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THE PA The burly cannon crs little flag 8aid. "How arc y< I* day? You never make a ?ii not jump nor si " , And where they put to stay." The rockets, roman or m racy wheels IK^ "With patriotic zeal rAl " 1 - * Mtncy j - Dadbfitcrof; Jf A TRC ? J? v c^v !z!Jja <?. AMKS BUTLEIl,] ^ Duke of Ormond,! "*#* ?\ / H l>.. ,1 ? ? .1.. ' ' w 11 h h 181 o r y I making i" ^\y \{jj ^' (lays when Crom'' ? ^ wc" ruled- England, and It lias ? ? v"**. often been said that If t ho ( latter had heeded the /V' duke's wise counsel all * i,"\ would have pone better with the Protector. ?? That the duke was a brave man Is well known, and that bis courage was inherited by many of bis descendants the history of our country truly testifies. My story, however, has to do with the courage of a young girl. Her father, James Hutler, it namesake of his ancestor, the duke, came to Amor ica wnen it was really a new world, and settled with his family in South Carolina, lie had a wife, many stalwart sons, and our heroine, Nancy, a black-eyed girl of sixteen. The country was in a state of revolution, and, while it was a time that tried men's souls, and women's too, it was also the opportunity for bravery, hardihood and loyalty. James Butler and his sons were said to know | not fear, and were such "terrors" to ! the enemy that it was considered a Cl'PUt flood tn onntiirn rif lrill ufnn I of them. One day a notorious Tory named ! Cunningham, suspecting that Rutler } would visit his home to see his wife, J who lay very ill, waited in ambush with n l/ifgc partj of Tories to take I him tknn\Vares. The English soldiers ! 4 were many in number, for they dared ! ^ not venture on this exploit without | overt.helming odds. As Rutlor, two j of lift sons find a few soldiers v.ero | making their way toward Ru'.ler's I woodland home they were surrounded by tin Tory band, fired upon and then | imcKPii ro pieces with satires. The I Americans made a bravo defence, and Butler li i in vol f fought desperately, even after both of bis bands were cat off. Hut when the Tories were doflp the little band was nothing but a mangled mas'-. The Tories then bid in the thickets, hoping more of the family would appear, but James Butler's othrr sons were far away, with the army, and there was none to come save Nancy. Nancy Butler was my grandmother's grandmother, and my grandmother has often told mo what her grandmother told her, and this was j how it was. The massacre happened near enough to the homo for Nancy j to hear tlie shots, and fearing she knew not what she made her way through the swamps and forests to the scene of carnage. When the enettiios saw that it was only u girl, they taunted her, telling her how hard her father was to kill and how ho bounced ! beneath the .sabre strokes, and all this in such Insulting tones that Nancy's i black eyes flashed fire, and she said: "Yes, make your boasts to a girl, you cowards! but If my father and * brothers were living you would lie In : ||i rRIOTS. icker to the slcmler U >u to celebrate the iRle sound, you canyou, there you have I I indies and the giddy, ja 1 began to brag mVj id ban^ and ii/.z and UlH e silent Hag. is done, the crackers were clinging to the ;re lying prone; but. fruliickcd with tlic 111111 Buffer,, tfic RecJo/uf/on. IE STORY*, j, / Lifejcotyh. Vshiding if you did not have double as many men. Here lie brave men, and you are dastards, and you know it!" 1 Inr front 1/iqq /I !"? ; ? different to her own safety; hut her words made the men astyamcd and they troubled her no more. It was almost impossible for Nancy to identify her dead, but hor shrewd and loving eyes at last saw soino familiar articles of attire that helped HOW WE Ri For wcoUh wc were acli nin:r and plniutiiig, I'.lit keeping it cl:ii-l;, jur-t t in- saint.*, Ht?