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only brought out on Fourth of July or
circus day.
Marthy w. waved her flag more
slowly and fixed her eyes on the hat
with a thoughtful air. Finally she
pointed her United States nag hand
straight at it and asked: "Pa, is that
there the old liberty bell mas allus
tellin' US about?"
Pa carefully lifted of what seemed
to small Marthy's excited, Fourth of
July brain the veritable, patriotic
relic itself.
Thomas Jefferson snickered and
called Marthy Washington a goosey.
Pa smoothed his hat with his sleeve
and then said, simply:
mo, tain't, Marthy, but mebbe it
dooz look q leetle the shape, Jest a
leetle."
Marthy Washington just had time to
run out her tongue triumpantly at
Thomas Jefferson when ma hustled
in.
The procession now started, with
pa and ma arm in arm bringing up the
rear.
The first of the wonderful ''6oins'
this family spied was the Flying
Dutchman" proprietor. They all
stopped on the edge of the sidewalk in
a sloping line, and with opened
mouthed wonder listened to his:
Forty times around the California
world for only nickel, nickel, half
a dime. Secure yer tickets for the next
wings"
OF course they all tried it Before
they revolved forty times several of the
small Smiths showed signs of nausea.
They gagged. They leaned their heads
over the edges of the seats at various
angles Pa stood up and frantically
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erful fond of doin' things fittin' to ths
day."
Now, by Thomas, ma meant her rich
brother and ''favoright relashin,
Thomas jefferson Simpkins, who lived
in Chicago, and for whom their SOL
T. j. was named.
The whole family gathered curiously
around the box on the back porch
Towser, the dog, shifted at it question
ingly.
Thomas jefferson ran to get the
hatchet.
Finally, pa, with a final wrench, and
"come off, durn ye," removed the
cover. Great bundles of Roman
candles, rockets, pinwheels, ''niggel
chasers," and big crackers were laid
out on the porch floor before the awe
struck group.
Don't tech en-" said pa and ma as
they started for the woodhouse to rig
up" something to ''shoot EN- off on"
No sooner were pa and ma out o,
sight, than Thomas jefferson tried a
''nigger chaser" This made the group
of small Smiths laugh and scatter, only
to rally around Thomas j. with re.
newed interest.
With an important swagger, he told
them he'd ''show em how slick 4 PIN
wheel went"
He fastened one to a post of the
porch. and lit it. 1t began to whirl and
sizz. The children capered.
Just then some sparks f1oated down
among the patriotic bundles on the
porch floor.
''Whiz! Crash! bang" The Roman
candles and the small Smiths shot in
every direction. The rockets whizzed
through the air. or plowed the distant
end OF the vegetable garden. The pin
wheels whirled, the ''nigger chasers''
chased, and the big crackers banged.
The children screamed. Towser howled
and fed.
Pa fell down the woodshed steps in
his haste to see ''what allied the burned
things"
Ma rushed to the pump for water.
No pail.
She tore into the house. In her blind
haste and fright she grabbed up pas
Liberty bell' hat, filled it with water
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IOWA FLOOD.

