THE PATRIOT Published Weekly By THE PATRIOT PUR. COMPANY f • Office: No. 15 Carpenter Avenue. Marshall Building. INDIANA. PA. F. BIAMONT K. KdiU>r A' Mimager JOHN S. LYON. English Editor V. AC ETC Italian Editor. Entered as second-class matter September 2(1. 1914, at the postoflice at Indiana. Pennsylvania, under the Act of March J, 1879. Local Phont 250Z - Bell Phone 49-W SUBSCRIPTION ONE YEAR $l.OO SIX MONTHS $.50 l ame iieslrsyed by lire The dwelling house of N. Luther Buterbaugh, near Ord. was destroy ed by fire last Friday. The fire started up stairs. The loss was cov ered by insurance ill ill' Patr :s' M utual. ALL CHINA SWELLS ITS PATRIOTIC FUND. From Banker to Blind Beggar, All Re spond to Republic's Appeal. By JEREMIAH W. JENKS. Banker, beggar, bandit, captain of commerce, compradore and coolie in China all seem to be vying with one another to swell the Chinese patriotic fund. A blind beggar wrote to the directors of the Bank of China, trustees of the j fund: "1 am very i>oor. I am ashamed how little I can give, yet my heart is grieved for China, and all 1 have I gi\ e." lie sent $4.02. The contribu tion probably represented the savings j of many weary years. The bankers took his money because to refuse it would have wounded his pride. A widow lady wrote a characteristic Chinese lady's letter. It explained how she had talked over the situation with her maids, and how they agreed with her that their lives were spent largely f in pursuit of petty things, and it was better to discard ornaments of beauty if it would help them to decorate their hearts and minds. So all their trin kets and best dresses they turned into cash to add to China's patriotic fund. A bandit wrote to a merchant whom he had robbed in other years: "I am a robber; that I know. My character is deplorable, but 1 am none the less a patriot, and my heart is touched by our country's situation. Into your care I entrust the proceeds of late raids, charging you to place these at the dis posal of the patriotic fund." The mer- j chant forwarded this curious donation without deducting compensation for his previous personal loss. In Kwangtung province, sacred in | the records of Chinese freedom, lives an aged man of noble family. "I have called before me my sons and their sons and their wives and their concubines and their little ones." he j wrote, "and we have counted the prop- j erty which wo have inherited from for ty-two generations of good fortune as children of China. Now we have de cided that, as this property has come to us because China, our country, has been good to us. it is our duty to re- | turn it to China to help her maintain her dignity and her strength." Ac companying this letter were several title deeds and mortgages, six bags of money and much Jewelry. THE VOICE AND THE STAGE. Being a Good Elocutionist Does Not Make a Good Actor. Of all the things to eschew, elocu tion school* stand first. Actors should know nothing of the rules of elocution as taught iu any school of which I have ; ever heard. 1 can always tell at the first glance whether an actor is a stu- j dent of elocution. No good elocutionist j was ever a good actor. That is. no good 1 reciter —and elocution schools product only reciters —is ever a good actor. Reciting and acting are two entirely different arts. The reciter is never natural, never can be. Awhile ago one of the most distinguished professors of elocution in America —he had the chair of elocution at one of our biggest uni versities —came to be an actor. It was thought that ho would be something wonderful because of his knowledge and gift of elocution. He went back to teaching. He eovdd do that better than most, but his acting was bad. All the rules of elocution an actor ever needs can be obtained in singing les sons. Now. proper enunciation of words is n different matter. An actor should not have to l>e taught that, but if ho does need it it is a pretty bad need, and he should never rest until he has lost all slovenly habits. Some of my friends think 1 am too severe on this l>oint. 1 am not. One cannot be too severe. It is clean cut work, perfect in its smallest details, that makes for perfect illusion on the stage, and I am always for such work. —Henrietta Crosman in Century AUSTRIAN BORDER IS BEST GUARDED Frontier Bristles With Power ful Modern Foriiiications. ITALY CONTROLS PASSES, Military Experts Watch With Interest First Steps itaiian Army Is Taking In Effort to Invade Austria, a Task Which They Regard as Hard aa Crossing