The Centre Reporter
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_ CENTRE HALL, PA.
RADIUM IN HUMAN BODY?
tivity of the organs of he human
body, Dr. Albert Caan of Heidelberg
has examined 41 organs from 13 dif-
ferent persons, and every one of them
contained some substance that made
the alr electrically conductive, as
shown by the Bercker emanometer.
It was concluded that this substance
must be radioactive, though possibly
not radium itself. The brain, and
also the lungs, proved very active; but
the heart and liver were less so, and
the kidneys and spleen showed only
slight activity. The radioactive sud-
stance seemed to Increase with age
and In Little effect was
Bhown from such conditions as social
position, occupation or manner of liv-
ing, and even locality of living was
unimportant. Radioactive substances
the effect of which on the vital ac-
tivity of the body cells remains to
be learned-—might come from food
and drink, or from the alr. The test-
ing emanometer includes a receptacle
for the ashes of aBout 100 grains of
the organ under test, and this is con-
nected by ele wires and a rubber
tube to a electrometer—with a
the
disease,
ctric
wire
microscope
circuit of a
for fine readings—In
sior
age battery
The new
sm at
be thrown open to wom en,
decided, the reason
broader ground
icy that
courses,
Pulltzer School
l f Journal-
university Is not to
it has been
given Is the
of the university pol
women to
n the narrow prin.
ine unfitness for the vo-
cation 'm question, says the Philadel.
phia Ledger. Some men have bril-
llantly succeeded therers; a
in cons persistency unit
ed to the quality of human sympathy
has enabled them to find th way
where a man might prove a mere im-
patient tresps Both in this coun-
there have
Columbia
but
does not admit
rather tha
ciple of femint
wo
As newsga
ts baw’
cer lentious
elr
i88er,
try and abroad
Inine editors
been fem-
who have neither sought
h
nor required Indulgence because they
were not the ed-
reportorial ca-
to the
ate suscep
ut women
as reporters and
men un the whole,
adapted
of deli
refinement.
ld ¥ +h
have suagceeded both
as edit
At meeting of the Lin
v af yo
ety of Prof,
ing,
nean soci
presid-
Herr Paul
ollows: “For hundreds
have nested on the
Vathedral., They
increased so much that many attempts
them,
few years
Martilag
’ th
Poulton
a letter was read from
of years
spire of
ext!
ring the
a sudden and
rpate
iast
th " f
He number of
agnhalting
AspDlalling
the cathedral. Between
ston sets of the
eons
pavement the
were ble to pick
rie
Pig
up food In
ronsequence of
dally watering
places in
the as
and
the imme
birds have
A Harvard professor says that ev-
ery man Is responsible for his own
face, as It reflects the qualities most
in control of the individual. Here Is
a scientific indorsement of the meth.
od, generally condemned as superfl.
cial, of taking every one on his face
value,
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The Paris police have ruled that
pugilists must hurt each other.
Judging by the French duel, this is
the only way boxing will ever be made
popular in France
not
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The Georgia observer who says he
faw a flock of robins that had been
made drunk ®™y eating berries failed to
mention whether they were yellow or
blue and pink
te¥s us that it
on less than
Millions of our oftizens
the cemetery and don't
A college professor
is Impossible
$1,100 year.
belong in
know it
to live
The hobble skirt is to glve way toa
wider garment, making the sales of
cloth heavier. Useful reforms have
a certainty of costing somebody some-
thing.
The Wright brothers have succeeded
gravity-proof ameroplane seems to be
the kind that is most wanted.
-
the ancient
charms.
Massachusetts proposes to license
ita cats, That's all righs, providing
the license prohibits musle after 10
o'clock.
Rochester, N. Y., bas a citizen who
is the proud possessor of two hearts.
And this Is leap year, tog}
FOLKE E. BRANDT
AGAIN IN TOMBS
May Have To Serve Out Twenty
Years’ Sentence.
GERARD DECISION REVERSED
York Supreme Court Reserves
the Habeas Corpus -
Declgion,
New York.—Folke E. Brandt,
merly valet to Mortimer L. Schiff,
was released from Dannemora Prison
corpus decision of Jus
in the Supreme Court, is
Tombs and may be re
io
for:
who
on & habeas
tice Gerard,
again in the
turned to prison
years to he
Justice
serve out the 30
was sentenced five
Roealsky in the
Segglons In
which
by
Ceneral
Appellate
reversed the
liberating
Years ago
Court of
oision the Division of
Supreme Court
of Justice Gerard
prisoner, cage caused
early
deci
whose nuch
this
Governor
Year when he
Dix for
terest
plied to
clemenoy
If the decis
which was
execu
fon of the Appellate Di
vision unanimous, {8 ap
to the
for Brandt
wv valet 3 Bagel will
n ball After the
ate Divi Judge
f General Sessions
Warr for Brandt's
pealed
assert it will
remain
counsel
action
O'8ulli
a beach ant
and he
without ball
issued
arrest
Tombs
The Court's View.
