The Centre Reporter CENTRE HALL, THE WALKING FAD, {sm is reported from New York, where, probably, the “automobile knee” and other ailments new and old, due either to the craze for automobil ing or simple neglect of ordinary healthful exercise, are to be found at their worst. In any event the walking fad has taken a strong hold on the metropolis and many walking clubs are being formed. The value of walk- ing as a pleasurable and health-pro- moting exercise cannot be denied, The trouble with most people is that they do not walk enough to realize its ben- efits. Automobiles for those that can afford them and the trollles for the less-favored many offer a tempt ing case of transportation that Is hard to resist As a result there are few men who can angdge in a brisk long walk without becoming overfatigued. The present revival of walking, if it does not prove to be only a passing fad, may accomplish great good in getting men away from the dreary monotony of paved streets and the dust and smoke-laden at- mosphere of the cities, out into the clean, pure, Invigorating alr the country, refreshing their lungs, ton- ing up their circulation, driving away many of the minor ills that annoy and giving them a cleaner and better out- look on life. of Somehow the impression nas gone abroad that Boston has invented a new slang word, and that the same is “fudgy,” says the Boston Post. Even the usually well informed New York Herald remarks that “from the rare- fled air of Boston a new bit of slang has been evolved, a poor, anemic word, ‘fudgy,” used to indicate that thing is as it should be. It will doubt. less prove a convenient term in Bos ton, a city in which a number people look upon them with com- placence and that the could not be improved upon. But it will never take root in a city like ours, which is always being reformed and uplifted and rebuilt and investi gated.” The Herald and all other newspapers that mention the matter are barking up the tree “Fudgy” is not Boston slang and never ill be. It is unheard, save perhaps from the lips of a few are sald to have enriched their danc- ing vocabulary with the But they amount to nothing; they can not make slang from other every- vast 0? declare town Wrong will noodles who word Slang comes and abler quarters. What's the matter with the these days? old Is it necessary to girls Can't they h the at- tention of any one? keep repeating the word “listen” in an ordinary talk where the “talkee” is all attention? A miss of perhaps seven- teen years asked for a certain brand of face powder (n a cently, says the New York Sun. is a fair “Listen! drug store re- This account of sald: 1 want a box of yuh face powder. Listen! Do you keep that there kind that comes with—with a mirror? You know the kind I mean Listen! What shade do you think 1 need? 1s Raychel (Rachel) too dark? Listen—" ‘That was as much as 1 heard. But it was enough. If a gir bas a toothache, or a wart on her finger, or a headache, it is “Listen, lis ten, listen,” to the patient or in many cases impatient drug clerk. No miss, it seems, considers her vocabularly up to date unless it is burdened with “listen.” Girls, take a tip. Put “listen” on the shelf. what she A dispatch from London states that two tiny coffins have been found in the monastic buriai ground of Peter borough and have been placed In Pe terborough Cathedral. One is two feet six inches in length and the other two feet eight inches. They are sald to be the coffins of the twin children of King Canute (9951035), who were drowned in Whittlesey Mere as they were crossing to be educated at Pe tershorough Abbey. Every reader of English history is familmr with the anecdote of the courtiers who told King Canute that he was the lord of the waves as well as of the land, and will recall the dramatic way in which his chair on the beach while the tide promptly did. But the still more im- pressive circumstance that two of Ca- nine centuries ago. Newport News boller maker the surgeon's Instruments, rose alertly from the operating slab, and ran away, not allowing them to operate for appendicitis. Now he's fully recover ed. Question: What fee are the sur geons entitled to for working the cure? ——————————————— A —— Knitting is being taken up by some of the British peers as a better means of killing time than solitaire, because “you have something to show for i." This may be the germ of an idea of going to work. COMMISSION T0 RAFT FARM LAWS After European Inquiry, Will Recommend Reforms. 120 MEN ARE ON BOARD. Inquiry Inte the Methods Em- ployed By Progressive Agri cultural Commit. tees. Washington.