Demonic aan 2 Bellefonte, Pa., November 20, 1914, USE COLORS OF ALL NATIONS. Each of the Big Vessels Carries About Five Hundred Ensigns of Various Kinds and Sizes—Severe Tests to Which the Material Is Subjected. Something like $80.000 a year is re- quired to keep Uncle Sam's many naval vessels properly equipped with flags. In addition most every other depart- ment of the government appropriates various sums for flags for buildings and ships under its control. In all, jt is safe to say the United States Spends $125,000 a year for flags. The largest factory belongs to the navy. In a large room, called the “flag loft." at Brooklyn navy yard half a hundred skilled needlewomen and quite a few men are kept constantly at work, Officially it is the naval flag making es- tablishment. Thousands of flags are required to supply the hundreds of vessels, from battleships to launches. On entering the flag loft the visitor's first impres- sion is a blaze of color. Rolls of bright bunting are heaped everywhere. Long lines of electrically driven sewing ma- chines, with women operators. are reel- ing off and putting the finishing touches to American and foreign ensigns of many different hues and sizes. In addi- | tion to our own flag, the navy has to keep a supply of every other nation in the world which has a coast line. Each battleship. cruiser, gunboat or scout in the navy requires about 500 flags to outfit its flag locker properly. ! Heaped up. they make a pile shoulder high and twenty or twenty-five feet long. The foreign flags. incased in can- | vas bags. bear the name of the coun- | try stenciled on the end. The remain- der, including flags for ordinary use, signaling. ete.. are wrapped without bags and numbered at the end. Each flag has its separate place in the flag locker. A quartermaster would be re- buked severely if one became mis- | placed. Each ship follows the same or- der in this. so that any one familiar with the flag locker on one ship knows the location of every flag on any ship. Uncle Sam pays about $3.500 to outfit each ship in the service. This multi- | plied by the number of ships will show | that flags are not an inconsequential | item of naval expense. The foreign | ensigns are all made twenty-five feet | long and thirteen feet wide. They are i used whenever an American warship | enters a port of another nation. The . flag of the visited nation is hoisted at i the top of the foremast while the | American ship salutes. It is also hoist- | ed when returning salutes of foreign ! vessels in American ports. The most showy and expensive flags | in the lot are those of foreign nations. ! although the United States has two | flags that are close rivals, the flags of | the president and vice president. They | require the longest time to make of | any flags. It takes one woman a month to finish each ome. The president's i flag is a blue ground with the coat of | arms of the United States in the cen- | ter. The life sized eagle with out- | stretched wings and other emblems are | all hand embroidered in silk. The silk | used costs $9 a pound. The vice presi- dent's fdag is the coat of arms on a field of white. Both tags are made in two sizes, 10 by 14 feet and 3 by 5 feet. | The larger is used on ships and the smaller on launches and similar craft. | The largest flag made is the United | States ensign No. 1, which is 36 by 19 feet. It costs $40. | The bunting used in flag making is | put to severe tests before the flag mak- | ers use it. One day a sample bundle is washed in soap and water. The next day the same process is followed with ' salt water. It is then exposed to the | weather for ten days, thirty hours of | which ust be in the bright sun. If it | doesn’t fade in that test the govern-' ment experts pass it: Then two inches | wide of the warp is subject to a pull- | ing strain of sixty-five pounds. Even | with all those precautions a ship is al- | lowed a new set of flags every three | Years, while the signal flags and ship! and bout ensigns in frequent use must | be replaced every few weeks. One flag or pennant. rather. most! used by tbe navy and least known to, the public is the commission pennant. Xt is hoisted to the masthead of every | maval vessel when it goes into commis- | sion and is never removed. It is a Jong, narrow streamer, blue at the | staff, with thirteen stars in the field, ! arranged in one line, and the flag a! ‘vided into two stripes. red and white, | ‘the red at the top. When ships long | on foreign stations leave for home a new commission pennant is always hoisted. Usually it is one made and paid for by the crew. In some cases those “homeward bhounders” stretch out 300 feet and. made of silk, cost a pretty penny, : The thousands of white stars used in our own and many other ensigns are made by an electrically driven ma- chine which cuts them in fifty or a hundred lots. Right different sizes of stars are used.—Kansas City Star. . Superfluity. “You never admit having made a mistake!” “What's the use?" asked Senator Sor- | “When I make a mistake there ghum. are always plenty of people to talk about it without my joining in.”— Washington Star. | There i8 no greater grief than In mis. jery to turn our thoughts back to hap ‘pler times.