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The Holly chieftain., 1912-02-16
TESTIMONY
OF five women
Proves That Lydia E. Pink.
hams Vegetable Com
pound Is Reliable.

Reedville, Ore.-"I can truly recon-
mend Lydia e. Pinkham's VegetahI.
Compound to all women who are passing
through the Change of Life, as It mads
The Holly chieftain., 1912-02-16

Red Cross Bag Blue, much better, goes
farther than liquid blue. Get from any
grocer.
The Holly chieftain., 1912-02-16

Let love make you strong. pure. Sc.
we're. Let 1t prevent your sacrificing
the least portion Of your souls life
Carmen Sylvia.
The Holly chieftain., 1912-02-16

Constipation causes many serious dis
eases. It is thoroughly cured by Doctor
| Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. One laxative,
three for cathartic.
The Holly chieftain., 1912-02-16

Whoever serves his country we'll has
no need of ancestors.-Voltaire.
The Holly chieftain., 1912-02-16
How
Body
Feels
Severe
Cold
BY J. Howard Moore

takes only of the heat but also of the moisture and
the motion of the air wind of thirty forty miles hour will add
to the body several degrees of cold beyond the indicated by
the thermometer Ten degrees below the thermometer be
twenty degrees below to the human body if high blowing That
is moving air which is degrees below cold to the body
as twenty degrees of still air
The thermometer purely heat indicator and is hence mper
feet reporter OF weather conditions from the standpoint of the body
have often noticed human judgment arising from lack Of
knowledge of this fact.
The Holly chieftain., 1912-02-16

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablet
Druggists refund money IL 1t falls to euro. Il. v
GROVES signature is on each box. &c.
The Holly chieftain., 1912-02-16

Work is the very salt Of life; not
only preserving 1t from decay, but
giving 1t tone and favor.-Hugh
Black.
The Holly chieftain., 1912-02-16
The Rest of II.

The Rest Of II.
She-I have a bill for you on hand.
Howell?
She-Foot it.
Evening star., 1912-06-30

from the suns rays that 1t can be we'll
observed. This planet Is now beyond the
SUM-. at its extreme distance from the
earth.
Mars is moving SO very RAPIDLY east
ward that during the month it passes al
most entirely across the constellation Of
Leo; 1t is moving eastward almost as
rapidly as the sun itself and therefore re-
mains continually visible in our evening
sky. 1t will not be finally overtaken by
the sun and so become morning star un-
til next November 4. The planet is now,
however, very far away from us and in
very unfavorable position for observation
It. in fact, now shines only as a star
Of the second magnitude-that is, Is but
very little brighter than the North Star
nd very far inferior to the nearby star
Regulus, which few months ago 1t far
exceeded in brilliance.
\
But the most striking object in the
evening heavens is undoubtedly the great
planet Jupiter, which shines out brilliant
ly In the SOUTH almost in the center Of
the constellation of the Scorpion. This
world which has proceeded so little in its
development that 1t is still great ball
or heated vapors nearly 10000 miles
through, is seen, even in small telescope,
to be covered with the most beautiful
markings and landings
BY watching these we can see how
very rapidly the world is turning, for
d IHdIhiIlS rises at one cage, Is carried
completely around the planet and disap-
pears at the other in a little less than
five hours. The four bright moons, as
they continually move around the heated
ball, sometimes passing behind the disk
and sometimes in front Of 1t, and some
times entering or leaving the planets
shadow and SO being darkened, are ever
most interesting objects Of study. For
example, July Is, at hours 81 minutes
l second pm. eastern standard time),
the third moon will disappear in eclipse
emerging again from the shadow at IL
hours ~ minutes s seconds. On the same
evening the second moon will move onto
the planets disk at 10 hours 56 minutes,
not emerging from it until 1 hour 80 min
utes the next morning. Similarly. July
., and Is, interesting occultations or
transits may be observed.
Saturn is now in the morning sky,
and in each morning will be seen rising
earlier and mounting higher in the
heavens by the time of sunrise, but it
will be many months before we will see
1t in our evening sky. July 1 it rises
which time is heightened to four and one
half hours by the end Of the month. The
planet is now In the constellation Taurus
just west of the Hyades: it will remain
in nearly this same position throughout
the year. SO that when by next autumn
the changing seasons have brought this
beautiful group of stars into our evening
sent a region of unusual interest.
Uranus is just on the borders OF our
map, but is still very low down in the
southeast.
Neptune is passed by the sun on July
16 at am, so that 1t is wholly invisible
to us throughout the month.
The reader who observed the beautiful
Evening star., 1912-06-30
ANARpAr1GEr1EMT OFeSTARS AS PRoPosFD
BYABuLbEF0RE: CONGRESS

