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flags, and held it for many years. One
of her daughters, Mrs. Clarissa Wilson,
succeeded to the business, and con-
tinued making flags for the arsenal
and navy yard for a while, but being
Friend, and conscientious on the sub
ject of war, she gave up the govern
ment contracts, but continued the man
ufacture of flags for the merchant
marine.
Married Three Times.
Betsy Ross was married three times,
her third husband being John Clay
pole, a descendant Of Oliver Crom-
WELL Her maiden name was Griscom.
Her grandfather, Andrew Griscom,
brought over bricks from England, and
with them built the first brick build
Ing in Philadelphia. From authentic
sources 1t appears that Betsy Ross, be-
fore her marriage, enjoyed national
reputation as the finest needle worker
in America.
Mention of the stars and stripes as
Washington's coat-of- arms was by
Lawrence Washington, worshipful
mayor of Northampton, Eng, as early
as 1882. In 1910 he placed it upon the
porch OF his manor house. Again they
appear the stars and stripes in the
tomb of Anne, hys wyf," in 1854. AT
the old English church, at Brighton,
the tombs of Washington's ancestors
are marked by memorial brass plates
bearing the arms of the family, which
consisted of a shield that bore the
stars and stripes.
In the records of the archaeological
society of England, the highest author
1ty on ancient churches and heraldic
matters, 1t is stated that in the red and
white bars, the stars of his shield, and
the raven issuant from its crest (born
later by George Washington, the franz
ers Of the United States constitution
got their idea Of the national emblem.
When Sir George Washington, grea-
grandfather of the first president, came
to the new world to be rid of the pro
tector" 1855, the family shield was not
forgotten. Settling In Virginia, Sir
Washington. In due time George
Washington came to bear this emblem
about his person. It's design was
blazoned upon the panels of his car
riage. Two watch seals and a book
max bore the same red bars,
Five Pointed Stars,
and a raven issuant Chelaldic) ION the
rise" from the ducal coronet The
commissions Of some officers of the
army Of independence bore this seal.
From this embryo flag the transition
was easy to the one made by Betsy
! Ross, under the supervision of Wash
ington, and subsequently adopted by
congress.
The first resemblance to a national
standard dates from the results of
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intoxication Of battle and are damning Presi-
dent Mckinley for not ordering off-hand shat
a million fathers, husbands. sons and brothers
go down to Cuba and offer themselves as
targets for Spanish guns and tropic fevors
may yet realize that war raises he'll some
times in the pocket as well as on the battle
field. For instance, here's q report from a
wholesale trade center:
"Jobbers OF provisions report that the talk
OF war is already causing an advance in
prices Of many stap'e lines of fo-d, tatly
canned meats, which have gone up 10 per
cent in the last sixty days. Five per cent aG-
vance was made on Saturday. The packers
expect large orders Of canned meats from the
government for the army and navy. and con-
sequently have put up prices Coffees have
also advanced from IL TO cents in antici-
patton Of a war tariff, and tea has made a
corresponding rise. There seems to be no
expectation that the importation of goods W II
be interfered with. but the threatened war
tax Is a good excuse for an advance. To-
bacco is also going up. not on account OF
any expected shortage or increased demand,
but because a possible revenue tax may be
put on the top of what is now eXac;ed from
this commodity. Sugar has not risen, but Is
expected to start upwards this week..
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PATRIOTIC MISS BETSY ROSS
Woman Who Made First National Standard
of United States Will Always Be Honored

pied forms Of the hosts who fought for
Old Glory. We see this banner float
ing at Bunker Hill and at Arlington
and Concord. We hear the voice Of
Ethan Allen again "by the continental
congress-" We hear Commodore Per-
ry 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.
Wreath, Warrior, Lion.
The Hon. George Ross, one of the
s1gners Of the Declaration Of Indepen-
oence, was first cousin to my great
grandfather, George Ross. The fani-
lies came over from Scotland, and were
kn1ghted there. The family crest was
a wreath, warrior and a lion. They
settled In Delaware, near Wilmington.
My great-grandfather homesteaded a.
large farm in Durham province, Que
pee, canada, in the early part of fhe
eighteenth century. He died when T
was seven years of age. He was then
over seventy. I have in my possession
an old handmade crane for the Stevens
mouse at Mtnnehaha, made by him. Nv
rather told me last winter that he could
well remember hearing his grandfather
speak OF Cousin George" and from
the time l can remember I was told
that Betsy Ross" distant relative
of ours, made the first flag of the five
pointed stars, and that she was a niece
or George Ross, the signer of the Dec
laration Of Independence
MY ancestors were all artistic in their
works. visited the old farm last win
ter, which my great grandfather own
ed. Evergreens Of pine and balsam
and spruce with w0odbine and wild
grape had been twined artistically
around in every shape. AS I had lived
nine years Of my life in Boston I have
often visited the old historic South
church, where can be seen the original
flag, made by Betsy Ross, that we,
as loyal patriotic Americans, can be
Jubtly proud of. 1t is made Of cotton
cloth and turkey red cotton The stars
are cut out and patched on in fine
stitches upon it. It is enclosed in a
glass case, and is so worn with age
that some Of the stars are nearly oblit-
Grated.
After Bunker Hill.
My great great grandfather was Col.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-01
DON'T DAM THE STREAM o. FREE
DOM.

