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^ "OLD GLORY/*
U. S. Emblem is Oldest of All World's
Flags.
I The fact that sixty-odd sizes and
shapes of United States flags were
found in use in the various governi
t. ment departments in Washington has
called forth an executive order standardizing
the form and size of all our
national flags. The flags and union
jacks of all departments, with certain
exceptions in the army and navy,!
v must now conform to specifications. !
Taking the hoist, or width, as 1,;
the fly, or length, is 1.9, the hoist of;
the union 7-13, the fly of the union
j .76 and the width of each stripe 1-13.
There are twelve prescribed sizes,
but the 19-foot flag is to be the
- standard.
Increase of Stars.
. - The American flag collections of
the United States national museum
include some examples of our flag
indicative of its development in several
historical periods, its many
vuaiiaco, auu i51 auuai siduudiuiiation.
It is interesting to note that during
the Revolution the flag had thirteen
stars; in the War of 1812 fifteen;
in the Mexican war twentynine;
in the Civil war thirty-five; in
the Spanish-American war forty-five,
and today forty-eight.
The United States flag is among
the oldest of national flags, being
older than the present British union
_ jack, the French tricolor, and the
flag of Spain, and many years older
than the flags of Germany and Italy,
some of which, like those of other
countries, are personal flags, or those
reigning families.
How "Old Glory" Started.
There are no early colonial flags,
fl^^^rsuch as were used by the individual
colonies and militia regiments before
the flag of the United States was established
by congress on June 14,
1777, now celebrated as Flag Day.
This act required:
"That the flag of the United
States be thirteen stripes, alternate
W^m red and white; that the Union be
thirteen stars, white in a blue field,
representing a new constellation."
.
But the act did not define how
4 many points the*stars should have,
how they should be arranged, nor
I
make provisions for additional ones.
The navy immediately adopted this
flag, but the army was much slower
to act.
John Paul Jones Original.
Representative of the early stars
and stripes type, there is a twelvestar
flag said to have been used by
John Paul Jones in the War of the
Revolution. It measures 10 1-2 feet
by
6 1-4 feet and was presented to
Lieutenant James Bayard Stafford,
? United States navy, on December 13,
.1784, by the marine committee of
the continental congress as a reward
for meritorious services in the Revolution,
coming later to the Smithsonian
institution as a gift from Mrs.
Harriet R. Perry Stafford.
Another flag of the highest historic
value is the original "Star-Spangled
f w, . .
Banner/' which flew over Fort McHenry
in Baltimore during the bom#
bardment on September 13-14, and
was the inspiration for Key's anthem.
\ It now hangs in the rotunda of the
Lnew national museum building,
where the models in competition for
the Key memorial are now on display.
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} 15 Stars and Stripes.
This Fort McHenrv flag is of the
fifteen stars and stripes type, adopted
by an act approved by President
Washington on January 13, 1794,
which took" effect on May 1, 1795,
after the admission of Vermont and
Kentucky.
It measures about 30 feet square,
1
is much battered and torn, and has
i one star missing. This great historic
souvenir has lately been preserved
by quilting it on heavy linen cloth.
It remains one of the country's most
V precious relics.
From 1795 this form continued as
the standard flag until President
Monroe's administration, when con
gress enacted that it should thereafter
be of thirteen stripes, with the
addition of a star for each new State,
beginning on July 4, 1818.
First in Battle in 1846.
It seems that the army never car/
ried the national flag in battle in
1846, though we have record of its
use as a garrison flag from about
^ 1787 to 1834. Before 1834
bodies of troops carried what was
, * known as national colors, or standards,
of blue with the arms of the
United States emblazoned thereon,
comprising an eagle surmounted by
a number of stars, and with the
designation of the troops, as infantry,
artillery, etc., inscribed as a
scroll.
In 1834 the artillery was given the
right of carrying the Stars and
Stripes, as recorded by the war de??tho
infant rv
jJitlmiCllt i v?4v/
and cavalry still using the national
arms with an added scroll in the
eagle's beak bearing the words "E
Pluribus Unum."
