Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 4, 1906, Page 1

MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. VOLUME 4. NUMBER 65 < BEMIDJ1, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1906. ; TEN CENTS PER WEEK ‘ The Praise of By JAMES ARTHUR EDGERTON + How \ “0Old Glory” & Is I\LIade By TRUMAN L. ELTON e [Copyright, 19, by C. B. Etherington.] T is not generally known that tlags of the common and cheaper va- rlety are printed on a press simi- lar to that used for newspapers, yet such is the fact. At present a new plate aud hence a pew impression are required for each ‘lolor. Thus for our red, white and blue banners, which blossom all over the land each Fourth of July, two plates and two impres- slons are needed, one for the red and one for the blue. The white is fur- P nished by the original color of the mus- . lin or other goods on which the fl are printed. It is hoped in time t one plate may be made to do the work. when the expense will be lessened and the facility of production increased. It must not be imagined that two run nings through the press are required. Just as four or more colors*are printed on newspapers at one runuing through the press so the two colors are sup: plied to the national emblem in the same way. This effect is reached by the use of two sets of rollers and plates, the goods passing from one to the other. —— - It is sald that the largest flag fac- |2Ple Dride to the American that no na- T has been 125 tory In America, and for that matter |tlonal emblem is more univers 3 years since the = in the world, is located in Cincinnati. :0‘;"“(":‘[‘1 ‘"c_"l‘l"‘“o“ l":‘l‘]“ l:*S °“'“f surrender of Here are manufactured a large share |0 Of the night and the dawn, o Lord Cornwal- of the flags used In the United States | SFLY and progress. lis to General | About slxty houses:at the time of. the ¢ and some even for England. There are | Although the ordinary Washington at | Slege, o “fi t "‘“‘”—‘; irare ambitious 125 people engaged in the factory, and |t the larger and more Yorktown. The | B0, ofeém gfe:‘;::v:lq‘gfl:;‘t%“g“ of ten wholesale establishments handle thmg‘“ from bunt capitulation | %90 O e slage 1o e _[Copyright, 1906, by J. A Edgerton.] E call with tumult of acclaim On Liberty's enchanted name. With flowers of fire and wreaths of flame We sirew her radiant way. Ovur uproac fills the earth and sky + As bomb and cannon we employ In sheer abandonment of joy To celebrate her day. Aml yet when glare and clameor pall When ends the merry carnival, When her tricolors cease to fall As star showers fall by night, 1 Why then desert her? Why forget The paths in which her feet are set? Why cease to march where beckons yet Her high and boly light? E are her children. All we hold She gave us when the files were i rolled In war's red vapor, as of old She led the battle’s van. She needs us—not-our fitful praise, Bat our support—through all the days, i our philosopher | That we her flag again should raise | adaressed to & 5 a kind of nec- And teach the rights of man. essary compliment on the occasion of the death of an only daughter. And Tn song of free Aumanity— the alacrity with which he relegates to Who yet has heard its harmony ? Plutarch the task of consoling her in | The gospel of democracy her affliction testifies to the entire con- Who yet has understood ? MONUMENT TO HEROHS OF THE REVOLU- TION AT YORKTOWN. How common and insignificant are many of the scenes of immortal deeds! Thermopylae is but a small and unim- portant mountain pass. Gettysburg is but a country village. Yorktown had {han e lotier w s are print- pensive ones and sewed. e A many took Llics - oh 5 sistency of bis habitual claim that the |y } the output. This factory was made [Ihere are m: ot S0, 1781 |turbed by the currents of the great dignity of marriage is best subserved 0 yet has seen the happy light possible by the invention of the flag |OTK IS Oct. 10, 1181 | e e Eren o OF martioge io;bost TYC1 | That all the world shall render bright | press before mentioned, which was the [ 10ired in the A century later | VO <3 sodmportantly moil- when a hasband refraing from beeom- When earth bas truly reached the height e, such a