The Centre Reporter
PA.
CENTRE HALL,
THE CHILD BEHIND.
Look about as you walk along the
street and see how many children you
|
odds are heavy that you cannot fall to
see such a sight every time you take
the trouble to look. Everybody sees
the sight and nobody does anything
about it.
fust as much against the law for a
child to catch behind as it is for a
stranger from out of town to stop his
vehicle within ten feet of a hydrant
Let the stranger try it on and he soon
finds himself in the clutches of the
law, says the Hartford Courant. But
let a child try it on and there he ls.
Now the inevitable result of this utter
neglect to enforce a law that makes
for safety is simply to invite peril
Pretty soon, possibly on another page
of the paper in which this article ap-
pears, there will be an account of an-
other automobile accident. Some ex-
citable observers will likely call it an
automobile outrage. It will be the
story of how an automobile ran over
a child that had been playing catch
behind and had jumped off the vehicle
it was stealing a ride on. The one
way to prevent these killings for
which drivers are not to blame is to
impress on the children and their par
ents that this business, which the law
forbids, must stop.
A baby never laughs, an aged per-
son very rarely. But the smile, like
the pleasures of the palate, according
to Brillat Savarin, belongs to all the
seven ages of man and with normal
persons it is universal. Imagine a nev-
er-smiling human being, and you must
assume that he is either a physical or
a psychological eccentricity, or both.
The Greenpoint youngster who shot
himself in Central park, Manhattan,
and died a few hours later, is sald to
have been known among his school
mates as “the boy that never smiled.”
He could work, he could study, he
could think. He appears not to have
been without affection. Yet suicide at
the age of sixteen was the climax of a
gort of abnormality which science nev-
er had an opportunity to analyze or
classify. The child that never smiles
demands sclentific attention. In this
rather jumbled up universe occasions
for smiling are everywhere
in symmetry are everywhere
Breaks
An eye
that does not see, a mind that does not
comprehend such breaks, is unusual
enough to be made a study of for the
ultimate benefit of the rest of the race.
Napoleon was the greatest egotist of
history. He was not disposed to give
credit unduly to other people. Yet he
wrote of his mother: “It to my
mother, to her good principles, that
I owe my success and all I have that
i# worth while. I do not hesitate to
say that the future of the child de
pends on the mother.” All through life
he ordered his brothers and sisters
around, and paid slight heed to rela
tives of any sort. Yet he always treat
ed his mother with respect, and she
in her turn her head, but
thrift laid aside resources for the
days of adversity which she saw were
bound to This of
mothers is inevitable, says the Kansas
City Star. The fzxther is away from
home a large share of the time It is
to the mother that the child turns, She
is his closest companion for the first
few years of his life. In all the period
when his habits are forming he is con-
stantly in association with her.
is
never lost
flv
iy
come, influence
It is astonishing how prosperous we
should be if there were no waste and
losges told that cattle
ticks cost the country $100,000,000 a
year. If we remember aright, the de
partment of agriculture has told us
that rats cost us as much zs that, and
several other varieties of vermin and
injurious insects rob us of as much or
larger sums. The underwriters tell us
that nearly all the $240,000,000 a year
we lose In conflagrations is prevent.
able, and the doctors tell us that the
greater part of the sickness, which fs
a tremendous drain on individual and
national resources, is preventable.
Some time we may stop these leaks,
We are now
There {8 one district in China which
is going to reform the opium scandal
of the nation without any sentimental
nonsense. Opium flends under forty
are to be executed and those over that
age will be imprisoned for iife, which
is rather reversing the Oslerian meth-
without tiresome educational
cesses.
pro-
UR IN
FARM THE WORLD
$40,000,000 Exported
Countries.
to 75
RUSSIA LARGEST CUSTOMER
Mowers and Reapers Especially Liked
Go To
Canada and Argen-
tina.
In Russia—Plows
Washington.-—More than $40,000,000 |
worth of agricultural implements were
from the United States to}
foreign countries In the calendar year
Just ended. Ten years ago the value |
of the exportation of this class of |
manufactures was $18,000,000; 20 |
years ago it was but $4,000,000. Thus |
value of these manufactures ex-
ported in 1812 was nearly two and a
half times much as a ago
and 10 times as much as two decades
the
as decade
GEO
All the
American
Mowers
year
and
divigion
world, apparently
implements.
exported
than
buys |
agricultural
and reapers
went
last
to more 76 countries |
grand
le other |
colonies, Including e
of the
of agricultural
were widely distributed
Europe alone took $21,000,000 of the |
North America, $8,000.
