t THE PATRIOT Published Weekly By THE PATRIOT PUBLISHING COMPANY. Office: No. 15 Carpenter Avenue f Marshall Building. INDIANA, PENNA N Local Phone 250-Z F. BIAMONTE, Editor and Manager V. ACETI, Italian Editor. Entered as second-class matter September 26, 1914, at the postoffice at Indiana, Pennsylvania, under the of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION ONE YEAR . . $l.OO | SIX MONTHS. . $5O The Aim of the Foreign langnage Papers ot 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 THEM; To STRIVE UNCEASING-^ LY TO QUICKEN THE PUBLIC'S SENSE OF CIVIC DUTY; I.N ALL WAYS TO AID IN MAKING TIIIS COUNTRY GREAT ER AND BETTER THAN WE FOUND IT. | EDITORIAL •' j Booming Our Farms Sometime ago the matter of organizing a Farm Bureau in Indiana county was taken up. Some people strongly favored the project, others opposed it. The Patriot favor ed it, and continues to favor it. Indiana county ranks among the best agricultural re gions in this great, wide state of Pennsylvania. Smaller counties have worked miracles in expanding their agricult ure through the farm bureaus and it is easy to realize what wonders could be worked through the medium of a farm bureau here. The Farm Bureau builds trade. It brings the business man and the agriculturist to a closer relationship. It creat es a more thorough understanding between them. Through it the farmer and business man more readily adjust their difficulties, agree on prices, on shipping facilities and re frigeration methods. The business man obtains information concerning af fairs of the farm; the farmer in turn obtains information regarding the town and the city, the railroads, mills and factories. He also can obtain advice on modern methods of farm operations and other matters of importance to him. Bureau managers, known as extension agents, are en gaged to act as an information source for the business man and the farmer. Numerous other benefits can be derived from the Farm Bureau. Blair county lias a successful Farm Bureau, Cambria county has also. WHY NOT INDIANA ? Germany Faces a Second War After the present war in Europe is over, there will be a second, a supplementary war. The military struggle will be followed by an economic struggle. If Germany is beat en in the field or if a draw results, the Allied Powers will continue to work together to isolate the Teutonic combina tion commercially, and will see that Germany has no chance to use her foreign trade as a means of reconstructing her military machine. Germany's greatest privilege on the seas has been the free use of the harbors of the nations with winch she is now at war. Her great transportation lines have been built up through the utilization of terminal facilities offered her by Great Britian, France and Italy. She has sought in every way to avoid a rupture with Italy, because Italy has long served her as a maritime base. If she is shut out of Egypt as well as Italy, her last hold on the Mediterranean trade is gone. Her liners, except those to the two Americas will be come wanderers on the face of the seas. Germany was justified, in the main, in the valuation she put on the military strength of her opponents. Her own resources were superior. But she grossly underestim ated the value of the maritime superiority of the Allies and the havee which it would play with her prospects through out the war and rter the wai. Sea power is a noose in which land powe has more than once been strangled. So it will be again. Germany may win campaigns and conquer enemy t story. But she cannot thus end the war or secure her fut nv after the war. She will have to face crushing war c< it ions even after she obtains peace. It will be years afu motilities cease before she can expect to recover from the • otiomic as well as military effects of the world struggle it '<• which she over-confidently rushed. "NEW YORK TRIBUNE'' PENNSYLVANIA NEWSJN BRIEF Interesting Items From All Sec tions o( the State. GULLED FOR QUICK READING News of All Kinds Gathered From Various Points Throughout the State. Detectives are procuring evidence against saloons in Sunbury. A fire in the Midvale colliery, near ML Carmel, killed thirteen mules. Cutting a corn with a razor result ed in John Bond, Milton, losing his leg. E. V. Babcock, of Pittsburgh, won't be a candidate for Senator Oliver's seaL Johnstown has paid $4326 to the state fund for insurance of city em ployes. Sunbury is frightened by a strange man who goes about nightly and hugs women. John Moderic, of Stowe, accidental y turned on the gas and was found dead in a Reading hotel. A bread famine has resulted from the lock-out of bakery salesmen and drivers in Scranton. Visiting in Pittsburgh, Bishop Hen derson, of Chattanooga, scored sensa tional evangelists. Four Carlisle Indian school girls broke through ice, but were rescued by a human lifeline. Music at meals for 750 convicts of the Western penitentiary, Pittsburgh, has been decided upon. A train of flat cars carrying cannon and trucks marked "Haverlv, France," passed through