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- . _.4A HAPPY CHOICE,.. ... . -¥e . : 5 QGreat Declaration, I am glad ; Our fathers kept you in their trunk \ - TUntil July. "Fwould have been sad ‘ " Had April showers wet our punk; 'Had Maytime blossoms on the trees, = -Or roses sweet that June reveals, 5 Been burned by matches and fusees Or scorched by fiery spinning wheels; Had August’s heat, September’s cool, October’s erisp, November’s joys Or drear December’s time of yule : ; Been ruined or enhanced by noise; Had J anuary’s blizzard blast i Or February’s slush and thaw A gloom on independence cast; , Had winds in March, so piercing raw, E'er had the chance to wreak their woe, And eggs of discontent thus hatch, By bringing up their fearsome blow, Extinguishing both torch and match. Right well ye chose, ye signers great, . ° Froin east and west, from south and north. ; Had ye preferred some other date We'd ne’er have had our July Fourth. . v NEAR TIMBER LINE. A FOURTH OF JULY STORY. [Copyright, 1894, by Americ»an Press Association.] “Whar did that crittur go?”’ The words broke the absolute silence of the forest. Around and above as far as the eye could reach stretched the awful majesty of the San Juan range. Towering peaks, sublime domes, yawning chasms, narrow defiles and pines—pines everywhere, through the branches of which stole the soft, murmuring breezes of a drowsy, delicious July afternoon. The scene was one to profoundly move the onlooker. Every move of man might find here an answering echo, for in the heart of the Rocky mountains

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all emotions, joys, sorrow, anger, awe, hope and peace murmur from the valleys, thunder from. the canyons and speak from the heights. , Todays—this sunny, glorious July day —sorrox{;nd anges only found voices for poor’ Ben Tribble. He was alone, away up near the timber line, sitting near the mouth of his tunnel, wondering what had become of his-dog, the only friend he had left in thé world. | Ben was one of the unlucky ones of earth. Since 1879 he had been toiling alone up there in' the mountains, hunting a fortune. When he came west from lowa, with only his dog Jonah and the old rifle Betsy he had carried through the war for company, he had staked out his claim in the San Juan, built his little cabin on the mountain side and gone cheerfully to work, with his pick and hand drill, confidently expecting to strike a lead soon, sell out and go back to his wife and boy with a bag full of gold dust.. The letters he got weekly helped him amazingly. They were his incentive, his stimulant. Jonah was faithful, and Betsy was useful. Occasionally Ben would leave the tunnel and the cabin and go down the mountain to Pay Dirt camp, where he soon became popular among the many good fellows. And so at first, while he was strong, ambitious and hopeful, everything went very well Afterward? | A The years went by, and Ben did not find his silver mine. Not that he was not diligent. . Never a man in the San Juan worked harder than Tribble. He staked two other claims besides the oxiginal one, and .in turns worked all His stalwart figure began to stoop; the furrows deepened on his forehead; silver besprinkled his long, tangled, red beard, but still fortune was shy. The long summers drifted by his ‘door, and the winter snows hid his tunnels. Every fall he said, ‘‘By spring, I reckon,”’ and every spring he said, ‘‘l calc’late by fall I kin go hum,’’ but he never went. His wife wrote regularly the news of her simple village life. His boy was grown up and earning a fair living—his boy, whom he remembered as a little sunny haired youngster stamping about in his first pair of boots. Tribble would sit alone night after night pic-. turing the two he had left behind, wondering about them, dreaming of them, "longing for them. Sometimes he started up in a frenzy, crying out that he would go—that day, that hour—back to them. “What matter if he had no money? " He could tramp over the mountains, the plains, to find Molly and the boy. Then his eyes would fall on the mouth of the tunnel, and mechanically he would shoulder his pick, take his lantern and go back to his dreary search. Then, one day, Tribble struck a lead! Struck a fair vein of silver! The very next week' the silver panic came. Tribble was dazed. He could not understand. Day after day he groped his way down to Pay Dirt to hear the news from the east. He joined the circle of hopeless, despairing men who sat watching silver go down, down, feeling as if the bottomless pit were yawning at their feet. sy

