Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-07-16
NOT A REBEL" FLAG.
THE HOWL ABOUT Or. BEATTlE'S
CONFEDERATE EMBLEM.
His Child INSIDE IL for run--Dr. Besttie
Refuses TO TAke IL Down--The q.
A. Il. "Patriots" Rowling.
New York World.l

the nor,hernmost gable Of his house. inc
house sits 800 yards up grassy hill from
the McCainsville road. The road is Gil OF
three quarters Of milo from Succasunna
village. Dr. Beattie swears that no mere
man or men can invade his castle and
make him strike his colors, but ~ ne IL
ever notified by one in authority that tho
maintenance and waving OF the aforesaid
FAC is against the law ms own hands VIII
be tho first 10 haul IT down.
Dr. Rcattlo. although he did not fight IN
the Confederate army Is a warm frienu OF
Virginia and ali the southern states. Ills
friends say he was born in Ireland. but as
he was not at home yesterday TO tell; II
cannot be stated positively here whether
or not he was born abroad. AT all events,
DIR. Boattie has lived most OF hrs sixty
wears or more in Virginia. where he owns
much property. He also owns several
homesteads in and about Succasnn-
na 4, village, which hes in the
heart of Morris county, n. =: Inc
Doctor has not pracuced medlcine l9r
nearly q score OF years, lie is a hhe-iqok-
ING man of medium height, with gray hair
And crayer mutton-chop whiskers HIS
manner may be summed no IN one word
Courtllness For the past three wears, with
his wife and four children. Dr. Beattie mas
lived in the old Garfield place. Mrs; Beattie
was a Miss Garfield, and her family IS one
of the Oldest and most Influential IN an
this part OF New Jersey. The Beauties
have never associated much with the sue
casnnniaps around them. They were
friendly with all but intimate with none.
DWELLING SOUVENIRS
DR. Beattie went down to Richmond. Va,
20 attend the unveiiing OF the statue 10
General Robert T.. Lee in the latter part OF
Nav Tie sent home 10 his children lot
of photographs, SOurenirs OF the cereino:
mics. One of these was tinted picture OF
the old Confederate flag. The children
were very fond of this. Up TO this time
no member of the family had ever seen
Confederate flag DIR. Beatiie stayed IN
Richmond long enough TO bring home ms
eldest daughter, Miss Alice. from schooi.
They were not expected home until the
latter part of June. Little Miss Agnes
Beattie. hazel-eyed, red-cheeked chlld OF
fourteen. determined to surprise her Ia
fber bv welcoming him home with niue
Confederate flag which she would mouel
after the tinted photograph. Now the pho-
tograph represented the stars IN the Con-
federate flag as golden on bars OF blne IN
field of white. Not bit OF req was there
in 1t.
This. As all old observers know. was far
from true picture of the Confederate nag:
The little Girl had nothing but black ana
white muslin to fashion her faS out or
I'm tbe MINER rieht-hand corner of strip
of white muslin, two feet WIDE ana Tour
feet long. she laid two strips OF Dlack stuu
cross-wise. On them she was gong To sew
eleven stars. At this point she mad TO ieave
home on visit. and her mother. to spare
the child disappointment. undertook 10
finish the flag.
Right here IL where the trouble began to
brew. Two ladies from Chester. village
seven miles away, came 10 call on MIS-.
Beattie. They found her on the porch
sewing industriously on the black anu
white flag incidentally. she apologized
for her unceasing sewing IN PHEASANT
way. ocout,so.o
fac for nv little girl" Now. how the news
got out, who shall sayl
TINY BIAcK-AsD-wHITE FLAG.
When DIR. Beattie and Miss Alice drove
ND the winding roadway home next day
little Miss Agnes proudly told her papa to
look at the summer house. AT the peak of
a tiny mole on "A little rustic house half way
up the lawn fiuttered the tiny black-and-
white flag. DR.. Beattie smiled wnen ms
small and enthusiastic daughter told him
that that was a Confederate flag. He had
been looking at the real article, you see.
down in Richmond, and this childish
counterfeit of the Stars ana Bars had to
be explained to him. The little flag waved
Its eleven Confederate stars modestly All the
afternoon. Divers patriots OF the nome
guard came rs far as the Beattle fence, on
the McCainsville road. and stared at the
email rustic house. Sure enough: there
was something futtering apeak. Where
upon they ran home and told the neigh
bors that they had seen the emblem OF the
Confederacy waving on high. 49,,
Miss Agnes Bea:tie put away her little
black and white flag that night. Probably
nobody would have heard any more about
it nnd this bit of history wouldn't nave
been written but for the gosslps. Some
days later DIR. Beattle got letter from AT;
thur Elmer, a good but eXcitable Grand
Army man, who lives in Succasunna
PLAINS. full mile from the Doctors home.
Take down your Confederate nag.
wrote Elmer, "or I'll tear down your
house"
Now the flag had long since been put
sway, but DIR. Beattie naturally felt that
he'd see himself in Texas before he'd let
anv man come around and tear down M :
house. Still he quietly waited until the 4th
of July. That morning he had two more
white muslin stars sewn on the black st.
Andrews cross, thereby changing the
eleven Confederate stars to thirteen good
American stars. Then the flag was set at
the masthead over the northernmost gable
OF tne mouse luo mummy ANc al. ihcio ~
hung all day.
THEY RACED AND RAyED.
In the mean time the 200 miners who live
In the little village of Mine Hill, the settle
ment at the mouth OF the old Dlckerson
iron mines, more than mile from the
Doctors home, had worked themselves into
n white heat. Brown the store keeper,
William Whitmore of the Grand Army OF
The Republic. and another man hurried to
Dover. five miles away. and begged Captain
Eedgwick X. Bennett, OF Separate company
q. First regiment. National Guard State OF
New Jersey, to come to Succasunna ana
tear down that awful flag. Captain Ben;
nett telegraphed for orders TO Coione,
Campbell. the commandment, and Colonel
Campbell replied that he could do nothing
without orders from the Governor. Gov
ernor Albeit happened to be yachting at
Larchmont and the telegraph couldnt
reach him.
The Mine-Hill delegation begged Frank
Kenstler, commander of McDevitt Post, u.
A. r., of Dover, to bring his men out and
tear down the flag. kenstler was SICK IN
bed. and so that plan fell through. The
Mine-Hill men travelled to Succasunna and
held consultations with the Succasunnians.
Thew threatened all sorts of horrible things,
but they did nothing.
The little flag has Mapped over DR.. Beat
ties northernmost gable ever since. Mrs.
Beattie had it brought down so that The
World artist could sketch il. Then Jim
Leech, the Beatties' colored man. hauled 1t
20 the masthead again. :,
There has been much Ill feeling and
prumbling on every hand. but nobody has
thus far molesied the Doctor or his flag.
The Norris County ChroaicIe has called hun
editorially "a fool named d.. j. q. Beat
ie."
II am willing" said DR.. Beattie, TO
haul down that flag as soon as any proper
authority orders me TO. but Will not al.
low any man or men 10 dictate as TO what
colors i may or may not expose over my
own house. had the flag put up only after
j was threatened. Before that my children
had displayed it, but now am determined
20 let foolish people know they cannot
bully me-"
Malone and the Virginia Elections.
New York Sun. iSth.I
The resolutions passed last Tuesday by
the Republican State Committee OF Viz
rinis. General William Malone, chairman.
n. go. x.I4 he