HE doubt which tins Ions ' Tl rented upon George w nsh I ington's I : n si If h ancestry I seems in a fnlr way to be prise of a San Francisco man. No front stntesman tins ever proved luuie con fusing to tlie genenlftjtlMa, tlinn the Fnther of Ills Country. The history of Wnshlngtou'e life Is, of course, accurately known, but historians nil give different nnd confusing accounts of his English an cestry. One genius. Indeed, lias writ ten a big book lu which be proves very much to his own satisfaction that the Washington are directly descended from Odin, the founder of Scandinavia, who nourished B. C. 70. The nrgu MBS. niLDBd LEWIS, GEOROE WASH INGTON'S ONLY SISTER. From ft Portrait it Mrtnlnn. Kins George County, IrKiuU. tneut does more credit to Sir. Welles' Imagination than to his reasoning powers, and such fanciful myths may very well be set on one side as outside arguments. All that has been known hitherto for a certainty Is that the Washingtons were a widespread group of Fngllsh country families, descended from one Laurence Washington, some time Mayor of Northampton. In lu.'!S Bluff King Hal, having successfully despoiled the priories, granted the tim nor of Sulgruvo, part of bis gains, to Laurence, who forthwith set up as a prosperous country squire. His descendants spread to all parts of England. There were Washington In Ln n cash ire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire ond many other counties. Now, by the whirligig of fate, a Ran Francisco citizen bns become possessed of one of the most valuable relics yet discovered in connection with this old established family, and which goes far towards settling the disputed question of Washington's Kngllsh ancestry. H. iJavls. who Is the curator of the Col lege of Physicians and Surgeons In Fourteenth street, Is the man who has come into possession of this unique find. His brother, Thomas Davis, Is the rector of the parish of Maluies liury. In Wiltshire. Two milts away Is the little village of Carsdoti, n mere luslgnilicnnt hamlet, Important only as having been the seat of a branch of the Washington family. The old manor house Is still In exist ence. Here many generations of Wash ingtons lived and flourished as good old country squires. Their lands spread far and wide, their farms were rich, they were absolute lords of their own domain. When they died they were burled in the little parish church yard hard by, whore stood the stately family tomb. And It Is the escutcheon from this fomb, bearing the complete family anus, which Mr. Davis has se cured. Tlie stone, which was nlaccd as a rons At'OCSTISB WASHINGTON, BROTHEB OF IKOHG WASHINGTON. ihleld over the grave, surmounted by m ungel with outspread wings, Is a cumbrous affair, weighing about 500 pounds. It la two feet six Inches In height and eighteen Inches wide. Some vaudal. In the past, tins broken It luto three pieces, but, fortunately, the parts loin together neatly and the cracks are hardly visible. The coat of arms, cut In high relief on the atone, Is calcu luted to delight the College of Arms tod drive the heraldic amateur to del pair. Doubtless the Insignia of more than one raroiiy art "marshalled" or "Impaled," for the mere student be comes hopelessly mixed as bo floun ders amid tbe mysteries of "party per pale, witii "party per lease" on the one band and ''charges" In the form of stags' beads on the other; with "paly ' and "barry" divisions; with "gules" and "mullets," cross and cres cent In bewildering barmony. Whst particularly concerns us, however. Is lo be found on the upper left-band cor ner, technically the "dexter chief," .where aland forth what everyday folk would describe as tw? horizontal red Lara surmounted by ttuee stara. Too t- v. -mk heralds do not treat matters to flip pantly; the stars which, by the way, have five points Instead of six take the name of mullets; the red tint of the bnrs Is yclept gules. Now this particu lar little piece of armorial device Is not conllned to the nrinorlnl bearings on the Garsdon tomb. It Is also to bo found on the tomb of one Laurence Washington, Impaled with the arms of Lis wife, Margaret Washington, in tlie graveyard of Little Brighton. North amptonshire. The tomb bears the date of December 