HEN GEORGE WASH TON was a» He didn’t have no Fourth July. . Er nothin'—gee! I'll just bet that's why He gut down that cherry treo- Didn't have nothin’ else to do. "a FRR gEnegips cAI RRE pune, AEE 4666668080440648084 $How Bob Missed His Fourth of July3 FIFFIFIIFTIFF INFINITY REAT was the ex- citement, for it was the night before the glorious Fourth. Bob had prepared everything for a grand time. For months before he had been saving up his pennies, and with these iis papa kad bougltallsorts of things 1it- that you touch a light to them. First were fire-crackers of allsizes, for 2 Fourth of July without ers would be like © Thank with no turkey or a Chri with no NS; inta Claus; then torpedoes all done up in beaudiful t foil, while for the evening he bad | wheels and sky rockets, full of beaut ful stars, balls in them, all different colors, —oh! I can't tell all the for list would fill a whole page. rest the An' Fourth July come roun’- Not a firecracker In the town, Er a church bell you could ring, Er anything! Couldn't even light an’ blow & cudnk Of punk, . Er stick a 'Nited States fag Up on a pole, er brag ‘Bout “‘freedom’s banner.” like the men? *Cause they wasn't no 'Nited States Er flag er nothin’, then. You know how a feller bates To just set down Chawin’ grass, Er diggin’ his big tos in the grown’, ‘lose they's some one else to pass The time away; Well, that was why Georges Wash'ton sae day Got mad an’ sald he'd have some fum So he got the M'litia boys an’ two Er three ether fellers that he knew An' they went roun™ just raisin’ Ned-s To make a Fourth July, they sald An’ had a dec'ratica indspendence wrots So's ever'dbady’'d have a vote, An’ they shot off ever'thing an’ went An' made Georges Wash'ton president; An’ since then ever’ boy an’ man Just has all the fun he can Op Vaurth July, bekus : George Wash'ton said It should bave wah {| two pig talls, the biggest in the box, {i erled out: “Be quiet, all of you." The little crackers trembled and made faces at him behind his back, but they stopped talking to hear what he had to say. When all was quiet the ten- cent cracker said haughtily: “I want you all to understand that I'm king here. I'm the biggest and I can make the most noise.” “He thinks he's a lot,” whispereC the skyrocket to his neighbor, “just be cause he came from China.” “Did anyone speak?’ said the biz fellow, rolling over to where the sky- rocket lay trembling. The little erackers winked at each other. candle spoke up “You needn't vith a bang giggled and Then a roman be so proud,” he said, “you go ofl and then you are dead “Well, I f you when I go off,” “Yes, am,” « more noise than any he rotorted ne It LOT ii make yt vou are not pretty, like I $ i ontinued the candle ful sparks come out of ny then | colors. Even after I have been used I am beautiful, for I have a fine pink jacket and the boys find me useful.” 3y » the skyrocket had plucked up iis this Courage. 0 2 oe All these beautiful things came home in a big box, In an express wagon, and when Bob saw them he danced with Joy. What a fine time he would have! And how Johnny Marsh next door would envy him when he saw the things. Bob could scarcely wait for the sun to rise. He lit a plece of punk and wanted to begin to shoot crackers right away. But his papa said “No.” He had better wait, or he would have nothing left for the next day. So Bob put the box out in the yard and dropped beside it his plece of punk, aly - - 4 LITTLE PIECE OF PUNE WITH A BRIGHT EYE, and before 8 o'clock he was in his snug little cot dreaming of the great day and the big celebration he would have. No sooner was the little boy asleep than a strange thing happened. The fireworks were not packed tight, and it Bob had been near by he would have heard strange noises come out of the box that would havesurprised him. Such a commotion! All the fire-cracikers ond fireworks were trying to talk at once, each saying that he was the most beautiful. No one seemed to listen to what the of™ zrs sald. Even the little baby tire-crackers were red in the face from talking and were quite out of breath. do a —— Flzz-boom-z-z-zizz-z! bang! The crackers cracked and the roman candle went off and the pinwheel spun around, making an awful racket that roused every one in the house, Bob woke up, hearing the noise, and ran down stairs, thinking the Fourth had come, When he got down he found his papa Crackety - flza- HOME FOB THE FOURTIL standing by the box that had held the fire-crackers, with an empty pail in his hand, “What's the matter?” asked the little boy, rubbing his eyes. “Why.” sald his papa, “you left a lighted plece of punk in the box and you fireworks celebrated all by them- gu lves."