THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLFFONTE, PA. JUNE - 25, 190%, Flagof Chesapeake Its Purchase by William Wal- dorf Astor and Presentation to u British Museum Its Capture In Battle, Je' Je I the expatriated American, Wil lam Waldorf Astor, had wished to increase his already great nn popularity in the land of his birth he could scarcely have done any- thing more apt to effect such a pur pose than what he did in purchasing the flag of the frigate Chesapeake and presenting it to a British museum. About three months ago the report was published that the flag had been purchased in London at an auction sale and that the purchaser was an American, Who could it be? Some said Cornelius Vanderbilt, others J. P. Morgan, but at the time nobody dreamed that it was bought with the | view of keeping it in England instead of sending it to this country, where | it ought to be preserved, in the opin- fon of most Americans at least. It is nearly a century since the great battle was fought between the Shannon and the Chesapeake, during which Captain Lawrence, commander of the Ameri: can frigate, uttered his immortal and dying words, “Don't give up the ship!” Between the people of the British em- pire and those of the leading Ameri can republic the most cordial relations have long prevailed, and it is felt to be an act of peculiar impropriety that a man born in America and inheriting a great fortune from who made their money in this land of liber ty should be the one to fan the dyin embers o stil Mr. ancestors r hostility existing Astor obtained the flag atan au ’ hi saie of © DF ects collected Middlebrosk there Besides was WILLIAM WALDORF ASTOR AND THE FLAG OF THE CHESAVEAKE collection ing t was Light 1 kiava In bugle for and the Roya United which ing since Fove The captured Chesapeake was bro ken up ninety years ago, and part of her timbers went into the con struction of dwelling houses In the town of Portsmouth, England. After the Shannon and the Chesapeake had bombarded each other at for five minutes and had alongside and been lashed together Captain Lawrence, already seriously wounded, gave the command for his bugler to call the boarders. The bu gler was found In hiding and so over come with fear that he could not sound the command Then It that mutiny, signs of which Lawrence discovered just as he was about to the bugle or ted tr: for at Mr as the 0 Acce] ded rigade 1854 As Ws sour the Iu 1 lag. pay ted Service f the presse: iatter museul was the to same the British govern seum Is supported by the iN press ut them ment the mt nment about Clone range then come give battle, was manifested. The delay | was fatal, and the English boarded the American vessel Just as Lawrence was belog carried below, “Don't give up the ship!” When an English midshipman attempted to pull down the American colors and place above them the union jack, the hal yards became twisted and led to the stars and stripes appearing above the Euglish colors, Fire was then reopen. od by the officer In command of the Bhannon, and the British midshipman who had pulled down the American colors was killed, his head being taken off by a shell. The flags were at last reversed, firing by the Shannon ceased, and the Americans surrendered, the battle lasting about eleven minutes, The Chesapeake flag originally meas. ured four feet by four feet six Inches, and ttenths of its surface was taken up by fifteen stars on a hive field. All of the flag's stripes excepl two are now missing. Mr, Astor was born In New York In | been {| conducting himself giuce his coronation was | repeating. | RULERS OF BRITAIN. | Their Majesties King Edward Vil. and Queen Alexandra. King Edward VII. of England very successful, as a rule, has in fn such & way as to escape being criti ¢ised. But io connection with his ap pointment of Mr, Asquith as premier | { and his recent call on the czar at Revel he has been charged by some with departure from a wise and politic course, It was his action in creating a new cabinet head while outside empire that occasioned criticism a tle ago. More recently his his iit. while ma KING EI Jesty his trip tha distand meeting WARD VIL ANDQUEEN ALEXANDR has in WCaAUuse o to the czar brought him of the latter's between the Russian British monarchs aroused harsh sure in a section of the German press which affected to see in it a conspiracy against the welfare of Germany On the other hand, of the English papers regard it having pre international peace by the bonds of hip empires represented Ee As may be ure o visit while on a sea at hailing The and cen within e domain many ns ymoted sire: ia it the 1 between fends seem Ir 1 f Kit to show | and popul that well which 1 ly ¥¢ been a grandm ar queen groomed and mkes her seem a comparative ng tho she has - mm n ne) woman, al igh ther these many years “LITTLE JOE” BROWN. Georgian Who Won In Governorshit Contest Over Moke Smith “8 ‘ 4 rive of the 1 al kind at this He stayed at heme and for the pa Brow: as | » [rs ne : tle Joe” larly known, comes of Scot cestors who arr the ther, Joseph Emerson seventeenth cent Oy ’ "OPE governor of Georg Sates