THE PATRIOT Published Weekly By THE PATRIOT PUBLISHING COMPANY. Office: No. 15 Carpenter Avenue Marshall Building, INDIANA, PENNA Local Phone 250-Z F. BIAMONTE, Editor and Manager Y. ACETI, Italian Editor. Entered as second-class matter September 26, 1914, at the postoffice at Indiana, Pennsyivf.nia, under the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION ONE YEAR . . $l.OO | SIX MONTHS. . ' $5O Tbe Aim of tbe Foreign Langoage Papers of America TO HELP PRESERVE THE IDEALS AND SACRED TRAD ITIONS OF THIS,"OUR ADOPTED COUNTRY, THE UNITED * ' * STATES OF AMERICA; TO REVERE ITS LAWS AND IN SPIRE OTHERS TO OBEY THEM; TO STRIVE UNCEASING m LY TO QUICKEN THE PUBLIC'S SENSE OF CIVIC DUTY; IN ALL WAYS TO AID IN MAKING THIS COUNTRY GREAT ER AND BETTER THAN WE FOUND IT. HE GUESSED RIGHT. Now See if You Can Tell Which Fair One He Selected. A certain Turk, according to the story, was once married to a veiled lady in white in the presence of the sultan. As soon as the ceremony was concluded the bride mysteriously dis appeared. The gToom was led into an adjoining room, where stood twelve ladies all dressed in white, but without veils. "Choose from the twelve." exclaimed the sovereign, "her that is yonr bride." Ae the ma* had never seen her face the command bewildered bim. "If you make a mistake," added hi* majesty, "yonr life shaH pay the for feit." The poor KUUQ walked up and down the row of beauties, but saw nothing whatever to aid his choice. "You have only a minute left." yell ed the softa* la anger. "Choose at onae!" Ten of the ladies, the man noticed, gave bina nothing else than a stony stare. One of the remaining two frowned, the other smiled. "The frowning one," he thought, "is my bride, for she expresses her displeas ure and impatience at my ignorance. "No," he said to himself; "it must be the sxniling one, for she desires to in vite* me to her." After debating the subject in his mind untH his time was up he boldly made a selection from the two. He was successful. He had regained his bride. Which was she—the one who frowned or the one who smiled? In Sympathy. The two men had met at a dinner party and were talking in a corner by themselves. "You see that tall woman with the sharp nose and the critical eye?" ask ed one of them. "Yes," said the other quietly. "Well, I"ve watched her for quite awhile. She's always got her uose into somebody's business. She's the last woman I'd marry." "Which shows how strangely in sym pathy we are." said the other without resentment "She's the last woman J did marry "—Exchange. The Lacking Stroke. "Do you think it would improve my style." inquired the varsity man who had got into the crew through favor itism. "if 1 were to acquire a faster stroke?" "It would improve the crew," replied the candid trainer, "if you got a para lytic stroke."—Loudoii-TL- Bits. Trapping Baboons. Hagenbeck in bis book, says that bab oons are caught in traps made much like the huts of savages. Food is put Into the huts, and once the baboons go Inside a trapdoor closes behind them. Outside baboons make a great to do and urge the prisoners to escape. When the trappers come the captured baboons are terror stricken and try to Yorce their heads through the walls of the huts. One baboon was caught .three times In the same trap, and sev eral when turned loose got back into tbe same trap a second time. When the baboons are carried away all their comrades thereabout climb into trees and scream out to the prisoners, who answer in sad, mournful voices. On oos occasion some big Arabian baboons yrrrm trapped, when 2,000 or 3,000 bab •ens hurled themselves upon the trap pers, who had hard work to save them selves with firearms and clubs. As the trappers were forced back Use Victori ans baboons tore up the trap and torn ad loose tbe captured baboons. • Easily Arranged. A man took the following telegram to a telegraph office: "Mrs. Brown. Center Street: 1 announce with grief tbe death of Uncle James. Come quickly to read tbe will. 1 believe we are his heirs John Black." Tbe telegraph clerk, having eounted tbe words, said. "There are two words too many, sir ** "Cut out 'with grief,'" was the re ply.