Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 28, 1902, Page 7

ee VA \ Fourth of July Confession BY CHARLES EUGENE BANKS. ally Story Pub. Co. Coe saeaoid dont think you ae. lieve what you say.” “Indeed I do, Miss Darlington.” “Fourth of July is a farce? Then you really think that?” “I mean to say that all the money spent in firing off crackers and burn- ing rockets has no useful purpose.” “It expresses our feelings, I think, and that is all anything can do for us in this world.” “I do not agree with you. There are many simpler and more sensible ways of giving expressions to our emotions than by filling the air with noise and smoke. it is childish. Grown people ought to be able to show their patriot- ism in a more sensible way.” “Fudge. You are getting as dry and uninteresting as those old books you bury yourself in most of the time. I believe in life. Books are all well enough in their way, but that is gener- ally a very tiresome way.” The young man stooped to the side of the path and picked up a dry twig, held it before his eyes for a moment and then snapping it sharply threw the ends into the air. “Why isn’t that as good an expres- sion as though it had been tightly roll- ed paper with a little saltpeter con- fined at its heart? If I break the stick with a devotional thought concerning the Declaration of Independence I shall experience as sublime a thrill as though I had fired off a cannon.” “You might, Mr. Wiseman, but we are not all so gifted with imagination. Most of us require something outside of ourselves to move us sublimely.” The hot blood surged into the face of the young man at the retort. He turned his gaze full on the girl at his side, but she was already turning away, calling softly to a robin hopping in the shade of an old apple tree that grew beside the gate leading into the farmhouse grounds. “Milly!” he called, reproachfully. “Wait till George Lounsbery comes home from New York to-morrow and you'll see what the Fourth of July means to aman with real red blood in his veins. He was up last year and brought more than a hundred dollars’ worth of fireworks. I don’t believe any one went to bed that night at all. The sky was filled with red fire and I realized for the first time what it meant to be an American.” “You mean the son of Farmer Lounsbery, I suppose?” “Yes. He’s a great man now, al- though he was born and grew up in this illiterate neighborhood.” “Milly——’ } “Miss Darlington, if you please, Mr. Shakespeare. Does your dingy old leather-covered books tell you that a young man has the right to address a young lady that he met only: four weeks ago with as much familiarity as though she was his sister?” The girl tossed her pretty head with an air that might have been learned in the court of a queen, although she had little knowledge of the ways of the world outside of Mohawk Valley. But was she not a woman, young, pretty, proud, whimsical—as most pretty young womer are? And what need had she for instructions in the art of coquetry? To the serious young student who had come into the neigh- borhood with no other idea than that of earning a modest living by teaching in the public school she had knowledge enough and to spare. He loved her, of course. There was no escape from that. She knew it, too, as well as though he had told her so with all the impassioned fervor of a Romeo. But he had not told her so. How could he when she met every attempt-of his to utter what filled his heart with good- natured railery> But he had not been discouraged. “She will listen to me some day,” he told himself over and over again as he walked over the hills or sat in his little room with an un- read book in his hand. A woman does not like to be easily won. His read- ing told him that. He had never dreamed of a rival. The few young men of Randall seemed to feel that she was not for them and treated her with marked reverence or surly dis- dain. What was this she had been saying but now? George Lounsbery! A real man, with red blood in his veins. He felt the blood freezing in his heart. “Is he—is Mr. Lounsbery a friend of yours?” “A friend of mine? Indeed he is. I have known him ever since I was a child. He is a great man now. Gash- ier in a bank in the city and trusted with tons of money. Wait till you see how things will move when -he ar- ives.” He did wait, although with no pleas- ant anticipations. And that night he saw the rockets streaking across the sky and heard the honest country folk cheer the neatly dressea, smooth-spok- en young man who set off whole pack- ages of firecrackers with far less thought that one of the wealthiest among them would have struck a match. And when it was all over, when the last red flame had faded out of the