THE PATRIOT
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[~~~ EDITORIAL |
The IVlme Tragedy
—From the Pittsburgh Post
THE explosion in the mine at Ernest, Indiana county,
this state, which caused the death of 27 men, finds the
public as usual at a loss as to what to say concerning the
cause but insistent that every means be employed to get at
the facts and apply the remedies. As trained investigators
011 the scene have not determined the cause it is idle for the
layman at a distance to attempt to point it out. As the
officers of the company in this instance, as in similar cases
and as is always to be expected of them in line with their
duty and their humanity, halted at no expense in the res
cue work or in the entering into investigation of the tragedy
one naturally finds it impossible to attribute to them any
thing like willful carlessness in the conduct of the plant.
In the same way it would be preposterous to assume that
any of the miners did anything knowingly to cause the
death of himself or of his fellow workers. But, as it was
known that there was gas in the mine, it seems plain that
its being ignited was due to carelessness somewhere. The
question to be consideied is, where to draw the line be
tween carlessness of any kind under such circumstances and
willful carelessness, the effect in either case being the same.
Taking a risk of any kind where life is involved is difficult
to separate from deliberate carelessness, since risk means to
incur danger.
Such investigations as this, to be of any value, must be
conducted mercilessly and punishment applied to the full
est extent where its need is indicated. Carelessness is a
menace to be combated with even more vigor than gas or
dust in the mines, as it is usually carelessness x that makes
the others so terrible.
After One Year !
After having been in the "dry" column for a year, the
county again joined the ranks, Wednesday morning of those
territories which grant the privilege of selling liquors. One
year ago Judge Telford refused all but one liquor license
applicant, that of Grant Snyder, of Glen Campbell, said
license was granted 011 the basis that no remonstrance had
been filed. A few weeks ago Judge Langham granted fif
teen licehses. The restrictions, the rigid rules and regula
tions which Judge Langliam has handed down with the
liquor permits should appeal to every good citizen of this
e county. The "110 treating" clause which was established
by the retiring Judge Telford, has been re-enforced with
vim by Judge Langham, he can be depended upon to en
force every regulation to the limit.
ADVERTISE IN THE PATRIOT TO GET RESULTS
The Human Face.
Rosa Bonheur, the great painter of
animals, had a system of mnemonics
which was exceedingly quaint. She
oonld trace In the faces of those peo
ple who visited her a resemblance to
some sort of animaL For Instance. W
•ome one reminded her of a certain
lady she would probably hesitate for
JL moment and then say, "Oh, yes, the
lady with the camel face!" or, "Oh, I
remember —she had a cow face!" This
memory system was not flattering to
her friends, bat It showed how satu
rated she was with a knowledge of an
imals and their characteristics. On ev
ery human face she found a likeness to
•ome animal she had studied and de
lineated.
Advice.
Let no man persume to give advice
to others who has not first given good
counsel to himself.—Seneca.
London's Windmill.
New Zealand, we are Informed, now
boasts only a single windmill. In this
respect London is equal with the An
tipodes. On Brixton hill, just by the
waterworks and only a few yards
from the main road, stands an old mill
Intact with the exception of the sails,
and still in use, though now electricity
takes the place of wind as motive pow
er. The mill was erected by a Quaker
about a century ago, and has remained
la the family ever since.—London
Chronicle.
Would Help Him.
"I'll try to make you a good husband,
my dear."
"And I have no doubt that you will
succeed. Mother and I will abet your
efforts in that direction vigorously."—
Louisville Courier-Journal.
* TOPICS IN BRIEF
Woodrow is not talking he's saying something.
And where is the old-fashioned girl who used to knit
socks for the Belgains?
Those Filipinos are just beginning toj>ee another angle
of this "new freedom" business.
Bread may be as cheap as Berlin claims, but the bak
ers don't seem to have heard of it.
No wonder the infuriated 'Mexicans captured two of
our soldiers. They saw "em taking a bath.
