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JULY 2, 1904
How Declaration of Independence
VST „ ^!z tten ’ St sned and Announced
tHotic Americans are about
ceiObrallmr +
THE SUNNY SOUTH
FIFTH <PAGE
gating the nation’s
birthday anniversary, tho !
*’>''>* »«ln« i
S' n(.rally and heartily 0 i,_ |
served as a public holiday i
than any other annlversa-
ry day in the United
\ 1 os » a word picture of
bow the Declaration of In
dependence was written
and signed, where signed ,
nd by whom -publicly '
d written in the light of many now
d , lmp °rtant historical discoveries re.
r, V nR Kt thiB great natl °nal event ’will
doubt prove very interesting p a ™
"ly as the old Uberty HeU wn lch
"do b ° Ut the proclamation of l
• Declaration^ July 8 , 1776, l s away
T " ’~ ‘ ’ hall, Phil- |
■lving the homage of loval '
jncans at the world’s
ni Its home in Tndependor
• Iphia, rocr»T\
a g-ood prophet, ex-
■I as L o the day that would be
Clio
oinnieinc
wife that o:
chosen
ition, when he wrote to
th " 2d of July “would
the in of t memorable epoch in the his-
'V of America," and added
odd “bo celebrated by sur
-1Tons' as the
tnat it
'ding gen- ]
„ great anniversary fes- i
■ -1. oe solemnized with pom,, and
r ide, with shows, games, sports, guns !
nfires and Illuminations from one end 1
the continent to the other, from this j
n“ forward forevermore.’’ i
Hie celebration of the nation’s birth- j
anniversary has taken the exact !
n predicted hy John Adams. Just ,
' v the American people property ceie
rte the Fourth Instead of the second I
In the date selected by John Adams j
an interesting story.
-n June 7. 1776. Richard Henry Pee. -
N i. gi-la. Introduced In congress tnia
solution:
1 ’ ' ° ■ That these united colonies
mi of right ought to bo free and
lependent si't's; that they are ah- I
.1 from ah allegiance to the British I
■wn. anrl tnat all political connection i
'* en them and the state of Great -
bain *s and ought to he totally dls-
[ hero were thirteen united eolonies,
1 sev. n of them • Virginia, North G.ir-
nn. Georgia. Massachusetts, ('onneetl-
New Hampshire and Rhode Island—
■r. ready to vote at once for the resn-
.-in. t.ut some of the older colont-a
c opposed, the delegates of others
’ o without instructions, and, as una-
Olct Liberty Bell, Which Rung Out the Proclamation df .'.■cc r „ J nacnce.
bate, and
Tuly 4, and signed by all the members
then present except Mr. Dickinson.
"lie original declaration signed upon
paper on July 4 was afterwards en
grossed upon parchment, and this parch
ment copy was signed August 2 and at
subsequent dates, some of the signers
not having been members of congress at
the time of its adaption.
ls adopted on the evening of | written the declaration in tho house of
a Mr. G.atz (Graffi, ‘‘a new brick house,
three stories high, of which 1 rented the
second floor, consisting -of a parlor and
bedroom, ready furbished. In that .parlor
1 wrote habitually, and in it T wrote
this paper particularly.” Mr. Jefferson
recollected that the house was on the
south dde of Market street, probably be
tween Seventh and Highth streets, and
i he h
! hous
as the
dispose
house,
1 uilt i
laratir i
There
north line—a low. Irregular square, with
a bastion-like tower in the center, and
Epire in which the boll that day hung,
and beat against the -still hot air.
John Nixon, who was a member of th*
committee of safety and most efficient
friend of America In the revolutionary
struggle, was tho reader of the declar
ation. The platform on which he stood
that forever memorable day was ,a rough
frame scaffolding or stage, standing
midway on the line of the eastern walk
between Fifth and Sixth streets. Tt had
been erected by the American Philoso
phical Society as an “observatory” In
1760.
Around Nixon -stood a small body of
those resolved citizens and tlielr repre
sentatives. who. in their children’s chil
dren, were to be the masters of the con
tinent—the foremost nation of all time.
In a clear, strong tone the patriot
read the paper which preserves our lib
erties to Its close, his voice., audible to
everyone, was heard a long distance from
the square. Deborah I,ogan. who lived
In the Norris mansion at the time, says
he distinctly heard the reading ’ from
the garden of that house. When the
reading was over the audience gave three
repeated huzzas, and the old hell in the
state house steeple began tolling again
and the chimes and all the bells i n the
city rang together and continued ring
ing all that day and almost all night.
WHAT THE KING CANNOT DO.
