ESTABLISHED 1800.
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“OLD GLORY."
The following poem won the first prizc'of $100
in The Boston l‘ilot competition. Its author is
Emma Fr' ‘ .5 Dawson, of San Francisco. It is
in the old and (titlieult French form of v.-rsc
called chant. royal. There are but few English
chant-royals, the making of them having been
called “a hard and thankless task.“ Herctofore
only one poet has made use of this form of verse.
In making the announcement to the author that
she 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" is a name given our flag by our soldiers
during the late war. This poem was inspired by
the following paragraph by George F. Hoar:
“I have seen the glories of art and architecture
and mountain and river; I have seen the sunset
on J ungfrau. and the full moon rise over Mount
Blane; 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 is 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 usfrom out the distance blu
From shadowy ancestors, through whose brave”
care
We live in magic of a dream come tme—
With Covenanters‘ blue, as if were glassed
in dewy flower heart the stars that passed.
0 blood veined blossom that can never blight!
The Declaration, like assured rite,
Is in each star and strips declamatory,
. The constitution thou shalt long recite,
Our hallowed, eloquent, beloved “Old Glory!“
0 symphony in red, white, blue l—fnnfare
0f trumpet, roll of drum, forever new
Reverberations of the hell, that bear
Its tones of Liberty the wide world through!
In battle dreaded like a cyclone blast!
Symbol of land and people unsurpassed.
Thy brilliant day shall never have a night.
On foreign shore no pomp so grand a sight,
No face so friendly, naught consolstory
Like glimpse of lofty spar with thee bedight,
Our hallowed, eloquent, beloved “Old Glory !“
Thou art the 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 essence the Creator cast.
For purity are thy six stripes of white,
This number circular and endless quite-—
Six times, well knows the scholar wan and hoary,
His compass spanning circle can alight—
Our hallowed, eloquent, beloved “Old Glory l“
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!
God favored seven when creation grew;
The seven planets; 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 and
might,
Our hallowed, eloquent, beloved I‘Old Glory I“
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 Crufixion knew.
Three are offended when one 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.
\Titli texts like these, divinely monitory.
What wonder that thou conquerest in fight,
Our hallowed, eloquent, beloved “Old Glory I"
, savor.
O blessed Flag: sign of our precious Past,
Triumphant Present and our Future vast,
Beyond starred blue and bars of sunset bright
Lend 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."
“FOR MY COUNTRY’S .SAKE.”
The Beauty and Dignity of True Pn-
trlotism.
From a speech delivered at Peekskill on the
Fourth of July, 1876. by Henry Ward
Beecher, 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 lam than the others; but
on the whole there has been a steady ascent
in intelligence, in conscience, in purity, in in-
dustry, iii happiness, in the art of living well.
collectively, and we stand to—day higher than
at any 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 come 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 bills 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, intelectual, moral, social and politi-
cal, which llu’e rolled our prosperity to such
a knight. '
To every young man here that is beginning
life, let me say: Listen not to those insidious
tencbeis who tell you that patriotism is a
sham. and that all public men are corrupt: or
corrupteis. 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 their
representatives are of course corrupt, what
will that be but to teach them to be themselves
corrupt? 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 mw in your minds to romance
of‘patriotisni 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
wan: here, and who fell in battle. I honor,
too, every armless man, every limping soldier,
who through patriotism wontto the battle-
field aiid came back lame and crippled, and
bears nianfull y and heroically his deprivation.
What though he find no occupatiOnl What
though he be forgotten? He has in him the
lmperishuble soveetiiess 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 tothe‘MOf July,
'1776, sweeping aside the years that lie bo-
tweon, 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 wouldsee a band of men '
the equal in intellect and appearance of any
in the world’s history—forefathers of whom
we have a right to be proud One was Frankr
liii, ”the “venerable father of science in the
new world,” simple, with excessive mltivw
tion, philosophic and modest, “he looked with
composure, at least without regret, upon the
net of independence.“
And there was Thomas Jefierson, the thin,
dark, gray eyed
Virginian, s t i l 1
young at 33, a
Democrat of t h e
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 h is
swift,incislve intel-
lect to his country.
H u m an equality
was the theory that
' engrossed h i m .
THOMAS JEFFERSON. Here he ubborl‘cd
the selfishness of caste, and in Europe he saw
only the sorrows and degradation of the
many under the heel of the favored and idle
few. In France, which to some of his eminent
countrymen, even Franklin and John Atlantis,
seemed the land of pleasure, he saw only the
helpless people under the hand of tyranny.
saw the revolution
It was then that he wrote to a friend in
America, “Above all things educate the
people.” He saw clearly that no free institu-
tions 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 he
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 thnt 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 case,
be longed for a republic in which were no
cruel distinctions separating man from main.
