THE PATRIOT Published Weekly By THE PATRIOT PUBLISHING COMPANY. Office: No. 15 Carpenter Avenue Marshall Building, INDIANA, PENN A Local Phone 250-Z F. BIAMONTE, Editor and Manager V. ACETI, Italian Editor. Entered as second-class matter Septemlier 2G, 1914, at the postoffice at Indiana. Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION ONE YEAR . . $l.OO | SIX MONTHS. . $75 The Aim of tbe Foreign Language Papers of America TO HELP PRESERVE THE IDEALS AND BACRED TRAD ITIONS OF THIS, OUR ADOPTED COUNTRY, THE UNITBD STATES OF AMERICA ;To REVERB ITS LAWS AND IN SPIRE OTHERS TO OBEY THEM; To STRIVE UNCEASING LY TO QUICKEN TNE PUBLIC'S SENSE OF CIVIC DUTY; IN ALL WAYB TO AID IN MAKING THIS COUNTRY GREAT ER AND BETTER THAN WE FOUND IT. EDITORIAL Verdun The battle of Verdun has lasted a month. It begai on February 21 and the conflict has ;ontinued since then with only a few brief pauses. The flags have been hoiste lin Berlin followlug various claims and rumors of victory. But there has been no German victory of sufficient consequence to deserve a celebration. Various minor local successes I ave been won at the cost far exceeding their value. In a tact ical sense the battle of Verdun is not yet finished. It may drag along for several weeks more. But it is clear that the positive decision at which the German high command < i u ed cannot now be obtained. FROM THE NEW YORK TBIBLNE No Peace Terms Yet Wall street has been filled with rumors of an e ?!y peace. Peace now is more than improbable. It is well nigh impossible. And yet the thought itself of peace is not foolish; the rumors are not without basis. Undoubtly Ger many wants peace. It is not to much to say that the (Her man government and the German people are praying for peace. But how to get it —that's the question. This wi tion in truth might be summed up as one where Germany wants to stop now but cannot; the allies will not. FROM THE NEW YORK PRESS (Continued from Page 1) Caldwell, Mr. Charles Caust, Mrs. Elmer Clowes, Naum Coop er, Miss Goldie Glass, Mrs. Bow ard Hess, Miss Mary Henry, Miss Florence Hileman, Mr. R. D. Law, Miss Margaret Miller, Wm. Orr, Esq., Mr. William Parks, Mrs. Mont Putt, Reliable Phonograph Co., Mrs. W. C. Richards, Mr. Elmer Stormer, William MacMillan, Miss Hulda McQuilkin. When inquiring for letters in this list please state that they were advertised, giving date. Harry W. Fee, P. M. Books as Carriers or Disease. The report of the commissioner of education undertakes to reassure per sons who are fearful of the spread of disease through books by recording the results of recent investigation at Yale university. During the cleaning of the library a chemical analysis of the dust was made. About half of this was found to be mineral matter, while the other half was organic, including pa per fiber, wood fiber and molds. No mouth bacteria were found, and in general the analysis showed the harm lessness of the dust Aluminium. Since the Centennial exposition an entirely new industry in mining and metallurgy has been developed through the production of aluminium. No alu minium was produced on a commei'cial scale in 1876. Curiosity. Little Virginia, aged fire, had been put to bed, but not to sleep. From her bedroom came a little voice: "Daddy, come here. I want te tell you something." Daddy wasn't anxious to be disturb ed, so, thinking she was about to go te sleep, he said, "Well, wait till I eat this apple." Ho read for fifteen or twenty min utes, when again she called out, "Dad dy, how big is that apple?"—lndia nap ells News. DO IT NOW. Decision never becomes easier by postponement, while habit grows stronger every day. Common sen,- s as wofl as conscience says, "Choot this day." Ripening Fruits. Fruits undergo marked changes in chemical composition as they grew to their full size and ripen. In some fruits ripening increases the sugar content and decreases the acid, whereas in some others both sugar and acid content de crease in the ripening process. Unforeseen. "Didst you guarantee that mattress for six months?" "Yes, sir, but yeu didn't teH me it was far a boy's boarding schaal."— New York Times. A good infiow makes a good outflow; he who ta in much can and must givo-aauch.