of its kind, I
dignified it with the great name to which this country owed her
salvation, and which must be imperishable therefore among her people.
Like the eagle, Washington was brave; like it, he was the terror of his
foes, and his fame, extending from pole to pole, resembles the majestic
soarings of the mightiest of the feathered tribe. America, proud of her
Washington, has also reason to be so of her Great Eagle.

ONE VAST WESTERN CONTINENT.

Sir EDWIN ARNOLD, C. S. I., an English poet and journalist. Born,
June 10, 1832.

I reserve as the destiny of these United States the control of all the
lands to the south, of the whole of the South American continent. Petty
troubles will die away, and all will be yours. In South America alone
there is room for 500,000,000 more people. Some day it will have that
many, and all will acknowledge the government at Washington. We in
England will not grudge you this added power. It is rightfully yours.
With the completion of the canal across the Isthmus of Nicaragua you
must have control of it, and of all the surrounding Egypt of the New
World.

THE RISING OF THE WESTERN STAR.

(ANONYMOUS.)

Land of the mighty! through the nations
Thy fame shall live and travel on;
And all succeeding generations
Shall bless the name of Washington.
While year by year new triumphs bringing,
The sons of Freedom shall be singing--
Ever happy, ever free,
Land of light and liberty.

Columbus, on his dauntless mission,
Beheld his lovely isle afar;
Did he not see, in distant vision,
The rising of this western star--
This queen, who now, in state befitting,
Between two ocean floods is sitting?
Ever happy, ever free,
Land of light and liberty.

THE AMERICAN FLAG.

HENRY WARD BEECHER, a distinguished American writer and preacher.
Born in Litchfield, Conn., June 24, 1813; died, March 8, 1887, in
Brooklyn, N. Y. From his "Patriotic Addresses." By permission of
Messrs. Fords, Howard & Hulbert, Publishers, New York.

When a man of thoughtful mind sees a nation's flag, he sees not the flag
only, but the nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, he reads
chiefly in the flag the government, the principles, the truth, the
history, which belong to the nation which sets it forth. When the French
tricolor rolls out to the wind, we see France. When the newfound
Italian flag is unfurled, we see Ital