THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURO. PA
THE COLUMBIAN.
BLOO.tfSBURG, PA.
THUKSnAY, JULY 23, li0S.
SUPPORT FLAG STORY.
Direct descendants of Betsy Ross
at Willow Grove, Pa., 'declare that
the truth about making of the first
American flag by the Philadelphia
woman was a matter of common
knowledge in their family; and that
they entertained not the slightest
doubt that the nag had been made
in the little house on Arch street by
Betsy Ross one day between May
25 and June 7, 1777.
"The controversy is ridiculous,
said David Newport, prominent
member ot the Society of Friends
writer and author, and former
Government official. Said Mary
Satterhthwaite of Willow Grove,
pranddatighterof Betsy Ross, and
sister of David Newport's wife
'Dear Grandma, if she could only
know that such a fuss was being
made about the first flag."
Mary Satterthwaite, like Betsy
Ross, can in the twinkling of an
eye twist a piece of paper and with
one snip of a pair of shears cut out
a five-pointed star just as perfectly
and just as quickly as is declared
Betsy herself did when she persuad
ed General Washington that th
stars of the flag should be five
pointed instead of six-pointed.
David Newport is 86 years of age
and is known all over Eastern Penn
sylvania because of his connection
with the Society of Friends and be
cause of his writings. He lives on
a splendid country estate with his
wife, who was Miss Susan Satterth
waite, a granddaughter of Betsy
Ross. Mr. and Mrs. Newport have
been married more than 61 years
"Thee wants to know about the
flag?" asked David Newport
Well, there is to my nnna no
doubt that Betsy Ross made the
first flag. Neither is there any
doubt in the mind ot my wite nor
her sister Mary. Both in their
childhood days had heard the story
it was common knowledge, not
hearsay in the family that Betsy
Ross made the flag.
"When the British took Phila
delphia, the Arch street house was
used to quarter British soldiers
Betsy Ross hated the British and
she also hated Stephen Ginird, be
cause of his hard dealings.
"It was the most natural thing
in the world for General Washing'
ton and George Ross, and uncle of
Betsy Ross, to go to her when the
question of the flag was under con
sideration. And I have absolutely
ao doubt but they did go to her
"When the design ot the flag
with its thirteen stars was shown
to Betsy Ross, and she saw that the
stars were six-pointed, such as
were on the British flag, she took
a pair of shears and a piece of
paper, quickly cut out a five-point
sd star. It is our belief that the
suggestion of using the five-pointed
tar was the direct result of Betsy
Xoss' hatred of the British. This
hatred was accentuated because the
British who were quartered in the
Betsy Ross house had termed her
ihe "little rebel".
A Summer Substitute for Meat
In the August Woman's Home
Companion Fannie Merritt Farmer
ives a number of hot-weather sub
stitutes for meat. One such substi
ute consists of cheese and maca
.oni croquettes:
"Break macaroni in half inch
pieces; there should be two-thirds
if a cupful. Cook in boiling salted
vater until soft, drain in a colan
ler, and pour over two cupfuls of
.old water, to prevent pieces from
.dhering. Add thick white sauce
nade of two and one-half table
poonfuls of butter, one-third cup
ul of flour, one cupful of milk,
ne fourth of a teaspoonful of salt
ind a few grains of pepper; then
idd one-third of a cupful of grated
cheese. Spread on a plate to cool.
Shape, dip in crumbs, egg, and
:rumbs again, fry in deep fat, and
drain on brown paper."
How's This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars
Reward for any case of Catarrh
ihat cannot be cured by Hall's Ca
, larrh Cure.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned.have known
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ind believe him perfectly honora
tle in all business transactions and
Snancially able to carry out any ob
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Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the
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system. Testimonials sent free.
Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by
ill Druggists.
Take HalPs Family Pills for constipation.
Not Play, But Work.
