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Bread Baked A.seo Year, Ago.

A loaf of bread q, 500 years old was found
in the tomb Of Mentuhotep, who died in
Egypt $500 b. c. 1t is now in the museum
of Berlin.
This loaf of cake or bread is dark brown
in color. Inside are many large holes. Prob
ably this part of the bread long since fell into
dust, but much of the bread still remains
in the shape of whole kernels and pieces Of
grain. Examination proves that the bread
was made of barley, and the grains were
only rudely crushed and not sifted. This
proves that barley bread was one of the
earliest kinds made, and it was baked and
covered with twigs and leaves of the syca-
more tree.
The process Of preparing the grain for
bread is to be gathered from wall inscrip-
ton which has been discovered at Thebes.
It is a graphic picture of the entire process.
This picture shows that at that early period
even the hand mill was not yet invented.
The flour was, Of course, far from fine,
and the bread resulting was of the kind
found in the tombs. 1t was not baked in
ovens, but after being kneaded into dough,
by the addition of water, was placed be-
tween two heated stones, or was put on a
plate and laid upon the red-hot Goals,
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Work Of the Pension Cffice.

The report of certificates issued for the
week ending June 3 shows
Army invalid: Original, Is; increase and
additional, 2S6; reissue, 10; restoration
and renewal, 26; duplicate, II; accrued, 81;
total, 425.
Army invalid (act of June 27, 1890:
Original, 169; increase, PIT; additional, 20;
reissue, 36; restoration and renewal, 81;
supplementals, 3; duplicate, 21; accrued,
20; total, 567.
Army invalid (war with SPAIN: Origi-
nal, II. e
Army widow, etc: Original, 46; increase
and additional, l; restoration and renewal,
2; duplicate, q, total, 53.
Army widow, etc. (act Of June 27, 1S90):
Original, $50; increase and additional, 2;
reissue, 2; renewal, l; duplicate, 5; accrued,
/; total, 191.
Army widow, etc. (war with spain):
Original, II. al
accrued, 2; total, II.
Navy invalid: (act of June 27, 1900:
Original, 13; increase and additional, Is;
reissue, Z; accrued. 5: total. DO.
Navy invalid: Original, Z; reissue, 3;
Navy invalid War with SPAIN: Origi-
nal, 1.
Navy widow, ETC.; Original, 1.
Navy widow (act Of June 27, 1S90):
Original, 13; supplemental, 1; total, ID.
Indian nWars-Survivors: accrued, 2.
Indian Wans-Widows: Original, 4.
Mexican War3Survivors: Duplicate, 1;
accrued, a; total, 5.
Mexican War-Widows: Original, 6.
Totals: Original, 40; increase and addi-
tional, 541; reissue, 81; restoration and
renewal, 80; supplementals, a; duplicate,
43; accrued, Isl; Grand total, 1,345.
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Magazines.
Oklahoma ladies' Of the GAR.

The attendance at the Ninth Annual
! Convention of the Department of Okla
homa, held at Kingfisher during the En-
campment of the GAR, was larger than
at any previous meeting.
The Circles of colored women deserve
especial mention, not only for their Jealous
attendance, but for their faithfulness in the
work of the Order. They have three
Circles in the Department.
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: Pres, Mrs. Mary 2.
Heron, Guthrie; S. V. p, Mrs. Ida Ssmore,
Ell Rena; j. V. p, Mrs. Lucie Clevenger,
Enid; Treas, Mrs. Hattie Dennis, Guthrie;
Sec, Miss Alma Carson, Guthrie; Chap,
Mrs. AIDA Garrison, Mulhall; Counsellor,
Mrs. Ruth Marie Rhodes, Oklahoma City.
| Council of Administration, Mesdames
Lucy Anderson, S. A. Burns, J. Il. Bald
win; Delegates, MeSdameS Mary A. Smith,
Jennie L. Miller. Susan Meachen.
The installation was conducted by Past
Department President Allie Hopkins in n
| very impressive manner. Department
| President II. Marie Rhodes was presented
with gavel made by the Chico Indians, of
| Nevada, of wood from the house where
Mark Twain sojourned while collecting
material for his great productions Rough
| ing It and "Baled Hay" The gavel was
sent by Mrs. Lou E. Curtis.
A handsome gold badge was presented
Mrs. Rhodes by the Circles of the Depart
ment in appreciation Of her two years Of
excellent service.
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MUSTERED OUT.

