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THE HEAD OF A MAN.
By Oweu Macplterson.
, 5 ,., ,-s ! lieved Mrs. Tivvers to be q i
r.ile lady. She is transparent- |
C . r simplicity is childlike, her j
1., those itoorer than herself has
, -istent and so large-that the
ts constantly diminished in dl
. : ...vtion to the decrease of Mrs.
~,vn once considerable, wealth.
p' u 1
, ;. ss, Mrs. Tivvers is not as pop
. . deserves to be. Through that
. peculiarity which once caused
!. , . esteemed among the most prec
. '..agings of our somewhat narrow
.. n v.il among us, an object, not of
... It is true, but of apprehension
,v,: as pity. Tho most sceptical could
j. n tend to controvert the genuineness
, p. , xnibition that startled us all at
, i!r? a: rod Lahdon’s memorable nfter
too .| l a- When Mrs. Tivvers herself,
l, unl : it apologizing, pleaded that she did
tot , H ,ssess the common sense to handle
own extraordinary gift with safety,
no one was disposed to question the state*
sient. The incident was generally voted
ioo painful for discussion in our circle.
And ail were of one mind that, after this,
or..- could never tell what poor Mrs. Tiv
vers would do next. So from and after
•that dreadful afternoon,” as it is still
call'd, poor Mrs. Tivvers ceased to be in
ref ; for purposes of mere amusement.
How it happened Is my story.
The mother of the two Landons was
Trt : Cb. Site had married an American
ami born two very creditable
sons, the elder of whom, Alfred, was the
husband of our hostess that afternoon.
But in. spite of her more than twenty hap
py years of married life in this country,
and of the ten following years of peace
ful and dignified widowhood during which
she jbo4 seen her 90113 grow and flourish
likoVrWn bay trees in the valley of the
Ohio, she remain aggressively French
bourgeoise—as she worded it, "to the end
of the nails.”
It was always good form, and good
policy, in the Landon house to say that
both the boys had a decidedly foreign air,
although there was no truth in the re
mark. Strangers were always cautioned
In advance of Introduction to call Al
fren's mother “Madame,” with the #m
pbasis upon the second syllable. It was
secretly reported that Alfred’s wife had
adoitly assisted his efforts to make her
Madame’s daughter-in-law by first mas
terhig the elements of the French lan
guage and then reverently begging Ma
dame to teach her "the real Parisian ac
cent" before Alfred was allowed to sound
his mother about the match.
To this so-far comfortably peaceful and
united family came Miss Carroll, from
Chi !go. Miss Carroll was n college chum
of Mrs. Alfred, so much we were told; we
could see that she was a gentle, sweetly
disposed young woman,with a quiet charm
that grew upon one. We—the more inti
mate friends of the family—could also see
that this charm had grown with particu
lar vigor upon Eugene Landon, Alfred's
younger brother, and furthermore we di
vined that thqre was a hitch, and that
Mrs. Alfred could if she would, have told
"hat the obstacle was.
bn that dreadful afternoon It seemed to
me. coming in when the cups were rattling;
• i the chatter should have been at its
luvht and merriest, that there was an un
l lcasantly surprising lack of animation
obuiii the proceedings. Madame, to whom
Hfiernoon receptions were at best an un
congenial form of entertainment, seemed to
he under the depressing influence. ”My
I | ear ,” she said, as we shook hands, “I
hope you will tell them some of your
amusing stories—Yes?—The assembly Is
most sad to-day—l even feel It, my dear,
v ho have so long lived In your sad coun
try. ' Then, as another man came up to
take his leave, she said to him, “Ah, you
must go so soon, eh?—Miss Carroll goes,
anil so all must leave us.”
Rut ,” 1 said, ”1 thought Miss Carroll
was to be here until after Christmas?”
1 ilat * s how I too, thought—till to-day
—How she receives letters, dispatches—
. a;u < l° 1 know, my dear? She is a sweet
Phi. you think so, eh? And so good to
roe always. Ask Matilda about her.”
I went and asked Mrs. Alfred for coffee
and explanations. She said, “Oh. I don’t
know, Mr, Barker. No sugar? I forgot.
Here comes Mrs. Tivvers. That’s a bless
ing anyway. Don’t ask her why she’s go
ing. p, rhaps they won’t all run away now.
