Corvallis gazette., August 29, 1902, Page 4, Image 4

THE SWEET, LONG DAYS.
The sweet long days when the moraine
AMERICAN ARCTIC EXPLORER.
breaks
Over the mountains in rose and gold.
When the shadows linger on Tale and
lakes.
And the afterglow tints field and wold.
The summer days when the pasture land
Lies dappled with daisies beneath the
son.
When the waves wash op on the pebbly
strand.
And the little ripples leap and run.
The sweet, long days when the children
play
Merry and sweet as the day is long.
Driving the cows, and tossing the hay.
And singing many a snatch of. song.
When mother is busy from morn till eve,
And father is earning the children's
bread ;
In every task when a prayer they weave
For .Assings to rest on each little head.
The sweet, long days when, though trou
ble may come.
We bear the trouble in trustful cheer
For ever in God is our constant home,
A refuge and shelter from grief and
fear.
The sweet, long days which our Father
sends, '
Foretaste and pattern of days to be.
In the time when the measure by days
shall end.
On the fadeless shore of the Crystal
Sea.
M. E. Sangster.
SUSAN'S LUCKY SHOT.
T was a very pretty prospect that
confronted Miss Susan Galton
Brown. The scattering white
homes among the trees in the valley,
the blue hills beyond with their fringes
of pine trees, the clear sky that was
such a novelty to the girl from the
great manufacturing town it was all
bright and fresh and so delightfully
clean. Miss Susan Galton Brown look
ed back on the peaceful prospect for a
lingering moment or two and then
pressed ahead up the mountain road.
She certainly was an unusual figure,
for that quiet neighborhood. Attired
in a eJose-fitting suit of gray with a
short walking skirt and a wlde-brlm-ined
gray felt hat that concealed her
beautiful hair, she might at a distance
save for the skirt have been taken
for an extremely handsome boy. Her
gait would have carried out the Im
pression, there was such an uncon
strained swing to it But her high
boots were not a boy's boots and her
hands were neatly gloved. Miss Su
san Galton Brown carried something
under her arm. It was a light maga
zine rifle, the gift of an adoring father.
For she could shoot and fish and swim
and ruu, and do it all in a way that
met that adoring father's critical ap
proval. She had minor talents, of
course an education rounded off In a
finishing school, a pleasing smattering
of music, taste for art that was only
second to her taste for nature. But all
these were quite dwarfed in her dad
dy's opinion by those manlier attri
butes that he so assiduously cultivated.
She was his companion on long hunt
ing and fishing trips and an ideal com
panion at that.
It Is needless to say that quiet Elm
wood looked upon this accomplished
young woman with a very doubtful
expression. She was a little too ad
vancedthat was the term they used
for Elmwood's old-fashioned ideas of
maidenly modesty. The mothers of
Elmwood held her up as an example
of the baneful coming woman, and the
girls of Elmwoodthoughtherdreadfully
bold and secretly envied her. As
for the men well, there were but few
of them in Elmwood whose opinion
was worth recording, and of these a
mere handful dared to express an hon
est opinion in the face of the universal
feminine condemnation. Of these in
dependent souls it must be admitted
that John Cortwright stood first and
foremost.
If Miss Susan Galton Brown knew of
the unfavorable light in which her
short skirt and her Teddy hat had placed
herand there is no doubt she did
the matter failed to worry her In the
least. She had come down to Elm
wood to stay a month with her maiden
aunt her dead mother's only sister
who lived In the big white mansion
on Main street Just beyond the Bap
tls meeting house. It was this fond
aunt, who had invited Jack Cortwright
to call, and although this was a par
ticular youth, with high ideals of
womanhood, he called again and again,
and again. What was strange about
it, too. was that Jack hailed from the
East, and from Puritan surroundings
at that. Yet with all this discreet
bringing up he certainly was fascin
ated with the wild Western hoyden.