Reservations of tfi e Royal Prerogative
In England.
(From The London Hour Glass.!
Tt is a prevalent and popular motion that
the power possessed by the monarch is
absolute and almost without limitation.
This is a fallacy, as the following facts j
will attest. The privileges and powers j
relegated to royalty are manifold and '
peculiar, but there are. certain things that
a king may not do
"While *t Is quite within the province of
the royal prerogative to dispose of the
entire army or navy, and* also to declare
livar without (consulting anybody, yet
our king could not utilize a penny of tho
public funds without permission fro-m par- |
liament. However excellent and benefl- j
cent his motive may be for so doing, the -
klr.g Is debarred from communicating |
with any of his loyal subjects, and the |
same limitation prohibits him from ac- j
eepting gifts from any of his people, ex- j
cept in cases where t.'he offerings are j
presented through tho medium of an ofli- j
cc r of the state or an Intimate friend of j
his majesty. After an individual has j
beep elected by his constituents to take j
his seat in the British senate at West- i
minster it Is not in the power of the king!
himself to prevent th,- member from oc
cupying his place In that august ussem- !
bly
Of his own royal prerogative King Ed-
Clever Italian Art Is Shown at the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition
N each of the great exhibit j masterpieces of sculpture, and original j overturned by a great dog with a bone
palaces at the Louisiana j figures and groups in Castalina, Carrafa | In his mouth. Here again the realism i»
Purchase exposition, some jand colored marbles, by a dozen or more Iso great that the spectator catches hlrn-
one display takes promi- j 0 f the modern Italian sculptors. Among j self in the act of springing to the rescue,
nece over al! the others in | these ,^re Rovini. Bessi, Petrilli, Roma- There is an infant with a fly on the end
public interest. The center j nelli and Vichi, men who have revoiu- ! 0 f his nose, and another with a great
of attraction in the Palace
of Manufacturers ls un
questionably the enormous
collection of Italian sculp
ture that occupies the
northwest corner of the
building. The sensation
that seizes the beholder as
he comes upon this exhibit for the lirst
time is one of mingled astonishment and
tionized not only tho methods of the : beetle crawling over ills ear. Such con-
sculptor, but the very ideas and ideals
that give being to the marble form. Tue
transition from the -work of the Greek
sculptors to that of tho modern Italians
could not be shown more strikingly than
it is in this collection. Here we see, side
by side, the Venus of Milos, beautiful in j there is a startling
her strong simplicity, and the thoroughly
up to date Venus of 1904. The marbles
of all our previous acquaintance nave
admiration, coupled with an instinctive j been characterized by coldness and an
bvlous absence of realism. They were
feeling that he must have wandered into
the sculpture pavilion of the fine arts Jail art creations, constructed along lines
ceptions the old sculptors would never
have thought of carrying out in marble.
Among the modern works there •>. ra
several line portrayals of Beatrice Cenci
the face and hands in Carrara and the
draperies In poach blossom marble, and
roup of three herolo
Bacchantes, tho two at the sides at
tempting to throw the central one Into a
pond. The victim resists with a vigor
of muscular activity such as has rar y
been wrought In stone.
Scattered among the pure white mar-
1 i Idea that It was a corner : ward possesses full power to pardon a'
murderer, even after he has been found
; gut It y and sentenced to death by the rep- j
| representatives of the law. Yet, by a curl- I
* ous statute of one of the Georges, the!
j king Is prevented from exhibiting mercy
| or grace to a willful Sabbath breaker. I
To render every new law absolute and 1
! irrevocable the royal autograph must be :
invariably atached thereto, nor is his
; majesty ever permitted to perform this
| duty by proxy. Even the salaries of the
I king's servants are fixed by state offi-
| cials, and he cannot raise the salary of
! his own private purse. That the king
j can do no wrong is obviously the view
taken by his counsellors, for by the laws
| that hedge the throne no person can
! take action against his majesty, and ho
cannot be arrested by the emissaries of
| the law on any pretext whatever.
Kelly’s oyster house, long known
Jefferson house, is conclusively
d of. because it is a two-story
but chiefly because it was not
util twenty years after the Poc-
j of Independence.
• remained the tw houses, 710 and
\? Market street, to contend for the
>nor, and when the: - were torn down
) make room for the I’onn national
ink. fiouthwest corner of Seventh and
urket streets. Mr. Donaldson obtained
inch sive proof that the corner house
as first built, and, therefore, must have
•on the one In which the declaration
as written. ITe bought nearly all the
lilding material of tills historic house,
lie Penn national bank building ocou-
es --th lots, and bears a bronze tab-
t recording that It occupies the site of
ie 1 .hiding where the declaration wa»
ritt- n lint the tablet is on the divld-
g ir:e betw-en 700 and 702 Market
roe.*, instead of being wholly upon No.
