THE BUBAL MEW-Y08KER. 
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baby they can boast of, meet together to have 
a clay of it. They go to some cool, shady 
wood where the old folks sit and talk of the 
days when they were young, play a few quiet 
games and talk of crop prospects, etc. The 
young lads and lassies swing, play “Jolly 
Tars,” “ Drop the Handkerchief,” “ Copenha¬ 
gen,” etc., the children jump rope, romp, climb 
trees, and race till luncheon is ready. What 
a jolly, jolly time they have then, eating all 
the best “goodies” from the pantries of half a 
score of good housewives. Then come sing¬ 
ing, dancing, etc. Then the ride home in the 
moonlight. This is the way many of our 
farmer-folks spend the day. They have very 
few fire-works and they are better off with¬ 
out them. 
In Mauayunk and Roxborough (two subur¬ 
ban districts of Philadelphia, which used to 
be considered away off, but which now form 
part of the city) it has been the custom for 
many, many years to have the annual Sun¬ 
day-School picnics on that day. All the 
schools turn out and march together. It is a 
very pretty sight to see hundreds of children 
dressed in their holiday attire, marching two 
and two, singing as they go. 
The Fourth of July is exclusively Ameri¬ 
can, and belongs wholly to the United States, 
hence the reason of the great demonstration 
which is manifested all over the Union. How 
many of our boys and girls ever stop to think 
of what they are celebrating for? How many 
of you remember that it was on the Fourth of 
July that the Declaration of Indepen¬ 
dence, which marie us free, was signed, in 
the year 1776? And how many of you can 
tell who the signers were? In these days 
when we have just been celebrating our cen¬ 
tennial under the present mode of government, 
it seems to me that it would be quite apropos 
for us to have a little talk about this very 
matter. Shall we? 
Well, then, to begin with—those who signed 
the Declaration of Independence were as 
follows: John Hancock, William Floyd, Philip 
Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris of 
New York; Richard Stockton, John Wither¬ 
spoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abra¬ 
ham Clark of New Jersey; P.obert Morris, 
Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John 
Morton, GeorgeClymer, James Smith, George 
Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross of Penn¬ 
sylvania; Josiab Bartlett, William Whipple, 
Matthew Thornton of New Hampshire; 
Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat 
Payne, Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts; 
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery of Rhode 
Island; Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, 
William Williams, Oliver Wolcott of Con¬ 
necticut; Caesar Rodney, George Read, 
Thomas McKean of Delaware; Samuel Chase, 
William Paca, Thomas Stone, Caarlos Car- 
roll (Carrollton) of Maryland; George Wythe, 
Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Ben¬ 
jamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson. Jr., Francis 
Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton, of Virginia; 
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn, 
of North Carolina; Edward Rutledge, Thomas 
Hayward, Jr., Thomas Lyncty Jr., Arthur 
Middleton of South Carolina; Button 
Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton of 
Georgia. The men who drew up and wrote 
this great Declaration were Thomas Jefferson 
of Virginia, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsyl¬ 
vania. Roger Sherman of Connecticut, Robert 
R Livingston of New York, and John Adams 
of Massachusetts. It was signed in Carpen¬ 
ter’s Hall, Philadelphia, Pa. 
The boys (and girls, too) of to-day are to be 
the rulers of the future, and it is well to teach 
them what this blessed freedom which we now 
enjoy cost those brave men of the past, who 
gave or ventured their lives to gain it. Let 
each heart beat to the words of 
•* My country ’tls of thee, 
Sweet land of liberty, 
Of thee we sing. 
Long may our land be bright. 
With Freedom’s holy light. 
Protect us by thy might; 
Great God our King!” 
DORA HARVEY VROOMAN. 
SCHOOL DAYS. 
A NY one to whom school has always beeu 
a weary, monotonous drag to be escaped 
us early as possible an i remembered with the 
other afilictious of life, will be satisfied with 
the title alone of this, and will turn to some 
other part of the paper, so my readers will be 
only those who have loving memories of their 
school days and at times long for their return. 
Busy people sometimes live for years so 
wrapped up in their work that the world 
takes a great stride meant to benefit them, 
aud they do not know it until some seemiug 
chance or some lull in their rush of duties 
shows them what has beeu going on around 
them while they worked. 
The schools for grown folks that have 
sprung up all over our country are examples 
of one liue of these benefits for busy folks. 
Tift Chautauqua gatherings in all parts of the 
land, and the summer school for teachers, on 
the lakes, at the seaside, and on hills and 
mountains, with their enthusiastic gatherings, 
show that there are thousands who have a 
perennial love for school life when it is offered 
in attractive form. 
There are now schools where any earnest 
student is welcome and can feel at home, no 
matter what his or her age or attainments 
may be, and where the newest methods of in¬ 
struction make even the rudiments of know¬ 
ledge interesting The pioneer of these schools, 
with terms of only 10 weeks, so that students 
are coming and going all the year, at their 
own convenience, has been among us for 
years, waking up sleeping faculties, increas¬ 
ing and intensifying the powers of hundreds 
who come within its doors, and aiming every 
term to do more and better work for its stud¬ 
ents, at the least possible expense. 
There are many thoughtful, studious peo¬ 
ple who are working alone at some favorite 
study—history, natural science, modern or an¬ 
cient language—and they feel the need of stim¬ 
ulus from other minds bent to the same work. 
Every mind grasps a subject in its own pecul¬ 
iar way, as, for instance, each student of his¬ 
tory reads differently between the lines, get¬ 
ting near the truth in proportion to the ex¬ 
tent of his general knowledge and his ability 
to enter into the spirit of long-gone and 
wholly different times. 
