"POTATO PATRIOTS" HEEDED. Woodcraft League Urges Boya and Girla to Halp Nation. Ernest Thompson Seton, chief of the Woodcraft League of America, has sent an appeal to the members of the league asking them to shoulder the hoe and "hoe jour country's way to victory" in the campaign to increase the food sup ply of the nation. The league believes that "potatoes may decide the great war" and urges boys and girls wishing to become "potato patriots*' to join the Woodcraft potato clubs. Each patriot will agree to plant and raise not less than fifty hills of this very necessary vegetable and donate the receipts to some worthy war fund. Those who join will receive a club but ton and complete instructions for plant ing and caring for their potato crop. An American flag and a Woodcraft League Potato club pennant will be given to the patriot raising the best crop from 250 square feet. Groups of five will receive a charter personally signed by Erneat Thompson Seton. Free seed potatoes for planting twen ty-five hills will be given to the first hundred applicants. BOARD FOR WAR METALS. Members te Deal WWi ftuppty ef Braes and Aluminum. Washington.—To deal with problems ef brass and aluminum sepply for the army and navy the Omncll of National Defense created two committee* to act in ceo junction with the raw aaateciala committee ef the Civilian Advisory Commlsskm. The twe sew committees are expected to brlmg highly valuable technical information to the army and navy. Committees to dsal with othet raw aaaterlala vital to the conduct ef the war are beimg formed and will be announced later. The two eommtttees announced fol low: Brass—Charles F. BroOker and C. D. Goss, Waterbury, Conn.; Lewis H. Jones, Detroit; Barton Haeelton, Rome, N. Y., and F. J. Kingsbury, Bridgeport, Conn. Aluminum—Arthur F. Davis, New York; E. E. Allyne, Cleveland, and Jo seph A. Janney, Philadelphia. JAIL DE LUXE, BUT EMPTY. Westchester Offers Marble Baths, Etc., but Can't Get Convicts. New York.—V. Everit Macy, multi millionaire commissioner of correction of Westchester county, has taken over the new penitentiary de luxe at East View, but he cannot get any prisoners to fill it There are plenty of Westchester men serving sentences —200, in fact—but they were committed to Blackwell's is land for their full terms, and there seems no legal way to transfer them. New York would like to let go of them, but can't. Mr. Macy needs at least forty at once or there will be no gar den truck in the summer, there being no one to plant the garden. The prison lias marble shower baths, writing desks, real linen for the tables and pretty much all the comforts of home except freedom. BOY STUCK IN BIG GUN. With the Help of a Rope He Came Out All Right. South Bethlehem, Pa.—The Bethle hem Steel works recently forged the first sixteen-inch gun for the United States navy, the second made in this country. The first one, also cast here, guards the Atlantic entrance to the Panama canal and can fire a shot al mqpt sixteen inlle^L. araienuer apprentice wanted to have the honor of having crawled through the sixteen inch naval gun. It wasn't an easy job to work himself along, and halfway through he got stuck and yelled for help. Some of the men want ed to pull him out backward, but one of the mechanics sympathized with the boy and pushed in a rope from the ; front. He managed to get it around I his shoulders and eventually landed ; head foremost. NOVEL RECRUITING METHOD.' ! Premier of Australia's Plea Given Dra matic Effect. London.—Dispatches from Australia describe a scene that occurred in Syd ney while Premier Hughes was ad dressing a crowd of 20,000 people and appealing for recruits. As he was speaking some troopers of the light horse led into the square fifty riderless! horses carrying white cloths Inscribed, j "Who will fill an empty saddle?" "You are living," Mr. Hughes plead ed. "You are Australians. Your coun try is in danger. God will be with you." Within twenty minutes every horse had a rider, and the jangling bits and the clattering hoofs had roused the crowd to a state of intense excitement. , It is expected that this dramatic inci dent will help in stimulating the re cruiting campaign. EVERYBODY KNOWS HIM. Llayd George Now Diacovers He Had Hundreds of Bcheelmat«e. London.