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10 TTT, rO-RXTTO OTITSGOXIAX SATURDAY, "AUGUST 11, 1900. TALKS ON EMERSON AND WHIHIER (Copyrlrht, 3000. by Seymour Eaton.) THE ORfcGONKN-i HOME STUDY CIRCLE: DIRECTED BY PROF. SEYMOUR EATON LITERARY TALKS AND REMINISCENCES BT T. "W. IflGGrNSON. from Hip genius and philanthropy of the poet Wbittler, his career will til Trays bo an inlfjvstinrr test ot the wirk 1ns: of republican Institutions. Ke bv lonsred to a. uide of men all whose lead ers except himself -were in a manner' barn in the purple, by compason. They miffht have known poverty, but they wre all of what Holmes called the BraJim n blood. They and their fathers before Hum wer-college-bred i.nd had whatever that rep resents In ctt Enrland. Jn a cour.trv llke England a man like Whlttler. bred to farming In Summer and shocmaking In "Winter, wou'id have been at a d'sadvani age among thos men In a dtirro' which the efforts of a lifetime would scarrolv have effaced, lie being what he was and living in America, the distinction erfacu itself: no om thought of it. Tcre wa jio such thing as ratrnn'zlng or defe -nce; he pimply took his p'ace. Tet It Is but just slo to recall that h was bred In the Society of Friends, which fur Ti'.shed a Brahmin blood of Its own i body which has been in all yencration scparated from the world's people by a purity, su-h as v.-as almost equi.-alent l? "refinement, and by habit of religious equality, which Ignored the world's .trivial difference. Certain it Is that in the democracy of letters, there hs new" been a man who took his place with more absolute composure than 'VhlttJT. He had, in addition, the advn-i:re cf being a remarkably handsome mnn. with ' fine features, delirato outlines and a clear brunette complexion. He yielded 'us: 'enough to the Friends' habit of co-tume tto vrear It gracefullr and moke it T-a-mental. The plain language, so-call-d. ! was also an ornament to him. for it jc-vo e. kind of dignified grace to an utterlv elmple manner. Having bren a sru reader In his youth, he had a great va riety of knowledge. Ho told me onr' 'that ho always l:.d a great desire to travel, but ihut by reading a book aoout any foreign country he made It at o'icc so far a part of his own experience that he did not afterward care to vldt it. "Without ear for music, he yet made lis verses fairly melodious, and sometime.-; very much so: although It was to be 'noticed that In these cases he distrusted himself so that his later alterations iti his own verse almost always injured It. He was eminently Intuitive, both In h s perceptions of character and his literarr Instinct. "Vcunger writers always found in him a good critic, and his sound Judg ment of men was always recognized in practical life, and especially among r-'vl-itlclans. Xevcr making a speech, he yet was a frequent attendant on meetlnTi of the ro-called "TJlrty party." and afterward, although more rarely, ol the Xiepublicin: ar.l professional politician, habitually dlstre-stfu' of literary men. usur.lly made an exception in favor of him. Tills ability to deal with nnn of affair undoubtedly rave a certain dircctnes and homely simplicity to his verse, compared Witty which tha- 'A lyongfellow seems al ways rather si. '.n-clad, while Emerson's strains aro constantly nbrtruse. wMle those of Iyowell and Holmes are often Involved and complex. Sprung from the people. YThittior was thus emphatically the poet of 'he Tropic Yet it is to be noticed that om of the lines oftenes' quoted iron' Ms volume are those In which liK jtra'r. I .it the highest. Chief among there, perhar;. Is that fine ver.e on Immortality, almost approaching the character of a hymn, where he says: I Vnnw not whore His island lift. Their frondil ralms in nlr; I only know I cannot drift Beyond III love and care. I have mere than once had this quoted to me with cnth siasm by readers who wore obliged to ask afterward what the word "fronded" meant. In no one, 1 suppose, was the spirit of religion ever more spontaneous and more genuinely 10 bo called an inner light thnn in Whlttler. and It was accompanied by an absolute freedom from all narrowness or self assertion. Nothing could be more simple and ploaslng thn Ms home life. Until be reaved of his mother and sister, he lived with them in a modest lltlte house at Amesbury. where all the traditions of Quaker housekeeping were exquisitely preserved, and the perfect order of the interior made the little dwelling ni qually appropriate resort for visiting Emperors or for fugitive slaves. Elizabeth Whlt tler, some of whose poems her brother took delight in Including with his own, represented in her temperament a wholly different element of Quakerism from his, being as ardent and outspoken as he was shy