Benoa itd
Belletonte, Pa., June 30, 1916.
ONE VERY SILENT FOURTH.
No starry banner was unfurled;
No patriots whooped a cheer;
No bells rang out to tell the world
The glorious Fourth was here.
No grand parades marched up and down
The starry spangled ways,
To stand fo: liberty and crown
The day of all our days.
No popping crackers raised a din
From Oregon to Maine;
No reckless little boys got in
The list of maimed and slain.
No eagle screamed from height to height;
No bands were out to play;
No blazing fireworks made the night
As brilliant as the day.
No Declaration anywhere
Was read to cheering throngs,
No oratory filled the air,
Nor patriotic songs.
And yet it was July the Fourth,
As sure as you're alive,
But listen—it was July 4th
Of 1775.
See?
—W. J. Lampton in New York “World.”
Activities of the Bellefonte Chapter
Daughters of the American Revo-
lution.
During a visit which Mrs. Scott, of
Lock Haven, made in Bellefonte, Mrs.
Furst interrogated her in regard to
becoming a member at large in the
National Society Daughters of the
American Revolution.
Later Mrs. Julia K. Hogg, the
Pennsylvania State Regent, wrote
Mrs. Furst, asking her to organize
a Chapter. Mrs. Hogg spent sev-
eral days here for the purpose of in-
teresting the ladies and to explain the
requirements. A meeting of the ap-
plicants for membership into the so-
ciety N. S. D. A. R., was held at Mrs.
Furst’s home, and the Chapter organ-
ized on Fbruary 10, 1895.
In order to form this Chapter, Mrs.
Furst had been previously appointed
Organizing Regent, by the State Re-
gent. The National number of the
Chapter is 163, and the State num-
ber 22.
The origin of the Chapter name is
that of the town of Bellefonte, which
was named by Tallyrand when he saw
the beautiful spring, “bellefonte.”
Mrs. Furst, the duly elected Chap-
ter Regent, and the members, at once
entered into such activities as produc-
ed the influence which has been recog-
nized all along the way.
From the sixteen charter members
has grown a strong and progressive
Chapter, ranging in membership ac-
cording to the environment of its
members. At present there are sev-
enty-nine members enrolled.
The Constitution and By-laws are
in harmony with the State and Na-
tional societies.
The large attendance at the regular
monthly meetings is an indication of
their interest. “All day” meetings
held in Port Matilda, Boalsburg and
The Pennsylvania State College are
more conspicuous possibly than the
others. These meetings are all too
short, to which we can only be recon-
ciled by anticipating future invita-
tions.
The management of the finances;
the philanthropic work and the histor-
ical and patriotic observances have
been prominent features in the entire
life of the Chapter.
The scope of the work being so ex-
tensive and varied can be scarcely
more than noted in passing:
Contributions to Memorial Conti-
nental Hall amount to more than
$200.00. :
Mt. Vernon fund, $5.00.
LaFayette fund, $3.00. :
School prizes ‘to date, $220.00.
“Housewife” sent to Co.
Chickamauga, valued at $20.91.
Division hospital at Chickamauga,
$72.00.
Names of two capable nurses to
headquarters at Washington.
Club House, at Manila, $5.00.
Widows and orphans of Army and
Navy, $25.00.
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ monument in
Bellefonte, $150.00.
Curtin monument, $25.00.
Francis Scott Key Fund, $3.00.
Penna Cruiser, $10.00.
Regulation set of Flags for Battle-
ship Penna., $5.00.
Berry School—annually, $50.00.
Red Cross Society, $10.00.
For the purchase of two Pennsyl-
vania State Flags—one for Memorial
Continetal Hall and the other to be
kept in the State, $3.00.
The National and State dues are
paid to date.
Regent’s pin, $5.00.
Valley Forge, $28.00.
Fifty copies of Penna. Flag Act
given to town and country schools.
Another class of contributions per-
mits the Chapter to come into close
touch with people; so there is record-
ed to its credit expressions of sympa-
thy; of admiration for bravery; of re-
spect to men and women who under
trying circumstances willingly yield-
ed their all to preserve their country
or protect the oppressed.
The Chapter tendered a reception
to the soldiers of Centre county when
they returned from the Philippines.
It paid tribute to a brave Bellefonte
soldier, Lieut. Jackson, when his body
was brought home from the Philip-
pines for burial.
