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To-day the birthright of her hopes the And Lyra's burning stars of peace and end"
marching Nation sings, less unity.
And o'er the nrms of laughing forts the The morning beams across it stream in roses
banner lifts her wings: red and white,
To-day in honor of the Hag the myriad la- As though twere outward rolled from
bors cease the'sliver heaven by angels of the light.
And breathe bugles low the me)- All hall to thee, eelestlal flag, on this pro
lowed notes of peace, phetic morn the light of heaven—
HO bugles ho! Jfo. glimmering bands! That mlnglest with heaven born!
H*> veterans old and true'. hail, flag of
Ho, children marching for the States, ’mid The silver bugles blow and blow across the
roses wined with dew! silver sea,
}p hind ye thrice a hundred ye.-un, before a And speakest thou to every soul this day
thousand grand, °f jubilee!
What says the Past to you to-day, 0 chll- battle Holds, pride beneath ,,
drcn of the land? b lag of the with
What are thy legends,'O thou flag that glad- thy foids I stand,
denast land nnd sea? While gyveless Freedom lifts to thee her
What is thy meaning in Hie aJr amid the choral trumpets grand,
jubilee'' Thou stand's! for Monmouth s march of
flag of the sun that glows for all, Hr", for Trenton’s lines of flame,
flag of the breeze that blows for all. For rippling Eutaw’s field of blood, for
Flag of the sea that flows for all- Yorktown's endless fame;
The Silver bugles blow and blow across the For Cape de Oatt, and tierce Algiers, and
silver sen Ferry’s blood-red deck,
What ■-III V meaning in the air? O banner, For Vera Cruz, and Monterey, and white
answer me! Chapultepec: stand’st Humter's broken wall,
Thou for
No azure lmvon old art thou, homo on too us high above Jybee
I'alnu r's spear; Tho shouting forts uplift again the Stars of
No Grill am me of Bed Cross Knight, or coif- Unity;
fureil cavalier- For Chattanooga’s rain of fire and that
No gold pomegranates of the aun burn on The grand drums echelon led at Gettysburg beneath
thy silken cloud, deep
Nor Shamrock green, nor Thistle red, nor the smoky sun,
Couehant Lion proud; Thou stand st for Progress and the years
No golden bees of purpled Isles on red taf- all golden orbed to be,
fetn wrought, For earth's new Romo upon the land, and
Nor eagle poising in the sky above the oce- Greece upon the sea,
lot. Thou stund’st that all the rights of men
may every kingdom people bless, the world in
No gaping dragons haunt thy folds as in And God’s own walk
the white sun's spray, peace and righteousness!
When westering Vikings turned their prows
from uoonless Norroway; O my America, whose flag we throne amid
No double crowns beneath the cross are in the sky,
thy hues unfurled, Beneath whose folds tis life to livo and
Bneh as the Prophet Pilot led toward the noblest death to die,
sunset world; I hear the silver bugles blow across the sli¬
No Golden Virgin, eirolet crowned, such as ver sea,
with knightly pride And bless my God my palace stands a cot¬
Old Balboa throw upon the air o'er tho tage homo Id thee}
Pacific tide. children
Not e'en Ht. George’s Cross Is there that led So speak the voices of the Past, ye
the Mayflower on, of the land,
Nor old Ht. Andrew’s Cross of faith the Behind us thrice an hundred years, before
Double Cross is gone. a thousand grand,
t he silver Imgles blow and blow across the Buch are the land legends of yon flug that glad
silver sea, dens and sea.
(Vhat is tliv moaning, O thou flag, this day Buch is the Hand that scrolls the air this
of Jubilee? day of jubilee. shines for all,
Flag of the sun that all,
0 children of the States, yon flag more Flag of the breeze that blows for
happy lustres deck Flag of the sea that flows for all,
Than orlflammes of old Navarre or Crcssy Hall) flag of Liberty! all bail!
or Boseboq. The Festal Day has come!
The Covenanter's field of blue, caught from —II. Butterwortb, In Youth’s Companion,
the clear sky, see,
A FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION.
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THEIR FIRST PACKACE OF SHOOTING CRACKERS.
