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THE PATRIOT
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THE PATRIOT PUBLISHING COMPANY,
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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.
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very poor judgment. Children
who are suffering from hunger
and because the father
and wage earner has deserted
them, are certainly as deserving
of help as children of fathers
who have died or who have lost
their reason.
"We do not presume to speak
for the women of the Pension
Board, who will perhaps, adopt
a policy of helping as many as
possible in a small way rather
than helping a few more gen
erously.' Many,, inquiries are
made at the commissioners'
office as to the status of moth
ers well advanced in years who
have grown-up sons and daugh
ters, who, under the law, are
required to care for and provide
for them. We do not think such
applicants can qualify under this
act. It is intended for the moth
ers who have dependent children.
The public cannot be witness to
the intense struggle against po
verty, against hunger and cold,
the ceaseless weariness of moth
ers who must work beyond their
physical strength, the distress
of mind and heaviness of heart
experienced by them, as they
see their little ones hungry and
scantily clad. The public does
not know this.
"The Workmen's Compensa
tion law will further minimize
this form of poverty by its pro
vision for widows and children
of men, who are killed in the
course of their employment, but
the board will have many cases
of poverty, caused by accident
before the compensation law
went into effect, and the rapid
increase in our population con
stantly adds to the number of
oases outside of the compensa
tion law.
"The work of the Board of
the Mothers Assistance Fund
will be a blessing, not only in
the money given but in calling
the attention of the poor direc
tors and other associations to
the plight of deserving famil
ies."
Rescuing Napoleon by Submarine.
In his book on submarines Frederick
A. Talbot tells us that the submarine
is "practically as old as the sailing
ship," though he passes the fact over
"with the statement that the majority
of these efforts were fantastic in con
-ception and crude in design.
The most daring expedition ever sug
gested in the early days of the subma
rine was that proposed for kidnaping
Napoleon from St. Helena. It was
suggested to a British mariner. Cap
tain Johnson, who was to get £40,000.
The construction of the boat was be
gun, but on the day when the work on
the outer shell of copper was to be
started Napoleon died.
Grateful For the Hint.
""I wish to marry your daughter, sir."
•"You? Why, you don't make enough
to keep her in hats."
"Is that so? Then do me a favor,
' will you? Just make your refusal good
and strong and let me back out grace
fully. I might be able to make her
liappy, but it's a cinch I'd never be." —
Detroit Free Press.
Thrifty Actors.
The economy of a stock company of
fered interesting instances here at the
old Boston museum. Some of the
actors had no intention of letting grass
grow under idle feet. One player was
a barber by day; another, the beloved
"Smithy," was a tailor —very properly,
the tailor played fops. I had a partic
ular friend who was a cab driver.
Who shall point the finger of scorn
that these had two strings to their
bow? Their example might be well
followed. An honest barber or, for
that matter, an honest cab driver
may be the noblest work of God. And
well may ths actor's study of mankind
be multiplied a thousandfold by the
scraping of innumerable chins or the
driving of the accidental wayfarer
from the cradle to the grave. Who
could better take man's measure than
the tailor, dissect him to a hair than
the barber or consider his final desti
nation than the cab driver?—"Mj- Re
membrances," by E. A. Sothern in
Scrlbner's Magazine.
Bettering the World.
If the world we live in is unsatis
factory you may say it is the will of
God that it should be so. That gets
you nowhere. You may say it is the
law of nature it should be so. That
gets you nowhere, either. But when
by accurate measurement of lengths
and weights and temperatures and
modes of motion you understand that
everything is what it is because of
process then it comes to you that what
process has made process can make
over. Then if you like not the fashion
of this world you can alter it. It may
well be that the possession of A small,
round grain of faith enables one to
say unto this mountain, "Be thou re
moved and be thou cast into the sea,"
but if you want it done you lay down
tracks, put locomotives and gondola
cars on them, install steam diggers at
one end and barges at the other an*
make Goethals superintendent of the
job.—Eugene Wood in Century.
Storks and Cats.
Storks are partial to kittens as an
article of food, and cats reciprocate by
a love for storks.
Substituted.
"So you have taken to carrying
around a monkey? This is going too
far."
"Well, you never go anywhere with
He," was his wife's somewhat ambigu
ous retort. —Pittsburgh Post
lng cougfT and one 01 sca..e l fcve \
Announcement by the Lehi j i Ya
ley Coal company that it will refund
upon demand the money collected un
der the Roney coal tax bill came as
welcome news to the Hazleton school
board.
Mrs. Richard Wilson, of Pottstown,
has received word that her husband,
who enlisted in a Canadian regiment
over one year ago, is in a hospital in
France, suffering from two severe
wounds.
