Oiii in a Mil ill in D. Have you read the Consti tution of the United States? R. Yes. D. What form of Government is this? R. Republic. D. What is the Constitution of the United States? R. It is the fundamental law of this country. D. Who makes the laws of the United States? R. The Congress. D. What does Congress consist of? R. Senate and House of Rep resentatives. D. Who is the chief executive of the United States? R. President. * D. How long is the President of the United States elected? R. 4 years. D. Who takes the place of the President in ease he dies? R. The Vice President. D. What is his name? R. Thomas R. Marshall. D. By whom is the President of j the United States elected? R. By the electors. D. By whom are the electors elcted ? e R. By the people. D. Who makes the laws for the state of Pennsylvania. R. The Legislature. 1). What does the Legislature consist of? R. Senate and Assembly. 1). How many State in the un ion ? R. 48. D. When was the Declaration of Independence signed? R. July 4, 1776. D. By whom was it written? R. Thomas Jefferson. D. Which is the capital of the United States? R. Washington. D. Which is the capital of the state of Pennsylvania. R. Harrisburg. D. How many Senators has each state in the United States Senate? R. Two. KING AND QUEEN OF ROUMANIA. 1 —' Correcting a Mistake. "Are you troubled with headache?" "Certainly; you don't suppose I'm pleased with it!"— Exchange. I I D. By whom are they elected? R. By the people. D. For how long? R. 6 years. D. How many representatives are there? .. R. 435. According to the pop ulation one to every 211,000, (the ratio fixed by Congress after each decennial census.) D. For how long are they elect ed ? R. 2 years. D. How many electoral votes Ims the state of Pennsylvania? R. 38. D. Who is the chief executive of the state of Pennsylvania? R. The Governor. D. For how long is he elected? R. 4 years. D. Who is the Governor? R. Brumbaugh. D. Do you believe in organized government ? i R. Yes. D. Are you opposed to organiz j ed government? | R. No. D. Are you an anarchist? I R. No. D. What is an anarchist? R. A person who does not be- I j leve in organized government. D. Are you a bigamist or poll gamist? R. No. D. What is a bigamist or poly gan ist ? R One who believes in having movv than one wife. I ' 1). l)o you belong to any secret iSoiivi'y who teaches to disbelieve i in organized government? R. No. D. Have you ever violated any 1,-wf of the United States? R. No. D. Who makes the ordinances for the City ? R. The board of Aldermen. D. Do 3*ou intend to remain permanently in the U. S. ? R. Yes. Best stores advertise in The Patriot. • •• VaOSSip. There's only one thing worse than a person who gossips and that is the person who never knows any.—Life. CURIOUS SWISS LAWS. Some That Look With a Very Pene trating Eye Into the Future. There are in force in Switzerland certain laws, which, in the hands of the unscrupulous, may work great havoc with personal rights and liber ties, an exchange remarks. This is a point concerning which there can be no dispute. For instance, in most cantons men and women may be punished not only for what they have actually doDe In • the past, but also for what may pos sibly result in the future from what they have done. Suppose a man is spending week by week all that he earns. Then the local authorities, acting in conjunction with the local police, may send him to a penal workhouse on the pretext that his conduct is such that he may later become destitute, and therefore a bur den on the community. To be a burden on the community is i a crime. The result is a woman who wishes to be rid of her husband for a ' year or two—or a man of his wife — has only to persuade the local authori ties that unless he be forced to change his ways he may perhaps some day become destitute. A visitor once found In one workhouse a woman who was t-feere for two years at the request of her husband. How Letters Strike Our Eyes. Roman letters of various slze& are commonly called into request by ocu lists in testing vision. Recent experi ments show great differences in the ease with which the various letters are recognized by the same person. T is especially difficult of recognition and is apt to be mistaken for Y. By a sim ilar optical illusion the angle of L ir. rounded off. making the letter resem ble a reversed J. V is the easiest of all letters to recognize, and O presents little difficulty. K is more easily rec ognized than H. which resembles it ; ciosely. and both N and Z are easily recognized. A is easily guessed at j from its general form, but is difficult of positive recognition, including dis tinct perception of the horizontal line E and F are among the most difficult : of all letters. CHURCHES TO AID BABIES. New York State Makes June 20 "Child Welfare Sunday." As one feature of the 1013 education- ! fll campaign for the saving of babies' ' lives the New York state department of health has designated Sunday, June 20. as "child welfare day." Pastors of all denominations have been asked j to co-operate and are receiving from the department data upon which to base sermons. The educational