when hes 15 chimney glowed,
: wisdom frealy Sowed,
Sad yulek retorts!
And ho aut mes what fan
When George and Lady § aaliington
Joined thet the youthiul sporis!
f
§
| ton a door was made to the old
cat the
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themes they talked shot
of doris days!
or RA their souls with rapture soared
When Nelly at her harpsichord
Sang gay apd gathant isys!
Oh, brave and bold were women then,
and pure us woman were the men—
_ For that was long ago;
The oid then fuit the zest of youth
The young were foter, and fu truth
It ever shonid be so.
On fair Potomae's Sor £ Syere
i i
iy Tati orig piace
are gine that gave that scone
o and serene,
iis] Joyous lite snd grace,
“WASHINGTON Diep
This Year in thie Orie Hundredih An- ¥
_ Piverary of the Event i
ARICA
on that Dicanber or pearly a
ago, when the bod 4 of General
, ashington was laid away in
vault at Mount Vernon, “‘mock
s" were held in many towns and
s east of the Alleghenies. Our
snd-parents were in their in-
in those faraway days, and
of them saw these “‘mock
ple,” which were conducted, of
% with all solemnity.
Y sights of childnood
; the conviction in the minds
ins here and there that
issen of the real funeral.
astfdiness of old age in
mes long agone!
e years of national life
sed since then, and Ameries
y far more sitention to anni-
celebrations of that happier
the birth of its first President
{fo the Joatly recurrence of the
of the funeral
his year, hewever, the centennial
that day will take place, and the
at Monnt Vernon will be
14, the anniversary of
o the Jeath, instead of on the
ll
FAA a i
u's body ah
erein, And ey the old vault was
allowed to fall into a state of decay.
In recent wears it has been rebnilt
from a drawing in the Congressional
| Library, and it is pow surrounded by |
an iron fence, and is kept np with’
the same care as the new tomb,
In 1887, when the marble sareophagi |
in which the coffins of Washington and |
kis wife rest wore placed in the new
tomb, the key of that tomb was thrown |
i into the Potomaue Biver,
At the request of Martha Washing
time of the General's |
instead of lowing it with brick, ss had
been the enstom at previous buriate
| The widow was sure that
| soon follow her hnuband. Bhe
only eiglitesn months after the
af Washington, kesping entirely, it
| said, to her room on the third flo
the mansion, snd gpon her death, |
| 1801, her body was laid beside that of
ti
de
| her hashand in the oid tomb,
Washington was buried in 8 rmahog
any coffin, hined with lead, which was
put in a case covered with black cloth
The most faithfal, as, indeed, the
most tonoking, scesant of the illness, |
death and faneral of General Wash
ington, is contained in the account of |
his private secretary, Colonel Tobias
' Lear, as written in his diary, which is
in the posession of his granddaagh-
ter, Mrs. Wilson Eyre, of New York.
tomb |
she would!
a
CC ne Sn
at of hie wit, that he be |
yin twenty hoary An of Slow Sufleris and Patient
was bled four times, losing the first | Tite Merotem —
time only “‘abont half apintof blood,” | Valley Forge is a name which in- |
Wee Lin ns by their safferings,
! e.g : ; sablimest sense by their bernie forti-
La {tnde. That winter at
surpasses the retrsat froma
the American
i grea oomman
ter jnstond
i fod § vif Ke | for heroes and
FAOnFT Win
: Valley Forge a
Cgronnd on the hanks of ¢}
{twenty-one miles from
tand six from the r
{ As mers land it is
: Bat if the Fass
L elassie gromad, Valley For
LTE thera 12 one
ng
of fas
1h Diese
ry
eof
nyiEiil,
iE
sarest larga tows,
t worth
os
musk.
