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See the HOWARD Special Railroad Dial with marginal minutes-the precise number of minutes past the hour clear at a glance.

The HOWARD is officially approved and certified by the Time Inspectors of the 140 leading railroads of America.

A HOWARD WATCH is always worth what you pay for it. The price of each watch-from the 17-jewel in a fine gold-filled case (guaranteed for 25 years) at $35.00; to the 23-jewel in a 14kt. solid gold case at $150.00-is fixed at the factory, and a printed ticket attached.

Not every jeweler can sell you a HOWARD watch. Find the Howard Jew. eler in your town and talk to him. He is a good man to know. Drop us a postal card, Dept. A.A., and we will send you a HOWARD book of value to the watch buyer.

E. HOWARD WATCH COMPANY

BOSTON, MASS.

A Loyal Prince

BY ADELBERT CLARK

Green was the grass in the shady lane

Where lilies leaned with dripping rain,
And apple blossoms dropped their plumes
Like wasted bits from the weaver's looms,

As through the tangled weeds he came

Borne on the breast of silver flame,
Kissing the blossoms white and red,

While night's dark shadows before him fled-
The Loyal Prince-the Sun.

The great white roses, wet with rain,
Trailed their pearl and silver train,
Wove by the queen of the spider's spun,
Sparkling with dewdrops one by one,

And lit with rubies fair and fine

Like crystal drops of crimson wine,

While over the surging sea he came
In a chariot of golden flame-
The Loyal Prince-the Sun.

O, why do flowers love to greet

This fair young prince with noiseless feet, Who comes when all is dark and drear,

Veiling the world with shades of fear? They love the prince, whose love for men

And flowers have proved a faithful friend,

And ever the world will welcome him,

Who comes to scatter the shadows dim—
The Loyal Prince—the Sun.

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PUBLISHED Monthly and EntERED AS SECOND CLASS MATTER AT THE POST OFFICE, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

SUBSCRIPTION, $1.00 PER Year.

F. H. PEASE, EDITOR.

A. B. GARRETSON AND W. J. MAXWELL, Managers, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
W. N. GATES, Advertising Agent, Garfield Building, Cleveland, Ohio.

VOLUME XXVI

JULY, 1909

The Fourth of July

CHICAGO RECORD-HERALD.

'Twas in the reign of George the Third;
Our public peace was much disturbed
By ships of war, that came and laid
Within our ports to stop our trade.

No honest coaster could pass by
But what they would let some shot fly;
And did provoke to high degree
Those true-born sons of liberty.

-Rhode Island Ballad of 1772.

And because they were so provoked the Fourth of July has, to the small boy at least, lost its minor significance as a date, merely one day of the 365, and resolved itself into a symbol for all that is most stirring and electrifying to the youthful imagination. For long before he knows why he celebrates every small American knows that on the Fourth, and it is not necessary to designate which Fourth, he may, himself, disturb the public peace and provoke by his actions the concern of those unimaginative and practical people who think his life and limbs of more importance than the joy he experiences in setting off his giant firecrackers.

And, of course, he does not know that the resolution in which the Continental Congress declared the United Colonies independent of Great Britain was actually passed July 2, so that when the famous and sonorous document penned by Jefferson was adopted on the Fourth his country was already two days old, though a decision of the Supreme Court had decreed that the date of its adoption is the date of the nation's legal existence in the municipal

courts.

NUMBER SEVEN

Obnoxious navigation and trade laws, sugar and stamp taxes, intolerable acts punishing Massachusetts for her part in the Boston tea party and Boston massacre, fiery speeches and earnest declarations of rights had resulted in the meeting of the First Continental Congress with fifty-five delegates representing every colony except Georgia at Philadelphia in Carpenters' Hall from September 5 to October 26, 1774.

Just twenty years before delegates from the different colonies had held a congress in Albany for the purpose of conferring with the Indians, and on July 4 had rejected a plan for the union of the colonies. So until 1776 loyal Tories of the time might justly have celebrated the Fourth as the day on which the colonies were kept from taking a step tending to separate themselves from the mother country.

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But between the Fourth of July in 1754 and that of 1776, twenty-two years freighted with many rights and wrongs had passed, and the temper of the people had changed with the changing years.

Pitt, the great commoner, had protested futilely against the treatment accorded the colonies. Barre had bestowed upon the colonists the name they later used for their organization, "The Sons of Liberty." Samuel Adams and John Hancock had offended his royal majesty beyond hope of pardon SO that they were excepted from the amnesty offered by General Gage in 1775. Patrick Henry had given to the world some unforgetable phrases. Paul Revere had made his famous ride, Lexington, Concord

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