% THE PATRIOT Published M eekly By THE PATRIOT PUBLISHING COMPANY. Office: No. 15 Carpenter Avenue Marshall Building, INDIANA. PENNA 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 Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION ONE YEAR . . $l.OO | SIX MONTHS. . $75 The Aim ol the Foreign Language 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 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. CURE FOR THAT FIGHTING FEELING. Ne 0F | fjh ~ * a evW kjun6 for !, v WAR wau BEs'vena j iiWtSSSA TO - - —B lackman in Birmingham Age-Herald. TOPICS IN BRIEF If silence is golden Col. House could start a mint. Back up your President and the stars and stripes will never have to back down. At the present rate Newport News will soon put Kiel in piker class as far as shielding German ships is concerned Kaiser's letter praising the prowess of the Turkish sol diers lacks any specific reference to Armenia. Brandies says the Hartford Current, l, was weighed in 1 o the balance with Mr. Taft." It must be some balance. Arkansas seems in sore need of its first syllable. Ihe next time we have to sand Germany a note, we favor letting Billy Sunday write it. Our understanding is that Britannia rules the waves on Mondays, \\ ednesdays and Fridays. Trouble a! >ut the peace movements is that a soft head always seems t( go with a soft heart. And what las become of the old-fashioned sister who used to wear li fa dozen petticoats ? As the IV Mdent now puts it, "There is such a thing as a nation bei* ; proud to fight for principle." Every no v. rad then a brilliant inspiration seems to dawn on Hon. harles Chaplin and he falls down. Cn the \\ n e, we doubt if there is anything a woman derives more •'•.est, downright enjoyment from than a good cry. A young n an usually keeps on being crazy about a girl at long as she eps on being crazy about some other man. Honesty is u ingredient in the makeup of man whc pays his j nst d t> befoie buying luxuries. A joke isi much of a joke unless it is punctuated by laughter of tii istener. His Maternal Grandma. A devoted father after a day's ab sence was met by his two little sons. "Have you been good boys?" Silence. "Have you been good boys?" "No, papa. I called grandma a bad word," said the five-year-old, turning scarlet Hs it possible? What did you call your grandma?' "I called her a human being." The father, with a mighty effort, maintained his gravity and closed the scene decorously. "I must forgive you for once, but remember if you ever call your grandmother a human being again I shall have to spank you."— London Telegraph. The Safe Spot. "So when you had 200 feet start to escape you ran instead directly up to the bear when your gun failed to work? I don't know whether you were a foolhardy hero or a rattled fool!" de clared the doctor a<s he sewed up Smith's numerous wounds. "I was neither," explained Smith. "I used remarkable judgment at a critical moment. Ycru see, tbe bear was between Jones and myself. I saw Jones was about to fire, so I took shel ter at the safest spot—with the bear." —New York Sun. A Lost Mine. Among the famous lost mines of the western world and one which is again being sought is the Tisingall of Costa Rica. It Is said to have yielded great quantities of gold in the time of the Spanish domination. After quelling the Indian uprisings, however, the Spaniards failed to relocate the mine. It is thought that it lies hidden in the bed of one of the larger streams. Many legends are heard dealing with Its wonderful richness, and many at tempts have been made to find it, but so far without avail. —Argonaut A Very Old Rule. The oldest mathematic book in the j, world is believed to be the "Papyrus i Rhind" in the British museum, pro fessed to have been written by Ahmes, : a scribe of King Ra-a-us, about tbe j | period between 2000 and 1700 B. C. j This "Papyrus Ithiud" was translated I by Elsenlobr of Leipzig, and it was ! found to contain a rule for tanking a | square equal in area to a given circle It was not put forth as an original tii covery. but as ihe tram-, ript of treatise 50* years older sti !. uri i sends us back lo upproxiui ely ■ j B. C., when Egyptian mat•. iv. i. un solved, or thought they Ji.tti so ten. tit ! problem of squaring tin* cin e-. Hen Trickery. Since Australia is at the antipodes from us the hens there naturally lay best from May to November, contrary to the habit of hens here. It is now sug gested that if a hen after her annual laying period in the southern hemi sphere were rushed across the equator to the United States she might lay dur ing the rest of the year at the same rate aud thus establish a new "record" for a year's production. Still, it looks like a mean trick to play on a poor hen. •-Youth's Companion. The El ''er Booth. A theatrical man, in an appreciation of Junius Brutus Booth, declares that "intellectually he stood above any ac tor of his own or any other time." In justification of this praise these claims are made. Booth had a knowledge of seamanship acquired as a midshipman, was an expert printer, had studied law and medicine, was an acute theologian and spoke eight languages fluently, be sides being "the greatest actor who iver spoke the English language."