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The Order's Badges.

The Founders decided to have new badges and asked for designs for the
same. Old badges are still official, and those who have them need not
feel called upon to buy the new style. Designs were received from about
a score of members, but almost none of the suggestions were practicable.
An old Founder, who has excellent taste in such matters, suggests an
outline star; a centre the rose from the top of the King Arthur Table,
and the letters K. L. O. R. T., one on each of the star's five points.
The star is American, and the rose historic--a relic from the Order from
which we get our name.

There can be two styles of badges, one a silver stick-pin to cost about
ten cents, and the other a gold and enamel pin, same design, with pin
and catch, to cost about $1, and handsome enough to be worn as a scarf
or dress pin, instead of a pin of any other design. When so considered,
it is not a direct outlay for the Order, since nearly every person has
and wears a pin of some sort. The designs are not yet made, of course,
but they will be if the Table agrees to them. Founders need not write
unless they disapprove of the suggested designs. Badges will be prepared
at the earliest possible moment, and orders filled.

A Walk in the West Indies.

The other day I took a walk among the mountains with others of our
family. We started in the morning before the sun had time to gain
his full heat, and walked along the bank of a river until we
reached higher ground. From the top of one of the mountains we
could see wide stretches of blue sea, and green sugar-cane fields,
and the whole of Kingston lying in the broad valley far away and
beyond us. We saw Port Royal and the old Spanish ship _Urgent_,
lying at anchor in the harbor.

All this we looked at as we rested, and it was the best sort of
resting, to