Cherokee and Other Iowa Towns 9ufhP
Severely From = Heavy Hlooa-Seveeal
Lives Lost.
CHERoKEE. Ia, June e1-The terrors
Of the Johnstown flood were in part re.
peated in this place yesterday, seventy
houses being carried out of sight in
Niagara-like torrent How many lives
have been lost Is . matter of uncer.
tainty. A terrific cloudburst thrice re-
peated and wind almost hurricane
arc what consummated the dread work.
The storm. which began Tuesday
night. appears to have swept . vast
circle of northwestern Iowa fully 100
miles in diameter. with Cherokee as the
center. Up to 1880 last night, owing
to the destruction of wires and rail.
roads, only the vaguest reports have
reached here from the devastated terri.
tory to the west north and south. Tho
damage here. taking into account the
relatively small size of ths town, il
enormous.
Most of the destruction in Cherokee
was wrought by the extraordinary rise
in the Sioux. resulting from the tre-
mendous downpour Of rain. Some idea
Of the immensity and suddenness of the
food can be inferred from the fact that
it carried of, apparently without an eff
fort. the big truss bridge on which the
Illinois Central railroad crossed the
river. and with the bridge went 400 feet
of trestle.
At least four persons were drowned
here and four at COrrectionville. The
railroad depot at Calumet was blown
down and much damage to town prop
erty is reported
Sutherland, OBrien county, small
station on the Chicago and Northwest
ern railroad, fifty miles from Calumet
is reported to have been wiped out
over forty buildings being blown down.
BAD REPORTS FROM SIOUX CITY.
Sioux CITY. Ia, June 2a-The terri
be rain of yesterday almost devast-
ated this portion of Iowa No roads
are running trains from this city east
The Floyd river valley Is inundated
for thirty-five miles north of this city.
Many houses in Lemars are flooded
over the first floor. while the towns of
Merrill, Hinton and James are COM
pletely submerged.
Thirty-five miles Of track on each Of
the Illinois Central. Chicago, St Paul,
Minneapolis & Omaha and Sioux City
& Pacific are flooded north of this city,
with bad washouts at LemarS
The Little Sioux river bottom at
Cherokee is entirely inundated and
thousands of acres of crops are under
water.
The water at Cherokee carried away
forty houses and barns in the bottoms,
but no fatalities are reported At the
same place both approaches to the Illi-
nois Central bridge over the Sioux river
are gone. On the Central Iowa branch
100 feet Of track was carried out. On
the Central Sioux Falls branch seven
bridges were washed out
The Chicago & Northwestern tracks
in the Sioux valley are out for over half
a mile at Sutherland. The same road
has a waShOy,f at Carroll
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Much curled IS to his hair and vio-
1ently red as to his face he was prompt
ly sat on a chair.
Then ma surveyed with a satisfied air
her long, patriotic sentence of Smiths;
from her oldest ''Marthy" Washington,
who began the sentence, to Grover
Cleveland for round. fat period at
: the end.
She told the girls they might wave
: their flags if they would ''set still q
: spell longer an keep clean"
Ma then decorated the spencer waists
of her SONS with small samples of the
stars and stripes.
Next she moved brislxly along the
line, dexterously using the family
!. Eockethandkerchief on each ANAL
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COllll1ed In y Fog.

BLOONINGTON, Ill, June a4-During
the fog Sunday, adouble-header freight
train on the Chicago & Alton railroad
eoliided with an engine and caboose.
near Williamsville. The engineers did
not see each other until they were but
a few yards apart. Both wero going at
high speed. The crash was terrific.
George Brown. engineer on the south
bound train, was caught in the wreck
and pinned down under the engine for
three hours. One arm and both leDs
were broken and he will die. He has a
wife and eight children. Engineer
David Will. Of the north bound train.
was seriously injured. Loss SO, ,0o0.
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NEW YORK, June 25.-The statue OF
Henry Ward Beecher in City Hall park
in Brooklyn was unveiled to-day with
imposing ceremonies in the presence of
a great crowd of people. The day for
the ceremony was we'll selected.
for it is the anniversary
of Mr.. Beecher's birth The
great preacher was born in Litchfield,
Mass. in 1913 Four years ago. on
March s. Mr.. Beecher died, and ten days
later the movement was started which
now results in the completion of .
splendid bronze statue OF the great
preacher. It is the work Of John
Quincy Adams Ward
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motioned to the
man to stop the
"durned thing"
but the propri-
etor only chant
e d, e x asperat-
ingly:
"Forty times
around the Cali
fOrnia world for
a nickel, a nick
e /, q h q If q
dime. -"
Finally their
swing and nau-
sea came to an
end. They scram-
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with its load of
popcorn balls,
etc.
But they had
all s e e n the
"doin's," q n d
were appy
and ready for
q ncle Toms
b o < Of fire.
works, or any
thing else that
turned up to
complete tn is
W O n d e rfu !
d ay' S ''cele-
bratin'. +" They
reached home.
N
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'Celindy. pears like ye wuz q leetle
hasty in using my hat"
Lord, pa" retorted Celindy, ''who
keers fer yer old hat when q rocket has
went clean through Towser, an the
best chance we ever will have to
show Libertyville q celebrashin f;ttin'
to the day is burnt mp. It's jest that
inter-everything son O. yourn done it :"
With wrathful glance at guilty
Thomas J., ma stalked into the house.
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laid aside her ''6ttin-to-the-day bunnit. {"
and pa had deposited his ':liburty bell"
hat in safe place, when Thomas J.
rushed in from the back porch. and
shouted: INA and pa, come ere quick.
The box has come"
Ma remarked to pa that: ''It was
Jest like Thomas. He allus wuz pow
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The Shaa Weakness. = They had
shad tor breakfast yesterday morning,
and the small boy of the family was
allowed to have trial at it. After a
minute or two he stopped Whats
the matter?" asked his father. Don't
you like it," ''Yes, sir" sending up
his plate; but gimme q piece 'tain't
got so many splinters, in it"-Washing.
ton Star.
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THANKS, AWF'LYl

