ow CENTRE HALL PA Benin EE MEN TEACHERS. Recently there bas been much dis cussion In educational circles of the peed of men teachers In the higher grades, and some effort has been made to attract them any appreciable results be something about the calling of the teacher—either its pecuniary rewards or its range of opportunities——that is incdequate to attract and hold men who might take up this calling as a life work. The average man teacher uses his position as a makeshift, a stepping-stone and means of livellhood while he studies for the law, the medi- cine or some other profession, says the St. Paul Pioneer Press. the man teacher leaves at the earliest opportunity for more flattering and lucrative flelds of endeavor. It would seem that teaching would be the most enjoyable work for the student of books and of human nature, but the fact remains that men as a rule do not so regard it. It must be admitted that the profession of teaching does not hold the financial attractions of gions. The years of preparation re- quired, the constant study necessary, the inveetment in books and other ex- penses make a severe draln on the teacher's fncome, which is small at best. If it be true that there is a real demand for more men teachers, the chances are that the demand will be supplied when the compensation Is made commensurate with the services rendered. The statistics of the fire department of New York show that at least 25 per cent of the fires in that city are caused by the careless use of matches and of lighted cigars and cigarettes Is it not time that this awful risk to others by careless smokers should be taken account of by the law? It is not a trivial matter. The tossing aside of lighted matches and cigar butts without seeing where they land sbould be as much of a penal offense as bomb-throwing or incendlarism. A careless cigarette, as far as known, caused the great fire in Baltimore, one of the biggest in the world's history and wholly preventable. A careless match caused the recent fire in New York, with its loss of valuable life and much loss of property—also wholly preventable The careless user of a spark of fire Is an enemy of the pub He welfare and ought to be treated as such. We are as yet primitive in out outlook upon vital facts. A very pleasant prediction has been meade by a college sociologist that the United States is due for war in 1830 and that this nation will be in the wrong. as probably by reason of its wealth and importance, it will have become an international bully He bases this assertion on the evidence of history. But to offset this are the facts that the direct rule of the people is becoming more and more the na tional ideal of government, and that with the people as a whole vitally in control, the peace sentiment will be gtronger than ever. It is upon the masses, not the classes, that the hor rors of war chiefly fall, and the ele ment of self-interest will then be more engaged In the preservation of peace than ever before in the history of the world. In the meantime, potentifl academic wars need not seriously af. fect the national peace of mind Professor von Wasserman has In. formed the Berlin Medical Soclety of amazingly successful experience In treating cancerous ulcers in mice with injections of a preparation containinf cosin, telllurium and seleniulm He gays that after the fourth injection ul cerous affections almost entirely dis appeared, and at the end of ten days some of the animals were entirely cured. But he is not certain, he says, that similar results would be attain. able in the case of human beings. A Harvard professor says that di something to do with nerves. divorce unless one party gets on the nerves of the other. by eating five liberal meals per day, are we to infer that an emaciated per son can make himself fat by starving? A woman In a western city jumped upon the stage in a moving picture in the audience. There are some things more startling than an alarm of fire ————————————————————— One hundred and eighty-five mur ders were committed in Chicago In the year which ended December 31, 1911<an average of more than one a dey. No wonder there are those who endl Chicago “the Wicked City.” { BABIES” MILK Hospital Attendant Breaks Down and Confesses. EIGHT LITTLE ONES DIED Winifred Ankers Says She Put Oxalic Acid In the Milk Prepared For the Babies At the Brooklyn Nursery and Hospital. York.