Aiming to Put Citizen Soldiery on Constantly
Higher Plane of Efficiency.
commenting on tnc annual en
campment of the National Guard o
the Slate at Gettysburg this week
the Erie Times says: "The annual
encampment of the National Guard
is an event whose importance is not
properly rated by the average citi
zen. He is apt to look upon it as
a summer 'lark'. As a matter of
fact the encampment is an event for
work, not play. The citizen soldi
ery is being placed on constantly
higher plane. The National Guard
is being given the opportunity to
beebme of real, practical advantage
to the nation, and the opportunity
is Deing improved. Time was. and
not so long ago, when the National
uuarc were referred to as "petti
coat soldiers," and were regarded as
a type of tin soldier dandies. All
this is passing. The men who make
the National Guard of the present
are men in serviceable suits of
khaki, made for wear and tear and
dirt and grime, men who look upon
soldiering as a business, who while
they are keenly alive to every op
portunity for a "good time" have
passed the point where recreation is
deemed the one and only object for
enlisting m the citizen soldiery.
About Log Drags.
Appreciating the great help that
local Good Roads associations can
render the cause nf good roads, the
Illinois highway commission in
their last report devote considerable
space to their importance and the
work of several Illinois associations.
One in particular, the Galva Good
Koads Improvement association, is
singled out for special mention be
cause of its splendid work encourag
mg the general use of the split-log
drag on the dirt roads leading to
Galva. President Miller, of this
association, speaking of their work
of grading, draining and dragging,
recently states: "we nave speci
mens of road where the grade was
completed in this manner and drain
me iaia wnere tne water line was
within one foot of the surface, and
through which for many years
people waded hub deep 111 mud in
the spring, and sometimes in the
fall when it rained ; but these por
tions of the road are now as firm
and as good as any we have." He
also stated that the .highway com
missioners have made contracts with
the farmers to keep their roads
dragged for eight dollars a mile and
that the cash system of road tax is
heartily approved by bcth the tax
payers and road users.
Speaking of the excellence of
these roads A. N. Johnson, Illinois
state highway engineer, says they
could well serve as model earth
roads."
The studio of Ralph G. Phillips
will be closed on Friday for the
summer. Mr. Phillips and familv
will leave for Eagles Mere.
Suicide at Turbotvilie.
Peter Kisner, aged about 6 s vears.
a widower, and woodsman by trade
committed suicide by hanging him
self in the stairway of the barn at
the Eagle Hotel, Turbotvilie, some
time Sirhday morning. Kisner had
been at the house for some days, as
was nis iiaDii wnen in mat section,
and his disappearance on Sunday
was not unusual, and nothing was
thought of it until young Randall
Ellis, son of Landlord Frank Ellis,
of the hotel, Monday afternoon at
tempted to go up the barn stairs,
when he ran against the lifeless
body of Kisner suspended to a ioist
of the second floor, his feet almost
touching the lower step.
ine young man gave the alarm.
when a crowd gathered and it was
soon discovered the man was dead,
and after an inquest held by 'Squire
Troxell, Justice of the Peace, the
fact developed that Kisner was last
seen Sunday morning near the barn,
and inasmuch as no visit to the sec
ond floor had been made in the
meantime, it is quite conclusive the
act was committed as stated, Sun
day morning. Kisner is survived
by one son, living close by, who
with Undertaker Grittner took
charge of the remains.
Coal to Last 490 Years.
Expert so Estimates Duration ol Pennsyl
vania Supply.
That the coal originally iu the
Pennsylvania anthracite fields ag
gregated 2 1, 000,000,000 short tons,
and in the, bituminous fields 112-,
574,000,000 short ton?, leaving still
in the ground 17,000,000,000 short
tons f anthracite and 110.000.000 -
000 of bituminous, is the estimate
of the situation reported by M. R.
Campbell, of the United States
Geological Survey.
He figures that at the rate of
production reached in 1907, the
available; coal supply in Pennsyl
vania would last about 490 year,
When Shad Were Pleuty.
Caught by the Thousand. In Thlt Vicinity
Many Fnheriei Noar Here.
