Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-01

Fourth of July story written by man who
IS So aged that ne can actually stay IN oeo
after the first boom of the first cannon mas
s.f.fad. nav worse still can actually
l-71.nlble at the idiot who fired II; VINO SetS
cut his garden hose in the morning ana
watches for sparks all day long Ilsleso
OF Lontiue with joy at everything that eN-
modes near him: who can keep a box IulI
OF fireworks under lock and key ana "sLlt
without a single thrill of impotence Tor
darkness TO come (and real darkness too)
before he fires them on?
Here is better Fourth of July matter than
that 1t was told by a youth OF ten 20
other youths last month during mee'lhs
OF a committee of ways and means to DIS
ci.ss the business Of preparing TO celebrate
Independence day worthly Ibis year.
The Boys Story.
81 ten YOU. feners 1 don't -s'pose thereH
ever T. a much better Fourth of July than
,,-r.,t Bill Haslins and NE had last year in
his uucle's place 1t was the best in MY
e,perience I tell you, and seen some, l
guess.
There wasn't none OF the trouble that US
ho-s have In the city with fat cops That
can't do anything better thar just 10 uy
and bust up every bit of fun the way they
There goes Jim Myers. You ought to
seen him paste another bloke YESTERDAY,
Halo. Jim. how are you today Ihdl
T.
acouaiuted with him. He showed me where
lis gang hangs out. Some day III intro
duce YOU to him, but Jim don't Ike
strangers much, he told me.
-RUIs uncle was a tine man. lie WASH
IKE my pop hanging on 10 his old hfe-
works all day and never letting a Ieli@t
even peek at EN- until 1t was dark say
two years ago my pop waited until l
-rs1ught that he wouldn't ever shoot EN-
of II grew darker and darker ana darker
10 you remember how US boys huIg
araund2 He could shoot them off long pc
fore he did And what did he get FOR wait.
ING 80 long? 1t ralned do you remember!
That's what he got wasting time Ike that.
''RlPs uncle he didn't fool around tndt
way. The night before. he brought out d
(lIIIy gun. II was the best gun / ever seen,
and I've handled some. 1t had a brass
ramrod in il and you loaded II from the
non with ii cows horn full Of real powder
r..per on top of IL. and when she went OIL
sr, made a noise that beat anything You
get out Of them britch leaders sues sues
tHare amt many folks around here could
AFFORD TO own gun Ike Bits uncle.
Bills Uncle.
s.RuTs uncle was a judgeship Of the
peace and that's good deal more than
old Fogarry around the corner. and he
thinks he's a lot because he's deputy
sheriff Bits uncle. he could arrest a
man and lock him up forever and marry
people and punish Them any other way
that Le wanted and nobody could 90 any
thing But he was a good man. he was
You know, just the kind that a tciief teels
ike saying h1lln 20 and he'd say haio
back and never iJ0k so stuck up the way
e1rre men do. When I'm man you pet
jill act that way 80 boys
BIN and me We fired that gun off until
She got that Eo' that you couldn't han
DE her BOY The barrel. I wished that you
rale-s would OF been there. Il made me
sort Of feel like Paul Jones don you
know whore BE- says that he sho:ted: Let
fNr guns cool my brave lads
-EiWs uncle be said that he had been
sYalIlug I'm the papers that The people
Ir tle elites ntcd TO have the tourtn
90 July stopped because there IVES 700 ~
noise and things ike that. But BIZ Uncle
said that hs supposed maybe person got
sort of worn Cut by living IN the city az
ths time and wasn't the man re used 20
De- s1 that he couldn't stand little extra
rUi=e once a wear. He said that ne didll
have any nerve like that, and his cows
DIDN'T either, and for US to go ahead ana
make all the noise we felt Ike.
so me and Bill got up in the morning
and II Was fanny, l tell you. real kind OF
] don't know how, but sort OF mysterious
aud stili and all dark, and you couldn l
hear any milk wagons going along the
street or any newsmen tFotting along or
any cars the way We car here when We
got Up before daylight. Say, out there at
Bl's uncle's IL was SO stEl that YOU couio
hear Your heart beat almost, And every
thing was lust soppfn wet thought th2t
81 vas raining. bat Bill said that it was
dew nv feet got soaked I'D 10 time walk
ing through tie grass. and so did BiiFs.
Oriy -he didn't have any shoes on
Get a Big Firecraeker.
'RiH got great big frecracker. 7 guess
81 was too feet high All right you know
better. 7 s'pdse. Fred Cray. Wasn't
tlers2 And that's more than you was. !
guess. Well II was one foot high any
ways II was bigger than the one that Jim
Carruthers shot off three years ago and
blew or Two of his fingers with. Who's
telling this story. me or you. All right /
alma setting mad. but ! amt going TO let
teller that don't know what he's talking
alout-au right, all right. l am going
ahead.
Well BIZ re up and puts the fireeracker
against the henhouse to wake up the rCos-
Ter. And Tit the punk. but when Il come
10 touching IL to the firecracker Bal and
me got kind of scared IL so still
and all that, so we sort of thought we d
walt.
And then all at once a window opened
and Bills uncle he stuck his head out and