They all said that Jack Cortwright
was a rising young man. Boston capi
talists had sent him fresh from col
legeto the Western town to look af
ter their Interests in certain undevel
oped coal-mining property that lay a
few miles north of Elmwood. And
Jack had taken off his coat meta
phorically, and gone to work to de
velop it. There was plenty of capi
tal behind him, and he had built a
railway branch to the mine, and start
ed a bank In Elwood, of which he was
temporary cashier, and stirred the lit
tle town into making certain Improve
ments that had long been discussed.
In short. Jack Cortwright was recog
nized even by those who didn't ap
prove of his revolutionary tactics to
be the liveliest factor of progress the
Bleepy little hamlet had ever known.
Miss Susan Galton Brown had poor
luck that bright October afternoon.
She didn't rouse a solitary rabbit
But. after all. It was the tramp she
was after rather than the game. Still
she must have a shot at something.
So she pinned a brilliant leaf to a
tree trunk and at twenty paces split
it at the first triaL
The sun was still high above the
hills when she started to return to her
aunt's. As she went down the old
state road a sudden clattering caused
her to turn her head. Three men
mounted on powerful horses came
trotting down the slope. Susan step
ped aside to let them pass and one of
the horses, catching sight of her, sud
denly sprang aside and almost unseat
ed his rider. Susan looked up anx
iously and saw to her astonishment
that the man's heavy beard was twist-
1
. FAINTING LESS COMTMON.
Oatdoor Exercises Kegai-ded u la a
- - - Xiarge Measure Responsible.
It is a curious fact, of general re
mark and observed not by physicians
only, that fainting is less common than
it used to be. It is rare that one sees
a woman carried out of church or the
theater, yet forty years ago it was a
matter of such common occurrence as
barely to excite remark. This is' due
in very great measure to the outdoor
life young women lead iii these days of
tennis and golf and other sports. The
heart and the circulation are strength
ened by exercise in the open air, and
it takes a greater shock to disorder the
blood balance in the body of the mod
ern woman that it did in that of her
grandmother.. .
The habit of fainting Is not so moch
sign of weak heart as It is of an ex
citable circulation. It Is caused by
anemia of the brain resulting from a
dilatation of the Wood vessels of the
body and the consequent flow into them
of the entire mass of blood. This ab
sence of blood from the brain arrests
the action of the heart and produces
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NE hundred and twenty-five and seas, is unaltered, with, the excep-
years ago, the American Con- tion of the number and arrangement of
gress. in session at Philadel- the stars, from the one which Betsy
phia resolved "that the flag of the -Ross, at General Washington s request,
United States be thirteen snipes alter- made at her home, No. 239 Arch street,
nate red and white; the Union to be Philadelphia.
thirteen Stars, white, on a blue field. 1 On the death of Queen Elizabeth, In
representing a new constellation, the 1603, King James VI. of Scotland, as
stars to be arranged in a circle." cended the throne of England, reign-
There are many traditions afloat con- irig as King James I., and in honor ot
toss of consciousness. It is probable ! cerning the origin of this design, but the union of the Scottish and English
that the heart does not stop beating en
tirely, but it acts so feebly that no pulse
can be felt -
Alarming as a fainting spell may be,
Id onlrlnm tnilaoil ivhatl tVlO hfld Tt 1
.... i jmnr th. ii m f nr th flu?. The coat-
fa T i r antiialliT iticaacful Ytiaf a noratr UlC" fcuc f " . " . - o
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to faint than mn Dut there are few ; two red bars on a white ground, and made under its protection, and the
to raint man men, Dut tnere are tew .w. th tnn Mr. The , "Trinc'a W were eonerallv im-
atran tha whn hnvo lint at Knmo mice -Ul D -
T7 EVEg:::gj BALDWIN
The head of the celebrated Baldwin-Ziegler north pole expedition was foreed
to return from the arctics with his playship because the reserve of food was
lettinTfow and because of the destruction of the expedmon's sledges. He ar
rved ft Honningsvaag. Norway, recently and reports a successful year's work xn
establishing food depots for the final dash for the pole.
ed very much tospne side. But he
quickly regained his seat with an oath,
and, striking the horse, clattered after
his companions. Susan wondered why
the manVas disguised and dimly fan
cied that the three rough-looking stran
gers were up to some mischief. But
she was thinking of Jack the next mo
ment and the strange Incident- was
shelved.
