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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-02
Henrv Irving Not Actine.

London. Jan. "A curious rumor is
current in regard to the Lyceum and Sir
Henry Irving. The latter is reported to
be Progressing favorably, but he sees
one and is not likely to act for long
time"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-02
David ove.mver,a Letter.

In commenting on the letter written
by David Overmyer for the BRYAN han-
2uets Democratic Chairman J. Mack
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-02
FAILURE AT FARGO

Minneapolis, Mimi, Jan. "A special to
the Journal from Fargo, N. D.. says the
Citizens National bank failed this after
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norous bell with delirious vigor. It's re-
verberation was echoed by every steeple
in the city.
That was a gala day in Philadelphia,
what with rejoicings and bonfires and IL
luminations. The cnnon doomed and
messengers rode away hotly to all quar-
tiers to announce the news. Washington
then was in New York with his army.
BY his orders it was read to the soldiers
who acclaimed it enthusiastically. The
toWnsfolk on that night tore the statue
OF George III from its pedestal in Bowl
ing Green and it was melted into forty
two thousand bullets for the patriot
troops.
Yesterday wrote John Adams to his
wife, ''the greatest question was de-
cided that was ever debated in America,
and greater, perhaps, never was or will
be decided among men. A resolution was
passed without one dissenting colony,
that these United Colonies are, and of
right ought to be, free and independent.
The day is passed. The 4th of July 1916,
will be memorable epoch in the his
tory of America. 1 am apt to believe it
will be celebrated by succeeding genera
tions as the great anniversary festival.
1t ought to be commemorated as the day
of deliverance by solemn acts of deyo-
tion to Almighty God. 1t ought to be
solemnized with pomp, shows, games,,
sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illumin-
ations from one end of the continent to
the other from this time forward for
ever"
By strange coincidence John Adams
died on July A. 1926, the fiftieth ami
versary of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence. His last words were, Jefferson
still survives" But a 1 o'clock the same
day Jefferson also passed away.
Boys and girls for generations have
been taught these facts in history; that
is, the boys and girls who have studied
the history of the United States. There
are thousands resident here now who
have never had this opportunity To
them the Fourth of July is holiday, a
day to celebrate, day of enjoyment To
the American boy and girl who know
what happened here 121 years ago, it is
so much more than that that it is no
exaggeration to say they enjoy the cell
ebration with twice the keenness that
those who are ignorant of the country's
history could possibly experience
Among the older ones, plenty of whom
have studied history, too, there is host
who only know that the Fourth of July
is the day when the Declaration of Inde-
pendence was made public. That is
what we celebrate, to be sure, but the
kindred incidents must be known to
those who would appreciate the great
ness of the day. We love the Star
Spangled Banner. We celebrate the
Fourth of July. To the American citi-
zen these two are the Damon and Pyth-
las of freedom. We wave the first and
we set off fireworks in observance of the
second. And then, incidentally we all
make little declaration of independ.
ence of our own.
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NOTES OF THE DAY

Paper flooring is in use in Germany.
1t is laid in pasty mass smoothed and
then pressed. Footsteps on it are noise
less.
Among the new words called into ex-
istence in London by the jubilee are jubi-
letti, confection; jubility. the nervous
excitement caused by the approaching
celebration, and jubilicant, one who So
licits funds for the festal occasion.
Prosecutions are expected to begin
soon under a new Massachusetts law
which forbids the wearing of the body
or feathers of any undomesticated bird.
Every offender will be fined $40 and the
prosecuting witness will be paid re-
ward of S..
The Salonica correspondent of a Turk
ish newspaper announces that at the de-
parture of the last train of wounded for
Constantinople, Mr.. Blunt, her majes-
tvs consul. was at the station, and
gave cigarettes and sugar plums to the
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and prose of the flag. The Englshmen
boasts that his rather ugly arrange
ment or red and yellow is the most pop
ular flag that floats, but ever so many
people will dispute that. If any
reader of these lines has ever visited a
foreign country, has been a stranger in
some faraway place over the ocean, he
may remember the feeling of joy, of
pride, almost rapture, that came to him
when he first saw the Stars and Stripes
floating over the consulate.
