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CENTRE HALL, PA.
PIGTAIL I8 A BLESSING,
Dr. John Budberg, an Englishman,
has entered a defense of the China
man's pigtail. He says the pigtail
owed Its origin to hygienic motives.
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of the pigtail is a more active circula-
tion of the blood, which benefits the
brain. He writes: “The observation we
hear now and then that Chinese with.
out pigtails show less intelligence
strikes me as not altogether unreason-
able, as an active circulation of the
blood will not fail to influence the
nourishment and development of the
brain.” He states that the head of a
newly born baby is shaved, and no
cloth, cap, or soft pillow is allowed to
interfere with the circulation of the
scalp. When the child grows bigger,
the hair is tied together in bunches,
BO as to expose the skin to the air, and
thus promote perspiration. Later the
hair is grown so as to form a pigtail,
and superfluous hair is shaved away.
The effect is a high and smooth fore
head and a face free from wrinkles,
and hense even old Chinese have
smooth faces and a juvenile appear
ance. When rolled up on top of the
head, the pigtail acts as a substitute
for a cap and protects the head from
the glare of the sun and the cold of
winter. It is also a neckeloth and a
pillow. It is likewise ever at hand to
check hemorrhage should a cord be
needed for that purpose,
A dispatch frog Paris says that a
movement has been started In the gay
city to substitute a less meaningless
phrase for the popular salutation,
“How do you do?" In the first place,
the French idiomatic phrase of greet
ing cannot into the Eng-
but literally
“How
translated Is “How do you carry your-
t
be rendered
lish do you do?”
self?” “How do you do?" is not
but graci
one’s friend by making it the
sideration to obtain assurance
is in good health. This is the
tion idea of forms of greeting in
parts of the world, Including
:
insipid,
for
usly suggests regar8
y first con-
that he
unda-
all
such spe
your
liver?” which prevails among the En
lish in the trying climate of India. The
probability is mercurial
French not likely to yleld
readily to an Invitation to change In
a day a custom of centuries. But Paris
correspondents con
cerned using their readers
than ucting them this
cussion as to altering the form of sal
utation may of
that fact,
i0
cial inquiries as that of “How's
that even
th
Lie
1
would be
often are more
am
abi am
1
us
instr and dis-
afford an illustration
The benefits derived by our farmers
from the pleasure of the motor car can
3 be estimated. It Is certainly
to the happiness given by the
0 people in other walks of life,
says Leslie's. be claimed
that the purchase of the automobile
by our country friends there is an eco
nomic future. It enables a daughter
or son of a farmer living several miles
from the village to market poultry,
eggs, butter, and similar products, do
the buying, and return home In
or three hours. In the old times
this would require the loss the
services of a man and team Or
course it cannot be claimed from is
standpoint alone that its advantages
are commensurate with
It can also
in
in
two
of
a
th
the cost of the
Another
The general
motor car and the
factor is of more v
use of cars by the farmers has given
great popularity to this method.
ep
— Sr
Harvard is now going In for psychic
research. If Harvard Keeps on after
training loving pigeons, and thinking
angleworms, and knocking ghosts, ft
may get a useful thing or two in its
curriculum in the course of time.
Those who prophesied that the au
tomoblle would make the horse as ex
tinct as the dodo should revise thelr
ideas by a glance at the report show
ing that the average value of horses
is $4.53 more this year than last.
An archaeolggist has discovered that
it was the practice of Egyptian wives
in the olden time to tickle the soles of
their husband's feet. Evidently an
Egyptian substitute for pulling hud
by's leg.
Later dispatches from the neigh
borhood of Abyssinia say nothing of
the latest death of Menellk. Not that
it makes any great difference, but we
would like to know how many lives he
had.
Massachusetts has joined the fight
gow & law in that state that the pins
must have their points covered. Wom.
en who realize
of these sharp,
by laws and fines to be forced to
do so.
Charles Landau, an Englishman,
missed his train, went back to Monte
Carlo, won $25,000, and took the next
flier. Time was money in his case.
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THE NEW CHINA
Formal Recognition of the Re-
public Amid Ceremony,
PRESIDENT YUAN RESPONDS
Following the Interchange Of Mes
sages At Peking American Visi-
tors Are Entertained At
Luncheon.