A few moments of brisk walking
brought her to the brow of the hill
where the road turned sharply and ran
at an oblique along the side of the steep
descent Susan seated herself on a log
and looked down Into the village, which
lay, as it were, at her very feet She
traced the one long street of the ham
let which was but a continuation of
the highway, and followed the dusty
line past her aunt's trim home, and
the little park with Its soldiers' mon
ument, and the town hall, and then
along to the bank Jack's bank and
there her gaze rested.
Miss Susan's eyes were good ones
and the air was very clear-. She saw
a horseman sitting in his saddle at the
bank door. He was holding the bri
hias of two riderless horses. Even as
"You done it all right" cried the liv
eryman.- uy ueorge; ne snneaea.
"it's Jim BasconJ himself!"
Susan felt her bead going round.
"Mr. Tompkins," she said, "will you
kindly drive me to the bank as quickly
as you can?"
"Yes, ma'am, I will," he replied, with
great heartiness. "You've got the stuff
there, haven't yon? Jump in."
And a moment later they were speed
ing toward the bank. They had not
gone twenty yards when they met the
first group of hastily-armed men who
were on the trail of the robbers.
"You'll find Jim Bascom lyln' up
there," shouted the liveryman. "She
shot him an' we've got the bank stuff
all here." And he touched up his horse
again. And the next group heard the
same story, and the next, and the next
And they all turned and started after
blushing Susan Brown.
And then they were at the bank.
There was a little crowd about the
door. But they quickly made way for
Susan, and the liveryman, and the pre
cious bag. .
And there was Jack sitting up In a
big chair, and somebody was bathing
I his head, and he was blinking queerly
v, Wa the two riders rushed
. a i0n thoii- like a man slowly waking up. But he
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ia Thro wpro miffs of white suddenly seemed to regain his facul
1 '.nH horn denotations. Susan ties when Susan Brown, forgetful of
oo TwniA running in wild con- all the curious eyes about her. sud-
famn Then three riders started at a denly dropped on her knees beside him
sharp canter up the road. Every dozen and put up her loving arms and cried,
. i 3 . i l. : , "Hh -Tflpk!"
yards or so one wouiu mm m ma
rtnwn the roadwar. I "Why Susan, dear!" murmured Jack
Snsan knew what this strange scene "There, there, don t worry. I m just
meant It was a daylight bank rob- a little dazed. One of them hit me
bery one of a series that terrorized all over the head with something from be
the countryside during the past sum- hind and stunned me. I'm almost all
mor The three roDDers were retreat- "S"' aum.
ing with their plunder. What had hap
pened in the bank? Why was Jack
not pursuing them? She suddenly turn
ed sick and cold.
Then an indescribable impulse seized
her. She let herself over the edge of
the bank and began a mad scramble
down the 6teep declivity. She meant
to intercept the ruflians. She slid.
"Oh. Jack." moaned Susan Brown
"I thought they might have killed
vou. and and 1 shot the man, and
and and got the money back oh, oh
oh!" And here poor Susan quite broke
down, and putting her face against
Jack's coat, sobbed convulsively. And
Mr. Tompkins told what he knew, and
then the astonished and delighted Jack
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MATCHES WERE NOT USED.
one in which there is undoubtedly the Crowns he placed the white Cross of
most truth is that which credits the St Andrew on the national flag, chang-
idea of the design to Washington. The ing the field from white to blue. This
general found in the coat-of-arnis of union of the two crosses was called the
his own family a hint from which he "King's colors," or "Union" colors.
and the first permanent settlement in
time during their lives experienced at
least a faint feeling, if not an actual
loss of consciousness.
In the case ofa fainting fit, the first
thing to do is to lay the person flat on
the back, if possible with the head
American flag, once decided upon,
was rushed through in a hurry, for the
army was badly in need of a standard.