Doc. Cook says there are no wild men in Borneo. Evi
dently the Doc didn't deliver this lecture^there.
Current "Life" is a John Bull number, thus disposing
of the theory that the Teutons had got his number.
Wilhelm's western drive began coincidently with Wil
son, but it won't end after the same old fashion.
Wall Street is unanimous against the appointment of
Louis D. Brandies. That settles it. He must Jje a corker.
Any summoning of the nation's manhood to arms will
probably receive [.the warm co-operation of the eligible
spinsters.
If Russia is genuinely anxious to know what to do with
its surplus stock of vodka, we would suggest a want ad. in
the Charleston papers.
What has become of the old-fashicned farmer boy who
used to rub his head against a 'simmon tree to cure a crick
in his neck?
Another pathetic little feature of the situation is Japan
pondering hard to see if there is anything she forgot to de
mand from China the first time.
"I DON'T WANT TO DO THIS."
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J BUT 1 wiul
JBBP / I * there'S 1
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—Chapin in St. Louis Republic.
We judge frem the esteemed Congressional Record that
the great trouble with some of our rising young statesmen
is that they rise entirely too often, #
Germany protests against the arming of Italian liners,
and it does not seem strange that a nation doesn't want her
women and children drowned if she can help it.
"Who will be the first to meet Willard," asks a head
line. Somebody can have our proxy.
Though she won't join in, the Aliies must admit that
Hellas is paved with good intentions.
We suppose Wilhelm has come to feel that aboil on the
stove is worth two on the neck.
Charity begins at home and in nine cases out of ten it
never gets farther than the front door.
We see by the papers, that the Kaiser who is dying in
Berlin has returned to the front.
However, we are not too much unprepared to lick the
socks, ol any of Mexico, should the need arise.
We are beginning to appreciate how the Ancient Mari
ner felt when he uttered that famous lament.
If the New York Tribune is so anxious to know "What
is the Gary Plan?" Why doesn't it ask T. R.?
It may be as Dr. Woods Hutchinson asserts, "that we
live almost twice too long," but Europe is correcting this as
quickly as possible.
The jingo wants to go in, and wipe up Mexico like
sin; but if you ask him to go long, be sure he'll sing you
another song.
PENNSYLVANIA
NEWSJN BRIEF
Interesting Wm Frcm All Sec
tions ct the State.
CULLED FOR QUICK REAOIN6
News of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points Throughout th©
Keystone State.
A full grbwn deer wandered into
Reading.
Reading spent $140,000 last year on
street paving.
George Roskilley has been elected
chief of East Bangor fire department.
Wages of Easton tinsmiths have
been raised from 33cents an hour
to forty cents.
Governor and Mrs. Brumbaugh re
turned to Harrisburg from their
honeymoon last week.
Livingstone Saylor, of Pottstown,
has been appointed factory inspector
to specialize on boilers.
James Shields, a young Altoonan,
has won a wager by eating 157 raw
oysters In forty miifUte3.
Following a report of fifteen cases
of typhoid fever at Dubois, the state
will look into the situation.
Hazleton school board learns offi
cially that young pupils have been
drunk on stolen liquor recently.
Major William A. Raub, of the
Thirteenth infantry, Seranton, has
been appointed lieutenant colonel.
York county shad fishermen again
complain that no adequate fish way has
been built over McOall's Ferry dam.
The Firemen's Union of Norristown
has decided to increase the benefits to
disabled firemen from $1 to $2 a day.
Steady progress is being made in
the installation of telephones in the
mines throughout the antracite re
gion.
There is an unusual rush of com
mercial travelers through the anthra
cite coal fields, where business is
brisk.
Mercer county's drink bill for 1915
aggregated nearly $1,300,000, accord
ing to figures furnished in license
court.
Three foreign laborers were killed
and one seriously injured by a 75-
tonlandalid© in a quarry at Swartara
Station.