HINEs.-At Drakola, S. D., Edward a..
Hines, Co. r, 1st u. S. S. s., aged go.
After the GAR. service the remains were
taken to Minneapolis for interment; Com
rade Hines left widow and three children.
Johnston, Co G, 120th Ohio.
LAMPSoN.-At 'Springboro, Pa, Wade
Lampson, I'd PA. Oav., aged 81. He was
buried with military honors by Post BAG.
He is survived by a widow and four chill
dren. D.
member Of Harvey NJ. Brown Post, -146.
He served from 1861 to 1865.
MCLEoD.-At Issaquah, Wash, John
Mcleod, aged Sc. Comrade Mcleod was
born in Scotland; moved to Lake Sinecoe,
Canada, with his parents at the age of one
in Co. ID, 18th U. S. Aug. 1S, 1864; mus
tered out Aug. 1S, 1867; moved with his
mother to King County, Wash, in 1889, and
was one of King County's most honored
citizens, and member of Gen. Ewing Post,
90. He is survived by his mother, who is
81 years old.
PURSSELL.-At Doylestown, o., Jno
II. Purssel, Co CT, 10th Ohio.
RAWSON.-At Milbank, SD, Harry T..
Rawson, Co. b, 8th Mimi. He enlisted in
August, 1862, under Capt. Geo. f. Petit,
and served through the campaign against
lNuldiiS III loOt, titel WtIb oOulH
was in the fighting around Murfreesboro,
Tenn, in December, 1864. He leaves a
widow and several children.
RoUSE.-At Saginaw, Mich, DIR. J. S.
Rouse, aged 60. DIR. Rouse entered the
service as Hospital Steward of the 10th
Mich, Feb. 1, 1862; was made Assistant
Surgeon, 18th Mich, June a, 1853, and
Surgeon, 10Th Mich May %, 1865. He
was mustered out July 10, 1865. He was
President of the United States Pension
Examining Board at Saginaw.
SATCHELL.-At Gr,nnell, Iowa, j. w.
Satchell, aged so. Comrade Satchell in
March, 1874, settled in Union Township,
Poweshiek Co., Iowa, where he engaged in
farming until Oct. 16, 1861, when he en-
listed in the 18th Iowa. He served nearly
four years, receiving his honorable dis
charge Aug. IL, 1860. He had resided in
Grinnell for about % years, where he was
an active member of Gordon Granger Post,
64 A widow and five children survive him.
SHEPHERD.-At Ray, o., VIM. j.
Shepherd, Co. G, 73d Ohio, and member Of
Post 1874.
THOMPSON.-At Wahoo, Neb., Lieut.
James X. Thompson, Co. X, 111th Ohio.
He enlisted in August, 1862. and was mus
tered out with the regiment. He was an
honored member of John A. Andrew Post
90. Two sons and one daughter survive
him
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REGULAR ARMY HONE.
An Institution Now Caring for
Nearly 800 Veterans.
BY F. NJ. KROUSE.

