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THE FIRST PORTRAIT OF WASHINGTON.
This picture was painted in 1772 by Charles Willson Peale, the father of Rem-
brandt Peale, and usually known as the Elder Peale.
The original
of Washington and Lee University.—The Booklover’s
uniform of a British eolonial cclonel.
. It shows Washington in the
ainting is now in the possession
Tagazine.
A George Washington Box.
By NiLDRED NORMAN.
F you did not know what
to do, what would you
do?”
This is what Lina asked
Sister Emma after she had
leaned on her elbows and looked
out of the window five minutes with-
out speaking.
“I would think and think ‘until I
thought of something,” replied Sis-
ter Emma, half closing her book to
take a look at her little sister.
‘““And if you could not think—"
“I would ask every one I met until
I found something.”
Lina began: to. smile.
with you, sister.”
Sister Emma dropped her book,
and laughed merrily.” “Wise little
maid,” she said.
Then she took Lina on her lap
and they talked it all over. Talked
over what? Why, Lina’s party.
Mamma had told her that she might
have a George Washington party.
The next day a box was spied on
the hall table with “Washington” in
large letters on it. Each member of
the family was asked to put in an
idea for a Washington party.
Bertram, Lina’s brother, thought
of something so funny that he had
to kick off his shoes and dance a jig
before he wrote it. It was just one
words, ‘“‘Hatchets.”
Johnny could not think of any-
thing, so he looked in the box. When
he saw ‘‘Hatchets,” he wrote, “Cher-
ry-trees,”” for he thought cherry-
trees would be as good for a party as
hatchets.
Phil looked in, and said, ‘Pooh!
I can do better than that,” and he
wrote, ‘“‘Orange Pudding.”
Mamma looked in, and she said,
¥Whoever could make a party out of
hatchets and cherry-trees? Orange
pudding, though, is a good idea. 1
will make the pudding.” So mamma
wrote that.
Papa looked in,
“Nuts and Goodies.”
Sister came last and she wrote,
“A Thinking-cap.”
Then Lina opened the box and Sis-
ter Emma matched the ideas together
and made a party.of them.
‘When the little friends arrived on
the afternoon of the 22d of February
the box stood on the hall table, and
Johnnie stood beside it, with a red
sasl tied over his white blouse, look-
ing very gay. ‘He invited each guest
t t his hand into the box and take
put what he found.
George Washington himself, Ber-
tram, stood just inside the door, and
showed each guest to seat.
When they opened the parcels each
found that he held in his hand a
hatchet. Some were red, some white
and some blue.
Then Sister Emma, Lady Washing-
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and he wrote,
AN UNUSUAL WASHINGTON.
Painted in 1789 by Christian Gulager, to
wi#m Washington gave but one sitting.
Rev. Jeremy Belknap pronounced it a
“very good likeness.” The original is now
in the possession of Mrs. Arthur Codman
Chateau of Laufenburg, Grand Dutby o
Baden.—The Bookloves’s Magazine,
ton, came in, and said that there were
six trees on the wall, and one was a
cherry-tree, and the first one who dis-
covered it would have the first chance
to use his hatchet on it.
Roy Gardner found it first. ' Lady
Washington tied a handkerchief over
his eyes and told him to see how near
he could come to putting the hatchet
Named After Washingtons
One State and some sixty-odd
counties, cities, towns, rivers, lakes
and water courses perpetuate Wash-
ington’s name on the map. All the
Caesars and Napoleons who carved
up Europe left no such reminders of"
their transitory greatness. Alexan-
der, after twenty centuries, left noth-
ing like it.
As a city maker the capital which
bears his name remains as his monu-
ment. It was his project and he was
its founder. Had he any idea of the
country’s future development into
metropolitan districts? Did he fore-
see even vaguely a time of city dom-
inance in national affairs such as is
now threatened? J *
The possibility of a confghuity
within a ten-mile ‘radius oF New
York's City Hall greater than the en-
tire population of the young Republic
was then undreamed of. If the in-
fant ration could have received from
Washington and Lis counsellors some
provision for its physical growth, if |
some part of the consideration be-
stowed on its political future could
have been given to the establishment
of safeguards for the restraint of
menacing movements of population,
would not the restriction have been
beneficial?