—Ex thange. 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 us 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 so many kinds of an idiot"—St Louis Post-Dispatch. J OPEN UP YOUR LIFE. | I By cultivating our natural T 4- gifts we add to them; by neglect 4* T we lose them. Seed that is nev- T er put into the soil will never JL produce a plant. The life that 3. T remains closed will never pro .j. duce a man. 3. T-x-X-*-X-:"M--X"H-h:"!- :■ T Arms and the Men. "I see you have your arm in a sling," said the inquisitive passenger. "Bro ken, is it?" "Yes. sir." responded the other pas senger. "Meet with an accident?" "No. Broke it whiie I was trying to pat myself on the back." "Great S ott! What for?" "For min ling my own business." "I see. Never could happen to me. could it?" "No." "And if it did I wouldn't be blame fool enough to tell it." Then there was silence in the car.— Chicago Tribune. Machine Guns. Machine guns are really rifles with a mechanical feed, which supplies them rapidly with cartridges. In ail modern patterns they are automatic in action. The gas produced by the explosion or shock of the recoil opens the breech, ejects the spent cartridge, loads the rifle, closes the breech and fires the charge. These complicated operations are carried out with extraordinary speed. To give an example: The Max im can fire at least 450 rounds a min ute, or more than seven shots per sec ond, and if in exceptionally good order and cleverly operated can discharge 600 rounds a minute. —London Tit-Bits. Trap For Quotation Experts. if any one wants a catch question to spring on a gathering of self confessed literary sharps let him ask whence comes the quotation, "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." This is one of the six best sellers in the world of quotations, yet not one person in a hundred knows where it comes from. It is comparatively easy to guess the author, but almost i:ipos sible to find a person who can name the work. One could build any number of par lor games around "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." Try it.- Spokane Spokesman-Review. Man's Limitations. Man has done wonders since he came before the public. He has navigated the ocean, he has penetrated the mys teries of the starry heavens, he has harnessed the lightning and made it light the great cities of the world. But ho can't find a spool of thread in his wife's workbasket; he can't dis cover her pocket in a dress hanging in the closet; he cannot hang out clothes and get them on the line the right end up. lie cannot hold clotbespegs in bis mouth while be is doing it either. lie cannot be polite to somebody he bates. In short, he cannot do a hundred things that women do almost instinc tively. The Eskimo Baby. The clothing of the Eskimo baby is often very scanty. In fact, one occa sionally sees a baby being carried in its mother's hood with only a cotton shirt on, despite the fact that the ther mometer registers 20 degrees below zero. The mother's hood is the baby's cradle. Being made of seal or deer skin, it is warm and wind proof. The infant also has the benefit of the heat of its mother's body and is out of harm's way. 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 danger of falling a prey to the wolfish Eskimo dogs that prowl round the door by day and night, over ready to pick np a dainty morsel. How Much Iron Can Wo Make? Iron furnaces of this country, in cluding all in blast or idle, could, ac cording to the Iron Age. "appastntly 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 men novelists." declared one lady. "Why not?" the 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. Untrue. "Your leading lady is not true to life." "What's the 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 you may be sure there is one *ess rascal in the world.—Carlyle. The Observant Beggar. "Excuse me. sir," said the pan handler, shuffling up to Dubbleigh's side, "but you couldn't let me have $l5, could you?" "Fifteen dollars!" echoed Dubbleigh. "Great Scott, man. do you for one moment suppose I'd be fool enough to give you $15?" "No. chief. I didn't," said the pan handler, "but I sort o' hoped you'd re gard it as a kind of personal assess ment and swear off $14.90, leavin' me with a dime to the good." He got it.