13, lil(5, and is commonly supposed to shelter the parent of a John Washington, who some forty years later sailed for America. Hut here conies the Maluieslmry rec tor with ft tlew family version. Ac cording to him there was Sir Laurence Washington, knight, of Itucks and Wiltshire, who died In 1 UJ.'I and was burled at Onrsdon beneath the family shield. And Knight Laurence had a son, John, who In li-''i, nt a presum ably early age, was himself knighted by worthy King .Tame. Sir John, not liking the parlous times Into which his middle nge crept, dropped the "Sir." sailed for America In W.17, nnd took his shield with him. From among his American progeny there arose George Washington, who was not so republi can but what he, loo, could lay claim to a family shield. Now this Is how he Herald describes the shield of Sir John's branch: "Argent, two bars gules, In chief three mullets of the second; crest, a raven -with wings in dorsed proper, Issuing out of a ducal coronet." With the raven tho Garsdon escutcheon has naught to do; ho Is supposed to have been transformed Into the Amei'icnu eagle. But the stars and bars are distinctly connected with hat "dexter chief" on the tomb nnd with something else we are accustomed o see Moating on the breeze. Every body has read pretty stories of the evening conclave, when the Amerlenn Hag was devised, of the busy white fingers that Urst stitched together scar let stripe and silver star. Thoso stars nd stripes were suggested by George Washington's shield, by the bars, gules nd mullets, to be found alike lu Gars don and Little Brighton's church yards. Tho history of the stone shows that Its escape from destruction during all these centuries Is little short of mir aculous. Sir Laurence Washington, who died nt Oxford ln 1043, Laurence Washington, who died In 1007, and Augustine Washington, who died lu 743, are known for certain to have been burled in this church, for the parish register of Garsdon shows It. How many other Washingtons may have been burled there Is purely a mat MART WASTIIXOTON S MONVMENT A'. riiEBEitiCKsncno, va. ter of conjecture, r.s many years of the parish register are missing. When the grave wag leveled ami the escutch eon removed Is not absolutely known, but this act of vandalism was probably committed lu 1834, when tlie church was restored and turned Into an ugly modern edifice, nil Its vent ruble grace and glory vanished. At any rule, lu 1S34 some unscrupulous person was keen enough to percelvo the value of the relic. He secured possession of It probably stole It during the confusion attending the process of renovation nod made nil attempt to ship It to the United Stntog. He very nearly suc ceeded and wus actually about to put the stone on board ship when the church authorities stepped In. It Is n law of the Church of England that no sacred object, whether It be baptismal iljlpi Sulzrav Manor House, the Hem ox George Washington' Ancestors, l Banbury, England. . There Is a report thut the auceatral borne of George Washington's family la to be taken down and re-erocted lu America. It la Hulgrave Manor House, at Banbury, England. The estate originally belonged to a priory dissolved ' by Henry VIII. at the Information and given to one Lawreuco Washington, of Northampton. Lawrence Washington came of a Lancashire fatuity. Ills grandson, Lawrence, bad two tons, both of whom emigrated to America about 1057, and it wns ono of thtso sous John who became the great , grandfather of George Wasblugton. Uarner't Weekly. font or tombstone, pulpit or pew. may be removed from Its place without the permission of the Bishop of the dio cese. The abductor of the relic had overlooked this little fact, nnd, lu con sequence, was sternly ordered to re turn the stone where It belonged. How ever, (is there wns no grave to put II on, It 'was stowed away In a dark cor ner of the vestry, 'oud uere It lay, forgotten by nil, for over sixty years. Theu Mr. Davis' reverend brother dis covered It, nnd obtained, after some diltlculty, the Blshon's permission to 1 7f MAliV, Morill.lt Ul' UASJ11.NGTU.N. ship it out of the country. So that there is no doubt about It eventually reach ing the Vnlted States. Whether It will ever come to San Francisco Is an other