The Beaver Herald (Beaver, Okla.), Vol. 28, No. 4, Ed. 1, Thursday, July 2, 1914 Page: 2 of 8
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HUMOR OF IHE DAY
The "Glorious Fourth" Consid-
ered in Lighter Vein.
Looking Into tho Future of Willie and
Johnny Some ThoughU of the
Celebration Safe and
Sane Father.
QRIEF.
"Why nro you weeping my poor
boy!" '
"Uoo-hoo! My p-p-paw said I mu-mu-mustn't
spend moro'n balf of m-m-my
money fcr firecrackers bu-bu-bucauso
wo might need tho rest for tho doc-doctor.
Boo-boo."
ALL USED UP
Tho Torpedo I feel bang-up! How
about youT
The Cracker Oh I'd fool hotter If I
wasn't busted.
TOO BAD.
"I'm sorry that St Is no longer fash-
lonable to liavo fireworks on tho
Fourth of July."
"Why should you care?"
"My wife's old maid sister who haa
been living with ua for tho last 16
years has Just become engage! to n
wllllpg widower ntiil I'd Hko to cclo-
brato without letting tho neighbors
know Just why."
UNNECE88ARY.
"Do you always tako off your hat
whon tbo flag goes by?"
"Nawl I'm not nmnln' for an offlco."
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WITH THE FLAG THEY
AFTER THE BATTLE
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"The search among tho ilaln."
WHERE OH WHERET
Willie has his pistol ready Willie's heart
Is full of Klce.
IIo hits bought n little cannon and his
breast from core la free;
Willie counts the passing moments as
they slowly Jrni; nwny
Where oh where will little Wllllo bo In
two weeks from today?
Johnny's little bank Is empty he has
squandered every cent.
With n Klnnt cracker Johnny will begin
the merriment:
He 'possesses nil the fingers ami the toes
he should but. stay!
Where oh where will Johnny's dlslts be
In two weeks frrm today?
HIS SAFE AND 8ANE FATHER.
"Father didn't you over shoot off
firecrackers when you were a boy?"
"No. 1 couldn't afford to burn up
money In that way."
"And didn't you ever havo a toy can-
non?" "Never. I did my celebrating In a
Bafe and Bane way."
"How was that?"
"Well I used to get a piece of eas
pipe plug ono end of It fill It with
powder and then touch u match to It
Talk nbout noise. It beat any toy can-
non 1'vo ever heard."
HIS FATHER A STANDPATTER.
"Well my llttlo man I seo you arts
carrying n flag. Do you know why wo
aro colebrntlng today?"
"Yes. 'Cause Huerta didn't bust tho
couutryi"
INDEPENDENCE.
This Is tho day on which tho averago
man shows his Independence by doing
foolish things without having gained
his wife's porinUslou.
Wvm&mt 'at
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Sp 4h
LOVE
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ROCKETS AND CRACKERS.
A wet Fourth makes a lean grave-
yard. Tho fool and his digits nre soon
parted.
The sticks fall alike on tho JubI and
tho unjust.
A thumb on tho hand Is worth two In
tho alcohol.
It Is better not to tako a dare than
to get your hand scorched.
The boy who doesn't get too gay may
celebrato another day.
It Isn't always the firecracker with
tho longest fuse that makes tho most
noise.
Hemember that tho giant firecracker
Is always Just getting ready to go oft
when you bend over It to boo what Is
tho matter.
Let us then bo up and Bhoottng with
n heart for any fate lighting fuses nnd
then scooting learn to stand astda
and watt.
SAFETY AND SANITY MADE EASY.
Little Willie's sick n-bed
Mumps have put him to the bad:
Do wo view his case with dread?
No In fact we're rather slad.
Doctor warns him not to stir;
In his bed he must remain;
This will make It easier
Tor us to be safe and sane.
PUZZLE PICTURE
Find the boy who had two wholo dol-
lars to spend on fireworks.
NOT WORRYING.
"My goodness I I shouldn't think you
would permit your llttlo boy to have
such big firecrackers. Aren't you at
all afraid?'
"Oh no not a bit I'm only his stop-
ruoUir." & E. KISER.
6iYFRED5vrrr
D1TH had so brooded over
tho scene whbn her ac-
tion would finally havo
to bo taken on tho mat-
ter that she Bhrank with
every nerve suffering as
sho saw that her husband had finished
his morning chores at tho barns and
was coming up tho iiath ready for
breakfast.
"Wo'll havo to hurry up and get
ready or It will bo a cose of taking
tho other fellow's dust all the way
Into town" ho called enthusiastically
as ho stopped at the bench outside to
wash.
Tho girl kept mechanically at tho
pans on tho stove.
