Deaorralic Wald,
Belletonte, Pa., November 6, 1914.
OUTSIDE THE GATE.
BY DONALD ALLEN.
“My, what is that!”
A girl lying in a hammock un-.
der a tree on the
lawn of a country TH
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house heard a
scream in the di-
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gate just as a col mi
ored woman came
staggering up, and just as a big black
goat was disappearing down the road.
The colored woman was Aunt Tilda,
the cook, and the goat was a goat un-
known.
“Oh, Miss Ruth!” gasped the cook
as she fell on the grass. ;
“For the land’s sake, Tilda, but
what is it?” :
“It was a grissly b’ar, Miss Ruth,
and he was gwine eat me up!”
“Tilda!”
“I declar’ to goodness it was!”
“I saw a black goat fleeing down the
road.”
“Wall, mebbe it was a goat, but it is
the same thing as a grissly b’ar. Lem-
me git up to de veranda an’ I'll tell
you all about it. Now, den, I went
ober to Morton’s didn’t 1?”
“Yes.”
“To see Hanner, de cook?”
“Yes.”
“Well, I saw her. She was in good
speerits. She axed me when you was
gwine to git married.”
“The impudent thing!”
“Dat’s zactly what I said to her.
She said she wasn’t, but she had had a
dream dat you was gwine to fall in
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highway.
It came again
and again, and
she tumbled out of
the hammock and
ran down to the
OUR EARLY FLAGS
Colonial Emblems That Led Up
to the Stars and Stripes.
THE STORY OF OLD GLORY.
Twice Has the Design Been Changed
Since the Official Adoption of Our
First Flag In 1777—The Stars the
Distinctive Feature of Our Banner.
The American flag is a growth
‘tather than a creation. Its history can
be traced back to the twelfth century,
or nearly 600 years prior to the first
“flag day,” June 14, 1777.
During the first crusade in 1195
Pope Urban II. assigned to all of the
Christian nations as standards crosses
varying in color and design, emblem-
atic of the warfare in which they were
engaged. To the Scotch troops was
assigned the white saltire, known as
the white cross of St. Andrew, on a
blue field. The British used a yellow
cross, but a century and a quarter
later they adopted a red cross on a
white faeld, known as the red cross of
St. George.
When James VI. of Scotland ascend-
ed the throne of England as James I.
he combined the two flags and issued
a proclamation requiring all ships to
“carry the new flag at their mainmasts.
At the same time the vessels of south
Britain were to carry at their fore-
masts 'the red cross of St. George and
the ships of north Britain to carry
the write cross of St. Andrew.
The new flag was known as “king
colors,” the ‘*‘union colors,” of the
‘great union” and later as the “union
jack” and was the one under which
the British made all their permanent
settlements in America.
The people in the New England colo-
nies were bitterly opposed to the cross
love wid somebody and git married.
She said dat sunthin’ wid horns on |
was gwine to bring it about. And |
goats have horns, and dar you am!” |
“Go to your kitchen!”
Two hours later Miss Ruth Parsons
took a little saunter up the highway. |
She had not progressed over ten rods
when she heard a snort and saw that
black goat bearing down upon her.
She had just got inside the gate and
swung it to when the horns of the |
goat struck it. She had screamed |
once or twice en route, and the cook
as on the veranda.
“Befo’ de Lawd, but dar’s de sunthin’ |
wid horns dat de Hanner woman
{dreamed of!” {
At ten o'clock next forenoon Miss |
Ruth had a caller. He was a young
fra who gave his name as Charley |
Ashley, and he explained his errand :
‘by saying: : |
“I am at my sister’s, eight miles
‘away, on my school vacation. She is!
rather eccentric about pets, and has a |
‘big black goatewhich is a nuisance. :
‘He broke the rope with which he was
tied the other day and disappeared, !
and I am looking for him. We have :
heard that he was seen this far away
yesterday.” i
“Yes, he was here,” was the reply. |
“He wanted to kill me, but I was for-
tunate enough to escape.”
“I am sorry if bh» annoyed you.”
“I was going to have him shot if he
hung around here.”
| “Very proper. Of course, you don’t
knew which way he went?”
“I was too frightened to take no- |
tice.” :
The conversation began at the ver-
anda steps and ended at the gate, |
where the young man had his auto !
waiting. With the remark that he |
would go on a mile or two further, he !
raised his hat and stepped outside the |
gate, and there was the goat! He had !
been in ambush. He came for the
gate head down and heels up, and |
snorting like a grampus at low water. |
Mr. Ashley exclaimed, “Thunder!”
and leaped into his machine.