—Lloyd George told a friend the other day that he was beginning to think that he had bad almost as many schoolmates as there were passengers on the Mayflower, which carried the pilgrim fathers to the American coast in the seventeenth century. The premier made this observation after the amusing discovery that he had thousands of schoolmates when he was a schoolboy in Wales. He said the attendance never exceeded thirty, but j that almost every day his mail in- 1 eludes a letter from somebody who be gins by saying, "I was once at school with you." Passing Counterfeits. Johnny—Say, papa, passing counter feit money is unlawful, isn't it? Papa —Yes. Johnny—Well, papa, if a man was walking along the street and saw a ten dollar counterfeit bill upon the sidewalk and did not pick it up wouldn't he be guilty of passing coun terfeit money, and couldn't he be ar rested and put in jail? Papa—More likely the lunatic asylum. Now you may go to bed, my son. —Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Got His Dose Later. Mr. Courtney (flatteringly)—l had the blues awfully when I came here to night, Miss Fisher, but they are all gone now. You are as good as medi cine. Miss Fisher's Little Brother- Yes; father himself says she'll be a drug on the market if she doesn't catch on to some fellow soon. Quick Work. "That editor is terribly slow at read ing manuscript." "Think so? Why, I know the time he went through twelve in less than a minute." "Gracious! When was that?" "When the elevator broke."—Phila- ' delphia Press. j An Individual Preference. "What's your favorite animal?" "A goldfish," replied Mr. Meekton. ' "It doesn't sing or have to be put out of the house at night."—Washington Star. i; Enrico Caruso to Sing In Pittsburgh j | May 5 at Shriners' Mosque • CARUSO AS CANIO IN "PAGLIACII." CARUSO made his first appearance In America at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1903. His pred ecessor in this country a* a popular tenor was the famous Jean de Reszke, who established a standard of excellence difficult to maintain. It was no easy matter to win over an opera public that bad made De Reszke its idol, but the public soon took Caruso to its heart and there he has remained e. :r since. His admirers declare that his voice this season is more expressive and beautiful thnn ever. It was in Italy some 20 years ago! that Caruso and De Reszke first met. Caruso then unknown to fame. He sang one afternoon at a reception at which De Reszke was present, and when next day the two happened to Vacation and Efficiency. It is the change really more than the rest that is of so much value in a vaca tion. Besides the absorption of the fatigue products, there is an opportuni ty given those functions which have remained inactive and sluggish, and even atrophic, to exercise and develop. It is a restoration of balance. For con fined and sedentary workers even hard and coarse country work is restful and invigorating. For indoor workers this sort of a vacation means a new lease on life. Very often a border line case of tuberculosis is maintained a lillie i longer above the line by a proper vaca ' tion. The increased tendency to nrterio sclerosis and other degenerative condi j tions, as well as premature senility, nearly all the result of high pressure and efficiency, can be much neutralized by periodic vacations, a vacation free from the grind, of course, but also from the worry incident thereto. The vacation Is a therapeutic measure come to stay.—New York Medical Journal. Effect of Wind Upon Sound, One of the government scientists gives an interesting explanation of the action of the wind In preventing the, spread of sound. It is, he claims, not the wind as such | that prevents sound from traveling | against it, but differences in the strength of the wind. If, for Instance, the wind is stronger above than below or stronger at one side its effect will be to tilt the sound waves in one direc tion or another. Differences of temper ature in the air also cause deflection of the waves of sound. Other atmos pheric causes exist which deflect sound from a straight course. Some of the I sirens in this country, says this scien tist, produce sounds which ought theo retically to be audible at a distance of 1,500 miles; but, in fact, the authori ties are satisfied if they are heard only two miles away. The reason for the discrepancy between calculation and experiment was probably atmospheric deflection of the sound. Origin of "Mississippi." "The original spelling of Mississippi/' says the Magazine of American His tory, "and the nearest approach to the Algonquin words 'the father of waters' is "Meche Sepe,' a spelling still com by the Louisiana Creoles. Tonto suggested Miche Sepe, which is somewhat nearer the present spelling. Father Laval still further modernized it into Michispi, which another father, Labatt, softened into Misisipi. The i only changes since have been to over ! load the word with consonants. Mar quette added the first and some other explorer the second s, making it Mis sissipi, and so it remains in France to this day, with onlj one p. The man who added the other has never been discovered, but he must have been an American, for at the time of the Loui siana purchase the name was generally spelled in the colony with a single p." Taste and Temperature. The sense of taste resides in little flask shaped pockets imbedded in the spin of the surface of the tongue and hi tllfi upi>er I.*- • .