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J General Nebraska News. 4. ROBDINQ THE CRADLE. A Nebraska Physician Makes a Sen- sational Address. IIOSTON. Mass. Dr. I). A. Footo of Omaha, N-b., riVlivered a mutational adrlress nt lh? second nosaion of tho American Ilonn'orathic Institute, which Is convt-ned h-r Ills subject was "Tho Amrhai Mother." anl bold, straightforward and direct In Mx attack, be handle. 1 Ms Hiikji-ct in typical western stylo, lie said: "Tin- iiMite annals of I he unborn Is the wurld'H greatest tragedy, lie fort: lhe.se records we stand appalled and words tall to characterize, tho deep, lark infantny of thU increasing car nngo of In Ipless innocents. It is time to hjH;it; out plainly ngninst a crime t;o conmion as to have become tlie Hport of nrihiiishiiiK jrossips and a most, feriotiii menace to our national JiTo. "Tiiere Is a xpirlt nbrnad that seeks to hold up to ridicule the old fash ioned families. We fear to publish to th world the seen ts of our consulta tion riMims. We have Im great, n--pect ftr the womanhood of our land to stigmatize it with the infamy of a 1 rge and growing clans that hesct the phy.stcian in hysterical phrases that mean not'iing less than murder. They have I. -, duly instructed In the black arts, but they often first try to tempt a physician to Rive safety anil professional responsibility to their plans. "Thmi.-am!:! of American women to day are pa.-a masters in the practices that ro! tie cradle of its jewel, the homo of its jo and the nation of its heritage vouchsafed by the mingled blood of the inritan and , the cava lier." DIG TIME FOR THE FIREMEN. Completing the Arrangements for the State Tournament. NDKf'OhK-Detailed and complete ai Tangements are being made by Nor folk lirerneii Tor entertaining the vis itors who are expected at the state tournament here July 21, '2- and Tlie race course, with extensive frround.s. is being placed in excellent .shape for the varied events, the Au ditorium has been leased for the three night.- and a good theatrical troupe hired; concessions are being let every day to first class attractions, and a trio of days wortli while are anticipated. Many handsome prizes are already here for companies send ing the largest representation, etc. "It will be the largest crowd northeast Nebraska ha ever seen," said Presi dent Hartford. "Already there are as sured more entries than liave ever be fore gono into a tournament. There will le. from a dozen to fifteen run ning teams here and we look for lo, 000 people." Bumper Crop is Assured. GOTHENBURG Farmers report that the oats ami barley prospect for a big crop is the best in ten years past and promises a heavy yield. The winter wheat and rye crop promises to t equally as large as last year. Central City After Normal. CKNTIiAL CITY A eomraarcia! club with more than 10" members has been organized. The club expects to capture the new normal school for tnis city. Attacked By a Cow. WAVKRI.Y-A. J. Hamlow. a prom inent farmer living about two and one half miles southeast cf here, was at tacked by a cow while walking through his pasture, and although not dangerously injured, was rendered un conscious and sustained two broken ribs. His face and arms were badly cut and bruised from being trampled by the animal. Mr. Hamlow does not remember anything about the encoun ter. When he became -onscious he was lying in a corn field, having been tossed over a fence by the cow. Beet Weeders Busy. NORFOLK Beet weeders about tsorfolk are busy. The beet weeder Is a character that is distinct and indi vidual. He is a young boy in overalls, with great pails tied to his knees, for protection. From earty morning until evening he crawls along the ground, his back bent double and the hot sun beating down upon him. He earns txmt ?1.50 per day. Viewed Gruesome Spectacle. WISNER William OShea, who has Just returnod home from Oregon, saw ISO nli trf flood victims laid out for identification at Heppner, that state, ten days ao. Mr. O'Shea happened to be th-ere a short time after the defuse in which ao many IKee wor I03L The sight of nearly two hrn dred bumin bodies wad too gruetoi for Mr. OVhea, who declares Le doesn't want to see anything like it again. Left Famfty and Friends. VJTICAr C. II. Christiansen, a ; wealthy farmer who resides on rand adjoining Utk-a, has disappeared and up to the pseseni time Ms where abouts are unknown. He left for Lin coln and sent a letter back home on the eveintog train telling his family not to look for him. as be did not ex pect to return. It fa said that he drew all his moiey from the bank and Vft his family aTmow? destitute, re garding Ifvlns expenses. THE STATE IN BRIEF. There are 1,6 13 farm houses in Ad ama county. Indies of Fremont have organized a tennis club. Lightning struck a Beatrice resi dence two times in three days. The first crop of aifalfa is being cut In the vicinity of Lexington. Dodge county will place its surplus funds in bank, receiving 2 per cent. Crops in the vicinity of Cozad were recently badly Injured by a heavy fall of hail. Mrs. Caroline I.rierly, a colored wo man living near