—Elwood Fraser, In the Brook. lyn Eagle. The Fourth in 183%, | Dr. Edward Everett Hale has said { that of all Fourths of July in Boston {tl if 1832 left the deepest mark In of the He said Be had spent his last cent and bought medals, drunk root beer, eaten oysters | and other things, and was slowly re i turning home when at Park Street | Church be saw a procession of chil | dren entering. They Sunday school children. It was then and there history century were ~From Collier's Weekly. “None of you are like I am.” he said, timidly. “I have a lovely pointed hat, and I go sailing up to the clouds among the stars, and when I explode the people all shot *Ah-h-h-h!""” “Pooh! You've only got one leg” said a pinwheel, who had laip hidden in a corner, “and you Lave to be held up with a stick; beside, you come right down again.” “Well, it's a very useful stick,” ex. sialraed the rocket. “It's good to make kites with and when kites go up they stay up for a long time. What are you good for? They nall you to a tree and you sputter for a few moments and then you are all dead.” “That's not so. I know the; nail me to a tree, but I spin around and around and around and fill the air with sparks and beautiful colored fire and then af- terward I'm good to make wagons with.” All this time the big fire-cracker was trying to speak, but the others talked so fast that he couldn't make himself heard and every one was so interested that no one noticed a little plece of punk with a bright eye in the corner. “None of you are any use without me,” he said. “If it wasn't for me you'd be good for nothing.” “What's that?” It was the big erack- er who spoke. “You! Why you don't even wear clothes, and you don’t make any noise at all.” This last retort made the punk very angry and he grew brighter and brigater, “I'll show you what I'm good for, then!” and he touched his head to the long pigtail on the big cracker’s head. There was a fizz and then a big bang as the big cracker burst. This set ail the others going and such a racket as there was! Bang! Crock-crack - crakety - crack! that the hymn, “My Country, 'Tis of Thee,” was sung, the first time it had ever been sung in public. Happy fate that this hymn of the nation was con secrated on the national birthday! Saturday Evening Pos. —— on —————— Early Veneration. This generation of New Yorkers have no conception of the respect, ven- eration and joy that their predecessors of the first seventy years of Fourth of Julys paid to that day. Many New Yorkers learn of it for the first time from the bronze tablet to be read on the Mayorality side of the City Hall, placed there hy the Sons of the Revo- lution In commemoration of the first reading of the Declaration in the park. The Da y After the Fourth, 1 Willie's Notation. “Willie,” asked the teacher, “how many days are there in a year?” “Three hundred and sixty-five and a fourih,” promptly answered Willie. “How can there be a fourth of a Gay” asked the teacher. “Why,” replied Willle, "that's the Fourtk: of July."—Catholic Telegraph. % . as Thzir [Juiet “f A Case of Belng Next to Killed With Kindness, EEE EEE ppc [IOS of us whe are still alive, “clothed and in right mind,” will no doubt take pleasure In con- sidering some who are a trifle lesr fortunate. There was one couple in particu lar, nice people, who detest nolse, especially when they don't help make it themselves. They had n wretched time last year, and naturally decided that this year's ex- perience should be another story. To come right down to facts, they friends, and having picked out the which was the quietest, and lived In the spot the most remote from all sorts of din, they wrote a nice let. ter, saying they would arrive on the evening of the 3d. And so the morn- ing of the 3d found them packing up, MAKING EFADY FOR THE TRIP. tae head of the house flinging his pos- session into the trunk with the glee of a boy escaping for his vacation. As shirt trunkward, he ex- claimed, “No noise this yi You know as well as 1 just how they waxed the sweet, clean, they had porch with mpathetic his last flew ar” enthusiastic over quiet country, once ttled themselves on the thelr fans, and bh hearts went out to the 4L) yw the! * souls who had to stay and hear | in the hor rid city. Ah! well beatitude. In no time of the family let it didn't last long, that the youngsters a fusilade Ax if they were not capable of making enough noise, the children of the neighbors, and the ser- CIpUs, 1008 vant came out to assist in the Oh, it was fiendish! The surprise of the crackers Mr which fairly rivaled Mother Goose litera the moon, while isd to shut out the din gers in her ears their feelings bunch a jump cow ure as poor first sent Visitor on +0 he poor things had when host ex- idined, “When we got your letter, and ——— 5 ! pleasure od A COUNTRY CELEBRATION. were reminded of all you did for us on that last visit of ours we just decided this Fourth shouldn't go uncelebrated bere, even if we do live in the back- woods. This is, nothing, it's going te be great to-night!” And with that he went to teaching a small visitor how to apply punk where it would do the most good. When our disgusted visitors returned to the city, a sadder If not particularly wiser pair, their friends took unnec- essary trouble to tell them that it was “an unusually quiet Fourth” in town. —Philadelphia Record. A Yine Idea. PROMPTNESS. Dr. Talmage Talks About the Benefits of Having to Struggle Hard for a Living. Victory Over Obstacles--He That Observeth the Wind Shall Not Sow.” : [Copyright 1801.1 Wasmixaron, D. C.—From a passage of Scripture unobserved by moat readers Dr. Talmage in this discourse shows the mportance of prompt action in anything we have to do for ourselves or others: text, Ecclesiastica xi, 4, “He that obsery- eth the wind shall not sow.’ What do you find in this packed sen- tence of Solomon's monologue? 