But Patrick Henry was there.
And there, too, was John Adams, of Massa-
chusetts, he who in early life had pitted for
an ideal elevation above his follows. 116 had
spent twenty years in Philadelphia, Paris,
London, and the Hague, and was yet uiisatis
ficd. lie was now40 years old, and no.0.
speaker he 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
home a hopeless
maniac, made so
by a blow from a
Tory opponent.
His brilliant mind
clouded, ho scarcely
of which he had . 33/)".
been with Leo and JAMES OTIS.
Samuel Adams, the chief promoter.
But of all of the advocates of independence,
Samuel Adams was. perhaps, the most power-
ful. The most ardent of republicans was be.
He was poor, and know many privations, and
yet conteniiied money. Honors, emoluments,
and even power he never sought. But to the
cause of independence he gave his time and
ubiiity. Long before his contemporaries
spoke of liberty he saw the star of freedom
that; was destined to shine over America.
Robert Treat Paine and Elbridgc Gerry
were there; Francis Lightfoot Ice, Richard
Henry Lee’s younger brother, the gay and
good liiiinored,was there; Benjamin Harrison,
father of a future president, was there, chair-
man of the committee of the whole, which
bus just reported on the Declaration. Tho
mild and philanthropic Carter Braxton
was there in place of the late lamented
Peyton Randolph, the first president of the
continental v-migi'ess, who had died six
or seven months before._ And there, too, was
the noble hearted Thomas Nelson, of Vii-
ginia. 110 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 J uric. 7. And there could be seen the sturdy
front of Roger Sherman, native of Massa-
chusetts, but; then a delegate from Connecti-
cu , “.liut old Puritan, as honest us an angel,
and as firm in the cause of American inde-
pendence its Mount Atlas,” said John Adams.
. - , And who can ever-
look the stalwart
figure of Samuel
Chase, of Mary
land? His gentle
colleague, Charles
Carroll, was ob-
sent, but signed
the declaration, on
, August .‘3. Caesar
Rodney was there,
and Arthur Mid-
dleton, of South
Carolina, and the
eloquent Edward
Rutledge.
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! Seehim in his
chair, the same chair in which Washington
was to sit eleven years later as president of
the convention which fronted the constitution
of the United States. He was not yet 40
years of age, had a princely fortune at stake
mid to 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
JOHN ADAMS.
three days the air will be vibrating with the ~
joyous tones of the old bell in the cupola over
his head proclaiming liberty to all mankind
and with the responding accloniations 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-
trenibling band, proceeds to execute asignn-
turn, which, as Webster said, has made
his name as iinpei'ishable ‘ns if it were
written between Orion and the Pleiades.’
“Under that signature, with only the st-
tostation 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 f r o m
their pulpits. to be
read at the head of
their iii-lilies, to be
incorporated for—
ever into their his- ,
tory. The British 3 U
forces,drivenawuy1 '
from Boston, were
then landing on
Staten Island. ,, _
They were met by PATRICK HENRY.
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 John Hancock, presi-
dent, and Charles Thomson, secretary. Not
until Aug. 2 was the young Boston merchant
relieved from the perilous, the appalling
grandeur of standing sole sponsor for the
revolt of thirteen colonies and 3,000,000 of
people.
“In that congress were many opposing
voices. But; the voice of the outraged people
had not called in vain, and it was as their
representatives that Adams, Jefferson and
Lee founded a republic and snatched Amor-
ica from British tyranny forever."
While the congress deliberated in Philadel-
phia war stalked over thaland. , The 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 England 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 the scalp-
iiig knife of the Indian was the assistant of
the invader. In the Declaration of Independ-
ence Jefferson tells the story of the woes that
the land. “Amidst the clamor of
war, the clash of contending armies, in the
presence of a thousand perils and of a dark
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 indo-
peiidence at the fint'sitting of the congrem
in 1774. But the cruelty of the mad king,
George III, during the intervening time
roused the people even before it aroused their
leaders. Says Eugene Lawrence, writing on.
the theme of independence:
“How often had men sighed foraland in
which honest industry might enjoy its prudent
gains and virtue win a certain tolerance!
How often had the wise and pure of every
~ . agemet togetherto
found a republic
and been deceived!
