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
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| Phillips Brooks.”
WATCHMAN is always the best.
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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.
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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.” <azid Mir Cumros
“Did the pian succeed?”
“Yes Now were trviog tof persuade
her to study political economy so as
12 get her mind oft the cooking.” —
Washington Star
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By HERBERT KAUFMAN
Author of “Do Something! Be Something!’
WAS buying a cigar last week when a man dropped into the
shop and after making a purchase told the proprietor that he had
started a clothes shop around
the corner and quoted him prices,
‘with the assurance of best garments and terms.
After he left the cigar man turned to me and said:
“Enterprising fellow, that, he'll get along.”
“But he won't,” 1 replied,
that he hasn't the sort of clothes
‘and, furthermore, I'll wager you
shop that will enable him to.”
“What made you think that?” queried the man behind the
counter.
“His theories are wrong,” 1 explained; “he’s relying upon word
of mouth publicity to build up his business and he can’t interview
. enough individuals to compete
enough to say the same things he
he is telling it to one. Besides, h
with a merchant who has sense
told you, to a thousand men, while
is method of advertising is too ex-
pensive. Suppose he sees a hundred persons every day. First of all,
he is robbing his business of its necessary direction and besides, he
is spending too much to reach every man he solieits.”
“I don’t quite follow you.”
“Well, as the proprietor of a clothes shop his own time is so
valuable that I am very conservative in my estimate when I put the
cost of his soliciting at five cents
“Now, if he were really able
a head.
and clever he would discover that
he can talk to thousands of people at a tenth of a cent per individual.
There is not a newspaper in town the advertising rate of which is
$1.00 per thousand circulation, for a space big enough in which to
display what he said to you.”
“I never looked at it that way,” said the cigar man.
It's only “the man who hasn”
t looked at it that way,” who hesi-
tates for an instant over the advisability and profitableness of news-
paper publicity.
Newspaper advertising is the cheapest channel of communica-
tion ever established by man.
A thousand letters with one-cent
stamps, will easily cost fifteen dollars and not one envelope in ten
will be opened because the very postage is an invitation to the waste-
basket.
If there were anything cheaper rest assured that the greatest
merchants in America would not
spend individual sums ranging up
to half a million dollars a year and over, upon this form of attract-
ing trade.
(Copyright.)
bank. too. is a mighty good way to!
fasten the thrift habit upon yourself.
ment some one who has selected in- !
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three or four years if at the end of
Shoes. Shoes.
Yeager’s Shoe Store
“FITZEZY”
The
Ladies’ Shoe
that
Cures Corns
Sold only at
‘Yeager’s Shoe Store,
Bush Arcade Building, BELLEFONTE, PA
58-27
Dry Goods, Etc.
LYON & COMPANY.
The Choosing of Furs
is a most important matter. In our store you will
find the smartest kinds known to furland, the choicest
styles and prices to suit the most conservative buyer.
Animal shape or straight neckpiece, with mounted
head and tail. Bolster, pillow, Semi-barrel or animal
effect muff, handsomely lined, in colors black, brown,
white and tiger effects.
LA VOGUE
Coats and Suits
Owing to the continued warm weather we have made
special reductions in this department.
SUITS.—Gabardines, Poplins, Serges and rough mix-
tures in black, brown, green, navy and Copenhagen
blue, with satin linings. Skirts are smart up-to-date
models, some with deep hip yokes and long tunics.
COATS.—AIl the newest styles in Ladies’, Misses’ and
Children’s Coats. Quality, style and workmanship
guaranteed. :
NEW SILKS AND VELVETS.—Crepe Meteors, Crepe i
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of colors and designs in the new kimona silks. Novel-
ty Silks in stripes and plaids. All colors in Silk Vel-
vets and Velveteens.
STAMPED GOODS.—An early showing of Holiday
Stamped articles. Linen Pillow Cases; Laundry Bags,
Combing Jackets, Pillow Tops, Fancy Bags, Shirt
Waists, Guest Towels, Collar and Cuff Sets, Night
Gowns, Combination Suits and Doilies in all sizes.
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