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TKADE MiRKS JLD C0PTBIC1TS ObtainJ. and all other business in the U. 8. Patent Office attended to fur MODERATE YVXO- K-nd MODEL to nstfSBtability free or charge: and make NO Charge unless we obtain patent. We refer here to the Postmaster, the Bupt. of Mosey Order Div., and to officials of the U. 8. Patent Office. For circulars, advice, terms and reference, to actual clients in toot otd State or county, write to Opposite PstwHwceTWachiagtofifDrc. WESTERN COTTAGE ORGAM ' :C -C '. - N " Oar office to opposite the U. S. Patent Office, .jti udvt can obtain Patents in lees time than these A IT remote from WASHINGTON. iV1-' K-idllODEL OB DRAWING. W advise as OLD GLORY." Tho following poem won the first prize of $100 in The Boston Pilot competition. Its author to Emma rVances Dawson, of Son Francisco. It to In the old and difficult French form of verse called chant royal. There are but few English charnvroyoto, the making of them having been called "a hard and thankless task." Heretofore only one poet has made use of this form of verse. In making the announcement to the author that 8hti had drawn the first prize, Mr. John Boyle O'Reilly said: "I congratulate you on having added a great poem to the permanent literature of America. Among patriotic poems it will rank forever with anything ever written." "Old Glory" to a name given our flag by our soldiers during the late war. This poem was inspired by the following aragraph by George T. Hoar: "I have seen the glories of art and architecture and mountain and river; I have seen the sunset on Jungfrau, and the full moon rise over Mount Blanc; but the fairest vision on which these eyes ever looked was the flag of my country in a foreign land. Beautiful as a flower to those who love it, terrible as a meteor to those who hate it, it to the symbol of the power and glory and the honor of 60,000,000 of Americans." Enchanted web! A picture in the air. Drifted to us from out the distance blu From shadowy ancestors, through whose brave care We live in magic of a dream come true With Covenanters' blue, as if were glassed In dewy flower heart the stars that passed. O blood veined blossom that can never blight: The Declaration, like a sacred rite. Is in each btar and stripe declamatory. The constitution thou sbalt long recite. Our hallowed, eloquent, beloved "Old Glory I" O symphony in red, white, blue ! fanfare Of trumpet, roll of drum, forever new Reverberations of the bell, that bear Its tones of Liberty the wido world through 1 In battle dreaded like a cyclone blast! gytnliol of land and people unsurpassed. Tby brilliant day shall never have a night. On foreign shore no pomp so grand a sight. No face so friendly, naught consolatory Like glimpse of lofty spar with thee bedlght. Our hallowed, eloquent, beloved "Old Glory 1" Thou art tho one flag: an embodied prayer. One, highest and most perfect to review; Without one, nothing; it is lineal, square. Has properties of all the numbers too. Cube, solid, square root, root of root; best classed It for his cssonce the Creator cast. For purity are thy six 6tripas of white. This number circular aud endless quite Six tims, well knows the scholar wan and hoary. His compass spanning circle can alight Our balloued, eloquent, beloved "Old Glory!" Boldly thy seven lines of scarlet flare; As when o'er old centurion it blew (Red is the trumpet's tone) it means to dare I God favored seven when creation grew; The seven planuta; seven hues contrast; The seven metals; seven days; not last The seven tones of marvelous delight That lend the listening soul their wings for flight; But why complete the happy category That gives thy thirteen stripes their charm aad might. Our hallowod. eloquent, beloved "Old Glory 1" In thy dear colors, honored everywhere. The great and mystic ternion we view: Faith, Hope and Charity are numbered there. And the three nails the Cruflxion knew. Three are offended when oue has trespassed, God, and one's neighbor and one's self aghast; Christ's deity and soul and manhood's height; The Father, Son and Ghost may here unite. With texts like these, divinely monitory. What wonder that thou conquerest in fight. Our hallowed, eloquent, beloved "Old Glory 1" EXVOT. O blessed Flag! sign of our precious Past, Triumphant Present and our Future vast, Beyond starred blue and bars of sunset bright Lead us to higher realm of Equal Right! Float on in ever lovely allegory. Kin to the eagle and the wind and light, Our hallowed, eloquent, beloved "Old Glory." TOR MY COUNTRY'S SAKE." The Beauty aad Dignity of Trae Pa triotism. From a speech delivered at Peekskill on the Fourth of July, 1876, by Henry Ward fieecber, we extract the following paragraphs on the country's elements of growth and the beauties of patriotism: Look back, then, through the hundred years of our national history. They are to me like the ascending of stairs, some of which are broader, some narrower, some with higher rising and some with less