SETTING THE CLOCK FAST.
(From The New York Herald.)
- It ls a common thing to find the clocks
i in nine out of ten households either flf-
i teen minutes or half an hour fast, and
should you happen to be in a hurry or
mention the fact that you have to be
going you are at once reassured by the
' fact that you have no cause to hurry, as
j the clock la so much ahead of the time.
Has It ever occurred to you why clocks
are usually put ahead? Some physicians
the ! have said t Is due to laziness, for it is
such a satisfaction to tile lazy man to
It was adopted and fl nd when he has io get up at 7 in the
d to be sent out to I morning and strains his haif closed eyes!
‘ to look at the clock that It is half an j section by mistake
rly 128 years j
:o a comimlt-
ilc house to consider the
(dependence. It was not j
rover, until the next day, j
dopted, and the declara- i
in the committee of the j
again discussed on July j
conventions,
Committee of Continental Congress Drafting Precious Document of.
Declaration of Independence,
ntmtty
On
from
was desirable, if not absolutely
necessary, the friends of the resolution
"iimy consented to postpone taking a
,.te upon it until the 1st of July
the 1st of July the delegation
South Carolina, although without instruc-
t ions, was ready to vote tor
■ vote would make tno
tion, provided sudtivoiL a vote
waTtakrC^ommlUee of the whole,
: colonies voted .for ^
- lot- - SO
Controversy arose many years after
wards as to where the Declaration of
Independence was written, and Thomas
Donaldson wrote an Interesting book on
the subject. The Philadelphia houses
claiming the distinction tvere the In-
On July 4, Mr. Harrison, from
i- m nittec. reported the Declaration of |
! ndc jiendence.
copies wore ord
the several assembles
committees of councils of
throughout the land, and t
o:-ti tiers of ihe continental troops, so
u to have it everywhere proclaimed.
A NEW EMPIRE.
Jiflferson, Franklin and John Adams
vt re appointed as soon as the deelara-
ion was adopted, to prepare a seal for
he United States. Thus in the words
-f Judge Clayton at the time: “A de
cree is now gone forth not to be recalled,
I and has thus suddenly risen in the world
j a new empire, styled the United States
| of America.”
j All traditions regarding the adoption
j of the declaration and the birth of the
i nation point to the fact that the whole
proceeding was conducted in the quietest
; and most unostentatious manner. The
; debates were with closed doors; few
speeches were made, and none have been
The Mischievous Dog, Marble Creation in Italian .Section of Palace of Manufactures, World's
A close inspection
hour fast and he has so much more time of this forest of statuary is more than
to doze, with the result that he over- Hkviy to reveal several reasons for its
sleeps himself anyhow and misses his presence in the Palace of Manufacturers
train or boat. in stead of the Art Palace on the hill.
Said a watchmaker whun asked about The primary reason is that in the
the subject: Pai.ii’e of Fine Arts the art works must
“Tes it Is a peculiar thing with most , } exhibit ed bv the artist himself,
people to put their clocks fast. and. ‘ „ .. * - . ,,
while there mav be some satisfaction in 10 code tion of statuary m the Man-
It when It comes to dozing a little Ion- ufacturers’ building is the property of
ger. there is really no advantage in it. half a dozen Florentine firms, and while
for when you wake up, say, at 6 and several of the sculptors whose original
lance ait the clock and it registers half
past 6, the fact remains that it is a
half hour fast. While this may make you
feel easier, knowing that you still have
thirty minutes to doze, 1 confess I don’t
see much advantage in it.
"Why not ‘have the clock right
the same thing In the end.
“Suppose railroads were to put this
into practice, how many trains do you
think people would miss thereby?
compositions are on display have accom
panied their work and are ready to tell
the visitor a thousand interesting things
about it. yet the exhibit is made by the
sculpture dealers and not by the sculp-
It ls tors. This fact puts the collection at once
into the class of commercial displays.
According to the original classification
This ■ of the manufactured products, the stat-
dian Queen inn, located on the
st i reported; the secretary's record is but
putting clocks fast is really only a pleas- uary should have been in the Palace
ant form of deception which people like Varied Industries, that is supposed to
to practice on themselves,
more harm than good.”
but it does ■ house the products of artistic value, just
; which, however badly the work was
; done, suggested art rather than nature.