Hastings, has passed I no century mark. The Cc mnt'-rcial hotel at Indianola was destroyed by lire, apparently the work ot an incendiary. Mrs. Snock of Pierce county Is .seeking divorce becn-is of extreme cruelty on the part cf Mr. Shock. The. corner stone of the new gov ernment building at Norfolk was laid in the presence of a large assemblage. Itishop Scannell of the diocese of Omaha has iucorjorated the St. Lu gerns church of the town of Creigh ton. Jerry Denslow, president of tho bank at Hooint. was stricken with paralysis, and his condition is very serious. The Oklahoma and Texas Invest ment company of l'lattsmouth has in corporated with a capital stock of $i'o.tuo. The Sunday school superintendents challenged the preachers of York to play a match game of bTT and the ministers at once accepted. The returns of the Cass county as sessors show that the total number of farmers in the county. Is 1,807, while the total number o acres of land un der cultivation is 307,050. Myrtle Johnson, a young colored girl, familiarly known as Topsy. and having lived in York nearly all her life, has recently become Incorrigible and been ordered out of town. Norfolk police are looking for Frank Suttley, a wealthy farmer of Meadow drove, who has very sudden ly and mysteriously disappeared. He was last heard from in Norfolk. It is announced that the new chapel at the state penitentiary' wJIl be dedi cated July 5. The date originally set was June 14, but the contractors disappointed the governor and chap lain. Stockholders of the Beatrice Creamery company met in Lincoln and ratified the plans of the chief offi cers of the concern in increasing the capital stock from $5V00 to fl, Ui.10,000. A hail storm five miles north of Edgar and extending a considerable distance east and west, did very great damage to the wheat along a strip about half amile in width and about thirty miles in length. The 18-months-old son of Mayor J. d. Beefier of Columbus toddled into the stable near the residence and drank from a bottle of corrosive sub limate, purchased for liniment for a horse. Physicians were immediately summoned, but to no avail. School teachers In Nebraska are a scarce article. Every county superin tendent in the state reports the num Ier of efficient teachers hi the schools especially rural schools to be less than the demand, and those districts wtiich have engaged the services of a teacher who is satisfactory are fortu nate. The citizens of Aurora are aiding in the raising of the $33,333 for the Uni versity of Nebraska necessary to re ceive the gift from John D. Rocke feller, and to that end have started a subscription paper among the busi ness men of the town. At Fremont. Eddie Brown, 6 years old. a son of Edward Brown, while attempting to go under a freight train standing on the side track, was run over and killed. The boy was re turning home from an errand up town and not wishing to wait for the train to pull out was crawling under the ears when the engine backed the train. The board of public lands and build ings has directed the secretary of state to advertise for cementing the floors of several rooms in the base ment of the capitol. This action arises from the recent visit of inspec tion of a representative of the regu lar army, who roasted the rooms fur nished by the state for the storage of ordnance and quartermaster's sup plies. The citizens of Aurora are making donations to help raise the sum nec essary to secure the John D. Rocke feller gift for a social and religious building at the state university. Sub scriptions are being made and a con siderable sum has been raised. The board of control o the Knights of St. Eeb-Ragus entered Into another contract with the Collins Carnival company for a week's festival at Orand Island in the early part of Sep- j tember. The dates will not conflict i with those of the state fair. The National Tontine Savings com- , pany of Grand Island has dropped the tontine' part of its came as be- ing aimasteiui. ii nas notnea toe secretary of state that tho new name adopted is the National Mercantile company. At the close of the May term of the district court of Cass county there were fewer cases remaining on the docket than there have been In tweni ty-fiye years. . Only thirteen law cas&a. filewn equ:t3r and two criminal A WELCOME HOME. Presldent Gets Double Reception at Oyster Bay. OYSTER BAY, L. I. President Roosevelt's home coming for the sum mer was made the occasion of a fete here. His reception was notable for its enthusiastic cordiality and like wise for its vigor. The latter quality wan due to a slight factional differ ence among the townspeople, the re sult being that the president was ac corded a double reception. The Oys ter Board of Trade headed by Presi dent J. Morgan Griffin, had planned an elaborate demonstration, and ex Assemblyman Maurice Townsend had arranged another. The rivalry, how ever, was friendly and merely added to tho enthusiasm. UnJer smiling skies the president stepped from his car at 4:30, and while the cannon crashed out its sa lute, and the people cheered, he wa3 escorted by the reception committee