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O Fourth Julys the flnest day of any in the
year
At least thats how It allUB seems to me
You bwcll your chest an take a breath and
ihil youre breathln freer
Ez though the air wuz full of liberty
The craoklln o the crackers coin off by
packs and packs
The cannon booinin at the break o day
sort ol bends a joyous little shiver up
our backs
An the only thing to boiler is hooray
The big men of the country give us Patrick
Ht nrys speech
An then recite the Declaration too
An the crowd throw up their hats an cheer
with ardor after each
Patriotic orator is through
An tlien the silver cornet band the town
ships joy and pride
Insplrin airs appropriately play
An the bangiu an the poppin start again
on every side
An the only thing to holler is hooray
An after bit when darkness comes the
fireworks fizz an spout
An Chinese lanterns twinkle midst the
tree
An in the shadders pretty girls are saun
teriu about
With rounded waists an dimpled hands
to squeeze
An then wunst more theres music from
the silver cornet band
An down the floor the dancers all sashay
Everybodys wantin parduers every tel
lers In demand -An
the only thing to holler is hooray
-Detroit Free Press
BETSY ROSS
Her Fame Will Endure for She Made
the First Stars and Strips
On Arch street Philadelphia stands a
quaint little old brick house which is used
for a tobacco store It was the second
house over built iu the Quaker City and
the bricks came over with William Penu
in the good ship Welcome In the time
f the revolutionary -war thqre lived in
it a young woman named Betsy Ross re
nowned for her skill as a needlewoman
It was she who made the ruffled bosoms
lor the shirts of George Washington and
in 1777 when Congress appointed a com
ioittee with the general at its head to de
sign a flag suitable for the new born na
tion it was to her the committee turned
to carry out their ideas A rough draft
of the proposed flag was prepared and
the design consisting of alternating red
and white stripes and thirteen six pointed
stars on a background of blue was shown
to her by the commander-in-chief who
disked if she could make such a flag Betsy
replied by suggesting that rive pointed
-stars such as were used in heraldry should
BETSY BOSS
he substituted for the six pointed ones and
showed how readily these could be fash
ioned by folding a square of paper and
making a single cut with her scissors
Her suggestion was approved and the
flag adopted by Congress on June 14
1777 Betsy soon after married John
Maypole and for many years she and her
family held the contract for making flags
-for the fleet in the Delaware The hands
-that created Old Glory now rest in Mount
Morris cemetery Betsy Maypole lived
-to the ripe age of S4 She was laid in
the grave by the side of her husband on
Jau30 1S3G
THREE NOTABLE CELEBRATIONS
Evidences that July 4 1S9S Will Live
Lous in History
There have been two celebrations of the
Fourth of Julj within the ken of those of
-the past generation that have been quite
rotable
All along the line since the Mexican
war political anniversary or national
-events that were timely have made Inde
pendence Day more or less conspicuous
but in no sense commemoratively so The
two occasions referred to were the Fourth
of July signalizing the close of the war
-of the rebellion and that of the Centen
nial year 1S7G
The issues of the civil Avar had been
-very great and solemn and the sad and
the practical cut some figure in making it
xather a day of heartfelt gratitude and
happy reunions to those who had taken
part in the conflict However the sons
of veterans gave the occasion due eclat
o far as noisy jollification was concerned
That day will he remembered by many
now jut crossing the slope of life A
great deal of powder was burned up some
magnificent orations and notable gath
erings formed part of the general event
and Independence Day that year marked
quite an epoch and milestone in the his
tory of the same
The Centennial year 1S7G came in nois
ily with guns bells and whistles em
ployed to their full demonstrative capac
ity and New Years day was reproduced
on the Fourth In the interim between
lbG5 and 187G prices of fireworks had
gone down and the estimate of money
spent in the same reached up to a phe
nomenally high figure A Centennial ex
position added to the excitement of the
period and the Fourth of July 1S7G is
perhaps the host remembered by many
people over a reach of a quarter of a
century
The younger group of patriots may
therefore be indulged in their efforts
reaching out to mak Independence Day
1S98 a notable Fourth The Cuban fer
vor has invaded every home every work
shop every schoolroom Scarcely a pre
paration but the Cuba Libre idea has
infused and influenced it With patriot
ism at high tide pride and glory in a
martial way displayed at close range for
the boys and girls of America for the first
time the present Fourth of July will
probably be in years to come as cherish
ed as was the Centennial to the children
of veterans and the close of the war cele
bration to their veteran sires
FAIRY OF THE FOURTH
Blare of trumpets roll of drums
