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AGED WOMAN BURNED TO DEA'J Mrs. Elizabeth Muggins Victim o! Hoirible Tragedy. Orangeburg, Dec. 17.?One of th< most shocking and heart-rend;nj tragedies ever enacted in this city was that at the home of .Mr. 11. C. Hug gins, on Glover street, early this morning, when the mother of .Mr Huggins. who resided with her son was found about 5 o'clock burned t( death and the body fallen througl a hole in the floor of the room maci< by the fire. Mrs. Elizabeth Huggins. the de ceased, was 72 years of age and quit* ^ feeble. She was fond of smoking anc the theory is that at a late hour las night she arose from her bed and li her pipe an<} sat in the old armchaii which stood in her room, and whiN enjoying herself fell asleep, and thai from the lighted pipe the acciden ^ occurred. With the charred bod: / there fell also through the hole parti of the chair and parts of a blanket which she had evidently wrappec about her body, for it was very col( nere. About three o'clock this morninj Mr. Huggins went to the room of hi: mother, which he frequently did, an< found her in bed asleep. About 1 o'clock Mrs. Huggins arose, bein; aroused by the odor of fire, and t< her horror found the gruesome spec tacle above described. The story is a short one, but shock ing. Mrs. Huggins leaves two sons The remains of Mrs. Huggins wen interred at Sunnyside this afternooi after the funeral at the home. Flags of Warring Nations. Hardly had man emerged from i state of barbarism than he felt i necessary to adopt some distinguish ing sign or badge to indicate his par ticular tribe or nation; and this ver; ...-nil,, not- the fr>r?+> nf flasrs am uaiuian> luun " banners, says Hereward Carrington in the Buffalo Express. From th very earliest times we find traces o these standards which were guardei with the utmost veneration am i usually kept in the temples, save ii time of war. From this we hav the tradition, now ingrained in us that the flag of a country is a thini to die for, to preserve; that is al most sacred, and the "fight for th standard" has been the subject o many a wonderful painting. It wil be of interest briefly to indicate th< history and meaning of the flags o the various warring nations. Take, first, the flag of Germany It must be remembered that prio to the Franco-Prussian war of 1S70 the German Empire was little mor than a group of scattered States When they combined into a singl empire, however, it is only natura that we should look for traces of al their flags in the resultant standerd f " And we find such traces. . To be sure, the colors of Prussiablack and white?and the Prussia: Eagle, enter very largely into it. bu it must be remembered that thi country became at that time the hea and ruler of all the others. It wa * \ by far the largest country, both i: 5 T r nstiiraTlx area, anu jjupuiauuu. ; therefore, became predominent. Be sides the smaller. States, there wer also the flags of the East and Wes Prussia to be included. That of Wes Prussia was black, white, black, thre stripes of equal diameter, runnin the length of the flags: that of Eas Prussia consisted of two such stripes the upper black and the lower white The jack of the imperial navy con sists of three horizontal stripes, th upper blafck, the middle white an the lower red. The' much-prize iron cross (dating back to the em of the 12th century.) is in the cen tre. This stripe appears in the fina war ensign of the Empire in whic! the tri-color (black, white, red, appears in the upper quarter wit the iron cross upon it, while the re maining three-quarters are white with the royal arms in the centre A black cross divides the whole fla into quarters. The flag of Austria is a very com ? * nr>? Koffir urith tho vs pi^x duau . i \j ?wv4m v..v . \ rious Austrian provinces have thei own flags; Bohemia is red-white Tyro! is white-red; Dalmatia is blue yellow; Galicia is blue-red: Croati is red-white-blue: Istria is yellow white-blue. Them again. Austria Hungary, being a dual monarch} both Austria and Hungary must b separately represented?and fully? on the flag. Fortunately, this combi nation was rendered more easy t the fact that portions of the flags o both countries were already th same. Thus, the Austrian flag wa red-white-red. The Hungarian wa . , rea-wnue-green. vuuipi mmoc affected by dividing the lowest liori zontal stripe in two, and leaving lial red, while the remainder was greer The arms of both countries also ap pear on the flag. This was decide on March 6, 1S09. The imperial standard of the Tsa of all the