The writer remembers some years ago
walking down the Bois le Solcgne, in
Paris. just ahead of him was a regula-
tion man of the world, and yet something
about him indicated that at one time or
another he had lived in America. He
walked slowly down the avenue, until
all Of a sudden, from the second story of
building al the right there was flung
to the breeze the silken folds of beau
tiful specimen of the American flag. The
man of the world saw it. In a second
his silk hat was off his head, and despite
the onlookers he gave three as lusty
cheers for the Stars and Stripes as ever
came from an American throat. AS the
writer reached him, he turned about,
and, with tears rolling down his cheeks,
said: Il did not know that the sight of
anything could touch me like that" And
then he cheered again.
This just by way of evidence that the
average person who looks at, waves and
carries the American flag has really no
idea of the place in his heart that it
holds. If anything were ever thing Of
beauty and joy forever, it is the flag
of the United States. Thousands of peo-
pie say that it does not protect them
when away from home. 1t has been said
in mass meetings that it was no longer
the flag of the free. And yet there is not
one of those who make the remarks re-
ferred to who would not fight in min
ute for that same flag if any one beside
an American citizen spoke against it,
A singular fact concerning the Amer
lean flag and the people over whom it
floats is that with all reverence for it
they are dreadfully irreverent with it,
The flag is something to be cheered and
saluted and honored in every way, but
when it gets worn out it is cast aside and
a new one substituted. Nobody knows
and nobody cares where the worn out
ones go to. Sufficient to the day is the
fact that they have served their pur-
pose.
This by no means refers to battle flags.
No, indeed. If there are only three inch
es Of red, white and blue, and a single
star remaining attached to the staff of
such banner, the people think infinite
ly more of it than they would of the fin
est thirty foot flag that was ever made.
The poor old rent and tattered banners
all have a meaning. There is history,
tragedy, romance and sometimes humor
among the memories of the dear old
relics. Let any one who doubts that pay
a visit to the statehouse at Hartford,
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of the history of the United States, con-
ceive if you can of better quintette to
have represented the American people:
Benjamin Franklin, John Adams
Thomas Jefferson, Roger Sherman, Rob-
ert r. Livingston. The first was the
man whose fame is licked into our ears
every time we hear telegraph instru-
ment, whose genius is placed in broad
light whenever we enjoy the illumina
ton of electricity. The second rose to
be president of the nation he helped to
form. The third is the father of what
the world knows as Jeffersonian Democ-
racy. The foXth, Puritan, patriot,
leader, gave more in moral force and de-
termination, in knowledge of the laws
and its common sense principles than al
most any man who assisted at the birth
of the nation. The fifth was the man
of whom the majority of people know
comparatively little, and yet there was
none who better deserved a place of
honor in the public mind. Eminent as
a financier, a shrewd judge of human
nature, his touch on the helm of state
was exactly what was needed to keep the
young craft on her course.
Jefferson had spoken but little in con-
Sress, and he had no part in the acri-
monies which then prevailed. In a
plain, brick house, corner of Market and
Seventh streets, Philadelphia, he drafted
the Declaration of Independence The
work was almost wholly Jeffersons only
a few verbal alterations being suggested
by Adams and Franklin. 1t then was
approved by the committee. A few pas
sages were struck out by congress.
Caesar Rodney, one of Delaware's S
delegates in order to have his vote re-
corded, rode in the saddle from a point
eighty miles from Philadelphia, all night
and reached the floor just in time on July
4th to cast Delaware's vote in favor of
independence. On that day, ever MEM
orable in American annals, the Declara-
ton of Independencewa was adopted by the
unanimous vote of the thirteen colonies.
The enthusiasm of the patriots at
hearing the intelligence was unbounded.
While congress had been discussing the
subject crowds assembled outside the
hall and in the streets, anXiously await
ing the result. When it was announced
at noon the state house bell on which
was inscribed, Proclaim liberty
throughout all the land unto all the in
habtants thereof" changed deep and
melodiously and the throng gave vent
to long and loud shouts of exultation.
