G. E. Simpson, M. 0. H. B. Neal, M. D. Ore d'ufficio: dall' 1 alle 3 e dalle 7 alle 9 p.m Telefoni: Bell-Local 59 S. 9th St. INDIANA, PA. Dott. TRUITT. Dentista Ufficio al 3.0 piano ; Saving and Trust Bldg. INDIANA. PA Ore d'ufficio: Dalle 8 a.m. alle 5 p.m 7 p.m. ~ 8 p.m VISITE GRATIS t JAMES COLANGELO t jP Italian Interpreter J J and Labor Information Bureau £ 4) Hotel Montgomery Indiana, Pa. j INDIAN lllllSa Lira! i SOLD BY I I INDIANA CYCLE CO. j | CARPENTER AVE. INDIANA, PA.| RESfRVfD SPACE FOR THE INDIANA MACARONI CO. i If you want good fruits go to ROSS' STORE p jij corner Sixth and Water st. or call Local jjj | 'phone. ijj We get fresh fruits of all kinds twice a i m ° a I week. -i | We specialize on California fruits. J Resei'vetl sue lor H. Kleinstub The Big Store CREEKSIDE, PA. English Leaders Join In Europe's Turmoil 'f. ? Photos by American Press Association. KING GEORGE. SECRETARY CHURCHILL. fail to support Russia and France. God bless and protect you." The British house of commons vot ed $525,000,000 for emergency purposes and passed several bills in five min iltes without a dissenting vote. The Germany reichstag appropriated more than a billion dollars to push the war. Belgium's parliament voted $40,000, 000 for purposes of defense. Belgium has mobilized 250,000 men to oppose Germany's invasion in its swift attack on France. It is learned on high authority thai the admiralty has received a wirelcs; stating that the German fleet has beei bottled up by an English fleet north of Denmark. Vice Admiral Sir John Jellicoe to- Paris, Aug. 5.—A squad of German cavalry that invaded France north of Nancy was completely annihilated, fifty being killed and seventy-five tak en prisoners. The raiding force entered France for the purpose of destroying the tele graph and telephone lines. They had reached C'havanettes, a town fifteen miles from the border, when they were overtaken by a squadron of. French cavalry. They stood off the French troops for an hour but finally their ammunition gave out and those that were left alive had to surrender. The commander of the German soldiers blew out his brains rather than yield his sword. Two German patrols who crossed the frontier in the Vosges mountains destroyed numerous telephone boxes and cut the telegraph wires. They es caped to the border after their raid. At Velliticot the Germans have crossed the border three times but on each attempt to penetrate the country have been repulsed. Raiding the town of Lepui the Ger mans seized all the food supplies and horses that they could find. The in habitants left without food, have tak en refuge in Belfort, women and chil dren being compelled to walk sixteen miles in a heavy storm. All the farms about St. Ali, near Briey, have been looted, the Germans killing and carrying away all the cat tle and sheep. There is heavy fighting going on in the Luxemburg district, where the Germans have 100.000 troops. French aviators are said to have attacked German airmen near Long wy, where there is a battie in prog ress. Tokio. Aug. 5. —The Japanese for eign office issued a statement that if the war extends to the far east and England is involved in it Japan maj find it necessary to participate in ful fillment of the Anglo-Japanese al liance. The Japanese proclamation was is sued after an extraordinary session Oi the cabinet and was generally inter preted as preparing the people of Ja pan for the action of the Japanese navy as soon as Great Britain's deci sion has been announced. The German fleet is very active arouDd Kiaochau and has already cap tured a Russian cattle steamer. It is pointed out here that Kiaochau may possibly be occupied by the Japa nese in the event of a defeat of the German squadroqf in the far east, thus clearing the Pacific ocean for the war vessels of Russia, France and Great Britain and permitting them to pro ceed to Euroi**. undisturbed if they desire to do so. THE PATRIOT THE MENACING SEA It Threatens to Some Day Engulf New York and Boston. OUR EASTERN COAST SINKING. In Time. Thousands of Years, Per haps, the Atlantic Ocean, According to Geologists, Will Flow Over the Cities That Now Tower Above Its Short*. Government geological experts have calculated that New York, Boston. Philadelphia and all the other cities along the Atlantic coast will eventual ly sink beneuth the ocean. They have observed that there has been a steady sinking of the whole coast, and they say that it is going on at the present moment. - Geologists have long recognized the fact that the Atlantic coast line was much farther out than it is now. There Is a line from 100 to 300 miles off the present coast at which the water sud denly gets deeper. Out to that distance the water is geuerally about 300 feet deep. Then it plunges