The persevering research work of
Mrs. Henry Clay Valentine resulted
in a list of 170 names of Revolutiona-
ry soldiers of Centre county, 117 of
which are on the bronze tablets on
the soldiers’ monument.
Betsy Ross Flags are purchased an-
nually and placed on as many of these
graves as it is possible to reach.
The Chapter possesses a complete
roster of Co. B, 5th Regiment Penna.
Infantry Volunteers.
It erected a marker of Mills gran-
ite, 4 feet high and 3 feet square on
the site of Old Fort, enclosed by an
iron fence 2 1-2 feet high and 8 feet
square. It also furnished an iron
fence for a marker in Indian Lane,
B, at
Yar i
inear Old Fort. Mrs. Rogers, ex-
i Chapter Regent, presented a gavel
! made of wood from this Fort, to the
| Chapter.
| The Solarium at the Bellefonte hos-
I pital was built by the Chapter, and
ithe D. A. R. room was furnished and
{is maintained by the same society.
i Photographs of the room were sent to
the National Library, as was a pic-
i ture of the Old Fort, and a copy of
‘the “History of Centre and Clinton
| counties.”
The Chapter has been honored with
the presence of a President General;
Vice President Generals, and State
Regents. Through the kindness of
Mrs. and Miss Morris, our present
State Regent, Miss Crowell, was
most royally entertained last May.
| Bellefonte Chapter may well be
‘called the home of Regents ior she
thas contributed two State Regents,
. Mrs. Reeder and Miss Overton; the
‘latter also held the office of State
{Vice Regent for several years and
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The future value of the reference now fills the office of Honorary State
library can scarcely be estimated,
i since it contains authoritative compil-
‘ations of historical works, documents
jand records. Mrs. Joseph L. Mont-
| gomery presented a complete set of
| Regent. This conspicuous roll is dis-
i tinctive and unique.
Have twenty years passed? They
seem like a day until we review our
! joys and sorrows; our gains and loss- |
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twelve volumes of Pennsylvania Ar-,es; our efforts and results. Time alone |
| chives to the Chapter. Besides there
are sixteen volumes of Colonial Rec-
lords. Complete and incomplete sets
lof the D. A.R. Magazines; Smithson-
{ian Reports; 42 Lineage books; 16 been loyal and active we have met!
' volumes of Continental Congress Re-
ports; 2 volumes of Directory of Na-
i tional Society; The new Honor Roll
| Index; photographs of Old Folks
church in Virginia and of the Marker
at the Old Fort.
A Loan Art exhibit on a large scale
was immensely appreciated by the
public, from an educational stand-
point, especially since much that
was rare was in evidence. It,
with a “Colonial Tea,” given
at the spacious home of Mrs. Hast-
ings, netted munificent sums for the
treasury.
For several years D. A. R. ' spoons
were given to the new babies born to
the members of the Chapter.
The entertainment of the State Con-
ference in 1902 was a tremendous un-
dertaking for a small town, but it
proved to be an occasion of major im-
portance. Its pleasant memories still
linger in the minds of the guests who
never fail to recall it when we meet
them. The Pennsylvania State College
and Sons of the Revolution recogniz-
ed the noted event by generous, elabo-
rate and complimentary hospitality.
Besides the transportation to and
from the College, a most charming
reception was tendered the guests.
Special music was furnished and the
attendants appeared in military uni-
form. Another delightful feature was
the reception given by General and
Mrs. Hastings, in honor of Mrs. Fair-
banks, President General, and the vis-
iting Daughters. This function was
i so highly pleasing’ in every respect
(that it is included in the list of
complimentary pleasures with that
{of the Sons of the Revolution and
The Pennsylvania State College
The -D. A. R. Magizine is found
the homes of many of the members.
The Chapter shares in the expenses
of the delegates to Congress and is
always represented at the State Con-
ferences. /
Mrs. VanPelt served in the capaci-
ty of Congress Page, and received the
usual souvenir spoon.
Several terms were devoted to the
study of Parliamentry Law. The
Chapter assisted financially in bring-
ing Mrs. Lewis here to teach the law.
