Oh, what feelin's I felt, and how many of 'em--it wuz a sight. And then I see the Proclamation of the President; and though I always made a practice of skippin' 'em when I see 'em in the newspaper, somehow they looked different to me here. [Illustration: I see the Proclamation of the President.] And then there wuz agreements with Foreign Powers, and some of them Powers' own handwritin' photographed; and lots of treaties made by Uncle Sam--some of 'em, especially them with the Injuns, I guess the least said about the soonest mended, but the biggest heft on 'em I guess he has kept-- Treaties of peace and alliance, pardon of Louisiana and Florida, Alaska, etc., all in Uncle Sam's own handwritin'. And then there wuz the arms of the United States--and hain't it a sight how fur them arms reach out north and south, east and west--protectin' and fosterin' arms a good deal of the time they are, and then how strong they can hit when they feel like it! And then there wuz the big seal of the United States. I had read a description of it to Josiah that mornin', and had explained it all out to him--all about the Argant, and Jules, and the breast of the American Eagle displayed proper. I sez, "That means that it is proper for a bird to display its breast in public places; and," sez I, "though it don't speak right out, it probable means to gin a strong hint to fashionable wimmen. "And then," says I, "it holds in its dexter talons a olive branch. That means that it is so dextrous in wavin' that branch round and gittin' holt of what it wants. "And holdin' in its sinister talons a bunch of arrows." Sez I, "That means that in war it is so awful sinister, and lets them arrows fly onto its enemies where they are needed most." And then the Eagle holds in its beak a strip of paper with "E. Pluribus Unum" on it, which means "One formed out of many." And how many countries will wheel into the procession and become part of the great one as the centuries go on? I don't believe Uncle Sam has the least idee; I know I hain't, nor Josiah. For on the back part is a pyramiad unfinished; no knowin' how many bricks will yet be laid on top of that pyramiad, or how high it will shoot up into the heavens. And then there is a big eye surrounded with a Glory. The eye of the United States most likely, and I spozed mebby it meant big I and little You. I didn't know exactly what it did mean till I catched sight of the words above, meanin' "The eye of Providence is favorable to our undertakin's." And then I felt better, and hoped it wuz so. Down under the pyramiad is words meanin' "A New Order of Centuries."