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hearty bands
my boys,
~From a
Song,
GEORGE WA
PS HINCTON,
Letters.
Louls Philippe, King or France, used
to tell a characteristic story of Wash.
ington, of whom he occasionally saw
something while an exile in this Song
try. One morning he met the grea
man, dressed in the most he dre.
able style of the English gentleman of
the period with white stockings, walk-
ing about in the rain pefore breakfast.
“You walk early, General” he sald.
“Yes,” replied Washington, “I walk |
early because I sleep well, and 1 sleep
well because I never write anything
which can get me into the slightest
trouble. Remember that young
man!” The letters in a recent vol
ume, entitled “George Washington,
the Farmer,” justify the anecdote.
Perfectly frank as most of them are,
there is nothing In them which His
Excellency, {fe president of the Unit.
ed States, might dislike to see In
print. They reveal] a man thoroughly
practical and sincere, saying no more
than he means, and, above all, as
scrupulous for others as for himself
They are never emotional, yet they
are often kind, and sometimes, in a
dignified fashion, sympathetic.
The first of the many episties to
his private secretary, Tobias Lear, is
dated September 5. 1780, the period
when the first president was about to
establish himself in his official resi
dence at Philadelphia. Lear was attend
ing to the removal of the household
belongings from New York, and his em.
ployer sends him, in this and sub
sequent letters careful directions re-
specting servants, packing and trans
port. References to the washerwom-
en of the family and to the not whol
ly satisfactory dinners provided it
New York by the presidential steward
and housekeeper indicate the sharp
eye which Washington kept on his
household. He gives Lear to under.
stand that two of the domestics, “Mra.
Lowis and ber daughter,” are not to
be conveyed to Philadelphia, because
the principal entertaining rooms of
looking upon the kitchen, and their
“dirty figures” will “not be a pleasant
sight.” He is suspicious about the
expeditious disappearance of his Pipe
of Pintard wine, and he desires that
the new steward should realize that
such luxuries are not for the serving
man's table. He is puzzied hy a mat-
ter which has decupled the minds of
generations of householders: “It is
inconceivable to me how other fam
flies on 25hd. or 3000 dollars should
be enabled to entertain more company
at least more frequently than I could
do for twentyfive thousand dollars
annually.” A judicious, not a niggard.
ly economy moves him: he wants hile
houge to be eminently handsome and
respectable but the outlay must not
be unreasonable, He directs Lear to
consult a silversmith as to the mak-
ing of decanter holders for his table
~and might they not be made Hike a
frame open at bottom, which “woud
save silver?’ Lear is to consider the
getting of a new curtain for the stair.
case, but whatever he does, there
must be an exact match in color. “For
the sake of appearances,” adds the
president, “one would not in Instances
of this sort regard a small additional
expense.” There 18 little to show
that Mrs. Washington has anything to
do with the minute domestic instruc.
tions and queries with which the busy
Tobias Is bombarded first from Phila.
i
:
Vernon while the “new
still in preparation, but she may have
been behind the throne with an
armory of suggestions.
The question of reat for the Phila
delphia house (which belongs to Rol
Morris) troubles Washington's
mind. He is afraid that the sum of
rent and repairs may amount up un
duly, and laments that it is difficult
to extract anything definite eithe:
from Morris or from the committ
who selected this official residences
And here the Virginian's pride come
to the front: “To occupy the prem
ises at the expense of any public body
~—] will not” The question of a
pride, rm
inforced by His Excellency’s scrupu
losity: “Mrs. Morris has a mangle (1
think they are called) for Ironing of
Clothes, which, as it is fixed in
place where it is commonly used,
proposed to leave and take mine. T
this I have no objection, provided
mine is equally good and convenient
but if I should obtain any advantage
besides that of its being up and ready
for use, 1 am not inclined to receive |
it” O wonderful tenant!
As landowner and farmer Washing
ton had troubles enough, especially
while the dutieg of office kept him
at a distance from Mount Vernon.