\v to beat tin* old sexton. I * 111 Manning, Wiio trit'tl to net t>nto our |>anic. Tin* hour for the deed was tin; midnight When nolioils near lis should spy Who climbed tin* tall steeple ami startled the people By ringing the Fourth of July. her In her sad .and terrible search. Then she went homo to return with their "old soro hark" horso and "wheeled sled," and a Mrs. Smith, tho only neighbor, and together they carried the bodies home, dug the graves unu uuriuu mem. Grandmother used to say that her grandmother's Revolutionary experiences were not all so sad as this one, and once she was so thrilled at a story that she exclaimed: "Oh, grandmother, I wish I could be In a war!" Then Nancy Butler Brooks, as she was then named, was very angry. "You wicked child, hush! You don't know what you are wishing!" Anyway, poor grandmother had her foolish whim gratified, for she lived through the Civil War, and wo have her portrait, painted after she was ninety years old. We also have a manuscript history of the Butler family, written by a descendant of Nancy's, In which the deeds of this rare Sirl are told. The 1'lilted States King. Your stripes of red throb with the life blood of thousands; your stripes Of White Kitfl) With Itwi liiii<#lAti women's tears; your field of blue breathes the steadfastness of a country firmly united; and your stars sing of a union that is welded together by the mighty hand of an Almighty Gud. A Famous Flag of Only a fow of the flags borne In the American army during the war of the Revolution ure still In exlBtenee. One of the most noted of these was carried by the Maryland troops, according to tradition, at the battles on Lonp IfllnnH nnrl TTnrlnm ' ~. ....v WU>.?>U "Siftiua ?JJU j the several subsequent engagements in which the Maryland regiments participated in the upper part of the State of New York. It is positively : known to have been carried as the regimental flag of the Third Maryland ' March 2 8. 17 81. the fla? remained in awnwiurn iIM ii iiiii Mi i >mnn?tn>n.inKiM niTm 1IISTOK1C FLAG CAk.UiijJ u * M. Y.'AII OP THE ] Regiment undor John K. i I Howard at the battle of Cowpens. S. \ ' V., in January, lTT^, the color-bearer j being William Ii:i?*1m-1-?> . Bachelor j j was wounded and -. : 1? to his home i:i i Baltimore, brin^lir.; with him the j j (lag. After the death of Bachelor, on j his family, and when the British inj vaded Maryland in INI 4 it was again ' j carried at the battle of North Point j by Bachelor's son. William, a tneinj her of the Twentv-seventh Regiment 1 of Maryland militia. This William j ! Bachelor bore the ling in all the parlades of the Twenty-seventh Regiment i I up to about is to, when the regimental organization expired. Bein;; a ' ANG IN THE FOURT1 Ap'I iliil v.\is a ; . xv <>1'! t'ullow, His purple was sc'tKvl .m<l grim. Willi a temper that never got mellow, For b'i\ > \v;t?* not buys to him. (Mi tin- T11iv?I lit' just took out the clapper, \\ itli ill ?< 1 iih bovs standing by, Aii'l he "hi; -?t':l that would hold us," lie said as he told us We'd rung our l.ust Fourth of July. To the Star-SpaiiRh'd. The Lily <>t Franco may fatle T lie Thistle ant! Sliamrock may wither, | Tin* Oak of Knglaml may soon ilflcay, 15ut the Stars will shine on forever. the Revolution. -^T~ member of the Old Defenders' Association, ho carried tho flat, In all parades and functions of the association as long as he was able ti> take part, and died In lSKTi, aged ninety-nine. The flag remained in the possession of his family until 1894, when It, was presented to the Society of the War of 1S12,- the successor of the Old Defenders' Association, and was preacrvr .1 by that society until presented j to tlie State of Maryland, at Annapo- : lis, on October 1!), 1907. It is one of tbo Stnto's most valued relics. ? ? I *>;.rcfUjjV i liuui'; > Ih Kl.Mj Jill'j ' REVOLUTION. ?Mrs. C. It. Miller. J'oivrast For .July I 'mirth. If I on: i!i of .July In* warm ninl lair, . *? U> .-11.141 I r\cr\ WIII'I'U. ! rain comes down and wet us through, I. >! ; out tor bands 111< 1 processions, t o. If the sun shines bright ami t'.ic sky bo blue, The balloon may go up ;it half-past two. If clouds there ho on tin- I mirth o' July. I'll.' crackers will ,><>] mi l rockets will fly. If tlie wind blow nortli. south, east or west, Morns, drums and trut:i;>i;s will got no rest. Whatever the weather iv happen to be, The Fourth o' July i< Mm- day for mo! hi OF JULY, Hut he l>!iillv I'ii-ttonk us ; v nappei'S, .