The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-07-12
OUR NAVAL DAY.
The Manner of Its Observance in Em-
pOria.
An Immense Crowd in Attendance a. the
General Picnic at sOdeu's Grove.
The Usual Amount of Gun Powder En-
ployed in Reyivlng the Glorious
Traditions Of The Day.
The Delivery of Addresses Appropriate to
the Occasion. Fireworks in
The Evening. Etc.


the Occasion, Fireworks in
The Evening. Etc.
The very general manner in
which the tcitizens Of Emporia Joined.
in celebrating the glorious Fourth,
served 10 indicate that the traditions Of
that memorable day stiIl live green in
the hearts Of the people, and will never
fade until the manufacture of fire-crack-
ers and torpedoes is classed with the lost
arts. There Is a certain degree Of dis
comfort about the conventional observ-
snee Of the day We celebrate TO which
the American people cling with death
less patriotism, and not until this noisy
anniversary loses those time-honored
characteristics which render it more or
less of horror TO persons of sensitive
nerves, need the world fear for the sta
bility of our political fabric or the per.
petuIty of American institutions
While the celebration OF yesterday was
not, strictly speaking, IN accordance
with the published program, It may be
accounted q suecess as Fourth Of July
celebrations GO. having brought to those
who participated in the various festivi-
ties of the occasion the usual measure OF
enjoyment and misery which is always
entailed by big gathering on hot day.
The rural districts did yeoman service
In swelling the crowd and by 8 O'Clock
the streets were we'll filed with people
who awaited with interest the
beginning of the trouble"
and the naturalization of
the promised attractions OF the much ad-
vertised parade. This was somewhat
delayed by the unfortunate and mex
plicable non-appearaLce Of the Gan.
tiques," "Horribles," "Cetipedes'' and
'Whangdoodle' Mourners," who have
not yet been heard from, and for whose
discovery, dead or alive, a liberal re-
ward has been offered. AZ about half
past 0 O'Clock the K. T. band-which, by
the way, will always do TO tie to-struck
up lively air IN front Of Whltley's OPP
era house on Sixth avenue, at the con-
clusion of which a grOtesque and CON-
manding figure appeared on the balcony
of the Republican Office, which was in
troduced to the crowd by Col.
Whitley rs Susan B. Anthony,
and which proceeded, in voice which
assured the assembly that Judge Buck
has not gone of with the Horribles and
Antiques to deliver the following happy
| address:
| Fellow HorribIes, Citizens, Dearly Beloved
SisternS Greeks. Gunks and Antiques;
As / look upon your incompatible
| beauty feel as stupid as you look, but
more paralyzed. This is both an auspi-
| cious and suspicious occasion. Suppose
Colonel Whitley hadn't got us out here,
we'd feel nearly as fat as we do now.
Certain 1t is that this Is the greatest day
In the week, the greatest week in the
year, the greatest year in the century,
the one of all greatest centuries we've
had for q whole generation.
AS we look back through the dime
novel and dim vista of the future, we
find our ex-fathers rocked in the cradle
of liberty, clothed with the stamp act OF
British oppression and little briet au.
thority, and hung from the yard-arm OF
the immaculate MaydoWer.
For three days we have read the STRAIT
ling advertisement of the day we cele-
/ brate. Do We reflect how that day was
made, what il was made OF, and when
and where IL was born, and how il hap
pened TO be born ON that day?
Fourteen hundred and ninety.two
years ago today Columbus stepped first
upon land, and he was the first man that
eyer did 1t. just 1770 years afterwards
Thomas Jefferson made the Fourth OF
July. That's the way We come to have
thirty one days in this month. All this
came through sore trial-hence the pro
priety of the saying that the American
eagle sore aud sore and sore and sore till
he got 80 sore he couldn't sore any more
BY rightangular law of continent polar
magnetism and superintendent cohesion
OF the circumambient molusks, or words
To that effect, the sporadic tempestous-
ness of the tempest, and the alluvial de-
pOsits Of the antibolyolic age, taken in
connection with the scorObatic pugna-
ciousness Of the rhymthical procrastina-
ton OF the prehistoric formation, would
convince anybody but a driveling lido,
that people don't wish TO be bored more
than two or three hours at a time by
scientific rot.
, We have history ahead of Us. We
boast, and justly so, that we are invinci-
bic in peace and invisible in war. II
Young America in the cradle Stranded
the Rsitiah lion and sfferwards hsc-eJ
Iohn Bull down the brinv GuIf of Mex.
| leo vim What case can she now. HAVING
discarded short dresses. and reached the
0reat sinen0th of manhood ssiI the Al
iantIc for 4 dress naTade 9ronnd march
over Win har I0O nm an sfsndi1g arv,,N,
| turn the river Thames into Windsor cas'
~ -.,..,- n,sot,.,. !. a C.iI--o,sss - -,
~ So.1o SCuSoS e11o SAlDa e,sAz ouo Piohl
/ the bIALs anu stripes anu the rooster on
the towers of London. You may think
me extrayagant. but I am not dealing
i A-o ~bcp oos oNA noe NeoaA1S
out metaphor OF camphor-this Is our
and iemonadcs are ,Irnnt sre,ch. .s
made, and We are no exception to the
4 rule -you bet
l The very soil NC brei1thn and The air
s.~-.'S y ''J..s~., - 80 -. III '..'
mains "f he antisIIin.,sn sn,nre When
| the rhinocerus and The nrehistor,c ram
nborvnena made the earab shatc and
ppnairc With shejs hoa,;Ie ,ncnba,ion
and the cvastjcn,us Tras loose We
have a coun,-v hroad and d,1ersIAod
| also s,rStified We have Ioncer rivere
HIGHER monntains, deener canons
| 0rsnder cataracfs higOrr mills hroader
Drairies. drawer men and bigger turn.
ou,a oT horrihIes handsome Women. and
moreNmora money than anv other ns-
tion dare have.
All there Is of this universe worth
preserving il Eurone and America.
Scrat,,h then from the man of nations
and their nin.t enough good land Ieft to
eraze a tad .pole.
old Eurone was great when vouo0
America was horn.
TT.IT an inch, Hs,r 81, inch,
4 - -'-S--'
stood the SIX nnn hundred. 49,, u.,,,,.
CharTc Tor them eatabiesi
Tnen into Commercial street
strod0 tne six hundred
i When can your glory fade.
Oh, The wild charge you mAdei
All the world VIII wonder