When Europe was
a» savage wilder-
nem, except for
a thin line of settle-
. meats around the
' .1—"Mediterranean see,
when all England
TandFrance, Ger-
many and Spain
were the haunts of
savage tribes, a
fab“, adventurous,
brilliant race had
. , sprung up on the
show of the Egean, and moditnted from
the acropolis on the 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 Latinrace took up the con-
ception. The pleboians of Rome discussed
beneath their seven bills the rights of man,
the theory of universal suffrage, the equali-
zation of property and the principles of the
public weal. But slavery disappointed all
their hopes. Freeman disappeared. Society
knew but two classes, the enslaving and the
enslaved.
“Emigration cultivated all western Eu-
rope; but the theory of a republic vanished in
a universal tyranny. 'Tho republics of the
middle ages—rude, coarse, severe, yet pro-
gremive—fell into the hands of tyrants. The
reformation came and republics sprang up
with free thought. Yet in the Eighteenth
century every one had perished except Swit-
zerland, and as Samuel and John Adams, Jay
and Lee surveyed the} dim stream of history,
4——
they iingiit “"‘ll ti'cinnlc to find its shores.
strewn chiefly with the wrecks of Il'L‘CtlUlil,
[Ill-l mount-chins and dcspotisms aloiio fiour-
ishiiig where once had stood the dawning
fabrics of human equality.
“More than 100 years of rational progress
have faiiiiliai‘ized thoniind to the iii-lest
strides of liberty. The great foundations of
the republic—coloration. equality," educa-
tion—seem no longer new. But when the
patriots of 1776, iii the midst of the bar-
barous Eighteenth century, proposed them to
the world as the basis ’of legislation, the world
scoffed at themes if they were mad. ft is
quite impossible, indeed, for any one to con-
ceivc without Intense study how for man has
advanced in the lost 100 years; how miserable
was his condition in ollcountrics in 1776. One
can scarcely realize how miserable was the
human race amidst the barbarities of kings
and nobles 100 years ago; what tears were
shed; what horrors endured by thoso'whc
have since become the sovereign people.
The chief trait of the Eighteenth century
was its intense inhumanity. No one crowd
for the sufferings of others, and no one, ex-
cept a few philosophers and afow Americans,
had discovered that the majority of men were
not born to suffer forever. The great seig-
llelll‘S 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 tho helplem Africans. Eu~
ropean cruelty and avarice had forced slavery
upon the fresh fields of America, had planted
among us the su-
preme pest of civ-
ilization, had left .
here the' canker
that had corroded
th 9 freedom of
Greece and Rome,
and had seemed to , ,
make impossible in
the new world any
advance beyond
the iinpassive hu-
manity of the past.
Yet, in the midst
of the cruelty, the BEN-MIDI FRANKLIN-
tyruniiy, 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 rupture when be surveyed the
work he had just accomplished. In a letter
to his wife he said:
“"l‘lie 2d day of July, 1776, will be the
most memorable epochs in the his-
tory of America. I am apt to believe
it will be celebrated by succeeding gen-
erations its the great anniversary festival. It
ought to be commemorated as the day of de-
liverance by solemn acts of devotion to God
Almighty. It ought to ho soleinizcd with
pomp and parade, with shows, games, sport,
ls, IIOIlIll'l'S. illuminations, from one end of
this continent to the other, from this time
forward forever. You will think the trans-
ported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am
well aware of the toil and 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 sto ."
“Of the proceedings of congress upon this
eventful day no record has been preserved.
Not a line of its eltfiglencc is left; to us. “’0
ambetter ucquain with the speeches do-
livered in the Roman senate and the Roman
forum, with the debates of the English par-.
[lament in 1641, with the harangues of French
Jucobins 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 the words of Jeffer-
son, ‘he moved the members from their seats.’
It was the voice of the new world remon?
stratiiig against the 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
premed on toward liberty. the world is nearly
free. The Fourth of July has become the an-
niversary most noted in the annals of man-
kind, the birthday of human freedom, the
epoch of unbounded hope.”
My angel, his name is Freedom,
Choose him to be your king;
He, shall cut pathways east and west,
And ‘fend'you with his wing.
For Freedom‘s battle, once begun,
Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son, -
Though baffled oft, is ever won.
FOURTH OF JULY CHESTNUTS.
Aspiring Oratorio Wlm Began but Novel-
Finished Their Speeches.
The Fourth of July orator is a figure we
could not possibly dispense with. The chest-
nuts with which his name is associated are
part of our patriotic history, and be it is who
keeps the eagle from becoming too arrogant.