Rh-ne. Military experts are watching keenly the first steps of Italy to effect an in vasion of Austria. No situation in the war has been fraught with greater in terest. It is generally conceded by the ex perts that the double chain of bordei fortifications between Austria and Italy are stronger o:i the Austrian tliaa the Italian side. Military men believe taut Italy's task in breaking into Aus tria is even harder than that of cross ing the Rhine. The fortification system of Austria Hungary along tlie Italian frontier was planned with a view to frustrate Italy's attempt to invade the Trentint\ the object of her national desires, and to guard against a possible offensive movement of great magnitude along :he Villach-Tarvis route through the Fella valley. It is admitted in mili tary circles that Austrian fortifications are more modern and strategically bet ter located than the Italian fortifica tions. Austria Controls Highlands. Austria practically has control of tin highlands and the mountainous terri tory along the entire Italian frontier. Italy has possession of the lowland ter rain. The fortifications on the Italian line are so located that they control the passes and all possible lines of inva Aon which load from Tyrol and Carin thia into Italy and also protect the left flank of the army, concentrated on the Venetian plains. But the terrain of Italy's northern border offers a favora ble opportunity for Austro-llungariaD troops to attack the flank and the rear of the Italian offensive movement to ward Tyrol and.Carinthia. To counteract this all passes between the Isonzo and the Still'ser-Joch are fortifi(Hi by small caliber guns and made impassable fo? bodies of troops. The Tonale pass and others are mined and guarded, and batteries are placed at Bormio and Edolo. A fort lias just been completed at Ponte-di-Legno, which controls the approach from the Tonale reau. Several groups of fortifications guard the territory between the Atl'gc valley and Calvary mountain and block all approaches into the Astico, Brenta and Piave valleys. They also protect the Venetian lowlands, which serve as a concentration point for an offensive movement against southern Tyrol. Casemates Hewn In Rock. The fortress of Agordo. towering on n rocky precipice, guards the ap proaches leading from the Cortina d'Ampezzo and the Fiera di Primiero to the military con°entration points in the Cordevole valley, at Bellune-Feltre. It consists of long range batteries and east mates hewn Into the rock. The Tagllamento valley, important because of its railroad connections and road concentration. Is protected by Fort Osoppo, which consists of several modern barteries situated on top of a rock 100 meters high, surrounded by a concrete rampart. There are no per manent fortifications east of the Tag- Hamento. The nature of the Italian fortifica tions is partly a blockade defense, with defensive character —like Roeca d'An 80, Val Leogra and Agordo—and partly a protection for specified concentration points for offensive preparations, such as Arsiero. Asia go, Prlmolano. Fastro and La mon. But they also secure a well defined terrain for maneuvering along the frontier, as at Vigo. Loreu eago, Fornt-Avoilieri and Piede di Ca dore. The strongest fortifications are those of Agordo. Val Leogra and Rivoli-Oe raino. Tyrol Route Indisputable. The Austrian fortifications at Tarvls guard the passes and roads leading through the Carinthian Alps and con sist of the modern fortresses of Flitseh, Raibi and Ileusel. Their equipment consists of modern long range moun tain guns, machine guns and lighter armament. The forts are armored and are among the strongest on the Italian border. The Tyrol, especially the southern part, is strongly fortified. The Adigt road and the Chiusa Veneta. known to the warriors of ancient Rome, are tc this day the centralization i>oint of communication and of military opera tions. The fortress of Trieut is one of the most modem in Austria. It consists of large caliber guns, armored turrets and powerful siege guns. Its command o! the Adige valley and the South Tyro lean route if. indisputable. The east front is protected by sev eral fortified places between the Val Sugana and the Astico Valley. The west front is guarded by Fort Cadine, consisting of several batteries and ram parts. The north f ront is protected by a fort of older origin, but which han been renovated and modernized iately. Most of the Austrian, fortresses are of concrete masonry and heavily ar : mored. The guns are modern am* In elude at least several long range pieces Ozzjpzt.or.. "What does your father do?" "Whatever mother teils him." "I mean what's his occupation?" "Oh, his occupation! Pa's a confla ! gratiou ejector; puts out fires, you know."