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FIRST IN ALL HEARTS. GEORGE WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY. Incidents in the Life of the Father of His Country—The Boy Foretold the Man-How He Regarded the Celebration of His Anniversary. Letters Written by George. ‘•General Washington is known to us. and President Washington; but George Washington is an unknown man.” wrote .James McMaster, the brilliant historical scholar of the University of Pennsylvania. To the majority of young Americans that statement is literally true at this moment, however contradictory it may sound. George Washington is an unknown man. It is not the real man of whom you think when you jingle off ‘first in war. first in peace,” etc. You don’t know him in fact. We know that in bis fourth year, little George Washington began his A. B. C’s under the instruction of Mr. Hobby, the seiton. and later went to Mr. Williams’ school at Bridges Creek, where he had his three r’s and grew up to be a tall, muscular boy by his fourteenth year. We know that he was then trusted and re- | spected by his elder brother. Lawrence, i and that Lord Fairfax took a great no- ' tion to the boy. We know that this 13- | year-old boy formed and copied down his “Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation-” We know that he wrote tender verses to his sweetheart and enjoyed dancing. We know that he had to begin thinking about earning some money for his living, for his mother was land poor; that when the mother said he could not go to sea he decided to be a surveyor, and took up then the study of geometry and trigonometry ami the use of the instruments; that his odd hours were spent in hunting, fishing, vigorous athletic sports, and on rainy days in the Fairfax library. We know that in the March following his sixteenth birthday lie began active surveyng trips over the Fairfax estates. George, the Young Surveyor. We know something about what a rough time the young surveyor had from the following written to a friend: “Since you received my letter of October last. I have.not slept above three or four nights in a bed, but, after walking a good deal all the day, 1 have lain down before the tire upon a little hay, straw, fodder or a bear skin, whichever was to be had. with man. wife and children, like dogs and cats; and happy is he who gets the berth nearest the fire. Nothing would make it pass off tolerably but a good reward. A doubloon is my constant gain every day that the weather will permit of my going out, and sometimes six pistoles.” An Indian war dance was one of the entertainments in which George took huge satisfaction, the following quaint description of which he noted in his diary at the age of 15: “Wednesday. 28 (March. 1747) Rained till about 2 o’Clork. and Ceased, when we were agreeably surpris’d at ye sight of thirty-odd Indians coming from war with only one scalp. We had some Liquor with us of which we gave them a part. It elevating their spirits put them in the humor of dancing of whom we had a war dance. Their manner of dancing is as follows, viz.: They clear a great circle and make a great fire in ye middle. Then seat themselves around it. Ye Speaker makes a grand speech, telling them in what manner they are to Dance. After he has finished the best Dancers jump up as one awakened out of a sleep and run and jump about ye ring in a most cornicle manner. He is followed by ye rest. Then begins their musicians to play. Ye musirk is a Pot half of water with a deerskin stretched over it as tight as it can be guard with some shot in it to Rattle and a Piece of an horses tail tied to it to make it look tine. Ye one keeps rattling and ye other drumming all ye while ye other is dancing.” Pleased with Anniversary Remembrances. If there is any doubt about Washington's satisfaction in the observance of : ids birthday anniversary, the following I

letters, now on file in the State Department. are reproduced here as testimony. Rochambeau wrote Washington: ‘’Yesterday was the anniversary of Y’our Excellency’s birthday. We have put off celebrating that holiday until today, by reason us the Lord’s day, and we will celebrate it, with the sole regret that Your Excellency be not a witness of the effusion and gladness of our hearts. DE ROCHAMBEAU.” To which Washington, with much feeling. replied: “The flattering distinction paid to the anniversary of my birthday is an honor for which I dare not attempt to express my gratitude. “I confide in Your Excellency’s sensibility tt> interpret my feelings for this, and for the obliging manner in which you are pleased to announce it. “(;E()R<; E WASIIINGTON.” How Uncle Davy “Sassed” the President. Uncle Davy Burnes was probably the only man who ever dared to “sass” the Father of His Country to his face. Washington had just shortly alighted nt Mount Vernon from that cream-colored coach which hml borne him on his triumphal tour of 1,960 miles throughout the country. and had found Major L’Enfant. the French surveyor, at the door waiting to show* him the completed plan of the city of Washington. Thomas Johnson, David Stuart and Daniel Carroll, the three commissioners put in charge by Congress, informed Washington that at last matters had been fixed up with all the settlers excepting “Uncle Davy Burnes.” “This old Scotch farmer had refused to come to any terms.” they declared, and “the President would have to see him.” It was an important point, for David Burnes’ farm of 600 acres included the land on which the Executive Mansion was to be built and east to the Patent Office site, over parts of which the values now range from $5 to S4O a square foot. When Washington rode over to the humble cottage of Uncle Davy, and began to urge him mildly to submit to reason. the little Scotchman quite lost his temper and defied the great General and President, his wealthy neighbor. “You may tell your Congress folks that David Burnes won’t be fnrcs*<i out of his home; that he won’t sell, and that he won’t talk any more about it,” finally burst out the planter, and then flung this famous sarcasm at his imagined adversary, very likely accompanied with a grin: “I suppose that you think people are going to take every grist that comes from you as pure grain: but what would you have been, Mr. Washington, if you ha«i not married the rich widow Custis, with all her nagurs?” Whether this vulgar shaft took effect within the armor of Washington, the imperturbable, the self-silent and selfcontrolled. not even tradition has an answer. But in several of his letters we find reference to “that obstinate Mr. Burnes.” The visits were repeated. At last, after many and wearisome arguments. the patience of Washington evidently became exhausted, and he said with lofty severity: “Mr. Burnes, 1 have been authorized to soloet the location of the National Capitol. I have selected your farm as a part of it. and I tell you that the Government will take it. at all events. I trust that you will, under these circumstances, enter into an amicable arrangement.” Uncle Davy Burnes thereupon gave up all opposition, seeing that he confronted the mandate of the United States in the person of the President, and on being asked again what terms he would prefer for the transfer and saie of his lands he replied meekly enough: “Any that your Excellency may choose to name.” Thus subdued and coerced was this irascible old Scotch Maryland tobacco planter into the possession of a great fortune. Washington as a Colonel. In 1760 Captain George Mercer wrote to a friend a description of the personal appearance of “Colonel George Washington. late commander of the Virginia Provincial troops,” which ran as follows: “He may be described as being straight as an Indian, measuring 6 feet 2 inches in his stockings, and weighing 175 pounds. His frame is padded with well-developed muscles, indicating great strength. His bones and joints are large, as are his feet

and hands. He is wide shouldered, but has not a deep or round chest; is neat waisted, but is broad across the hips, and has rather long legs and arms. His head is well shaped, though not large, but is gracefully poised on a suj>erb neck. A large and straight rather than a prominent nose, blue-gray penetrating eyes, which are widely separated, and overhung by a heavy brow. His face is long rather than broad, with high, round cheek bones, and terminates in a good firm chin. He has a clear though rather colorless paie skin, which burns with the sun. A pleasing, benevolent though a commanding countenance, dark brown hair, which he wears in a cm*. His mouth is large and generally firmly closed, but which from time to time discloses some defective teeth. His features are regular and placed with all the muscles of his face under perfect control, though flexible, and expressive of deep feeling when moved by emotions. In conversation he looks you full in the face, is deliberate, deferential and engaging. His voice is agreeable, rather than strong. His demeanor at all times composed aud dignified. His movements and gestures are graceful, his walk majestic, and he is a splendid horseman.” Jonathan Boucher's Estimate. In 1776 Jonathan Boucher, who came to America in 1759, and acted for a time as a private tutor to John Park Custis, a son of the widow whom Washington married, wrote of Washington (after his return to England in 1775): “I did not know Mr. Washington well, and though occasions may call forth traits of character that never could have been discovered in the more sequestered scenes of life, I cannot conceive how be could, otherwise than through the interested representations of party, have ever been spoken of as a great man. He is shy, silent, slow and cautious, but has no quickness of parts; extraordinary penetration, nor an elevated style of thinking. In his moral character he is regular, temperate, striet’y just and honest (except that as a Virginian he has lately found out that there is no moral turpitude in not paying what he confesses he owes to a British creditor), and, as I always thought, religious; having heretofore been pretty constant and even exemplary in his attendance on public worship. But he seems to have nothing generous or affectionate in his nature.” Two Pictures of Washington. /I * A « I I Done in black silk embroidery by Rowlinda Sharpless. Miniature on Ivory, by John Ramage, 1789. —Century Magazine. No Occasion. Willard—l don’t see how Washington lived his entire life without telling a lie. Hoster—l do. He had no children to tell the story about Santa Claus to.— Truth.