than the others; but on tho whole there has been a steady ascent in intelligence, in conscience, In purity, in in dustry, in happiness, is the art of living well collectively, and w stand to-day higher than at soy other time. Our burdens are flea bites. In another hundred years, not one of us will be here. But it does not matter so much to us who rome and go, or what takes place in the future, except so far as our influence is concerned. When a hundred years hence the untelling sun that saw Arnold and Andre and Washington, but will not tell us one word of history, shall shine on these en chanted hills and on this unchanging river then it is for us to have set in motion, or to have given renewed impulse to those great causes, intellectual, moral, social and politi cal, which have rolled our prosperity to such a height. To every young man here that is beginning life, let me say: Listen not to those insidious teachers who tell you that patriotism is a sham, and that all public men are corrupt or corrupters. Men in public or private life are corrupt here and there, but let me say to you, no corruption in government would be half so bad as to have the seeds of unbelief in public administration sown in the minds of the young. If you teach the young that their chief magistrates, their cabinets, and tbeir representatives are of course corrupt, what will that be but to teach them to be themselves corrupt I I stand here to bear witness and say that publicity may consist with virtue and does. There are men that serve the public for the public, though they themselves thrive by it also. I would sow in your minds a romance of patriotism and love of country that shall be necessary to the love which you have for your own households, and I would say to every mother that teaches her child to pray, next to the petition, "Our Father which art in heaven," let him learn the petition, "Our Fatherland," and so let our children grow up to love God, to love man, and to love their country, and to be glad to serve their country as well as their God and their fellow men, though it may be necessary that they should lay down their lives to serve it I honor the unknown ones who used to walk here, and who fell in battle. I honor, too, every armless man, every limping soldier, who through patriotism went to the battle field and came back lame and crippled, and bears manfully and heroically his deprivation. What though be find no eccupationf What though he be forgottent He has iu him the imperishable sweetness of this thought: "I did it for my country's sake." For God's sake and for your country's sake, live, and you shall live forever. FOURTH OF JULY, 1776. If we could look back to the 2d of July, 1776, sweeniBC eefciA the Tears that lie be- .rL. ti tween, and see in the sultry streets of Phila delphia the procession of patriots who founded our republic moving thoughtfully toward the old State house, we would see a band of men the equal iu intellect and appearance of any in the world's history forefathers of whom we have a right to be proud. One was Frank lin, "the "venerable father of science in the new world," simple, with excessive cultiva tion, philosophic and modest, "he looked with composure, at least without regret, upon the act of independence." And there was Thomas Jefferson, the thin. dark, gray eyed Virginian, still young at S3, a Democrat of the severest culture, yet the most radical of republicans, a friend of the people, who was yet to give fifty years more of the work of bis swift, incisive intel lect to his country. Human equality was the theory that engrossed him. THOMAS JKFIfKRSOX. jj bfl the selfishness of caste, and in Europe he saw only the sorrows and degradation of tho many under the heel of the favored and idle few. In France, which to some of his eminent countrymen, even Franklin and John Adams, seemed the land of pleasure, he saw only the helpless people under the hand of tyranny, it was then that be wrote to a friend in America, "Above all things educate the people.'' He saw clearly that no free institu tious could exist without knowledge; that the schoolmaster must rule in his new nation-or it must perish. Like Franklin, Jefferson was no speaker. He sat silent in the sessions of congress. On that memorable 2d of July be took no part in the debate, but he wrote with wonderful fire and grace, and to his burning pen was committed the task of pre paring that immortal document, the Declara tion of Independence, which enforced for all ages the doctrine of universal freedom. Another equally ardent republican from Virginia, Richard Henry Lee, was absent from the congress. Born to wealth and ease, ho longed for a republic iu which were no cruel distinctions separating man from man. But Patrick Henry was there. And there, too, was John Adams, of Massa chusetts, he who in early life bad pined for an ideal elevation above bis fellows. He had spent twenty years in Philadelphia, Paris, London, and the Hague, and was yet unsatis tied. He was