After re
Tris
Case
opl
rarden
dressing re
jewelry, and
He Pleaded Guliity.
Brandt
the case
interest
ught
Justice Gerard
corpus
WAS CHOKED TO DEATH.
Harry McCabe Did Not Die Of
Fright At Robbery.
Waynesboro, Pa teat
mony was given at the hearing of Her
bert Lewis and Sherman Jackson, the
young negroes arrested in Philadel
phia and brought here charged w
robbing lhe summer home of Mrs
Harry McCabe, of Baltimore, at Pen
Mar, near on April 20. Jackson
testified that Lewis had confessed to
aim that he had choked Mrs. McCabe
to death. Mrs. McCabe, who was an
invalid, was found dead in bed after
the robbery,
she died of fright
Mrs.
Startling
1 v
ners
Thanks From Salvador.
Washington The
minister, Don Federico Mejia,
ypon President Taft In the capacity of
government to thank the President
for the cordial visit to Balvador of
Secretary Knox.
an autographed letter from President
Araujo on the same subjdet,
"Big Battle In Mexico.
El Paso, Tex.—The Mexican Fed.
vance guard of General Orozco, and
sharp skirmishes are now in progress
preliminary to what is expected to be
the most decisive battle of the revolu-
tion. Nearly 15,000 men are engaged
on both sides, and the objective point
of the rebels las Torreon, the railroad
gatdbway of, Northern Mexico: The
Federals are protecting tho city from
all sided. o, .. ~~
REUNION OF GRAY AND BLUE
Commander-in-Chief Trimble Sends
Fervid Invitation To Confederate
Veterans To Participate In the
Semi-Centennial Celebration,
Ga At
United Conf
Macon,
1 4
iglter
cordial
the gray
l-annual cel
Battle
The £1
sem
mvention
epted
MRS. KNOX ROBBED.
Marine Aboard Cruiser Maryland le
Under Arrest.
A marine aboard
under arrest,
yn received
ing yhhed
Mra Ph la nile ns y wife of the
sonds valued
were
during the
and party in
Secretary «
at more than gems
the
America
of the diamonds were re
covered from a pawnshop. They will
be sent to Mare Island to be used as
evidence the marine is brought
tour of Secretary
Central
Several
when
to trial
Capt. J. M. Ellic commanding
the cruiser Marviand, ref to dis
cuss the alleged robbery WwW. L
Coombe, secretary to Mr. Knox,
when asked to confirm the theft of
Mrs. Knox's jewels, that their value
had been exaggerated
»
OLD CLERKS SPARED.
ott.
used
Ineligible.
Washington. ~The House, in
Leglalative, Executive
clerks over 65
old ineligible for reappointment
abandonment of this feature of the
bill was agreed to without debate.
MORE CAREFUL NOW,
Every Lifeboat Was Tested Before
the Oceanic Sailed.
Southampton, England. The White
Star liner Oceanic sailed for Cher
bourg and New York at half past
twelve, Every lifeboat was lowered
into the water and tested before the
veagel's departure, Madame Navratil
the mother of the two French walfa
from the Titanic, now being looked
after in New York, is to join the liner
at Cherbourg. — isto
16 PERGONG KILLED
bY EARTHQUAKE
Half Destroyed.
Boulde in First
For Cen
Lava and
ruption
tury.
OMAMA'S NEW GOVERNMENT
Newspaper Man Heads Department Of
Public Safety
been much
John J. Ryder,
man
Oma
an
EMINENT MINISTER DIES
Was Pastor Of Quincy's
Stone Church.
Quing Mase ~~Rev, E
ing Butler, for many
First
Stone Church of
Mr
Cooperstown,
llery Chan
his
died
Was a
the Unitarian Church, the
this
Butler
N.Y
toric
at his home
native of
time he was pastor of the Ui
Church at Fairhaven, and later
Beverly, preaching for 22
church where President
ring the past
city,
here
went
two
mers
Child Killed By Cough Drop.
New York.—After a cough drop
become lodged in the throat of his
two-year-old nephew, Marco Sibilio
took the child in his arms and started
in search of a physician. When he
ronched Sydenham Hospital 15
pronounced
had
the child dead.
GIRL, AGED 12, A SUICIDE.
Grief Over Having No Mother the
Cause Assigned.