. must say, she Is Just too brave.” And
. 11 Alfred went to receive Mrs. Tiv
vers, while I drank my coffee and com
bo • 1 a neat theory that Miss Carroll had
simply refused Eugene Landon.
There w ere about'twenty people In the
room at the time. Fewer than usual at
Mrs. Alfred’s Wednesday afternoons. None
°* ihose twenty have ever forgotten what
Hiey saw, and many more In our city know
by hearsay what happened.
'lis Tivvers brought with her her ha
’hual suddued and apologetic air, and she,
''a-v besides, more than usually distrait.
' 7l arn . e w as gayly begging her to do
s j m ' Hiing to lift the gloom. Madame evi
dently did not then, at least, regard Mrs.
overs’ peculiar gift otherwise than as a
■• source to mitigate the sadness of Amer
llfo in general, and in particular, of
- gene tea party. Mrs. Alfred took a
'"l'l.y less flippant view. I had seen
mure 0 ( a; rs Tivvers than either Mrs.
Alfred or madame had.
'"t far from the tea table stood Miss
"roll herself. As I watched her I re
u -ed her friend’s mysterious encomium
1 nor nerve, for only by careful observa
• m could one see that she was not the
'•'ppiest and least concerned person In
the room.
lou are the most flattering people I
te every been with,” heard her say. ”It
. °fh to make me dizzy, the way you
•ve all gone on about my leaving. There
ere scores of girls like me in Chicago. Oh,
■ 1 wo do everything there on a large
■U.c-two feet to the mile, If you like.”
‘ 01 which, and the laugh that came with
■ l thought sounded feverish and unlike
‘■r characteristic self-restrained mood.
>e was talking to Jenny Barrett, one of
' kHest debutantes, and half-a-dozen
• tlur very young people,
■• .. Alfred ’ bringing Mrs. Tivvers,
• joke through tho little circle about her
1 isttor.
_,, y°‘* must meet Mrs, Tivvers. dear,"
Alfrtd ’ "You’ve heard me
• peak of her so often/*
Miss Carroll smiled sweetly, If with
, ™ e t f / nt trace oi amusement, as though
jot taking seriously what she had heard
Tlvvert ' Mrs. Tivvers sd
wUh a commonplace about being
rn/J ,ncet Mias Carroll. Then the wld
/ , on: "k’bey tell me you are go
, nnd suddenly halted as ir for
. tting what she had Intended to say
roon to—leave us—very
®!?, c Mem£d t 0 1,6 looking nt some
and ‘ n behind the stranger’s left
th?rh-U if' fac *’ ins,de the
J ,ad been a mirror over that mantel,
■ e might have been glaring at a reflec
b,Jt there was no mirror. Miss Cor
,■ s _ oc took on that polite smile of pas
i • with which it Is proper
i / ’ ' lve opening of an amateur per
rmance. The group that had at first,
fallen back to make way for the last ar
rival. now began to gather and watch.
There was going to be some fun, after
all.
“Excuse me,” said Mrs. Tivvers, now
speaking hurriedly. “I get these things
mixed, you know. Quite a constitutional
infirmity, and it gets worse as 1 gro.v old
er. I seem to know that young gentle
man's face. Ah, no! Now I understand.
Some dear friend of yours, perhaps.” The
smile had quite faded from Miss Carroll's
face. Mrs. Tivvers kept looking steadily
over the younger woman's shoulder, and
spoke with a touch of sadness. “Pale—
they generally are. Y'es, my dear Miss
Carroll, he is trying to attract your at
tention. llis name is Gregory. Gregory
Moorsome Decastro. Oh, dear me! What
have I done now?”
For Miss Carroll swayed, turned half
round and fejl to her knees, gasping:
“Him! My husband!”
Mrs. Tivvers. groaning "Oh, dear me!
What have I done?” hastily got out of
the room.