Connellsville. Russian reservists in the anthracite coal fields will ignore the call of the czar for them to return to war serv ice. Master house painters and decora tors, in convention at Pittsburgh, de cry the immense increase in cost of materials. Caught in a fall of coal, at Sterling colliery, near Shamokin, Francis Nye, aged nineteen, died on his birthday anniversary. Miss Maud E. Wintermute, a trained nurse, of East Mauch Chunk, suffered a broken arm and a gashed head in a fall down stairs. The governer has granted a respite staying the execution of H. E. Filler, Westmoreland county, from January 17 to February 28. Caught under a fall of coal at the Oneida colliery of the Lehigh Valley Coal company, Jacob Ritmeier, of Sheppton, was killed. Dealers were all through Perry county last week buying horses and mules, to be transported to warring countries in Europe. The best furnace coke has reached $3 a ton at Co-nnellsviLle for the first time in many years. The demand is greater than the supply. By the accidental discharge of a gun which he was cleaning, Theodore McFarland, aged thirteen, of Mahon ing Valley, lost his left arm. Eight weeks after suffering the loss of both hands while jumping trains, Joseph Drahos, seven years odd, of Allentown, died in a hospital. John Davis Rice, seventy-five years old, died at Rices Landing, nea*- Waynesburg, as a result of swallow ing poison. He was a cooper. The twenty-two-inch mill of the Bethlehem Steel company is rolling an order for 31,000 tons of shrapnel steel for the Russian government. Factories in Boyertown last yeai made 42,700,000 cigars and 20,000 buri al caskets. The latter are now being turned out at the rate of 180 a day. His Christmas gift bicycle bumping into a fence while he was learning to ride, Thomas Hunter, a ten-year-old Duncannon boy, fractured his left arm. After nursing his wife and daughter, who were ill with pneumonia, Arthur A. Green, of Alle; town, a quarry oper ator, contracted iie same disease and died. Fire destroyed the large barn cf Horace Place, Eagflesville, causing $5OOO loss. Thirteen cows, seventeen horses and twent -five sheep were res cued. Along with tlu election of former County Detective D. T. McKelvey as city detective, I'.izleton has inaugu rated a system photographing all prisoners. The state compensation beard is considering the question of what con stitutes a daiiy and a weekly wage and will issue a "uling guidance of employers. John Dewar, of Pittsburgh, was elected president at the Master House Painters' and Decorators' convention and George Butler, of Philadelphia, vice president. Mrs. Jennie Go!.ret, of Reading, is seeking a divorce because her hus band. John D., thro months after theT wedding, went to a lodge meeting and never returned. The four big annealing furnaces built at the Jen: vesville Iron works shrapnel plant will be fired this week, and from 5000 to 7000 shells will be tempered every eifbt hours. Mrs. John Welsh, seventy years old, of Pittsburgh, w' expressed a w'sh to follow her seve: y-year-oii husband, who died on Wed e-day maiming, died Thursday night. Both succumbed to grip. Btephen Toth pleaded guilty to as saulting a five-year-old daughter of Mrs. Paul Krancheck, of Palmerton, near Mauch Chunk, and was sentenc ed to five years in the Eastern peni tentiary. Since A. Pardee & Co., Cranberry and Crystal Ridge mines, suspended breaker boys who did not meet the re quirements of the child labor law, the mines are working under crippled conditions. William H. Ball, chief of the bureau of city property of Philadelphia under the Biankenburg administration, was appointed private secretary to the governor. He will assume duties with in a few days. Robert Hill is in jail at Harrisburg and his sweetheart, Lucy J. Jones, Is in the Harrisburg hospital with a bul let in her neck as the result of an argument between the two over Hill's drinking habits. Raymond Wyerman, of Youngs town, Ohio, after visiting his fiancee, Miss Mary Springer, in Leetsdale, commit ted suicine at Pittsburgh when he re turned to the Hotel Gross, where he was stopping. Eight persons were injured, one fa tally, four children were overcome by smoke, and $5OOO damage was done in a fire which destroyed the bakery owned by Frank Frado, 611 Margar etta street, Braddock. Four men Were showered with metal, John Streibel dying and three being seriously burned,, at the Shcen berger wcr s cf the American Steel and Wire when,a blast fur nace stove e'rp'.oJed. ** Mrs. Maggie Kaniuff, who says her husband deserted her, applied, with her four children, at the police station in Pittsburgh, "for lodging. She is trying to reach her lather, who re sides in Elizabeth, N. J. R. H. Jones, secretary and treasurer of the Bethlehem Steel company, has given $lOOO to the South Bethlehem Children's home to establish an infir mary in memory of his deceased sis ter, Miss Frances F. Jones. The Cornplanter township school, near Oil City, was closed as a result of the epidemic of measles that is sweeping that