There has arisen a need for bar-
riers to preserve the balance of pow-
er between city and country which
the Fathers of the Repubkc had no
means of foresceing. — New York
Evening World.
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Mightiest Name on Earth.
Washington is the mightiest name
on earth. Long since mightiest in
the cause of civil liberty; still might-
iest in moral reformation. On that
name no eulogy is expected. It can-
not be. To add brightness to the sun
or glory to the name of Washington
is alike impossible. Let none at-
tempt it. In solemn awe pronounce
the name, and in its nakled deathless
splendor leaving it shining on.—
Abraham Lincoln.
Seal Put Upon His Glory.
If virtue can secure happiness in
another world, he is happy. In this
the seal is put upon his glory. It is
no longer in jeopardy from the fickle-
ness of fortune.—Alexander Hamil-
ton.
A Tribute to Washington.
The mrost illustrious and beloved
personage this country ever pro-
duced.—John Adams.
f rn RY
SHE ONLY LEFT IT IN THE TOP OF THE TREE.
ir the chopped place in the cherry-
tree.
Roy walked off bravely, chopping
right and left with his pasteboard
hatchet, and pinned it up on the oth-
er side of the room. You may be sure
there was a merry laugh over that.
Dolly Dean did a great deal better,
for she only left it in the top’of the
tree. rig
Willie, Dolly’s brother, ;said he
knew he could hit the right place, but
he hung it on the roots.
Annie Mabie placed it exactly. “I
saw that it was just so high, right in
front of me,” Annie explained, ‘““and
when Lady Washington turned me
around three times, I said to myself,
‘It is just so high, right in front of
me, and it was.” ”’ ;
After that they played hide the
hatchet, and chase the hatchet, until
every one was glad to sit down and
spell the hatchet. Willie Dean spelled
more words than any one else. Willie
was a good speller.
Then Lady Washington said they
might match hatchets by the numbers
on them. That was fun!
Two by two they marched out to
supper, singing ‘“Yankee Doodle,”
with their hatchets pined to their
shoulders.
"If you want to know how good a
time they had, try a Washington box
yourself.
An Aposirophe by Daniel Webster.
That name was of power to rally a
nation in the hour of thick-thronging
public disasters and calamities; that
name shone, amid the storm of war,
a beacon to light, to cheer and guide
the country’s friends; it flamed, too,
like a meteor, to repel her foes. That
name, in the days of peace, was a
loadstone, attracting to itself a whole
people’s confidence, a whole people’s
love, and the whole world’s respect.
That name, descending with all time,
spreading over the whole earth, and
uttered in all the languages belong-
ing to the tribes and races of men,
will forever be pronounced with af-
fectionate gratitude by every one in
whose breast there shall arise an as-
piration for human rights and human
liberty:— Daniel Webster.
Calhoun on Washington.
His great fame rests on the solid
foundation that while he was careful
to avoid doing wrong to others, he
was prompt and decided in repelling
wrong.—John C. Calhoun.
George Washington, the highest
human personation of justice and be-
nevolence.—W. H. Seward.
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UNWRITTEN HISTORY.
ry. a as
Papa Washington — ‘‘George,
Neighbor Fairfax has reported to me
that he has lost some of his choice ap-
ples. Now, do you know—"
George—‘ ‘Now, see here, father,
just because I acknowledged that
cherry tree racket, you needn’t think
I'm going to own up to all the devil-
try committed in the neighborhood.”
Saint-Gaudens’ Memories.
“Ecstatic, dream-like playing and
picking of flowers in the twilight
among the graves of an old burying
ground, just over the fence from the
first house I have any vision of,
biended with similar ecstatic enjoy-
ment of the red wheels of the loco-
motive in some journey out of New
York, ‘are my first impressions,
vaguely discerned in the gray, filmy
cobweb of the past.