The marbles of the. modern Italian sculp-
1 tors are realistic to tile highest degree,
j That this secession from time-honored
j Ideals and iron clad laws should have
come about in Italy, the home of pure
| art. is surprising indeed. Yet the fact
! remains, and a thousand figures attest
’ Its truth.
I There are scores of groups that were
| modeled not to show the graceful hu-
| man form nor the lovely human face, but
| rather the texture of a knit bathing suit
| or a lace and embroidery bonnet. There
| are babies seated on pillows, marble pil
lows that are so faithfully portrayed
that one can scarcely resist the tempta-
i tion to press them, so plastic and soft
do they appear. There are girls whose
! faces show distinctly through the filmy
folds of marble veils, and others whose
Palace of Liberal Arts contains j forms shimmer through gauzy marble
side of Fourth street, above Chestnut,
which was tom down hi 1851: ithe
brick house on the west side of Seventh
street, south of Market street (Kelly’s
. a dry and meagre memorandum of busf-
I ness.
Near the hour of noon, July 8, 1776.
[ the old Liberty Bell was rung for the
FAMOUS BATTLE SONGS.
(From Pearson’s Weekly.)
igainst it:
the
Xew York j Nor. 702 Market street. Jefferson him- treeless
B-ked to be excuseO from
InW instructions they had receive-
hibUed turn fror. taking -ch act
THE REASON WHY.
wS-*- “f,
of her do’cFate^ being r ’ ' the
I oyster house); the brick house No. 700 j proclamation of the declaration. The
Market street, and Lite brick storehouse, | place selected for the reading was a
lien space near the rear of the
the building. Tho
square, a level ground, broke oil abrupt
ly on its south side like an earthwork.
The state house ran along its whole
jas the
those that are of educational and scien
tific value. Lack of space for so large
a display of sculpture In the building at
t of the Plaza of St. Louis, made
Ibles and those of var!<
many pieces that at iir-d
old ivory. On second t
j members that they are s
i tion of the marbles that
I centuries in the clay sr
i were softened in tone 1
with the soil. The mf*:
stained, Is polished so th:
effect of mellow age. T
figures are modern cot:
the copies of the old ma
nals of which are yeiiov
al! done in pure white. V
in the collection this rul
carried out. The origina
and groups are in the i
bronze, while the copies
Naples collection have the
and purple patinas of tl
scarred surface and the
that were produced by
from Vesuvius have been
fully by the use of acids,
so that these copies pre:
actly the appearance of
buried in the ruins of Pi
collection of statuary is o
There are two instances on record of i th ., , , ,
j n necessary to show these wonderful
vi.i< i. and the delegates ro n _ ag tho se!t disposed of the Indian Queen inn’s |central entranc
d pro- | pretensions when he wrote, less
ar before h'is death, to Dr.
Philadelphia, that ho had
resolution. New
„ week later the
endorsed the' on the 2d of July
U rU as to the independence of
^rSnlc-s) that led John Adams to
pend the news to
Xew York convention
his wife with the pre-
, congress ware se-
LUit the ” * ,J ubl!c did not know
rrrt ,I ter' tZImportant action that had
,,n u n i" the meantime congress
been taWn ; committee to prepare a | |
had nppoin independence, giving to I a f.
Declaration of I ^ for the step that
the world tne r . thlc? tf ec iara- j
had already been * ' * Fourth
Son having ^^1^^ Fourth. |
°' U Z 2d was, naturally, taken as the j
not tno nation,
birthday of the n » olnted> June
The committee PP Dpf ,,. irat !,-,n of In- j
1776, to P rep “” composed of John j
dependence ^ Franklin. Roger
Adams, Dr Re J uvlngston and
Rherman, Robe, t R.
Thomas Jefff “ rson : h - t each member was
Tradition says th that JefTer-
fo draft a declaration the ot her
f on’s having been> fir t declin( .d to
members of the Jefferson himself ,
produce th £ rS ’ nl lttee desired him to
says that the that It wa s a P'
do It: that he d ‘ d |t ' tpe and reported
proved by the committ . ^ ^ on ttl0
to the house on of the resolu-
UP for ae-
battle being won by a war song.
| the fifth century German us, bishop of | m;
! Auxerre, and Lupus, bishop of Troyes,
j were sent into Britain to refute the
1 doctrines of Pelagius. During their stay
in this island the Piets and Scots, hear-
1 ing that the Roman legion had been
1 withdrawn, commenced hostilities and
t drove the Britons from the northern to
; the more southern parts of the island.