Ho mounts it and scars into the blue empyrean,
triumphantly brandishing the triple hued
banner as he goes, and the proud bird of
freedom cannot help himelf. One ancient
chestnut relates how an untried but ambitions
independence orator began a Fourth of July
panegyric thus:
“Fellow citizens: On the Fourth of July,
1776, the American eagle took his first un-‘
fettered flight towards the ideal land of
freedom. He went up and up before the up-
proving gaze of our noble forefathers. But
never has his flight been so high and glorious
as too-day. Behold him, my friends and
fellow patriots! Behold the noble bird who
typifies the principle for which our fathers
fought and died. He goes up, fired with the
pride which has made us a free and prosper-
ous nation. Yes, he goes up, followed by the
acclamations of 00,000,000 of people. Yes,-
my fellow patriots, he goes up, cleaving the
air with proud wings, and glories in his
freedom and his strength. He goes up and
up and up. We watch him till he becomes
a mere speck in the blue of heaven. You
hogoesfurther. He goes up and upand
up, until he fades entirely from our sight.
Yet he is there, my friends and fellow citi-
zens; he is there and still rising. Though we
cannot see him, we know that he is still
going up and up and up. Yes, noble patriots,
heisstill ascending. When we see him no
more with our natural eyes we can still fol-
low him with the eyes of imagination—still
see him rising. Yes, with pride we see him
go up and up and up and up! And still
higher. Yes, he is still going up and up and
up and up”-,— ‘
At thisjnteresting point the gifted orator lost
his bearings. Mopping his brow in agony he
vainly groped through his chaotic brain for
the thread of his oration. At last, still gaz-
ing skyward, he said: “Confound the bird! I
have sent him up so for I can’t get him down
again,” and ingloriously abandoned the field.
Another equally venerable chestnut deals
with a youth who practiced daily as an
orator, with a garden of cabbages in the role
of audience. He got on famously. The cab-
bages all gave him their undivided and up
proving attention. Forensic art was more
play before such appreciative auditors. He
said what be pleased to them and said it well,
because he feared no criticism. He poured
out his patriotic eloquence without beingj'
shaken by a disapproving sneer. His self:
confidence was soon highly developed. He
felt equal to speaking before the selected
brains-of the world. At last the day came on
which he was to deliver to an audience of
men and women the speech so often rehearsed
before the cabbages.‘:§ Holsteppcd forth and
was greeted with rousiii‘ cheers. , They be-
lieved in encouraging tactical talent in
that town. Ileéih'owéd, and’th'ey cheered
again. He openedfihis mouth”,- but no "sound
come forth. His-tonguew Mhed'hke a
clay roiid.after1a-'longdiough . A‘sensation
the like of whi'eh‘he,:hi‘|_rlj; ;_.fel_lt before
took possessidntifzhiih. 'Sol confidence fied,
and abject fearl'took‘ its'plnice. At last he
managed to huskllyxartieulate': “Ladies and
gentlemen, I‘seeyonhto notcobbogo heads,"
and sat down, .aiidlnbuo ,‘hutrtho'c'abboges in
the garden could tell tho‘jworkl’_,whst it had
Elost; in losing that speech, an‘dtboéy, 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
saving: “Ladies and centiemcn- {egg-e3 veins
ago this spot; was an unbroken wilderness.
The Wolf bowled and the bear growled where
we today stand.“
He paused, and his hearers applauded.
Then he went on: .
“Forty years ago not a stick of timber had
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
thee were standing on the broad acres about
us—aiid—and—mnl I wish with all my heart
they were standing there yet.” And thus
began and ended his Fourth of July address;
and here endeth the chapter on the chestnuts
of independence. ‘7‘
‘Columbia. Columbia, to glory arise.
The queen of the world and the child of the
skies."
one“: slut-Luau“ o m NATIONS To Tun
run or Aflm DOODLE.
Here Yankee Doodle leads the van,
With’nfuch of jubilation,
While follows him with rout and cheer
0f 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
'l‘b'e'first to ilnd the answer.
‘l’i-iE ‘ suit-"LL. sews DAY,
helium-ates It with Fire
,a Noise.
And thus the ». muses: ”Why the fire-
cracker? Why, it ,:eed,,-,;tlie; stridulous small
boy, who, with v tilated apparel, one mis-
ponder and u ‘ ;‘ edfeet, accompanies the
firecracker in it! “Orbit, of flame? Why
pop and fizz ion 'tlioj’Fonrth more
than anycothort—j; -Why then more than
any other time, doth the small boy
And How ' Ila
rage and grow ,insolsnt, and touch roll; ,- ;
everything that hath noise in it, from a paper
torpedoto a fish'liorn, and frighten horses" I
find get asleep do; 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 hasthe firecracker to
the Declaration of, Independence? Or what
the horse frightening, howling small boy?
' ' invention that has no
earth! y significati ,_ beyOnd sputter and fizz;
the other has but a faint idea of what the
Declaration ho is iiig to glorify means.
