The Centre Reporter
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CENTRE HALL PA.
PASSING OF THE PIGTAIL.
less reverently
com monly |
of to
Although the queue,
known as pigtail, is most
associated in the public’mind
day with the people of China,
though that fashion of raring the
hair has probably been attributed by
the thoughtless in many instances to
what taught by our
geographies regard as the
civilized condition of the Chinese,
Ww
most of us were
school
half
it is a fact well worth noting that the
Chinese
to
no means the only un
to have shown respect
The re-
abolition
the
gO
sa p-
British
even every
England Waist-
the fashionable
about 1740, and be-
the bag wig had
adorned with a pigta.l looped up in a
black silk flag. As late as 1858 an old
gentleman was seen in Cheapside with
his gray
are by
earth
partiality
cent edict
the
London
tion on
and to the queue.
the
reminds
it
sanctioning
pigtail in
Chronicle
of China
that
the pi
from
is not
gtail dis
the
very
pe
Bruy
day
long
long ago si
ared not
nee
merely
navy,
life in
were
and but from
civilian
pgtails
in
tha
aa
ear
fore
England
been
tied behind a short
Queue, and it aj
may be found in
the pigtail;
Chronicle,
hair in
today
of
the
vel-
in
pears that even
relic
to
England a
for, according
of black
of officers
three pieces
vet
the
nains of
queue
the dre
Welsh Fus
the
tied
on
Royal
88 TuUnNIics
was
dashed
hours
an
make
sippi
tions he
into
there
interesting
of the Mis
great and
valleys! ace descrip-
of the Southland
work of unfolding
! What graphic
west, tl
can give
with its wonderful
resources going on
acounts of
vast
will or
well
he might get
at
th
the
theater of
prodigious
he
If he could run into some
informed Yankee
a second-hand statement
America is, but
; by
finda
ane
imperial progress,
make
on Broadway
of wh he can never
standing and view.
in New York, says
He cannot
city, and very
the Omaha Bee even see
of
make |
git of that little the
elements that
Ameri
Qiis
and resources
ans thelr metrop
gecon size
but
the
in
and first
they
broade
They might go t
American provincialism
guest
& great
Ameri
cts,
would never go get
st view of continental merica
here for their ideas of
Our
young
from abroad stands on before
iy
board of edveation
An
high
in Los
has barred box for the
ng
geles
$ girls for eir beauty and
their i
It
for the p
ing
subjects of ti
rospects ay bo ho
likely
rohibition
marred
that the reason given
will its
acceptance
is very
cause
by t
fn
question he fair
je ukase
J
A New York jury aw
gix cents
iawver
fT
ct aside with the observa.
arded a
damages and Justice G«
set the verdi
tion that a lawyer's rep
be that
less the justice must admit
tation must
Neverthe
that It de-
as in any
it must depend on the man
worth more than
pends on
other case
5 3
the i% yer, just
Membership in any profession or em-
ployment in any occupation does not
congtitute a certificate of character
The coloring of meerschaumn
ean be
never burns
pipes
done by a machine thet
the but in spite of
this great modern improvement there
will undoubtedly be men who will BO |
right on trying to color thelr meer
schaum pipes themselves, and not in.
frequently spoiling them in the proe
ess, In the same old-fashioned way.
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now
pipe,
The Western Urion's new office
building In New York Is to be only
26 sfories high. and the New York pa-
pers are asiing. "Why this modera |
tion?”
i.
An eastern cauple kept the fact of |
their marriage a secret for fifty years. |
They had no fancy, evidently, for tin, |
ginas or silver
in asking that tips be abolished the |
waters want Jt understood that they
want! something equally good as a sb
stitute
A St Louis wife, twelve years of
age. has asked for her first divorce.
Evidently she is out for a record
in Ccurtraom.
SHOT,
Had Been Prociaimed President
" Ecuador By the But
Turned Over the Leadership
To
Troops,
Alfaro.
uil, Ecuador.
who recently
General
Guayaq Gen
Montero,
hero of
anry p
streets,
1 was the
ssid wl
aquil, shot
dragged
Guay was
pula ce,
he
Leneral
1eaded and burned
in November
‘Montero
was proclaimed president of the
stationed in
over the
Guavaqul
leadership in
to Gen
ary
Alfaro
rom
government Flavio
revolut went f Guava
Army
the
who
41 “4 »
gull to meet government
ilo
uncer
ops
from Qui the command
of Gen
and event
capit
General
was ¢
day
fore a
18
10,
Leonidas Plaza, defeated
ally
ulate
with other leade
a2 and Fri
be
Montero,
red
General
January
Montero was broug!
ial
aptu on
and sentences
risonment
. wrt
wurt-mart
img in a p«
Plaza
court-martial,
eneral
crowds of angry
irrounded the
awaiting
nt wrotests,
rapidly
ased
A PORTIA COMES TO JUDGM
ngton Has First Wom
United States Cour.
