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The Centre Reporter
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CENTRE HALL PA
STRIVING FOR EFFECT.
It is pitiful to watch the struggles
of those who in their worldly lives try
to be what they are not. To gradually
pass from a poor condition of life into
a better one is vastly different from
rushing from one extreme to the other,
and the spectacle of striving to keep
ap too high a pace is one of the most
anedifying it is possible to observe,
says the Charleston News and Courier,
We gain nothing by such conduct un-
less perhaps it is the applause of
those whose favor we may try to cul
tivate, but even then it often happens
that those who praise are also
severest critics. It would seem that
we strike the keynote of a happy life
when we play our parts naturally, not
as gally attired puppets who dance
and twirl for the amusement of others,
but as sober-hearted, true-souled men
and women who are content to be
what they are and who only move
across the stage of life for some good
purpose. The only effects that are
worth striving for are those that come
to us naturally or by virtue of our
best efforts in a worthy cause. They
outlast all those other effects upon
which we expend so much time and
labor and which are at best merely
artificlal. They may not be so won-
derful In their color schemes; they
may not rush across our vision like
birds of brilliant hues that flit across
the blue, but they gather radiance
with the passing years. Their colors
never fade, their results last forever
and they linger long in the memory
of those who are so fortunate as to
have beheld their beautiful vision
There can be no two opinions on the
proposition that China sorely needs a
new language to replace the many and
widely varying dialects that now serve
to divide, rather than to unite her
people English, the language of
trade and diplomas:y in the east, is the
most available. tducated Chinese,
natural linguists that they are, have
found little difficulty in mastering It
But how about the mass of the popa-
lation? Will they find it just as easy?
The day may come when English will
be spoken quite generally in China,
but that day is still far away
dential decrees may hasten its coming
a little, if they are backed up by edu-
cational provisions. But In spite of
ell that can be done to promote it the
change must necessarily be of very
slow growth. The men who are tak
ing this occasion to put forth the plan
might more properly be called dream-
ers than progressives.
Pres!
It i# a curious fact that in the miid-
est winter on record the price of fesh
eggs in New York should have mount
ed to an unprecedented height But
there's a reason—at least there is said
to be. The cold storage men, it is
stated, have in stock no fewer than
three hundred million dozen eggs,
some of which they have held for a
long time. They are afrald of carry-
ing this stock indefinitely in the pres
ent attitude of legislators toward cold
storage. Therefore they are holding
fresh eggs out of the market practi
cally by putting a prohibitory
upon them, and thus creating a cond}
tion in which many people will buy
“seconds” at figures that they would
regard as extortionate at any other
tive It's a great game-—from the
standpoint of shrewd business, not
trom the standpoint of fair dealing
price
If buckwheat which until a
comparatively YOArs ago was
thrown upon culm banks of the
anthracite mines as worthless, is to
be boosted In price, as reported, it
means that much more élear
profit to the producing companies and
operators. From an economic stand
point the utilization of what was once
a waste product is a good thing for
both the public and the producers, as
it tends to prolong the life of the an-
thracite regions, but it is hard to see
what justification there can be in ex
isting conditions for an advance In
price. Doubtless the big companies,
whose dividends range from 20 per
cent. down to 6, need the money. and
what more need be sald?
coal,
few
the
just
Emotional women seldom bring hot
house flowers to the commonplace
a cow or picking a pocket
volting murder.
The Chinese have been doing more
fighting than straw bralding, and straw
hats next summer may be high priced.
No one, however, in midwinter cares
about what Is to happen in midsum-
mer.
“Tips are not seriously objection
able until they take on the proportions
of enforced bribes,” says the Washing
ton Star. Perbaps so; but the trouble
fs they do take on that aspect before
they go very far.
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LORIMER GASE
ENDS AT LAST
' Committee Closes the Public
Hearings.
INDULGE IN LOVE FEAST
Attorney Hancey Files Brief To the
Effect That Election Had Been
Adjudicated and That a Second
Inquiry Was Not Necessary.
Washington. —Public hearings in the
second senatorial Investigation intc
the election of Senator Lorimer were
declared closed by Chairman Dilling
ham, of the Benate Lorimer Commit
tee. Attorney Hanecy, representing
Senator Lorimer, was given permis
sion to file a brief to the effect that
the Senator's election had been ad
judicated before the present
gation began and therefore
could not be the subject
investigation.