The old bell-ringer had been at his
post since early morning. He had placed
his boy below to announce when the
Declaration was adopted, SO that not an
instant might be lost in transferring the
glad tidings by means of the bell to the
waiting multitude. AS the wearisome
hours passed and no sign came to him,
the aged bell-ringer finally exclaimed.
"They will never do it! They will never
do it," Just then he heard his boy
clapping his hands and vociferating at
the top of his juvenile lungs. Ring!
ring," The old hands swayed the So
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upon as the sudden growth of a mango
or the mysterious disappearance of the
man in the basket. Such gyrating and
such twisting of fire is rare to witness.
1t seems as if new ways had been found
for flames to dart. The jugglery feats
are not lines of flame but are formed of
countless sparks which give the desired
appearance of movement without that
of soldity
There is a new fountain of fire that
they call the prismatic fountain. 1t
darts upward twenty feet with pro-
rounced prismatic effect. A feature of
this new departure is that it burns for
twenty minutes, something almost I'M
heard of in the line of fireworks. To
return to the devil among the tailors
He is a curious fellow, ad just why the
devil sought to practice his terrific an
tics among the knights of the cloth no
one has explained. The devil begins
with a triangular battery of Roman
candles. Then comes into view burst
of gyra ting, squirming figures, in the
center of which is his satanic majesty
faithfully represented. The tailors arc
apparently having a very hot time of it
and the devil appears to be enjoying
himself hugely.
Jack in the box is concentrated bat
terry of stars of various hues These dart
up into the air in compact mass. All
at once there is report and one sees from
amidst this mass of stars a new INSTALL
ment emerge of beautiful colors. Mount
Vesuvius is another one Of the new de-
signs, and very pretty one. 1t is an
exceedingly accurate imitation of burst
of flaming lava from the crater of a vol
cano. Then there are the weeping will
low rockets, which display mass of fire
that finally forms an immense willow
tree, whose branches reach the ground.
COunled with this ofto..
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N Mas a death EneU to Bonaa1c

This is the day of patriotism and the
fire-cracker. Every one celebrates One
and all know there is just cause for the
celebration, but few realize the great
and glorious facts. They are facts that
make every one who really can say he
is citizen of the United States feel as
proud as it is possible for a human be-
ing to feel the stimulus of pride
Just one hundred and tWenty-one
years ago the bell rang in independence
hall in Philadelphia. To the uninitiated
it pealed its sonorous notes for some un-
known purpose. To those who, breath
less, were waiting for the sound, it told
the news that liberty had shaken off her
ehackles in the New World, that she
had taken her rightful place and that
hereafter the people would acknowledge
the power of no ruler except such as
might be chosen by themselves. 1t was
a curious scene in that staid old Quaker
town, the last place in the colonies where
one would have suspected a spark would
be given birth to light freedoms torch
throughout the Western Hemisphere.
1t was on the 7tn day of June 1916
ting in congress in Philadelphia con-
sidered the following resolution intro
duced by Virginia's statesman, Richard
Henry Lee:
Resolved That the United Colonies
are and ought to be free and indepen-
dent states and their political connec
ton with Great Britain is and ought to
be dissolved"
There had been murmurings and
threats and calm expressions of deter
mination. But here was united action.
The people, by their representatives
duly chosen formally absolved them
selves from allegiance from the mother
country and said to the world that they
had cast off their swaddling clothes,
they were now wholly able to walk
alone. To speak with absolute truth,
all the delegates did not favor this pro-
gressive step. Some opposed it on the
ground that it was premature. Others,
and among them some of the brightest
spirits of the assemblage, both spoke
and voted against the resolution.
Nevertheless the resolutions overcame
opposition, and was endorsed, as stated,
by the majority of one. Thirteen colo
MES were represented. Because seven
of them voted and stood for independ-
ence, the United States is today what
she is. Subsequent developments prove
that had the action taken been delayed,
the question of independence might have
slept in peace until the herald of the
people, no one knows how many years
after, sounded the tocsn of revolution
The delegates thought it wise to defer
the question of final consideration to
July l. 1776, by which time they believed
there might be a more united feeling
among the people.