-—Winifred Ankers, a kitchen attendant at Nursery and Infants’ down and confessed after a interrogation by the police that it was she who had put oxalic acid New the Hospital, broke two-hour hospital, causing eight deaths and four cases of {liness. Her purpose, the girl seid, was not to kill the children, but hospital against whom she grudge were not taking proper care of the children. Miss Ankers has a baby of her own in the hospital. It is not sick. threatening to take her whereupon outburst, fessing by baby away, there hyveterical in which young woman sobbed out her story of iow she had dropped the acid the milk bottles. District Attorney ( ropgey of the girl's oxalic nto was notlk and At statement, sent Assistant District Warbasser the «here the girl had been questioned, to fied promptly arney to gke her evidence against herself down legal form The police believe the Ankers wom an is demented Ankers arrested was formally held at the The ex her con nurses The woman but still hospital under police guard which later, is amination was heard deve lope d feseion by several unless she told th: truth, the woman who had been denying all evening any in connection with the suddenly became frantic jumped from her chair, shaking her fsx at Detective McAirdy “If vou take my baby from kill she screamed. She sunk back into a chair, crying hysteric RilY or ww hen biame eath She me is you,” then the officers calmed her she “Well, I'll tell you all about it, went on ‘o relate how she turned milk bottles in raid and the oxalic acid into the the icebox ‘1 did {it would Know fearing some said, "and | bottles 1 put in a hurry, come.” she how many Chie don't it in’ There was anotaer hysterics and then she lamented “i did not want kill the babies All 1 wanted to do was to make them sick I knew if they were sick be cross and cry and cause a lot The they by interruption to they would trcuble for the nurses nurses and ms sorry for the poor ot have snubbed me were enemies, | am ver poor babies” RELICS OF MAINE IN DEMAND. Aroher Shipload To Be Brought From Havana. TH Vy ae? ington. 80 numerous and in sistent are the demands upon the Navy Department for relics the iip Maine that it has been found cessary to send for another shipload addition the brought Washington recently on the collier The board charged with the distribution of the relics is having difficulty in complying with the many from municipalities and societies, for the reason that of battle. to collection Leo ag requests patriofi little of the material collected ig of a menial purposes Training Station Quarantined. Washington — Owing to the from smalipox of Benjamin Earnest, ordinary seaman, States Navy, at the training station, Norfolk, Va. the United States ship Franklin and the training station have been placed under a strict quarantine Officers and men of the Navy Yard and Marine Corps and their families, with the civilian employes at the Navy Yard, have been vaccinated death Bartow United Cs ———————— - A Hitch Over Morocco. Madrid. tintions between France and Spain Morocco has developed. The eations which Spain shall give France. An Aviator's Fall To Death, Pau, France lieutenant Ducour. peau was killed here in an aeroplane accident. While flying at a height of 4560 feet a procelier broke and the ma thine fell. New Japanese Ambassador, Washington. Viscount 8. Chinda, the new Japanese ambassador, has ar. rived In Washington, accompanied by the Viscountess Chinda and a retinue of attendants. He is expected to pre gent his credentials to the State De partment within a week. The new Ambasendor is a graduate of De Pauw University, Indiana, where he was a classmate of former Senator Beve ridge, of Indiana. He was ambassador to Germany when ordered here to suc wed former Ambassador Uchida. - IN 1942 TALK APOUT IT PEING COLD. ORE WINTER | REMEMPER IN PARTICULAR, WAS IN GIR why 114 B\ was 30 Coup IT | froze THE o~s OFF THE DOOR D ‘DEATH IN WAKE OF BIG STORM | Southern Kansas, Eastern Oklahoma and Southwestern Missouri Swept By Storm — Temperatures Take Big Drop. Shreveport, La-—Eight persons are i dead and about 50 injured as the re { sult of a tornado which swept through ithe Shreveport All the dead are negroes with tire ex | ception of the two-month-old baby of iJ. A. Manheim, whose molished. The baby's body {a block from the Manheim 'A number of negro cabins stroyed in the outskirts of the j and on near-by plantations western outskirts of were