siory. "There can be no doubt of the fact 1 lint this shield covered the tomb of several of George Washington's an cestors," declares Mr. Davis. "Tho ltev. Keynall Wreford Hay, the pres ent rector of Garsduti Church, n man of great learning and high antiquarian attainments, is positive on this point. He has made a thorough Investigation of the subject, and has drawn tip the following family tree, which seems conclusive enough: " 'Laurence Washington, lawyer, of Gray's Inn, London, grantee from Henry VIII. of Sulgravo Manor lu l."3S, nnd twice Mayor of Northamp ton. Died Februnry 19, 1.1S3. " 'Laurence Washington (his son), of Maidstone. Registrar of his majesty's OEOUOE WASnlNCITO?!' BOOK PI.ATE. Court of Chancery. Died 101'J, burled at Maidstone. " 'Sir Laurence Washington (his son), Knight of Westbury, Buckingham shire, and Garsdon. Wiltshire. Begla trur of the High Court of Chancery. Died at Oxford in 1(113, and buried at Garsdon Church. " 'John Washington (his son), knight ed nt Newmarket lu 1!23 tiy James I. Emigrated to America lu 1037.' " Now as till such authorities, however much they may differ on other points, agree that John Wnshlngtou, the emi grant, was the great-grandfather of our own George Wnshlngtou, it would seem that the good lector -of Onrsdon has made out a case which will take a great deal to upset It. A strong bit of evidence In bis favor Is :he fact that. In 101t, Sir Laurence Washington, who was subsequently boiled there, pre sented the church with a magnificent silver communion service, pieces of which nre still lu existence ban I ran- cisco Chronicle. Whnt, JnilM-il. It wn Georgo Washington's birth day. The bells were ringing nnd t lie cannon were booming in comim-inora.-lion of tlie Father of Ills Country. Littlo Ethel, aged live, wise and thoughtful beyond her yi-ars, was gazing out of tho window, apparently in deep thought. Suddenly slio uwokc from her reverie, and turning around to her father, said. 'Tapa. what ore they going to give Georgo Washington for his birthday?" Boston Herald. A l ubloi and Cnmllluii. Washington has shown blmself both n Fnblus und a CuinUlus. His march through our lines U acknowledged to have been a prodigy of generalship. Horace Walpolo. i . ' VHW. -i'".!,-!''!!. 01 r -mi 1 LATEST.' '"' New York Clty.-rinln shirt waists are nlwnys smart nnd always worn, whatever novelties may come nnd go. This stylish May Manton model suits TLAIN SHIBT WAIST. silk, wool, cotton and linen equally well, and can be made lined or luiliued is preferred. It Includes the broad box pleat that Is n feature of tho sea ton and the straight cud's with droop '.ug sleeves. The original, made of Mievlot lu black and white with four large pearl buttons, Is worn with fancy butterfly stock and Is nulliieil, but wools and silks nre apt to give greater satisfaction when the fitted foundation Is used. The waist consists of the smoothly fitted lining that closes nt tho centre front, separately from tho outside, the fronts and tlie back. The shoulders itru plain and smooth, but the fulness at the waist Is arranged In gathers that are drawn down at the back but blouse slightly nt the front. At the frunt edge Is the fashionable lm pleat through which the closing Is made. The sleeves nre In bishop stylo with in visible openings nnd straight cuffs that close nt the outside. Tho quantity of material required for medium size Is four yards twenty one Inches wide, three and one-half yards twenty-seven inches wide, three yards thirty-two Inches wide, or two yards forty-four Inches wide. Womin'i Blnufts or Slilrt Walat. Daintily tucked waists are among the features noted In the advance styles BLOUSE OB nnd will be greatly In vogue both for entire sulis and odd waists. The very charming model shown In the large drawing includes tho narrow vest, which always Is becoming, and cun be made available both for wash goods and the many light weight silks nnd wools. As Illustrated It Is made of white batiste with the vest, collar and ufls of needlework Insertion, but tho ."umblnntlou can bo varied indefinitely, ind tlie fitted lining can be added when silks and wools nro used If n firmer adjustment is desired. The waist consists of tho lining. Hie plain Inn-It, the tucked fronts