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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-07-02

for having proclaimed freedom to the
world; on the contrary he wants to
put on liberty cap and shout with
us. This is what he says about the
Fourth OF July:
This is a memorable day to Eng.
lishmen as well as to Americans. 1t
Is to us a day of regret and rejoicing.
OF regret at the severance of the po-
litical connection which bound the two
branches of our race together, and of
regret even for the unhappy errors
which brought that severance about,
and the unhappy strife by which the
memory of 1t was emblttered.
But II is also day of rejoicing,
for it Is the birthday of the eldest
daughter of England-the day when a
new nation. sprung from our own,
first took its independent place in the
world. And now, with the progress
of time, rejoicing has prevailed over
regret, and we in England can at
length join heartily with you in cele.
brating the beginning OF your nation.
al life. All bitterness has passed
away and been replaced by sympathy
with all, which this anniversary means
to an American heart"
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regrettable to their elders.
1t was natural that the ssdate and
dignified Lawyer Nye should find it
both pleasant and convenient to be
neighborly, and that he should make
calls both frequent and regular at the
Carleton villa.
Particularly distasteful to one youth
was the gallantry of Neighbor Nye; to
the bank clerk with small salary, who
devotedly came down from Boston
each Saturday, to pay court to Louise
He did not appear well, this disap-
pointed Archie Irwin, as he was pre-
sented to the dignified caller, whom
he regarded with sudden hatred and
dlsmay. What chance had he. he ask
ed himself bitterly, against man with
Nye's money, and profession and posi-
ton? Worst of all. Louise seemed
pleased with the attentions OF the mid
dle.aged sutton.
Another watched the growing inter
est of Adelbert Nye in the fair young
girl, and tried in vain to ignore the
heart.burnings which it caused.
And yet, why? Leila Carleton asked
herself. Why should she expect the
lover of her girlhood to remain the
lover of her middle age?
! So the late June days fled; and as
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-07-02