and the barns In proper no damage was done The damage to property ed at $100,000 where negro cabins, i : ‘houses were destroyed TEXAS IN GRIP OF BLIZZARD, ' Other Western States Are Swept By Heavy Storm, Dalias, Tex -—Ushered by a wind ‘storm varying at different points from blizzard of the winter the South west In North Texas the temperature fell from freezing. In the panhandle was reported tc have reached a depth At Hobart, Ok. build roofed by storm dows demolished swept 70 degrees to the gnowiall of four inches ings un and were glore the Me - wind, a heavy Kansas, fern Carried on by a snow glorm Eastern Okla Missouri Kansas City, d6-mile swept Southern homa and Southwes With # from practic Denver. Col one inch ally snow to several {cet covering the movement of lines that traverse been the entire State trains, especially or the mountain district, has Be 3 verely hampered CHICAGO MAN FINED $1,050. Pleaded Guilty To Falsely Classifying Merchandise. New York Frank E of the forwarding agency Jjudae & Co. of Chicago, was fined $1,060 in the United States District Court, after pleading guilty to an in dictment charging him with baving falsely classified imported merchan dige 80 ag to obtain cheaper transpor tation raliroad companies it was also charged that Bernard col lected full toll from the shippors Bernard, head of Bernard, rates from CATS HAD PREFERENCE. Basis For Granting Civil War Veteran a Divorce. Kangas City, Mo. Pecause his wile kept 35 cats in their home, Samuel W i4 years old and a Civil War veteran, was granted a divorce at Kansas City, Kan. Odell testified that his wife gave her cats more attention than she gave him, fed the pets the choicest food and ignored his protests when the animals slept in his bed, Lael, LABOR LEADERS HELD. ‘Charged With Being Accessories To Murder Of Woman. { Lawrence, Mass Joseph J Ettor, Industrial Workers of the World lead. er in the local textile strike, and | Arturo Glovannitti, his assistant, were held for the grand jury by Judge Ma- ‘honey In Police Court, charged with the murder of Anna woman was killed in a strike riot Jan. nary 29. | Forty Eight Stars Now. | Washington.—An official order for tehanging the stars of the national | ensign and the Union Jack in use by ‘ the Navy to show the addition of two ' new States to the Union has been fs- | sued by the Navy Department. The change, which takes effect July 4, pro. | “iden for 48 stars to be arranged in vertical line. This arrangement is the one recommended by the joint | board of the Army and Navy and ap | proved by President Taft. COLOMBIA ORDERS MINISTER HOM - | Will Maintain Her International Policy. 'RESENTS MINISTER'S WORDS His Declaration That Secretary Of State Knox Would Not Be Wel come Not Upheld By His Countrymen, Nei the by Bogota, Colombia —Gen. Pedro Ospina, United the Colombian The action of | taken because | lombian people taken by the { Washington in partment th the visit to Colombia of Secreary of State Knox would be in | opportune, owing to the fact that Co lombia’s claims in connection with | Panama have not vet been arbitrated The notification given by the Co lombian Government says that Gen eral Ospina is “separated” from his post at Washington, and that the inci dent Colombia and the Unit ed States Is thus clogged Colombia, it continues, tain her international policy Colombian Minister 1 States, has been recalled Government the Government was nor the Co- the Minister Slate her it neit upholds position ul De Colombian notifying the “4 #i between will No Complaint By State Department. he concern of being in Washington 1 the Department upon formed of the recall of the Colombian Minister was that it should be thor ughly understood that the Department had or gested this course, which consequently only State not directly indirecelyt sug appears to have been purely voluntary on the part of the ment The Dep: has all along garded Minister Ospina’'s utterances as purely personal. thereby accepting his own definition of his note, and as he had invited to express his opin fon the expediency of Secretary Colombian Govern riment Te heen as to ground for complaint the the Department But was quite another matter with the Co lombian The United States, however, had nothing to do with any disclipinary measures that the Bogota foreign office adopted It not expected that Minister Ospina’s recall will in any way affect the statue Mr. Duboie. the Ameri