nnd tho vest. The back Is smooth across the (boulders, simply drawn down in gath ers nt the waist line, but the fronts are tucked to yoke depth and so pro vide soft folds over the bust. The nar row vest Is attached to the right side ind buttoned under the left. The sleeves nre tucked to fit snugly nt the upper portions nnd form the fashiona ble full puffs below, and are held at the wrists by cufTs that close Invisibly under the pointed strap. The neck Is finished with n stock dtit to form a point nt the centre front. The quantity of material required for medium size is four and one-half yards twenty-ono Inches wide, threo and three-fourth yards tweuty-seveu Indies wide, three and three-fourth yards thirty-two Indies wide, or two and five-eighth yards forty-four Inches wide, with seven-eighth yard of all over embroidery. The Alhletln Girl's Suit. A gymnastic suit Is an essential part of the athletic girl's wardrobe. The newest design, both practical and at tractive, couslstg of bloomera that are pkiatcd Into the belt and a separate slilrt waist, with Byron or sailor collur. Full length or elbow sleeves may be made, as preferred. A wide, soft sash of some bright silk wound around the walat adds ptcturesqueness. Any of the fancy flannels, serge or brllllantlue way be used In these costumes. Chln-oa ati. Many beautiful sashes of chiffon are shown, with bows aud chiffon roses which are exquisite additions to most evening or ceremonial gowus. Both white and colore are used, the colored chiffon sashes being used with white gowns of all the fashlonablo materials for dress occasions. These sashes are charmingly effective made with the full width of the material, and fast- ened with any of the many beautiful buckles, or sash pins. AQimlnt Vnll. A quaint veil, which gives lis wcnrei (ho look of having stepped out of an old picture. Is made of Une black net. It has n narrow ruille of net crossed with hairlines of while. The mille Is put on with n narrow band of black nnd white brnld nnd Is finished with a narrow hem. Tho veil is hemmed nt Hie top and n narrow black ribbon Is run through the hctn. This makes it a veritable "grannie's" veil. l.nra Mrilittllonx. Medallions of embroidery or lace will be used to excess on most kinds of new gowns, but tspcchilly on summer goods. These ure to be seen In white, with Introductions of cither pink, green, heliotrope or blue, and nn ex ceedingly large assortment of black and white, or the hitter und the new bright all-important red, Vlffuncoft. Flounces arc dally growing ln Im portance, especially where evening frocks nre concerned. Skirts are flounced nlmost to the knee, each flounce having a smnll ruffle of its own, so thnt the general effect Is frou frou ln the extreme. A. light colored skirt resembles nn upturned flower more than anything else. Ileiitlft Uel In Neckwear. Beads of all sorts nnd colors, but es pecially of cut steel, are used more and more In line neckwear. A Moled col lar, composed of narrow folds of pink satin fagoted together with steel bead work, has pendants of pink sutln rose buds, with steel bead stems, l'rntty Necklace Kflort. The Bayadere necklaces, which con sist of ropes of colored or Jet beads finished lu front with coquettish little tassels, are quite "the thing" for even lug gowns. As a finish for nn other wise plain evening gown they nre un equalled. Hiett For tlie Hnlr. Artificial flowers nre no longer worn singly or in single sprays in the hair, but In short garlands or rosettes, one on each side of the head just above SHIRT WAIST. the cars. Th flowers use'd, of coi.rie, nro tho small', dainty varieties. Tiuy vild roses of ribbon arc novel and ef fective. Follnne Ilata In Sljl. Foliage hats are lo be grrnl favor ites, and no wonder, hb they nre so nr tlstic, and can be modlshly worn with auy gown, either for ordiuary of deml dress. Wumnn's Tucked Skirt. Tucks of all sorts nro greatly la vogue und suit the plinKo materials of tho season to a nicety. The model shown Is ono of tho newest nad I peculiarly well adapted to tall women. As shown It Is made of canvas vell'ng lu belgo color aud machine stitched with cortlcclll silk, but all the skirting materials of the season are appropri ate aud fancy stitching can