Show CANNON CRACKERS by W D NESBIT happily the fifth of july like the day after christmas comes but once a year the outlawed toy pistol will c aim alm as many victims as the prohibited whisky of kansas some men have a genius for mak ing explanation but lack the clever ness to make them fit we are as patriotic as the next man and we love our country dearl but we are not so constituted that we can sit up in bed and sing the star lt J spangled banner ahen hen the boy across the street cuts loose with his fireworks at 3 30 a in july ath usually when opportunity knocks at a man a door he utters a few remarks on knockers in general it is unnecessary to tell a man not to hold a dynamite cracker in hia his hand after it ie lighted he can t hold it lone long |