Betsy Ross, of Philadelphia, enthu
siastically undertook the'work, and in
a few days a beautiful star-spangled
lowerttan the fTet and then To Io i banner was ready to be unfurled She
all the clothing. Vigorous fanning and j bad m nc alteraOn in the design-
suomiiLeu uy oouiiigtuii. "
eral ad made his star six pointed, as
they were on his coat-of-arms; Betsy
sprinkling the face with cold water will
help to equalize the circulation. Burn
ing a feather under the nose is some
times of service. Smelling salts may
also be used, but ammonia water is un-
advisable, for the person .may suddenly
take a deep breath and inhale a pow
erful dose of the pungent gas. Brandy
and all other alcoholic stimulants will
do more harm than good.
Persons who are subject to fainting
spells should avoid hot rooms and hot
baths, stimulants of all kinds strong
tea and coffee as well as alcohol and
food of an indigestible, nature. Youth's
Companion.
What a Barber Sees.
'In the eood old days," said a West
End barber to P. W. the other day, "no
body was in a hurry. .A man took all
day for a bath and a haircut, and ex
pected entertainment thrown in with
the towels and the lather. In those
diVs the barber talked to kill time, but
nowadays time kills all talk.
'Smooth faces are on the increase. A
man cannot keep his secrets behind a
smooth face, and it is a mystery to me,
therefore, why nearly everybody Is
shaving, seeing that half the world is
laying Itself out to cheat the other half.
A beard covers unpleasant looking fa
cial lines, an agreeable fact which ought
to fit in with the tastes of the majority
of business men, but it doesn't, some
how.
A clean-shaven man Is usually good
and handsome. That has always been
my experience. But the man who has
the right to a smooth face is he with a
fine, strong chin and clean-cut lips and
good teeth and honest eyes; on the oth
er hand, men with receding chins and
weak upper lips and projecting teeth
and ugly lines at the corner of the
mouth ought to be required by law to
grow either a mustache or a beard, or
both. A few years ago it was only
actors and waiters, coachmen and foot
men, who affected the shaven face, but
the present universal fashion no doubt
took root some years ago when barris
ters first commenced to shave." Pitts
burg Dispatch.
8otrvenira of the Dare When Smokers
Got a Light from U-re Coals.
When smoking first became fashion
able in England during the reign of
Queen Elizabeth it was customary for
those who used the weed to have in
his outfit a pair of tobacco tongs. It
he were a gallant of the court they
were made of silver; if a substantial"
merchant, of brass, but if a working
man, of cheap iron ware. They were
a necessary Implement to the smoker. -Matches
were unknown, and the only
available Are in the daytime was the
blazing log upon the hearth. With the
poker a small piece of glowing ember
was broken off, which with the tongs
was applied to the freshly charged pipe.
Hundreds of these tongs are to be
found in the collections of antiquarians.
Most of them are clumsy objects, but
a few are so graceful in outline and
artistic in workmanship that they
seem to be of French and Flemish
rather than English origin.
These tongs were revived on a
small scale some twenty years ago,
when they were employed for holding
cigarettes. The cigarette tongs were
from two to four inches in length, con
nected at the upper end by a smart
spring, which kept the ends together
when in a position of rest When used
the smoker opened them and caught
the cigarette between the tips close up
to the mouth end. The contrivance en
abled the user to burn the cigarette
down to the last whiff and protected
colors" were generally un
furled by each new body of explorers 'the fingers from the discoloring va
who came from the Mother Country of ; por that produces the brown stain upon
th Now World, until, in 170T the 'the fore and middle fingers. Ihe new
Americans adopted the red flag, but
Flag of the Colonies, Predecessor of the Stars
and Stripes.
The Rattlesnake Flag.
ho stumbled, once she fell, but she lurueu mc " . "'I.