CELEBRATING THE FOURTH. I
Hub Fireworks Are Made In the World’s
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^to ^ ^,vlm to di!^^u, being probabfv the big
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no nth in the land laLcst will be surprised
, hat thc manufactorv
i tiu -works in the world is will in Amer
\v’;t Theword manufactorv itoubt
.. tiA to building . did to
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andlalH.r So you will easily myself imagine
my surprise when I found
eorted instead to a vast meadow of
Rome seventv acres, dotted over
little smokeless, noiseless huts, fifty or
sixtv in number, interspersed bwe and
there w.th larger ones and two-story
buildings In these small huts are
hies, and they are therefore placed at
snch a d'-tamv ....... each other that
an «* He« ia
Tin I :ve power of these delightful
disj la., :s simply due to the rapid
evol ition of gas. One has but to,
ligh tin fuse in order to produce gas
with sufficient rapidity to press
agaii st ;he air and thus impel the
piece forward in its course.
Tlife wheel is used as a motive power
in so, ne very funny set pieces. I was
show i the skeleton of a donkey out
liii. l i by the lances and quick match
in the manner which I have described.
Attaefied to it was alighting, a wheel which acted
when set in motion by
upon the legs of the donkey in a most
lively and vivacious manner.
charging is done. The floors are coy
eredwith rubber, and protections forbid- are
numerous. Talking is strictly
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At a respectful distance buildings\bere
hats are the larger carried
less dangerous work is on,
and where many boys and not less
than seventy-tire girl, are employed.
Here one finds enormous quantities of
brown and white paper, hundred
weights of let pins for attaching J the quick 'iron
mateh to pieces, st ami
stars ,h ; ‘ '^nd Thu
f . d WUe ’ and oth«
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Scarcely less interesting t i ^ w a. H no. U)
w atch the nimble fingers as they filled
tbe Roman caudles. Into one of these
strong cases were put the layers, in the
follow ing order: ( omposition, a pmeh
He case was quite tilled the i p<
te tbe varioualy
ored i. The Komaa candle not
only i ;s by herself, “a thing of
sweeti and of light,” but fills an
import part in pieces like The
Devil mg Tailors, Chinese trees,
etc. gether a dainty modest erea
ture, e unlike her more noisy,
frisky dred.
Let figures, in fact, all designs
for m .ees afe made by means of
bund? yes, thousands of lances
contit by a quick match, and the
making .hese requires many nimble
fingers! V ize lance ot is squib, a small filled tube with
about tb a
ordinary omposition, which is gun¬
powder ised by the addition of in
gredien o reduce its rate of com¬
bustion itaining probably not more
than fi per cent, of actual gun
powder match, the indispensable
The « r
fire eon tor, is made by saturating a
piece d up wick with wet gunpow
der am m. It is then reeled off and
dried, afterwards cut into lengths
encase paper tubing. Girls are
chiefly /loved for making this fiery
maeca and turn out millions of
yards year. Let us suppose, for
instan hat one wants the head
Georg ashington to appear in the
heave outlined by a brilliant band
of hg A scale of the proportions
of his ace is first made from a pic
ture. k large frame is then laid on
the ; T, and in the centre of this
frarm ith a bit of crayon is drawn on
the i r, according to the scale, a
very tch enlarged picture, usually
meas ng at least thirty inches from
forelj 1 to chin. A girl then takes a
piece rattan ami bends it to the ex¬
act foi a >t the crayon outline. This
is taste ied to the frame, and upon this
rattan fmtline lances connected are placed by very the
close r. get her, and are
quick Batch. Naturally, for this s< t
of wort, and for all finishing off pi >
cesses,!girls are flexibility preferred of on their account fiu
of the puperior
gers a d theirfgeneral deftness.
Ami* n g the most fascinating fire
work , .re always the rockets and the
beautifully scintillating complicated
wheel 1 which give such charm to set
pieci e There will he this year an in¬
finitely new and beautiful variety of
both these devices. Bockets, display¬
ing a swarm of magic dragon-like ser¬
pent. with vermilion lined bodies,
rock ft bursting forth into a broad
spre&fl of liquid gold with streams of
glittering radiancy lighting up pretty
parachutes, willow tree rockets, dia¬
mond chain rockets—rockets without
en( j Then the number and variety
of /heels! Wheels with a brilliant
out, i ring encircling an inside ring wheels of
J-G! green, contra revolving
wh pots °f fi rt in variegated color:,,
: dnnfeje wheels,
ANs ASSISTED CELEBRATION.
How liiidian* In Idaho “Held Up” a Fourfli
« of July Expedition.