I suppose every one there heard what
Miss Carroll said, although she really did
not speak above a whisper. Every cne
saw her turn and fall, for Mrs. Tivvers’
exhibition had quickly become the center
of all attention. Instead of a general stir
and bustle, an awed silence followed the
first faint, involuntary murmur that had
escaped us. Miss Carroll’s strange excla
mation seemed to stupefy us. Mrs. Al
fred alone showed presence of mind. ¥<he
knelt by her friend, gathered her in her
arms, and lifted her. The sudden cry, the
physical collapse that accompanied it, and
the recovery, all occupied less than half a
minute’s time. We, the other guests,
could hardly have begun to wonder wheth
er we ought not, in some less precipitate
manner, to follow poor Mrs. Tivvers’ ex
ample, when Mrs. Alfred, with her rrm
twined about the girl’s waist, faced us.
“Hadge,” she said aloud and distinctly,
“you must let me explain for you.” Then,
without waiting for express permission,
she went on, “Miss Carroll made an un
happy marriage three years ago—on East,
where we were at college. The law set
her free and gave her the right to bear her
maiden name. She has as much right to
be called Miss Carroll as I have to be
called Mrs. Alfred Landon."
Somehow, during the excitement, Eu
gene Landon had got to my elbow. Until
then I had not seen him in the room. He
nudged me and whispered, "You know,
Barker, she can’t see them unless they
are dead, can she?”
"I don’t understand It,” was all I could
answer.
I understood nothing. Nobody there
seemed to understand anything. Mrs. Al
fied spoke in a low voice to her mother
in-law, and Madame seemed not to hear.
Of course people began to look for their
hats and wraps, muttering that it was all
very wonderful. That was a safe thing to
say; there was not the slightest differ
ence of opinion about It.
But I was not allowed to get my hat and
overcoat. Eugene insisted upon giving me
his views about astral shells.
“Even if the woman has this horrible
power,” he said, ”1 don’t see how an astral
shell can come off of a man while he’s
alive. Do you?
”1 don’t know, old fellow. It’s all beyond
me,” I answered trying to get away.
“But see here. This Is a very serious
business, Barkep. You see, my mother has
old world notions about divorce and all
that. Now—say, do you think she would
have been so much affected if she hadn't
known the man was dead? She can't care
anything for him. He behaved like a
brute.”
What could I say? It would have been
unfriendly to run away as if Mrs. Tivvers
had discovered small-pox In the house.
So I was constrained to attend a secret
council in the library up-stairs. Madame
was not present; she was ministering to
the victim of nervous shock. Beyond what
I had already guessed, I was enlightened,
if at all, only by Alfred’s very emphatic
discourse upon his mother’s French bour
geoise prejudices. Madame’s attention had
been carefully kept away from the condi
tion of affairs as between her younger
son and the masked divorcee. Eugene, it
now appeared, had only that morning
learned of the most significant episode in
Miss Carroll's history. Mrs. Alfred had
had no idea of the strength and compre
hensiveness of her mother-in-law’s feet
lngs In regard to American divorces.
Clearly, it was not yet nearly time to
think about reconciling Eugene’s mother
to Miss Carroll as a prospective daughter
in-law; the immediate and urgent problem
was' to relieve the embarrassed situation
of the divorcee entertained unawares and
Madame’s outraged ideas of propriety.
“But I insist upon it that the fellow Is
dead,” said Eugene.
“Hush, Eugene!” said his sister-in-law.
“I believe she knows it too," he went
on.
“I think Mrs. Tiv-ers ought to be cross
examined,” I suggested. “She started the
trouble.”
"I’m afraid I started the trouble*' re
marked Mrs. Alfred, penitently.
Just then the door bell rang, and there
was the voice of Mrs. Tivvers down In the
hall, imploring to be allowed to see Miss
Carroll or Mrs. Alfred Landon. Mrs. Al
fred flew down to welcome her and
brought her into the conclave as if a
unanimous vote had adopted my sugges
tion.
“Oh, my dear Mrs. Alfred Landon,”
the remorseful clalrvoyante was ejaculat
ing as she entered the room without tak
ing any notice of us three men, “do tell
me what I must do! My conscience would
give me no rest. I turned back as soon
as I reached my door. Is your young
friends better. May I speak before these
gentlemen? How do you do, Mr. Bar
ker?"
“Yes, Mrs. Tivvers,” said Mrs. Alfred.
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“We were just wishing you would come
back. You see, Mrs. Tivvers, mother is a
litile foreign in her ideas, though she
has poor Madge in her own room now,
taking care of her. Now do try to be
calm. We want to ask you a few things.
Please be quiet. Eugene. Let Mr. Bar
ker ask Mrs. Tivvers.”