Then suddenly Molly’s letters stopped. Tribble wrote again and again,. but could-get no answer. A silence: as vast and awful as that which reigned on the mountaing swept between him and the two he loved. ' Tribble grew morose, sullen and suspicious. After a little he ceased going. down to the camp, but dwelt apart from all men, with no friend saye Jonah. And now, ksre on this balmy, heavenly day, when all nature breathed peace and joy, Ben sat alone, deserted by all. Fortune, family, friends—yes, even his dog, for Jonah had disappeared—vanished, and no whistle of his master could lure him from the canyon. - Tribble sat absorbed in bitter reverie when suddenly a crashing in the thicket made him start and lift his heavy eyes, A good humored, smiling face met his ~the face of Joyful Jerry, a well known character from the camp below; a lazy, happy go lucky fellow, with few brains | and ja kindly heart. de | “Hello, Ben)’”” ho called ..

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““Hello!”” moodily from Ben. : ] “Thought I'd pay ye a visit,’’ said i Jerfy, dropping down upon the ground | beside Tribble. “‘I tell ye, pard, ye're too lonesum up here. Why don’t ye 1 come down ter the camp? The boys "low ter hev a celebrashun on the Fourth. { Ye’d orter ter come down. They’ve sent “ to Silverton fer fireworks an powder an a cannon. Lord, but they’ll whoop things up! Ye’d orter come down.”’ | To Joyful Jerry’s pressing invitation Tribble returned no answer, but suddenly and curtly asked, ‘“‘Ye didn’t see nuthin of that thar ornery yaller dorg of mine, did ye, on your way up?’ “I seed Jonah cuttin down the canyon like all possessed,’’ returned Jerry, ““Now what on airth’s gone an took that thar crittur?”’ ; “¢““Hell knows!”’ said Tribble savagely. After Joyful Jerry had taken his departure with a farewell adjuration to Ben to be on hand for the ceremonies and rites of * the glorious Fourth, Tribble rose, went into his lonely cabin and sat down on the edge of his bed. “Fourth of July!”’ he muttered. ‘‘Celebrashuns! Humph! I'd like ter know why I should celebrate? Orter be patriotic, I,reckin. Patriotic over what? A countrgr I donetny level best fer. I fit fer her, tramped through snow, rain an hail; slept on the ground; et pork an hard tack; faced death over an over fer her, an now she’s a-doin her best to let me starve. A d——d fine country! It’s only a country fer the east an goldbugs an Wall strest—curse’em! I'm played out—old, poor, forsaken by everybody, even my dog. I'll cash in now an let the game go on without me. Come here, Betsy, old gal,”’ taking down his battered, rusty rifle. ‘I didn’t think when we wuz marchin through Georgy I’'d ever come ter ye ter help me out of life, but that’s what, old gal. I’m tired out —done fer—busted. Ye’re my last friend. Give me a proof of your friendship now”’— — 7 © With his rifle in hand, he sfei)ped to the door of his cabin to take his last look of earth. The sun was just setting. The dying rays were flooding the mountains with lurid light. White and cold, their glittering peaks shone amid the scarlet and sulphur hues of sunget like purified souls emerging from a furnace of fire. ‘The great solemn pines swayed and bent in the evening wind. Mysterious and vague whispers seemyed to float from the depths of the forest:T The lonely, weary, desolate watcher wds strangely moved by the solemnity and harmony of the scene. ‘‘Oh, it’s purty,’’ he murmured brokenly, ‘‘it’s purty. I allus wanted Molly ter‘see them mountings, ‘but she never will. Who’ll find me, I ‘wonder, and send her word’’—— ~ He started. Sharp and clear on the ‘soft night air, up from the canyon, rose the bark of a dog. . : ‘““Why, thar’s Jonah!’”’ Ben cried. ““He’a a-comin back. That thar ornery —why, thar’s voices—who’s with him?”’ " Through the opening, between the cedars, past the tunnel; came two figures —a woman and a dog. The-dog—not a handsome animal by any means, but