—Boston Transcript. Thereby Hangs a Tale. Nature Faker—Why do the leaves turn red in autumn? Freshman—lt's the established law of creation. Na ture Faker—You're wrong. They have to blush when they think how green 1 they've been.—Brunoniau. PETROGRAD IS A WONDER. A City Built by Russia In Defiance cf the Laws of Nature. It is an amazing monument to the despotism of the czars that Petrograd Lias nourished, as it was built, in de fiance of the laws of trade and of na ture herself. As a port it is immeas urably interior to Riga, which has a much longer open season, for Petro grad Is icebound from early November to the end of April. As a building site it has been repeatedly and disastrous ly flooded by the Neva. The highest elevation within the bounds of the city is less than fifteen feet above sea level ana the cellars have to be baled out nearly every spring when the ice melts and the wind blows. And the rigorous climate constantly gnaws at walls and columns until the city has been twice and thrice rebuilt by the czars. .Many of the most im posing structures are held together only by means of.iron clamps, and the huge bowlder on which Peter rides his bronze horse is ever crumbling away. The stones of the streets are continual ly sinking below the level, and the great Cathedral of St. Isaac never j ceases to settle on a foundation it which nearly $1,000,000 was sunk. N'c ! less than six tiers of piles were driven for the beautiful column of Alexander 1., yet that eighty foot monolith, the tallest and largest in Europe, has ti be clamped in iron. As a dwelling place Petrograd re mains the must fatal of any great cit> in the civiiized world, with a mortal', ty of twenty-eight to each 1.000 of pop ulation. and within ten years its deati rate actually exceeded its birth rate.— Argonaut SUBMERGING A SUBMARINE. It Takes Five Minutes For the Best o' Them to Get Under. Submarines are not easy to handb and it takes considerable skill aim daring to navigate them successfully. Many people have the idea that as soon as a submarine sees an enemy, the officer in command gives a sharp order, and almost before it has left his lips the submarine is diving beneath the waves. As a matter of fact the very latest submarines take a clear five minutes before they can become submerged. ! Many of the oider submarines took ten minutes to a quarter of an hour to sink. The reason that a submarine cannot dive quickly, like a fish, is because the water which must be let into her tanks to make her heavy enough to sink, must lie let in comparatively slowly. If it were let in with a rush the chances are the vessel would not go down on an even keel, but would heel over and be in great danger of dis aster. If water, too. were let in too quickly there is a danger of letting in too much and in that case the sub marine would sink like a stone to the bottom of the sea. The depth at which a submarine travels under the sea is regulated by horizontal rudders. The water that is let in the ballast tanks is just suffi- I cient to "balance" the vessel in the sea without rising or sinking.—London Spectator. An Effective Question. While Henry Clay was a senator a resolution, hi accordance with a some time custom, was introduced into the Kentucky house of representatives in structing the senators from that state to vote in favor of a certain bill then pending in congress. The resolution was in the act of passing without op position when a hitherto silent mem ber from one of the mountain counties springing to his feet, exclaimed. "Mr j Speaker, am 1 to understand that tfiia 1 legislature is undertaking to tell Hen ry Clay how to vote?" The speaker answered that such was the purport of the resolution, at which the mem ber from the mountains, throwing uj: his arms, exclaimed. "Great heaven!" and sank into his seat. It is needless to add that the resolution was imrnedl ately rejected by unanimous vote. Why She Wasn't There. An agent approaching a house mer little boy at the gate and asked: "Is your mother liome"'" "Yes. sir." said the boy politely The ageut walked across the "ions lawn and after rapping several times , without receiving an answer returne l to the youth, saying: "1 thought you said your mother was at home." "Yes. sir; she is." replied the boy. "But I have rapped several times without receiving an answer." "That may be. sir." said the boy. "I don't live there."