“But soon we went to the Bowery,
whence delightful reminiscences of
the smell of cake in the bakery at the
corner of the street, and of the
stewed peaches of the German family
in the same house, have followed me
through life.”—From “The Reminis-
cences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens,”
in the Century.
Mark Twain on Books.
A young girl once asked Mark
Twain if he liked books for Christ-
mas gifts. .
“Well, that depends,” drawled the
great humorist. “If a book has a
leather cover it is really valuable as
a razor strop. If it is a brief, con-
cise work, such as the French write,
it is useful to put under the short
leg of a wabbly table. An old-fash-
ioned book, with a clasp, can’t be
beat as a missile to hurl at a dog,
and a large book, like a geography,
is as good as a piece of tin to nail
over a broken pane of glass.”—Phila-
delphia Ledger.
What Jefferson Said of Washington.
Perhaps the strongest feature in
his character was prudence, never
acting until every circumstance, every
consideration, was maturely weighed;
refraining if he saw a doubt, but,
when once decided, going through
with his purpose, whatever obstacles
opposed. His integrity was raost
pure, his justice the most inflexible I
have ever known, no motives of inter-
est or consanguinity, of friendship or
hatred, beingable to bias his decision.
He was, indeed, in every sense of the
words, a wise, a good and a great
man.—Thomas Jefferson.
One of the World's Worthies,
In war we have produced a Wash-
ington, whose memory will be adored
while liberty shall have a votary,
whose name shall triumph over time,
and will in future ages assume its
just place among the most celebrated
worthies of the world.—Thomas Jef-
ferson.
~~ Washington Never Swerved.
Love of country in him was invest-
ed with the sacred obligation of a
duty, and from the faithful discharge
of this duty he never swerved for a
moment, either in thought or deed,
through the whole period of his
eventful career.—Jared Sparks.
Washington First of His Time.
He was the first man of the time in
which he grew. His memory is first
and most sacred in our love, and ever
hereafter, till the last drop of blood
shall freeze in the last American
heart, his name shall be a spell of
power and of might.—Rufus Choate.
~The Flag of
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fiing out, with cheer and shout
To all the winds Our Country’s Banner! [
Be every bar and every star
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Fling out
Displayed in full and glorious manner!
Washington.
Blow, zephyrs, blow!
sign flying!
Blow, zephyrs, sweetly mournful—sighing,
sighing, sighing!
—Abraham Coles, in Christian Herald.
Keep the dear en-
| cases in Butler county.
PENNSYLVANIA
Interesting Items from All Sections of
the Keystone State.
SHORTEN THE DISTANCE
New Franklin & Clearfield Line
Makes Quite a Cut-Off in
Chicago Route.
Oil City.—The new Franklin &
Clearfield railroad, designed to short-
en the distance between New York
and Chicago over the New York Cen-
tral system, is completed to within
two miles of Brookville and it is ex-
pected trains will be running over it
in a few months.
The line was projected as a freight
road between Polk, on the Oil City
branch of the Lake Shore and Clear-
field. Traffic arrangements will be
made with the Low Grade division of
the Pennsylvania railroad from
Brookville te Falls Creek and with
the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg
road from Falls Creek to Clearfield,
where connections will be made with
the Beech Creek branch of the New
"York Central lines.
The new: road, when finished, will
be 111 miles long.
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SIX OFFICERS INDICTED
Venango County Stirred by Grand
Jury’s Action.
Franklin.—The grand jury complet-
ed its investigation concerning the
maintenance of Venango county’s
poor. The importance of the report
is indicated by the fact that Judge
George S. Criswell has called a spec-
ial session of criminal court for the
first Monday in March in order that
the accused persons may have an
early trial. Otherwise the cases
would have to go over until the last
week in April. Those indicted are:
County Commissioner KE. H. Baum-
gardner of Oil City; Mrs. Baumgard-
ner, Homer Sutton, Mrs. Sutton, Roy
Sutton and William Small. The
charges cover alleged indiscretions
committed in the poor house. The
board of county commissioners is al-
so severely scored.