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one with an almost human anxiety on his ugly face—bounded forward to Ben’s feet, yelping and fawning with delight. - The woman came on slowly and timidly. She was plainly dressed, elderly; her scanty brown hair was thickly strewn with gray; her sad face bore the marks of many a tearful vigil; her ungloved hands showed signs of labor, but the goul that shown from her patient eyes was noble and steadfast; the smile that lighted up her thin face had all the sweetness of the long ago. Love, youth, life itself, came with her as she advanced, holding out faithful, yearning arms to the poor, rough, disappointed old miner standing there, his hand on the trigger of his gun. ‘‘Benjamin)”’ She breathed rather

than spoke his name. Then, like one who has seen a ghost, Ben Tribble fell face downwa-d at the feet of his wife. : The stars were shining when he opened his eyes and looked up into Molly’s face. The kettle was singing on .the stove, supper was smoking on the table, Jonah ~-as stretched before the fire, and Bets: was standing in the corner. T know all about it, dear Ben,” he heard her murmur. ‘‘l know how you’ve worked for years, hoping against hope amnd all for nothing. I know how you’ve been disappointed and how your heart’s most broke alone here in the ‘ mountains. When your letters stoppod’ ! : | : | “My letters?”’ weakﬁy repeated Ben. ““No; I wrote, but yours—Molly?”’ “Yes, my dear,’ I know. Something went wrong.. We won’t try to figure it out now. All we care for is that we are together again. My poor cld man, I 'shall take you back with me.” The boy has got on first rate, Ben. We won’t starve. Jonah must have known I was coming, for, when I got off the train something tugged at my dress, and I looked down, and there he was, waiting to bring me up to you.”’ : ‘“An I thought he, too, had fersaken me. I thought everybody an everything had gone back on me. Oh, Molly!’’ and the sobs pent up for years in that worn old heart, burst forth. The two—the husband and the wife—wept together. Jonah crept to their feet and grieved with them in his sympathetic, dumb fashion. And then, .when the storm had past, Bén had a cup of Molly’s tea and a hot biscuit, while Jonah reveled with a bone. Contentment spread her wings above the little cabin, and peace brooded at the humble fireside, - ““What d’ye think of them mountings, Molly?”’ asked Ben as they stood at the door looking out at the snowy range stretching before them- like the portals of paradise. . i i ~ “‘Ben, all I can think of when I look at them is that verse in the Bible, ‘As the mountains are round about Jerusa‘lem, so the Lord is round about his peo- | 939" . ple’ ; ; ' Next day was the Fourth of July, and. early in the morning the boom of Pay ' Dirt’s cannon resounded through the mountains. Molly liked the distant | sounds of celebration as she went about the little cabin picking up Ben'’s few belongings, preparing for the homeward journey, but Tribble had no use for gunpowder nor independence days, -he stated, reiterating- his grievances i against a country existing mainly for - ‘‘goldbugs’’ and the east.