—New York Times. The River Tigris. The river Tigris appears in the book of Genesis as Hiddekel. one of the four "heads" into which the river of Eden was parted. The name by which we know it does not exactly "mean" tiger, for the correct way of putting it is that both "tiger" and "Tigris" mean in Persian swift as an arrow. "Euphrafe-" is a Greek version of the Per-ian II u- frat, which signifies "the good abound ing" and represents the old Asiatic Bu rnt or Furat. akin to our verb "pour." Long Liveu Tennysons. The Tennyson family was noted for its longevity. Miss Matilda Tennyson died in her ninety-ninth year: Charles was seveDty-one at the time of his death; Mary, seventy-four; Emilia, sev enty-eight; Alfred, poet laureate, eigh ty-three; Frederick, ninety-one; Arthur, eighty-five: Horatio, eighty, and Ce cilia, ninety-two. PENNSYLVANIA NEWS IN BRIEF Interesting Items From All Sec tions ot the State. CULLED FOB QUICK READING News of All Kinds Gathered From Various Points Throughout the Keystone State. Union county commissioners refuse to build the Watsontown bridge. Hazleton merchants have discontin ued discounts to favored customers. Pennsy has leased a vacant church in Altoona for a gymnasium for its shop men. Northumberland c unty school di rectors have indorse 1 central schools for townships. The Camber Fire company, Carlisle, now 107 years old, will buy a $9OOO motor engine. Carlisle is considering complete mo torization ( its fi.re department at a cost of • 0. Falling into a cistern, Gladys Kauff man, a Lancaster child, was fished out with a rake by a pa ser-by. Mr. and Mrs. A. it. ! ea*\ of New Holland, observed the fifty-seventh anniversary 'of their marriage.' The Lancaster Farmers' association has declared a six per cent dividend and added $2OOO to the surplus. During 1915 the production of coal in the twentieth bituminous district in creased G0,053 tons over 1914. Samuel B. Wolf, Lewisburg, has been appointed captain of cavalry and assigned to Troop M, Lewisburg. Schuylkill county has 32,000 men fit for war, according to a list sent to Harrisburg by the commissioners. At a meeting of the Chester Coun ty Medical society physicians declared they would put the ban on kissing. New deputy inspectors of industries are: M. J. Gibney, Reading, and V. B. Thomas, Hopewell, Bedford county. The Dauphin Silk Works, Hazleton, the largest in that section of the state, will erect a big addition to its plant. Joseph Francis Bierstein, of Shen andoah, has been appointed assistant chief of the state bureau of railways. The Carpenter Steel works at Reading, with more than 1800 em ployes, has opened an industrial hos pitail. Because of the excellent prices real ized in Lancaster, farmers expect to iucrease the acreage of potatoes next season. Bishop James H. Darlington, of the Harrisburg diocese, dedicated the new St. John's Episcopal parish house in Lancaster. The victim of gas stove fumes, Dal ton Willis, mailing clerk for the Johns town Democrat, was found dead in his room. In two days eighty boys, represent ing the best families in Connellsville, enrolled for military training in the high school. A new-born child of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Broad was burned to death In a fire which destroyed their home at Nanticoke. The home of Wilbur Brumbaugh, at Fertigs, near Oil City, was burned and several members of the family were burned. The Pennsylvania railroad an nounces that it will bull! an annex to the passenger depot, in Pittsburgh, to cost $1,500,000. Under state trooper protection, 600 of the 900 striking miners at the Ford collieries, near Pittsburgh, have re turned to work. Raymond Hall, aged seven, and Rob ert Spencer, eight, sons of prominent business men of Charleroi, were drowned while skating. James E. Dillon, of York, has been appointed a first lieutenant in the na tional guard and assigned to Company K, Eighth regiment, York. The latest in clubs is the "Hus bands' Welfare association," organiz ed in Oakmont, near Pittsburgh. Its aims are not made public. Harry Lamps, the third man to be appointed scavenger and dog catcher in Reading is less than six weeks, has qualified for his $l5OO job. While George L. Mover lay dying upstairs at his home in feloomsburg, a burglar took all the family's provis ions Irom the ground floor. Nelson Hoch was paid $lO,OOO at Hazleton by supervisors of Butler township for being thrown off his wagon on a road in bad condition. Four slander cases against Evan gelist Stough are listed for Luze-ne court next month, and his Jacksonville campaign may have to be dropped. Democrats are planning a big ban quet, to be held in Hea ling on April 13, Jefferson day. Several -peaker.s of national reputation will b<? invited. Owing to rush o: orders a n'g' ville Iron works, Mftzle&n, where shells &re b&il rnnfjp ; r thp s* ' I>6CEUSG It W3 ' LOO < (1 tO gO * G bed, Patrici Hear, 3t. C'a:r, wmt t sleep in hi: favorite aronhalr and T*i6 vlont -omerv Con* 'v nr' Order So : has : een or / nized to fight illegn: liquor traffic, with Fran cis R. Taylor, of Cheltenham, presi dent. One man out of every 364 employed in the coal mines in the tenth bitum inous district, which includes Blair and Cambria counties, was killed last year. State censors of movies want au thority by a law amendment to bar all films shipped into this State and not ha ring their own seals of ap proval. Rev. E. C. Kunkle, pastor of the First Baptist church, Wilkes-Barre, has resigned to accept the pastorate of the First Baptist church of West Chester. The Pennsylvania Steel company, bought by Charles M. Schwab, is rush ing work on a new blast furnace and other improvements to increase its capacity. In a speech to Baptists in Harris burg, Governor Brumbaugh reiterated his stand for local option and declar ed he would fight for it in the next legislature. Kissel Shapiro, a West Hazleton merchant, was chloroformed and rob bed of $430 while he slept, by a stranger to whom he had given a bed in his home. Shipments of whisky and beer to striking quarrymen at Blair Four, Blair county, are permanently enjoin ed. as the sheriff can only maiutain peace that way. The old Cherry !