Our messengers of sympathy to be-
reaved members are flowers. Death
has claimed ten of our members; two
being Real Daughters, Mrs Rishel
and Mrs. Evans, whose graves are
marked with the D. A. R. marker.
| Mrs. Deborah Downing Mitchell was
(a Regent; Mrs. Honora Shelden was a
Vice Regent. The remainder of the
list included Mrs. Mary S. Jackson,
Mrs. Mary P. Miller, Mrs. Laura Alli-
son, Mrs. James Coburn, Mrs . Laura
H. Mull, and Mrs. Mary B. Chauve-
net. During the lives of the Real
Daughters it was the pleasure of the
Chapter to scatter sunshine along the
pathway by giving the National in-
rsignia to one and delicacies, efe., to
both on their birthdays and at Christ-
mas time. :
Th Ways and Means committee is
devising plans whereby the old gate
at the Union cemetery may be replac-
ed by fine attractive ones.
Owing to failing health Mrs. Wes-
ley Gephart, a charter member, ten-
dered her resignation, but the Chapter
not wishing to lose her membership,
created for her the office of honorary
member, giving her all of the privi-
leges of the Chapter, except that of
voting.
The literary feature of the meet-
ings as outlined in the Year Books,
has been profitable and consisted of
papers on historical subjects and se-
lect readings. Parlor addresses were
delivered by President Sparks, Judge
Orvis, Prof. Espenshade, Prof. Crock-
ett, Miss Lovejoy, Mr. Keller, Miss
Blanchard, Dr. Hawes and Miss
Keichline.
The public as our guests attended
the illustrated lectures. Mrs. Ball, of
Washington, D. C., was truly educa-
tional in her talk on the history of the
Flag, and her display of ninety-one
flags. Another lecture given was on
trees.
The Chapter was represented on the
program of th Reciprocity meeting
held at State College.
The social affairs have been con-
ducted in a highly artistic manner.
They consisted of dinners at Nittany
Club, at Old Fort and the Washing-
ton birthday dinner given by the G. A.
R. Alternating with these were en-
tertainments held in the homes of the
Chapter members, at which times the
G. A. R. veterans, Spanish-American
soldiers, members of the Cincinnati
Sons of the Revolution and Historical
society, and the husbands of the mem-
bers were guests.
When Mrs. Callaway, a former
Chapter Regent, returned from her
trip around the world, the Chapter
tendered her a charming reception, as
it also did to Miss Overton, when she
was elected State Vice Regent.
The Chapter has been represented
in all State and National committees.
Mrs. Sparks, Miss Lovejoy, Mrs.
Hastings, Mrs. Henry C. Valentine
and Miss Overton served the state as
chairmen of various committees.
The chairman of the committee to
prevent desecration of the Flag,
(Miss Overton,) was instrumental in
getting the State Legislature to print
50,000 copies of Penn. Flag Law, to
further the work of protecting the
Flag. .
Miss Overton was appointed by the
President General to be one. of the
committee to wait upon Queen Elea-
nor, of Bulgaria, at the time when she
Sibectad to pay a visit to the United
ates.
in
furnished the opportunities to accom-
i plish great things and it is only true
, appreciation to say that we have been
a power for good. Because we have
‘with a high percentage of success and
have the right to anticipate even bet-
| ter things.
HELEN E. CANFIELD OVERTON.
{Tourist Accommodations
| French Battle Front.
on
| An American
from relief work
recently
in Belgium
'a shadow
done there by the Germans.
French of the
serious account of the tourist
plans for rebuilding after the war.
which, of course, is at present -entire-
sure, will pour in
erents lay aside their arms.
gotiations are being carried on
with the American
jers for the construction of por-
{table one-story dwellings, and hos-
jtelries. Plans, specifications,
prices have been requested for struec-
tures of different types ranging from
one, two, and three-room houses to
community, or hotel, buildings hav-
ing from 25 to 200 rooms, in addition
to kitchens and dining halls. The
company anticipates expending about
$1,000,000 for the buildings, . which, it
is planned, will be set up at various
points of interest along a line extend-
ing from the shores of the English
Channel to Switzerland. ;
A brisk trade in fragments of shell,
shrapnel bullets, bent bayonets,
broken rifles, and other war rel-
ics, has already sprung up in the
rear of the French and British lines,
and so far the supply—on the
ground—has kept well abreast of
the demand.
In spite of the rapidity with which
the genuine article is being turned
out at the front, the fact that palpa-
bly faked relics are already being of-
fered in Paris and London seems to
indicate that when Europe again be-
the Mecca of the idle, the curious, the
gullible—there will be a new and lu-
crative industry added to those al-
ready existing before the war. The
manufacture of imitation war relics
bids fair to be carried on upon a scale
that will dwarf the manufacture of
the old masters and Egyptian scarabs
as the present mighty struggle dwarfs
all other wars of history.—From the
July “Popular Mechanics Magazine.”
