The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-06-29

firecracKeIs, to do the celebrating. He
has attended TO the matter TO the best
of his limited ability. and according TO
the extent of his financial resources.
He has kept up all through the night
of the third Of July, year after year;
md he has hung good peoples gates
on the telegraph poles. and put wagons
70 soak in the river. and let horses out
of their stables to crop the early vege-
tables in the neighbors' gardens; and
he has put the undertaker's sign in
front of the doctors office, and the
BARRIERS striped pole before the mil
linery store, TO show how the fair
customers We're shaved; and he has
rung bells, and footed horns, and beat
drums, and blown off his fingers with
toy cannon. and killed his young COM
panions with toy pistols; and, in short,
he has done his best for his country,
and gone home at night after the fire.
works, tired as though he had had n
run of typhoid fever. and slept the
sleep of the just until noon the next
day.
All honor TO the small boy, with his
unbounded patriotism. and his flag
raisinss, and his procession of "hor-
ribles," and his ccasolcss shouting and
cheerlng-and we will give him what
pennies we can afford. and keep as far
out of his track as possible until he
gets through with his celebrating.
But the older people of this country
do not want TO forget the Fourth of
July. Once, not so long ago, either,
that was the day Of all days TO the
people of these United States. 1t was
talked about for weeks and months
before it was due on tie calendar
to put in an appearance. Everybody
hoped it would not be too hot, and
that it would not rain. and that there
would be no thunder-sh showers to spoil
tho. fireworks.
New dresses We're made for the
q Fourth. Hats and bonnets made their
first appearance before the public on
the Fourth. Children We're early i'm the
year promised that If they would be
good. they should go to the celebration
in the grove, or in the city, as the case
might be.
Marriages were solemnized on the
Fourth of July The bashful suitor
screwed his courage to the sticking
point, and, remembering what the day
represented TO the American people
walked boldly up to the object of his
alteration, and, sweltering beneath the
unwonted pressure of his new tight
boots, and his broadcloth suit, and his
high collar, with the mercury at a
hundred in the shade. and his blood
all in his face, asked her If he could
have the pleasure of her company over
Mt Pine Ridge or Spruce Hollow.
And If she said yes. then he hired the
best top buggy in the land and they
went to that celebration, and ate clam
chowder, and some roast pig. and
some ice cream, and drank pink lemon
ade out of the same thick-bottomed
tumbler, to show that their two souls
mad but single thought, and that their
two hearts beat as one: and in the
evening they sat out in the grove and
let the mosquitoes nibble them, while
they looked at the fireworks and held
each others hands beneath the shelter
or the Tong" shawl she had brought
along as protection against the dews
of the evening. And all day the old
flag was cheered, and patriotism
walked abroad upon the land in red,
white and blue, and spoke in tones
thick with gunpowder and resonant
with the clangor of church bells.
Let us have once more some of these
good old-fashioned celebrations. We