— The most {far-reaching economic mission ever undertaken in the interest of American agriculture was started here when a commission of 120 business men and farmers, rep- resenting 47 Btates, under the auspices of the Southern Commercial Congress, left Washington for New York, from which they will sail for Europe. commission will make an exhaustive inquiry into the European of agricultural co-operation operative rural banking. In the absence of President Duncan U. Pletcher, and First Vice-President David R. Francis, of Missouri, who can not leave America at this time, Mr Southgate will be the ranking official of the Southern Commercial Congress on the trip. Benator Fletcher de tained in Washington by the tariff legislation. “No commission with a more important object,” “We will not o sweeping inquiry into meth by agricultural o« munities in production and market farm the of financing farmers gate the system of co European farmers, which enab to get 20 much more than do in into the relation « The system and co in ever left America nly i (a8 Owens make a employ ed progressive but int We opera products met} will Inve America yf th we to the busin icing ¢l BRYAN AS PEACEMAKER. Wilson Sends His Secretary Of State To California. not conflict the n going in the | be able to find the best solution a « feel su sald Secretary Bryan ia re that upon the work ¢ . f O-O0DeEra f coopera they In Californ Lr wis} enter with frit the § EDiri ne ULTIMATUM TO MONTENEGRO. Troops To Be Landed Unless She Withdraws From Scutari. Antivari, sent Montenegro A ultimatum wa to Montenegro by the com floet that with the wv r iF % fond rn ¢ oS | mander of the international blockading the coast It declares unless Montenegro immediately draws from BScutari fleet will land troops at Antivari, Dul cingo and San Glovann! di Medua. An officer was landed at Cattaro and con veyed the ultimatum te Cetfinje, ner troops GIANT LINER LAUNCHED. Aquatania Will Carry Boats Sufficient For Passengers and Crew. Glasgow, Scotland. — The largest fully launched on the Clyde. The new vessel is doubleshelled sengers and crew, about 47.000 tons gross, A MIGHTY AVALANCHE. Crest Of Mountain Rolls Through a Fertile Valley. Department of Lozere, France —The of rock rolled for a mile and a half into the valley, destroying fields, gar. dens and orchards, Its passage was It stop ped at the outskirts of a village. No one was killed. WILSON GOING TO JERSEY. May 1 and 2. Washington —President Wilson will go to New Jersey to campaign for the passage of the Jury Referm Bill on Thursday, May 1, it was announced at the White House. The President will rer———— Lr (Copyright) 10 GRAPE Secretary's Explanation Satis- fied His Guests. MAKES FORMAL STATEMENT. The Premier Says Matter Had Given Him Before the Some Concern His Ap peintment. down 1 had i to been as were our had never served liau that that when enough to tender state 1 asked him wi to serve wine any embar- administration, and generously left t matter to suggested that, unfair to assume that ug from abroad would harshly be unwilling to the maintenance of a tradi. tional custom, and expressed the hope i that our friendship would be made so | apparent to them and our hospitality igo cordial that they would overlook this weakness in us, if they regarded it as 8 weakness. My remarks were applauded the company and” we never spent a more enjovable evening. “That is all there Is to the matter, tand we can consider the | closed and the custom established so rassment to the that he our discretion 1 though, it those coming to judge tolerate ne was us or by ‘far as we are concerned.” MILITANT MILLINERY LATEST. | Gotham Suffragettes To Wear Hats Of a Napoleonic Design. New York. —Women suffragists are going in for militant millinery for the | suffrage parade here on May 3. They { have chosen for their newest suffrage ‘hats a design decidedly Napoleonic and | they set to work upon the manufacture lof them. The hat is a cocked affair { with an upturned broadside and«a yel | low cockade, all heavy with the import 1of slege and capture. It is described las fatally becoming, and, allied with | steel of flashing blances, is warranted to plerce the armor of all the “antis.” a i DIED FROM NATURAL CAUSES. Women Buried I'n Basement Were Not Murdeerd. St. Louis —Autopsies on the bodies lof Mrs, Ernestine Kommichau and of | ner daughter, Selma, which were found {immured in cement in the basement ———————— ——— KING NICHOLAS KEPT HIS WORD Captured Scutari in Defiance of All Europe. THE POWERS IN A QUANDARY After Battle. Seven Thousand Dead, Including Both Sides—2,000 Surrender Desperate Taken Prisoners. aril was taken af culminating in desperate fighting of rn times The surrender of Es Pasha, Turk {sh commandant, was announced after two hours of hand-to-hand fighting with bayonets, during which both sides lost heavily. Approximately Montenegrins fall in the last assault on Scutari and 5,000 Turks The victors took 20,000 prisoners. Shortly after the formal surrender of Essad Pasha, King Nicholas of Montenegro triumphantly rode into the fallen city, emulating Czar Ferdi nand at Adrianople and the late King | George of Greece at Saloniki, achlev- | | ing his cherished ambition When the Powers first served notice | on Nicholas that he must desist, he | | was quoted as saying: : “1 will enter Scutari at the head of | | my troops, or 1 will never return to | { Cettinje alive. | “We are fighting for our lives and | against starvation. We have to have i more territory. You cannot raise | {grain on rocks. Death in battle is | preferable to life the way we have | been forced to live” | two days mode sad 3.000 were killed {FLIES 513 MILES WITHOUT STOP. | iin ! { Eugene Gilbert, Frenchman, Beats All! Previous Records. Paris —Bugene Gilbert, the French | aviator, beat all records for a continu. : ous cross-country flight, flying from | Villacoublay to Vitoria, Spain, a dis. {tance of about 826 kilometres (513 miles). He made the flight in eight and one-half hours, RAILROADS EARNED $225,376,929, - $167,760,500 Was Spent In the Month Of February. Washingten, =~ Railroads in the United States earned $225,376,928 and ———— | expended $167,769,690 during Febru. OVER 100 LIVES ARE SNUFFED OUT Explosion in a Coal Mine Near Pittsburgh. FIRE FOLLOWS EXPLOSION Cincinnati Mine Of the Monongahela River Coal and Coke Company, At Finleyville, Is the Scene Of Accident, Pa.