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 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