HOLLOW HORN’S 4TH
Bill Bridge Tell* Bow It Hm Cele
brated Manj Year* Ago.
~ N RESPONSE TO
Tf an Invitation from
yi my uncle to come
ft and spend the
|j Fourth of July
|i with him, I sad
rJ died the pony and
rode down. I ar
* rived there on the
or
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second, and found
the town all agog
for a celebration,
while strolling along
thoroughfares of
After supper,
one of the many
Hollow Horn Bend, X was surprised to
note the wonderful growth of the
i since I first saw it I counted
store buildings, making four
ind two of the saloons had
jtlarged. Standing in front of
, them was’ my old partner,
I He was dressed in a blue
red collar and cuffs, brass
and a silver badge as large os
leer, on which was engraved,
J rsiial. ” At sight of me his
[ gan darting across his face
Illy as ever.
fiow are you?” he burst forth,
ray hand in' a way that
Kars to fill my eyes
(vas demonstrative in the way
Fgrip I was pleased to meet
happy when he released my
nought you were in Pennsyl
1 aald.
bst i
i a trifle rank for those chaps.
! see, I was not used to having
1 or four men jump on me and be
1 me with clubs when I went to
, one of their gang. They tried
, on me, and I shot a couple of
and marched my man*to the
^ii/up. The people were going to
'lynch me I pulled a couple of guns,
and was about to open on them, when
the mayor heard of it and came down
on a run. He made a little speech,
telling them they had asked him to
got a marshal that could run the town,
and he had got one; and, furthermore,
lie was going to back him. They
knew the mayor was determined, and
let up on the hanging business; but
they would not consent to my being
marshal, so I pulled out and got a job
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“WHOA. J£RRT!”
oat here, where people are civilized.
'What are you driving1 at, Bill?" he
asked.
"I am on my uncle’s sheep ranch up
on Boost creek lor five years ”
“Bill, you are a dead man. You
'will never live the time out. Men
that follow a hand of sheep for five
jean get like posts, and stand for
boon without moving. You will have
«sorry expression on your face, like
An imported ape. You will lose your
aelf-respect, and dodge behind rocks
to avoid meeting strangers If you do
not go crazy, you will get sheepy and
ahy in spite of yourself. I saw a
sheep-herder like that once, but they
did he was none too bright to begin
with. Better throw it up, Bill; you
Will become as stupid and stolid as
he,” argued Jerky.
"'Thanks for your compliments and
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interestjqjn my welfare, but I guess I
will stay with the sheep. ”
“You ought to know the best course
to pursue, but I don't like to see you
throw yourself away. Going to stay
till after the Fourth?”
“Yes; I came down to celebrate.
Going to have a good time?” I in
quired.
“Bill, you will hear a couple of good
speeches. The mayor told me he was
getting up a 'dandy' oration, and he
is going to spring a surprise on the
people. Well, I must make my round.
They are trying to kick up a row over
to Kelsey’s, but I will make ■ it warm
for them if they do," he said, walking
away.
On the morning of the glorious
Fourth the booming of the black
smith’s anvil and the prolonged yells
of Young America aroused me from a
profound slumber and filled my soul
with patriotism. I hurriedly donned
my pants and socks and passed through
my bed-room window on to the roof of
the stoop, tho better to see the throng
around the anvil.
“He must be an officer of some kind,
to judge by his uniform.”
“Wonder if that's the latest style of
doing hair?”
“Maybe he is going to deliver an ora
tion.”
These remarks were followed by a
giggle. I wondered where the speak
ers were, and to whom they had ref
erence. Turning my head, I saw four
young ladies, dressed for the day’s
sport, standing on the roof of the
stoop of the adjoining house, not
twenty feet from me. I fell backward
through the window, my patriotism
all gone.
Who lives next door, aunt?’ I asked
at breakfast
“Daniel Craig. His daughter Susie
was over to see me this morning, be
fore you came down. She has been
away, and only returned last night I
will take you over and introduce you,”
she replied.
“We will wait until after dinner,” I
said, fully determined not to come
near the house again until late bed
time.
When I reached the street Jerky
was busily engaged forming the pro
cession. The mayor and the orator of
the day headed the procession
The mayor sat astride of a large,
white mule, who occasionally whisked
his tail or sarcastically pointed one
ear forward when a fire cracker burst
with unusual violence in his immedi
ate vicinity. The mayor was attired
in his Sunday suit, and wore a long,
fierce mustache. His signet of office
dangled at his hip, a full grown Colt’s
revolver.