"T. 1 r;:; o" pm, my absent at the time of the attack
Tine. auu iutu, . , if- Tnmn.
seemed falling away from her. she auu lu..,s
relcWd the level ground in a confused kins' phaeton, drove Susan to her
heap. But she was on her feet in a ; aunt s.
moment. The highway was directly be- j "Oh Jack." she murmured on the
The robbers were cantering i way. "u
COIQ-Diooueu.
"I'm afraid it was, my dear," said
Jack In a painfully-solemn voice, "but
as it saved the bank in which I am in
timately interested $37,000 in cold cash,
and at the sama time appears to have
broken up the most desperate gang of
thieves the State has ever known, I
fear I must condone the fault But
fore her.
by. The man in the rear was tiie man
with the beard, and he had a coarse
bag flung across the saddle before him.
He was directly opposite isusan as she
plunged down to the edge of the road
way. He must have taken her for an
enemy, for his glittering revolver flew
up and he fired In her direction quite
at random. Susan felt a sudden twitch
at her broad-brimmed hat and quickly
dropped behind some bushes that lined
the roadway. The barrel of her rifle
rose. The robber was rapidly Increas
ing the distance between them. She
had him covered. A moment more and
it might be too late. She thought of
Jack and fired.
The horse of the fleeing man sudden
ly leaped to one side and flung his
rider heavily to the earth. As he went
down he dragged the bag of plunder
with him. The riderless horse galloped
after his companions.
Then Susan Galton Brown sprang
into the roadway and fired five shots In
rapid succession after the two horse
men. She did not aim to hit them, but
rather to frighten them away. They
hesitated a moment and then dashed
madly ahead: the riderless horse gal
loping In the rear.
Susan ran forward to the prostrate
man. He was unconscious. She
stooped over him for a moment and
then drew away the coarse bag. As
she suspected, it was half filled with
currency. She shuddered as she look
ed at the livid face of the rulfian and
then at the blood that was slowly satu
rating his coatsleeve. She began to
feel a little faint
She was aroused by the sound of
wheels and the shouting of a man. A
light phaeton was coming toward her.
In a moment she recognized the driver
as the local livery stable proprietor.
He leaped out beside her.
"Nailed him, didn't you?" he shout
ed in a paroxysm of excitement
was Just ready to drive out o my
stable when they pelted by. As I got
into the roadway, I saw you blazin'
away. Kill him?"
"No." said Susan. "He is stunned
by the fall from his horse. I only aim
ed to break his shoulder."
you will promise not to do It again,
won't you, dear?"
Susan promised. Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
A Cause of Grief.
Major John Burke, avant-courler of
Buffalo Bill's Wild West exhibition and
one of the picturesque appurtenances
of that venture, told a party of Phila
delphians during the recent local visit
of the show an anecdote concerning two
doughty old Indian chiefs who were
present at the ofiicers' dinner In one
of the frontier forts. Both chiefs had
ucly records, but possessed the respect ;
of the officers as brave fighters, and!
were known as men of influence on the i
reservation. One of the pair was at-j
tracted by the bright yellow of a pott
of freshly mixed English mustard, and ,
motioned to the waiter to pass it He,
took a tablespoonf ul and put it into his j
mouth. Then his face set his teeth
were clinched in agony, and the tears
welled from his eyes and down his
cheeks in a torrent Without a word
Ross made her stars with five points
and five points have been used ever
Since. For several years Mrs. Boss
made the flags for the Government
The first using of the stars, and
stripes In military service, it is claimed,
was at Fort Stanwix, renamed Fort
Schuyler, now Rome, New York, 1777.
August 2 of that year the fort was be
sieged by the British and Indians; the
garrison was without a flag, but one
was made in the fort The red stripes
were of a petticoat furnished by a
woman, the white for stripes and stars
was supplied by an officer, who gave
his shirt for the purpose, and the blue
was a piece of Colonel Peter Ganse-
voort's military cloak. Three women
worked on the flag, and it was raised to
victory on the 22d of August when the
redmen and the British were defeated
at the fort.