sky, the last pin-wheel had spit out its spiteful little life, the last bunch of fire-crackers popped and danced over the singed and trampled lawn, Arnold walked home alone through the woods, carrying the burnt end of a single cracker tightly clutched in his hand. After all had he not been right when he told Milly that all this cele- bration was “noise and fury, signify- ing nothing?” She had boasted to him that Mr. Lounsbery would bring a hun- dred dollars’ worth of fireworks from the city to voice the patriotism of the neighborhood. And her boast had been made good. A hundred dollars! Why, that was more than he wa; to get for the three months’ term of teaching in the Randall district school. A hundred dollars! What could he not have done with the money that had been consumed in an evening, for the glory of patriotism? He thought of the long, dreary struggle behind him, and the dark, dreary, tedious days ahead and a great bitterness clutched at his heart and an unfamil- jar oath rose in his throat and de- manded that he give it tongue. What was all this boasted liberty if it brought nothing to one and so much to another? Why should this young voun- try boy be favored by fate so that the best positions in a great city were his for the asking, while he, the student, the scholar, the man with a real pur- pose and a high aim, was left to win his wayamong such hopeless surround- ings? Hopeless, indeed. For she who had wakened in his heart new aspira- tions, made even the frowning future bright with promise, she had turned from him with searcely a word to join in the praise and adulation that was showered upon the successful man of the world. She was heartless. He was sure of that now, and it was well that he had found no opportunity during the bustle of the day and evening to give her the written declaration he had found it im- possible to make in spoken words. At least he was saved the humiliation ot a refusal. Let it be burned with a'l the other useless things of the day. He ran his hand into his pocket. It was empty. The letter he had penned in a fever of hope and despair was gone. He must have dropped it on the lawn. The thought of some one find- ing and reading it brought the blush to his cheek and sent him back over the fields with impatient strides. He left the beaten path and climbing the snake fence that divided the pasture land from the orchard hurried forward in the shadow of the trees. As he came out upon the lawn a white bit of paper gleaming in the dew-wet grass caught his eye and he sprang forward and eagerly caught it up. It was the envelope that had held nis letter, but it had been opened and the letter was gone. It is said that every man has one murder in his heart which he will be ready to commit if the proper moment arrives.: To the great majority this moment never presents itself; only one in ten thousand is therefore forced to face the gallows. Whether this be true or not it was fortunate that the person so suddenly to face the young schoolmaster at that moment was be- yond the power of his hands. A.man would have to be a devil indeed to wish harm to a fine young woman with the fresh color of the country on her cheeks, the light of roguery in her eyes and the moonlight clothing her as a garment. And then if she laugh merrily and the next instant throw her arms about his neck and tell him he is “an old goose,” he isn’t likely to wish harm to his worst enemy. “I read your letter all through, you silly old thing, and there isn’t a word of truth in it. If there was I should be caught up to heaven tnis minute. You were awfully scared when you found some one had opened it? Oh, I could see your eyes flash even in the moonlight. And you swore, too. ‘I heard you; don’t deny it. That’s what decided me. Up to that time I was afraid you were too good to be human. There’s just one thing more you must do before I'll promise-not to refuse you. You've got to admit that the Fourth of July is the grandest day in the year and promise to celebrate it like a true American every year with real fire-crackers.” “T shall always hold the day sacred in my heart, dearest,” he said, solemn- ly. “It has brought me——” “Slavery, sir, slavery. But, there, Vil try to make your chains as light as possible, and—Frank, I love you better than all the’rockets in the world.” Two Theaters Close the Regular Season, The Star theater, St. Paul and the Dewey theater close their regular sea~ son Sunday, June 22. Manager Wittig of the Dewey, and Manager Singer of the Star are highly elated dver tRe'suc- ness, and ‘ook forward to another big season next year, when the best attrac- tions attainable will be secured. The theaters will open about Sept. 1, after being réfurnished and redecorated. OAR A RL , Room in the Procession. Clara—Daar Isabel, you are at last a successful artist! isabel—O, Clara, I don’t feel myself a success. I’ve just moved up a little, be- cause a lot of older strugglers have got tired and quit.