Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume XXIX, Number 27, 5 Iulai 1890 — Our English Column. [ARTICLE]

Our English Column.

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Well, yourg lriendv. the \ " l Jutv has eome anō g )ne. lt & great holiday of all the peopie oi :he United States. I *ondcr »f y/u Hawaiian boys and gir»' know u-e 4th of Jul> is kep' Americans. I wni tell you. More than a hundred years a*o. bcfore ihe year the grtat rountry now eall ed Tmk. Uni 1 ki> mml- of Am>'*« * was very !itt s e known. The rx-o;.Je :ht*n iivtd ncar the rof the At arit.r C)rean, ar.d wcrc kw in num?K-r, ami w<-re <a!U'i <ohnūi, irf<;auv* th<.\ h*d !cft thcir fathtr iand in Kurope ar.d h*d gone to Amer;< *• !o make new hufiiti for themsclves. At an<i h r īiur,\ years, thesc <oionifcs felt wea>: and, lue little chi)dren, had to be ta'<en care of by thc mother com.tr>. i'»ut after a wh»!e, tr.t> fe'.t str and, iike i»K and gir)*, thou#ht they cou!d take care of thenibe!vt;s. ar,d r»ct troul»le the 'f)WI fo!ks'. 15ut the 'o d Jolks' did'nt think so, or if they dd, they it wa> on'.y rtght for their l»oys to hilp j>ay batk a part of the < osl of taking care of them. So the 'oid fo ks' would nct hear ai.y < f the re(juest.s ( f these big bovs, b« t >ent "%tr sorne prttty hard old govcrnors and guardians, to see that the big ys «lie'. as the tld folk» wanttd them to. No* these ix>ys wt*re and ger evcry year, and their werc gi*tting to be more and more >trict, and the oid folks at home weie n>mg| out aU the time for more money, and more merchandise, and >-nt over a lot of soldiers to help the poor old i«uard ians to make boys mind

At last thcse boys < ould nol stand it any l('ngcr, cspfcially the old loiks wanted to make thcm pay more r tca and othtr thingH, and would not ask the l>oys f»rst if they could pay any more. 'l'he olil folks at home werc vcry ric.h, but like most neh peopie, the more their boys gave them, the more thcv wanted. So tht se b< ys all got togetht r down in Oid l'hiladelphia, and taiked it all over; and some talked louder than othcrs; but thcy were all agreed that the "old fotks' were rich cnough, and could live very well without any more help from them, and they were too old, these boys wcre, to have guardians pu: over them; so thcy wrote out a paper rallcd the I)eci.aration ok InuepknufN(.K and all of them signed it on the Kourth o( July, 1776, in a large building ealleil "Independence HalP', in the city of l'hiladelphia. Unele l'hil has l>een all over that building, ar»d has seen the portraits of those who signed Ihe paper, and has seen the >aine old "I)eclaration of Independence", whieh was kept in a big ircn safe, and shown to people who wishcd to see the

Afoit C(Ul'rdtfil in tht ll'orhi. For those t)ig boys, in order to provr that they meant to have their iiulependenee, just as the papcr said, had t-> with their gujrdians and the soldiers, whieh the old folks sent f\vr to punish them for daring to take care ot themselvcs. They fought against them year aftcr ycar, and at last they drove away ail of their g\urdians, and caught the soldiers of the *'old fv»lks" at Vorktown, and they all left the country. So these boys sh >wed pretty clearly to the *old toli»s .U h;?me" that they could take care of themselves as they wcre of age, and the old folks, after growling over it, told thcm to go.

After this, these big t>oys, or younjj men they were then, got tcgether. and after a great deal of talk, »grecd to stand by eaeh other, in casc the "old fo!ks" should make any more trouble. And they *et apart thc d.iy when th?y signed the Dtclaration ct Independ enee, I'ne Fourth of July, to bc the great Nalional Day; on whieh they and their children, and their children's children tor roany y«ars to eome, could celebrate the great 6ght for their right to govern themselvts. In those ear!y day% there were on!y thirteen of those boys; but, to-day there are forty-two < f thcm, and tbere art more *etting ready to join in with thero.

When tho®c thirtecn colooics beeame the ,4 UnUed St«tes rf Araertca", th«rt were less th«n five million of in habit«nts tn thera; but now, there »re sHpposed to be »ixiy-fire millien* ot men, women ind children living m th*t gre*t country. i No», Aoenean boys don*t ihink that the Fourth of July i« mueh of» diy, unle» they ean make «II the nobe 1 they want to; and Unele PhH thinki th*t boyf of «U natbn4 think noisc i$ thc pvtncipal thing for boyt to make. Some of them make kites, ind «ome make bow* and anowa, and some make Khoonen to uil on a pond. buc k *hen a greit ho)iday, lika the Fourth of July» eoae» irouod, they are not happy unkM they eaa make a noiie.

i .\n%i th»nk how mueh mone?. I that r.o M? cc%is Vou hare aU help«d j man> ::mc> to make a btg no«se en < New Vearv *uh Chusese firerracken>, thc*e vcr\ Unle round things :bJt make a %en noiie, and leare ?»ehind ihe nosve a na*ty smoke and a iot oi n to be clcaned up. Now fusi gct your leaeHen ta he;p vou ro re> H"T. up how mueh money these fire- < ra<kcr% 1 in the plaee where vc.ur school is. and <et L"r.<Je Phil know. n>e know h*:.«w many doi!.r> worth y\m 'hink are fircd «ff m Hon» lulu, io Hilo, or 11: on a Chine*e New Year*. 1 hen ihink ei "Uneie Sin»'>" smaii and »'iri». on a h';>ur!h cf Juiy ar.d of therrs. It ukes rnany ship i<-ad> M' Sire cr«( kcrs. ail sent froa; (/hina, to f eip the Anuricin b< v ard t»> make en--ugh noiie on :hr 4ih cf Ju:>. And whcrever V e Arr.cr:< *n U>y gc*es, he gets o?ht-r Ima< t > he'p him out in hi.«» noise. S )r:ie cther t»me I w.'il teil >"U about a great d.»> whi«.h your falhers and grand fithtrs -jstd to keepasa holiday. but wh;ch vou s«.ho«"'l boy> ant! tfirls have never bear<J 3bcut y I ihink.