In an old report of the State com
mission of fisheries, is much inter
esting information.
In the account of the old shad
fisheries the name of Danville has
a prominent place. Included among
some memoirs, is that' of Joseph
van Kirk, of Northumberland
who says:
"I take pleasure in saying that
my recollection of the shad fisher
ies dates baik to the year 1820. In
that year and the succeeding two or
three seasons I fished at Rockafel
ler's island, rear Danville. In 011
party there were six of us. We
fished with a seine one hundred and
fifty yards long, and caught some
thing like from thre; thousand to
four thousand marketable shad
weighing from three to nine pounds
At that tune there were eight fish
enes between Danville and Line's
island. At all of these fisheries
large quantities of shad were caught
and they were sold from twelve
and one-half to twenty-five cents
apiece. I have heard of hauls con
taining from three thousand to five
thousand and three hundred was
very common nam. reopie came
from twelve to fifteen miles for the
shad and paid cash exclusively for
them.
"The cutting of the shad supply
was a great and serious loss to this
community from both a monetary
and economic view, since the fish
in its season was a staple article of
food, and employed in the taking
and hauling quite a large propor
tion ot our inhabitants, inis in
dustry was wholly abolished by the
erection of dams, and thousands of
dollars capital invested in the busi
ness were instantly swept away out
of existence. All of the fisheries
were profitable investments and the
loss of them to this section of the
country was incalculable."
The late John K. Grotz often
told of the shad fisheries at Blooms
burg. He remembered when the
fish were caught here by the wagon
load, and sold at a shilling apiece
Wrote on Newspapers.
Mailed Them at Third Class Rates.
Postal Inspector Herbert E. Lu
cas, of Willianisport, went to Sha-
mokm last Pnday and interviewed
several young men who had been
writing love epistles on newspapers
and sending the same through the
mails by using a one-cent stamp.
The postal laws provide that all
papers, etc., containing writing
shall be classed as first-class mail
and be paid for at that rate. The
youths had written their love mes
sages on the margins of the paper
and then mailed the same under the
newspaper and periodical rate. For
this violation of the law they were
made liable to heavy fines or im
prisonment. Having acknowledged
their error the young men were
given their freedom after paying
fines. The inspector stated that this
ruling is frequently violated by per
sons and that the government offic
ials are making a determined effort
to break up the practice.
Special Campaign Offer.
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portunity to keep in touch with the
presidential campaign and what the
world is doing. Give your post
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$1.00 and The Philadelphia Press,
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during the presidential campaign.
The I hiladilphia Press contains
all the up-to-date political news, is
always accurate and reliable. It
contains the best market reports,
all the news of the world of sport.
You can get the Summer resort
news and also a daily page for
women. It is truly the one great
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only a short time. Do it now, for
this is the only way to keep posted.
An Fye on the Future.
Tommy's maiden aunt had called
attention to some- of that young
man's misdemeanors, thereby caus
ing him to be punished. Tommy
pondered a while, then asked,
"Papa, will little sister Gladys be
an aunt to my children when I am
a man ?"
"Yes, Tommy," answered his
father, much interested. "Why
do you ask ?"",
" 'Cause she might as well get
married and have a home of her
own, for I don't intend to 'low any
aunts to stay around my house,
making trouble for my children."
Woman's Home Companion for
August.
O X. tea
fours'.!
ban th. r7 wiro Toil vm imn
ltiD Kind ton Han always 2oi$f
OIKKRKHT MKN OX KAJtTIf.
UVar No Clothe, While
lionvrs Natlrify ThHr Women.
Earth's oddest and oldest race of
rvn has been brought uromlw-ntly
Into notice attain through the wl.ln
spread Interest aroused by Bundh,
ft batch of Indian political agl tat on
to the penal settlement on the Andn-
man Islands, that beautiful coral
bound archipelago In the Day ot lieu-
gel. This remnant of this most prim.
itlve human species In evidence will
soon be nothing but an ethnological
memory, nays a Calcutta Correspon
dent. Contact with advanced civili
sation has been followed, ns usual,
with a train of Infectious diseases
which are steadily thinning the
1'KUkS.
