Changing the $iak$
The admission of Okluhomn Into the
Union hus necessitated the rearrange
nipnt of the stars on the flag to admit
the faiailol of the new State, and !t
has been n big task to rearrange the
stars on all the military flags of the
country.
Various Ideas have been advanced for
the simplification of the field of stars
on Old Glory. The difficulty In adding
new stan Is that the rows are neces
sarily made up of uneven numbers, and
AUNT HANNAH'
"Dear nier Ezra!" sold good Aunt
Hauuuh, "I do wish something would
happen ! Land o' liberty ! I get so aw
ful tired of this monotonous life not a
single neighbor less than a mile away
an' not a chick or child at home. I
ought to be ashamed to complain, and I
am! But I do wish something would
happen right here In front of our house !
Something to look at!"
Aunt Hannah, good soul, little
dreamed that before three hours bad
passed something would happen.
The one great event In her monoto
nous life was the daily passing of
the overland passenger trains, whleji
brought their eager tourists to Califor
nia or carried home returning wander
ers back toward the rising sun.
In Aunt Hannah's daily life this sim
ple passing of the trains grew to be an
event of importance. She could catch
tantalizing glimpses of women's fair
faces and the laughing eyes of little
children as the Overland flashed by,
not three rods from her own front door.
Sometimes she waved a snowy dish
towel at them as they rushed past, and
looked wistfully after them till the
long cut hid the curving train.
But on this particular day Aunt
Hannah's heart almost stood still In
her ample bosom. For the Overland
came Into sight, running more and more
slowly, and finally coming to a labor
ing, clanking stop almost at her very
door.
Such a thing had never happened be
fore, and Aunt Hannah was tilled with
wordless excitement. Something had
happened nt last! Uncle Ezra was stir
ring around near the house, keeping a
watchful eye upon old Dobbin, the
white horse, which was patiently walk
ing never-ending miles In the treadmill
which pumped water for the house and
garden and the nelghlmrlng orchard of
young orange trees.
Aunt Hannah sieedlly Informed him
of the great event, and Uncle Ezra, as
wonder-filled as she, walked down to
the railroad track to see what might
be wrong.
Aunt Hannah, from the porch, heard
him say hospitably to he conductor:
"Why, yes, we've got a telephone. Come
right in an' use It."
. And In a few moments thnt won
derful creature the blue-uniformed,
brass-buttoned conductor of the Over
land was standing on Aunt Hannah's
bright rag carMt and talking In crisp,
curt, masterly tones to some unseen de
linquent at the city ten miles behind.
It appeared that some one had blun
dered. The passengers swarmed out of the
cars and wandered aimlessly along the
track. Then the women and children
began to stray Into Aunt Hannah's
front yard, iooklng with genuine tour
ist curiosity at every little common
place thing that met their eager gaze.
For this was a tralnload of brand-new
tenderfeet from the far East, most of
whom were stopping upon California
soil for the first time in their lives.
Aunt Hannah was radiant and over
flowing with hospitality. Before ten
minutes bad passed she bad discovered
SPARH
OT Old
this makes It Impossible to arrange a
Held of stars that Is perfectly balanced.
In order to obviate this difficulty It has
bxn siipsted that the stars be placed
In a circle, so that no matter how many
new States and stars are destined to
apply for a place in the future they
could all be provided for by the simple
expedient of adding constellations to
the end on the circular line. ' This Is
a radical departure that has found
some favor with the government offi
an old lady from her own town In
Iowa, aud a young lady from Boston
who had known a second cousin of
Ezra's first wife's nephew or some such
near relative. Aunt Hannah was in her
element. Every rocking chair she pos
sessed and every straight-backed one
as well, she brought out into the front
yard under the great drooping pepper
tree, and her unexpected guests sat
around and asked highly Intelligent
questions of every official they could
waylay. Noon came, and the long
train stood powerless to move. Un
accustomed rivulets of perspiration
trickled down the portly conductor's
face as he walked up and down In 111
eonoealed impatience.
Aunt Hannah's hospitable soul ex
panded. "I'll fry every egg on the
place," she said, "and steep that five
pounds of coffee I've Just got, and cut
up the six loaves of bread I baked yes
terday, and open very glass of Jelly
I've got, but these women and children
sha'n't go hungry !"
So she bustled indoors and tied on
her second-best white apron, made a
"I DO WISH SOMETHIXO WOULD HAPPEN."
fire and set things going in her usual
capable way. "Lund!" she said. "It's
a long time since I had such a run
of company ! Of course, they could get
their dinner on the train, but mebby
good home cookln' '11 taste good to 'em !
Anyway, it wouldn't look right for me
an' Ezra to Bet down and eat an not
ask 'em!"
The young lady from Boston tied on
Aunt Hannah's very best white apron,
beautifully Ironed and smelling of old
fashioned lavender, and carried plates
and cups and forks and spoons out to
the waiting travelers under the great
pepper tree.
And when Aunt Hannah's famous
coffee began to send forth its enticing
fragrance, one by one the men came,
too, standing around looking sheepish
ly expectant.
They sat on the porch " steps and
waited patiently for empty cups. Then
the big pan of dougtnuts went around,
and generous slices of Aunt Hannah's
fresh bread and golden butter -and de
licious dalis of Aunt Hannah's finest
Jellies and preserves.
The two dozen eggs did not last long,
but Aunt Hannah helped out with crisp
slices of home-cured bacon, which, as
the blue-uniformed conductor said, went
right to thwspot.
