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affidavit shall be the final jurisdiction
the offences against the town ordinances.
That o 81 said shall dl
indirectly become for work he done for the
offending shall forfeit TIE
hundred dollars and be deemed guilty Of
misdemeanOr.
the commissioners iii addition the other
shall think
dollars.
the Of such trade profession franchise within the
limits the space of one
6 That shall be unlawful for
the the sidewalks
Carolina otherwise Interfere
with free passage thereon whenever such street sidewalk shall
of by the
the continuous OF three shall have
said offending" this section
shall be fined
than fifty dollars imprisoned than thirty days
Jail: Prodd that nothing shall
property from bringing their action i'll eement for the
provided under the laws OF North CarOna
Pouded further that such action in cecnct shall be commenced
prescribed by the laws of North Carolina
said shall have the exclusive
OPEN change the alleys ard of said
their grade. and the have map made
said and such other
alleys and they i'll their judgment shall deem
cxpedicn for the future development said town. which
map plat made, shall be the scheme grade and rule of
and shall be allowed
establish alley otherwise than
accordance with sad map plat Proud sad commissioners
alterations the
expedent Any person violating the provisions of this
section shall be guilty Of a misdcmcanor.
Sec That shall be unlawful any dwelling
factory warehouse other building within the linn
without the the said
had obtained regular meeting; ard person violating
this section shall be guilty of a misdeneanor.
all laws and clauses laws coming conflict
with this act be and the hereby repealed
That shall be
cation.
Ratified the 18th day of March. A. d. 1889.
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INDEPENDENCE YEAR.
How Languid tho reep.c We're in the
Patriot Cause.


How Languid tho e.p.c We're in the
Patriot Cause.
1t was gloomy and ;.rduous year the
year 17i6. Long island was the scene of
terrible disasters. The forces under Put
nam were hemmcd in and cut to pieces
Aug. 81. making Greenwood cemetery a
scene Of death before it WAS place of
burial. The successive retreats and de-
feats left Washington with nominally
nine thousand men in New Jersey Then
began the desertion, by companies and
almost by regiments. At the very be-
ginning of his march he heard of the
loss of Fort Washington with twenty
six hundred men, their ordnance, am
munition and stores The day before he
crossed the Delaware the British took
possession of Newport, r. l., signaling
their arrival by burning the house of
William Ellery, who had signed the
great Declaration. At last Washington
turned and fought the battle of Trenton,
having only the wretched fragment of a
broken army, three thousand men.
On Dec. 20, 1916, Washington told John
Hancock, Ten days more will put an
end to the existence of our army" Yet
at Christmas he surprised the Hessians
at Trenton, and few days later defeated
CORVALLIS at Princeton, and all this with
but 5000 men. During that year there
had been in service $4,000 continentals
and 81 600 militia. Where were they all?
These large figures had only been OBJ
tanned through that system of short en-
listment against which Washington had
in vain protested-en istments for three
months. or even for one month. 1t is
useless for this generation to exclaim
against what may seem slowness or i'm
becility in the government of that day.
We have seen in our own time that under
popular institutions it is hard to convince
q nation that long war is before it; it is
apt to be easily persuaded that peace will
return in about sixty days; its strength is
seen, if at all, in its reserved power and
its final resources. The dawn of indie
pendence seemed overcast, indeed, when
the campaign Of 1915 closed and Wash
ington with only three or four thousand
men went sadly into winter quarters at
orristown.-Thomas Wentworth Hig-
ginson-
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three years after being retired from the naval
service. He had served in the navy all his
active life, had borne an honorable part in
many battles, and had won what was perhaps
the most extraordinary naval victory of the
war, all things considered.
On the 26th of September, 1914, the Amer
lean brig Gen. Armstrong, of 246 tons, en-
tered the harbor of Fayal, in the Azores, and
was caught there by the British Plantagenet,
of "A guns, the Rota, of So guns, and the
brig Carnation, Of IS guns. As the commo-
dore, in command Of the first, and the feet,
desired to take the American vessel without
injury and use it for a transport, he sent four
armed boats for the purpose not expecting
that the Yankee would be rash enough to re-
sist. He did, however, and repulsed the
boats with considerable loss.
That night, the sky being clear and the
moon at full, the British commodore sent
fourteen barges and launches, containing 400
picked officers and men, with full supply of
swivels, carronades, blunderbusses and side
arms Capt Reid had but ninety officers
and men. but he had the advantage of the
bris's deck and concentration of force when
the British tried to board. The result was a
battle of extraordinary severity and despera-
tioa. Again and again boarding parties
of British reached the deck Of the brig and
were beaten off. The losses on both sides
were terrible. Knowing that his vessel must
tx captured at last, Capt Reid exchanged
fe" shots with the British next day, then
fired his guns through the bottom of his own
>e>'''l, and as it began to sink he and his men
jumped over and swan ashore The govern
or Of Fayal had the figurehead of the "Gen
Armstrong" Ia big image OF the general him
50 paced over the north gate of the town,
IA! t. people. surprising it TO be the image
e.. nvw American saint, called it LEI Santo
.Na!eri,.ano," and crossed themselves devoutly
as g. passed undefs3t
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THE LANDOF MEMORY.
Written for the GOLD LEAF. ]