and reticent and not fearing to shike her head reprovingly at the dlgnlfled Friends on the high seats at yearly meeting if the spirit moved them to dis course too long so that her hospitable dinner was in danger of being spoiled. Plain in person, without the regular features of her brother, she yet had eyes of much more liquid brilliancy, which filled her fa-o with charm during every moment of her lively conversation. "With less of European celebrity than eteveral of his compeers, Whittler will always hold 1 firm i.iace at home as be ing the ilfrarv creator, not merely of tho New Englani lecend. but of the American legvnd as a whole, he being the very first who touched it and made It alive. As has ben a-ieady said, he never visited any foreign country, nor am I awaro that he showed any knowledge of foreign language except when he trans lated, perhaps with difficulty, a few sim ple French poems, but he read eacerly all old mer'can annals, and his truth of Nature how.J itself In his varying or embroidering fie legends very little. Any one who will examine Longfellows selected serls called "Poems of Places" will see that "Whltt'er furnished far more than any other joet, perhaps more than all put together, of the legendary litera ture of our country. This, when com bined with his leadership In the greatest moral crusids yvt waged among us. will be likely to secure permanence to his fame. Cambridge. Mass. XI. BT PROFESSOR I-TrwiS E. GATES. Perhaps there is no English -writer of the present century who gives one so much tho impression as docs Emenson ot being absolutely at homo with the "heavenly powers." the primordial ele ments of Nature and the forces that rule the spiritual world. Carlylo In some of his books talks quite as volubly of the infinities and the eternities, but they put him in a passion a parslon of adoration or of awe or it may be of exasperation at the relative shortcomings of actual life and human nature. "Wordsworth is as great a seer as Emerson, and makes the facts of common life reveal as trans. parently their inner spiritual meaning, but he is so often trivial and wearisom that -we suspect htm of not being na tive to the heaven'y regions. In Emer son's prose there is always a divine blitheness that marks him as having In his veins a celestial Ichor. "With a ge ometry of sunbeams, the soul lays ihe foundations of Nature." 'The Infinite lies stretched in smiling repose." "With thought, with the Weal, is immortal hilar ity, the rose of Joy." Thes sentences hae Emerson's unmistakable accent and Idiom. At the close of his essays on "Illusions" he describes the moments of clear vision that now and then re veal to the veriest tyro in things spirit ual the beauty and the order of life. "There is no chance, and no anarchy. In Ihe universe. All is system and grada- tion? Ever- god is there sitting In his sphere. The young mortal enters the hall of the. firmament: there is he alone with them, aloi.e, they pouring en him benedictions and gifts, and beckoning him up to their thrones. On the instant, and incessantly, fall snow storms cf il lusions. He fancies himself in a vast cloud which sways this way and that, and whose doings and movements he must obey. . - . Every mom'nt new changes and new ahowirs of deceptions, to bailie and distract him. And when, by and by. for an Instant the a'r clears, and the cloud lifts a little, there are the gods still sitting around him on their thrones they alone with him al-ne." Emerson seems always to have within the range of his ey these shining forms and to bo ab'.e to heir through all the rumoring ami turbulence of daily life tholr golden words to onr another. Yet Emerson is not. as are some trans ccndcntallsts, a mere victim of second sight: in his comment.-, on morals and on religion there is In addition to his vis ionary wisdom, much Yankee sb-ewdncr.s and common sons-: if he 'nltehr. his wagon to a star" he also "hugs his fact." Aecordlng'y. everywhere In h s essays we are kept within men'uroblj distance of com.non lite, of the actual human heart, and of the world of Kature In Its elemental beauty, shining with a kind of morning splendor. "Jn the mornlnr; I rwake and find the From an Early Portrait of Emerson. old world, wife babec and m'ther. Con cord and Boston, the dear old spiritual world, and even the dear old devil, not far off. . . . Everything good Is on the highway. . . . The mid-world is best. Ncture. as we know her. Is no saint," These are not the words of a mere mystic or dreamer: they have the racy heartiness of a man who knows life at Hrr.t hand: and they represent well Emer son's fine loyalty, even in his most vis ionary essays, to the regions of actual human experience, "I gossip for my hour concerning the eternal