SEA LASHED TO FURY. ATLANTIC COAST SWEPT BY A TIDAL WAVE. Great Ruin Wrought at Halifax—Boston Shipping and Fall River " arehuubt’s Severely Damaged—Cleveland** Cat t>oat Wrecked. Destruction Widespread. The sea rose at Halifax. N. S., I ridaj higher than for years. The stage of water reached the strength of a tidal wave, and reports are pouring in from all directions along the coast telling of th ‘ destruction of property. A dispatch from North Sydney tells an awful story of destruction on the island of Cape Breton. The wave was the result of Tuesday s storm. At Halifax twenty-two houses and shops were washed away. Nothing was saved. At Middle Head all the fish stores were swept away. At New Halen all the fish stores and residences are gone, making a total of more than 1(X) buildings now known to have been swept away during the storm. So far as known r lives were lost. The storm came to a su» den termination at 4 o’clock Friday afternoon. Boston reports a tidal wave along the Now England coast, doing vast damage to mill and wharf properties and shipping. Gloucester. New Bedford, Fall River Portsmouth, and Portland harbors suffed the most, and the full extent of the damage farther north will not be known for several days, as the blizzard has buried wires and cut off communication with many places. When the wave broke upon Gloucester harbor, Dog bar was a fearful sight, the breakers making a clean breach across the whole mouth of the harbor. It broke completely over the lighthouse on Thatcher’s island, and for the first time in forty years Minot’s lighthouse was overtopped by the water. The wave at Portsmouth harbor did SIO,OOO damage to railroad wharf property and drove the three-masted schooner Nathan Lawrence from Newport News to Portland high and dry on Jerry’s I’oint. Along Buzzard’s Bay vast damage was done, and the wave dashed President Cleveland’s catboat Ruth against the railroad bridge two miles away from its anchorage, breaking it into toothpicks. Bridges were carried away along the cape and trains are stalled. At Fall River the wharves of the Fall River Line. Fall River and Providence Steamboat Company, Cook-Borden Lumber Company, and other large wharves were flooded. In a storehouse owned by Boden & Remington, about 160 bales of cotton, 1,500 barrels of cement, 4,000 barrels of lime. 100 barrels of plaster and some oil were stored there. The wetting of the lime caused a big blaze, and $6,000 damage was done. At New Bedford the basements of several mills were flooded. BONDS ALREADY SOLD. Negotiations Completed for Disposing of $62,400,000. Nobody guessed the facts about the bond sale —as to the amount of bonds, the terms of sale or the method that would be taken to inform the public as to the particulars of the transaction. The secret was well guarded, and the result, shows that even those who thought themselves best informed were deceived. Speculation had credited the administration with a determination to sell anywhere from $50,000,000 to $200,000,000 in bonds, bearing anywhere from 4 to 5 per cent., running from ten to thirty years, at an upset basis of from 3 per cent, to per cent. The last semi-official misin formation that was allowed to leak out through Treasury Department sources fixed the amount at $100,000,000 and the basis at per cent. The truth, as finally disclosed by the President in his special message to Congress, that a private sale of $62,400,000 in 4 per cent, thirtyyear bonds had been negotiated on a basis of 3% per cent., was in the nature of a sensational surprise. The President says: “Since my recent communication to Congress calling attention to our financial condition and suggesting legislation which I deemed essential to our national welfare and credit, the anxiety and apprehension then existing in business circles have continued. As a precaution therefore, against the failure of timelj legislative aid through congressional at-' tion. cautious preparations have bees pending to employ to the best possible adtage, in default of better means, such executive authority as may, without additional legislation, be exercised for the purpose of re-enforcing and maintaining in our treasury an adequate and safe gold reserve. In the judgment of those especially charged with this responsibility, the business situation is so critical, and the legislative situation is so unpromising. with the omission thus far on the part of the Congress to beneficially enlarge the powers of the Secretary of the Treasury in the premises, as to enjoin immediate executive action with the facilities now* at hand. Therefore, in pursuance of section 3700 of the Revised Statutes, the details of an arrangement have this day been concluded with parties abundantly able to fulfill their undertaking whereby bonds of the United States authorized under the act of July 14, 1875. payable in coin thirty years after their date, with interest at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum, to the amount of a little less than $02,400,000 are to be issued for the purchase of gold coin amounting to a sum slightly in excess of $65,000,000 to be delivered to the treasury’ of the United States, which sum, added to the gold now held in our reserve, will so rest in such reserve as to make it amount to something more than $100,000,000. Such premium is to be allowed to the Government upon the bonds as to fix the rate of interest upon the amount of gold realized at the rate of 3% per cent, per annum. At least one-half of the gold to be obtained is to be supplied from abroad, which is a very important and favorable feature of the transaction.” Joseph Gaher, Houston Holmes, John Holmes. Jonas Donaldson, William Don aldson, Davis Cattle, Dick Kellar. Joseph Kellar, John Goodlett, William Goodlett and David Goodlett are on trial at Cullman, Ala., for the murder of John and Monroe Evans, who were lynched near Baileyton in August, 1891. Columbus Waterhouse, a former direc* tor in the Pacific bank at San Francisco admitted that he withdrew $2,000 the night before the bank failed, when the institution held some of his paper.