There's land which we all inherit
Whatever eur poverty DE,
It's as broad as the spaces of Heaven.
And as deep as :Ae depths of the sea.
It's land filled with shadows and sun
light,
With tears and smiling again,
And we roam DER it sometimes in glad
ness,
And sometimes in bitterest pain.
It's the land of memory given,
By God to His children below;
Sometimes it reaches to Heaven,
Sometimes to the confines Of woe.
You ask of the people who live there?
The heart-children of the millions below,
And answers to the question you asketh,
Would be rs different as the people you
know
Sometimes few words of "a love song;
A voice that was hushed long ago,
Comes floating to us on the breeZeS,
And almost makes Heaven below.
There are farewells which have never been
spoken
BY the lips which could frame not a word
There are tears though gathered, not fallen,
Pierced the heart like twO-edSed sword
There are smiles which were always the
sweetest,
And words that meant nothing they said
There are flowers still sweet with theil
perfume,
Although they are withered and dead
There are battles that have been fought
And conquered, alone with God:
There are memories of hearts too rebelli0us
and hard.
Too proud to "Pass under the rod
There are memories of songs that were
sung,
And songs that never were sung;
There were vows that were made to BIZ
broken,
Though the heart of another was wruIg
And 80 with the sweet and the bitter,
We add to this land that we own
Sometimes we plant sweet flower,
Sometimes lay rough unhewn stone.
When our vision inward turneth
To these gardens some new and some old
The tears oft fall so softly,
While we brush aside the mould.
With all things so tleeting around us,
And life itself only breath
We know that this land of all memories
viii be swallowed up only in death.
Henderson, \. L. $. &. b.
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THE FLAG AND ITS MAKER.
CAPT. SAMUEL CHESTER REID, OF
THE CITY OF NEW YORK

He Was the Man Who Gave the Stars and
Stripes the Character They Finally As
sumed, and Here You May Read of Him
and His Work.
Capt Samuel Chester Reid, of New York
city, was the man who gave the United
States flag its final character, and his wife
and her lady assistants made the first one.
AS is well known, the original flag adopted at
the formation of the government differed
somewhat in the arrangement CT colors from
the one now in use, and congress, having no
adequate idea Of the rapid increase of states,
provided for new stripe in the flag for each
new state The admission of Indiana, in
1876 brought the number up to nineteen, and
the display Of SO many stripes evidently
marred the symmetry of the flag; SO, on the
4th of April, 1918, President Monroe ap-
proved the act Of congress fixing the number
of stripes at thirteen, for the original states,
and a star for each of all the states, the
whole forming n large star in blue field.
At 2 p. m. Of April Is, 1918, this flag, made
by Mrs. Reid, was first displayed over the
hall of the house Of representatives.
Congressman Peter II. Wendover, of New
York, was chairman of the house committee
charged with the duty of designing the new
flag, and as such consulted Capt. Reid, then
at the height Of his fame as naval officer;
the captain naturally thought of flag most
suitable for naval display, and all who see the
Stars and Stripes streaming from the mast OF
an American ship must admit that his con-
ception was perfect. He drew the plan of the
flag exactly as it is, and Mr. Wendover was
SO pleased with it that he commissioned Capt
Reid to have one made in New York. Mrs
Reid daughter of Capt. Nathan Jennings, Of
Connecticut, who served through the entire
revolution) at once called in her most deft
fingered lady friends and in few days tho
lovely silk banner was on its way to Wash
ington.
1t reached there April 49, and was, as afore-
said, Immediately unfurled over the repre-
sentatives' end of the Capitol. In his letter
of that date acknowledging tho receipt of the
flag Congressman Wendover said: "Mr. Clay,
the speaker, says it is wrong that there should
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-07-11

