Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1887 — THE GLORIOUS FOURTH. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE GLORIOUS FOURTH.

■ HE Glorious Fourth has come! Beat the loud-re-sounding drum, thoot the cracker,fire the pistol, punch the Eagle, make him scream; Day of powder and torpedoes, iemon- -» ade that knows no lemon, ginger-pop devoid of ginger, Ice-cream innocent of > cream! - The Glorious Fourth has come! Beat the patriotic drum. Tune the fife, and blow the bugle, shoot the rocket through the spheres; Let the iapidmouthed declaiiner pour his patriotic passion, eloquence divorced from meaning,

Words unmarried to ideas! The Glorious Fourth has come! Pound the hollow-sounding drum, Hear the speaker spout his geysers, hurl his cataracts of speech; Hear the eloquence compounded of unmixable ingredients,one per cent, of thought original, Ninty per cent, of screech. The Glorious Fourth has come! Beat the deep-resounding drum, Scorch your fingers, burn your whiskers, shoot a large hole through your head, Fire your cannon, shoot your arm off, break your leg and save your country Then be carried home to bed!

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