now 40 years old, and as a speaker ho helped forward the new republic. A greater orator from Massachusetts was absent, James Otis, to whom might well be ap plied the name of the creator of the theory of independ ence. He was at borne a hopeless maniac, made so by a blow from a Tory opponent. His brilliant mind clouded, ha scarcely saw the revolution of which he had been with Leo and jamer otis. Samuel Adams, the chief promoter. But of all of tho advocates of independence, Suniuel Adams was. perhaps, the most power ful. The most ardent of republicans was he. He was poor, and know many privations, and yet contemned money. Honors, emoluments, and even power he never sought But to the cause of independence he gave his time and ability. Long before his contemporaries spoke of liberty he saw the star of freedom that was destined to shine over America. Robert Treat Paine and Elbridge Gerry were there; Francis Lightfoot Leo, Richard Henry Lee's younger brother, the gay and good humored,was there; Benjamin Harrison, father of a future president, was there, chair man of the committee of the whole, which has just reported on the Declaration. -The mild and philanthropic Carter Braxton was there in place of the late lamented Peyton Randolph, the first president of the continental congress, who had died six or seven months before. And there, too, was the noble hearted Thomas Nelson, of Vir ginia. Ho was the mover of these instruc tions in the convention of Virginia, passed on May 15, under which Richard Henry Lee of fered the original resolution of independence, on June T. And there could be seen the sturdy front of Roger Sherman, native of Massa chusetts, but then a delegate from Connecti cut, "that old Puritan, as honest as an angel, and as firm in the cause of American inde pendence as Mount Atlas," said John Adams. And who can over look the stalwart figure of Samuel Chase, of Mary land! His gentle colleague, Charles Carroll, wac ab sent, but signed the declaration, on August 2. Caesar Rodney was there, and Arthur Mid dleton, of South Carolina, and the eloquent Edward Rutledge. JOHN ADAMS. And Richard Stockton, of New Jersey, who had doubted the propriety of the measure, and had been won over by "the ir resistible and conclusive arguments of John Adams." And the president of the congress, the glorious John Hancock I Bee him in his chair, the same chair in which Washington was to sit eleven years later as president of the convention which framed the constitution of the United States. He was not yet 40 years of age, had a princely fortune at stake and a price upon his head. There he sat in the calm dignity which no vicissitude of life was ever able to ruffle. "Behold him! He has risen for a moment. He has put the question. The Declaration is adopted. It is already late in the evening, and all formal promulgation of the day's doings must be postponed. After a grace of three days the air will be vibrating with the jo3ous tones of the old bell iu the cupola over his head proclaiming liberty to all mankind and with the responding acclamations of as sembled multitudes. Meantime, for him, however, a simple but solemn duty remains to be discharged. The paper is before him. He dips his pen and, with an un trembling hand, proceeds to execute a signa ture, which, as Webster said, has made his name as imperishable 'as if it were written between Orion and the Pleiades.' "Under that signature, with only the at testation of a secretary, the Declaration goes forth to the American people, to be printed in their journals, to be proclaimed in their streets, to be published from their pulpits, to be read at the head of their armies, to be incorporated for ever into their his tory. The British' forces, driven away from Boston, were then landing on States Island. lney were met by PATRICK henby. the promulgation of this act of offense and defiance to all loyal authority. But there was no individual responsibility for that act, save in the signature of Jobs Hancock, presi dent, and Charles Thomson, secretary. Not until Aug. 3 was the young Boston saerchant relieved from the perfloue, the appalling grandeur of standing sole nosers: for the revolt of thirteen colonise and 8,000,000 of people. "In that congress were many opposing voices. But the voice of the outraged people bad not called ia vain, and it was as their representatives the Adesns, Jefferson sad Lee founded ertombUc fiWW' K 9 jfSB fPlp XI sWBBBbIbsV wUassBBBBBBBBBBBBBBnBBBBBSBBSBBB&BBBssSBB nQV lea from British tyranny forever." While the congress deliberated in Philadel phia war stalked over the land. Tho patriots of New York, while they steadily voted for independence, saw the great English fleet riding securely in their harbor and heard the signal guns which proclaimed that armies, greater than any they ever beheld, were landing on Staten Island. On the coasts of New Englaud'lurked British cruisers. A great fleet threatened the southern harbors, and the ruins of Norfolk showed there was cause to