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THE PATRIOT
Published Weekly By
THE PATRIOT PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Office: No. 15 Carpenter Avenue
f Marshall Building. INDIANA, PENNA
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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.
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| 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-
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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
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; 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.
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