PY Tm
)
S88 eiAse
Ered fem fae
more HY 4
£30 tae ran an
He Vinton,
USDER WHICH Waiawing
DIED,
SIMFORTARL
OX
| asoording to the statement of Oo
‘ Lomar,
in the room in which Washington
died in the second story of the man
gion at Mannt Vernon is fhe bed on
‘which he lay and nearly all the articles
| which were thers st the fast scans,
{ The bedstead is six fest square, with
{four big mahogany posts. It was
| made in New York ten years before
’ TR Es the Pris.
forest that densely
of
i fhopt
La :
the
and
himaeil wel
rnanded so
bait or inhabited cabins,
he told them that log Butz conid be
aniekly made warm and dry, he said
what they all knew to be troe. He
Ere K water Lhat
hr bat
rt
il
dierw most of whom hae
ong
WASHINGTON AT vA LEY FORGE. i
shall take the form -
of the funeral services,
the este ground as in
his Flan ye were oon-
at least, by the Masons,
anniversary services will
oe hush or aud
: 18, and Acceple
The (rand Lodge will meet
rin, snd, escorted by Lodge
Fredericksburg, in which
: i ig his degree;
o. 22, of Alex-
which he was the first
Federal Lodge, of Wash-
nd representatives of every
e Ameren, will £0 to
a ot Fron will make
sud after the ceremonies
the tomb will pass, of
. tomb in which Wash-
er scale
is called the
an the ground
which my re-
deceased rela-
ple began to assemble to attend
funeral,
been st 12, but as a great part ¢
| troops expected conld not get down in
i time, 1t did not take place till 2,
“Eleven pieces of artillery were ;
brought from Alexandria, anda schoon
er belonging to Mr. F. Hamilton mame
down and lay off Mount Vernon to fire
minute gunk
gan to move,
Manteler.
ed the ocorpee.
marched with the military,
cession moved oat of the gate af the
left wing of the honee and proceeded
to sound in froot of the Iswn and dows
to the vanlt on the right wing of the
house. The procession was as follows.
ster, pistols, ote
Cyrus and Wilson, in hisek.
vault the Rev.
service and prosoanced a short ex.
tempore
monies, and the
Jtis worth while to give Oolonel I ruTE
entire entry for that 15th day of De
cember,
Wednesday, Dee 18 17909
“About 11 o'clock numbers of pe
the
Bavn
+3
BRE
which was intendad to
“Abont 3 o'clock the procession be-
Simms, Payne, (Gilpin, Hamsay and
Colonel Blackburn preced. |
‘olonel Dentales |
The pro-
The Troops, Horse and Foot,
Musie Pinying o Solesn Dirgs,
The Clergy, vit: The hey,
Me. Davia,
Me. Mair,
Me. Moflat
and Mr. Addison,
The General's horse, with bis saddie, hol
Wed Dy his two grooms,
The body borne liy the Free Masons asd
officers,
Principal monrnoee, viz: Mrs, Stour: and
Mrs. Loar, Missex Naney and Sallis ¥ioart
Miss Fairfax snd Miss Depleon, Mr Law
and Me Peter, Mr. Lesr and Dr Crsih,
Lord Pairfax and Ferdo Fairfax, Lodge |
No, 8, Corporntion of Kiexapiris
other persons prededed by Mr, Anderson |
and the oversevrs,
“When the body srrived at the
Mr. Davis read the
h.
“The Masons performed their cere
dy was depositedin
the vanit.”
Interesting as ix this account of the
funeral, Colonel Lear's story of the
last illness of his chief and the medi- |
cal treatment he received is still more |
absorbing 10 us of the present day, a»
it shows, by contrast with modern |
methods, that, had the General lived
100 years later, ‘hia life might have
been saved, scarcely beyond doubt.
The cause of lis death was stated to
be “oedematous affection of the wind.
pipe,” or, in layman's plirase, watery
swelling of the windpipe. The troable |
at first was ordinary GUinsy sore
throat, which Ig the second day had |
developed into membranous croup,
which, however, is rarely fatal, except
Those werg the davs of cuppingand
and Washington not only
f in the bands of his
insisted, rather gaint |
The arrangements of
the procession were wade by Colonels
Little, Simms, Dienenle and Dr. Dick.