—Starke. The Extreme. "This fee business is a nuisance You have to give one everywhere to get the least service." "I know it. Even if you want to speak politely to a lady you have got to tip your hat." —Baltimore American Harmony ef ©let. He—Why do yeu always ha we pickled beets when I bring any friends home to dinner? She—To match the kind af friends you generally bring.—Baltimore Amer ican. Invitations, Reception and Visiting Cards CORRECTLY AND PROMPTLY PRINTED Send to This Office For Samples and Prices TOPICS UN BRIEF You know it'll not be long to Lima beans. Mr. Wilson put liis cards on the table at the right time. Seuator Fall of New Mexico is tlie greatest that excel lent state has offered as yet. The real trouble with the navy is that Mr. Yon L. Mey er was not appointed for life. He piactically admits it. Despite the Armenian massacres, the Turkish reputa tion for humanity has not suffered in this war. We see by the London papers that of Germany's origin al 30 Zeppilins, she has now lost 67. And where is the old-fashioned woman who used to worry over whether her hat was on straight* Most of our exchanges seem to think that as a poet Mr. Owen Wister is a very good novelist. ! The responsibility for the recent New Haven wreck has finally been put on the engineer. He's dead. As for Democracy 4 'losing the German vote", it doesn't ; go hard to lose what one never had. Von Bernstorff is fond of the movies, and the indica ! tions are that he'll soon be one himself. When a married man goes home hungry late at night, he always gets a piece of tongue and roast. 4 'This is the time for cool heads," says a congressman Some of his colleauges seem to think that it for cool feet. "WE ARE ONLY PLAYING COUNT BERNSDORFF AND SECRE TARY LANSIN7' i —Rshse in Nsw York World. If Villa's hatred of Americans has become a mania, as reported, there ought to be a nice opening fcr him'on the editorial staff of the 4 'Fatherland." According to the Pasteur Institute of-Paris, milk is a powerful stimulant, yet it may be a long time before that gentle cow is classfied with the demon rum. They say that it takes sventy-five tons of missies to put one German soldier out of commission. The figures French, Brittons and Russians are lacking. By keeping vacant the post of secretary of war! Presi dent Wilson would be able to escape the distraction^of be ing advised by the head of the department. If, as a St. Louis clergyman says,the secret of longevij ty is the loose cellar, may not the ball gown be looked up on as a ticket to great age? It doesn't take the average honeymoon long to get in readiness for the embalmer. With a population one-twenty-fifth that of the United States, Switzerland has a trained army five times as large as that of the United States, yet Switzerland is considered the most democratic country in the world. This country has received and welcomed aliens more rapidly than it could assimilate them, but the unassimilated should not undertake to rule the country to suit themselves. It is natural to suppose that no Americans are going a broad except for adequate reasons and it is not for either war maniacs or a spineless congress to forbid their going. Senator Gore may not be convinced that, despite ap pearances, the LTiited States Senate is not an old ladies home to be carried off its balance by choice morsels of slan derous gossip. Uncle Sam will have no difficulty in remembering those senators who are afflicted with India rubber backbones or ingrowing politics or both. Submarines that are not powerful enough to operate without special legislation to protect them have no business in the game of war, PENNSYLVANIA NEWSjN BRIEF j Interesting Items From All Sec tions oi the State. CULLED FOR QUiGK READING Ncivs of All Kinds Gathered From Various Points Throughout the Keystone State. Altoona council has elected its first city planning commission. Prosecutor Lloyd lias started an anti-vice crusade in Carlisle. Funds are being gathered in Lan caster tor sufferers in Armenia. Harrisburg is to be represented in the Pennsylvania base ball league. A falling steel ingot killed Anthony De Armet in a mill at I^ewistown. Battery C, of Paoenixville, has ob tained six more United States army horses. Closing exercises at the Caffffiele Indian school will be held May 23, 24 and 25. Leap year necessitates a larger mar riage license office in the court house at Carlisle. Washington