Nobody Invited the distracted woman to
sit down, or she did not heed the invita
tion. We were all standing. All five of
us. Mrs. Tivvers, her heavy Astrachan
jacket, only Just far enough into the room
to let Alfred close the door behind her.
The occasion of this investigation was in
deed gruesome, but its form was most
incongruously comic.
“We wanted to ask you, Mrs. Tivvers,"
I began my examination, "whether these
astral shells, as I believe they are called,
ever leave the individual during his life
time.”
“Shells?” she echoed helplessly, ”1 don’t
understand.”
‘T mean, when you see a form like that
—as you did downstairs, you know—doesn’t
it always mean that the person is dead?”
“Why, I thought—l ulways thought it
meant that the'person had left this world.”
“But this one—this'Mr. Decastro—is he
dead?”
"Oh, dear me!” She stood twisting her
fingers in agony, splitting the seams of her
dark green gloves. “Oh, dear me!" she
murmured to herself. “Didn’t she know?
Poor thing!”
“Know what?” Eugene Interrupted,
pushing past his brother, who had been
trying to keep him quiet. Mrs. Tivvers
seemed not to hear.
“Why,” she went on, “that is worse and
worse—l thought I had only touched an
old wound.” She shook her head mourn
fully. “He couldn’t live with that—that
right here—” And she put her hand to a
spot just beneath the bunch of muslin vio
lets that decorated the front of her bonnet
on the right side.
“That" quieted even Eugene.
Poor Mrs, Trlvvers stood murmuring
“Dear me, dear me!' ‘and looking from
one to the other of us In dismay.
Except for these half-audible express
ions, there was silence for a long interval
until at last Mrs. Alfred said, “Won’t
you take off your jacket, Mrs. Trivvers?”
I hardly know how the whole matter
came to be so satisfactorily cleared up as
it was. I know lhat Eugene left the city
that same evening for Chicago, spent more
than three weeks In traveling about the
country, and returned with ample legal
proof that Gregory Moorsome Decastro
had committed suicide, somewhere in Ore
gon, on the very day of Mrs. Alfred Lon
don’s dreadful afternoon reception.
Madame must have worn out her preju
dices nursing the sick girl, for not more
than a year later, Eugene went to Chicago
and came back married.
England’* Most Precious Belle.
From the Chicago Record.
The most precious relic in all England,
and to the English in all Europe, is an
old Gothic chair which stands in the
Chapel of St Edward, in Westminster Ab
bey, besides the Sword and shield of Ed
ward 111. It is made of black oak in the
Gothic style, and the back is covered with
carved inscriptions, including the initials
of many famous men. The feet are four
Hons, that look like poodle dogs with their
tails curjed up over their backs. The seat
is a large stone, about thirty inches long
by eighteen Wide and twelve inches thick,
and all Ihe sovereigns of England for the
last 800 years have sat upon it when they
were crowned. The chair is known as the
coronation chair, and the stone is claimed
to t>e the same which Jacob, the son of
Isaac, the son of Abraham, used as a pil
low when he lay down to sleep on Ihe
starlit plains of that memorable
night, 09 he was on his way from BcV
sheoa to Haran, in search of a
It was then he had his dream, and saw
angels and archangels ascending and de
scending a ladder that reached to heaven,
and Jehovah came to him and made the
great promise which is being fulfilled to
the Jews this very day. And Jacob took
the stone and set it up for a pillar, and
poured oil upon it, and vowed a vow, and
called the name of the place Bethel.
The kings of Israel were crowned upon
this stone from Ihe time that they ruled
a nation. David and Saul and Solomon,
and ali the rest.
The story goes that 580 years before
Christ, at the lime of the Babylonian cap
tivity, Circa, daughter of Zedektah, the
last King of Judea,arrlved In Ireland, and
was married at Tara to Heremon, a prince
of the Tuatha de Danan— which is sold to
be the Celtic name of the tribe of Dan.
The tradition* relate th.it*this princes*
went originally to Egypt In charge of the
prophet Jeremiah, her guardian, and the
palace Taphanes, In which they resided
there, was discovered In 1888 by Dr. Petrie,
the archaeologist. After some years they
went hence to Ireland, and from Circa and
Heremon Queen Victoria traces her de
scent, through James I, who placed the
lion of the tribe of Judah upon the British
standard.