LITTLE GIRL KILLS HERSELF
Explodes Revolver in Play and Sends
Buliet Into Brain.
Greensburg.—‘‘Papa, I'm going to
shoot!” laughingly shouted 8-year-old
Mary Flain to her father, Henry
Flain, a miner of Bolivar, as she
placed a 38-caliber revolver to her
head and pulled the trigger. The
bullet penetrated the brain and the
child died instantly.
The mother is dead and the fath-
er, who had been taking care of his
four children unaided, tried to reach
the little one, but was toc late. The
revolver had hung on a door frame
for four months and the child had
climbed on a chair to get it.
FALLS OUT O FCELLAR
Man and Refrigerator Drops Thirty
Feet Below the Floor.
Wilkes-Barre. — Miles Lamoreaux,
employed by Dr. E. R. Teitsworth, at
Luzerne, was sent down cellar to fix
the furnace. Suddenly the concrete
floor gave way and the young man
and refrigerator dropped 30 feet into
a mine opening.
The amazed doctor rallied his wits,
secured aid and ropes and succeeded
in a short time in hauling Lamoreaux
from the depths whence he had been
lustily yelling for help.
Westmoreland Wants Good Roads.
New Kensington. — All Western
Westmoreland county is displaying
keen interest in the good roads move-
ment started by the New Kensington
Business Men’s ‘association. Efforts
are being made to establish such
highways as those in Allegheny coun-
ty and good roads petitions, started
by the New Kensington councils, are
being circulated. The borough coun-
cil has instructed engineers to survey
the Freeport road, the first to be im-
preved.
Shifting Lumber Catches Man.
Kittanning. — Held a prisoner for
half an hour by the sudden shifting of
lumber on a car that was being
moved, James Henry. a brakeman,
was painfully injured at the Kittan-
ning plate glass works. : He was
standing on the platform of the car
when the lumber slid in such a way
that his arm was caught and severely
crushed. Much lumber had to be re-
moved before the man could be re-
leased.
Fireman Charged With Intoxication.
Connellsville—Charged with going
to a fire while under the influence of
liquor, M. J. King, chief of the Con-
nellsville fire department, was sus-
pended by Chairman Wallace, of the
public safety committee, and ordered
to appear before that committee for
a hearing.
Fifty More Coke Ovens Fired.
Connellsville.—Fifty coke ovens of
the H. C. Frick Coke Company were
fired at the Alice works.
blocks of 50 are to be fired until the
works are in operation to their full
capacity. Preparations are being
made to fire the Mullen works, 82
ovens, at Stauffer.
QUARANTINE AT BUTLER
State Authorities Take Steps to Pre-
vent Spread of Smallpox.
Harrisburg. — Smallpox has been
brought into this state from Iowa and
the department of health has estab-
lished a quarantine because of two
One is in
| Wickboro and the other in Plum Tree
township, both being traceable to a
visit from a girl living in Towa.
Both parties concealed the cases
until they were in a postula state and
may die.
Further |
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.
Harrisburg. — Representative Hol-
land of Washington county presented
in the legislature a bill amending the
Pennsylvania constitution so as to
permit women to vote. :
The house passed “Farmer” Crea-
sy’s resolution calling upon the audi-
tor general to show how much rev-
enue the State- has lost by the enact
ment two years ago of the law to
tax, not the market or actual value
of trust company stock, but its face
value.
Representative Martin of Mercer
offered a resolution barring ex-mem-
bers of the legislature or others from
lobbying on the floors or in the corri-
dors of the house. On any one mem-
ber’s request the sergeant-at-arms
may eject them.
