Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1896 — Facts About Flags. [ARTICLE]

Facts About Flags.

Did you ever think of the number of American flags which float from public buildings on a gala day? Uncle Sam has a pile of them a big as a hillock, and the old fellow has use for them all Utah has just been added to the family of States, and now there are forty-five in our household. On the Fourth of July the new flag, with fortyfive stars, were unfurled to the breeze, and if a man had gone high enough up in a balloon to look down on the whole country he would have seen what would look like a huge rainbow stretching from Atlantic to Pacific. All brand new flags with the whole forty-five stars on them. But what becomes of the old flags? Well, the country has need of them all. They can be used in a thousand ways, pat* ticularly for decorative purposes, Your Uncle Sam is a queer fellow with some odd notions, but he is not thrifty in the way of selling his old flags. On the contrary, you can’t coax one out of him. He will do any other service in his power, but if you ask for J a flag the old gentleman gets into a "flurry and looks down to his boots as though he were going to do something unless you get out of the way in a jiffy. And he is quite right.—New York Herald.