In the afternoon Ben went into the tunnel with Molly to show her where he had worked for years. Womanlike, she was full of curiosity and began poking 'and prying about, picking up specimens and bits of rock here and there. When she came out, her checked gingham apron was filled with her treasures, which she looked over and carefully admired. i ; . ‘‘This is a pretty one, Ben,’’ she said, holding it up to him. _ He took it, stared blindly at it for a moment, turned* white and faltered, “Gold!”’ The two gazed stupidly at each other. ‘“Molly,” he said, speaking like one in a dream. ‘‘Molly, let me look at the others.”’ ; She handed up one after another. He examined them mechanically.: ‘‘Gold!”’ he repeated over and over. ’ Suddenly a tremendous roar of artillery swept up the canyon. It was the sunset salute to a great nation’s birthday. ! Ben seemed to rouse from his dream. ‘“‘She’s all right!’’ he shouted. “Who, Ben?’’ cried Molly. ¥ “The mine, Molly; the country—everything! I’vestruck it atlast! We’re rich, Molly, we’re rich! Why in thander hain’t I got some fireworks or gunpowder or somethin?’’ ‘ He broke off and ran'like a deer into the cabin, and presently emerged with his rifle in hig hands. ‘‘Brace mp now, Betsy;’’ he yelled. ‘‘Show some respect to your country—the country ye fit ter save.”’ And then, as the dying salute of Pay Dirt camp reorashed up the mountain side, Pen Tribble raised Betsy to his shoulder and answered it. : ' _ - EpirH SEssioNs TUPPER. "~ A Great Strain, - : Von Blumer—Haven’t you a private watchman looking out for your house while you are away at the seashore? Van Winkle—Yes. - And he is going to charge me double rates over the Fourth of July. : | ! Von Blumer—What for? Van Winkle—He says the fireworks will keep him awake. @

THE GOOD OLD DAYS. WHEN FIRECRACKERS WERE A LUXURY AND COST A CENT EACH. How a Bunch Was Divided at the Country Store—The Man Who Still Keeps Up the 01d Time Celebration of the Fourth From . Early Morn Until Night.

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e 8 o ] none but 'those youngsters who can only partially satisfy their desire for the snapping red and yellow paper cylinders, and men who were once such boys and have not forgotten the days when they were young. I know several such boys who understand the subject perfectly, but of all my grownup acquaintances there is but one man who has ever shown thorough knowledge thereof. This man is. past middle age now. He owns mills and railroads and landed estates. He is, in fact, rich enough to buy shiploads of firecrackers if he should so desire.. His standing in business and society is of the best, and for 51 weeks of every year his face wears an expression of such gravity that you would never suspect him of being frivolous enough to own to a weakness for firecrackers. I am not sure that it is proper to use the word ‘weakness 7in referring to his fondness for the Chinese noise and smoke makers. Certainly his passion for them while it lasts is as strong as any other of his visible characteristics.. It begins to manifest ivself about a week before Uncle Sam’s birthday, increases with every 24 hours till the dawning of the glorious Fourth and then dissipates itself in a fusillade of crackers lasting all day and half the night, at the end of which my friend is tired, sléepy, grimy and almost-invariably with little holes butned in his clothes where stray sparks have found dodgment. But he does not mind his weariness, his ‘blackened appearance or the holes in his clothes. He is always in & satisfied, not to say ecstatic, state of mind when at last he gets to bed on the night of the glorious' Fourth. : Lo According to the neighbors, the worst of the businéss is that there is absolutely no stopping in the noise even at mealtimes from shortly after daylight till 10 or 11 o’clock at night. e ~ Even boys get hungry and. tired, but when my friend is celebrating the Fourth of July he arranges his juvenile