Not if You 60 through the world a dyspeptic
Acker's Dyspeptic Tablets are a positive
cure for the worst forms of Dyspepsia, In
digestion, Flatulency and Constipation
Guaranteed and sold by NJ. Dorsey.
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be no barge in
your bill for the
making of the flag.
If pay for tina / will
be acceptable, on
being informed 1
will procure it,"
OF course the revo-
lutionary daughter
and her helpers de-
clined all pay.
Samuel Chester.
Reid was born in
Norwich, Conn, in
1888. and died in
New York city
Ian % 1891 only
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-18

In the Spanish Congress yesterday Prime
Minister Sagasta created a sensation by a
speech in which he proposed large reduction
of the army and navy estimates, in order to
permit reduction of taxation without re-
versing the Liberal party's free trade policy.
He declared that the time had arrived when
Spain must devote her whole attention to
economical matters, in preference TO mlltary
and naval affairs, and that for a nation that
harbored no warlike designs armaments were
not needed. The speech is considered good
stroke of policy on the part of the Prime Min
lister.
Increasing the Emperor's Salary.
The Upper House of the Prussian Diet unan-
imously voted the addition to the Emperor's s
civil list Prince Bismarck was present, but
took no part in the discussion.
Stanley's Messenger Ill-Treated.
1t is reported that messengers who were sent
by Tippoo Tib with letters for Henry NJ. Stan
ley were maltreated by Arabs and forced to
return. The messengers, it is said, have now
taken another route.
Preparing for War.
The London Post, commenting upon the
European war cloud" and the visit of the
Duke of Cambridge to Spain, dwells upon the
necessity of keeping Gibraltar and Malta i'm
pregnable, and hints at the sending of heavier
and better guns to those strongholds.
\ =
European Dead.
The death is announced from Paris of Count
Francois Jean Clary.
Ernest Henry Charles Dechen, the German
geologlst, is dead. He was SS years old
Mr.. Mead, a member of the Lyceum Com
pany, and well known actor, died to-day.
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Sporting Notes.

1.-The Clipper annual for 1883 has
been published.
SECRETARY SCANDRETT, of the local ball
club is on visit to New York.
WE may have the Australian" ball players
home again considerably sooner than we ex.
pected.
JEM CARNEY offers to fight McAuliffe or
Myer for 5000 a side and give $500 expenses to
fight in France.
PiItsburg club, states positively that he has re-
tired from professional ball playing.
PRESIDENT SPALDING may find that there
is much sentiment in taking his teams to his
toric places in Europe, but very little money.
SAM WISE has written letter to Charley
Morton, of Toledo, warm personal friend, say
ing that he would probably play short for the
New Yorks next season, and Ward would go to
Washington.
GEORGE SCATTERGooD, of the Gentlemen's
Driving Park, Philadelphia sold his celebrated
trotter Oakland Boy to-day for S., 600. He has
a record of 2:44. but has done trial 2:20. He
was purchased by Walter Penrose for an En-
glish gentleman, and he will be shipped to
England in few days.
ANOTHER of England's famous jockeys has
passed away. A few days ago James Snowden
followed his compeerS and contemporaries,
Fordnam Archer and Grimshaw. to the grave.
As early as 1854 the celebrated Blair Athol con-
ferred ST. Leger honors upon him, having previ-
ously in the year enrolled him on the list of
jockeys who had won the EPSON Derby. In
deed, it may be affirmed that the deceased
Jockeys fame will 60 down to posterity chiefly
in association with the pale, white-faced chest
nut, Blair Athol Among Snowden's many
successful mounts were Maid of Derwent with
whom he won the Liverpool Autumn cup in
1856; Strathconan, with whom he secured the
great Yorkshire stakes of 1856 and the great
Northern handicap of 1867, and Paganini the
great Ebor handicap of 1870. The late jockey
was born October 26, lS43, at Flaxton, in York
shire, and was, therefore. in his 46th year.
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A QUIET DAY.
General Harrison's Sabbath Unbroken by
Applicants for Cabinet Positions.