\iiil fur taint In tito<l n well, J-'ot1 linnimci-M wore lie(iet ? clappers, Su long .is he li :t it- ! ( 1 -.1. \\ ' tlm-w a stone tip tin u/h t'ie bolfry W Iticli enrtieil i t ??|??- i n t:u liy; ii<l in spiti' ni |till M iiiinii;/ n(l all of his planning We rang in tin- I' liirih ni" .July. - Die II ii>fln>lil l.edger. When "America" Was Sung. "On one Fourth of July in Boston," writ*; Dr. Halo :n his "Reminiscences" in Woman's; Home Companion, "I had spent all my allowance for July and all my ' 'lection money* on the Common possibly for a sight in the camera obscura, though I doubt if I had money enough for that ? certainly for raw oysters, three for a cent if small, two for a cent if large; probably half a glass of spruce beer, ono cent, and two or three checkerberry medals- die now lost and make what allowance you please for tamarinds, cocoanuts, sugar-cane and other foreign delicacies. I was returning penniless, and had to pass Park Streeet Meeting House, when an event of historical importance took place. Loan columns of boys and girls were going into meeting. The spectacle of a procession of children going to in< '.rig on any day but Hun- , day was a.> wonderful to me as a volcanic eruption from the Blue liiiis would have been. Of course, 1 joined | the throng. So is it that I am one of the little company who heard the national anthem sung for the first time? 'M\ count i \ . 'i i-s t>f thee, Sweet 1.1 in I i f liliertj "I hope 1 did not join in the sing- | ing. for at that time do was to me ] even as re and mi, and I am afraid j I should not have improved on tho j harmonies of the occasion." Professor Adams, of the Mount Wilson Observatory, has been making a spectroscopic study of llalley'a comet. Ho finds the head to be sur rounded by cynnogcn t;as and the j tail to bo composed of hydrocarbons, ?Scientific American. Sir Ernest Shackelton rceclvcd a gold medal from the Geographical Society of Philadelphia at a dinner given In his honor on April 22d. Anions tluisc who spoke in praise of Sir Ernest's achievements were such famous Arctic explorers as Hear Admiral George Melville and Amos S. Bonsai.?Scientific American. T!nu r Ar " ? - .. x. .. VI'. 'I >i. ?P"~ retary of t':e Philippine Weather IJureau, has prepared, at the request of the Insular government, a paper on "The Return of Hnllcy's Come* and Popular Apprehensions," for distribution throughout the leland.u, with the object o!" reassuring the natives, who, it is ::ukl, are already a prey to many wild rumors on this subject.? Scientific American. Tn an article published in Light, Mr. Robert E. Livingston sta' s that the first man to v-e ga : in New Vol ': City was Mr. Sar.-.uel Leggct. who lighted his V.ou: at No. 7 Chen v street with it. \ neonle Icent .it m respectful distance from the house, fearing an exnl jion. Newport, Ilhocle Island iiii-' Baltimore, Mil., soon followed Xo\. York.?Scientlllc I American. The American Philr> -ophlcal Society (>t Philadelphia ha; (jccifled to nsslst in the movement for an oxpedli tion for south polo e<pl )i-ation. Tho | project was urged in 1 11 when the following scleutific socio?: united in a appeal to Conirress: The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Oographical Society, California Academy of Sciences, Xcw York Acsdei y of Sciences, Fr .1, Institute, (; graphical Society cf Philadelphia, V. crican Museum o" Natural Scienc . G -ologlcal Soci . of America, A. ion of American j C ur;* 1 iiers, a:: '. American Al- 1 pi:: Club.?ScicniilW American. [n a looturo delivr; ; before tho Ro.vat Society of x?;>! . . Professor .v. Piutti called attenilon l > ih^ discovcry of 1'almleri in 1 ^ > 1 of a characteristic lino of helium i:i 11 a mo spectrum obtained by h :ui:'.L, in a flame "an amorphous. buttery substance of a yellow color which was found as a sublimate on the edire of i a fr.marole near the mouth of Vesuvius." This i-j generally accepted a.; the lir:' discovery of terrestrial hel! ium, although Xaslnl and Andelinl In : 190i>, on examining the flame spoej train cf a lar.se number of volcanic i i:>eni-t .ti<>'.failed to recognize the presence ? f helium in any of tho r.'