to the town hall. The march to the hall was between lines of school chil dren, each waving a tiny American flag. Business houses and residences throughout the town were handsome ly decorated with Hags and bunting, and scores of large American ensigns swung across the principal streets. . Arrived at the hall, President Roose velt unveiled the civil war trophy gun presented to the people of Oyster Bay by tlie navy department. Then, stand ing on a chair placed on the steps leading to the hall, he delivered a brief address to the crowd of his friends and neighbors massed in front of the building The president said: - "My Friends and Neighbors: I thank you heartily, more heartily than I can express, for your coming out to greet me today. I wonder if some of you remember, what I shall never for get, the way that you came out to greet me, nearly five years ago. when I got home from Santiago (cheers.) I thought some of you would remem ber it. "Since I last saw you I have been across the continent. I have traveled from the shore of the Atlantic ocean, across the Mississippi valley, by the side of the great lakes, over the Rocky mountains, to the shore of the Pacific, and the thing that has struck me most in that journey of nearly fif teen thousand miles s been the es sential unity of our people that wherever an American president goes, here in the United States, he feels himself to be at home among those who feel as he does and who have the same ideals to which he can ap peal." IOWA DEMOCRATS NOMINATE. Ticket Placed Before Public in State Convention. DES MOINES. The democrats in state convention here placed the fol lowing ticket in the field: For Governor J. B. Sullivan, Union county. For Lieutenant Governor John D. Butler, Iowa county. For Judge of Supreme Court John R. Caldwell, Tama county. For State Superintendent A. R. McCook, Howard county. For Railroad Commissioner W. S. Porter, Hardin county. The platform condemns imperial ism, the Aldrich bill and the finan cial policy; opposes trusts aed gov ernment by injunction, and favors tariff revision. His advocacy of gov ernment ownership of railroads elim inates Van Wegenen. There were no contests for the places and the en tire ticket was nominated by accla mation after adoption of the plat form. GERMANY HAS SOME CLAIMS. Cubans Are Puzzled, Not Knowing What They Are. HAVANA Garcia Velez, the Cuban consul general at Hamburg, reports that at a banquet at Hamburg &t which Emperor William and Foreign Secretary Baron von Richthefen were present, the latter remarked to him that the first matter to be taken up by the German minister to Cuba was the claims of German citizens. The officials here do not know what claims the Germans have, since the war claims are closed, so far as Cuba is concerned, by the treaty of Paris. The consul was not in a position to enlighten them on the point and the circumstances have been communi cated to Senor Quesada, Cuban min ister at Washington. "Judge Hilton's Estate. NEW YORK. -The executors and trustees of the estate of former Judge Henry Hilton report that it amounts all told to $,249,500. Its value was computed originally at $20,000,000. Bank Orders for Currency. WASHINGTON, D. C. "The finan cial situation in Tien Tsin for the last six months has been in a state of panic, owing to the dearth of ready money and the lack of confidence on the part of those accustomed to pre serve the equilibrium of this port," says Consul General J. W. Ragsdaie at Tien Tsin in a report to the state department. He says an era of com mercial prosperity and expansion awaits Tien Tsin. Union Pacific Man Present. SARATOGA The American Rail way Master Mechanics' association on Thursday considered reports. A dis cussion of technical subjects was par ticipated in by W. R. McKeen of Om aha and others. Islands Accept Invitation. COPENHAGEN The invitation to take part in the St. Louis exposition has been formally accepted on behalf of the Danish West Indies. Illllllllllllll lltlllll t;:z live stock mnxEi. 1 Latest Quotations From South T Omaha and Kansas City. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 II 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 II I SOUTH OMAHA. CATTLE There was a. very llRht run of cattle, so that prloea Improved HK-ain and went a oik way toward making- up for tlie disastrous break In prices on Tuesday and Wednesday. Trading was active from start to fin ish and the few cattle on ale were soon out of first hands. Theru were not enough beef stet-rs offered to fill packers' orders and as a result the market was active and Kenerally a dime hitclier. The quality of the cattle was hardly up to the usual standard nnd for that reason the market on paper scarcely shows the full amount of the advance. The cow market was also active and stronger so far as the better grades were concerned and such kinds are little lower than they wero a week ajfo. The grassers were a little easier to dispose of than they were yesterday, but tiie market could not be quoted any higher. All the buyers are afraid to take hold of the jrrass stock, it seems, as it kills out so unevenly