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of their brightness and hospitality, OF a
certain tenderness Of heart, and many
| other traits which make them pleasant
comrades. They are said to be easy TO
rule, so long as they recognize their
master. to be brave and reckless, though
superstitious. But their most ardent ad-
mirers are the first to allow that they
possess to an extraordinary degree the
defects of their qualities. and agree that.
whether physically or morally. they de-
generate when brought under the infiu-
ence of Western civilization, losing some
Of their own primitive virtues. which had
their foundation in custom rather than
morality. and failing to acquire others
which require the exercise of reason and
discipline"
Further on we come upon this para
graph:
"The intellectual subtlety Of the Latin
has been curiousIy grated on to the sim
plicity-which is not stupidity-of the Ma
lay. Tie result is peculiar leaning to-
ward abstract ideas, love of the purely
theoretical side of learning. with a cor
responding inability to apply those theo-
ries which are to them things apart from
real life-things they have learned or read.
and but evolved from life itself. They be-
gin with the abstract and fail to work
down to the concrete, instead OF taking the
concrete and so. through circles of thought.
reaching the abstract. Their knowledge OF
rhetoric. logic. and philosophy is OF little
use to them. therefore, and even as an in
tellectual exercise it fails of its purpose
because it has no sure end or aim. witty
American who. being a fluent Spanish
scholar. had eonversed with hundreds of
the better educated Filiplnos, said of them.
They Will write you essays on individual
rights until you are tired: but il they met
Individual Rights In the street they
know him from Adamn This Is
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! tyrant Two features Of this design were
preserved in the seal as finally adopted
the eye of Providence in the triangle.
which now appears on the reverse. and
the motto "E Pluribus Unum.''
The device of the first committee did
not meet with a favorable reception. al
I though 1t was prepared with great care
by Mr.. Jefferson, assisted by French
artist named Du Simitfere. who came to
Philadelphia from the West Indies. Mon
sieur du Simitiere's talents as painter
OF miniatures and other pictures in water
coiors were much appreciated at that
time, as was also his ability to cut por-
traits in profile. placed over black paper.
The report of that immortal trio. Jeffer-
son, Adams, and Franklin. was laid on the
table and nothing further was done until
March %. 1779. when the matter vas re-
ferred to a new committee composer OF
James Lowell of Massachusetts,, Scott OF
Virginia. and Houston OF Georgia. On
May 10. 1880. this committee reported a
device in which appeared for the first
time the constellation rof the thirteen
stars and the thirteen red and white
stripes. but the latter are diagonal,
whereas they finally appeared as per-
pendicular. The idea followed the design
of the national flag which Congress had
adopted June II, 1777
After debate the report was ordered to
be recommitt.d to a new committee. and
finally the various committee reports were
referred to the Secretary of Congress.
Charles Thomson. who, discarding all pre-
vicus devices. made one of his own. in
which a step further toward perfection
WAS made.
The eagle. bearing on his breast the
shield. and grasping the olive branch and
arrows, and the constellation surround
ed by clouds. of Mr.. Thomson's device. ap-
pear as they now are: the motto is the
same and is held in the same way. The
reverse appears as 1t was finally adopted.
The next report is endorsed MIR. Bar
toms Improvement on the Secretary's de-
vice." and describes a device almost iden-
tical with the one ultimately chosen. On
June 20. 1882. the seal was finally decided
on. Being contemporaneous. this seal
was probably cut In Philadelphia.
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building 1t UP again. What the conditions
are and how the United States are deal
ing with them will be told later, but ii
may be said here that with characteris-
tic seif-confdence the Americans are
practically setting on one side the ac-
cumulated experience of other colonizine
nations. and are determined to meet the
new problem by great and entirely novel
experiment.
The fact is that the United States, on
the eve of a new era in their develop
ment and face to face with new ccndi
tions. must now work out their own sal
vation and acquire knowledge for them
selves. Years of intimate acquaintance
with the East will teach them more than
sheaves Of review articles or tons Of Gov
ernmental reports. Until that knowledge
is painfully acquired it is to be hoped
that the dependencies of the United States
will be governed and organized by the
one or two men on the spot who know
something and try to remedy their ignor
ance. and not by the masses of people at
home, who are anxious to ventilate their
wisdom. Government by ma;orities is, OF
course. the natural state of affairs in a
Republic. though in the United States it
is being rapidly replaced by different
systematic trust. or combination of a
powerful few. Either method is likely TO
have fatal results IL allowed full play
in dealing with dependencies, especially
such distant and difficult ones as the
Philippines. The fickleness Of popular
opinion-swayed by phrase, carried
away by catchword. is counteracted in
home affairs by certain common sense
which helps every man to decide on ques-
tions with whose practical bearings he is
acquainted: but when the question raised
is altogether outside Ills practical knowl-
edge. he Is apt to be swept away even
more strongly by the tide OF popular emo
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tion. II would be easy to write a very
informing paragraph on how not to govern
dependencies. but 1t will perhaps be bet
ter to leave that to the Imagination Of
the reader which will. It is hoped. be
largely stimulated by perusal in these
pages of the methods already employed
by various Powers in the East
This Is sense in a rather caustic form.
but there is a good deal of sense In it.
