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1 THE CHRISTIAN FLAG. |
A distinctively Christian flag will
soou be adopted by a large number of
churches throughout the country with
out regard to denomination. Buttons
on whioh the flag is conspicuously
shown are already being worn. Last
rally day at Brighton Chapel, Coney
Island, a well known Christian worker
had been announced to make an ad
dress. The chapel was well lilled hud
when the time for the address had
come the speaker failed to appear.
The superintendent of the school, C.
C. Overton, after apologizing for the
absence of the speaker, was obliged to
take his placo. The subject of his talk
was"The American Flag." On the
platform was a beautiful flag, the gift
of James H. Perry Post, Gr. A. B. Mr.
Overtoil dwelt upon the principles
for which the flag stood, the devotion
of its followers, the loyalty, fidelity
and constancy which should bo shown
by Christ's followers. The want of a
Christian flag impressed Mr. Overton,
and as he told the writer, "the Chris
tian flag appeared to be floating in the
air as I was speaking, and I gave the
Words by Mr,lc
fANNY J. CROSBY. HUNTING TON V> OODMAN.
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The Christian FlagV be • bold it, And h4il it w ' l ' l *
The Christian Flag! on • furf it. That aU th» world may
And let the voice of mil - lions The jby - ful drain pro
see The biood stained cross of Je • tns, Who died to make as
Ui •- Mn • (^cr
t Jong. To ev . 'ry clime and "n» - tion, We send it forfli t» - tttf,
I j free The Christ-ian Flag! on • fori it. And o'er and oVr a • gain,
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God speeJ its glo - rious mis-sion. With ear •■r.est hearts we pray.
Oh, pbay it bear the mcs.sage "Good will and peace to men"
And / all the world o • ni - ted. Our lo» • ing Sav • ioaJ praise*.
Chorns.
cii ir' f J J irr i r H^]Ff=r-it3^
The Chrlat-lan Flaj'be . hold it, And tail It with » tong;
audieneo a description of it then and
there, as it stands upon our platform
to-day. I believe it was an inspira
tion from heaven of a banner that
should wave triumphant over the
world."
The flag is ino3t symbolic. The
gronnd is white, representing peace,
purity and innocence; in the upper
corner is a blue square, the color of
the unclouded sky, emblematic of
heaven, the homo of the Christian, also
a symbol of faith and trust. In tlio
contro of the blue is the cross, the en
sign and chosen symbol of Christianity;
the cross is red, typical of Christ's
blood. Every sect of Christ's follow
ers can iudorse the flag, and it is
equally applicable to all nations. It
stands for no creed or denomination.
Miss Fanny J. Crosby, the Christian
poet, has written the words of the
liyiun and B. Huntington Woodman
the music here reproduced. Neither
the flag, hymn nor music has been
copyrighted and all are dedicated by
M'. Overton to the followers of Christ
the worldovor.—Brookln Eagle.
Blue Is Cool; lied, Hot.
The thermometer seems to fall sis
degrees when you walk into a blue
room. Yellow is an advancing color;
therefore a room fitted up in yellow
will appear smaller than it is. On the
other hand, blue of a certain shade
introduced generously into a room will
give an idea of space. Red makes no
difference in regard to size. Green
make- very little.
BULL AGAINST TIGER.
A Combat in Which the Latter Came Off
Second Beat.
In the Spanish capital a few days
ago, before one thousand three hun
dred well-pleased spectators, there
was a combat between a royal Bengal
tiger and an Andalusian lighting bull,
the tiger being a full grown jinimal,
known for its ferocity. A cage seven
teen yards square by four in height
had been erected in the middle of the
plaza, and the animals were brought
in, the bull being the first to be released
into the inclosure. He immediately
began to run round and round his
prison, bellowing and throwing tip
sand and gravel with his hoofs. The
instant the tiger entered the cage the
great cat gave a roar and bounded on
the bull, avoiding the horns, and fixed
on his fianks and belly with both
teeth and claws.
The bull remained paralyzed for a
few seconds, and then seemed to be
sinking backward to the ground. The
tiger, however, loosened its grip for a
second to take another hold, and in
the brief interval was hurled to earth
by the wild plunges of the bull. Be
fore the tiger had time to recover, the
bull was on him, and, plunging its
horns in the tough hide, tossed the
tiger into the air. This was repeated
four or live times, the bull varying
his tactics occasionally by crushing
his adversary against the bars.