Miss Ruth yelled “Oh, my!” and ran
for the veranda.
By all the rules of logic this goat
ought to have sprung into the auto |
after the young man, but he did noth-
ing of the sort. He took after the
girl instead, and half way to the house
she went down under his catapult.
Mr. Ashley was not a man to beat:
a retreat in the face of the enemy,
but just the man to rush to the rescue
of a forlorn damsel. He rushed. He
didn’t have a gun handy in his hip
pocket, and so, the goat had the advan-
tage. He turned from the prostrate
maiden and met the hero half way.
It was bad for the hero. A ton of
brick struck him in the solar plexus,
and after a grunt and a gasp he re-
tired to the land of'nothing and no-
body. When he recovered. conscious-
ness he was lying at the foot of the
steps, whither he had been dragged by |
Miss Ruth and the cook.
“I hope the goat didn’t do you any
serious injury,” he said.
“No, not serious,” replied the girl.
“Are you much hurt?”
“Only the breath knocked out of
me for the time being. Do you happen
to have a firearm in the house?”
“l have a revolver, but no car-
tridges for it.”
“Then I will wait to get him home
to kill him. Sorry to have brought
about this annoyance.”
“But it jest had to be brung about,”
answered the cook.
' Mr. Ashley called three days later.
The goat had been shot.
As Tilda put it when he went away
after a long call:
“Now, honey, you hain’t got nuthin’
to do but fall in love and git married,
and you go right at it!” .
in the flag. In 1635 some of the troops
in Massachusetts declined to march
‘under this flag, 4nd the military com-
. missioners were forced to design other
flags for their troops with the cross
left out. The design they adopted has
not been preserved. In 1652 a mint
was established in Boston. Money
coined in this mint had the pine tree
stamped on one side of it. The pine
tree design was also used on New
England flags, certainly by 1704 and
possibly as early as 1635.
At the outbreak of the Revolution
the American colonies had no flag com:
mon to all of them. In many cases the
merchant marine flag of England was
used with the pine tree substituted for
' the union jack. Massachusetts adopt-
ed the green pine tree on a white
field with the motto, “An Appeal to
Heaven.” Some of the southern states
had the rattlesnake flag with the mot-
to “Don’t Tread on Me” on a white or
yellow field. This flag had been used
: by South Carolina as early as 1764.
In September, 1775, there was dis-
played in the south what is by many
believed to be the first distinctively
American flag. It was blue with a
white crescent and matched the dress
of the troops, who wore caps inscrib-
ed “Liberty or Death.”
The colonists desired to adopt a com-
mon flag, but they had not yet declared
independence and were not at first
seeking independence. They took the
British ‘flag as they knew it and made
a new colonial flag by dividing the red
| field with white stripes into thirteen al-
ternate red and white stripes. This is
known as the Cambridge.flag, because
it was first unfurled over Washington’s
headquarters at Cambridge, Mass., on
Jan. 1, 1776. It complied with the law
of 1707 by having the union jack on
it; it also represented the thirteen col-
onies by the thirteen stripes.
As the colonists gradually became
converted to the idea that independ-
ence from the mother country was nee-
essary they began to modify the flag,
first by leaving off the union jack and
using only the thirteen horizontal
stripes. The modified flags were not al.
ways red and white, but regularly con-
sisted of combinations of two colors
selected from red, white, blue and yel-
low. The final modification was the re-
placement of the union jack by the
white stars on a blue field,
The stars are the only distinctive fea-
ture of the American flag.' The charm-
‘ing story which credits Betsy Ross
with making the first flag of stars and’
stripes is still accepted by historians.
When Washington suggested the six
pointed star she demonstrated the ease
with wkich a five pointed star could be
made by folding a piece of paper and
producing one with a single clip of the
scissors. ;
The official adoption of our first
flag was in 1777. On June 14 of that
year the Continental congress passed
an act providing that “the flag of the
thirteen United States be thirteen
stripes, alternate red and white; that
the Union be thirteen stars, white
on a blue field. representing a new
constellation.” The thirteen stars were
arranged in a circle to symbolize the
perpetuity of the union of the states.
Vermont was admitted to the Union
in 1791. and Kentucky in 1792. It
was felt that these two new states
ought to be recognized on the flag, so
in 1794 congress passed an act making
the flag. fifteen stars and fifteen stripes.