the flag out of proportion TO its length,
unless the stripes were narrowed, and
this would have impaired their distinct
ness when seen from distance.
"A newspaper of the time said:
BY this regulation the thirteen stripes
will represent the number of states whose
valor and resources originally effected
American independence, and the addition
al stars will mark the increase of the
states since the present Constitution
No act has since been passed by Con-
gress altering this feature of the flag.
and 1t Is the same as originally adopted,
except as to the number of stars in it's
union.
I'm the war with Mexico the national
flag bore twenty-nine stars in its union;
since July 4. 1908. forty-six.
In none of the acts Of Congress re-
latlng to the flag has the manner of ar
ranging the stars been prescribed, and in
consequence there has been lack of uni
formity In the matter, and flags in use
of the public in general may be seen with
the stars arranged in various ways.
''The early custom was to insert the
stars in parallel rows across the blue
neld, and this custom has, 1t is believed
oeen observed in the navy. at least since
1878. at which time the President ordered
the stars to be arranged in such manner
on the national flag used in the navy.
In the army, too, 1t is believed, the
stars have always been arranged in hori-
zontal rows across the blue field, but
not alway In vertical rows; the effect.
however, being about the same as in the
naval flag.
Hereafter there will be no difference
In the arrangement of the stars between
the army and navy. as an agreement has
been arrived at between the War and
Navy departments on the subject"
An absence of reliable knowledge with
relation to the flag has caused many
ludicrous mistakes to be made In the
Capitol building is a picture by the
artist Leutze, who was a friend of Lin
coin and whose son. Commander Leutze,
Is now in charge Of the Brooklyn navy
Evening star., 1912-06-30
Wonderful Irrigation Project
to Be Opened in July

hculties, a remarkable record Of econom-
ical as well rapid construction has
been made on this tunnel. In a single year
more than 5000 feet were driven and
lined. a monthly record of AS feet at
each portal was shown during the present
year Not a single fatality has occurred,
which is noteworthy, as tunnel work is al
ways regarded as particularly hazardous.
The fullest measure of credit for this
work belongs to Engineer Lytle and his
loyal foremen, Davis, Whitney and Har-
dy, who from the beginning have had
responsible charge.
The whole work has called for un.
usual ability, ingenuity and no little dar-
ing. All the power used for driving the
tunnel. lighting the camps and operating
the heavy machinery, cars, etc. has been
supplied from the governments own
hydro-electric plant on Spanish Fork
river and transmitted over pole line
thirty-one miles long. Surplus power from
the plant is also supplied to two mu-
inequalities in the valley. All materials
used in the camrS have been transported
over the government road thirty-nine
miles long.
The Mormons came into Utah valley in
the early fifties, and laid out their farms
along the streams that flowed down from
the mountains into Utah lake. For
time their small bitches sufficed for their
agricultural needs and they prospered. As
population grew the bitches were en-
larged and extended, until every avail
able drop of water was required to meet
the demands or the 1rrlgdtorS. In years
of scanty precipitation there was short.
age in the canals, crop yields were d.
minished and the late comers frequently
lost all. Under these conditions no
further development Of the valley was
possible yet here We're thousands OF
acres Of land just as fertile as any in
the valley, which without water was
worthless. With water it would support
hundreds of families.
In 1902 the reclamation law was passed
and then the valley woke up. The farm
ers petitioned the government to come
and investigate and IL feasible. to aug
ment the water supply. All the irrigable
lands were signed up to guarantee the
return of the governments investment.
and in 1906 the actual work OF construc.
ton was begun.
The government has nearly completed
its part of the contract. 1t remains for
the landowners in the valley to carry
out their obligations. One OF the first
steps is the subdivision and sale OF all
individual holdings In excess Of 10o
acres
The attractions Of this part Of Utah
are numerous. 1t Is one OF the most
beautiful valleys in the world, rfvaling
the best in Switzerland. 1t has a fine
climate. a soil of known fertility and
adapted to the growing of large va
riety of profitable crops IT is the land
of peaches and the big red apples. 1t
promises to be valley of small farms
intensvely cultivated, thus insurfng q
progressive and prosperous community
where conditions will be more suburban
than rural
Evening star., 1912-06-30
REARRAr1a1aG TIE. STARS BRoosEYNN NNANxYARD

