Captain Reid suggested the plan of retaining the thirteen stripes to indicate that, and the adding of a new star every time a new State was admitted, and Congress adopted that plan.
He was certainly a talented man.

He invented and erected the signal telegraphs at the Battery and the Narrows." "I'm proud of him, Grandma Elsie!" said Grace, her face lighting up with enthusiasm.

"His defence at Fayal against such overwhelming numbers was wonderful.

And so was Jackson's at New Orleans.

England was a great and powerful nation while ours was but small and weak, but we were in the right--fighting against dreadful wrongs done to our sailors--and God helped us to drive away our haughty, powerful foe, and deliver our brave tars from her unendurable oppression." "Yes, dear; and to Him let us ever give all the glory and the praise.