1t is wise to See ourselves through other
peoples eyes now and then.
A Blend of Races.
OF the Filipino character, or rather the
character of the Malay or mestizo, leav-
ing out the savage races. the author says:
I'm all discussions as to Filipino char
acter it is this point to which every
thing is focussed-the capacity for self
goyernment-for that signifies many quail
tiles. and on it practically hangs the fu-
ture of the race. Masses of evidence
have been collected ON the subject, much
of II very contradictory, and it is difficult
to decide where doctors disagree. But IL
one considers the different races which
have been blended in these islands, and
while remembering their recognized
racial characteristics. makes due allow
ances for the notifications produced by
SO great an admixture of blood, we shall
be able to account for many contradic-
tions. 1t is important always to remem-
ber that the people OF the Philippines are
not homogeneous: but. while there are
wide differences Of speech and disposition
in the inhabitants of many of the islands.
a very large proportion are permeated
with a Malay element. Those who have
been intimately connected with the
Malays have to a great extent fallen un
der the spell of certain charm In their
character. They speak with enthusiasm
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tunate Boy in the World" together with
an article which described at length the
splendor of his fathers house in town
the luxury of his camp in the heart OF
his Adirondack holding of twenty thou
sand acres, the cost OF his mothers
wardrobe and the number of horses and
servants maintained by the family.
The boy saw the picture and read fully
half of the article before he put it aside
He is accustomed to seeing his picture in
the public prints and has long since
ceased to wonder why so many people
| stare at him in the streets and in the
few public places to which he goes.
| 1t would be interesting to know wheth-
er he regards himself as the most for
tunate boy in the world. / doubt If he
does. Indeed, there is something in the
sadness of those deep eyes and wistful
| little mouth that leads me to suspect
| that something of the real knowledge of
life has come to him already, that he has
learned that of all the boys in the great
city in which he lives he is the least
| fortunate, the most deserving of all
| human sympathy and pity.
Meanwhile, his mother and Miss Gres-
ham, her secretary. are opening the
mornings mail and in a few moments will
be in the very heart of their days work.
Miss Gresham is a gentlewoman of de-
cayed fortune, who receives large salary
for her services as secretary and COM
panion to madame. In this dual capacity
she has made herself invaluable by reason
OF her thorough familiarity with the
names OF all the persons who are at all
prominent in the society of the metropo-
lis; her great capability for work and the
possession of rare degree of tact and
judgment.
This is really too provoking" ex-
claims madame. as she throws down a
letter. This is the third refusal I've
had already for next Sundays dinner.
Now what am l going to do? 1t does
seem absurd that when l take the trouble
to get lot of terrapin and canvasbacks
and champagne, and everything that
actually go down on my knees begging
people to come and eat them Well. get
out the list and see if there is anyone
we can depend on. l want two men and
one woman" ,
''Mr- and Mrs. Joseph Taylor suggests |
Miss Gresham, glancing at the morocco
bound visiting list.
''See if you can't go a little higher than |
that" says madame. You see, have |
Lord Windermere to spring on them as a |
surprise. and 1 don't want him to go too |
cheap"
We'll, there's Mrs. David Johnson"
That woman? Why, she's been saying
every nasty thing she could think of about
ME all winter long"
That's the reason / suggested her"
We'll. ask her, and her husband, too.
IL he's presentable."
She's unattached at present. Divorced
last spring." says Miss Gresham, dryly,
as she makes out the card of invitation.
Divorced, Is her husband on my list.
We haven't asked him for Sunday, have
ve."
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TT is Lucille. the French maid. who
half opens the door in response to
= the timid knock, and there is a note
of something like pity in her voice
as she says: "It is only L'Aiglon, mad
anne. may let him in, may l not?"
''Oh. yes, / suppose So" says the
woman who is sitting up in bed with
cup of chocolate in her hand. "but
he must keep very quiet, for l really
cannot be bothered this morning. And,
Lucille, take this tray away and send
sends up such a cup of slops to my room
again he'll be discharged"
Lucille removes the tray and the door
closes behind rail-looking boy of l.,
who somehow reminds us Of Paul Dom
hey. though he bears a certain resem-
blance to the fiorid-faced woman in the
gorgeous silk dressing gown, who sits up
pfopped against the great pillows in the
splendid canopied bed.