that they cannot tell much about what they are getting:, liulls. veal calves and flags sold at Just about steady prices. Good fat bulls sell freely at fully steady prices, but grass bulls are In poor demand and lower, the same as grass cows. There were not enough stockers and feeders in tlie yards to make a test of the situation,, hut It is safe to say that not many were wanted, as the few that did arrive were slow gale and weak. HOGS There was a very light run of hogs and in fact receipts were much lighter than e-enerally anticipated. Packers of course had to have some supplies and it was evident that there were not enough to go around. Sales men made use of the opportunity to advance prices and held for lOfJiluc rise. Uuyers were very slow about putting on that much, but salesmen held out and they finally got all they asked. The bulk of the hogs sold at $3.70 and $5.724. with a few choice loads at i3.75 and a few of the com moner kinds below $5.70. SHEEP Good to choice lambs, $.".75i 6.2Z; fair to good lambs. $3.23 Or 5.73; good to choice yearlings, $4.50 1 4.75; ' good to choice wethers, $4.23?i 4.50; fair to good wethers. $3.75 ii 4.23; good to choice ewes. $3.75 fa) 4.50; fair to good ewes, $3,5053.75; feeder lambs, $2.50tfi 3.50; feeder yearlings. $2.301' 3.50; feeder wethers $2.503.50; feeder ewes, $2.00 j 2.75. KANSAS CITY. ' CATTLE Strong, native steers, $3. 75r5.10; Texas and Indian steers, $2.70 fi 4.30: Texas cows, $2.00 W 3.75 : native cows and heifers. $2.00t4.33; stockers and feeders, $3.00' 4.20; bulls,' $2.50W 3.75; calves, $2.50'i 6.40 ; western sters, $2.754.50; western cows, $2.00j 3.40. HOGS Strong to 5c higher; bulk of sales, $3.4015.50; heavy, $5.407 5.53; packer. $5.35? 5.60; medium, $3.43 5.60; light. . $33.331 5.55; yorkers, $5.45 (t 5.55; pigs. $5.35 Q 3.55. SHEEP Strong; muttons. $3.302 5.15; lambs, $4.15 i 6.75; range wethers, $3.605.40: ewes, $3.40j5.20. COMES OVER IN ROYAL STYLE. Chinese Representative on Way to St. Louis Fair. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Wong Kai Kah, imperial vice commissioner from China to the St. Louis exposition, ar rived Friday on the steamer Hong Kong Maru. Besides his family and four attaches, his excellency ha3 with him thirteen first class painters, car penters and carvers, whose services in erecting the royal palace at the exposition grounds he hopes to utilize without outside interference. "For," says his excellency, "while I fully appreciate the clever workman ship of the United States, the work men here could not do the carving, nor could they do the painting, and they, would fall short in the decora tive ornamentation required in carry ing out the architecture of the royal palace." WILL INJURE CATTLE TRADE. Two Animals Shipped to Buenos Ayres Develop Disease. BUENOS AYRES Two bulls brought to this port on a steamer from New York have developed the, foot and mouth disease. The authorities have resolved to quarantine the ship and burn the carcasses of the ani mals. The animals were sent by former Minister Buchanan for President Roca and Dr. Carcano, who paid $500 each for them. Although the cattle trade with the United States Is small, the government will prohibit importation. It is stated. Signing of Treaties Postponed. HAVANA The signing of the final treaties between Cuba and the Uni ted States has been postponed be cause of the delay arising from the questions raised at WashingiDn. Will Build Model Town. ASHEYTLLE, N. C. "It is reported in New York," says the Citizen, "that George W. Vanderbilt has acquired a large tract between Hendersonville and Brevard N. C, where he proposes to build a model manufacturing city, which will be completed and ready for occupancy before any. one is permit ted to settle in it. A complete sys tem of water works, an electric light ing plant, heat and power plant wiF be installed." Murder ia Done In Church. SPRINGFIELD, 111. John W. Haw ker of Moccasin, Effingham county, was murdered in the village church Friday night. A nJosse is on the trail of the supposed murderer. Hawker had attended services. After -they were concluded he waited around un tH the lights were extinguished. Hard ly was the church dark . when he groaned. Assistance was forthcom ing and it was found he had been stabbed to the heart- Treadlnc the plaza's pavement gray. Thronging the busy njart. Children forming the living Hag Capture the city's heart; . Gay are their lines In red and white, Starred is their squad in blue. Hright in the depths of their youthful eyes iL . Patriot hearts shine through. Greetings glad to our living flag. Music of martial drum, niarinir of bugles wliere down the street Joyful the children come; Red is the rose of youth's fair spring. White is its record page. Blue is the sky where rests no cloud Borrowed from doubting age. Cheers for the flag, the living flag. Flag that our children form. Marching on o'er tlie highway now. Bright as our nation's morn; Red for the warriors valiant heart. White for the soul of youth. Blue for the hope of our country s weal. Strong as the love of truth. Hall, all hail. Old Glory's folds. Sign of our