Debtors delayed payment; overseers
were drunken, or lazy: or too much
given to “Company,” horse racing and
idling in adjacent towns. While oc
cupled with affairs of state in Phila.
delphia the president still attempts
to keep a rein over those at work upon
his land Abuses have crept into
part of his farm business, he declares
at the beginning of his second term
and he complains bitterly of “the in
habitation’ is
sho
sufferabls conduct” of Lis various
overseers. He has no Illusions as to
the agricultural capacities of the
American farmers of his period. Their
“knowledge,” he says—‘‘practice at
least-—centres in the destruction of
the land and very little beyond it”
When he returned to private life and
rural occupations he found a plentiful
crop of vexations, from the Hessian
fly in his wheat to unsatisfactory
workmen. “In this country.” he writes
to Dr. Gordon, “where entreaties as
well as money must be used to obtain
thelr work, and keep them to their
duty, they baffle all calculation in
the accomplishment of any plana, or
repairs they are engaged in—and re
quire more attention to and look
ing after than can well be con
ceived,” In various letters he re
fers half wrathfully to that part
of his domesticities which had
to do with his slaves, He -~ites to
Lear in 1794 concerning some of the
propose l sales of hie lands:
“1 have po scruple to disclose to
you that my motives to sales
are to reduce my Income, be it more
or less, to specialties: that the re
mainder of days may thereby be
more tranquil and {ree from cares:—
and that 1 (knowing
precisely what is} to
" the re
in the
those
my
enabled
dependence
may be
my
much good with it as
source will admit—for alte’
j estimation of the world, [1 possess
and clear estate, yet so un
is it, that I am oftentimes
refuse alds which I can
unless 1 was to sell part
the purpose. Besides
motive which
wish
more
do as
a Boog
productive
ashamed to
not afford.
of it. to answer
these, 1 have another
makes me earnestly
things—it is Indeed
than all the namely to
a certain
for these
powe in
liberate
h
own
rest
species of properly whic
réepugnantiy to my
which Imperions
until 1 can
PORSESS
feell
sity
tule
oxXpe neas,
very
pgs: but neces
substi
other expedient, by which
not in my power to avoid
(however well disposed 1 may be to do
it} can be defrayed”
The
ps out here and there in (he jel
compels, and
some
gentler great man
close
dis
this sen
fone les gfntoly mo of ¢
not
DOS
to hi
some pops
Washington and
[I belleve has not
the twenty Years by us-
to set down to dinner by ourse
It would appear that his wife
pretty stepdaughter, Nelly,
way. In another note
erning the forwarding of the house
hold goods from Philadelphia to
Mount ve ronon there is a hint of fem
influ male reader
“On one side 1 am
to remember the Parrot
ym the other to remember the dog. For
my own part { should not pine much
if both were forgot.” The pretty lit
tle Nelly and her idling young broth
or, as well as to various nephews and
nieces, Washington, as this volume
i shows, was a careful, wise and gen
| erous guardian. He was anxious that
the schooling of these young people
should be of the best, and was con
stantly taking pains in the matter,
Mr. Lear's account of the death of
Washington is a welcome addition to
the letters. It is grievous to read of
the maltreatment of the sick man by
his ignorant, if well meaning phys!
cians-—it would have been strange,
| indeed, if he had survived their min
| {atrations But that sadness is for
gotten in the narrative of the passing
! soul, so noble in the simplicity, dig
nity and courage of its parting.
“Unless
Mrs
do what
addressed
in unexpectedly —
myself will
one
heen done within
last that is
ives
and
had
con
his
thelr own
nine snee which the
will app
called upon
WASHINGTON.
Welcome to the day returning,
Dearer still as ages flow,
While the torch of Faith is burmirs,
Long as Freedom's altars glow!
See the hero whom It gave us,
| Slumbering on a mother's breast;
| For the arm he stretched to save us,
Be its morn forever blest!
~- Oliver Wendell Holmes.
HOUDON'S FAMOUS STATUE OF
5
WASHINGTON IN THE | CENTRAL
COMMERCIAL COLUM.
Market Reports.
Bradstreet’'s says:
dastrial
normal in most lines,
operations are still
{8 also present the feeling of disap-
pointment hitherto noted at the fall
rapidly, Some measures of
volume showed slight recessions in
danuary from December, but the fall
ire record was an encouraging one,
and the improvement over the same
month a year ago, when business
wag at a low ebb,
Collections are little chang-
ed and classed as fair, ag a whole,
“This disposition in many lines is
still to attribute slowness of demand
in opening up to fear of tariff re-
vision, but there is manifest now a
aisposition to recognize more fully
the play of natural conditions and
restriction of consumptive require-
ments proceeding from reduced earn-
ing power of the community.