barred. square flags Of the Argentine Re-
public; the vivid colors OF Austria s yellow
and red. the starry blue banner OF Brazil: !:
the grewsome dragons OF China; the
whiskered gentleman from Denmark: the
tricolor of France: the imposing standard
OF the Emperor OF Germany: the royal
standard of Great Britain. with specials
for all the governors Of colonies: Mexi-
cos eagle must scream from its perch OF
thorns: the white elephant Of even Slam
must strut on a suitable banner: the cres-
cent Of Turkey, the plain two bars Of
Monaco, which harbors Monte Carlo; the
national flag of the Mosquito 1slands-au
these must find place in the locker Of
every battleship.
kE
All these are therefore made, and made
carefully at the Brooklyn navy yard,
where the department has its chief force
of flag workers To be sure. there il q
minor force at work at Mare Island, near
San Francisco. where flags are also made
and the efforts of the Brooklyn branch
supplemented. But in Brooklyn most Of
these countless flags are made. They
mount into the thousands OF different de-
signs. All the flags of all the nations Of
the world are made here. The federal
government appropriates 100000 a year
for this particular purpose, and that
amount is expended in keeping the ships
in flags. Experts keep constantly in touch
with the flags of the world, and II any
change is anywhere made. note Is
Immediately taken of it and the necessary
changes made.
It is In this work that special skill is re-
quired. The operators of the embroidery
machines must have the art and the
cleverness to place the very characteristic
design on q given flag in just the right
way. A Chinese dragon in true Chinese
style and of such kind as TO give no OF
fense in native waters is small task.
So the flags of the sea come from the
Brooklyn navy yard and that at Mare
Island, while the landlubber's design IL
made in Washington. This latter is the
flag of the people, while the former
waves from the worlds standpoint, for il
knows all ports. All will be in the
breeze next Thursday.
Copyright, 1912, by W. A. Du PuyD
Evening star., 1912-06-30

TICKING river up out Of one valley
and shooting 1t through a mountair
to irrigate another valley Is a big
engineering feat that Provo, Utah, vii
celebrate July g 1t will be the openins
of the Strawberry valley irrigation prof
ect, in many respects one of the mos
remarkable pieces of engineering in the
world.
The country where the work has been
done is Of sort to add to the difficulties
For FIVE months a year the construction
camp has been cut off from the rest OF
the world. Three times last winter the
thermometer dropped to fifteen below
zero, and there were 300 inches of snow.
The physical characteristics of the prof.
ect are unique. On one side Of range
Of mountains is a broad and beautiful
valley containing thousands of acres OF
fertile and valuable land condemned to
perpetual sterility by reason of lack of
water; on the other lofty plateau
traversed by numerous streams which
carry the run-off of a well watered region
to distant ocean; between the valley
and these streams rugged range OF
snow-capped mountains imposing a SEEM
ingly impossible barrier.
To link the thirsty valley with that dis
tant water supply was the serious prob
lem and its successful solution is to be
made the occasion OF general rejoicing on
the part of the citizens of the valley and
of the state. The link is the Straw berry
tunnel, huge bore 0 by 1O1e feet, pierc-
ing a mountain nearly four miles thick.
Over on the eastern side of the Wasatch
range the Strawberry river has been
turned at right angles into large natur
al reservoir by means of a dam seventy
one feet high and 45O feet long. This
reservoir covers $500 acres, and has a
capacity Of nearly 100000 acre feet, or
sufficient to cover that many acres a foot
deep.
At the other end of the reservoir are
the gates, which. when opened, will direct
the flow of a river now discharging its
waters into the Gulf Of California, into
Utah valley, which has no drainage to
the sea. Literally a Transformation in
the physical geography of the state has
been accomplished.
The progress of this work has been full
of dramatic and thrilling incidents. The
excavation of the tunnel has required the
constant vigilance and the utmost pre-
caution to prevent disasters. Subterrane-
an lakes and springs were opened by the
dynamite blasts. and the thrush Of water
frequently drove the miners precipitately
from their work. For months they work
ed knee deep in the icy water. Cave-ins
threatened injury or death, SO that the
lining had to follow closely the drills.
Swelling ground crushed the timber shor-
ing and delayed the work. For five
months each year the camps were prac-
tically cut off from the rest OF the world
by the heavy SHOWS
Notwithstanding all these and other=d1f.
Evening star., 1912-06-30

