THE PATRIOT Published Weekly By THE PATRIOT PUBLISHING COMPANY, Office: No. 15 Carpenter Avenue Marshall Building, INDIANA, PENNA Locai Phone 250-Z F. BIAMONTE, Editar 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. SUBSCIUPTION ONE YEAR . . SI.OO | SIX MONTHS. . $75 Tbe Aim of the Forelgn Language Papers of America To IIELP PRESERVK THE IDEALS AND SACRED TRAD- THIS, OUR ADOPTED COUNTRY, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ; To REVERE ITS LAWS AND IN -BPIRE 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 BETTERJTHAN \VE FOUND IT. Editorials from New York Papers Prepare tor Sharp Change To say that tlie relations between the United and Germany are precarious, that within a short tirne there might be a rupture of diplomatic intercourse, were a waste of type and ink. Nobody would believe it. JA country might be ori the razor edge of a crisis for a whole year and yet if the razor never cnts through it is human nature to conclude that it is never going to cut through, and tnrn at tention to other matters. That is the situation in the Unit ed States; it is the situation ili Germany. Botli nations may liave lost [their sense of perspective. The English news papers say \ve are going to war with Germany. But nobody in Germany thinks that war with United States is possible. Few in in this country think the matter will reàch such a seiious pass. —FROM NEW YORK HERALD Greece's Latest Dilemma Here is Greece's present and latest perplexity : the al lies insist upon sending troops across the country to Salon iki; the centrai powers say if Greece permies this they will regard it as an unfriendly act. Greece retorts that armed resistance is impossible. the centrai powers reply that they will not accept this view of tue situation. What willjbe Constantine's course in this present dilemma? The enterite powers probably will preceed with their announced design. The black man with cloven hoofs and forked tail, of whom f ancient Greece knew nothing, seems to be a reality to mod em Hellas, and opposite him are the deep, blue surround ing seas. FROM NEW YORK SUN if Villa Is Dead If Villa has succumbed to wounds received in battle with the Carranzistas or has shuffled off the |mortal coil in some more peaceful manner he has paid handsomely a debt of gratitude which he has long owed the Wilson adminis tration. He has shown a consideration for the administra tion's present predicament in Mexico which few spoiled beneficiaries of politicai 'favor would bave shown under similar circumstance. He has offered the administration that excuse for getting out of Mexico which it has been seeking for several weeks past but which it has had little hope of finding except through some sheer dispensation of providence. k M FROM NEW YORK TRIBUNE HOMER CITY Ili SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT, APRII HOMER CITY, Aprii 21. The annual commencement ex ercises of the Homer City High School will be held in the Empire Theater, Friday evening at 8:15 o'clock. Miss Flora Cunningham will be the salutatorion and Mr. John Campbell will be valedir torian. Invocation — Rev. J. W. Shaffer. Chorus — Meeting and Greeting High School Salutatory— Flora Cunningham Class Roll— Lula Griffith Chorus— Boosting the Old High. High School History— Jennie Barclay Poem— Edward Miller Chorus— In After Days. High School Advisor — Dorothy Miller Prophecy— Gilbert Shaeffer Chorus— Our Old High High School Eneyclopedia— Isabelle Dunlap Valedictory— John Campbell —Presentation of Diplomas— Song, "America"— Audience and High School Benediction— Rev. J. R. Morris. The baccalaureate sermon will be delivered by Rev. McGill at the M. E. church Sunday even ing, Aprii twenty-third at 7:30 o'clock. Easter*s • Message of THKEE days have passed aince the death of Jeaua on Calvary. "Gray dawn is streaking the aky aa they who so lovingly watched him to hia burying are mak ing their lonely way to the rock-hewn tomb in the garden." Ali ia stili as their sandaled feet sweep through the iew-wet grass, the sweet Bpicea in their arms perfuming the chili air. As they go they say one to the other: "Who shall roll the stone from the sepulcher?" That question many hearts in every age since have asked. Sooner or lat er we ali make the pilgrimage these loving women made to the place where rests ali that is mortai of our loved ones, and there arise in our hearts the great questions about what is beyond the tomb. These questions lie like heavy stones between ua and our departed dear ones, and we Bay: "Who shali roll away the stone?" The message of Easter is an an swer. The inspiration of Easteria that we, too, find the atone rolled away. We are often told that we err to Borrow for our loved onea gone, but this is not true. Jesus sorrowed greatly with those who had met such losses as ours. He would not have us sorrow as those who have no hope, but he recognized that it would be unnatural not to grieve, and un kind not to remember. Let us re mind ourselves that Jesus would not have us put away ali signs of those gone out of sight; that he would not have us live as though they