Louisville, Ky-Aline House, 12
years old, committed suicide by shoot
ing herself with a revolver at a house
a few miles from this city, where she
had been making her home Grief
because she had no mother like the
other children is supposed to be the
cause. Her mother died when she
was 2 years old, and her father mar
ried again.
| Englishman and His Wife Objected
To the Men Going To the Rescue
Of Victims In the Water Cry-
ing For Ald.
London. — Evidence doors
four
been opened after havipg b
from the bridge
British
the loss of
Titanic. This
Thomas
order that
the
that the
watertight bulkheads had
loged
at
een
introduced
wae
wreck ission’s
comm
into the
was done, ac
Dillion of the
the engl
pumps
watertight
from
steainer
to
crew
sald
compartments
the bridge the
men to go
might reach
that the
had
chief engineer
through
to reach
To
obliged to
after
been closed
ordered
four boller.
the
CArry
pumps in
No. § this
men
out
ler-room
the
doors
boi
were open
ght bul
left
the of four water-t}
and having done sc
open
conduct
heads, they
the doors
The
of J
managing director of th
fle Marine, afte
tie sd for
ioneq 101
TAFT TO BE THERE
Drafting Of the U. 8. Constitu
Be Celebrated
©
fh
ou 05 Ly £ 4%
aral e {
onst
‘nited States
he ann
CTEAT
at Indeper
dence Hall
f ithe 1°
Court, will
lace
ns
ustice White, o
States Supreme
MOSLEMS PLAN HOLY WAR.
After Tribe
Country Being Fired.
Tribe in Mohammedan
Paris.—The call for all Moslems to
a holy war, which was
Turko
the econ
Tunie
nd mov
tribe In
the start of the
is according to
the
Italian War
respondent of Temps in
all Islam
tribe to
country
steadily from
Mohammedan
ing
TURKS CLAIM VICTORY.
feated At Rhodes,
London The Governor
Turkish Island of Rhodes
Italian troops landed a few
telegraphs:
and have captured 1.000 Italians.” ac
cording to a special news dispateh
dated May 8, from Pera, Turkey.
NEW TRIBUNAL IN DISFAVOR.
of the
where
dave ago
Abolish the Commerce Court.
Washington,
to 49° to abolish the United States
Court of Commerce, many Republi
cans voting with the Democrats
Cases now pending before the court
under the abolition provision contain
ed In the Legislative, Executive
Judiciary Appropriation Bill could be
transferred to the various district
courts having competent jurisdiction,
Notes That Are of Interest to
Pennsylvanians.
East Mauch Chunk —The B
of East Mauch (
sewer the town, at
Bouth Bethlehem
is in Bt. Luke's Hospital with
fractured skull
dale when he fell
hunk has ded
a cost of $3
Qfgpnb ¥
slephen
received
fifty fee
Hereford. —B8ur
for the roadbed for the proposed Stale
oad and Potts.
town
tart 3
eff wor
eyors sitar
between { 4 ace
East Mauch Chunk.—Tt Avie Cl
Las offered twenty-fis
defraying the expenses of
clean-up week
ub
ard
general
owas
Allentown —Henry
glove Was
an explosion of
ring SOME CODD
dering some copper
store
Allentown
ed here
Yersligatio!
bed
i : a
his pocketbook
cused Ira Schaffer, a motorma
aving taken it. Schaffer proved his
nnocerce to a policeman, and now
Simon bas a lawsuit on his hands for
ise accusation
Béthlehem — Miss Floren
Reading, a sevent
who arrix od at the h
Harrison Keck, at Hecktown, to spend
several weeks, was taken suddenly il
the day of her arrival, and by night.
fall died of congestion of the lungs
Reading — William B. Rauvensahn,
eighty-one years old, died here of hic
esoughs. He had been sick five weeks
He had been subject to hiccoughs for
the last nine years, but the last spell
lasted longer than any previous at
tack
Reading —8amuel Gauger, fifty-one
years old, a barber, while dozing in
one of his chairs, was attacked and
beaten so badly that he is In a se
rious condition at the Homeopathic
hospital. Samuel Burket, twenty.two
years old, his alleged assailant. is in
Jail in default of ball awaiting the
ce Keek, o
een -yoar girl,
of her uncle,
old
ome
St. Lawrence-—Thieves entered the
Union, and
blew open his safe. They were greatly
their work, as
Adams had nothing in the safe but
Wernersville Appraisers fixed the
damage for the loss incurred through
the death of eleven head of cattle of
Samuel Schaeffer and four head of
cattle of Garson Bickel, which were
killed on orders from the State Live
Stock Department. Each will receive
forly dollars a cow.