Of human brotherhood ? fn the Brooklyn navy y fled by Yorktown the battle. It yawns in its content, fishes for oysters and of this consider: knows but little change. Such places jbrief and refr are not disturbed by the fever of tran- WaASETSaroN: HAMIIAOR: lan amazing do sition. It Is rather a sightly town, Iy- | At the time Cornwallis retired to | writer who necds only the turning of Such deeds as glorified our sires. Ing bigh on Its pentnsula. - It is proud | yorktown La Fayette was in command |a faucet to cnable him to pour forth | Relight once more their altar fires In its own way of its monument and |of 5 Continental army of about 8,000 |a quenchic cam of ideas on any For all the world to sce. memories, but it ig {00 close to them to | men in-the viclnity of Baltimore. While |and every subject from thumbs to im- | 1ig gp the standard, voice the w g - realize their significance. his army was not large enough to at- | mortality.—Martha Baker Dunn in At T I the lands are thrilled and stirred Speaking of Corawallis’ cave, Los- | tack that of the British, he was able by | lantic. FEAReS in"" fatriaein may be secured. The sticks are also jArthur and several members of his | 8I0E casts doubt on it Delng the exict |g threatening movement to- prevent S e precieaistht n‘, made there. ‘I'he fiags are allowed to s earh to cons cabinet, Baron von Steuben of Ger- ‘”l’ = “;“' m“’ ?:e o '_15 Tf“: Cornwallls from escaping into North A Strango Foust. praise . iry for twenty-four hours before being | In the New Yotk public schools and | gy "3 descendant of the Baron von | eral met his o Toers for council. That, | Carolina and thus made Washingtow's | A curious feast is obierved by the placed on the sticks. Needloss to say, | SOme others the c en are tausht ! geouben who fought in the Revolution; | 3¢COrding to the Lolss ng_ version, is'| Yorktown slege possible. La Fayette it tauts of India, in A MILITARY DOG | the largest trade Is in the little five cent | DO t0 g8 oukof bunting, ! Count de Rochambeau of France, a "°Wme'"m°'“ed- This, which passes | gjgo commanded a body of light in- of the custom known . - fiags. Silk banners are also got out | ot is thousht to be the descendant of the Count de Rocham- | OF the cave, was used at the time of | tantry during the investment and fur- : z the town red may possibly il 1n addition to the muslin ones, and the |13¢ ever made was displayed Ibeau who commanded the French al- [ the Investment as a hiding place for |ther Qistinguished himself. After re- | it is called the Ioli and most expensive hand sewed flags are Iver n; x'vsl‘l' ;.:;_ t“ was 115 feet In {yjagat Yorktown; several other French | Valuables. However, it serves. The“lturning to his native land this unselfish !consists chiefly in the ploudiful sp lenzth and 55 feet w work of a Cincinnati man. : ; In the manufacture of flags, muslin |*0 idea of the I 1s bought In bolts of 1,000 yards each. |1CTs required for cach v This is cut to the right width ang feq | Vattleship Connecticut was s through In long strips. Each day 15 | ‘71t 250 varieties, at a cost of 000 sheets are used, making 375,000 [Among these of the flags in all. These range in sizo all the | 'oe, fla way from 2 by 3 inches to 36 by 42. |;ag,‘pre.~ dent ag, ete The presi- The colors for printing are mixed in | (ent's flag alone requires a wonth in the factory, so that the right shades Some of the fc a centennial ing too fond of celebration of 4 the event was LORD cornwarLis, held, at which time was laid i the cornerstone of the beautiful monu- jment that commemorates ;the vietory i which ended the American war for in- dependence. At the celebration were President "l‘ls deeds that gratitude requires, By Hlice €. Hilen le. The stripes | # door was placed in front of the opening | gy, f libe ticipated- In the | klinz uj 1 and dry of a certai also produced, but these are only made 5 (0 { representatives and many more nota- end of rty participas n the : klinz upon all an dry of a ceriain with the ) + canes, | Were over 4 feet broad and the stars 2 Gy . for commerclal purposes, that some of | mrench reyolution,. where, if his_more ' red preparation called holi powder. Tt ong process! on speclal order. Fourth of July cane: faot serost: bles, including governors of the states. the villaFers’ might ehared an efity ch-_reyol 301 preg ] 1 : ! stains the white clothes of the native Hil-day D've marched i1l now ee. Above the retreat still stand the |many of the horrors of that upheaval | with an ugly, dirty looking red that | 0OV drumbeat and cannon roar British breastworks, reminders of 2 |might have been averted. He also liv- | conjures up bofore timid eyes dread | You've heard my proud “bowwow!