—Dante. ———They are all good enough, but the { | said. | Phillips Brooks.” WATCHMAN is always the best. 1 i 4E ENFORCED THE RULE. But In Doing It Grant Proved His Good Hearted Nature. General Grant was a kind and warm | nearted man in spite of a certain brusqueness of manner. A story that General Logan used often to tell is to the point. At the time General Logan was with General Grant at Holly Springs, Miss., General Forrest. the Confederate cav- alry leader. bad just captured a train of supplies, and General Grant had is- sued an order to his men to scour the country for twenty miles round in or- der to get food for his troops. The country had already been swept pretty, clean, and the new demands brought a good deal of hardship on the people of the neighborhood. At many of the homes there were only women, old men, children and faithful colored serv- ants. These people, hungry and with- out money to buy provisions, were often forced to apply to the northern army in their distress. Food was al- ways given them if they would take the oath of allegiance to the United States. Ove day a rickety carriage drew up before General Grant's headquarters, and from it alighted an elderly woman and her colored driver. The woman was admitted to the tent, and the serv- ant stood just inside the tent flap. Only i few words were necessary to explain | matters. The woman’s home had been ' ravaged by troops. both blue and gray, | and she and her servants needed food. | The soft voiced woman spoke of her humiliation at having to beg for food, and added that she made the request more for her servants than for herself. *i am willing to suffer everything for : the south.” she said. "but I can’t see! our people starve,” ! An officer who bad charge of such cases told the woman that she should have food if she would sign the oath of allegiance. *l cannot do that.” she. *My husband and three sons are tighting under the Confederate flag. 1 thank you. sir, for listening to me.” The woman turned to leave. General Grant, who bad been writing at a table { in one corner of the tent, glanced up from negro: ! “Sam, did you ever hear of Abraham Lincoln?" **Yassubh, gen’ral.” i “Do you knew that he is trying to free you colored people?” i *Yassuh. Ah knows it.” “Are you willing to take sides with Abraham Lincoln—to take the oath of | allegiance to the United States?” | *“Yassuh. gen'ral, Ah’s willin' ter de dat.” ! General Grant turned to the officer who had talked with the woman. *Ad- i minister the oath to Sam,” he said, ! "and give him the provisions. that he gets plenty.” | The rickety old carriage with its es- cort of soldiers passed through the Union lines a short time afterward, | laden to the seats with provisions, and ' Sam, probably thinking less of his oath than of the supper to come, grinned from ear to ear as he urged the two mules to a faster gait. The Professor's Prophecy Failed. | While a student at Harvard univer- | sity Phillips Brooks was walking in | the yard one day with a professor, | who asked him what be intended mak- | ing of himself. i “1 aw thinking of the ministry.” an- | swered the youth. | “Then banish such thoughts,” said the professor earnestly. ner of speech would forever bar vou | from being successful in that calling.” Many years later, when Phillips | Brooks was one of the world’s great | pulpit orators, the most expert stenog- rapher in England took down one of his sermons and said: “Any stenographer who thinks he has conquered fast talkers should try his papers He called to the The Proper Order. A successful man died not long ago. Somebody says his success was due to brains, a sense of humor and complete self confidence. Fault has been found with the ar- rangement of this sequence. The critic ¢laims that self confidence should come first, with brains trailing. There are six ways of arranging the trio What's Dealer. yours? — Cleveland Plain Trial by Jury. The establishment of trial by jury dates back prior to the time of Alfred the Great. He is said to have organ- ized juries of twelve men. as now in practice, but even earlier six Welsh and six Anglo-Saxon freemen acted as a jury when there was a dispute be tween Welsh and Saxons.—London BEx- press Information Wanted. Nobody has ever explained, scientifl- cally or otherwise. how it is that one man will baul in a uice string of fish in an hour or two, while another, fish- ing pear him, catches nothing but an old shoe and the left leg of a pair o: overalls. Has psychology anything to do with it? -Toledo Blade. Father's Helpful Words. *1 suppose when youn left home your father spoke the words of wisdom that heiped you to make your own way in the world.” “He did. He said, ‘Sam, don’t come back here until you are able to pay board.’ ” -Baltimore Sin. There is nothing so utterly hollow as ® kind word that should have been spo- ken yesterday.-—Evangel. F MAKING INVESTMENTS. Safety of Principal Is More Essential Than Big Returns. First. here is a quotation from a thrift preacher: "Many fortunes have been made and ‘many more will be made through wise investments Many fortunes are lost. too, through unwise investments Rut thrifty habits and consulting with ex perienced persons like conservative bankers will give one the wisdom pec essary to handle money wisely.” Second. | set down a quotation from the advertisement of a wise and con servative investment banker: “In lending cr investing money ali possible care should be taken to guard against hasty or impulsive decision Every endeavor should be made to as semble such reliable information ax will permit of the exercise of intelli gent judgment. The man who assumes this attitude toward ali investinent propositions comes ro have an increas ing regard for the elemert of conserva tism. and is ordinarily the first man to seek the co-operation of investment ex perts.” Conservatism in Imvestment menns first of ull. keeping the principal sum safe. What profits it to get 7 or 8 per cent a year on your money for that time wisfortune of any sort over- takes the company you invested in to such an extent that you would find what you have paid $100 for is worth only $75% And when you leave the road of conservatism in putting your money out to work this is exactly the experience you are likely to have. Better keep your money in the sav- ings bank. where it will earn about 4 per cent and where, if you wish, inter- est will be compounded. until you are positively certain of the soundness of the investment advice you receive. Adding to the saved sum in a savings Choose as your first adviser in invest- vestments for the savings bank. From him learn what the elements of sound investment are. Go slow!—John M. Oskison in Chicago News. From One Thing to Another. “We sent Gladys Ann to cooking school to get ber unnd oft her plano playing.”