethlehem
as hastening ac
friend on
kicked
uno:
Her
prove
Media.——John R
Elizabeth Evans,
.E
Dunlap Compan)
Evans feil
re of the
scious
njuries are painful,
fatal
sedi
a suit for nages again
George M
tha
a
la
* Mrs
st defends
st and w hurt
as
Washingtor
vate fund H colle
dam sufferers h
State for clearing = Way ae
debris =
Representative
yanis
y the
flood
by
{ed of STINE
ere denied in the He ©
ims
Chester While
1's alley Jan
nstaiiment col
attacking a
chiid’s
mal turned on him
wrist
1
to the BEsisian
Huntingdon. ~The New
lishing Company publ
“Daily New Em and “New
Journal a weekly are
clally
appointed
er receiver
shers of
semi
embarrassed and the
Mn r {
AYOTr eor
ex TRE
ekboro Thieves
Wayn
High
chicken house
For work
pacitated fow
and the other
and these
of eighteen .
who robbed
Hans
willed
Constable George Ww
here were badly f
their they got two inca
Was a
th the ry
-
Is nie
WERE 8
were
erippie
k »
fe
selected om
Coud ersport addi
damage suits,
were filed by as
tello flood sufferers against t
less Pulp and Paper
Austin, Pa, and G laviess,
of Binghamton, president of the com
pany. The claims run from $1,068
$22,500
Twenty
aggregating
Austin i
am
'
—~ 1
+
re
=
“
=" o
many
-
Hap
®
Company, of
eorge
0
- they
Dr. Simon, a Noted Bactericlogist Of
Switzerland.
are to resume hostilities
be
one
turned
must
have will
Any
to be myself
Pregident O'Donohue is
seventy-third
“All 1
them, for if
on the retired list
in
death
It seems that Sappho has been mis.
understood all this time. Instead of
being a pale poetess of purple passion. |
she was merely a calm and classical
schoolteacher, We will lears next
that Cleopatra was only i eircus
snakecharmer with the P. T. Barnum
of the times.
he had kept up his
the nd his
comes as a shock
been Pottsville
old, figured in
ing accident
—. Young Wagner made the
———— FORGERIES FOR 1911. down a hill across Market
AGED MAN OFF TO PRISON, - crashed into a heavy
Banks Of United States Lose $15,000, whe a deg
unger ie Orwanr
000-—Rules Adopted. critically hurt
New York The
States
is as
refusal
taken, it
t of the
Thin ste P has
sumed here, as a resu
of revolutionaries to continue the
the Peking authori
in accordance with
Yuan Shi Kai
Carl Wagner,
the first
of the
ten vears
perions coast
season here
cepcent
active interest service a
want it unexpected
the a 3 5 3 # ™
Dr the now in his io the navy
48 RK
Zurich, Switzerland
bacteriologist, died here
result having been
inoculated mouse, with
| experimenting in an
a serum for blood poisoning.
Dr. Simon was a son-in of Herr
Bebel, the Socialist leader in the Ger
man Reichstag
Simon,
Friday
bitten by an
which he was
to find
negotiations with
tien by
the demand of
Year
telegrapt and
automobile
was thrown
wheels and was
Street
3
f
of Premier
Confessed Forger One Of the Best
Known Bankers In Michigan.
Mich
me, and the
paid H. M. Dear
banker, as he prepared to DE
with panies
53 MONKS DESTITUTE.
endeavol
——
banke of the
ndied
000 000 in 91 3y forgeries,
Osborne,
be
forgery
The Monastery Of the Trappists
Manitcba Destroyed. I
Man.—The Trappist Worth
monastery at St. Norbet Man. was the better”
destroyed by fire Th The fire aged Albion
was spectacular, and nagnificent leave for Detroit
building went down in half an hour. M. Dearing, in
In Unit
$15,
accord
a hand writ
aise of this com
surance
stringent
aw Carlisle. ~The newly elected direc.
tors of the Cumberland County Agri
cultural Society have elected the fol
lowing officers President, Abram
Bogler; vicepresident, ©. ¢C. Rutz:
WwW. H MeCrea: treasurer.
Ncw that an En Leaven
gooOner
glish Inventor says
iiat he has been successful In Invent
Lg an apparatus for telephoning
through water without wires, perhaps |
telephoning across the Atlantic may
sogn be an accomplished fact. There's
iattle Creek. “It's od out of
sd fhe ih
s i on fo
Ww innipeg, prison 101 ;
Albert S
expert
the § to
ing,
and
SHOPS BLOWN uP,
Explosion Wrecks Southern Pacific
iIsEMIng
Palmer
United
h H
ig son. : ci . vd secretary,
aave adopted the most re J. E RKinsteln
» “ . 1€3
custory of
certainly enough water there
In 1915 the centennial observance
af peace in the English speaking world
will be observed,
that every person In the countrigs In-
terested should be quiet five minutes
be appreciated by the children
— C—O
{ses to
necks.
keep their heads on
—
cease its revolutions in 5321. Anoth.
er gives it ten million years. If It
Cocan’t stop untll astronomers agree
t 1a destined to go on forever.