Owing to the ancient court's of
trade, the Andamaneso have been
known about from the earliest times.
Ptokmy's Agathan Dal mono Neoos
probably preserves the nilmindor-
standlng of some term applied by
sailors to a place in or near the
modern Andamans. Notices of them
by travelers, Aslastlc and European,
are continuous from the seventh
century, and the islands regularly
appear in soma shape on mai of
those regions from the Middle Ages
down.
Thr Andamanese live in a Hes
perldian garden, where they toll not,
neither do they spin. For the pro
duct or the spinner they have no
use, as the men go stark naked und
the women wear one or more leaven
in front and a bunch of leaved tied
round the waist behind.
The average height of the men Is
E8 Inches; that of the women 14 In
ches.
They appear to dwell free from
care In a country that Is everywhere
beautiful and varied.
In the ordinary attainments ot
human beings, however, unenlight
ened, the Andamanese are amazingly
deficient. During all the ages of
their Intercourse by word of mouth
they have not developed a medium
worthy of the name of language.
Before the arrival of the British the
tribes, except actual neighbors, had
no Intercourse. Even clans ol the
same tribe found difficulty in the
details of dialogue with one another.
There is a change of Jargon along
about every twenty miles of the
coast. They have no words for or
dinary greetings, salutations, or ex
pression of thanks.
Such language as they have, how
ever, is exceedingly interesting from
the philological point of view. It
possesses a quality which would lie
mvaiuaoie were me Adauianeae a
business people. In their speech only
what is absolutely necessary la usu
ally expressed. These mites of hu
manity could do Just as well probably
without any words at all. They
have an expressive sign language.
which they employ almost as much as
the spoken words. Their speech is
Jerky, disjointed, and helped out
often by a grimace, a gesture, or a
Hidden change in tone.
The Andamanese knows scarcely
anything and has no desire to in
crease bis stock of knowledge. He
has never learned any sort of agri
culture. Until the English tauirht
him to keep dogs he did not know
how to domesticate any animal or
bird. He cannot count even with his
fingers, and doesn't see the need of
counting. All his ideas are hazy und
Inaccurate. On one point, however,
he is levelheaded. He belongs to a
race of fighters, knows it and will
never attack unless certain of suc
cess.
FLORIDA CAMPHOR GKOVE.
One of 2000 Acres Started by a Munu.
factoring Concern.
becretary James Wilson, of the
Department of Agriculture, in a re
cent address delivered before the Am-
erlcus Club of Plttsbt.g declared
that the United States was success
fully experimenting in the product-
Ion of camphor. He said, in part:
'For years the Department has
been distributing camphor tree seed
end thousands of trees are now
growing throughout the South and
in the Pacific Coast States. Two
years ago a serious effort was made
to develop the manufacture of cam
phor from these trees.
"By improvements in manufact
uring processes satisfactory results
iave been accomplished and a large
manufacturing concern is now build
ing up a camphot grove of 2000
acres In Florida, from which It hope a
to make its camphor. This Ann
uses more than $300,000 worth of
camphor every year.
HlM'denlng Iron.
hen phosphorus is applied to
heated iron it has the effect of tac-
lliatlng the absorption of carbon
by the Iron. By taking advantage of
this fact a new iron-hardening pro
cess has been innvented in Germany.
With the aid of phosphorus, carbon
is caused to penetrate the iron rapid
ly to a considerable depth and caus
es it to become so hard at a depth of
about a millimeter that it can be
neither cut nor chipped with the best
chisel. At the same time the weld
ing properuea or tne iron are not
injuriously affected.
Remove Fountain len When Slurk.
When a fountain pen becomes
stuck so it cannot be unscrewed with
the fingers a good plan, says Popular
Mechanics, Is to place a strip of fine
emery cloth around the part to be
unscrewed, with the emery aide lu
aim ciamp tne ends in a vise
pliers.
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