—Exchange. He Got the New Suit. "When I was a boy your age I used to have to wear my father!* trousers cut down to fit me." "I know. pa. and if you were the boy 1 that I think you were I'll bet you vowed many a time that if you ever had a son he'd never be made to wear such clothes." —Detroit Free Press. CURED BY A LAUGH It Was a Hearty One and Better Than a Dose of Medicine. A STORY ABOUT A LECTURE It Ought to Have Been Funny and Seemed at the Time to Be Funny and Yet Afterward There Was Grave Doubt as to Whether It Was or Not. "What's your book?" Squire Dumont asked of a neighbor as they sat wait ing their turn in the village barber shop. " 'lnnocents Abroad.' by Mark Twain.' was the reply. "I just got it out o( the library. I suppose you would call it pretty light reading." "You needn't be a bit ashamed of it. Mr. Pinkham." said the squire, heart ily. "It's a book that has done a lot of good. It has made thousands of peo ple laugh, and a good laugh is often better than a dose of medicine." "I've seen that proved." said Mr Pinkham. "I went t< hear Mark Twain lecture once." lie ad Ted. with n reminiscent chuckle. "You don't say so!" exclaimed the squire. "I never had that pleasure myself. It must have been a great treat." "Yes. it was. I'm a great admirer of Mark Twain and have been foi years. I had always wanted to see and hear him. and when I saw in a Port land paper that he was to lecture there on a certain evening it came over nit that that was my time to go and heat him. "I had just lost a lawsuit, and my wife was away from home with a sick sister. I was pretty blue and lone some and felt the need of being cheer ed up. "I took the afternoon train, calculat ing to get to my cousin Jim's in time for supper n/d then go to the lecture. But, as luc) would have it. a freight train had been wrecked near Bruns wick, and we never got into Portland until 8 o'clock. However. I hurried lo the hall and paid my way in and got a good seat right up in front. I had missed some of the lecture, but 1 was thankful to gel what was left. It wasn't so much what lie said, though, as the way lie said it that tickled me I laughed more that night than I had for a vent* ARMY BUGLES. Fashioned From Sheets of Copper by an Ingenious Process. From start ro finish tlie making of an army bugle is a process of much Ingenuity and interest. A bugle may uor. at first sight present a striking re semblance to its cousin, the coach horn, but one is practically a curled tip version of the other, for liefore the ougle is bout into shape it consists of .r narrow tub" fifty-one inches lor.g. In the first stage of manufacture th • angle is cut out of sheet copper and rolled into two iLin cylinders, technic ally known as the "bel!" and the "branch." The narrow tube, which is the "bell." is gradually shaped out on molds until the opening is the regular four inches in diameter. It is then "spun" on a wonderful machine, siud an expert workman t ikes the roug\ vdges off the copper. Botli sections are afterward filled win, molten lead preparatory to the liending stage, and it is this solid stutiiu x which prevents the tube breaking m ihe process and allows it to keep its sbape. The expert workman, with the uid of a formidable lever and hammer, bends the bugle into the familiar shape, the lead being subsequently <e!ted out at a charcoal furnace, after which the instrument is sent off to the polishers. Gtie of the most intricate parts of the bugie is the mouthpiece, which is mad • of nickel silver and turned out u a special lathe. With the uiouthpli-e fixed the instrument is ready for tlic testing rooui.—Pearson's Weekly. BUCK THE LINE HARD. People Who Do Big Things Do Not L Themselves Be Held. It was on the football field at one >1 the large colleges. A big tackle inic been brought over to the varsity lien: from one of the class elevens. It \va his first experience with the big team He played a tine game until the otln side had the ball. Then he did u. "break through" as he should. Tin coach finally stopi*ed tlie play an ♦rent over to him. "What is the trouble? Why don*, you get through?" he said. "The man opposite me is not playing fair. He is holding me." said Lht tackle. "If lie holds yon again I'll put roe off the field!" flashed back the coach. Of course, as the tackle said, it i> against the rules to hold an opponent unless he has tQe ball, but the coach wanted results and not excuses. His position was that a man ought somehow to break away; that no man must let himself be held. And that is true, no one ought to let himself be held. The excuse may be excellent, but a playei who is held is put out of the game as effectively as if he were off the tteld. He might just as well be off the fieid. The people who accomplish things worth while in the world are those who will not let themselves be held. There have always been things enough to hold them. They might have found excellent excuses, but they have not had to use any excuses.