um —————" The Centre Reporter CENTRE HALL, - - THE SAVING HABIT, Ome of the most difficult and at the same time most essential of habits to form is that of saving. Of course, there are many persons in all walks. of life who, although they are in com- tortable circumstances, are so penuri- ous as to be absolutely opposed to; i § i i i | very llves are controlled by the idea of getting along with as little as pos- sible even at the risk of earning for themselves a reputation for stingi- ness. Such persons, however, make up a class all to themselves, and gen- erally deserve the contempt in which they are held by their fellow-beings On the other hand, the spendthrift de serves as much, if not more, condem- nation, perhaps, for the facility with which he allows his often hard-earned money to slip through his hands. There is a golden mean vetween these two extremes of character and it is found in the ability of a man to save from his earnings sufficient for the proverbial rainy day. The advantages of saving may be demonstrated to us in many ways and on many occasions, but it remains for necessity to im- press its importance upon our minds. It may be that the manner of living may account in large measure for the universal habit of spending all that the opportunities for doing 80 are very great and at the same time seem very real and imperative, and it is only after the pocket is emp- ty and face necessity that we are able to between opportunity we make we stern discriminate and temptation fast one of the great orange-growing countries of world Much fruit of excellent quality is being shipped every year to london and other markets in north- ern Europe, And this year the crop of the district near Jaffa, the port ‘of Jerusalem, is estimated at 1,600,000 boxes. Farther up the Syrian coast Tyre and Sidon are expected to reach a total of 400,000 cases of oranges ex- ported and 200,000 cases of lemons. For a small country Palestine has many interesting and valuable prod its olive groves are as produc- tive as they are ancient, and its vine yards yield grapes of fine quality im great abundance. Notwithstanding the drawback of a sometimes very defici- Palestine is becoming the ucts ent and usually scanty water supply. Syria produces a large quantity of ex cellent food. But it is not easy to think of Palestine’s exports of oranges without thinking of the immeasurably more important exports and Ideas and ideals from that little country. By comparison with the moral and spiritual forces which have gone out from Syria to enrich the world, all the the soil which can De shipped from the ports as long as the earth shall endure will little products of be of significance There has been a great deal of gos #ip to the effect that the little Don younger son of King Alfonso of Spain, is physically and mentally defe A recent dispatch from announces that nine phys held a consultation is case and pronounce him per normal, though he is afflicted ith an the ears which his birth. When is any shadow of basis for sen- sational statements concerning mem- wre of royalty, correspondents who brive on gossip are sure to make the Jgime tive Madrid icians recently on h fectly affection of lias persisted since ere North Pacific whalers are not unan- imous in accepting the theory that wale fisheries are playing out on ac count of the extinction of the whales. One captain who notes that his ship nd another made a kill of 187 last year and only 64 this year, thinks the recent voleanic disturbances have changes in ocean currents that Lave diverted the small fish on which the whales depend for food. He thinks hat in time the whales will be back in their old-time haunts, or discovered in their new ones made gays there are practically no flies in Bohemia. He attributes the phenome- non to the fact that “everything is made of brick, stone or concrete, and the streets are cleaned several times a day” The reason why the fly is feared is that his habits are so dirty. Yet where he is numerous, his num: bers indicate the presence of dirt. Un. doubtedly the best way to get rid of filles is not to clean up A Scranton pedagogue says terest the child, therefore he urges