—Chicago News. How Much Iron Can We Make? Iron furnaces of this country, in cluding all in blast or idle, could, ac cording to the Iron Age, "apparently produce about 40.000,000 tons if they remained in blast a year." This would be 9,000,000 tons above the maximum calendar year output. The Iron Age doubts, however, if all the furnaces could stay in blast a full year, and suggests a trifle over 38,000,000 tons as maximum capacity. Very Annoying. "I can t bear these naea novelists," declared one lady. "\Yhy not?" tbe other inquired. "They calmly tell you that the hero ine wore a gown which fascinated a duke and not a word as to what it was made of or how it was trimmed."— Louisville Courier-Journal. "Your leading lady is not true to We." "What's tbe matter?" "In the first act she receives a tele gram, and you have her open it with out fear or trembling."—Detroit Free Press. Make yourself an honest man, and then yon may be sure there is one ''ess rascal in the world.—Carlyle. Negative Suggestion. Legend tells of a Hindu fakir who seemed to have a working knowledge of practical psychology and made him self rich selling plain wicker baskets in the streets of Calcutta. The peculiar virtue of the baskets, he explained to the buyers, lay in the fact that if one filled his basket with ordi nary pebbles, placed himself in a re ceptive attitude of mind and stirred them with a stick for an hour, each and every pebble would be transmitted into a nugget of gold—provided the stirrer did not think of a hippopotamus while stirring. The baskets were sold, but the idea of a hippopotamus was so firmly fixed in the minds of all the purchasers that not one of them ever had legitimate grounds on which to demand his mon ey back. Colloquialisms. One of the most common surprises in reading is to come across in old books what we have been accustomed to tak ing for modern colloquialisms. Wc have just struck this: "Why. then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a rod?" Where? In Epictetus. The modern form is likely to be a poker, but we bad always looked upon th whole image as essentially American. It is in reading the Elizabethans that this experience is most frequent, al though one is likely to have it in read ing any classic. The best colloquial isms are likely to be the oldest. —Har- per's Weekly. 1 e Eskimo Baby. The clotl.- mg of the Eskimo baby is often very scanty. In fact, one occa sionally sea baby being carried in its mother < hood with only a cotton shirt on. d< :>ite the fact that the ther mometer i - isters 20 degrees below zero. The mother's hood is the baby' 9 cradle. B -'mg made of seal or deer skin, it is w;Lrm and wind proof. The infant aist has the benefit of the heat of its mother's body and is oat of harm's war. If it were laid in a bas ket cradle In the tent it would be very much in the way and would always be in dan rer of falling a prey to the wolfish Eskimo dogs that prowl round the door by day and night, ever ready to pick up a dainty morsel. Mercurial. The adl- rive mercurial, Bse man? others, carte into ordinary speech front the realm <rf astrology. In astrological language a mercurial man was ODO born under the influence of Mercury when Mercury was in the ascendant and theref'Tc possessed of the mental qualities fu, posed to distinguish the heathen. Strength of Boot- Hundred of bees can hang one to another w at tearing away the feet of the npp r one. PENNSYLVANIA NEWS IN BRIEF Interesting Items From All Sec tions ot the State. GULLED FOR QUICK READING News of All Kinds Gathered From Various Points Throughout the State. Cumberland county contemplates building a new insane asylum. A textile factory, to employ 1000 persons is to locate at Edgley. The Duplan Silk Mills at Hazleton have barred all drinking employes. Barnesboro, Cambria county, is promised a new $60,000 government building. B. S. Winegardner was drowned when his wagon skidded into a creek at Three Springs. Governor Brumbaugh has appointed Dr. H. M. Keller a trustee oi the State hospital at Hazleton. Lancaster county began the new year with a cash balance oi $254,255.80 and ali 1915 bills paid. George J. Palmer, oi West Chester, was robbed cf a $2500 motor car while on a visit to Philadelphia. Thieves have taken 400 fowls from roosts in and near Mooredaie, Cum berland county, in three days. Mrs. J oka Hoffman, seventy-one years old, of Mt. Holly Springs, is cutting her third set of teeth. The winter meeting of the state board of agriculture will be held at the cap.toi January 26 and 27. Cajght under falling coal at Park colliery, near