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The Real Fourth of July.
“On the 3d of July, 1776, John AdQd-
i ams, then one of the representatives
Massacnusetts in the Continental
wrote to his wife, Abigail
“Yesterday the question
was declded which was ever debated in
America, and a greater perhaps never
was nor will b ded among men
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the It
coming
wrance by solemn ¢
tion to God Almighty, It ought to be
solemnized with pomp and parade,
with shows, games, sports, guns,
bonfires and min from
end of this continent to the other, from
bells,
ations, one |
REAL
In seventeen hundred seventy-six
(The Revolution ended,
'And floating high inevery breeze
Ourcountry's flag ascended,
/ADeclaration had been signed
| That gave us Independence,’
150 we became a people free,
In war our own defendants.
Each year since that momentous day
Now loog an old-time story-~
The booming of fe cannon helps
Perpetuate the glory
All through the fourth. day of July,
With merriment and laughter,
dnt boys forade, while every girl
In line walks proudly offer;
They fire off guns and crackers, Hill
for want of ammunition
They're forced to stop- but never dies
The fire of their ambition.
—The Churchman.
YALE HEROES HONORED.
tates 13 Commemorate
British.
“The heroic aefense of New Haven
oy the students of Yale College, an
almost forgotten page
history.” says Army and Navy Life,
“was first thrown into the national
limelight by the unveiling of a
anique piece of statuary. The group
wag designed and sculptured in
studio of James Edward Kelly.
anveiling took place on July 5, 1
the anniversary of the defense
New Haven.
“The stat represents
ares, in the costume
opoys of Colonial times,
piece of field artillery.
The
three fig-
the
ue
of
The stirring
STATUE TO STUDENTS OF, YALE
NEW
while Sir
the town
Collier
the war-
opposition,
bombarded
George
from
“By this time, the entire
side was aroused,
however,
and the pa-
and burned
students of Old
withdrew
The heroic
the British
Fairfield.
ge town. It is this fight,
in the pages of history, that the
group so beautifully delineated, is to
immortalize.”
A r——————
A Famous Flag.
Of all the thousands of flags which
waved over the heads of Ameri-
stands supreme in its un-
equaled fame This one is the flag
of Captain John Paul Jones, the
“Founder of the American Navy.” It
lost
James Edward Kelly, Sculptor
affair that the statue will commem-
orate occurred on July 5, 1779.
British planned to cause Washington
to weaken his forces at West
in order to defend the
coast. New Haven, then a town
1800 inhabitants, was to be the ob-
ject of the British attack. President
lege, saw the British fleet preparing
to sail from West Haven, and called
the town.
landing, hotly opposed by
the Yale boys and the patriots, and
proceeded to plunder and destroy.
A pitched battle was fought at the
northwest corner of Broadway, and
forced a
by superior numbers
the British had landed
at Lighthouse Point and
from the east, with the
whelmed
Meanwhile
1500 men
advanced
those in the town and crushing all
INDEPENDENCE DAY.
E. Stremlaw.
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was the naval hero's proud boast that
he and the flag were twins. having
“As long as we
float we shall float together,” was the
pledge which he kept to the end. It
was fitting that the first flag to float
on the Ranger by Jones himself, July
« 1777, says an exchange.
This flag was made by a quilting
N. H., where the Ranger was
launched. The thirteen white stars
were cut out from a white silk dress
The blue field and the red and
white stripes were also of silk. and
Langdon, Caroline Chandler, Helen
Augusta Pierce and Dorothy
It
the first example of the new
symbol of liberty to be seen in Euro-
pean waters and the first to be sa-
luted by European powers in those
waters, by the French at the Qui-
1771.
the beginning of its
Jones took the flag with him
when he gave up the Ranger and
spread it to the salt breeze when he
stepped on the quarter deck of the
old Bon Homme Richard. But before
that he had fought the Drake, and
this was the first navalvictory gained
by the Stars and Stripes; this flag
was the first ever hoisted over a for-
eign enemy after an American vie-
tory on the seas. Florce as the fight-
ing was that day off the Irish coast,
and though it was the first time a
British ship of war ever struck its
colors to an inferior force, the flag
came through the battle without a
scar, This was also true of the fight-
ing with the Serapls, Beptember 13,
1779, the bloodiest battle ever won
at sea,
When Captain Pearson struck at
Inst his sallors were cowed by the in-
domitable valor of Jones and his
men. The Berapls was uninjured,
the Bon Homme Richard was a total
wreck. This engagement is the only
This was only
this time forward, for evermore,”
When the resolution was taken up on
the 24, all the except New York,
voted to ac cept it. Thus, on the 2d day
July, 1776, the Independence
Thirteen United C from
throne of Great Brit
deeclded upon. The 2d, and not the
may be called the true of
Nintes,
of
olonles the
4th,
date the
| Well, th
THE BOSTON
separation.
celebrate the ‘Four
That the Partie
sidered the
shown by the.
Adams, quote
article.
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cepltance
pe ants in the word
1
The Popuiar
upon the
of Jefferson’
f the rea
declaration of
iration as th
ther amendmer
“It is a mists
document was signs
on that
Any signing wa
Hancock, the President
gress, and Charles Thomson,
retary.”"—Pau! Leland Haworth,
Harper's Magazine for July.
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by the i
day It is Improbable
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There was great rejoicing in the
Hancock and many other Massachu-
setts homes when the news of the
Declaration came In Philadelphia
the joy was more openly expressed,
but in New York and New England
circumstances made these exhibitions
of satisfaction of a secret nature in
many instances. Neither the British
nor their allies, the Tories, wore In
any mood to look with favor upon a
celebration like that. Thus our first
Independence Day was one of great,
but necessarily quiet rejoicing.
PAR TY
"The Theory.
Washington —
start this?
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THE MOST UNHAPPY.
If You've Prospered You Are
Miserable, Says Prof. Small, of
Chicago University.
ing to Profess
Dep artment of
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Chicago,
of the
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“Because w » the frecst peos
the most
1dg-
ment,
Russia for
fact that
will be
a long time t
no revolution in
y come is the
the common people of that
country are so miserable that they
have been, and will long be, unable
to develop a dissatisfaction acute
enough to break into forcible resist-
ance,
‘In the same manner
education make for unhappiness.
They bring serious responsibilities.
They make the individual feel and
see the actual inequality of men
“They flood society with problems
that tax the mind and gear the heart.
So various are the appeals which they
make to our
ings that we reach for a remedy and
then, lobster
to find how near it fits the disease
freedom and
political democracy as the remedy for
all social wrongs. We have tried it.
We have twisted it and stretched it
and revised it and have in the end
found that It has brought us graft,
corruption and social unrest. The
| longer we have handled it the more
complex and the more distressing
| have our political and social problems
become,
| fleld
all they would have us swallow
i “But let us beware,
| gorely disappointed in political dem-
ocracy: may not “social democracy
| bring just as many and just as trying
| complications?
“let us not despair.
It iz only when men can picture to
themselves what they think and what
they want, and ean work up enough
genuine dissatisfaction to get thems
selves Into action that they accom.
plish anything worth while.”
CONUNDRUMS.
+ When are pigs like letters? Ans
When penned.
When are Hghthouses like castles?
Ans. When stormed.
What men are aiways losing thelr
patience (patients)? Ans. Doctors.
Why are carpets like old shoes?
Ans, Both are foot worn.
When is a boy like a saddle? Ans.
When pummeled. — Washington Star.
DURING THE HONEYMOON,
“Hubby, I want to wear my thin
shoes in the rain.”
“Well, dovey?”
“Tell me I mustn't,” — Loulsville
Courfer-Journal.
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