South £6. 0600,000,
very
th world, whi
clagses implements
ALLIS America,
single
iral implements
{ year
ng been approximately $10,000,000,
$7.000,
vi
the largest buyer of
the value
in the just ended
(00 000 to Argent ne,
d $3
Germany
an about
and
‘anada, 400,000
France
seem
Rus-
$4.-
iH
1 mowers and reapers
in demand in
f 1 ves
HECEL r
HOW PRICES HAVE SOARED.
Pork Chops, in
crease,
With 105 Per Cent.
Leads the List.
#
r 1
ent in
Atlanta, 8 per
cent., and
vowing the
» last 10 vear
the department
ive one-fifth
United
urban population and ap
the total
the States; two
nately one-third of all the ped ple
in gainful occupations, not in-
farmers
ROBIN GOES TO PRISON.
Given Clemency For Aiding the Dis-
trict Attorney.
York Joseph G. Robin, noted
who
£27.000
1 fod ouilty y
pleaded guilty to the
¥ t
from ti}
i Washington
Jus
the
vas sentenced by
iry to serve one year in
Blackwell's Island
Robin was given clemency because he
had alded District Attorney In
gecuring the conviction of William J
Cummins, Joseph G. Reichman and
former City Chamberlain Charles H
Hyde.
jenitentiary on
the
Negro Messenger Who Stole and Sold
Them ls Caught,
Chicago.— William W. Winkfield,
the negro messenger, who is said to
have taken the famous “Archbold let.
ters” from the Standard Oil Company
files in New York and sold them, was
$25 a week, says a theatrical
change.
assured her.
beok salesmen was a blind woman.
One has long suspected that many
purchasers of de luxe books make no
more intelligent use of then: than the
blind would.
Cleveland and Mrs. Harrison
Guests At White House. i
the
Mrs.
Washington. —A social event,
capital, occurred Baturday
night when President and Mrs. Taft |
entertained Mrs. Grover Cleveland and
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison at the White
House, It was the first time in the
history of the United States that two
former first ladies of the land were |
ASLEEP AT
THE SWITCH
7
Al
CRUE
CONDITIONS
sieged Soldiers.
MANY SICK AND MORE DYING.
Of
if Necessary—A Peace
the Coercion Turkey,
maker,
headquar
in
8 understood
copied
who recent
to recon
T % 1 "nt
presigent
in advan
propose
Be unacceptat te
ave ji as. .a
ready tu cede what
¥
ye
Must Unofficially Agree.
In other wor the allies d«
wish to pias
ish piay
ay lead
on of peace
his time meeting the
Turks and official
agreed
ritorial
offi
te *
iy he
fer
a
ial ratif
be
1
It is also suggested
ments can had
foreign Sir Grey,
in his president
of the mig take the
initiative, thereby obviating the neces
gity of either of the parties appearing
make the first advances This
could be accomplished only if the
allies were assured that Turkey
prepared to give up Adrianeple
secretary,
Capac
conference,
as honorary
to
FIVE KILLED, FORTY HURT.
Riot Resulting From a Physician's
Treatment Of Patients.
of a
his
arising out
treatment
Rome. Rioting
local physician's of
being killed and 40 others wounded by
NEW PARAGUAY MINISTER.
Dr. Velasquez To Fill Place Vacant
For Eight Years.
Washington. Paraguay, which for
years has been without any
diplomatic representative to the
United States, has chosen Dr. Hector
Velasquez to be minister here, accord.
ing to advice just received. The pre
vious minister, Cecilio Baez, left hore
in 1006, and Paraguay’s relations have
been looked after by consular agents.
MILLIONS LOST
BY COLD WAVE
Hopes of California Citrus Fruit
Growers Blasted.
BE SAVED IN
| Economy and Efficiency Com-
mission's Report.
MR. TAFT ASKS FOR $250,000.
| The President, In a Special Message,
Wants Con-
Out
investigations To
tinue and Points
Value Of the Work,
Washington. —Congress
| appropriate
i +3
he invest)
{ on economy
| executive de partmen
ment,
dent
| the
message the
in a special
Taft tr
ansmitting
report of the
‘there 18 no greate
| be rendered to th
f the continuance of
sion until some
i
ization is provided for
joing this Kind of
Executive
that
he Pre
the
Temperature Drops Way Down
Every Acre Of Oranges and
the Beit
Has Been Frozen.
Lemons In
VICTIM OF POISON PLOT.