campaign of the di vision of child hygiene of the depart ment of health last year brought about a decrease In the infant death rate from 137 to 112 for every thousand births. BOY IS WORTH TWO GIRLS. So Jury Decides In Assessing Damages For Deaths of Twins. In awarding $3,000 to Edward G. Benson of North Arlington. N. J., in his suit against a milk company a jury In Hudson county court Jersey City, decided that the value of a boy is just twice as great as the value of a girl. Benson sued the milk company foi $lOO,OOO damages for the deaths of hi* three-month-old twins, a boy and a girl. He said there were ptomaines in i milk he bought After deliberating two hours the jury agreed the boy's life was worth $2,000 and the girl's $l,OOO. QUEEN TO MAKE GAS MASKS. Margherita of Italy Sets 2,000 Noble women to Work. The Dowager Queen Margherita of Italy has become chairman of a com mittee of more than 2.000 women of the nobility who have undertaken the task of supplying the army with masks to i ward off asphyxiation gases. The mask has been invented by Sen ator Clamlcian. professor of chemistry at Bologna university. Reading History. He who reads history learns to dis tinguish what is local from what is , universal, what is transitory from 1 what is eternal; to discriminate be tween exceptions and rules, to trace , the operation of disturbing causes, to j separate the general principles which are always true and everywhere ap- j plicable from the accidental circum stances with wliich in every commu nity they are blended and with which, in au isolated community, they are confounded by the most philosophical mind. Hence it is that in generalization j the writers of modern times have far surpassed those of antiquity.—Macau lay. How to Throw the Spitball. A spitball is thrown just opposite to an ordinary curve. Instead of giving the rotary motion with the fingers, it is given with the thumb. The thumb is placed firmly against a seam, and the saliva is applied to the ball be neath the fingers. The ball Is thrown overhanded. and slipping easily from beneath the moistened fingers, but gripped firmly by tlie thumb agains; the seam, a sharp rotary motion is giv en to the ball. When properly thrown a sharp break is secured, the direction of the break depending upon the angle , at which the ball is released. The ball ; is controlled by the thumb.—American Boy. " I RURAL AMERICA. Our Country •• It Was In tho Tima mi George Washington. The America of Washington's day was primitively, racily rural. Tha country outnumbered the city thirty to one. It outvoted and outinfluenced the city. The country was countrified without urban qualities or depend encies. Not even the cities themselves were citified. Philadelphia, the great st of them all, with the finest shops, ' the best houses, the most extravagant people, was but a poor, small triangle of houses, with its base on the Dela ware and its apex stretching timidly i toward the west. Its people, though reputed gay and luxurious, went early to bed. rose early and were without the opportunities and distractions of modern urban life. There were no great factories, no armies of workmen, no extended commerce, no horse cars, no omnibuses, no sharp differentiation i of the city Into business and residence sections. Like envious New York and aspiring Boston, Philadelphia was still half rural. A great city was not desired noi even contemplated. To "the fathers" the very conception had in it some thing unwholesome. A city was a dwelling place of turbulent, Impious. Ignorant mobs, of a congregation of "unproductive" artisans, wastrels, crim inals, Sabbath breakers. It was a blister on the social body, a tumor which absorl>ed the healthy juices. The city was vaguely associated with royalties, courts, armies, beggars and tattered, insolent, rascally mobs; the country was the cradle of republican virtue and democratic simplicity. Jef ferson, having in mind the squalid ag glomerations of the old countries, con gratulated America on being rural. De Tocqueville in the thirties believed that the absence of a great capital city was "one of the first causes of the maintenance of Republican institu tions." —Walter Weyl in Harper's Mag azine. SHIP CANALS. Each Has Troubles of Its Own That Require Constant Care. Leave any ship canal alone for even ! a year and it would no longer be fit for navigation. Within five years a small 1 boat would be unable to go through it. j The United States has anxieties over | the Culebra cut in the Panama, but not; more so than the Germans over their ! waterway, the Kiel canal, for the ground through which the latter is cut Is in most places nothing but peat rotten black stuff which keeps on breaking up and falling back into the canal. Also the bottom continually "bumps up," thus lowering the depth of the passage. The craft that use the Kiel canal have to crawl along. They say that if a cruiser were to make a dash through at top speed it would take a 3*ear and several millions of money to remedy the damage done by her stern wave. Each canal has its own special trou bles. That of the Panama is land slides. Many