¥ Centre Reporter The CENTREHALL., - - PA Sm MENACE OF DRUGS, The number of people in this coun- try who are becoming addicted to the the drug habit is 80 numerous as to excite alarm. waukee Wisconsin. Now ust, usefulness as a local anesthetic, and women who have fallen under its tion of moral irresponsibility. Many of cocaine and other habit-forming drugs use them at first for medicine. allay pain. The hideous evils that fol- Jow slavery to these drugs rarely are dreamed of by those who use them! until after their use has become a habit, and then the damage is done— for dr - habits, once formed, are in- conceivably difficult to break. These drugs shatter the nervous system and blunt the moral faculties and predis- pose their slaves to crime. No won- der that physicians and officials charged with the administration of the criminal laws are banding together to check the sale and uke of these In- sidlous destrovers of health and mor als. As our manners improve, have our children as good manners as our fa- thers or grandfathers had? We do not mean by good manners what the new- er term implies. Among the social sets we find changing codes which direct the form of handshaking, modes of ex- pression in meeting people, repetition of useless “don't you knows” in con- versation, ability to select from maul tiform knives, forks and spoons for the multiform courses at luncheon and dinner, says the Knoxville Journal and Times. We can detect in these flippant forms of fashion except- ing as the knowledge a badge of fellowship. And there seems to be much striving to set within the circle, But these mannerisms are not good manners. The essence of good man- ners {8 kindness and courtesy. They extend the into the character social etiquette so-called no purpose is surface deep A person habitually po- lite is one who has transformed -into conduct habit of thinking of oth ers. They are apostles of good cheer, being unwilling to cause embarrass ment or chagrin to either their social confreres or the lowliest person they meet. below the They pay the waiter for the priv. {lege being served at all, after paying the head waiter to get a table if the resta: They pay to have their hat and coat kept for them ding the meal, pay getting a taxicab, and after it is over and pay the chauffeur for the privilege of rid- ing home with him in a cab for which the company has had to pay the hotel license for the right to use the public streets, says the New York World. From the time they enter a restaurant it they are subjected to numerous di- rect taxes, in addition to the indirect taxes imposed for music and marble corridors, which are but ill-disguised in the exorbitant prices charged for the food. Why should not the Hotel association round out the system of petty extortion by charging for admis gion? of 10 i nll irant is full ii for foe until after they have left If, as reported the sultan of Tun key sent a bag of millet seed to the king of Bulgaria to show his numerical strength, and the king of Bulgaria sent back a bag of pepper seeds to show the style of opposition, the incident typifies the struggle between quan- result since the world began, brute strength and number no longer count in the great contests of the world prize winner at the National Dalry Show in Chioago. lord Decles ex- hibited a herd of ten, seconds. Cows competent as these would beat the pig for rent. . Such a bequest does more for the sun talk, from the high cost of meat, should be- gin as an example. We do not know of any law prohibiting the consump tion of Boston bull steak or poodle chops by the gilded circles Cholera killing 10,000 out of 21,000 cases reported in one province in In dia In a month is described as not be- ing as severe as usual. What would they call severe, anyway? THE DEATH LIST PUT AT 17, Ii Great Havoc Wrought by Ty- phoon in Philippines. AMERICANS IN ONE OF TOWNS Another Having 14,000 Population Reported To Have Been De- stroyed — Telegraph Lines Down, Washington.