.c in.ens they examined und r the condition c'.-v-c. ibotl by Palr.iiori.? Scientific America?;. ! i:i.r.( thic m.voi.x int. ?juor.*. Muter operated and SH in Mi ti n '>y i'resing :: Hulion. Tn some buildings of : oml-pul 'i naturo in which revolving doors aro | installed, as bonis hnd stores, th Keep a man a; (lie entrance to In. lp i operate the doot* for iho greater con* ; vonience ;:?:> 1 comfort of percoiis ^r.toring ami lavitig the hniiding. 'I "its i::a 11 ;\:ii> i!i ' (! .<u in n. >l!on, thus making i? - r ;'<> the \ crso'i oniering i > . .. !i 1 ! t iif ih" way. i?u! tiio -it! :.<!nnt, :.( ( irdlng to Ms i r.athra! . t :.v.; :i or Lis mood lit tTVO i ioni"i l, u:. ' : t i door s\\ iftly or :;K>wiy, t h-i ' .. ii:<>i retarding fho iiHOMii . An.I ' ? :? a p*r.?o::? nIIy opiMT.ii'd (' > ; < .. nan In Ilir? 1oi>r. impatient, l . ty j.inli th< ir f ~ . 1 i - ' * ' liioi. it 11 ii Hi.11^ I tK* I ? '. ill I i'V.T Ot 1 himself against the to col mi" ih man in tlm compartment ahead, ikin.g him pccvi.sl). All those varhv i - and uncertainties in the movi intents of the door are eliminate! by operating .t with an electric motor. The electrically operated rev lving door has a motor attached t<> tin- upper end of the shaft from which the leaves extend. The motor is quite out of sight above th horizontal sheathinn at the top of the doorway From the motor and also quite o n of sight I wiring extends to a push button s?t in tho wall at the side of the doorway within the building, where the door . attendant stands. With a door thus eqnipi ed tin i" n.) reaching out and grabbing a leaf and pushing or pulling on it to start | it. The attendant simply presses tho button and so turns the current into , tlio motor, and the motor does th<> j rest, starling the do.?r gently and then ! hooping it going with :i motion ?ha is | steady and uniform. -New York rf in. I'arly Habits. "That 1 a: speaker," said the -t ; guest at tin banquet, "was quite on- j tor to it. lit:," Yes," ftp!led tho othcr? "and lie's j a self-made man, too." "I can't though, that I liked his delivery It was rather slow." "Oh! natur..ll: . Ho began life as a messenger buy."?Catholic Standard Times. Sinre its establishment in 1ST1 to June :?0, last, year, tho. HI'o saving service of the United States has been the means of saving property valued til $221,931,732, OIL DISTRIBUTION AN EXACT SCIENCE Fully n Million Dollars a Week In Foreign Gold Comes to This Country to Pay For Standard's Product That is Peddled to the Doors of Hut and Palace, Accord Ing to the Rockefeller Plan of International Barter. This Itockefpllor Foundation to make ,i story of it, is in reality .ills'this?it is the dream of a poor boycome true. it Is the happy ending of ati American novel of real life, it is the climax of one of the most dramatic and Impressive careers that this country, or any other, has ever known. The dream?or the novel or drama, whichever you like -began more than half a century ago. It began in a shahhy little boarding house in Cleveland, in the brain of a bid of eighteen who was clerking for a shipping and real estato company. There were at that time about a million other American boys of the same ace, and not many of them had received fewer privileges than this oik lie had Ikimi educated partly in the public schools, but mainly at home, l>y his mother and father. His pay, at this tin:", was sixty cents a day. II hour of labor were from hrcakfa until boltlmi*. For his room a: metis he was paying $1 a iiucn, > mat ill- p"t iin >!t!the basis of his dream ?