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THE OHIO FLAG.

Adopted by the Ohio Commission at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901.
Designed by John Eisenmann, Architect of Ohio Building.

HE above cut is given as a matter of interest, inasmuch as it is proposed that the General Assembly at its session in 1902 shali be asked to adopt the design permanently for official use as the flag of the State of Ohio.

Its symbolism is as follows: The triangles formed by the main lines of the flag represent the hills and valleys, as typified in the State seal, and the stripes the roads and waterways. The stars, indicating the thirteen original states of the Union, are grouped about the circle which represents the original Northwest Territory and that Ohio was the seventeenth State admitted into the Union is shown by adding of four more stars. The white circle with its red center, not only represents the initial letter of Ohio, but is suggestive of its being the "Buckeye" State.

The proportions and symmetry of the flag are such that it may be shown in any position without effecting its symbolism.

The Wilberforce University.

still maintaining this department. At the breaking out of the SpanishAmerican War, Wilberforce furnished some of the best negro soldiers that went to the front, a number of whom are fighting for the flag in the Philippines to-day.

The University has received from all sources since organization, $513,202.80. Six thousand and six negro youths have attended the University, most of them coming from the South. Two hundred and sixtysix have graduated from our literary courses, and are now preaching and teaching in the South; striving to help solve the race question. Two hundred and ten have graduated from the Industrial Department, and are now engaged in the useful trades. It is the pride of the University that it has always been the aim and object to contribute her full share to the intellectual, moral, physical, and industrial uplift of the negro, and thereby assist in removing the standing menace to our American institutions, the race problem.

WOMEN'S RELIEF CORPS HOME FOR ARMY NURSES.

MADISON, LAKE COUNTY.

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OLLOWING the agitation which led to the establishment of the State Soldiers' and Sailors' Home in Sandusky, the members of the Ladies' Aid Society called the attention of the General Assembly to the fact that a number of heroic women who had served the country faithfully as army nurses in the War of the Rebellion, were living in Ohio in such circumstances that a proper sense of their past services rendered it imperative that they should be equally cared for with the ex-soldier and his children. Accordingly, the General Assembly in 1891 passed an act appropriating twenty-five thousand dollars to be used in building a suitable home for army nurses, the money to be expended under the direction of a board of managers appointed for that purpose. Under the provisions of this act a site was selected at Madison, Lake county, a house was built and opened for nurses in 1892.

The trustees on location and construction were: Hon. A. H. McCoy, Mrs. Ada L. Clarke, Mrs. Margaret A. Beale, N. Stratton, and P. H. Cowles; H. F. Lindsey, architect; C. H. Pancoast, superintendent of construction, and E. L. Winchell, contractor.

The state has since been to no expense in operating the Home which is cared for by the contributions of the several soldier organizations.

THE WORKING HOME FOR THE BLIND.

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N the year of 1886 a bill introduced by Representative Palmer of Cuyahoga, himself a blind man, was passed by the General Assembly authorizing the appointment of a board of trustees, whose duty it should be to locate and operate an institution in which the blind adults of Ohio might be given employment and sustenance, with the promise on the part of the friends of the measure that with some material assistance from the State in the organization of such a home, it would become self-supporting. The institution was located at Iberia and opened within a reasonable time after the trustees were appointed. It was destroyed by fire in 1895, leaving the inmates with insufficient accommodations, both in their Industrial and Domestic Departments. The General Assembly not being satisfied with the success of the experiment refused to rebuild the buildings so destroyed, and eventually ordered the abandonment of the institution. The trustees of the home who gave unselfishly of their time and means toward making the home self-supporting during the terms of their incumbency were: