ata THE CENTRE REPORTER, CENTRE HALL. PA. — ercolized Wax pa Gee Yor! I'M ALL IN= Z VOWS IS FOR AN DEA, TOLKS % By Charles Sughroe $60,000,000 in Gems Lost or Stolen in Year. New York.—These are sad times for insurance adjusting companies that in- vestigate loss or reported loss of jew- elry. The Insurance companies, It seems, are having to pay and pay and pay—more so than ever before in the history of the business. It is estimated that from $55,000,000 to $60,000,000 worth of jewelry was re- ported lost or stolen last year and In nearly all of the cases the claims were paid, The percentage of recovery was Just about one-tenth of 1 per cent, But that Is not all. The number of false claims {s greater than ever be- fore and In the majority of cases the companies have to pay just the same, being unable to obtain positive proof of fraud, even though the circum- stances are suspicious, Many Cases Frauds. An executive of an adjusting com- pany in John street—a company that represents fourteen of the largest in- surance companies In the world—says at least 90 per cent of the reported disappearance of jewelry in 1031 was false, Such losses fall In the category of “mysterious jew- elry, and last year saw an increase of about 50 per cent in the number of disappearances” of Bud Is Making Good John (Bud) Clancy, a recruit from Jersey City, has been playing first base regularly with the Brookiyn Dodgers and has proved his right to be con. sidered a big leaguer. He is a south paw both In the fleid and at bat ¢ these strange, "inexplicable disappear. ances, claims totaling approximately $600,000 for the country at large. Most losses, however, were reported in New York city. “As I sald, we have reascn to be- lleve that at least 90 per cent of such claims are false sald the executive, who asks that his name be not used, “but we seldom are able to prove the fraud so we try to effect a compromise to avold litigation.” Old man Depression, who never is let out of anything these days, gets the blame, “Most of the losses are reported by persons at one thane wealthy,” the ex- ecutive explained, “but who have had Ever so often we get claims of losses almost Immediately after serious reverses In Such cases look suspicious on the face of them nine times out of ten, but, as usual, proof is lacking, so we pay.” In only the company handled last year did the claimant, a woman, confess fraud, Her reported loss was investigated so persistently and she was questioned so thoroughly that she finally wilted and admitted her jewels were nestling In a vauplt, The claim was dropped and the insurance company obligingly forgot to prosecute. In the losses, this particular company handled claims totaling close to $1,000.00 as of holdups and burglaries This represents an increase reverses, business, one case safe from loss. “mysterions addition to the result in 1831. of about 75 per cent over 1630 been falling ~ ims have off stead * the executive continued, “mainly because so many were pressed In 1631. Last year of 160 claims a ame hard up. their Jewelry disappeared we Were «aple once wealthy hee nses there clous tances, proof we had 15] circums “You see, most written to ins i 1 losses i088, An are up. A woman can say she accidentally m a ferry do? How can we We have to dropped her bracelet fro boat. What can we prove that she did pay the claim.” Another unusu ness since most Invariably who have sup «lly lost their jewelry refuse offers They The usually offer to replace the year claimants ac- hose lacement, want cash companies lost but last Jewelry, of the or stolen enly 5 per cent cepted the offer, POTPOURRI Snakes There are approximately 2.000 different kinds of snakes. They range in size from five inches to the huge tropical reptiles of forty feet. They inhabit all regions of the globe except the polar. Animal life Is their chief food, but some exist on eggs. Most species repro duce by laying eggs, although some give birth to their young. ©. 1912, Wastern Newspaper Union if Taxes 50 muscles 10 MAKE A FROWN ~ rrAUWS v 220100%¢ OL €1 ANDO ne A SINGLE TOMATO PLANT Owned By JG. Vance, Oakham, Mase, PRODUCED | 429 Tomatoes IN ONE YEAR. High Note ‘he new, higher waistline favored fashion leaders for fall is shown the printed « dress with velvety by in sash, te . i GaAnce shown above. PENITENCE By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Late Dean of Men, University of Ilinois. ¥ ov st ™ 1} nraonhe tepent,” the prop to a that of were wont the (iteat Teacher. Penitence, 1 sup- pose, is sorrow for sin committed, hu. man regret that one has violated moral law, It has always been inter esting to me that a8 call to repent ence has usually been strengthened by a statement of the penalty which would fall if the sinner failed to change his point of view. It was gen- erally in order that they might “flee the wrath te come” that offenders were urged to penitence, Is It sorrow, then, for the offense against law or is It fear of the con- sequences which Is most often the im- pelling motive to repentance? I should not want to say. Warner, who had really brought up very well and who had never been In any real need of money, was caught forging various checks, He was apprehended. arrest ed, and put in jail. His father came to see me to adjust such matters as could be adjusted. “The boy Is very penitent,” he said. “His stay lu jail has given him time to think what his conduct is leading him to, and he is sorry, I assure you, for what he has done.” “Is he sorry,” 1 asked, "for what he has done, or is he humiliated by the fact that he has been detected in a rather crude violation of Jaw, and for the legal and social consequences which he is facing?” “lI don’t know,” the father replied. “Maybe If he had never been caught he would never have been sorry.” Jenson, who was working by the hour, got Into a straitened financial situation. He needed money and so devised the system of marking up his hours when he handed in hig time check. The thing was detected short. ly, ns such things are sure to be. “1 am thoroughly ashamed of what I have done,” he sald to his employer, “and more sorry than I can tell you. I have hardly slept 6F eaten since my crime has been discovered” “Would you have lain awake at night, and would you have been sorry If you had not been found out? he was asked, and he didn't know, True penitence is sorrow for sip not sorrow for having been discov. ered, ©. 