All the 140 boys at the Luzerne
County ludustrial school will help I>
the erection of a seventh cottage on
the grounds.
It coet Kosta Petroff of West Home
stead st.2o and ten hours in the po
lice statin on for using bad language
orer a telephone.
To jog lazy high school pupils the
Pottsville board has decided to pub
lish monthly grades as advertisements
in the newspapers.
An advance in wages of fifteen cents
a day has been given to all employes
•f the Elk Tanning company at Cou
dersport—Booo men.
No applications for (liquor license
filed within the time limit,
Mifflin county is assured of another
dry year, its seventh.
To break up an epidemic of thlev
ing in Cumberland county, Judge Sad
ler sentenced three of the gentry to
six-year prison terms.
Of forty-five liquor licenses grant
ed in Washington county, thirty-two
were to retailers, eight to breweries
and five to distilleries.
The Thomas Iron company, of Ho
kendauqua, has raised the wages of
its employes ten per cent, the second
time within six months.
Mormons of Buck valley, near Mc-
Conneltlsburg, whose whose church
was destroyed by dynamite a few
weeks ago, will rebuild.
Two new veins of anthracite coal
have been discovered in the Beaver
Brook operations of the C. M. Dodson
company, near Hazletcn.
*A procer of dipping hides has been
instituted at the plant of the Elk Tan
ning company, at Coudersport, for dis
infection against Anthrax.
The American Iron and Steel Man
ufacturing company, Lebanon, has
given a voluntary five per cent in
crease to its mill workers.
With sixty-three deaths in January,
most of them due to grip and kindred
ailments, Hazleton had its highest
mortality rate for ten years.
James L. Boyle, of Lehigh ton, game
warden, has received a consignment
of forty-five English pheasants to be
liberated throughout the county.
E. K. Owens, of Susquehanna, was
elected president of the Pennsylvania
and Atlantic Seaboard Hardware as
sociation, in convention at Pittsburgh.
The Salvation Army and the O -
nelsville Ministerial association have
buried the hatchet. Each has agreed
to work for the interests of the otto-
Walter Anderson has confessed that
be robbed -he St. James Hotel kar
In Connellsviiie, to get money to get
Jessie Farrell, his sweetheart, out of
jar..
With their ice houses partially fill
ed, natural ice dealers along the
SrkuylkiU! valley are hopeful that a
cold spell will give them another
chance.
Burgess John G. Davis, of Freeland,
who issued orders to the police to en
force the Sunday closing laws rigidly,
declined to give formal notice to sa
loonists.
A man-trap set by Abraham Scw
b!e, near New Freedom, for a grain
thief, shot instead James Baublitz, who
cl ased a skunk past the trap; and he
will sua.
me T. M. C. A. of fmisvuie is con
ducting a campaign for 800 new mem
bers under the direction of H. J.
Schmidt, field secretary of the atat
organization.
Sixty society and club women of
York participate J in the organization
of a York county chapter of the Penn
sylvania Women's division for Nation
al Preparedness.
The Western Maryland Railroad
company will establish extensive yards
between Fayette and Watt on land
purchased from the John Stevenson
heirs of Pittsburgh.
By a vote of 919 to 163 the $225,000
bond issue to be expended in replac
ing the Central and Park school build
ings, both recently condemned, car
ried in Uniontown.
The woman's Suffrage party of
Montgomery county held a rousing
convention in N\ rristown, attended by
150 prominent women from various
parts of the country.
The Otto Eisenlohr company of
Philadelphia, has filed at Harrisburg
notice of increase of stock from $5,-
000 to $10,000,000 tbe state receiv
ing a bonus of $29,988.67.
Albert Buchanan Long, twenty-eight
years old, who died in Lewistown re
cently, willed $5OO each to Lewistown
hospital, Burnham Y. M. C. A. and the
First Presbyterian church.
