THE PAT RIO T PublisJ I Weekly By THE PATRIOT PUBLISHING COMPANY. Office: No. 15 Carpenter Avenue Marshall Building, INDIANA, PENNA Local Phone 250-Z F. BIAMONTE, Editor and Manager Entered as second-6lass matter September 26, 1914. at the postoffice at Indiana. Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION ONE YEAR . . $1.50 | SIX MONTHS. . $l.OO The Aim of the Foreign Language Papers of America To HELP PRESERVE THE IDEALS AND SACRED TRAD ITIONS OR 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 AVE FOUND IT. GALLANT SEA CAPTAIN 'BRITISH NAVY PROUD OF WORK OF LIEUTENANT COCHRANE. , ■ His Exploits With Small Ship, Poorly Armed, Are Classed With the Most Brilliant Annals of War fare on the Ocean. A recent writer, Mr. J. J. Edgar, has retold the almost incredible exploits of the Speedy, the first command of young Lieutenant Cochrane, after wards Admiral Lord Dundonald, in ventor, fighter and strategist. The little vessel was absurdly small and ill-equipped; an over-manned and un derarmed craft of 158 tons, carrying ninety men and fourteen four-pound «rs. Nevertheless, she soon became •so troublesome to the enemy that a 'Spanish frigate was especially dis patched to hunt her down. But young Cochrane, foreseeing trouble, had pur- Jposely shipped a Danish quartermas ter; and instead of avoiding his formi dable foe, he dressed the Dane in his <mn uniform, disguised the Speedy, -with the aid of paint and canvas, as a Danish brig, and ran up the quaran tine flag. A few questions were asked, to which an unmistakably genuine Dane, apparently the captain, replied; and the hoodwinked enemy continued peacefully on her course. Some months later, however, they met again, and an encounter could not be avoided. The action that followed ■was unique in naval history. The Speedy made no effort to escape. In stead, she boldly attacked. She had at the time only fifty-four men, and her scant crew and fourteen four pounders were opposed to the thirty two heavy guns and 319 men of her six hundred-ton opponent, the frigate El Gamo. Coming swiftly to close quarters, she ran in under the fri gate's broadside, which hurtled harm lessly above her, while every shot from her own guns told. A moment later the vessels touched, and Coch rane, at the head of his crew, actually boarded and carried the frigate, which struck her flag after the iirst rush. Between these two exploits the Speedy visited Valetta, and Cochrane enjoyed a little adventure ashore. \ A fancy-dress subscription ball was be ing given, under the patronage of some French Royalist officers, and this he attended, selecting for his cos tume the ordinary dress of a British common sailor. A Frenchman, mis taking him for a genuine jack-tar of dubious sobriety who was intruding among his betters, ordered him out. He refused to go. The Frenchman collared him; he knocked the French man down, and the next day they fought a duel on the sands. Coch rane received a ball through the trous ers and the Frenchman one through the leg, aftor which they parted gayly with expressions of mutual esteem. The Speedy's career ended at last in capture; but although she surren dered to one vessel, the French bat tleship Dessaix, she had been gallant ly fighting against several at once. The chivalrous French captain de clined to accept Cochrane's sword, saying he could not "deprive of his sword an officer who had so many hours struggled against impossibili ties/' NEATNESS OUR SPECIALTY No botch work here. We STRIVE FOR PRINTING NEATNESS OUR TYPE IS THE BEST AND LATEST AND PRINTS CLEAN Patriot Publlsliing C°- The Pallas, Cochrane's first really adequate ship, did not achieve so many near-impossibilities as the little Speedy; but her return to Plymouth after her first cruise was marked by a uniquely brilliant touch. She had taken rich prizes. Among the booty were some wonderful great golden candlesticks from Mexico. They were of superb size and workmanship, and designed for ecclesiastical use; but Cochrane found them equally adapted to enhance a naval triumph. When, at sound of the signal gun, the inhabi tants of Plymouth flocked to the wharves, to behold the Pallas sweep nobly to her anchorage, they were dazzled and amazed to see her tall masts aglitter in the sunshine as if tipped with living flame. To each mast was proudly affixed a five-foot golden candlestick! —Youth's Compan ion. Indian as a Waiter. You can find all kinds of people on Broadway, says the New York Trib une. There is a full-blooded Chey enne Indian who is a waiter in one of the chop suey restaurants in Long acre square. He wandered here from the Western plains, scene of his early youth, to seek fame and fortune in the metropolis as a singer of Indian melodies, but with syncopated music anchored to the boards the red man hasn't a ghost of a chance. Now he languishes as a waiter in a Chinese restaurant, hoping in his heart for the day when writers of Yiddish and Irish melodies will again feel the spirit of the Sioux, Cherokee or Chippewa de scending upon them. Even the "fads and fashions" beauty cabaret, in terpreters par excellence of pres ent-day dances and music, cannot arouse his interest. But, then, he is only a humble Indian waiter, although, perhaps, the only one of his kind along Broadway. College Gets Precious Memento. Allegheny