Charles Kunkle, of Shamokin, has
sued the Shamokin-Mt Carmel Transit
company for $lOOO damages for the
loss of a cab, horse and serious injury
to another steed, by a car colliding
with his team.
A movement has been inaugurated
in Carlisle to have the celebration ac
companying the unveiling of the state's
memorial to Molly Pitcher on June 28
enlarged to combine the old home
ireek observance in the town.
Testimony in the damage suit of
Giuseppe Promutico against the H. C.
Brooks company, of West Virginia, at
Carlisle, will have to be taken at the
Italo-Austrian war front, where wit
nesses are serving in the armies.
As a result of informal complaints
made to the public service commission
a number of street railway systems
throughout the state have begun en
forcing the rule that lighted cigars or
cigarettes may not be carried into trol
ley cars.
Lost long ago, a bronze medal was
found by 'Squire Himes on his prem
ises in West Pikeland, Chester county,
on one side of which is a maltese
cross with the dates 1870-71, and on
the reverse the inscription in German,
"God was with us, to him be the
glory."
<1 TOPICS IN BRIEF <1
Some difficulty to believe in a German-Irishman.
"I would go to war," says the Colonel —Marvelous.
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Truth in a nutshell is not what it is cracked up to be,
In these backward seasons there is always some danger
a double liousecleaning.
Germany seems perfectly willing to meet everybody
iialf way but the British fleet.
The Washington Post says Carranza is showing his
:eeth. Well, we are not dentists.
Old Man Doodle says that intellectual women give you
he headache and the other kind give you the heartache, so
vnat is a fellow to do but go fishing.
Ssand by your president and be bappy.
There is never a thorn without its roses —the continued
;00l weather means continued warm waffles.
Kisses are real things only when backed by the heart.
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Dont borrow trouble almost anyone will gladly give
t to you.
Teddy snatches victory from the jaws or the lungs or
the tongue or something or other, of defeat.
Among those conspicuously between the devil and the
leep sea is Venustiano Carranza.
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No sooner did spring come visiting than summer was
to be observed lookiDg over her shoulder.
Still, it were better to raise one's boy to be a soldier
than to raise him to be a poolroom loafer.
This country should realize that a strong navy is not a
war speculation, but a peace invesment.
While politics is changing for the next scene, baseball
will entertoin the large and intelligent assembly.
China's revolution at least furnishes evidence that the
i lea of Republicanism is spreading through that country.
Charlie Chaplin is getting so much money that his ad
mirers fear that he may become unfunny. Money is a very
serious thing, believe us.
Accordiug to Billy Sunday, "Every devil that hell can
spare is in Baltimore." So, why should we worry,
Germany wants us to believe that the German submar
ine did not sink the Sussex, but something just as good.
With Mexico, it appears, we cannot sever our relations
more than one can with one's undesirable acquaintances.
It is naively put forward that the submarine must at
tack unarmed vessels for such vessels are the only kind it
an attach with safety to itself.
' 'Soldiers' wives are entitled to separate allowances,"
says a British writer, "and if they are killed, to pensions."
This shows that pronouns can be more fatal than bullets,
What this world needs is fewer creeds and more chariy.
Berlin may observe that even the bookworm may turn.
Wilson to Wilhelm, "Tarn to the right and then keep
traight ahead !"
The London papers boast of "British Staying Powers."
That's what caused conscription.
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One Noble Peace Prize isn't enough for the man who
manages to pacify Mexico.
It certainly is pathetic, the way the grafters who al
ways disliked Wilson are knocking and trying to roast him.
"Von Papen supplied money, but who supplied Von
<?apen ?" —Wall Street Journal. Aw, ask something hard.
The stowing of rhubarb is heard in the land.
"1. R. Would Fight Root," says a headline, or anybody
else that got in the way of his ambition.
House Republicans have only a Mann in a position
that calls for a real man. »
We suppose Germany has ascertained what the long
Wilson chin means.
Just beginning to understand these references to Bern
torff as a "finished" diplomat.
You might even say that what this country needs are
some scientists of the deepest dye.
What has become of the old-fashioned girl who used to
help her mother wash the dishes ?
All the heroes are not in the trenches. Some of them
are still eating their brides' biscuits.
An exchange says that Villa can barely read and write
but does not mentien what college he graduated from.
A man usually has to change cars many, many times on
the road to success.
Arbor Day's general and widespread observance recent
ly is one of the most pleasant signs of the times.
If summer furs are to be in style again they might be
well worn by young men addicted to the sport shirt.
No state is so infatuated with its favorite sen that it
ill not listen to reason or to political expediency.
PENNSYLVANIA
NEWSJN BRIEF
Interesting Items From All Sec
tions of the State.
