The Green Forest tribune., 1912-04-12

I ditions of that famous day; also what might have been his method or ap- 1 pliance utilized for registering the heat of the atmosphere. Here again l the supposedly valueless documents l furnish corroborative evidence of lief ferson's ability to obtain the desired information. On July 4. 1776. Jeffer- son called on Mir Sparhawk to settle an account, and thIs entry appears among his papers as witness of cer- tain purchase and payment:
 July 4, 1776. Paid sparhawk for thermometer, 33, 15. Paid for pr (probably pair) women's gloves, 27 Gave to charity 1-6"
 The foregoing entry removes all doubt as to Jefferson's ability to de- termine accurately the 76 degrees of heat on the noon of July 4th. and es tablishes the fact that it was calm and delightfully."- tempered summers day
 Further search among Jefferson's papers brings to light the correct name of the German family which fur nished him with room and board at the time when he wrote the Declara- tion and devised number of designs for a seal of the young republic. one entry reading:
 "Pd Mrs. Graaf one weeks lodging 35."
 On the 9th day of July, 1776, the committee on seal met at the tavern of the London Coffee House, and while l the report formulated on that occa 1 sion contains much of general inter- est, it is only necessary to consider in this connection the items in which the hand of Jefferson is seen He was made chairman of the committee, and l it was he who addressed congress on the subject While Jefferson's device was not accepted by the committee he assisted in creating a conjoint de- vice in which the ideas of Dr. Frank l lin, himself and a French artist named Du Simitier were blended Tn the report to congress in the fall of 1 1776 Jefferson presented the double sided idea of a seal on the obverse, or front of which the following appear l ed:
 "A shield divided into six fields upon which were emblems of the leading European nations; above the shield the eye of Providence; the shield was supported on the right side by the | goddess of Liberty. on a staff she held a Phrygian cap; on the left side of | the shield the goddess of Justice held forth the scales of justice in the left. and sword in the right hand Around the entire device the thirteen shields of the colonies appeared, with their initials blazoned upon them" On the back, or reverse. of the proposed seal the Franklin idea was displayed as follows:
 Legend round the whole achieve ment. Seal of the United States of America MDCCLXXVI'
 "On the other side of the said Great Seal should be the following device:
 "Pharoah sitting in an open chariot. crown on his head and a sword in his right hand, passing through the divided waters of the Red Sea, in pur- suit of the Israelites Rays from a pillar of ire in the cloud, expressive of the divine presence and command, beaming on Moses who stands on the shore, and extending his ahand over the sea. causes it to overthrow Phar- aoh
 Motto Rebellion to Tyrants Is Obedience to God"
 But congress rejected the device and report, dismissed the committee and appointed d new one Yet lief ferson's keen interest in the heraldic creation of symbolic seal did not wane He kept in touch with several future committees and submitted two other important designs, both of which throw new light on the religious and 
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