Arguments for the Sane Fourth.
Some people, when the Fourth of
July rolls round, demand a firecrack-
er as big as a neck yoke.—Joliet
“News.”
The Fourth of July was not estab-
lished as a holiday for foolishness,
murder and conflagration, but as an
occasion whereupon the people might
show their sense and fitness for the
enjoyment of liberty, peace and pros-
perity. Let’s be thoroughly Ameri-
can and have a sensible Fourth of Ju-
ly. Let us have more patriotism than
fireworks, more happiness in life than
trouble over injuries and sorrow over
death.—St. Louis “Republic.”
This is an especially appropriate
time to deal with this matter. The
Fourth of July is approaching—Inde-
pendence day—which is a day of blood
and slaughter throughout the land, in
the name of liberty. Scores are killed
by gunpowder accidents on that day
and hundreds wounded on that day
and in the joyous celebrations of the
dawn of liberty. It is a fearful price
to pay for the celebration of a day.—
Salt Lake “Tribune.”
Parents who have boys who have a
fondness for explosives, toy pistols
and blank cartridges should study the
statistics of the annual tragedy and
keep their flesh and blood out of the
holocaust.
Also—
‘Dealers in fireworks should study
the figures in connection with the
laws regulating the use of firearms
and explosives and realize the risk
they run.
And—
City councils should prepare to en-
force ordinances already passed and
to revise and bring up to date the
laws respecting the sale and use of
explosives on the day we celebrate.
The Chinese method of American
celebration is entirely too costly.—
Wilkes-Barre “Leader.”
Accomplished.
Randall—After 25 years of married
life she loves her husband as much as
ever.
Rogers—Yes, and she annoys him
in other ways too.—Life.
Yes.
I. N. Kwizzitive—Did you ever get
something for nothing?
I. M. P. Konious—Yes, a pocket-
book.—Browning’s Magazine.
comes the playground of the world—
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the ' that
returned | and gentle
and | guests; of being patient
northern France, said that he had not | and of using a little thought and in-
of doubt that, in the course | genuity for
.of the next ten years, the tourist of | Meridea people have
{the world will have left more than | things ard they have been rewarded
enough money in the war-devastated | by having seven species of our winter
regions to pay - for all the damage | birds come to their hands for food.
The same gentleman is authority bills, redpolls,
for the statement that the thrifty | breasted
shell-shattered towns | nuthatches and chickadees have thus
of the war zone are already taking @ shown their appreciation of what the
trade | people of this little New England vil-
of the future in connection with their | lage have done for them.
A French company has been form- |try has thus been honored.
ed which is now making plans for the | year for several years our people have
establishment of temporary houses |had some memorable experience with
and hotels on the present battle front, | birds.
ly without facilities for receiving {when the pine grosheaks came down
the army of visitors which, it is felt | from the north in great numbers, we
when the bellig- | fed hundreds of them in the gardens
Ne- | of Meriden, and not only the writer
down in the middle of a flock, and the |
and | birds would come into one’s
A Bird Village.
“If on some winter day you were to |
alight from ‘Ike’ Bonner’s stage and |
approach one of the neat looking cot- |
tages on the main street of Meriden, |
New Hampshire, it is more than like- |
ly that you would be greeted by the!
alighting of a wild bird upon your:
shoulder,” Ernest Harold Baynes tells
us in his comprehensive book “Wild i
Bird Guests.” = “And probably you |
would think that the bird had simply |
made a mistake, until another one!
alighted on your hat and peeped ati
you over the brim. Then, if youl
asked the meaning of this familiarity, ;
vou would be told that you were in
‘The Bird Village’ where birds are!
treated as honored guests from one!
year’s end to another; where they are
provided with food and lodging and |
where they are protected from their’
enemies. And you would hear all;
sorts of interesting and delightful ex- |
periences which some of the people’
have had with birds which have be- |
come so fearless that they will some- |
times permit one to pick them up.
