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( THE ELON COLLEGE WEEKLY. December 14, 1910. DRUGGETS rULL STOCK Ruas, DRUGGETS, MATTING. FORTIERS, LACE CURTAINS WINDOW SHADES, MADE TO ORDER. BURTNER FURNITURE COMPANY, GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA. 1890 I9IO ELON COLLEGE. A young, vigorous College for both men and women. On Southern Railway, sixty-tive miles west of Raleigh, the State capital, and seventeen miles east of the tbiiving city of Greensboro. THE LOCATION IS DELIGHTFUL; WATER PURE, CLIMATE HEALTHFUL. Plant valued at $150,000, is modern in comfort and convenience. Steam heat elec tric lights, water and sewerage connections with all buildings. Courses Lead to A. B., Ph. B., and A. M. Degrees. Emmet L. MoffHt, A, B., LL» D., President. People’s House Furnishing Company. HIGH POINT, N. C. Wholesale and Retail House Furnishers and Jobbers. MANTLES, GRATES, TILE, A SPECIALTY B. A. SELLARS A SOK^ High-Class Dry Goods AND GENTS’ CLOTHIERS AND TAILORING MERCHANTS. MAIN STREET, BURLINGTON, N. C. FREEMAN DRUG COMPANY. Burlington. North Carolina, Are the leaders in Drugs, Chemicals and Toilet Articles. CAREFUL ATTENTION TO MAIL ORDERS. Alamance Insurance (Si Real Estate Co. Insurance. jLoans and Real Estate. CASH CAPITAL, . ?30,000.00 MONEY LENT through this Company on real estate is secured both by mortgage and Company guarantee. The lender receives 6 .per .cent, interest 3 .per .cent.. pro.mptly every six months—and is not bo thered about interest collections. ■Q t* i W. K. HOLT, President, Ijtirlins^ton* in* R. M. morrow, Vice-Presldent, ® W. E. SHARPE, Treasurer and Manager. n. B. SMITH, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Furniture and House Furnishings, Phone 239, BURLINGTON, N.C. We have recently received another large shipment of Rugs and Art Squares. We can please you as to pattern, color, quality and price in this as well as other lines we handle. We have the most complete stock ever shown in Alamance County, in House Furnishing Goods.' M. B. SMITH, BURLINGTON, N. C. DR. J. H. BROOKS, DENTIST, see.” Jerry made no reply. Then some one said, “Opsn the door, Reuben,” but he did not respond. I could hear a creak- ins at the lock, then, but obviously, Jeriy had bolted the door and had thus secured himself against surprise. A strong clear voice then commanded, “All right, fel lows, all together!” Then I heard a crash as of a door burst open. The next thing I heard was the voice of Jerry; “Don’t put your hands on me.” Another voice said, “He shows fight, don’t he? That’s all right. I’ll get him.” Then ensued a brief scuffle, and a thud as if somebody liad liit the floor. (To be continued.) THE STORY OF THE FLAG. On June 1-t, 1777, according to the records, the American Congress odopted a resolution which read as follows. “Resolved, That the Hag of the thir teen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the Union be thi’.tei;n stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.” There is no evidence to show who in troduced this T-solution or whether any discussions was evoked. The “resolution was adopted,” and so it must have had a father, but his name is lost to history. While the resolution comes down in his tory as “adopt'd” by Congress on that (lay, it was not officially promulgated by the Secretary until September 3, 1*77. The flag had two stripes added to it in 1794 by a resolution of Congress, when Viermont and Kentucky had been admit ted to the uniim and asked representation on the ilag. Two additional stars Wfre alsi> placed in the field of blue. The bill was the first of the Thirl Congress to be signed by President Washington, .lanuary 13. 17!)4. For twenty-three y ars this fifteen stiiped and fifteen starred flag was our nafional standard; under it three wars were fought—with France, in 1798-lSOO; with Tripoli, in Africa, 1S01-1S05, and with Great Britain, 1812 to I8I0. It was the flag of fifteen stripes and stai’s which floated o\ier Foit McHenry and inspired Francis Scott Key to write “The Star Spangled Banner.” In less than a year after the adojition of the fifteen stripes and stars Tennessee was asking admission to representation on the fla'j and Ohio knocked for the same honn' in 1S03„ Louisiana in 1812 and Indiana in ISlfi. Illinois also began to look for admission into the sisterhood, and that meant twenty strii>es, an unwieldy thing, looking the same as ever, only if propoi- tionately long it would be too h'javy to fly from any but the strongest flagstaff. ('apt. Samuel Chester Reid, a sailing master in the United States Navy and warden of the jiort of New York, in 1818 suggested to Representative I’eter Wend- over of New York, who was much in