senator J y worn In Cantor ING. but whe Eoven the JOREFN M. BROWN, home until his family removed to At lanta In 185, He Is a graduate of Oglethorpe university, Atlanta, and studied at Harvard, and he took a law course and entered the bar, but made his mark as a raliroad man rather than as lawyer. He worked his way up from brakeman and freight con ductor to that of general trafic man ager. He has done much to ald the agricultural and Industrial develop ment of his state. Besides being a raliroad man, farmer and lawyer, he bas dabbled quite a little in literature. He has written a historical romance entitied ‘Astyanax” and a history of the Georgia campaign In the civil war | terest -Q uebec Onto QQ rr——— The Invasion of the Historic City on the St. Lawrence by Those Who Will Celebrate Its Foundation Three Hundred Years Ago by Champlain, Jo Se J wr et A" ERIAPS the Amer can continent has such a pletur no city on esque location and such roman tic associations as Quebec, [he celebration of the tercentenary of its foundation in 1608 by Samuel de Champlain brings to mind the majestic promontory which located | once formidable citadel and recalls a | long train of remarkable events. From | the voyage of Jacques Cartier up the on in St. Lawrence in 15635 to the capture of | and | { the city by the British in 1750 | the American attack upon it in | under Montgomery and Arnold 1775 these { happenings were not ouly of great in- | important | also for their bearing upon the evolu-| in themselves, but nnd ad the The tion of free institutions vanced civilization upon half of the hemisphere. an cere monies planned in commemoration of | the three hundredth anniversary of the establishment of Quebec will cover a period of about twelve days and will consist in part of a series of pageants the most magnificent ever given in this part of the These historical shows will the arri Cartier In ago and take the the world begin with Lawrence 373 spectator on t hi the St centuries while the grea + deeds at the Frencl still glon ditions tions, and it was because the Brit the government of this part of Canada recognized and this f molded the they gained y | racia n chief tr and conceded r policies a wrdingly and maintained the THE CHAMPLAIN MONUMENT THE 8T. La QUENRG, ANT Is GATH of the rt of the Doms mess now in the 5 1 4 France of her un the world the French government cial part in the nary and is send ing a spe delegation and a squad ron of warships to represent France In ceremonies in honor of the achieve ments of one of her most herole sons Australia and other parts of the Brit ish to bearing fraternal greetings. The United States will dispatch to the scene fu imposing wpaval squadron, and Pres) dent Roosevelt has designated Secre tary William H. Taft as his represent ative at the tercentenary The British sovereign himself will be represented by his eldest son, the Prince of Wales, | who Is to gall across the ocedn and up the St. Lawrence lu one of the most | formidable of the new English battle ships, the Indomitable, while the At meat ost important colony | the fact tha is taking offi new i8 BPR In cents empire are send guns when he arrives on July 22 Next day, the 23d, the scene of the landing of Champlain will be reproduced, those taking part wearing the costumes and bearing the arms of his era and the man personating the explorer himself disembarking from a ship constructed #0 as to look precisely as did the Don de Dieu, with its lofty poop and quaint tackle, on that memorable day In July, Js, when Champlain went ashore from It and began the foundation of the capital city of New France. The United States navy department has ordered the New Hampshire, a new battleship of 17.570 tons, to pro ceed to Quebec to participate in the gavel parade which the Prince of Wales will review, One of the principal events of the tercentenary will be the dedication of the battigheld on which Wolfe and Montcalm fought as a national park. its | northern | delegations | lantic fleet of the British navy wil | cruise to Quebec In advance of the | prince and welcome him with its great | "THE TOKYO FAIR | Frederick J, V. 8kiff and the Com- mission to the Japanese Exposition, When the bill appropriating $1,600,- { 000 for representing the United States government at Interna- tional exposition of 1012 was up In the the Japanese house of representatives its advocates urged that a effective expend) ture for preserving peace between Ja- pan the United States not be Representative of lllinols, chairman of the committee more and could made, on expositions, argued that a pence of FURERDERICK J Loulsiar Fran Mr the contre ist AY ister Bowen dism isusn fron States Mr. Lo | Yerss LE altho the report had fexposition as well as falr. Mr. M A InuUrs let is espe from But tion of $400. best displays o NELLIE MAY BREWSTER. Actress Who Will Star In New Comedy This Fall May B in Richard ¢ dy. “The Boy is an lowa gir lady Yivian In Hie ewster irie’'s new and the Gh and sa FELLIE MAY BREWSTER IN AN IMITATION OF FRITE! SCHRFYF Hood” two years ago. She has a re markably sweet and powerful soprano voice and