can Minister to Colombia, who is said have established cordial and satisfactory relations with the Colom- bians on part Government is of to very TRAINS CRASH IN TUNNEL. and Fireman Killed and Traffic Blocked. North Adams, Mass -—Two train men are dead and two are missing, as the result of tween a freight bound express Maine railroad Engineer train and ~ Boston on the Boston and ously damaged, with the exception of the electric engine which was draw. ing it, but several cars of the freight were demolished and the wreckage ‘took fire. The smoke, pouring from ‘the east portal of the tunnel, drove back those who sought entrance from that end, while the heat made it im. i possible to go beyond the central shaft ‘from the other end. Hours after the crash the wreckage was still burning. The heat was so great that portions of the tunnel rock were cracked off {and fell to the tracks, Wants a Revenue Board. Washington. The purpose of the majority of the House Ways and Means Committee to abolish the Tariff Board and substitute for it another kind of a commission was manifested by the introduction of a bill for a reve nue board by Representative | Mitchell Palmer, of Pennsylvania. Mr. another having been introduced by Representative Feters, of Massach setts, providing for a board of glatistical experts | Country. i Cash Register Concern Charged With Monopolizing Business and Exer- cising Restraint For Last Twenty Years. Cincinnati, O.—Thirty indiciments charging conspiracy to obstruct and monopolize the cash register business in violation of the criminal provisions the law, were returned and sales agents of Register Company time the first to prevent Interstate Commerce express Charges re with 11 counts of Sherman Anti-trust against the At officials National Cash the same government violation the regulating sulted in an Indictment against the Adams Express Company The company with hav- ing published rates incin move of the of Law wae charged more than the ghippers Cues Lave exacted from manufacturing seven ¢ LE Were nati dicted, alleged to Interstate Commerce ing low transporiati undervaluation, and there a score of minor nents Sales Methods the Cause. mero 1 he Register sales Companys causes of the inc to the United Stat MePherson fined to rincipal the indict loves of inEpor telegraph and telephone com re Way of the ng mploye a ire competito ng J14] to int and cul- Agents enles libel the machines of competitors ting prices, selling imitations of com ities mace knockers” and injuring machines whenever possible The second and third counts charged zing the cash of the sam? tc use As competitive petitive mach defendants with monopol register trade by use means No date has been for 8 hearing before United States Judge Hollister, but it was said the defendants would notified court on a to be arraigned ister indictments against the express company were $ of an in vestigation made by Special Agent of the Commission P. F. Marsh and Attorney A The In alleged express collected $2 per bundred shipments from Indian to Franklin, Pa, while the ties is $1.75 concerns of this with having violated the Interstate Commerce law by undervaluing goode for shipment in an effort to get lower transporia- tion rates Eel he 10 come Int date The the result here G. Gutheim dictments that the company pounds on apolis, Ind. rate between the ¢ Six manufacturing city were charged FIRE SWEEPS TEXAS CITY. Probably One Thousand Persons Are Made Momeless. Houston, Tex —In the wake of the | most destructive fire in the history of Houston, smouldering wreckage cov ers an area about one and a half miles in length and varying in width from 200 yards to half a mile in the north eastern section of the city. More than a dozen of the city's most important industrial enterprises are in ruins; 200 or more dwelling houses and store buildings are ashes and approxi- mately 1,000 persons are homeless. An accurate statement the monetary loss is not yet possible. but the most conservative is that it will reach at least $7,000,000, The insurance car ried will not exceed 40 per cent. Ex cept for a few who suffered minor burng and bruises no casualties at- tended the fire in ‘ 0% ARSON FOR AN EDUCATION. : Two Girls Fire Barn To Get Into a | Reform School. Welch, W. Va -Liszie Crabiree and Lucy Trout, 15-year-old girls who were convicted of arson in the Circuit Court here, admitted setting fire to a barn #0 they could