These flags remained the colors of
the infantry until 1841, and the cavalry
until as late as 1887, when they
L
WHISKEY FROM KAFIR CORN.
And the Grain is Grown in Prohibi
tion Kansas.
If you are a fervent enemy of John
Barleycorn, don't ask too many questions
when you sell your kafir.
Within the last few months the
distillers have found that kafir makes
excellent whiskey. Also within the
last few months kafir corn has found
a market almost as stable as wheat
and corn, and on the grain markets
of the large cities "futures" in kafir
corn are now established.
In Kansas there is a big demand
for kafir. J. C. Mohler, secretary of
the State board of agriculture, has
received many inquiries from eastern
grain men and brokers for car lots
of it. One Topeka grain dealer has
oders for 28 cars of kafir which he
is unable to fill. The late spring and
early frosts in Iowa last year made
the crop of good corn so short that
the distillers were compelled to find
some substitute for it in making their
liquors.
Kafir was found to be quite as
good?some of the distillers say it is
better?for the purpose as corn, and
the distillery began buying it up.
Evidently the kafir crop in Kansas
has been disposed of. The present
price of kafir in Kansas City, Mo., is
$1.17 per 100 pounds, or slightly
more than 50 cents a bushel. The
average yield per acre of kafir in
Kansas is 22 1-2 bushels.?Topeka,
Kansas, dispatch to Knasas City Star.
were ordered to employ the Stars and ,
Stripes.
Europeans AH Mixed Up.
So many styles and forms of the
stars and stripes were in existence
in 1837 that certain foreign governments
found it necessary to make inquiry
of this government just what
the official flag was, resulting in the
publication in 1852 of a careful study
of the subject by him who later became
General Schuyler Hamilton.
It was not until 1912 that definite
specifications were drawn up. Under
President Taft's administration representatives
of the various govern
ment departments conferred on proportions
and other details of the national
flag, resulting in an executive
order dated October 29, 1912, which
tended to standardize the Stars and
Stripes, and yet further specifications
were found necessary only recently.
Mexicans Confront Flag.
The history of our flag indicates
that the Stars and Stripes was not
carried by troops in battle until the
Mexican war in 1846-47.
Several flags of this period are in
the museum collections. Among
them is a flag of thirteen stripes and
stars carried throughout the war by
the battalion of volunteers which enlisted
from Maryland and the District
of Columbia, and the flag of the Company
I, Fourth Regiment of Indiana
Tnfantrv?thirteen stripes, with
an eagle in the field.
The following ten flags of the collection
pertain to the Civil war:
Garrison flag of Fort Moultrie, S.
C., lowered when the command evacuated
that fort to assemble at Fort
Sumter on December 26, 1860.
Boat flag flown by Commander
Charles S. Boggs, United States navy,
when he left the gunboat Varuna,
sunk in an engagement between a
Confederate flotilla and the Union .
fleet under Admiral Farragut, below
New Orleans on April 24, 1862.
Signal flag of white cloth with
painted stars and stripes.
Headquarters flag of Major General
Benjamin F. Butler, United States
Volunteers, flown, at Fortress Monroe,
Virginia, in 1861.
Flag raised at New Orleans by its
citizens upon the occupation of the
city by the Union forces under Major
General Butler on May 1, 1862.
Remains of flag carried in three
days' fight at Salem Heights, Va.,
May 3-5, 1863, when three color ser|
geants were killed, though the banner
never faltered or fell to the
ground.
General Hazen's garrison flag,
hoisted at Fort McAllister, Ga., after
the surrender of the fort to the
Union army on December 13, 1864.
Flag flown on Kearsarge when it
sank the Alabama, deposited in the
national moseum by Lieutenant Herbert
Winslow, son of Rear Admiral
Winslow, commander of the Kearsarge
in this action.
Headquarters flag of Major General
E. O. C. Ord, United States army,
flown in Richmond, Va., in 1865.