The senate passed finally the Lang-
fitt sealers of weights and measures
bill and the three measures prepar-
ed by Controller Cunningham, pro-
viding for a county sinking fund com-
mission, authorizing the controller,
commissioners and treasurer to select
county depositories and permitting
clerks in the county controller’s of-
fice to administer oaths. These four
bills have not been considered by the
house.
Harrisburg.—The house passed fin-
ally the following bills:
Regulating the practice of osteo-
pathy (the State Osteopathic associa-
tion’s bill).
Providing for levying a tax to erect
and maintain suitable buildings for
fire apparatus in first class townships.
Empowering any taxpayer of any
township, borough, poor or school dis-
trict, upon providing for costs, to ap-
peal in behalf of such municipality to
the common pleas courts from the
judgment of any justice or alderman
against such municipality.
Providing for the perpetual care and
preservation of burial grounds and
cemeteries.
Authorizing parties in interest or
their counsel to themselves select au-
ditors and masters needed in judicial
proceedings, except in divorce cases.
Authorizing the governor to pre-
scribe in orders the organization of
the national guard to conform to the
United States regulations governing
organized and volunteer militia.
The senate passed fianally the fol-
lowing bills: ;
Prohibiting the sale or offering for
sale of eggs unfit for food.
Regulating the manufacture and
sale of lard and lard compounds.
Regulating the sale of cold storage
poultry, game and eggs. (Part of the
the dairy and food division.)
Amending the act of March 31,
1860, by further restricting the sale
of carbolic acid.
Joint resolution to amend articles
5, 5, 8, 12 and 14 of the constitution
as adopted by the legislature of 1907
and published last year.
Harrisburg.—Governor Stuart sign-
ed the following bills:
To enable the state battlefield
memorial commission to erect the
state monument at Gettysburg.
Making an appropriation of $90,000
to defray cost of fighting foot and
mouth disease.
Making an appropriation of $40,000
to the attorney general’s department
to pay for counsel fees and expenses
in capitol and other cases, in which
the state is a party.
To provide four extra clereks to
senate and four to house committees.
MONEY FOR BRYN MAWR
Alumnae Raise $100,000 of the
$380,000 Required to Secure
$250,000 More.
Philadelphia.—At the annual meet-
ing of the Bryn Mawr Alumnae as-
sociation, held at the college, the
first $100,000 of the $500,000 the asso-
ciation has undertaken to raise for
the endowment fund was handed over
to the college treasurer and much op-
timism was expressed regarding the
ability of the alumnae to raise the re-
mainder within the stipulated time,
viz., before June 30, 1910.
The alumnae are stimulated in
their efforts by the offer of the trus-
tees of the Rockefeller general edu-
cation fund to contribute $250,000 to
: the endowment of the institution, pro-
vided $380,000 . (including the $100,-
000 already contributed by the alum-
| nae) be secured for it by the date
mentioned, making $630,000 in all, of
which $130,000 shall be used to pay
| existing indebtedness, the remainder
| to be held intact as a permanent en-
| dowment.
Men Made Idle by Fire.
| Latrobe—Over 200 men were
{ thrown out of employment through
| the destruction by fire of the boiler
| bouse at the Latrobe Coal and Coke
| Company’s plant. The loss is sev-
{ eral thousand dollars, covered by in-
surance. When the blaze was dis-
| covered by the night watchman it had
| gained great headway, and the fire-
men directed their efforts to saving
the tipple. It is thought operations
{ can be resumed next week. -
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Saltsburg.—At a meeting of promi-
i nent women of Saltsburg and vicinity
j at the home of Mrs. H. C. W. Patter-
son an organization wag perfected to
establish a free library, with the fol-
| lowing officers: President, Miss Ethel
: Fair; secretary, Miss Bessie Drum-
mond; treasurer, Mrs. T. R, Johnston.
2 New Castle. — Phillip Gibbons, a
larmer near Pertersville, discovered
| a lighted candle set in the hay loft
in such a position it would soon have
| fired the barn.
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