>r lnrtui o ; ;:<! philanthropy was not more than $l"5 a year. Kven at this time, and with this income, lie built a tiny little founlation of liis own. Oi:t of the sivty cents a day. he set aside a few pennies for the church, or for some hungry family, or to drop into sotno hat that was passed around in the office. The notebook in which tlnse little philanthropic entries were made is still in existence It is known by the name of "Ledger A" in the Rockefeller family. it is a completely worn out little notebook, with broken cover and tattered pages of faded writing, but it is one of the mo t precious treasures In the Rockefeller vault;-. It ha- more than a personal interest now. It has stid uimii.v iipcomc aistoric. because it records t h? origin of "the mo t comprehensive scheme of benovob- ico in the whole liistorv of hi'" iriit; " The managerial Ih-tinct was so strong ia this hoy that ) e \v:: not atl- fled wit h merely pa\ing hi. share 111' ' the coatrlhation box's Ily the tit > lie was nineteen he had ri;?en'-<1 i i (< i an organizer of bene volet. re. 11" was a member of a mission church, which was fast breaking down under tiie weight of a $2000 mortgage. Thi- sixty - cent - a - day youth undert ">k to collect the money, and lie did it. "That was a proud day," he said in later years, "when the last dollar was collected." Little as he knew it. the boy was i urn ai worn upon tlie 1111 n111 of his dream to heroine perliat s iho ::n atest setter, and the gr<atcs; gtver, of liis generation. I.aic!', when he became a prosperous man of business and large affairs, he still retained the habit of organizing his giving as well ;is his getting. He even went so far as to organize his family into a sort of foundation. At the break'., table he would distribute the various appeals for help among his children, ro<|uesiing them to investigate < aeh case and inakei a report to him on the following day. in this \\n\ h s children, arid especially his son :nl name, a lie. who i dest i v.. | to -t ;>ute the revenue ot tWo Hoc ! clt ller for! line, received a Spartan : g In "the dilllcult art of -iv. The whole bent < : t !. 1. :. ll r tr.ind seems to h ive I . u . lined from tlirst toward '' > ' i.ii;g 0':t i I this pi tliii'in t'! 11ioii. Tin- 1 us Sin s i.i t i >' ! I oil C' :r. :!!:> it elf i tit- t ' . matter lit dis-t ribn:! ' t' 'i : :n : ion. 11 was tina- ? a ' t ?oihpany that ui' i i in t diri ct 1 v ' ? tho ii . \v; !< ~citlo. !'()! t: ' ts ' t n-r, il !<>1 i\ i ; > .t ( !. : >: to \ . -:il.>. ?> ,] in . .1! !i, ' :! \ > ? ?' ':! v 11. 11 l)ii 1 lis it, w i! ! .t ' ti ') o 1 '11 it .! S'at>? cr i:i t:.' lit ' most pn >! t .if I'M!" '1. It litis, t i: ill 111 fcWi'i :;.: 111 Mji. tank \*;r.?on- t'. !ii. ; ' 1!:: )i; r t(i i!oo: i . cniiii: :>-s ot' lOui'o po, - li:n : ; quarts "t' liquid '.i : r to w h demands it. Full > 1 w ? ( k. in lnrol;::i 1 lent, ?-oine.-> to 11 i - 1 > . , t!u' oil that is ;??*ii(l 1- I,. ,. ot lint iitnl paliui>. ;ii i . to flu Kofkofcllor plan of iiatio: ;.! 1. stribution Consequent|v'. botli l>y nntur;:! aptitude and busings* exnerieiiro \tr Horkefelii r was v.e!i pH :>}ir< i! t> work out 'he pioir.i in of c!i nil ,t: ^ the .siirpl i n ones of the ri? i. :i systematic ami ellieiont 11 ann< : lis now foumla: <.:? is no aftr:th< lit It is no suction rliaiiKo >i mi: <1 nr en im>.'?* df heart. It is ti e natti* >! >>. suit oi fifty ycarjh of evperi." e m<! etporinient What ho in nan t in .is a pool i)(>y ill a Clpvolaml boa' ! house. Ik; is now about in < i on an international scale t!.v explanation of t h new pi in that Ki exeitetl so mm h Comment ami so mm h curiosity. Money Saved. Sineo Infrm!': ;ng the ";>av wl'h :i" ears In Phi la 1<j! ;>! i th?> t im >er >>f a< identa !o ;> .riss has <le ! VI pi r rent. Thi - l< " r ! ::? <! U?? arrangement of t:,? - 1 ' ami s'opri, making it |jr.;?i 'i 'or |???? s'lnjers to . < .. or oil v. .ion '1. of.rH are inovln;;. N'ewt'lleli "S.i v. i i. < .'on a .>! \\ i . Y c, r I am will in * to \v< -,k ovr: i,-h if is for a mori' pi?sat " N i . i h "(lit out' The nono of >oti. onllin" mo a nnntc III n that!" ('It'vcland I .oador "Pardon mo, ^ >v< n or " hoqnn th? ptroot hopKar 'Vo: snitilv, <!r.ir follow," answcrorl the Rontloman from Tennessee "What are yon guilty of?"?Duffoio Express