J0V an Ju
dge Of
Federal
that |
may
feel
matters
VOaArs
whatever
i»
i
TAFT APPEALS FOR
As President of | American Red Cress
Calis For Contributicns.
famin
nt
merican Nati
iptions we
Awful destitution
proclamation
tions of the Yangtse and other
yed crops prey
of the Millions of
ings are now facing starva
tiofi of terrible and appailing
character. Until peace is restored ir
China these conditions must continue
save as relieved by other
Miss Mabel Boardman and
P. Bicknell, natienal director
Red Cross, conferred with the
dent and had
by request of a commitiee
York. p
exinis na,
nda
rivers
in Ch
the recited “In
and ented
land
have desire
cultivation
human be
the most
countries.”
Ernest
of the
Prosi
from
FASTEST FLYING YET.
Half a Minute.
Douzy, Franece.—M. Bathiat. the
aviator, flying in a monoplane, made
a new world's speed record for 100
kilometers (62 miles) of 41 minutes
2% seconds. Another world's recore
was made by Henri Molla.” Driving ¢
bivlane carrying five passengers of a
total weight of 948 pounds, exclugive
Molla remained aloft one
hour and six minutes,
CATFISH WOUND FATAL.
Former Railroad Official Dies At Flor
ida Resort.
Philadelphia Word has been re.
ceived of the death at St. Lucile, Fla.
of Isaac A. Sweigard following r
wound from a catfish. Mr. Sweigard
was general manager of the Philadel
phin and Reading Railroad for many
years, retiring in 1000. About a wee)
ago he caught a very large catfish and
was showing it when it wounded him
Blood poisoning set in.
tH apyrighe
MARY MILL HANDS
LIVE LIRE Plas
| Report So Shocking the Gov-
ernment Suppressad IL
NS
Plan To Chil
Statler
blish a dren's
Bureau Out
That Conditions
Too Offensive For Public
Esta
Brings nents
Are
ation
in Mills
Ashington
nenis were
Course
ping
vit g 6d)
Didn't
most of the
he report come fron
id operators of cots
9 innit %
ith inquired
a defender of the
Senator Dixon,
bill
that
§ $n BAA
MLANA,
nator Overman replied
received had come
from people in the
ina, Tennessee
which no mills
ints he
counties o
Carol and Geor
located
North
sil, IN were
He charged ths the offensive reports
related to the poorer classes who lived
the and
govern
it these
n cabins nountainsides
that
nt’
on
things
agents
iabitants of
the which the
said ab
the South
me
$ special
were
simp! irageous
Benator Borah, who is in charge of
bill, maintained the import
thi about the reports was as to
truth He believed the only way
n which popular sentiment would be
aroused to the shocking conditions
under which women and children now
¥ ou
the that
ant
ne
5
a Federal bureau to collect and pub
ish the information.
which children worked in the
of the country, Benator Dixon
halted hy Senator Gallinger., of
Hampshire, who inquired what
under
wad
New
these conditions to stop them
For Panama Exposition Stamps.
Washington. Postmaster-General
Hiteheoeck authorized the preparation
of designs and plates for suitable com-
moemorative postage stamps for the
Panama-Pacific International Exposi- |
tion in 19815. The opening ot the |
Panama Canal and some important
event in the history of California will
be represented in the designs.
Fire Destroys Masonic Temple.
Portsfhouth, O.-~Fire which broke
out in the basement of the Bragdon |
Drygoods Company, in the Masonic |
Temple, for a time threatened the
heart of the business district in which
it is situated and did damage amount.
ing to $176,400. It was controlled at
4 o'clock, after burning for more than
five hours. The Masonic Temple was
entirely gutted. The Bragdon Dry.
goods Company and the Hall Broth.
ers’ clothing store occupied the first
floor, while the rest of the building
was devoted to offices,
{NG TO ITALY
Cruisers and Five
d For Ma
ice Between Nice
FAG: WARN
Three Battleship
Submarines Dispatche
neuver Pract
Islands.
and the
Hyeras
WiLL CONSIDER IT.
lian Foreign Minister's Promise To
the French Charge.
MORGAN MEETS JAPANESE WIFE.
Financier's Nephew Boards Ship At
San Francisco Quarantine.
Franc George
of J
wife
San
nephew
Japanese
igen
P. Morgan, gr
n ner
on the |
tl
hoarded ie It :
tine and the couple met
deck The) will
San Francisco bef
their home in Paris
spend
ire
MAN'S TORSO ON CAR TRUCK.
Other Parts Of Body On Tracks Seven.
teen Miles Away.