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assistants in relays, so that while a portion of them are eating or resting the others are firing away just the same, and as for him that is the one day in the year on which he appears to be absolutely fatigue proof, and if he eats at all on the Fourth it cannot be more than a sandwich hastily devoured_now and.then. e I met my friend the other day when he was buying firecrackers for himself and mdre pretentious fireworks for his boys, and he told me the story of his first Fourth of July. After hearing it I have some idea of the reason for his extraordinary fondness for firecrackers if - not for boys. y “I liked firecvackers from the first time I ever saw them,’’ he said. - “My father was a yocung man then, and he had not yet succeeded in making much money. There were only three of us—my father, my mother and myself—in the family, and we lived in a little house on the bank of a stream that wound between low hills and was known as Pipe creek. A mile or two away was a hamlet consisting of a store, a blacksmith’s shop, a church, a shoemaker’s shop and three or four houses. ‘A few days before the first Fourth of July, I remember, my father and: mother considered the financial cond%tién earnest1y and agreed that, although the times were. hard with them, the boy should have firecrackers that year. They cost 25 cents a pack, and 25 cents was a good deal in that house just then, but they thought it would be money well expended if it were used to buy firecrackers for me. [ o 2 ‘““Now, it so happened thatthe impor- ‘ tant purchase was put off until (the ‘morning of the great day, and my father and I walked down the road to the ‘store to exchange the quarter for the crackers. A man named John Strait \ kept that store, and I used to think he must be the richest man in the world, ) and the wisest and best, too, barring ‘my father. Strait’s face fell when we 'made known our desire for firecrackers. Then he looked at me, and I suppose he saw that I was greatly wrought up on the subject. : } ¢ “Well,’ he said, ‘l’ve sold out all 'my firecrackers, but I have one pack | saved for my own boy. I promised him l that he should have that pack, no matter what happened, but if he's willing } we’ll divide the pack between the two boys.’ , . . | ‘*So young Strait was called in and | questioned, my fears that he would not be willing rising every instant. Before the questioning waB finished several other belated would be purchasers of firecrackers appeared, and finally the Strait boy made a shrewd suggestion that showed him to have a good business head. ‘“ ‘Open the pack,’ he said, ‘and count meout 10. Then I'll sell the restof the firecrackers ot o cent apiece.’ ““Ten little rolls of concentrated joy for boys fell' to my share. My father paid over the 10 cents and put the fire- | crackers in his pocket with great care.

we went home together full of delightful anticipations.for the evening, for they were to be kept until nightfall, that I might not loser a single scintillating flash of brightness. . ““My anticipations were fully met by ‘the blazing, popping reality. The evening Game off moonless and dark, and not a match was put to fuse until the very last gleam of light had disappeared from the western sky. Then my father took the first of the firecrackers, lighted it carefully and laid it on the big, flat stone that served -as a doorstep to our house. It seemed to me when the sizzing of the fuse was followed by the ex-

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plosion that I would never again see so gorgeous a sight or hear such a ravishing noise. I jumped up and down with delight. My mother, who did not admire firecrackers herself, sat by, happy in the popping and the blaze for my sake. ““We waited five minutes before the next firecracker was shot off, and then with my own hands I struck the match afd lighted the fuse of the next one, and again I was electrified with joy. As the five minutes’ interval was preserved until the whole 10 of my firecrackers had been explodedg I had just 50 minutes of unalloyed delight. ‘ ‘‘Now, I have never got- over my pleasure in firecrackers, but I am satisfied that if I had to shoot them without a lot of boys to help me on the Fourth of July there wouldn’t be the slightest fun in it. I know that nine boys in ten like them as well as I do, whether they will continue to do so after they are grown gyp or not. Of course I prefer for helpers boys who can’t have firecrackers if they have to buy them themselves. That’s why Sim Smith’s boys and Tom Dooley’s and all the rest of the crowd down on the side street near my house are always invited to celebrate the Fourth with me. I don’t allow myself a great deal of - recreation during the year. My business is too exacting. But I get enough fun out of the firecrackers ‘and the boys on the Fourth to last me till Thanksgiving day.. There is one thing about firecrackers that is in their favor, unless you buy the big giant and ‘eannon firecrackers, which I never do, and that i§ that they areemuch less dangerous than guns or toy pistols, and they make more noise and flame and smoke for the money than any other sort of fireworks that I know anything about. I think,’’ he added, turning to the salesman, ‘that you may make my order an even five dozen boxes instead of 50. I propose to rather outdo myself this year.”’. : : e My friend lives on thé same street that I do, and I have accepted his invitation to be present with him and the other boys this year and help burn up his 60 boxes full of firecrackers. ‘L. D. MARSHALL. .