Mahanoy City, John Kelmelis was crushed to death. Pills bought at a medicine show al most caused the death of Mrs. Newton Holland, of Shrewsbury, York county. Thirty Mount Holly Springs citizens have pledged $5OOO to obtain a kitchen utensil industry to employ fifty hands. Kicked on the head by a mule at Turkey Run colliery, Stephen Kruss zisky, aged nineteen, was instantly killed. Steps for arrest of adl barbers keep ing shops open on Sunday were start ed in HarriBburg by the journeymen barbers. A jury at Rigeway found Mike Zam bellino guilty in the second degree in the murder of Mike Malak, also of Ridgeway. Falling under a Lehigh Valley coal train while attempting to board it at Delano, William Riddle, a brakeman, was killed. Gunning in a woods near his home at Gratersford, Edwin Mayberry shot a handsome gray fox. He is having it mounted. The York hospital will receive $5,000 under the will of Henry M. Smyser, a bachelor, to establish a ward for the care of children. Hazleton region mine operators will not discharge men of large families to avoid increased liability under the compensation law. Citizens in all walks of life and the collieries suspended operations to attend the funeral of Coal Operator James at Shenandoah. The" Frog, Switch and Manufactur ing company, of Carlisle, will indem nify its own injured workmen and share profits with them. In poor health, Elmer Copenhaver, aged twenty-three, of Lebanon, com mitted suicide by shooting himself in the head while in bed. Banking Commissioner Smith has called for statements cf the 1876 build ing and loan associations of Pennsyl vania, as of December 31. Harry Klapper, of Hazleton, is host to a cousin aged sixteen, who escaped from conscription agents of the Rus sian government in Poland. When a ladder broke, Mrs. Gottfried Pfadt, of Erie, fell, crushing to death hex son, Gerald, three years old, who was climbing up behind her. The state department of agriculture reports less than one per cent of the staple groceries sold in the state dur ing the year were adulterated. William Deis, stricken with appen dicitis while snowballing, died wit in two hours after being operated upon at the Hazleton State hospital. Rev. S. L. Flickinger, pastor of the Marysville and Duncannon Reformed churches for,nine years, has accepted a call to Shepherdstown, W. Va. Philip Lisnki braved a strong cur rent in the Delaware river and saved Francis Riddle from drowing when the latter fell from a pier at Chester. With $3490 in its treasury, the Cum berland Valley Railroad Relief asso ciation decided to collect no dues from Its hundreds of members for Febru ary. Traffic over the Philadelphia divis ion of the Pennsylvania railroad for December shows a twenty-five per cent increase over that of December, 1914. Papers have been signed whereby the state has secured the stock of the Slippery Rock State Normal school, the sixth of thirteen in the state. The Lehigh Valley Coal company has appealed to court from the assess ment of $2OOO an acre on its anthracite land lying within the Hazleton city limits. As a result of a beating which her husband is alleged to have inflictei, Mrs. George Smith is lying near the point of death near Blttersville, York county. Margaret Reese, twenty-one years old, was t'jund wandering about the streets of Pittsburgh. She cannot tell where her home is or anything of her past life. The state fisheries department has seized 11,000 pounds of fish taken from Lake Erie with illegal nets by a Toledo fishing boat, and prosecution will follow. Miss Helen Glenn, state supervisor of mothers' pension activity, has as sumed her duties at Harrisburg, and will have general charge of the pen sion system. The Connelsville board of education decided to resume medical inspection and elected Dr. Katherine Wakefield medical inspector for the remainder of the term. Court in Cambria county permitted minors to wed on condition that the fifteen-year-old bride should take charge of her young husband's $5OO bank account. Lancaster district revenue receipts for December show a large falling off, compared with November, cigars alone yielding $48,000 less, owing to the holiday shutdown. Walter Biggs, of Pleasantville, N. J., is in the Chester hospital suffer ing with ccncussicn of the brain as a result of a fall from a pole when his climbers failed to take hold. Mrs. E'e?nor