THE P ATRIOT Published 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-class matter September 26, 1914, at the postoffice at Indiana. Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION ONE YEAR . . $1.50 | SIX MONTHS. .» SI.OO • Tbe Aim of the Foreign Language Papers ol America TO HELP PRESERVE THE IDEALS AND SACRED TRAD ITIONS OF THIS, OCR XDOPTED 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 WE FOUND IT. Continued from page 1 turn to power of the Von Tirp itz element in Germany, with a consequent renewal of ruthless submarine warfare, officials as serted today. The publication is to be made with Germany's con sent. The note, declares the killing of Americans on the Lusitania was unintentional and expres sing profound regret for loss of American life, is declared to be a complete guarantee in the name of the German people | against any such submarine campaign as that which preci pates the recent German-Amer ican crisis. It declares a cam paign for reprisal against other than enemy subjects to "be a mistake" and is said to agree entirely with this country's view that non-combatants and particularly neutrals, must not' suffer. _ ' EX-CONVICTS NEAT Leave Missouri Penitentiary With Stylish Suits. NOT SPOTTED BY OUTSIDERS. Even the Children of Jefferson City Can't Recognize Freed Prisoners In Their Tailored Checked Suits, At tractive Ties and Stylish Hats. Jefferson City.—The man who Is re- Leased from the Missouri penitentiary today does not hare the appearance of the one who was liberated a few years ago, and he is no longer spotted by the children in the town as an ex-convict. Instead of the suit of a dull brown mixture, the coarse shirts and the heavy, squeaking brogan shoes that marked him a few years ago, the pres ent warden, D. C. McClung, has made it possible without additional expense to the state for the men to leave the prison in neat suits of fine checked pat | terns, such as any man might select. ! These suits are made to measure of ' cloth jnuHufactured In theL.nrison. And In addition to these suits Ufe Treedcon vict wears attractive shirts, pretty ties and stylish bats. By careful buying Mr. McClung has bought shirts that -would retail at three or four times the price. Neat overcoats are given the men .who go out In cold weather. All this work comes under the head of the commis sary department, which has undergone an overhauling. Carl McClung, son of the warden, has j taken the commissary out of a small dungeon of a room to a good, clean building that formerly was used as an ov/jrall factory. All the edibles and wearing apparel j are kept In this building. Every piece of clothing, every bag of flour and every pound of all stuffs used is tick eted and can bp checked up. In a small store where the convicts may buy, run by Carl McClung, the con victs are charged just what the food would cost, them outside except in the case of a few items, which are sold ai leas than cost. PONY SAVES BOY'S UFE Keeps Vicious Bull Away From Yooik) Master In Nebraska. Fairfield, Neb.—A pet pony ridden bj Aubry Craft, son of Albert Craft, liv ing north of this place, is believed to have saved the boy's life while he lay unconscious after an attack by a vi clous bull. When the toy failed to return after having gone for the cattle a search was started. He was found lying in the pasture, his face badly torn. He was unconscious. Near by was his pony. The tracks in the dirt showed the lit tle animal had raced round and round the unconscious boy, keeping away the bull that had attacked him. Later, when driven near the bull, the pony at tempted to attack the animal. FUNERAT"DISK ~EULOGY. Minnesotan Would Provide a Substi tute For Clergymen. Lake City, Minn.—James Scott of this city is planning a series of disk phonograph records for use at funerals In remote places. The records will con tain a funeral oration, a song by a quartet and a prayer. Various types of records are planned. According to Scott, a Presbyterian will have a strong Presbyterian program. Baptists will have characteristic ser mons. If a strong eulogy is desired it will be forthcoming. The entire program will not cost more than sl. Deed Blown Ninety Miles. Pocahontas, Ark.—A deed of trust, the property of S. D. Wright of Judso nla, which disappeared during the tor nado there last month, has been found at Maynard. ninety miles from Judao nia. Main* Man's Story of His Wonderfully Bright Angora. Bangor, Me-—Warren Clement of Mlllvale while at work in his hayfield heard a lot of splash in a pond near by and, thinking that perhaps a horse mackerel had got into the sheet of water, noiselessly approached the spot and was astonished, although he knew that he had one of the brightest cats in Maine, when he saw his pet Angora coon cat dive from a stump and disai> pear In the water, only to reappear within a few seconds bearing a frog in its mouth. Depositing the now lifeless frog on the ground, the four footed coon gained the stump again, crouched, another j spring, another dive, another swim an<3 another frog. WENDELL'S SON LICKED BULL> . Boston Mother Had Boy Taught to 4Jss Hla Fists. Boston.—A Boston mother, a leading figure in feminine activities, has sent her boy to a boxing instructor to learn to protect himself against a bully. The son was taught to use his fists. The next time the bully molested this boy he met scientific resistance which I made him let the youth alone. The mother is Mrs. Barrett Wendell, president of the Special Aid society. Her husband is Professor Wendell of t£e department of English at Harvard. "I would advocate the same teaching for the girls," said Mrs. Wendell. "Probably some JluJitsu might an swer" GOES LONG WAY TO WED. Pretty Newfoundland Miss Traveled to Vancouver to Marry. Vancouver, Wash.