fear. From New York to Georgia tho scalp ing knife of the Indian was the assistant of the invader. In the Declaration of Independ ence Jefferson tells tho story of the woes that possessed the land. "Amidst tho clamor of war, the clash of contending armies, in the presence of a thousand perils and of a dork and ominous future, the people, enraged, res olute, unyielding, went calmly to the polls and voted for independence." Small and obscure was the party of Inde pendence at the first sitting of tho congress in 1774. But the cruelty of the mad king, George III, during tho intervening time roused tho people even before it aroused their leaders. Says Eugene Lawrence, writing on the theme of independence: ' " "How often had men sighed for a land in which honest industry might enjoy its prudent gains and virtue win a certain tolerance! How often had the wise and pure of every ago met together to found a republic and been deceived 1 When Europe was a savage wilder ness, except for a thin line of settle ment? around the Mediterranean sea, when all England and France, Ger many and Spain were the haunts of savage tribes, a fair, adventurous. "l!:W" a J brilliant raco had samuel adams. sprung up on the shores of the .gean, and meditated from the acropolis on tho rights of man. The Greeks invented the principles of the com monwealth. The half inspired intellect of Greece founded a series of republics that faded one by one before the influence of caste and slavery. A Latin race took up the con ception. The plebeians of Romo discussed beneath their seven hills the rights of man, tho theory of universal suffrage, the equali zation of property and the principles of the public weaL But slavery disappointed all their hopes. Freemen disappeared. Society knew but two classes, tho enslaving and the enslaved. "Emigration cultivated, all western Eu rope; but tho theory of a republic vanished in a universal tyranny. Tho republics of the middle ages rude, coarse, severe, yet pro gressive fell into tho hands of tyrants. The reformation camo and republics sprang up with free thought. Yet in tho Eighteenth century every one had perished except Swit zerland, and as Samuel and John Adams, Jay and Leo surveyed the dim stream of history, they might well tremble to find its shores strewn chiefly with tho wrecks of freedom, and monarchies and despotisms alone flour ishing where once bad stood tho dawning fabrics of human equality. "More than 100 years of rational progress have familiarized the mind to the widest strides of liberty. Tho great foundations of the republic toleration, equality, educa tionseem no longer new. But when tho patriots of 1770, in the midst of the bar barous Eighteenth century, proposed them to the world as the basis of legislation, tho world scoffed ut them as it they were mad. it is quite impossible, indeed, for any ono to con ceive without intense stud; how far man has advanced iu tho last 100 years; how miserable was his condition in all country's in 1776. One can scarcely realize bow miserable was tho human race amidst the liarbarities of kings and nobles 100 years ago; what tears were shed; what horrors endured by those who have since become the sovereign people. The chief trait of the Eighteenth century was its intense Inhumanity. No one cared for the sufferings of others, and no ono, ex cept a few philosophers and a f ow Americans, had discovered that the majority of men were ndt born to suffer forever. The great seig neurs of France beat, robbed and murdered their peasants with no sentiment even of shame; the English lords, bishops and princes defended their cruel laws, while all the ocean was covered with slave ships, and the horrible wealth of every civilized nation was won from the woes of the helpless Africans. Eu ropean cruelty and avarice hod forced slavery upon the fresh fields of America, had planted among us tne su preme pest of civ ilization, bad left here the canker that had corroded tho freedom of Greece and Rome, and had seemed to make impossiblo in the new world any advance beyond the impassive hu manity of the past. Yet, in the midst of the cruelty, the benjamix vkanklin. tyranny, the vices of the Eighteenth century, our American reformers founded a republic in which toleration, humanity, education and virtue were to be the pillars of the rising state. Well might John Adams break into a kind of lyric rapture when he surveyed the work he had just accomplished. In a letter to his wife be said: " 'The 2d day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epocha in the niv tory of America. I am apt to believe it will be celebrated by succeeding gen erations as tho great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of de liverance by tolemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to bo solemizod with pomp aud parade, with shows, games, sport, balls, bonfires, illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever. You will think mo trans ported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil aud blood and treasure it will cost us to maintain this Declaration and defend these states. Yet through all the gloom I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America, and a greater, perhaps, never was nor will be decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony that these United States are, and of a right ought to be, free and independent states." "Of the proceedings of congress upon this eventful day no record has been preserved. Not a line of its eloquence is left to us. We are better acquainted with the speeches de livered in the Roman senate and the Roman forum, with the debates of the English par liament in 1G41, with the harangues of French Jacobins or English reformers, than with the grand discussion of the principles of liberty and progress which made us a free people, "We only know that John Adams spoke with such power that, in tho words of Jeffer son, 'he moved the members from their seats.' It was tho voice of the new world remon strating against tho decadence of the old. "More than 100 years of progress have raised 100,000,000 of men to a new sense of freedom. America is a republic, Europe has pressed on toward liberty, the world is nearly free. The Fourth of July bos become the an niversary most noted in tho annals of man kind, the birthday of human freedom, the epoch of unbounded hope." FOURTH OF JULY CHESTNUTS. Aspiring Orators Who Ilegan but Never Finished Their Speeches. The Fourth of July orator is a figure we could not possibly dispense with. The chest nuts with which his 'name to associated are part of our patriotic history, and he it is who keeps the eagle from becoming too arrogant. He mounts it and soars into the blue empyrean, triumpbantly brandishing the triple hued saT4BSssi 358Bsirsi 'w sai:yj5?i i U '1 isfSttN IB. iL BsssmWsKMbB35s5w llPiiillH banner ns be goes, and too proud bird of freedom cannot help himself. One ancient chotuat relates bow an untried but ambitious independence orator began a Fourth of July panegyric thus: "Fellow citizens: On the Fourth of July, 1770, the American eagle took bis first un fettered flight towards the Ideal land of freedom. Ho went up and up before the ap proving gaze of our noblo forefathers. But never has his flight been so high and glorious as to-day. Behold him, my friends and fellow patriots! Behold tho noblo bird who typifies tho principle for which our fathers fousbt and died. Ho goes up, fired with the pride which has made us a freo and prosper ous nation. Yes, ho goes up, followed by the acclamations of CO.000,000 of people. Yes, my fellow patriots, ho goes up, cleaving the air with proud wings, and glories in his freedom and his strength. Ho goes up and up and up. Wo watch him till ho becomes a mere speck iu the blue of heaven. Yet he goes further. Ho goes up and up and up, until ho fades entirely from our sight. Yet ho is there, my friends and fellow citi zens; hjisJherB and btill rising. Though wo cannot see-, him, we know that ho is still "golifg up uud up and up. Yes, noble patriots, he is still ascending. When we see him no more with our natural eyes we can still fol low him with the eyes of imagination still ceo him rising. Yes, with pride we see him go up and up and up and up I Aud still higher. Yes, he is still going up and up and up and up" At this interesting point the gifted orator lost his bearings. Mopping his brow iu agony he vainly groped through his chaotic brain for the tbreud of his oration. At last, still gaz ing skyward, he said: "Confound the bird 1 1 have sent him up so far I can't get him down again," and inglorinusly abandoned tho field. Another equally venerable chestnut deals with a youth who practiced daily as au orator, with a garden of cabbages iu the role of audience. lie got on famously. The cab bages all gave him their undivided and ap proving ntteution. Forensic art was mere play beforo such appreciative auditors. He said what ho pleased to them aud said it well, becauso ho feared no criticism. He poured out his patriotic eloquence without being shaken by a disapproving sneer. His self confidence was soon highly developed. He felt equal to speaking before the selected brains of tho world. At last the day came on which ho was to deliver to an audience of men and women tho speech so often rehearsed before tho cabbages. Ho stepped forth and was greeted with rousing cheers. They be lieved in encouraging oratorical talent in that town. He bowed, and they cheered again He opened his mouth, but no sound came forth. His tongue was parched like a clay road after a long drought. A sensation tho like of which ho had never felt before took possession of him. Self confidence fled, and abject fear took its place. At last he managed to huskily articulate: "Ladies and gentlemen, I see you are not cabbage heads," and sat down, and nono but the cabbages iu tho garden could tell the world what it had lost in losing that speech, and they have been silent to this day. And yet another hoary chestnut strides