-'t of tiie throat Each meet. De Reszke didn t even remember Caruso's name. "You have quite a nice voice; if you keep up your studies you ought to get along," was tne older artist's patroniz ing remark. The two did not meet again until a few years ago when Ca ruso sang in Paris. De Keszke was one of the first to seek him after his tri umph. After De Keszke had finished , his compliments. Caruso, with a twin ; kle in his Neapolitan eye, replied: "Well. 1 think you did tell me that if ! I kept at it I might j;ot along!" There have been jrreat tenors in the p:;st. but none h:is surpassed lOnrico Caruso, whose concert in Pittsburgh at Shriners' Mosqu on Saturday even ing. May illi. is attra ting residents t\v liui.cii'v' ii'iles distant. or TEesS "bulbs Eas a Tibril of a nerve connecting it with the larger nerves of its region. Anything to be tasted must be in a dissolved or gaseous condition so as to reach the interior of the bulbs, and differences in taste depend upon the varying intensity with which the impression is transmitted through the nerves. It is not surprising, then, that taste is much influenced by tempera ture and may temporarily be stopped altogether by extreme heat or cold. The sense of taste is, it appears, strongest at a temperature between 50 and 60 degrees F. India Paper. Processes used in the production of certain kinds of paper are trade sec rets. Thus the methods employed to pro duce the thin, tough, opaque vari<?ty, known as the Oxford India paper, £ave never been divulged. It was first made in England at the Clarendon Press paper mills in 1875 and was i used for printing an edition of the j Bible. Making a Garden. Agriculture is nearly as old as man. and since it began it is probable that ; farmers have been studying out bal anced rations for domestic animals, but «ven yet few housekeepers have any zeal scientific ideas on feeding the family. Your state agricultural college or the department of agriculture, Wash ington, can help you out in this, and you should take the matter into con sideration in making your garden and see to it that your vegetables include the most nutritious and health giving properties. Every farmer knows that when a horse works all day he should receive certain feed and when he is idle—in rainy weather, for instance—he gets different rations. How about a man or a child? Do you know how to set your table to get the maximum re sults and keep perfect health $ Do you serve the same food to the men work ing in the heat of the harvest field, to the boy going te school and to the babies? Your garden should contribute to the health and happiness of each.— Reclamation Record. Might Have Changed History. Here is the story of an averted trag edy which, if it had not been averted, might have changed the whole course of modern history in Europe. The time was about three weeks after Sadowa The place was the little village of Pirs dorf, about thirty miles from Vienna. King William of Prussia and Biamarck were there, and they sat down on a ter race outside a small cafe to drink beer. Kern, an Austrian forester, saw them He regarded them as the deadly ene mies of his country. He was an excel lent marksman, and he had his double barreled gun with him. Taking aim from behind cover, he was about to fire when Ws wife, seeing what he was after and fearing the consequences, clutched him by the coattails. He turn ed to argue with her, and before the \ argument was finished the king and his chancellor had disappeared. So nothing happened. But if Kern had been allowed to fire there might have been no German empire. ' Voter's Catechism. D. Have you read the Consti tution of the United States? R. Yes. D. What form of Govern ment is this? R. Republic. D. What is the Constitution of the United States? R. It is the fundamental law of this country. | D. Who makes the laws of !the United States? R. The Congress. D. What does Congress con sist of? R. Senate and House of Rep ! resentatives. D. Who is our State Senator? | R. Wilbur P. Graff. D. Who is the chief executive of the United States? R. President. D. For how long is the Presi dent of the United States elect ed? R. Four years. D. Who takes the place of the President in case he dies ? R. The Vice President. D. What is his name? R. Thomas R. Marshall. D. By whom is the President of the United States elected? R. By the electors. i D. By whom are the electors chosen ? R. By the people. D. Who makes the laws for the State of Pennsylvania. R. The Legislature. D. What does the Legislature consist of? R. Senate and Assembly. D. Who is our Assembly man? R. Wilmer H. Wood. ; D. How many States in the union ? R. Forty-eight. D. When was the Declaration of Independence signed ? R. July 4, 1776. D. By whom was it written? R. Thomas Jefferson. D. Which is the capital of the United States? R. Washington. D. Which is the capital of the state of Pennsylvania. R. Harrisburg. D. How many Senators has each state in the United States? R. Two. The Steeplechase. The first steeplechases were literally "chases to a steeple." The earliest we can discover was a match in 1752 be tween Edmund Blake and Mr. O'Calla ghan over four and a half miles of stiff country between the church of Butte vant and St. Leger church spire.