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wm os couldn't imagine who he couid be. : ;
-— However, it seemed to be up to me to! me HIS RECORD WAS ALL RIGHT | 4TH OF JULY TRAGEDY
do something, so I drew myself to my'| 1 —_— ; : .
commanding height of five feet four 8 Black Spots Wiped Out by His Firm | ST
inches and begged his pardon for dis- Belief in a Noiseless { W. F. MARINER.
turbing him, explaining that my little’ . . . . Fourth.
nephews usually occupied that room, | Fictures of Places and Incidents That Figured in the Battle for ” —
ang Shas they ere S posting me « over American Freedem. a iD. meet so fo you have \ . Le :
0 celebrate the Fo wi m— i e grim old gen- Z
but it all sounded like perfect non- tleman, “there are some questions I u A
- sense. Just then, to my mingled relief would like to ask you. Are you quick-
E and annoyance, Tom appeared at the tempered?”
window, too, with a fiendish grin, as “Well, yes, to tell the truth, I'm
- he sized up the situation and my cos afraid I am.”
2 tume, “Hm. Ever swear?’
1 “Been serenading you, has she, “Sometimes, when I become very an-
: Archie?” he asked affably, while I gry, I do.”
boiled with helpless rage. “You mustn’t “Smoke?”
mind it, old man; it’s the day we cele- “Yes, but I have never noticed that
! brate, you know, and our patriotism it Injured me.”
still runs so high that even the girls “Every drink intoxicating liquors?”
seek out peaceable English visitors “I occasionally take a drink, but I'm
want to know how I spent
the Glorious Fourth? Was
ff I sane and sedats, sompord
ing myself in a manner be
and taunt them with our independence.
Quite the usual thing.” Then, as
“Archie” and I preserved a helpless
silence, Tom sobered down and intro-
duced us in proper style, and as soon
as I heard the name I remembered
that Archie Vane was Tom's chum in
London, when he was over there set-
ting up some machinery. He had just
landed and Tom, running across him
in New York the night before, had in-
sisted on his coming home with him
to spend the Fourth—all natural
encugh when Tom explained it. So
there I'd been bearding the British lion
in Ris den with militant American
noises on the anniversary of a day ig-
nored by all good Englishmen; and
here was the British lion looking at
me with his ingenuous blue eyes as if
he was trying to decide whether I'd
bite or not.
“l warn you,” Tom added, in his
tactful little way, “that Peggy is a
rabidly patriotic person, so I wouldn't
advise you to start any discussions on
international issues. This Columbia
getup is quite in character, so be-
ware!” Alice and the boys came out
on the porch just then and wanted me |
to stay to breakfast; but of course I]
declined with dignity and went home— |
via the front gate, however, instead of
the garden wall. When I turned to
latch it that Englishman was still look
Monument, Bridge and Minute Man, Concord, Massachusetts.
Here on the 19th of April, 1775, was made the first forcible resistance
to British aggression. On the opposite bank stood the American militia.
and on this spot the first of the enemy fell
In the war of that revolution which gave independence to these United
Here stood the invading army;
States.
-not a slave to the habit, I assure
you.”
“Have you ever been in jail?”
“Once. I took some funds to which
I had no right, but I did not do it .de-
liberately, I assure you. It was the re-
sult of a misunderstanding.”
“Yes. It generally is. How about
your family? What kind of ancestors
did you have?”
“Do you think it is fair to hold a
‘man responsible for what his ances-
‘tors did?”
“Answer my question.”
“Well, I can’t say that my ances
tors amounted to a great deal. My
grandfather was—was—in short, he
.was hanged.” i
“You've never held a job anywhere
very long, have you?”
“I can’t say that I have.”
“What was the highest salary you
ever earned?” :
“Nineten dollars a week.”
“Ever jump a board bill?”
“I wouldn't exactly call it that 1
owe a lady for several months’ board
that I had three or four years ago,
but I fully intend to pay her some
“Have you ever rocked a boat?”
“No, sir, never.”