He is, in truth, th - most absolutely depend-
ent creature in not re.
Who started this combination of youth and
saltpcter, 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 he have
taken the small .boy into account when he
said it? Did he dream of the annual nerve
racking tumult lie was preparing for future
generations? Had be 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! 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 1887 celebrating the Fourth of
July I to the terror and peril of his
seniors. The toy pistol was not in
vogue in John Adams’ day, nor had
the fin: cracker ob _:ned afoothold on Amer-
ican soil. Dogs wi 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 boyseizes the Fourth of July as
his own. and custom has handed it overto
him to do as he pleascswith'it. He is so
afraid that somebody else will claim even the
smallest fraction of it that he begins to take
'ou on the evening of the 3d. - He sits
up all nightln order to“usber in the day”
with the loudest racket he can produce.
He brings noises to the front the
moment the midnight hour arrives,
and from that on until midnight comes
again he accompanies himself with fire,
fiame,.concussion and reverberation. Little
he rocks that his wind up is 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 is
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 addiit
the force of them. That day will be when he
has passed onto! small ' yhood into what he
now calls “fogyism,” o erwise 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 hini'will go his former
close appreciation or Fourth of July explo-
sives. Sometimes he will hear himself re-
ferred to as “old Wilkin's”—if Wilkins is his
name—and it will give him a queer and not
at all pleasant sensation. . '
In view of all this We must bear patiently
with the small boy and his extravagantly ex-
plosive patriotism. It will have its end, like
, all earthly thingsflind in its train will come
no end of responsibilities, ambitions, griev-
ances and ventions, and the rheumatism
and mental dyspepsia; and—who knowsi—per-
hsps we will occasionally look on the small
boy and his firecrackers vfltli envy.
The Oratoro of the Day.
The woes of the Fourtharenot all pyrotech-
nic. There will be other explosions—cram
cal catastrophes which, unfortunately, are
more apt to distresstlioso who hear than
those who perpomtctbem. Themost ardent
lover of his country quails as he even distantly
contemplates these rhetorical compounds of
patriotic fervor and freedom. We have a
history, to be sure, and we ought to
revere it, but when it is served up in
the same style and quantities your after
your one long: to say something against
“vain repetition.” The battles of Lexington
and Monmouth and Ssrstoga are vigorously
fought over our sweltering and helpless bod-
ies Benedict Arnoldis caught and roasted.
for the millionth time, and every orator,
metropolitan and provincial, savagely stirs
upthecoals. We are dragged on our per-
spiring way from Bunker Hill tcthe Chest»
peaks, and get frost bitten at Valley Forge
and pocket Cornwallis at Yorktown with
equal indifference and resignation. The
Fourth of July orator makes us earn our
freedom over again every year, and when he
is coupled Witha balloon ascension and the
inevitable fireworks one needs the courage
and endurance of our forefathers to confront
in.
PATRIOTISM.
Preteenselflsbneosputs onnokulso ._
Kore apt than patriotism. to blind our eyes.
Shall Briton, Frenchman, Russ, American
Glory in things that would , a man!
Set year own country foremost; work for her;
Hers tooll privatelnterestsprefer;
But never dream that. violencoond fraud
In her name turn to praise and nobleness;
I'hat lies are bad “home. but goodabrosd;
That honor and fair dealing have a bound
- Mark'd on the map; that any right can prove
Wrongto another, ‘or make right less.
And, after cu'thls, recollect-there‘s love.
“love one another?‘ you. Lord; look around
After all this there‘- love—nay, love comes first,
Else our pretended virtues are tho. worst
Of all the evils whemwith life is cunt.
Queries for Independence Day.
What has been the history of the time since
the signing of the Declaration of Independ-
ence, in regard to the people of America?
Are theyasvirtuous as they were in 1776!
Are they as manly? Are they as intelligent?
Are they as religious? Not only that, have
they loomed anything in the highest of all
arts-tho art of man to live with man? The
art of organizing society, of conducting gov-
ernment, the promotion of the common weal
through broad spaces and through vast mul-
titudesi Whatistho history of the people?
What are we today? What our fathers were
we know. Their life was splendid, their his-
tory was registered. We read what they
were, and form an estimate of them with
gratitude to God; but what are we, their
NORWALK, CONN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1887.
