y" ' tm~~p he Liberty Boys are 6 II up and out; i ift (_) They're here with a song and then with a shout; They're here In a flash and therein a flame. And they fleer and jeer at King George * name. The Tories may bluster and fluster and fret, Itut the Liberty Boys will beat them yet; ft.nd the chief of the Boys Is Robert Sallette. Robert Sallette—his limbs ar« long. Hud his good right arm is uncommonly strong. fle rides like a centaur, he swims like a fish; And the Liberty Hoys will rise at his wish; And the Tories have never a chance to forget The name and the fame of Robert Sallette. There's a gentleman Tory, rich and old; He has bought up acres and hoarded up gold. He sits in his house never making a noise, For fear of a visit from the Liberty Boys. And he says aloud: "A priee 1 will set Or. the head of this traitor, Robert Sallette. "Oh, Governor Wright is mild and kind. And Justice and mercy are much to hit mind; But a harsher voice than his should be heard To uphold the cause of King George the Third, And to silence this horrible noise that comes Prom Boston wa> 4 of fifes ar.d drums. 3ne hundred guineas the man shall get Who will bring me the head of Robert Sal lette!" The Tory sits in his old oak chair, With arms and blazonry carven fair; lie sits and quakes, and his vtry heart aches, And not even the ghost of a noise he makes; For news came last night that the Boys would ride; And he hears the tramp of a horse outside, A jingling stirrup, a ringing tread; And the soul within him sits cold with dread. There falls on the door a thunderous knock. And it jars iiis ear like a cannon's shock. And Into the room there strides, before The trembling darky can close the door, A stalwart man with a ponderous sack, A sword at his side and a gun at his back. He drops the sack with a heavy thump, Ai:d it strikes the floor like a leaden lump, And he says, with a look sosterr. and bright It seems to pierce like a sword of light: "A hundred guineas I come to get, For I bring you the head of Robert Sal lette!" The Tory starts, and his heart grows sick. And his eyes grow dim, and his breath comes quick, As he stares at the thing that bulges round At the end. of the sack that lies on the ground. "Show me the head, ere you speak so bold!" "Nay!" quoth the stranger. "First, the gold! I have ridden too fast and ridden ton far. And have seen too much of your Liberty War, To run a risk at the very ei d. So out with your money, my loyal friend, And then. 1 promise you, you shall get A sight of the head of Robert Sallette!" The gold rings out on, the. table there; It lies in a heap both broad and fair, A glittering pyramid rich and rare. Outshining Egypt's, beyond compare. The stranger laughs at the splendid sight, But again his look is stem and bright. "A bargain's a bargain, friend," he said. "You pay right well for a homely head! For"—he swung his hat from his forehead clear— "The head of Robert Sallette is—here!" There's a man who rides, and sings as he rides And shakes in his saddle, and claps his sides. For glee at hearing the guineas rhink In his pockets so merrily—tink! tir.k! tink! He laughs "Ha! ha!" and he laughs "Ho! ho!" And he's oft to the forest like shaft from bow. "My fine old friend, 't will be some time yet Ere I part with the head of Robert Sal lette!" There's a Tory gentleman, rich and old, Who sits and quakes with an icy cold, His teeth they chatter with fear and rage, Ar.d he says some things unbecoming his age. As he glares at the ground, and at some thing round That rolls from a sack with a thumping sound. He grumbles and groans, and he savagely tears In a painful way at his grizzled hairsS And he cries: "Oh the murderous, traitor ous bumpkin! Instead of his head, he's left me a pump kin!" —Laura E. Richards, in St. Nicholas. CELEBRATION. —)►( V\o.v N ooo.v X— £fj!l ioriSY MAY is to 12 1 i i| I {l j sing a solo at the celebration," Mrs. Hatfield was, explaining to a visitor. "And 1 don't know but she'll be too fine to speak to her own folks when she's rigged out in all her new things. Still, 1 don't begrudge her the things. She's worked real faithful pickin'strawber ries and doing all sorts of chores to pay for what she's to have. She's a good girl, Louisy is." "But has she ever sung in public be fore ?" "She's never sung a solo all by her self except at one or two little Sunday' school concerts. I don't know how it will be when she finds herself on the platform facing the big Fourth of July crowd." "Oh, she'll get through it all right. I have heard that she sings beautifully." "Well, I don't know but she does sing about as well as you could expect a girl of only 15 to sing. It's kind of curious; I can't sing no more than a blue jay, and when her pa tries it the hens scatter in terror. She gets it from her Grandfather Hatfield over in Ware. He'll be 7!» come the 10th of «<*xt month, and he'll sit down to a little organ he's got and sing away by the hour. He's coming Hp a r over 112 rom Ware to hear Louisy May sing. He's goin' to leave her his organ in his will." "A piano would be better for her." "Yes, Louisy May's wild to have a Pi itno, but we can never get her one with five younger children to rear and •chool. Her Grandpa Hatfield iuebb« could pet one: but I don't know tliat he's able to, although he always has been, close-mouthed about his money affairs. Yoi'Ubeat the celebration?" "Oh, yes; we are all going. And I expect to hear Louisy May beat 'em all." There the conversation ended, be cause a red-haired girl came hurried ly into the sitting- room. She blushed furiously as she heard her nante. On the morning of the Fourth of July Louisa May was very happy as she stood before the small mirror in her bedroom and gave the last touches to her toilet. Iter challis had made up