“Have you ever set off a firecracker
‘under your grandmother's chair or
been hurt while trying to make a
Re le lle SE oii Sh
and
brand-new oollege| INE at me in a dazed sort of way. racket on the Fourth of July?”
Dine or EY ofl The plot thickens. After breakfast : “No, sir. I believe in a noiseless
and romp with Brother| MY beloved kiddies rushed over to beg Fourth.”
Tom’s kiddies, as usual | 1@ to go with them on the usual fam- © “All right. You may have her. I'm
forgetting all my recently [Iv picnic to the pine grove, and I ‘glad to get you into our family.”
= BN acquired digmity? Alaa, my| Dhadn’t the heart to disappoint them. ] :
REY dear! I must eoofees thai| WOre my most sensible clothes, and 1! MERIAM’S CORNER, CONCORD
my Fourth was far, far from sane, and | tried hard to be haughty and distant " Calvdly '
‘that instead of recoverng my sanity t0 Mr. Vane; but he kept developing Sg re
But there, my studies in prose| Such nice qualities that somehow 1
style should teach me better than tq| couldn’t keep it up, especially as he ig
. Jump at the conclusion of my story | Rored my crazy performance of the
. dike that! Ill begin at the beginning | morning so successfully. He was a
| It was Independence day. The sun| a
‘was shining in newly awakened splen| 4. Ae ARTY ps ul
dor, when the casual observer might! J Ai a eh it
have discerned a solitary female form =i RA RADRIRHRITRI
- ‘gracefully scaling the stone wall be a :
tween the luxuriant back gardeas of PY EE
the Hendersons and the ditto ditto of | TX) 1 G3)
ithe Bartletts—Tom and his family are fa My 2
- staying with her mother, you Know, | |} i!
Bel Joo. accirabliged. ves neeolarl Among the treasures preserved at Trophy Point, West Point, is a part
‘ (that's me!) proceeded up the Bart of the massive iron chain which was thrown across the Hudson from ‘the
. lett lawn, collecting dewdrops om her Point to Coustitation Island in 1777 to prevent the British fleet from passing
a. trailing cheesecloth draperies and, in- up the river and joining Burgoyne's army.
ir icidentally, getting her new white
are shoes deplorably damp. Her slender
form was draped also In a large
Sue {American flag, and her ravea curls
it is were surmounted by a fillet of silver
and stars. This Goddess of Liberty effect
1 ap- ‘was the result of a promise to “@ress
iy up” for the two adoring and adorable Meriam’s Corner, Concord, Mase.
vith- mephews, Bert and Bob. Arrived be gained lasting fame In the early days
cctis neath the window of the room ue of 2 en Yacaue according
ally occupied by the nephews, th tablet erected
the Goddess of Liberty proceeds to the there, “the British troops retreating
BIOS time-honored ceremony of saluting from the old North bridge were here
rado them; this she does by setting off ten | Positive genius when It came to chas attacked in flank by the men of Con
now packs of small firecrackers, followed | iD& cows; flxing hammocks, unpacking cord and neighboring towns and driv
nore by a “sock dolager” of a big ona. No| luncheon and all the regular picnic en under a hot fire to Charlestown.”
hree joyful acclainations follow. Aunt| Stunts. The boys adored him, and he
or of Pegey Is frankly pussled; sliasty, the | WA4 SIGDIV ARSONC fo he old fofss) MUSIC FOR FOURTH OF JULY
iehte boys are oversleeping, and she bursts] 82d by the time we went me .
oon jute ous, rendering the "Starepan | woulda Soars up & Fentiul Jeellns. “Yankes Doodle” Oldest of Our Na
Shin gled Banner” with dramatic effect,| Yes, Polly, I know; you needn't re tional 8onge—Origln of the
er 18 marred only by a breathless squeak mind me of all the hateful things I've Other Troe
still : : ci said about Englishmen and the times 4
-half I've vowed I couldn’, and wouldn't — so . .
o or eare for one, not if he asked me on his > Slrestion - oongTem nied |
bended knees. Yes, and I've demon- hei are a ude Teauid
t for strated often that no ome but an Songh... 4 Ming to the Rion) f
American man was a fit companion for oldest of these songs 2 t
and an American girl. I've sald heaps of Da ye Seis
are perfectly ferocious things, and 1 sup. and next to “Dixie” still is the most !