forth from the honored past. It. too, owes its existence to the Fourth of July speech maker. He was a young man who began by saying: "Ladies and gentlemen: Forty years ago this spot was an unbroken wilderness. The wolf howled and the bear growled where we to-day stand." Ho paused, and his hearers applauded. Then he went on: "Forty years ago not a stick of timber bad been cut from these broad acres." Another pause, which was unrelieved by any marks of approbation on the part of the audience. He continued: "As I said, forty years ago thousands of trees were standing on the broad acres about us and and and I wish with all my heart they were standing there yet" And thus began and ended his Fourth of July address; and here endetb the chapter on the chestnuts of independence. "Columbia. Columbia, to glory arise. The queen of the world and the child of the skies." UNCLE SAM LEADING THE NATIONS TO TBS TUNE OF YANKEE DOODLE. Hero Yankee Doodle leads the van. With much of jubilation. While follows him with rout and cheer Of earth each various nation. As on to glory here they press We still shall keep the van, sir. And be of freedom's problem here The first to find the answer. THE SMALL BOY'S DAY, And Bow Tie Celebrates It with Fire and Noise. And thus the editor muses: Why the fire cracker Why, indeed, the stridulous small boy, who, with ventilated apparel, one sus pender and unsandaled feet, accompanies the firecracker in its orbit of flame I Why pop and fizz on tho Fourth more than any other! Why then more than any other time doth the small boy rage and grow insolent, and touch off everything that hath noise in it, from a paper torpedo to a fish horn, and frighten horses and get asleep on curbstones, and tear his trousers and burn his eyebrows, and do vari ous other dreadful things for which he has been called to account ever since he came in vogue! What relation has tho firecracker to the Declaration of Independence? Or what the horse frightening, howling small boy I The one is a Chinese invention that has no earthly signification beyond sputter and fizz; the other has but a faint idea of what the Declaration he is trying to glorify means. He is, in truth, the most absolutely depend ent creature in nature. Who started this combination of youth and saltpeter, of vocal haircloth and the limbs of the jumping jack, of fire, fizzle and bang? It is laid at John Adams' door because he said something about the ringing of bells, the firing of cannon, etc. But could be have taken the small boy into account when he said iti Did he dream of the annual nerve vM?t4 tnmiitfc luk vra nnmrin9 fnr riitnMt generations? Had he any idea that Fourth of July celebrations would so generally be car ried on, or at least aggravated, by small boys of extraordinary lung power and never fal tering energy? Impossible I John Adams was a noble man, a patriot, a statesman, but he was not in all things a clairvoyant. He could not look forward and see the small boy of 16S7 celebrating the Fourth of July to the terror and peril of his seniors. The toy pistol was not in vogue in Johu Adams' day, nor had the fire cracker obtained a foothold on Amer ican soil. Dogs with explosives tied to their tails entered not Mr. Adams' idea of celebrat ing. All these have come in with other mod ern implements of torture until we now have a day which powder and the small boy claim for their own. Noise and happiness, patriotic enthusiasm and Chinese crackers are convertible terms. The small boy seizes the Fourth of July as bis own. and custom has handed it over to him to do as he pleases with it. He to so afraid that somebody else will claim even the smallest fraction of it that he begins to take pocif.n cm tftq vf nlng nt thrt At Ho siU up all night In order to "usher in the day" with tho loudest racket he can produce. He briugs noises to the front the moment the midnight hour arrives, and from that on until midnight comes agaiu he accompanies himself with firo, flame, concussion and reverberation. Little be recks that his wind up to weariness, blis ters, mutilation of his body, and trouble with his stomach. All those things are for his elders to look after and make right. He has now had over a century of this sort of thing and shows no signs of getting tired of it. And the firecracker multiplies and grows upon us. In the provincial towns it to mitigated by processions, orations, municipal demonstrations, lemonade, gingerbread and spruce beer. But in the city the firecracker rages without mitigation. These remarks the small boy will not like. But the day will come when he will admit the force of them. That day will be when he has passed out of small boyhood into what he now calls "fogyism," otherwise full grown and possibly middle aged citizenship. He will then occasionally remark that "all is vanity, aye, even glory and firecrackers." And his sons will laugh in their sleeves and speak of him as "the old man," and decide that he has forgotten his youth. The dew and freshness of the