A college professor charges that
eollege Influences tend to make women
prefer to be old maids. At which as
rertion one little Dan Cupid, who has
more than all the wisdom of the col
lcges combined, laughs Immoderately
ia his wing. .
There is a new street car device in
tended to enable the conductor to eall
off the names of the streets withou:
opening the door But what's the use’
it win sound the same anyway,
Plant At Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, Cal-—The Southern
Pacific Railway shop here was blown
up Friday night
One man was killed and five in
It
that
to Chief of Police Sebastian.
the boller of a locomotive
was
ex
KAISER AND HAITI.
Is Planned.
Berlin
most absolute denial
of a
in view of
opening of the Panama Canal
The article intimated that France
should act In a similar way.
the establishment
Unique India Pageant.
Calcutta King George and
Mary Friday witnessed a
pageant in thelr honor. There
two processions—Mohammedan
Hindu--in which 60 elephants,
dreds of camels and horses
elaborate state ears participated. |
Many of the contingents had retain |
ers equipped with ancient weapons,
A"
great
and
jewels. Hundreds
ny
tion. '
The
new
All of the
and the
and several
of the city,
Lat £200,000,
shelter in the
nearly completed
were lost,
ged to de-
States Marshal
Father and son
geries amounting
sulted in the clo
National Bank
“Is there any
tors?” the elder
be obli
summer
‘the verge of brea
three in
fort and re pled;
!
terrae
stores and other!
M COC
had confessed
to $165,000,
ging of the
ampbell
for
Albion
deposi
appeared on
king down, then
ef.
¥"
none at all
nologlet,
' Mrs,
much ease and v
younger men.
Four
ann
by |
miles north of
drowned were:
| culty. ;
My
igor as any of the
Winchendon.
girictions
The
43
tions«ie that
most! drastic of the new regula
bank shail open an ac
not personally
to officer of the bank oy
otiched for by a depositor
no
count with anyone
known
BOE
HIGH COST OF LIVING.
President May Ask Aid Of Congress
in the Problem.
Washington. — President Taft may
ask the assistance of Congress in soly-
ing the question of the high cost of
living through legislative authoriza-
tion for the United States to partie}
pate in 4 worldwide conference on the
subject. Prof. Irving Fisher, of Yale
University, who was delegated to
press the matter by the American
'Beonomie Association at its meeting
{ here last week for the purpose, laid
the plan before the President. It has |
been indorsed by many senators and |
| others prominent in official life
A RBS
Seltzer Bottle Explodes.
Washington. -— Baron Von Harden.
broek, of the German Embassy, was
the victim of an unusual accident
‘here when a seltzer bottle exploded.
| His legs were painfully cut by broken
| glare,
+ Poverty Saved Life.
| New York.-~Twenty-five cents stood
‘between Frederick Eck and death.
{He turned on the gas to die, but the
supply of gas out because of the
quarter-intheslot-meter and Eck
, didn't have snares quitter :
The date for the 1812
Cumberland County Fair was fixed for
September 24,
25, 26 and 27
Mrs. Libby
was convicted
of shoplifting and sentenced to two
years in jail. The evidence showed
that Mrs. Rogers trained three young
girls, twelve vears old, one being her
own daughter, to visit department
stores at Shenandoah, Mahanoy City
Pottsville and steal valuable
ow
Pottsville
Shenandoah
of
in court
Rogers,
goods.
Allentown.—In compliance with a
last year, Secre
i
Fair, mailed to all the stockholders in
advance his report as well ag the re
port of the auditors. Secretary
Schall’'s report showed a total of $24.
792 expended last year for premiums.
The entrance money received against
this was $10,085 the rest being ex.
pense te the society, which was. how.
ever, trebly made up by gate receipts
Lancaster. As the twenty-four
hour 8t. Louis train of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad, going West, passed
the C G block station just east of
this city an axle on the rear truck
of the dining car snapped. The on
gineer immediately applied the emer
gency brakes bringing the train to a
sudden stop and throwing the pas
sengers out of their seats. There was
considerable excitement and alarm
upon the train, but nd one was hurt
The train was delayed one hour ny
any minutes,