The next record of the using of the
Stars and Stripes is on the first anni
versary of American independence,
Charleston, S. C, and other places,
July 4, 1777. The banner was used at
the battle of the Brandywine Septem
ber 11, 1777; at Germantown, October
4, of the same year, and it also float
ed over the surrender of Burgoyne.
This flag cheered the revolutionists at
Valley Forge the next winter; it waved
at Yorktown and shared in the rejoic
ings at the close of the war.
Some of the first flags were made un
der difficulties and at great cost, the
greatest ingenuity being required on
occasions to secure the necessary mate
rials for the banners.
As long as the States remained thir
teen in number the original design of
the circle of stars was all right, but
when, in 1791, Vermont and in 1792,
added to it a device of their own in
place of the crosses.
The device of a rattlesnake was pop
ular among the colonists, and its origin
as an American emblem is a curious
feature in the national history. It has
been stated that its use grew out of
a humorous suggestion made by a wri
ter in Franklin's paper the Pennsyl
vania Gazette that, in return for the
wrongs which the British authorities of
the time were forcing upon the Amer
ican colonists, a cargo of rattlesnakes
should be sent to the Mother Country
and "distributed In St James Park and
other places of pleasure." I
Colonel Gadsden, one of the Marine
Committee, presented to Congress on
the 8th of February, 1776, "an elegant
standard, such as is to be used by the
commander-in-chief of the American
navy," being a yellow flag ' with
a representation of a rattlesnake coiled
for attack.
Another use for the rattlesnake was
upon a ground of thirteen horizontal
bars, alternate red and white, the
snake extending diagonally across the
stripes, and the lower white stripes
bearing the motto: "Don't Tread on
Me." The snake was always repre
sented as having thirteen rattles. One
of the favorite flags also was of white
with a pine tree In the centre. The
words at the top were: "An Appeal to
God." and underneath the snake were
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TOUgS SQOWn IlOWUUajS OIC oumcnu..
larger and are intended to hold cigars
as well as to reach a coal from the
fireplace to a pipe. They are made of
iron, steel and gun metal, and many
of the latter are said to be manufactur
ed from warships, cannon and other
trophies of the late war with Spain.
he passed the pot to his fellow red man, .
A Penny Photograph.
A familiar automatic machine in En
gland is an automatic photographer.
Drop a penny in the slot and get a tin
type! The person who wishes to be photo
graphed stands in front of the machine,
at a distance of about two and a half
feet, and looks steadily into the lens
for the space of five seconds. The
sound of a gong informs him when the
operation is over.
The interior mpchinery then passes
the tinplate on which the likeness is
taken through a chemical bath in order
to develop the picture, and another to
secure its permanence, and finally
through a water bath where it is
washed.
In less than fifty seconds the finished
portrait is ejected, and if you are in a
spendthrift mood you can for another
penny obtain a gut frame.
Hard on Both of Them.
An Irishman whose face, says the
London Outlook, was so plain that his
friends used to tell him it was an of
fense to the landscape, happened also
to be as poor as" he was homely.
One day a neighbor met him and
asked:
"How are you. Pat?"
Mighty bad! Sure, 'tis shtarvation
that's starin me in the face."
"Begorra." exclaimed his neighbor,
sympathetically, "it can't
pleasant for either of yes!"
Vhe First Flag Made by Betsy Koss
AdoDted by Congress June 14, 1777
noddins approvingly to indicate that It The Flag as Altered in 1795, when Kentucky
was good to the taste.
"Why does tne cnier cry r ue was eutucky were taken into the Union,
asked by his friend who noted the tears &TraQge ,n
SUnUSing nis ciiecis.
"I cry," he replied, "because my.
grandfather is not here to enjoy the
the form of one huge constellation.
In 1795 it was decided to add a stripe
as well as a star for each State which
feast ! came jnt the Union, consequently in
A second spoonful went into the Vormnnt and Kentuckv were
mouth of the other red man, and with , on flag one fay a wh,te
similar eneci. ',,.,, :the other by a red stripe; but some
"And why do you cry?" asked the, nrnnhL lookln2 ahead some
first as he noted the tears with venge- twentQr more yearSi saw tuls plan of
j ssffjaiMii
Colored Globes Are Passing
Flag used by the Colonists at Bunker Hill,
June 17th, 1775.