tie, noisy things, Jews harps, hattles,
swapping torpedoes, a few kegs OF
little screams to let off every time
firecraeker explodes.
The parents stock up with lint, pan
dages, arnica. and salves for all sorts
of wounds, for, mind you, the battle
of freedom will be again fought on
the morrow. More firecrackers,
bombs, ghnpowder, rockets, Roman
candles, pinwheels, and general as
sortment OF after-dark hairraisers
should be provided.
II is customary to BEGIN the racket
several days beforehand, so as to be
| in fun practice when the genuine eel
ebration opens up. or course, TINS
refers to individuals only, the general
! public town, or city authorities, socie-
! ties and military companies must do
! their share toward the manifestation
and increase the general uproar by a
| thousand per cent.
/ The next morning, at dawn, DO not
wait a minute later. rush out and be-
gin. Don't let anybody lay abed after
that, or If they do, keep them awake
Now sound the rafting crackers.
AS in the days OF Nankorshin
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the nations birthday approached, the
early cottagers at the Pier joined with
the townspeople in preparations to
celebrate the day with fitting evidences
of patriotism. There was to be an
early morning parade of antiques and
horribles, followed by military DEM
onstration, a parade of automobiles at
noon and an old-fashioned afternoon
picnic, with reading of the Declare
ton and patriotic addresses, ending
with an evening of fireworks.
Such busy season as it became for
Welcome Nye!
His father was to lead the automo-
bile parade in his fine French racing
machine and deep was Welcomes dis
gust and violent his ire when refused
the privilege of accompanying him,
more especially since that honor was
to be accorded his arch-enemy, Louise
Carleton
The Corsair. looking like fairy We
hicle in its floral adornment, stood in
the open doorway of the Nye stables,
only waiting the coming of its owner
to start upon its triumphal progress.
The household was busily engaged, for
it was the lunch hour: all were antic-
ipating the rare pleasure of the af-
ternoon.
Suddenly there was a dash, bang,
a warning toot foot. the odor and
puff of gasolene, and out of the stable
doorway and down the drive madly
dashed cumbersome floral bulk.
There was cry of alarm, rush
from stable and household, hoarse
warnings hurled after an adventurous
and unheeding chauffeur.
THE divvle! He's run away with
the auto!" one groom called to an
other, and that one to the house serv-
ants.
In truth it might have been his sa.
tanic majesty himself, the way that
elfish child dashed down the drive and
into the street
The anxious group followed him in
mad haste, but not for long.
They held their breath in horror as
they saw the machine zig gag, then
essay to climb the grassy terrace at
the Carleton villa, ingloriously drop
ping back; and then, putting and snort
ing, with whirring of wheels. dash
backward across the road and over
the offset, down upon the rough cob
bles of the beach.
The child lay very still as they res
cued him. seeming TO take his mishap
as matter of course.
When they picked him up his left
arm hung limp and there were sundry
smudges and burned places upon his
face; for the Corsair had taken fire,
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and was no longer the dainty floral
thing which it had been left as the tri-
umph of womanly artistry.
ANY other child would have been
killed." was the verdict of the physi-
clan who had been summoned in hot
haste-a familiar verdict enough to
all who knew Welcome Nye and his
escapades.
1t was Archie Irwin who had tender.
ly lifted the little figure from under
the wrecked machine, and TO whom
the child had chung with passionate
affection; but after they had taken him
to the veranda of the villa he had sud
denly stretched out his uninjured arm
to Mrs Carleton, and had begun to
sob and cry in paroxysm which
amazed them all, since repentance and
Welcome were wont to be as bitter
strangers.
Leila Carleton tenderly folded the
hapless child in her arms, his be.
smudged face and tousled head mes
Ting against the dainty whiteness OF
her gown, as she endeavored to soothe
him, and to still the strAIs outburst
which was so distressing and SO dis
eoncerting to his unhappy father.
"My boy. My boyl" he began, scoth
ingly. BE quiet! The doctor is go
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OF her nervousness, her restless ac-
tivity, to perplex and mystify his grave
and dignified father.
All legends which he had ever read
of elfin children and changelings came
back to Adelbert Nye's memory during
the confused years which followed
years in which his son was the wonder
as well as the despair Of physicians
and nurses; when the period of his
teething became an epoch, when the
violence with which he took, one af-
diseases Of babyhood furnished the
subject matter for learned papers at
countless medical conventions: when
the tabled nine lives of the domestic
cat became too Insignificant for no
tice by comparison with the falls and
bumps and fractures the maladies ex-
ternal and internal of Welcome Nye.
which went to prove what could be
endured with the minimum of vitality
In the frail and emaciated form of
boy who was destined to live for the
trial and long-suffering of his kind.
So the child continued to grow, and
to become the terror as well as the de-
spair of nurses and teachers. The
house servants, who had perfect hor-
ror of him, referred to him affection
ately among themselves as "The
Diyvle," a memory of night when
one of the maids, in the enjoyment of
a twilight interview with her favor
lite policeman. looked up TO shrek with
dismay, as the elfn child. astride the
lofty garden wall laughed in ghoulish
glee at their tender farewell.
"May the divvle be your welcomed"
had growled the disconnected guard
ian of the peace, as his eyes followed
hers; and since that time the appro-
priateness of the epithet has grown
upon the household.
While his distracted father could
reconcile himself to the boys physical
weakness and defects, it was heavy
cross to bear the knowledge of the alb
solute lack of what the world deems
| education on the part of his son. His
| son, And he himself was counted a
I scholar, an ornament TO his profession:
might be elevated to the bench IL he
| SO chose: was marked man in his set
| as the author of certain deep and
| thoughtful papers upon historic and
! scientific topics; had, in fact, all the
points of the cultured gentleman and
| modest scholar. Oh, why, why had
Fate punished him by making him the
| father of such a son, who managed to
| elude all obligations to study, because,
| forsooth, the doctors declared that he
| must not be urged, or worried, or ex-
| cited.
He was now, was Welcome, but
! spindling and understood and wizened,
his sharp features and diminutiye
hands and feet causing his unhappy
father to sigh whenever he noted them.
Surely there were Darwinian sugges-
| tions about the uncanny and repulsiye
form of the boy, whose defects were
never so apparent as when Adelbert
Nye contrasted his offspring with the
beautiful children of his neighbor, the
fascinating Widow Carleton.
|. 1t was strange that they should have
met again, after her long absence in
England.
Adelbert Nye and the beautiful wom-
4 an, who, as Leila Deiand, had been
friends in youth-and more. He
thought of il all as he walked slowly
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homeward in the moonlight, after his
established for the season, oh, shades
of love and poesy! with her twin
daughters!
Twins, Adelbert Nye deprecated
the slang of the day; yet had he put
his thoughts into words, and these
words into the vernacular. he must
have murmured something about the
fact of twins in connection with the
sweetheart of ones youth being calcu-
lated to jar even a dignified member
of the bar,
And, more horrible still, one of the
twins had married; and Leila his
Leila--was eked a youthful grand
mother
"And she is 10000 times more fas-
cinating n Y than she vas then! That
sweet September day when we gath
cred the gentians by the, pasture ditch
-genitians no bluer taan her own
dear eyes," he murmu-ed, with a
strange accession of sentimentality.
"Ah after all, age is bit relative
term, And the fountain of perpetual
youth is not so tabled ss one might
dream, Yet lovely as Leila is, she is
no whit lovlier than is that sweet
child. her daughter. the prelty Louise!
How fortunate that chance should have
made us neighbors."
Meantime, in the seclusion of her
own bed chamber, Leila Carleton was
standing before the mirror. removing
the jewels which had flashed upon the
flmy laces of her handsome dinner
gown
"Oh, who would ever, ever expect a
man to be faithful" she asked her
self, with bitterness, forgetting that
she, too, had been somewhat incon-
slant during the long lapse of years.
AS the days went on, it was a sweet
consolation to Adelbert Nye to have
the sympathy of such neighbor in
his affiiction-for so he regarded the
possession of such a son, in spite of
his effort to love the uncanny child
and his care and solicitude for the
boys physical welfare. Leila under
stood, and had pity for him. But 1t
was a source Of regret that the child
had conceived an instant antipathy to-
ward the beautiful Louise, who found
rare pleasure in teasing the boy,
amazing the young tyrant by declaring
that what he needed for both physical
and mental health was an unlimited
dose of Solomon's prescription. To
Welcome, who had never been thwart-
ed or disciplined during his capricious
life tits was the signal for hatred of
the most malevolent sort; and the two
waged warfare as persistent as it was
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-07-02
To Celebrate
the Fourth