In the United States the founding of a
Soldiers Home dates from March 3, 1851
when Congress passed a bill TO found n
military asylum for the relief and support
of invalid and disabled soldiers OF the Army
of the United States
Maj.-Gen. Winfield Scott had given this
subject his special attention long before
the passage of this act and numerous re-
ports had been submitted at various times
TO the Committee on Military Affairs in
Congress advocating the needed legisla-
ton. In February, 1873, Gen. Scott trans
mitted TO the Secretary of War draft for
100000, which was a portion Of the tribute
levied by him on the City of Mexico for The
benefit OF the American army. In trans
mitting this draft he expressed the hope
that it might he allowed 10 go to the credit
of an army asylum.
The funds were at first turned into the
public treasury, and subsequently, by the
act to found the asylum. were, with the
balance Of S1S,T9f.19, remaining from the
same levy, appropriated for the support of
the institution. The mon entitled 10 the
benefits of the asylum are: First, soldiers
of 20 years service; second. soldiers OF the
Regular Army, disabled by wounds, in
jureS. or disease incurred in the service and
line of duty. and, third, Invalid or disabled
soldiers of the regular service III the war
They must be ho9orably discharged from
the army, or they are not admitted TO the
Home.
The act also designated as Board of
Commissioners, eX-officio, TO administer
the affairs of the asylum, the GeGeral-in-
Chief commanding the Army, the Generals
commanding the Eastern and Western
Military Divisions, the Chiefs of the Quar-
termaster's, Commissary. Pay, and Meii-
cal Departments, and the Adiutant-Gen-
eral of the Army.
BY an act OF Congress approved March
3, 1859, this list OF Commissioners was
changed to three oIly-ahe Commissary-
General of Subsistence, the Surgeon-Gen-
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cost of the coffin. An allowance OF s25 is
made for funeral expenses of members
buried outside of the Home.
The insane are quartered in two small,
barred, isolated rooms IN the general hos
pitai quarters. When they reach such n
stage that they cannot be properly cared
for here, they are sent to the Government
Asylum at St Elizabeth, which is also
located in the District Of Columbia. From
three TO four have been annually sent to
this asylum for the past five years for treat
ment, and the average number of insane at
the Home annually IS about %.
On the first floor of the Scott Building are
uuartered the blind veterans. Everything
possible is done for them, and they receive
all the assistance they require. One man is
employed TO read daily to them.
ALLOWANCE OF CLOTHING.
Each soldier at the Home is allowed a
certain amount of clothing, consisting of
one pair of sky-blue trousers, one blouse,
one pair of dark-blue flannel trousers,
three pairs of shoes, six pairs of stockings,
three pairs OF drawers. one straw hat, one
black felt hat, two flannel shirts, and two
cotton shirts each year, with one dark-blue
coat and vest every two years. New
clothing iS given to permanent members
and secondhand garments to needy tenn
porary veterans awaiting action OF the
Board of Commissioners.
Pensioners who draw over a certain
amount Of pension must pay for their
wearing apparel, but they are compelled to
make the same amount of clothing last
them as their less fortunate comrades, as
they are not permitted to purchase in ex-
cess Of the articles enumerated above.
There are no repair shops for clothing
maintained by the Home. Every man
must pay for his own patching and darning
and cobbling. Two shoemakers and two
tailors are kept busy on such work.
Veterans who have been granted fur
lough are not furnished clothing, and
should they take notion not to return, the
clothing left by them in the storeroom is
reissued, if new, and if old, given to TEN,
| for further wear, is used as mops. Each
| member is permitted TO send weekly one
change of clothing to the laundry. This
establishment employs three men con
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has clock-tower, and will accommodate
$40 inmates. 1t also affords rooms for
offices, library, mess-room, etc. 1t was
commenced in 1852 and completed in 1891.
There are five barracks at the Home, known
as the Scott, Sherman, Sheridan, Ander-
son, and King Buildings. The Scott and
Sherman Buildings are of stone, and the
other three of brick The Anderson Build
ing, the smallest of the five, is used prin-
cipaliy for the band.
There is room in these buildings for
T1O beds All the buildings have base
mentS, which are used for amusements and
smoking-rooms, barber, tailor, upholsterer,
and shoemaker shops, etc. The barracks
are heated by steam and hot air, and IL
Illuminated by gas. The beds are made of
iron. and are three feet six inches in width.
Each bed has hair mattress which weighs
26 pounds.
The 502 acres of land contained in the
Home grounds cost the trustees S326, ,354.-
81, aud the buildings and bridges erected
thereon 81 ,:'51 ,39S.9O. The grading of the
10 miles of macadamized road cost S102,-
:39S.
The barracks named after Gen. Ander-
son was the home of the first inmates, and
has frequently been used as the Summer
residence of the Presidents. President
Buchanan occupied it in 1S5G-'60. Presi-
dent Lincoln took possession of it in 1861,
and again in 1864. President Hayes
y
in 1877, and again i'll 1880. President
Arthur rlsticaied there in 1882. and fancied