Peking, China.-—The presentation by
Edward T. Williams, charge d'affaires
of the American legation, of the
formal recognition by the United
Sdates of the Chinese republic was |
made an occasion of much ceremony. |
Troops Hned the streets between the
legation and winter
American the
Secretary Williams drove |
fi in a presidential carriage with
of Ch Lroops
mpanted by the staff of the legation
Mr. Williams brief speech
President Wilson's
to Yuan Shih Kal, TI tter
led in a few pictures
palace
Yori of
'Oug
- iy + y g
nun escort iNest and ac
made a
d handed mes.
ia
ie "re
Paras
aden
wn |
3 i 4 5
American visitors were t
hincheon and 1
storie Manchu quarters
Chinese offi were pre
Cialis
$7,000,000 EXPORTS DAILY.
Balance Is $500,000,000 In
Favor Of U. 8S.
Trade
1
$12
outgoing
country
EFFECT OF RECOGNI
TION.
international Situation Created Af.
fecting Six-power Loan.
BATTLE OF MANILA BAY.
Victory 15 Years Ago Today
To Be Celebrated.
was celebrat
ight at the
juet of the Society of
f the
annual
Manila Bay
vors of the
suryvi
F'wentytwo o
(famous battle, including Rear
Asa Walker,
cruiser Concord and the
Admiral
wh commanded the
only survivor
of the six officers who commanded vos
gathered around
¢ banquet table to do honor to Ad
ral George Dewey, president of the
lety. Personal reminiscences of
a feature of the
of Dewey's fleet,
battle was cele.
SOCIALIST WRITER ARRESTED.
Governor Hatfield Accuses Mim Of
Insurrectionary Action.
irieston, W Va.—Charles W
Ciark, a Socialist writer, was placed in
a commitment issued by Gov- |
wr H. D. Hatfield, charging him!
hn conspiring, alding and abetting |
ectionary action in cormmection
the coal etrike trouble of
Kanawha county.
Jehis O00
LNT
with
DEATH BETTER THAN FARM.
naan {
Boy Taken From Bchool Hangs Him- |
self In Henhouse. i
Lakewood, N. J William Wagen- |
fuhr, a 17-year-old apprentice on al
farm at Whitesville, near here, hang. |
ed himself in the hen roost. Waren
fuhr was very anxious to attend
school, and when he was placed this
winter entirely at farm work he seem. |
ed to worry.
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RIDICULE ON ARMY
Is Least Dangerous of All
Occupations.
PRICE OF UPKEEP RUINOUS.
Goomed
d the
$e umn
No
tury, and to
q nation
con
us for a cen
sy n # : 1"
Can atiack us
1 to select the safest
one freest from
death, let him ente
F OF navy
f« not
or
here a workman atter
machinery erecting buildings,
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milway train
the soldier of civiliza
employe, or a police
man tion, whose
duty is never to attack. but always to
protect-—not one but runs far greater
risk of sudden death or injury than
the soldier or marine of our country
does today
“There {8 danger of any of
these ever Thank God!
They will only have to parade
“The chivalry, the herolem war
To shoot from A warship
enemy 10 miles distant
shooting from under at a foe
a mile distant not conducive to
growth of the heroic”
fittle
seeing war
of
Rone
unseen
WH at
an ot
cover
at is
the
MISS WILSON “SPEEDER.”
Not Her Fault—Driver Of Taxicab Ar
rested in New York,
New York.-—Willlam J. Greenwood, |
a taxicab chauffeur, was fined $5 for!
driving Mise Margaret Wilson, the
President's daughter, and her escort
RECOVERS
VOICE AFTER COUGH.
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More Than 20 Years.
Paris, Ky. ~Dumb for more than 20
years, as the result of a throat af
fection, Lee Price, a merchant of this
place, completely recovered his voice, |
after a severe coughing spell, induced
by a cold.
UNCLE SAM WILL
BET BIG INCOME
Government Depositariesto Pay
Two Per Cent. Interest.
ORDER IS ISSUED BY M'ADOO
Fiscal
Funds Deposited
System Governing Federal
in National
Banks
terest
in }
deg ite or
& of financial
ian govern
depositories are
a checking
government, cashing
checks disbursing officers and
replenishing their authorized govern.
ment deposits from custome and in
ternal revenue receipts deposited with
them
There are 500 inactive depositories,
each holding $1,000 government
funds. Upon these deposits, which are
disturbed by checking accounts,
the government has drawn 2 per cent
interest for the past five vears. These
are the only government accounts
which never have earned interest.
