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 | SIX MONTHS . $l.OO OUR FLAG Ijk. The Ain of the 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. y m ■ / Mr. Willmarth By PAULINE D. EDWARDS * * As a girl I had not many cronies. I did not care for this girl and that girl each for a brief season, but preferred one very intimate friend, such a friend as I might tell all my joys or sorrows to and who would respond in kind. To others I was reserved. I would not think of making a confidante of any but the closest intimate friend. Pos sibly this may have resulted in my having such a friend who superseded all others in the matter of intimacy. Alice Wether ell and I were first schoolmates, then college chums. After our graduation we were separated for a year, then we were brought together again. I found on our reunion that Alice was engaged. She received me witff the same old affection, but the idea at once took possession of me that although I was her girl chum I had been reduced from a first to a sec ond place in her heart. I was not long in communicating this idea to Alice. Instead of denying its correctness, she seemed thoughtful, but indisposed to talk about it. When I asked her If either her lover or I must be lost to her which would she relinquish, she admitted that she would give me up for him. "You shall meet him, Gwen," she said to me, "and when you have be come acquainted with Mm i am sure you will admit that were you and I to change places you would give me up Instead of him in case you must lose one or the other." "Why, Alice," I remonstrated, "how could I do that without being in love with him?" "Never mind that," was her reply, and this was all I could get out of her on the subject Alice not only Introduced me to her fiance, Robert Willmarth, but left me alone with him a great deal. The first time I met him it did not seem to me that there would ever be anything in common between him and me. He was a serious man, while I preferred one of lighter vein. He was steady as the rock of Gibraltar. My beau ideal of a companion was a man of mirth. The second time I saw Mr. Willmarth he appeared very different to me. His gravity had given place to levity, but a levity behind which seemed to lurk something, the exact nature of which he did not care to reveal. At our first meeting Alice was present most of the time. At our second, he called upon me without her. While in the first in ataned dreadefl, to have Alice, leave ffiF alone witlT MnT, leaf F would" not know how to entertain him j in the sec ond we were in complete rapport. I asked him what had occasioned the change in him. He laughingly de clared that the presence of his fiancei while he was with any other woman threw him on his beam ends, as he ex pressed it. If any one else had said this I would have taken warning, but he said it jocosely, and not as if he were endeavoring to establish a rela tion with me in opposition to Alice. Nevertheless, I noticed that whenever Alice was present at our meeting he was the same reserved man he had been when I first met him, and we were as far distant from each other as ever. Certainly Alice had been mis taken in saying that if I knew him and had to choose between her and him, I would choose him. Not that there was any repulsion between us; it was simply that there was nothing to draw us together. Alice told me one day that she was obliged to go away for awhile vnd charged me to "take care," as she ex pressed it, of her fiance. "I rely upon you," she added, "to see to it that no desigining girl gets him away from me." Now, I * not like this a bit, for, as I have said, Mr. Willmarth when free from her presence was very attractive to me, and I did not consider myself a very safe person for her to leave him with. Not that I believed myself capa ble of taking him away from her, but I did not relish the temptation. How ever, I promised her that I would do my best for her interest, and with that she left me, apparently perfectly satis fled that I would keep my word. When Alice returned I dreaded to meet her. Mr. Willmarth had not scrupled to make love to me, and I had not the atrength to break away from him. While my conscience stung me, hia did not seem to trouble him at all. There waa ever present with him that devil-may-care bearing, a disposition to consider the matter as something amusing, which he had shown from tbe first On the evening before Alice's return I was with him and, noticing his freedom from consciousness of guilt, an idea occurred to me. "I believe," I said to him, "that this is a conspiracy between you and Alice to prove what she once said to me— that if I were called upon to choose between