THE UNION OF
THE UNION OF LANDSJU \1 IM&L 4 lifTHE UNION OF HANDS.
THE UNION OF STATES W : THE FLAG OF THE
NONE CAN SEVER! UNION FOREVER!
The Flag,
God Bless It!
tßy REAR ADMIRAL. MEADE in the In
dependent In 1898.]
THE star spangled banner of the
United States of America, may
God bless it forever and forever!
Look at it as in the early sunlight it
kisses the morning breeze with its
beautiful folds, look at it and tell me
if it be not the one true rallying mark
for all bonest hearts of whatever an
cestry, creed or belief who own alle
giance to this mighty republic!
Look at its beautiful colors as they
gleam in the splendor of the rising sun,
the white symbolic of purity and honor,
the red typical of the blood which has
been shed and which wili continue to
be freely shed in defense of the inte
grity and perpetuity of American in
stitutions, and the «blue, its shining
silvery stars representing the great
caitopy of heaven, under which the
soldier of the republic on the land toils
on the weary march or bivouacs in the
silence of the night, or the sailor on
the broad expanse of the ocean keeps
his weary watch and vigil, that the
citizens of the republic may rest secure
while "He who watches over his true
Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps."
Loyalty to the colors! Loyalty to the
flag of the nation! That is the creed
of the American sailor and soldier and.
I hope and believe, the universal re
ligion of the land.
And the nation will cease to be great
should the evil day ever come when
there are found dissenters to this creed.
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Our Everlasting Reliance.
What constitutes the bulwark of our
liberty and independence? It is not
onr frowning battlements, our bris
tling seacoasts, our army and our
navy. These are not our reliance
against tyranny. All of. these may be
turned against us without making us
weaker for the struggle. Our reliance
is in the love of liberty which God has
planted in us.—Lincoln.
A skeptic Is a man who wouldn't
trust the wheel of fortune until he had
equipped it with a nonskid tire.—Phila
delphia Record.
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A JULY 4 PROPHECY.
Sixty-nine Years Ago an Enthusiast
Predicted Downfall of Thrones.
"The Fourth of July will be cele
brated with great enthusiasm. Pa
triotism has received uew impulses by
the glories of our war with Mexico
and the revolutions among the rotte:»
and tottering thrones of Europe."
Thus sixty-nine years ago a writer
in a New York periodical voiced his
patriotism. It was July 4, 1848. He
wrote thus:
"The Mexican war has been glorious,
not so much on account of its vic
tories and conquests as for the exhi
bition of patriotism and heroic valor
and devotion from one end of the
country to the other. It has shown
the power cf a popular government
and taught both the monarchies and
the people of other lands that thrones
and aristocracies and large standing
armies are not necessary to a great
and powerful nation. The right of
self government is shown to be con
nected with the power of maintain
ing it."
Buttermilk For Erysipelas.
A communication by Arnold in the
Practitioner recommends hpttermilk
highly as an application for erysipelas.
Whatever the stage of the disease, he
says, the spread of the infection is im
mediately checked, the pain disappears
and the whole morbid process is im
mediately checked when buttermilk is
used locally.
World's Oldest Investment.
The oldest investment security cm
earth is the real estate mortgage. We
know that money was loaned on mort
gages in ancient Babylon in the time
of King Hamurabi, 4,000 years ago,
and that some 2,500 years ago the great
Babylonian banking house of the Egibi
family invested large sums in mort
gages on both city and farm property,
the mortgages being recorded on bricks,
which have been preserved in the safe
ty deposit vaults of those times—great
earthenware jars buried in the earth
preserved until the archaeologists in our
own day and age dug them up to show
us when, where and how mortgages
originated.
INDEPENDENCE SQUARE.
Declaration's Birthplace Associated
With Nation's History.
Independence square, the most
famous square in Philadelphia, at one
time was known as the Statehouse
gardens, the resort of fashionable city
people.
As soon as the news of the battle of
Lexington and Concord reached Phila
delphia more than 8,000 of the citizens
assembled in Independence square "to
associate for the purpose of defending
with arms their property, liberty and
lives," and it was from here that the
first state quota was mustered into
service for the army of the Revolution.
In May, 1776, an immense meeting was
held, notwithstanding a heavy rain, to
consider the authority of the people
and to form a new government.
All during the civil war Independ
ence square continued to be the
meeting place of town folk to decide
upon the measures necessary to be
taken to defend the state, and here the
people thronged to celebrate the fall
of Richmond and mourn for Lincoln.
Effect of Plant Foods.
Potash aids in the formation of starch
in the grain, strengthens the stalk and
encourages healthy growth.