General Harrison's Sabbath Unbroken by
Applicants for Cabinet Positions.
INDIANAPOLIS, February 17.-This has
been rather quiet Sabbath, and General
Harrison has had day of needed rest The
chief topic has been the visit of Mr.. Win
dom. The leading Republicans here are
not disposed to talk much on the subject
One of them, however, predicted that the
appointment would array Congressman
Dunnell in opposition to the administra-
tion. and that the fight would be lively.
There is less talk to-day of w. H. H. Miller
going into the Cabinet than yesterday.
LGt quite a number of Mr.. Miller's friends
positively assert that he will be one
of the eight. They do not pretend to assign
him to any specific place, but the intima-
tions are that it will be the Department of
Justice. 1t is pretty generally conceded
here o-iay that Mr.. Noble viii be q mem
Der of the Cabinet
The leading Democrats here are disposed
to criticise very severely the makeup of the
Cabinet so far as it has been announced
In this criticism they are Joined by some Of
the Republicans. Their criticisms are
mainly directed at Window, Wanamaker
and Noble. The great majority of the Re-
publicans express themselves as highly
pleased.
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THE BOYS DISAPPOINTED.
spalding's Ball Teams Meeting Misfortunes
in Europeau Cities.
MY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH, /,

My CABLE TO THE DlSPATCH.l
NAPLES, February I7.-[Copyright 1.-The
Chicago and All-America baseball teams ar
rived here tonight after tedious railway ride
of l3 hours. Messrs SpaldiHg and Lynch pre-
ceded the party. The whole party is greatly
disappointed at the lack of sporting blood in
the Italian authorities. They positively refuse
to allow any games of baseball to be played in
the amphitheater here or in the Colosseum in
Rome. though for the latter privilege Mr.
Spalding offered to pay 5000 and to give half
of the gate receipts to charity. The powers
that be object to any one playing in the his
toric ruin, partly because the galleries and are
unsafe, but more because they affect to think
that such playing would be desecration of the
building
Our opening game in Italy will be played on
the 24th instant, and will have to be played on
an open field. as there is no inclosed ground
suitable for the purpose to be obtained. We
expected to play in Paris the week following,
but our European agents wire us that the snow
is foot deep in Berlin and Vienna, and the
weather in Paris is wholly unsuited to ball
playing. This news may cause a complete
change in our European plans
Mr.. Spalding feels very much gratiied that
the State Department at Washington has in
structed all American COnsuls and diplomatic
agents of our Government to accord our party
every assistance and courtesy in their power.
We will spend Monday in viewing the sights
hereabouts, Pompei, Vesuvius, the museums,
art galleries and the churches We are all
well, but some of us are getting tolerably
homesick. NEWTON MACMILLAN.
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GOVERNOR LARRABEE INDICTED.
Charged With Libelling n Woman Who
Wanted Her Son Pardoned.