Robert R. Ringler, of Rending, has
been named by the Socialist party as
a candidate for state treasurer. Mrs.
Robert B. Ringler was elected a mem
ber of the state committee.
The West Hazleton school board
has refused the W. C. T. U. permis
sion to hang pictures of Frances Wil
lard, the temperance advocate, in the
rooms of the various buildings.
Daniel T. McKelvey, Hazleton city
detective, has announced himself a
candidate for delegate to the Demo
cratic national convention from the
eleventh congressional district.
The state department of agriculture
has directed its agents throughout the
state to prosecute dealers violating
the law providing for the protection
of meats displayed in stores.
Mayor Joseph G. Armstrong, of
Pittsburgh, Las issued a statement de
claring the city is the cleanest moral
ly in the United States, and that com
mercialize vi-e no longer exists. •
George W. Dersey, of Reading, a let
ter carrier has received a message
stating that his son, William T.. twen
ty-two yea. s old, a sailor on a battle
ship at Norfolk, has been drowned.
An inveet'gation conducted by Game
Protector E. W. Kelly and his cssist
ants in Crawford county is said to
have produced startling evidence of
scalp bounty frauds aggregating $lO,-
000.
The Fish and Game Protective as
sociation has placed In Montgomery
county streams between 4400 and 50 "0
broek treut, about four inekes long,
eent by Ike state hatchery *t Beila
fente.
The Umtontawa board of health has
appointed Mloa Elisabeth Havey, a
graduate nurse of the Umlontown hos
pital, as health oflcer. Ske is the
first woman appointed to office In Un
ion town.
Orders booked by the Drlggi-Ses
bury Ordnance corporation, at Sharon,
including those of the Savage Arms
company, of Utica, N. Y., aggregate
close to $40,000,000, most of which la
for guns, gun parts and accessories.
Mandamus proceedings were started
In Dauphin court by James Sweeney,
state chief, to compel M\*rray G. Liv
ingston, Pittsburgh, measure and
weights inspector, to file monthly
statements.
W. Lee Gllmore, superintendent of
schools In Lawrence county, has re
signed, and R. G. Leslie, of Nevr
Castle, has been appointed In his
place, State Superintendent N. C.
Schaeffer announced.
The smallpox quarantine at Con
neautville has been lifted and In cele
bration of the event the citizens of
the town held a hi? para J e. Pcraders
dressed to represent "killed" di ease
germs were the feature.
Work on the erection cf the taber
nacle in Jeanette for the com'ng
evangelistic campalen to be c ndurt
ed by Rev. L. P. Peacock has begun.
The campaign will open February 27
and will continue six weeks.
Despite le rapid increase In the
number of automobiles in the rural
districts, f-rty-four count'es show a
rise in the number of farm hcrses over
last year. There is also a steady in
crease in the number of mu'es.
The various lodges of Odd Fellows
in Berks county are endeavoring to
have the 1916 state session held in
Reading. The lodges have appointed
committeemen to meet at Odd Fel
lows' hall to determine a method.
That a lodge must pay sick benefits
to a member, even when he is in an
insane asyl im, was decided by Judce
George W. Wagner, in Reading, in the
suit of Charles Bleiler against Fleet
wood Castle, Knights of the Golden
Eagle.
Expert mining engineers testifying
before Judge Brumm, in Pottsville, as
to the caus- of the subsidence of the
surface of the ground at Shenandoah,
threatening the safety of some of the
principal buildings, are divided as to
the danger.
The number of policies written frr
the state insurance fund passed the
8500 wark, and the number oi
applications is said to be holding
to about 100 a day. The activity for
insurance in companies and associa
tions is also said to be continuing.
"Speeding up" work in coal mines
metal trades and others engaged in
filling war orders or pushing along
shipments for export or to fill gome
of the big demands for previsions or
munitions 1 believed to be the cruse
of the extraordinarily large n mher of
industrial accidents being reported at
the capiioL