The Centre Reporter CENTRE BALL, - - PA. ISABELLA'S DESCENDANTS. The discovery is attributed to Presi dent David Starr Jordan of Stanford university that almost any American of distinction can trace his descent to a common one Isabella de Vermandois, duchess of Warren, who lived in the twelfth century. So far as that is concerned, none of us has any difficulty in proving by unimpeachable mathematics and irrefutable logic that he is warmed by the transmitted blood of nobility, royalty and genius. A child of today has two parents, four grandparents and so Counting for convenienue three generations to ancestor, one. the hundred years, his theoretical an cestors in Isabella's century are num bered by millions; ther back by billlons. a few centuries fur The ber is far smaller, since lines « from actual num. f descent criss-cross ancestors; but AMONE 80 In common it is a fair logical inference that any millions and centuries every count on of But one may pOSEESSIDE a reasonable number or dis tinguished forbears does that prove? How much influence on the life of an American of today could be one-seven-millionth part of Isabella blood, probable number of mult claimed for or for any iples £ test f that y share? of the Here is the crucial the scientific democracy, says the New York heredity fallacy basis of World fact; but belt le & Or 1X the Eugenics is a descent from reasonal a of good stock in the thre recent generations than 1a fry Po claim one-iw 3 ses 1+ o-hundredth drop of gle prized ancestor 1 jewe iry a hot engag extricate sup Bue but practically not doing their this high ideal iversity and college a high standard t the professor In respect, and good and loyal serv fact doing 1g attention to the suicide pact that Three Vienna furnishes a outranks all others at present in with a young girl threatened to suicide her account. They were drinking tea Iu a secluded corner of a cafe when all suddenly fell from thelr chairs, dying. They evidently had placed polson in their beverage. A photograph of the trio was found in their possession ad- dressed to the girl, who told of thelr threat. youths love commit on ws ———————————- it is sufficient comment OR scientific discovdry that a large num ber of the leading men of this country bella de Vermandas of the eleventh century, that not counting intermar- ancestors, which is presui ably more people than there were in the world then. Whence we may draw the gen- eral mathematical conclusion that tor of everybody in the 1900's. ARMISTICE OFF BATILE GOES ON Shots Strike American and Ger- man Legations. 4 MADERO WILL NOT RESIGN. Fighting Ever Fiercer Than Before. No Real Safety City-—Taft Anywhere In Still Opposes intervention. sign And a alarms, the the dispatches plied consor and cable will sarily vastly Increase the di informing the ou of the operations within the Mexican capital and will effectually suppress incom ing dispatches regarding conditions in other parts of the republie essa Le! nees Meulties of tside world COLQUITT CALLS FOR TROOPS. Governor Of Texas Also Urged Taft To Intervene. Austin, Texas Gov. 0. B. Colquitt, of Texans, sent a telegram to President Talt urging that United States troops in sufficient number he sent to Laredo and Brownsville, Texas, to protect i that wmeetion of the border agains AMoxiean bandits that might cross the | honndry. It wag also lenrned that | Governor Colquitt applied to President Taft to intervene in Mexico, BATTLE GOES ON ALL DAY. Rebel Guns More Active On Diaz's | Refusal To Join In An Armistice. Mexico City The fighting in the street yf the Mexican capital aventh day was e\ Ore than other day battle on any Kmba within the line Amba BArrow The American directly American ador on, had a ich whi within the y o'clock the German He L With Cabinet Kent and El Ontario, lust season raised over 70 of heans op of the trict Principal « din COULDN'T WAKE MAMMA, Of Crime. Ok “We mamma is asleep and we Stigler, are so het,” of Mrs. Sarah Kendrick, nelghbore entered and asked w hy she and her little sister wera crying neighbors found Mrs. Kendrick dead on the floor. She had been beaten td death with a hatchet, 1 fore, A p——— TTY Just RECEWED ! A HOUSE Ful So of COMPANY AMD | HAVENT | A THING tN THE i pantry HAE | you A PIE, ARE | OR SOME T Him | g £ AN “ECVE < 2 Fos. pe po 3! 1 i fen fr Pa wr fans % MKS. 1 i pow TLL I i JRETURN ese tl i t HAIRS IN i He MOR MINE | RESIDENT OTE CANVASSED Wilson and Marshall Formarly Elected. SENATOR BACON PRESIDED. TO STERILIZE THE UNFIT Michigan House Passes Measure Senate Likely To Follow SINGLE TERM DEAD. House Judiciary Committee Decides Not To Report Any Such Bill washington. —The House Judiciary mittee voted not to report any bill which has to do with lengthening or changing the Presi dent's term of office This action ef fectually kills the Works resolution for a six-year single Presidential term, which was recently adopted by the Senate, Com this session EMBASSY MUST MOVE. U. 8. Ambassador In Paris Has Re. ceived Notice. Paris in France is about to be turned into the street. The landlord of the house in which the embassy offices are situ: ated. on the Avenue Kleber and where they have been located for 15 years, has given notice that the place must be vacated on April 15, as he intends to transform it into a hotel i i f RECORD BREAKER Inauguration Pageant to Be an inusually Long One. WARNING TO THE GRAFTERS. MISS ROOSEVELT ENGAGED. wil the Bride Of a New York Become Physician, New Roosevelt and Mrs. Theo announce York ol the engagemel hie second daughter, Ethel Carey Roose In of the Richard York Richard H announcement velit, te Perby, son New her be inte Derby, of Formal of would Mise Roose engagament, it was said, made within a few days. made her debut in the White in 1908. Dr. Derby was gradu. ated from Harvard in the clase of 1603. His father was a graduate from the same institution with the clase of 1867. Dr. Derby is 28 years old, seven years older than his bride-to-be. velt House Down Into Mexico. i | in the Hotel Plaza, urged Theodore | Roosevelt to organize a brigade of | rough riders and a battery of horse { artilery for duty as a flying wedge | from the banks of the Rio Grande to { the environs of Mexico City in the | event of intervention. FOUR OTHERS FROZEN Ship Nova Brings Startling News Of the Gal fant Terra Englishman. from Captain London ~The latest dispatches indicate that and the [OUr nen Wi nade dash to tl na: CAPTAIN SCOTT RAL REEF p Arkansas Soon Off Again ADRIANOPLE ABLAZE A Part Of Turkish Garrison Deserts To the Bulgarians - § Sofia the from TELEGRAPHERS GET RAISE. Wage Scale Adjusted Under Erdman Act Mediation, Washington. The Southern Rail telegraphers will receive an ad. vance of approximately 8 per cent In thelr wage scale, according to an agreement effected through the good offices of Judge Martin A, Knapp, of the Commerce Court, and G. W. W. way ASKS POWERS TO END WAR, To Intervene To Stop Fighting in the Balkans. London The Turkish Government formally requested Sir Edward Grey request was communicated to the am- bassadors here, who transmitted it to | thelr respective governments,
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