DIVORCES IN 'ENGLAND. A Parliamentary Report Showing Some In- ! teresting Facts Just Out, = * It is pretty wwell understood in this country that the people of England don’t go in much for divorces and judicial separations between man and wife, but just how small the number of such suits is perhaps is not known here. The house:of commons has recently had a report made showing the doings of the English divorce court and the number and chardcter of the cases tried there. In six years 2,200 suits for divorce were tried. About 1,300 of these suits weré instituted by the husbands, and only about 900 by the wives. A wife has-to prove cruelty as well as other offenses in order to get a divorce.

The women were ahead in the number of suits instituted for judicial separation. They began in six years 181 such suits, while only 48 were begun by the. men. In 121 cases collusion: was suspected, and the queen’s proctor intervened, and 118 of these*cases were thrown out of court. Few of the other | cases failed. e ‘ Our own statistics regarding marriages and divorce are just tg.bulated. With all the facilities for getting rid of husband or wife in divorce made easy courts, there have been found in the whole country only one-fifth of 1 per cent-of the persons who have been married who have also been divorced. One’ person in 500 means one couple in 1,000 that get divorced. : . There are 71,895 divorced women in the United States. There are not so many divorced men, by a great many; but, then, divorced men and widowers are very apt to marry, and the figures prove that they probably do, for there are not so ‘'many widowers in the country as widows.—New York Times. * Senator Murphy Swears Off. - e Senator Murphy, who has been an inveterate smoker for many years, has ‘‘sworn off’’ for awhile and has not lighted a cigar for several days. During the protracted sessions of the senate last fall, when the silver repeal bill was under consideration, Mr., Murphy smoked as many as 87 cigars in one day. This of course was above the average, but the number consumed by him daily was very large, as he often smoked five or gix in rapid succession. A short time ago Senator Vest reluted in the cloakroom his experience with tobaceo, which came near endangering his life, and reoognizing some of Mr. Vest’s symptoms as similar to his own Mr. Murphy decided to call a halt. Now he only fondles a cigar; he does not smoke it.— Washington Correspondent. . = Prof, Niel, - goverment chemist, writes: I have carefully analyzed your ‘‘Royal Ruby Port Wine,”’ bought by me in the open market, and cert%y that T found the same absolutely pure and well aged. This wine is especially recommended for its health-restoring and building up properties; it strengthens the _weaE_ and restores lost vitality; particularly adapted for convalescents, the aged, nursing mothers and those feduced and weakened by over-work and worry. Besure you get ‘Royal Ruby”; #1 per quart bottles, pﬁugsgfsa ots. sq}d