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
the laws, what are the institutions, what is
the government, what are the policies of this
great nation, redeemed from foreign tlirall to
home independence? Are they committed to
puny hands, or is manhood broadened and
strengthened and enn'obledl Look, then, at
our population, what it is, spread abroad
through all the land. lVe have called the
world to be our father and the father of our
children and posterity, and there never was
a time in the history of this nation when the
race stock had in it so much that was worth
the study of the physiologist and philanthro-
pist as now. The augmentation of power, of
breadth of manhood, the promise of the
Children?
rfu‘ture, is past all computation, and there
never was. there never began to be, in the
early day such promise foo-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 are
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 were so wholesome, the condi-
, tions of happiness so universally diffused, as
they are to-day in this great land. It is in the
power of a man to earn more in ten
years of his life todaythnn for our ancestors
in the whole of their life. The heavens are
nearer to us than to them, for we have lenrn- ;
ed the secrets of the storm ”and the sweep of
the lightning. The earth itself 'is but just out-
side our door. We can now call to Asia easier
than they could to Boston 100 years ago. Al.‘
the fleets of the world bring hither tho trib-
utes of the globe.
THE NATIONAL BIRD.
How He Appears at the Beginning and
End of the Fourth.
Knowing that ho is the great figure of
the day, our friend, American Eagle, starts
'/ .....'»-* . '9'
’ out on the morning of the Fourth in tin:
spirits and his best clothes. He has a true
patriot’s hatred of tyranny, and gloricsin iii-
dependciice with the best of them. He always
abhor-red the British, and for good reason.
They used to kill him and stqu' his hide for
museums. Seiiig brave, he did not mind be-
ing killed; but the degradation of having his
royal hide stared at by men in'r eye glasses
and tight laced women was too much for him.
He venci‘ntes the Declaration of Independ-
ence and will go to any amount of trouble
and expense to show his respect for it. With
self satisfaction and dignity he sets forth,
wearing his honors majestically, and pre-
pared to do his part in celebrating the proud-
est day of the your properly.
The following morning finds him fl. changed
and depressed being. With a bandaged eye,
muddled head, one wing in a sling, bcdi'ag-
gled and disheveled feathers, and a bruised
and weary body, he is obliged to call in medi-
cal aid. “Yes; it is always so,” he says to his
old time friend, the doctor. “I love the day;
but it invariably proves too much for me. It
is the craters who undo me. I don’t mind the.
firecracker-'5, 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 the pro-
cessions and numerous other troubles; but; the
craters undo me quite. Think what I have
to bear from them. They ride me till my
backbone is almost broken; and they use
such atrocious rhetoric when talking about
me that it puts me mentally out of joint. I
am yanked from one to the other and banged
about till I haven’t a. feather left unrnmpled.
Of course I have to endure it in the interest
freedom. Being the national bird and the
emblem of freedom I can’t back down. But
you see where it all leaves me."
What's hallowed ground? The what gives birth
To sacred thoughts in souls of worth—
Peace! Independence! Truth! go forth
Earth’s comprms round,
And your high priesthood shall make earth
All hallow‘d ground.
Classic Poetry’in Chicago.
We asked a member of our leading literary
club if he had read the new edition of Sap-
pho’s poems. We had a. good deal of confi-
dence in his literary judgment and taste, be.
cause he is our leading linseed oil dealer, and
no man in the west is possessed of more en-
tel-prise and sand than be.
“My daughter brought home a copy of the
book Saturday,” said he, “and I looked
through it yesterday. Sappho may suit some
cranks, but as for me, give me Charlotta
Perry or Will Carleton. I love good poetry
—I’ve got the finest bound copy of Shake-
in Illinois, and my edition of Coleridge
will knock the socks off any book in the
country. My wife has painted all the Doray
illustrations of the Ancient Marine, and I
wouldn’t swap that book for the costliest
Mysonyay in all Paris! ‘
“I can’t see where the poetry comes in," he
went on to say. “So far as I can make out,
this man Sapolio—I mean Sappho—never did
any sustained or consecutive work. His
poems read to me a good deal like a diary.
Some of them consist of one line only, and
quite a number have only three words.
There is more philanthropy and business in
one reliable recipe for curing hams than in
the longest epic poem ever written.”—-Chi-
cage News.
Progress of Poland.
There has been a remarkable development
in the manufacturing industry of Poland dur-
ing the past few years. According to the re-
port of Mr. Grant, British consul of; Warsaw,
there were in 1884 over 6,500 factories of one
kind or another in the kingdom, employing
105,300 hands, while twelve years before the
number employed was but I70,000. Large for-
tunes are being made by the manufacturers,
who are principally Germans and Polish
Jews. Lodz is the Polish Manchester. The
place has grown from a small place of 20,000
population in 1860 to a great manufacturing
city of 150,000 souls, and containing 165 mills
and factories, employing 80,000 hands. The
mills of Lodz work up every year about 1%,-
000 bales of cotton. Sixty per cent. of the
population are of German nationality, and
about three-fourths of this proportion have
been naturalized as Russian subjects—De-
troit Free Press.