dawn of life will be over for him, and with him will go his former close appreciation of Fourth of July explo sives. Sometimes he will hear himself re ferred to as "old Wilkins" if Wilkins is his name and it will givo him a queer aud not at all pleasant sensation. In view of all this we must bear patiently with tho small boy and his extravagantly ex plosive patriotism. It will havo its end, like all earthly things, and in its train will como no end of responsibilities, ambitions, griev ances and vexations, and tho rheumatism and mental dyspepsia ; mid who kno ws i per haps wo will occasionally look on the small boy and his firecrackers with envy. The Orators of the Day. The woes of the Fourth ore not oil pyrotech nic. There will be other explosions oratori cal catastrophes which, unfortunately, are more apt to distress those who hear than those who perpetrate them. The most anient lover of his country quails as he even distantly contemplates those rhetorical compounds of patriotic fervor and freedom. We have a history, to be sure, and wo ought to revere it, but when it is served up in the same style and quantities year after year one longs to say something against "vain repetition." The battle; of Lexington and Monmouth and Saratoga are vigorously fought over our sweltering aud helplew lod ies. Benedict Arnold to caught and roasted for tho millionth time, nud every orator, metropolitan und provincial, savagely stirs up the coals. We are dragged on our per spiring way from Bunker Hill to the Chesa peake, and get frost bitten at Vnlley Forge and pocket Cornwallis at Yorktown with equal indifference and resignation. The Fourth of July orator makes us earn our freedom over agaiu every year, and when he to coupled with a balloon ascension nud the inevitable fireworks one needs the courage and endurance of oisr forefathers to confront him. THE NATIONAL BIRD. How Ho Appears at the Beginning and Kud of the Fourth. Knowing that ho to the great figure of the day, our friend, American Eagle, start out on the morning of the Fourth i lioe spirits and his best clothes. He has a true patriot's hatred of tyranny, and glories in in dependence with tho best of them, no always abhorred the British, and for good reason. They used to kill him aud stuff his hide for museums. Being brave, ho did not mind be ing killed; but the degradation of having his royal hide stared at by men in eye glasses and tight laced women was too much for him. Ho venerates the Declaration cf Independ ence and will go to any aniouut of trouble and expense to show his respect for it With self satisfaction and dignity ho seta forth, wearing his honors majestically, and pre pared to do his part in celebrating the proud est day of the year proporly. Tho following morning finds him a changed and depressed being. With a bandaged eye, muddled head, one wing iu a sling, bedrag gled and disheveled feathers, and a bruised and weary body, he is obliged to call in medi cal aid. "Yes; it to always so," ho says to his old time friend, the doctor. "I love the day; but it invariably proves too much for mc. It to tho orators who undo me. I don't mind the firecrackers, the yelling of the boys, or the balloon business. I don't even succumb to inordinate quantities of red lemonade and chicken pic I can also get on with tho pro cessions and numerous other troubles; hut the orators undo me quite. Think' what I have to bear from them. They ride me till my backbone to almost broken; and they us such atrocious rhetoric when talking about me that it puts me mentally out of joint I am yanked from one to the other aud banged about till I haven't a feather left unrumpled. Of course I have to endure it m the intermit i Sh v(w9lV ffn jSlr'liAul freedom, ueing tho national bird and the emblem of freedom I can't back down. But you see where it all leaves me." What's hallowed ground? Tto what gives birth To sacred thoughts iu souls of worth Peace! Independence! Truth! go forth Faith's compass round. Aad your high priesthood shall make earth All hallow'd ground. My angel, his name b Freedom, Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west. And 'fend you with hto wing. For Freedom's battle, onco begun. Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, to ever woa. PATRIOTISM. Proteaa selfishness puts on no gufse More apt than patriotism to blind our eyes. Shall Briton, Frenchman, Russ, American Glory In things that would disgrace a manr Set your own country foremost: work for her; Hers to all private interests prefer; But never dream that violence and fraud In her name turn to praise and nobleness; That lies aro bail at home, but good abroad; That honor and fair dealing have a bound Mark'd on the map; that any right can prove Wroug to another, or make right less. And, after all this, recollect there's love. "Love one another;" yea. Lord; look around After all this there's love nay, lovo comes tlrst. Else our pretended virtues are the worst Of all the evils wherewith life to curst Queries for