The pall hearers were Colonels Little,
Al:
‘also knew precisely what was neces
i sary for the constraction of thes huts,
what tools were needed and what moe
terials. His order of December 18,
1777, transformed the whole army in.
to a cabin building host
i bad his plaes aid duty, from the mae
jor-ganersis fo (he drammers All the
tecls were fairly divided. each rem
mart bald te ground fassiznsd it. the
straet and intervals were marked ont,
and when the work wax begun,
valley was alive with Tosey builders
Fach enlons! divided
into parties of twelve, gave th
share of axes and shovels,
them know
home for themsolves,
be cecnpiad by twelve men, Genersl
Washing! an added the stimulant of a
ars
Few FEF
#18 thelr
and Jet
the best hat
Tews woska of
were built and arranged in streets,
The work was done oa a dist of four
mired with watis and baked in cakes,
with scarcely any meat or hread. At
{fires to keep from fresning Fow
| blankets, few poverings, many soldiers
withont shoes, ‘wadiog naksad in De
center's snows ouch were the at
tribates of Valley Forge. By ths new
year the huts wera done, the sirests
Iai ont, and the army housed, with
some three thousand men ant for
duty, frost-bitten, sick snd bangry.
They bad shelter, but that was abont
all. The sonntry had been swept so
bare by the passage of eo tending
PRrTntaa that ayer straw ta lie
| ad ts pet and the sald,
grovind oftes bad to sev ve for
fpr,
ner WHEL R184
Ness eti anes
days “
ut any food,
oat thw endurance and on
pie of the me
EORTO#,
of
i "TOY RTs
TT
SAAR io i pan
and bn
The only article Yalonging to Lie bed
Lwhish the Monat Vernon Association
‘ hus not recovered for Preservation i
: the mansion is the bed gailt or
: fortable” which coversd Lis dying
‘beady. This is iu the possession of
Mrs. Exre, who, as told, Wier
‘of tne diary of Tobias Lear,
C grandiather. This guilt was
Mrs. Washington 1s the ce
representation of Penn's ir
the Indians, and at each sory
tion of some colonial print
au incident in the life o
pation,
oad
Wines
iv ad
= Ser vain
20
75
WW aahing te avn a Infinence.
Know
AY A poiitionl
slvurantar of bs 5 As
orkly af: tar the ¥ Eo $a $i
Had bees aid
Francis [aah
Peclarsnion
Ht the PH pet
i% tha Ax a tren as
made by
i ae Dea A 2 5 $
spires © Wenig
:
gigia. and
of |,
nr Re
onnty, Vie
dis opinion
a nH
Waskington 8 Murshal of Frauve,
in the Benuil thers
Saenl pode Bit RAG
‘upon which is engr ved ren
Washington, Fyg , General in -Ohief
the United States Aviny and | Mac shin
‘of France.” The mug recs!
solittle known, that Washi
wat gn officer in the atuiies
: King of Franowr. How the iilanirions
chawipion of Yorktown recsivad
title arose inthe following war:
aid Count Bochambesn sxe to
lponntry $f wax speedily made ko
that he coal? aot serve nm Wah
Lington, ax the old laeutenani fieneral
‘eould only be commandsd by the
King in Porssn or a Marshal of toh
France. A way out of the diffonlt 5 oe
was found by Colonel Januren : Ee anenng 1 Washua gion s
suppeated that Kiog Louk maka CATRINE BR
Washington a "Marechal An: pie :
No ostowas done, and son of the an x
iliaries so addressed Washinsiou at
Yorktown,
A
Somewhere
said to be un
ld
of the
$oint
Wi fel
fii
atwint the soop-
AE
as few Comets Baan Lv
at the ratification by
tha mothe
tndson
y feat
i
Vir
argent
and
ix feaiverniant,
gitar tha
PnirY WAS Ki Instr
strings, and the
id briog oat ail
woah was Wash
Bo a aii
Tay Tes =,
woo 8
Ss §
Taster
AT AEG
EE
{heey
Washinginn's Farewell, ia gt -
’ . : 358m aie
It was on December 4,
Washington's officers assembing
| Frannee's Tavern, Now York,
him farewell, 1
Werhington Was the Heal Coramander,
Washington, = eotamander,
Wad the peoigs for petling all that
was best ont of the men ander him,
bat the work of orpssiziag aad das
cipling the army at Cambridge was
the least of the tronbles whieh son
fronted him when lie faced the situs
fiom at Boston, Maovrewrer, he knew
all the ds i enlties, for he not only saw
them, Ba was hever ander dein-
s10%s hs to either pleasant or disagree
abtile facta, One of his greatest quali
ties was hia absolute verseonty of mind]
i he always fooked a fae
great
at
Faha
Ax he looks
his faithial friends Lis nsasl sad!
mand deserted him and he con! 1
' eontrol his voice, Taking a glass, he
lifted i up and said simply: “With a
heart full of love and gratitude | now
take my leave of you, most devoutly
wishing that your latter days may be
| a8 prosperous aud hay py as your for.
mer ones have been glorious aad boa
. orable.”
a a
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fit
Washington,
. What figure more Immoeably august
{ Than Shar gave siresgih so patient aod :
i oO pure, before im. nF rom
Calm = gods foriuoe, when it wavernd, poo ee * by Senator H C.
sare; -
[13a ining serene, Imnenmraldy Jus, Precioas w aslingr sn Tt 8.