politics," so Emerson in ono essay smillngly asserts. "Eternal politics" Js precisely what busies him from firs to last, Man In his relation to Xnture and to God the limits, the scop and the promise of man's destiny, man's duties to God and to his fellow the wise economy by which the sMf-rcllant man bends Na ture to his need thee topics and others like them, which have to do with man's eternal citizenship in the universe, recur In his essays again and again. And running through all his discussions of theso topics are two far-ret?.chinir and vitalizing doctrines belief In the Over- t Soul and an optimistic faith In the worth I of the present moment and of tire in j dividual. Man Is for Emerson not simply i divine In his origin, but a sharer frcm moment to moment Jn the divine na ture. "As there Is no screen or celling between our hearts and the Infinite heavens, so is there no br.r or wall in the so'il whore man. the effect, census, and God, the cause, begins." Since every man has thus within himself an Infinite store of potential spiritual en ergy. Emerson has no misgivings over the present or fear for the future. Mm and God are really conspirators for haD plncss and virtue and truth and benuty: the individual. If he is loyal to his inner nature, has all tho forces of the universe silently working for him: seen or unseen, hey are on his side. Moreover, every man has his own quite peculiar relation to the divine nature it Is to represent or make valid a special portion of the divine energy. Hence Emerson never wearies of insisting on the duty of self reliance, "Trurt thyself: ever? heart vi.brates to that Iron string." Nature, too, like man. is for Emerson Instinct with Deity. Strantely idealistic and confident must Emerson's talk about Nature seem to a modarn reader who goes to it from Darwin's "Origin of Spe cies" or Spencer's "First Principles." Emerson is wholly innocent of modern scientific theories. Man has for him no kinship with the beasts. One wonders what Darwin and Emerson would have had to say to each other In an hour's talk. Nature Is to Emerson a divine in vention for man's monition and discipline and joy. Man has in his own breast in so far as he has realised his oneness with tho Over-Soul, the principles and the laws which run throughout the length I and the breadth of Nature and bind Into harmonious forms and orderly sequences all Its macmificent mlscellaneousness. "The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It Is a re moter and Inferior incarnation of God. a projection of God in the unconscious. 4 But it differs from the body In one Im portant respect. It is not, like that, now subjected to the human will. Its serene order is inviolable by us. It Is. there fore, to us tho present expositor of the divine mind." Emerson, then, sees spiritual encrry pulsing everywhere In Nature; for him the miracle of the burning bush is dai'y wrought: every obiect in Nature shines for him with a peculiar iridescent beauty: and In the presence of Nature he is. as he somewhere says, "glad to the brink of fear." These are tho characteristic beliefs and moods that give to Emerson's prose Its tonic power. His prose has a note and j quality that we perhaps never find In tho prose of our own day and genera tion. Our day Is the day of small things; our age has well been nicknamed by some French critic tho a?e of microbes. We pore over trifles, accumulate facts, strike averages, and try to reduce hi:min na ture and external nature to their lowest terms. Of all this scientific Pttifoe-ring there is in Emerson no trace: he has the confident and oracular manner of the prophet. He believes, with Brcwnlng"s Paracelsus, that "there I an lnmos.t cen ter In us all where truth abides Iti full ness," and his essays are the record of what he hears as ha listens iitient!v at this lnnr shrine. Harvard University. The Xnt tonal Debt of Chtnn. . Chicago Tribune. Financiers In Europe are discussing the future of the Chinese debt, which may be affected by the war with China. They are comparatively satisfied with the sit uation, however, inasmuch as if the Chi- jtL: C . ficCL, nese win their claims should still be good, while If there should be a govern ment under a joint protectorate there would be provision for the debt. The history of the Chinese debt Is given In the Economlste Europe.cn. All Europe holds more or less of It. Nearly all the. debt has been created since the Shlmon osekl treaty, of 1S33, when the Japanese war Indemnity had to be paid. Before UH the debt amounted to only 793.003 taels. Since then if hns Increased nearly a thousandfold, the aggregate debt at present being 72S.7a7,(X tacls. or &20.CO 000, most of which Is payable In 1943. In the past a period of 43 years has wrought