—The lives gnu Pittsburgh, miners, 0, were explosion incinnati mine of th River Company, possibly 12 when a disastrous in the ¢ Consolidated at Fin southeast of ti ia oke 27 miles liree workmen EO wt of score of thrill crawling made capes the thro 1 ia ic and knees fumes and over debris tained burns PAT Excitement Prevails, But Bu of the miners wie inn keds in condition a iew the 5 wars riace were From these little could be gained ring or fright, the g from burns only knew that an €xpi curred and that a were either killed i } gephyxiated t oy Lhe the explosion crawled from one afterdamj eral hours after foreign miners Id a amall safety uld so that the light would me to I reach WAR high as a behind Finall which fall guide ti} No. 4 4 yw “ el stopped, and a col We listened id not hear them ¢ v the ¢ oplhers ¥ ed motor road clear. 1 d ored man was beside me for the others, but cou After a time, accompanied 1 col- surface $ T whom Before there night told about what had happened “Thompson started .back mine to lead the others and we continued on down the to the open air, 3,000 feet from our startling point.” Later the other men reached open. All were ill and dazed on count of fumes in the mine reaching we me om boss, we nto the out, slope the ac LAWYERS LEAD IN CONGRESS. Business Men and Editors Next In Point Of Numbers, Washington — What members of the Congress think of them selves became public Monday when issued. This volume contains bio graphlies of Representatives and Sen. ators, prepared by themselves, Law legislators. Sixty-nine attorneys are in the Senate and 270 in the Houre, In the Senate there are eight editors, six farmers, five business men, five 33 editors, 10 teachers, 18 farmers, § mechanics and workingmen, 6 bank. preacher and 1 lecturer, Bryan Served Unfermented Grape Juice At Dinner Party. Washington, — Diplomatic circles were in animated discussion of Becre tary Bryan's dinner party the other night to some 40 distinguished mem. bers of the diplomatic corps. at which unfermented grape julce was served in be accompanied by Secretary Tumulty, | of thelr home Tuesday, convinced the Senator Hughes and a number of New | post-mortem physicians that both wom. Jersey congressmen. jen died of natural sauses, lary. The net operating revenues total: | place of the variety of wines which ‘ed $57,007,339, an increase over the customarily have a place. Officialdom | same month of the preceding year of talked so much about the innovation {approximately $2,000.000. {that the story leaked out. * > SHAMOKINMINERS OUT ON STRIKE Force the New Unionists Into Organization To INSURANCE COMPANY UPHELD Refusal to Pay $3,000 Death Sustained—Pottsville Cemetery Claim Vandal Ils Busy— Other interesting News. Successuf Season with Institute. region ng topics Wilke ansford an Their expénses were guara Delsg Carbondale i Pittston. 1 ton, Nanticoke, Carmel teed bd WATre Lackawanna the Lehigh Valley C in nton. Shamokin d Susquehanna, t and Western on the ba he onl ( panies Tough Pants Prevent Rabies. York Only a pair of trousers stood between John Snyder Long York county, and a mad dog which at- tacked him An investigation made today by Dr. C. A. Kain, for the State revealed that although the dog chewed a generous piece out of the trousers the man inside was unscratched The dog was shot and its head sent to Philadephia, where the suspicion of rabies was confirmed. Many other dogs were bitten and quarantine will be establizshed. of Level, a Potteville—The managers of the beautiful German Catholic Cemetery here, which lies on the slope of Sharp | Mountain, were shocked by the dis covery that a vandal with a hammer "had broken off corners and delicate pieces of scores of monuments which | mark the resting places of the dead. | The authorities have traced the work to a boy of a prominent family, who | had read of the vandalism at Gettys | Clue in Hummel Murder, | Potteville Indications are that the mystery surrounding the tragic death of George Hummel, of Tower City, will be cleared up “within the next forty-eight hours Hummel was found shot dead and was buried as a suicide, but when hig body was exhumed con- slusive evidence of murder was found, it is now alleged that Hummel wus paying attention fo two young women at the same time, a point which the detectives consider very important, al though neither of the women are blamed.
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