1 find in it a farmer at his front door examining the weather. It is seedtime. His fields have been plowed and harrowed. The wheat is in the barn in sacks, ready to be taken afield and scattered. Now is the time to sow. But the wind is not favor able. It may blow up a storm before night, and he may get wet if he starts out for the sowing. Or it may be a long storm that will wash out the seed from the soil. Or there may have been a long drought, and the wind may continue to blow dry weather. The parched fields may not take in the grain, and the birds may pick it up, and the labor as well as the seed may be wasted. Bo he gives up the work for that day and goes back into the house and waits to see what it will be on the morrow. On the morrow the wind is still in the wrong direction, and for a whole week, and for a month. Did you ever see such a long spell of bad weather? The lethargic and overcautious and dilatory agriculturist allows the season to pass without sowing, and no sowing, of course no harvest. ‘That is what Solomon means when he says in my text, “He that obser- veth the wind shall not cow.” As much in our times ss in Solomonic times there is abroad a fatal hesitancy a disposition to let little things stop us—a ruinous adjournment. We all want to do some good in the world, but how easily we are halted in our endeavors. Perhaps we are solicitors for some great charity There 18 a good man who has large means, and he 13 accustomed to give liber- ally to asylums, to hospitals, to reform organizations, to schools, to churches, to communities desolated with flood or de- vastated with fires. But that good man, like many a good man, is mercurial in his temperament. He is depressed by atmos Phere changes. He is al i y the east wind. For son you osipone the tion Mea tie the wish to does its awful work, and the opportunity for relief f the wind had been from the west north- west, you would have entered thropist 8 counting room but the or n this or that rea- 1 1 chantable solicita- suffering that you gue, wg from not aghly cast the trated ¥ wind shal There m The pastor gees The their church 1% wh ia Ie make bu wet feet a doorway pastor m and prepar ns at leant that small audience ‘ two nt 4 2 person who had Ureatmer ers Was a man in cM i IRE 3 evil appe- i urse un blessing would have been The fires of 3ld have been extinguished, and his keen and brillant mind would have consecrated at the g } ald have been ens of & A the given throu have there ought better the hm der to Avine compete victory been + der passed 1 he under n to hiteen or s 1 speak of ¥ $v in str was not properly met uggle with evil habit | no word that n the rain unins » his evil w ay Had 1t been 3 ould have heard something jut the wind blew from a ! That and acted overthrow bath th hearing i ny direct ath day gospel husbandman noticed it upots ita suggestion and may discover some mistake. He had a sackful of the finest of the wheat, but he withheld it, some day he will find when the whole story is told, that be was 8 vivid illustration of the truth of my text, “He that observeth the wind shail iol sow . There was another person in that stormy Sunday audience that deserved something better from that pastor than extemporized nothingness It was a mother who was half awakened to a sense of responsibility in regard to her household. She had begun to question herself as to whether it would not be bet- ter to introduce into her home a religion that would decide aright the destiny of her sons and daughters. Her home had so far been controlled only by worldly principles. She had dared the riot of the elements that morning and had found her way to church, hoping to hear something hat would help her to decide the domes. ic question which was to her a solicitude A good, strong sermon under the divine blessing would have led her into the king dom of God and afterward her whole fam- tly. The children. whether they became farmers or mechanics or merchants or art ists or men of learved profession or wom- en at the head of households, would have done their work in a Christian way, and after lives of usefulness on earth would have taken thrones in heaven. It would have been a whole family saved for time and saved for eternity. But the stor bad adjourned the strong and effective discourse to a clear Sunday. The mother went home chilled in body, mind and soul and concluded not to trouble herself or her household about the future, and %o Jet to-morrow take care of itsell and keep on doing as they had been doing. No forma tion of thorough Christian character in the lives of those growing up boys and gicls. They will go out into the world to meet ite viciesitudes without any sublime re-enforcement of the gorpel. What a pity it was that he did not put down the man- uscript of his well prepared sermon on the Bible if he preached from notes or pour it out of Lis soul if he had | it th h careful preparation! No. He al lowed that opportunity, which could Dever return, to pass into eternity unimproved. He o by the way the rain dashed inst the windows of the and the windows of the church that the wind , and which was was from the east or the n he did nt sow or sowed that not wort ing. In all departments of life there are those hindered by the wind of public Opinion, It become an aphorism in politics and in all t movements, “He is wai to see which way the wind blows." it Abd Loc idle hy u Pit circles, to anathema. those who § and ism which few possess no tory or elevating movement ever accomplished until some one was he day his great and — willing to defy what the worid should think or say or do. But there have been men and women of that kind, They stand all up and down the eorridors of history, examples for us to follow, Charles Sum- ner in the United States Senate, Alexan- der H, Stephens in Georgia convention. Mavonarola stak his