C? ft ft & & GLORJOUS v i, FO U RTH.v? !! ITT L K Adelbert fan stairs to the bis J[rsJ front door, I l''l rll And down the walk I to tlu ' Garden fi And there he start- ed to celebrate. With bursting cracker and roaring gun He waked the neighbors, every one; II" seared the cat out of all her sens-. And blew the slats ofT the picket fence, And came to breakfast with one black eye, And said: "Hooray, for the Fourth of July!" He ate with hurry and frantic haste, For never a minute had h? to waste; Then out again to the fray he sprung And turned things loose with a mighty "bang!" Ho fizzed and spluttered and boomed and crashed. While dish, a rattled and windows smashed; Ar.d when, all grimy ar.d sore ar.d lame, Torn and tousled, to lunch he came. On his swollen lips was the joyous cry: "Ain't I glad it's the Fourth of Ju:y!" All that day. till the cIo:-e, cIo:-e, The powder-smoke from th garden rose; All day long, in the heat and du t. I jit tie Adelbert "banged" and "bust," Till, just as the shadowbegan to creep. He blew himself In a senseless heap. Ilurnt aad blistered and mir.us hair. They brought him in for the doctor's care; But, late that night, he was heard to sigh; "1 wish every day was th. Fourth of July!" —Joe Lincoln, in L. A. \V\ Bulletin. f£|l|f ' > -K -• , N lip. I V i ";4 going to be the ■ I No bill loon on the 11/ i \ conn v.on and no SaSz«U 1 tl reworks. They're /rvV I 1 ~i- not even goir.g to /& a J | ring the church bell--because that little old sexton, Sandy MeVie, is too lazy, I suppose." Truman I'lufnrd, generally known among his comrades as True lilue, was excitedly iiiuiouncing 1 liis di> mill news to Hob Tripp and Tenney C< le, in his father's store. "There's no patriotism in Cherrvfield. They've all forgotten how o ir fathers' fought and bled," said Kob Tripp, who liked to read nothing but sto-ics of bat tle. and meant to tight something when he grew up. if it were only Indians. "it will be as still as Sunday, 1 know. What is the Fourth of July, without a racketV" said Tenney Cole, dejectedly. "1 tell yon. boys, something ought to be done!" said True. That was what the boys liked about True. He was always ready to do some thing. Older people were inclined to think he was a little too ready to dr mischief, but the boys were generally ready to follow where True led t he way . "We might ring the church bell," said True. That wasn't much to do. i!ob thought; it sounded rather tame. St ill. it would be full to wake the stupid Cherryfielfl people out ul' the naps which they had no business to be having on Fourth of July morning, and startle the select men, who had decided t hat there should be no ringing* of bells. "How* could we get into the church?" asked Tenney Cole, who was of a prac tical I urn of mind. "I'reak in.of course," replied True, cooily. "You can't expect to have till that fun without—well, without hear ing something about it afterward. W'e could break a window in the porch; and when we once got hold of the rope, wouldn't we make people think the bell was bewitched! They'd blame Sandy* McVie for not being on the watch, too. It would be a good joke oil the old ras cal. He's got us into enough 1 rouble bv telling of us." Trne's fal her was coming from the back part of the store, si the boy.- low ered their voices and walked quietly out nt the door; while behind the coun ter, from the stooping posture in which he had been measuring for himself a gallon of molasses, arose Sandy Me\'i«. lie looked after th • beys, with all the shrewd little wrinkle- in his face draw ing* themselves up int;> hard knots. "A good jo';" on the old rascal, eh'."' h'* mutter -d. "'I here's never any k now i;*-r h"W* a joke mtir turn out, my line fellows! You're fixing a Fourth of July celebration foi yourselves that'll be more than you bargained for. if I'm not i istaken." J lie boys went on, all unconscious that f-; iidy McVie had been a listener to Ihe conversation that was certainly not inter,dc:! for his ears. "11 would be a good thing if we could get into the church without breaking a window." said Tenn >y Cole. "There's little hose >,.e\ it* now. l.et's ask her where her father keeps the key." "Hanging on a nail in the closet, un der his