Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 5 July 1895 — Page 12

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ESTABLISHED IN 1845.

FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1895.

JULY 4, 1895.

ING the bells and let them peal again, And may the day be greeted With the shrill life and merry I strain,

With swelling song and drums' refrain And cannon roar repeated.

So let us do. The good old ways In this aro past improving, And in these lin de sieele days Let powder fizz and bang to praise

A country wortli the loving.

Of all the land beneath the sky This beats the whole caboodle. Besides she's ours, and that is why Wo fling her banners forth on high

And volley Yankee Doodle.

Here's all that may delight the eye Or please a manly spirit. Plains big and fair, hills blue and high, And sea washed shores, and smiling sky

Do Freedom's sons inherit.

Here man is man. and fame and place Are earned, not heritages. The tanner wins a glorious race The great, rail splitter's sad, strong facd

Looms large on history's pages.

Old Europe trembles at the sign That bids her thrones ring hollow, While sixty million sons of time Set fast, the pace, lead swift the lino

And leave the world to follow.

Still let us lead. The cause of man Is worth man's best endeavor. Still run the course the patriots ran. Still keep Old Glory in the van

Forever and forever.

THE PEOPLE.

Pergonal Gossip Relative to Crawfordsville People and Their Friends From Elsewhere.

—Wall paper at the 99 cent store. —Bicycles repaired at the 99c store. —Mrs. Paul Larsh left Wednesday for California, where she joins her husband. —Miss Pearl Craig, of Chicago, is here to spend the summer with Mrs. C. P. Throckmorton. —Albert E. Davis has completed his course in the Ann Arbor law school and is now visiting in Crawf®rdsville preparatory to accepting one of several good openings in view.

Gaston Boone.

Gaston Boone, the well known barber who was formerly the celored dude of Crawfordsville, is now in a most lamentable condition. He is filthy and covered with vermin, living no one knows how. It was decided to take him to the creek on Wednesday and give him a compulsory bath and a change of raiment. Ben Fly was retained for the work but at the last moment Trusteee Hartman determined to change the programme and take the poor wretch to the poor farm. He will be installed there as soon as possible.

Will We Have Meters?

A question that is concerning a good many citizens of Crawfordsville at present is the probability of the use of meters by the Natural Gas Company next season. The franchise gives the company the right to use them but it is impossible to learn at the office as to whether we will hereafter burn by meter or as formerly. No one need be surprised, however, to hear that meters are to be put in. The use of meters would not increase the expense of fuel to those who use the gas as it should be used.

Groentlyke-Heynolds.

Wednesday at high noon occurred the marriage of Peter Groendyke and Etlie Maud Reynolds, five miles northwest of the city. The ceremony was performed by Rev. G. P. Fuson, of this city. A sumptuous dinner was served, after which the bridal party left for Waveland to visit relatives. Manj' valuable presents were received amid the best wishes of a large number of their friends.

A Good Citizens' League at Darlington.

A committee from Crawfordsville will be at Darlington Monday evening, July S, at 8 p. m. in the M. E. church to organize a Good Citizens' League. All good citizens of Franklin township are invited to be present and help along the good work.

The Union Meeting.

The union meeting under the auspices of the Good Citizens' League will occur next Sunday evening at the Methodist church instead of the Y. M. C. A. as announced.

Mr. lCustin'g Success.

Hiram Rustin, who was graduated from Wabash College a few days ago with the class of '95, has been appointed principal of the high school at Princeton.

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Marcellus Taylor and Lizzie Piatt.

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BY A SOUTHERN WRITER.

Time brings its changes and we old fellows are prone to think the former things were better than those that now exist. One fact is evident, that as the years pass people get farther away from the enthusiasm and abandon that marked the celebration of the ever-to-be-glorious Fourth of July. Whether the calm dignity, the commonplace picnics or seeming indifference of the present be as inspiring as the commemorations of other clays let the reader determine when lie shall have perused what follows.

