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JUNE 25, 1909
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Never Again whole world seemed headed for that
I wish the crackers would sound as particular place. Wagons, equestri-
lo'ud , ans, pedestrians and carryalls lined
As .they did in the days gone by.
I wish the candy would taste as
sweet
As it did in a past July.
I wish the chums of the days of yore
Would gather about in the grove
once more,
And take their part in the great
day's roar,
. Under the July sky.
I wish the skies vere as clear and
blue
As they were in the days of old.
1 wish the sunlight would gleam
again
With the shimmer of burnished
cold.
I wish the boys of that yesterday
From over the hills and far away
Would come again with light hearts
gay,
Under the old flag's fold.
I wish their laughter would ring
again
As it did in the years long fled.
I wish that youth could hover once
'- more
O'er the curls of each care-free
t head.
Iknow such wishes can never be,
But we can gather again, care free,
For one more day, just you and me
r. Boys, though we're grown up men.
Remembrances of the Fourth
Remember the very first Fourth
of July on which you were consid
ered old enough to shoot off your
firecrackers without parental super
vision? Let's see that was about,
about; well, no matter how many
years ago. Quito too many to think
about with treasure.
Between the first day of July and
the Fourth day of July you always
use capital letters when you write,
speak or think of that glorious day
there was a lapsp of time amount
ing to about a year and thirteen
the roads in all directions. Every
body was happy.
You could just smell that cele
bration before you got within a mile
of tliQ grove. It smellod powdery,
popcorny and peanutty, with a faint
trace of molasses candy and lemons.
But there's no manner of use try
ing to tell about all the features of
that day. Couldn't remember all of
'em if you tried. You can remember
that Maria Maguire was the Goddess
of Liberty in the parade, and it
didn't take as big a wagonnetto to
hold all the states then as it docs
now not by a whole lot. And you
remember that Etta Tandy read the
Declaration of Independence, and
that the orator of the day was let's
see; who was the orator of the day?
Well, no matter; no one ever pays
any attention to the orator of the
day on the Fourth of July. That is
nobody but a lot of men and women
who are too tired or too indolent to
walk around, or the women who
have babies to take care of and find
the shady seats too comfortable to
leave. Doubtless the orator on this
occasion was a big man, but some
how or other his name has escaped.
yourself. That is, no one helped you
shoot 'em, but all the boys enjoyed
them with you. True you were a
little slow in lotting go of a few,
with resultant blisters on your good
right hand. And two or three shot
off backwards at unexpected times,
much to the damage of the waist
mother had taken so much pains
with. And a bare foot is not just
the proper thing to sot down upon
a firecracker that is glowing hot.
You can remember that, can't you?
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You don't remember much about
the basket dinner undor the big
walnut trees. Jf course there was
fried chicken till you couldn't rest;
and sliced ham, and coldslaw, and
pickles, and poach butter, and apple
butter, and jelly, and marmalade,
and grapo butter, and plum buttor,
and currant jam, and raspberry jam,
and blackberry jam, and marble
cake, and sponge cake, and apple
pie, and peach pie, and custard pie,
and radishes, and onions, and pickled
beets, and generous slices of bread,
and golden butter, and gooseberry
pie, and vinegar pie, and cove oys
ters fresh from the can, and cold
roast beef, and hard boiled eggs and
enough other edibles to make out
a fairly comprehensive bill of fare.
But eating camo so naturally to you
in those days that a dinner didn't
make much of an impression on your
mind nothing at all like the Im
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But that firecracker stunt! Ah,
that was the main thing about this
particular celebration. It was the
first time you were allowed to hold
the bunch ell by yourself, pick 'em
out -one at a time and touch 'em
off without parental assistance.
Shortly after arriving at the grove
father responded to repeated hints
and finally pulled out his old leather
wallet. Opening it with provoking
slowness he dug up from its inner
recesses a shinplaster bearing the
stupendous figures, "25." That was
about all the money there was in
the world at that time, wasn't it!
Just seemed impossible to ever
spend all of it. But it didn't last
And the ride home as the evening
shadows were falling. Of course
you don't remember much about
that. You curled up in the back end
of the wagon, your head in tho din
nerbasket and -our feet somewhere,
goodness only knows where, and
went to sleep. And it took father's
sharpest tone of voice to get you
out to help him unharness and feed
the ponies and do up the evening
chores. No trouble to 'go to sleep
after tumbling into bed thdt night.
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months, according to your boyish so very long. Firecrackers cost 10 klnds of candy, and fireworks such
imfuHTuittrm. It seemed as it tne
Fourth just never would come. The
night before the Fourth was the long
est in all history. You went to
bed early so you could go to sleep
and thus pass the time quickly. And
you jumped out about 1:30 a. m.,
only to be amazed to see that the
clock had stopped or that time had
ceased to fugit. You were finally
rejoiced to see 5 o'clock come, and
in two minutes and thirteen seconds
you were dressed and washed, and
all ready for the day's festivities.
But you were Ltill a few hours
tqo early. The celebration was to
be held in Walters' grove, about six
miles from town, and although you
wanted to start out and walk, father
negatived the idea and said you
would have to wait and ride out with
the rest of the family. He was the
most sedate, deliberate man that
ever lived. He wouldn't hurry
through breakfast, and he wouldn't
hurry about hitching up the ponies.
Tf was auite 8 o'clock before he
was ready to start, and there was
cents' a bunch In those days but
they were worth it. Those fire
crackers banged just three thousand
times louder than the firecrackers
of the same size today. Two bunches
of firecrackers that meant 20
cents. And a chunk of taffy about
as big as a peck measure that took
the remaining 5 cents. No, not a
nickel. Didn't have any those days.
It was just five cents, In the shape
of a shinplaster. Everything was
paper money in those days, except
now and then a 3-cent piece or a
copper cent. And if the 20 cents'
worth of firecrackers didn't last
long, the 5-cent chunk of taffy did.
Of course you didn't waste any of
vour cood money on the gingerbread
so temptingly displayed at the
stands, You know a big baBket
safely resting In the back end of a
spring wagon that contained the
very biggest and best hunk of ginger
bread ever baked. My, O my; what
would you give to be able to eat
right now a slab of gingerbread
made by the same hands? Anything
in this wide world, wouldn't you?
for those hands
as your youthful fancy never
dreamed of. But there'll be some
thing missing. Ah, yes: it will be
youth and light spirits and freedom
from all care. Nothing can bring
them back.
But just the same, wo are going
to shoot off a lot of firecrackers,
God willing, and we're going to do
our best to see that a bunch of
kiddies Lord bless 'em have the
time of their lives on that day.
They'll never be young but once. In
that respect the children of today
have very little advantage of over
tho children of other days.
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a- good three hours or tne glorious - folded reacefully over the
day already wasted. But start we breast many long years
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wouldn't? hurry the ponies. He
thought & lot more of the feelings
of those ponies than he did of the
fidgety lad by his slde at any rate
the lad thought go.
But It was lots of fun, riding out
to tho . grove,. - Everybody In the
ago.
It took an awful lot of hinting,
and about as much promising, to
extract another shinplaster from that
old wallet, but along about 2 p. m.
it came. It went for firecrackers,
too. And you shot them oft all by
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