CULLED FOB QUICK READIN6
News of All Kind# Gathered From
Various Points Throughout the
Keystone State.
Pittsburgh cobblers have formed a
union.
Forest fire near Altoona destroyed
1000 acres of timber.
People are enthusiastic for good
roads day in Blair county.
There are twenty-nine new cases for
the next pardon board meeting, May
24.
Bngle Brothers, Sbamokin silk man
ufacturers, have granted a raise and
shorter hours.
Fifty-thousand-dollar forest fires
have destroyed timber on estates near
Wilkes-Barre.
Clerks, carpenters and shopmen
hope also for a raise at mines in the
anthracite region.
An unidentified man hanged himself
with a handkerchief from a bridge
brace near Lebanon.
The state will pay $lO,OOO for the
Bloomsburg Normal school and as
sume its $130,000 debt.
John Resh, an el even-year-old Read
ing lad, has been missing since a cir
cus was in the city last week.
The Topton board of health has
quarantined all public places on ac
count of thirty cases of measles.
The revenue from Lehigh county's
liquor licenses this year Is $63,850, oJ
which Allentown's share is $30,000.
Under the new law minors under
eighteen may not run elevators or do
acetylene welding in Pennsylvania.
Owing to scarcity of female help,
the Keystone Stocking company, of
Spring City, will move to Philadelphia.
Elmer Rinker, of Nazareth, while
stooping to put on his shoes, was per
haps fatally stricken with paralysis.
F. G. Ackley has been appointed
postmaster at Wyalusing, Bradford
county, succeeding Dr. J. W. Chamber
lain.
Kin wood stock farm, at Jefferson
ville, was purchased for $22,000 by
James Bell, the Philadelphia horse
man.
H. Fred Grander was elected treas
urer of Royersford to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of George W
Bowman.
After long idleness, fires have been
lighted in the furnace plant at Sberi
dan, and ferro-manganese will be man
ufactured.
Harry Wheeler, Chicago, was the
principal speaker before the National
Pipe and Supplies Association, at
Pittsburgh.
A large number of Mexican quail
liberated at the big place of P. M.
Sharpies , near West Chester, have all
disappeared.
The family escaped in their night
clothes when the home of Miss Weav
er, Northumberland, was burned, with
$5OOO loss.
The annual conference of the east
ern district Mennonite churches, at
Altoona, adopted an anti-preparedness
resolution.
A large force of men excavating for
a modern new $150,000 Shenandoah
high school struck for $2 a day and
eight hours.
Russell, five-year-old son of Mer
chant August Carl, fell from a second
story Shenandoah fire escape and frac
tured his skull.
Seven steam shovels are idle at
strippings in the Hazleton coal fields
through men leaving to take jobs in
munitions plants.
The Reading railway transferred
150 St. Clair and Schuylkill Haven
shop workers to Port Richmond, to
"trim coal" vessels.
William Ludwig, of Schwenkville, has
an egg laid by a white Leghorn hen
that Is 8x7% inches in circumference
and has three yolks.
The Prohibitionists of Northampton
county met at Belfast, and were ad
dressed by Dr. B. B. Prugh, of Harris
burg, state chairman.
The ninety-first anniversary of the
Reformed Theological seminary at
Lancaster was observed by breaking
ground for a dormitory.
In court at Sunbury, Harry Price,
Scranton, pleaded guilty to selling
heroin to habitual drug users, and
sentence was deferred.
A true bill was returned at Sunbury
against William Phipps, Harris Durg,
charged with having opium and mor
phine in his possession.
Extensive improvements are being
made with a view of adding to trans
portation facilities on the big state
camp site at Mt. Gretna.
Close to 1000 miners struck in the
Lykens Valley mines in a dispute over
membership in the union—commonly
called a "button" strike.
Connellsville region merchant coke
operators are meeting the recent five
and ten per cent wage increase of the
H. C. Frick Coke company.
Work will begin shortly on the ex
istence of the Cumberland Valley rail
road high line near Newville and the
construction of new buildings.
Accidentally struck on the head by
a hoe in the hands of a cousin, two
year-old Mary Wentz Is in a Carlisle
hospital In a critical condition.
Deer and game from the state game
reserve at Hickory Run frequently
leave the reserve and are found grac
ing on the neighboring farms.
Two little sons of Colu.ru jus Klein
fmith, of Emaus, were badly burned
In explosions in efforts to break open
dynamite caps with hammers.
Trustees of the Reformed Theo
logical seminary at Lancaster approve
the sale of a tract of land to Franklin
and Marshall college for $20,000.
The Firemen's Relief association, of
Pottstown, has paid its first death
claim, that of the widow of Charles
Freeh, killed by the auto truck.
The Chinese government has placed
order? in Pittsburgh for million®'
worth of iron and steel, and depends
entirely on this country for glass.