Great declaration. am glad
Our fathers kept you In their trunk
Until July. 'Twould have been sad
Had April showers wet our punk;
Had May-time blossoms on the trees,
Or roses sweet that June reveals.
Been burned by matches and fusees,
Or scorched by fiery spinning wheels;
Had August's heat. September's cool
October's crisp. November's joys,
Or dear December's time of yule
Been ruined or enhanced by noise;
Had January's blizzard blast
Or February's slush and thaw
A gloom on independence cast;
Had winds in March, 80 piercing raw,
Fer had the chance to wreak their woe,
And eggs OF discomfort thus hatch,
BY bringing up their fearsome blow.
Extinguishing both torch and match.
Right we'll ye chose. ye signers great,
From east and west from south and
north.
Had We preferred some other date.
We'd ne'er have had our July Fourth.
-Harper's Bazaar.
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The eight small Smiths, ps and The
liberty bell" hat struggled after her.
Then the door shut. Outside, tho
man in the moon smiled to himself -
he beamed down ON the home Of tho
tired, sleeping Smiths, and thought Of
how they celebrated
JENNY FAIRMAN SMITH.
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bIed out, and ONE OF THE MISSES.
strayed on to halt again before the Rag
Doll targets Here they listened with
the same wonder and delight to the
mans persuasive:
'Come, try your luck at knockin' down
the babies. Every time yer knock
down a baby yer get scegar, two ba-
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and dashed the
contents on the
last of the shoot
ing candles.
Soon it was
ended. They all
huddled around
the ruins.
Pa looked at
his bent and
dampened h at
and said re-
proachfully:
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the l a p pel OF
W hich hoated
6 gayly a red,
white and blue
ribbon, tied by
his own Celin-
dy's patriotic
hands. On his
h e a d was an
q n c j e n t bell
Gro " ned silk
hat.
). T he e g h t
s m all Smiths
gazed up at their
sire with admir-.
ing awe.
That hat was
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early. Directly
after breakfast
"Pa" and ma"
Smith and the
eight small but
lively Smiths
were to be ar
rayed, as ma"
said, "ftten to
the day."
Ma bu s tied
hither and yon
in much excite
m e n t, getting
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'ner brood ready for an early start to
the main street of L,bertyville to see
the wonderful doin's"
As soon as she got one little Smith
polished and done she sat the clean one
down hard in a chair to emphasize her
instructions Ma soon had her four
girls dressed in their best lawn
''frocks." wealth of long-drawn- out.
stiffiy-starched ''panties" rustling
around their ankles. red. white and
blue sashes and their Sunday hats"
There they sat. each holding a penny
flag stiffly in her hand, and four pairs Of
pantaletted legs stretched out rigidly
in front of them.
They looked stiff ard shining proofs
of the efficacy of mingled soap, starch
land patriotism.
Next ma tackled her four boys.
Thomas jefferson Smith. the oldest
boy, seemed to have been made es-
pecially to satisfy the longings of his
mothers patriotic soul.
His hair was fiercely red. When he
was done up in white spencer" and
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b l ue breecheS
: Thomas j. was a
: patriotic study.
Seven of the
SIN it h S were
done ready for
~'celebratin'."
tt h e n t h Q
&c g h t h small
Smith, fat Gro
er Cleveland,
was j u m p e d.
Goa xe d q n d
squeezed n t o
some long, white
linen breeches
and q beruMed
waist that he
filed well nigh
20 hv,rS<srD
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HOW THEY CELEBRATED,
The Smith Family's Jolly Fourth
of July.
Preparations "Fitten to tho Day The
Patriotic Procession - Wonderful
Sights and "Doin's"-Pre.
mature Pyrotcchnics.
Written for This Paper.1

AHEY. got up
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MiIlionatre nlytho's wild Hogs.
From tAe Yuna Tsmsa


Roaming over the lands Of the Lerdo colony,
seventy miles south Of Yuma are droves OF Wild
hogs. varioualy estimated At from 1000 to 5000
IN number They are descend ants OF tame ho9s
placed on the ranch whom Thomas H. Blythe
vas vas Part owner. nbont thirteen years ago.
After Blythe's decease and subsequent rever.
sion OF his interest to Gen. Andrade the hogs
were turned loose and allowed to 20 ct Will
oyer the rich bottom lands Of the COLORADO
istsr: ikitysr: fey gonerstions ,rensiormed them
. man II they had the opportunity. They sub.
stst chiefly on tho Wild potato. a. tuber which
grows the size OF walnut sud In great pro-
fusiCn:a hns,na The present owner Of Lsrdo. Gen:
hogs caught. aud the meat cured for the use OF
tho colonists.
Operations were begun about year ago, and
though not conductsa on large scale have
Sircnlar corral aboqs thirty feet in diameter.
having trap door. Plenty OF bait In the. shape
OF corn and potatoes 10 scattered about the en-
trace r. ses and also buried in the canal. 4 band
corral. commence roofing for tho buried corn
and potatoes, and whom the right spot is
struck by them the trap door falls and they
a are priso1ers Il The hogs are fed s.hile before
and the lard sweet and delicious.
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Two ste-.chs 70 Each.

