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THE PATRIOT
Published Weekly By
THE PATRIOT PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Office: No. 15 Carpenter Avenue
Marshall Building, INDIANA, PENNA
Local Phone 250-Z
FRANCESCO BIAMONTE, Publisher
Entered as second-class matter Septeml>er 26, 1914,
at thepostoffice at Indiana, Pennsylvania, under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
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The Aim of the Foreign ! anpa e Papers
oS America
TO HELP PRESERVE THE IDEALS AND SACRED TRAD
ITIONS OF THIS, OUR ADOPTED COUNTRY, THE UNITED
STATES OP AMERICA; To REVERE ITS LAWS AND IN
SPIRE OTHERS TO OBEY TIIEM; 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.
Too Sore to Shake.
"Did you take the mixture I gave
you?"
"To tell you the truth, I did not, doc
tor."
"Why not?"
"Well, I fancy you made a little mis
take. You gave me ague mixture. It
says, 'Shake before taking,' and my
complaint is rheumatism."—Pall Mall
Gazette.
Modern Version.
The Amazon forces were about to
charge.
"Wait until you can see the powder
on their noses," directed the lady mili
tary genius who commanded the other
feminine troops.—Kansas City Journal.
Endurance.
The pilgrim fathers were undoubted
ly heroic men, facing, as they did, with
dauntless courage, fire, frost, famine
and the red menace of Indian ruthless
ness. But the pilgrim mothers were
more heroic still, for they endured also
all these things and had in addition to
stand the pilgrim fathers as welL—
Life.
Napoleon's First Love.
The little French town or Auxonne
is not associated in the popular mind
with Napoleon; but, as Miss Betham-
Edwards reminds us in "Unfrequented
j France," he spent some- years of his
I cadetship there. "In the Saone he
| twice narrowly escaped drowning, and
! here, too. us narrowly, so the story
! runs, marriage with a bourgeoise maid
| en called Manesca. Two ivory counters
I bearing this romuntie nane in Napo
leon's handwriting enrich the little mu
seuin."
Even the smallest pieces of finely
broken glass can be easily picked up
with a little wad of wet absorbent
cotton, which can then be destroyed
by burning.
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RECIPROCITY. :?
H There is one word which may I*
serve as a rule of practice for nil <5
one's life —that word is reciproc- 13 !
ity. What you do not wish done
to ywurself do not do to others.— || I
•S Confucius.
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i Men Are Living Longer P
11f Than In the Old Days! vl
To PWlKfbitionists in general and to Richard Hobson in parties I fl\
lar, who, in a speech favoring Prohibition said that alcohol killed | w
two thousand persons a day (a statement as untrue as it was MQV
jfoolish) the following extract should prove interesting reading MW
It is taken from a representative journal published in PhiladeN » tip
phia, the date October 21, 1916. We quote as follows: "The
death rate in the United States last year was the lowest ever re*
ported—thirteen and a half for each thousand inhabitants. Fift* W
teen years ago it was seventeen and a half ; so we may say that
about four hundred thousand more people would have died in this fjl
country last year but for the better care we take of our healtlr |* j»
—mainly by public sanitation. 1 * In the last fifteen years the con- V/
gumption of alcoholic beverages has materially increased until j
1916, when every distiller, brewer, wine dealer and wholes - a
liquor dealer in the country showed marked increased sales t<*
dealers and consumers. Does it not show the FALLACY of ME»
Eobson's argument that alcohol is such a killing force when /L
FACTS prove that the death rate in the United States last year M ft
was much lower than formerly—and more liquor was consumed Mr
than ever before? —.PEMNSYLVAHIA STATE BREWERS' AS- |P
SOCIATION. M
no y/Hj
Some Resemblance.
"Lightning rods in one respect am
like waiters."
"What's that?"
"They won't give good service unless
they are well tipped." Baltimore
American.
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Puzzling.
Millions—Do you think you will learn
to like your titled son-in-law? Billions
—I don't know. I can't tell where to
place him in my expense account He
is neither a recreation nor an invest
ment
Don't Wrrte Poetry.
"Don't write poetry unless you can't
help it," says the St Louis Globe-Dem
ocrat.
And often when you think you can't i
help it 'tis well to consult a doctor.—
Toledo Blade.
SIMPLE WAY TO TEST CREAM
French Scientist Has Given to the
World a Discovery That Is of
Distinct Value.
Professor Lindet of the French
I Agronomic institute has given to the
Academy of Agriculture a very simple
process for calculating rapidly the
quantity of fatty matter in cream,
j It is the fatty matter that gives cream
its quality, the more of this butter the
better the cream. This Is the process:
A drop of cream is placed upon a
sheet of paper and introduced at once
into an oven heated to 105 degrees
centigrade. The watery part of the
. cream evaporates aud the fat, ab
sorbed by the paper, forms a spot
whicn enlarges rapidly at first, then
| more slowly as the edges of the spot
Increase their distance from the point
at which the drop has been placed,
j At the end of a specified time the area
; of the spot is measured and compared
with that of a spot formed by a drop
of pure grease of the same size de
posited at the same time and under
identienl conditions,
i Professor Lindet uses drops of 1-100
! of a cubic centimeter in size, and
j places his paper in wooden frames to
prevent it from curling up in the
oven. Ho removes it before the spots
have spread to more than three or
four centimeters in diameter.
Cow's Fondness for Roses.
Because E. R. Patterson's milch cow
walked into Walter G. Hyuiau's rose
garden and consumed a sundry assort
ment of blossoms, Hay ward Park, a,
fashionable residence district of San
I Mateo, is in the throes of a Civil war,
avers a San Mateo (Cal.) telegram
to the New York World. The law has
beeen invoked and threats and coun
ter threats are breathed.
Hyman filed a written complaint
with the San Mateo city trustees, who
referred it to Poundmaster George
Maggi.
Recently Patterson made public the
following letter to Hyman:
"I hand you herewith my check for
$3.25 to cover the full amount of dam
ages, as claimed by you, done by my
cow when she recently broke loose
and got into your yard. In view of
the very childish 'tell-the-teaeher' at
, tltude you took in taking tills small
accident up with sundry city oliicials
i and others, I think I might have felt
that I was justly absolved from any
1 financial obligation to you. However,
I guess your action carries with It its
own punishment, as I know that I
should hate to carry the brand real
men put on one who assumes the at
! titude you did on this occasion."
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