CENTRE HALL. - - QUEER SCHOOLS. There is in St. Petersburg an In Btitution where young men are train ed for service as police. The course of instruction provided is supplemen tal to the examination given by muni cipal authoidties, says the New York Herald, given by pupils kinds employed thieves. Special study is to the by tools of various professional There is devoted the study reference tures and important formance policeman. conduct the summer m of the Tir aux Ie paint poin nation wiseat met} will have pl beggars are were a few v an to keep an these the bu on bu abundance They 1 they find 1 food and dr One not likely the bill for calendar which be introfuced Into par lament, says the London Globe. The act enforcing the Gregorian calendar was passed 161 years ago, but it is still ignored In Shetland. Almost all through the group of islands the old style of reckoning is still fol- lowed. What we call January 13 is New Year's day among the Shetland- ers and celebrated by them with all manner of old observances, Including the solemn drinking of the national toast—"Health to man and death to the gray fish.” portion Isles is interest in reforming the is to time ——————— King Alfonso of Spain stopped a runaway horse and saved the life of one of his generals. Send Alfomso a here medal at omce. Let us encourage the kings whenever there Is a chance to do so. They get so little praise and sympathy that it often seems re- markable that they have the courage $0 do anything worth while. ———————————————————— {ng can be too good for them. A New York man has Invented a machine whereby one may find out when one is In love. Now let some body invent a machine that will en- able one to dectds when one ia hun- gry. J i | i In Making Appropriations He Proposes Reforms, CONDEANS PRESENT METHOD Kentucky Serves He Will Of Representative On House That dvocate Change Present System, omen they th mat women here im I B wens proper Cor declared the Y'alive Voliva not to be dismissed to do Care Second Recall Wichita, Kan Petition call of Mayor W. WwW circulation here It is charged that the mayor retains a chief of police whose integrity is questioned. Mayor Min. nick was slected to office a year ago, when Mayor Graham was recalled af ter being In office aix months. It re quires 3.400 names to call an election About 200 have been in a day and a half of work obtained ts W. RODGERS HOT IN JUNGLE Elephant Poacher Had Estab- lished Empire. BRITISH TROOPERS GET HIM, Career O lanese » and mules sup His instru return un With tape, Captain Fox in his mantion dates man bunt. Probe of the jungle months ag The purs plunging through the most defiled passage ningly six Bou tO plain-not AW was captured disregard report describing the denouement to came three gpont weeks jungle that Rogers cun the al leading them through ste and acr Before had deep streams the outlaw he crossed the Like Father, Like Son. i Washington. Henry Rogers, an 18. yearold son of a once prominent Washington family, who had been an orphan since he was six years old, killed himself by inhaling {iluminat. Ing gas. A few years ago his father, & well to do lawyer, shot the boy's mother while she was asleep and then Municipal Opera Mouse. Bsn Francisco. The first municipal | opera house in the United States is to form part of San Francisco's new civic center, for which 88000.000 worth of bonds were voted for last spring. The building, on which work will begin In a year, ig to cont $650. 000. The Musical Association, a body of publicspirited eftizens, will erect the opera house on municipal land, and it will become the property of the city. All receipts are to be applied exclusively to maintenance and pro- | duction. i Would Probe Hemp Trust. Vashington Investigation of so-called American Hemp Trust ite alloged connection with the In. ternational Harvester Company, and the extent of the depression of hemp prices obtainable by Philippine farm era, is to be pressed at the next ses. of Congress, the and GATES NEW YORK ESTATE. The Tax Appraisers’ Report Shows But $62,980, : New York--John W. Gates, who | died on August & 1511, left an estate of only $62.88 in New York State, This was made known when the state tax appraiser's report was filled. Mr. Gauten’ estate in Texas is worth sev. eral millions. Mr, Gates’ will van | filed In Jefferson county, Texas. It | named Dellora R. Gates, widow, and | Charles (3. Gates, son, as executors and beneficiaries, SHOT AMERICAN IN NIGARAGUA Two Killed in the Massacre by Rebels in Leon. FEW ESCAPED SLAUGHTER. BRAMWELL BOOTH TO TAFT. Thanks the President For Message Of icience CANAL ACROSS GEORGIA. Plan Under Consideration By Atlanta Financial Interests. Atlanta, Ga.--local interests will yn submit a proposition to the Unit. States government utilize the BOK ed to struction of a canal across Southern Georgia. The proposed canal, it is stated, would shorten the water route between ports on the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic seaboard by two days. It also would drain approxi mately 1,000,000 acres of land in the Okefenokee Swamp, making it avail able for farming purposes, Pre liminary plans propose the construc St. Marys River, to the Says, After Six Terms, He Would Not Accept If Nominated, Washington Representative John W. Dwight, of New York, announced for Congress and that If nominated he would not accept the nomination. He said his reason for retiring from Con greas was personal. Mr. Dwight has been Republican whip of the House for several years. He bas served in pix Congresses, LONG LIFE ENDED Grand Old Commander of the Salvation Army. A WORLDWIDE EVANGELIST, Half a His L Of He Had Great Ex- ig the Organization. Century Devoted fe 7T Work 0 the Developing and CHRISTIAN ARMY, don, wher his bed i } Present at the bedside when Mr. and and the daugh Booth the the end Mre. Bramwell son, Ad Sergeant Came ware B futant ( Bernard oth ter and at} ine Booth; daughter C and Ci Kitchin er and gerieral's mmisgioner young. Mrs yynmissioner and oat Booth Howard, Colonel Milne Helberd Dr Wardlaw STORMS CAUSE HEAVY DAMAGE, PANAMA BILL Takes Stand That Measure Does Not Violate Treaty. OUR SOVEREIGN RIGHTS, mere nations u z t with American n right and power unimpaired The British Protest. tT protest i: Pt therefore #8 a treaty a sur of its n commerce in to tha the United ight to regulate its ow its own way and by its own method, a right which neither Great Britain her poll any other nation that may use thet canal has surrendered or pro- States nor Man Drowned and Large Reservoir Threatened. Pa William Pepoe, Pa, was drowned and damage estimated at several hundred thousand dollars was done in Wash. ington county by a series of storms the small streams and threatened a large reservoir near | Tracks of the Baltimore and | Washington, badly washed, telegraph and tele phone wires were blown down and the electric light plant here is under LIPTON WILL TRY AGAIN. He Is Coming Over Next Month Te Arrange Yacht Race. London. —8ir Thomas Lipton will make another atlempt to lift the American Cup. To arrange for the contest he will visit the United States some time this fall, and will leave London about the end of September if sunocessful in making the arrange ments he will commence the building of another challenger at once. T President presented which he signed the R. Wheeler, the pen Canal Bil of San Fran. he with a—— rings - FATHER KILLS HIMSELF, Was a Girl. Chicago.-~Disappointed because his wife had given birth to a daughter, into his head, dying instantly. He had sald he wanted a boy. DEMANDED $419,000,000. Owed Him That Sum. Laorosse, Wis. -—An examination as to his sanity, it was sald, would be ordered in the case of Joseph Cohn, of Pueblo, Col, who created a scene at the Standard Ofl office here by de. manding $419,000,000, which he sald John D. Rockefeller owed him. Cohn told the police he had documentary proof, but falled to produce it. He is detained at the police station pending further inquiry.
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