™ llkewise the product of the Cinciunati | Suburban ud such +imposing. General Sherman was pres- | Strugglo that gave a new republic {0 | od to be the dominant figure in the rev-| visions of bioody fizhts and ghastly factory. Festooning, plumes and all | of business Sunday afternoon tha ent, with his full staff, as were also S“W""t ot Dbl Tt olution of 1830, which finally ended the | mutinies. The powder is made in two Cbronsh master’s long speechmaking. the rest go forth from this printshop of | had ing bimself sup- Generals Hancock and Fitz-Fugh Lee. | < el" : Yorkt:“n cfn i mde‘;hz“l‘: Bourbon regime and placed Louis Phi- | shades—tire one vermilion, the other T'm most afraid 1 napped, * patriotism. It is from the waste of | plied nge. ¢ P There were fully 9,500 men In line. G§ 5‘-‘%‘: "N e fWVl mle“ Rl lippe on the throne. Some historians ! rose red—and both are used impartial- | But T woke up and wagged my tal these, by the way, that the confetti is | Sengers who patronized his car handed : French and American warships were "":’“ o} ?1 °t o rg! e fs!‘:‘ belleve that if La Fayette had been of | Iy by thoe observers of the ccremony, | When all the people clapped. made. Cincinnati has been in the flaz | him dollars and bills of - 'In the York river, as those of the |Was in c(‘;m“i';“n m‘; he “‘)‘ “"‘ o) o T & self seeking nature he might have | who delizht in bedaubing their faces ith horns and loud torpedoes, manufacturing business since 1851. It | nations in p: French had been 100 years before. Sa- [ state d‘“‘; ""fh B'tltleh t‘l‘l ery xfln made himself president of France at | with the powders until they look like m Firecrachers small and great, 18 not without slgnificance that the | conductor, however, managed to get lutes were fired, one being to the Brit- "lr’egi( 1‘:; ‘Ee Iest ‘ncaon E;;‘:;"[‘;; that time. strange and Lideous denizens of hades | gyey taffy and with nuts, 100, e Buckeye State, which has been dubbed | along fairiy wi 1 carry- . ish colors as a token that the animosi- | © syt » Nelso‘::l's § Goseiwan dhnt. Count St. Simon had volunteered in | come up. still glowing with the fires T've belped to cht?t& = s “the mother of presidents,” is also to | Ing a tiny bis car. ,ties of the old struggle were ended, if [Surrender. A 47 | the American cause at the age of sev- |of that Among the better elpe cel \ — { | 1 a0re. bunting, confettl and other similar moderate policies had been followed, decorations that adorn the Americap !C. Winthrop of Boston. < Fourth and other patriotic holidays are A conducto 3 | “The military parade was especially The oration was delivered by Robert an extent the mother of the national | When he approa not forgotten. Addresses were deliy-.| €3 In Yorktown. the largest and most | gpteen, He was in command of the | classes {1iis fostival s talling into dis- colors. The native sons of this states- | her fare she handed him a five dollar ‘ered by President Arthur, Baron von pl"e'e‘(‘}g:_’“ ;;,:h:u‘gnfig h:;;h“;r'?é‘r'; land troops with Admiral Count de ! tavor, for it leads to many unpleasant B“‘ now the fourth’s ‘most over— | / man producing commonwealth may | bill. { Steuben, Count de Rochambeau and ;‘;‘; T m eohal i hg ot Grasse, which were landed at. York- | excesses and had its orizin in some de- Its nofse and fun and shout— thus wave Ohlo grown banners and | “Is that the smallest you have, n others. swgr o mepiombn Fimentihe gov: town' and played a conspicuous part | cidedly dissipated scene In ancient | don’t care much for fireworke— ; grow doubly patriotic over the fact | am?” queried the conductor, fearing | In the quarter of a century that has rfiered the guns trained upoy | D