Flag of the First Pennsylvania
Volunteers, found in the capitol at
Richmond in 1865 by Major General
Ord.
Other flags include some from the
Spanish-American war, and the following
miscellaneous flags:
A flag owned by Admiral Charles
-1 nx-i. . ^^1
WlIKeS, unuea Oiaies uavi , uie euiors
carried by Rear Admiral Peary in
his Arctic explorations in 1909; the
flag carried by the Smithsonian African
expedition under the command of
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt in 19091910,
and many examples of the
national ensign, which has flown in
so many notable engagements and
over numerous worthy achievements.
RURAL CREDIT ACT.
What the New Law Proposes to IK>
and How It Proposes to Do It. 1
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Many long and complicated explanations
of the rural credits act
have been published. These have <
wearied or confused the average ?
reader. On the other hand, most of '
the brief descriptive references to the
act have been too general to give a
clear idea of the modus operandi.
What the ordinary citizen would j
like to know is how the new farm
loan system is to work and how the
farmer is to secure access to its bene- ]
fits. The main features and the principle
can be shown in a few words
as follows: ,
Under the rural credit act the
country is divided into twelve districts,
each of which has a federal
land bank. These banks, which back j
each other's loans, form the division- \
al links of a system which is cen- i
trally supervised by a federal farm (
loan board of five members, appointed
by the president.
The government supplies $9,000.000
to start each of the twelve farm
land banks with $750,000 capital,
the money being returned to the government
as the banks become gradually
the property of the farmers
themselves, as will be explained later
in this article.
The federal land banks lend j
through local farm loan associations
in amounts from $100 to $10,000 on ;
approved farm lands estimated to be '
worth twice the amount of the loan. 1
These farm loan associations are real- (
ly banks, except that they cannot re- <
ceive deposits. Neither can the fed- 1
eral land banks. !
It takes ten or more farmers in a j
community to form a local association,
and they must desire to borrow
at least $20,000 from the federal
land bank of their district. If the
character of these men and the lands
they offer as security are approved
by the officers of the federal system,
a charter is issued to them. {
After being chartered, each local
association can receive application
for loans from as many farmers in
the territory as have land to cover
the amount. To get the money, however,
each applicant must become a
member of the local association and
take stock in it to the extent of 5
per cent, of his borrowings. Similarly,
the association itself must take
stock in the farm land bank of the 1
district to the extent of 5 per cent, of
the money loaned through the association
by the bank. \
Thus it will be seen that the local :
associations will gradually acquire, 1
by the automatic operation of the j
system, all of the stock of the twelve ,
district banks, and that the borrow
ers through the local associations will
in the same way acquire all of the <
stock of the associations. In other
words, the borrower in a few years
will own the entire system, the government
being left with no function
except protective regulation.
Borrowers will be repaired to pay
a certain proportion of the principal
of their loans every year. This an-!
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nual payment, constituting what is;
called "amortization," will be smaller
in proportion to the length of time
thfe loan is to run, which time is never
to be more than forty years nor less
than five.
The rate of interest is not to exceed
G per cent, in any case, and is
never to be more than 1 per cent
more than the rate of interest carried
by the last bond sold by the land
bank when the loan was made.
Additional capital necessary to operate
and expand the system is to be
obtained from the sale of bonds based
on the mortgages owned by the land
tVineo honVc hoin? lnint
uaiiiYa, an \jjl wuunw
ly responsible for the bonds. Being
thus backed, these securities are expected
to be in such demand as safe
investments that in a few years the I
farmer with good land can get all the
capital the land justifies at 6 per
cent, or less in any part of the country.
Expert Testimony.
Young Mrs. Cornell was a bride of
but a short time. One afternoon she
confided to her friends at a pink tea (
that she was sure her husband never
played poker at his club.
"How," queried one of the women,
"did you find out?" (
"Oh," explained the young bride,
"I met a couple of the members of
his club the other day and asked
them: 'Can Perry play poker?' They
looked thoughtful for a moment and then
answered very sincerely:
'No.' "?Baltimore Sun.