had never been with us. "They are not dead; they are just away." This is one stoue rolled away from our sepulchers. Here we desire to do many thinga which the limitations of the flesh prevent. But when the fleshly limi tation is removed our love, our mem ory, our aspiration, our results of rich experience, ali those real qualities which make us ourselves, are free to do and to be. One of the highest in ducements to a spiritual life now is . sind ilck I "HS. c 9Vfr land and seiP -ITrTW via JpL omd,inthis dlonous morni ZAll EMI M ine cross, the thqngandthom; Ùta il V Wm The sealed tomb yields up its saintly Mf|j j IK n^ er ur^ene^' °pp tt Pi il i ffe anc mine- ||| Kfi for love oms, as one iradht kiss a brid?, I! «D E|l ruslifted lips touched Jeaths, alisahs- Ij jjltì OUL ofMankmd,He wakes- A ÌXSm He lives once moreì [MI/ Milli? O soul,with heart and\pice Nfi||lE sing!~ cnor* e JRBSAA Our retums to us, forever ours! JAMES WHITCOMBRI^^^gpg this fact that we are making here our etatus there. Death i 8 the commence ment of greater effectiveness for life. That stone ia rolled away from our sepulchera. It is also true that Chrißt gave ground for believing that our loved ones gone are stili with ÜB. He told his disciples that where they were, there he would be in the midst of them. He spoke of a home he had gone to prepare and of coming to take them to it. Enframe this as one may, the picture is the same —reunion with the loved ones gone. You come home from a trip abroad. As you draw near the pier the hands of loved ones wave to you, the steamer ties up to her wharf and you are again in the arma of those so dear. So it is at death. You have been long away from those at home, but the vessel that has car ried you—your body—ties up some day to the little green wharl on some quiet hillside and you again are with vour dear ones. There rolls the last stone away. Rev. John Brittan Clark. The Eastertide. WHEN this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortai shall have put on im mortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, "Death is swallowed up in vietcry. 0 death. where ia thy sting? 0 grave, where is thy victory?"—for when the Christ. nailed to the Cross on that far distart day, turning to the Jiief bes.je him cried: "Today shalt thou be with me In paradise," he waa opening the door of heaven to ali the wlde, storm-tossed world; and as the angel of God carne and rolled away the stone on that Kaster mornlng of long ago, so he cornea to every worn, bodlly ciaket and Beta the soul free to find glory, perfect life, perfect hap piness in some fair haven of God. And we vex our souls with wonder ing where that haven may be. We reach out eager hands and cry: "What is immortai life?" Friend, it is that live, vital spark that spella life to you and to me; that, when the angel rolls away the stone for ua, ahall riae, free and untram meled, to enter the city of God. We are living in eternity today— you and I. We are so close to heaven that at times faint echoea of its music reach ua—faint, far-off, wafted by some close, sweet vibration between our heart and the heart of the eternai God —faint, but aure! And we stili our souls in wonder and in awe, for we underatand with a knowledge born of God that we have caught a tune from the heavenly choir, and have for a holy instant, verily felt the touch of God. And aa the lily, pure and apotleaa, puahea its way from the dark earth and unfolda into glorious life, so one day, from out ali these earth environmenta, ahall the aoul un fold itself into broader life. "For the angel of the Lord deacend ed from heaven, and carne and rolled back the stone"—rolled it back, friend, for you—me —that light might burat from the darkneaa which holda ua, pointing the way to a clearer vision and a truer faith ; and the music that atarted in heaven and in earth when Chriat carne forth —Victor over sin, death and the grave —has never ceased, and will never ceaae, but go rolling on, grandly triumphant, as long as earth shall last. L. D. Stearns. Message of Easter. EASTER again proclaima ita meß - to the world. Nature lenda her enchantment to the day, and makea ali thinga bright with her unfolding promiae of the rea urrection. The wooded hills, the mystic canyons, the flowered mead ows, the home-building birds, the sparkling dewdrops on grass and flow er awaken, under the warming rays of the rising sun, into a world beauti ful, made sweeter by the presence of ipyright by the Bobbs-Merrlll Company. him who is risen from the dead. And man, looking up from his work, re jolces. In city and country; in art-domed cathedral and isolated church; in mansion and cabin is sung in har monious cadence, sometìmes soft and low, and, then again, in accelerated movement, the glad tidings of Easter tide, with ita message of the day and to the day's toilers, "Christ is risen!" So man must ever seek to rise superior to the destructive forces around him. He must measure up to his ideal if he would escape the debasement wrought by the domi nance of his lower self. In no other way can he expect to live the ideal life. His