very prettily, and her mother had de lighted her by an unexpected gift of a pretty pink ribbon aash. She had never before had such a beautiful hat, and there was but one thing to detract from her satisfaction with herappear ance. "If only T didn't have such a mop of red hair!" she said to the mirror. "If it was mouse-colored, like Amanda Dane's, or regular brindle. like Lucy Trent's, Is uldn't care. liut red! It isn't as red i. it used to be, though, and I shall weal ny hat while I sing that will hide it a good deal." There had been few holidays in Louisa M ay's life, and never one so full of promise of pleasure as this. She had been to the village the day before to rehearse her song with Miss Hope, who was to play the accom paniment on the organ, and Miss Hope had said that Louisa sang beautifully. lIKR GRANDFATHER HELD THE FLAG. She had a very clear and strong voice, and she said to her mother as they drove toward the prove: "1 don't feel a bit nervous or afraid now." She did, however, feel a little nerv ous when her turn to sing came, and she found herself on the platform be fore the audience that filled every part of th« grove. The chairman of the day stepped forward and said: "We will now listen to a solo, 'The Star-Spangled Banner,' by Miss Louisa May Hatfield." At this some of the grand army men set up a shout, and Louisa May walked to the front of the platform with the large silk flag she was to hold while she sang. The uyplause died away, and the or ganist had just begun to play the pre lude. when a boy shouted shrilly: "Red head! Ked head! lletter look out or the fireworks will catch!" Louisa May's pink cheeks grew pal lid. She opened her lips, but no sound came from them. She was trembling from head to foot. The flag fell from her hand down over the edge of the platform. Then in an agony of embar rassment she put both hands over her face and began to cry. The boy who had called out "Ued head" suddenly felt a hand grip the back of his collar, and he was jerked from his seat by an irate little old man. "I'll let ye know how ye call my gran'daugbter 'red head,' ye little sass box! You take that!" and he smartly boxed the howling boy's ears. Then he hurried toward the platform and up the steps. A queer-looking little old man he was. with long white hair and beard. He had on a stiffly starched linen "duster" and bright blue jean trousers. Hurrying to Louisa May's side, he put liis arm around her waist and said, soothingly: "There, there, Louisy May! Don't you mind that, impudent little sass box! You sing your song now. Come, grandpa will start ye off on it!" The old man picked up the flag which she had let fall to the platform, and holding its staff in one hand while his other arm was round Louisa May's waist, he began to sing in a thin, wav ering, but not unmusical voice: "Oh say, can you see, by the dawn's parly light. What so proudly we hailed at the twi light's last gleaming— Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the pprfVous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming!" He stopped at the end of these lines and said gently to Louisa May: "Come, now, honey, you sing, too." She had taken her hands from her face, and as she looked into the sym pathetic faces of the people before her, she felt her courage rise. When the old man began to sing the next lines Louisa May's voice, clear and steady and sweet, rose high above his own: "And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting In air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh! say. does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?" Something of the lofty spirit of gruutl uld Kong suddenly tilled CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1902. Louisa Mays heart, and made her forget her wounded feelings. Her grandfather lieid the flag so that its folds were: falling about ber, and her eyes- were shining and her face was smiling as she the second stanza in a voice without the least quaver. The old man did not sing now. He stood, beside her with one arm still around her, and nodded time with his snowy head and gently waved the flag above the ginger. When Louisa May's voice died away after the last lines, the applause was deafening. While it was still at its height, her grandfather stepped to the edge of the platform, holding the flag aloft. When he could be heard he called out shrilly: "Everybody join rne in singing the last two lines! Come, now, everybody sing!" "And the star-spangled banner In triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave." The woods and the hills rang with the melody; they rang again with the shouts of the people when the lines had been sung not only once, but three times. The governor himself congratulated Louisa May. and handing her the beau t if til little silk flag he had been holding in his hand lie said: "Let me give you this to remember me by." Louisa May thought that she could never be any happier than she was during 1 the rest of that day. but she felt much the same way three days later when, on coming home from the straw berry patch, she found Grandpa Hat field. waiting for her in the hull. He flung open the parlor door behind him as he kissed her, antl Louisa saw in a, corner of the room a beautiful shin ing new piano. "Why, grandpa!" she exclaimed.and flung her arms around his neck, half laughing and half-crying. Hit. dim eyes had a strange light in them, and his voice was not very steady as he said; "I tell ye, Louisy, I don't know when T have heard anything that took such hold of me as the way you sung that grand old 'Star -Spangled Banner.' I want it Ao be the first, song you sing on your new piano. I'll play it and we'll sing it together." A few moments later a passer-by reined up his horse in front of the house to listen to the fresh young voice and the old and quavering one singing to gether: "Ar.d the star-spangled banner in triumph shall ware O'er the lar.d of the free and the home of ths brave." —Youth's Companion. FATHER. As he appears after directing the fireworks in the front yard on the night of the Fourth.