1t is a superb bedroom in one of the
finest houses on Fifth Avenue, opposite
central anu d Ddy Will
dow which gives a view of at least
mile of New York's great thoroughfare of
fashion. The house itself was only fin
ished last year. and it would be difficult
to name single modern contrivance in
The way of self-acting elevators, electric
calls and devices that it does possess
The domestic staff includes housekeeper,
butler, half a dozen men in crimson
and gold livery, innumerable housemaids,
a chef and three assistants in the kitchen
and coachman and half a dozen grooms
and helpers in the stable, to say nothing
of madame's secretary. and the personal
attendants of each member of the family.
Two detectives are on duty in or near
the house every hour Of the twenty-four.
The woman sitting up in bed is the
mistress of the house, and the wife of
the man who is known throughout the
length and breadth of America as the
Napoleon of the coal felds,' the owner
of the largest bituminous deposits of the
Western Hemisphere. the consolidator of
the coal interests of the entire country
and the employer of nearly $4,000 men,
whose wages range from the half-dollar
a day paid to the small boys employed in
the mines TO the quarter of a million
salary earned by his general manager.
me small boy, with the frail physique.
prematurely old face and serious eyes.
wao stands looking out through the bay
window, is the only son and principal |
heir to his fathers fortune, already one !
of the largest in a country famed for its |
enormous private fortunes and likely to |
become within another decade. the great |
est accumulation of wealth held by any |
private individual in the world.
The boy acquired the nickname of |
'L Aiglon" when the Rostand play was |
at the height of its opularity-probably
because he was the only son of a modern
Napoleon-and it has clung to him ever
since.
L'Aiglon's picture was printed in one
of the New York newspapers last Sun
day under the heading THE Nest For
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UNCLE SANS GREAT SEAL.

| The second seal was cut in 1S41, Daniel
| Webster being then Secretary of State.
| Its dimensions were smaller than the
arrows. The seal now In use was cut
when Frederick T. Frelinghuysen was
Secretary of State, after the design had
been submitted to several historical
scholars and authorities on heraldry and
had been approved by them.
In many countries, at the present day,
the authenticity of a treaty with another
power is attested by large pendent wax
seal. the cords which run through the
paper being carried through the wax. As
the wax would otherwise be sure to break,
and the cords become detached a metal
box. usually of gold or silver, is used to
contain the wax impression.
Our own seal was thus attached to
treaties until 1869. when the practice was
finally abandoned, and the impression
upon the paper itself. with thin white
wafer, is used upon treaties. as well as
upon all other documents upon which the
seal is affixed.
These are as follows:
The commissions of all Cabinet Of
fcers and diplomatic and consular officers
who are nominated by the President and
confirmed by the Senate; all ceremonious
communications from the President to the
heads of foreign Governments; all
treaties, conventions and formal agree
ments Of the President with foreign Pow
ers: all pardons and combinations of SEN
tence by the President to offenders who
have been convicted before the courts of
the United States: all proclamations by
the President: all exequaturs to foreign
consular officers in the United States, who
are appointed by the heads of the Cow
ernments which they represent: to war
rants by the President to receive persons
surrendered by foreign Governments under
extradtion treaties, and to all miscellan-
eous commissions of civil officers appoint
ed by the President by and with the ad-
vice and consent of the Senate whose ap-
pontments are not now especially directed
by law to be signed under a different
SEAL OLIVE LOGAN.
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which Of the two looks forward to It NOR,
eagerly. On these occasions it is LAig
lon himself who arrapges the meal
choosing with the aid of the chef tn,
dishes that he thinks will suit his faith
er's rather homely tastes. and setting W
and printing with his own type and hant
press the bill of fare.
1t is this work which engages him nov
| otter being thrust from his mothers
room. and while he tolls with ink-stained
! fingers, his father is seated at his ma.
hogany desk in his own luxuriously fur
nished office. where, carefully guarded
| from all intrusion, he administers the
affairs Of his kingdom. Today he has
already affixed his signature to contract
| which will yield him profit of 81 .O00, 900,
and has sent word that he cannot see the
so-called labor leader who, having or
ganized great strike for the purpose OF
getting his picture in the newspapers, has
come unlimited to New York, and to the
Napoleon's office. for the purpose of tell
ing him how to settle it. He has been
waiting in an ante-room all the morning,
encompassed around by reporters and
photographers, to whom he has been talk
ing boastfully about his power over the
miners and the number of men he can
call out at moments notice.