coat." replied the little girl, on b* ing questioned. "Couldn't you get it fonts, l.'osy , and not let anybody know it. if we gave voil the greatest lot of cat.uly ym ever saw. and a hunch of torpedoes for to-mor row?" Ilosy* was a very* small person, with a very* large appetite for candy, to >;iy nothing of a strong desire to celebrate with the proper amount of noise the anniversary* <>l her countrv's independ ence. Her eyes grew big ami nund at the alluring prospect, and she nod fled emphatically her <• illingness to un dertake the errand. So it was settled rhat she should tiring them the key • hat night, after her .father had hung •11(1 his ev,ict the closet, so ther ■ would be no danger that he would go there again and discover tl»* absence of the key. That afternoon Sandy McVie and his son, a stout lad of 18. paid a visit to the church. Archie, the son, came out, looking very* warm and tired. "Better have let them do it, and then make them smart for it, than to take all that trouble," he grumbled. "Or just give their fathers a hint of what they are up to." "Since they are so fond of jokes, I'm willing they should have a bit of a one," said the sexton, rubbing his hands, gleefully. "They'll catch it fast enough for breaking the church window." Rosy* McVie stole out of the house that night after dark and delivered Un church key into True's hands, receiv ing in return an amount of candy and torpedoes that had cost a large share of the boys' Fourth of July savings. Hut they were all satisfied that it was money well spent, for they had learned from sad experience that the results of breaking windows were never amus ing. It was about half-past four o'clock on the morning of the Fourth when the three boys unlocked the church door. It was very quiet for a Fourth of July morning. Now and then came the hanging of a gun. the feeble popping of firecrackers and torpedoes, and the dismal shriek of a fish horn; but there were very few people astir. "This stupid old town wili get a wak ing up in a minute now. And people ought to thank us. It's a burning shame to have it so still. You may be sure they're making things lively over at Borrowsville by ihis time." Borrowsvill" was a town on the other side of the river, where the boys meant to assist in the celebration after they had waked up Cherryfield. "They won't thank us. you know," said Tenney Cole. "Boys never are ap preciated." "1 don't expect it will be just ex actly thanks that we shall get." said True, drily, as he turned the key in the lock behind them. "Anybody that's afraid had belter back out now." Nobody backed out. Si\hands seized the bell rope. There was "a long pull, a strong pull and a pull all together." -mtHflgnuM.... i 4^' SANDY M'VIE HAD-BEEN A LISTENER. Tint no .soTuid followed. They looked at each otlier in silent amazement and tried it again. They could feel that the bell swayed backward and forward; but it ilid not ring'. What could be the reason V "Somebody must have muffled it!" ex claimed Hob. "We'll go up and see what's the mat ter, anyway," said True. A long, long flight of steep and nar row stairs lecl to the first landing in the church steeple. Beyond that was a ladder leading - to the bell loft. There was a trap door which they pushed open, and all scrambled up to the loft. "If here isn't a go! The tongue is gone from the bell!" cried True. "Now who do you suppose did that'.'" "Rosy must have told on us. 1 just wish we hadn't given her all that can dy," lamented Tenncy. The great bell hung - there empty, powerless to arouse any Fourth of July enthusiasm, and looking as sad as if it realized its dumbness. "1 should just like to catch the fellow that did that." said Rob, flourishing his list at ait imaginary foe. as he did so. tin fort unately striking the trap doo: - with his elbow, and eau-ing it to fall with a loft, now that the trap door was closed, the only light coming from a little round window, like a porthole in a ves sel. far above their heads. "I.ift up the door. Rob. We may as well go down. Whoever took that tongue out wouldn't leave it where we could find it, you way be sure," said True. But when Rol> tried to lift the door, lo and behold! it stuck fast. The iron ring