Don't dam the stream O. Freedom In this
Western hemisphere!
It comes rollin down the ages TIL by this 1t 8
gettn' clear 80
Thet the tide thet's sweepin' on'ard, red with
many a martyrs blood,
Can't be stopped, an them thet tries II ull
perish in the flood.
Don't dam the stream O. Freedom-it's bound
ter make It's way
Where the foot of God shall turn 1t, usnerln
in brighter day.
Till the desert place shall flourish an BIOS
som as the rose,
An the land of deSola.ion spring to verdure
where it flows.
Don't dam the stream O. Freed5m-yer might
eZ well set out
TIC stop the rain from fallin' by prophesyin'
drout;
Yer can't put out the sunshine by blindin'
yer own eyes,
An fer weeping summer back, don't try
it If yer wise.
w.
, Don't dam the stream O. Freedom in this
Western hemisphere!
It amt no ole-worid rivulet thets thawed
out wunst a year;
IT'S tidal wave Of promise tibet the angels
push along,
Bearin' life upon it's bosom, bearin' doom to
ancient wrong.
AMI Tibbals in New York Mail and Elk
press.
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A WAR NOTE FROM DIXIE.

II reckon war is certain, fer heard the bans
today
A-comin' down on Dixie" in the Of. famil a.
way!
An SIGH another shoutin thar's never goin'
ter be-
1t TUX me ter thesixties, when the Of boys
followed Lee!
II reckon war is certain. fer that ere ban
Jest throwed
So much o. soul in Dixie they cheered the
boys that blowed!
An "Hooray fer the country" went rngln'
fur an free,
Like it rung out in the sixties, when the 81
boys followed Lee!
u reckon war is certainI Git down my rife;
she
Has long time looked reproachful frum the
rustin' rack at mel
An SIGH another war as this thar's never
gon' ter be
It'll almost beat the sixties, when the ol'
boys followed Lee
Atlanta Constitution.
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1T IS THE HOUR.