BI ¥ FIARNIS THNE. Bd 3 4
= at . iam, 2 sof the vainable relies i
the rand
| Boidier and statesman, rare wnison: fassiinhnastia 3g
| Bigh-polend exampin ;
{Modest sob Gro as Nat aes’ & pal wahiag
Save bry the men Gis nob
Broad-minded, bigh.
one
Who Nacht ai this, and curs, and ail men w- Grand Master Panl
~James Rusesll Lowell, { arn.
he saw whet he tarned fo the task
Lodge,
x .
Master
nH
i Jpeg ari
sral Wasiis
gk
WASHINGTON AT AT VALLEY } FORGE.
spires anspeakable emotions in every | !
‘reader of the Revolationary story, ap- |
pealing to the depth of the pathstia |
and to oar
Valley Forge
Moscow: |
ther
fee endorod through the |
Fhiladelphin
ix
evn tient
40 |
porverad 13 ho
Spee or, of New Jersey, Uses § Rol ers instead
When : that NHiry #1 i the 3
this
Every man
the
avant
that they were butldiog a
A caban was to
Pittsburg & Busters
reward to the purty that shonld bnild |
hard work, and hots |
: Med rows
| night the men huddied aromad the | :
! sarslay, ax Sliews ; ts be
EM om Revel
of any sort |
squarely in the face, and this is woat |
a Niory of the ;
trnsied |
of
i% rhe Wash |
ee
iq gona 3
CW ashimgion presented the |
kK to tae Grand i. ae tn Ine and
levers made the |
SCENE |
In the mountains, at the sxio, Pi as Port
| Wine district where the custom of a the roe for Port Wine
is still in vogue. From ten to a dozen men or women for each
in turn continge the treading, day and night, during the four or five
weeks vintage, Some of the treading vats are large enough for three
pep: arate rows of ten men each, who with their white breeches well
. their arms on each other's shonlders, raise and tread their
rat ely, with song and shouts 10 keep the lagier ones up to the
rk, and a band with st ring instruments enhivens the hours.
3
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fd HL
:
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ii
1 Giller
et.
tears ago
or r Aine C. O., at Passaie
At Passajcthe same kind 5 are crashed between
lors of rubber, revolved by steam. This is the only p
untry where the real ge ine Pe rt Wine ie made So the
grape—and they are grown Tight in Srren’s ViNgvazps,
ese vineyards extend over 3 of a mile along one of the Main
ues of Passaic, and comprise fifty six acres. The soil being
iN 1TON makes the wine most valuable for Medical use
SPEER'S WINES
e well known to be of the highest character, the oldest and most
Wines in America, equal 1 Uperio rto any wines in the
consist of Port, Bure v, Claret. Rauterne
imax Brand has some Wine in his
over thirty eight years ago, Al of Speer's
. b » yory oll rich well round Ted. soft and delicate
Every family shpild have a bottle or two of f sash vanety of Speers
Wines and Brand: r oalway the home, for sickness or family Ue,
Ean or Nk b Drs (tits and Crrocers ho Sell op Clas; Wines,
it .s from this district the vines were imported over Tort
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Aawtyione for Street Lighting
The Oily of Walash [nd is soon
lighted UF a3 aeiviene za
or | plant, mow being installed by the Los
| gassport and Wabkash Valley Gas Come
| pany, otherwise known as the Dejtrich
| Syndicate, says the Railways Review.
- The machinery and materials are now
om the ground asd the city authoritiee
nform thai the strver lights will
Tristate aad Pupssulnwney Ex raha shortly. The
wr Palas, Falls « mek asd Paez | re becn Dephtsd by are
the Tay. and the
: street
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