John On jane dturphy, . 80, John 1887, three Portei , of , and us I , boys met
under i shed on the banks of the Cana
dianr, er to plan an expedition for the
Fourtl of July The place where John
MnrpUy and I lived was at Darlington,
Idaho.) John Porter’s home was m
his Fort father Bjeuo, was just first across sergeant the river, in K where com
patiy. Twenty-fourth United States In
fantry. i . dec;
At tbD end of our meeting we
ded to lutheast do to Silver City, about twenty
miles of Darlington We
day—inja started ,on Friday evening-unlucky
buckboard, so as to he there
Saturday, the Fourth
It. a cracker-box in the bottom of the
buckboijrd was a goodly supply
firecrackers, rockets and other fare
works. We traveled very slow, crossed
th© South Canadian river, and struck
acr0 ss the prairie. We had traveled
a boBrt thirteen miles when we were
startled by a succession of fa jells and
rifle sho ts. Looking back were
frighteu«l still worse by seeing a hand
of Indians on horseback coming at us
in a swift gallop yelled Johnny
“Whipiup the Worses ”
Murphy. 1 lashed the hojses, and
they fairly flew o>er the e\eri prairie.
All this time the Indians kept on yell
ing and tiring. I thought i, s range
none of u. were bit, for we wire in re
volver range, let alone rifle r^ige.
XV e managed, however, t , keep tho
^ree law Id “ fiftv yards to otr left we
a u e atid we drove the now
pauung rd sweating 6 horse, toward
It , , , ,
• it. On we nt > il jumpet to e an^ ‘ oi .
crib leav-tg the team the ,, eft ft w ing -
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of the r > e ‘ 4 b
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misaod, but it bad tbe effect ohlrivuig
them back. They Tetired about
twenty-five yards and soon began
shooting fire-brands at the crib. We
thought our time had come, for we
could sea no way of escape. But sud¬
denly we were electrified at the ap
pearance of a series of strange lights
and then we heard a sharp report,
followed by another and another,
Looking on our left we saw pinwheels,
rockets, roman candles and firecrackers
going in fcverv direct': ,n. The horses
were frightened and bolted toward the
group of Indians, carrying the fire
works, for the brands had set fire to
the box in the bottom of the buck
board.
Imagine our surprise when the
Indians commenced to laugh and yell.
Looking closer we recognized a band
of Indians of Darlington headed by a
Cheyenne chief named Short Tooth,
who now came forward with his hands
up, called to us and told us to come
out. Knowing him well, we came
out, and he told us he just wanted to
-■ ci¬ what kind of warriors we would
make. He then complimented us on
being “squaw” warriors, meaning we
were cowards, because we ran like
buffaloes, so be said.
We got our team and all of us went
on to Silver City together, where the
Indians were to engage in a sham
battle on the Fourth.
Although we lost our fireworks, we
had a good time anyway.—Edward
Bay, in Chicago Becord.
They Both Went OIT.
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July 4 at Junius’s. i
“I like what the Declaration of In
butteSranother Suff^about ’ all
me , e il? . e C . Tulils ,_____, ,,,
‘AVe th ere, Junius,” cried
his wife, staying 7 the teapot in the air,
“if that isn’t just like you to begin on
me in that way when I ve had the
lari es » ay in w < .
going off everywhere and making noise
enough to almost paralyze one s
tongue and me having to put up pre
serves over a hot fire just as if a legal
holiday never was m the world and
y° u ofi Wlth a lo t ° f y° ur low tha *
I suppose are what . you mean by being
crea i.i equa ” 8 °]
things that are bad for the blood n and n l
mine heated over the preserving ket
tie till it breaks out all over my face I
mean of course my blood and not the
kettle and you think it smart now to
sit there using twice as much butter as
you ought to on those fresh biscuits
and the price getting higher every day
but a lot you care so long as I have to
churn it and twitting us wo n with
being inferior to men but we s.orn the
insinuation as you’ll very soon find
out when we get the ballot and show
you pretty quick who s inferior and
v.ho am t but for goodness gracious
sake Julius Junius don t sit there m
tha aggravating way of yours saying
nothing positively just like a deaf and
d.ncb man who used to w-ork for
father oil the farm that his uncle
Isaac gave him I mean that father’s
Uncle Isaac gave him and not the deaf
and dumb man for of course anybody’s
own uncle wouldn t go around giving
away valuable side-hill farms to deaf
and dumb men that they never saw
much less spoke to and tell me what it
is you like so much about what
your old Declaration of Independence
sayb. .
As Mrs Junius whistled for brakes
a le ln ^ crossing t.r s ianc
slowly folded his njpkin
It w as so long ago, he said, softly,
“that I have forgotten what I was
Jisiz ssr sra
pole and was skimming around the
ftack far in advance of all contestants.
O. Fuller. Jr., in New York
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The Lesser of Two Evils.
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The Dog—“What’s biting vou!
lou don’t have to live through ’em tb.
way I do through Fourth of
A RAILWAY ON ICE.