little change In China, But if the next 43 years bring about as great changes as have been accomplished during the last flvo years, It Is difficult to predict what will be the state of affairs In the Celes tial kingdom when the last Installment Df the principal shall have become due. WILD RIDE IK AN AUTO. John E. SrTiIIr. in His Machine. Pnrjice n Itnnavrnj- Horse. CI Icago TImes-TIerald. Tt was the automobile agiinst the hore through a mile of West S.de streets eariy last evening, and the automobile won. To save the thron-rs of pleasure-seekers flocking toward OarCeld Park from helm trampled by a runaway. John E. Scully of the County Treasurer's office, gave chase in his stelm-drivcn runabout and overhauled the frightened animal befors a full m'le had been traversed. The horse was attached to a delivery wagon belonging to W. M. Paine, a grocer at 2000 West Mndi.-on street. Tho driver left the rig in front of a house at Adams street and Spalding avrnue a few m'n utes after 6 o'clock and an instant later the horse had taken fright at a pass'ng carriage and dashed away to the west. Adams street at the time was crowded with children playing on the sidewalk and in the roid The cries of those who saw the flight of the horse warned the little ones, and all but one youngster, who war. knocked down and slightly bruised, managed to get out of the way. Mr. Scully, who Is a civil engineer, and who resides at Mi South Campbell ave nue., was speeding alonv Jackson boule vard, a srju-ire to the south, in his auto mobile. In the vehicle with him were h's wife and their niece, Margery Baker, daughter of William II. Baker, of 1?1 Central Park boulevard. Mr. Scully sighted the runr.wsy hore across an ex panse of prairie and added more power to his carriage. He raced along the boulevard at top-notch speed until he reached Central Park drive and then he turned to the north. Midway in the block is the home of the Bakers and there he halted his machine. He called to his wife to help little Mar gery from her seat, and then ho ran to Adams street In the expectation of in tercepting the horse. But the animal had run up on the sidewalk, wrecking a wheel and part of one side of the wagon, and rpllllng the load of groceries In its wake. Then it continued along the ridewalk to the boulevard and turned sharply to the north, cheating Mr. Scully out of the chance to get close enough to reach the bridle. Defeated In this attempt, Mr. Scully turned back and raced to the side of his steam-driven carriage. His wife was on the seat, and without taking the time to let her alight he sprang to his place and opened the throttle of the machine. By this time the grocery wagon was fully a quarter of a mile In the lead, now on the sidewalk or the lawns, and again In the road, the rig careening and sway ing and striking treps and lampposts at every jump. Mr. Scully gradually in creased the speed of the automobile un til it seemed scarcely to touch the ground at Intervals. Its utmost guaranteed speed Is a mile In two minutes, though It has done better by three seconds. Ke pushed the throttle to the last notch and then sat back with his fingers gripping the steering apparatus and awaited developments. His wife sat at his side, holding to the seat, and she betrayed no more sign of excitement than did her husband. At Madison street the runaway horse turned to the west again, on the south side of the road. Garfield Park begins at this point, and the lawns were well crowded with women and young folk. Cable trains were tearing east and west every moment, and scores of persons cither hurrying home from work or go ing into the park for the evening were In the street and on the sidewalks. The horse turned up on the walk and swept down a small tree. The crowds 'scattered for cover, and a young man fell from his bicycle. A gripman sounded his gong and the horse raced back into the road. Then around the corner ot Central Park boulevard Mr. Scully's low hanging auto swept. It described a grace ful curve and brought up on the north side of the street. There was just the slightest hiss of escaping steam and the machine bounded forward again at that marvelous pace. The horse clattered over the asphalt to the south of the road and the auto mobile rolled swiftly and silently along on the opposite side, gaining a few Inches with every revolution of Its cushioned wheels. Cable trains roared up and down between pursued and pursuer and the crowds In the wake of the chase looked on In silent wonder. To those In the north section of the park, whose view of the horse and wagon was cut off by passlnjr cars. It looked as If It was the automobile that had broken from control, so fast did It dash along. The park ends at Hamlin avenue, as does the asphalt