Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1889 — AFTER THE CELEBRATION. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AFTER THE CELEBRATION.

HE sun climbs up, but still the tyrant Sleep Holds fast our baby boy in his embrace ; The slumb’rer sighs, anon athwart his face Fount, half-suggested • frowns like shadows creep. One little hand lies listless on his breast, One little thumb sticks up witn mute appeal, While motley burns and powder marks reveal The fruits of boyhood s patriotic zest. Our baby’s faithful poodle crouches near—

He, too, is wcarv of the din and play That come with'glorious Independence Day. But w hich, thank God! come only once a year! And Fido, too, has suffered in this cause' Which once a year right noisily obtains, For Fido’s tail—or what thereof remains— Is not so fair a sight as once it was.