Wild Colts of Poems.
“I do not like to be overestimated," writes
EllaWheeler Wilcox. “I am a voluminous
and forcible writer of verse, I know; but I
am far from being great or first in the land.
What makes my work copied so is that I do
so deeply feel the troubles and pains and
aches and thrills of human beings. I enter
into their lives, and so my work is warm.
“But it is not finished or polished work
which will bear the scrutiny of time. This I
do not care for, as I wish to be helpful now.
It is worth more to me than fame or gold. I
want to deserve my happiness, and I can only
do it by helping others. I cannot stop to
—write one artistic sonnet when six strong wild
colts of poems co'me prancing over the
meadowa of my mind."-—Now York J carnal.
Elopemcnto Naturally Follow.
Just lounge around Main street some fine
day when the shoppers are out in force, and
watch the men on the box. For some reason
or other your man of millions wants a fine
looking man to drive his horses. The coach-
man has the benefit of a gorgeous livery to
make him ulstingue, and he will compare
favorably with his master at least in personal
appearance—Buffalo Sunday News.
The eternal fitness of things is one section
of eternal law. N o matter how little you as
teem yourself. you must smile'wlien you see a
digger of sewers wearing a swallow tail coat;
-8ignor Max in Detroit Free Press.
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this office.
Money to Loan on Real Estate Security
House on Benedict Form for Sale;
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NTHE ISLE OF JAMAICA. ’
AN ENGLISH POSSESSION NEGLEGTED
AND RUINED. '
Deplorablo to See Once Fine 'Estntes
Growing Up in “Busli"—Descrlptlon of
the Times When the Planters Were
Princes—Freedman.
In Jamaica, the “Island of Springs," lying
clam under the lee of Cuba, the American
traveler finds much that is new and interest-
ing. There is a picturesque beauty of mount-
ain, valley and sea everywhere, and it is a
painter’s paradise. But the island is doomed.
Its decay has surely and finally set in. Sugar
raising, the staple product, has ceased to be
profitable. ‘ ,
In passing through the country it is deplor-
able to see the number of estates growing up
into “bush." What a splendid country it
would be under the pressure of American
capital and enterprise! The finest fruits intho
world could be grown, and they could be put
into New York in six days. '
But the people are tired out. It may be
that years of tropical heat have capped and
impaired the energy of the English blood, or
that, crippled in pocket, the leading proprie-
tors are weary of fighting a losing game; at.
any rate, they are in no mood of developin ’
new industries, but are thinking more of
what they can save from the inevitable wreck.
“Master Quashie" is undisturbed by these
social problems. . He possomes his soul in pa-
tience. and smokes his own tobacco in the
shade of his own banana tree; and that is
what he will do to the end of his time. He
has not the intelligence of his American col-
ored brother, and education, in Jamaica, too
often develops him into “an amusin' cuss."
A manager of my acquaintance was pay-
ing money to his laborers. He handed Over
the pay table the day’s wages of a carpenter, _ ,
18 pence (30c). The man refused to take It"
saying his price was 2 shillings (50c) pér day.‘
“No,” sold the manager; “I would rather pay
you 81 a day than 18 pence if you were worth
it; but you are only a _ half inch man and
don't know your bustn' _ess. yet; and I consider
you are well paid at 18 pence."
“I don’t sympathise wid dose remarks, sir,"
says the laborer. _
“I’m sorry you don’t, but they are true,
neverthelm and 18 peace is what you will
get.” . .
“If dam is your sentiments, sir, I begtto rc-
sign.” , . ,
“Very well,” says thomanager gravely, “I
accept your resignation." , The. man goes
down the steps with a proud smile; more than
consoled for his short wages by the fact of
having exhibited his powers of “language"
before his assembled brethren.
I have said that the planters were princes
Their mansions, many of _ which are still left,
bear witno- to the style in which they lived.
They brought over skilled artisans from Eng-
land, nnd the forests were ransacked for
the choicest woods - for interior decoration, of
which splendid specimens can yet be seen.