And if you were to express doubt
such experiences would ever |
come to you, you would learn that:
there is no mystery about it; that it |
is simply a matter of being very quiet |
with your feathered |
with them,
their comfort and welfare.
done these
Pine grosbeaks, white-winged cross-
pine siskins, white-
nuthatches, red-breasted
Perhaps no
other place of equal size in this coun-
Every
“For example, one severe winter
but several other bird-lovers fed
manufactur- | them as they sat on hand or shoulder. |
They were so tame that one could sit |
lap to!
feed. They would alight upon the
heads of children watching them, and
sometimes they allowed us to pick!
them up one in each hand. |
“Another winter the crossbills visit- |
ed us. A few, six or eight, had been |
coming most of the summe: to the
garden path. Two or three were
American and the rest white-winged
crossbills. They crept about, quiet as
mice, eating something, but just what
it was I could not tell until they had
been here for some time. Then one
day after watching them at work for
several minutes, I took a magnifying
glass and went dow on my knees to
see what there might be there to at-
tract them. I found that they had!
been working on a patch of clay, the;
surface of which they had carved in:
every direction with their sharp bills.
As there were no ‘chips’ I knew that
these must have been eaten, so I tast-
ed the ¢lay to see why they had eaten
it. It was very salty, the result of
scattering salt on the path to kill the
weeds. A few days later our friend,
Frederic H. Kennard, came to see us,
and observing the crossbills, ran into
the house for some salt, of which he
had often observed their fondness.
The flock continued to grow until mid-
winter, when it numbered about a
hundred and twenty-five. We went
out to play with them for awhile al-
most every day, and by and by they
seemed to look for our coming.”
“Sometimes in winter the redpolls
come to Meriden in flocks aggregating
many hundreds, and there are usually
a number of pine siskins among them.
At such times the streets of the vil-
lage are alive with birds, and their
cheerful twitterings make it seem as
though spring had come back several
weeks in advance. These little birds
alight in the dooryards and swarm
over the piazzas like flies on a sugar
bowl, and they will feed from the
hands of anyone who has the patienc
to stand still.” :
“Neither of the nuthatches has ever
condescended to alight upon me, but a
red-breasted nuthatch once allowed
me to stroke him with a forefinger as
he was feeding on suet, and neighbors
of ours entertained one which used to
come to their hands almost every day
for months. I have almost touched a
downy woodpecker, but not quite. He
was feeding on a food tree at Meri-
den and showed no fear whenI walk-
ed up until my face was within eight
inches of him.” 3
“But as a rule the chickadees are
the tamest of all; there seems to be
no limit to the confidence which these
little fellows will have in you if you
give them a little encouragement.”
For a July 4 Luncheon.
Make the luncheon color scheme
that of the national colors—red, white
and blue. A cunning centerpiece may
be evolved by the use of tin soldiers.
Make a fort by the use of a white
pasteboard box of convenient size
turned upside down and marked into
oblongs to represent brick. Color the
bricks by the use of a red pencil or
water colors. Place in the center a
flagpole surmounted by a flag. Ar-
range the soldiers on top of and
round-about the fort. The color
scheme may be carried further by the
use of white place cards the corners of
which are decorated with tiny flags in
water colors.
A New Idea of Economy.
“Tommy,” said the fond mother,
“isn’t it rather an extravagance to eat
both butter and jam on your bread at
the same time?”
“No, mamma, it’s economy,” Tom-
my answered. “The same piece of
bread does for both.”—The Christian
Herald. :
——You may be taught by a teach-
er, but you have to imbibe the knowl-
edge; he cannot transfuse it into your
rain,
The Liberty Bell
By GRIF ALEXANDER
It is
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It was loved
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town, Where It
Was Buried
O INCIDENT of Revolutionary
N dramatic contrast in this day
than the first trip of the Lib-
erty Bell from Philadelphia, writes
Pennsylvania, in ' the Philadelphia
Press. That trip was to Allentown a
year and two months after it became
Howe's army, victorious over the Con-
tinental forces at the battle of the
Brandywine, was advancing for the
Wken the bell left for the San
Francisco exposition last year it de-
parted with the God-speed of the
ed to the train by the First cits
troop and by the great assemblage
gathered for the Fourth of July exer-
passed through streets thronged with
venerating people.” On the train it
was under the escort of a large body
pal authorities. Its passage across
the continent was a triumphal prog-
ress. A hundred cities along the
it reverence as it passed and it was
received at the other rim of the con-
tinent in reverential awe by a count-
Contrast With First Trip.
That is how the Bell travels today.
[It was very different in September,
it went, not in daylight, but in the
dead of night. Not with the music of
bands and escorted in honor by mul-
guard of only one man. It went not
in a special train but in a creaking
old farm wagon loaded with manure,
For at that time there were many
Tories in Philadelphia. These includ-
ed families then counted among the
evacuated by the Continentals, these
Tories came out of the obscurity in
which they had been prudently lying
Howe and his army. The following
winter was a time of rare festivity
for the British officers.