The inquiry has proved to be one ot
the most exhaustive ever made by a
congressional committee. In the eight
months’ hearing about 10,000 pages of
printed testimony were taken, con-
stituting about 5,000,000 words. It is
estimated that the stencgraphers’ fees
alone reached $15,000
The closing hour of the hearing was
a veritable love-feast. The attorneys
explained that they had never intend
ed really to display temper and the
committee added that it had not e
tertained like intentions M
investi
that it
0. a4 second
n
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Ww
who was discharged for his
before the committee Saturday
letter of
which was read into the records
Edward Hines
called. He denied
bribe Miss Helen
telegraph operator, tO gee a4 message a
private
sent After his
mittee decided at
night,
wrote a profuse
was the last witne
had
Seavers,
he
to a
testimony the co
Al executive
not to urther int
leged
Lorimer
inquire
bir
fa
ition against
¢
t OF
as resuit
rovement, or
} commits
hearing
the
The
reed
withesses,
issue
early hours of
m by
Sheridan, of
testis of t}
8 detectis
make a short-hand r
sation,
when
Cat
¥h
such as he sw
Charles McGowan was
ng
before
alleged
to have admitted recets
“perjuring” himself
mittee
moneys
the od
TURKS HOLDING ITALIANS.
Of Three Italian Warships,
Constantinople Tu
entertain peace p
retraction of
Tripoll, according
from the Turkish
This statement
sald, i
powers as to
key
tions
Turkish
reports of
tered
rkey will
:
only
roposals upon ti
ing
announcement
16
decree
to
Italy's annex
counc
was
n answer
the terms
would enter inte
officialdom was elated over
crushing in
Italian at Derna
and Benghazi by the allied Turco Arab
army Accord
front the
heavy loss of life, and pursued hv the
Turks blo
at Ainzara Oasis
Additional
firm earlier in the
three Italian ships had been sunk
Tobru Susa and
here
- Soft ads fg
a gelea acminis
to the erly
i from the
Italians wer with
and Arabs to their khouse
advices tending to «¢
reports Woe
K. Taormina were
ceived
After Interstate Carriers
ale
Washington, Ti Interst
merce Commission
investigati
ie
ordered a ge
mm of act
Carriers
ts op
jr 1 34 £
ihn i ¥
interstate with t
respe
of
issuance
iransportation
1as reached the commissais
carriers are violating the
regard Indications are t
fending carriers may be
face prosecution.
passes, f
ranks
service Information
AW that
of
to
i
3 y
i in
}
it
ie the
obliged
Death Of Dr. Talmage.
Philadelphia. — Rev Rrank Dewitt
Talmage died at his h here of
heart failure superinduced by a nerv.
ous breakdown. He was 44 years old
Dr. Talmage was paste of the Cham.
bers-Wylie Presbyterian Church. He
came to his present charge from the
First Presbyterian Church, Los
Angeles, Cal. He also occupied pul
pits in Chicago and Pittsburgh
ome
Madero Will Call Congress,
Washington. An extra
the Mexican Congress will be called
to consider the desperate situation in
{ the republic, according to advices re
{ celved by the State Department.
i
i Wrecked By Dynamite.
Waynesboro, Pa.—In an explosion of
dynamite near here, twé men were
severely hurt, two houses were dam:
aged, telephone lines were severed and
gas aed oll pipes ripped from the
ground, One small building disappear.
od in a cloud of smoke and splinters
and the ofl and gas from the broken
pipe lines were ignited, sending up
tongues of flame 30 feet high. John
Sheehan, 40 years old, a construction
foreman, and Ehud Steel, aged 35,
were badly burned and Injured.
UNICN MEN IN DRAG NET
Grand Jury At
its
Brings In Indictments—March
Federal
Completes Investigation and
12 Day For Arraignment,
y
labor offi
number be
the govern
Union
sald t
Indianapolis, Ind
ais and 0
30
Apents,
Lween and 40, whom
PATHETIC RETURN
Fusillade of Flashlights Greet
Morse in New York.