"It's' going to bo a great day for
tho 'Fourth'" ho continued. "Thero
nln't a cloud In tho sky." Ho" came
In whistling to stop short at tho look
on his wlfo's face
"I guess I won't go It you don't
mind" Bho said with an offort her
faco white and her eyes meeting his
ns sho turned around staring in
frightened fashion. "It's going to bo
so hot nnd besides I've been to so
many Fourth of July celebrations."
Ho waited until she had placed tho
dish on tho tabic tho anticipation
gono out of ills
being an embit-
tering suspicion
creeping in
"Not going!" he
echoed. "And I've
been counting on
it over since tho
Clnrlon said Hamp-
ton was going to
celebrate this year
counting on both
of us going In to-
gether. It's tho
first time slnco we
cot married that
we ve been any-
where together"
Instead of responding Bho sought
rcfugo at tho window. Tho stuffy
midsummer morning seemed to ho
lending nn atmospheric depression in
keeping with her spirits.
The Bicf.enlng sun was fairly blaz-
ing against tho side of the big red
barn tho shadows from tho row of
willows seemed half-hearted In their
effort to relieve the sizzling landscape
and the fan at tho top of tho tall wind-
mill was motionless.
Ho crossed to whero she stood and
put a sunburnt hand on her shoulder
"You've got to tell me." ho Bald
evenly. "I've never paid much atten-
tion to this neighborhood gossip but
Is It true nro you aBhamed to go to
town with mo?"
When she still refused to answer n
hardness came Into his voice as he
went on.
"I was all right to take you home
on Friday nights when you came out
here to teach school. I was all right
to build your fires on cold winter
mornings. My father's farm that he
left mo hero was nil right. It was tho
farm was It and the fact that you
woro tired of teaching school that you
gave In to marry mo? You were tired
of the small pay and the foreign kldc
and tho troublo with the directors.
That was why you married me was
it? Other folks havo been Baying
theso tilings. I'm beginning to believe
them now."
With n sob Bho turned until sho was
in his arms.
"Not No!" sho hysterically de-
fended. . "Then you'll go." ho concluded tho
tenderness coming back. "It won't be
so hot with tho top on the buggy."
He drew himself away to get tho
answer but It was not forthcoming.
She was at the
window ngaln her
fingers at her lips.
It would be all
right to go In her
sort of wny to
bo onlookers rath-
er than a part of
tho clownlshness
but as a girl In
town sho could
distinctly remem-
ber Henry coming
In with a bunch
of companions on
such occasions.
It was a differ.
ent sort of man sho had married a
man In keeping with tho great
stretches of fields and tbo big plans
of growing things. But the thought
of being dragged by him before her
old friends from an ice-cream parlor
to a dance hall hod msdo her decide
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PATRIOTISM
It Isn't the flag (tut floats proudest
Or highest above the green earth.
And It isn't the cannon that's loudest
Which expresses the patriot's wortht
It Isn't the pomp or the shouting
And It isn't the musical blare
That leaves us no reason for doubting
That the future we face shall be fair.
Think not that vainglorious vaunting
Shall strengthen the might we possess
And It isn't by foolishly daunting
Our banners that we shall progress;
It Isn't the challenge the fearless
Defiance Imposingly hurled
That shall keep us undaunted and peerless
The wonder and hope of the world.
It isn't the riches or splendor
That the few or the many display
Which shall fit us tq rule or engender
Belief in our fitness to sway;
The faith that our forefathers gave us.
The honor for which they could die.
Alone shall have virtue to save us
And keep our star bright in Ihe aky.
S. E. KISER.
ngnlnst going to tho celebration when
he had first mentioned it.
"You aro aBhamed .of me" ho inter-
rupted. "You'ro saying so with your
actions If you won't speak. But you
bet I'm not going to have my fun
spoiled. I'm going anyway."
When ho came down from upstairs
a few minutes later his overalls and
big straw hat had been changed for
a suit of 111-flttlng black a faded derby
was placed low over his long crop of
hair and n handkerchief protected his
celluloid collar. When men dress up
but seldom tho tricks como clumsily.
Neither spoke during the breakfast.
Ho ate sullenly and sho mado no
pretensions of nn appetite. A half-
hour later ho drovo with a dash to
the door tho horses groomed tho
buggy shining a bow of patriotic rib-
bon from somo former occasion tied
to the whip. Sho knew it was his
final invitation.
"I'm coming" sho called from tho
doorway with a half sob. "It won't
'take mo but a minute."
How deeply Bho lived him was Im-
pressed on the vergo of his really go-
ing without her.
As she changed her dress hastily a
sort of pang camo with her woman's
Intuition that the skirt was too full for
the change of style that had como
with tho new season; the white of
her collar was con-
trasted with tho
tan In her face as
sho had never no-
ticed it before.
That Henry did
not notice Bho
know full well as
sho felt his admir-
ing gazo upon her
as he helped her
into tho buggy.