which had once served as a handle w;:s broken off", and there was no way by which they could get a sulliehmtly firm hold t«> pull with any considerable amount of strength. They tried to pry it open with their knives, but only suc ceeded in breaking them. And time was wearing away, and the Borrows-, ville celebration nn:st be getting to ward iis liveliest. "It's of no use to holler. Nobody could hear us." said Tenncy, despair ingly. "It's a pretty phiee to spend the Foiwlh in!" said Rob, with a grcfin. "Mow Ion;; - do you suppose it will be be fore they miss u* a* home and come to look for us?" "Why. they'd never think of coTrr'nsr CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1899. here to look," replied True. "And my mother said I might stay all night with my cousins over at Borrowsviile. She won't expect me home till to-morrow, and your folks will think you ve stayed with me. Anyway, they would never think we were up in the church steeple." "But when she knows we're lost, Tlosy MeYie will tell, if she hasn't al ready," said Tenney. "She won't. She's too much afraid of her father to tell that she gave us the key," averred True. "But he'll find out that the key is gone, and then he'll suspect that wcare here," said Tenney, who was deter mined to look on the bright side. "Next Sunday, maybe! We shall be starved to death before then!" said Hob, who was not proving himself as brave as his desire for lighting had led his comrades to suppose. "Somebody must have got wind of what we meant to do, or the tongue wouldn't have been taken out of the bell," said Tenney; "and 110 one could be mean enough to keep us here for long on the Fourth of July." "Sandy McYie is mean enough for anything," declared Hob: "and perhaps they have only taken the tongue out to repair it, or something of that kind." Sandy MeYie meanwhile arose at five o'clock and took a walk around the church. There was no broken window. "So they gave it up, the young rascals, and have probably gone over 1o Bor rowsviile to do their celebrating," said the sexton to himself, and felt a disap pointment that lie should be denied the grim satisfaction of bringing the young rascals to justice. "Well, Cherrylield will be the quieter for their being out of it to-day," he added, to console him self. If not exactly out of Cherryfield, they were certainly too far above it to inter fere with its quiet. A faint echo of dis tant Fourth of July noises came tanta | lizingly tot heir ears now and then. The I minutes dragged ah®g heavily. They had 110 means of telling time, and an I hour seemed like a day: but night final ly came, the dimness deepened to utter darkness, and. stretched upon the floor. 1 they all fell asleep. Being boys, they I could sleep, although the floor was hard anil keen gnawiiigsiWiiindecl lliem that tliey had gone breakfflKtU'ss, din nerless and supper less. When True awakened, a little shaft of sunlight .shone through the small window, away up in the dimness of the steeple. It daneed upon the cobwebs that covered the dust,v beams until they looked as if made of gold thread. A great, long-legged spider was dragging a hapless fly into his web. The spider's web had been partially torn away, and the dust had been brushed from tie beams in the corner near it. There was a little scaffold in the corner covered with shavings and chips, evidently left there when the last repairing was done. But somebody had been up in that cor ner lately. How otherwise could Iho dust have been brushed away and the spider's web broken - .' True wondered idly what anybody could have been there for.and then a sudden thought struck him that sent the blood rushing to his head, and malic him for a moment feel faint and dizzy. Ir. another mo ment he was climbing up those beams nimbly as only a squirrel or a boy could climb. He put his hand under Ihe heap of shavings and chips, and it touched something very hard and cold. He dashed off the ''hips and shavings with which it was covered, ami disclosed I the bell tongue. i rue wanted to shout for joy, but he knew that lie needed all his strength just now, and restrained himself. He c»*'d not have lifted the bell tongue, even if he had not been obliged to cling to a beam with one hand, but he could draw it along to the edge of the scaf folding. and then with one mighty ef ! tort, he pushed it off. it came to the floor with a crash that S'»e: led as if it might arouse ail CV-rryHeld, and cer tainly did effectually aron.