section. Over 100 cases were reported by the health of ficer of Oil City Wednesday. Miss Mary Sandt, of Hellertown, near Easton, won a verdict of $30.06 against Edward Reis, formerly a po liceman, who, it is alleged, struck her while she was dressed as a cow boy at a Hallowe'en celebration. Mrs. Clara Ziegler, widow of Irwin Ziegler, of Allentown, who received a Carnegie medal and a pension, has sued William Fichter, an Allentown contractor, to recover damages for the death of her husband, who was smothered in a sink. Stating he had already more things to do than he could attend to, Dr. Wil liam E. Slemmons, pastor, First Pres byterian church, in Washington, re fused the position on the Washington school board to which he was elected about one month ago. The attorney general's department has brought an action in equity to re strain the State Capital Savings and Loan association, of Harrisburg, from issuing full paid stock which it has issued for a number of years. The association will contest. On his first trip run as a brakeman on the Pennsylvania railroad, William J. Jordan, twenty-two years eld, of Pittsburgh, slipped into the river from the roof of a freight car cross ing stock yards bridge at Herr's Is land and was drowned. Supreme court in Philadelphia re fused to allow appead from the su perior cuort in the case of W. W. Wheelock vs. Erie Railroad company, appellant, originating in Crawford county, where Wheelock obtained a $250 verdict for injury to a horse. * Bertie Lcvell, thirteen years old, of McKeesport, a horse thief since he was eight years of age, stole the horse and wagon of John Vogel. He was captured near Irwin. The boy has been arrested several times. Once he escaped from the court room while awaiting trial. Some idea of the growth of the state's license system on oleo can be gained from the statement that the-e are about 400 such licenses in A le gheny and 300 in Philadelphia. Eight years ago there were only two in Philadelphia and in some interior counties none. A remonstrance bearing the siena tures of 10,000 persons has been filed in court in Punxsutawney against the granting of licenses to six brewery and two wholesale liquor applicants in Jefferson county. Remonstrances have also been filed against the thirty six applicants. W. H. Baird, manager of a Chicago packing company branch, was found guilty in Altoona of selling eggs that were not fresh as "fresh eggs." It was an important victory for the state dairy and food department, as it gives legal standing to the state's standard of analysis to determine the age of an egg. The state department of agriculture is out with a warning against "tree fakirs." It is declared that some men make a business of offering for sale trees of doubtful pedigree and ineU ferent quality, and that some are sell ing preparations to rid trees of di seases which the state zoologist's in vestigation shows have killed the trees. '. ' At the annual meeting of the direc tors of the Bucks County Fair asso ciation, at Perkasie, is was decided to continue the Bucks County fair, but the question of whether the faG should be held at Perkasie was unde cided. OfScers were elected as fol lows: William E. Savacool, Perkasie, president: Linford Foulke, Qoake~- town, vice president: Irwin Y. Bar ringer, Perkasie, secretary; B. Fran- Wambold, Sellersville, treasurer. FOR SUE 01 WANE ADS. Advertisements under this head L a word each insertion. FOR SALE —Corner lot in Chevj i Chase, 65x150, for further informa tion, apply at this office. FOR SALE—Horse, buggy and harness. Inquire August Suud berg, Homer City, Pa. WANTED—Slavish or Polish men, well acquainted in Indiana and mine camps. Can make $25 to $3O per week. Call 15 Carpen ter avenue, Indiana, Pa. 1 FOR SALE —Good automobile, 1914 Vulcan Roadster. A-l run ning condition. Will demonstrate. Sacrifice. $250. Need money. Call or write J. M.. care "Patriot." 15 Carpenter avenue, Indiana, Pa. WANTED —Carpenters. Will pay according to merits. Inquire at this office. Wanted— Girl for general housework. Small family, no chil dren. Foreign girl preferred. In quire at Patriot oftiee. Wanted —Laborers and chippers Inquire Boilings & Andrews Con struction Co., Blacklick, Pa. Carthage's Great Snake. The ancients firmly believed in mon ster serpents of all kinds and of both the land and marine species. During the wars with Carthage a great snake is said to have kept the Roman army from crossing the Bagrados river for several days The monster swallowed up no less than seventy Roman sol diers during this combat and was not conquered until a hundred stones from as many different catapults were fired upon it all at one time. The monster's skull and skin were preserved and aft erward exhibited in one of the Roman temples. The dried skin of the crea ture was 120 feet in length, according to Pliny. Dumas, Father and Son. A story is told about the two Du mases, father and son, which illus trates the pleasant relations between the two. The son had written his first successful novel, and the