Drawing Trains Over Frozen Rivers in
Russia.
nas oeen rese re er rved for P.ussia ‘ to
undertake what wi 1 pro a y
the monumental railway enterprise of
the nineteenth century t 1 8
completion ofa belt ot rails around the
world-at least so far as terra &ma is
concerned The Trans-Siberian Bail
"ay, which is now in course of con
struction, has reached as far as Kras
moar.sk, which is the exact centre of
Asiatic Bussia, and in four years time
it is expected that it will be completed
to the Pacific Coast, and direct Bail
way communication established be
tween the most western point of
Europe and the most eastern point of
Asia. The most significant fact in con¬
nection with the Trans-Siberian Bail
way is that it will make possible a
journey around the world in less than
forty days, and thus .Jules Verne s ro¬
mantic globe-trot will have been re¬
duced to the tune of 50 per cent.
The work of construction has been
pushed on with an energy Russian. not usually
associated with things The
manner in which the Government has
gone slap-bang in this work has been a
surprise to the engineering world, but
like most Muscovite undertakings, the
whole line from Chelabiuski, in the
Urals, to its present termination, has
suffered irom bad management. The
rails are miserably laid, and the road
ballasted in a most precarious manner. nobody
Smashups are frequent, but as
outside Bussia hears much of them the
world is not worried. The pace, too,
of the Siberian trains is wretched, the
average speed not exceeding twenty
versts (about thirteen miles) per hour.
But what the constructional Russian engineers
have lacked in skill
they have compensated for by novel
experiments. Everybody knows that
Siberia is a cold place. The rivers
freeze to a considerable depth in win¬
ter, but still nobody would conceive
that they would freeze sufficiently to
bear a locomotive and a whole train of
heavy wagons hurtling across from
one side to the other. But such is
the fact.
The experiment was first tried on
the Biver Obi last year. At first a
light train was drawn by horses over
tracks frozen on to the icy surface of
the river. Then a locomotive was
steamed across, and, as it did not go
through, it was satisfactorily estab¬
lished that Siberian ice was of a dis¬
tinctly bearing quality. Once this fact
was patent, the brow of the Bussian
engineer cleared, for, while it was
easy to get along rapidly with the con¬
struction of the line on the ground it¬
self, the building of bridges over the
rivers was a longer job, and, as a mat¬
ter of fact, the bridges over the Obi
and the Achinsk are not yet half fin¬
ished. “Why not use nature’s bridge
~ the ic f” thou & ht the Kuseian; aDd
running fost on experience the ice was of at the the jailway Liver
Achinsk. This is a tolerably bread
» ver ’ perhaps twice as wjde as the
SSS — uftoitS * ed
shore> ^ 8Urface pr sent
one white mass of snow-covered ice.
7 continued down the
and across the ice to
% other 1 '^^pped side
,^ at the edge | of the
^ ( <luctor bad us t
out and walk, humorously f remarking
^ , f thjj train went tl r011gh) (mly
he and the driver would be drowned,
The h , motley cr0 wd of befnrred
P n S thereupon f descended and
ili!ed flm)SS the ce . At the centre
h how the
twould Leliave cend'ed
glowI ^ tbe heavv mass deS
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J f d * t on to the ee .
‘^crunch’! is the
)o , omotive left soli tho d train bottom, ^f /Once oS the
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te , ^ , f lt parsed sa 6 „ in the cra“k’l ice ,
me,
prack , ]jke bnrst of sma]1 6re .
work> notif ing me tbat the ice felt it
dl 7 But it bore bravely, and in
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Ausweis.
Profits 3')0 t f» 500 Pf? r Cent j
Tii0 selvia „ m3ehiae one c the
greatest ^ blessings in the way of ma
bme3 ever offered the publiCi \ so i d for
t sjxt dollar8 n the United
-g^ The same machine, however,
be sbi P P d to a forei „ a laQ j, co , dd
bc ^ . ch ft sed below tweQt thi dollar8 .
fhe P tent8 ran out { price fell
rapidly UQ tiI now 8ewing mac llne8 are
sold for twenty-five / dollars and often
^ twent dollars . The Mwin
ma chine manufacturers became im
mensely rich from their profits of sev
^^f^rhpewriting era j hundred per cent It has been
machines
one hundred dollars each
It is general y understood that an
agreement exists whereby these high
prices are maintained. Business men
are compelled to pay from threehuc
dred to five hundred per cent, profit
8° without the machines,
Are there any other machines which
tb, ,,„ w
chine did for years, and the type
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