Wheu the bull desisted the tiger
lay limp on the ground, and the
crowd, thinking he was dead, cried,
"'Bravo, toro!" The bull stood stamp
ing for a lyomeut in tue middle of the
cage, and theu, seeing that the tiger
did not move, approached and smelt
his enemy, who, however, was only
shamming death, and seized the bull's
muzzle in his powerful jaws, so that
the latter could not move.
Eventually, however, the bull was
released,and, after stamping furiously
on the tiger, again caught him on his
horns. This time the tossing, stamp
ing and banging apparently really
ended in the tiger's death. The cage
was then opened and the bull rushed
out and back to his stable. For pre
caution's sake the tiger's van was
brought up, and, to the general sur
prise, he rose to his feet, glanced
round us if afraid the bull was still
there, and then bounded into the van.
The tiger was found to have live ribs
broken, besides having a number of
wounds from the bull's horns. He is
expected to survive.—London Tele
graph.
Kemarkulile Klvern.
From the beginning the Nile was an
•xceptional river. Its sources were
unknown. There were those who
thought that the Nile flowed down
from heaven ; that it welled up from
streams that disappeared under the
earth on another continent, or, at the
very least, that its springs were inac
cessible to mau.
There was no such mystery about
the Euphrates. From the remotest
times its sources seem to have been
known by hearsay, if not by observa
tion, to the dwellers on the coast.
The Nile was beneficent even in its
Hoods. The people learned to let its
waters How over their lands at tiie
time of the inundation, and where
they raised dikes und sunk canals and
basins it was to let in the water, not
to keep it out. The Euphrates also
had its Hoods, but these were destruc
tive. They scarred the soft earth with
ravines and swept the fertile soil on
ward to build new lands along the
edge of the Persian Gulf. The peo
ple anticipated the overflow -• ith dread,
and their most absorbing task was to
restrain the river within bounds. They
became more intimate with the earth
than their Fgvptian contemporaries.
They learned how to mould the clay
and to make their houses and the
houses of their kings and their gods
out of the material under their feet.
The Egyptians learned something
about brick manufacture, but they had
110 need to depend wholly upon that
sort of building material. It was easy
for them to obtain stone, as their huge
jiles attest.—Philadelphia Press.
I'uper Mutch Stick*.
It is predicted that paper is the
coming material for matches, says
Planets and People. Th« prospect of
the wooden-match industry being ap
preciably affected by a new process
for manufacturing mutches of paper
is held to be extfemely probable,partic
ularly as the best wood for this pur
pose is constantly growing scarcer and
more costly. The new matches are
considerably cJjj'-wier than the wooden
product, and i much less, which
counts for inuSix\ T exportation.
The matches consist of
paper rolled „o B fcr on the bias. The
paper isrt, l l|-£ 'tiojhg and porous, and
when solution of wax
sticks well UT esoiniaml burns with a
bright, smol •jaM<><ad odorless flame.
Strips one-h |in width are first
drawn throilgn combustible mass
and then turned by machinery into
long, thin tubes, pieces of the ordi
nary length of wood or wax matches
being cut oil' automatically by the
machine. When the sticks are cut
size they «re dipped into phosphorous,
also by machinery, and the dried
head easily ignites by friction on any
surface.
Seemed Like Fifty.
"Come up to my house tomorrow
night," said Henpecque, "I am going
to celebrate my golden wedding."
"Golden wedding! Why. man you've
only been married.tliree years.'
"I know it, but it seems like fifty,
so everything is all right."—Tit-Bits.
Theological.
"Ah," he said, as the postman
handed him a letter, "an epistle?"
"No," said his wife, as she opened
the envelope, and a tailor's bill flut
tered to the floor. "Not au epistle; a
tollect.''—Boston Traveler.
CARROLL D. WRIGHT.
United States Commissioner of tabor Ha*
Been Honored Abroad.
Carroll D. Wright, United States
Commissioner of Labor, who has just
been honored with membership in the
Institute of France and honorary
membership in the Imperial Russian
Academy of Sciences, is one of the
foremost statisticians of the world.
