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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

and his flag:
IN 1875 he was commissioned senior I
First Lieutenant, and II was about this
time that he assumed the name OF Jones. |
although his reason for doing Is not |
definitely known. 1t Is supposed that he /
did so because OF his admiration for the /
wife OF Willie Jones OF North Caro- He |
was second ofYicer on the Alfred. and as
Lieut.. Jones he was the first naval officer /
to hoist the American naval flag under |
salute Of thirteen guns. This flag then con-
sisted OF thirteen stripes. alternating red
and white. with a rattlesnake undulating
across the folds and the motto Don't
i Tread On Me- underneath"
In Appleton's Encyclopedia Of American
Biography" we find volume III, page
4ss) Jones was named as the senior
) First Lieutenant. He sailed from Della
ware River In the Alfred In February,
1879"
"The Americana" Volume TX. gives
ION Dec. 1875. he was appointed
| Lieutenant in the new Continental
navy and was ordered TO the Al
fred, small converted merchantmen.
Commodore Hopkins's flagship. on which.
! In the latter part OF December, he had
the honor OF hoisting with his own hands
the first naval flag Of an American squad
ron. This was the famous yellow silk
| banner with n rattlesnake and perhaps n
pine tree emblazoned upon It. with the
Please call upon the students OF history
In your list OF courteous correspondents
TO set forth the facts OF the history In
these conflicting records DIR. SYNTAx.
It is quite we'll established that Jones
was First LufY OF the Alfred when
the flag was hoisted on a day later than
his assignment to that vessel. namely
December 90, 1875. The particular occa-
! sion for the delay was the putting OF the
ship into commission BY the commander
In chief Esek Hopkins. The Nary League
Journal Is authority for the statement that
II was a yellow silk flag bearing upon II
"a lively representation OF a rattlesnake
and the motto Don't Tread on Me-" Ac-
cording to our most reconcile authority.
Pcleg ID. Harrison. the date OF the Incl
( dent IL not accurately established and II
Is not known certainly what flag Jones
raised. only that It was one OF the rattle
snake designs. Commodore Jones In his
/ Journal wrote "I could never see how or
why venomous serpent could be the
combatant emblem OF a brave and honest
folk fighting to be free OF course had
no choice but 10 break the pennant as II
was given to me but l always abhorred
the device and was glad when II was
discarded for one much more symmetrical
as well as appropriate q year or %
. later
. Recently in conversation with some
friends one of the party said. appar-
!. emily firmly believing the statement. tina,
about twenty C2O) years ago there was a
man In this city named Irving Bishop
who could and did tell the passing
thoughts In the minds of doctors got W
for the purpose. That after a certain
length OF time he went of into IA trance
which would last for eight or nine hours
That after such time the said doctors
pronounced him dead and performed ar
autopsy. That the relatives claimed h,
was not dead until the doctors carved
him open. That the relatives of Bishop
tried without success to have the doctor,
indicted. Re so kind as to tell me tn,
facts and circumstances upon which thi,
statement II based. JACK OSuLLIvAS.
Washington Irving Bishop was possesse,
Of a certain amount Of psychical power
His career was SO tangled with charlatan
ism OF the mountebank that no satisfac
tory determination was ever made OF tn
nature and extent of the powers which h.
exercised. As Is so frequently the case witt
10 tho neurotics. he was undoubtedly self
, deceived. He died at the Lambs Clu
May 10. 1889. at the age OF 33. The Incl
ID dents were subjected to an indecisiv
ID court review In the course of a prlvat
exhibition he was seized with coma
efforts to restore consciousness faie,
and he was pronounced dead by compe
tent physicians. Without consent OF hi
kin an autopsy was performed. HI
:" mother secured the arrest OF the medica
m no
were brought to trial. the jury disagree
and the indictment was allowed to lapse
40 Many. very many years ago somebod
preached "A temperance sermon which be
came famous as 1.-The OK Sermon" Per
haps it would answer "a. BIS" query a
to at makes difference whose OK
gored." ] think that was the text. Tn
sermon was printed as leaflet and ha
. wide circulation Il. X. BIRD
But was the OK sermon directed again,
tippling? memory not particularly kee
In homiletics recalls that pulpit address
the effort of some Bossuet of the bach
woods as n rambling sermon OF sour
rather than sense. but always rccurrir
to the text For the oX-ah knoweth II
~ master and the ass an his owners Grill
an This Is far away from the proven
Of the gored OK. but perhaps some frier
can identify the source OF the sermo
The text Is published in some one of Il
many Dick Fitzgerald speakers. b.
the history is apparently undetermined.
Indebtedness to several friends wi
have supplied the rhymed syntax is era;
fully acknowledged. 1t seems better sy
tax than prosody. which stimulates all Il
more curiosity as to the author and sour
OF the piece
Three little words we often see
Are Articles, A, An and The.
A Nouns the name OF anything,
As. School or Garden, Hoop or Swing
Adjectives tell the kind OF Noun.
AS Great, Small, Pretty, White or Brow
Instead OF Nouns. the Pronouns stand
Her head His face, My arm, Your har
Verbs tell OF something being done
70. To Read Write, Count. Sing, Jump or RI
How things are done the Adverbs tell,
As Slowly, Quickly. Ill or Well.