The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-07-04

before the INTELLIGENCER became the
leading paper of the county, everybody has
been at liberty to shout for the American
flag, burst firecrackers and explode pyro-
technics, provided, OF course, that it wasn't
against the law, and hear the Declaration
of Independence read by some one whose
voice had been somewhat worn shouting
for the hired hand to get up in the morn
ing.
There are three things we always look
for on the 1th OF July-hags, fireworks and
new potatoes. OF course we don't always
get the latter, and sometimes get some OF
the secOnd-named i'm our pistol pockets
before the hose company arrives, but we
are prepared for the potatoes and axcept
the firework with Christian fortitude.
Some OF us sing on the 4th, and the sweet
melody Of
"The Star-spangled banner,
Oh, long may h wave!"
brings us to Il realizing sense of the mag
nitude of the debt of gratitude we owe
Mr.. G.. Washington and his compatriots
in the long and bitter struggle for indie
pendence.
w ''No '"'t """ ""D1
let us ask, has not, at some period in his
life?-we must rise at 4 o'clock in the
morning and be prepared to usher in the
day with the blare of trumpets and roll of
drums. When the first gun is fired the
ant is expected to respond Justify with
"Yankee Doodle" and when the echo of
the thirteenth comes rolling back from
the low and at present very damp lands
across the river, america must catch
up the quavering sound and bear it DER
hill and dale, through field and glen until
even the cattle in the barn yards catch the
spirit OF enthusiasm and low-lo! not low
in the exuberance OF their Joy.
And when the band, heading the pro-
session, marches No, not another
word, for we've all been there; lave all,
like the readers of the INTELLIGENCEF
and the Chris Young matter, "seen it in
print already" and there's no need OF
delaying the edition" to revamp matters
already well known.
The day always comes in July, but not
always on Saturday. Sometimes it comes
on Sunday, in which event the Office boy
must attend a picnic on Saturday with
his best girl, and the office being CLOSED
on Monday, the "kid" gets two holidays
for the price of one. When the 4th comes
on Sunday those whose heads are suscep'
tible to aches from e~xtraneous noises &c
to visit their mothers-in-law Friday night
and miss the train Monday, so that, wher
they do arrive Tuesday morning, the STOCK
of fireworks is exhausted and you couldn't
buy a bunch OF fir~ecrackers, yea, ever
thought you offered as many dollars al
there are papers in the INTELLIGENCER't
Lexington publications.
Everybody celebrates the 4th of July il
one way or another. The Knights o
Pythias of Higginsville are going to disl
out n very large portion OF fun for theiI
guests ut the Confederate Home to-day
and a good many Lexington Knights o
Pythias of both sexes will be there whei
the dishing's being done Billy Lee, Arthu
Bullard and John Jakowsky will be there
and Major Peed, of the Democrat, unles
he is engaged to beat the drum in tn
band, will be on hand to welcome the tw'
or three handsome young ladies who e
from the INTELLIaENcER's Typographical
rooms. Some of US will go to Sedalia, an
= talk old soldier with the blue and gra
encampment, erstwhile listening to f
Burrowes and George Terrell as they re
count innumerable coops of the separatio
u of Il church or the robbing of a train.
\ II it wasn't for Thanksgiving, an
= Christmas, and New Year, and Washing
toms birthday, and st. Patrick's day, AN
!, May day, and so on, some OF us woul
wish that the 18th of July came also in tn
middle OF winter; but somehow we don'
and always feel glad that there are 81
long and short days and short and lon
nights between them.