The boys lay in, the night before,
a supply Of firecrackers, bombs, drums,
.torpedoes, guHpowder and guns-the
latter two If permitted several
barrels of concentrated, assorted and
variegated yelis. Horns, megaphones,
trumpets and whangdoodles are excel
lent vehicles for drawing off the yells
when needed, which is all the time.
The whangdoodle is made by taking
any old tin can saved from the goats,
punching small hole through the
bottom. and then drawing a strong
cord through, knotting it so that il
will stay. The cord should be well
''rosined," and by drawing il between
the thumb and finger the noise 1t pro
duces will explain why We gained oui
independence-it had to be given us.
Girls should lay in a supply of gen
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-07-02

ing to set your shoulder. Surely. you
do not mind little thing like that%'
he asked, recalling the child's life.
time of accidents.
"Oh, | have been bad. bad boyl"
he whimpered, with astonishing peni
tence. But I'm never, never going to
be bad any more!"
That is laudable resolution, my
SOM" his father responded with mild
irony. pity you did not think to make
it earlier!" and he glanced grimly at
the wrecked automobile, and thought
of his spoiled plans.
I'm never going to be badif you
give me something" whimpered the
boy again.
My sen! forbear to mention what
I'd give you with huge delight, If
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-07-02

gave you your deserts!" exclaimed the
sorely tried father; while Mrs. earle.
| ton smiled.
''I'll sc good the child astonished
them By declaring, "if only l get
new mammal"
Their eyes met in confusion.
I'm the only boy round here that
amt got no mamma" announced the
child, with cheerful impotence and
| disregard of grammar. ''and I want
one!" he persisted Il want Mrs. Garlic
toni"
| my boy, this is the first good turn
you have done your unfortunate faith
! er since you. BIRTH" blurted out Adel-
bert Nye. with surprising aIacrity.
''You have but anticipated my own re-
quest" and he smiled upon the boy
most genially. Now If only Mrs.
| Carleton consents"
But | thought" that lady be-
| gan. in confusion.
'Oh. / want you! I want you!" the
elfin child persisted, Tightening his
arm desperately about her neck. "Pll
| be good boy! i truly will"
The doctor was arranging his splints
at the end Of the veranda. Archie and
Louise had joined the curious group on
the opposite side OF, the street
IL was al opportunity afforded them
by Fate!
Leila" the dignified barrister be.
| gan In tender whisper, 1.-THE child has
but voiced my own thoughts. You
| know what you were to me once. For
your dear saks have learned to love
| your daughter as my own. She cares
for young Irwin; l am in way to
help the boy along. For all our sakes.
| then. will you not CONSENT"
| sit seems but fair" she responded
slowly and calmly. although she felt
that he must be aware of the mad
beating of her heart, ito exchange my
daughter for your SOM"
| Leila, know 1t is long time since
that far-off September day when we
| gathered the gentians in the old pas
ture lot, and vowed"
"Atl ready now, young mani" broke
In the doctors CHEEKY voice. as he hur-
ried fussily up with full hands. Now
let's see what hero you're going to
| be-"
BIT the child pushed him rudely
away, at the same time inquiring, in
the imperious tone of one who had
never known what it was to have his
wishes gainsaid:
IA it all right, papa?'
THAT is for Mrs. Carleton to de-
eide, my son! Is 1t all right, Mrs.
Carleton? he inquired lightly, yet
with unmistakable anxiety in his tone.
Two little spots Of red burned upon
her cheeks, and she hesitated.
Surely, never was SO strange pro
posal!
You are going to be my" the
child began; but she pressed him to
her. smothering the word which she
wished to hide from the waiting sur
geon.
And then she sobbed, and in min.
ute she smiled pathetically.
For once my sons escapades have
accorded with his outlandish name!'
was Adelbert Nye's fervent comment
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His mother was one of those married
old maids who abound even in the bsst
society. He was the child of her mid
die age; and because she resented his
coming, as a check upon her social
gayeties, she had compromised with
her Puritanical conscience by calling
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So, as Welcome Nye, he was sent
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world; which he did in inverse ratio TO
his size and vitality.
His mother did not long survive his
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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-07-02
Hurrdh for the Fourth
BY An Englishman.

BY long hammering at It, burning
powder and upheaving the world once
a year for one hundred and twenty
eight years, we have at last converted
the English to our way of thinking,
and they want to fire OFF firecrackers
and hurrah for freedom and chase af,
ter the great American eagle. Mr..
James Brice is an Englishman, and he
does not feel at all bitter toward us
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''And when the day departing,
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Amid prolonged huzza,
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Cry out, "Sst! Boom! A-A-A-A-H"
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