“Business failures in the United
States for the week ended February
4 were 286, against 311 last week,
272 in the same week of 1908, 188
in 1907, 204 in 1906 and 207 in
1805,
“Wheat
from the
including flour exports
United States and Canada
for the week aggregated 1,802,876
bushels, against 3,044,698 last weel
and 4,607,456 tals week last year
Corn exports for the week were 1.
106,880 bushels against 1,365,299
last week and 1,835,196 bushels in
190K."
Wha'sen =
New York. —eWheat
No, 2 red, 1.117% @1.12%, elevator,
No. 2 red, 1.12%. f. 0. b. afloat;
No. 1 Northern Duluth, 1.21%. f. ©
b. afloat; No. 2 hard winter, 1.17%.
f. o. b. afloat
Corn-—8pot
elevator, and
ariiets
Spot firm;
a
steady; No. 2, 72
68%. f o. b. afloat
No. 2 white pominal, and No. 2 yel
low, 69%, f o. bb. afloat, Optional
market was without transactions
closing net unchanged May closed
0%; July closed 70%; September
losed 70 Yi
Spot quiet: mixed
Le: natural
clipped white,
Alive, more active
ckens, 13c¢ fowls, 14;
12@ 18 Dressed steady;
spring chickens, 17 a 2le.;
@ 15; turkeys, 16@ 23
Higher and firmer: eroam
specials, 31@31%e (official,
81); creamery extras, 30 e 30%
creamery, thirds to firsts, 23@ 29
process, common to specials, 18@
Eggs — Firm: receipts, 6.619 cases
Western firsts 32% @ 233¢. (officia
32%): do, seconds, 31@32
Philadelphia, — Wheat — Firm: fal
demand; ooniract grade, February
1.10@ 1.10% ¢
Corn--Quiet but steady;
ET% G67 %e
Oats—unchanged
Butter — Firm: extra
creamery, 3lec.; do, nearby,
a3
Western
fowls, 13
Butter
ery
February
Wester;
prints
Eggs— Weak and 2c. lower. Penn
sylvania and other nearby firsts, fre«
cases, J2¢. ot mark; do., current re.
ceipts, in returnable cases, 31, af
mark; Western firsts, free cases, 312
at mark: do., current receipts, fres
cases, 30@ 31, at mark
Cheese— Firm: fa'r demand New
York full creams, choice, 14% @
14%. do, fair to good, 13% @ 14
Poultry Alive, firm and higher
Fowls, 14@ 14 %c.; old roosters, 10
spring chickens, 15@ 16; ducks, 14
@15; geese, 11 @12%
Uhicago.~Cattie-— Market steady
Steers, $4.60@G 7. cows, $3G5.50:
heifers, 33@5.95; bulls, $3.40
3.90; calves, 33.50008.25: stockers
and feeders, $3.50@ 5.40
Hogs -— Market 10c. higher:
heavy shipping, $6.45 @
butchers, $6. 35@ 6.50; light mixed,
$6G 6.10; cholce light, $6.15 6 8.30;
packing, $6.10@6.45; pigs, $5@ 6:
bulk of sales, $6.25@ 6.490.
esp. ~Market steady. 8heep
$.26@6.35; lambs, $6.75@ 7.565;
Ji 3005. $3@ 6.50
Baltimore. ~~Wheat-—- The
for Western Is firm; spot,
March, 1.10%: May, 1.12%.
Settling prices were: No. 2 red
Western, 1.10%; contract spot,
1.10%: No. 8 red,
No. 2 red, 1.07%:
red Western, 1.07%
Corn-—Market firmer
corn of both colors.
ed lots of No. 2 white corn afloat
nominally at Tle. per bush. and yel
low or mixed corn afloat at 67%.
Track yellow corn, for domestic de.
cholce
6.5214;
market
1.10;
steamer No. 2
for car lotsa on spot.
Oats — Quote: White—No. 2.
55% @56c.; No. 38, 64% GE6U;
No. 4, b3@53%. Mixed—No. 2,
54%c.; No. 3, 53053.
Rye — Quote, per bush.: No 2
Western rye, uptown, 824 e¢.;
lots, as to quality and condition, 75
@ 890.