The orator of the day was mounted
on a clay-colored broncho, who could
hardly keep two feet on the ground at
a time, so nervous had she become
over so much noise. It required ail
the rider’s attention to keep her in the
street. So arduous were his efforts
that the sweat was dropping from his
nose.
When Jerky at last gave the word to
march, a fiend in the crowd threw a
bunch of lighted crackers between the
mule and the mare. They began ex
ploding like a volley of musketry, and
the dust began to roll up. The mare,
with a terrified snort, flew across the
town site and into the timber, out of
view. The mule straightened up, and,
turning his head, surveyed the dust
and fire, and started in the opposite
direction.
“Whoa, Jerry!” yeUed the mayor, but
Jerry did not “whoa,” and was soon
out of sight.
The crowd howled and swung their
hats. Jerky spurred his horse to the
front, and held up his hand.
“Fellow-citizens,” he proclaimed,
“we will not follow the leaders, but
keep right up the street to the grounds
Music by the glee clutx March,” he
yelled.
There were ladles and gentlemen on
horseback, in wagons, and on foot.
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“There ho is Sue, and presents quite
an improvement over his appearance
this morning.”
“Hush, Clara, he will hear some
more of your foolishness."
These remarks I heard from some
persons close behind me. I did not
have to turn my head to know who
was talking, but hurried straight
ahead.
The mayor rode In soon after we
reached the grounds, but it was an
hour before the orator of the day
came in, with his coat on his arm, and
on foot
When everything was quiet the
mayor arose, and spoke as follows:
“Ladies and gentlemen: You all
know me, and know I am ‘oft’ on
speech-making; but when it comes to
a shoot I’m in it You all know what
we are here for. I do not suppose
there is a person present that is old
enough to take a drink, but knows this
is the Fourth of July. We are here to
celebrate the glorious anniversary of
American Independence. The reason
why we celebrate this day is because
it’s a big day in this country. The
reason we celebrate the day is because
this is the spryest town on this line of
road. (Applause.) The name of this
town has always been a dead give
away. It was named by unlettered
men, who never gave its future a single
thought They named it after a de
funct cow'that perished with a disease
called hollow horn near a bend in the
creek on the Bite of this beautiful city.
For the past year I have been working
the railroad company to change the
name. They have consented, and
from the date of this great
day it will be known on the maps
of the world by the name of Smith.
(Groans and hissea) What ails yer?
END OF THE CELEBRATION.
Ain’t that a good name? It’s named
after yonr mayor, and Smith goes in
this camp. (Groans) Now the next
man that grants will get something,”
he said, polling his gun. “Now, I
want every man. to give three cheers
for Smith and its mayor. Every
mother’s ton of you shout or I will
put a fort) "five where it will make
you Rhout. All ready! Hip, hip, hip,
hurrah!” and the mayor swung his
gun and the crowd yelled like fiends
“Gentleman, the man I am about to
introduce to you as orator of the day
is a lawyer from Red Rock, and he can
talk the handle off a Dutch oven. He
will tell you all about the wars, from
the battle of Brandywine down to the
last scrimmage with the Apaches
Fellow-citizens I will now introduce
to you the Hon. Casper M. Jenks
“Cut it as short as you can, and
give it to the boys hot and strong,
Jenks” he whispered, pulling up his
pants and taking a seat.
At that moment the committee be
gan firing a salute directly behind the
stand. The mayor had tied his mule
to the corner of the stand, which was
€nly large enough for two persons
At the first shot old Jerry settled
back on his lariat, and at the second
shot ran away with one corner of the
stand.
The mayor and the orator rolled
out and the structure fell on them.
When they got them out the orator
had a broken arm.
■'Friends,” said the mayor, “the or
ator of the day has bursted a fluke;
and he says if we do not buy him
what we agreed to, he will sue the
town and collect damages. He can do
it, for he has the cinch on us, being
the only lawyer around here It will
take all we raised, and we will hare
to send the fireworks back and stop
the celebration right where it is.
“Confound that old white mule! If I
ever make a strike, I will shoot him
the next day,” and he pulled up his
trousers once more, and walked dis
consolately toward his office.
Mo ended the first and the last Inde
pendence Day celebration in Hollow
Horn B6nd. In a year the name was
changed to the more euphonious one
of Briggstown and the most pre
tentious residence in the place is
now occupied by Mr. William Briggs
and his wife, Susan. A new genera
tion has grown up and the young folks
think more about wheels, lawn tennis,
cricket and the like than them old
time celebrations Actually the folks
get ashamed when they hear of Hollow
Horn Bend’s first celebration, and are
glad that the name of the town was
changed. But I reckon that there
was as much patriotism in the old
method as in the new one.