Ah! how fresh in memory is the Fourth of July of fifty years ago in the Southland! What preparations were made weeks in advance by old and young, and how every one did talk of the possibilities and probabilities of the occasion. The programme usually began as early as the hour of one in the morning, when every church bell, the city hall and the court house bells rang out clanging and clashing notes, awaking everybody out of sleep. The complete enjoyment of this bell-ringing to the participants, usually lads of twelve to eighteen, lay in finding entrance to

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USHERING IN THE FOURTH.

the bell towers without the consent of the officials in charge of the same. With the first notes of the manytoned bells all of the boys of the town, and many men with them, sallied forth from their several homes, to form in parties of from six to twelve, each person armed with a flint-lock horse pistol, a musket of the revolution or a great bore shotgun. Loud and yet louder the firearms flashed, for, as enthusiasm grew the charges of powder became larger, until it would seem that the guns must surely burst. While the bells clanged and the sharp reports rang out in the darkness, childish voices thrilled with patriotic songs, that fired the hearts of the one or two yet living soldiers of the revolution in almost every southern as well as northern town, and made them think afresh of Cowpens and Yorktown. So rang the bells and so fired the guns until sunbeams began to dance upon the church steeples, svhen urchins and adults betook themselves home to hastily swallow their breakfasts.

Then followed firecrackers galore, everybody, men and women, joining in, the sport being continued throughout the day and until midnight. The ceremonies, which began at eleven o'clock, included a real oration all afire with patriotism, the reading of the Declaration and enlivening music and songs. The uniformed militia., as well as the ununiformed, paraded the streets followed by an innumerable procession of admirers of all ages and both sexes. The negro slaves, queer travesty upon light and knowledge, entered into the spirit of the occasion just as heartily as though the Declaration included them in the birthright of equality.

A ragamuffin parade was an inevitable accompaniment of the day, following close after the barbecue dinner from which nobody was excluded and where everyone ate his fill. This motley crew, made up of men in all manner of disguises, rode or drove all manner of incongruous creatures and called into requisition every kind of rattle-trap, broken down convej'ance.

No man so poor that he might not get drunk on the Fourth, whisky being served in the ladle and without a faucet, direct from the barrel.

The night was ushered in by a great central bonfire fed by tar barrels, deserted outhouses, lumber and all manner of combustibles. Everybody busily shot off fireworks and no one was unhappy as long the blaze burned. Accidents were plentiful, but no one minded them, and the events of the day and evening afforded ample food for village gossip until the next Fourth came round.

AFTER THE FOURTH.

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"The cannon wentoff ill of asuddent, mum, as he wuz a blowin' into it. You had better put him to bed, for I think his stummlck is filled with powder!"— Life.

BY CHARLES EUGENE BANKS.

All broadly In the summer sun "Old Glory" whips the sky, While cannons boom and muskets crash

A quick and full reply.

Wild bursts of music thrill the air From bands a hundred strong, And waiting voices fill each pause

With patriotic song. And pleasure grasps the cobweb'd life, And peace tho dusty drumIt is Columbia's gain day—

The queen, the queen is cornel

No crown of gold, no lordly train Her rank and state disclose— She comes a daughter of the fields,

Her oriflamme a rose

Yet born to rule the earth was she. That star upon her breast First seen in Juda. freedom's sign,

Shines clearest In tho west.

And men will follow where It leads, O'er mountain, plain and sea, With "Liberty" upon their lips

Till all the world be tree.

And sons and daughters meet to-day In honor of their sires, Who freely save their all for Truth

And kept alive her fires.

To Bethlehem we bo.w the knee, For Greece our favors bring, But heroes of the western world

To-day thy names we sing.

For thou wort best if thou wert last. Thy broader wisdom gave To man the liberty of thought 'Twas this that freed the slave.

Boom! iron-throated cannon, boom!

Blow, trumpets, till ye erack! Our way is forward up the hill And naught shall turn us hack.

BY WILLIAM ROSSER COBBE.

They were brave men who emitted the Declaration of Independence, because every word in it constituted treason against a great and powerful monarchy. Wise men, too, were they, in that they might interpret the genius of the age and the spirit of the coming generations. They dared an ignominious death, and in the act set the foundations of the republic so firmly that the gates of hell have not been able to prevail against it.

