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Show Tbe Fourth of July. Untto Miner. The flower Press may regret the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Independ-ence, but it will lind very little company com-pany in its rcrretis. As for the noise that the small boy aud tho hired girl make, we say. let them make it. When (he Fourth of July declines iuto a day of ion'' faces and doxologies, when it becomes a day of ominous solemnity and scowing profundity, when it is; transformed into a I'uritan Sabbath to ! be dreaded by every boy in the land, : when it offers no inducement to the urchin to develop his lungs and learn through juvenile festivity that he en- j joys the blessings of a free country-- j when this time comes, the foundations of the republic will be badly in need of 1 repairs. |