The proprietor lived in the “great house,”
which was in nearly all cases at. some little
distance from “the works." The overseer or
“busha” lived in the “busha house! Some
of the estrous had their own church and their
own doctor, and were in fact townships
within themselves. It was a cardinal princi-
ple that the inner man must be looked after,
and the “attorney" or steward and the over-
seer had regular consignments of good things
from the old country. One state, which was
owned by a clergyman in England,,hnd not
done very well for the crop, and the proprie-
tor wrote out to say that be much regretted
the fact and should not be able to send the
customarycxtraChi-istm‘ sspresentof coast:
of beer and a barrel of cheeses, In reply the
“attorney" wrote his . usual .busines letter,
and in closing ,montionod_ that the remarks
concerning the withdrawal of the Christmas'
presents were noted, but he , begged to refer
hismaster to certain passage of Scripture
doubtless familiar to him. This was: “Thou
shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth the
corn.” The beer and cheeses came out.
The life at a Jamaica “great house" was
one round of pleasure. A regiment was
always within practicable distance, and gun
Horse racing, bells, shooting, during and
ridingpsrtieomadonvariodsnd interesting
programme. Those, too, were the days of
the bid Madeirawine. To sayshnt it ran
like water is hardly an exaggeration; and a
country that possess such bonus benches as
the culipova fish, the ringtail pigeon, the
black crab and the mountain mullet is
unique as aland of delicacies; No wonder '
then that with sugar at $300 a pen, undo
yearly income 01,8100,000,.w00,000. or 8300,-
000, the Jamaica; planter should live liken
prince among his people.
After the abolition of slavery in the West
Indies, things changed. The negroos in some
parts gave a great deal of trouble. An irasci-
ble old army captain who owned an estate on
the north side became annoyed and disgusted
at the persistent way in which his quondam
slaves would obtrnde in the consciousness of
their freedom, more specially by being as
disobliging as they pomibly could be on all
occasions. Visiting a neighboring attorney,
he happened to mention that he could not
get any poultry to buy, and wondered how
the attorney managed to always have a well
stocked yard.
“I have no dificulty,” was the reply; “if
you wish, I’ll buy some for you.” The next
day two dozen fowls were delivered at the
'captain’s “great house.”
“How on earth were you able to pick up
those fowis so quickly 3” was the first question
that greeted the attorney on their next meet.- '
ing. “Where did you get them?"
“Where did I got them? Why, I.
them out of your own village.” , .
The old captain was consumed with. rage
and vowed vengeance. Soon after he called
all his people together and addressed them
from the steps of the “great house." “Well,
my people, inn few days I am leaving for
England; but before I go I should like to
give a new roof to each house in the village.”
(Chorus from the negroes: “God bressmnssnl”
“Bressed man i” etc.) “Yes," he cried in
louder tones, “I am going to give each man a
new roof, und"-—with a burst that startled
them—“you miserable-hypocrites, that roof
is the canopy of heaveni” And he was true
to his word, for by the next day there was
not a roof left in the village—Cor. New York
Commercial Advertiser.
ught
\ Acquainted with His Employee. .
S. S. Merrill, the manager of the Milwau-
kee road, who died lately, had a. handy trick
of knowing personally all the employee of
his road. He was loath to permit a man to
remain in the service if he was unacquainted
with him. theii he came to make his Cali-
fornia trip, a. short time before his death, he
called his lieutenants around him to give them
fimil instructions. At last he asked them:
“Is there anything more to be looked after?”
"Hub” Atkins saw the opportunity for a joke
on the old man’s weakness and accepted it.
“Well, Mr. Merrill,” he said, “there's a new
brakeinan on the H. and D. division that you
ought to know before you leave."—St. Paul
Pioneer-Press.
'l‘hc universities of Scotland are considering
a general demand for degrees in music
courses.
Asthma, Bronchitis, Consumption.
Fontaine’s Cure relievesa cold in 12 hours.
Sold by drug ists. and I. A. Meeker, 11
Main Street, orwalk. .
The next time an Englishman supercili-
ously declares that this country has no
ruins, just call his attention to our peach
crop.
Lydia E. Pinkham’s “Guide to Health”
is the popular book of the. season. Over
a million copies have been issued. Mailed
free upon application.
“My affection, dear. maid, from you can-
not range,
My heart, like my pocket, can never know
change."
Women with pale, colorless faces, who
feel weak and discouraged, will receive
both mental and bodily vigor by using
Carter’s Iron Pills, which are made for the
blood, nerves and complexion.
It is no wonder President Cleveland is
in favor of reducing the surplus. Look
at the weight and think of the weather.—
Pittsbnrg Chronicle.
Many people wonder why the ham, bu-
con and other products they purchase are
so lacking in flavor and sweetness. It is
because they do not get those manufactur-
ed by Sperry & Barnes, New Haven. Try
them and be convinced.
Old Mother Peter she went to the meter
to see how much gas she had burned ; she
danced a cotillion when she read seven
million. and her mind was _ forever o’er-
tiirned .
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Norwalk Chronicler