The New Era. (Davenport, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 2, 1914 Page: 2 of 8
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NTIL the year 1776 the hlstorio
shrine of American liberty In Phlla-
delphia was known as the State
house; but after that It was called
Independence hall. Thousands have
made their reverent pilgrimage
thither from distant places as to a
sacred shrine, and yet a great many
are unfamiliar with the history of
the most famous edifice In America. They may
not know that It was begun In 1729 and finished
in 1734, and that In those days the plan of It
was considered so palatlally ambitious that Its
building was bitterly opposed by those who, like
John Gilpin's wife, were of a frugal mind. The
cost was $16,250, and the wings that were added
five years afterward brought the total amount to
$28,000. Doubtless there were many who dubious-
ly shook their heads at the extravagance. What
would they have thought of a city hall occupying
several acres and costing $24,000,0007
Although In the Immediately pre-Revolutlonarv
days the purpose to which Independence hall
was put was serious enough, the long gallery
upstairs had often been the scene of "revelry
t>y night" before those times that tried men's
souls. In 1736 the mayor. William Allen. Invited
most of Philadelphia to a feast; In 1756 the as-
sembly gave Governor Denny a most pretentious
Iqnquet; and again, In 1757, Lord Loudon, com-
mander-in-chief of his majesty's forces In Amer-
ica, was lavishly entertained, and the uninvited
grumbled at the outlay.
When the first congress met In Philadelphia.
1n 1774. there was a "sumptuous collation" In
the State house, attended by 500 persons, and
as they drank their toasts cannon were fired, as
happened In the case of Hamlet's unamlable
father. The saipe hall that was the scene of
these elaborate banquets became the prison of
the American officers captured in the battle of
Oermantown, and after the bloody field of Brandy-
wine it was a hospital.
It was In this building that Washington de-
livered his memorable farewell address; Lafay-
ette was the guest of honor here at a reception
>ln 1824; and here the bodies of John Adams and
Abraham Lincoln lay In state.
Thus it will be seen that the social and hlBtorio
Associations of the edifice are Innumerable, leav-
ing out of the reckoning what happened there on
the Fourth of July, 1776.
The signers of the Declaration came near not
having a bell to announce their epoch-making
resolution to the world. As soon as the building
was completed In 17S4, It was planned to buy a
bell commensurate with the dignity of the new
ttJtate house. Then the advocates of economy—
or parsimony—arose In their might and fought
ithe project tooth and nail, representing that the
"great cost of the State house had Imposed a
heavy tax upon (he cltlsenB and further expendi-
ture was useless" After several years of more
or less acrimonious debate It was decided to have
a bell; and It was then discovered that there was
not a foundry in the colonies capable of fashion-
ing It, the repressive policy of parliament hav-
ing well-nigh destroyed manufacturing enterprise
in the new world. So the colonists had to send
rto London for a bell, giving specific directions
«s to the dimensions—the weight was 2,030
tpounds.
When at last It arrived, In 1752, It was more
|than a nine days' wonder; the Pennsylvania farm-
iers flocked to the wharf from far Inland to ac-
claim Its arrival. It proved all that any reason-
table mortal could want In the way of a tlntlnnab-
ulum. Its tones were far-carrying and sweet-
lly musical, and all true-born PhlladelphtanB (In-
cluding those who had opposed the expense!
'were proud of It. Alas! as It was being trans-
(ported with festal ceremony from the water's
edge to the Intended site In the belfry some ner-
vous weakling gave way beneath his corner of
the ton of metal and the bell fell to the ground
and was mortally Injured. It had to be recast,
and Isaac Norris, who superintended the opera-
tion, announced with pride that the result was
"a good bell, which pleases me much that we
should first venture upon and succeed In the
greatest bell, for aught I know, In English Amer-
ica—surpassing, too, the Imported one, which was
too high and brittle."
The great occasion In the life of the Liberty
Bell was not due to arrive until 14 years after-
ward. it was on the 16th of May, 1776, that the
general assembly gave Instructions to ita dele
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gates In congress to present to that body a reso-
lution In favor of the mighty schism from Eng-
land, and the formal declaration of the colonies'
Independence. Klchard Henry Lee on the 7th of
June arose and solemnly moved that "the united
colonies are, and ought to be, free and Independ-
ent states, and that their political connection
with Great Britain Is and ought to be dissolved."
John Adams of Massachusetts seconded the reso-
lution, and thereupon a long and vehement debate
began. It was adopted by the closest possible
majority—seven colonies giving It their approval,
six voting In the negative.