—Coming all the way from St. Johns, Newfoundland, to meet her sweetheart of school days, Miss Isabel M. Ewing, a pretty twenty two-year-old miss, was married to Her bert G. Bradley, a restaurant man of Portland, Ore., in the office of the county auditor here recently. It was only a few hours after her ar rival in Portland, whence she had come at Bradley's call, that they came to Vancouver together and were married. Though it was several hours after the time for the marriage license bureau to close, Mrs. May R. Hacok, the county auditor, obligingly went to the court house and issued a license. Justice of the Peace W. S. T. Dart was called, and the ceremony was per formed in the auditor's office. Only two friends from Portland and the local officials witnessed the ceremony. Bradley left his home in Newfound land several years ago and came west in search of fortune. In a dairy lunch business in Portland he built up an in come sufficient to send for his sweet heart HAS SHAVED 243,960. 1 Barber Says Hs Has Had That Many In His Chair. Lorain, O. —Theodore Curtis, a Lo rain barber, has just celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the begin ning of his career. Curtis, who has i kept account of every man he has shaved, says he has removed the whis kers of 243,900 men. 'T have also cut enough hair to make eleven mattresses and to pad 43,502 crutches," said Curtis. The barber has shaved some of the country's widely known men, including I ; Presidents McKinley, Roosevelt and ' Taft, Senators Mark Hanna, Matt Quay, Albert Beveridge and Ben Till- j | man, "Doc" Cook, Buffalo Bill. Jesse Wiliard, Tod Sloan and Harry Thaw. 1 "I would like to add Charles Evans Hughes to my list of notables," ob-1 j served Cards. NOW ITS "SWAT THE WEED." Arkansas Begins Campaign to Protect Soils From Useless Growths. Payetteville, Ark.—"Swat 'em" ap plies to other things in Arkansas be sides the fly. A campaign against weeds was announced recently by the I extension division of the University of Arkansas, with the terse advice: "Swat 'em and save future Labor and soil fertility and soil moisture." Weeds may cost a community or state millions of dollars, according to 1 an extension division bulletin. Spread of weeds is said to be due to careless- j ness. After farmers let weeds ripen the seeds are scattered by travelers or birds or are sold with hay to infest other neighborhoods. The bulletin urges children be taught to "swat" weeds and never let one ripen to seed. - BOYS PUMPED WELL DRY. Wanted to See a Water Wheel Work and Left Their Play. Brazil, Ind. Finding that surface water running into his well had made the water impure, a citizen of Brazil started to pump his well dry. After pumping half an hour in the hot sun. he gave up the Job. Then he made a miniature water wheel, which he attached to the end of a trough. After he had attracted the attention of several boys who were playing on a vacant lot, he went to his work. When he returned in the even ing the boys had pumped the well dry to see the wheel go round. MAINE GETS NATIONAL PARK. Reservation Comprises 5,000 Acres on Mount Desert Island. Washington.—Creation of the first national park east of the Mississippi river, comprising 5,000 acres on Mount Desert island. announced 1 1 by the interior department i-t will be known as Sieur de Monts National monument. The tract was donated to the federal government Its northern boundary Is only a mile from Bar Harbor, and sev eral popular summer resorts lie near It There are ten mountain peaks and four lakes within the tract- Cuts Wheat at Night. Salina, Kan.—Frank Johnson, a wheat grower in this county, is this ! year cutting wheat by electric light, using the illumination on the front of a large tractor, which pulls several ! binders. This Is an innovation that Is working satisfactorily. Haste is made necessary by the rapidly ripening wheat LAD. TEASED, USED GUN. Boy, Who Was Mountaineer, Mad* Onion Weeders Scatter. Kenton. O. —A real Kentucky moun taineer of fiction type—six feet one and a half inches tall and weighing 100 pounds, although only fourteen years old—awoke the quiet settlement of Alger on the Scioto marsh, the center of the greatest onion raising district in Ohio, when he started a cannonade that sent the natives to the trenches. He was Charles S. Hale, who hails from Greensburg, Ky., and who cam® to Ilardin county to weed onions. The youth bought a gun and threat i ened to shoot the hats off any one who opened their heads to him. He says the other weeders were teasing him. The trouble came when officers tried to arrest him. The bullet hit Harvey Porter. Spectators scattered. The lad was sent to the Lancaster Industrial school. I would exchange my 11 room house with a large Store Room, also a good stable located in Clymer, for a good size farm any place in the County. Apply at this office. FOR SALE—Two good team horses: inquire of Joe Mazza, Homer City. $5.00 NIAGARA FALLS & RETURN The popular mid-summer 5 day vacation to Niagara Falls will be August sth. Tickets on sale for all trains. BUFFALO ROCHESTER & PITTSBURGH RY. i Casa Stabilita nel 1895 PROVATE I L'Olio Marca ''La Siciliana" I • * s. 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