Mobile, Ala —The
man was found here
road fast-mail
torso of a
lodged on a rail
train on the Louis
and Nashville Railroad. Other parts
of the body were found at Hurricane
Bayou, 17 miles north of here,
white
ile
Cashier Shoots Himself.
Lima, O0.—E. Ll. Thomas,
Branch A of the Lima Trust
in South Lima, committed. suicide at
his home here by firing a
through his head. Experts have
put to work on his books
cashier of
Company,
been
Bathtub Men Lose.
Detroit, Mich. United States Dis-
trict Judge A. C. Angell denied the
motion made in behalf of the Colwell
i lead Company, of New York, to
squash the indictments in the Gov
ernment’s criminal case against the
Bathtub Trust. This reinstates the
| case, which is scheduled to come up
‘for trial here Tuesday, January 30
i
f
“Poisoned the Witch.
Washington. President Taft com
| muted, to expire at once, the life im
{ prisonment sentence of Toy Toy, a
' Umatilla Indian, * who, in accordance
| with the traditions of hie tribe, mur
| dared Anna Edna, a woman doctor,
| who falled to cure his father' In the
| exes of the tribe this stamped her as
a witch, justifying her death. She
was polsoned by Toy Toy and Colum.
bla George. zuother Indian, whose
‘sentence was commuted several
| months ago. They were cotivicted at
| Portland, Ore.
CONNAUGHT MEETS
PRESIDENT TAFT
‘Canada’s Governor-General Re-
ceived at White House.
PRESIDENT RETURNS CALL
Cfficial Visit To the White House Re
turned By the President—Cer-
Made As Simple
As Possible,
emonial
Aonor at
promins«
{ Orps
ntroduced
he
ure
per men,
“1 ass
always
orld i
use
the w=
and the 1
the best of
he
world
hope, als
nited States
¢ Ae % $
friends for th
Church Expels Richeson
Rev. C
under sentence
of bh f
wan
Tae
regular monthls
Baptist
city, of which Riche
EON was pastor The motion, which
was carried unanimously, was put in
this form: “Voted that the right hand
of fellowship be withdrawn from Clar
ence V. T. Richeszon and that his name
be dropped from the chinch roll
members.”
os
Cambridge, Mass iarence \
who is of
irmer
expeiled
laplist ( ‘aurel action
the
of the
from the
was taken at
meeting Immanuei
Church, of this
*
Ol
Reyes Won't Be Shot.
San Antonio jen. Berrardo Reves
will not be hacked up against a stone
wall, blindfolded and shot for inciting
a rebellion against the Mexican gov
ernment, for which crime he is
prison
communication to the San Antonio Ex
press believes General Reyes will
years in prison. In the same com
munication President Jladero saye
control of the national raliways
by the Mexican government.
Tongue Of “informer” Split.
New York.-The body of a murder
clique of eriminals, was found with
the tongue split and the throat ripped
open in approved Black Hand style in
a vacant Jot In Harlem. There were
also knife wounds in the back which,
with the slashed throat and iongue,
indicated unmistakably to the police
that the man had been the victim of a
frightful revenge,
PENNSYLVANIA
STATE NEWS
Newsy Items Cathered From
All Fats of (he State.
ile Ww Mleck, of
has been elected |
Durham
Relgelsvi Carl
Riegelsy
of the Public
Hie,
Schools at
Catasauqua {"harl
Br., has be
from ams
Lehightor
employee
A
road Company
for fort
tap hole
Bethlehem
Bartos was
Midwas Seeking safle!
appro aching train
d, near here,
Lomardo Pusant
ped in front of an
ng from the
were ground
Harrisburg When
Antonette came here fi
Wiscongin join her h
found him ely
vu nidle Nyy
apidiy on
Handle Rail
a
3
regs train com OPpPpoOs
direction and to plect
Mrs
m
fo usha
serion iil i
The
the police
to get
Ne
HIER
ter was recovered by
and while was trying
Reading
to
to
the
fire;
by
ahi
aul
ise on
clothes
Awakened
find their h
escaping in their night
window: walking a mile with bare
save the night clothes on their backs,
was the experience of Mr. and Mrs
Shaneville, this county
Norristown. Mrs. Thomas Arnold,
who tips the beam at over 200 pounds
otherwise injured herself. On Christ.
brother, John Gehringer, died {*sm a
fractured skull, caused by falling on
Weatherly <The residences of Har
at Quakake Junction, near
here, were entered by robbers, who
took money, jewelry, clothing and
other articles to the value of several
hundred dollars.
Chester. Through the pleadings of
his mother, George Louth, a young
man of Trainer, who had a hearing be
fore Police Magistrate ®lliott on the
charge of flourishin, a revolver en
Third street, was discharged with a
ant imand.