THE OBJECT LESSON. | A FRESH VIEW OF THE AMERICAN > . REVOLUTION. 4 . How It Differed From All Others That - Preceded It—The Blossom of the Tree of " Liberty—A Msfuvvelous Inspiration—The Gonfalon of Progress. ' : _ : The United States has celebrated its | birthday. for 118 years with a boundless | profusion of firecrackers, both Chinese and rhetorical. Grownup folks, a little weary perhaps of the resounding racket, . while watching the urchin at work with punk and powder, will ask themselves, ‘““What makes the Revolution of 1776 tower like an Alpine peak among historic revolutions?”’ One cannot answer this by saying that the immediate result was the biggest fact which the historic yardstick measurés. . That was their good luck, growing out of the vast unknown resources of the continent, to which the colonies were as blind as were George 111 and his parliament. One cannot settle it by saying that the Declaration of Independence was the greatest charter of human rights ever penned. That De- - laration contained nothing essential but what had been fairly written before in” declaration and proclamation and protest, each paper of which had been sealed blood red with thousands of lives. It was just the old story inscribed afresh - with a pen of fire by a mind of consummate sagacity. . » : The celebrated Russian musician, Rubinstein, once said to the writer: ‘“You Americans will never have a distinct national style of -music. Only nations with a childhood can ever have this. Your people never had a childhood—you were born full grown.’’ This last sentence packs an essay in 10 words and cuts close to the bone. The time had come in the evolution of things for ‘the Anglo-Saxon hive to swarm. There “was not- efiough elbow room in the old political hive at the beginning of that last quarter of the last century, and the bees determined to set up fresh housekeeping. The new swarm felt themselves just as wise, as capable and as self sustaining as the others of the family. They had inherited all the tradi.tions, the customs, the accumulated experience, the instinet for self government, inherent in a race which has beat- * en the world “in the keenness of its political genius. : ; It was but the difference of 5, 10, 20 years or whatnot. If it had not .been “pavigation laws,”” “‘writs of assistdance,’’ ‘‘stamp act,’’ ‘‘tax on tea,’’ at which the colonists grumbled savagely, like true Englishmen, it would have been | something else ja little later. These things were wrongs, to be sure, but they would have been ultimately righted inthe natural course of things and were not a whit worse than many afflictions which beset the man of Yorkshire or. Kent. The American colonist, on the - whole, was as free in the enjoyment of social ‘and political privilege as any king’s subject; that then walked the green earth—perhaps even had larger liberty. o | 1 His large measure of freedom indeed made the homespun yeoman on this side of the Atlantic, whose fathers had shot “the arrow flights which won Cressy and Agincourt,and whohad charged in Cromwell’s ironsides at Nageby and Worces- | ter, feel the smart the mare keenly. So came the swell of ('the| race instinct, first embodying itself in the swordlike epigram, ‘‘No taxation without representation, ”’ then after aseven years’ | successful war getting itself crystallized in a magnificent. system of home rule, | biform in its relation to state and federal affairs,-and bringing the direction of matters most intimately ‘connécted with the citizen’s hearth and home as close as possible to him, in fact. In the triumph of a great principle England as | well as the whole world won when | Cornwallis dél\ivered his sword to Washington. = Englishmen over the sea have ‘been swarming off from the parent hive ever since. Canada and the Australian dominiofis are essentially as free as the United States in self government and only need their own wish to be as free | in name. s g - Comparing the American Revolution with the three active great revolutions of ‘modern times, we see how wide the swing of its pendulum as compared with | theirs. The heroic rising of the Nether- | lands under William of Orange had its | root in religious oppression, and though | it ended in severance from Spain no | such project stamped its outset. The English revolution of 1640, which rolled - a king’s head in the sawdust, trampled . out the theory of the divine right of . | royalty and enforced the fact that thence- | forth in that land monarchs should only | rule with the assent and co-operation of | parliament. It was one great step in the' | growth of the English constitution. { The French cataclysm of bloodshed and | horror, typified by the guillotine, whose ‘| ghastly head shearing sometimes red- ‘| dened four hours a day, was the natu- | ral reaction of long centuries of caste robbery and misrule. The flame caught . from the American torch, but the fuel | had been seasoning for ages, and the | conflagration lit the world under its | glare. Out of the savagery, cruelty and ‘misery with which these great crises reeked was wrought immortal good, for | in this world all permanent spiritual ; gain IS—-— AR i e o Iron dug from central gloom : 1 h - And heated not with burning fears, j i ~And dipped in baths of hissing tears g 1y And battered with the shocks of doom ; To shape and use. ‘| Butof all they have bequeathed to | humanity nothing blossoms with promfise sorich as that tree of liberty which | bourgeons into 44 commonwealths. Its | object lesson is an incarnate fact, exem- | plifying the truth that every political | community and every.individual in that | community is entitled by God’s birth- | right to the fairest, most unfettered | field of self development. ‘‘And the | leaves of the tree shall be for the heal- | ing.of the nations.’’ That is the gonfa- ‘| lon| of the progressive world - today. .| That was the practical work of July 4, L W 96 by G R BERBRIS.

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