pavement. Just east of this point Mr. Scully glanced across the road and discovered that he was well In advanco of the runaway. His right hand made two rapid passes in the body of the runabout and the propelling force was shut off. but the vehicle had at tained such momentum that the reversing of the levers had slight effect upon Its speed. Mr. Scully did not wait an ln sta'nt. but, turning over to his wife tho steering handle, he sprang clear of his scat and bounded across the space that Intervened between his auto nnd the run away. As he reached the south side of the street the horse crashed toward the side walk. Mr. Scully's right arm shot out and his fingers gripped the bridles. His body stiffened for the impact, and the horse was brought to a stop with such abruptness that It was hurled back on its haunches. Mr. Scully was dragged from his feet, but only for an instant. Crowds ran from every direction and showered words of praise for the dar lrg man. He only smiled, and with a deprecating shrug of his shoulders turned the halted horse over to a boy and strode to his automobile. Mrs. Scully smiled, too. but her's was a smile of admiration, and as she mur mured a word of reward for his risk he Jumped back to his place and sent tho runabout rolling off before anyone had even a chance- to learn his name. Mr. Scully is no novice at stopping run away's. He modestly admits that he has probably halted a dozen horses thr.t were minus a driver, nnd once he performed the task from the saddle of a high wheel. His present occupation Is the making up of maps In the County Treasurer's office and he says he needs exercise like that he enjoyed last night. At one time in his life he was a diver, and it was In this vocation that he prob ably came the nearest to meeting death. During one of the coldest spells of the Winter of four years ago the lake Intake at one of the cribs became clogged with Ice, and no ona but Mr. Scully could be found to undertake the jask of breaking the Jam. He descended to the intake, and in the ley water chiseled through the clogging bank. "When the Ice broke he was carried by the suction Into the In take, and the efforts of 15 men failed to rescue him. It was thought he could never be dragged out alive, but finally the pumping works were shut down and the daring diver was brought up, half frozen, but still smiling. He confesses that this may have been a close call. BRITISH FLAG'S ORIGIN aUEEX'S COLOR TWITES BAX3CERS OF THHEE KINGDOMS. Mast Be Hnnd-BInde and Approved by the Garter Klngr-nt-Arma No Xiongcr Seen In Battle. One often reads, says Pearson's Week ly, of the' presentation of colors to an English regiment, but beyond that cr.e knows nothing about them. Even Tom n;y Atkins himself, it is a surprising -fact, can give one very little p-.sitivc informa tion about the colors belonging to the rcr-lmcnt he is serving with. He hnews them when he sees Ihem. and Is fully con verrant with the honors which are ttld to them by his regiment and fully alive to their worth as regimental emblems, and would -be prepared to lay dor.n h's life for them,, but as to how. or when, or where they a:e made, or what they c si. or whether government or contractors make them, or what their exact dim- li stens ought to bo, or how they ar- re ferred to in the army re? illations, Ttmniy Is quite innocent c-f everything. In former days there was a color fr,r each company of a regiment, but mw-i-days. and the rule has oh'alnrd 'o- many, mam- years, there are two co'orr fcr a battalion cf infantry, a standard 'or per tain horse regiments, and a guidon for others. Take the infantrv colo-s first. The first is railed the "Rnynl" or "Queen's" eol'r and the second the reRlmen'al. The ti-r 'WNmmsswwwRm Standards, Hlce infantry colors, bear the honors of each regiment, nnd are wrapped around the drnm. Queen's Is, of course, the more Important, r.nd of the same pattern for all regiments. The regimental color matches the fac ings of the regimpnt. and has in one cor ner the Union Jack in blue, in the center a wreath of roses, shamrocks and ".his tles, with the name, crest and mitto of the re&lment, and the campaigns In hkh it has taken part. It Is net quite correct to say that the regimental color is the only one that boars regimental honors, for the Queer's color often bears distinctions, a3. given in the Army list, conferred by royal author ity upon certain battalions, as well as those authorized for the second color. All colors are made of the purest silk, and they measure 2 feet 9 Inches broad by 3 feet deep, exclusive of the fringe which is about 2 inches deep. The staff to which the color Is attached measures 8 feet 7 inches. The cords and tassels are of crimson and gold mixed. The Queen's Color. The