A committee was then appointed to draw up
the Declaration. Its members were Benjamin
Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Koger
Sherman and'Robert R. Livingston.
The- committee reported the result of Its de-
liberations on June 28, the other members of con-
gress In the Interim having bestirred themselves
to learn the wishes of their constituents.
Thomas Jefferson, as every one knows, was
the author of the Declaration. He wrote
It in a bouse at the present site of 700
Market street, now occupied by the
Penn National bank building, and the
very desk on which the Immortal docu-
ment was drafted Is now In the library
of the state department In Washington.
It Is not necessary to quote the sol-
emn language of the Magna Charta of
our American liberties. It was accepted
almost as It came from Jefferson's hands, though
a few passages were expunged which, It was
feared, might give offense to America's much-
needed friends in the mother country.
On the Fourth of July all the delegates except
those of New York (whose representatives signed
a few days later) had appended their names to
the document and had pledged their lives, their
fortunes and their sacred honor In the cause of
liberty. Then name the moment for the Song of
the Bell—a song whose reverberations shall not
cease till the laBt page of American history has
been written.
Truly prophetic was the biblical motto which
Isaac Norris Is said to have chosen for the bell:
"Proclaim liberty throughout the land and to all
the inhabitants thereof." And rapturously did
the assembled multitude and the distant patriots
receive the announcement of the bell, that at
last the 13 colonies had become the 13 United
States, and the days of the dominion of the for-
eign oppressor were forever past.
LAST FOURTH OF JULY
Last Fourth of July I was only six;
A reg'lar little chump,
I got Into a dreadful fix.
You see there was a stump
In our back yard, where I used to play
All sorts of things alone;
On Sundays 'twas a pulpit,
On week days 'twas a throne.
I was preacher 8undays,
And the pickets on the fence
Were the people that I preached to,
But I didn't preach no sense.
On other days I was a king.
The pickets were my people.
I wore a golden paper crown
All pointed like a steeple.
Well, Fourth of July my oousln Bob
Came from the great big town,
With crackers, punk and fireworks
To do the Fourth up brown.
I told him how I was a king,
He is bigger some than me.
And he said we would have a sleg^
The stump would be my fort,
And he would try to blow It up.
He said 'twas lots of sport.
80 I got up upon the stump,
And the crackers In a row
He piled up thick around the foot.
You should have heard It blow!
The stump caught fire, 1 lost my head.
My father carried me to bed.
I stayed In bed a long, long time.
All bandaged—'twasnt fun.
I'm big this year—you needn't smlla,
I'm not so big a chump,
And If we have another siege
Bob can sit on the stump.
vices that a, pretty little luncheon or piazza sup-
per Is a comparatively easy thing to prepare.
Of courBe, the red. white and blue predominates
and the symbols of the patriotic Fourth are re-
produced in cardboard and paper with such real-
istic effect that the candy counters in the large
department stores seem to have changed their
usual stock for a supply of fireworks.
There are most natural looking packages of
firecrackers with the usual Chinese piCper covers
and glaring red posters. The contents are red
candy sticks for all the world like the real fire-
cracker. There are candy boxes in the form of
Roman candles, pinwheels, large cannon crackers,
etc., all of which will make good souvenirs of the
occasion. Crape paper is used for a greater va-
riety of boxes and baskets than ever and very
pretty and fanciful little devices are on hand,
mostly In red, white and blue.
Red paper forts hold up warlike little cannons,
keeping guard over the supply of candy stored
within; the Liberty bell Is reproduced In crape
paper, and other ideas, all suggestive of the great
event of '76.
The paper manufacturers have tablecloths and
napkins ornamented with American flags, and
flags In all sizes are found made of crape paper
and attached to wooden sticks. Those In paper
are a little more attractive than the ordinary stiff
muslin affairs. The candelabra, too, may be In
the spirit of the event with Its red. white and
blue candle shade, and altogether without much
trouble or expense a table may be fitted up which
will be patriotic enough In Its appearance to satis-
fy the stanchest of admirers of Uncle Sam and
Old Glory.
Fact Is Shown by Man's Eagerness to
Escape From Congestion of
the Crowded City.
Why is It that railway magnates,
presidents of banks and heads of great
enterprises who must perforce d6
business In cities, almost all try to
have homes on farms In the country,
where they develop soils, plant craps
and breed animals? It Is because there
is wearisome monotony in piled up
brick and stone. There Is confusion
In crowded streets and clanging trol-
ley cars and hot smoky railways.