—Chicago Kec ord-Herald. 'l'lic Fourth in Iloaton. Visitor—"How tlo you expect to cel ebrate the Fourth this year?" Little Waldo Wendal—"Oh, beauti fully! lam now engaged in my lab oratory preparing a number of lid dyte explosives and some nitro glycerine shells with which to com memorate the glorious occasion of our national independence!"— Judge. Kvidrnoo of It. "Did your little friend have a good time on the Fourth?" asked the kind ly neighbor. "Did he?" repeated the boy. "Well, you just bet lie did! Why, you ought to see the way he is bandaged tip to day."—Chicago Kvening Post. An I'naelflali liny. "Tommy," said Mrs. (Jlim, "yon should not shoot your firecrackers in the house." "Hut 1 want you to enjoy them too, mamma," replied the thoughtful boy. —Harlem Life. SCRAPER FOR STABLES. For ClranlnK I'p Floor* nnil Other Work of IIIP Kind Thin Device Is Very Convenient. A convenient device for use about the stable for cleaning up the floors, etc., is shown in the illustration. Pro cure a thin, still piece of iron about 14 inches long and 5 or G inches wide, and cut it with a cold chi&el SCRAPER FOR STABLE USE. into the shape shown, or leave it rectangular. Rivet the handle socket of an old garden hoe to the blade, and putin it handle of the desired length. A scraper of this kind in much better than one made of wood, and it will be found useful outside the stable for such work as clean ing the barn floor, the poultry house, or for use in the grain bins. If .1 handle clip from a hoe is not at hand, Ihe device shown by "1>" may be available of to attach the handle to scraper. This is made by taking a piece of strap iron, bending double, welding part way up and spreading apart the unwelded wings, which are bent so as to fit on the squared end of the handle. .Small holes are drilled in the clip of Ihe rivets or bolts with which it is secured to the scraper blade and handle.—J. G. Allshouse, in Ohio Farmer. EXERCISE FOR HORSES. An Important Element in tlir I"»evel oi>mcut of the IllulicMt Power* of all Animal. In writing about the care of horses an eminent English army officer has tiie following to say: "Regularity of exercise is an important element in the development of the highest powers of the horse. The horse in regular work will suffer less in his legs than another, for he becomes gradually and thor oughly accustomed to what it required of him. The whole living machine ac commodates itself to the regular de mands on it, the body becomes active and well conditioned without super fluous fat, and the muscles and tendons gradually develop. Horses in regular work are also nearly exempt front the many accidents which arise from over freshness. As a proof of the value of regular exercise, weneed'only refer to the stage coach horse of former days. Many of these animals, though by no means of the best physical frame, would trot with a heavy load behind them for eight hours at the rate of ten miles an hour without turning a hair, and this work they would con tinue to do for years without even be ing sick or sorry. Few gentlemen can say as much for their carriage horses. No horses, in fact., were in hardier con dition. On the other hand, if exercise be neglected, even for a few days, in a horse in high condition, he will put on fat. He has been taking daily the large amount of material needed to sustain the consumption caused by his work. If that work cease suddenly, nature will, notwithstanding, continue to supply the new material; and fat, followed by plethora, and frequently by disease, will be the speedy conse quence." BUYING HOGS CHEAP. Many OlheriTlNp Sensible Farmer* Allow Low Price* tn Dictate Important Purchase*. Xo swine breeder can afford to buy animals just because they are cheap. It not infrequently happens that the cheapest animals prove to be the most, expensive in the end, whether that end be in the way of breeding or of butch ering. If an animal is cheap it is be cause it is not worth much, except in rare cases when a good animal has to be disposed of under the conditions of a forced sale. The man that buys a cheap boar finds that he has to sell the progeny of that boar at a correspond ingly low price. The man that buys a cheap sow frequently finds that she is cheap because she bears few pigs and they of poor quality. By the time he has disposed of the pigs and figured up his accounts he finds that the cheap sow was really a very expensive sow, for into her went not only the pur chase money but a great deal of labor and feed. No progressive man will al low the price to dictate his purchases. Quality is what he must have, and it is what be is after. The man that really buys cheap is the man that pays a good price for a good animal and gets a good profit out of it. It. is very seldom that a good profit comes out of a poor price and a poor animal.—Farm ers' Review. To Sornre Hrooily >l<»n«. We often hear people complain of the scarcity of setting hens. When we are short of sctt?rs, we place four or five extra eggs in several nests, and in a few days usually find them covered with brootir,' hens. If one is short of nest eggs, he can use a few eggs that are under si/e or off in shape, and worthless, for hatching purposes, making them, so the fresh laid eggs may be readily distin guished from them and gathered as usual. We find this a very simple and effective method to induce th® hens to become broody early in the season.--Milton A. 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