ing on one foot might also interest the pupil and be about as useful, but it is net advocated. A groom of twenty-nine who eloped with a bride of eighty may not have picked a budding beauty; but he has the consolation of knowing he hasn't annexed himself to a mother-in-law. ING NAVY SHELLS ABROAD Uncle Sam May Stop Ex- orbitant Bids. SMALL ORDER TO BRITAIN. English Company Awarded Small Con- tract Shells As a Test—Domestic Concerns Receive Remain der Of Big Order. learn can shells of than Washington, — Determined to whether foreign sell the United equal quality the lowest price Americans will offer, the Navy tract to Company total of tiles contracted cialis believe uct avowed manufacturers navy one-third States for (eBS Department awarded a con the Hadfield Steel Foundry of Sheffield for 500 out of a 5,500 armor-piercing Department projec- offi- if the English prod- | the test, ‘the i government | for that measures up to intention of the to buy abroad when necessary (0 meet exorbitant bids will lowering of prices Hadfield given t for 500 12-inch projectiles | Bethlehem Steel i at $279.40 | $500 each; to result in a sub American was stantial T} ine | company | the contrac Company went 1,500 12 each and 14-inch at the Washington Steel Company, 500 12-inch at $277 each 1,600 14-inch at $4%0 each, and to Crucible Steel Company 1,000 12-inch at 3274.75 $500 each to 86 G00 i Ordnance | and ana the 1B €Ompa) ch projectil . al | 1 $100 less Did aimost American com ' nly concern that lowest e¢ con-| # ¥ 1 14 * seneral yy ACK EE) inion advising eight y OF Oo} that the hour law apply in the shell con y American and foreign only point in the new w General point in WOrs : Acting had con the armor plercers rican companies SECRET LABOR COUNCIL. American Federation ls Worried Over Present Conditions. Hiates American a secret murder industrial struggle GAVE 800 TYPHOID Mississippi River Steamer Cause Of Unusual Outbreak In South, An ny outbreak along has been found gervice to have been passengers Liga were supplied to gieamer PREEEDEETR July Inve Hon tors found that 500 made {1} on the steamer in TAFT TO VISIT PANAMA, He Contemplates Trip To Canal After Election Next Month, Beverly, Mass President Taft is contemplating a trip to Panama to in- probable that he will board a bat Taft leave the weeks spect the canal It is ection Mrs fwo after the el tleship with and country for CHICAGO EDITOR KILLED. C. W. Prior In Fatal Auto Four Others Hurt. Accident. Chicago. —-C. W. Prior, editor of a trade publication, was Instantly killed | and four others were seriously injured when Mr. Prior's automobile was wrecked near Hinsdale, a suburb. Oc cupants of the machine were pinioned beneath it when it left the road on a | gteep hill and turned over. U. 8, CONSUL A SUICIDE. William Whitney Kitchen Shoots Him. | self At Teneriffe Home, Teneriffe. Williamg Whitney Kitch: | en, United States Consul here, com. | mitted suicide by shooting himself | with a revolver. He was a sufferer from chronic heart disease, 35,000 TO CIVIL SERVICE. Class Postmasters. New York. ~~ President Taft, on board the yacht Mayflower, signed an executive order putting 35,000 fourth. class postmasters in the clussified service, The executive of this order will put every fourth-class postmaster in the United States under the elvil pirvice, 26,000 having previously been put in the classified list by the Pres) dent, 4 i wr z . Lissette heb a ) i al Copyright) ECLARES WAR DIAZ MAKES IT ON THE BALKANS HOT FOR MADER Mexico's President Says He Will Stick. and Follow Suit. LOYALTY OF ARMY DOUBTED. Sea Fleet Ready For An | New Uprisings in Various Emergency Order—Thousands the Country—A Provisional Of Men Already Slain Cabinet Chosen For in Battle. Diaz. Like Sultan those been the Turks Diaz in rated his { Thousands been slain float expires (sroek ain from thi Lires i vb Provisional President Poubis a to the specifi the Dinas wWers > " x % Annoy Wafers Sparta furkish IENCY DEIOTY 2 bombardment lack Sea was proclaimed p the Serbs i heaviest fighting between Bulgarians Dijambala A st Albanian Servians at Pr as done in the 1 rohi po the Sul ar stationed tan’s troops ac p io far