Few statisticians, says the Chicago
Times-Herald, have been as careful as
ho to present bare facts and to present
thein as fully as the statistician can.
It was ho who originated the now
famous and much misquoted saying,
•'Figures do not lie, but liars figure."
CAEKOI/L D. WEIGHT.
The noted labor statistician began
life as a country schoolmaster in New
Hampshire, his native State, and went
from pedagogy into law. Dropping
his commentaries for his musket he
went to the war, and, after fighting to
the end of the strife, he resumed his
law work and was admitted to the bar.
In 1871 and 1872 lie was a New
Hampshire Legislator, and was soon
thereafter placed in charge of the State
Labor Bureau, to take which position
he gave up a practice of SIO,OOO a
year. In 1880 he supervised the na
tional census in Massachusetts, and
his work attracted much attention for
its thoroughness. In 1885 he was
made the first Labor Commissioner of
the United States. His published
works make a very considerable library
of labor statistics.
How a I'oriupine I'lglitH a SnultP.
"Several years ago I was an in
terested spectator at a combat between
a hedgehog and a huge blacksnake,"
said W. D. lugrahani, of Memphis.
"I came upon the scene just as the
hedgehog began the attack upon the
snake, which was lying stretched out
on the road asleep. The hog advanced
cautiously upon the reptile and seized
its tail in its mouth, giving it a sharp
bite. Then ho quickly withdrew a
few feet, and, rolling himself into a,
compact, spiny ball, awaited develop
ments. The snake, upon being thus
rudely awakened, turned in fury upon
its antagonist, striking the hog again
and again with its fangs. The wily
hedgehog, securely intrenched within
its spiny armor remained perfectly
motionless, all the while, allowing the
snake to keep up the attack. At every
stroke the jaws of the smake would
become filled with the spines, until,
at last, exhausted and bleeding from
dozens of wounds caused by the needle
like spines of the hog, the snake gave
up tho battle. This was evidently
what the hedgehog was waiting for, as
he immediately proceeded to roll over
the snake again and again until he
had comp'etely disembowelled his vic
tim."—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
KLONDIKE SKY-SCRAPERS.
Cathedral ami Court House at Dunrson
City, Metropolis of the Gold Field.
These are not veiy imposing struc
tures certainly, says the New York
Journal. They conld not. be called
"sky scrapers," but the citizens of
Dawson City, who have gorie to court
fortune in tho Klondike, dignify these
tiny houses with the names of cathe
dral and courthouse. The judge
does not bother about strict formali
ties, but he rules, in this hastily built
littlo temple of justice, as carefully
and as justly as if ho were holding
court in New York for a sensational
murder trial, with leading lights of
the bar present, and being sketched
every hour for the papers.
In the little cathedral nearby there
are no gorgeous appointments resem
bling a stage setting, no music by
highly paid artists. The littlo wooden
chairs are not remarkably comforta
ble, and the music must be made by
the attendants at service.
Women in that part of the globe
cannot be accused of going to church
to see the style of hat her dearest foe
has just purchased. They all wear
CATUEDBAIi AND COURT HOUSE OF DAW
SON CITY.
fur hoods. Through dreary snow
fields the Klondikers plod to offer
prayers for their dear ones at home,
and to ask for success in their self
banishment. And tie petitions rise
to the throne on high just as surely as
if they pierced lofty ceilings and
stained-glass windows to reach their
destination.
• The number of passengers who used
the railways of this country during
the year ending June 30, 183(5, was
511,772,737.
lVlntor Wind.
0 Wind, how cruelly you blow!
Uow can you treat the children so?
You give such whirls,
And jerk our curls,
tnd whisk us 'round—poor little girls!
Ob, how you roar and rush uud hustle!
Why must you be in such iv bustle?
In summer-time we used to hear
The little zephyrs coming near—
Not rude and wild,
But soft and mild,
fcs gentle as a little child.
We always laughed and laughed, when they
Came whispering to us in our play.
Sow. Wind. I'm wondering if you
Were ever like them?—tell me true.
And did you blow
Ij'jng. long ago
.Vs quietly uud sweet and low?
Will thoy be like you when they're old—
So rough and cruel, and so cold?
—Sydney Dayre, in Youth's Companion.