-e the two sleeping boys, who sprang? to their feet. ]illn.l it, for who world i have thought that anybody would car ry it awn;, up there to hide it ? i It was no small undertaking tore- O.'i f-e the tongue in the bell, but, after much lifting and *»vuggling, it wan done, however. Then they all pulled with a will, and a clang that almost deafened them came from the bell. Sleeping Cherryfield was aroused in very few minutes, and asked, in amaze •nent, what was the matter. The new fire engine was taken out with a rush and clamor, lint where was the fire? People ran wildly about and nobody seined to know. The most mystified man was old Sandy McYie, who ran out of the house in a maze of bewilderment, and declared that the bell was be witched. How else could it ring with out a tongue? Anil how could any hu man being get into the church when the door was securely locked, and no win dow broken, as anybody could see? And still the bell rang wildly and clamorously, as such a sober-minded old church bell was never known to ring before. The spirit of half a dozen Fourths of July seem to possess it. People on the outskirts of the town began to think that the selectmen had repented of not celebrating the Fourth, and were making amends by celebrat ing the sth. and they came hurriedly driving into the village to see what was the matter. At length somebody more courageous than Sandy McYie insisted upon going into the church to investigate, and Sandy went to get the key. The dis covery that it was gone put a new face upon the matti r, and Sandy's sus picions reverted to the boys whose plans he had overheard, and he volun teered to b: • ak o] 'ii a window and lead the eeareli. Rosy McYir at that time was pulling the bedclothes over her head, and won dering what woeld become oi* her, and resolving r. r : ge.in to touch a key or anything els • that she had no right to, for all the candy in the world. Candy v. is good, but, 011, how bad was the terror she was suffering now! And Rosy is not likely to forget her resolve, although she w > never found out. The boys agreed that they would "never be so mean as t > tell on a girl, anyway." anil they were always supposed to have stolen the key from Sandy McVie's closet theniselves. When they heard the footsteps of their rescuers the boys ceased to ring the bell. It was easy enough to open the traj/'.loor from beneath. While the boys wore wondering anxiously wheth er it ever could be opened, Sandy .Mc- Vie's head popped up out of it like a Jack-in-the-box. Hob's father came next, and Hob —who meant to light In dians- threw his arms around his neck and —cried. Rob's father had suffered sorm- anxiety about him. but thought he had stayed at Borrowsviile with True. Fvcrybody agreed that the boys had been sufficiently punished by their im prisonment ami the loss of their Fourth of July fun. Fven Sandy McYie said "he guessed they wouldn I be apt to do it again." Hut he may have been somewhat softened by the compliments which True paid him on his skill in hiding the bell tongue. The boys didn't care to say much about their adventure. They felt as if the trick they had tried to play had been turned upon themselves. When True's Borrowsviile cousins asked him what kind of a Fourth he had had, he replied, carelessly: "Oh. a sky-high one!" Which was certainly truer than the cousins, who had their own opinion of Cherryfield celebrations, believed. But lliose three boys will never ring another church bell without leave. • Sophie Swett. in Golden Days. Independence Day. Fling out the flag, the starry flag. The banner of the free! • The symbol of the land we love. The land of liberty! Our fathers with their willing blood Baptized that banner gay. So lot it stream, its stars agleam, On Indcpcnd aci- day! From brave NVvV Rowland's rugged shors Washed by Atlantic's waves. To western lands whose pebbly strands The fair Pacific laves— From Minnesota's swamps and swales To southern hummocks gay. Fling out afar thi Gripes and stars On Independence day! Fling out the flag, the dear old flag, Th.