advanced ave ijepolie, upporters losses of 250 kille and 6 fo have pulsed with already sel 106 wounded The British Azueta additional battleships held in readi | the ily governme duty Sea fleet appears to be nt officer at Vera Cruz holding oul against In Yucatan parities south Diaz revolutionary the of the work: ness for Nort? IW0 new preparing for an call for the past two days began operations, one in other in the state It is assumed | ing under Diaz Felix Diaz, in a proclamation, copies of which have reached the capital, bit Madero and his President is otherwise emergency and the west they are DYNAMITES TWO HOUSES. Pittsburgh Carpenter Runs Amuck As Result Of Feud. terly assails President family The being a murderous iyrant, on all the him in overthrowing accused of whom Diaz army, to Messing, a Pittsburgh, Pa. Peter carpenter, dynamited the of William Jackson and William ger at Pleasant Valley, near here; and seriously Mjured persons and attempted suicide. The arrival of county detectives saved Messing from rough treatment at the hands of a Mrs. Moliy Scott, Mrs. Sarah Jackson and James Martin, the wound ed, aken to the hospital with Messing, who was said to be seriously hurt, . residences Big cut calls aesist 08 PC ially ingane Girl Seeks Taft. Washington A Polish girl from New York city appeared at the White House seeking President Taft's aid in preventing New York newspapers from “tormenting her.” She said she wag Stefanie Linjieria, of 21% West One Hundred and Twenty-first street, and that she had been in the country only a year. She was the Washington Asylum mental observation three were sent to PAID $5,000 RANSOM. Hospital Killed At Detroit. Winchester, Va. Mrs nolds, of Edgemont, near Berryville, received a telegram stating that her can Rebels. El Pago, Tex Arthur McCormick payment of $5,000 ransom. He Is on and Cattle Company ranch, which he Detroit. Mich, in a railroad accident. manages, below Hachita, N. M. Much | ff¢ was married several months ago. fear is felt for the safety of Jolin T.| He was on the battleship Maine when Cameron, held for ransom by rebels (hat vessel was blown up in Havana south of Juarez, | harbor, i sisnimbsinacll A Note To United States. Washington Formal notice of the Balkan war came to the United States Friday in a note presented to the State Department by the Greek gov ernment requesting this country to ANDREW JACKSON'S CANE. | Portland (Ore) Man Presents It To! Governor Wilson. New York.--A cane which had be. longed to Andrew Jackson was for. warded to Governor Wilson by Chair man McCombs, of the Democratic Na- | flict. The State Department also was tional Committee, with a letter from | reminded that Greece's declaration of George W. Oliver, of Portland, Ore, | war against Turkey was in accordance the donor, requesting that the Gover i with the terme of The Hague Conven- nor use it until after the election, then | tion of 1507, and that full protection place it in the National Museum at] will be accorded noncombatants in Washington, Greece, —-— om— i | Fleet, Manned By 28000 Seamen, { i Thunders a Salute—Executive Armorclads i For Two a Year. | New York.-—President Taft stood on the bridge of the Mayflower Monday lafternoon with Becretary of the Navy {Meyer beside him and inspected a [fleet of war vessels upon like no other President of United Btates had ever gazed For 15 up passed before the clades which has {gince Saturday. was whose the miles the Hudson rive: armada of iron meen mobilized here Most of the journey double f and battieships, Thirty-first distance he made hetween a jerulsers line o all the within of Yonkers, the can Presidential salute walter the Pre bridgs returned 10 ner ght to be anda from sireel to ‘hailing Vay ’ nonade of a swept! over the Well’ left the ident sald, ag he Mavfiower Anchorage proud of that after the had evervhody « fleet of Great Br 1+ 2 halt aly and “nt other na t gat will watched the 16 fighting shipe unroll ~ a 3 . v Hecretary Meyer OLE esident and panorama of Calls by by commander and his aug, the Bion aids, Rear-Admiral Osterh fleet and the div the division com calls by Nee NE ped commander and managers anda ine the a“ $ fle-¢ ength