father wrote him a letter of congratulation, which he began in the formal manner of "Dear Sir." This letter throughout read as though addressed to a total stranger and merely thanked the au thor for the pleasure the book had given him. Dumas fils answered In this manner: Sir—l thank you most heartily for your kind letter. Praise from you Is especially appreciated by me, as I have always heard of you as the most enthusiastic ad mirer of my father, who also makes some pretension of being a novelist. Versatile. It was at a reception, and the two friends had met "Do you know," said Ina, "it was as much as I could do to keep from laugh ing when Josephine was just telling vs about her fiance being 'so versatile?'' "Meaning Webb?" replied Kathleen smiling. "Well, dear, he is rather ver satile, you know." "Nonsense!" cried Ina. "You know Kathleen, he is a regular idiot" "Yes," replied Kathleen, "but he's s< many kinds of an idiot."—St Loub- Post-Dispatch. '■j£ trade marks and copyright* oMahi.fi or no ; 71 fee. S. ltd r-odel, sketches or photos •rvi do- U suription for FRCE report : S on patentability. Bank refer | PATENTS BUILD FORTUNES J yon. Our free booklet* tell how, -A to invert and save you money. Write today. 10. SWIFT PATENT LAV/\ ' r ~, J 303 Seventh St., V.'a? SOME POSTSCRIPTS Burning a lump of camphor in * room will clear it of insects. Spain devotes more than 3,500,00<X acres of land to olive culture. Sand dimes of the Sahara desert move about fifty feet a year. New York leads the states and Michigan ranks second in salt produc tion. Some Javanese spiders make webs so strong it requires a knife to cut them. Kerosene and whiting form an ex cellent polish for silver, sinks and bath tubs. A Pennsylvania scientist is trying, to raise Australian eucalyptus trees id that state. The entire population of Switzer land could be housed in the residences In London. The English language is spoken by just about 10 per cent of the world's Inhabitants. j A recently patented steam cooker can be used in connection with a resi dence radiator. Olive oil, well rubbed in, followed by a polishing with velvet, will reno vate tan leather. Building stone made in Germany from blast furnace slag and lime grows harder as it ages. There are said to be 800 uses for the palmyra palm, which grows throughout tropical India. Rolling a camera film between the hands to tighten it after exposure sometimes generates enough electrici ty to spoil it. SPARKLETS Comes up to the scratch—the fric tion match. It is a clothes rub for the washes woman on Monday. The horse's excuse for smashing tho buggy—"l was driven to it." The sportsman may lead an Idle existence, but his career is not an aimless one. The professor of penmanship can not do a flourishing business when he drops his pen and uses a typewriter. You would naturally expect that post ofllce clerks would be greatly stuck up—they handle -so many stamps during the day. Guest (suspiciously eying the flat tened pillow and the crumpled sheets) —"Look here, landlord, this bed has been slept in!" Landlord (triumph antly)—" That's what it's for!" Mrs. Wempsel—"Our Bessie is the brightest little child you ever saw. She picks up everything she hears." Mrs. Popinjay—"Something like our Willie. He picks up everything he sees." While baby Alice was learning to form sentences her mother planned a trip with her on the cars and spoke of taking a sleeper. "No, no, mamma," said Alice, "not a sleeper; let's go in a waker." CYNICISMS Any fisherman will tell you it's the early worm that gets the hook. Many a girl has lost her beau by having too many strings to him. Success is merely a matter of buy ing experience and selling It at a profit. A woman can inherit money and re tain her common sense, but marry ing it usually makes a fool of her. If all men should be placed on an equal footing today, it wouldn't be long before one-half was pulling the other half's leg. ; HINTS TO D ARENTS | I Never let a bigger brother do < [ ► the stepfather act. L ► i ; Even a big sister can lose her 11 I charms when Bhe tries to take 4 ! ► mother's Job. < | - There should -be only one boss | in the family, and no one under- 4 ! ' stands the job better than mother < M'CLARYGRAMS One error covereth a multitude of good and perfectly correct works. What the world needs is sense, and what it has handed to it is mostly sensibilities. To have a Monday morning feeling la bad enough; why let it stay with you all week? When you talk about doing some one good, your meaning depends en tlrely upon your inflection of voice C-LI UOMINI D'AFFARI D'OGGI Pagano buon salario ai loro datillografi, contabili ed assisten ti di ufficio, ma loro debbon essere competenti. Nella nostra scuola si da' istruzione individuale tutti i giorni e quando il graduato e' competente riceverà' un buop sa lario. Corso completo in Inglese tutti i rami commerciali. Catalogo gra tis dietro richiesta. 60—Piano—Lincoln Bldg. Telefoni—BeU 269. J. City 1352. Johnstown, Pa.
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