McNamaras aud
permitting more
which in cit
the Ortie
{Or
occurred ies fr Massa
351
the last six
of
:husetls
years, and in wrecking
Loos Angeles
ncident, Tuesday
return.
been
indicted are to
3 Were
Capiases have
ued and all
secretly
known
12 has
before
taken in custody on a day
}
i
ty the vernment, but
Week March
on, in
the ar
bond
in the
reside
names of
num
pending
probably
40
re
exact
Tr
med
than
than
some of
si +3 7 On
a1 the me
union offi
hay
: with
wmrged
amiters
up” had
District
Asked iikher
been States
Vo
Attorney
Intimation
ree,
Charles Miller refused to
came fr another
Mn
sou iowever, that no officials high
th
t
head
in
ad had
were
er than
quarters
volved
Frank
Internation:
and
bert
« Pros
Bridge
Her
y-trea
urer, when informed { h indict
except to
Jd. J. Me
re spongi-
SE ryes wy
Struct and
¥
retlar
onworkers,
Ss BOA
ments, fui ) ) ent,
repeat
Namara
i}
14s ‘ x a
Dilly aynamit.
ing crew
CENTENARY OF DICKENS.
American Wreaths Upon His Grave
in Westminster.
centenary
London he of the birth
of Charles celebrated
throughout the United Kingdom
the by
ens
Dickens was
and
commemora
ni and
aii
British colonies
Dic}
Live Bervics vais
Car
1
i
7h
ine
minster
nove i828 grave
in West
decorated
great
Abbey
flowers, in
f the
was lavishly
from
the
wreaths
Clubs of
witn Iuding
many Dickens
United Sta
Rochester Cathelral was the special
0
tpt
Mecea of great crowds of the author's
admirers
KILLED BY PLAYMATE.
Lad Dies In Arms Of Boy Who Hit
Him On the Head.
Ind—Etruck on the head
with a plece of coal by his playmate,
Oscar Tharp, in a quarrel over a sled,
Muncie,
of cerebral hemorrhage. The boys
didn’t mean to do i," was taken to
police headquarters to be held pend.
Soap Manufacturer Dead.
New York-James T. Pyle, presi
dent of James Pyle & Bons, soap manu
facturers, dropped dead at his office
in Weehawken, He was 68 years of
Trolley Crash Kills Five.
McKeesport, Pa. — Five persons
were killed and 26 Injured when a
trolley car on the Buena Vista divi
sion of the West Pennsylvania Street
Railway line jumped the tracks and
went over an embankment near the
DRAMATIC SCENE IN STATION
Crowds Of Curious Persons Await His
Feeble
Wheeled In a Chair With His
Wife At His Side.
Coming — The Man ls
New York. Ww
wrecker ned
0 the
Morse, bank
and pard Federal
viet, came back
'
rmer triumpl
iphs
mpled up in a
and his conviction,
wheelchair, sii
and impassive lay figure. With
a whitefaced wif glide he
is thror
WAS
Es
1iftled
$y
the
quickiy 1
pushed through
at
hisked
away to his home ! Fi
eighth
n Jdavs
G
cover his health, whic
pr yn iife has
Mo any
nome-coming he not
is thattered
i
if his
Not
emotion
show
d
his lips during
progress o trai
to taxi
The train from Atlanta, where Morse
less than two years of his 15-
than an hour
photographers by
oming 1 as it
the station at there
rush the front exit of the
Pullman car bearing the Morse party
had
chair
wheel chair from
ab
served
YOar sentence, wae more
late
ts
Heporters and
1¢ score awaited ite And
swept into 5.2K
Was a to
detrainment
A
mos
ions for his
» 11
sfully
up
and
made wheel
- th nw)
with a
automatic
Morse was quickly in
a booming bh and
lame. Everybody §
shrank back
photographer had taken the
ker
her
Cras a
umped,
gm into the
! A
first flash
Mrs
husband
light of the returning ban
looked
the smoke
to the chair
Her fac
but she said nothing
Dr. Fowler said
“Morse
Morse anxiously at
cleared and
as it was
was ashen
aR
pressed close
AWAY e
the
BOCmMR
has stood remark
and stronger, but
these reports about his rapid restora
tion to good health are untrue. Morse
live a great while. 1
hazard a guess to how |
tei
irip
ably well
cannot
ong, but the
is aff
au
maladies with which
are incurable.”
rece ved
he icted
information was
had no
eired pardon
here that Morse
chance of gecuring the d
Taft
from President
NOT A QUITTER, SAYS “T. BR."
V/ith Progressives.