college, at Meadville, Pa., has received from Doctor Haskins of Boston the die which was used in the original seal of the college nearly 100 years ago. Doctor Haskins discovered the die among the records of his fa ther, who was a professor in the col lege from 1874 to 1886. This die was probably made in Boston in 1822 or 1823. It was in constant use until the early sixties, when it disappeared. Visible Means. A certain magistrate in-the south of Ireland had the reputation of being hard on vagrants and loafers. One of these unworthy specimens came be fore him charged with loitering, and after hearing the charge he pleaded guilty. The magistrate put some ques tions to him which he readily an swered. Then his worship said: "Prisoner, have you any visible means of support?" "Yes, your worship," replied Mick, quick as lightning. Then, turning to the area of the court, he looked at his wife, who was a washerwoman, and said "Bridget, stand up, so that his worship can see you."—London Tit* Bits. Work of a Million Years. Could we stand upon the edge of & gorge # a mile and a half in depth, that had been cut out of the solid rock by a tiny stream scarcely visible at the bottom of this terrible abyss, and were we informed that this little streamlet was able to wear off annu ally only one-tenth of an inch from its rocky bed, what would our conception be of the prodigious length of time that this stream must have taken to excavate the gorge? We should cer tainly feel startled on finding that the stream had performed this enor mous amount of work in something less than a million years. Britain Still Growing. Great Britain is growing in size. During the last 35 years about 6,640 acres have been lost by coast erosion, while 48,000 acres have been re claimed from the sea. Walnut Trees in United States. The last census reports gave the number of bearing English walnut trees in the Tailed States as 914,270. EDINBURGH WORTH A VISII Time of Traveler Can Be Well Spenl in an Inspection of the Scot tish Capital. There is generally an east wind blowing in Edinburgh, whipping the fog about, or else it is raining. Other wise the climate is very attractive. When a clear day does come, you ap preciate it. It is very calm and clear and bracing. You climb a hill —Edin- burgh carries an assorted stock of hills —and you look down on a city that is picturesque in the fullest and broadest application t>f that overworked poly syllable. Edinburgh is easily the most picturesque capital in Europe. The castle keeps you from looking at anything else for the first fifteen or twenty minutes. It stands in the mid dle of things, capping a hill that shoots up almost straight from the level. You cannot see where the hill leaves ofi and the castle begins; it seems to have grown from the living rock beneath it. They tell you that the castle has never been taken by assault, though it has been perched there for a thousand years or so. You are not surprised at the statement, but you indulge in a little mild speculation as to the par ticular form of foolishness that led anybody to assault it. After a while you look away from the castle and size up the city at large. Miles of gray mansions spiked with towers and spires stretch before you, backed and cut off in all directions by hills Just rough and rocky enough to be decorative. Hundreds of little blue pennons of smoke arise from the chimneys. They do not consume their own smoke in Edinburgh; the Scots have nicknamed the capital "Auld Reekie." Edinburgh is running over with his torical association and the tradition of greatness. Here the national life of Scotland has centered ever since she had one. All her warriors, all her patriots, all her men of sciences and her poets have left their mark on the capital. As a result, Edinburgh has a personality as clear cut and individual as that of some great actress. She is as Scotch as Robert Burns. If you like the reticence, the mixture of sen timent and resolution that make the Scottish, temperament, you will find Edinburgh a never-ending delight. TELL OF HUMAN SACRIFICE Significance of Pair of Thongs, in New York Museum, Will Be Ap parent to All. The curator of anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, values among recent acqui sitions in the Pawnee Indian collec tion a pair of thongs which so far as known, the only existing relics of the Pawnees' tribal rite of mak ing a human sacrifice to the Morning Star, god of war. Curiously enough, the Pawnee god of war star is believed to have been the planet Mars. When life grew dull it devolved upon the Pawnee priests to relieve the tedium of the tepees by dreaming that old Morning Star demanded a sacri fice: , Then the bloods went on the warpath until they captured a maiden of a hostile tribe. After due ceremony she was bound by thongs to a scaf fold, her feet pointing right at old Morning Star himself. When the brave bucks, who rather prided them selves ou their sharpshooting, had stuck her so full of arrows that she looked like a hedgehog, and when her heart had been cut out the party was over. Pencils Made Sterile. School physicians have recently de cided that school lead pencils may do deadly work as disseminators of dis ease germs. The lead pencils for an entire room are usually in charge of the teacher and are