you and her I would choose you." He burst info a laugh, and I was sure I had guessed right, though he denied my hypothesis in toto. "I will admit" he said, "that a game has been played. Alice will be with us tomorrow, and she will explain." The next evening Mr. Willmarth called and was followed by Alice and— himself. There were two Willmarths, twin brothers, Boh and Alec. Alice's fiance was Bob. "Gwen." said Alice, "if yQH hat} to ] love me or Mr. Willmarth. wnicn i would you give up?" "Both." I replied, "for perpetrating on me such a deception." We had a diuble wedding. Funston's Nickname. General Frederick Funston was a member of the Phi Delta Theta frater nity at the University of Kansas. The general's fraternity brothers at Kansas knew him as "Timmy." This nickname I came about through the poor writing of the fraternity member who sent in the names of the pledges the year Funston became a Phi Delt The name was printed "Timston" in the Phi Delta Theta magazine, and in the form of "Timmy" stuck to the stocky, cocky collegian throughout his college career —Kansas City Star. Your Own Career. "You may be whatever you resolve to be." That was the motto of Stone | wall Jackson, who died a lieutenant general at thirty-nine The meteorii soldier found that sticking everlasting ly at it was what put the solve in re solve Stonewall's maxim means that you can do what you try to do if you try hard enough. Mr. Favre found that out forty years ago when against obstacles supreme and penalties of $l,- 000 a day for failure he pierced the St Gothard tunnel through the Alps. That stupendous work cost eight times the original estimates of ten millions, but it was done, and done to the ever lasting glory of human pluck.—Girard in Philadelphia Ledger. Flfel Calculating Machine. The first calculating machine was in vented and constructed by Blaise Pas cal, a Frenchman, in 1642, in which year he was but nineteen years of age. It was made by him with the aid of one workman and waa presented to the chancellor of France. During the rev olution it waa found in a Junk ahop at Bordeaux and at present la the prop erty of M. Bougouln of that city. All of the four simple mathematical opera tions can be made with it Illiteracy among American Indians has been found to be least in Kansas, where it is 18.7 per cent It is greatest in Utah. What's In a Nam*? Turkish cigarettes come from Vir ginia. French china cornea from Ohio. Persian ruga come from Massachu setts. Russian caviare comes from Michi gan. English herring come from Oregon. Norwegian sardines come from Maine. Havana tobacco comes from Ken tucky. Irish linen comes from New York.— Cincinnati Enquirer. ft. '■ OUR TURN OF BERVICE. There is so much to be aet right in the world, there are so many weakling* or unfortunate* to bo led and helped and com forted, that we must continually come in contact with euch in our daily life. Let us take care that we do not miss our turn of service.—El'zabeth Charles. Queer Neet of the Tontoban*. The oddest of all birds* nests la the one built by the ton to bane, a South African songster. It is built of cotton and always upon the tree producing the material. In constructing the dom icile the female works inside and the male outside, where he builds a senti nel box for his own special use. He sits in the box and keeps watch or sings nearly all the time, and when danger comes in the form of a hawk or a snake he warns the family, but never enters the main nest Some Climate! It is a natural law in* California, es pecially in the southern part of the state, that folks grow young Instead of old. Every time a rose fades in this sweet land its color finds its way into the choeks of some visitor from the east who has come here to seek the health which only a clime like this can give.—Los Angeles Times. Worst of the "Fliesy The horsefly is the most cruel and bloodthirsty of the entire fly family. He is armed with a most formidable weapon, which consists of four lancets so sharp and strong that they will pen etrate leather. He makes his appear ance in June. The female ia armed with six lancets, with which she bleeds both cattle and horses and even human beings. Hadn't Changed Much. "Dad, what was the labor of Slay* phua?" "Sisyphus rolled a stone up a hin, and aa faat aa he rolled it up it rolled iown again. It was a mythological episode. Nothing like that today." "Oh, I don't know," interposed ma. ••Washing dishes Is Just like that."— Louisville Courier-Journal. vnu. "Father," said little Johnnie, accept ing hia dally allowance, "I wiah yon wouldn't hand that nickel in such a horribly patronising manner. 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