be substi tuted for plain whenever prefirred. The lines of the tucks nre arrnu'.'ed with care and with diu reference to graco of outline. The fit above tho hips is snug, while the flounce allows a generous Hare at the lower portion. Tho skirt is mndo lu three pieces, the yoke, tho skirt and the flounce, the seams being coucenled by the tucks. Tho yoko Is fitted by menus ef short hip diirts and is absolutely smooth. Tho habit back fits snugly, and tho flounce Mures froely and provides rip ples aud folds at the feat. The quantity of innterlul required for medium size Is ten yards twenty one TCCKED SK1HT. Indies wldo. eight and one-half yards tweuty-seveu Inches wldo, six yards forty-fou Inches wldo, or live and one. balf yards fifty-two inches wide, w ODDITIES AND CURIOSITIES OF THIS WONDERFUL WORLD. SITF1& TOWIB T0PPt, A gigantic circular steel tower 1050 feet In height; 180 feet in diameter nnd COS feet In circumference, will he a leading attraction at Forest Park, St. Loula, during the World's Fair of 1004. the enterprise la in the hands of the Crystal Palace Tower Company, and will in Itself be an exhibition of scien tific and mechanical skill. The central feature of the Crystal Palace tower is a mammoth cylindrical column of the dimensions given above nnd constructed entirely of steel plates riveieu logeiuer. At a neigut or v.o feet above the ground the tower will he crowned by an observatory, having a capacity of 7000 people. The top will be reached by the means column ron THE ST. locis exhibition. of a car running ou a splrnl roadway encircling the tower nnd by elevators. These combined systems will liuve a total dally capacity of 7000 persons. KBV EAB SHAFTED ON MAN'S HEAD. Surgeons at the Presbyterian Hos pital are much gratified over the suc cess of .the operation performed on Alexander Hammond, by which the latter was provided with a new ear. The man has just returned to his home In Malvern, Pa., well satisfied with modern surgery. -:'. Hammond bad his left ear frozen about four years ago. A cancerous growth developed, and threo weeks ago he was sent by his family physi cian, Dr. Curtz, to the Presbyterian Hospital. The ear was amputated, leaving only a stump. 1 e Dr. Henry Whnrton, of tho hospital staff, then made nn incision back of the car stump aud lifted up a flap of skin in the shape of a peninsula, with the connection Just back of the root of the car. The flap wns then molded into the shape of un ear and sewed up to place. The place where the flap had been wns covered by pulling tho sklu up over it. The operation is called In surgical par lance a "plastic operation." The man was able to leave the hos pital In a little over two weeks. The hospital surgeons say that the opera tion is a rare one, aud ln this case re sulted very successfully. Philadelphia Press. . A crnious bell. According to the Boston Globo a cu rious feature of the estate of tho late Edward Cunningham at Milton is a bell which bangs suspended between two yellow pine trees. It was brought to this country ninny years ago by A CCHIOUS CHIKEflC SELL. Mr. Cunningham, after one of his nu merous visits to China, where he wus ongnged in trade. It Is six feet high nnd three feet in dlumeter. The upper half is Inscribed with what is said to be tho Buddhist Bible, and the lower part is covered with the names of donors to the bell, It having been cast from coins contrib uted by faithful Buddhists. . It was brought from Ghnnklng, n town on the Ynngtse Iiiver, which was destroyed in the great Tal Ping rebellion. The rebels took the belt to Shanghai and offered it for sale, where it was bought by Mr. Cunningham. , how a mo swims. The above Is from a photograph taken by a German explorer, of a lion In the act of crossing a stream. Ac cording to the Germau naturalists the illustration abowa that tho lion's 1 'F S I -1 method of swimming differs from that of several other large animals, and one may safely conclude that be does not fel quite at home lu the Water, '. : ( .;. ' , i-5& m const or rBovi.