it so well thai he returned III 1854. 1t was
the intcatioI of President Garfield 10 oc-
cupy it in the Summer OF 1881. There has
bcen erected recei tiy a new marble amuSe-
meat hail. costing SG4 900, with an addi-
tiouai 3d. for heating apparatus.
ADJUSTMENTS OF INMATES.
There are many ways for the old soldier
to amUse himself at this Home. He can
play billiards. pool, baga;oile. cards, chess,
and dominoas, with variety en-
thrown in occasionally. There
is also music by the band, and the library
is the resort OF many OF the inmates. Each
barracks bUildiRg has q sort OF assembly
room on the basement floor. The billiard
hall is located in the basement of the Sher-
nan Building, and contains three billiard.
one pool, and 5wo Dagateilc tables. There
is no charge Tor these games. and the result
is that the tables are IN constant use. Each
Of tine FIVE amusement rooms contain card
tables, and are inspected daily by COM
missioned officer.
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eral, and the Adiutant-Generalo of the Army,
and the name Military Asylum was
changed to that of Soldiers Home" Again.
under an act of March ;, 1888. this Board of
Commissioners was increased by adding the
General-in-Chief commanding the Army,
the QuartermaSter-Genera the Judge
Advocate-General,a and the Governor of the
Home. These officers compose the present
Board of Commissioners, with the three
above mentioned.
An inmate pensioner may assign his
pension 10 his wife, child or parents. if
living; otherwise, the pension is paid to the
Treasurer of the Home, and is held in trust
for him. He has the privilege TO draw
upon it for necessary purposes while an
inmate, and receives all the balance to his
credit when discharged from the Home.
Non-pensioned inmates receive 81 per
month pocket money, and per diem of %
cents for such labor as they are detailed
and willing to perform.
SITE OF THE HOME.
This Home for the Regular Army vet
Grams was established in the District of
Columbia in 1851. 1t is situated about
three miles due north from the Capitol
The property around the Home, and its
quarters and the Hospital, was purchased
eom George w. Riggs, and contains 256
acres. To this was added in subsequent
years up to 1869 about 16 acres, and in
1872 the adjoining estate of "Harewood," !"
containing 191 acres, was purchased from
~. W. Corcoran. Small additional tracts
have been added since, making a total of
5o2 acres in the Home property as it stands
to-day.
Around the spacious grounds nearly 10
miles Of macadamized roads have been con-
structed, winding through groves Of Sc
lected trees OF native and foreign varieties,
and oTer the open ground, commanding a
fine and unsurpassed view of the city, the
Potomac River, and the surrounding coun-
try for miles. IL is beyond doubt the finest
view OF the city obtainable. The park
being open TO the public, the old veteran can
maintain an interest in the outside world
.fom watching the many splendid turnouts
that are constantly passing the Home.
Ine principal building for inmates is of
shite marble. 1t is of Norman-G othic de-
sign, 2Silh feet long by 1872 feet wide;
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The band is maintained during the
entire year with ar average mem berShip OF
IA all of whom are LnemDers Of the Home.
During the last year it gave 100 concerts.
The library contains 6D14 volumes; 81
papers and II periodicals are subscribed
for. Books may be taken from the library
and kept for two weeks at a time. Fiction
and history are the most sought after. The
capacity of this reading-room is %. and it
has an average OF 220 VINO visit it daily.
The old soldiers have organized three
societies among themselves; namely, Henry
Wilson Post, q "A r.; Gen. William
Barry Garrison, II. A. n. U., and the Sol
diers' Home Temperance Union. The
societies have a membership of 120, 46, and
130 respectively.
There are three Chaplains, a Catholic,
an Episcopalian, and a Lutheran, at the
Home, who hold divine service every Sum-
day in the Home Chapel, which has
capacity of $50. They receive $50 per
month each for their services.
HOME DISCIPLINE.
The regulations established by the Board
| of Commissioners for the internal police
and discipline are enforced under the Gov
ernor by the Sergennts, Home police, and
| watchmen. Offenses do not appear speci-
ally numerous. The penalties for break
| ing the regulations consist of labor on the
roads and grounds, confinement in guard
room, suspension, and dismissal. The
| discipline Of this Home compares favorably
with that at similar institutions. This
Home has not established a store, or cam
teen, but cigars, tobacco, pies, and cakes
are sold as private venture.
In 1874 heroic statue in bronze of Lieut.
Gen. Winfield Scott, executed by Launt
Thompson, Of New York, was placed in
the Home grounds upon the most promi-
nent point, and two years later, in 1876, a
perfectly designed hospital was completed.
! This hospital is not only for tine sick, but it
is an infirmary for the aged and helpless
inmates, and is kept in, excellent condition
throughout, displaying admirable care and
management.
| Deceased members are buried in the Home
uniform in a coffin made at the Home
shops, and each one OF these boxes costs
S6.12. The total expense Of the funeral is
S6.42, or only about 80 cents more than the
The National tribune., 1899-06-15
AUSTRALIAN ALUMINIUM.
Immense Mineral Resources Of New South Wales,