DEs MONIES, February 1.-THE Polk
county grand jury, by vote of to 1, has
indicted Governor Larrabee for criminal
libel. A Mrs. Turney has been for months
trying to secure the pardon of her son,
Chester Turney, who was sentenced to II
years in the penitentiary for theft She
charges that the youths conviction, which
occurred three years ago, was due to fraud
in the interest of number Of persons who
undertook to lynch him and feared that his
acquittal would injure them.
Governor Larrabee has refused again and
again to grant pardon, and as q defense
against the agitation, published pamphlet
detailing the circumstances surrounding the
case. He included an extract from a news
paper charging Mrs. Turney with having
two husbands living. This has been proven
untrue, the first husband having been killed
in the Civil War while on picket duty, al
though the army records fail to mention the
fact.
The case has gradually be-
come part of the bitter contest
which has been waged for some time
past between Governor Larrabee and the
railroads and will undoubtedly cut figure
in State politics. This has been brought
about by the railroads granting Mrs. Turney
free transportation to enable her to keep up
the agitation for her boys pardon. The
general opinion is that the prisoner was
guilty, but got a sentence much too severe.
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mt Turtle Mountain Agency.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcH.I
WASHINGTON, February 1.-THE War
Department has instructed the commander
of the troops at Fort Patteh, OAK, to send
a company of troops to the Turtle Mountain
Agency to protect the citizens of that sec
tion from any possible outbreak of the half
breeds there. The sheriff of Rolette county
has not as yet asked aid of the Government,
having merely requested the local militia
company, commanded by Captain Mckee,
to back him up in his endeavo-s to quell
the disturbance which has risen there incl
dent to the attempt to collect taxes from the
halfbreeds living outside the reservation.
In his last annual report the Secretary of
the Interior drew the attention of Congress
to the necessity of providing more land for
the Indians grouped around Turtle Mount
ain, and if this provision is not made the
President will be obliged to take summary
measures to control these Indians and per-
haps return some of the half-breeds to the
Canadian Government. These halfbreeds,
who belong to the Pembina band of Chippe-
was and have nothing in common with Ket-
tie and Cuthead Sioux of the Devils Lake
region, to which agency they are attached,
are located upon and around reservation
comprising about two townships of land 10
Gated nearly 100 miles away from the
DEVILS Lake Agency.
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GLASS STATEMENT.
He Says Few Words About Some Local
Shooters.

Regarding the dispute between the New
Castle shooters and members of the Heron
Hill Gun Club Mr.. c. E. Glass, of New Castle,
writes this paper to the effect that he has not
allowed to state his case in the papers thathave
published Mr.. E. E. Shaner's version of the
trouble Mr.. Glass denies that the party inter-
ested in making match was in hotel in
Beaver Falls. He says:
I'VE did refuse to have the referee appointed
until the day OF the match as it is not the rule.
The rules distinctly say The judges and
referee shall be appointed before the shooting
commences That is the reason Shaner would
not make the match and the only reason. As
we conceded him everything else Shaner was
afraid that if the referee was not appointed
until the day of the match that there would be
a hitch"
Mr.. Glass goes on to say that there would
have been no hitch, and that he offered to bet
Mr.. Shaner $40 there would not.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-18
NEW BIOGRAPHIES
Will Have TO be Made if All the Would Be
Stars Are Added to the Shield
Hard TO Get Names for Some
of the New States.

Hard 10 Get Nam eN 1Of SOue
of the New States.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.I
WASHINGTON, February 1.-THE states
men are trying to make all the Biographies
obsolete before schools begin next winter,
and there is a. fair prospect of their success.
Five new States will be in the
Union before December, and the division
of Dakota will call for new maps and
compel the children TO learn new boundaries
and new capitals. Mr.. Springer expects to
get the new Territory of Oklahoma created
before March 4, andthe maps ofIndian Ter
ritory and Texas will have to be revised. be-
cause generous geographers, taking pity
upon the meager proportions OF Texas, have
generally credited the public land strip, or
No Mans Land, to the Lone Star State.
The pending Indian appropriation bill
authorizes the President to appoint five
commissioners, three of one political party
and two of the other, to negotiate with the
Cherokees for the purchase OF the tract
known as the Cherokee Outlet, and with the
five civilized tribes for their shares of
Oklahoma, and also to treat with the tlve
civilized tribes looking to the admission Of
their Territory, or any part thereof, into the
United States as State or Territory on an
equal footing with the existing States and
Territories, and the admission of their
people to full and complete citizenship of
the United States, the agreement reached to
be submitted to Congress and the Councils
of the Five Nations for ratification.
This contemplates new Territory or
State east of Oklahoma and embracing the
eastern half of what is called Indian Terri
tory, but which is not Territory at all in
the sense In which Dakota and New Mexico
are Territories. The only appropriate name
for this new State or Territory would be In
diana, and the people who have been trying
to get up new names for Dakota and Wash
ington and New Mexico will probably ask
the present State of Indiana to change its
name to Harrisonia or Wabash.