—Detroit Free Press. PATENTS. List of Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Irventors. John Caldwell, Minneapolis, Minn., leather-stretching device; Jesse Crosby, Madelia, Minn., corn husker and fodder shredder; Irving Hicks, Minneapolis, Minn., flue cutter mechanism; Peter Hole, McIntosh, Minn., car ventilator; Francis C. Peabody, St. Paul, Minn., wrench; Thor Rye, Minneota, Minn., miter joint for eaves troughs; William Watson, Ada, Minn., tobacco cutter. Lothrop & Johnscn, patent attorneys, 911 @ 12 Pioneer Press Bldg., St. Paul, Minn, Unforseen Results. Dolly—I believe Judy Gibbs is a mes- merist. Polly—Why? Dolly—I went to sell her a ticket to our picnic, and she sold me one,—De- troit Free Press. DO NOT STARVE YOURSELF but eat a good square meal, and {f your stomach is out of order take two or three of Dr. Fox’s Dyspepsia Tablets. They will make you feel as if life, after all, is well worth living. All good druggists sell them— ‘BOc and 61.00. rigs Confirmed. Clara—He told me that although you had refused him, he knew that he would get over it. Maud—That’s what I was afraid of.— Detroit Free Press. STOP THAT RACKING COUGH and avoid danger of consumption or pneu- monia by promptly taking Cole’s Cough Srea Saget batch! aoe Every bot- guaranteed. 25c and at druggists. It always seems strange that a woman should want to wear a serpent, even if it be only of gold. $20 A WEEK AND EXPENSES to men with rig to introduce our Poultry goods. Sendstp. Javelie Mfg.Co.,Dept.D,Parsons,Kan, Tell a woman she looks fresh, and she smiles; tell a man the same thing, and he is sure to start a rough house. Mrs, Winslow's Soothing Syrap For children teething, softens the gums, reduces fre » allays pain, cures wind colic.’ 25c a bottle. ‘Water will not extinguish the spark of love—but it takes something strong- er to scent the breath of suspicion. FITS Rermanenttz care. Bo fits or nervousness after rst day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Restor- er. Send for FREK $2.00 trial bottle and treatize, Da. R. H. Kuuve, Ltd., 931 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa The proudest moment in a bride’s life is‘when she sees her first cards bearing the title “Mrs.” Piso’s Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as cough cure.—J. W. O'BRIEN, 322 Third Ave, NN., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6, 1900, Some men call women angels—but then, you can’t believe all that some men say, Financial Efforts, Jack—Was the church garden party a success? Julia—Well, I worked hard enough; I ate ice cream with every young man on the grounds.—Detroit Free Press. Inharmonious, “Life is not properly arranged,” com- plained Mr. Laertes O’Hamme. “So?)" queried Mr. Polonious de Bumme. “Aye, true. In the winter the critics roast ys, and when we play a summer date we get a frost.”—Baltimore Amer- ican, HUNDREDS SUFFER TORTURE from Indigestion year after year because they have never heard of Dr. Fox’s Dyspepsia Tablets, the guaranteed cure for this disease. Get a 50c box of your druggist and try them, The results will sur- prise you. The Particular Kind, “Thompson says he regards his moth- er-in-law as a perfect treasure.” “To be sure he does—the kind he’d be satisfied to lay up in heaven.”—Smart Set. Stops tne Cough and Works Off the Cold Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Price 25c. Good Boy. Grandma—Sakes alive, child! Don’t tell me you are chewing gum! Willie—No, I ain't. Grandma—That’s a good boy. I’m proud of you. Willie—It’s tobacco.—Chicago Daily News. WRY SUFFER FROM INDIGESTION when a single box of Dr. Fox's Dyspepsia Tablets will make you feel like a new person? They are guaran teed to cure Dyspepsia in all its forms. Get a box to- day. All good druggists sell them, 50c and $1.00 a box. A Cat's Cradle, A cat had taken up its abode and nursed its litter of four kittens in the fork of a tree twenty-eight feet from the ground, in the garden of Ald. Peace’s residence at Castle Hills, High Wycombe, England. The kittens were removed by the gardener, but the cat speedily took them up the tree again to their strange birthplace.—Exchange. ALABASTINE FOR YOUR SCHOOL HOUSES Cleanly and Sanitary Durable and Artistic Safeguards Health The delicate tints are made with ere reference to the preeetiee of pupils’ eyes. Beware of pa: a an ra and discaiee breeding Kalsomines, ALABASTINE COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich, | 7>\HAMLINS WIZARD OIL Wit) LAME BACK @les The Great Skin Remedy will stop the pain of burns and scalds at once and there will be no scar. Don’t wait until someone gets burned but Keep a box handy. 