inspiration and ideal are found in Christ. His entrance as an amateur into the Christian life ia but indicative of his growth into that of an artist. And in this progressive cumulative ascendancy he is con scious of the leadership of One, who, by one decisive stroke of matchtess power, in the resurrection from the death, proved his Sonship, authority, superiority and divinity. Therefore, however wild and ateep your path may be; however mighty the sweep of sinful propensities and babits; however dark and threaten- Ing the clouds that cross your path, take heart and press on! Easter'a message is for the world. It puta a song in the individuai heart. So aa nature responds to the touch of Bpring, may mankind everywhere en ter into the spirit of Easter. Albert M. EwerL PENNSYLVANIA NEWSJN BRIEF Interesting Items From Ali Sec tions of ths State. CULLED FOR QUIGK READIN6 News of Ali Klnds Gathered From Various Points Throughout the Keystone State. A mother fox and eight cubs were killed by Joseph Kushner, at Eckley. Hogs swimming in the Susquehanna river was an unusual sight at Mariet ta. Charles A. Kabe was found dead in the stable of the Millway Hotel in Lancaster. A white sparrow in a flock of the regular colored type was seen at Mount Clare. H. L. Dougherty has been appointed auperintendent of highways in Wash ington county. The first Schuylkill county recruits expect to start for the Mexican bor der this week. Yeggmen blew the safe in the post office in New Hope, but aecured only a few atamps. In thirty minutes Hazleton councll pasaed twenty-three ordinances, to apend $150,000. Insurance" underwriters expect to raise ratea to munition pianta in west ern Pennsylvania. The Connellaville region made and shipped 5,600,000 tons of coke in the year's first quarter. No criminal court or grand Jury is necessary—the second month in suc cession—in Perry county. The Reading company will restore to repair shop employes in Schuyùkill county SI4OO in coal taxes. Lancaster business incident to the Aprii settlement amounts to $5,174,- 352.83, breaking the record. Trolleymen in and around Pitts burgh demand from twenty to forty percent increases in pay. Dt. George Edward Reed, Wilming ton, will be crator at the Hazleton High schoo. conirneucenicnt. William S. Zimmerman, a Shamokin merchant, tound torgotten dyes in his celiar, woTth a sniail fortune. The commission of Cumberland county are considering putting prison ers to work on the county roads. Mounted policemen at Hazleton have been taken off day shifts and put on night patrols in the outlying districts. The 200 men who acted as ushers during the Chapman-Alexander revival aervice at Washington have formed a union. As a class memorisi, the senlors of State college have voted to erect an elaborate gateway at the campus en trance. Caught between a car and the roof at the Richards colliery, Mt. Carmel, Aflphonsus Welsh, nineteen years old, was killed. Bidding good-bye to a friend, An drew Martin, aged flfty-four, Morea, took several steps and dropped dead of apoplexy. Lumbermen report finding the car cera of a half-grown deer in the Black Log mountains upon which wildcats were feasting. Trout fiahermen have given up ali hopes of success in Miffiin county's muddy atreams during the early daya of the season. Gottlieb Mease chopped his foot with an ax, and is at Mahanoy City hospital in a aerioua condition with blood poiaoning. Plans have been completed for the establishment of a butterine factory at Carlisle by the Mt. Holly Springs Industriai league. Mistaking alcchol for water cauaed the death of Lola, three-year-old daugh ter of Charles Irons, of Wrights Cor ners, near Kane. The Baker House, Lewisburg, one of two Union county hotels refused liquor licenses, has been sold to James C. Packer, Sunbury. It is planned to form a branch of the National Security league in Cumber land county, and to flocate its head quarters at Carlisle. Pittsburgh council will ask the gov* ernment to investigate a water meter monopoly on a charge of combination in restraint of trade. The Westinghouse Air Brake com pany in Wilmerding announces an in crease in bonuses to workmen from six to twelve per cent. The Shamokin Lumber and Manu facturing company was awarded the contract, at $78,000, to build Hazle ton's new high school. Pennsy expects on Aprii 30 to take fourteen trainloads, or 10,000 Stone men from Philadelphia to institute a council at Pittsburgh. Mechanicsburg turned out in a pa rade and celebration to mark the ar rivai of the new automobile truck of the Citizens' Fire company. Dead with his right leg cut off, An thony Valanlongavage, aged thirty four, was found along the Pennsylva nia tracks at Shenandoah. Injury to Engineer William Bevan's right thumb cauaed blood poiaoning which cost him hia hand and may re sult in his death, at Frackville. The addition to the Lehigh county court house, which cost $273,000, haa been paid for out of the current in come, Judge Gorman announces. Vice Principal A. D. Thomas waa elected principal of Hazleton High sohooì at SIBOOO a year, to succe«d the 4» principal, Professor