William Briggs, Esq.
How \V lllle is pent Ills Fourth.
•When Willie was about five years
old he spent his Fourth of July in the
house. He did not like that at all.
He felt bad all day, and ho was really
glad when the Fourth was over. All
the other boys were shooting off fire
crackers, but, alas' he was not allowed
to have any.
Oh, how hard Willie pleaded with
mamma to go out into the street!
Wouldn’t she let him shoot off “just
one cracker?”
“No, Willie,” said mamma; “you
must wait until the next Fourth, and
then you will be old enough to look
out for yourself. I am afraid now
you might be burned and badly hurt.”
Long before the next Fourth of July
came around Willie had made great
preparations. He had saved his pen
nies and there must have been over a
dollar in his iron bank.
About a week before the Fourth
Willie went to his papa and told him
what he had been saving his pennies
for.
“What!” inquired papa, “do you
want to spend all that money for fire
crackers?”
“Yes,” said Willie; “take it all.”
“Oh no!” said papa; “I will buy all
the firecrackers you want and you can
save your money for something else.”
That evening when papa came home
he brought packs and packs of fire
crackers, done up in red paper and
with Chinese letters on the outside.
“Here you are,” said papa. “I
bought some fireworks too.”
The next day a big box containing
Bcman candles, sky-rockets, pin
wheels, etc., came to the house.
There seemed to be no end to Wil
lie’s joy, and he talked of little else
save the Fourth—what a day it would
be! And the days passed quickly un
til the third of July came. That night,
after Willie had been put to bed, said
papa, with a quiet smile, to mamma:
‘'Don’t you think we ought to have
told Willie that the Fourth comes on
Sunday this year?”
“Yes,” said mamma; “he does not
seem to know thrt I am sure he will
be very much disappointed.”
Bright and early on the morning of
the Fourth, Willie came running down
stairs. “Where are the crackers? Let
me set some off before breakfast—
please do!”
Then papa had to say, “No, not to
day, but to-morrow.”
First Willie looked confused, and
then the tears came to his eyes
“To-day,” said papa again, “is Sun
day. No one is allowed to shoot' off
fire-crackers on the Sabbath. ”
The poor boy was puzzled. He did
not, could not, understand why the
Fourth should come on Sunday.
Later on the bells began to ring out
all over the city. Willie saw the peo
ple going to and coming from church,
and he went to Sunday-school himself
in the afternoon.
Now I have told you how Willie
spent the Fourth—in the house. You
i can imagine how he spent the fifth of
July.
A Grant! Celebration.
Billy and Nat and tlio other boys
were on their way to.the village to buy
fireworks for the Fourth when they
saw a queer-looking wagon moving to
ward them. It looked like a hen-coop
on wheels, but when it came nearer
they found it was a huge cage with an
eagle in it.
The boys surrounded the wagon at
once, and fired a perfect volly of ques
tions at the driver.
“I took that eagle from the nest
when it was little,” he explained;
“and I have just been carrying it to
town to sell to the show; but the show
is gone, so I must cart him back. ”
“Why, you ought to let him 4yl”
cried Billy. “Don’t you know, to
morrow is the Fourth, and I guess
George Washington would not have
liked very well to see the American
eagle cooped up like a chicken!”
The man laughed. “Well, now, if
you boys feel soi why don’t you buy
him and let him loose to-morrow? He
would go up like sky rockets.”
The boys looked at each other.
“That’s sot” they all cried together.
So a bargain was struck, and they
carried the eagle home in triumph.
That evening the following handbill
was posted around Merry ville:
"Great sillybration! the Bird of his
Country will seream for all.”
The next day Billy and Nat and their
eagle formed the center of the cele
bration at Merryville. They never re
gretted having paid the money for it,
which they intended for fire-crackers
It was afterwards purchased by the
town for $100. and is still a feature of
the annual celebration.
Influence of American Independence
At the birth of the American repub
lic its delivereia had but a small con
ception of the ultimate result of a
government by the people. When
they broke the tyrant’s chains they lit
tle dreamt that before a century
would pass the anniversary of inde
pendence would be celebrated on the
Pacific coast as well as on the Atlan
tia All the Pacific coast was then in
possession of Spain, France and Rus
sia, friendly powers that had
aided the cause of American inde
pendence. No sooner had the Amer
ican government been firmly estab
lished than it was seen that it would
not do to allow European powers to
exercise dominion over American ter
ritory not included in the Union.