'e on pose I meant every one of them. But wiles of our sational * raelodles.
ur or that was before Archie— Polly, dear, There are 16 different theories as to 1
ee or do you know, he gays it was all over : : 4 how the iginated, but the most i
- gal- with him from the first moment he saw General John Burgoyne tn August, 1777, found his communications With | reliable information sees to point to {
h as me—and In that circusparade rig! Canada cut off by the Americans, and on September 19 was worsted by Gen- the fact that the song was written by
le in Isnt it absurd—and lovely! And, just| eral Gates at Stfllwater. On October 7 he fought the battle of Saratoga and | a British officer, brought to this ecun- |
Use think, it's only a week since we met,| wag decisively defeated, and ten days later surrendered to Gates with try and firet played by British bands, :
though we both agree that it seems between 5,000 and 6,000 men. thereafter being a. by the
e to like years. And you should Bee my colonists. The Gy on of |
lime ring—a quaint, old, old one, that be- | the song is found In Walsh's collection
q.be longed to his great-greatgrandmother! of dance music, published in the year |
spray And his people live in 8 lovely old | 1750. The most eubstantial soug is ‘
until Elizabethan house, in a regular Cran- | “America,” written by Rev. Samuel F. i
vater ford town; and his mother’s a dear | ‘8 Smith, at Andover, Mass, in February,
ining little old-fashioned soul with side curls, | 3 1833, but this song was set to the mu. .
, agi- and Mollzes lim a omy Tony | slo of “God Save the King” The |
me of anything I ever abou gy 8 ted B -
Gracefully Scaling the Stome Wall. tradition, will you, Polly? I'm not by Franels Scott doit
yore “on the final “Land of the fres.” Still | going to England yet awhile, though, witnessing the bombardment of Fort =
this i ] {no Bob and Bert. Our heroine shies | for Archie’s here indefinitely, to learn | MecHeaory from a British men of wer o
here- a bit of turf at the window, with a | American business methods, in Tom's | on iwhich he was held prisoner, has in 1
esent command, “Weke up, lasybones!” and | line of work. I really have a little recent years been adopted as the na- 2
f lead as the window sash begins $o creak | Spark of American pride, I guess, for I tions! anthem and is now played on
with responsively she begins to carol | 2m glad he's only a younger son, with all patriotic occasions. By order of |
xture “Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom” | no title within reach, though I don’t the government it is received tn both 3
&t the top of her very healthy lungs, | Suppose I'd mind that, or anything else. army and navy eircles with bared o
for Aunt Peggy bas no foolish dig-| Because, Polly dear, I'm not shouting head ‘|
t the nity when it's a question of amusing | the battle ery of freedom nowadays.
icide, the kiddies. At last the window opens | Somehow it gets all mixed up with A Pertinent Question. !
pre- wide and, looking up, she sees— “Rule” Britannia.” Do come up with “My people have lived in this coun
event Polly, what do you think? Instead of | me soon and discuss the new Anglo- try for five generations.”
with- two little white nighties and two Saxon alliance with your bewildered “And did you inherit from them your
” tousled curly heads, there was a man! | but blissful PEGGY. dizinelination to pay taxes?”
A strange young men, my dear; —— |
blonde, blue-eyed, immaculate in a Patriotism. Read It Again. |
beautiful duck suit and gazing at me “My father was wounded in the Read the Declaration of Ind@epend-
with what seemed to be mild horror, Spanish-A erican war and my grand- ence through again. There may be
mixed with amusement, as though I| father lost an arm at Gettysburg” some essential parts of it that you
were an escaped lunatic. I felt like “How did you get that scar on your have forgotten. :
one, I assure you, all the more so be- chin?” = i
cause he was awfully good-looking and “Trying to tie a bunch of firecrack- | Old Belfry, Lexington, Mass. | Parker Memorial Fountain, Lexington. The most fervent prayer may be .
and correct;
Haine to tion made in silence and the most patriotic
og. | citizen may make little noise.
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