The whlte-eapjed waiters served a
few select souls In the dining car of
the Overland, but Aunt Hannah's was
by far the more popular lunch. She
bustled about, flushed and happy. It
was like a great beautiful party a
surprise party! Something had hap
pened at last
Out of the abundance of her gener
ous heart Aunt Hannah had fed the
Glory:
cials intrusted with the - work of re
arranging the flag, but it has not been
thought expedient to adopt the idea
without appeal to Congress and through
Congress to the nation, for it is felt
that such an Important matter as the re
designing of Old Glory is a matter of
full national consideration.
Far-seeing citizens have pointed out
that in time the addition of new States
and the unavoidable division of single
States into double or treble common
wealths will so crowd the field of stars
as at present arranged that It will look
Inartistic and unsatisfactory. The
greater the number of stars the smaller
will be the symbols, for the compara
tive size of the field cannot be changed
without spoiling the flag and destroy
ing the appearance of the finest banner
on earth or sen. This problem Is being
discussed by patriotic persons who take
an Interest In national matters, and a
number of designs are on file at the
war office that aim to provide an ar
tistic and striking arrangement of stars
thnt, like that suggested by the circular
array, will permit of the addition of a
great number of constellations without
making the flag look at a little distance
like a striped banner with a Jack of
pure white, as would be the case were
the blue field crowded with stars.-
Wllllamsport (Pa.) Grit
multitude, but the multitude was not
content to have It so. The brass-buttoned
conductor himself (who had set
a very bad example by eating of Aunt
Hannah's cooking instead of the col
ored chef's) passed his official cap and
gathered In a shining shower of sil
ver, which he presented with a neat
little speech to Aunt, Hannah.
Then the ever-present tourist cameras
came into action, and Aunt Hannah
was taken with her big white apron
on by at least a dozen amateurs. Then
there were other snapshots, too Un
cle Ezra In his overalls, the great pep
per tree, the disabled engine, the per
spiring conductor, and even old Dob
bin himself.
. The old lady from Iowa and the
young lady from Boston insisted upon
helping with the dishes, and there en
sued a merry clatter from the kitchen.
Some of the young (plks gathered
around Aunt Hannah's parlor organ
and sang old Gospel hymns, or looked
over Aunt Hannah's plush-covered pho
tograph album on the marble-topped
center table. '
At last the conductor wiped his
streaming brow and shouted "All
aboard!" and Aunt Hannah's beauti
ful party was over. There were hur
ried handshakes, and one or two im
pulsive hugs and kisses for Aunt Han
nah, many cheery words of thanks and
appreciation, and then they all ran to
ward the cars and scrambled aboard.
Aunt Hniinnh, looking and feeling
twenty years younger, stood on the
porch and watched the long train as It
got Into motion and slowly pulled out,
waving her white apron In response to
a score of 'waving handkerchiefs, and
could scarcely see them for the tears
which dimmed her kind eyes.
And thus she stood ns the long train
entered the cut and slowly disappeared
from view.
She and Ezra began to carry the
chairs Into tho house. Aunt ITannah
was a little tremulous from excitement.
"Ezra," she said, "when I wished this
mornln' that something would happen
I didn't really want the Overland
should break down, but I'm awful glad
It did!"
"My ! My ! I don't know when I ever
did have such a good time ! And, Ezra,
here's $27 that conductor took up in
his cap. What In mercy's name, can
I do with so much money? Oh, I
know! I know! I'll pay Ella's fare
out here-t-Ella's and the baby's ! Seems
like j ought to use It some way like
that, seeing my opposition restaurant
took a lot of customers away from the
dining car on the Overland !" New Or
leans Times-Democrat
Drowned Manoaerlpt.
James Russell Lowell, the first edi
tor of the Atlantic, was walking across
Cambridge bridge when his hat blew
off and fell Into the Charles with half
a dozen or more manuscripts with
which It was freighted and which he
was returning to the Boston office. A
boatman recovered the hat, but the
scattered mnnuscrlpts perished in those
waves of oblivion. "If they had been
accepted articles, It wouldn't have been
quite so bad, for," snld he, "we might
with some grace ask the writers for
fresh copies. But how can you tell a
self-respecting contributor that his
manuscript has been not only rejected,
but sent to a watery grave?" J. I
Trowbridge In Atlantic.
"Tea." growled old Roxley, "Mabel's
lover Interviewed me last night Stupid
fellow; no sense at all." '
"Ah!" exclaimed Ascum, "then you
won't have him for a son-in-law T" . '
"I? What have I to do with It? The
Idea of his coming to ask me when the
girl and her mother are satisfied. If
he had any sense he'd know that set
tled It' Philadelphia Press.
Rcliii Tortare.
"L1, you Just ought to have heard
tow Miss Capsicum talked the other day
when she was real mad. Ton don't know
what you missed."
"What did she say, Jen?"
"Gracious ! You don't expect me to say
the dreadful things she said, do you?"
Entering; a Demurrer.
"Talk about the superiority of mind
over matter !" said the argumentative
boarder. "It's just the other way. If
you want to be sure not to forget a thing
you don't trust it to your memory. Ton
take a pencil and a alip of paper and
taake a memorandum of It."
Foreign and Domntle.
His Wife (reading) I see they had
a bread riot in Spain recently.
Her Husband Yes; and we'll have
one at home soon if there Isn't an Im
provement In your biscuits.
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