25 and 50 cents by all druggists. WISCONSIN FARMS BARRON COUNTIES make the best homes on e Soil heavy; no stone. Some timber. Springs and streams numerous. No swamps or burned over districts, but good, genuine hardwood free from sand and pine stumps; 59miles east St. Paulon Wisconsin Central R. It. improved and Wild Lands for Sale. Send for CaTatoc. D.C ', Downing, Duan County, Wisconsin, — “TTCHIN HUMOURS Complete External and Internal Treatment, One Dollar. CUTICURA The set, consisting of Cuticura Soap, to cleanse the skin of crusts ; and scales, and soften the thick- ened cuticle, Cuticura Oint- ment,to instant- ly allay itching, irritation, and inflammation, and soothe and heal, and Cuti- cura Resolvent Pills, to cool and cleanse the blood, and expel humour germs, A Single Set, price $1, is often sufficient to cure the most tortur- ing, disfiguring skin, scalp, blood humours, rashes, itchings, and irritations, with loss of hair, when all else fails. MILLIONS USE CurTicuRA Soap, assisted by CUTICURA OINTMENT, the great skin cure, for preserv- ing, purifying, and beautifying the skin, for cleidnsing the scalp of crusts, scales, and dan- druff, and the stopping of falling hatr, for softening, whitening, and soothing red, rough, and sore hands, for baby rashes, itchinj and chafings, and for all the purposes of the toilet, bath,and nursery. Millions of Women use CUTICURA SOAP in the form of baths for annoying irritations, inflammations, and ex- coriations, or too free or offensive perepir- ation, in the form of washes for ulcerative ‘weaknesses, and for many sanative, antiseptie purposes which readily suggest th ves women, especially mothers. CUTICURA RESOLVENT PILLS (Cioooiate Coated) area new, tasteless, odour. jess, economical substitute for the celebrat liquid Cur1cuRA RESOLVENT, as well as for all other blood purifiers and humour cures. up in pocket vials, 60 doses, price, 25¢. Soid throughout |. Soar, 25c., OINTMENT, 50a. Pg Om er Ny ag Dave asp Cuza. Cuxr., Sole Props, Boston, U. B.A. | lapis oo pus Bazssines Health will come with all its blessings to those who know the way, and it is mainly a ques- tion of right-living, with all the term implies, but the efforts which strengthen the system, the games which refresh and the foods which nourish are important, each ina way, while it is also advantageous to have knowledge of the best methods of promoting freedom from unsani- tary conditions. To assist nature, when nature needs assistance, it is all important that the medicinal agents used should be of the best quality and of known value, and the one remedy which acts most beneficially and pleasantly, as a laxative, is—Syrup of Figs—manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. With a proper understanding of the fact that many physical ills are of a transient char- acter and yield promptly to the gentle action of Syrup of Figs, gladness and comfort come to the heart, and if one would remove the torpor and strain and congestion attendant upon a con- stipated condition of the system, take Syrup of Figs and enjoy freedom from the aches and pains, the colds and headaches and the depression due to inactivity of the bowels. In case of any organic trouble it is well to consult a competent physician, but when a laxative is required remember that the most permanently gratifying results will follow personal cooperation with the beneficial effects of Syrup of Figs. It is for sale by all reliable druggists. Price fifty cents per bottle. The excellence of Syrup of Figs comes from the beneficial effects of the plants used in the combination and also from the method of manufacture which ensures that perfect purity and uniformity of product essential in a perfect family laxative. All the members of the family from the youngest to the most advanced in years may use it whenever a laxative is needed and share alike in its beneficial effects. We do not claim that Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of known value, but it possesses this great advantage over all other laxatives that itacts gently and pleasantly without disturbing natural functions, in any way, as it is free from every ob- jectionable quality or substance. To get its beneficial effects it is always necessary to buy the genuine and the full name of the Co.—California Fig Syrup Co.—is printed on the front of every’ package. (@ererna fie Syrup G Louisville, Ky. San Francisco, Cal. New York, N. Y. ESTABLISHED 1879. sums Woodward & Co., Grain Commission. = . ORDERS FOR FUTURE DELIVERY EXECU’ED IN ALL MARKETS.