Butter—Choica to fancy table |
grades in good demund and market
generally steady. but medium and low
grades are in ample demand. We
quote, per 1b.: Creamery, fancy, 30
to 30%; cholee, 28 to 29; good, 22
to 25; imitation, 20 to 24.
Live tuck »
New York ~Cholce gtable
fed bulls sold Beton: 40 per 100
pounds. Dab beef slow at 8 @
10c. for native sides,
Calves Western calves at $4.75:
no sales of veals. Dressed calves
slow; olty dressed veals, §@ 14c.;
country dressed, 70 12¢.
Sheep and Lambs—Market steady,
Sheep, $3 LA, lambs, $7.90@8;
Kansas ay. Mo Cattle — Re.
coipts, 4,000 head, including 800
Southerns; market steady; choles
exports and dressed beef steers
$5,606.65; falr to good, $4.40
5.50; Western stoors,
stockers and feeders,’ $3.15 @ 5.25:
Southern steers, $4.25 5.75; South.
$2@5; native heifers, $3.15@ 5.50;
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A FAITHFUL BAND.
Many instances of remarkable gal
Iantry and devotion to duty are to be
found in the “Story of the Guides,’
by Colonel G. J. Younghusband. Af
present this is a corps of native East
Indians, fourteen hundred strong
with twenty-seven British officers
King Edward is colonel-in-chief., It
Wis raised in 15846, to furnish not
only fighters, but also men who could,
atl a moment's notice, act as guldes to
troops in the field and to collect trust.
worthy information. As it was for
service, and not for show, the time
honored scarlet of the British army
was laid aside for the dust-colored
uniform now known as khaki.
In one of their expeditions on the
northwestern frontier, from the tribes
of which many of the men were en-
listed, they camped near a village,
the home of one of the guides. His
relatives and friends entreated him |
not to fight against them, and »
favorable opportunity coming, he de.
serted, and carried with him two
rifles.
“How many men of that man's
tribe are in the regiment?” demanded
the commander, Colonel Jenkins,
when the fact was reported to him,
It was found that there were seven.
teen, all told.
“Parade them all here,” said the
colonel; and they were duly sum-
moned and paraded in line
“Now take off every scrap of uni-
form or equipment that belongs to
the gircar.”
Each man did as he was bid, and
placed the little ple in front of him
on the ground.
“You can go now, and don't let me
see your fRces again until you bring
back those two rifles.”
He hoped that they might overtake
the fugitive, but he was disappointed.
Day followed day and week succeeded
week, but no news came of pursued
or pursuers.
The matter had
the vacancies had long since been !
filled, indeed, two whole years had
| passed, when one day there walked |
into Mardan eattonment a ragged,
| rough-bearded, hard-bitten gang of
sevenieén men, carrying two rifles.
It was the lost legion,
Of those two years’ trial and strug.
| gle, wounds received and given, a
| stark, unburied corpse here and there
| on the mountainside, days in ambush |
and bitter nights of silent, anxious
i watch, they spoke but little: but their
| faces beamed with honest pride as
| their spokesman simply said:
{ “The sahib told us never to show |
| our faces again until we found the
rifies, and here they are. Now, by |
| your honor's kindness, we will again
!
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Payment in Kind.
The editor of the Trevorton (Pa.)
{ Times seems to be plentifully sup-
plied with everything for the winter
except money, In a recent editorial |
we read: “We have taken wood; po- |
tatoes, corn, eggs, butter, onions, i
cabbage, chickens, stone, lumber, Ia |
bor, sand, calico, sauerkraut, second. |
hand clothing, coon skins, scrap iron, |
shoe pegs, raw hides, chinquepins, |
| tanbark, dogs, sorghum, seed, jar. |
ware and wheat straw on subscrip- |
tion, and now a man wants to know i
months for a large owl, We have no
precedent for refusing, and if we can
find a man who is out of an owl and
wants one, we'll do it. "London
Globe.
————— sts ww
COULD NOT LOSE.
Rodrick —*Why, there goes Turf
wood, the chap who used to lose =o
much on the races. He is dressod
like a prince.”
Van Albert—"Yes, he ia marriad
now and his wife gave him a tp vn
the races. It Is a tip he can't lope
on.
ar riek~" Tadued} And what was
Van Allah, a Sp to how
away."—=Chicage News,
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