Russians is of brillian yellow, in the centre of which is large double-headed black edge. Thi flag dates from the year 1472, whe Ivan the Great married Sophia, r| WOMAN* FREER BY MAYOIl. r Had Serveil 25 Days ol a 20-Day Sentence. > 1 Walterboro, Dec. 17.?Much inter' est has been taken here in the case of Mrs. I. Padgett, who was convicted in the municipal court for the s town of Walterboro on November 23, ' charged with the saie of whiskey. Mrs. Padgett entered a plea of guilty and was sentenced to serve thirty days in jail or pay a fine of $10'). '; Soon after conviction she was paroled . by the governor. But the town officials did not concede the power of j the governor to pardon for offences against city ordinances. Mrs. Padgett had. however, been released and was later recommitted to jail where P she has served up 'till to-day twenty- = a * five days of her sentence. *! Mayor W. B. Ackerman decided, i however, that a sufficient showing '[ had been made for her release toi day and accordingly himself issued j to Mrs. Padgett a parole for the ofI fence of which she was convicted, j making it a condition that in case ! she should ever again be reconvicted 9 of the same offence she shall serve s ' . out the unserved portion of this sen. tence. ! At the time of the trial the woman ! 9 entered a plea of guilty and the next day her husband was convicted before j a jury of the same offence. An apI peal was entered for her husband to | the court of general sessions. a' ? 1 nice of Constantine Palaeologus, and 1 thence assumed the arms of the great I empire (the Russians embrace the i religion of the Greek church.) On j the breast of the eagle is an escutch- j ' eon bearing on its red field in silver t the figure of Saint George slaving' i Jiio Tirairnn?the whole being sur-j ,_! rounded by the collar of the Order; of Saint Andrew. On the displayed I 3 wings of the eagle are other shields! bearing the arras of Kiew, Novogo-i ' rod, Yolderniirz, Kasan, etc. The I e fl'flag of the Tsarina is similar, but] j ] smaller. The Russian Union Jack I 2 is very similar to that of England,; save that the principal crossbars are blue instead of red. This is the well-; ( i known Russian war flag. The cross j is that of Saint Andrew, the patron] saint of Russia. | The flag of Servia is the flag of; j the Russian merchant service revers-! I led; for, whereas that is white-blue-! e'red, the flag of Servia is red-blue-, f white, arranged in three horizontal j stripes running across the flag. The . ' royal standard is similar, save that1 r the royal arms are placed in the cen, ; tre of the blue stripe, g I The well-known tri-color of France . is made up of three stripes?blue, e! white and red?running not the: J , i length but the width of the flag. It 1; dates from the era of the French rev-| olution and came into existence in ' j 17S9. It has been the national flag _! since, with but slight variations. In n ! 1794 the tri-color was also made the -ijack of the French navy. sj -3"he Union jack of Great Britain?' ^ j the flag known to all?is composed s' of the three crosses of Sadnt George, j _i Saint Patrick and Saint Andrew.) r ; That of the first was a broad red; /(cross, dividing the white flag into e-j four white squares, the white ;t i cross of Saint Andrew, on a t blue background, ran from corner e to corner diagonally, while the red j g' cross of Saint Patrick rain in the 11 same direction. If the Union Jack . i be examined it will be found to be ,'icomposed of these three crosses, asj , J stated. Besides this, Great Britain e' has, of course, the royal standard jj and innumerable other flags?army, j j navy, merchant, etc. The flag was d | unfurled in 1801, on the union, in _| that year, of Great Britain (England, | Scotland, Wales and Ireland.) h j The flag of Belgium is composed ^ j of a tri-color?black, yellow and j d I red?running up and down?that is, ,J the width and not the length of the , j flag. The royal standard has- the , : arms placed in the centre of the yelg i low strip. This was adopted as the | national flag in 1831, being original_ j ly the colors of the Duchy of BraJ brant. r' From 14 77 until 1566 Belgium be. longed to Austria, but on the latter date it fell into the hands of Spain. _ In 1795 and for some years followcL ing it was held by France, and in | 1814 was handed over to the Prince _ . ! of Orange, but in 1830 the Belgians e' rose against the Hollanders and es_jtablished their independence. The ! flag which Is now flown was then 0 1 adopted. 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