- flag our grandsires won! The emblem of the land we love, The land o;' Washington! The blood of heroes thrills our hearts Ar.d bids us haste awav. To r'jr.secrite with flctirif state Our Independence day! Helen W. Clark, in N Y. ledger. Wiiy lie Is Happy. if \ !jjjl fL/zr 1 ' v , " Why does the kid look prouti and smile. As to tho voodfh «i !•..» retire*? B c-au.-e since < ar.y (.lawn he'a been K sponsible !'oi* eighteen lires. —Uoldtn Day.-!. ••Tht* \i>;iil lU'fori' Uie 3'ourlh." lie slei p! -ss 'i ; with .-v.* a ring: tongue JJecai:.-: 1h• o\ 1 c hurch be.l is run# liy mjine iTii.seliievotiiJ elf. Nor thinks h.* of that olden time Wh jus: as mi lr.ight'.s stroke would < ain • , Adown the lightning-rod he'd climb To rir«4; 11.at t.i himself. —L. A. \V. . JuiU tin. Taking 51U ih-vcii^i., Itall mi;. \.i WH'/. it til* Clioiiuse tliot inviiitu] 1' .i.- crnckers? Wuri (pr'Uitllv) Lt.>sir! ll.itTrrt v ( .raiting- -Thin lake thot, y< r brut ! Oi sot fiown (.:i a iiiriili'tl bunch :iv thnn vis tirrriay. lioaicn Darw. OUR FINANCES. TreiiMtary lit*lit*it for tlie Vonr Will He l*vsn Tilnn * HMMMMMMMI—Some 111 terent iiiK FlKureM. Washington, June 22.- It is regarded as a conservative estimate that the treasury deficit for the fiscal year 1899, which closes ten days hence, will be less than $100,000,0011. Already the re ceipts for the year aggregate over $498,- 800,000, with the expenditures barely $100,000,000 more, with ten days, judg iiiy from past years, of heavy receipts yet to he accounted for. Ip to this date the customs receipts amount to over $-00,400,000; from internal revenue $20:1,550,000 was realized, and from mis cellaneous sources there was received 500,000. The total receipts from all sources last year amounted to $405,- 1 ,:::;5. while the expenditures aggre gated $44:W«5,582. leaving a deficit of $:!8,047.247. From the closest calcula tion that can now l.e made, the war revenue act, which, with the exception of a few items, went i#to effect J illy 1, IS9B, will realize for the year a little less than $100,000,000. The two items which have produced more than ten times as much revenue as any two others are those applying to docu mentary and proprietary stamps. On \|>ri 130 last, 1 liese items had produced over $110,500.1.00, and it is not improbable that by.l illy I t he total will exceed $44,- 000,000. The tax on legacies will proba bly produce not much in excess of sl,- 000,000, while the special tax collected from bankers will exceed $.'1,500,000. The expenditures up to this time ag gregate about $ii()0,000,000. Of this amount $228,000,000 was paid out on requisitions from the war department, $04,000,000 on account of the navy; $i::9,000,00t) Oil account of pensions and nearly $40,000,000 on account of interest on the public debt; $12,075,000 was paid to the Indians and $117,290,000 was dis bursed on civil and miscellaneous ac count. At this time it is impossible to state with any degree of certainty what the war with Spain and the troubles in the Philippines have cost, during this year, but an approximation has been made of the actual cash payments on these ac counts, which places the amount at $230,000,000. A calculation has been fhade at the treasury which shows that leaving out of the reckoning the $230,- 000,000 expended this year on account of the war; the $100,000,000 produced by the war revenue act, and Ihe sll,- 798,.'.14 received from the Central Pa cific, the figures would show a surplus for the year approximating $20,000,000. QUIET IN SAMOA. Mntnafu lavi'N l'|i II In A rnis—Mnlleton Abdicates nsid Provisional Gov ernment Is Formed. Apia, Kanioau Islands, June 14, via Auckland, N. June 22.—Mataal'a has surrendered 1,850 rifles and the loyal ists have given up 2,000. After.l une 20 a heavy penalty will be enforced upon natives found with rifles in their pos session. Mataal'a promises to turn in more weapons. The natives have re turned to their homes. Malietoa Tanu was recognized as king by the commis sioners of the three powers, and the de cision of Chief Justice Chambers in the matter of the kingship was porclaimed valid and binding. Malietoa Tanu then abdicated in favor of the commission ers, who appointed a provisional gov ernment consisting of the consuls of the three powers, empowering a ma jority to act in all eases where unanim ity is not required by the Berlin treaty. Chief Justice Chambers continues to hold office, and the various municipal official.