have taken place during ! its construction. Many more will have to be dealt with in coming years. It is estimated that if the dredging work on the Suez were abandoned within less than ten years the Turks or any one else could cross it dryshod. On both sides of the canal stretch miles of dry : desert, from which every wind that blows lifts the sand In edging spirals and carries it in great clouds. A .sin gle storm may drop a thousand tons of sand into one mile of the canal. Of late years a great quantity of trees have been planted along the banks in order to prevent the sand •from drifting into the water, yet even so great steam dredgers are always at work scooping from the bottom the blown in sand and dumping it along the shore. Another trouble of those ID charge of the Suez canal is caused by fresh water springs, which buret up in its deep bed and pile the sand in ridges —Exchange. Master of Many Tongues. Elfhu Burritt. the "learned black smith," was born in Connecticut in 1810. Burritt taught himself French , Latin. German, Italian, Greek and He brew while an apprentice at the forge i and in early manhood mastered San skrit, Syriac, Arabic, Norse. Spanish. Dutch. Polish, Bohemian and Turkish. Chinese and minor languages were ac quired later until he was able to read. ! write and speak in sixty different tongues. Some Burned Letters. Sir Walter Scott once made an itin erary of the borders, in the course of which he wrote a lawyer friend in Ed inburgh a close and realistic account of everything he heard and observed, ev ery quaint location and droll custom. But the stupid heirs of the recipient of these priceless epistles consigned them to the flames and thus rendered what would have been a charming look im possible. Pleasant Employment. Stubbs—You? old friend, Weary - leigh, has got him a job at last that is exactly to his liking. Grubbs—You don't say so? Stubbs —Yes. He is em ployed by a big dairy company, and his duty is to wait till the cows come home.—Richmond Times-Dispatch. A Matter of Location. "When I was a boy," said Mr. Wa terstoek. "I wanted to go to sea and be a pirate." "And you changed your mind." re plied Miss Cayenne, "to the extent of deciding to remain on land."—Wash ington Star. You will never "get there" if yon art content just to "get by."—Youth's Com panion. , I Suspected of Intriguing in Mexican Affairs I 1 Photo by American Press Association. VICTORIANO HUERTA. T rademarks. A trademark is a registration of a word or design attached to goods of a certain trader making it clear to the I public that they are his manufacture and that nobody but he can use that I same trademark. Its use is almost in dispensable in the commercial world, I and this Can be realized better when ; one knows what its functions are in I respect to the trader and his customers. In the first place, being a certificate of genuineness, it protects the public. Secondly, being an identifying mark, the trader is protected by the law against any competitor who endeavors to trade on another's name or goods. Trademarks were issued as far back as the time of James I.—London Mail. CHINESE HUMOR. The Story of the Careless Man and His Puzzled Servant. There was a man who was careless and unobserving. Once, when he was gotng abroad, he hastily pulled on his shoes, ready to hasten away, when, to his surprise, he found that one of his legs had suddenly become longer than the other. He was both puzzled and frightened, for he said to himself: "What can be the matter? When I last walked my legs were the same length. How queer it is! I have met with no acci dent nor has any one cut a piece from my foot palm." He felt his legs and then his feet to solve the mystery. At last he discov ered the mistake to be in his shoes, tor he had put on one shoe with a thick sole and one with a thin sole. "These shoes are odd ones and not a pair," said he. So he called loudly for his servant and ordered him quick ly to change his boots. The servant went into the room to bring the master's boots, but after a little time came back with a much puzzled expression on his face. His master sternly demanded the boots for which he had sent him. but received for his answer: "Dear master, it is very strange, but there is no use for me to change your boots, for when 1 examined the pair of boots in the room I fouud that they are just like the pair you have on. foi one has a thick sole and the other a thin sole."—Chinese Fun and Philoso pby, in SL Nicholas. 1 Pasturing One Person. How much land does it take to sup port a cow or a horse or a hog? Rath er important questions to every one of us. but not so important as the query: How much land does it take to sup port a person ? A recent survey made by the United i States government in Ohio seems to show that it costs on the average $lO7 to board and house each person on the farm. That is. the husband, wife and three children must have an income of i if they live as well as the average. This is the income in dollars, and the examination—on forty-four farms—in dicates that it takes forty acres to "pasture" a person.