Man Dies After Forty-nine Years Of
Paralysis.
town N Y Abraham
the victim
Tarrs
‘'ompkins is dead here
goning plot 48
1864, Te
YEArs
mpkins'
"et
Keep
man
and
She
ung
warning
wel
G
PARCEL POST EXTENSION,
Likely That Printed Matter Will Soon
Be Included.
office Department
time
a £ wi br
matier
to In
parcel
matt
mail il
made mallable
Steps already have been
to amend the
duce Congress go
ac
not t t
po 0
pr
by parcel post
this idea,
Hitchcock
parcel
ing merchandise ml
matter descriptive
without affecting
perm’
to be
In lin
General
e with Postmaster
that d
pac kages
decided gen
ers of post
incloge printed
of the contents
their classification
EX-BONIFACE A SUICIDE.
| Former Lancaster Hotel Man Ill and
Out Of Work.
Lancaster, Pa.-1ll and out of work,
| Willad B. Leaman, aged 46, formerly
a wellknown Lancaster hotel pro
prietor, committed suicide in the city
hall by shooting himself with a re
| volver. His father was the late Samuel
|
| Leaman, register of wills
|
STILL AFTER REED SMOOT.
| Congress Of Mothers Wants
Reopen Inquiry.
| New York.—The executive board of
| the National Congress of Mothers de
| cided to ask the United States Sen:
ate to reopen the investigation of the
| right of Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah,
{to his seat in that body. The Con:
| gress of Mothers, with the Woman's
| Christian Temperance Union, was
| largely instrumental in bringing about
| the Smoot inquiry, started in 1908,
Senate To
he incon
pent
Money Not Unwisely 8
gave the
acvaniage
president
i
Some Interesting Facts,
i8 furin } n eQ
SLAUGHTER FEDERAL GARRISON.
Mexican Insurrectos Capture Town Of
2,000.
Mexico ©
defeat and
TEN MEN KILLED.
Sixteen Also Hurt In Boiler Explosion
On Migsissippi
Mobile, Ala-—The Tombighee
steamboat James T. Staples
wrecked, captain and n others
killed and sixteen persons severely in
jured when of the boat's boilers
exploded near Bladen, Ala. The ves
gel gank within a few minutes after
the accident. River men note a co-
incident in that the explosion occurred
at type point most nearly accessible
by boat to the grave of the boat's
‘late owner, Capt. Norman A. Staples,
i who killed himself a week ago
River Steamer.
River
was
her ne
one
| DINNER POISONS HUNDRED.
1
| Street Car Service Tied Up While
Employes Are Recovering.
i South Norwalk, Conn Street car
! gorvice here was practically tied up
| for 48 hours by ptomaine poisoning.
| A full hundred conductors and motor
| men are at their homes groaning with
! attacks of the poisoning, said to be the
| result of their annual turkey feast on
| Monday night. Health Officer Tracey
| believes all of the men will recover,
COMMERCIAL
Weekly Review of Trade and
Market Reports.
Bradretreets
“AE
After
busines
#0 than
fidence
Retail
holiday
travelling at & UTrisK pace,
ed down, thoug!
t this
lO lens
Con.
1306
ha
usual a BOANOT
it frit rire
if if AUT uT ig iH ¢ if
deunlers enjoved an unexampled
trade
“In 2 hos
bids fair 1
t of industries conguimg
overtop
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roduction for
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s belief
not a
BALTIMORE
& ¥ Tas
red, a Sal
w
Rye sira
do
fancy cream
creamery, good,
prints SH@37;
creamery @36; ladles, 23@
$5: Maryland and Pennsylvania rolls,
on fe 99
owe AT wee
creamery,
' y
blocks, 34
Cheese
@ 20c¢
Eggs--Maryland, Pennsyivania and
nearby firsts, 27¢; Western firste, 27:
West Virginia firsts, 26@27; Southern
firsts, 2 Recrated and rehandled
Jobbing lots, per pound, 19
25@ 26
eg, % to 1c higher
Live Poultry—Chickens—Old hens,
heavy, 16c; do, small to medium, 15;
young, 17. Ducks— White Pekings, 160;
Muscovy, 14: puddle, 156@ 18. Geeseo—
Nearby, 14@16¢c; Western and South.
ern, 13; Kent Island, 16@17. Turkeys
20; young gobblers, 20; old toms, 18;
rough and poor, 10612. Guinea fowl
Qld, each, 25¢; young, 1% Ibe and
over, 45¢; do smaller, 30.
Dressed Poultry ~Turkeys—Choioe,
21@22¢c; fair to good, 19420; old toms,
19. Chickens—Choice, young, 176 18¢;
old and mixed, 166017; old roosters,
19611. Ducks, 16@18¢c. Geese
Nearby, '§@18¢c; Western and South:
ern, 136016.
Dressed Hogs—Cholee, lightweighta,
8% @10e; do, mediumweights, 8% G9;
do, heavyweights, 7% @8; boars and
rough stock, 6@7.