The immensely and variety of the mineral
wealth of New South Wales has just
received another illustration in the dis
covery, by officials connected with the
Department of Mires in that Colony, Of
vast deposits of bauxite, which, it may be
mentioned, is hydrated oxide of alumni
mum, and, practically, the only ore used in
the arts for the manufacture of aluminium
at the present time, having taken the place
formerly occupied by cryolite. The ore
invariably has a certain quantity of iron
associated with it, and this metal is often
present in sufficient quantity to cause it to
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stantly on such work, who are paid for
their labor by the II Home.
The Home has a hose and reel company
of so men, and a rake and ak detail Of
about 100 men. Fire buckets are provided
for each floor. The regulations of the fire
depar tment require the men to turn out on
all occasions when the fire alarm is sounded
The apparatus is frequently tested, and the
firemen are said TO be able to respond TO an
alarm in few minutes time. let it occur
either in daylight or the midnight hour.
The most disastrous fire that the de-
partment has been called upon TO battle
with occurred Sept. 13, 1894. This fire
broke out in three separate places; the first
destroyed shed and 25 tons of hay. the
second carried the stables up in smt e, at
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above list there are 13 public horses, five
mules, and eight private horses, with IL
private vehicles, at the Home.
The dining room and kitchen are in
spendid condition, everything looking clean
and sweet about the place. In the kitchen
are employed one chief cook, five assistants,
and one butcher. The dining room is
looked after by one Sergeant, assisted by
22 walters. give herewith a Sunday bill
of fare, about what the table generally con.
tains on that day: Breakfast-corned beef
hash, bread, butter, and coffee. Dinner
roast beef with gravy, mashed potatoes,
pickles, stewed onions, bread, milk, and
coffee. Supper-coffee, cake, bread, but
ter, sirup, and tea. :,
The principal institutions OF a similar
character i'm Europe are the Chelsea Hos
pitaI, at Chelsea, a suburb of London;
Kilmainham Hospital, a sister institution
near Dublin, Ireland; the Hotel des lnva-
lids, in Paris, France, famous as the loca-
ton of the tomb of the great Napoleon after
his remains were brought from st. Helena,
and an institution Of the same name at
Berlin, Ge many.
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Memorial Day at Kansas Soldiers. Home.