—Farm and Fire side. Asking Too Much. "If at the end of the first year of your married life,' said the bride's father, "you can convince me that you have been a good husband and have made my daughter happy. 1 will give you $3,000." "Another of these people," said the groom when he was "alone again, "who think a ,man will do anything for money." Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tele graph. DEEP SEA FISHES. Soma That Gat Along With Only Ona Meal or So a Yaar. Tbere are more than 50,000.000 square miles covered by a depth of three miles of sea, but eveu at this great depth— where the pressure of the water above would instantly crush a man's body to pulp—there is a great world of life. Many of the fish and other creatures of the deep are blind. They are, however, able to see by moans of the lights which they carry themselves. The "lamps" are little organs dotted over the body, and with the light from them, which is made in much the same marvelous way as the glow worm's, they can use their bulging eyes to see what is going on about them. Rut even with the ready made light ing apparatus and telescope eyes It is i a difficult business fiuding a dinner, so the fish have jaws with an enormous gape and a stomach so elastic that they can accommodate a larger fish than these voracious eaters themselves. When they have made such a cap fure they retire for something like a year's meditation to digest the meal, two or three of which are sufficient to last an average lifetime.—London An swers. First Straw Hats. The first hat of straw to be worn in the United States appeared in 1800. Straw had been used before to thatch houses, but not the heads of civilized citizens. It made comfortable bedding for cattle and was stuffed in sacks to increase the softness of the pine boards used by men and women to sleep on. I But straw for the head? Never! It might do for the tropical savages, but not for the inhabitants of the great zone in which the progressive nations lived. Previous to 1900 men had worn felt and cloth hats. And it was not till the time of Elizabeth that men began to wear hats at all. in distinction from caps and bonnets. The blossoming of literature in the Elizabethan period was contemporary with the building of brims on bead coverings and their transmogrification into hats. —Philadel- phia Ledger. A Prize Baby. Little Minnie was having a birthday party, and some of the little guests were discussing the merits of the ba bies in their homes. "My little sister is only five months old." remarked Annie, "and she has two teeth." "My ltitle sister," said Nellie, "is only six months old and she has three." Minnie was silent for a moment, then she burst forth: "My little sister hasn't got any teeth yet, but when she does have some they're going to be gold ones!" —New York Times. His Mother's Son. At the annual prize day of a certain school the head boy rose to give his recitation. "Friends, Romans, countrymen," he vociferated, "lend me your ears!" "There," commented the mother of a defeated pupil sneeringly, "that's Mrs. Jones' boy! He wouldn't be his mother's son if he didn't want to bor row something."—Kansas City Star. Brooklyn Nsvy Yard. The Brooklyn navy yard was estab lished Feb. 23. 1801. when the first land, twenty-three acres, was bought from one John Jackson for $40,000. The yard now comprises 144 acres and has a waterfront of nearly three miles, protected by a sea wall of granite.— New York American. I How He Got Hie Clothee. Mrs. Oldfam—Do you belong to many clubs. Mr. Clymer? Mr. Clymer—Only a suit club. Mrs. Oldfam. but we call It a "coterie."—Philadelphia Bulletin. IT WAS A "JIM" POEM. But That Was Not the Only Reaaon Why Riley Liked It. James Whitcomb Riley and Joel Chandler Harris figure In a story told by a writer In the New York Sun They had sought rest and recuperation in a hotel among the southern moun tains and wished to avoid the attempts of the other guests to lionize them. Much against their wills, however, they were constrained to appear at a "reading" from their own works, after having been routed from a secluded spot in the woods to which they had retired. A young elocutionist had the center of the stage when they got to the ho tel. She led off by announcing a poem by Mr. Riley. She recited it It was about somebody named Jim. Riley looked impressed. "Would you mind," he said when Btoe had finished, "reciting that again?" She did not mind, and went at It Riley wiped a tear away as she finish ed. Then he said. "Please recite it again, if you will." She did ft the third time, and Rilej was even more affected. "Do you know," he said, after she | had ended. "1 like that poem. It's a Jim poem. 1 always liked Jim poem- My own name is Jim. I always re;:d Jim poems. I have written several Jim poems myself. But do you knon why I like this Jim poem better than an}* other?" The young woman eagerly asked why. The assembled guests leaned forward breathlessly to hear the an swer. "I like it," said Riley, "because it al ways reminds me of my dear old friend, Eugene Field. Eugene Field is the Tnfln who wrote that poem, you know!"
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