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THE CONFEDERATE FLAG.
Nearly A Half Century Ago
,ltew Nation Was Born, The
Confederate States of
America.
Front ithe Quitman Advertiser.
Sbe arose like a beautiful me*
teor «e>ly to go down in
and gloom. While yet in her
nith, she made great land
for history, and leaves those
offearnage, a splendid tradition
of heroism which tradition is
priceless value to the South.
Her meraaries are the sacred rel
ics of her great tragedy.
When Te^as, the “Lone Star”
speeded fram that great galaxy,
Feb. 1,1861,, ithere was no flag
for the young nation, and calls
were made for suitable designs.
A young Prussian artist, Nicola
Marshall, who eame to this coun¬
try in 1849, and settled in Marion,
Ala., was asked by Mrs. Napole¬
on Lockett to design one similar
to the old flag, under which our
forefathers fought so gallantly.
He gracefully acceded to her re¬
quest and produced two,
The one accepted is rectangu¬
lar in shape, with three traverse
bars, the upper and lower red,
and the central one white, with a
blue field in upper left corner, on
which there were several white
stars in a circle to represent the
then seceded states. This is
known as the “Stars and Bars.”
On March 4th, 1881, it was
hoisted ovei the capital at Mont¬
gomery, Ala, by Miss Tyler, of
Virginia, a grand*daugnter of ex
President Tyler.
This flag was the pride of the
young naiiou, and it was carried
into the first battle of Manassas,,
by many Confederate regiments,
when General Beauregard con¬
fronted the enemy on that me¬
morable day.
Owing to the similarity between
the “Stars and Bars,” and the
Stars and Stripes, it was difficult
to distinguish one from the other.
General Beauregard, thinking
that serious mistakes might be
made in locating his troops, or¬
dered a red badge to be worn on
the left shoulder by the Confed¬
erates.
This drder was issued to Gen.
W. L. Cobb. Chief Quartermaster
and to distribute it to every reg¬
iment, This was done as far as
possible.
During the same battle. (Man
nassas, or Bull Run), it was dis¬
covered that many of the Feder¬
al soldiers wore similar badges.
Seeing the pressing necessity of
a change, Generals Beauregard
and Johnson met at Fairfax C. H.
Va., the latter part of August or
September, 1861 and decided to
have a battle flag for every reg¬
iment* and detached command in
the Confederate army.
General Johnson was eliptical
in shape, it was red with a blue
St. Andrew cross, and thirteen
stars on the cross. General Beau¬
regard’s was a red square, with a
blue St, Andres cross touching
the diagonal corners, with thir¬
teen stars on the cross. Both
were thoroughly examined, and
discussed by the committee, Gen¬
erals Beauregard, Johnson and
Gable. Considering the cost of
material, and care of making
General Beauregard’s being more
practical, was adopted.
The thirteen stars represent the
eleven seoeded states, and Ky.,
and Mo. Thoy having furnished
troops for the Confederacy.
Gen. Cable was ordered to have
said flags made as soon as possi¬
ble. He urged the ladies of the
South to give their red and blue
silk dresses for this purpose. Miss
Cary, of Virginia; Mrs. Henning
tcn, of Georgia, and Mrs- Hop-
kineon, of Afedoama; made flags
and presented them to several
Generals.
Sufficient silk oould not be ob¬
tained and Gen. Cable issued a
circular letter to the Quartermas¬
ter of every regiment and brigade
to use a suitable red and blue
cloth that could be secured, for
this purpose. We now have the
battle flag. Though conquered
it will live in song and story, to
the latest day, and the brave<y of
the men who bore it, is a lasting
honor to the whole Anglo Saxon
race.
On may 1, 1863, Congress
adopted a national flag. It was
formed by placing the battle flag,
(in miniature) in upper left corn¬
er as a union, on an a white ( 'b
long) g'roung. This was after¬
wards discarded, because, when
hanging limp, it resembled a flag
of truce.
Congress was induced to slight¬
ly alter this flag, which was done
on March 4, 1865, by placing a
vertical red strip on the outer end
of the white ground.
This banner is the one retained
and still used at the re-unions by
the Confederate Veterans.
The battle flags of late, have
not found favor with the Veter¬
ans, because they are not correct
reproductions of the old flag, as
designed by Gen. Beauregard and
used by the Confederate army,
from 1861 to 1865. These flags
are rectangular, instead of square,
the correct shape.
Thoy are all furled and the new
South has wrested from her de¬
feat a victory, more glorious than
was ever known to conqueror —
and like the phoenix of old, she
has arisen from her ashes more
beautiful more, progressive than
ever before. These flags are
mute witnesses of her glorious
chivalry.
Written for the Quitman Chap¬
ter, Daughters of the Confederacy
and read May 16th, 1904 bv
Mrs. €. S. Hawks.
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Deafness is caused by an inflamed con¬
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imperfect hearing, and when it is en¬
tirely closed, deafness is the result, and
unless the inflammation can be taken
out and this tube restored to its normal
condition, hearing will be destroyed for¬
ever; nine cases out of ten are caused by
catarrh, which is nothing but an in-,
flamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
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The public isoftentimetoo quick
to censure and criticise our pub¬
lic officials. No man is without
fault, and if one would stop to
consider by placing himself in
the same position as the one crit¬
icised, nine times out of ten not
a word of criticism would he of¬
fer, Think more and say less.—
Vienna News.