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Fireworks golden shower
Glory circled lo she comes
Patriotisms Uower
Fair of face and calm of mien
Fit to be a nations queen
Hail to her all hail
Queen Indeed though all uncrowned
Save with our devotion
Let our loyal praise resound
Unto cither ocean
She shall be our Inspiration
Praising her we praise our nation
So to her all hail
After the Brttle
Sunday School Teacher first Sunday
after July 4 Well boys Im glad to
see you I believe you are all here this
morning
Tommy Tucker speaking for himself
Yesm all ceptin three fingers an piece
of an ear Chicago Tribune
The National Colors
The red has been dyed with the blood of
tho brave
I Who perished while fighting a nation to save
The white is the snow as new fallen it lies
j The union a square of the star lighted skies
Comes Durinjr Holler Days
Fourth of July as also a noisy festi
val would lose something of its signifi
cance if it didnt come in the schoolboys
holler days Philadelphia Times
COSTS FIVE MILLIONS
Requires This Amount to Appropri
ately r alutc the Nations Birthday
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T costs more to appropri
ately salute the tuitions
birthday than it did to
conduct a campaign un
der Washington five
times as much as the
ilv ry1r which Semmes destroyed
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was cruising around
there in the Alabama
and one third of the
money the United States
goL from England on account of the Ge
neva award which award covered all the
damage done to the merchant fleet of
America by Confederate cruisers built in
England
The powder burned in fireworks alone
would make a monument higher than the
Washington monument at the nations
capital and it would be four times as
broad at the base The Fourth of July
is as well known in China as it is in the
United States for the celebration of the
festival of freedom is in this country one
of the forces from which the empire of the
Descendants of the Sun and the first
cousin to the fixed stars draws a great
and steadily increasing yearly revenue
By the banks of the they
keep watch of the calendar and prepare
their cargoes of firecrackers against the
Melican mans mueh bang bang
The last two weeks in June see a fleet
of sailing vessels come gliding hi through
the Narrows big clippers such as used
to make Columbia the Gem of the
Ocean and such as it does a Yankee
heart good to see even now And these
great ships are from Far Cathay laden
down so that the water runs back in long
curling waves from the chain plates with
the spoils of the East in the shape of the
firecrackers of our youth
Dont you remember how you used to
put them under a tin pan or in a barrel
so that they would sound louder when
they went off That was years ago but
from tho time that the Chinese first found
out that the Melican man had a day
set apart in tho calendar upon which he
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The powder burned in firecrackers alone
on the Fourth of July would make a monu
ment higher than the Washington Monu
ment and four times as broad as the base
desired to make a noise every American
boy has been paying tribute to the Tartar
who sits on the throne of China He is
glad to do it too It pleases him quite
THE DEADLY CANNON CRACKER
as much as paying tribute to the German
family which sits on the throne of Eng
land
The rCCO000 which we burn up in
powder to celebrate the Fourth of July
is so much greater than the tax imposed
upon the colonies by the Stamp Act
that there is little comparison Of course
England never got the revenue she design
ed from the passage of that iniquitous
bill but if she had it would not have
amounted to a tithe of what we now ex
pend in burning powder yearly Besides
all the powder which is burned up in fire
works on the Fourth of July there must
be taken into account the amount of pow
der which is used in salutes
Every little village fires a salute to
the nations birthday and some of them
expend as much powder as do the big
cties for in those places where the im
mediate need of things has not carried
away the efforts and the souls of the in
habitants patriotism is stronger and more
powder is burned
A Declaration of 98
This is a day to be merry and gay
And to celebrate with powder
Yet here I sit in a gloomy fit
While canion and guns grow louder
In frenzy I wrote a burning note
Wherein I made confession
That Kittys hand I did demand
To keep in my possession
Now her I scan oh hapless man
For me no celebration
Her exceedingly cold and shortly told
Independence declaration
Foreign Flags in America
The first flag to float over American soil
was tho royal standard of Isabella em
blazoned with the arms of Castile and
Deoiu A white flag with a green cross
was its cnnajvion JSome years after
Columbus landed at San Salvador the
Cabots planted the banner of England
and of St Mark of Venice onth eastern
shore of North America In the 400 yeari
that have intervened since a variety of
national flags have waved where now
only the Stars and Stripes is the accept
ed emblem Over Texas have floated the
French Spanish English American and
Confederate in Louisiana the lilies of