Thus it was that on June IL that IA
nous committee was appointed to
frame the Declara ton of independence.
Note the names, and if you are student
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men. The Jews of the same town pre-
sented each of the wounded with
watch.
Each convict at the New Hampshire
state prison is furnished with a Bible
and a dictionary, and Greek and Latin
textbooks are supplied those who ask
for them
There are no fish in Crater lake, Ore
gon, the deepest fresh-water lake in the
world, and the government has decided
to stock it with trout. The natives used
to say that the lake was bottomless, but
soundings have shown its greatest depth
to be 1000 feet
A sister of the German nursing order
of st. john Fraulein Eva Bosse, daugh-
ter of the Prussian minister of public in.
struction and worship, recently presents
ed herself for examination to qualify for
pharmacist, and was. successful in 90.
tanning the diploma.
Nansen's chief discovery in the far
north is that very deep sea exists north
of the Franz Josef group of islands, and
that it's waters are comparatively warm
at a depth of 100 fathoms. One theory
is that the difference in temperature is
due to the gulf stream.
AS soon as the present extra session OF
congress shall adjourn the congression-
al library will be closed until the books
and other treasures of the vast collection
shall have been removed to the new and
magnificent congressional library and
properly arranged there.
Brooklyn's Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children has occupied it's
new and finely equipped building in the
crowded part Of the city. The structure
has fiat roof, which is to be fitted up as
a playground for children who are tenn
porary occupants of the shelter.
The herald., 1897-07-04
5zats ar TO the Stars aud eSl>xpes

The thoughts of more than sixty
millions of people are today turned
towards the Stars and stripes.
There are Flag days and all sorts of
days that we celebrate in one fashion
or another but when the Fourth of July
gets within reaching distance, then we
realize that the day of days is at hand.
That is why the Star Spangled Banner
is in the minds of everybody
The orators with silver tongues have
that is great and glorious regarding the
old flag. SO much for patriotism. Really,
the flag is a very prosaic benefit, apart
from the sentiment that attaches to it,.
Thousands and thousands of people gain
their living from one years end to an
other in making United States flags.
That is the way that Ben Butler, "Stra-
bismus Ben laid the foundation of his
ample fortune. Think of it, Every year
the people of the United States buy three
millions of flags. During that same Pc
riod million flags disappear. Nobody
knows where they so to. Like Mr.
Isaacs and Ram Lal they so into the
cold clear light" and that is all that
anybody seems to know
Just at the present time the employees
of the flag factories are working long
hours. They are making money and
plenty of it, and it is all because the
J,,I,
facturers of flags say that it does not
seem to make much difference how
strenuously they seek to pile up stock
by degrees in order to fill the Fourth of
July demands, about month before the
Fourth so many orders come in they
have all they can do to fill them. A Gu
rious fact is that no matter how hard
times may be, the demand for flags
rarely lessons We may have only a few
dollars in our pockets, but that makes
us none the less patriotic.
The American flag has just passed its
120th birthday. The patched-up affair
that Betsy Ross gave to the world at
the time of the Revolutionary war has
been reproduced millions of times. Yet
the only change from the design that
the expert fingers of Mrs. Ross prepared
is in the number of stars. 1t is just the
same flag in appearance that decorated
the hall in which the first congress of the
United States met. 1t is a finer flag now
in point of material, and almost any
sort can be bought that one is willing to
pay for, but whether it be silk or paper
people, whose fame increases with the
addition of every star.
And all the time we think of the poetry
The herald., 1897-07-04

The Fourth of July twenty years ago.