THE Admission of Two
1 New States Makes It
Necessary to Change the Ar
rangement of the Stars in
900, 900 Official Flags-Many
Changes in the Flag Since
It's Origin-Fourth of July
Is Birthday of New Flags
Controversy as to Origin and
Subsequent History of Old
Glory-War Department Has
Recently Sought to Settle
Mooted Questions.
Evening star., 1912-06-30

a rough drawing, which, at her Sugges.
ton, was redrawn by Gen. Washington
with pencil in her back parlor and the
flag thus designed was adopted by Con-
gress.
although the resolution establishing
the flag was not officially promulgated by
the secretary of Congress until Septem-
ber 3. 1777, it seems we'll authenticated
that the Stars and Stripes were carried at
the battle Of the Brandywine, September
II. 1777, and thenceforward during all the
battles Of the revolution.
Soon after it's adoption the new flag
was hoisted on the naval vessels OF the
United States.
1.-The ship Ranger, bearing the Stars
and Stripes and commanded by Capt. Paul
Jones. arrived at a French port about
December l, 1777. and her flag received,
on February IA. 1778. the first salute
ever paid to the American flag by foreign
naval vessels.
1.-The flag Of the United States remained
unchanged for about eighteen years after
its adoption. BY this time two more
states vermont and Kentucky had been
admitted into the Union, and on January
13, 1904, Congress enacted
That from and after the first day OF
May, 1895, the flag of the United states
be fifteen stripes alternate red and
white; that the union be fifteen stars,
white in a blue field
''This flag was the national banner
from 1895 to 1918, during which period
occurred the war OF 1912 with Great
Britain.
BY 1918 five additional states. Tennes-
see, Ohio. Louisiana, Indiana and Mfssis-
sippi, had been admitted into the Union.
and therefore a further change In the
flag seemed to be required.
After considerable discussion in Con-
gress on the subject the act of April 4,
1918, was passed, which provided
First: That from and after the 4th
day of July next the flag of the United
States be thirteen stripes, alternate red
and white; that the union have twenty
stars, white in blue field
Second: That on the admission OF
every new state into the Union one star
be added to the union Of the flag, and
that such addition shall take effect on
the 4th Of July next succeeding such ad-
mission
THE return to the thirteen stripes Of
the 1777 flag was due, in a measure, to
a reverence for the standard of the rev.
olution; but 1t was also due to the fact
that a further increase of the number Of
stripes would have made the width OF
Evening star., 1912-06-30

celebrated kep1er's star, shone out
near the star at L. Figure /. All of
the stars marked x are double stars,
though some of them may only be seen
double with a moderately large tele-
scope. But this region is particularly
remarkable for the large number of
star clusters which it contains. One of
these will be found at II, a little below
and to the right of the star NJ; still
larger one is at r, nearly midway be-
Evening star., 1912-06-30