How to wrest this territory from pow
ers that had been friendly was a grave
question. So the purchase plan was
suggested and carried out and Louisi
ana and Florida were ceded by
France and Spain respectively.
The territory of Louisiana then
included all the states west oi
the Mississippi and north of California
to Alaska. The latter owned by
Russia then extended as far north as
Vancouver. Before it was purchased
by the United States, Russia made a
treaty with England by which all of
Southern Alaska was ceded to the
British. That territory is now known
as British Columbia.
California, Texas, and New Mexico,
and Nevada and part of Colorado were
wrested from Mexico by conquest after
all other means had failed. All the
republics of South America owe their
independence not alone to the patriot
ism of their own people, but to the
menacing sympathy of Yankees as
well. Now every country on the
American continent, except Canada,
has its Independence day to celebrate.
The oelebrations in the South Ameri
can republics are carried out much
after the manner of those held in the
United States.
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The Fourth of July this year will
be celebrated in grand style in Eio de
Janiero, the capital of the Brazilian
republic. Among other things on the
program will be the unveiling of the
statue of James Monroe, the fifth
President of the United States and the
promulgator of the idea which has
finally become recognized as inter
national law under the name of the
Monroe Doctrine. It provides that no
European power shall interfere with
the respective governments of the inde
pendent American republics of South
America. European powers religious
ly lived up to it until the summer of
1893, when Admiral Benham, in com
mand of the South Atlantic squadron,
learned that there was a well under
stood plan on the part of the Euro
pean powers to crush out the young
republic. The American admiral
very soon gave the Europeans to un
derstand that no interference would
be tolerated, and kept a large fleet oi
American warships on guard. Had it
not been for his offices, the Brazilian
republic might now be a thing of the
past. It is in grateful remembrance
of American aid that the Brazilians
have for months been preparing to
make the Fourth of July, 189-», the
greatest gala day in the country’s his
tory.
In Darkent Africa.
The Fourth of July is celebrated by
Americans in nearly every country*
under the sun where fortune has
wooed them. Even in the wilds oi
Darkest Africa the day is always re
membered by the natives as the birth
day of a nation far across the sea from
which comes the commercial man, who
gives them yellow gold and bright
silver for their ivory and shells. Of
all white traders visiting the tribes of
Central Africa the Americans are most
highly esteemed by the black men.
Sometimes this good feeling takes
form in big feasts, which, as a rule,
are held on the anniversary of the
Declaration of American Independ*
ence.
A Double Header,
“Which end do you light, anyhow?
I'll try both ends to make sure.” ' j
July I Mid July 4.
Even at this late day there is more
or less dispute aB to the proper day
for celebrating the Declaration of In
dependence. Contrary ones hold the
annual celebration should take place
on July 2, because on that day the
declaration was adopted by congress.
It was not until the Fourth of July,
however, that the declaration, went
into effect.
The Schoolmaster.
The schoolmaster la apt to be a
ite with thefemale part of creation,
eapeoially m the rural *atriota.-.7r«W
The poet haa described the dull BamL
nesa of a teacher's existence in these
words : Vitam continet una dies —fir
Johnson. ’
And whilsspsltrr stipend strnlDa.
He sows the richest seeds of leenunf
No Jojs/eleel his toil beguile. *’
Hli mind Ilea fallow all the while.
—Robert Lloyd.
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The syntax and the parts of speech.
Or deal out authors by retail, ^
Like penny pote of Oxford a'e;
Oh! »tta a eerrloe irksome more
„ a . Than tugging at the slavish oar.
—Robert Lloyd.
Bhe dwell* by great Kenhawa’a aide.
In valleys green and cool,
And all her hope and all her pride
Are in her Tillage school.
—Longfellow.
Came the preceptor, gazing idly round.
Now at the clouds and now at the green
And all absorbed in memories profound
Of fair Almira in the upper daeo.
—.Longfellow.
Neither do yon, schoolmasters, a set
too often cheated of your wages, despise
the goddess Minerva; it is she that
brings you new pupils.—Ovid.
I can easier teach twenty what wen
good to be done than to be one of the
twenty to follow my own teaching.-.
Shakspeare.
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As any turbaned Turkey
For well to rule ye distriot school
It is no Idle worke.
FuEe solemn is ye pedagogue,
Amonge ye noisy churlo,
Tet other while he hath a smile
To give ye handsome girls.
And one—ye fairest maid of all—
To cheer hie waynlnge life, •
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