- Lon don Tatler. Drawn G^ss. On account of its great strength drawn glass is used for many pur poses. It withstands sudden changes of temperature, resists fire to a great extent and is very strong. A Delusion. Blibson —How was Jones yesterday? Glibson —He seemed to be laboring un der a strange delusion. Blibson—ln deed! I thought he was playing golf. Glibson—So did Jones! Milton's Opinion. Milton was once asked if he intended to instruct his daughter in the different languages. He replied: "No, sir. Oue tongue is sufficient for a woman." Its Complaint. A somewhat weather beaten tramp being asked what was the matter with his coat replied: "Insomnia. It hasn't j had a nap for ten years!" His Position. "What was at the bottom of that fight between Thompson and Jimpson?" "Jimpson was till Thompson was pulled off." i The more one judges the less one, loves. —Baizac. Procrastinators. Lots of people have to tell what they are going to do or they would have nothing to tell.—Life. i SZS2SESESZS2SHSZSiS2SZSZSZSSSESZSES^SESiSZSaSHSZSHSHSHSZSES2SHS2S2SZK3 % The Patriot Job Printing Department a K Is prepared to do all indsof Commercial a $ Printing promptly a id in an up-to-date manner. Call and get our low prices for 5j- the best of service and workmanship. § | 15 CARPENTER AVE. PA. | 25c TES-HSZSHSESZSZEESZSZSZSHSZSZSHSHEZSZS2S3HS2SHSZSZSHS !SZSZS2SHSZSES£ D. Who are our U. S. Sena tors? R. Boise Penrose and George T. Oliver. D. By whom are they elect ed? R. By the people. D. For how long? R. Six years. D. How many representa tives are there ? R. 435. According •to the population one to every 211,000, (the ratio fixed by Congress af ter each decennial census.) D. For how long are they elected ? R. Two years. D. Who is our Congressman T R. Nathan L. Strong. D. How many electoral votes has the state of Pennsylvania? R. Thirty-eight. D. Who is the chief execu tive of the state of Pennsyl vania ? R. The Governor. D. For how long is he elect ed? R. 4 years. D. Who is the Governor? R. Martin G. Brumbaugh. D. Do you believe in organ ized government? R. Yes. D. Are you opposed to or ganized government? R. No. D. Are you an anarchist ? R. Ne. D. What is an anarchist? R. A person who does not be ilieve in organized government. D. Are you a bigamist or poligamist? R. No. D. What is a bigamist or po lygamist? R. One who believes in hav ing more than one wife. D. Do you belong to any se cret society who teaches to dis believe in organized govern ment? R. No. D. Have you ever violated any laws of the United States? R. No. D. Who makes the ordinances for the-City? R. The board of aldermen. D. Do you intend to remain permanently in the U. S.? t R. Yes. Joy of Pockets. The pocket has to be lacked before it is properly appreciated, the London Chronicle says. This writer had taken liis pockets as a matter of course until one evening he attended a fancy dress ball In costume which, he discovered when too late *to remedy the defect, was absolutely pocketless. The ques tion at once arose v\;hat to do wltb pocket handkerchief, money, cloakroom ticket, and so on. The handkerchief, of course, went up his sleeve, but it took some minutes to devise recepta cles for coins and other necessaries in the lining of the cap, the heels of the shoes and the cuff of the coat All night long, however, he felt lost through having no place to thrust his hands into. Since .then be finds him self frequently putting his hands Into his pockets to experience the sheer Joy of knowing that they are there. A Thirty-three Year Job. The founder of "synthetic philoso phy," so called as being jin attempt at fusing all the sciences into a whole, was Herbert Spencer. It was in 1850, when he was about forty, that Speilcer projected his scheme of philosophy, based on the principle of evolution in its relation to life, mind, society and morals. lie proposed a scheme requir ing him to complete eleven volumes in twenty years, but he was thirty-three years at work on it, and then it had greatly exceeded the original scope. To the accomplishment of his self Imposed and gigantic task he devoted all of his time, strength and mental powers. Steadfastly refusing honors and titles. Delicate from infancy, he yet lived to pass his eighty-third milestone. — Chi cago Journal. It requires a certain amount of tact to be sincere with your friends and still keep them.—Philadelphia Record. —r— ———- —*-ln"iii i iii'l'"" SSSww~Trr 11 » ~ 11 ~w—O—CO—> ■ ———
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