—Youth's Com panion. MYSTIC NUMBERS. Romance That la Woven Around tha Seven, Three and Nine. There are seven days lu the week be cause of the oriental tradition that th world was created in seven days. The Romans had no week, but reckoned by months, counting forward and back ward from the Ides and nones, until the fourth century, when they adopted the Jewish-Christian week. Because of its relation to the creation the number seven has always been in vested with an occult and mystic sig nificance. There were seven wise men in antiquity and seven wonders of the world. The seventh son of a seventh son. or seventh daughter of a seventh daughter was supposed to possess pow ers of prophecy or divination. For seven days seven priests with seven trumpets invested Jericho, and on the seventh day they encompassed it seven times. The ancients knew of seven planets and seven metals. There were seven heavens and seven hierarchies of angels. Seven had a mystical significance among peoples who had no tradition of a seven day creation, and this was due to its being indivisible by any number but itself and to its being a combina tion of 3 (called by Pythagoras the per fect number, representing beginning, middle and end) and 4. the square num ber. The Pythagorean idea about 3 receiv ed confirmation when the doctrine of trinity in unity was promulgated by the early Christians. For 3 is itself at once trinity and unity. The number 9 was endowed with mysterious properties because it is the product of three times three—perfec tion multiplied by perfection. To see nine magpies was remarkably lucky. Nine grains of wheat laid on a four leafed clover enabled one to see the fairies.--New York World. Quits. Little Man ie would tell "whoppers." One day her aunt thought she ought to be cured of this habit, so she spoke seriously to the little maid, who prom ised to mend her ways. To point the moral auntie told the tale of the shepherd boy who was al ways calling "Wolf!" until no one could believe him. Then one day the wolf really came and ate up all the sheep. "All the sheepV" interrupted Maudie. "Yes. every one of them," replied auntie decidedly. "Every single one?" Auntie nodded. "Well." said Maudie slowly, "1 don't believe you. and you don't believe me So there!"— London Answers. Food For Punsters. "I don't see bow Fussleigh gets any enjoyment out of his food. He's diet ing, you know." "Yes." "He uses this new masticatory' system." "Good gracious, what's that? So many chews to the mouthful?" "No. He eats beans by the dozen, rice by the grain, fish by the perch and spaghetti by the yard." "Does he seem better?** "Measurably so." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Drink Plenty of Water. A Roumanian scientist claims that aay one can live to be 100 years old. barring accidents, if he drinks enough water. He declares he lias discovered that old age is due to a decrease In the amount of water in the system and that Father Time may le check mated by systematic water drinking •luring middle age. Buying W vs. Wires are still obtained by purchase in some parts of Rpssh . In the dis trict of Kamyshin, on Che Volga, this is practically the only way in which marriages are brought a aout. The price of a pretty girl from well to do fam ily ranges from to $2OO. Same Way. "How did you find dear old Broad way V "That way yet" "What way?" "Old and dear."