Queen's color represents what Is called the Great Union Jack, in which the cross of St, George Is conjoined with the cross of St. Andrew and St. Patrick rn a blue field, all In .proper colors. How this union of the trlplo crosses took place Is an interesting it-m. Before the union the flag of England cons'sted of a red cross on a white ground. When James I. succeeded to the English throne he, being a Scotch King, brought with him the flag of Scotland, but it -blew .in the breeze independently of the flag of St. George until 1707, when Scotland's banner was merged Into that of Eng land's, and thus the white cross of St, Andrew, which ran from corner to corntr, crossed the red cross of St. George. In 1S01. when the Irish Parliament was united to the British, the red diagonal cross of St. Patrick was added to the flag, and thus were finally obtained the red, white and blue of the present British Union Jnck. Scotland supplied the blue, while England and Ireland gave the white and red. The facings of all regiments having the title "royal" are blue, otherwise they are white for English, yellow for Scottish, and green for Irish. The East Kent Regi ment, formerly famous as the "Buffs." retains the buff facings, and Is the ;.nly exception. The Queen's color bears In the center the territorial designation on a crimson circle of the wreath, cr other title, within tho whole, surmounted by the Imperial crown. The standards of horse regiments are made of silk damask, embroidered and fringed with gedd. The tassels and cords are of crimson and gold mixed. The lance of the standard Is elsht feet six inches long, while the flag Itself measures 30 Inches by about 27. The color is crimson, and the flag bears the royal or other title In letters of gold on a red ground In a circle, and the rank of the regiment Is gold Roman characters Gnldons are lone: standards, nlit in the fly, vrlth the corners rounded off. on a crimson ground In the center, the whole within a wreath of rjses. thistles, and shamrocks on the same stalk, en slgned with the Imperial crown. Gnldonn nnd Standards. Guidons are long standards, meoruring 40 inches by 27, slit in the fly. with the upper and lower ccrncrs rounded off Standards, like infantry colors, bear the honors of each regiment, crest, and so forth. But It is to be doubted whether called the Great Pmbz mzb mbz mbzmbm the Interest attaching to standards 13 of so great and sentimental a character as that vouchsafed to the colors of a line regiment. Who makes the colors? Many yea is ago It was quite the custom for ladies, taking a fancy to a particular regiment for some sentimental reason or other, to make and officially present colors to a regiment, the actual and official presenta tion being made, as is now done, by a member of the royal family or some dis tinguished person; but, duting the last 15 or 20 years the making of the color:? has been given to contractors, of whom there are fewer than half a dozen. All colors are hand-made, a rule nnd a condition enforced and never brckf-n by the military authorities. Each color ccsts on the average (It depends on the quan tity of lettering and style of badge or crest) from 2f to 40 apiece. When a new flag is finished it has to be submitted to the Garter-ICing-at-arm" for his approval. Colors are supposed to last a regiment 20 years. Even nowadays If an officer's wife or daughters take It Into their hoads to make colors for a husband's or father's it II 3tt-i TfF name JWrir--! $ & c"g$iF Sif H" a uffcrw' vie regiment, there is n'o official objection raised against their doing so. ?fo Color Xovr in Battle. Colors are not now taken into action. They are taken to the seat of war. and left for safety, usually at the base of operations. This step was taken follow ing on the disastrous results that ensued in the course of the battle of Isandula, when Lieutenants Melville and Coghlll perished while p.-es2rv!ng the col-rs. The last time Bilttsh clo.s were taken Into the field was In the Zulu War In IScO. Among valid reason offered for the now rule is that the taking of the colors Into Tfie Qnrcn'.i color represents vrbat i called the Great Union Jnck, In which the cros. of St. Gcorfje in con joined with the eroascs of St. Andrew and St. rr.tricll. 