froa ms IfvTton Sfdfs Gofere.
:. AT the April meeting Of the Natural History
society, Dr. Thomas B. Stevens entertained
and instructed the members BY All illustrative
paper on q arotifer.a microscopic animal that 10
among the rarest In the group, II was first dis.
covered b. Russian microscopic. next found
twice In Philadelphia once IN Illinois. and
some years ago In Trenton. 1t has now been
Tho creature ID unique 10 several particulars
that would be OF hut little Interest to the gem
eral reader but which MI with inexprcsslble
JOY the heart Of the devoted microscopiat, who
ts happy whom he 10 prying into the littfe brain
or the larger stomach Of the animal.
The. little creature IL blessed above the hu-
man boast In having two stomacbs, which Il
can fill with other animals, and apparently en-
JOY itself BY diRestinR them. In spite OF their
wr1RRiinR. But In connection with one OF the
animals stomnchs discovery has been made
In Trenton that has never before boon made In
any part Of the world. otherwise It would not
be discovery. This pouch 10 Internally lined
with dense and woolly coating OF vibrating
hairs These strange internal appendages ap-
pear to be unknown In any other than the
Trenton rotifer. and are. therefore. OF great In
toreat In scientific way.
Another pleasing polnt-ple ssinC both to the
animal and to the microseopist-is that the
rotf1er has no means OF seeking Its food nor OF
creating currents In tho water that shall bring
food 10 its double stomach 1t can only rest on
widely open. and walt for Providence 10 fIi it 81
means OF some wandering npimal that shall
blnnder Into tho trap and be Jone for. because
once to those Jaws there 10 no escape.
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Tests OF Maple Sugar and Syrup.
FROM tie Utica oosrrrsr.

In selecting, . cake Of maple sugar to. cat
shun the small. square. hard bricks that look
as though they were composed OF coarse sand
and and p pcpndec @ glass, and choo.e from thS larger
cate golden brown tint. To hS fresh and pure
It should cut almost as easily as cheese. and
pleasant gritty taste. Some people have an
idea that the dark; wet soggy cakes are tho
made by their fathers. This q moi, 20. II is
more than Tor it to DO white, and while tho dark
sugar shows tho .presenee Of dirt and leaves
dition Of the cheapest cane sugar. So tho al
most white. glisteninR. coarse. grained maple
sugar shows that It was made By melting over
some OF tho last. years stock and adding to 1t
the common ooifae sugar Of the store.
Maple syrup to DO pure and just right to eat.
shhould h weigh about llH pounds to the gallon.
and amber hued without containing dark
streaks II. after Il ha. stood i1 the dish few
man who made Il should cut down the tree
from which he claimed the sap was drawn and
haul It to your door In proof OF his claim.
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A Large Fire at Scranton.

SCRANTON. May 2.-shortly after midnight
last night nre broke out In the barn OF the
PEOPLES Street Railway Company on Linden
street. That large structure and twenty-nine
electric cars which were housed there were
destroyed In lees than half an hour, The fire
then attacked the rear Of the Republican
building.
At 8 O'Clock this morning the ilre was under
control. but the Republican building was par
tial wreck. nearly the entire structure being
soaked. with water. the rear windows burned
the doors aud ceilings. and a, great part OF the
furniture In the oilices and printing rooms
Church aiso suffered badly. and the roof oi 9:
W. Dams blaoxsm shop on Linden street
mmiiiinsry min % store pai!dine facing on wyoming
avenue was badly damaged; low estimate
Go%pan, Com ans iEs ss sss66oo and may rS" to
beyond that smopn, The i,e ne and water Loss s
over $50 200.
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Imprisoned All Night by Snake.