Hutchinson Degolier, aged e'gh y-six, a "prominent resident of Brad rj, and the mother of ex- Mayor Spencer E. Degolier, has died of injur is In a full down stairs. The first of traehema in Con nellsville was found when the board of health quarantined Mary Crusko and her son, George, eighteen years old. The disease is highly infectious. The Packet Grantville, belonging to the Mississippi Navigation company, burned to the water's edge while moored at Lysle landing in the Ohio river at Pittsburgh. The loss is $lO,- 000. After serving fifty years as a tele graph operator on the mountain top between McConnellsburg and Bedford, along the Philadelphia-Pittsburgh pike, Thomas F. Sloan retired with the old year. August Tailley, a coal miner, of Bulger, was found murdered in his home. The house was ransacked and gave evidence of a terrific struggle be fore the old man was murdered and robbed. The Marianna mines, at Charlerof are being put in shape for reopening after a suspension of over a year. Em ployment checks have been issued and orders are ahead for a run of several months. Unfless bankruptcy papers are filed against J. V. Thompson, at Uniontown, by January 15, a half-million-dcllar judgment secured by a relative in Pittsburgh becomes a first lien on his property. Twenty boys, some of them the sole support of their widowed mothers, were discharged at the collieries cf the. A. S. Van Wickle estate, in Cole raine, because they are under sixteen years of age. Thirty heboes given lodging in the central police station in Pittsburgh tanked up on liquid developer used in the Bertillon room. Six of them were so full they were unable to ap pear at the hearings. Miss Mabel Weaver, Nickville, Ve nango county, shot and killed herself at the horns of her half brother, Wil liam Armstrong, in Pittsburgh, when she received a letter lrcm home say ing her father was dying. A postoflice inspector has taken charge of Deacy Piker, twelve years old, and Clarence Sweeney, ten, ac cused of having broken into and rob bed the Ccnemaugh postoflice. The loot was a few dollars, a box cf candy and a dozen briar pipes. Judge J. A. McLaughry, at Sharon has continued the Mercer county li cense court until January 31. There are about forty applicants, includ ng wholesalers. This is the first license ccurt in which Judge McLaughry wi 1 preside. He has always had a lean ing toward temperance. Announcement was made at Nation al Guard headquarters in Harrisburg of the promotion of Second Lieuten ants Ira George Ryan to be first lieu tenant of Company A, e'ghth infant ry, York, and Edward Smeltzer, to he first lieutenant of Company G, six teenth infantry, Erie. West Chester is in the grasp of grip to an extent never before ex perienced. Every physician is caring for dozens of patients. It is estimat ed that there have been 2000 persons ill with the disease in the last two weeks. There has been a lar:e num ber of deaths among the aged. Fearing a penitentiary sentence, ac cording to a story he told friends, be cause he had been arrested on New Year's day at Taylor, near Kittanning, for shooting Stephen Grogovski, twen ty-eight years old, committed suicide Monday by jumping off a bridge into the Allegheny river at East Brady. Sarah E. Rodgers, Myron K. Rodg ere, Anna Rodgers Furness, Joseph H. Rodgers, Elizabeth Rodgers Kind, W. P. Rodgers, Roeetta Rodgers, Samuel C. Rodgers, Patti Rodgers Harrison and John Rodders, of Fi.llowf.ell township, have sued the county for $BO,OOO damages for a plot of half an acre taken by the Weshingt n school board. Viewers awarded them $550. A North Wales weman wrote to an agency In Philadelphia for a go-cart. Some wag turned the letter to an automobile salesman and he ap peared at North Wales in a $l4OO au tomobile, which he started to demon strate to the prospective g -cart pur chaser. He had explained all the good points of his machine before he was mad® acquainted with the facts. AVanted— Girl for general housework. Small family, no chil dren. Foreign girl preferred. In quire at Patriot office. AVanted —Laborers and chippers Inquire Boilings & Andrews Con struction Co., Blackliek, Pa. DESERTED VESSELS. Mysterious Wanderers Mariners at Times May Meet at Sea. At least once in my life I have had the good fortune to board a deserted vessel at sea. I say "good fortune" because it has left me the memory of a singular