France the Spanish flag the tri color the
American and Confederate flags in Cali
fornia Spanish Mexican Russian and
American
Marked an Epoch
The Fourth of July marked an epoch in
history not aJone in the history of our
own country not alone in that of the
English speaking nations but in that of
all peoples who in the times thereafter
were to inhabit the world On the Fourth
of July a scroll was written and signed
than which no writing more pregnant
with power and with glory to the oppress
ed was ever penned by human hand
A Firecracker Story
He did It in sport
He alono is to blame
Tho fuse was too short
Nov- his fingers the same
-Washington Star
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CHILDRENS COLUHK
A DEPARTMENT FOR LITTLE
BOYS AND GIRLS
Something that Will Interest the Jn
vcnile Members of Every Household
-Quaint Actions and Bright Sayings
of Many Cute and Cunning Children
When my pa comes home fcelin good
An after splittin up some wood
Sets down beside the fire an smokes
An talks about Elvirys folks
Elvirys ma an good ole days
I jest sneaks up to him an says
Say na Ive been a wishm
At you would let me go a fishin
Weil he Iaffs then an slaps his knee
An says That boy is jest like me
Id ruther fish en eat I guess
Go on a iishin sonny yes
Fore breakfast though what luck I
had
Say boy ycr cant outfish ycr dad
An I says then Well I guess not
But 1 jeit think Ill try a lot
Wed then I go to bed right smart
To wake up for an early start
An oh v hat dreams 1 have that night I
1 iioh an fish an every bite
Brings up a whale until my string
Of fish is just the longest thing
An then I get a railroad train
To haul them fish back home again
Sometimes I dream of ketehin tons
Of gingerbread and sugar buns
Er fishiu from a slippery bank
Of lasses candy by a tank
Of lemonade an so y jing
I dream I ketch jest everything
An then pa wakes me up with Say
Its 8 oclock no fish to day
Chicago liecord
Bread and Point
I wish 3oud go around by the gro
cery Mattle said Mrs Gray and
ask Mr Brown to send up three pounds
of butter
I dont believe Sarah will want to
go that way thought Mattie as he ran
off to meet her schoolmate who -was
waving to her from the opposite cor
ner
Lets hurry said Sarah at once
and -well have time to play hopscotch
before the bell rings
There exclaimed Mattie I knew
you wouldnt want to go to Browns
Cant you go there on the way
home asked Sarah
Yes I guess it will do just as well
And Mattie kept on toward school
At noon her mother wished if she for
got her errand
- I liave just been to the store said
Mattie
The butter wont be sent up till af
ternoon if you didnt go before school
and there isnt enough for lunch said
her mother Im afraid youll have to
eat great grandmothers bread and
point because you didnt do wbatj ask
ed you
When they sat dovn to the table the
potatoes were baked to a turn and the
muffins looked so brown and crips ami
tempting that Joe exclaimed Speli
cious This is better than geometry
Joe you may have -what butter there
is said Mrs Gray and Mattie may
have the butter knife
What do I want of the butter knife
said Mattie crossly if I cant have
anything on my muffins and only salt
on my potatoes Id rather have great
grandmothers bread and point I
spose thats some kind of jam Isnt
It
Mrs Gray smiled When great
grandmother was a little girl she
said and didnt do as she was told
Ive heard that her mother used to give
her only bread for supper and point the
butter knife at it
Thats a queer dish said Joe as he
buttered his second potato it wouldnt
do for boys
But Mattie didnt say one word
Youths Companion
Xiltle People of Other Days
Since the beginning of time much in
terest has been manifested in little peo
ple By little people is not meant the
small boys and girls but those men
and women upon whose growth nature
has placed an embargo and turned
them into dwarfs
When speaking of dwarfs American
children naturally think of Tom
Thumb but there were many noted
dwarfs long before Toms time how
ever Ferhaps the most illustrious of
these was Poirpee a great favorite of
Peter the Great This remarkable lit
tle woman was about three feet tall
and was bright lively and vivacious
The great emperor was not above the
plebeian game of matchmaking and
he arranged a marriage between Pou
pee and another of his well known
dwarf subjects The wedding histor
ians tell us was a brilliant affair A
fine feast was prepared and all the
dwarfs in the empire were gathered to
gether and invited to be present Pou
pee lived to be 102 years old which is
a great age for a dwarf most of whom
die young
Another much noted dwarf was
Amias Clows an Englishman Clows
was three and one half feet Irish and
lived to be 103 years old Hud
son who belonged to Q arietta
Maria and King Charles I also
achieved much notoriety during the sixty-three
years of his eventful life Up
to the time he was 30 Jeffrey was ex
ceedingly small After that he began
to grow and in a little while reached
J the height of three feet Mr Hudson
was as blustering and daring as any
gentleman measuring sir feet or monji
might bo his liardiliood even going ao
far as to lead him Into fighting a duel