was a pupll in singing of Marie 8 Bissell of New York, The gest In pleture is an imitation of Schefl. Rodenberg Fatherly Discipline. Bhe came Into his study gently wy | | hate to | up—"but not come disturb It Is home he looked 11, and Dick has vet, and it is the sec ond time this week he has stayed out I did not wislk: to speak to but a | boy of seventeen” Bhe faltered vou, dear” uflter vou He was looking at her | with a strange fixed expression. “1 understand. Leave hiro to me. 1 shall { walt up until he comes in.” “Don’t be harsh | pleadingly. “Oh, | | you! Remember, such a good boy.” “My dear, you have nothing further to do with this, I must deal with my son In my own way. I request you not to interfere. You had better go qulet l¥ to your room, 1 ask to do so to find me when he she sald told been him,” sorry | with am so always he has you I want him here sees fit to return to his home.’ She retired, with her mother heart anxiously beating, and waited until the click of a latchkey | street door. She listened, ready to rush outa maker. She heard “Dick, Is that you?" “Yes, sir.” “Is the dog in the hall “Yes, sir.” “Well, turn out the gas. Good night” ~Woman’'s Home Companion in the trembling penitent sounded peace ow I'o iving the cken feather prove 10 your ¢ Kuct m ca LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS =P epee Tw issued 1 no ther ng Lal ’ Laon requested those having «¢ please present then ndersigned W Harrison W D Ma ntitied there » eat] Or SOME YT at ele Moe ! Bag Fr tat t © an Br x n Fy where a art ie ner be present and ? present r de from con NEN ares PAUL FORT Aud D "of Centre e funds in ~ hand and the of sal! appointment the n Lt A 1 ol 2 receive SREne. ABE TH pursaanoe will meet the parties in interest on Monday. the 2th day of June, A.D 1% for the purpose of making soch distribution, at the office of (et. Hg. Bower & Zerby, io Eagle Block. in the Bor ough of Belietonte, Pa. 8M ten o'clock A Mat which time all persgns interested 18 the estate of the sald deosdent will be expected 0 be present and wo present their several claims and demands or be forever debarred from eoming on sald fund SD GETTIGC x Audhwor | : A '% is easy to use ther lve is packed sosafely and conve- y, of is £2 economical--not a bit wasted. er fye or soap cleans and disinfects and thoroughly as Banner Lys. It y Odorless and colorless : catest cleanser and disinfectant the rid has ever known, Use it for cleaning } :n, cellar, sinks, dairy, milk-pans forsoftening water, and the labor vashing and cleaning will be cut in half. Makes pure soap i! saves money besides. A 10-cent can of r Lue, 534% pounds of kitchen grease, ' easy work (no boiling or large you have 10 pounds of best hard ons of soft soap id by your grocer or dru 1 booklet, ** { 100f Banners oe Penn Chemical Works Philadelphia U 2 4 — botties IE Centre County Banking Co., Corner High ana Spring Streets, Receive Derosits Discount Beezer's Meat Market PORK $ of Emoked Meat, P SLICED HAM ork 8 sage, ete y Bteak : FHILIPF BEEZER Trade Marks Labels. ATENT > y i for my new free book nYent son JOSHUA R. H 920 Chestnut St, 6 Ninth St How 1 There ns, whether larger Gast POT wihing uses oney in Send patenability TS, Lawyer, Philadelphia, Was} ngton Th..o wh 8 2 . MN soarvoru Mm Chicago WINDSOR HOTEL W.T. BrUnaxeEn, Mgr PHILADELPHIA RAILROAD Ck TRAL RAI lensed time t READ D SCHEDULE. ROAD OF PENNA Ox ' i Able eflective June 17. Iw WN REal on | £ te Hecla Parr Dunk ies ] Hublersbury ™ Snydertowr Nittany ’ Hustor f | Lamar 8! Clintondale 8! Krider's Sid's 8 2 16, Mackeyville I § EB Osdar Spring» Is > Balona ke BIZ 380 Min: Hala 1s Bit Pm. pm. Ar Ly lpm. pm NEXIS “Pag =e EEE AEErOOCC YOR! NR. = | Fupess York Oeniral & Hudson River R. A 53 Jersey Shore RT) Se AN . lv 2 8S 11% Ly WN'SPORT IAT 2 Miiladelphio & Reading R. R 6 FHILA " NEW YORK Ar (Via Phila) Lv NTECOENTHRAL BAILMOAL To take ofMeet an. A 198 WESTWaARI BANTW , : — BraTiON FeLy Al 10 Bellefonte 4 Coleville 2 1 Morris : Ih Whitmer LAdme Centre : 8 Hunters 28 _Filimore IN Briarly bi 28 Waddle 12M 8 Krumrine . 2 State College AN » ! $1 ’ : rar Na | - ES. 4 44 remus | — 4 1 Y hal i 21 r Struble 4 « Bloomsdort ¥ © Fine Grove A: 1» Trains from Montandon, | Lewisburg. Wik Hamsport, Lock Haven ard Tyrone, connect with Grain No. 5 for State Col'ege. Traine from State College connect with Penns. Nall road at Bellefonie for points east and west FU Tpowas Sot a a frame mmm > 2 ¢ » ¢ 1 rE K. RHOADS To the heirs and legal representatives of Aman da M. Walker, late of Miles Township Areas Take notice. that In pursuance of an ander of the Orphans’ Oourt of Centre County. Ms » | Wik of partition has been issued from sald : Count 10 the Sheriff of Centre County. return i" Hiltem Walker, Emma C, Aitaen Anna M. Ester! log At his yard, opposite the P, R . Passenger station, sells only the best qualities ANTHRACITE AND BITUMINOUS COALS mee A180 All KiDAS Of ce Wood, Grain, Hay, Straw and Sand. Commercial, No. Central, No, 1321 Ww. 0 MUSSER, Notary Puolic and Pension Attorney. BELLEFONTE, PA. Twrernoxz Carrs !
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