Jeremiah Is said to have concealed this
sacred stone at the time of the destruction
of Jerusalem and the captivity of the Jews
and to have brought it, “the stone of the
testimony,” Bethel, the only witness of
the compact between Jehovah and Israel,
to Ireland, whence It was known as the 11a
phail (stone wonderful). It was carried to
Scotland by Fergus I, and thence lo Lon
don In the year 1200, and has been used at
the coronation of every king and queen
of England from Edward I down to Vic
toria.” It is thus the most priceless his
torical object In the British empire, as it
was the palladium of Israel. It Is a curl
fact that the altars of Ireland were called
Bethel, houses of God.
In-the same chapel surrounding the cor
onation chair In Westminster Abbey are
the graves of six kings, five queens, four
princesses, a duke and a bishop.
FLAGS THE WORLD OVER.
THBIR ORIGIN AND THE VIEWING
THEY HAVE COME TO HAVE.
• I
Different Kind* of Flag*—The Royal
Standard 1* Really •> Banner,
While a Standard I* Something
Very Different— Heraldry and Flag;
Design lug—Nelson"* Fatuous Sla
nt! I.
From the New York Sun.
Every one who has read English history
has read of Nelson's famous signal befojxe
the battle of Trafaiger, “England expects
that every man will do his duty.” There
has been some Suggestion that the admiral
really signalled “Nelson" Instead of "Eng
land," and that his signal was edited by
some friend, but the usual and historical
version puts “England” in the first place.
There was signalling before Nelson's time.
James, Duke of York, signalled by code
when he was Lord High Admiral of Eng
land as far back as 1663, and Kempenfeldt
of Royal George fame improved on James’
system. But one of the earliest signal sys
tems was invented by the British admiral
ty in 1799 and Introduced at once into Nel
son’s fleet. By this code, which had ten
flags, representing the numerals from 1 to
10 (0) inclusive, the famous Trafalgar sig
nal was sent.
Signals and flags are described in a re
cent book by an Englishman, F. Edward
Hulme, who puts letters after his name
to signify that he is a fellow of the Lin
naean Society and also a fellow of the
Society of Antinquaries. Over here people
who go In for heraldry scientifically don't
say much about it, because we don't think
much on heraldry, but Mr. Hulme has
written books on heraldry and ornament,
and he has taken up flags and studied
them historically, heraldically, and senti
mentally. Luckily for him, though the
flags of one nailon differ from those of
every other nation, the signal flags are
international in character, so that when
he has described them or told about them
as English,' he does not have to say any
thing about their French or other charac
ter.
Of course Mr. Hulme devotes most of
his space to British flags, but he treats
other flags fairly. First among banners
came religious banners, such as the la
barumof Constantine, the banner of Duke
William of Normandy, and the oriflnmtpe
of France. Then came heraldic devices,
and in time these were modified until we
have the modern flag.
In the early days of chivalry the ban
ner was the chief flag. It wab a square
flag, and should have varied in size ac
cording to the rank of its owner. Thus
an Emperor’s banner should have been
six feet square; a King's, live; a Prince's
or a Duke’s, fqur, while the banner of
an Earl, Marquis, Viscount or Baron
should have bqgn three feet sfluare. On
the banner were the arms of the owner.
Then came the King's banner, now called
the royal standard. Mr. Hulme insists,
just for the sake of principle, lhat the
royal standard IST really the royal banner.
It bears the arms of the sovtreign, just as
the ordinary banner bore those of a Duke
or Baron. Whether it was originally six
feet or five feet square Mr. Hulme doesn’t
say. He seems to imply that it* was
square, although modern royal standards
are oblong, like modern flags.
The knight’s flag was a jiennon, a small
swallow-tailed flag; he was not a big
enough man to have a banner. But tohen
a knight had dorte some brave deed on
the ifield of battle, his sovereign, if •pres
ent, might make him a knight-bflMneret
by tearing off the points of the flag, and
so making it roughly Into a banner. A
knight-banneret must not be confounded
with a baronet. Edward I made the first
knight-banneret.' Charles I made Col.
John Smith one in 1642, and the next one
was made by George II on the field of
Dettlngen in 1743. James VI and I, who
couldn’t bear the sight of a sword, devis
ed the rank of baronet, and sold it to all
comers at £1,096 apiece.