A I.lttle Mistake.
"Well, no one can say I have not
made good use of my time," said a
large white mushroom to a daisy that
grew in the turf close by.
"Toil certainly have grown surpris
ingly fast," said the daisy, thought
fully.
"i'es. and I have done it all sitfee
you folded your petals and went to
sleep. I daresay, now you are won
dering where I was last night."
"No," said the daisy, "I wasn't; to
tell the truth, I wus wondering where
you would be tomorrow night."
The Mouse's Blanket.
One day Willie's mamma missed a
banknote which she was certain she
had putin a particular place. Think
ing that Willie might have taken it
for a plaything,not knowing its value,
she asked him if he had seen it. But
Willie knew nothing about it, neither
did the nurse nor anybody in the
house.
By and by papa came home. He
pointed to a mouse hole in the nursery
fioor, and said the mice must have
stolen it. A carpenter came and took
up the fioor, and, sure enough, there
was a nest of little mice all cuddled
down on the bank-note, which Mother
Mouse had spread out as a lining for
the nest. Other pieces of paper were
found, all torn and nibbled, but this,
being nice and soft, had beeu saved
for a blanket by the wise old mother.
—Congregationalist. t
Soldier .Toe,
Tommy leaned on his snow-sliovel,
looking very much discouraged. Only
yesterday he had cleaned off the walk,
and now here it was quite blocked up
again. Too bad! He was sure he
never could shovel away all that snow.
Then he heard a noise in tho next
yard, and looked over the fence to see
what was on. First he saw a
shower of snow Hying up in the air,
and then .Toe's shovel and his small
blue mittens, and last of all little Joe
himself, working away as if he went
by steam. He had shoveled a long,
clear path, shut in on each side by
two high, white, clean walls.
"O Joe! Ain't you tired?" called
Tommy.
"No!" said Joe, stoutly. "I'm a
soldier now!"
"You see," he went on,"I used to
get tired, till sometimes I most hated
my shovel. But mamma told uie that
the snow was a great army, all dressed
in white uniforms, that came and took
our town in the night. They block
lip all our streets and walks, and try
to keep us shut up in our houses.
"But there is another army of men
and boys that go out and drive 'em
off with shovels, no matter how fast
they come. And I'm in that army. If
1 was the only one that had to fight
the snow, it would be sort of lone
some; but there is such lots of us
that it's just fun!"
Tommy thought a minute, and con
cluded Joe was right. So he joined
the army, too: and very soon his walk
was cleared.—Youth's Companion.
A Klondike Story.
Jimmy Bremian, ten years old, ami
son of Police Officer Breunan of
Seattle, was standing at Yesler Way,
when a stranger came along. He
looked like a man who had just re
turned from a logging camp.
"Boys," he said, "where is the
Butler hotel?"
"I'll tell you for a quarter, said
one of Jimmy's companions.
"I'll show you where it is or ten
cents," chimed in another.
"Say, I'll do it for five cents," re
marked a third.
"Mister," said Jimmy,"l will
point out the Butler to you for noth
ing."
"You're my man," said tho rough
looking stranger, and the two went
down Yesler Way together; while
Jimmy's companions stayed behind
to cali him a chump. Jimmy led the
stranger to the Butler.
"Come in here," said the man, and
he led tho boy into a clothing store.
"Give this boy the best suit of clothes
in the house," said the stranger.
Jimmy simply opened his mouth.
Soon he had on a fine suit.
"Now give him an overcoat," said
the stranger; and Jimmy's eyei tried
to pop out of their sockets. The clerk
adorned Jimmy with an overcoat.
"Now a hat," said the stranger.
Jimmy wanted to cry. He thought it
was Christmas time, ami that he was
by the side of a grate tire, reading one
of Andersen's fairy tales.
Soon he was arrayed in new hat,
new suit,new overcoat. The stranger
paid for all. Jimmy started out of
the store. He was so bewildered that,
if several goblins bad putin their ap
pearance, he would have joined them
in their fairyland festivities.
'•Just wait a minute," said the
stranger. Jimmy waited. If the
stranger had said, "Go, roll in the
dust of the street," Jimmy would
have done it.