distributed when they are needed for class work. Chil dren habitually moisten the pencils in their mouths, a practice more unsani tary than the use of the old fashiohed slate cleaned with saliva. It is now proposed to have the pencils fumi gated daily with formaldehyde .gas, and a small fumigator has been de signed for that purpose. The fumi gator is the size of a one burner gas hot plate. The top will hold 50 pen cils. They are set in place and the fumigating gas turned on for 15 min utes, which renders them absolutely sterile. Cab, Sir? "Cab, Sir? Public carriages for hire, or hack ney coaches, were introduced into Lon don in 1625 and rapidly grew in popu larity. Notwithstanding the opposition of the king and court, who thought they would ruin the roads, they grew to number over 300 by 1650. In Paris they were introduced dur ing the minority of Louis XIV by Nicholas Sauvage, who lived in the Rue St. Martin at the sign of St. Fi acre, from which circumstance hack ney carriages in Paris have since been called "fiacres." fey 1694 there were over 700 of these conveyances in London. First Footpaths in 1762. The student of old London, notic ing the whitened curbs in the streets today, is inevitably reminded that the institution of the footway is really of quite recent date. It was not, in deed, until after the Westminster pav ing act of 1762 that footways became at all general. Before that time man and beast took the same road. Many cf the old iron posts, which are still to be seen in Regent street and else where, showing the crown and the monogram of the Georges, indicate the corners of these first footwavs. Dogs and cats are usually considered the particular friends and pets of the children. There are often times* however, when they become a menace to their childish playfellows, for both dogs and cats may become carrieri of disease germs. When certain diseases occur in a neighborhood, unless these domestic animals are kept in quarantine they may help to spread it. Dogs are also the carriers of other parasites and unless care is observed may transml' them to children. Some of the smaller animals also carry disease. The ground squirrels and rats, for example, carry the dread* 3d bubonic plague. Of these two the rat is far more dangerous. As its migratory habits and ability to live undei conditions and in localities where animal life would not ordinarily exist in and about the human dwelling place® make it particularly dangerous. Rats destroy each veaj- food products worth millions of dollars. FATE TRICKS ROYALTY ALSO Two Pathetic Old Ex-Queens Still Live to See Europe Torn by Most Ruthless War. There are two women, once of world prominence, who within the memory of those now living have experienced un usual extremes of fortune. Their lives have touched the heights of power and tragedy. One is Carlotta, daughter of Leopold of Belgium and wife of that Maximilian, archduke of Austria and emperor of Mexico, who faced a firing squad at Queretaro in 1867; the othei ts Eugenie, on whose head Napoleon in placed the crown of France, once worn by Marie Antoinette, and who, more fortunate than that unhappy queen, escaped a French mob and sur vived the downfall of an empire. The misfortunes of both were spanned in less than half a dozen years. Carlotta has been insane for 49 years, with some slight chance at this late day, It is said, of recovering her reason; Eugenie, ninety-years old, the sth ol next month, still lives in exile, a bent, worn old woman, leaning upon crutches and clad in perpetual mourning—she who was once queen of beauty and ruler of fashion, setting its modes ID accordance with her whims. Those who believe in present retri butions may see in Eugenie's long years of bereavement fate's requita) for the cowardice and cruelty of Na poleon the Little, who left Maximilian to his fate, denied Carlotta's pleas and requested her to leave France. Hi? own fall came soon. The Franco-Prus sian war, which France ascribed to Eugenie's influence —that her only son the Prince Imperial, might more se curely hold the crown—left him a prisoner after Sedan. He died, brok en hearted and in exile, in 1873; the Prince Imperial, who, according to ru mor, joined the British forces in South Africa because of his mother's opposi tion to his love for a girl he wished to marry, was brought home pierced with Zulu assegais. That loss was greatei than that of husband or empire to the ex-empress; for weeks she did not speak. After her great bereavement Eu genie left Chislehurst, her first shelter in England, and has since lived at Farnborough, where she busies herself among the poor. Last winter an Eng lish paper pictured a very old, lack clad woman, leaning upon a staff, talk ing with some wounded soldiers. What memories those men in bandages must have brought to the woman who had once talked so lightly of "my little war" —the war that was to spell ruin to all her ambitions! Of all the great figures of that mem orable conflict which cost France mil liards of francs and two of her fair est provinces—William I, Bismarck, Von Moltke, Bazaine, Garibaldi and Macmahon —the deposed empress alone survives.