suddenly and becomes ten times as far to the ocean's bottom. The men of the coast survey have traced this line throughout the length of our coast line and find it similar all along. The geologists say that the continent once reached out that far and that there was the coast line, but a gradual decline through the ages has caused that line to retreat, until now it is where we know it. From a geological standpoint this has happened in comparatively recent times. It has all been done since the glacial period. This brings it into the present period and makes the action new. In fact it is positively known to be going on now. There is tin ancient sill in the Charles town navy yard at Boston with re gard to which there is definite informa tion as to its elevation. It was put In place seventy years ago; its eleva tion was given with relation to mean, high and low tide, and also with refer ence to surrounding landmarks. With relation to the tide this sill has sunk seven-tenths of a foot. With relation to the landmarks it has the same posi tlon, a positive proof that Boston har bor and the city about it have sunk seven-tenths of a foot into the sea in the last seventy years. The original mouth of the Hudson river is now 200 ntiles out to sea. The ships follow its old channel in leaving port even now. It is not known how long ago it was when the mouth of the river was not far out in the ocean. But it is almost a certainty that when a similar time has elapsed the present city will be an equal distance from the then laud. Similarly will Boston be submerged. Baltimore will disappear at about the same time and great portions of Wash ington. The great Mississippi is bring ing down great deposits to raise its delta and counterbalance the decline. So low is New Orleans that it will be one of the first cities to sink below the sea level and be a municipality high walled against the enemy, the sea. Gal veston has already felt the encroach ment of the waters and has been forced to build itself a sea wall. The geological survey makes tojto graphical maps. On these lines are run at given elevations. For instance, a line may be run about Manhattan Is land at a level twenty feet above the water at the Battery, it would sub merge the customs house and extend up Broadway nearly to Wall street. From the east it would invade the financial district almost to Nassau street. It would overflow half the land between the city hall and the East river. Far ther up it would submerge a narrower strip, but its intrusion would create great havoc. A fifty foot rise of water would wipe Manhattan Island out entirely. Of course, if these depressions came on very gradually the water fronts would be diked against their intrusions. In this way New York city might be saved from destruction for a very long time. It will inevitably become a city sur rounded by a high levee, against which the ocean will beat with an ever in creasing advantage. It might perpetu ate itself by artificial means, but in the end it will be put in an impossible posi tion. The waters will follow over the flats of New Jersey and of Long Island They will even beat back through the Delaware and the Chesapeake and get beyond the city and cut off com muuication with the main part of the land. Finally, New York will find it self a city down in a well far out from the mainland. Gradually the people who dwell in it will desert it and re pair to the then mainland. The waters will eventually lap away the great walls that have been built to keep out the sea and will tumble in among the skyscrapers.—W. A. Du Fuy's "Uncle Sam. Wonder Worker." Presence of Mind. Only the other day a great steel beam was being Drought up to a giddj height by hoisting apparatus. As it passed a girder on which several men were at work the beam turned just enough to push one of them off, says Harper's Weekly. The man seized the beam and was swung far over the street. His weisht gradually moved down the end of the girder to which he clung, and in a few moments he would have *eu thrown off, when a fellow workman sprang for the other end. thus balancing it, and together they were lowered to the ground. He who loves not his country can love nothing.- Byron. MAKING INVESTMENTS. Bafety of Principal Is More Essentia 1 - Than Big Returns. First, bere is a quotation from a thrift preacher: "Many fortunes have been ni.de and many more will be made through wi* investments. Many fortunes are lost too. through unwise investments. Un thrifty habits and consulting with e\ perienced jiersons like eonservati\ bankers will give one the wisdom tier essary to handle money wisely." Second. 