The Centre Reporter
CENTRE HALL.
THE CAT'S USEFUL WHISKERS,
We are apt to think that the cat's
ability to see in the dark is due en-
tirely to its eyes, but competent au-
thority assures us that the feline's
much to its “whiskers.” These dell
cate hairs that project from the muz
of the cat family are wonderful
mechanisms, Harper's Weekly.
Each grows from a follicle or
gland, nerved to the utmost sensibill-
ty. Its slightest contact with any ob
stacle ig instantly felt by the animal,
though the hair itself may be tough
and insensible. The exaggerated
whiskers on the muzzle often project
to such a distance that from point to
point they indicate the exact width of
the body of the beast. Consider the
through the at
of prey, the
least stir of a twig gives alarm. The
indicate through the
any object that may b¢
A touch stops him short
close
zle
gAYS
one
Hon jungle
stealing
night in search when
lion's whiskers
nicest nerves,
in his
before pushing through se
thicket where the rustling leaves and
presence
may be thrust
the vibrissae
pass
path
me
would his
his head
from
boughs betray
Wherever
without a
there his
It is the
warning
body 38:1 lessly.
mi
ald given whiskers
in cushions
soft
hin
conjunction
reface
the qu
Scott
may expect
er
in
The Two Gen.
EAging
The Lady of the
Antiquary.” The
mdent of the
future prob
among the
chosen from
to subs
will receive
The advice atitute beans for
gedback through
the explosion of some boiling beans in
The beans tore the
and tlew the owner of
¢itchen door. With
the militant spirit aoad as it is, the
adoption of beans as the principal ar
ticle of diet had best be postponed
meat a
a Colorado town
stove tO pieces
the house out the
A Chicago girl while playing the
piano was struck by lightning, al
though not seriously hurt But
whether the casualty is to be viewed
accident or retribution is a ques
the neighbors are discussing
that is, of course, if the din was the
average performer and the neighbors
average neighbors
as
tion
A Texas girl announces her will
ingness to marry any man who will
consent have tha ceremony per
formed in a cage of lions. And all we
have to #ay is that the man who
takes the offer will deserve anything
that happens to him during the cere
mony and afterward.
It is now announced that a disgrun
tiled employe destroyed Mona Lisa's
inscrutable smiles with sulphuric acid
Which settles the inscrutability of the
gmile for all time, as the pleasantry of
no mystery can survive a sulphuric
acid bath
to
-— —
The automobile, mys a St. Paul
preacher, has done more for sin than
any other one thing. ILet us not be
discouraged. Somebody is almost
sure to discover a method of kteping
tires from being punctured.
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WAR SITUATION
NORE SERIOUS
' Continued Fighting Along Turk-
ish Frontier.
THE PRISONERS MASSACRED.
Montenegrins Capture Forts
Give Them Control Of the Road
To
Soutari — Skirmishes
On Frontier.
With
rontiers s
London fighting on
Turkish f
and Montenegro
tories, which wi have
greatly ng
States, the war situati
than at
the
teadily
winning de
NCourag the
OlUs
beginning
neg!
the 1
ell
ceived
Bulga:
these
proclamat
matic cir
i er Ie
i
Ig that Servia ana
(1
AT Wi
£ ei
uncon
NPOrary
forcement
ording
el
an
for the
News
The
nn
Americ
shers’ Aarociation
recently
Jou
said
sancti
association
decided { a
Com
filling its
and
i anda
Mr. Morris
has the
the nal of
4
in
petition
operation of the
Co
RAILROAD INDICTED.
interstate Commerce Law
Charged Against Frisco.
Mo The
Francisco Rallway Company
11 counts for alleged vio
Interstate Commerce law
the Federal Grand Jury.
against the railroad set
made an overcharge in
tariff on boxed burial caskets de
red to it from connecting lines,
oi
Louis, St Louis and
Ean
indicted on
lation of the
of 1887. by
The charges
forth that it
the
Hive
KILLS POLICEMAN.
Qirt
Shot Him.
Pa
Allentown, Policeman
! hotel at Lansford at 4 o'clock A. M.,
guarding the premises against
burglars when occupants of the hotel
neard him moving about and mistook
him for a burglar. Mr. Thomas'
pdopted daughter, Florence, aged 17,
fired through the door with a re
volver, killing Morgans instantly,
al
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IS, MARINE
WARROW ESCAPE
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CEREAL CROPS
ARE BOUNTIFUL
Had Been Mined.
Shows Bumper Crops.