These things man has made, and they
are needful, but they are not life, much
as the farm boy may Imagine them to
be.
Life is in the open country. Life is
In the growing grass, the waving fields
of wheat, the springing corn. Life is
in the trees and birds, life Is in the
developing animals of the farm.
Any man who works with the land,
who feeds a Held and watches the re-
sult, gains a real fundamental know-
ledge of the underlying foundation on
which rests all our civilization. It
makes him a sober man, a thoughtful
man, a reverent man, and if he experi-
ments wisely a hopeful optimist. Life
is where things are born and live and
grow. On the farm Is real life.—Breed-
er's Gazette.
Searching Criticism.
Five-year-old Herbert, scion of a
bookish family, had learned to read
so early and so readily that his first
glimpses of storyland were growing
hazy in his memory. One day he con-
fided to his mother. "Ruthie showed
me her new book today, and it's the
queerest thing you ever saw! Why,
It Just says, is lt a dog? It Is a dog.
Can the dog run?' and a lot of things
like that! 'Course I was too polite to
say so, but it didn't seem to rae the
style was a bit juicy!—Lippincott's.
Hard to Explain.
"Henry, how doe« it happen that you
came in at four o'clock this morning?"'
"My dear, don't ask me how any-
thing happened after 12 o'clock last
night, because I don't know."
Throw Away
your complexion ♦roubles with your
powder puff — no need of either
when you use pure, harmless
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At all dealers or by mail 50c.
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Public Opinion.
People say how strong public opin-
ion is; and, indeed, it is strong while
it is in its prime. In its childhood
and old age It Is as weak as any other
organism. I try to make my own
work belong to the youth of public
opinion. The history of the world Is
the record of the weakness, frailty
and death of public opinion, as geol-
ogy is the record of the decay of those
bodily organisms in which public opin-
ions have found material expression.
—Samuel Butler.
Hie Thoughts.
"Why are you watching that fly so
Intently?"
"I was just wondering if men will
ever be able to tango up and down
the walls like that. Wouldn't it bo
fine?"—Pittsburgh Post.
Of Course.
Hex—How Is Farmer Cawntossel
getting alcng planting his wheat?
| Silas—Oh, Just sow sow.
135 BUSHELS PERACREf
was the yield of WHEAT
on many farms in
Western Canada in
1913, some yields
being reported as
high as 50 bushels
per acre. As high
as 100 bushels wero
recorded in some
districts for oats.
ana I
U,
SO but bell for berier 1
from 10 to 20 but. for flu.
J. Key arrived In the
country 5 yean ago from
Denmark with very little
means. He homesteaded,
worked hard, is now the
owner of 320 acres of land,
in 1913 had a crop of 200 I
acies. which will realize him I,
I about $4,000. Hia wheel t
weighed 6S lb*, to the buahel .
and averaged over *5 bushels |
to the sere.
Thousands of similar in- !
J stances might be related of the 1
J homesteaders in Manitoba, Sas- I
I katchewan and Alberta.
The crop of 1913 was an abun-
' dant one everywhere in Western J
f Canada.
Ask for descriptive literature and \
reduced railway rates. Apply to \
Superintendent of Immigration,
Ottawi, Canada, or
O. A. COOK. \\W
til «. Mk STREET. UXUS CITT. ML IV
Canadian Government Agent
INDEPENDENCE DAY FAVOR8 DI8PLAY Of
THE RED, WHITE AND BLUE.
FOUND BROTHER AT LAST.
Tleggar—Kind sir, could you help a brother
Mason. Odd Fellow, Elk, Moose, Eagle, Owl or
Forester?
Passerby—I belong to none of them.
Beggar—Ah, den, could you help a fellow
Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Episcopal or Pre
byterlan?
Passerby—I belong to none of them.
Beggar—Ah, den. shake hands and assist •
feller Socialist and upllfter In distress.
Warm weather does not In the least Interfere
with the plans of the maid who is ambitious
enough to entertain a coterie of friends at some
kind of an end-of-the-season festival; and the ap-
proaching Independence day holiday admits of so
many form* of noveltlee in decorations and de-
FATAL WORDS.
"Ever hear from that college chum of youn
who went to Colorado?"
"Oh. he's dead, poor chap. He may be s&ld to
have talked himself to death."
"What do you mean?"
"He called some Alkali Iks out there * liar."
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Picnic Specialties
Veal Loaf
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Deviled Ham Olives
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Baugus, R. A. The New Era. (Davenport, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 2, 1914, newspaper, July 2, 1914; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc109951/m1/2/: accessed April 26, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.