Pine Tree Flag, ed on Prlvateersmen dur
ing lue xtevuiuLiuu.
the words: "Don't Tread on Me."
Several of the companies of minute
men adopted a similar flag, giving the
name of their company, with the mot
to, "Liberty or Death."
Massachuetts clung to the pine tree
as her symbol for some time. Trum
bull, in his celebrated picture of the
Battle of Bunker Hill," which now
hangs in the rotunda of the Capitol at
Washington, represents the red flag,
white corner and green pine tree.
Those huge glass bulbs of red and
yellow and blue water, which are call
ed show bottles, are gradually ceasing
to be a feature of the decorations of
druggists' windows. In the past they
were as necessary to every drug store
as a red and white pole is to a barber
shop, but they have not, as the pole
has, a well-defined history.
All that druggists know of. them is
that they have always been used as
window ornaments. The brilliant
liquids that they contain are made
cheaply and plainly of chemicals and
water.
Thus, a solution of copper and am
monia makes blue; bichromate of pot
ash makes orange; aniline dyes have
of late been used in the chemicals'
place, but the liquids' fade in a strong
sunlight, and have frequently to be re
newed. The liquids colored chemical
ly, on the other hand, last wellnigh for
ever. In the drug store at the southwest
corner of Broad and Spruce streets
there is a show bottdle of a very clear
and delicate shade of green. This is a
green so fine that many druggists have
asked for the recipe that makes it
This, unfortunately, is unknown.
A clerk in the shop twenty-hve years
ago colorea the water and filled the
bottle, and a little later left for un
known parts. Preserved only by a
cork of cotton from the air, the liquid
has ever since remained as brilliant as
it was in 1877.
There are, indeed, many show bottles
in this city whose contents are from
twenty-five to fifty years old Phila
delphia Record.
1 adding a stripe as m41 as a star for
ful satisfaction.
"I Cry," emu mk oo oMo ho TTnlrvn wnll
you did not die when your braye grand- changing of the flag,
father dled!"-Philadelph.a Times. ,n ft f ew yea become s0
Wireless Reports to Press, ' large and ungainly that its beauty
Wireless telegraphy is about to be , would be lost - A committee in 1812
applied to press work in France for the , was elected by Congress to decide upon
first time. The Havas agency has had a permanent design for the flag, and
a French apparatus established on the result was that the original thir
the roof of its head office in the Place .teen stripes were again used, the stars
de la Bourse, which is in communica- arranged on the blue field in the form
tion with all the race courses around ! f a square, with one constellation for
the city The first paper to place itself each new State. In 1818 this plan was
in communication with agency by wire-! formally adopted by Congress, and th
less telegraphy is the Journal. The flag, with Its thirteen stripes and stars
annaratus Is open to the public, and corresponding in number to the States
attracts Wrge crowas every aay. raris
Correspondence Chicago Record-Her
ald.
To Cure Seasickness.
A simple preventive of seasickness Is
to draw a long and vigorous breath at
freauent Intervals. The explanation is
be very . , .... .-n nririprf to the
Uiai me " " - -
blood lessens the sensitiveness of the
lobe of the brain that produces sea
It is usually said of nearly every " ' J - stnmah
woman who Is ailing: 4 "She would be sicfc-nesB 1
all right if she would take care of her- j man's Word In business is better
helf." than his word in a love affair.
in the Union, became the established
emblem of the United States of Amer
ica. Although the United States is one of
the youngest nations of the world, Its
flag is one of the oldest among the pow
ers. The country's standard, with its
thirteen stars and stripes, which was
first unfurled June 14, 1777, has re
mained practically unchanged through
the Drosrress and growth of the coun
try of which it saw the birth. The
Governor Has Good Name.