impression. I have felt a ghost of the same thing two or three times since then when peeping through the doorway of an abandoned house, writes Wilbur Daniel Steele in Har per's Magazine. Now, that vessel was not dead. She was a good vessel, a sound vessel, eveu a handsome vessel, in her blunt browed, coastwise way. She sailed under four lowers across as blue and glittering a sea as I have ever known, and there was not a point i.i her sailing that one could lay a or aas wrong. And yet passiug that r oner at two miles one knew sorueho-v ihct no hand was on her wheel. times 1 can imag ine a vessel stricken like that moving over the empty spaces of the sea carry ing it off quite well were it for for that indefinable suggestion of a stagger, and I can think oi' all those ocean gods, in whom no landsman will ever believe, looking at one another and tapping their foreheads with just the shadow of a smile. I wonder if they all scream—these ships that have lost their souls? Mine screamed. We heard her voice like nothing 1 have ever heard before, when we rowed under her counter to read her name—the Marionette it was of Halifax. I remember how it made me shiver, there in the full blaze of the sun, to hear her going on so, railing and screaming in that stark fashion. And I remember, too, how our footsteps, pattering through the vacant internals in search of that haggard utterance, made me think of the footsteps of hurrying warders roused in the night. And we found a parrot in a cage; that was all. It wanted water. We gave it water and went away to look things over, keeping pretty close to gether, all of us. In the quarters the table was set for four. Two men had begun to eat, by the evidence of the plates. Nowhere in the vessel was there any sign of disorder, except one sea chest broken out, evidently in haste. Her papers were gone, and the stern davits were empty. That is how the case stood that day, and that is how it stood to this. I saw this same Marionette a week later, tied up In a noboken dock, where she awaited news from her owners. But even there, in the midst of all the watei front bustle, I could not get rid of the feeling that she was still very far away—in a sort of shippish other world. Tbe thing happens now and then. Sometimes half a dozen years will go by without a solitary wanderer of this sort crossing the ocean paths, and then in a single season perhaps several of them will turn up, vacant waifs, im passive and mysterious. WRITING ON METALS. By the Use of Wax and Acids fetofifngs May Easily Be Made. Usually a man attempts to put his name on his metal possessions bj scratching with a file or knife point and makes the poorest sort of a job It is really very easy to write on anj metal—the blade of a jackknife, watchcase. skates—lf one happens to know how, and the attractiveness of the inscription is limited only by tbe artistic ability of the individual Cover the place where you wish to write with a thin coating of melted beeswax. When the wax is cold write plainly with any pointed instrument being particular to cut the letters through the wax to the metaL Then mix one ounce of muriatic acid and one-half of an ounce of nitric acid, or smaller quantities in the eame pre portions (and remember that those adds are deadly poisons), and apply tbe mixture to the lettering with • feather, carefully filling each letter. Allow the acids to remain from one lo len minutes, according as the etch ing is to be light or deep. Next dip tbe article in water, wash out tbe acids and melt off the wax. and tbe thing la done. A little oil should be applied as a finishing touch. Gold. 6ilver, iron or steel can be marked in this way.— Youth's Companion. John H. Pierce, Attorney. APPLICATION FOR ORDER OF PRI VATE SALE OF REAL ESTATE. Notice is hereby given that an applica tion will be made to the Orphans' Court of Indiana county, on Monday, January 17, 1916. by Salvatore La Mantia. administra tor of Domenica Antonuccio. late of Creek side borough. Indiana county. Pa., deceas ed, for an order to make private sale of all the right, title, interest ami claim of the said decedent in the following describ ed real estate: All that certain piece, par eel or lot of ground, situate in the borough of Creekside, in the couuty of Indiana, and state of Pennsylvania, bounded and de scribed as follows, to-wit: Beginning at a point iji