The stranger went down in his
pocket, and closed his dealings with
Jimmy by giving him a five-dollar gold
piece and a gold nugget worth about
live dollars.
'■lben Jimmy thanked the stranger
and weut off to tell his companions
about the man to whom he showed the
Hotel Butler "for nothing."
The stranger was a Klondiker, sup
posed to be Patrick Galviu, who re
turned on the Rosalie recently
with a fortune estimated at about
twenty thousand dollars. It pays to
be polite. If you don't think so, ask
Jimmy Brennan.—Seattle (Wash.)
Post-Intelligencer.
l»oc, tl»e Brazilian I*lrat«.
Mr. Frank K. Stockton is writing
"The Buccaneers of Our Coast," for
St. Nicholas. Mr. Stockton describes
the career of a famous character on
the Spanish Main.
This famous buccaneer was called
Roc, because he had to have a name,
and his own was unknown or sup
pressed, and"the Brazilian," because
lie was born in Brazil—though his
parents were Dutch.
Unlike most of his fellow-practi
tioners, he did not gradually become a
pirate. From his early youth he
never had an intention of being any
thing else. As soon as he grew to be
a man, he became one of the buc
caneers, and at the first opportunity
he joined a pirate crew and had made
but a few voyages when it was per
ceived by his companions that he was
destined to become a most remarkable
sea-robber. He was putin command
of a ship, and in a very short time
after he had set out on his first inde
pendent cruise he fbll in with a
Spanish ship loaded with silver bul
lion. Having captured this he sailed
with his prize to Jamaica, which was
one of the great resorts of the English
buccaneers. There bis success de
lighted the community, and soon he
was generally acknowledged as the
head pirate of the West Indies.
As for Esquemeling, ho simply rev
e!e 1 in the deeds of the great Brazi
lian desperado. If he had been
writing the life and times of Alexander
the Great, Julius C.esar or Mr. Glad
stone, he could not have been more
enthusiastic in his praises. And as in
"The Arabian Nights" the roc is des
cribed as the greatest of birds, so, in
the eyes of the buccaneer biographer,
this Roc was the greatest of pirates.
The renowned pirate from Brazil
must have been a terrible fellow to
look at. He was strong and brawny,
his face was short and very wide, with
high cheek bones, and his counten
ance proßably resembled that of a pug
dog. It was his custom in the day
time to walk about carrying a drawn
cutlass resting easily upon his arm,
edge up. very much as a fine gentle
man carries his high silk hat.
He was a man who insisted upon
being obeyed instantly. But although
he was so strict and exacting during
the business sessions of his piratical
year—by which I mean when he was
cruising around after prizes—-he was
very much more disagreeable, when he
was taking a vacation. On his return
to Jamaica from one of his expedition?
it was his habit to give himself some
relaxation after the hardships and
dangers through which he had passed;
and on such occasions, with his cut
lass waving high in the air, he would
often rush into the street, and take a
whack at every oue whom he met.
As far as was possible the citizens
allowed him to have the street to him
self and it was not at all likely that
his visits to Jamaica were looked for
ward to with any eager anticipation.
CliiiiPHo NprvelcMiietiii.
A Nor'.h China paper says the quality
of '•nervelessuess" distinguishes the
Cliiuaman from the European. The
Chinaman can write all day, work all
day, stand in one position all day,
weave, beat gold, carve ivory, do in
iinitely tedious jobs foi ever and ever,
and discover no m< rs weariness and
irritation than if lit wer<4 a machine.
This quality appears in early life.
There are 1:0 restless, naughty boys
in China. They are all appallingly
good, and will plod away in school
without recesses or recreation of any
kind. The Chinaman can do without
exercise. Spoit or play seems to him
no much waste labor. He can sleep
anywhere—amid rattling machinery,
deafening uproar, squalling children,
and qunrreling adults. He can sleep
on the ground, 011 the floor, on a bed,
on a chair, or in any position.—New
York Ledger.
Two I.nokv Servant*.
Two of the luckiest persons in Paris
at the present moment are a maid ser
vant and a concierge in the Lnxern
bourge district. Their mistress, a
wealthy lady without children,recently
died, leaving 8:100,000 to be divided
between their.. They are also to in
herit two houses, and nobody has as
yet arrived to contest the will. —Paris
Letter.