! Germanus, at the request of the hard-
pressed islanders, led them against the
j picts and Scots, who had advanced as
| far as Mold, in Flintshire,
j The bishop, having been a military com- :
mander in his youth, placed his men in
an advantageaus position and then start
ed one of the songs of the church. This
song began at the commencement of the
1 battle, and so vociferously did the Britons
sing tiie refrain, "Halleluiah,” that the
hills, echoing with the sound, terrified
j their enemies and caused them to fiee in
! all directions. This was called the hai-
I leluiah victory. The date ia fixed by
! ail historians at A. D. 429.
The second instance occurred on the
6th of November, 1792. when the French,
under Dumouriez, encountered the Aus
trians at Jeinmapes, in Belgium. The
day was going dead against the French,
when Dumouriez ran out to the trout
and XjUsed the "Aharseinalsei,” Forty
thousand voices instantly took up the
chorus, and. Inspired by the magic of
the battle song, the French rallied and
fell so furiously upon the Austrians that ;
tho tide of battle was completely turned :
and victory given for defeat.
and bronzes in the society of
gti ci ranges and factories in operation.
This proximity of the material tilings of
life does not in any way detract from
| the effectiveness of the display.
THE MASTERS.
The collection consists of copies in
draperies. One piece that is always sur
rounded by a crowd of wondering specta-
I tors is the nude figure of a woman, about
| half size reclining In a hammock, her
left arm hanging limp and soft, so that ,property of Professor Petr
the finger tips touch the ground. Under u,. „ internal evidt
and around her is a white counterpane
that Is so realistic In Its execution that
it seems as if one could pull out the
J threads that form the pattern. The en
tire figure is plastic and warm, in spite
j of tho fact that it is white marble. At
another place in the collection a high
; the brush of that famous ol
I Dippo Lippi. The entire
| valued at $1,000,000.
Castalina marble and bronze of the old j chair that holds a terrified child is being
House Where the Declaration of Independence Was Written, Southwest
Corner of Seventh and Market Streets, Philadelphia.
A CHANCE TO MAKE MONEY, i
| I have berries, gra-pes and poaches a year |
old, fresh as when picked. I used the Call- I
' fomia Cold Process. Do not heat or seal th* j
' fruit. Just put it up cold; keeps p*rfectl> j
fresh, and costs almoet nothing;. Can put up |
a bushel In ten minutes. Last year 1 sold d!- !
reotions to over 120 families in one week; j
! any one will pay SI for directions wh4n they |
«ee tho beautiful samples of fruit. As there !
are many peoplo poor like myself, I consider |
It my duty to kIvo my experience to such and ]
' feel confident any one can make one or two
1 hundred dollars round home in a few days. •
■ I will mall cample of fruit and full directions <
*; —,y of your readers for nineteen (19) 2-cent
stamps, which ls only the actual cost of the
samples, postage, ato. FRANCIS CASEY, SU
Louis, Mo.
Historic Old Independence Hall, Wherein Was Signed Declaration of Inde-
pendence, in 1776.
Family Washer Free.
(Editorial from “Mp.lUal Talk,” Colum
bus, Ohio).
There is a family washer, call
" l90 °” Ball-Bearing, that ...
vertised for some time,
"it'h extensive sale. * ;
their washer absolutely free for thirty
daj s. and if you don’t like It you < m
send it back at their expense.
This seemed to us such an extraordi
nary offer an,; di (played •
confidence on the part of the manufac
turers that we could not resist its ap
peal. We had a vague s ispieion that
there was a hole in the proposition some
where. On the face of it, it api
more than fair, absolutely mi -
Being in need of a washer we al! 'wed
t’he machine to be sent for the thirty
days trial. In leas than thirty days we
had sent them our ch* ok for the washer.
The reason was we liked the washer very
much on account of the simpli :ity
construction and the durable materials
of which It is composed. It is easily op
erated, dot's effeouv,. work, and abso
lutely won the confidence of the hard-
fisted old ■washerwoman who ‘has harbored
a lifelong prejudice against washing ma
chines. It’s all right.
These people Have so much confidence
in their washer that they will pay the
freight both ways if j >u do l’t iike it.
Just let them know you want a washer
and they will do the rest, and, at tho
end of thirty tfays, if you have any fault*
to find with your purchase you can sh’.a
it back. If you need a waste r you will
never find a better one. Address 1900
Washer Co., 138 Henry street, Bingham-
i ton, N. Y.
NOTHING NEW THERE.
(From Judge.)
Easter—Yes. the latest thing In trans
portation is the single-rail railroad. It
ls brand new, you know.
•Alkali Ike—Huh! Mebbe it is in your
I country, stranger, but it’s been a pop’Iar
inehod uv transportin’ undesirable people
| outer Red Dog fer a good many years.
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