Well, that's a long time back. But let
me tell you; we celebrated the Fourth of
July in a patriotic, enthusiastic and
noisy way in those days. There were a
few of us who started the ball rolling
about the first of June annually for a
proper celebration of the nations birth
day-the glorious Fourth Of July" There
was Dad Briefly, as he was affection
ately and commonly called, and now
dead; Harry Hazard, Jake Kuhrts, Bob
Eckert, George Gard, George McLain,
Fred Eaton and a whole lot of others
who would whoop it up. Everything was
done by popular subscription and all la
Dor and decorations done freely and gra
tuitously We would appoint some old
and we'll respected citizen as president
of the day" and 'spellbinder" for ora
tor The Declarat ton of Independence
would be read by some high school
scholar This would be the literary por-
ton of the festivities and would be held
"out of doors" and preceded by the
"grandest street parade" ever held in
the west, consisting of several mounted
policemen, Fred Dohs' band and some
''blood' for grand marshal, he being
usually the fellow who subscribed" the
biggest sum to the fund. Then the Los
Angeles Guards" an independent mill
itia company, in red trousers, blue
blouses, coat and military cap, COM
manded by my esteemed townsman and
fellow countryman, Captain P, M. Dar-
cy, after which came the volunteer fire
department, consisting of the 3S's en-
gine company No. l, in red shirts, black
trousers and apparatus and horses most
elaborately and gorgeously decorated,
the engine surmounted with a gamecock,
Growing Justify and defiantly at the Con-
fidence engine company No. 2. following
in the wake, headed by teh
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Conn.,. that staid old New England town.
where it used to be against the law for
man to kiss his wife on Sunday.
Hard featured old farmers come in and
view the cases where the flags are locat-
ed, and presently, If one cares to watch,
there will be distinct evidences of mois-
ture and the dew on the grass on June
morning was never more delightful
than the dew of patriotism that real
ly springs from the heart of the Ameri-
can citizen, whether he be old and hard
featured or in the flush of youth. For
evidence of what the people think of the
battle flags one had best watch one of
those memorable Decoration day pro-
cessions when the old relics are taken
from their cases and tenderly carried by
hands whose owners remember the time
when the soiled and ragged remnants
were as beautiful as a Colorado sunset.
Uncle Sam, that revered old gentle
man who always reminds us of the fla g
whether we would have it so or not, is
very particular about the flags he uses.
Not everyone knows that he makes his
own and never buys any from anybody
else. Over in Brooklyn, at the navy
yard, is a big building in which a grea:
many men, women and girls work the
year round making, flags for the army
and navy, the flags to be used for the
departments in Washington, flags for
all government buildings, and for every
other use which the government sees
fit to put them to. The thirty-siX foot
banner that flies from the main gaf.
of the cruiser Brooklyn, which is in
English waters now to pay Uncle Sans
respects to her Britannia majesty, was
made there. The flag that floats over the
White House from sunrise to sunset is
a product of the Brooklyn navy yard.
They are beautiful all, for Uncle Sans
hired men and others make none but
the very best Ilags.
When we wake UP on a Fourth of
July morning, those of us who have
passed through the delightful time of
A a. m. and firecrackers we are often
disposed to make sundry and pointed
remarks about the noise that we hear.
But when we gather ourselves together
and get to the window and look out; ;
when we see on the nearest flagstaff the
Stars and Stripes, brilliant and beauti-
full as the debutante in the first flush
of social success, we forget about the
noise. We only remember that we are
citizens of the greatest republic the
world ever knew, and we know that any
disturbance we may hear is in honor
of that flag which is floating above u.s.
We are proud of it.
And then, as the day grows apace
and all that it means is borne in upon
us, the words of genius come back to
u.s. and we say to ourselves that nature
herself shows to US that the United
States will never be sundered. France
has the lily, England has the rose, Scot
land has the thistle, Ireland has the
shamrock. All these have their day and
pass from earth but the stars shine on
forever.
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Anaheim bras band, the firemen attired
in blue shirts, black pants and black
leather helmets which weighed about
ten pounds apiece. The parade started
a little before noon, and with much dig
nifty and pomp we paraded as far south
as Second street, on Main, then up to
Spring street, up Spring street north
around the plaza, down Main street to
First street and there dismissed, with
much "saluting" to each of the partici-
pating companies. The whole country
would come to town and all hands en-
joyed themselves hugely. In the even
ing there would be fireworks and dane
ing-maybe a false alarm of fire to give
it tone, and by midnight all was over
Walter S. Moore in Labor World.