There was nothing" new in the assumption that men were created equal, but there was something sublime in the prophecy of equality before the law and in the power of men to govern themselves by statutes of their own enactment. The ancient republics made no such promises, and the doctrine was a new one to the world. This immortal document was a bar to the forming of caste or the recognition of privileged classes when the time came for adopting a constitution. The declaration declares as plainly as words may declare anything that the republic then announced should be a "government of the people, for the people, by the people."

How much these fathers of the nation foresaw might happen is not known. They could not fail to know that misdirected ambition and bounding passion are always sources of danger*, yet their faith in the strong common sense of the people was supreme. Prevision may have revealed to some of them, at least, the dangers that threatened from opposing views and interests, yet calmly and confidently they gave a nation to the world, giving no token of doubt or fear as to the results.

The task of the critic is always an easy one, because his determination of the merits of things follows the act, so that he can judge by results. Besides, it is easy enough for anyone to find fault. The framers of the declaration were originators, designers and creators. Had they blundered they would but have evidenced their humanity. In that they made no mistake, as time has shown, and have afforded critics nothing about which to carp, they demonstrated the greatness of their spirits and all the merit a grateful people has accorded to them.

Such a document conveys the same lesson to each succeeding generation. It teaches the duty of sacredly guarding the liberties of all the people, the avoidance of all measures that may be proposed for the elevation of one class beyond another, the crushing of sectional differences, and the perpetuation of the union as it was handed down from the fathers. The glory of the republic is, and should ever be, not only that it has survived dangers from without and greater dangers from within, but also that it has emerged from each succeeding peril greater and more glorious than before. The problem of self-government becomes more difficult as the number of people multiply, and safety lies in holding loyally to the teachings of the fathers, who learned in a most trying school of adversity. Experiments are by no means safe, especially wnen time nas demonstrated the wisdom of what already is. Grateful to the founders of American liberty, each patriot's heart, proud of the achievements of the nation and the right of citizenship, should seek to conform itself to the spirit of the declaration and to the constitution of which it was the precursor.

A Liberal Father.

"Now, Bobbie," said Mr. Meanestman to his son, "if you'll be a real good boy, on the Fourth of July papa will let you take five cents out of your bank and buy your little sister a package of torpedoes."—Harper's Bazar.

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July .'Hrd. 1893.—19

THE FIRST CELEBRATION.

It Passed Off Much as Independence Day Does Now.

The people of the United States took to the Fourth of July very naturally. The first anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1777, was celebratsd at Philadelphia as gayly, as prettily and as enthusiastically as though the inhabitants had had a century's practice in the art.

In the morning all the ships, the market bar pes and the armed galleys were drawn pin a line before the city, with their ILigd and streamers flying. At 1 o'clock, the shore being lined with eager spectators, the yards were manned and cach vessel in turn fired a salute of 13 guns.

When the last salute was over, congress, with a number of officers, civil and military, jlined together and drank the usual patriotic toasts, each toast being followed by a discharge of artillery. And who furnished the music "for the feast? Why, a band of Hessian prisoners, who had been captured a few months before at Trenton I Their music was much admired.

After dinner there was a military parade, consisting of companies of horse, a body of artillery and a brigade of regular troops from North Carolina, which was witnessed by congress and its guests from the banquet, besides nearly the whole population of the town. AJS night 'drew on the church bells were rung. As soon as it was quite dark there was an exhibition of fireworks and a general illumination. The young and old appeared to enjoy the occasion thoroughly from early morning until late in the evening.

Warning Her.

Husband—You are not going to wear your low neck dress at the fireworks tonight, are you?

Wife—Certainly. They are going to have dancing. Husband—Well, you had better put something around your waist, or you may get burned.

Thrilled All Nations.

The astonished nations as they read, that ail men are created equal started out oft heir lethargy like those who have been exiles from childhood when they suddenly hear the dimly remembered accents of their mother's tongue.—Bancroft.

Considerate.

Kind Lady—Willie Waffles, I heard you boys tied a bunch of firecrackers to a dog's taiL Don't you think that is very cruel?

Willie Waffles—No'm. We cut it off first.

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