Now, a standard, according to Mr.
Hulme, really is this: A flag of noble di
mensions, that shall always have the cross
of St. George placed next to the pole, that
shall bo divided horizontally into two or
more stripes of colors-the prevailing col
ors of the owner’s arms, or of his livery,
that shall bear his motto and badges and
be richly fringed. Its lengthy much greater
than its width, and its ends split and
rounded off. Mr. Hulme confines his ar
coutjt to English standards only, but the
cross of St. Andrew would make a Scot
tish standard, that of St. Patrick and Irish
standard, and the lilies of France and the
caßtle and lion of Castle and Leon, If
placed next to the pole, would make a
French and a Spanish standard respective
ly. No one could have more than one
banner, since his banner was composed of
his heraldic arms, but a persons could
have two or three standards. Thus Hen
ry VII had at Bosworth field, in 1486, at
least two standards; both were green and
white, since those were the Tudor livery
colors, but one showed a “red firye dra
gon,” and in the oilier "wns peinted a
donne kowe." A third banner of this
King bore a silver greyhound between red
roses. When Queen Elizabeth was buried
tho great embroidered (tanner of England,
the banners of Wales, Ireland, Chester,
and Cornwall, and the standards of the
dragon, greyhound, and falcon, were dls
palyed.
From the proper lengths of standards It
is evident that they were meant to stand,
not to be carried about; that they were to
be rallying points in battle. A king’s
standad was to be eight yards long, a
duke’s seven, a marquis’ six and a half,
and so on down to a knight, whoso banner
might be four yards long.
Knighls who were not khights-banneret
bore pennons; as a rule, these had two
points, though some had one point only,
and others had three, four, or even five
points. Pennants (or pendants, Mr. Hul
me perfers to call them) in Tudor times
were called streamers. Then, as now, they
were peculiar to ships, and In those days
were wider than they are now. One of
our ships came into harbor a few years
ago with a homeward-bound pennant
nearly 600 feet long, and not more than a
foot wide at the staff. In the time of
Henry VI one of the great ships of the
day had a “grete stremour xl yardes in
length and vtli yards in brede."
The only other flag to be noted Is the
guidon. It Is derived from the French
word gulde-homme, guide man, and Its
name expresses its purpose. In mediaeval
days it was spelled guydhomme, guydon.
gytton, gelon, and in other happy
lucky ways, too. It is a small flag born©
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by the troops of a cavalry regiment. All
our guidons are alike— red In the artillery,
yellow in the cavalry, but In the British’
army the senior troop carries a crimson
eilk guidon, called the queen's, while the
other troops carry guidons of the same
color as the facings of the regimental uni
form.
"Flag devising is really a branch of
heraldry,” says Mr. Hulrae, ”aa<l should
be in accordance with its laws, both ;n
the forms and tne colors introduced. Yel
low in blazonry is the equivalent of gold,
and white of silver, and it is one of the
requirements of heraldry that color shall
not bo placed upon color, or metal upon
metal.” Apart from the conventionality
of this rule, it is correct artistically, as
can be seen by contrasting the effect of
the French tri-color, where the red and the
blue are separated by the metal, white,
with that of the Haylian flag, where the
red and the bine are In juxtaposition.
Further It is easier to distinguish a (lag
designed heraldically from one designed
without attention to the laws of blazonry;
and that fact Is probably at the bottom of
the heraldic rule.
Red, white, and blue are the commonest
colors in flags; yellow is not uncommon;
orange occurs only once, in the flag of the
Orange Free Slate, green occurs a few
times, and black is still less frequent.
The origin of the union in the British
flag is well known. The red upright cross
is that of St. George, for England; the red
diagonal cross is that of St. Patrick for
Ireland; and the white diagonal, that
peeps out below St. Patrick's, is that of
St. Andrew for Scotland. There was a
great row over the arrangement of the tin
ion flag, long before the cross of St.
Patrick was placed on it. Between 1003 and
1C49 the English placed their cross on lop;
the Scotch placed ißeirs on top. In fact,
the Irish have never quarrelled over the
position of their cross on the Union flag,
Mr. Hulme thinks that this proved that
the Irish are satisfied with tile Union; but
that's as may be.