—Cleveland Leader. Animal Etiquette. No one who is at all observant of the ways of animals can have failed to notice how gentle large dogs, like the Ft Bernard and the Great Dane, are to their smaller canine fellows. It is rare that a big dog turns upon one of the little fellows, no matter how aggravating and snappy the latter may be. Instead, he invariably treats the small dog's antics with unruffled and dignified tolerance. For there is a recognized code of etiquette among animals, if you please, quite as much as there is among human beings. In truth, there are not a few respects in which the animals can give points on politeness and good behavior to man himself. WAR BABE FOR ADOPTION. German Mother Unable to Get Worrf of Her Soldier Husband. Mrs. Carl Muller of Yaphank has in serted an advertisement in several Long Island papers offering for adop tion a newborn war ha lie. whose moth er, a German woman. Is stopping at Mrs. Muller's home "The baby's mother, who doesn't want her name known save to the cow pie who. she hopes. wll adopt her lit tie daughter, does not know whether she is a widow or not." said Mrs. Mui ler to a reporter. "The mother is a friend of mine who came to the Fuited States after her husband had been forced to fight for Germany. She has tried repeatedly to obtain word from or of her husband without result, and she has no knowledge whether 1 e has been killed or is still fighting. Site feels that she cannot care for her littls daughter, who was born on Feb. 27. and is a little dear, and she is willing to give full surrender to -t couple who can convince her that the baby will have a good home and kind treatment." Necessarily Slow. A California youngster had been per mitted to visit a boy friend on the strict condition that he was to leave there at 5 o'clock, lie did not arrive home till 7 o'clock and his mother was very angry. The youngster insisted, however, that he had obeyed her or ders and had not lingered unneces sarily on the way. "Do you expo, t me to believe," said his mother, 'that it took you two hours to walk a quarter of a mile?" She reached for the whip. "Now, sir, will you tell me the truth?" "Ye-es, mamma." sobbed the boy. "Charlie Wilson gave me a mml turtle and 1 was afraid—to carry it—so 1 led it home." —St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A Sure Proof. "The new family who have just moved in have something in their lives they want to hide." "Why do you think so?" "Because their hired girl is deaf and dumb."—Baltimore American. OBSERVATION. It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science and in every pursuit in life. H (.man I knowledge is hut an accumulation of small facts made by successive generations of men —the little bits of knowledge and experience care fully treasured up by them growing at length into a mighty pyramid.— Samuel Smiles. V Lincoln's Funeral Coach. The first Pullman sleeping ear, con structed In 18<>4 In the shops of the Alton and Chicago and called the Pio neer. served as the funeral coach for President Lincoln. Its cost was $lB.- 000. which was regarded in those days as most extravagant, and as It ww higher and wider than the ordinary ears and the clearances of station plat forms and bridges when it was decid ed that it should be tlie funeral coach of the president many changes were Involved. Gangs of men were set work ing night and day to out wider clear ances all the way from Washington Yby way of New York and AJbany) to Springfield. 111. —Brooklyn Eagle. Small Anvils. The anvil that rings to the sturdy blacksmith's sledge may weigh 200. 300 or 40n pounds, but there are anvils whose weight is counted in ounces. These are used by Jewelers, silver smiths and various other workers. Counting shapes, sizes, styles of finish, and so on. these little anvils are made In scores of varieties, ranging in weight from fifteen ounces up to a number of pounds each. All the little anvils are of the finest steel. They are all trimly finished, often nickel plated, and those surfaces that are brought into use are made as smooth as glass. The Logic of IL The Yale freshman year was too expensive to father, so father decid ed to have a "heart to heart" talk with Johnny, home for the week end. "Now. son," said he gravely, but af fectionately, "your mother and I are spending just as little as we jiosslbly can. I get up in the morning at 0:30. and I work until after 5. But, son. the money just won't go round at*the rate that your expenses are running. Now. I ask you. as one man to another, what do you think we had better do?" For a moment Johnny's head was buried in thought, and then he replied: "Well, father, I don't see any way out but for you to work nights."—New York Post. Grande iiquoreria Vini. Grappa, Whiskey. Brandy e liquori d. tutte le specie. Voi facciamo qualità sopraffine in bibite i taliaue. Gli ordini vengono eseguiti con la massima sollecitudine ed accuratezza. Fate commissioni di prova. A. A. Irmann GRANDE WHOLESALE LIQCORS Ridar WB.y Pa.
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