The Newtown bee., 1893-05-26
then read an original poem, which was
THE FLAG OF OUR COUNTRY.

as follows.
 THE FLAG OF OUR COUNTRY. The flag of our country, we love it so well, Cheers the brave soldier and soldiers that fell It's stars and its stripes are tokens we'll known, Other nations respect it, as well as own A well meaning symbol, all the world round, Courage to the captain, where seamen abound l 1t floats OCT the seas, all nations to cheer, Her words are responsive, no nation we fear l To the weak and the strong, wherever it is seen,
 1 It tells short story, tells just what we mean | To conquer our toes, and freedom maintain, | To the last drop ot blood In the patriots vein. Stripes that are red and stripes that are white, Number the states that fought tor the right; | Thirteen, alternate, all run through the ban l ner,
 So ordered by law in the very best manner. | The field that is blue, the blue that is true, Cheering old states and states that are new; The stars are these states, many that are new, l All set in the blue, the blue that is true. Old folks were young many years ago; They wrought in the fields, they kneaded the dough;
 They spun their own yarn reeled into slzeins, Ready tor the warp on the bars and frames Mothers did the weaving in the old hand
 loom,
 Girls did the spinning in the same old room Fathers made the shoes in the kitchen below Boys had to plant, to reap and to now The old fashioned times are long gone by, The dust ot that day in cemeteries lie, The flag they once made, coarse fabric and , strong, 3 ] Fast cOlOrS. hroht Storc was ,nadn to laS+
 long.
 The days Of the revolution, our freedom was , in danger, They hoisted the flag from housetop and man. And fought under it's fold, their freedom to
 gain
 Ours is a duty patriotic, a duty to maintain The laborer, he is worthy, the time he has spent
 5 To prepare and to raise, all is proitably lent The colors that float in the breezes today Speak praises to the children ot old Tashua Erect stands the flagstaff, well set, and strong The time it was growing, slowly, and so long Let it remind us, though liberty is ever SC
 sweet, rlu To set the foundation in soil that is deep. The youth here assembled who celebrate the day
 Will "Rally round the flag" that points out
 the way,
 Fight for it's folds with the ballot and the Kill the cursed foe who wants to see it low
 cred.
 In the well meaning words once said to reb
 el,
 By a courageous Union general 10 a secession
 devil,
 If any one attempts to haul the flag down ont - single jot, [. Wait not | moment but shoot him on the spot
 F. c. CLARK WAS NEXT introduced. He said we all know why that flag floats on that pole. Every citi } zen will honor and respect that flag al Q they are passing by. He spoke of the " order of the o. |. A. NJ, being interest ;, ed in it in his own town. He said the or f der was founded on the right principe ', and is bound to prosper. It is their idle; z to place flags ia ali the school districts # The Long Hill school was largely repre- sented with their teachers, Mrs Seymou ' Beardsley and Miss Fannie Walker, be ing conveyed to the grounds Tn two larg 'busses with teams of E. Middlebrooks ! They sang two pie ces in addition to tn , exercises. Rev Mir Dunkerke was nex ,e introduced. He said we are not one whi /, behind our city children in the knowI edge of our country. He then gave som illustrations, showing where the bo, from the country came out ahead of hi city cousin. He related the old, bu n good story of the countryman going t. e the city for the first time, when tn 's young lawyer asked him how he sol IS gawk seed, and how the countryman wa e. equal to the emergency, on the follow e ing day when he got the lawyer to writ e. letter to his mother. He remembere, l- how when but boy, standing in iron le of the raising of an American flag.