the uorfhern line of Main street, at the southeast corner of lot 48; thence northerly along the eastern line of lot 48, I 131.5 feet, more or less to an alley; thence easterly along the southern line of said al j ley. 40 feet, more or less, to westerly line j of lot 44; tnence southerly along the west ! ern line of lot 44, 132 feet, more or less. ( to the northern line of said Main street: : thence westerly along the northern line of suid Main street 40 feet, more or less, to ; the place of beginning, being lot No. 47 i | the J. W. Osterhout plot of lots in said I borough of Creekside. formerly the village I of East Newville; having thereon erected a dwelling house and store room combined. | badly damaged by an explosion, and other ! outbuildings (being the same lot of ground i which Frank E. Groft and Mary E. Groft. his wife, agreed to convey to the said Do menica Antonuccio. iu her lifetime, by their agreement, dated May 5, 1915. recorded is the office for the recording of deeds. Ac., in and for Indiana couuty. in Deed Book Vol. 146. page 121, upon which agreement there still remains unpaid the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars ($125.00), 1 of the purchase money), to Pietro Anto nnucclo for the sum of two hundred and seventy-five ($275.00) Dollars, cash on con firmation of sale and delivery of deed. SALVATORE LA MANTIA. Administrator. ! December 24. 1915. Juo. 11. Pierce, Attorney. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Letters of administration on the estate of Domenica Antonuccio. late of Creekside borough, deceased, having been granted the undersigned, those having claims against said estate are requested to present them duly authenticated for settlement, and those knowing themselves to be Indebted are re quested to make prompt payment. SALVATORE LA MANTIA, Administrator. December 24, 1915. AUDITOR'S NOTICE Tbe undersigned, an auditor appointed by the Orphans' Court of Indiana county, to settle, adjust and report distribution of money in the hands of The Savings & Trust Co. of Indiana. Pa., administrator of estate of John Koust. late <tf Homer Cit>4 borough, deceased, hereby gives no tice that he will attend to the duties of his appointment, at his office in The Savings A- Trust Co. building, in the borough of Indiana. Pa., on Tuesday. January IS, 1916, at 10 o'clock, a. in., when and where all persons Interested may attend if they see proper. WILLIAM N. LIGGETT, Auditor. Indiana, Pa., Dec. 21, 1915. JOHN H. PIERCE - AVVOCATO AVYISO DI AMMINISTRATORE Lettera di amministratore sul po dere di Domenica Anlonucci, deces sa, lotto sito Dei Uoniune di Creeksi de. Avendoci perinesso it sottoscritto quanto appresso, avvisiamo tutti eo loro eke vantano diritti sul detto po dere, sono rickiesti a presentarsi per autenticare !i credito, come pari menti avvisiamo tutti coloro eke so no in debito di fare un sollecito j>a gamento. Dicembre 24, 1915. Salvatore La Mantia, Amministratore 1 SALE Old Mil IDS. Advertisements undi r this head le a word each insertion. FOR SALE—Corner lot in Chevy Chase, 65x150, for further informa tion, apply at this office. FOR SALE—Horse, buggy arid harness. Inquire August .Surid berg. Horner City. i'a. WANTED —Sla i>h or Polish men, well acquah ed in Indiana and mine camps. Can make $25 to $3O per week. ( all 15 Carpen ter avenue, Indiana, Pa. FOR SALE —C< d automobile, 1914 Vulcan Road ter. A-l run ning condition. Will demonstrate. Sacrifice, $250. Need money. Call or write J. M., car#- "Patriot," 15 Carpenter avenue, Indiana, Pa. WANTED —Carpenters. Will pay according to merits. Inquire a4 this office. m trade noHrka and cop obtained or no 55 fee. Stud model, eketc - - r photoa and de- CM 9 ecription for FRCE £ r .ARCH and report K § PATENTS BUIL' FORTUNES for j J9 and rare you money. V ' '• -day. IRSWIF&fJIJ K PATENT I- .""r; as f y? 203 Sc-'enth **t., si ingicn, P. C GLI UOMINI D'AFFARI D'OGGI Pagano buon salario ai loro datillografi, contabili ed' assisten ti di ufficio, ma loro debbou essere competenti. Nella nostra scuola si da' istruzione individuale tutti i giorni e quando il graduato e' competente riceverà' un buon sa lario. Corso completo in Inglese tutti i rami commerciali. Catalogo gra tis dietro richiesta. 6o —Piano —Lincoln Bldg. Telefoni—Bell 269. J. City 1352. J ohnstown, Pa.
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