life in time of secution, Aaither fighting the bat for re freedom gainst the mightiest an were ever hurled, Willi the mis sionary movement to save a heathen world while churches denounced him asa fanatic and with attempting an impossi- bility. Jenszr, the hero of medicine, cari catured for his attempt by vaccination to beat back the werst disease that smote the nations. They who watch the wind of public opinion will not sow. It is an uncertain indication, and is apt to blow the wrong way. “Jet us have war with England, if needs be,” said the most of the people of our Northern States in 1861, when Mason and Slidell, the distinguished BSouthern- ers, had been taken by our navy from the British steamer Trent, and the English Government resented the act of our Gov ernment in of their ships “Give up those prisoners,” said Great Britain. “No,” said the almost unani- mous opinion of the North, “do not give them up. Let us have war with England rather than surrender them.” Then Will iam H. Seward, Becretary of Btate, faced one of the Hercest storms of public opin- ion ever seen in this or any other country Beeing that the retention of these two men was of no importance to our country and that their retention would put Great Bri- tain and the United States into immediate flict, said, “We give them up They er tie one stopping conf were given up, and through the resistance of popular clamor by that man a world-wide calamity was averted, How many there are who give too muck time to watching the weather vane and studying the barometer! Make up your mind what you are going to do and then go ahead and do it. There always will be hindrances. It is a moral disaster if you allow prudence to overmaster all the other gracks. - The Bible makes more of courage apd faith and perseverance than it does of caution a year that the great ocean steamers fail to sail at the appointed time because of the storm signals. +t the weather bureau prophesy what hurricane or cyclone it may, next Wednesday, next Thursday, next Satur day the steamers will put out from New York and Philadelphia and Boston har- bors and will reach Liverpool and South- ampton and Glasgow and Bremen, their arrival as certain as their embarkation They cannot afford to consult the wind, nor can you in your life voyage Young mz you have pi yOu Are going be and do ut you are v become more the farmer wind nelp yo t is not once . planned what = text, ow in observing will Cut your the mailion- il bless all suc- he $25 a year ¢ Chris the Uni Obstacles inst the and served an apprenticest , receiving 4 mont} f h 8 schooi- at the en of eleven a yoke of oxen and prought me 884. In the I was twenty-one years y the drove a loge. 1 arose in the it and worked hard received the magnifi- o month's work as large to to-night.” N on- But t was not He changed his name t want on him the 3 father. As the Viee i in my pulpit in Brooklyn address he ever made and { Christ to the ] ht to my- mest spes- f tory over obstacles.” ars the wind blew the wrong wot observe the wind, but woods, rod eq TRE They ] were lived on throw practilioners, or chants, or citi had very at the start because we far too easy. it were proper to do so, and you i in any board of bank direc re, in any board of trade, mn any Legs lature, State or national, and ask 21] who were brought up in luxury and ease to lift their hand, here and there a hand might be lifted, Gui ask all those who had an awful hard time at the start to lift their hands, and most of the hands would be lifted Columbus, by calculation, made up his mind that there must be a new hemisphere somewhere 35 balance the old homisphere or it would be a lopsided world. And I have found out, not by calculation, but by observation, that there is a great success for you somewhere to balance your great struggle. Do not think your case is pee culiar., The most favored have been peited. The mobe smashed the windows of the Duke of Wellington while his wife lay dead in the house. Jut my subject takes another step. Through medical science, and dentistry that has improved the world’s mastication, and stronger defense against climatic changes, and better understanding of the laws of health, human life has been great- ly prolonged. But a centenarian is stilla wonder. How many people de von know a hundred years old? I do not know one. We taik of a century as though it were a very long reach of time. But what ia one century on earth compared with centuries that we are to live somewhere, somehow ten centuries, a million centuries, a quin. tillion of centuries? We are all determined to get ready for the longer life we are to live after our exit from things sublunary. We are waiting for more propitious ope portunity. We have too much business to attend to mow or too much pleasure to allow anything to interfere with its bril- liant progress. We are waiting until the wind blows in the right direction. e are going to sow, and sow the very best grain, and we are going to raise an eter nal harvest of happiness. We like what vou say about heaven, and we are go there, and at the right time wy wi ready. but my lungs are sound, my diges- tion is good, the examining physician of the life msurance company says my beats just ihe right number of times a minute, and I am cautions about sith ina t, and I observe all the laws hygiene, and my father and mother hi Jo lis very od, an11 come of a ag ortunity BO CASY uid stand
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