The Scotch made a row over the position
of the Scottish lion in the royal stand
ard, too. That standard (really banner,
as Mr. Hulme says), is quarterly; first
and fourth quarters, the British lions; sec
ond quarter, the Scotch lion; third quar
ter, the Irish harp. The Soolch wanted
to be flrst; and Just as they changed the
St. Andrew's cross on the Union, so on
the royal standard used In North Britain
they put their lion In the flrst and fourth
quarters, qnd the English lions in second
place. The Scotch are dour people, not
easily pleased, but if they liked to do so
It is none of our business, and the Eng
lish seem not to have cared greatly, and
the Irish not at ail.
We have our national flag and a differ
ent flag for our revenue cutters, and err
yachts. Great Britain, leaving out Its roy
al standard, has a merchant flag and a
naval ensign, a Union flag and a blue en
sign. The Union flag, which is un en
largement of the Union in the merchant
flag vve see everywhere, is hoisted by the
various governors, who display different
badges on it, the red ensign, with different
badges, is shown by the different colonics;
and some yacht clubs fly the naval ensign,
others the naval reserve or blue ensign,
and other bodies have other flags. It
would take a long study and constant
practice to identify every British appear
ing flag that one would see la going
around the world.
Mr. Hulme runs over the flags of the
various countries of the world, telling
about their origin. The Austrian-Hunga
rian flag combines the flags of the two
monarchies, the upper third of the flag
is red, the second third is white, one-half
of the lower third is red, making half the
flag red, white, red, the Austrian flag, the
second half of the lewer third is green,
producing the Hungarian colors. When
the Emperor visits the Austrian fleet, he
is saluted with twentyon guns and til.
teen cheers, a field marshal gets nineteen
guns and eleven cheers, a General thir
teen and seven, a commodore eleven and
three, and every other rank gets its prop
er allowance of gtm powder and vocal
music.
The flrst French flag was blue, the Chape
de St, Martin,believed to be the part of the
cape that St. Martin divided with the beg
gar. In time the scarlet flag of St. Denis
ousted the blue flag, but It went down at
Agincourt in 1415, The lilies of France were
added to the blue flag at a very early date.
Henry HI., who was a Protestant, adopted
as his banner the Huguenots’ white flag,
and the lilies were soon added to it. Both
while and blue flags disappeared during
the revolution, when the tricolor replaced
them, to last until 1815, when the white tri
color returned, and has stayed up to the
lime of going to press. During the first
and second empires the white stripe bore
an eagle, and the entire flag was diapered
with the Napoleonic bees.
The Spanish royal standard Is most com
plicated. The red and yellow of the Span
ish flag is said' to be derived from this oc
currence: In 1783 Charles the Bold dipped
his fingers in the blood of Geoffrey, Count
of and drew them down the
count’s golden shield, in token ©f his ap
preciation of the latter’s hraverji. • The
shield so marked became the arms of
Barcelona, which became part of Arragon,
and Its arms Were taken by that kingdom.
Now to the royol standard. In the flrst
quarter, or upper left hand part of the
flag, are the arms of Deon and Castile, the
lion and the castle; the second quarter Is
taken up, one-half by the arms of Arra
gon, one-half by’the arms of Sicily. The
upper third of the third quarter (directly
under the flrst) shows the Austrian colors
the lower two-thirds is divided between
the flag of Burgundy and the black lion
of Flanders; the upper third of the fourth
quarter shows the chequers, another Bur
gundian device, while the lower two-thirds
Is shared by the red eagle of Antwerp and
the golden lion of Brabant, and on top of
all this are two shields, one showing the
Portuguese arms, the other the French
fleur-de lys. That's some potatoes of a flag
evidently.
The old Papal states used the yellow and
white flag of the kingdom of Jerusalem,
which Godfrey of Bouillon la sold to have
chosen In defiance of the laws of heraldry,
in order that it might be unlike any other
banner. He is said to have based his choice
on a verse In the Psalms: “Though ye
have Hen amongst the pots, yet shall ye be
as the wings of a dove covered with sil
ver, and her feathers with yellow gold.”