1 set down a quotation from the advertisement of a wise and con servative investment banker: "In lending or investing money nl possible care should be taken to guard against hasty or impulsive decision Every endeavor should bo made to as semble such reliable information as will permit of the exercise of intelli gent judgment. The maiti who assumes this attitude toward all Investment propositions conies to Aiave an iucreas fng "regard for the element of conserva tism, and is ordinarily the tirst man to seek the co-operation of investment ex perts." Conservatism in investment means first of all. keeping the principal sun safe. What proti'ts it to get 7 or k per cent a year/ on your money to three or four years if nt the end <• that time misfortune of any sort ovei takes the company you invested in t such an extent that you would tin what you have paid .Sino for is wort only $75? And when you leave tli road of conservatism in putting yon- money out to work this is exactly tli experience you are likely to have. Better keep your money in the sa\ ings bank, where it will earn about -t per cent find where, if you wish, intei est will be compounded, until you are positively certain of the soundness oi the investment advice you receive Adding to the saved sum in a saviugs bank, too. is a mighty good way to fusteu the thrift habit upon yourself Choose as your first adviser in invest meut some que who has selected in vestments for the savings bank. From him learn what the elements of sound investment are. Go slow!— John .V Oskison in Chicago News. LURE OF THE OPIUM PILL And the Way the Cost Piles Up as It Enslaves Its Victim In the American Magazine appears an article entitled "A Modern Opine Eater," written by a former newspapet man, who became a victim of tin habit and is now a convict in a pent tentiary. The following extract froit bis article gives an idea of the aniontr, of money required by an opium eater: "By this time the cost of opium had become a very appreciable and permit nent expense. From a few pills at first I increased my allowance day by day uutil it took thirty or forty 'fun' (a Chi nese measure: there are seventy-six fun in an ouiioei to give me the mental relief 1 craved. The physical craving the body's demand for it—can he satis fled with approximately the same amount each day. The mental craving —the mind's demand—lncreases daily What satisfies tonight is too little to morrow, and so on. To feel even not mal 1 now needed three or four time the half dozen pills which at first had given me such exquisite pleasure. To get the exit ila ration, t lie soothed nerves the contentment I craved, J. like each of the millions before me. had to use more and more each day. "Thirty six fun of opium at retail costs, at an average. $3. A fifty cent tip to tny 'cook' and a quarter for tin privilege of the room in which I sntok ed made my habit cost me about $4 a day, which made a ghastly bole in even the good salary I earned. I began to buy my opium by the can, paying from $25 to $3O for tins averaging 400 fun The elimination of the retailer's profit helped temporarily, but the ever in creasing demands of my habit soon overcame the saving." Books Made by Slaves. Some publishers in ancient Rome could turn out books rapidly and cheaply. A publisher of the Augus tan era produced 1,000 copies of the second book of Martial in ten hours. and these, sold at about 12 cents apiece, gave him a profit of 100 per cent. This was done by employing slaves carefully trained to write swift ly and legibly. Working in batches ot 100. with an overseer dictating the book in hand, the task was completed in a very short time. As soon as the copies were written they were revised, corrected, rolled up and bound. Be ing slaves, the men required only maintenance from their master, and thus he could afford to sell their pro ductions at a very low rate. French Win Over Uhlans. Paris, Aug. 4. —French arms have scored a victory in a sharp and bloody engagement at Petit Croix. A corps of Uhlans attacked the French forces entrenched just beyond the town. The defenders replied with machine guns and mowed down the advance guard of the Germans. The Uhlans charged several times but were unable to withstand the with ering fire of the defenders and finally retired in disorder, leaving a number of dead on the field. The scene of the fight is a customs post on the Lorraine frontier the Uh lans participating in the attack com prising the advance guard of the Ger man army that was advancing from Metz. with Nancy as the objective, s'evs that they were en rout€ had been brought to the commander of the French customs guard by an aviator who reconnect ere-! from the outposts. Wireless Tower Quits Business. \* w Y°ri-- Aug 4. —Rather than r-A a breach of the neutrality laws r ' ANDREW JACKSON'S FINE?