The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-24
PROF, SANFORD SBAND
Make Great Preparations For
the Fourth
IN RIVERSIDE PARK
There Will Be Five Hundred
Dollars in Prizes.

Sanford's Commercial band has made
arrangements for a bag celebration on
July in South Riverside park The band
VIII give concerts IN the morning, after
neon and evening There will be RACES,
baseball, speaking, etc, and the pJste-s
printed ana circulated offer $500 in prizes
Of one hind and another. There wIll be
reduced rates on railroads, the usual
amount of oratory and the extra feature
of red Lemonade.
AS GOES THE GLORIOUS FOURTH.
There will be racket and noise and pa
triotism. The coming Fourth will be like
all of those which have preceded it, full
Of firecrackers and fizz. The small boy
and the sky rocket will be there. Orators
full of red lemonade and patriotism will
be there. so Will the young man and his
best girl. On this day the cQhntry young
man takes old Dobbin from the cultivator
and puts a bran new harness on him,
bitches him to the new top buggy, gets
his best girl and goes to town to celebrate
the glorious Fourth of July. The country
young man wears hos best clothes, high
collar; his best girl is dressed in white,
carries a flaming parasol, and bouquet
in her hand. In the whipEsocket Is new
whip with a red ribbon on il. Dobbin has
never done anything but plow corn and
do work on the farm, and the ring of
crackers and the explosion of squibs
makes him mighty nervous as he ap-
proaches the town. The first thing seen
on Main street is the grand marshal of
the day mounted on an ancient pillow
horse. He rides up and down the street
withot any possible object except to show
himself and his sash. The country young
man stations himself on Main street,
where the small boy soon discovers that
Dobbin Is mighty afraid of fireworks. He
kicks, starts, plungeS and threatens to
wreck the whole rig, all of which de-
lights the small boy more than ever The
country young man gets uncomfortable
and tugs on his horse. and soon works
himself into a high state of perspiration
and excitement. In the struggle his best
girl loses her parasol, her hat blows of,
and she drops her bouquet. The trouble
with the young man Is that he is carry
ing about four times as many clothes as
he usually wears. He has been going
about the farm in his shirt sleeves, minus
suspenders, minus socks, la Jerry Simp-
son, and on the Fourth he wears a heavy
coat, a heavy vest, very stif starched
shirt and a very high starched collar,
with a red necktie. He also wears pair
of celluloid cuffs, which take the place of
pulse warmers. He is very uncomfortable
and in a perspiring condition, and, on the
whole. he passes a very miserable and |
happy day.
The air Of the morning was cool and ex- |
hilerating when he started, but that now |
gives place to hot sun, and little eddies |
of wind and dust blow along the street. |
And so the time wears away. until the |
grand march is formed, with the marshal |
with the red sash proudly in the front. |
and the little girls who carry flags each !
and represent Kansas, Oklahoma, Dakota |
and the other states, wends its way TO |
the church where young man just from |
the Kansas University spreads the great |
American eagle and weaves in with an |
oratorical flourish something about Dewey |
and then pauses for the applause, and |
takes drink of water. No one applauds |
for the reason that everybody is hot and |
again, and speaks of Funston and Kan
sas, and then pauses for more applause |
and takes another drink of water; and |
then n quartette sing MY Country, 'Tis |
OF Thee" and the crowd dissolves and |
scatters to their several homes, but the |
small boy keeps up a steady fusilade of |
firecrackers and squ:bs. and the Dung man
from the country still struggles with old |
than in the morning. In his heavy coat.
his vest buttoned up tight and his collar
wilted. his whole makeup IS hot and I'M
comfortable. The surfeit of circus lem
march of the school children representing
various states. each one carrying a flag, |
the Grafton of the Fourth OF July orator.
the platform dance and the company of
his best girl can not compensate him for
the heat and discomfort which he endures
that day.
The country young man Is really the |
most patriotic and long suffering and sac
riflcing person of the whole crowd. After
the festivities of the day he returns to his
home, leaves his best girl at her fathers.
takes the feathers of old Dobbin, shoves
the new top buggy into the corn crib and
gets out OF his coat and vest and limp
collar and softly swears TO himself that
il is the last Fourth Of July for him, I'M
less he can go in his shirt sleeves.