On receipt of the Napoleon's curt and
contemptuous message his jaw drops, his
boastful talk ceases and he hurriedly
leaves the office with terrible suspicion
growing in his mind that his own short
careerAs labor leader is likely to come
to sudden and inglorious end. He has
scarcely left the building before the Ma
poleon energes through another door,
steps quickly into a waiting coupe, whose
foo.man on the box is in reality an armed
guard. and is driven rapidly up town
L'Aiglon spies him far down the ave-
nue.. and is on the steps to welcome him
with smile of eager delight that goes
straight to the heart of the great man
Of affairs. The coupe drives away, the
hall door closes behind them and the
father with the boy trudging along behind
him, mounts the broad staircase to his
own rooms on the second floor.
There is rag carpet on the floor of
Inc 4sdptACou cittiuS ioouA anu Papci
adorhed with gaudy parrots on the wall.
Logs are burning In the open fireplace, |
whose wooden mantel was taken from the |
"best room" in the New England farm |
house where the great man first saw the |
light. An old-fashioned cherry wood |
desk with slanting top stands by the |
window and a mahogany table with slen-
der, fiuted legs is spread for the meal.
The father throws himself into the
great easy chair before the hearth, closes
his eyes and goes back in memory to the
lime when his years were as few as those
# the boy who is sitting en- the footstool
,eside him with his slender white hand
'esting in his. A <reipcarnation in in
ensely modern form Of the old-time bor-
Ter baron. he wonders now with the same
the same perturbing fears and
Ugh hopes with which another and
.reater Napoleon must have wondered
early hundred years ago, whether his
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doesn't give 1t to me, I'm likely to bt
hysterical again, and you know what DR.
Peabody said. 1 should think he'd b.
ashamed to let his daughter go out OF
the street. looking as / do.'
why. Josephine" says L'AigIon, com
ing out from behind the curtained win
dow. how can you say such a thing as
well that you've had $1,000 more than your
| allowance already this year"
Il haven't either. and it's none Of your
business snarls the young girl, begin
ming to whimper
"Oh, yes, you have. too"
Lucille" says the mother sterniy,
take that boy out of the room this
minute And as the child is led away
smarting under the injustice to his father
as well as to himself, Josephine throws
| herself on the sofa in ct of violent weep
| ing. Utterly unframed and undisciplined
| unaccustomed to the denial of anything
| which she has set her heart on, her IA
theirs curt refusal to indulge her, has
| worked upon her feelings all the morning
ing on hysteria. Her bother is terribly
frightened. Josephine. darling. she
cries. You must control yourself. / will
speak to your father the moment he
comes in and you shall have it, promise
you that"
But I want 1t now," screams the girl.
You shall have it this very afternoon,
if you will only stop crying" pleads the
mother miss Gresham will go with you
the minute luncheon is through. and Tin
a low voice to her secretary. We can
charge it to the housekeeping account"
There's an article in the paper this
morning about papa snarls Josephine
from the sofa 1T calls him thief and
says he oppresses all the poor people.
I'm glad of it. 1t serves him right. II
he is nasty and mean to his own daugh- |
ter, how can anyone expect him to be
nice to lot of poor people.
"Hush," exclaims her mother. You
ought to be ashamed of yourself. Lucille,
I wish you would go and tell Burton that
not one of those outrageous newspapers \
must be allowed in the house. Remem-
her. Josephine, you have got your les
sons to take before luncheon" and the
young girl is sent off to the parlor where
expensive teachers are waiting to apply !
a thin veneer of-French and music over |
the hollow. pecvish depths of her native |
ignorance.
Meantime the father of the family. the |
Napoleon to whose mercantile genius is
due all the luxury which surrounds the
has gone down town to
transact little important business. But
he is to be back soon after II, for he al
ways allows himself a half holiday on
Saturday. and then he and L'Aiglon are
to have luncheon together, not in
the big state diningroom, in which
the florists are already busy with prepar-
atoms for the nights dinner. but in Ma
poIeon's own private sitting room. This
little luncheon is a regular weekly event
IN the domestic calendar OF both father
md son, and it would be hard to say
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Laid up with theS Influenza! I don't
believe it," snaps the woman in bed.
Somebody's invited her at tn. very last
moment to. fill up and she's thrown me
over. Ten to one We will see her name
in the papers tomorrow in some dinner
list. Now, give me that list again. There's
Mrs. Jack Rae; call her up on the tele-
phone and ask her. Tell her we haven't
got her answer to the card we sent her
Monday morning, and ask her If we can
depend on her."
And while the secretary is at the tele-