— Seventeen thousand persons are reported to have perished in a typhoon which swept across the Philippines to the south of Manila Tuesday, according to belated advices which reached the War Department from Governor General Forbes, of the Philippines. Telegraphic communication from Manila southward has been destroyed almost there accurate total of entirely and it is impossible to obtain from infor mation of the or | damage The Tacloban, capital of Leyte, having of about 14.000, been destroyed extent logs entire town of the | a population | have | the capital of the province of that name and an portant sugar port, also was badly! damaged and from three to five thou sand persons killed minal of the railroad island from Ilio, and a of Americans ted No ment ernor Forbes has reported that sent a shipload of food for repair to low elons The ably lars be used is to Capiz rep irted {yy im- | Capiz is the ter crossing the 1 1 large number | are loca there report has reached ti fate depart- concerning their and Tacloban and that with as as he could Red will much mor obtain Cross Bureau send se a veral at once to Governor for the relief HORRORS OF ADRIANOPLE. Fugitives Tell Of Ravages Of Fire, Flood and Famine. Mustapha Pasha, famine, flood besieged Turkish nople, here by Those to « ape througt the | a al being avery around the hold, declare that many hn the vicinity of m mosque ment, wi day the Sell been burned. Other districts city waters and Arda, whi banks The civili to be classes exists are deeply inundated with of the rivers Maritza, Tunga have overflowed their a 8 SENATOR RAYNER BURIED. Of Held Funeral Maryland Statesman Is in Washington. Washington resentativ of the diplomatic corps here the United States Supreme Court and both houses borough officials here of the late Senator of Maryland. The Rev. U. G chaplain of the Senate, funeral the os members abinet, of Congress iovernor Golds other State and attended the 1 services Isidor Rayner, Bn livered at House, the principal services took Brief the grave where was made of the Senate and the House honorary pallbearers Plerce, the sermon where ceremonies icted at Cemetery, Members acted as were con in Rock Creek interment SENATE OFFICIAL DEAD. Demise Of Sergeant-At-Arms Ransdell | Unexpected. Washington Col dell, sergeant-at-arms Btates Senate, former marshal for the District and an intimate friend President Harrison, died result of an operation performed on November 7. Colonel Ransdell was one of the wellknown figures of pub life. He had been sergeantat- arms of the Senate for nearly 12 years, M the Rana United States Columbia the late here as the Daniel of United of of SERVIANS IN DURAZZO, Occupy Town Which Austria Says They Cannot Hold. Durazzo, Albania, — The Servian | troops occupied thé town. No resist | ance was offered. The Austrian Lloyd | steamer Graf Wurmbrand left imme. diately with a number of refugees, | Durazzo is the port on the Adriatic which Servia desires to retain and is determined Bervia shall not hold. | VIOLATED HIS PAROLE. Leader Of Tar Party Sent To Jalil To Complete Sentence. Edward Lincoln Center, Kan. FOR GUN ME All Received Their Sentence Calmly. Guard Deputies On and Policemen Order Gangsters Away. ng nat tenant Charles Becker The wives of Lefty Blood, and permittee 2 Foy voy vrs ITO Hart of deputies escorts Ty WV the train Sheriff irger ar hundreds of Ossining The inside where, of warden each « hands with promised to as an f the gunme Sheriff Harburger Ea call on him New York are released,” they in 2008 we HER LIFE SAVED BY BOY. Cripple’s Sacrifice Restores Girl To Her Health, X Gary, Ind Jthel the life of Billy Rugh. newsboy, was sacrificed that she might recover from burns suffered in a motorcycle accident, jeft the hospital here and returned to her home. Her {life was despaired until crippled Billy Rugh, offered to go to the operat: ing table and furnish the live tissue to save her. The skin the girl to health, from pneumonia, for whom Gary's heroic Smith, of Rugh died FOOLED WISE SLEUTH. Innocent-Faced Lad Got Cash Forged Check. Chicago. —Capt. John J Halpin, head of the Chicago Detective Bureau, and for 20 years considered the clever: est thief catcher in this city, cashed a forged check for $150 for anyhonest- faced lad. 35,000 MINERS APPEAL. Request Governor Of Kentucky to Re- lieve the Car Shortage. Ky. Frankfort, Representatives of FOUR KILLE Pennsylvania Train Down Em- bankment at Glenn Loch. | STEELSLEEPERTELESCOPED Broom Rail By vania Railroad Officials To Be Cause Of the Acoi- dent, Believed Pennsyl- Tod hn P nvestigated ue Dohoney, of Harris on the wreck State Railroad wreck appears to have beer by gagging of a girder on e track i caused the the bridge, which depreased tl This couplings break and the cars to leave the tracks bridge.” probably caused to beyond the PRISONER IN APPLE CAR. Days’ Confinement, Ia Andrew Gorchite, N. Y, after being a prisoner for 13 days in a car of apples into which he had crawled at New. burgh, was released when the was opened here. His feet frozen and may have to be ampu- {tated. He had eaten nearly a barrel of the apples, Sioux of Newburgh, City, BLOWS OFF TOP OF HIS HEAD. Thanksgiving Meal. Omaha, Neb.