This Tout he performed sitting on
horseback that he might be the same
height as his opponent The dwarfs
hand was steady and his eye was true
and lie fatally wounded life antagonist
A former duke of Milan made a fad of
collecting dwarfs He kept a number
of them in his palace and had little
rooms six feet high and eight feet
square built for their especial use Per
haps the smallest race of people now
known to us is the bushmen of Aus
tralia whose average height is four and
one half feet
Childrens Cute Sayings
Do you like candy mamma asked
4-year-old Bessie No dear was the
reply it always makes me sick Im
awful glad of it said the little miss
youre just the woman I to hold
my candy while I dress dollie
Why Freddie exclaimed the moth
er of a precocious Syear old arent
you ashamed to call auntie stupid Go
to her at once and tell her you are very
sorry Auntie said the little fellow
a few moments later Im awful sorry
you are so stupid
It was one of the first -warm days
and little Mabel aged 4 who had been
playing with some neighboring chil
dren rushed into the house and throw
ing herself across her mothers lap ex
claimed Oh mamma take off some
of my clothes Im a whole petticoat
too hot
Now children said the Sunday
school teacher of the juvenile class
our lesson to day tells us of the pow
ers possessed by lungs and queens
Can any of you name a still greater
power Yesm I can replied one
little fellow What Willie asked
the teacher Aces was the unexpect
ed answer
Jennie aged 4 had been poking at
the grate fire and burned a hole in her
dress You must not do that Jennie
said her mother or youll catch fire
and burn up and there will be nothing
left of you but a little pile of ashes
Then what would mamma do Oh
replied Jennie I suppose you would
call Bridget and tell her to sweep up
the ashes
Little Harry was in the habit of end
ing bis prayers every night with a re
quest for a baby brother to play with
but at last he gave up in despair A
few weeks later his mother called him
and showed him twin babies He looked
at them in wander for a moment and
exclaimed Well its a mighty lucky
thing I stopped praying or we might
have got three
HOW CHILDREN SHOULD STUDY
Berlin Pedagogue Thinks Holidays
Should Be Thickly Distributed r
So much time has been devoted to the
discussion of what should be studied by
children and how It should be taugnt
that comparatively little has been em
ployed in solving the problem perhaps
almost as important as either of the
other two the problem of when the
studying and teaching should be done
A Berlin pedagogue has taken up this
neglected branch of the great subject
and his investigations have had inter
esting and suggestive results
T hg best working days he says are
Mondays and Tuesdays or any two
that come directly aftrj holiday The
obvious deduction is that the insertion
of a full holiday in the middle of the
week would tend to the keeping up of
mental activity among school children
and so add to the amount of real work
accomplished Those hours of the day
as well as those of the week which fol
low rest are most valuable and it is
advised that the first two hours of the
morning be reserved for the tasks
which children find most fatiguing
Regarding vacations this authority
asserts that they are at present need
lessly long but far from sufficiently
frequent The refreshing effect of
each vacation is demonstrated in every
school room It is no greater however
after two months of play than after
one and it lasts no longer
In this connection the value of impe
tus must also be taken into account
and it would hardly do to alternate
months of idleness with months of
work but the fact remains that the
periods of activity are now too prolong
ed The Berlin man says that the stu
dies most fatiguing to child minds are
iu order mathematics foreign lan
guages gymnastics and for many
singing and drawing while the natural
sciences and history cause little strain
He is surprisingly emphatic in oppos
ing gymnastic exercises for the young
and asserts that they are no substi
tute for sleep baths and walks New
York Times
British Admiralty JRed Tape
Every one who has to do -with the
admiralty is familiar with amusing
tales of the glorification of red tape
Here is the very latest Some time ago
a workman in one of the dock yards
lost a government candlestick valued
at a few pence This was considered
sufficient excuse for a report bj the lo
cal officials to Whitehall A long cor
respondence of the approved govern
ment office type ensued and it is esti
mated that not less than five pound3
was spent in the officials time ink and
paper After every aspect of the case
had been weighed the workman was
directed to pay the local officials the
sum of five pence being the value set
upon this particular candlestick Of
course If the man had been in private -employment
little or no notice would
have been taken of such a triviality or
at most he would have paid his fore
man the value without any red tape
ism
Russias Rapid Growth
Russia has the most rapidly increas
ing population of any country in the
world The growth during the last
100 years has been a fraction less than
1000000 annually
