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THE PATRIOT
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Entered as second-class matter September 26, 1914.
at the postoffice at Indiana, Pennsylvania, under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
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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.
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—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
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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.
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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.