From the Cleveland Leader.
we nave waited and watched and hoped:
we awe weighed the question well:
we have heard such screams as trouble the
dreams 49, uoAo ehe
" the damned who roast In hell
infants tug at the breasts
or mothers n2e who. starving, dead
Wsre ei 1ea 10 strike. though all the world
We have patiently held our peace:
We have begged-we have warned In vain,
Has denied the purple plaini oA
we have heard the groans of the slain
with the cries Of the starving blend
we h 6Is felt the thrust Of treacherous
And patience is at an end!
We have warned and waited and hoped
AND respected the laws of men,
But the day Is at hand to take a stand
And never recede again!
Cast off-cast off, with flags unfurled,
Nor wait for later tide,
IL IS Time to strike, though all the world
were leagued on the other side!
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LIT, one year after the Battle Of Lex
tngton, and the place Of it's birth was
the house of Mrs Betsy Ross, at 239
Arch street. Philadelphia, g. two-story
structure, that is still standing and
looks good for another hundred years
of life. The house was built in 1852,
and is made Of the solid, storm-de-
flying material that was in use by the
builders Of those days. But the sub
ject is the flag, and not Betsy Ross
house, although the latter is interest
ing enough in it's different way.
In the spring Of 1777 a committee was
appointed by congress ito design a
suitable flag for the nation" Accom-
panied by Gen. washington, the COM
mittee visited Mrs. Betsy Ross, and,
giving her as a model, a pencil sketch
made by Washington, they requested
her to make flag in accordance with
the design. Betsy: Ross assisted the
committee with suggestions Of her own,
and when the result Of the combination
of ideas was submitted to congress;
the latter adopted it at once as the
flag of the Union.
The act by which the flag made by
Betsy Ross was chosen as the emblem
Of the United States Is as follows:
Resolved, That the flag Of the thirteen
United States be thirteen stripes, alternate
red and white. with 10 stars, white in .
blue field.
An act, passed by congress on April
q, 1878, provided that on the admission
to the Union of a new state one star
should be added to the flag, the addi-
ton to be made on the Fourth Of July
following the admission of the state
Thus the thirteen stripes on the United
States flag represent the original num-
Der of states and the stars the number
Of states comprising the Union.
Pretty Betsy Ross.
When Gen. Washington first met
Betsy Ross she was a sweet-faced
seamstress, who conducted dress
making establishment in Philadelphia
during the week, and on Sundays at
tended the Quaker meeting place in the
neighborhood of her home. She was
an accomplished needle woman, and
Washington employed her to make the
fine embroidery that was worn as shirt
ruffles by the dandies of those days.
1t was at the suggestion Of Betsy
Ross that George Washington and the
members of the flag committee chang
ed the six-cornered star to five-point-
ed one. Betsy pointed out that the
star with six-corners was the emblem
in use by the English heralds, while
the f1ve-cornered star was favored by
the French, Dutch and Germans. When
the committee had agreed upon every
detail of the design for flag, Betsy
.. Ross was told to go on with the work.
In May, 1777, congress made an order
on the treasury ITO pay Betsy Ross f14,
12s, I'd for flags for the fleet in the
Delaware river. She then received the
contract to make all the government
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-01
THE DEsTROYERs.

Rudyard Kiplings poem on torpedoes ant
torpedo boats-published in the May number
I of McClure's:
The strength of twice three thousand hors,
That seek the single goal
The line that holds the signalled course,
The hate that swings the whole;
The stripped hulls. Sinking through the
gloom,
Half guessed and gone again
The bride of death that waits the groom
The Choosers of the Slain.
Adown the stricken capes no flare
No mark on spit or bar
Darkling and desperate we dare
The blindfold game Of war.
Nearer the wheeling beams that spell
The council Of our foes;
Clearer the anxious guns that tell
Their scattered flank to close.
On shoal with scarce a foot below,
Where rock and islet throng
Hidden and hushed we watch them throw
Their sweeping lights along.
Look to your van league away
What midnight terror stays
: The bulk that checks against the spray
} Her cracking tops ablaze?
5 Hit and hard hit! The blow went homo
J The mu.fled, knocking stroke
The steam that over-runs the foam
The foam that thins to smoke
} The smoke that clokes the deep aboil-
The deep that chokes her throes
Till, streaked with ash and sleeked with oil
} The lukewarm whirlpools close!
} Now while their silly smoke hangs thick
Now ere their wits they find
I Lay on and lance them to the quick
Our CALLED whales are blind.
Good luck to those that see the end
Goodbye to those that drown
For each his chance as chance shall send
{ And God for all Shut down!
{ The strength of twice three thousand horse
( That serve the one command;
The hand that heaves the headlong force
The hate that backs the hand:
The doom-bolt in the darkness freed
The mine that splits the main
The whte-hot wake, the 'wildering speed
The Choosers of the Slaini
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CUBAN RALLY SONG.

rom the Rochester Demcroat and Chronicle
Sound, ye trumpets; Sound on high!
Let your echoes fill the sky.
Make a loud, triumphant noise,
Sound the rally for the boys;
March from Maine and Tennessee;
Sail for Cuba! Set her free!
March from Western hill and plain,
Wake the echoes once again;
Spain no more at us shall scott,
Spanish chains We'll help throw off.
Every man from sea to sea,
Fight for Cuba, Cuba freo'
Let 1t never mcro be said
Babes and TTGmen cry for bread,
Homes iu flames and honor lost,
While we stand and count the costi
Shall these human vampires be2
Wait no more! Set Cuba freel
Rouse, Columbia, Lend a. hand!
Drive the dastards from the land!
Spanish rule denies a crust,
Spanish soldiers glut their lust;
Force them from the land and seal
Rally, meni Set Cuba free!
S. E. Sprague.
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KENTUCKY,
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
FRANKFORT, KY, April 7.-Gov. Bradley
this morning made public a long list of prom
inent citizens who have offered their services
for enlistment:
Up from the bosky bluegrass dells,
Up from the bourbon flowing wells,
UP from the peavine's tree-girt soil,
Up from the red brush, where they toll
Up. from the pennyriles cave-pierced ground
comes wild and wooly, welcome sound
Of rafting spurs and clanking swords,
Of mounted men In hustling hordes
A thousand horsemen, ten times DER,
ana ten times ten that many more;
Each eager, with a wild delight
To meet the Spaniards in a fight,
Each sword Is flashing from its sheath.
And eyes are sparkling underneath;
Strong arms are raised, and hearts are true
AS beat beneath the gray and blue,
And fierce the clarion voices shout:
were fixed to fight this business out,
Bring on the men the armies need.
wen be the colonies. Let war proceedv'
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MEME, MEME, TEKEL UPHARsIN.