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Unjust to Negro immigrants.
A dispatch from Chicago
veys the intelligence that there
are too many negroes in that eifcy
although their number is given
as only 35,090. Some years
plenty of money could be raised
there for negro education, ac¬
cording to a speaker qu jfced
is in this business, but now
purse strings are tightly drawn
a revulsion of feeling having been
caused since “the green, sub¬
stantial, ignorant herd of brutes
from the South came yelping up
Chicago, where they have free
bars, free street cars, free hotels
where they can go where they
please and talk as they please.”
It has been shown by statistics
and the fact frequently commen¬
ted on, that there is more than
twice as much crime among
Northern-born as among Soutb
ern-born negroes in proportion
to population. It has also been
frequently asserted that the
Southern negroes now in service
in the North are better manner¬
ed than their native cousins. Yet
the negro immigrants from the
South are constantly blamed for
the race troubles in the North
and for the attitude of growing
hostility among the Northern
whites.
This is unjust. The change in
the Northern whites is not the
fault of the Southern negroes
per se, but the result of closer
acquaintance consequent upon
the increase in the number of
blacks—partly this and partly
because the former pro-negro
sentiment has suffered from an
inevitable reaction and given
place to the more normal anti¬
pathy toward an alien race. The
Philadelphia Record is one Nor¬
thern newspaper to recognize
something of this and to be dis¬
posed to do justice to the negro
immigrants from the South. Re¬
ferring to a public meeting in
Philadelphia and the discussion
of the local negro question there
the Record says;
But there is one respect in
which the immigrant negroes are
assimilated with the white popu¬
lation with wonderful facility.
They, along with the native
blacks, constitute a very consid¬
erable element of the power
which enables a corrupt machine
to misrule and despoil Philadel¬
phia. In some of the wards of
the city they are fast becoming
a predominant political agency
so far as the returns of the bal¬
lot-box are concerned- By vo¬
ting early and often the large ne¬
gro population, native and immi¬
grant, goes to swell the enor¬
mous majority for bad govern¬
ment.
Nothing is to be gained by
blinking at this matter. The ne¬
gro problem in its local aspects
is not to be solved by adminis¬
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tering “soit soap” to the
of native birth in praising
superior cultivation,
and love of order at the
of the immigrants from
South. Many of the
negroes of Philadelphia are
more servicable too’s of
chine misrule than are the
rant immigrants. They are
tive agents in padding the
tration lists in certain wards
in training repeaters who,
out their solicitation and
pie, would not think of such
thing.
The Northern negro’s criti¬
cism of his imported Southern
cousin recalls the fable of the
pot and the kettle. The North
ern white eagerly takes up an
unjust cry because of the evi¬
dent growing desire to stop im¬
migration and keep the negroes
penned up in the Southern
states.—Macon Telegraph.
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Living a Century.
It would appear that ever since
man’s allotted life on earth was
fixed at three score years and ten
some ambitious human being has
been sitting up nights worrying
himself into an early decline con¬
cerning how to beat that game.
We do not know why a man should
be particularly happy just be
cause he has managed to stand off
the inevitable for a decade or so,
but true it is that there are certain
people who consider it a great
feat to live a round century.
Recipes galore have been publish¬
ed as to the best plan to pursue to
pass the century mark. One of
the most recent ones is that
brought forward by a French phy
sician. It is simplicity itself. He
says;
1. Breathe fresh air day and
night.
2. Take cutdoor exercise each
day either by working or walking.
3. Eat and drink moderately
and simply. Choose w’ater, milk
and fruit rather than alcohol.
4. Fortify yourself by washing
daily in cold water and by taking
a hot bath once a week.
5. Do not wear clothes wnich
are either too heavy or too light.
6. Live in a house that is spa¬
cious and dry.
7. Work regularly.
8. After work do not seek repose
in exciting distractions. The
hours of leisure belong to the
family; the might is for sleep.
9. Ennoble your life by good
action.
That doesn’t seem at ali difficult
does it? As a matter of fact, the
daily life of the average man is
modelled very much on those
lines. He eats modeiately be¬
cause the upward tendency in the
price of food compelis him to. He
takes plenty of exercise making
sufficient coin to buy that moder¬
ate amount of food. Moreover,
baths are yearly increasing in
popularity.
These recipes for living a hun¬
dred years are alright in their
way. But the trouble is that one
person may faithfully obey every
rule laid down and die before he ie
forty; and another may cheerful¬
ly disregard them all and live to
be one hundred and ten. Physi¬
cians are foi ever telling us that
if we abstain from the use of to¬
bacco we will live to a ripe old age.
And when some man of 98 dies
after having used itf or sixty vears
there are never wanting people
to point out that he might have
lived to be 108 if he had never
touched it. And little Robert
Reed, who never touched the dir¬
ty weed because the de\il sowed
the seed, might have shuffled off
beforj he was old enough to vote
for the reform candidate for may¬
or for all tradition or history has
to say to the contrary.
Length of life is measured in
experiences and in usefulness, if
correctly measured. A man may
die at 45 and leave as much be¬
hind him, and take as much with
him, as the centenarian. And
most of us wou'd rather play the
game a little harder and get a lit
tie more out of it than embalm
ourselves for thirty years in a
winding sheet of inflexible hygi¬
enic rules merely for the senile
satisfai tion of having cheated the
sexton for a century.—Forrest
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