Viewing any subject through the eyes of 
another enlarges our thoughts of it. We look 
across fertile farm-lands to a glorious sunset 
and see that the whole landscape is made 
radiaut, and we feel the beauty with keen en¬ 
joyment; but an artist friend comes into our 
circle and points out the tints that make up 
the glory in sky and earth, the blendings of 
one into another, and the soft shades of fresh¬ 
ly plowed land and the deepened colors of 
woods and grain and pasture fields. And the 
artist’s view of the scene comes like a fine old 
lace over an already beautiful fabric; it is 
ours, too, ever afterwards whenever we stand 
in the sunset glory. 
So the lonely student will find that a few' 
weeks in a class will bring to him new 
thoughts, give him new points of view and 
enrich his work. A teacher who knew of 
what he spoke said to his class: 
“ There are hundreds of people who would 
go to school if they thought they could.’’ 
Many think themselves too old or that it is 
beyond the limits of their incomes. But we 
ought never grow too old to find pleasure in 
learning. Few energetic people do. The 
workers of the world enjoy the paper or mag¬ 
azine that is devoted to their work, and study 
it with the zeal of true students. Our people 
are alive to their own hunger for knowledge. 
The farmers and their wives know that the 
farmers’ institute where they learn the most, 
is the one they enjoy the most. They renew 
their school days as they listen to the teachers 
of dairying, small-fruit growing, poultry or 
cattle raising, or general farming, and as 
they take part in the discussions, the old time 
recitations are recalled. 
Every faculty we develop makes us safer 
from sickness and discouragement, at least as 
eminent medical writers tell us, and one must 
be very irresponsive or out of tune with his 
fellows who can attend a gathering of men 
and women for study without finding growth 
and development for some part of his nature 
social, intellectual or moral. 
Most, if not all of these schools recognize 
the human hunger for spiritual growth and 
are pervaded by Christian influences. Dur¬ 
ing 10 weeks spent in one of these schools the 
feeling often came that those who were not 
filled with a Christian spirit were missing the 
best part of all the school had to offer them— 
not only in the Bible classes and daily reli¬ 
gious exercises, but iu every class-room and 
in every study, there are so much comfort 
an 1 eucouragement aud deep pleasure in ac¬ 
knowledging God’s hand in all the works 
studied. 
It is so easy aud natural but such a fatal 
thing to fill our days with critical or bitter 
thoughts of the imperfections of human lives 
and human learning; but by doing so we grow 
ugly and hard aud bitter and more hateful to 
ourselves thau to auy one else. There is an 
eternity of good to strive for; there is a uni¬ 
verse of God’s wonders to explore, and “if we 
seek these things we shall find them” and 
grow iuto their beauty by filling our thoughts 
with their truths. If we are always awake 
on the “Godward side” of our lives, they will 
be broader, deeper and truer. If you are 
studying alone, go to one of the summer gath¬ 
erings for study and inspiration; or if winter 
gives more leisure, find out the schools that 
are open all the year round, and go for one 
term. Everything grows by what it feeds 
upon—minds and spirits as well as animals 
aud plants—and the higher faculties ueed food 
and exercise even more thau the body needs 
them. 
One term of hard work with enthusiastic 
thinkers can be made as profitable for the fu¬ 
ture a3 the busy days of harvest spent in stor¬ 
ing up food. We all feel mental and spiritual 
hunger, and ought to work harder to satisfy 
this with good and wholesome food and sur¬ 
roundings than to provide for physical hun¬ 
ger. ALICE BROWN. 
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SOME JOTTINGS. 
I N “The Family-Pocket-Book” discussion, I 
said nothing, not because of lack of in¬ 
terest, but because wiser people gave my 
views better than I could. I do know one 
thing, however: the average husband of to¬ 
day will not adopt Mr. Terry’s views, and ,as 
Victor Hugo said: “To reform a man you must 
begin with his grandmother,” and Dr. Hol¬ 
land, when asked when the training of a child 
should begin, said: “100 years before he Is 
born,” I think the training had better be be¬ 
gun soon, if that golden day when both mem¬ 
bers of the matrimonial firm shall have equal 
rights in the family purse, is to come before 
the millennium dawns. 
I know one thing more, too: if any one 
means to practice true economy, he or she 
bad best keep a strict account of expenses. 
One never knows what things do cost till they 
are “put down in black and white." 
All my Scotch blood protests against hear¬ 
ing oatmeal called “unwholesome.” Properly 
cooked, served with cream and a little sugar, 
and properly eaten , that is, slowly, and ac¬ 
companied by a slice of brown bread, oat¬ 
meal carnot fail to give strength and pluBip- 
ness to the eater. Of course, no two stomachs, J 
aoy more than any two heads, or any two 1 
leaves on a tree, are just alike; but, next to 
“mother’s milk,” is oatmeal for “natural I 
food” I say. 
People are apt to attribute the “national i 
disease, dyspepsia,” to pie, and “this dreadful 
American climate, you know,” but this dread¬ 
ful American hurry is more to blame than 
anything else. If people would take time to 
masticate their food like human beings, in¬ 
stead of bolting it like dogs, and take time to 
live sanely in other respects, there would be 
less complaint of dyspepsia. 
A recent article in the Rural New-Yorker 
was made to refer to “non scientific temper¬ 
ance instruction,” which was, of course, a 
mistake of the types, as the temperance in¬ 
struction given in our schools is on decidedly 
scientific principles. aunt betty. 
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