It is estimated that the state can
collect more than $4,000,000 from luna
tics whose estates or relatives are able
to pay for them as asylum patients.
James Basler, fifty-nine years old,
an engineer of the Pennsylvania Rail
road company for thirty years, ended
his life with a bullet at Lancaster.
One hundred and thirty-five bidders,
ten less than last year, have submit
ted bids for furnishing supplies to the
state government for the coming year.
Owing to a war argument Stephen
Kovat, an Allentown Austrian, is in
the hospital, and half a dozen Slavs,
Russians and Germans were locked
up.
Charles P. Dewey, legislative aspir
ant in Bra ifcr 1 county, while canvass
ing, went over a fifty-foot embank
ment in an automobile, but escaped in
jury.
Hundreds of new members were
gained at a Hazleton mass-meeting of
the National Defense league, address
ed by Major General. C. Bow Dough
erty.
Luther Coble, a contracting tin
smith and roofer, Lebanon, has died
from complications resulting from a
fracture of his right leg, suffered in
a fall.
Between 400 and 500. employes of
the Greenville Car company have
been given a voluntary increase in
wages, amounting to more than $BOOO
a month.
Without an instant's delay in traffic,
three new 90-foot steel spans were
placed in the Pennsys bridge over
Catawissa creek, at Mainville, Colum
bia county.
The hills around Hazleton, stripped
of their timber decades ago to make
props for the mines, are to be reforest
ed by the Wyoming Valley Water Sup
ply company-
Pulled lrom a buggy when his horse
became frightened, Howard Sweger, a
Carlisle horse dealer, suffered a dislo
cated shoulder and internal injuries
when trampled.
Eight hundred men and boys are
on strike at the Hickory Ridge col
liery, Shamokin, and the Susquehanna
Coal company's Cameron colliery is
tied by a strike.
Increases in pay for monthly men,
such as clerks, surveyors, foremen,
bosses, machinists and shophands, are
coming in the hard coal fields within
the next few weeks.
Erection of a mile and a quarter of
fences and blasting for foundations for
a machine shop 80x130 feet marked the
beginning of the new Benjamin Steel
works, at Hazleton.
Pleading guilty to defrauding on
$BOO of funds of a sub-postal station
in Wilkes-Barre, John B. Reigle was
sentenced at Sunbury to nine months
in Luzerne county jail.
Almost drowned a short time ago
when a high wind blew her into the
Letort Spring, Eva Stringfellow, four
years old, has been knocked down and
injured by an automobile.
The Dodson Coal company, at Hazle
ton, has imported a big squad of Phila
delphia navvies to work in its mines
at Morea to take the place of men at
tracted to the munition plants.
Between 3000 and 4000 eggs of the
ring-necked pheasant will be distribut
ed by officials of the state game com
mission to various parts of the state
as a means of propagating.
Harry Witemeyer, secretary, has re
ceived a letter from Colonel Roosevelt
declining to address the home week
celebration in Mauch Chunk, because
it is a "physical impossibility."
Reading High school students, in
sixteen trolley cars, were taken to
Stony Creek Mills, where, at Antietam
Lake, they assisted in planting 50,000
pine trees along Reading's watershed.
About sixty St. Marys boilermakers
employed at the machine shops of the
Pittsburgh, Shawmut & Northern rail
road, struck for a raise, but returned,
pending a conference with the receiv
er.
Refused a license in Reading, owing
to the age of the proposed bride, Earl
Coldren, twenty-three, and Miss Em
ma E. Haas, sixteen years old, of
Reading, eloped to Elkton, Md., and
were married.
Chief William Guerin, head of the
national fire preventing bureau, in an
address in Pittsburgh, declared:
"Eighty-five per cent of the fires start
ed in this country last year were the
result of carelessness."
Dr. Hollisworth, dean of the School
of Economics of the University of
Pittsburgh, in an address declared
that Germany's great success was "due
not only to military preparation, but
to industrial preparation also."
The plant of the Mercer Light, Heat
& Power company, in Greenville, con
trolling the light franchise of Green
ville, Mercer and Jamestown, and own
ed by the Kulm interests of Jlttsburgh
has been sold to eastern capitalists.
George Robbin3, thirty-two years
old, of Syracuse, foreman for the
Stone-Webb Construction company-, in
New Castle, was instantly killed When
he was caught between two trains Tur
ning in the opposite direction at Fkllls
ville. \
Carrol Garner, of Wilkes-Barre, \ be
came division engineer of the LeUlgl*
Valley Coal company, in the Cjpr.e-
Lehigh district, succeeding A. H. yew-
Is, of Hazleton, who takes a similar
post with the G. B. Markle Compaq