yard. This painting is of Washington
crossing the Delaware. Historically 1t
will be remembered that this event took
place Christmas night, 1776. The resolu-
the national flag was not passed until
June IA, 1177. The crosses Of st. George
and St Andrew We're in the corner of
Washington's flag when he crossed the
Delaware. In this painting. however,
Washington is represented as bearing the
Stars and Stripes across the ice-bound
stream.
Another famous painting that hangs in
the Capitol is that of Perry fighting his
famous battle of Lake Erie. The flag
shown in this picture has the regulation
thirteen stripes As a matter Of fact the
American flag of 1915, which is the date
of the battle had fifteen stripes. So Is
the national emblem incorrectly done in
two of the great paintings that hang In
the national Capitol itself.
The impression is abroad that the OFF,
cial banners are silk. No poet ever wrote
of other than sillxen folds in his nation 8
emblems. Yet there are almost no silken
flags. Neither are they cotton, as might be
guessed upon a second chance. AS mat
ter Of fact, they are made Of bunting. "alI
wool and a yard wide," and valued at %
cents per yard, regardless Of bargain
days. The white Of them makes flannel
trousers of a high order and great last
ing qualities. The blue Of them would
make the best sort Of outing skirt
But it would make no rustic as a petit
coat, for 1t is the material Of the plain
people.
There is good reason for the use
of flannel in the flags A flag
made of cotton would flop over
and stick to itself when it rained, as
would one of silk. Either would be little
more than a string in wet weather and
1t would be as sensible to make a bath
ing suit Of these materials as a flag.
But flag of wool will still unfurl itself
when drenched with rain. It whips it,
self to pieces less readily than do other
utilitarian and economical It has dem
onstrated it's superiority on many bat
Evening star., 1912-06-30

of six little stars forming the Arrow.
which is speeding eastward from Her
cules to slay the Eagle of Jove. Turn
ing northward, we see the great Dragon
swinging high above the pole, a con-
stellation which in early times was
even longer than now and inclosed
both of the Bears in its folds. The head
of the Dragon is conspicuous and
easily found figure; this, with the near
Evening star., 1912-06-30

by star at T. Figure 1, was called by
darieS. 1t may be added that the head
of the Serpent at D. Figure l. is from
its figure sometimes called St Andrews
Cross
The planet Mercury reaches Its
greatest distance east of the sun on
July %. and for a few evenings before
and after this date may be seen shining
low in the twilight glow, little north
of the west point of the horizon, for about
an hour after sunset
Venus passes from the west to the east
of the sun July at o'clock in the
evening, but although by the end of the
month 1t will have moved so far into
our evening sky that 1t will not set until
one-half hour after sunset. 1t will not
even by that time have drawn - faz
Evening star., 1912-06-30

tlefelds. To be sure. the regimental
flag for parade occasions is silken and
greatly betasseled, but this is for show
alone. and SO greatly in the minority as
to be hardly worth mentioning. All the
others are wool.
The bunting Of the flags is bought by
the government in great quantities direci
from the factories. It comes not ready
striped, but with the colors in separate
rolls. This is the form In which the con-
tractor receives IT, In the shop it is cut
into strips for the body Of the flags and
a rectangle Of blue is cut out as a field
for the stars. These stars are cut by
machine from the white bunting. Then
pieces that go into the making of single
official flag. Seams are double sewed to
resist the winds, and the ends which flap
are protected by a much reinforced hem.
There is nothing very complicated about
the process of manufacture. The flag
thus made of separate strips unravels
much less rapidly than does one of the
whole cloth. and consequently lasts much
longer. The manufacture of flags is
largely q question of sewing machines
and girls for the plain ones. but the great
varieties require much knowledge and
skill in cutting and on the better flags
the embroidery work is labor for an
artist
The making Of the flags for the navy Is
a thing separate and apart. 1t is, how
ever. a task that is of much greater mag
nitude than might be expected. Not only
have all the ships Of the navy to be kept
in flags of the United States that are
fiawless, but it is likewise necessary that
these ships should be supplied with a
score Of flags of every nation in the
world. This is because Of the possibility
that the given ship will at some time go
into the port Of the given country and the
flag will Of necessity have to be flown.
Besides the ordinary flags of various
sizes, each ship must have coats of arms,
the Presidents standard. the flag Of the
Secretary of the Navy, flags for rear ad
mirals Of various rank, all different in
color and design; mail flags, yacht ensigns
and scores of others She must have the