The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-07-04
Old GLORY.

IL NO Onll6a lotstl6o HdS WIS II q
yearsold yesterday. Ifany nations
colors are entitled TO the designa-
ton aold Glory" those adopted by
Uncle Sam III years ago certainly
are. The fsg of the United States
is older than the majority of the
! flags of European nations flying to-
day. The flag of Great Britain was
adopted in 1901, or twenty-tour
years after that of the United
States. The flag of Spain was
adopted in 1855, while the tri-coIor
of France, also the. red, white and
blue, took form in 1874. The flag
of Portugal was adopted in 1880,
that OF Italy in 1s4s, and that OF
the German empire in 1881, SO that
the starry banner of the United
States may well be called the "Old
flag" The stars and stripes also
have been through more battlesand
have waved over moro victories
both on the seas and The land, than
any other flag flying in any part OF
the world today. Its nearest COM
petitor is the flag of Great Britain,
but since 1890 British victories on
land and sea have been in consid-
cradle as compared with those OF
United States. More lives have
been given up and more limbs sac
rificed in defence of the Stars and
Stripes than for any European flag.
Millions of men have died in order
that pretty bunting might remain
unsullied, and an army of 25,OOO,-
600 unenlisted men stands ready to-
day to see that no dishonor befalls
Old Glory.
The flag of the U. S. undoubtedly
was suggested by the national flag
of Netherlands, which at that time
consisted of three horizontal stripes
symbolic of the rise of the Dutch
republic. Netherlands was often
referred to by the founders of the
United States as a mode for our
present form of government, and it
was frequently quoted in the de-
bates in the Constitutional Conven-
ton. On June IA, 1777, the Amer
ican Congress resolved the the flag
of the thirteen United States should
be thirteen stripes, alternate and
white, and that the union be a blue
field with thirteen white stars ar
ranged in acircle indicating "a- new
constellation" among the nations OF
the earth, the idea of the flag being
that each star and each stripe
should represent one of the original
thirteen States. In 1894, on the
admission of kentucky and Yer
mont into the Union, the flag was
made with fifteen stars and fifteen
stripes. but on July 4, 1878, it was
changed so that there should be the
original thirteen stripes, while a
new star was to be added for each
State.
The Stars and Stripes, in the
course of III years, has been carri-
ed into all quarters ofthe globe and
into all navigable corners of the
ocean. 1t has foated from some OF
the highest mountain peaks in the
world, and has been carried down
into the lowest caves and pits. 1t
waves to-day over more nationali-
ties than any other flag on earth.
Then let the eagle scream and the
small boy shout Hurrah for the
Stars and Stripesl-NeU York Sun,
A girl in Maine village, who
made her homo with her aunt, was
often disturbed, says the Lewiston
Journal, by evidence of the old
lady's indifference to everything
but the welfare of her own material
possessions. One day, in going
down cellar for some butter, she
tripped and fell heavily quite DIS
tance. The maiden aunt rushed to
the door, and, peering down in the
darkness, called out, sharply, aye
break the dish2" "Nol" thundered
back the niece, for once thoroughly
aroused; "nol but 1 wiIlF' and she
shivered it with a hearty good will
against the cellar wall. The old
lady was SO shocked by this dra-
matte exhibition of malice that she
took to bed and kept it for week.
They Say
That time is money, but just now
we would rather have money.
That anraarapo poao ara dacaiff,I