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Show New Arrangement of Stars in the Flag .A .HISTORICAL AND SYMMETRICAL PLAN TO BE LAID BEFORE CONGRESS. For yoarsythe lack of symmetry and tilstorlral significance In the arrangement arrange-ment of the atara on the blue fluid of our national flag haa been a auhjert of comment among obaervlng patriota. Fourteen yeara ago J. R. Btnhlnecker of Sllvorton, Col., commenced working out the Idea, but never arrived at a aatlafactory anlutlon until recently, when a doalgn waa evolved, and the queatlon of Ha adoption will be brought before congreaa. It was a work requiring mare thought and study than at first ap-peara. ap-peara. With a given number of atars to get a dealgn that would comment-orato comment-orato tho greateat number of events In the hlatory of the country and yet aecure a aymmetrlcal and artistic artis-tic effect, was tho link Mr. Stahlheck-cr Stahlheck-cr set Mr himself. The center group of thirteen stars roproHcnts In hla flag the thirteen original atatea at the cloae of the Revolution, or at tho time of tho adoption adop-tion of tho ronatltution. Tbo outer circle of twenty-three stars represents the states admitted between that time and tlio close of tho civil war. Tno great seal of tho United Stntos U represented by the renter group of thlrteon and tho encircling wreath of twenty-three. It la Intended that these thrco great foaturos shall not be rhanged. The first event brought the flag Into existence: ex-istence: the second, the admission of twenty-three more states and the civil war, made the llfo of the nation doubly secure; the third, the representation repre-sentation of the great seal of the United States, is regarded aa appropriate. appro-priate. The stars outsldo the circle of twenty-three rapresent tho states ad- membership of statehood at the prea-, ent time. , Aa New Mexico, Arizona. Oklahoma! and Indian Territory romo in tholr stars may be placed In the extreme cornera outside the groups of two, thus forming a triangle. If the lime comes, says the Denver Post,' when Alaska or Hawaii desires admlnilon as a atate. atars may be plnced ml way on wich aids of trie held. 1 rli with the groups of two at the corners, cor-ners, making a aecond wreath and net detracting from the symmetry of the arrangement. i,. mltted Into the Union after tho rloan of the civil wnr In IKHS to the Kpanlsh war In 18U8. This places two In ach of the four corners and one midway on each side, and gives tho entire |