The Centre Reporter A ——— CENTRE HALL PA AVIATION NONSENSE. Why should any aviator at this stage talk flying across the Atlantic in 30 or any number of hours? If be Ce in a dirigible or an aeroplane, why does he not turn westward, where there is plenty of solid earth to land on? There may be men somewhat foolhardy enough to attempt the flight from Newfoundland to Ireland. It is a sure and easy way of achieving pass- ing notoriety and incidentally of com mitting suicide by drowning, says the New York World. There will be time enough to talk of crossing the ocean in an aeroplane when this continent has been traversed by alr without alighting. Back of this nonsense about flying across the Atlantic is the misfortune that the business of avia- tion has fallen so largely into the bands of showmen. They are interest- ed chiefly in doing “stunts” for the sake of the advertising and future gate receipts. It is becoming a ques- tion whether practical advances will be made in the science of aviation in this country except the government take it up seriously for military pur- poses, as has been done In France. The suggestion of Prof. George D Baker, of Harvard, head of the Drama League, of Boston, that American audiences should indicate their disap« proval of plays and players by hissing, Is received by producers with disap- proval, paturally, and is not likely to win much favor with the playgoer. The qualifications of the one who hisses must be examined before we will grant him the privilege, and not even a cerfificate from the Drama League that such and such persons are equipped with critical judgment and are able to reach safe and sound opinions will be sufficient warrant for & commission hiss, It is imagin able that the tired business might find most earnest and sincere objection to a play which was giving the Drama League keen Intellectual enjoyment, says the Chicago Tribune. It might be dangerous to commission them to hiss, and if the Drama League hissed a play which the tired business man was enjoying, it probably would Bind itself on its head outside the matin door. The hiss will not help the drama uplift Empty seats are the best protests against undesirable, bad or banal plays. {io man If the army gets more aeroplanes It will have to call them airplanes At least reported by on military affairs calls the things airplanes, an airplanes, are the only things that can pull money away from the public the appropriation bill the house committee therefore, treasury-—unless congress alters the wording of the bill. It ap pears a sensitive representative from Texas oblects to the word “aero plane,” and be satisfied anything “airplane,” he says means the same thing interests of the means call the things airplanes that will not with less than which In the by all simple life, France is soon to have the first aer- ial regiment ever organized all the members can. for the present, take the air at once, but am appropriation is to be asked for buying enough aero- planes to bring the total up to 1.000, of four different sorts. The yearly cost of keeping this service efficient is estimated at $4,000,000; the cost In lives is not so easy to reckon Not That St. Petersburg Is rapidly grow. Ing in population is evidenced by the census taken in December, 1910, which showed the population, including cer tain suburban vilages formerly not covered, be 1807708. It 1s pre. eminently an “office town” and also a seaport for six or eight months of the year. The principal industry is the manufacture of cotton textiles. al though its advantage as a port of en- try for the Interior is gaining recog: nition. A line of steamers has been established to Libau, connecting there with a trans-Atlantic line to New York. This enables American shippers to send goods direct to this port without the delays of transshipment in foreign ports to A Kansas professor thinks that courses on child-rearing should be in- right in his critfelsm that, while we pay a great deal of attention to the breeding of live stock, we give practi cally none to the more important mat. ter of breeding children A flock of wild geese raced a fast passenger train in Tennessee came out winners. human variety of their kind Aviator Latham has started for the Congo with a monoplane and a big game hunt'ng outfit. Will Latham bag the game, or will the aeroplane bag Latham? HOW A ROBBER ROBBED ROBBERS ‘He Was Afterwards Robbed DIVISION OF $25,000 LOOT Matteo Arbano Bluffed the Taxicab Bandits Into Giving Him $10.000, in Turn Was Forced To Di: vide With Companions. New York A robber who robbed the robbers who stole § bank trict robbed ar —t the O00 from twe dis messengers in financial two weeks ago was afterward twice himself Such was the story by the confession of Matteo Arbano. Arbano is anything eppearance. He is only fi weighes 100 pounds and He gave the police how he where the lividing the $25,000 loot bluff” was given £10,000 the fw with but ‘a robber in ve feet tall, WEArs sped tacles himself up and told walked into a saloon five taxicab bandits were and by Ag he : pure LL he tur