%ve Iron works in Indiana county have been purchased by William Brown and several other Pittsburgh men. War munitions will be manufactured. Rolling herself in a snow bank, Dora Armenta, fifteen years old, of Lancas ter, saved her life when her apron caught fire while hanging up wash. She is badly burned. State throshermen meeting in Har risburg discussed employers' liability and the narrow-tired machines. They will go to the next legislature with a proposition for changes. The United Cigar Manufacturers' company, of Lancaster, thus far this season has sent one and a half million pounds of filler tobacco to France for the men in the trenches. The Reznor Manufacturing company, at Mercer, makers of gas stoves, re ceived an order from England for 25,- 000 gas stoves. The stoves are to be shipped to Oxford, England. Owing to the scarcity of skilled la- bor, the Diggs-Seabury Ordnance com pany, of Sharon, has discontinued its night work at the Sharon plant. All workmen are now on day shifts. William Felton, of Johnstown, was frozen to death sitting beside a pile of railroad ties along the POT sylvania railroad at Seward. He loaves a wid ow and five children in Scot Male. Invalid members of Trinity Method ist Episcopal church, in Gil City, will be able to hear the sermons of the pastor in their homes through a tele phone apparatus installed in the church. Marathon races and cross-country runs are being considered by the Pittsburgh board of public education as valuable helps in solving the ques tion of health-giving sports in the pub lic schools. A gas plant for the execution of. cats and dogs was placed in operation in West Chester and tested upon a couple of cats. The apparatus was in stalled by T. S. Carlisle, superintend ent of the S. P. C. A. Seven claims for the reward of $5OO offered by the Westmoreland county commissioners for the capture of Charles Douglass, the convicted mur derer who escaped from the county jail at Greensburg, have been filed. Escorted by 100 members of the Al tocna lodge of Elks riding in automo biles, seven elk obtained by the Blair county game and fish commission were liberated along the new Portage railroad, twenty miles from Altocna. The Bessemer and Lake Erie rail road has ordered twenty locomotives of the Santa Fe type, which are twice as large as any now in us on the road. Several bridges will have to be reconstructed to bear their weight. The Sharon Hocp company is noti fying all its customers that steel pur chased from it shall not be exported to other than the allies without writ ten notice to the British consul in New York, the agreement to continue during the present war. Every large city in the county will be represented officially at t id good roads congress, which wy be 1 el 1 in Pittsburgh during the week of Feb u ary 28, in connection with the thir teenth annual convention of the Amer ican Road Builders' association. Rather than return home, where her sister, two years her junior, had sup planted her in the affections of her sweetheart. Miss Elza Frazee, of Un iontown, daughter of John S. Frazee, took poison when threatened with ar rest and is in a critical condition. Judge Terry, in Williamsport, grant ed thirty-two licenses in the annual Sullivan county license court. He re fused two applications and held five under advisement, against which re monstrances were filed. No contest was made against the thirty-two ap plications granted. Until he finds out whether eight gallons of liquor, worth $17.60, con sumed in a month at the Berks county almshouse, was required for the in mates or whether it was used in en tertaining and extending the "hospi tality of the house," County Control ler Rhode has held up payment. The Montgomery County Holstein- Freisian Breeders' association has been organized at Centre Square, with El wood W. Anders, of Worchester, president; Charles Bray, Upper Merl on, and Harvey Plummer, Fairview village, vice presidents, and Stewart Heist, Centre Square, secretary and treasurer. For three days a large American flag was trampled under the feet of hundreds of pedestrians in West Chester. The flag had been a portion of the decorations in honor of Lincoln but had been torn from its plare and buried by the sleet and snow. It was frozen tightly to the bricks, but waa i removed when a thaw exposed it.
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