The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-07-28

tleSe IrutHs 10 DE Stll eNlutHt, shc
paused till all the audience looked up
at her to see what WAS coming. Then
she raised her voice and continued |
slowly and impressively, We hold |
these truths to be self evident-that all |
men, including women. are created |
equal; that they are endowed by the |
Creator with certain unalienable rights; !
that among these are life, LIBERTY |
and the pursuit OF happiness
by Jover'
"She spoke that world liberty in a
way to give you thrills down your
spine. She had the Co Ed girls glee
quartet up to help her. They all wore
little silk American flags pinned to
their white dresses just as she did, and
after she finished the Declaration they
sang n new patriotic song one of the
club herself had written TO the grand
old air of Rally Round the Flag. Boys
words that both north and south could
unite i'm singing whole hearted. Old
soldiers on the civil war wiped their
eyes. women kissed the little flags they
wore. The girl had got the school chill
dren together-she let the boys in on
dItS~tu IA thAANN
States flag tableau. In the upper left
hand corner of a rectangle of benches
rising one above another the girls sat.
They wore blue dresses and carried
small white parasols. star shaped. The
boys wore red and white muslin caps
| and capes and sat In red and white
| stripes below and TO the left OF the
girls. Girls waved the star parasols,
BOYS waved their red and white caps.
| Wasn't It a fine idea, Phil? oh, you've
nothing TO say.
| Next sweet old saint of woman
| with white hair told the gaping chill
| dren what women. too. had done for
/ their country. She told them how in
| ITI7 Esther Zane the first. long ago
relative of the young lady who had
read the Declaration. volunteered to go
out from the stockade at Fort Henry
In Ohio when the Indians were all
around them firing bullets into the fort
| and bring from the cabin of Ebenezer
Zane keg OF powder. for the men in
the stockade were out OF ammunition"
swellr'
swell. the white haired old saint told
us next of Mother Bickerdyke, the sol
diers' angel in the civil war. She saved
thousands of lives, Union and Con-
federate alike. Many a night follow
ing a fight. even in the storm and bit
terest weather, an officer would per-
haps see twinkling light upon the
battle field after the hospital corps
had abandoned il, and the light would
be from a lantern carried by Mother
Bickerdyke, out with an orderly ex-
amining the bodies If perhaps there
might not yet be a spark of life re-
manning in some."
"wellr'
"well. after that the American flag
children sang My Country, 'Tis of
/ Thee Then while the women's Or
| chestra played Yankee Doodle we as
sembled for our basket picnic dinner.
Phil, that was the most fetching
Fourth OF July celebration l ever at
tended, pestered with not one of your
long winded orators that are such q
nuisance in the meetings of us men,"
LINDA Miles. who Is that coming
this way with John Marston? Very
good looking for man,
"That. Esther. Is Philip Altman. Mr.
Marston's cousin. He Is here for the
vacation"
LINDA, you don't mean It. Thi:
person looks really manly. PhiliI
Altman. OF all creatures contemplate
He heads the fellows that tried tC
keep us girls or the college campus
II
about us OF anybody In the college pa
per- Linda. sometimes I'm afraid In
| getting to hate men. and I'm sorry fol
Ii, because the emotion of hatred Il
not a good one to indulge-reacts psy
chologically on the health. l hope tina
shall never meet that Altman"
But of course the two did meet later
When they We're introduced Esthe
Zane stiffened her lips visibly; Philil
Altman assumed his Indifferent draw
John Marston smiled.
The two foes met often. She treate'
him with the barest civility at frs
which Altman was not used TO froT
| girls. and 1t hurt his vanity. Present
ly. however. Esther remembered tina
we should he kind TO our enemies 5
as to heap Goals OF fire upon thei
heads. She suddenly turned abOu
and became sweet as an angela ia
y of angel. that Is. and unattainabl'
Philip Altman noticed that OF all he
v frippery loving sex Esther Zane wa
10 one OF the fripperiest- She wore ye
d low muslins that enyeloped her like
y halo. now again gray that veiled h'
In n mist. He heard the swish of
n silk petticoat as she passed him
street gown. She even wore chair
m and bangles. What a pity n girl liz
N this had distorted her true womanl
IA nature by adopting the strong mindC
II role.
er History moves swiftly with hearts
n hot weather. Once ut twilight throug
IN the open window Philip heard Esth'
II singing a love song-low, sweet M
s. tender. He sat still and listened NJ
thought the rings of smoke he lazi
Il blew from his lips were just the col
Of Esther Zane's prettiest gray sire
ed gown. Then he said to himself:
n 81 wonder if there Is Juliet as we
nd as a Portia In Esther Zaney
kei After that night he discovered that
er flower she had touched. book she h:
Tx read. somehow had a peculiar intere
er for him-more than any other W
Ia mans books or flowers had ever hel
When she and Linda Miles went for
er morning spin upon their bicycles
% often happened along there I'm the pa
I'm time to come home with them.
81 Aa for Esther Zane when the Strol