The Danish flag is the oldest flag In ex
istence, dating back to 1219 or thereabouts;
it is of red, with a square white cross, and
is said to be due to the fact that King
Waldemar of Denmark, In a critical mo
ment of hie career, saw a white cross in
the sky. He adopted it as the flag of his
country, and called it "Dannebrog,”—the
strength of Denmark. The Dutch flag was
originally orange, while and blue, but in
tlmo the orange became red, and it re
mains so to this day. The stripes run
horizontally. The black, red and yellow
of the Belgian flag are taken from the flag
of the duchy of Brabant. The blue and
white of the Greek were adopted In com
pliment to Otho of Bavaria, who became
King of Greece In 1833. The crescent moon
and star of Byzantium were adopted by
the Turks after their conquest in 1152. The
Byzantines had adopted them in honor of
Diana, because the moon's appearance had
discovered to them an attempt by the sol
diers of Philip of Macedob to undermine
the walls of the city.
The personal flag of the Sultan Is of red
and bears his personal device, so it
changes wllh each accession. The device
is called the Tughra, and consists of the
name of the Sultan, the title Khan nnd
the epithet El Muzaffar daizna, the c\er
victorious. It originated .thus: Sultan
jturad I, who ascended the throne A. D.
1363, could not write; to sign a treaty with
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the Rapussns, ha wttlad Ills open hand
with Ink and pressed it on ihe parchment,
the first, second and third fingers, making
smeara close together, while the thumb
ami fourth linger were apart on either side.
To this day the Tughra remains the cym
bol of Sultan Murad's sign manual; as it
may be seen on Turkish coins and stamps,
the three upright marks Indicate Murad’s
three fingers, the rounded line to the left
the thumb, nnd that to the right the-little
finger. The smaller characters change
with each sovereign.
Mr. Hulme speaks of the flags that have
disappeared. Of thirty-five lings shown In
a flags of all nations supplement to a
London weekly in 1858, barely forty years
ago, eleven have disappeared, among them
those of the East India Company, of the
lonian Islands, of Tuscany, Naples and
the States of the Church, of the Rusal an-
American Company and of Sardinia.
Now that Alaska Is making Itself felt
here, the Alaskan flag might bo revived,
in a modified form. The upper two-thirds
were white, showing the Russian eagle;
the upper half of the lower third vas
blue, the lower half red. It must have
fluttered gayly over the Alaskan t.now
llelds, but opr own Stars and Hlripea Is
quite ns much at home there, and flutters
and struggles at Us halyards Just as well.
A SLICK SWINDLER.
Writes Worthless Checks nt Will
nnd Gets the C'nsh From Victims.
Waycross, Ga., Fob. 26. —- J. W. Strick
land, proprietor of the (Phoenix Hotel was
victimized by an alleged drummer on Feb,
10. The man had stopped herd once be
fore and Mr. Strickland remembered the
fact. He registered as L. Kaufman and
claimed to boa traveling salesman for
M. Strauss & Cos., an alleged firm at Bal
timore. The fellow appeared to be all
right as ho pretended to be soliciting
orders for his so-ealled house. When ho
started to leave on Feb. 11 he presented
Mr. Strickland a check for *75 on the
Farmers and Merchants National Bank
of Baltimore, purporting to be drtrwn by
M. Strauss & Cos., In favor of 1,. Kauf
man. Mr. Strickland cashed It and was
surprised a few days ago to receive ad
vice from Baltimore that the check had
been protested. He wrote the Baltimore
bank for Information and has received the
following reply: “The check In question
was fraudulent. No such Arm keeps an
account here. The party for whom It was
cashed has victimized hotel keepers and
others In various parts of the country and
detectives are after him. He Is evidently
a Jew or a man having the appearance of
one as he Invariably uses a Hebrew name,
viz.: Jacobs, Kaufman, Levy, Samuels,
etc., etc. Charles T. Crane,
“Cashier Farmers and Merchant! (Nat. Ilk.
"Baltimore, Feb. 21, 1398.”
Mr. Strickland wrote to Manager Sco
ville of the Hotel Marlon, Atlanta, who
had been victimized recently and asked
for Information about the man who pass
ed the fraudulent check. Mr. Scovllle
said In reply that he heard his man was
in Columbus last week and he had him
arrested and the money was refunded by
the forger. The man left Columbus and
has not been heard from again. He is
thought to be the. same party who vic
timize Mr. Strickland and others.
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