* 1 How Judge Hall Came to Punish th# Doughty General. When the war of 1812 was over vague rumors of peace drifted Into New Orleans, but still Jaeksou did not feel Justified in revoking Ihe martial law. under which he had placed the city. While the city was in this state this peculiur incident started. A man named Louaillier was tried as being a spy and was acquitted. This die pleased Jaeksou, and feeling that In the martial law he had complete com mand of the city, he, in opposition to the court, retaiued I.ouaillier in prison and sent Judge Hall out of the city with orders not to return until it wa| regularly posted that peace had been declared or that the enemy had left the coast The following day came the overdue* notice officially explaining that peace been deck red and that the treaty Gad been ratified Upon hearing this Jackson revoked the martial law and set all his prisoners free. Then pre paring to send home the detached mi litia from Ixuiisiana, Tennessee and Kentucky amid the greetings and dem onstrations of the populace. Judge Hall returned to the city. In order to uphold the honor, as it seems of the civil over the martial gov ernment, Judge Hall issued, ou March -21, an order summoning Jackson to court for contempt of a habeas corpus writ and also to state his reason for so doing The next day Jackson ap peared in court in person. He held a written protest against the decision which was to be given. Hall then imposed a tine of SI.<.K)O, remarking that "the duty was unpleas ant, that lie could not forget the im portant services of the defendant to the country, and that in consideration thereof he would not make imprison ment a part of the punishment" The fiue was promptly paid amid cheering of the crowd for the popular hero.—Philadelphia Press. THEY JUST MADE HIM SING, When Scanlan Wooed Minister Wu and the Chinese Officials. When W. J. Scanlan was in the show; business he Invaded Washington on one occasion with a brand new comkj opera. In order to give the piece a flns sendoff he formulated the plan of send ing free tickets for boxes to the presi dent, the cabinet members aud othqr men high in social life. "That won't do," one of his newspa per friends told him. "Too common. Do something "picturesque. Why don't you go after Mr. Wu, the Chinese min ister? If you get him lie will bring down a lot of other diplomatic people," Scanlan fell for the proposition and called at the Chinese legation. "What sort of show is this?" asked Mr. Wu. "It's a comic opera." replied Scanlan. "Any good Jokes In it?" Scanlan said It was full of good jokes. ' "Tell me some of them," commanded Mr. Wu. Scanlan did so, and Wu got such a series of laughs out of them that he sent for his whole establishment, num bering thirty-two people, and made th® embarrassed Scanlan tell them all over again. "Now," continued Wu, "are ther* any good songs in this show?" "The show had so many good songs," declared Scanlan. "that we had to throw some of them away." "All right." said Wu. "Sing me some of the best." "I sang them." said Scanlan, telling the story afterward. "But that wasn't so remarkable. I had to sing 'em. There were thirty-two Chinamen to make me sing 'em. The amazing part of the thing was that all thirty-two of them came to see the show that night." —Popular Magazine. Her Art Not Appreciated. Varnishing day at the Royal academy is always an important and interest ing function. Canvases and panels that have been thirsty enough to ab sorb the oil from the whole or portions of the pictures painted upon them have once more the luster of their first painting restored by these pick-me nps. Members of the year's hanging com mittee are always at hand on these occasions to consider suggestions and complaints about their recent labors. The chief complaint was by a ladjf who found her work had horizontally instead of vertically. Un kind friends cautioned her that possi bly it had been accepted on the hori zontal understanding.—New York Sun. Why the Boiler Rumbles. That noisy rumbling and clattering in the kitchen boiler after the gas wa ter heater has been lighted for some time has soared many a woman. The editor of the Monthly (ias Chat says It need alarm no one. as It is caused by the expansion of the water as it is heated from the top of the boiler. The colder water below, rushing up to dis place the expanded water above, will often cause a concussion. Frankness. The Sire What would you think If I told you that at your age I never disobeyed my parents or teachers? The Son—You'd lick me if I told you what I thought. Nashville Tenues seean. Great Idea. Interested Party—You say this boat cannot upset? Inventor—lt's impossi ble. The tanks are filU-d with fluid. - Buffalo Express. Virtue baa many preachers, hut few" Isjk/ martyrs.—Hel vet ius. m
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