Behold, we have gathered together our bat
tie ships near and afar;
Their decks they are cleared for action, their
guns they are primed for war.
From the East to the West there is hurry; in
the North and the South a peal
Or hammers in fort and shipyard and the
clamor and clang of steel;
And the rush and roar Of engines, and clank-
ing of derrick and crane
Thou art weighed in the scales and found
wanting the balance of God, Spain!
Behold, nave stood on the mountains, and
this was writ in the sky:
"She is weighed In the scales and found
wanting. the balance God holds on
highv
The balance He once weighed Babylon, the
mother of harlots, in;
One scale holds the pride and power and en-
pire, begotten of sin,
Heavy with woe and torture, the crime Of a
thousand years,
Mortared and welded together with fire and
blood and tears:
In the other. for justice and mercy: a blade
with never stain.
Is laid the sword OF Liberty, and the balance
dips. o Spain!
Summon thy vessels together! Great is thy
need for these!
Cristobal Colon, Vizcaya, Oquendo and Maria
Therese
Let them be strong and many, for a vision /
had by night,
That the ancient wrongs thou hast done the
world came bowling to the fight;
From the new world shores they gathered
Inca and Aztec slain,
To the Cuban shot but yesterday, and our
own dead seamen, Spain!
Summon thy ships together, gather a mighty
fleet!
For strong young nation Is arming that
never hath known defeati
Summon thy ships together, there on thy
blood stained sands!
For a shadowy army gathers with manacled
feet and hands,
A shadowy host Of sorrows and of shames
to black to tell
That reach with their horrible wounds for
thee to drag thee down to hell;
Myriad phantoms and specters thou warrest
against In vain!
Thou are weighed in the scales and found
wanting, the balance Of God, Spain.
Madison Cawein in Louisville Courier Jour-
nal.
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Benjamin Franklin and Messrs Harri-
son and Lynch. They were chosen by
congress as committee to create a
national flag. They adopted the
kings colors" as union, reunited
with thirteen stripes, alternate red and
white, showing that although the COL
onies united for defense against Eng
lands tyranny, they still acknowledged
her sovereignty" This flag was first
hoisted by Gen. Washington, Jan. 2,
1776, at his headquarters at Cambridge,
Mass. 1t received salute Of thirteen
guns and thirteen cheers. 1t was
known as the Flag of the Union.'' 1t
consisted Of combination of the cross
es Of st. George and st. Andrew in
the upper corner of a blue field, bor-
dered by the thirteen stripes. Its COM
position was the blending of the colony
flags, all Of which, with one exception.
bore one or more of the three chosen
colors-red, white and blue.
Shot I'm the Pocket.
From the Grand Forks Courier.
Enthusiastic citizens who hunger for the
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THE WAR CLOUD.

From Harper's Weekly.
) Gods, so long thought dead,
} Flap their wings overhead,
Hover-a war cloud!
J Moloch and Astaroth, Loki and silva,
! Eblis, Asmodeus; famine and fever
Grendel the low-browed!
. Singhalese demons, Hebrews and Arabic,
Ogre and goblin and vampire and ghoul
From the forest and mountains and grave
yard and pool
} Greedy or plethoric!
I Swooping and darting,
I Thronging or parting,
These make the war cloud:
( Dit and Bel al, Nyang and Miru,
{ African devils, South Sea and Hindu.
These bring the war shroud:
{ Persian and Saxon fends, Morse, Madagas-
can.
Reeri from Ceylon, Typhaon, Azazel,
Beelzebub, Biam devils from every helD-
} The fire fiend, Ahrinlan!
, Quicken once more, when we
! Lapse into savagery,
Hunger demons and spirits Of darkness, de-
I mons of fame and of food,
tStorm gods, demons Of plague and Of mad
& ness, barrenness, and blood;
demons that devour mems food with those
that steal mems breath,
bahman, Abaddon, Samael, with Kali, god
5 dess Of death.
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JOHN BULL AND UNCLE SAM.