York. —"1 don't
my bitterest enemies will
I was ever a deserter,”
A. P
New that
BAY
Colonel
Moore, publisher
believe
that
Moore.
can say to the Progressives”
Roosevelt is quoted by Mr. Moore
by side with them to the
Men Blown To Pieces.
Meriden, Conn--Adam J. Engel
hardt was blown to pieces and the
main building of the Meriden Auto
mobile Station, of which he was the
proprietor, was wrecked when an
acetylene gas machine blew up in the
building.
Same Right As Men.
New York.-~Woman suffragists con-
gratulated themselves on an important
convert, when Mrs. Carl Osterheld,
president of the West Chester County
Women's Suffrage Association, re
celved a favorable response to a let-
ter she had written William LL. Ward,
Youghiogheney Country Club House,
six miles from this city. The car got
beyond control of the motorman on a
steep grade and after pitching over
the embankment crashed Into a tree
and was smashed to pleces.
Republican national committeer.an
om New York. “In reply ‘no gour
nguiry,” wrote Mr. Ward, “1 beg to
wivise you that I believe women
thould have the same right to vote as
men have.”
MADERO LOSING SUPPORTERS
Of His Ministers Are Aiding the
Rebels—8tories Of Crooked-
ness In the Army.
will 1
he
Mexico City.—"For no reason
change any of my ministers
members of my cabinet are honorable
not
I shall
glandered
men. They are patriots
them to be
are glandering them
President
permit any of
you
In words
brought to a termination an interview
the
these Madero
by a committee from anti
party, which
to persuade him to
#
was Mir
tempting dismiss
from his cabinet the ministers of war
and interior.
The conference had
up the moment
spokesman of the committee
a statement of the
evilminded Mexicans were aiding
rebels, declared that this was tr
| and that moreover the President knew
men because they mem-
{bers of his own cabinet
then peremptorily
interview
! In
| tredo
proceeded
when the
in reply
President that
the
to
to
ue,
{these Were
The
ended
Presi
dent the
Al
of
line with this incident
Robles Dominguez, woune
| Madero's stanchest supporters dur
the revolution, publicly criticised
that in
removal of the
ing
the
administration, his
not
entire cabinet could save the adminis
stating
opinion even the
tration
The visit of the committee to Pres
Madero was to interpeliate hi
{regarding the of
regular
for drink
turn bought up by t
are stories of haciendados havi
great in
from robbery, but the
all iz that
sent from the government
the capital itself
f the
dent
source supplies
gued to troops and
and and in
There
fur-
for
by them food
he rebels
ng
nished return
ur
immunity
report
mos
serious of supplies
have been
in
O
g ale
Arsenals
Scores President's most
ago
carts
ardent supporters of six months
are speculating on his ability t
the country through the present eris
is
PASTOR A POOLPLAYER.
the Billiard Halls
Newport,
Champion In Of
Washingt
bers of his flock disco
The
preacher was the champion
hearing disclosed ¢
the
aver
hat
PoOoi
and business men threat
withdraw fre
1¢ church if he T
investigating commitiee recommended
ft the pastoral relations
24 new members were added to
church
of the town,
ened to
thelr support yn
tt Was removed he
that ¢ ve conting
¥
}
and
rolis
$3,000,000 IN MAIL BOXES.
Placed In OneCent Pieces In Rural
Receptacles Durirg Year.
Washington. During the last year
over 300,001
one-cent pieces, n
tended as payment for stamps, posal
orders, were collect
carriers
bad
cards and
by the
boxes
money
rural
which
ed
from
been
mail
in they de
posited
Postmaster General
t warning ose who receive
mail through ru carriers t
they should deposit no more coins
the
Hitchcock sent
a ail
a to all th
their
ou
rai
nat
in
ir boxes. If they must buy stamps
money orders hereafter they
go to the postmaster or con
the carrier on their route
and
should
sult
ALL HANDS SAVED.
Entombed Miners DNescued Without
injury.
Sutfer Creek, Cal-—-The sixty-two
miners entombed in the Bunker Hill
Mine by in in the mouth of the
shaft, rescued after a night
hard work by miners from nearby
| mines. None the men injur
They were greeted by their wives
a cave
of
were
of were
{ed
{and daughters as they came out of the
shaft
Major Logan Dead.