the siege. St. Simon afterward serv- lhenthen history. I'm—fust about—tired—oyt! that they can honor their country and | apother stringeney in chanze. since eclapsed the monument has been | érRor o gu DO | od in the West Indies and was a mili- his own home for the purpose of dis- tary prisoner there. Then he visited lodging the British commander. The Mexico and proposed a canal connect- mansion was severely injured by the ing the Atlantic and the Pacific. Re- cannonade which followed, but Corn- turning to France, he became one of wallis and his officers were driven out state both at the same time. The woman looked at the conductor completed. The most notable part of There are innumerable other facto- | and then at her bs ade this the shaft is that consisting of the fig- rles for flagmaking in the country, one | surprising reply. “Y I have been ures of thirteen maidens, representing married only twelve months,” — st the thirteen colonies. About the base Gladstone ns.n “Supe.” Man is the only animal that knows A reference to “The Corsican Broth- | Dothing, that can learn nothing, with- ers” recalls an amusing story of Mr. | out being taught.—Pliny. Gladstone’s visit to the Lyceum when Louis Globe-Democrat. of the obelisk are appropriate inscrip- = the founders of French soclalism and Irving was playing in this drama. Mr. ) ' i tions reciting the terms of the surren. |and 43 & result proposed a cessation of | of o new rellglous system that at one Gladstone nlt the time was not bur- Men, Women and Faet. ’der and attendant circumstances. The time had a very considerable follow-| dened by the cares of office, and one evening he dropped in at the Lyceum, where he was occasionally accommo- dated wilh a chair at the “wings.” On this night, however, when the stage ‘was set for the opera ball in “The Cor- been considered he | Shaft itself Is tastily carved and deco- o of woman, *WWith |Tated, and the whole is surmounted by one of the stock # glgantic figure of Liberty. phrases of the nov But a writer | At the spot where the surrender ac- in one of the American magazines— “’“”s’ took gl’;gfin:fe: :n':(""“‘)l‘f;tg’;’l')‘e‘:l' i i i Snglish ment, now s and his view is upheld by an English by treos, The cave nsed by Lord Corn- {wallis is still pointed out. Yorktown ing. 4 He was one of the first, if not the first, to propose the Suez canal. He f was faf in advance of his age, and,: while many of his notions were fantas-' tle, others were prophetic of Luman-|| gioqn Brothers” his curiosity led bim itarlan movements now taking plnce.i Into one of the boxes for spectators in It measured by effects on after ages, | g0 geene, Up went the curtain; Mr. i itself is a small village much as it was 8t. Simon was second only to La Fay-!| glagstone was at once Cescried by the in Revolutionary days. ette as the most conspicuous French- pit and grected with shouts of joy i The story of Yorktown Is familiar to Rt ~=’ | man who participated in the American" ‘Which caused him hastily to withdraw. ‘every schoolboy in the land. Wash- i Revolution. | “This,” says Mr. Austin, “was his first Ington’s masterly strategy leading uj Ry T A = nslon’s masterly strategy leading up | pg poomaMBEAU. DE GRASSE. The Whirling of a Bullet. and only appearance in the drama out- to this crowning victory established side of the dear old ‘legitimate’ at his military reputation for all time. It hostilities and two days later surren- Bullets from the thirty caliber rifles Westminster.”— W f tgl was here that Alexander Hamilton, ered. Wnshlngtton publicly thanked | of the United States army whirl with estminster.”