THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume VI, Issue 688, 29 August 1898, Page 4

THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER.

I oem “ The Star Spangled : may be said to have belt is national hymn of the ia States. It was sung by i I iid troops after every victory i ti panish war, and at Fourth I : celebrations in America and ii. lit was sung in conjunction 1 od Save the Queen,” to i bond of friendship between itions. Yet the poem was i. >r illy written as referring to 1 States flag generally, but ed by a particular flag to ‘ ; ill i name of the Star Spangled Li, i n was given. This banner is i ,n the vaults of a New York i Is Some day it will be the it f him who is now comandi color company in one of ■ i rk’s regiments at the front— I jung man gets back. It from the heroic defender M’Henry. It cannot last o it, but the song of Francis ■j ley, which it inspired, will :i hen flag and owners have ro dust. When Lieutenant George Armistead, in dis:i ii, to his orders, beat off the I: at Baltimore 84 years ago, i iurnment, instead of courti l ing him, raised him by ae grade, and gave him the [I :h he bad saved. Upon his four years later, the flag so the possession of his , who married William Appleton, of New England, n of Daniel Appleton, colonel New York Seventh. When ii. i . ppleton died she bequeathed 1 g to her daughter, now Mrs Livingston Baker, of New ii; Her son, named after his I. :i : s captain of Company H, New York Volunteers, and, i: .- Jy enough, his is the color :[I i / of the regiment. Some 1., j he returns, he will receive tioious legacy. The flag ;.i l!y was 40 feet by 29. It was ■a.: by Mrs Mary Pickersgill, I I i ar of Rebecca Young, who, ;i a I 1 iVashington’s direction, made A M l flag of the Revolution. As ; was too big for any ordinary ii I Jrs Pickersgill sewed it in i brewery in Baltimore, workii | itil midnight many a night i ; Tlie Star Spangled Banner Fi er Washington's tent which i ii ad Lafayette on his visit to I i I‘Henry a dozen years after L :of 1812. It was probably ii: I in the funeral procession of < i 1 Armistead in 1818. During I aellion, it is understood, the i , as sent to England for safef.:. iiviig. It was exhibited at the ; innial, having been photomibed suspended from a building ;! • a years before. It is not strong : ii i l,;h to fling out now-a-days, it n ng been found necessary some i ago to stitch on a canvas back, the centre of it is a big hole ii i e by a bombshell in tho bomlment. And a large section is sing out of one corner. Many rs ago when one of the defenders the fort died, he begged as a last quest, that his body should be apped in a piece of the flag, and i a dying wish was rospocted. A I .dure of the flag shows it with this ece cut out. It is othorwiso somehat dilapidated. In ono way it is, ben put alongside a modern United ;ates flag, emblematic of the growth the States. For there aro only urtoen stars thero, instead of the urty-four now present, each star, course, representing a State.