1 tho field necess tatcs a strong color par ty, an escort cmp-lslng twi officers, two sergeanlsv and 50 men. These officers and men would consequently have their hands tied, as it were, wh'reas by taking their places In the fighting line they would be materially helping their com rades, and really be dcint better work. Only one flag is now reen on the battle field, and that denotes the whereabouts of the general commanding. It is usur.l.y red. Tommy Atkins Is dearly devoted to his regimental colors. In quarters, and In time of peace, they are usually kept in the guard-room. or. perhaps, occasion illy you may see them In the officers' mess. At any rate, wherever they may be. they are always guarded night and day. anl under the charge of tho sergeant drum mer cr sergeant of the guard. Mothn are the vandals of the Insect world, nnd. although their chances of making a successful raid on silk matcri-il are limited, yet all possible prccauticn is taken to preserve regimental colo:s f p. m unfortunately becoming attacked by them; so frequently the colors are un cased and brought out Into the f sh air. They are laid across a pile of arms wi'll bayonets fired and tipped with cork. ar.. guarded for the time being by two special sentries. The Parnde Ceremony. When the colors are uncased they a:e saluted by all ranks. Taking the colors on parade is quite a formal ceremony. When the regiment 13 formed up it is us ually the drum-majr or two sergeants with an escort party who convey the col umn onto the parade ground. Colors and party are met at the proper place bv tho officers Senior and Junior Lleuterant appointed to receive them, the latter saluting them on their approach. Tho neck-belt or strap is first handed to the senior officer, who, having adjusted it round his neck, salutes the color again and then receives It the Queen's. The Junior officer goes through the same cere mony to receive the regimental color. Seeing the color approach In the first instance the commanding officer calls tho battalion to the "Present arms!" " The colors fall Into place and are car ried In the rear at the center compiny, he chief non-commlssloned officer of thn color party being Color Sergeant, ijence the rank. That non-com., moreover. Is the chief nqn-commlssioncd officer of his The reprlmentnl color matches tbe fnclnss of the regiment, and has in one corner the Union Jack In bine, Tritli a. ivreath of rosea, shamrocks, and thlntlcs. company, and acts as the channel of com munication as between officer and man. The three brigades of guards have a third or state eclor, which Is a compara tively new institution. It Is of crimson silk, with the standard embroidered in proper colors in the right-hand corner, and in the center of the flag a wreath of roses, shamrocks and thistles, sur mounted with the Imperial crown. It Is only brought out on special occasion, such as when the entire brigade 1 out on a full parade, as at reviews, and the like, or when royalty Is Inspecting them. Xo Engineer of Artillery Colors. Neither the Royal Engineers nor the Royal Artillery have colors, while si.ch -mounted regiments as are called dragoon 1 have usually only a guidon, which, after all. can hardly be called a color, although It is looked upon by the men as such. About the Navy. Her Majesty's battle ships win as many honors as her regi ments, and perhaps more, but where or how are their victories inscribed? N-t one in ten thousand has ever thought about It. A British battle-ship bears no color upon which is written in letters of gold the deeds of its prowess. Jack In his funny moments calls the flag which files at the stern of his ship "the unspotted Union Jack." "hlch is a capital and witty description of his ship's "color." It Is unspotted in a double sense. This flag Is called the ensign (old name of the regimental color which was In past times carried by a young officer known as "ensigns"), and is white, with a red cross and a Union Jack in tho top left hand corner. These flags are usually made of bunting, a very fine material so fine. Indeed, that the biggest flags do not weigh more than about 15 pounds or so. Jack's flag Is very different from Tom my's color. The former is made in big quantities at the naval depot at Chatham, in a branch called the color loft. They make there all the flags, or nearly all, connected with our Navy, such as pen nons, signal flags, enslgrs. Union Jacks and Admirals' flags. The loft Is situate In the dockyard, and a large staff of wom en are employed. While the army colors, standards and guidons are religiously made by hand. Jack's flags are made by sewing machines, 1G enormot'6 machines being driven throughout the course of a long day by gas engines and tended by nearly 40 women. The smallest navy flag measures 2x2& f-et, and Is used fcr signaling purposes, while the largest, an ensign, would be sufficiently large to carpet a big reception room. It Is as deep as two full-srown men and as long as three men 11 feet high each. n'cllsrlon Help the Fish Trade. Alnslee's Magazine. Though some of the sturdy flsherfolk of Newfoundland are Protestants they de rive the larger part of their living from the people of Roman Catholic countries. 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