Peffer, of Paxton, was drowned in the Susquehanna river, op posite Liverpool. Women of Lancaster have organized a branch of the Pennsylvania Women's Division for Preparedness. Governor Brumbaugh has appoint ed J. E. Eisenhart justice for Gregg township. Union county. The state superior court began its March session in Harrisburg, but did not hand down any decisions. Olawed in the face by a pet cat, Mary Antin, aged four, is under a phy sician's care, at Mahanoy City. Colonel L. A. Watres announces his candidacy for Republican national de. I egate from county. Gordon Lambert, nineteen months old, of Reeds Station, was drowned in a foot of water near his home. Miss Anna M. Benninger, of Read ing, will go to China as a missionary and will be stationed at Tungren. While shoveling snow from the rooi of his home at Mahanoy City, Enoch Lashaw fell thirty feet, fatally hurt A. C. Harshaw, of Grove City, has been appointed factory inspector ir the department of labor and industry Orders have been issued by thr state department of agriculture foi the prosecution of flour "bleachers.' Relinquishing the charter it has had for 101 years, Brownsville is coming in under the general borough act of 1851. Reading banks gained more than a million dollars in deposits and loans, discounts and Investments in the last year. Lancaster county growers have av eraged eighteen cents on all grades of last year's tobacco, or $103.71 an acre. Albert Walters was severely injur ed by explosion of an acetylene tank in a colliery repair shop near Shenan doah. The proposed loan of $50,000 for school purposes will be voted on in Birdsboro at the special election on April 25. Reading will have its annual clean up week April 12 to 22. The Berks County Firemen's association will co operate. Salvation Army prayer meetings in Hazleton saloons without permission of proprietors arc under Mayor Har vey's ban. Because of more than 100 cases of measles in Point township, Northum berland county, public schools have been closed. MiB6 Anna Morrison, of North Brad dock, who Is teaching in India, is pre paring to become a missionary to the lepers there. Several covies of quail have been seen at Rockport and farmers are making every effort to protect them . from hawks. Prospectors have just unearthed a fifty-foot vein of exceptionally fine white clay in the South mountain, near Dillsburg. The entire anthracite field expects an unprecedented business boom after the operators and mine workers reach a new agreement. A record was established by the Red Cross society, in Doylestown, when 3577 surgical dressings and 330 ban dages were made. The Lewistown board of public edu cation will settle the location of a new $lOO,OOO high school by a popular vote of the people. • A hearing will be held by Attorney General Brown at Harrisburg on the ! Lancaster & Berks railway quo war ranto proceedings. Struck by a blast from a lye hose while cleaning bar fixtures, Joseph Marchetti, Hazleton, was seriously burned in the eyes. Walter C. Shaw, Ridgeway, has been appointed assistant surgeon and first lieutenant in the Sixteenth In fantry, state guard. Whirled around a shaft at the Sus quehanna Converting works, William K. Houghton, Sunbury, was severely crushed and may die. Section hands on the East Penn and Perkiomen railroads have received notice erf an increase of one cent on hour in their wages. The Chester Physicians' association, which Includes doctors of both schools, has unanimously voted to double their present fee®. On MCtetit of a nsßh of skrapn*} orders at the Jeaneville Iron Works, Hazleton, three shifts will be pnt on, , beginning next Monday night , The prison board in Reading defied the protest; of the county controller and Taxpayers' league, and created . three new positions at the jail. For the third time a new bungaflow , being built for Daniel F. Guinan, a banker of Mahanoy City, was set on fire at Lakeside and destroyed. An effort is being made to privately solicit pledges for a Y. M. C. A. build ing at I.ansdale before a public cam paign is started to raise $50,000. I Harry Kirkland. twenty-nine years old, of Sharon, committed sulci ie by swallowing carbolic acid. He was un , married. No cause is assigned for the act, Bucks county will advertise the agricultural wealth of the county in a showroom