* Ore continued. Dr. Wilhelm Solf has lx'pfi authorized to act as pres ident of the municipality of Apia. The commissioners expect to leave on June 28, but they have ref]nested Chief Jus tice Chambers to remain. Their reports recommend the abolition of the king ship and the presidency of Apia and the appointment of ft governor, with a legislative council consisting of three nominees of the interested powers, as sisted by a native house. A VOTE OF CENSURE. Minister W'l.o llnrrlcii I'erry lletnioni anil Hps. Sloan Punished liy Ills Fellows. New Haven, Conn., June 22. 12ev. W. M. Marrows, the minister who recently married Perry Helmont and Airs, llenry I). Sloan at Greenwich, was on Wednesday severely censured by the general association of Congregational ministers of Connecticut, of which he is a member. Dr. Harrows was present and personally apologized to the min isters, saying that he had been imposed upon by ii/*. Uehnont and Mrs. Sloan, but in spite of this resolutions were passed censuring him and forbidding any Congregational minister of the as sociation to marry any divorced person who lias been shown guilty by the de cree. lly passing the resolution the clergymen present bound themselves take a firm stand on the divorce question and use all their power to bring about uniform divorce laws. The resolution also makes it impossible for them to remarry guilty parties in a di vorce and parties who were forbidden to remarry by the laws of any state and the rules of other Christian el. arches. Dentil of II .Inrlst. Topeka, Kan., June 22.- C. G. Foster, former federal judge of the district of Kansas, died Wednesday evening at nix o'clock. Judge Foster was appointed .judge oft he Cniteil States district court by President Grant ill 1874 and served until March of this year, when he was retired and sueceedi'il by W. C. Hook. Judge Poster was born at Webster, N. Y-. in May. Is::7. Last January a bill passed tin: general congress retiring- Judge Foster on full pay. Judge Fos ter died worth about $200,00u. consist ing mostly of valuable real e - [ate hold burs in Topeka. FOIiCE IS TOO SMALL. Otis Needs More Troops in Order to Subdue Filipinos. A Hh'inlxT of Hl* StnfT DIM* Inr«*» the Situation Is $«• rion*—l. nmor TIIIII Milt-* l« to lie Sent to tl»€* I'laii* ijipinen IN I)eni«»e at a disadvantage, because the volunteers who are returning home are inured to the climate. This will make more, men necessary than we would otherwise have to putin the field. As a matter of be lief, the Filipinos think they have the Americans licked already. "One solution of the situation might be to enlist colored men from the gulf states, ar.d this might settle some of the race questions of that section. These men would bo bet ter able to stand the climate conditions around Manila, and it has been proven that they are good lighters. "1 want to say a word for the western VOl'Tteers, Tl'cj' make the finest soldiers In the world, and their fighting qualities are wonderful. But the volunteers all want to return home, and 1 hardly think that the plan to enlist three skeleton regiments from the volunteers now in the Philippines will be a success. The me" enlisted to fight, for their country, and the/ ai« not th% kind of men who wan*, to stay and tight an insurrection for money or the fun of light ing." Mile* Not to IH- Sent. Washington,.l une 22. —There is abso lutely no truth in the report that (ien. Miles lias made application for or seeks assignment to the command of the army in the Philippines. Capt. Francis aid decamp to (ien. Miles, said that (ien. Miles had not sought the command and that no intimation had passed through the office of the com manding general that lie would be des ignated to succeed or supersede (ien. Otis. (ien. Otis has given entire satis faction to the president and the secre tary of war. 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