Obliging an Old Master.
On the occasion of the death of a
chief of one of the department bureaus
in Washington, a clerk in that
bureau was rushing madly down the
street when he was stopped by a
friend, who asked:
"Why the deuce are you in such a
tearing hurry?"
"I am going," explained the clerk,
"to the funeral of my chief, and
there is nothing he hates like unpunctuality."?Washington
Post.
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Take Grove's
The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless
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General Tonic because it contains the
well known tonic properties of QUININE
and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives
out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Builds up the Whole System. SO certs.
Dr. THOMAS HLiAUJv, JK.
DENTAL SURGEON.
Graduate Dental Department University
of Maryland. Member S. C
State Dental Association.
Office opposite new post office and
Dver office of H. M. Graham. Office
hours, 8:30 a. m. to 5:30 p. m.
BAMBERG, S. C.
No. 666
This it a prescription prepared especially
or MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER.
Five or six doses will break any case, and
f taken then as a tonic the Fever will not
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Calomel and does not gripe or sicken. 25c
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BAMBERG, S. C.
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Does Not Gripe nor Disturb the Stomach,
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acts effectively and does not gripe nor
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EHRHARDT, S. C.
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and the Proper Training of
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The Strong Withstand the Heat of
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Old people who are feeble, and younger
people who are weak, will be strengthened
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and enriches the blood and builds up
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AUGUSTA, GA.
NOTICE.
State of South Carolina?County of
Bamberg.
To all whom it may concern, please
take notice:
That the undersigned has lost a
certificate of the capital stock of the
Bamberg Banking Company, of Bamberg,
S. C., said certificate being No.
195, and also a certificate of the capital
stock of the Cotton Oil Company,
of Bamberg, S. C., said certificate being
No. 72, and application will be
made to said Bank and to said Cotton
Oil Company on August 15th, 1916,
for a duplicate certificate of each.
6-27. MRS. SALLIE R. OWENS.
NOTICE.
The reunion of company G, 1st S.
C. V. (on account of the State campaign
meeting, which takes place in
Bamberg on the 27th of July) will
meeet Thursday, August 3rd, 1916,
at Bethesda church. All persons are
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CUi Uiaii,) iilYlLCU HJ autuu IT1U1
filled baskets. All Confederate soldiers
are expected. We will have
good speaking. Committees?On
music: G. W. Folk, J. H. Fender
and J. H. Pearson; on grounds: Robert
Morris, J. H. Mitchell and Ola
J. Zeigler. Respectfully,
J. C. COPELAND,
C. R. CLAYTON,
J. B. HUNTER,
Committee.
MISS G. E. JORDAN,
Sec. and Treas. 7-27.
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RESOURCES CLEAR OF EXCUM
RESOURCES. ,1 . ; ,.
Loans and discounts 59,649.49 Capita
Furniture and fixtures .... 640.36 Surpli
Banking house 2,000.00 undivi
Duo from banks and renj
bankers 19,701.54
Currency 708.00 dU0
Gold 241.00 ers
Silver and other minor Deposi
coin 976.47 other!
Checks and cash items .... 39.64 tial
Total $83,956.50 Tot*
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The Quinine That Does Not Affect The Head
Because of its tonic and laxative effect, LAXATIVE
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Quinine and does not cause nervousness nor
rinsing in head. Remember the full name and
look for the signature of E. W. GROVE. 25c.
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BRAXCE $83,000.00. J\
LIABILITIES. *
,1 stock paid in $20,000.00
is fund 8,400.00
ided profits, less cur
; expenses and taxes
I 2,971.69
o banks and bank
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ts 49,722.95
liabilities, viz: Parpayment
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il $83,956.50
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Attorney-at-Law
BAMBERG, S. C.
il Practice. Loans Negotiated.
AN CIS F. CARROLL
Attorney-at-Law
i Over Bamberg Banking Co.
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