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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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!"