-iBfl. , t Tba Cape Hyrax ("Uyrox capenils") which has recently become nn acquisi tion of tho Small Mammal House nt the Zoological Gnrdens, snys the Lon don Graphic, though plentiful in South Africa, where it is sometimes kept ns a "HTBAX CArEKSIS," MENTIONED JN BIBLE, domestic pet, is rarely seen ln England. It is also called the "Human Hock Rabbit" and "Dossey," and Is identified with tho coney of the Book of Pro verbs. At first sight it looks like a rodent, nnd the rather shaggy fur is mouse-colored, but it is far more in teresting than a casual observer would Imagine, for it is the link between the tapir and rhinoceros. It hag no tall; its skeleton closely resembles thnt of a rhinoceros In miniature, and its molar teeth are formed lu the same manner; the forefeet have four toes, which nre tipped with hoof-like nails, while the hind feet have three toes, of which the Innermost is furnished with a long claw-like nail. THE AERONAUT 8IrDER. "The aeronaut spider," said the nnturnllst, "lives in Texns, nnd It is during November ond December thnt she goes in most heavily for aeronaut ics. "She porches herself, when she Is about to fly, on the topmost twig of a branch, or on the extreme end of a corn tassel, and she spins a balloon of white gossamer n cigar-shaped balloon, six inches long and two Inches ln diameter. This is held by a thread. She spins two other threads, some forty feet in length, to hang from the bow, nnd a third one, of thirty feet, to bang from the stern. At the hour of noon, usually, and with a wind from the south, she starts off. She sets her eight or ten children in the bow In, front of her; she bites the cable that holds the balloon, and forthwith hec car rises smoothly aud buoyiw.tiy high up in the clear air. "Toward 4 o'clock in the afternoon, when the wind begins to die, she descends. Her long drag ropes catch on a twig or a bush, and she nnd her children jump to the ground, spinning a thread as they leap, which lets them down gently. Their car either hangs In the air till the drag ropes break, when It sails away again, or else it falls to earth. "In this manner," the naturalist con eluded, "the female aeronaut or bal loon spiders scatter themselves all over the State." . WOLF IN SHEEP'S ClOTHIKO. Persons residing in the Vauglrarn Square In Purls noticed recently that n poorly dressed man came there threo times dally and threw crumbs of bread to the sparrows, and, as he was evi dently a pauper, they were loud in their admiration of his thouurtitfuluess and benevolence. The blrdi, too, np pnreutly looked upon hliu ns an angel In disguise, for they flocked to him from all quarters, and some even perched on his shoulders nud bands and took the coveted crumbs from bis fingers. The benevolent pauper would prob aljy still be engaged lu this task If one of his admirers had not detected hlm lu the act of thrusting luto his pocket two plump sparrows which had Just perched on his hnnd. His real object In feeding the birds wns then revealed, for ho confessed in court thnt he con sidered birds the choicest food, and that, as ha could not satisfy his appe tite In any other way, he wns obliged to make war on sparrows. Tho court did not regard this as a sufficient ex cuse for his conduct, and as a result the Impoverished epicure Is now ln a place where birds are not often found on tho bill of fare. A TCBEIT CAPQHT BY A MAIL CBAKK. "A mall crane Is a funny thing to so hunting with." Bald W. E. Grunwald. "Still, I know of a man who made a respectable bag with this queer in strument." continued Mr. Grunwald. "The man wns, of course, a railway man clerk. He was running on a Baltimore & Ohio train through West Virginia. I was aboard the train at tho time tho incident occurred. The train bad Just passed a little station and entered a tract of woodland, when the clerk saw a pair of wings flapping outside the glass in the sliding door of his car. He threw the door open and found a big turkey caught in tbe mall crane. The blrp was snatched Inside in a jiffy and secured. "At first tbe clerk thought bis prize a common barnyard fowl caught up by the auction of tbe train, but more knowing passengers Identified tbe bird as A wild turkey." Louisville Courier- Journal. A Harer-FalllBt Weapoa. Contempt pierces tbe thickest bide of self-cniplacency. New York Press. There la always room at the top of tbe heap for the big potatoes. !
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