victories great. Battles at sea nnd wars on land. Waged to upbuild the State; Red for the blood of a mnrtyred host,. White for a soul's pure flight; Blue for the hope 'and fidelity Nurtured and slain for the right. Bright be thy course, our living flag. Regally marching by. Hearts and minds our allegiance pledge, Loyal to live or die; Red be thy path, as the rose of Joy. Never to fade or cease. White as the lily, as heartsease blue Blossom thy way of peace. We are the flag, my children. Living in hopes and fears. Ours is its rainbow covenant. Washed in a shower of tears; Red is our martyr heart-blood. White is our hero soul, Bluy is our sky fefcero starry hosts Pdkriot nanirs enroll. I TH6 Declaration I o! impendence I You have all read the Declaration of Independence, I suppose. It Is print ed on fine type in the back of the Child's History, and at the top of the aames signed at the end to show how they wrote them is John Hancock's big and bold, the way a person would write if he were doing it with a burnt match. Papa used to gather us to gether in the parlor after breakfast every Fourth of July and read us parts of it and explain the long words, so that we would understand what the Fourth of July was really for that it wasn't just to burn holes in your clothes, and frighten horses, and leave stubs of fire crackers on the sidewalk that don't get swept off for days. When we children came to have our own revolution against the governess that time mamma and papa went away to be gone two days, we knew just how to go about it; -and we wrote a Declara tion of Independence, copying it af ter the real true one, and then we all signed our names at the bottom with big flourishes, the way John Hancock and the others did. Our governess name was Georgiana Georgiana Saunders which made it all the more appropriate, because the name of the King about whom the ori ginal Declaration was written was George, as you probably know. When we got the Declaration done, it was something like this some of the language we took from the book -and some we made up ourselves: When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for something to be done about it, and we can't stand It any longer. The history of our present governess is a history of repeated In juries and usurpations. To prove this let acts be submitted to a candid world. 1. She makes us brush our teeth twice a day, which is unnecessary as well as wasteful. 2. She won't let us lay books face downwards, and so you lose the place and are a long time finding it when you come back. 3. She objects if. you make a fork In your mashed potatoes. 4. She won't let us breathe on the window and write with our fingers days when it rains. 5. We can't have butter and sugar on our rice, only milk and sugar. 6j She notices, and makes us go back to look where we've made finger marks on the white paint. 66 Old Glory 99 A Fourth of July celebration would be a tame affair without "Old Glory" to flaunt in the folds and wave in the breeze. It flutters everywhere It can bo nailed or fastened, and in all sorts and sizes, moreover, it is known all the world over, few people, even among the half civilized, not being able to recognize it as the emblem of a free country. Yet, it was not until nearly a year after the Declaration of Independence that the nation had a regular flag. At Cambridge, Massachusetts, Washing ton displayed the original of ,what is the present flag, without the stars, however, as there were then, January 2. 1776, no states. He therefore con structed the flag with thirteen stripes of alternate red and white, but -where the stars are now, he put a SL An- 7. We have to make our own beds, and then, if there is a wrinkle, or it isn't done right, we have to do it all over again. 8. She's just awful, every way you can think of. We, therefore, do solemnly publish and declare that we are and by right ought to be free and Independent, and that our mother and our father went away this morning and will not be back until to-morrow evening, and that she is not our mother and our father, never has been and never will be, and that we mean to do as we please, and that we have full right to levy war and also to do all other acts and things. And to this we pledge our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. (Signed) Arthur L. Bainbridge (that's me), Marjorie Bainbridge, Hester B. Bainbridge, Charles W. Bainbridge, Gregory Bainbridge. his x mark. When it was all finished it was a work of art. Then the question was. What should we do with it? "Let's put it at her plate at break fast," suggested Hester. "Pin it on her door," said Charley. "No," I said, "that won't do. The original Declaration was read out loud I know, 'cause I asked papa. They read it out loud, and then they rang a big bell till it cracked. "Well, who's going to be the one to read it?" asked Charlie. "We'll draw lots." I said. And we did with little pieces of string; and the lot fell to me. It al ways happens that way the one who plans a thing not only has to do all the thinking, but he has to go and carry out his own idea while the other people