terested in the flaa—thirte>?n stripes, al ternate red and white, with a field of blue bearing a star for each State as admitted. Representative Wendover introduosil the bill in Congress, it passel both houses and was signed by President James Mad- is(m Apr. 4, 1818. This bill provided that tin? star for a new State shondl be added on the Fourth of July succeeding the ad mission of the State into the Union. That is the last action that has ever been taken by ConaTess on the fiag. Th' first suggestion, so far as authentic history goes, that the birthday anniver sary of the flag should be observed was made early in June, 1861, by George Mor ris of Hartford, Conn. He made the sug gestion to Charles Dudley Warner, editor of th.' Hartford Couiant which had been left in his care by its owner, Gen. Hawley, who dropped the editoral pen and went to the front. Hartford observed the day by hanging out flajs and having a patri otic program, patriotic music and prayer for the soldiers in the field and for the continuance of the Union. Mr. Morris went futher. He asked Loomis, then a member of Congress from Conn'icticut, to introduce a bill to make .Tune 14 a legal holiday. The bill was taken up for action June 13, 1861, and Congress proceeded to make merry with it. After making all kinds of fun of the resolution it was laid on the table by a vot'? of 67 to 33. And that was the fate of the first fiag bill in Congress. Many have been introduced since, but none lias )iassed both houses. .Tudge Liiomis ai»d Mr. Morris botfi lived to see Flag Day honored by every North ern State, with millions upon millions of children taking i>art in programmes, each number of which has a di ’^ct bearing upon the birthday of the flag. As the United States grew and th? Gov- erinnent expanded many new departments, were added, and with them many special fiaas have come into existence. Least of ten 9, en and yet most interesting of the twenty-five or thirty of these special flags is that of the Presid.nt of the Unit ed States. He has a wealth of them, in fact no less tlian three flag's, one of bunt ing and one of silk. They ar? exactly alike with this exception, but the one of silk is called the President's C(dors. The President of the United States had no personal flag until 18.82. If he went aboard a ship his presence was denoted by the national flag hoisted at the main trunk and his presence in a garrison or post was denoted by the raising of the big laanison flag. These were not entirely distinctive as denoting the presence of the President, for these flags were hoisted on gala occasions when th? President was not around. The lack of a distinguishing flag for him was felt by the navy also and the Secretary of the Navy by gen eral orders August 10, 1882, established flas' for the President of the United States. The general orders desciibed the flag as of blue bunting with the coat of arms of the United States in the center. The flag was to be hoisted at the main of the vessel when the President was aboard and be carried at the bow of the launch in which he came aboard. In the army there was no distinguish ing flag for the President of the United States until just before the outbreak of the Spanish-American War. Col. Theodore Bingham, who was then superintendent of public buildings and grounds, called the attention of President McKinley to this lack of a distinguishing flag for him and stated that he thought the Comman- der-in-Chief of the United Statis Army and Navy ought to have a distinguishing flag. President McKinley did not like the sugrestion, but the Secretary of War did, and a flag was made. It was designed by Frederick I). Owen, and is a beautiful thing to look at. The official description of the flag is as follows: ‘ ‘ The President’s flag is of scarlet bunt inr, thirteen feet fly and eight hoist. In tach corner is a five pointed star of five inch radius to tbs tips. In the center of the scarlet field is a large fifth star, also of five points, two feet nine inches in radius to the tips. Inside of his star is a parallel star, separated from it by a band of white three inches wide. The inner star fonns the blue field upon which is the coat of arms of the United States. On the scarlet field around the large star ap? forty-six small white stars, one for each State equally scattered in the reen- Foster Building, - - Burlington, N. C. teiing angles, and all included within the circumference of an imaginary circle three feet and a quarter in radius. In the up per point over the angle is a constellation of thirteen stars, representing the original thirteen States of the American confed eration. —Washinaton Star.
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