Nitrogen hastens stalk and leaf
growth, lengthens the season of
growth and gives the plant a quick
start
Phosphoric acid helps fill the grain,
improves the quality and hastens ma
turity.—New York Sun.
Singapore motion picture theaters
have cheaper seats behind the screens
for poorer class natives.
A Quaint Introduction.
Clarence King, the ethnologist, once
wrote from San Francisco to John
Hay the following letter of Introduc
tion: "My Dear John—My friend, Hor
ace F. Cutter, In the next geological
period will go east It would be a ca
tastrophe if he did not know you. Lest
I should not be there to expose Mr.
Cutter's alias, I take this opportunity
to divulge to you that the police are di
vided in opinion as to whether he is
Socrates or Don Quixote. I know bet
ter; he is both."
The Declaration
Then and Now
[By PRESIDENT WILSON, in an ad
dress in Philadelphia.]
HAVE you ever read the Declara
tion of Independence? When
you have heard It read have
you attended to its sentences?
The Declaration of Independence
was a document preliminary to war.
It involved a vital piece of business,
not a piece of rhetoric. And if you
will get further down In the reading
than its preliminary passages, where
it quotes about the rights of men, you
will see that it is a very specific body
of declarations concerning the busi
ness of the day—the business of revo
lution. the business of 1776.
The Declaration of Independence
does not mean anything to us merely
in its general statements unless we
can append to it a similarly specific
body of particulars as to what we con
sider our liberty to consist of.
Liberty does not consist in mere gen
eral declarations as to the rights of
man. It consists in the translation of
those declarations into definite action.
Therefore we ought to ask our
selves. What is there in it for us?
There's nothing in it for us unless we
can translate it into terms of our own
condition and of our own lives.
The task to which we have to ad
dress ourselves is a proof that we are
worthy of the men who drew this
great Declaration.
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Of power and riches which ruled ■*
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Then on this day, Liberty's birth-
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*• freest on earth, *
J And its star spangled banner for-
* ever! *
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July 4 Dinner Favors.
For July 4 dinner table favors there
are all kinds of popguns, some which
shoot out red, white and blue confetti.
In places where there is no objection
confetti, graceful multicolored serpen
tines, may also be used. Tiny cannon
tied with the national colors and smaT
bugles similarly decorated make deco
rative favors. Small eagles may alsc
be obtained.
Garden designers should forget
styles and design for comfort and
pleasure only. They would then avoid
many very serious errors that are now
quite common.
An Episode
Of Mexico
By F. A. MITCHEL
« —HI
During the presidency of Diaa of the
republic of Mexico I went there with a
stock of goods rfnd opened a 6*ore In
the state of Durango. For awhile I did
very well. Mexico had long been at
peace with herself, foreign capital had
come In to develop the country, and it
looked as though her prosperity would
continue.
The first wreck of my hopes was the
revolution that displaced Diaz and
placed Madero at the head of the Mexi
can government. But this was nothing
to the accession of Huerta and the tur
moil during his administration and fall.
The Mexican people, especially those
who su. ported Huerta, believing that,
their troubles came largely from the re
fusal of the United States government
to recognize him as president of Mexico,
turned more bitter than ever against
Americans.
I had made a number of friends
among Mexicans and was permitted to
continue my business without molesta
tion. This was all very well so long
as I remained in the location of my
home and business. But I ras fond
of sketching, and I intended as soon as
I could get out of Mexico with my
capital to go north and study art. The
Sierra Madre mountains are not far
from my home, and I desired*to take as
many sketches as possible away with
me of the fine landscapes there.
One evening after sketching during
the day I went to a house devoted to
the entertainment of strangers to pass
the night. The place corresponded to
the old American tavern of former
days. It was not especially clean, and
the persons it contained were of a low
grade.
About 10 o'clock at night I was sit
ting in the dining room reading a news
paper. I had gone there for the pur
pose, since a lamp swung over the ta
ble gave the only light that enabled me
to read comfortably. I was seated di
rectly under it, with my back to an
open door, when, hearing a faint creak
of a floor board in my rear, I raised my
eyes from my paper. They lighted on
a shadow cast on a wall before me. The
shadow was not cast by the light over
my head, but by one back of the object
that produced it It was not very dis
tinct, but sufficiently so for me to dis
tinguish it as the shadow of a man.
The head covering was plainly a som
brero. The owner and shoulders came
next The left arm was lowered, and
since the shadow of the right arm was
simply a lump I Surmised that it was
raised and pointed in my direction.
It required only a fraction of a sec
ond for me to see in this shadow what
is called in art a foreshortened arm.