Ladies' of the GAR, Fort Dodge Kan.
writes that the Memorial Day exercise sug
gested by Mary Il. Lothrop and published
in the issue of May II was used at the
State Soldiers Home. Ten little girls ant
one boy took part, the boy carrying the
flag. The Ladies Of the GAR. are doing
all in their power to assist the veterans al
the Home.
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His Side Of II.
CbicUUo Ne1ra

''Where," asked the female Suffrage
orator, would man be to-day were it not for
woman?"
She paused moment and looked around
the hall. Il repeat" she said, where
would man be to-day were it not for
woman?"
He'd be in the Garden of Eden eating
strawberries" answered a voice from the
gallery.
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RECENT LITERATURE.
THAT OTHER WOMAN. Bv A,

THAT OTHER WOMAN. BY Amelia
Appleton. Published by F. Tennyson
Neely, New York, Chicago, and London
This is a wholesome, healthy, human"
love story, such as men and women always
have delighted in, and always will, as long
as huni;.u nature remains what it is. The
heroine and her lover are very natural,
lovabe characters, and the other per-
sonages i'll the story are worked out artis-
tically and very interestingly. The course
of true love does not run smoothly, but in
such perpleXity as to keep the readers
| attention and sympathies deeply engrossed
The scenes move swiftly between Europe
| and America, and are full of dramatic
power.
Magazines.
The NeU England Magazine for June has
an interesting illustrated sketch of Lorenzo
| Dow. Published at Boston.
! The Ways OF College Women at Welles-
ley, in the Ledger Monthly for June, is a
charming description of the studies and
amusements of the students at this famous
| girls college, with illustrations of Float
| Day, showing the students boating on the
river and the college buildings on the bluff
in the background.
| For a description of Marconi's wireless
| telegraph that anybody can understand,
and an account of its latest achievements
| that everybody will be interested in, readers
may be referred to the June number of
McCluTe's Mdgdzine.
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Anna B. Foss. 621 Sixteenth Ave. S. E. Mime
apolis Mimi, writes: Il cannot say enough in
praise of "Hazeline." for it has brought me back
topeIfect health. For yearsI suffered with serious
female trouble. Prolapsus. or falling of the womb.
also Inflammation and Leucorrh9a. / suffered
more than can find words to tell. Ispent great
deal of money trying to obtain relief but nothing
had the least effect on me until began the of
Hazeline, which has entirely cured me and feel
like a new being" We have thousands of letters
similar to above.
Send your name and address to the Hazelins
Co. 4S3 Bressler Block South Bend, Ind, for a
81 90 free box of Hazeline, the same as cured Mrs
Foss Send for it to-day; it will cure you.
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til6 SAME tiiiit DuEli-
ing up two horses, As
tons of hay, and an
ambulance, and the
third destroyed q
stack of five tons Of
hay. The total loss
was placed at 81, 900.
The Home has also
a splendid farm. or
these 502acres % are
used for farming pur-
poses, II for the gar
den, 42 for lawns,
200 for pasturage.
There are about 200
acres in woodland,
and 20 acres are oc-
cupied by the build
ings. The products
of the farm yearly
amount to between
$4,000 and S4, 900.
The mess and hos
pital are supplied
with fresh vegetables
from this farm. and
the old veterans
spend manyan hour
on this piece of culti-
waited land, planting
and gathering crops.
The transportation
facilities of the Home
consist of two ambu-
lances, one buggy,
one laundry wagon,
one mail wagon, one
market wagon. one
milk wagon, and six
carts for road and
ground purposes. In
dependent of the
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Educate In. Children 4, the Work.

Mai. Walter Thorn, of the Memorial and
Executive Committee, GAR, of Kings
County, n. Y, urges that the children of
the public schools be educated to take up
the work of Observing Memorial Day.
Gov. Roosevelt has given the suggestion
his enthusiastic support.
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II the blood Is impure. It cannot do its duty.
Hood Sarsapariila purifes the blood
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Flag salute ia Oregon Schools.

Comrade c. r. Cook, McMinnville, Ore.,
writes: Some time ago THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE published flag salute. / car
ried the paper to our Professor, and he has
since adopted the salute in our public
schools. 1t is very pretty"