John Bull had once a little boy
Who ran away from home
The hardy fellow. full Of joy,
Loved in the West to roam.
He had the daring of his sire:
He had his genius too;
And though he passed through storms of fire
He aye the stronger grew.
Fighting little Sami
Plucky little Sam!
A world to be for mankind free
Saw pushing little Sam!
John Bull once tried to stop his growth,
But Sam hit out at once;
So poor old John for peace was loath
And ceased the youth to bounce.
To manhood's lusty force and vim
He grew at freedoms call,
And millions went to worship him,
So he made room for all.
Mighty Uncle Sam!
Glorious Uncle Sam!
From sea to sea, great brave and free,
Spread dauntless Uncle Sam.
John Bull, with proud and loving heart,
This message to him sends:
Dear Sam: OF me you are a part
We must. we shall be friends.
United, We'll dare wars alarms;
Shake hands. my boy, my Sam.
Hurrahi Come all the world in arms,
We will not care a -
The Union Jack of John,
The Stars and Stripes of Sam,
Shall rulers be on land and sea-
Three cheers for John and Sami
], William Allan.
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THE DAY HAVANA FELL.

Come, tel us how Havana fell,
In eighteen ninety-eight
Now, please, good Uncle Amos, do;
Don't say 1t Is too late;
But tell US how the Yankee ships
Set all the Cubans free
And drove the cruel Spanish dons
Back home across the sea.
You saw the smoke and heard the guns
:, And know the story well, 49,,
For you were on the Terror there
The day Havana fell.
YES, was there, but on that day.
When shells began to screech,
II lOnged to be at home again
On Jerseys peaceful beach.
The Terror and the Monterey
First bore the battle brunt,
Then came the Texas, fort OF steel,
To take the Yankee front.
The air grew black; the sea grew white;
Each ship became hell.
l hardly think that I'll forget
The day Havana fell.
Like blacksmiths at their forges red.
The gunners toiled away.
Dumb, bronze machines, they aimed and fire.
For nearly half day.
The awful gas from powder smoke
Seemed like the grip Of death,
And more than one poor fellow dropped,
While gasping vain for breath.
And every time the turret sides
Were struck by shot or SHE'LL
We thought the world to end had come
The day Havana fell.
"O.d Morro's gloomy castle walls
Belched forth the Spanish hate,
And now and then huge bolts of steel
Pierced through our armor pate.
Their cannon shrieked from Cabanas;
The Punta battery's bark
jWas nearly drowned by Reina's guns
But all were hushed by dark
Jon through that hail of lead and IRON
Midst terrors none can tell,
Jour gal ant ships all fought their Way
The day Havana fell.
And while we struck them from the sea.
Old Gomez and his band
Swooped down with venge 'ul mercless might
And smote them on the land.
( Remember Maceo!' they yelled,
And whirled the dread machete
{ The martyrs Of the Maine!' we cried
The watchword OF the fleet.
) me night was over ere the dusk;
) Peace! rang the vesper bell
Its pure tones tolled for brave men gone
The day Havana fell.
} The heroes Of that day you know:
7 Scores died, but scores yet live
10 wear the precious laurel crowns
Z That grateful nations give
once more Is Cuba Antilles gen.
For JOY and plenty reign.
me laugh OF happy children now
is heard on hill and plain.
Despoiling fed and DELL
The butchers rule its end did reach
The day Havana fell.
Robert H. Hazard In Washington Post
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VERAGUA.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Who was 1t visited our land
And shook with joy the swift, glad hand7
Veragua
Who was it ate and drank his fill,
And found we'd paid his every billf
Veragua.
Who was 1t swelled and strutted round.
And Dragged and pulled, and fercel
Veragua.
, Who was 1t then that homeward went,
Without a chance to spend cent?
Veragua.
} Who is 1t now doth fercely lam
The character of Uncle Sam?
Veragua.
Who hath our nation sore maligned,
Forgetting how he wined and dined?
Veragua.
Who Is 1t. when we cross the tide,
Behind the weeds had better hide2
Veragua.