J. D. Gelsi, John Uree, a Jone»ville chauffeur, was terribly burned on the face and neck when the radiator cap carne off while he was repairlng his machine. The proposai to sell the Key stona State Normal school at Kutxtown hai not yet be acted upon. The par value of the outstanding 240 shares la SIOO. Jasper Hughes, seventeen years old, was caught In the fan and his body ground to pieces at the Bessemer Coal and Coke company, near Masontown. The annual meeting of the United Sportsmen of Pennsylvania will be held at Monarch Park, under the aus pices of the Oil City Camp, July 18 to 20. For the first time in many j*ears Memorial day will be celebrated in Beaver Falls on the morning of May 30 with a big parade of school chil dren. The mangled body of Mrs. Marga ret Hanawalt was found on the Penn sylvania railroad, near Mapleton, prob ably killed by one of the night expresa trains. A two-mile tunnel will be driven from Beaver Meadow mines to the Jeanesville colliery to drain the latter of water by the Lehigh Valley Coal company. •Fayette City lays claim to fewer births than any borough of its size In western Pennsylvania. During the past year only eighteen births were recorded. Effective May 1, the 500 employes of the American Piate Glass com panv's plant at James City will be granted an advance in wages of Ave per cent. In a rush of coal and mud, Joseph Sewder and John Stefanko, Bckiey miners, were buried at the Lehigh Val ley Coal company operationa, but were rescued alive. The Civic cflub is trying to secure a Young Men's Christian Associatlon for Marysville. Nearly ali the workers of Marysville are Pennsylvania rail road employes. The first big catch of the season was made by George Bender, an angl er of Lewistown, who caught thirty pounds of black suckers with rod, hook and line. A. Pardee & Co. exprienced a labor famine when they reopened Crystail Ridge and Cranberry collieries, Hazle ton, after a two-week shutdown to rebuild mine cars. The old Keystone college property at Martinsburg, near Hollidaysburg, has been purchased by ofllcla3s of Alliance college, Ashland, 0., and will be used as a school. The Crucible Coal company, of Pitts burgh, is enlarging its plant located about two miles from Rice's Eighty miners' houses are being bullt and new shafts opened. O. C. Skinner, superintendent of manufacture at the Standard Steel works, Burnham, has been advanced to general superintendent, to succeed William Nollmer, reslgned. Miss Mary O'Rellly, Sunbury, about to become bride of Louis G. Fink, Philadelphla, is missing, after he had showered gifts upon her, she having answered his ad for a wlfe. The 1000 hands at he Jeanesville iron works, where 100 to 1200 shells are turned out every twenty-four hours for the Russian armiee, will hereafter be paid on the piece system. A badly decompoaed body, believed to be that of Peter Smith, formerly of Port Deposit, near Lancaster, was found in bushes along the Susquehan na near the McCall's Ferry dam. Bartholomew Richards, in a warrant sworn out before Magistrate Stout, In Reading, charges that John Knauer stole his Bible. With the theft of the Bible several other books disappeared. While pfleading that he be reinstated in the Redstone Presbytery, from which he was expelled, Rev. D. V. Moricz collapsed, and slnce has been unconscious in the Unlontown hos pital. Rev. Charles Embrey, ten years pan tor of the First Baptist church, Malia noy City, has resigned to accept a cali to Bellwood—the sixth mi nifi tea* to leave the Mahanoy congregation in a year. Drs. John L. Lynch, Thomas C. Ross and Francis F. Borzeßl have been ap pointed ftret lieutenants in the Nation al Guard Medicai Corps, and assigned to Ambulance Company No. 2, Phila delphia. C. P. McQuisten, prominent farmer of Greenville, had a narrow escape from death when he was attacked by a horse suffering from the rabies. The horse was bitten by a dog some months ago. Charles Gorsuch, the Martinsburg horseshoer, has received a letter of thanks from Winston Churchill, for mer first lord of the British admiralty, for a horseshoe the size of a dime, sent by Gorsuch. Charles Bowman, a tramp, thlrty five, is in a Carlisle hospital with a crushed leg, which will have to be amputated, and Joseph Miller, thirty two, Lancaster, is in a criticai condi tlon after a battle among vagrants. C. H. Todd, former head of the Petroleum Tank company, with a syn dicate, has purchased the property of the Masurite Explosive company, at Masury, aear Sharon, and will erect a large plant to turo out flfteen tank cars a day. A Cumberland county Jury will be asked to decide wbether a colored boy should attend a white high scbooQ in a suit brought agalnat the school board by Henry Young, a colored minister, who clalms that his son was excluded from the high school. After flfty years congreas llftad a cloud that has hung over Captala Harvey K. Young, of Beallsvllle, near Washington, who served with distlne tion in the clvll war. Captain Young's dismissal from the army was for a technical breach of military rules.
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