saloon was and had to divid With £3,000 ] In Havana hs companions them Havana, Cuba became acquainted with a woman, and after night drinki Bell wort $4 the woman had stolen I} ie police far 580 1481 000 of the oris heavy m 323 ase of M €n n My ontani, the and prohibitive ame +) 14 rs held { Swedish Annie, MATRON MADE DETECTIVE First Woman To Hold Position On New York Force, The wt York the fir New grade York ommis COTTONSEED RATES HELD UP Bix Hundred Roads Affected By Action Of Commission. vances on ucts, wet suspended State Commerce Commiss until June 29 While affects direct] rect in also direc March 2 vestigation the comm irgion lines operated the Southwestern territory, it tly concerns ap 600 roads f the Mis The amounted proximately Cant ( souri River advances tariffs on made in pes lle the to about 10 cent from M an average, Te A destinations A be 161 » Western and to Eastern vestigation posed points to ag ports thorough in into the pro will made crease EXPRESS HEARING ADJOURNS. Readjustment Of Methods and Rates Is In Sight. Washington When the Inter-State of express companies and methods was adjourned Friday March 256 a readjustment of not only | the methods and practices of the com sight. Just how the question will be mined { named by Commissioner Lane will | conclude thelr work and may be able to report. It is not unlikely that the | Inquiry will be ended shortly after it | Is resumed on March 25. Orchids For King: George. San Mateo, Cal--A shipment of 1.600 rare orchids, gathered in the Philippines and Central America, and valued at $10,000, has left a local i nursery for England, consigied to the collections of King George, the Duke of Westminster and the Duke of Suth eriand. Preliminary shipping tests were made by sending plants to Eng land and return in woollined boxes These proved entirely successful, the plants showing no ill effects of the double journey. cL TRUST After i | Expert Accountant, Examina Says It Is In Restraint Of Trade. Washington 1 # Trust Invest public the resul the books Mor £70 + Ean & these Ba Morgan's Promoting Fee. Af (uy Ean & © contro! steel prop ntrols about 8 ii dings report dealing with the (sar inners, in dependent as well a grporation stee| assemble conditions of trade (in oN ert policy prepared a New clared that the in the analysis rule” Ernest golden Anthony J in which it the legal York las is de ventions agreed to and en ced woul he objectionable $ ! as regards pon competi- tion NO VOTE, NO TAXES. Clergyman Makes Radical Argument For Woman Suffrage. Hl., March 1." 1 propertyowner | and die taxes without Evanston, were woman and a to the entiary uid pay gt heing given a right to vote,” G. Smith, Congregationalist pent there before l w said Rey minis a speech here on the Relation of the Church to Politic. “The property: as we were when our flag was born” | he continued the ballot she is a mere nothing.” The Mouse Congratulates China. Washington The House by unan | imous consent adopted | tive Sulzer’s resolution congratulating tion of the responsibilities of self-gov ernment. Little Bob Saved Train, 8t. Joseph, Mo.—A small, red.-head. ed, freckled-faced boy whose name is unknown, but whose first name fs Bob, saved train No. 17 on the Burling. ton from being wrecked pear Wheel ing, Mo. The boy discovered a brok- sn rail and then waited an hour in the bitter cold to flag the first train which came nlong. When one of the women rassengers tried to Kiss: him he took to his heels. Passengers took up a rollection to be sent to the hoy when his identity is established GOAL OPERATORS GET ULTIMATUM § i British Government to Compel a Settlement. STRIKE MUST NOT CONTINUE Declares It Of Work ng Prime Minister Shall Organization Of Asquith Become a Part the and the Coal Industry. cerning the iengihs prepared to settle 1} tO B( virtually tin an ul Emphasizing that point again, Mr. As quith said that the Government is de mined that the minimum Wage part par { the and working « 1 el ¢ f the all become and coal organization industry by whatever means the Government can command.’ DANGER IN STOVE POLISH, Exploding Kind. Boston : Hing containing in i ¥ 1 » road by explosions resul stove polish explosive ingredients are ble far ble { ages to ting therefrom, decision handed d¢ al the per sons n al by The cording to a Wn the S ruling by C. E lor for the Judic Court in iv against Joseph B ipreme suit brought Tay suffering of his wife before was made (ate gtove polish she was using exploded The lower court awarded Gately £3,000 verdict, and this was sustained Lived On Corn Fifteen Days. Johnson City, Tenn A negro who | had been without food and water for 156 days was found in a carioad of corn when the car was opened here. The | NERTO WAS unconscious, but SOON was revived. up in the car at Cincinnati February 112, having entered it to spend the | night. Swam With Broken Thigh. Louisville, Ky.