—Westminster Gazette. though a mere stripling, distinguished | Nelson for this act of patriotism. great rapidity. The rifling gives one |° : The surrender ftself was as pathetic | royolution of the bullet about its axis as It was memorable. The French |in ten inches. At the muzzle the ve- | I an-address to a temperance socie- troops were drawn up In a long lne | joclty of the bullet Is 2,300 feet a ,t¥ 2 lecturer told how drink had once on one side, the American troops on | gecond, which means 2,760 turns a sec- ]causcd the downfall of a brave soldier. the other, thus forming a lane, through | ond, assuming that the bullet does not ' ln"the course of the sad story he said: which the conquered army marched. strip In the.rifling. The circumference ‘Sometimes, after a debauch, the Tact has al peculiar att; a woman's tu magazine which quotes him—upsets this tradition by declaring that men are more often tactful than women. Men, it is submitted, are swift to know when to speak and when not to speak—when it is wise to withhold even a look—and that is why a medi- ocre man will succeed when even a clever woman will fail, why men are greater in diplomacy, in all things that require finesse. Still it is a question whether men really succeed better in himself by leading a splendid and suc- diplomacy. €Vhat about the woman cessful charge, and it was here that who is the “power behind the throne?” . Count St. Simon and other gallant e Frenchmen gained the undying gratl- as Named. tude of Americans. The Wife’s Reproach. How the Dais ¥ Of all the ilwers of the field the | There were many things about the [ The aspect of the British was as sub- | of the bullet Is 842 inch, which gives MAn would be repentant, humble. . He daisy is the most appropriately named. * entire Yorktown campaign that seem- |dued and dejected as their thoughts. | o peripheral velocity of 2,600 inches Would promise his wife to do better. Probably not one | 1 in a hundred ed almost providential. The departure | Cornwallls pleaded indisposition and | each second, or 13,000 feet a minute. ~ But, alas, the years taught her the bar- understands {he significance of this of the British fleet, allowing the French | d1Q not appear. His sword was sent by renness of all such promises. And one little flower. Tluglrels and hundreds fleet of Count de Grasse to occupy |a subordinate. The Solution. night, when he was getting to be an of years ag it got ils name, and in Chesapeake bay, the storm that pre- [ Whether this was the reason that The bankruptey court can boast some 0ld man, a prematurely old man, thin all parts of the world the name means vented Cornwallis from crossing to | Washington designated a subordinate | delightfully nnive rejoinders. “How, lmbed, “stoop shouldered, with red the same thing. The nature lover who Gloucester and cutting his way out, | to receive it or not is unknown, but at sir, is It possible” angrily demanded Trimmed eyes, he said to his wife sadly: named the daisy had in his study of | the withdrawal of the British forces | any rate General Lincoln was put for- | the opposing counsel of the bankrupt,! *‘You're a clever woman, Jenny, a the wild flower observed that it opened | from the outer line_of Intrenchments— | ward to take the token of surrender. | “to live in the luxurious style you have courageous, active, good woman, You its eye with thie opening of the day and | these and many other similar incidents | He then gallantly returned it. affected on $200 a year?” The witness 8hould have married a better man than closed it with t:2 setting of the sun, | all favored the colonists, It was a plece of poetic justice that | replied, with an air of justifinble pride, I am, dear.’ b 8o with the simplicity of the true artist| The victory at Yorktown enacted the | Lincoln was chosen for this office, as | that that “was a problem to which he ! ~“She looked at him, and, thinking of be called it the eye of the day, the days- | Declaration of Independence into in- | he himself had been forced to surren- had devoted considerable time in the , What he had once been, she answered eye or, as we spell it today, the daisy. | ternational law. It not only made |der in a particularly humillating man- | interests of' soclal economy, and the | in a quiet voice: —New York Press. America free, but pointed a path to | ner the year before. results of his humble efforts were now | *‘I’did, James.’” Uberty for all oppressed peoples of the When all the stragglers were gath- | before the court.” & Regular Ostriches. future. e - of the largest being in New York city. py iy i ey ered ther the number of those whi . Ta many of fhose tho o1d press, which s | “THIS, 1udies and gentlemen,” said | It estabiished a precedent of rovolt I e T 7,000 and 2 the guide, “is