I believed also that the hand dratained
a weapon. That It was a pistol and
not a knife was evident, since it, too,
was foreshortened. Had it been a
knife it would Ijave been held in a dif
ferent grip, which would have produc
ed a shadow. I would have seen some
evidence of a blade. In short, a man
was standing in a passage behind me
and about to shoot me. Expecting to
be Immediately killed, I was paralyzed.
I had not even the power to duck un
der the table. Naturally my eyes were
glued to the evidence of my danger.
Suddenly I saw an increase of the
area of the shadow. On either side,
just below the shoulders, a protuber
anpe appeared momentarily, then merg
ed/Into the main bulk. The right arm
was lowered and hung at an angle with
the body. Now I could see that it was
an arm and there was a shadow of
what It was plain was a pistol barrel.
When we are in danger our faculties
become greatly sharpened. I question
if they do not become rather instinct.
I reasoned out the change is this wise:
Some one had come up behind the man
who was about to kill me and thrown
a pair of arms about him. What should
I do now? I always carried a revolver
on my sketching tours, but it was at
my hip, under my coat If I turned
now to defend myself while my ene
my's weapon was lowered I might be
too late, whereas if I sat still, pre
tending to be ignorant of what was go
ing on behind me, I might be saved.
This consideration flashed through
my brain within a fraction of a sec
ond. I had scarcely conceded it when
I saw the shadow of the arm drawn,
up to its former position. Evidently
the man who had been interrupted was
intending to proceed as before the in
terruption.
Then there was a commotion in the
outline of the shadow. I Judged it to
express a s-vuggle between two per
sons. The ivht arm shadow appeared
and was grasped near the wrist by a
hand.
Now was my time to act. I made
four mover instantaneously—l drew
my pistol, i rose, I turned, and I cov
ered my enexy.
A Mexican stood before me strug
gling with c Toman, who maintained a
firm grip of his right wrist. At my
movement both stood still.
"Drop that weapon," I said.
The man replied by an effort to
wrench his wrist from the woman. 1
tried to quiet him by putting a bullet a
few Inches from his head, but he con
tinued to struggle, and the woman held
on. In another moment I saw his hand
with the pistol in it extended on his
right. I put a ball in the hand, and the
pistol dropped on the floor. Darting
forward, I picked it up.
"Gringo!" hissed the man.
I asked him why he wished to kill
me, and he said that he hated gringos.
This was the only reason he gave. I
had been saved from being murdered
by the woman who kept the bouse.
Some Climate!
It is a natural law in California, es
pecially in the southern part of the
state, that folks grow young instead of
old. Every time a rose fades in this
sweet land its color finds its way into
the cheeks of some visitor from the
east who has come here to seek the
health which only a clime like this can
give.—-Los Angeles Times.
Upa and Downs.
> M Did she really fall in lova with aa
aviator?"
"No. She merely took him up far a
lark."
"Oh!"
"Then he took her up."
"I see —in his machine."
"The man she had been going wills
for two years dropped her."
"Served her right."
"Her spirits fell. She stated the casa
to the aviator. He went right up i»
the air, and she hasn't seen him
since."— Exchange.
A Japanese Qet Rich Quick Call.
A broker In Tokyo, wishing to stimu
late speculation among the English
speaking residents, composed a great
handbook at great pains and, printings
it by some mimeographlc means on a
large sheet of paper reproducing hand
writing, scattered it broadcast. The
paper read:
'To the Wideawake Public.—One who
want to make money why not try Stock
business at such rare extraordinary
chance? Even a fool, his pocket is
swelling up every day. Why? Because
he is daring it blindly. Awaiting your
order. More or less yours faithfully.
Okino Yonesaburo."—East and Went
News.
First Calculating Machine.
The first calculating machine was in*-
vented and constructed by Blaise Pas
cal, a Frenchman, in 1042, in which
year he was but nineteen years of age.
It was made by him with the aid of
one workman and was presented to the
chancellor of France. During the rev
olution it was fotmd in a junk shop at
Bordeaux and at present is the prop
erty of M. Bougouln of that city. All
of the four simple mathematical opera
tions can be made with it
0 Life Expectancy.
According to the public health serv
ice, life expectancy during Infancy and
childhood has increased because of the
more intelligent care of babiea and
young children, but life expectancy aft
er the age of forty is less now than it
was thirty years ago, because those
who have arrived at years of discretion
do not exercise discretion for {hero
selves and take sufficient exercise to
overcome modern conditions. Many
more people are engaged in sedentary
occupations than formerly, which de
prives them of natural assistance af
forded by physical exercise In eliminat
ing through the skin and lungs the
waste products of the body.— Collier's
Weekly.