As tho horses
swerved madly
into the main road
Edith became
awaro of how oth
ers were on their way to the county
seat. The knee-high cornfields robbed
now of every traco of morning dew
shimmered boneath the blue sky as If
somehow tho occasion in town had
affected nature Itself. Among the
other vehicles of a more old-fashioned
sort on automobllo chugged paBt.
"We'll havo ono of those too ono
of these days" commented Henry as
ho reined tho horses from their fright.
"It's Sid Kotfmeier and his girl. Did
you notice tho paint on her face?"
"I was looking at the country" an-
swered Edith arousing hersoir. "I'm
afraid we don't appreciate what Da-
kota Is coming to."
"I Hko a big day in town myself"
mused Henry cracking the whip as a
signal to the horseB. "I haven't missed
a 'Fourth' Blnce I was a kid. Used to
get sick usually on candy and lemon-
ado and from walking around on tho
plank sidewalks In a new pair of shoes.
Last few years there's been a gang of
us go in together. Sid and I and a
bunch of us have had some great times
together. The dance Is about tho best
part of It"
Tho girl turned her gaze to tho road-
side vegetation the mullein and the
foxtail mixed with tho buffalo grass In
which the Insects kept midsummer
chorus. Tho old fear seized her. Per-
haps sho had made an awful mistake
as her aunt nnd her girl friends In
town had predicted a girl of educa-
tion nnd refined tastes marrying an
uncultured "rube."
Soon after their arrival In town they
parted and Edith decided she would
go to her aunt's. It would bo cool
thero and quiet and away from the
crowds and anything Henry might do
before them.
Aunt Jfo was In her garden back
of the llttlo whlto house puttering
about as It there wero no Fourth of
July celebration.
She glanced up from her cabbage
and potato .beds with surprise and Joy
at ueelng her niece.
"Yes we camo In this morning"
' z J-n VjrVy
hastened Edith. "Henry is down-
town. We'ro both well. Yes I sup-
pose ho may como down for dinner.
I I want to rest Just a little whllo in
tho house."
Somehow sho spent tho day In tho
darkened old-fashioned rooms whllo
her aged aunt who had cared for her
since her enrly girlhood fussed with
tho cooking and tho houso cleaning as
her rheumatism would permit.
Occasionally as tho long afternoon
went by a strain from tho band down-
town In tho park was bomo through
tho maples by the hot breeze nnd tho
explosions of tho firecrackers camo In
muffled reports. And with each hint ot
tho celebration she found herself Jerk-
ing as Bhe wondered what part Henry
was taking in it all.
Rlin cnulrl nnt hflln but TllctUrQ him
as going even farther wltd his good
time as a result of their quarrel. Thero
had been times In tho past when ho
and members of his crowd had gotten.
Into fights and been arrested.
Evening came In the stealthy way
that she had lately become accustomed
to seeing It creep over tho farm. Somo
of tho country folk began going past
on their way home. It caused a great
lnnoantniinf)l8 for
their own place
for Henry to
come over her. Sho
began chiding her-
self for her sensi-
tiveness her fool-
ish pride. After all
it was he sho
loved. Sho could
havo stood any-
thing ho could
havo done.
Sho went to tho
organ but Instead
of her fingers
touching the yel
low keys her arras dropped across
them and sho burled her head with
a sob.
Twilight without mado the shadows
thick in tho room yet ho muBt havo
been able to mako her out from tho
doorway for the screen was shut noise-
lessly nnd he had her in his great
strong arms before she could loolt up.
"Henry!" sho breathed hysterically
as sho struggled to get free. "You'vo
not gono without me and you'ro not
hurt!"
Ho did not speak for a time but his
presenco was comforting.
"No I didn't go without you" ho
answered finally. "I understand It all
now. I couldn't mix In on tho old
kind of a time. You'vo changed mo
Edith."
"Oh I was prudish and selfish" Bho
Interrupted. "I should havo trusted
you."
"No" ho went on; "I camo In with
tho plan of doing all tho things that I
used to. I found out I was changed
Just nfter I left you and Joined Sid
and his girl. But there was nothing to
it. Tho danco hall was Just cheap and
foolish and the thought of booze dis-
gusted me. Between everything I saw
you somehow."
She had loosed herself from his em-
brace and had started for her hat.
"Como on Henry" Bhe called rogu-
ishly. "If we don't hurry up and
get down town we might miss part ot
tho grand display of fireworks.' "
What Salvation is.
Salvation is not the petty concep-
tion of personal safety from some far-
off doom. It is the saving of the
whole man; It 1b the domination of
the higher nature over the lower;
it is the education of the spiritual tho
development the evolution of the God
to us that divine spark in all human-
ity that can never be wholly extin-
guished. William D. Uttle.
THE SPIRIT OF THE DAY.
Photograph by Frank Fournlsr. Btatt
Photographer.
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