a real theatrical chop | and marked a limit to tyranny. It was : “A much like the newspaper hand press, o e ,000, no small army for t day. The Ve neral, i armol vessel was | Whom a ‘biographer says: ‘A perfect Is necessarily used. This renders the | BOUSC: You will notice the signs on | a divine reminder that-God bas not i’meflc:nz T l«‘rinch t;:‘d pr{lbably twentieth time. “It makes me mad l?n:chedtll:leth:;ear u:;d It was one | knowledge of French, acquired at an & production of Old Glory somewhat te- | the Wall. ‘Wateh your hat’ and ‘Keep = 5 every time I think of the $10 I lost of t ed by the Knights early age from a Huguenot refugee Blous and laborious compared to the | 22 €¥e on your umbiellal” ubandoned the world to the caprice of e a8 mahy. today. T nctually feel as i I'd like to the fleet manned by the Knights of inlétor at CRntAEEE Yeas fl!fi it new way pared 1o the | “ugiont goosaherries!” exclaimed the | despots, eareo JOURE Men who pliyed 1 PIOM | gvq somebody kick me B T T o G Mot Dt education. Whilo u great number of the national | 014 farmer in the party. “1 often heard | -In point of numbers engaged or ferce | €Nt PAFE In. tho campuign of York: | “upy the way, George,” sald the dear | Shects of lead. e | e fnthor Gt hes together with omblems aro used on tho Fourth of | (€Il that tlese eie nctor folks were fghting it was not a great battle; but, [ fown atterward became importunt 85" | gyt areamily, “don't you think yowa | tmes D T e et O July, an evén lrger number are em- | If starved, but I didu't thiuk they | mensured by its ultimate oftects on |ures ' blstory, Ahey wero AleXander | potter spen to ather this evening?'-- | thickness of this lend armor, it e ougti s, S s o A e loyed on Memorial day. They are | YOUI cat lats and umbrellas”—Chl. | mankind, it was one of the most mo- | Flamilton and Marquis de ln yette: | Philadelphia Press. e L o e o tionce, . Hallan, \kewise In demand on Flug da {n sty | cago News. mentous engagements in the history of {©ach at that time aged twenty-four, Sl : .they were of sufficlent strength to | 8ic At ane l':h’-h - nothing of national, Et,,tef‘m{;ty el the world. It kindled a fire in’the |8nd Count de Bt, Simon, just turning Mot talgaie and Mosvinns, “successfully resist all the shots of that | Spanish and German ¥EW YORK SCHOOL CHILDREN LEARNING 70 MAKE THE FLAG, - ! SEWING ON TIE STARS. Elfsabeth Carter, Blueatosit p Elizabeth Carter (1717-1500) was one | curiosities of thie navy and warfare in | Of the orlginal “blue stockings.” of According to the best authorities on Suggestive, “Gee whiz!” sald George for the Contly, but Laating. | hearts of the Krench soldiers that burn. | twenty-one. Hamiiton gallantly led.an | yoneatome wont toward marrlage | 985-". At'the slege of Gibraltar in 1782 ;‘:;:;lp:lchc‘::g::z“b é’.fi'i'cu“;‘l: d““:‘l' Johnny—What! Only married a year ed up the throne of the Bourbons. It |important ‘charge at Yorktown and | o' the quality of cheerful alncrity | the French and Spaniards used war E vate bulldings, ships and the thous:n d and yet you are so downcast? Wally— ' paralyzed tyranny v England and [captured a British outpost. He was |swhich would hive fnspired a_journey i¥e sela which were armored” with |'but for want of books B and one other places and occasions that | Al ™Y dear fellow, I never imagined made possible an era of freedom for all | also officer of the day at the time of |to" the Whipping post. “Might 1 lave | “light iron boom proofing over thefr |'greaf . call for the display of the star span. | 0t @ Wife would prove such a costly the Anglo-Saxon race. In short, with [ the snrrender. His subsequent career | hnd my own. will,” be tolls us, “ wonld. | decks and to the water's edge.” The | self gled banner. All over the earth x:ww article. Johnny—Yes, a wife fs a cost- the - Declaration = of Independence, |88 a n fiave i very first practical use 8 5 the flag of the free is known and hon. |1V rticle, that’s true, but then you Which [t sealed with the magic seal of | vent plates as & def ored #ad 1t 15 ot without & pardon. | MUBt remomber that dho lasts man ‘Sucoess, Yorktown uttered & prophecy s & preclous long time. o . of demacracy in