| Show 4 4 AM AN ASSAULT ON THE FOURTH P the editor of the st paul pioneer press speaks about the annoyances and terrors ot of the fourth of 0 july with an acerbity that might be expected only from one who had eat let down on a rocket or bad a bunch of firecrackers fire crackers pinned to his coat tail tall he ile begins by calling I 1 it t ibo iho day we desecrate and then says that nobody looks look S for ward to the fourth ot of anly in daye days excepting the small boy and tle servant girl and the former far from i regarding it with dread and taking stepa steps tor for its amelioration is storing up wrath and firecrackers fire crackers for weeks bs forehand BO so that when the day is upon us in all its terror it I 1 is too late to help ourselves ur or to do anything all but stuff col ton in in our ears eara and go meekly 1 about the preparation of the cami family I 1 y dinner while the alien domestic at a P picnic ocole executes our patriotism in our J stead lie ile finds a hideous sarcasm in this substitution through which burday our day of becomes a day of servitude wo we have declared ourselves tree free and have thus placed in the bands hands of the infant and the immigrant a flail which tor twenty four hours in every year they wield to our discomfort comfort die and our possible undoing mournfully casting abart for a rem edy be he Is finally driven to confess that the only way to abolish the ear split ting nerve rasping demonstrations which we now endure is to abolish abolia lf the boy instead of doing doine that he laments a that we shall probably ly go on buying him firecrackers firecracker a furnishing him with tin canet cans barrels and empty spools and binding up bis his wounds and patching bis his clothes if there is anything left to patch after the day is over there is jaet just one thing to be tha thankful for the poor editor concludes and that is that the d day a y cornea comes but once a ye year ar it i the signers of the declaration bad had had a little more consider consideration atlon for their descendants they would have selected the of february for tho the construction of ill that at document which has proved itself of an incendiary nature in more ways than one vow all of which will be to the boys of green and riper to the servant girl of whatsoever nationality she he may be interesting because one no ono will be in the least affected by it in th the meantime the pioneer frets press sage think he might improve his temper and his appetite by repenting and doing bis his first works as a boy over again 7 |
