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About The Advocate-Democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (July 9, 1897)
W* r, 3 r r . A * ' hi A 1 w a* wiih\\ m I 11/Jr^ D Ifii y €> 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. A i to. $ % v V, i A -I fe ^ «# Ci KPw 7/^ P % ? Y j't : \ M “ 4 .H HSlR MR ■ : 1 1 III TV <igr N.. V (,V t, m & is mi - ( \ i zJ ' t'-rb 5» THEIR FIRST PACKACE OF SHOOTING CRACKERS. CELEBRATING THE FOURTH. I Hub Fireworks Are Made In the World’s i IUliK«at Mfliuifatlorj. i , Hl nrlh l, ,, f r nW ' ig B dav par , j ., J ' “‘writer r fm t“e ur sel gloriti ti , l in St Louis r Sav i ;-i , r , c m»v " be par • to r M arc ton ed as ^to ^ ^,vlm to di!^^u, being probabfv the big m 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 h«« SLZX 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 lU>u as U i9 a att T - tr«ot«e.l fro.uhis-mrk. In to ^i S ^ '"‘ ! y ">»“ 19 alU " v '“ a “ Lut “* « fi‘> , \ the 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« Ua r m ' a9a ‘ ua ^ 1,d * 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 - ; on of the r > e ‘ 4 b I ‘;Xp ? 81 tlirtv-two l L mia 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. li 4 I a* v )mL Urn ai ==rr Investigation. ft I 4 <i - 1 ~ r^ V\ ■ ke,--- Sal- i Consteruation. ■i 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 T,-,,.],) * - The Lesser of Two Evils. XurkeT _„ W l ult are TO u com . b J t j y ou bav ‘, n ’ t anT 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 * j J f d * t on to the ee . ‘^crunch’! is the )o , omotive left soli tho d train bottom, ^f /Once oS the ® v; 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 ; <ije ‘ “ again.-London ° 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 ^