NOBLE PRIZE TO DR. A. CARREL,
Achieve
Of
ments In Medicine,
Award In Recognition
The
i
med ie Nis
to Di A
Institute, of Now
Year
lexis Carrel, «
York
is made
award, it
fon of
of
transplantation
ted
The
ig announced in recoEnit
his
blood
of organs The Nob ri in
$36.000
achievements in the sulure
vessels and
val
at
EPIDEMIC OF DIPHTHERIA,
Disregard Of Health Laws Responsi
ble For its Prevalence,
Shamokin, Pa
come #80 alarming in the town of Kulp
mont, near here, where a serious diph
theria epidemic prevails, that the
State Board of Health has taken
charge of the situation. Fifty
of the disease have been reported
| the last few days
Conditions have be
WOMAN COMPTROLLER,
Atlantic City Commissicners Elect
Migs Bessie Townsend.
Atlantic City, N. J~The
ment of Mise Bessie M
Appoint
{ eity commission here. She har been
| bookkeeper in the city comptroller's
| office for several years and will
| first woman, so far as known, to held
| the position of comptroller in any city
{in this country.
00 bushels;
bushe!
RK O60
O00
th Dakota 96.1
Were the pring pa Oat
each of thes: States
acre this vear was alm
year's yield
It loo
rt any
we won t
RE AE 13
po
retary
record
that the
000 bushels more
than last, when, Bb;
crop, large quant
from Europe
potatoes this said Sex
ymmenting
Indications
Near,
Wilson ir on
the
are
108.660,
potato crop
farmers will have
potatoes this vear
reason of the short
ties imported
were
ALARMED BY VOLCANO.
People in Ecuador Flee From
Towns.
Guayaquil, Ecuador Inhabitants of
in the vicinity of the Volcano
Sangay were fleecing for safety Fri
day. The peak showed increasing
DAUGHTER GOT EVIDENCE.
indicted.
After Ed
of Breathitt
from ambush
Mrs
Jackson, Ky
former sheriff
Ky., was slain
his daughter,
county,
a few
Clif
days and nights in
the lonely mountain trails, seeking
evidence, which, presented to a grand
members of the Deaton faction,
Evidence Is Produced When Hearings
Are In the Disso-
Suit At
Chicago.
Resumed
lution
(Chicago Evidence in of
the government's charges
for the dissolution of the
Harvester Company that
corporation concealed
support
in its sult
internation
the defen
ile owner
al
re
NAB
inner ay
hearing
Exam
tat
Hates
when the
Special
{'nited
Paul
of illu
given
sumed before
the fiistrict
St
A
ments degeribing D
of
number
»
Auburn
1 manu
impiements :
an agricul
eral mont} i
4
5 }
al
concern had sort
ernational
iroqguoced
GIVES LIFEBOAT
Japanese Line Attaches Coupon
Ticket:
To acl i
{ a coupon repre
gent
at. wit)
in a lifeb«
Jiiest
1 purchaser
himself
the
boat to which he ig allotted
1. ¥
with
lifeboats are
provided to a
all the passengers
ALBANIAN TOWNS ABLAZE,
:
:
i
By Montenegrins,
Vienna~~Many Albanian llages to
the north of the Bog in
flames, according to a digpateh to the
Neue [
Many fugitives, inciudin wound.
ed men, have arrived at uiari. Some
peasants, who fled to the frontier posts
at Szamesl, were by Monte
negring.
ana River are
Freie Press from Cattaro
BOM
£
Se
slain
TWO FARMERS MURDERED.
Brothers.
North Vernon, Ind.Charles and
John McQuaid, brothers and wealthy
farmers, were murdered by two
thieves In their home near here. A
orippled sister, who made her home
with her brothers, was obliged to sit
kolpless while she saw her brothers
killed, one shot to death and one stab.
It is believed the murderers
#wcured considerable money
CROPS SUFFER IN
GREAT BRITAIN
Will Be Necessary to Import
From This Couniry.
STORMS CAUSED DAMAGE,
Have Caused
Crops
in a
Foreign Countries
cording To Reports
hi ne
IN TWO: L
VES 2 H{
ans At Loss To Explain How
onBCiousness Retainec
as
sever
moth
ed
elane
conscio
talked in
be re
w
ness, during
response 10 ques
tained for so long a me
LOWER EXPRESS RATES LIKELY,
Will Not Heed
panies’ Protests, It 1a Believed.
Commission Com
Belief is strong
Commission
new
Washington that
the Inter-State Commerce
will put into effect the
of express rates which
companies are now vigorousiy
ing. The reductions, or the
present business, will save the ship
pers of the country between $25 060,
000 and $33,000,000 annually
schedule
express
fight
the
based
MASONS CHOOSE SWITZERLAND.
International Conference To
There In May, 1917.
Washington. ~The second interna
conference of Scottish Rite
which has been in session
here several days, adjourned Saturday
after a short business session. At the
final meeting it was decided that the
third International conference will be
held at Lusanne, Switzerland, in May,
1817, The supreme councils of Sarvia
and Ecuador were formally recognized
at this conference.
Meet