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. Brown, in Poultry
Keeper,
A Hard One,
The eminent Boston professor who de
clares that there can he 110 more languages
invented has probably not heard of the
Georgetown man with a hare lip who is
teaching a parrot to talk.—Washington
Post.
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I®do not believe Ijiso's Cure for Consump
tion has an equal for coughs and colds-
John F. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb.
15, 1900.
A lot of good people enjoy telling bad
news.—Chicago Daily News.
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tnd works off the cold. Laxative Bromo
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Only a good man can see good things in
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