Independence nay. What has been the history of the time since the signing of tho Declaration of Independ ence, in regard to the people of America? Are they as virtuous as they were in 1776? Are thoy as manly? Are they as intelligent? Are they as religious? Not only that, have they learned anything in tho highest of all arts the art of man to live with man? The art of organizing society, of conducting gov ernment, the promotion of tho common weal through broad spaces and through vast mul titudes? What is the history of the people? What aro we today? What our fathers were we know. Their life wes splendid, their his tory was registered. We read what they wero, aud form an estimate of them with gratitude to God; but what are we, their children? Have we shrunk? Are we unworthy of their names and places and functions, which have been trans mitted from their hands to ours? What are tho laws, what are the institutions, what ir. tho government, what are the policies of this great nation, redeemed from foreign thrall to borne independence? Are they committed to puny hands, or is manhood broadened and strengthened and ennobled? Look, then, at our population, what it to, spread abroad through all the land. We have called the world to be our father and the father of our children and posterity, nd there never was a time in the history of this nation when tho race stock had in it so much that was worth tho study of the physiologist and philanthro pist as now. The augmentation of power, of breadth of manhood, the promise of the future, is past all computation, and thero never was, there never began to be, in the early day such promise for physical vigor and enriched life as there is to-day upon this continent It has been said that "the art of living healthily has advanced immensely, and though cities have enlarged, and though the causes of dangers to sanitary conditions aro multiplied, science has kept pace, and there never was a time in the history of any nation on the globe when the condi tions of life woro so wholesome, the condi tions of happiness so uiuversally diffused, as thoy aro to-day in this great land. It to in tho power of a man to earn more in ten years of hto life today than for our ancestors in the whole of their lifo. The heavens are nearer to us than to them, for we have learn ed the secrets of the storm and the sweep of the lightning. The earth itself to but just out side our door. We can now call to Asia easier than they could to Boston 100 years ago. All tho fleets of the world bring hither the trib utes of the globe. LOVE'S SOLITUDE AND SOCIETY When I must go Into the turmoil nido Of worldly meu and ways, I cheerily go. Since I am there as one that hath uo foe. But moves in sylvan peace, whero boughs ex clude Tho too fierce sun and paths with leaves are strewed. And bird-sought brooks In shady stillness flow I need not shun the turmoil, since I know That Love will make for me sweet solitude. And if I into exile must be sent. Let me not grieve; the Fate's commanding lips I kiss, and take my way without a fear. If in the desert Lmust pitch my tent. Love hath within itself all fellowships. Is friends and homo and rest and plenteous cheer. Atlantic Monthly. PHASES OF ITALIAN WITCHCRAFT. Carious Tilings ltscommended for Pur poses of Luck A Strange Case. From such persons you may hear that if any one takes the eggs out of a raven's nest, boils them so as to render them incapable of incubation and replaces them the parent birds will fly to a brook and fetch thence a white stone of the size and shape of the eggs. Tho stone, they say, it places carefully among the eggs and then sits on eggs and stone to gether. The stono restores vitality to the eggs, and after the brood Is fledged and has flown it is left behind iu the nest It has, however, suffered a great change. It is now semi-transparent, and in every respect except its wrjght and hardness is exactly like an egg. If it be placed near any jwisoned food the yelk begins to move violently and thus warns ' e fortunate possessor of his danger. The Up wing to oven more given to sorcery. It alwa.' s deposits a stono the size of a pea in its nes What use it is to the bird or its family no ono seems to know, but if any one finds it and paces it under the pillow of a sleeping person he will answer every ques tion that does not exceed the limits of human knowledge with perfect truth in the language in which it is asked. The marvelous stories told of serpents ore innumerable. There is ono about a yard in length and as thick as the upper port of a strong man's arm, which haunts dry wooded places. It is so venomous, especially inrMay, that not only will the first person it bites in that month die himself but any one who stands beside or comes to help him will share tho samo fate. If ho falls be neath a tree, that, too, or If it bo very largo, at least one-half of it will be killed. Again, serpents of all kinds are very fond of milk. 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