obtain an education. The girls had been reared on a county poor farm, their parents being too poor to care for them, according to Fire Mar. | shal F. 8. Carington. [them useful women. ‘to the Girls’ Industrial Home at Salem. MEXICO TO PAY CHINA $3,100,000. ————“—— indemnity For Chinese Killed During Revolution, | Ban Francisco ~The Mexican Gov: ernment has agreed to pay an indem. "nity of $3,:.0,000 to the Chinese re public for the death of 200 Ch nese aL Torreon, Mexico, during the revo lution last July, sccording to a cable gram received here. The Chinese were murdered by Mexican revolu tioniste. . PENNSYLVANIA STATE NEWS Newsy Items Gathered From All Parts of the State. HA Emaus —This town is to have a shoe factory, to be erected at once, in which 100 hands will nployes he or An ordinance has been license {OTE Allentown introduced in Clty moving picture machine Counciis to opera Assoc a the Alburtie "The Ola Maids tion" held its annual home of Mrs. George P. Selp and elect ed officers meeting ai Mauch Chunk Carbon county core missioners have decided to place tes phones the offices of the court house. in all Lehigh { 18x Ome for ot Allentown The sioners fixed the county 1912 at three mills, an mill over 1571 Bet finger fingers Tale increase half a South lost lost Leiber VET hlehem Daniel and while one Charles Wea two Ripe! at the Bethlehem hr Washingtonboro clerk at the postoffice asgirling to trim trees, was badly when the al thrown to 1} he was drawn into Tope anc 1 Coir Lansf Hecauge a from rabieg went throug! if YY, i i of the Order of offices Heptasophs [ew yf oldest residen Wednesday. She was al of age March 7, She wae born in 1810 P. P wnship., has annou Demo the Legislature District of Berks Mertziown Henrys wert, of Longewamp Te need himself! as a candidate for the cratic for nominat the on from Second county Towsen won Lamberion prize Harrisburg High the second prize being taken Graham Other winners Miller and Lewis Snyder At Harrisburg Wilbur first prize in GESAY contest Kchool by Daniel were Paul ihe the at the Chester a meeting of the Pro Ing comniitiees were appointed for the current year and named to be voted primaries candidates at were spring for the Harrisburg Boy Scouts have been officially recognized in Harrisburg's city government, Mayor Royal having asked them in a speech the police force. Chief of Police Hutchin son invited the Scouts keeping order 10 assist to help hir n Souih Bethlehem Grand lodge lowe of this State was held here past grands from neighboring in Lehigh and Northampton counties admitted membership by Grand Master W. Oscar Miller, A special cesgion of the of the Odd Fe) when owns were fo Reading —A committee of the Berks County Tuberculosis Society asked the Commissioners for an appro towards the maintenance of on the Neversink commissioners said be {avorably con County priation sanatorium Mountain. The the matter will sidered, Scranton. On returning to after a two weeks stay in Baltimore, Miss Minnie Hull, twenty four vears old, was arrested on a charge of forg- ing checks to the name of former employer, T. H. Bullock, a druggist The checks were cashed ai a local bank Mise Hull denied the charge and furnished bail Slatington.—W. DD. Paules, who last year discovered traces of gold on the Blue Mountains above Slatdale, about five miles above this borough, reports having met with such success in the continuation of his search for gold bearing quartz that he will erect ma- chinery and begin operation as soon as the weather permits, Bethlehem A young man believed be Charles Borger, twenty-one old, committed suicide by jumping into the Lehigh River from the New Street bridge. The man's jump was witnessed by hundreds of the this city, two her to work, among them being Emanuel Christoffersen and Karle Intrehus. vain effort to rescue the drowning man. Allentown. -~Keiser's ore mines, at Alburtis, Lehigh county, idle for some years in competition with the Mesaba ores, have been icased to the Allen. town Iron Manufacturing Company, and will be opened again. The mines yield several hundred tons a day. Emmaus Rev. J. H. Smith, pastor the Evangelical Association, whe been in the ministry twenty says during this time he traveled 000 miles, made 13,000 pastoral vigite, lelivered upwards of 4.000 sermons and addresses, had 300 cenversions and conducted fifty funerals, .
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