ITALY GAINER BY PEACE TREATY The terms Are To Which Acquires Vast African Colony Satisfactory the italian Government, ceded only ci 34 4 ova i £53 44% Htimatum he neg B10 PEACE realy proves 3 4 Pu compietely i ARSE system « Ya a based on Italian sovereignt: T vernment is {o grant the populations of the Acgoan { ar against Sea, who re furkis? NEW COMMERCE RECORDS. Unrest Does Not Im- ports and Exports. Political AMect Vash ngton Despite the existence éx the nine that month estab tical unrest, the of the United mporis and States for month of September and for the months ended with lished ling to ACCOTGIDE Foreign imports for $144,862 343, being In new records a re Burean of and The Aggregated record port by the Domestic Commerce last month the previous September of last when they totaled $125.171.644, In the nine monthe ended with last month the im ports reached the sum of $1.333,125.- 577, as against the previous record for the corresponding months of 1810 of $1.172,362.408, Scarcely less gratifying exports for September, the total that month being $196.943.811, against $193,632,232 for September of last vear. For the nine months ended with September the goods shipped abroad were valued at $1,588 721,077, upwards of one hundred million dollars more than left American ports during the same period of last year, which had established a new record figure Year, were the EXPLOSION KILLS TWO, | Two Others Injured, One Probably Fatally, When Boiler Blows Up. Cumberland, Md.—Two were killed land two injured, one probably fatally, {when the boiler at the sawmill of D | W. Eagle, along the New Creek road {two miles above Keyser, W. Va. blew up. Five were working at the mill land Alex Shears alone escaped injury. He was with the other men, but did not receive a scratch. FATAL TENEMENT FIRE. Die At Tarrytown, N, VY, Tarrytown, N. Y.--Two girls and an infant lost their lives and two women reecived burns, from which they maj die, in a fire that swept through a big frame tenement house in North Tarry. town. In the excitement the infant was thrown from a second-story win. dow and jts skull crushed in, Thirty families that occupies the building were driven out in their night clothes STATE NEWS All Pennsylvania Gleaned for Items of Interest. REPORTS ABOUT CROPS GOOD ———— Farmers Busy in Every Locality— Churches Raising Funds for Many Worthy Objects—items of Busi ness and Pleasure that Interest. Pottstown fever, of typhoid inkle, of Macungie, ra from E. F kK 205 bushels acre of sod of potatoes half an 1s mna One raded on Lol lehem thousand ments, in the of the double-lo el the large prize meas and 1§ 1.2 inches in circumference At Millers bn itches have been reported The anglers have been H. W. Rowe Charles Bitterman. Bari Rocky seven bass thre aimon The catch sn -pound uring 30 inches in salmon length Ire large © bass resefu being quite plentiful suc Edwa Hal John Rathvor . 1 Lenker Lehman and that in and timated the vicinity McEwensville 500 chickens been within the past month Whole barnyards of fowls have been taken. It is believed the thieves have a and wagon in which to carry off their harvest of fowls. Northumberland County Detec tive Forbes will endeavor to run down the Residents are consider ing the methods to catch the robbers tired and abandoned ville have stolen horse thieves the effort Frark Delbort, who stated Shamokin was his home, aitended a fair at Bloomsburg and by mistake took = train to Willlameport, where officers considered it advisable to chaperon him temporarily. The following morn. ing he offered the Alderman who was sitting on his case one dollar and ten cents in money, an Ingersoll watch and a piece of fron chain in payment of his fine, but the articles ware not deemed guflicient by the Alderman tinued over the stranger, “Judge” W. C. Wells, of West Chea. titles for the Iand secured by the change of ronte of the Bald Eagle Val. Charles Sauppee, a 16-yearold Read. tng boy, pleaded guilty to the charge of breaking into Reading Railway froight cars with two others and stealing seven umbrellas, 47 boxes of Shocsla en and 33 pairs of hose valued at ¥ * La
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