—Detroit Free Press. Poor Hubby. The young bride was doing the fam ily marketing for the first time. She stopped at the fish stall and looked over the array of sea food. "All perfectly fresh, mam'am," said the dealer, ingratiatingly. "Oh, dear,"' exclaimed the bride. "That's what everybody says. I wish I could find some stale fish. You see, my husband has indigestion, and the doctor won't even let him eat fresh bread. I'm sure fresh fish would be even worse for him " SAVING ART WORK Italian Army Has Special Depart ment For This Purpose. FEATURE IN PRESENT WAR. Organized by General Cadorna, This Division Protects and Preserves Treasures in Fighting Areas, Not Only In Italian Territory, but In Places Taken From Austrians. Headquarters of the Italian Army.- A department of fine arts is one of the features of the Italian army. It Is at tached to the general staff, and it has proved to be such a highly Important feature in modern warfare that ad miration of it was expressed by Gen eral Joffre and the late Lord Kitch ener on their visits to Italy. This art department was organized by General Cadorna, commander in chief of the Italian armies, primarily to protect and preserve the 'xrt treas ures in the fighting aress, not only in Italian territory, b'lt in places taken from the AusTlans. Ugo Ojetti, an art <l. reputation. sss&%s My W&fk - Hip Photo by American Press Association. GENERAL CADOENA who has long been officially identified with Italian art and architecture, was appointed the head of the department just a year ago, since which time many million dollars' worth of art treasures have been taken in charge. The art department is kept fully in formed regarding any new advance on the part of the Italian army, and it fre quently acts under artillery fire. Once the Austrian troops have been definite ly dislodged the department conducts a thorough search for art objects and takes complete charge of those that the Austrians have left behind. The search often leads into graveyard tombs and into vaults under churches where the treasures are hidden for safe keeping nr* curiT- u sj o- <rr tus vrs r. - irnr.in many instances the Austrians have taken everything away with them. The work of the art department in Venice has given that city the aspect of a much bandaged football player. All of its monuments have been care fully protected against the, stray_shell3 df~XustrTan aeroplanes. Tt~ls~estlmat ed that no less than 700.000 sacks full of sand have been placed around the finest buildings and monuments. By actual count 20,000 such bags protect the basilica *jf St Mark's. In addi tion, BO extensively have wooden sup ports been put about certain buildings that many of them, such as the ducal palace, seem to have been rebuilt Be cause of the peculiar construction of the ducal palace It was feared that a single shell striking a given building might result in the collapse of the en tire structure and the loss to the world of a priceless example of architecture. Bags of sand could not be used because their weight might cause the buildings to fall or sink. It was necessary to erect a full set of brick or wooden arch es to catch the real ones should they be moved by the shock of a shelL In an interview with a correspond ent Lieutenant Ojetti told of his work and said that the war, Instead of kill ing the artistic spirit, would make the art treasures of the old world more loved than ever. "Within ten years," he said, "I look for the development of a new epoch In both art and literature not only in Eu rope. but in the United States. I ex pect to see the world developing a manly literature embodying both hu man and eternal elements. Mankind will have come to a simpler and more profound way of thinking. Our old art treasures will be cherished because hu manity will have a need of rest from worry over material matters, and ob jects of fine art are the consolation of a tired spirit All art movements In history have originated in unhappy so cial conditions, in the need of mental refuge from material, earth to earth weariness. "The new art period will be one of classic simplicity, with a vast amount of architectural production and solemn and impressive monumental sculpture, but with little painting. "In literature the knell of the nerv ous. womanly, sentimental, weeping willow class of writing has been sounded. People in every condition of lite-IT-, ri-'OOiia. ly and look with contempt on weak ness with tears. Within the next dec ade or two the world will produce Vir gils—a literature very clear, very easily read, oalm in spirit sober s*u4 truly profound." Wholly Inappropriate. M I can't find any old clothes to put on the scarecrow," said Farmer Corn tossel. "You might use some of the fancy duds our boy Josh brought home," sug gested his wife. "I'm try in' to scare the crows. I'm not trj*i* to make 'em laugh."—Ha*» Tard LampooD. Dcscended From the Crusaders. The Touaregs, a Sahara desert tribe, whose members wear veils so contin ually that near relatives are said not to recognize each other if the garment in question happens to be removed, are direct descendants of a party of cru saders who were lost on the way to conquer Jerusalem and Mecca.—Detroit Free Press. Wise Precaution. "Good night, Jinks. What are you stuffing all that raw cottton into your ears for?" "Well, I was told not to stay out late and I believe In preparedness."— Baltimore American.
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