THE PATRIOT
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Entered as second-class matter September 26, 1914,
at the postofflce at Indiana, Pennsylvania, under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
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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 OP CIVIC DUTY;
IN ALL WAYS TO AID IN MAKING THIS COUNTRY GREAT
ER AND BETTER THAN WE FOUND IT.
Improved.
1 sometimes wish my first wife
could see me now."
"What's the matter? Aren't you
happy with your second wife?"
"Oh, yes, but every now and then I
can't help thinking how much good it
would do Jennie If she could only see
how well tamed I am today."—Detroit
Free Press.
Losing Her Interest.
"Mrs. Billerock is getting old. I
know It"
"What now?"
"She says that the stores don't have
as good bargains now as formerly."—
Exchange.
Then Silence. ' ~
"Tell me about some of your moun
tain adventures," said the little girl.
"Why, what do you mean, my child?
I don't understand."
"Ma said you were a climber."—Kan-:
•as City-Journal.
No Place For It.
"I have plenty of grit" declared the
grocery clerk boastfully.
"No doubt" replied his Irate custom
ax, "but I wish you would find another
place for It than In the sugar."—Balti
more American.
Trees and Water.
Trees having a large leaf surface ex
posed to evaporation a corre
spondingly large root formation to sup
ply the necessary moisture. It has
been estimated that a full grown shade
tree, such as the oak. maple or elm.
bearing some 700,000 leaves transpires
about 180 gallons of water daily. The
loss of such a large amount of water
requires that an equal amount be tak
en from the soil by the tree's roots. If
this supply is not furnished the tree
will die of thirst—Tree Talk.
Pa Knew.
"Pa, what is a hypothesis?"
"It's one of those things the drug
fiends use to squirt the dope into their
arms with. Why don't you look in the
dictionary -once in awhile?"—St Louis
Post-Dispatch.
Natural Result.
"Gladys is so conceited about the
handsome phonograph her best young
man gave her."
"Oh, that's all right With a mu
sical machine you have to pat on airs."
—Exchange.
UMIMS Question.
"Is the razor hurting you ?'* asked the
barber.
"No," grunted the man. "If it was I
wouldn't give you the satisfaction of
admitting it."—Louisville Courier-Jour
nal.
"On the Side of the Angels."
In "The Widowhood of Queen Vic
toria" Miss Clare Jerrold tells about a
speech made by Disraeli at Oxford
deprecating the theme of the moment-
Darwinism:
"What is the question?" he asked.
"It is now placed before society with.
I might say, a glib assurance which to
me is astonishing. The question is, 'ls
man an ape or an angel?' Now, lam
on the side of the angels."
Punch caught It up promptly:
On tile side of the angels, my Dizzy? Ah.
then.
How happy the angels should be!
The ally whom they least could have look
ed for of men
In their army enlisted to see!
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Porosity.
Strictly speaking, there Is nothing
that is ixnporous. Glass has a very j
Small degree of porosity.
Back to Adam.
A parchment roll over a foot wide
and nineteen feet long containing the
genealogical tree of King Henry VI. Is
in the Welsh National library at
Aberystwith. The work is beautifully
executed in tabular fashion of the lat
ter half of the fifteenth century and Is
Illuminated with miniatures, rich capi
tals and red ornamental letters. The
pedigree is traced from Adam, and the
particulars occupy a red line of six
yards on the scroll. On the left side
of the pedigree appears the list of arch
bishops of Canterbury down to John
Stafford and on the right side the list
of Welsh princes down to Edward I.
Dundee Advertiser.
Flies and Germs.
Do you know that both the interior
and exterior of the fly are charged
with deadly germs ? Five hundred and
fifty million germs have been found
on a single fly, 330,000,000 of them be
ing of intestinal origin.
Careful.
there any soup on the bill
of fare? Waiter—There was, sir, but
I wiped It off.
I A Winning Play.
Old Friend —Your plan is a most ex
cellent one. But do you think your
wife will agree to It? Married Man—
Oh, yes. I*ll tell her some one else sug
gested it, and I'll call it an idiot's idea.
—Exchange.
One of Them.
"Nobody can deny that I belong to
the Four Hundred of my town."
"What is the population of your
town?"
"Four hundred."—Kansas City Jour
nal.
A Feminine Impulse.
To straighten their hats is the first
impulse of feminine humanity after an
accident If a woman could be raised
from the dead she would straighten her
hat before doing anything else.—Marion
Crawford.
Wise (jirl.
He— Would your father and mother
object if they knew I had kissed you?
She—They never have.—Life.
Same Thing.
"Can you play the lyre?"
"I can tell a good fish story.*—Balti
more American.
BEGINNING.
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Be always beginning. Never
think that you can relax or that
you have attained the end. If
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we think ourselves more than
J beginners it is a sign that we
11 have hardly yet begun.
Might Forget It.
She—Mr. MacScrubb says he's going
to give me one of his pictures for a
wedding present
He—Never mind, dear; don't worry.
He may forget all about It—London
Sketch.
Before the Blackboard.
Before arithmetic was invented the
people multiplied on the face of the
earth.
Preparing For War.
Yeast—And so you say your wife be
lieves In preparedness. Crlmsonbeak—
I should say so. Why, Til bet she's
sitting up there at home now waiting
to start hostilities as soon as I put the
key In the door. —Yonkers Statesman. - JBO an\f , .
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