1922, Western Newspaper Union, Wouldn't a perfect world be horrid? been Famous West Virginia Cottage Made Shrine. White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.—Two rare photographs of Gen. Robert E. Les and his wife, Mary Custis Lee, have been received here as the result of a nation-wide search for memora- billa of General Lee to be exhibited in the President's at White Sulphur Springs. The photograph of Mrs. Lee, grand. daughter of Martha Washington, 1s hand-tinted and decorated by herself, and that of General Lee bears his sig- nature. Both photographs were hand tinted and signed as gifts from the Lees to Mrs, Susan F. Pendleton, a close friend of General and Mrs, Lee. The photographs were acquired from & direct descendant of Mrs, Pendleton, Together with other recently discov- ered memorabilia of General Lee, they will form a part of the exhibit of early American Presidents, generals ane statesmen which will be avallable to the public in the President's cottage which has been turned Into a museum. For the purpose the President's cot- tage has been completely restored In the old White Sulphur barroom Pat- rick Henry declaimed against Colonial and Presidents Jefferson, Madison and Monroe made here by horseback and national polities with the great of their day The Pres 16, and upon President to White Suiphu collage oppression, ie Journeys stage to talk dent's collage tal visit Banker Turns Clown Harper Joy, vice president of an investment bank of Spokane, Wash, always liked the circus, so when his vacation tithe came he Joined one as a clown znd spent two weeks under the big top, having the time of his life Here Is Mr. Joy in his makeup, The average motor ist can make sixty miles an hour easier twelve paymends on the car, ¢* | and went for a deer hunt, with his secretary and a group of pol iticlans from Washington. The cottage was thenceforth known as the President's and successively occupled by Presidents Tyler, Fillmore, Pierce and Buchanan. cottage, of a row of cottages known as “Bal- timore Row.” Composer Works 25 Years Green Bar, Wis—Roland J. and music for banjos, mandolins and of his compositions was textbooks for teachers of in- struments string (4BBY GERTIE Keeps Skin Young Got wn ounos and use se directed, Vise partidos of sped skin pool off woth] sll defects push ae pir phes lve hots, tan and freckles disappear. Fils be thes wed td velvety, Your (aos books yesrs rounger. Maroolised wx brisge owt the hidden nasty of your skin, Te Tomere wrinkles use cus sunos Powdered — dimsidved bu une half pit witsh hassel. At drag stores, REPAIR CRISIS COMING SOON Avoidable Home Neglect Costs Millions; Save by Painting Now. Home owners and others through- out the United avoidable burden of £200,000,000 for repairs and replacements next spring, that can be prevented by adopting proper precautions this fall A crisis that has been Ing for several yeurs resched this winter offensive States face Bpproach will be vigorous its at progr seriousness will be inaug once, according to an ment by the Acme White Lead and Color Works, Detroit White Lead Works, W, W. Lawrence & Co., Lin- coin Paint & Co., lowe Brothers Co., John Lucas & Co., Ine, the Martin-Benour Peninsular Paint & Varnish Co. win-Williams Co wrt! P verusing her irated announce Color the Co. the in every States will be used to owners of the danger delay In making needed reg by giving fall elements t through needed equipment cannot proper protect serious “Gravel roads are the torments that try women's scles.” French Poilu Faces Parig —The word in the near fi French soldier with epithets to which “plum and apple” used provoke from his British comrade, The sardine trade has been in dif. ficulties for mime time, and those who are suffering from this depres. #lon have been inspired by the idea that the army ought to save the situation, An influential delegation has asked the commissariat department to insinuate more and more of the oily little fish into the diet of the pollu. Nothing definite has yet been settled, but the case for the depn tation is, roughly, that a big con sumption of sardines by the mill. tary would be good both for the military and the industry, ‘sardine iture be greeted by the |! ar those to Water Acr Quicxuvl Picking ot nostrils. Gritting the teeth. Loss of appetite, These are symptoms of worms, Rid your child's body of these ruinous per- asites that sap health and strength. Give Comstock 's Dead Shot Worm Pellets. Prepered like confections. Children take them without ses- pecting treatment, COMSTOCK'S WORM (0), PELLETS i Sp EES Plethora *How are things, Joe? *I never saw cheap vacation trips so plentiful” Try Lydia £ Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Touchy . , . irritable! B ing u ber. She needs Lydi E. Piakhar's Vere table to soothe her nerves and build up ber health by its tonic action. A reporter despises being handed & wisecrack when he wants a fact Ing ond coring for others commonly neglect themselves, Sick heodaches, bockoches, and worn out feeling ore symploms of poison in the system covred by constipation. Don't neglect roture’s warning. Toke Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills to clear your stom och ond intestinal tract, A fovored remedy for fifty years. Al of! druggists.
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