YY. R
recently
Chicago Major Logan,
custodian of the opened
Glacier National Park in Montana, and
‘a veteran Indian authority, died here
{from heart disease. Major Logan was
{54 years old and leaves a widow and
| two daughters, His father, an old
| Indian fighter, is buried on Custer's
| Inst battlefield, and his son will be
interred beside him
Former Justice White Dead.
Buffalo, N. Y.~Truman C. White,
former justice of the Supreme Court,
who pronounced the death sentence
upon Leon Czolgosz, assassin of Presi.
dent McKinley, and presided at many
lowing an operation
he reached the prescribed age limit,
Relics From the Maine.
Washington. — Already about 350
claimants have appeared for the relics
from the wreck of the battleship Maine
which are now on board the collier
Leonidas on the way to the Washing.
ton Navy Yard. Under the terms of
the law distribution of the relics is to
be made among municipalities, patri
otie societies, survivors of the Maine
and the relatives of the victims of the
disaster. The articles comprise a
strange and incongruous collection,
ranging from a few six-inch guns dowr
to brass buttons and crockery.
|
A
| s———
TOLD IN
SHORT ORDER
srr
o—
4
No ~
Bouth Bethlehem
Aldinger made known her
to Emmett Mack, of Phillipsburg,
South
stopper in a bottle Will
fered badly cut bands when the
exploded
Anna M
betrothal
J.
Mins
,
ox
hem While
h placing a
Frueh f
Bi
bottie
jethile
nm
Coplay.——Hit by a piece of stone fol-
lowing an explosion in
Edward Arthur suffered
right leg
South
is announced
of Somers
der,
glone quarry,
aired
“a
vot
ras
i
Bethlehem. The engagement
of Miss shapiro,
ie, N. J. to Alexan-
of South
Reading. — At g of the High-
way
cided to report fay
a meetin
Committee of Counc
WEE Co
the bill
8 it
orably to
Board of Public
07
abolish the Works
Allentown. — City incils started
providing
HHon-doll
mii
legislation puiar
r
Yote on a fa ihe
¥ 4
construction of a seweras
Fredericksaville A wildes n the
has kept
gE that
iy
hills in Longswamp tows
sportsmen busy, and several dog
encountered bas
bitten
the re
Done ninick
tracks
h Gap
result
Bethlehem was
iving along the
between Walnutport
¢
found bored
found rosa
as
Aan
i Lenig
with his right leg severed as the
un dower
i QOUWIE
of having been r
hton Badly
UNIINE season
iK
bh
explogion of
by t
Hig gun,
i“
fas recovered sufficien
the ho
appoint
upon the
pass
the erection
center
branch
#
ing of the
Read-
there
At a meet
Grocers’ Association
was & discussion of the high prices of
The Association
by Congress of the
man
om this
vote for the
food commodities
favors the
bill to
PAEEARLe
remove the tax on oles
Congressman fr
garine and the n fr
agked to
district was
noise
the cel
Center
Elmwood Mine A
heating lant and merchandise
{ several hundred dollars
The opening in
than feet wide
gleam
to the value ©
were swallowed
the earth is
is of unknown depth
Edith Ford
Sheets,
u Pp
more 20
and
Johnstown housekeep.
Adam Nasehy Glo,
miles from city, was
committed to jail in default $400
bail here on a charge of aggravated
assault and battery on the allegation
that seared the back of Sheets’
three-year-old son with a hot poker
She said she burned the child to break
him of a habil, but did not know th
implement was so hot.
er for of
seventeen this
of
:
eho
Allentown. Because of the consid.
ering of the proposed new constito.
the stockholders the Allen-
town Fair for the first time in the six
¥
Oi
A clause in the new
from twentyfive to fifty cents was
overwhelmingly defeated. The stock
holders also declined to permit the
executive committee to fix the salaries
of the ofiicers.
Harrisburg. — The receivers of the
Central Iron & Steel Co, of this city,
filed a bond for $200,000 and assumed
their duties in charge of the works.
It is the expectation to put the plant
into operation to take care of orders
on the books.
Reading. ~ During the absence of hig
wife, who was in Reading on a shop-
ping trip, Jacob Behm, thirty-seven
years old, a blacksmith, wert to the
barn at his home at State Hill, and
sont a bullet through his head. Death
was instant. No cause can be assign
ed for his act