“Tis a
Forever
The world
Carried It to Allen-
times finds a more vivid and
John A. Sheatz, ex-state treasurer of
the Liberty Bell, at the time when
capture of the city.
whole undivided city. It was escort
cises on Independence square. It
delegated by the constituted munici-
route poured out their citizens to do
less multitude.
1777. On that first trip to Allentown
titudes, but in silence and under the
the better to conceal it.
foremost citizens. When the city was
and began preparing a welcome for
The British were expected by the
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By the rude bridge that spans the flood,
Their flag to April's airs uniarled.
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard ’round the
world.
The farmers of Lexington carried
the cornet or standard of the Three
County Troop. This banner was de-
vised in the counties of Essex, Suffolk
and Middlesex, Massachusetts, in 1659.
The office of color bearer of this troop
was a sort of inheritance in the Page
family. The standard was carried in
King Philip's war in 1676. When the
Minute Men were organized Nathaniel
Page III of Bedford took the old flag
for use at drill. At the midnight alarm
Captain Page snatched up the stand-
ard and carried it with him to Con-
cord, where it “waved above the
smoke of that battle.”
The flag is now preserved under
glass in a fireproof safe of the public
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city authorities, upon taking posses-
sion, to confiscate the church bells as
spoils of war for the purpose of mold-
ing them into cannon. That was rec.
ognized as one of their rights as cap-
tors. It was to prevent this seizure
that the executive council ordered the
removal of the state house bell and
the bells of Christ church and of
nine other churches to Allentown by
way of Bethlehem. I don’t know why
Allentown was selected unless it be
that it was far enough away to keep,
the bells safe frcm the British.
Had Small Escort.
John Jacob Mickley, a soldier of the
Continental army, was one of those
detailed for the removal of the bells.
To him the state house bell was in-
trusted. John Jacob Mickley was the
son of Johann Jaceb Mueckli (the Ger-
man version of the name), and ar-
rived in Philadelzhia on the sailing
vessel “Hope” in the early part of
1733. On August 27, 1733, he took the
cath of allegiance to his adopted
country. He was a farmer at White-
hall, Lehigh county, when the War of
the Revolution br e out.
At Bethlehem 1Mickley’s wagen
broke down end the state house bell
was transferred to the wagon of Ja-
cob Lester, upon which it was hauled
he remainirg four miles. In the rec-
ords of the Moravian church at Beth-
lehem is the following entry, under
date of September 23, 1777: “The
bells from Philadelphia brought in
wagons, the wagon of the state house
bell broke down here, so it had to
be unloaded, the other bells went on.”
Buried Under Church Floor.
The state house bell and the chimes
of Christ church were buried beneath
the floor of Zion Reformed church,
d4llentown. This church was built in
1762 of logs, rebuilt in stone in 1770,
and again rebuilt later. The Rev. Abra-
ham Biummer was pastor of the
church at the time and assisted in
the work of burying the bells. A tab-
let commemorating the event has been
placed upon the church front and also
a stained glass window with like pur-
pose in the church.
After the evacuation of Philadelphia
by the British, the bells were brought
back and put in their respective
places in the latter part of the year
1778.
Country Honored Lafayette. :
It is said that ‘republics are un-
grateful.” That was not the case con-
cerning Lafayette. Congress voted
him the sum of $200,000 and a town-
ship of land; and, with the progres-
sive development of the United States,
the grateful’ American people named
after him many cities, towns and coun-
ties, and erected monuments 1d sta
tues to his memory enough for any.
measure of ambition.
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library at Bedford, Mass., and can be
seen by arrangement with the libra-
rian, according to Peleg D. Harrison,
in , whose volume, ‘“The Stars and
Stripes and Other American Flags,”
the history of the banner is related.
The ground is maroon or crimson
colored satin damask emblazoned with
an outstretched arm, in the hand of
which is an uplifted sword. This rep-
resentation is the color of silver, as
are three circular figures that are
probably intended to represent can-
non balls. Upon a gold colored scroll
are the words “Vince aut Moriture”
(Conquer or Die). The flag is about
two feet byrone foot six inches. The
original fringe appears to have been
taken by a Bedford girl to trim a dress
for a military ball. That was, of
course, before the standard was borne
by the embattled farmers.
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