The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-03

i was taught to love the stars and
stripes and be loyal to the old flag that
Betsy Ross made for the most of her
oned within our hearts.
It's stars hin out in bold relief, one
by one pom it's canopy Of blue, its
white emblematic of purity, it's red Of
the blood-bought patriotic boys of
"1776' and 1851" This sacred en-
blem is ours; ours because our ances-
tors and kin made it and fought for it:
ours because the sweet gentlewoman
and favorite needlewoman of George
Washington had, within her all, the
virtues that make a woman noble and
good, Industrious, faithful to duty, to
her God, to her trust. and to her coun-
try in its hour of peril. Let her BAN
ner never go unsullied. Our banner
that the boys of 1851 gave their lives
Tor. Let us raise a monument to her
memory, la her name b. entwined
through counties age around the flag
that our heroes died to save. Our boys
sleep in graves unknown. Go with me
to the widowed and orphaned homes.
See the crippled forms of the hosts who
fought for Old Glory. We see this ban
hSf hodtlnS at bunker Hill ana at Ar
lington and Concord. We hear the
voice of Ethan Allen again by the
continental congress-" We near Com
modore Perry at Lake Erie, I'VE have
met the enemy and they are ours" BE
ready, my brothers and sisters, to unite
forces in case we have to, but let us
prefer peace.
signers Of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, was first cousin to my great
lilies came over from Scotland
and were knighted there. The fam
lily crest was a wreath, a warrior and
a lion. They settled in Delaware, near
Wilmington. My great-grandfather
homestead a large farm i'm Durham
province, Quebec, Canada, in the early
part of the eighteenth century. He
died when j was Z years of age. He
was then over 20. i nave in my pos
session an old handmade crane for
the Stevens house at Minnehaha, made
by him. My father old me last win
ter that he could well remember hear
ing his grandfather speak of Cousin
George" and from the time / can re-
member / was told that Betsy Ross"
a distant relative of ours. made the
first flag of the five-pointed stars, and
that she was a niece of George Ross,
the signer of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence.
my ailItSlOIS were all d1IlStlc IN
their works. I visited the old farm
last winter which my great-grand-
father owned. Evergreens of pine and
balsam and spruce with woodbine and
wild grape had been twined artistically
around in every shape. AS / had lived
nine years of my life in Boston, / have
often visited the old historic South
where can be seen the original
flag. made by Betsy Ross, that we, as
patriotic Americans, can be just
ly proud of. 1t is made of cotton cloth
and turkey red cotton. The stars are
cut out and patched on in fine stitches
it. 1t is enclosed in a glass case,
and ii Is so worn with age that some
Of the stars are nearly o~bliterated.
My great-great-grandfather was Col
Gregg, one of Washington's IA
nous colonies. His daughter, Jane
Gregg, who was my great-grand-
mother. went out after the battle of
Hill and tenderly ministered to
he wants of the wounded and dying
around her. The last time I
Boston, at the Grand knight
remplar convention, August, 1895. the