Out In Idaho the people are not all
wild and woolly. Not long ago the gov
ernor of the State visited the office of
the surveyor general. This letter, which
is now in the files of the Civil Service
Commission in Washington, was sent
to the governor by the staff in the
office:
"Dear Governor: When your earthly
course is done and you will reach the
borders of Styx, still bearing aloft the
love torch and the friendly and benefi
cent banner, the ancient ferryman will,
we know, receive you with love and
reverences and give you a safe transit
with joy and thanksgiving.
"Rhadamanthus will hail you with a
glad 'Well done!' and escort you to the
rose-embowered gateway of the fields
elysian.
"On golden hinges turning, the pearly
gates will swing wide open and 'blessed
spirits uttering joy' will bid you thrice
welcome.
"Your countless friends cannot go all
the way, dear governor, with you, as
we are not all so worthy as thou,
knight of nature's nobility, but we will
try to imitate your example, except in
what Is ln'mitable, and shall hope to
join you when we shall have had our
fill of earth and its transitory bless
ings."
Wheels.
The earliest mention of wheels in the
Bible is in Exodus xiv. 25, when the
chariot-wheels of the Egyptians were
"taken off by the Lord," although
chariots are mentioned in Genesis xii
43. But there were older nations than
the Egyptians. The Chaldeans used
chariots, and the Greeks are said to
have had chariots at the siege of Troy,
1500 B. C. Probably in reality the
wheel is about as early a piece of ma
chlnery as any now existing. Of course
it has been developed, but the bicycle
wheel of to-day is a direct descendant
of the section of a log of wood used
by the agricultural peoples thousands
of years ago.
It is perhaps well to remind that
girl whose parents are doing all they
can to make her happy, and who is
then dissatisfied, that some day her
star-spangled banner which now floats happiest moment in lire will De when
ever Uncle Sam's possessions on lands the baby is asleep. i
Slaking a Piece of News.
A good live piece of news may often
be made by accident. Readers of Bar-
rie's novel, "When a Man s femgle,
will recall the telegraph editor who
thought a dispatch beginning "ine
Zulus have taken umbrage" referred to
the capture of a post and gave Umbrage
the benefit of a capital. A dispatch in
the Ottawa Evening Journal, dated
Dauphin, Man., June 18," and an
nouncing the result of the voting in
the Kinistlno district in the territorial
elections, states: "As a result of the
vote, Meyers and Nott Shadd, a negro,
have been elected for the constituency."
It should be, of course, "Meyers and
not ' Shadd." In this case the wide
awake telegraph editor in the Ottawa
Journal office added: "Shadd Is the
first full-blooded negro to be elected to
a legislative body in Canada." And he
headed it up: "First Negro to bit in a
Canadian Assembly." "Nott Shadd Has
Been Elected In the Territories."
Mast Grow to Fit Them.
President Diaz, of Mexico, has Lin
coln's habit of putting a good deal of
wisdom Into a short humorous sen
tence. The New York Times tells of
an American gentleman who called on
Diaz some years ago, and in the course
of talk brought up the Mexican consti
tution. He was saying that although it Is evi
dently modeled after that of the United
States, It is not administered to the let
ter. Diaz did not attempt to make a thor
ough explanation of analyzing the con
dition of the masses in Mexico, but
said to his visitor that his suggestion
reminded him of the story of an uncle,
who, forgetful of the age of his year
old nephew, sent him a pair of trous
ers. "Now when that boy is old enough,"
added Diaz, "he may be able to wear
them." '
They Ain't Skillful.
"It's dreadfully hot, isn't it, mam
my?" said Mr. McWade.
"Deed it is, chile," said the old wo
man, '"deed It Is. 'Tain't right for It
to be hot this-a-way. I tell you. forty
years ago when the Blessed Lawd
made the weather, we didn't have these
stewing days, honey no, 'deed, we
didn't; but now these biggety men up
at this here weather office has the mak
ing of the weather, they does send us
anything they pleases, and they ain't
skillful, chile, they ain't skillful."
Time of Icebergs.
Icebergs in the North Atlantic usually
appear about February 15 and are seen
more or less frequently until about
June 15.