3
in period
gecurity other t
Active
conduct
for the
of
ment bonds
those which ac
count
the
of
not
Expects No Trouble.
McAdoo
Secretary declared he did
the part of the banks to the new
If any banks was disposed to
on
willing to take it up
AFTER TELEPHONE GIRLS.
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AGREE ON NEW
ALIEN LAND BILL
Will Not Conflict in Any Way
With Treaty Rights,
ITS PASSAGE IS PREDICTED.
Aliens Not Eligible To Become Citi
zens May Hold Lands To the
Extent Only Provided By
Treaties In Force.
vernor Johns
sacramento, Cal Ge on
General yeh have
on an
Attorney
ied a substantial agreement
“WHITE PLAGUE" 18 LEADER.
cide Rate Decreasing—Memphis the
Chief C For
Su
ty Violence,
AMERICAN KILLED BY REBELS.
Refused To Give Money To Them, It
Is Reported.
B.A
the
Ding
owner
City William
wall, an Americar
of a foundry and director of
Maria La Paz Mining
was killed by the in
tack on Matehuala, State of San 1
according reports which
have reached Dingwall, who ie
sald to have been one of the wealthiest
residents district, waz killed
owing to his refusal to give up money
to the rebels,
Mexico
citizen,
e Santa
Company,
their at
Jils
de
> 4
rebels
to
here
of the
BLOWS HIMSELF TO PIECES.
Wisconsin Farmer Uses Stick Of
Dynamite To Commit Suicide.
Ladysmith, Wie
to pieces with
method adopted
wealthy farmer,
lacing a stick of
himself
the
Mowing
dynamite
by Peter Flurl
to commit suicide
the explosive on the
was
plaints Of Labor Leaders.
Washington. -
labor to investikate the transportation
telephone girls from ome city
another in a different State to act as
the recent
ened Boston telephone strike.
declared the Boston
case war closed and there was noth.
ing the department could do, he sald
proposed investigation would
pyar thal case In particular,
of
on the charge. An elleged quarrel
with his wife was given as the reason
LETTERS TURN BULLET.
Woman Ordered From Drug Store
Tries To Kill Proprietor.
Vineland When Mrs. Ernesta
Ceverl, a boarding house keeper, en
gaged in a wordy row with Tony Dé
nardo and a woman In Dr. A. Malsi's
drug store the druggist ordered her
from the place, Instead of retiring
she whipped out a revolver and de
charged it at Masi’'s breast. The bul
let was deflected by a bundle of letters
STATE NEWS
All Pennsylvania Gleaned for
Items of Interest.
REPORTS ABOUT CROPS GOOD
Farmers Busy in Every Lecality—
Churches Raising Funds for Many
Worthy Objects—Items of Busi.
ness and Pleasure that Interest
with $16 coun-
~ g ’ i 4
beranton ig flooded
terfeit
Bilis
Ing made
eggs this
der a Mus
18 young
fron ne
twis
Cami
CEE,
ese variety ing
though they had stood
other, lowered their heads, and been
nected from top the head
tip of the bill. These two died
and a rat levied on
ft happy in the
united,
facin each
cot the of
to the
hortly after birth
but are le
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old brick and glass con-
the old Everhart man-
Chester, has been raged,
the gradual passing of the
memories Weegt Chess
bullding, many
by Everhart, the
of a family of sons and
wag the finest in West
The Everhart family was of
a literary and scientific turn, but some
members also naturalists. The
daughters took delight in flowers and
plants. The eonservatory was filled
with rare flowering plants, exotics and
ferns. The old mansion, in a dilapl
dated state, still stands
ree
servatery at
gion, West
It
Everhart
This
Ago
progenitor
daughters,
Chester
marks
from
for ereg ted
years
were
For polluting with sawdust a small
stream running by their portable saw.
mill in Buckingham township, Oliver
J. Rice and Harvey Brunner were
fined $100 and costs by Justice of the
Peace C. R. Nightingale at Doyles
fown
“How much will it cost to lok =
fellow?” Frank Lilley, of Mount Brad.
dock, neked this question of Burgess
J. L. Evans, in Police Court at Con-
nellsville, and the excoutive answered
by doubling his fine, which originally
was $5.