BIRMINGHAM Ala. April 2O.-This morning.
when 9. ". LoveRood. chief bill clerk OF tho
be was surprised to lind the place desc erted.
The ,porters were on the outside and terror.
stricken. They dared not enter. Night Clerk
closed. and was apparently closely guarded 81
40 enormous anaconda. which had coiled itsslf
there from midnight to daylight this mornina.
Last night. while the porte In the offico
were getting out a package Of freight from 4
pile Of boxes, the boxes tpmhled in every d.
Iection. One Of them. which weighed forty
hv i've pounds. n bHr,t S ppen and out OF It came
d Frankiin's circus. which Is exhibiting here.
The snake crawled from the box up Into the
at work. As soon rs he saw the reptile sp-
preaching he took to the vault rs q place OF
The snake was about seven feet long. No
busine.s gould bs transacted at the express
ONCE until Mr.. Franklin. one OF the propri.
etors of tho show. captured the reptile and
took 1t to his circus.
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Fact. About the Insurance Business.

Tho annual report Of James F. Pierce. Super
intendent OF the Insurance Department, which
has been printed recently. has some curious
facts concerning the insurance business for
1890. There were. for instance. 81 fro and ma
rine insurance companies that reported an
excess Of expenditures over incomes. Alto.
gether these companies paid out s410.599
more than they received. The total income Of
all the companies doing business In this State
In fire and marine insurance was $S2990.262.
and their profits were S7.764O43. The ITS
companies reported 1926. 6.o17. $40 Of net assets.
The life insurance companies doing business
in this State report assets ut s753, ,22S759. and
the net OF over s
issued for lie insurance. insurinR $3.50. $685.
Tho Insurance depsrtmsnt holds s 9n n7 deposit as
The aggregate assets reported for all kinds
Of insurance companies fs $l:O18.73i. .461. and
the rieks that they have in force amount to
S20,447.2 .291 ,321.
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Solving . Mystery.
PROM tAs Dsirots Irse Press

A wcmap bosrded : Crawford stree! CA
ousck apron tied over The top. She sat down
near boz With 9 hHadle. And Ae NO sooner
mystery conceded therein. for tho frst dvs
ainStS !ee w21|Tsn xe.Shsd 2 SSloSsly that
along to whore street bend We. playing 4nd
she bali rose up 70 sse. AZ she did 70 tho boy
"Land o. massy. but what's that" shouted
. man next 70 him. - he jumped up.
Lot her 90. Gallagher I"
Stop this oar L.
1t was Q humping big cat. Tho cloth WA no
sooner raised than ont he popped. ran over
the mans knees. and during tho next half
minute he iumped all over everybody In that
car. he finally came TO tho rsaf. door. uttered
. "sptsh y at the conductor. and made long
pole. Everybody looked ct tho woman and her
basket. and she ran put and got Of without
the boy. and feeling that speech OF some sort
WAS demanded By the occasion he said:
Who'd Q thought OF cats2 Is'posod Il was
new maple eugar or popcorn!'
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Died At the Reputed Ago OF 1ss.
From fhs PAtiddetphia Record.


WARRINGTON. April 26-All colored Washing.
ton viii be at the funeral TO- morrow afternoon
OF Mrs. SusRnnAh Nelson. who die | on Thurs-
day at the very ripe age Of 1873 years months
and days. Her daughter said to-day that
there could bo no doubt about the correctness
whom some OF her ch ildren were already grown
yp she used to toll them that she waa IL years
that. "shs had three children in the year tho
She had altogether sixteen children. and OF
these the eldest girl had sixteen. Of whom but
one 10 now living.
:, Mrs Nelson was born In Fredericksburg.
tack upen Frsdericksbure during the war.
whom sho came to this city to live. Long before
from the fields and put 10 spinning She en-
joyed good health ND to last week. but the grip
One Of her daughters, the ninth chlldhsr-
self over 80 years oi oiage-satd that she thought
S hs od hed TIt 80 vel vas
know Indians 10 very long.lived."
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The BOY Won the Race.

There was race on Columbus avenue be-
W. Msen S-year-old boy and l0-year-old Girl.
tne 10y was mounted on bicycle and tho girl
was mounted on pair OF roller skates. Tho
race was on smooth section OF tho main
uack OF tho syenue near the sidewalk. and
!ae voc course was six blocks in length. Both of
W, thS rompetitors were robust and the competi.
sSa u0h ', wa. spirited. Aetimss the girl was ahead
4. ~ orgy inlo play at tho opening OF the race
iss, Dny reserved some OF his strength for the
!ors ran along ihe sidewalk TO see The ilnisS.
a snu 70 cheer their fayorite. The elevated cars
iSs,nssd i've ra rolled swiftly o. though they were In
W. Tme race and trying 10 boat the racers below
,,n.o ane boy on the bicycle came out ahead Of his
b,E0 b,n, ana the girl on the roller skates sRluted
nim with merry laughter,
sses ON Columbus avenue,