~With his thigh frac tured in two places, William Nelson, a structural ironworker, swam 60 yards to shore in the Ohio River. Two fel low-workmen were pinioned by a heavy block on the uncompleted super gtructure of a railroad bridge 100 feet above the water, and Nelson crawled cut klong a “traveler” to release them. He was backing away aMer rescuing them when he lost his balance and fell into the river, striking projecting tim- | bers as he shot downward, Foreigners Are Brought Into Legation Quarters. NATIVES ARE KILLED IN RIOTS | Foreign Troops Barricade Entrances To the Legation Quarter With Bags Of Sand—Rifle Fall Into the Foreign Quarters. Bullets wounded Yuan Shi Kais known legation quarter unpai as dail 'e ar crowded gionaries are holding n compounds the outbrean occ + that 2,000 sold ince then the augmented by Jarge police, coolies and loafer: gations know no for the The Frearons dea 18 exp: experiences » gireets in which if Americans Most Exposed. n «i exposed purposes FORMING TOBACCO POOL. Want Growers To Pledge Product For Ten Years incGer the Sn EK obacco riy-8ix counties ir irther #y iu Rentucky to ten ve 0, Indiana a £1 bac Oo of the at about erage of annually ng pledge taken {the campaign ar agreement Officials Buriey Society estimate tt} 40.00 farmers producing an an about 300.000,000 pounds will have signed the poo when the final count LABOR JOINS IN PROTEST. Strikes Prophesied If Steel Tarif Reduced. Labor Senate Is Washington the joined | pro Fir Com- {ariff reductions on as contained in the John Williams, of f the Amalga Association df Iron and Steel Workers, declared that the reduc tions would precipitate a conflict be tween capital and labor. He was sup ported by Richard Sulloway, of Sten benville, O.; Walter Larkin, of Mar {tins Ferry, W. Va, and Jenking Jones, of Follansbee, W. Va, workers in tin { mills, who prophesied strikes in that { industry following tariff reduction and | consequent lowering of wages. i ! n test before ance mittee against the steel and tin plate Bill president « House Steel {| Pittsburgh, mated Minister Garrett Received. Buenos Ayres--John W. Garrett, the recently appointed American Minister to Argentina, was received by President Thursday. The Minister was accorded greeted by the President. _—_ A ath Predicts Big American Strike. Des Moines, la.--A strike of several hundred thousand Awerivan miners, including 20,000 ren employed in the lowa field, was predicted by Thomas Ray, president of an lowa mining com. pany, for April 1, when the present working agreements expire. “We ex pect the greatest sirike we ever had,” sald Mr. Ray. “Conditions seem $0 be ripe for a contest between the ™i'ners and operators.” COMMERCIAL Weekly Review of Trade and Market Reports. ws smi hang z= Ml] Bradetreet's says: “Many visiting buyers have heen in the leading markets this week, anc as & result house trade has shown furtoer slight expansion, with goods and millinery flguring advaniage On the other hand, “ ars to best road sales has weather conditions.’ R. G. Dun & Co "A volume of bus ERYS large ness is do ing, but Vious because it does nol break pre t pro Ie records and does ne Eressivels the is a disposition to and steadily increase describe trade con ditions whereas the good as could reasonably be in a paign tends to retard enterprise as CRE than gatigfactary, giluation i= fact, as expected egidentiai cam Out year when a Pi glde of this quadrennial influence there ¢ ’ 3 v g ' ig for loud compiailr no ground “The glee] trade 8 ndeed, less active, several large or though derg for steel cars locomo and br prices, f ‘ ine ages ances of the order been mac eq bint Desgpemer 141%: tur Western Per fy neyival ed CREeR receipts, fre firsts cCeipls, free cases, $5.00; {ree cases { heose Creams Butter ery ©} or C3 OF { 25@ creamer; £ he eRe per ib, 18 Eggs--Marviand, nearby firsts, 36c; Western West Virginia firsts, 30; Southern firgts, 29: guinea eggs, 14015 Re crated and rehandled eggs, higher prices Pennsyl] and firsts. Jue: VARNA w@lc Turkess~Chol 18@ 19. rough Chickens old roosters, 10 Nearby, 13@ 14; 106 13: Capone 21322: medium, 15617 Dressed Pouliry 20c; fair to good, poor, 11614 young, 15@16c and Da West large, 18Q20; 5: old Geese Southern, and emall and slips, aver, Live Stock Cattle— Market strong Beeves, $4706 850; $M E0GH65. Western stockers and feeders, heifers, $26 CHICAGO to 10c¢ higher Texas sleers, steers, $4.80@ 7; $3806 6.10; cows and 6.40; calves, $5.500 7.75. Hogs Market strong, mostly higher Light, S$5.90@6.30; mixed, $5.90@ 6.35; heavy, $6@6.27%.: rough, $66.10; pigs, $435@6; bulk of sales, $6.20 6.30 Sheep Market strong. Native, $330 4.75: Western, 33606480; year lings, $4.80@ 5.57; lambs, native, $4.30 @ 6.85; Western, $4.75 86.90, NEW YORK.-S8teers slow 10c to 10e cows dull to 25c lower; steers, $4.7658 7.50; bulls, $3.75@6. cows, $1.76@65; extra fat, $525@ 5.80; dressed beet slow at 8@ 11%. Calves—Marke. steady. Veals, $7@ 10.50; culls, $6@ 6.50; barnyard calves, $3.50@ 4: Westerns nominal; dressed calves firm: city dressed veals, 120 16; country dressed, 116131. Sheep and Lambs Market steady Yo firm; sheep, $3@ 4.50; culls, $2509 2.95; lambs, $5@6.75; culls, $465. Hoges-—Market steady at $645@6.70.
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