This remained the flag of the United
States throughout the war of 1812, un-
til there were twenty states in the
Union. In 1816 an effort was again
made to modify the flag so that all the
‘new states would be represented on it
To be continually adding stripes would
make the flag very awkward in shape
and appearance, so after arguing the
matter for two years congress decided
to return to the original thirteen stripes
and one star for each state.
(Copyright, 1914, A McClure Ni
; per Syndicate.)
Why the Leaves Turn Red.
“Ankis, why do the leaves turn red in
the fall?”
It was Fritzie who asked the question,
one October afternoon, of his friend An-
kis, the Indian, as they were walking
through the woods.
“Haven't I ever told you?” answered
Ankis in surprise. “It is one of the old
legends of our tribe.” And, as they
seated themselves under a maple tree
that blazed with color, Ankis began: i
“Long, long ago there were a great
many more trees than there are now,
and a great many more birds too. And
the trees loved the birds, for the little
feathered people sang from early dawn
till late at night, and flashed their blue
and yellow and brown wings everywhere
through the green forest. And the trees
said to one another: ‘O, how dull it
would be if we didn’t have our birds!’
“So the trees spread out their limbs
like great loving hands to hold up the
tiny nests, and they covered the bird
homes with thick foliage to hide them
from the prowling squirrels until the
fledglings should have grown up and
flown away,
“But one night, in the month of the
harvest moon, when the feathery thistle
ships were no longer sailing the ocean of
the air, a messenger came running down
from the White Country in the north, and
whispered into the ears of the trees. He
was a little Frost Boy, and his words
were: :
“Beware! The Chief of the Cold is
coming? And he has with him a great
snow army? And all their quivers are
full of ice arrows!”
“Then the trees made ready to meet
the army of the Chief of the Cold, and
wrapped their bark close round their
bodies and the bodies of their frail bub-
children. Suddenly some one thought of
the birds.
“‘Do they know the snow army is
coming?” And the trees tried to warn
their friends, but trees cannot talk very i
loud, and the mother-birds were so busy !
teaching their children to fly and sing |
that they heard nothing of what the!
trees whispered.
“ ‘0, how can we make the birds hear?” ,
the trees cried in agony. Then a maple
tree said: |
“‘I know! Let’s light a fire signal as :
the Indians do, and when the birds see
the flame they will come to ask what it
means; then we can tell them.’ i
“And they did so, and the next morn- |
ing the fire signal had been set a-burning
among all the leaves of the forest, and
everywhere the trees were red and crim-
son and scarlet. Sure enough, the birds
hastened to learn what it meant, and the
trees told them that the Chief of the
Cold was on his way. And when the
birds heard it, they swiftly rose on the
wing and started off for the southland. |
“Since that time every fall when the
Frost .Boy brings his warning to the
trees, they light their fire signal of red
leaves. And whenever you see those
red leaves, Fritzie, watch carefully, and
you will find the birds every night and
morning flying southward to escape the
ice arrows of the snow army.”—Sunday
School Times.
For Borrowed Books.
So many books were borrowed and
never returned from the writer’s home
that she purchased a script stencil
bearing her own name and a “please
return.” To date this plan has proven
satisfactory in returning her books in ;
dna tima : i
Medical. |
In Bellefonte
THE EVIDENCE IS SUPPLIED BY LO-
CAL TESTIMONY.
If the reader wants stronger proof
than the following statement and
experience of a resident of Belle-
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Mrs. C. Young, Potter St., Belle-
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I sufferd from a dull ache in the |
small of my back. IfI bent over, I |
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since I have had any trouble from |
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Famous Doors.
One of the most beautiful doorways
in the world is that of Magdalen col:
lege chapel! in Oxford aniversity. It
is the west door leading into the chapel
and is of Tudor architecture, with the
statues of five saints placed in niches
over the top expense. Visitors must
remember that Magdalen is pronounced
Maudlin college by the English. i
True to Traditions.
They reached their seats just as the
tourth and lust part of the movie play
was thrown apon the screen. “Oh.
goody!” exclaimed the girl delightedly.
“It’s just like turning to the last chap-
ter of a story first to see how it comes
out” —Boston Transcript.
There is a certain languid, dull feeling
which overtakes an energetic man some-
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matter with him. He has no ambition.
He loses interest even in his business.
In such a case the man usually stirs up his
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comes convenient to his hand. But stir-
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building up. Unconsciously he has put
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than could be made up by each day’s
food and each day’s sleep. So that with
every day there’s an increasing overdraft
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