stand and look on, or maybe even make fun of him. "You'll all have to go with me, any way," I said. "I'll read it outside her door at 7 o'clock to-morrow morning." The rest all thought it was a bully idea, but Charley said: "Hadn't we better do It after break fast? Because it's griddle-cakes to morrow morning, and we mightn't get any." So we decided to start in being revo lutionists after breakfast instead of be fore. After breakfast, while we're supposed to be upstairs making our beds, Miss Saunders sits in the library for about half an hour, reading the morning papers, and that would be a good chance to read the declaration to her. All through breakfast the next morn ing we were awfully glum and nerv ous. Before we got to the griddle cakes, I forgot and left my spoon in my chocolate, and my arm went drew's cross of white on a blue field. On June 14, 1777, by resolution of Congress, the flag was made to consist of thirteen alternate red and white stripes, representing the Union of thir teeb states, while in a blue field there were thirteen white stars. A change was made in the flag, dating from May 1, 1795, by adding two more stripes and two more stars for Kentucky and Vermont, which had been admitted to the Union, and it was decided also to add a stripe and a star for each state to be admitted in the future. Congress, however, foresaw that the added stripes would make the flag too large and on April 4, 1818, it passed a resolu tion fixing the number of stripes at thirteen, and the number of stars at one for each State. So now, anybody who desires to know how 'may states there are in the Union has only - to count the number of stars on Old Glory. The first American flag was raised at Fort Schuyler, New York, Aug. 3, 1777. John Paul .Jones was the first to raise it in a foreign country, at Qul berai, France, and that nation saluted Ic It was first displayed la. England 7 against it quite accidentally, and the whole cup got spilled on Hester, JuM as she was stooping to pick up a pleco of toast, and went all over the back of the guimpo of her dross. And MIsh Saunders swallowed whatever she puf in her mouth In a great hurry, and took off her eyeglasses and pushed her chair back from the table a lit tie and just looked at us. And then she said, in that awfully quiet voice that Is twice cs mad as when a person lets out a yell: "Arthur, how often have I told you never to leave your spoon in your cup7 This Is the second time within a week that this has occurred; you may go up in your room and remain there until I come." I didn't know what to do, because if I went upstairs then It would knock our plan of reading the Declaration In the head. And while I was rolling up my napkin as slowly as I could, trying to think what I should do, her voice broke In: "Come, Arthur, I am waiting." Then I put my napkin down and stood up In my chair. Her eyes near ly bulged out of her head at that, be cause of all the forbidden things in the house, standing on any of the chairs but the ones In the kitchen and the playroom Is about the forbMdenest. "Why, you you bad little boy, you!" she gasped. "Arthur, I don't under stand." But I Just pulled the Declaration of Independence out of my pocket and began to read. I read all the things that she would not let us do, and wai just getting to the place where It said we meant to do as we pleased till mamma and papa came home. I hadn't been looking at her, because It was as much as I could do to make out Charles' writing. And, besides, some of the things, when you came to read them out loud to the person they were intended for, Bounded pretty dreadful particularly where It eald, "She's just awful every way you can think of," my cheeks felt kind of hot when I got to those places, and I let my voice down and hurried over them as fast ai I could. She must have come behind while I was trying to make out some of the hard words, which I don't think and the others all agreed with m afterwards was quite a fair advan tage to take. And she used to be on the basket-ball team when she was Id college, and she was awfully strong. It Is no disgrace to be overpowered by such a strong person, and carried up stairs, and locked In your room and then to be told through the keyhole that you are to stay there until you are Borry. I suppose that is the way George the Third would have treated John Hancock if he could. at Downs, and history does not nay whether It was saluted or not, but the English government never forgets tc do so now, even on the Fourth of July. "It Is useless," said he on one occa sion, "to address further petitions tc the government or to await the effect of those already addressed to the throne. The time for supplication If past; the time for action is at hand. We must fight, Mr. Speaker. I repeal it, sir; we must fight! An appeal tc arms and to the God of Hosts is al' that Is left us." Ts life bo dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price ol chains and slavery? Forbid ft, 'Al mighty Powers! I know not what course others may take;, but. as for me, give me liberty or give mi death!" ;; Patrick Henry's : V Words