—-An hour before | ing dinner J. J. Deright, a prominent motorcar dealer, was found dead in a room above his garage. He had com- | mitted suicide by shooting off the top {of his head with a shotgun. No cause {for his action is known. | es | BIRD'S NEST KILLS TWO. | Blocks Chimney Flue and Couple Are Asphyxiated. | i Mount Zion, ll-A last summer's the victim, was committed to jall | cause he violated his parole. year's imprisonment for his connec tion with the case. relieve the car shortage, which, the petition declares, is working a hard. them of steady employment. The governor has referred the petition to | gas stove was lighted in the couple's | bedroom the fumes were forced back fand they were asphyxiated. Scott ‘was 48 years old and his wife six | years his senior. They were married last August, GRANTED PARDO ALBERT PATRICK Lawyer Gains Freedom Remarkable Fight. WAS SERVING LIFE TERM. At No carceration, Time Since His Long In Has Patrick Given Up Hope Of Obtaining His Freedon:. Albany, N. Y who is serving Albert 1 a life gentence in # Bing Prison for the murder of Marsh Rice, aged New York city on September by an millionaire, in , 1900, “99 23 Dix from the (overnor Was pardoned Patrick, electric Governor WHO WEE saved ti 3 3 Chair the 3 late 1906. has freedom A iawyer by rofession, he Higgins, in December, made a4 remarkable protesiea when Governor i Commuted the death sentence to i" the 10 cance: prisonment, declaring that Governor had no legal the original IPpOB€ 4 puni mprisonment Dix ann Ben tence and in shment of life Governor had { about executive mi Doubt “There LAKoOn Of Fair Trial. : Gas always | mystery in sald opinior «a “Quoting CHRONOLOGY OF THE PATRICK CASE. UNITED STATES YIELDS? Said To Have Waived the Passport Question In Russian Treaty. The claims learned Russo-American treaty of commerce will be renewed in amended January 1 next the U mving waived the passport london Odessa « Poet yrrespondent of the to have that the form or States question SANTO DOMINGO PEACEFUL. President Resigns, Prisoners Are Re leased, Everybody Happy. Santo Domingo.-~The resignation of ! Eladio Victoria, Presideni of the Dominican Republic, was tendered and formally accepted by Congress. Many political prisoners shortly afterward were released from confinement. Hos tilities have been suspended through | out the Republic. JAILED FOR ASSAULT. | Member Of West Clarksfield, Ohlo, Tar Party Given the Limit, Norwalk, O.-—Ernest Welch, { #pend six months in the workhouse at costs, a total of $500, TRAIN FALLS 175 FEET. a Five Killed In a Disastrous Accident in Oregon. Marshfield, Ore--Five men were killed and several hurt, some fatally, when a logging train went through a 176-foot trestle at Bear Creek. The boller of the engine exploded when the locomotive fell. The bodies are buried under the wreckage of the train and the trestle and the number of dead may be greater, i PROTECTION OF LITTLE FOLKS ————— Widened Considerably TO BE IN STATE FEDERATION Humane Society Wants 8. P. C. A. to Join in Protecting Horses by Rough Surfacing Paved Inclines of the Hill Streets. (Special Harrisburg Correspondence.) Harrisburg. Children as well as an- fmals will be taken under t the organization formed than vear alone, if a plan in provide a BEO 10 Prois Ie pociety gCope material tagen Managers tion of legislative up at a meeting the re-chart of Pennsylvan is probable the leg req gmmendcation Carr he who than he intending Davis deavored to 0 pelf admitted he reformatory said succeeds pended, but the had served two tern na The Court though Georgia had not reforming Davis, he the defendant to the Huntingdon Reform atory and give him aonther chance to turn over a new that tha al d in in Georgia would send leaf Mother Gets Child, The controversy over the custody of Gertrude Lloyd, a pretty nine-vearold girl, who has been living with her aunt, Mrs. Emma Jones, for seven H. Musser announced that an agreement had been reached under which the child was to go to the moth er, Mrs. Sue Lioyd William Jennings. president of the Board of Public Works, recently elect. of the Commonwealth board December 1. and will be sue William Bowman, a young business man. Splendid Body of Students. Adjutant-General Thomas J. Stew. art, who returned from State College, Day exercises and inspected the cadet battalion, paid a high tribute to the students, “The cadet battalion was a splendid body of students, animated by plenty of spirit and well trained, eager and alert to thelr duties,” said he. “The battalion is one of the best of the kind 1 have ever seen, and fit has some fine material for the State Guard should occasion arise. 1 was highly pleased at the appearance.”
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