«——■——— —, > ■.— . i' 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 September 26, 1914, at the postoffice at Indiana, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION ONE YEAR . . $1.50 I SIX MONTHS . $l.OO i» . _! The Aim ope Foreign Language Papers of America TO HELP PRESERVE THE IDEALS AND SACRED TRAD ITIONS OF 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 WE FOUND IT. ' I * A Curiosity in Nomenclature. The negroes in the British West In dlan island of Grenada find it very dif ficult to keep track of tbeir descent and their relatives because of a curious custom they follow in naming children. The father's Christian name is given to the son for his surname. Thus if a man is named John Jones his son may be called James John and that son's •on Robert James, and so on to the end of the chapter. Naturally in a few generations families get into a hope less muddle, and nobody knows exact ly to whom he is related/ If there is anywtiere on .roar Horizon, a spot of liglit, fix your eyes upon it and turn your thoughts away from t& clouds which may cover the rest ctf isky. • Things OT the Past. Betty had been punished. Her aunt did not know that, and when she came Into the room and found Betty sitting disconsolately before the window she said: "Why, look at our little Betty. She looks ready to cry. What Is S»- lng to happen, I wonder?" Betty looked ap and then said sol emnly, It has happened.**—HtmlM—pn. 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 aeas. But the pilgrim mothers were mors heroic still for they endured also all these things and had in addition to stand the pilgrim fathers as well.— Life. Wash the glass with water to which a little ammonia has been added and polish with a chamois which has been dipped in water and wrung as dry as possible. The Orchid. The orchid is a peculiar plant, for, strange as it may seem, there is no distinctively orchid odor. One smells like the violet, others like the rose, the hyacinth, the daffodil. Orchids are the monkeys, the mimics of the vegetable world, in odor as well as form and tint No ether flower resembles an or chid, hot orchids are forever aping butterflies, pansies, roots, spiders, pitch plants, birds and what not And tfcey sco not absolutely certain to look just the same twice in succession. Ruffed Grouse. Civilization is abhorrent to the ruffed grouse, king of American game birds. It seeks the depths of the forests where the wild grapes and winter green berries grow thickest: where clumps of laurel offer security from prowling wildcats or foxes; where mighty trees supply roosting places. There is no'prouder bird in appear ance than the ruffed grouse, none so majestic in flight. The hunter who cau find him and after finding can make 50 per cent of hits may be classed as an expert. When flushed this grouse springs into the air with a roaring noise; there is a flash of brown hurling itself through the forest, and in an in stant the bird is lost sight of.—Boston Journal. Caste System Among Ragmen. Japanese ragmen have a caste sys tem going from the lowest class, com posed of men with no capital, who go about picking up bits of paper and rags with pointed sticks, to the high est class, in which there are some men who are quite well off. There is an intermediate class composed of men who can pay .for what they get, the products they deal in depending large ly on the amount of money they may have. Among the higher class of rag men there are divisions of trade, some dealing in woolen rags, some in cot ton and others in different kinds of | paper.—Japan Society Bulletin. Watch Your Pep. Pep is a slang word invented to con vey the idea of those who are always up and about, who are full of "ginger," who never go to sleep at the switch. When you are full of pep you can go a long way toward doing almost any thing. But pep runs out If your stomach goes back on you because you don't know how to take care of it; if you consort with weak minded people, taking on the color of their weak mindedness; if you burn the candle at both ends, then your pep runs low. Watch your pep.—Life. Napoleon's "First Love. The little French town of Auxonne is not associated in the popular mind with Napoleon; but, as Hiss Betham- Edwards reminds us In "Unfrequented France," he spent some years of his cadetship there. "In the Saone he twice narrowly escaped drowning, and here, too, as narrowly, so the story runs, marriage with a bourgeoise maid en called Manesca. Two Ivory counters bearing this romantic name in Napo leon's handwriting enrich the little mu seum." Be it ever so homely, there's no face like your own. Man is mortgaged up to his neck In the past.—Life. * — r jwßT"'gjjji j iEB - ' The German and Alm the Englishman I I Dnnks. More Than Uncle Sam's Cifen | I I That Prohibition fails utterly',o prohibit .... sot successfully dc'ied b7 the aost g 'B rabid Prohibitionist. Not only do the records of the supposedly "dry" States pre. J prohibition a failure, but United Cites statistics show the futility of attempting to ci> ,1 jg force laws to which th(* majority of persons are opposed. Although the Prohibition ;.r in the United States lias doubled in fifteen years, jC.. :n t.iat J J sumption of intoxicating liquors has also nearly doubled. In the per capita con- || | sumption in this country was about thirteen gallons a year. To-cay tie per capita con- j5 M sumption is twenty-two gallons a year. The total output cf beer -3 zjout 0c,0e0,000 I barrels a year; of whisky, 130,000,000 gallons a year; of wine, 33,000,000 gallons. At j| first sight these figures might give an idea cf tremendous ability :n this country to pv.i H away akoholic beverages. But this is not so. For although our per capita consumption ■ of liquor is 22 gallons yearly, yet England consumes 23 1-2 gallons cf intoxicaUs per | I y capita a year, and Germany a little more thin 20 gallons. Yet the most rabid I Prohibitionist could not say but that England and Germany are among the temperate U ®! nations of earth—yet the Englishman and German drink more than the United States | I citizen. That Regulation and not Prohibition is the solution of the problem i:> found in the FALLACY that Prohibition prohibits, and that FACTS show that although in the past fifteen years the prohibition area in the United States has about doubled, yet 1 the consumption of liquor, per capita, has also almost doubled in that time! IHE u PENNSYLVANIA STATE BREWERS' ASSOCIATION. 5 l Don't write Poetry. "Don't write poetry unless yon can't help It," says the St. Louis Glebe-Dem ocrat And often when yon tttok yen onn't he* it 'tia well te censatt a doctor.— Toledo Wade. Grim Solace. "Is BUcclns an optimist?" "Tea. 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