Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-07-02

lie spent i'll croolin' his elbow. One
portickulcr Fo'th ov July he bought
n gallon ov Ticker an invited tn boys
up Z his house t drink mint juleps.
Bout thirty ov en- gathered thar,
an jest rs they was !hout t toss
off tn frs roun' stranger rode by
On horseback. Ben rushed t th' door
an sod, Como in sub. an have one
with u.s. Don't kccr ell do SEE tn
stranger. An they mixed him 4
julep. Then they all held up Their
juleps i'll Their hans an slnacked
Their lips, an Ben stood on tip-toe
and scd: 'Hyuh's T. III glorious Foth
ov July, which marks hi birth ov tn
Amerikin nashun an makes a Eng
lishman shudder cv'ry time he thinks
ov it, An they all lifted Their glasses
an grinncd intuh tn bottom ov en-
all eXccp' tn stranger. What's tn
matter, muh fricn',' SCI Ben. thar
amt no pizen in it. is thar? Nav
SCI he his eyes fairly watcrin' as he
looked at that julcp; but l can't
drink it; stan b'twixt love an duty
I'm loyul subjec, oy Queen. Victory,
-er-cr-er, an he gazed lovinly
at tn glass. 'Cawn't just go OUT
side an drink it?' Yes Stree, SCI
Ben, i never stans b'twcen mans
an his country; no more do l stan
btwecn him an his Ticker TIL re-
suit was tn stranger staid thar Il
week, an when he come to he put
In fun his naturalizashun papers"
"Why did they sclcc' tn Fo'th ov
July?" asked Eiiky Mears. "Nvouldn't
Saint Patrick's Day have done jest
as well?"
at might have suited Tammany
Hall as we'll" said Mr.. Punkin so.
lcnnly, but tn gin'raI run ov pe'pul
wouldn't have thought so fav'rablc ov
1t. TIL OIL fathers know'd what they
was dom when they Selected tn
10th ov July. 1t amt possible L
stay i'll Philadclphy any latcr'n that.
Yuh know 1t was signed III that city.
They signed ZIP an then rushed fun
Atlantic City whar they could go in
swiminin.' I've seen tn place whar
1t was signed when was in Phila-
dclplly in l77G or 1876, fergit which.
| remember spent all I'd saved in
five years thar. I've never ben able
git anywhar scnce that time. My
watch stopped runnin an handed
it { a fcllcr that had stan on III
street, an he wound it UP an
charged nc two dollars fun tn job.
TIL room tn dcclarashn was signed
in amt biggcr'n this store room. I've
ben t some historic PLACES in my time.
I've stood whar Patrick Hcnncry scd,
Give me liberty OF gkc nc DEATH
I've seen tn place Whar Alexander
Hamilton clumb over TIL ramperts
Mt Yorktown, Gin1 Washin'ton givin'
him leg. I've seen .whar tn Mcrri-
mack an tn Monitor had it out, an
I've looked at tn SPOT whar Pokcy-
huntas rcskewed John Smith. Ov
cosc, haven't seen all tn places
whar she saved his life but I've seen
TIL one that appears [ me t. be tn
mos REASONABLE Mo than that,
seen John i. Sullivan oncet as he
was passin' through OIL tn train.
9TH Fo'th ov July teaches us many
vallyblc lessons. One is that no mat
ter how much independence a mans
got 1t don't amount t nothin' unless hc
declar's il; another Is, that whatever
We might think oy tn habits ov th'
OIL fathers. thar amt no discount on
Their curridgc; still another, / would
add. is never T. let hot weather keen
yuh from any important undertaken
a little bit ov hot weather nowadays
scarcs folks L death. Have yuh cycr
seen pickshur oy tn signin' ov tn
declarashun? | have. Tlar's all them
OF fcllers standin' thar lookin' as cool
as cucumbcrs. Ben Franklin an
Thomas Jefferson " Mr.. Livin'ston
an Roger Sherman an Jawn Han
cock an GinI Washin'ton-"
"Ginl Washin'ton warn't thar,"
broke in Dini Herring
That's so. Dink, he warn't. He
was fightln' an they was signin'; but
us | was sayin' all ov EN- was standin'
thar with Their wigs OH an not
'yar RULED, an Their shirt bussums
was jest as white an clean an not
collar wilted An thar warn't anv
ov EN- in Their shirt sleeves either.
Twas time fuh keepin' cool, an they
kop' cool, too. Congress in them DAYS
was about tn size oy u city council
now an not onc-third as bad. When
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