to be located either on Mar ket street or Chestnut street, Phila delphia, Struck by a piece of lumber in a saw mill at Fortney, Joseph W. Rich creek, forty years ufld, of York, suf fered a fractured skull. His condition is critical. Judges Eugene C. BonniwelL, Phila delphia, and S. J. Strauss, Wilkes- Barre, were speakers at a St. Patrick's eve banquet of the Hazleton Knights j of C-aQumbus. Coasting head-on Into a telegraph pole at Mahanoy City, Adam Kubita and Tony Pecca, aged nine years, were knocked unconscious and serl i ously injured. The state forest reserve now ha* 9550 acres of timber land in the vicin ity of Carlisle, several hundred acres having just been purchased near IMns Grove furnace. The Lehfgh Valley Coal company plans a new- breaker at Rock-Moun tain, and the Pond Creek Coal com pany will Resume its operations in Foster township. Discharged from a Scrantoa drug store, fifteen-year-old Frank Munley | thrice fired the place, tried to kill Clerk George Teal and admitted the offenses when arrested. Colonel John S. Garrett has been appointed court crier; John C. dinger, William Hall and Abe Moist, all Dem ocrats, tipstaffs, to succeed Republi cans, in Mifflin county. For victimizing Easton people by selling them "the United States gov ernment's cure for rheuniafina," A. J. Stephenson has been senterced to three months in the county jail. A purse of $B9B and other presents were given to Rev. Father D. J. Kane, former curate at St. Gabriel's Cath olic church, Hazleton, when he bade farewell to go to Wellsboro, Tioga county. The public service commission has heard numerous applications for con solidation of electric companies In Delaware county, and of water com panies in . Union and Northumberland counties. L. Albert Gray has been appointed justice for Montgomery township, Montgomery county; Roy E. Butler, for Ell wood City, and Thomas E. Peo- * pie for Llgonler township, Westmore land county. Fearing the vengeance of friends of men accused of the murder of Charles Barr, at Earlston, last June, Mary Leggach, the principal witness, has been placed In the home of Sheriff Robson at Bedford. Thomas Fenton, of Penilyn, has been notified that his son, Powell F. Fenton, Is one of twelve Americans to be honored by the French govern ment for distinguished service in the American ambulance. The First National bank and the State bank of Parker's Landing have been merged at Parker's landing un der the name of the First National , bank. The capital stock has been in creased from $25,000 to $50,000. A1 toon a city council has confirmed the members of Aitoona's first city planning commission. The men who have been chosen are Frederick J. Shollar, R. Max Lewis, W. B. Aaron, C. Frank Belo and John H. Root. A loaded revolver and two boxes of cigarettes were taken from fourteen year-old Joseph Sowtowski, of West Hazleton, by the police who arrested him at New Boston, where he had fled, accused of stealing $4B from his father. Three times within two weeks death from pneumonia has entered one fami ly at Elizabeth. Two weeks ago George Summers died. A week later Mrs. Summers, who had nursed him, died. Then Jesse Summers, a son, followed. The foundry establishment of the Bovaird & Seyfang Manufacturing company, at Bradford, was destroyed by a fire. The origin of the blaze is a mystery, and officials of the company, who visited the scene, have ordered an investigation. The Canonsburg-Houston chamber of commerce entertained at a lunch eon several officers of the Penn y.va nia lines west. The railway officials promised to restore a passenger train recently taken off the Western Wash ington branch between Canonsburg and Westland. Arthur Gray, the farmer of nea: Washington, who shot and killed his seven-year old foster daughter, Delia Taylor, at his home last week, think ing her a burglar when she arose in the night and tried to gain entrance into bis room, was exonerated at the coroner's inquest held In Washing ton. It was officially announced that the Carnegie Steel company will erect three new open hearth furnaces and an additional soaking pit at the Far rell works. It Is estimated the im provements will cost $1,000,000 and will Increase the output of steel thirty per cent. Work Is to be started at once.
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