NATIONAL SOLOXS. review of their work at WASHINGTON. Detailed Proceeding* of Senate and House-Bill. Passed or Introduce in Either Branch-Questions of MO meat to the Country at Lars** The Legislative Grind. The District of Columbia WP™™ ble" were used. Debate ou ' bill was begun in the House. - • • who offered a substitute, sai ble was caused by insufficient r< The Chicago post office bill •“ . .. Senate Wednesday without obje ti . owing to very clever work y members. The Democratic “»J on,y *" the Senate has been eliminated by tw entrance of Clarence D. Clark, o vming. The attention of the . H . OUB * n ? yceupied with the bill to authorize an 1£ tue of $300,000,000 gold fcon,,s - T ‘ was taken. The administration currency bill was defeated Thursday in the House the vote being 134 to 161. Reed's and Cox . substitutes were beaten by larger majorities. The joint resolution for a.survey for a ship canal to connect the head waters of the Wabash with Lake Michigan will be favorably reported to the House. Senators debates! the item in ' diplomatic and consular appropriation bill oroviding for the laying of n cable to Hawaii. A report giving the correspond?nce with European countries regarding the tariff law was sent to the Senate by the President. By a vote of 36 to 25 the Senate Satur day decided to lay a cable* to Hawaii and appropriated $500.0lM) to boffin the work. The Senate passed the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill, and listened to eulogies on the late Senator Stock bridge. The House \\ ays nnd Means Committee debated the President s bond message. Much opposition to the stipulation for payment in gold was manifest'd. In committee of the whole the House' voted to place individual clerks of members on the annual salary roll. Resolutions defining the policy of the 'government in regard to gold and silver mil one arraigning the management of he Pacific roads and directing the Attorney General to begin foreclosure proceedings were presented in the Senate Monday. Correspondence and reports regarding the Behring Sea fisheries were sent to the Senate by President Cleveland. The Senate Committee on the Judiciary will report adversely the nomination of W. M. Campbell, to be marshal of Minnesota. The House agreed to the Senate amendments to the Chicago post office bill, and it went to the President. The House completed consideration of the legislative appropriation bill with the exception of the paragraph relating to pension offices. A bill to incorporate a company which proposes to lay a cable to Hawaii, Australia aud Japan was presented in the Uonse. The Eagle. Nevertheless. Some one tells the little anecdote regarding the almighty silver dollar: When our first silver dollars were to be coined, it was proposed to place an eagle on the reverse side of the coin. The adoption of the eagle ns a nation- I il emblem was strenuously opposed by Congressman Lyon on the ground that the king of birds ought not to be made the emblem of a nation that had repudiated kings. Judge Thatcher, Congressman from Massachusetts, then proposed the goose as being a very humble republican bird, and suggest'd further that it would be advantageeous inasmuch as the goslings might conveniently be placed on the dimes and other small coins. The merriment that followed at the expense of Mr. Lyon was greater than his choleric temper could bear, and he at once sent his page to Judge Thatcher with a challenge to a duel. The Judge declined. "What!” shouted Mr. Lyon, “will yon be branded as a coward ?” “Yes.” replied the Judge, “I always was a coward, and you knew it or yon would never have sent tue the challenge." Another volley of laughter followed, and Mr. Lyon wisely concluded that there was no use trying to tight an on emy who fired nothing but jukes. They became warm friends afterwards. But ’.he eagle was placed on our coins. Worthy of a Position. In the office of the Chicago police commissioners a few days ago a number of gentlemen were discussing the answers of policemen found in some of the papers secured under the new civil service rules. The discussion brought to the mind of one of the commission ers a story he had heard in connection with one of the civil service examinations for positions as letter carriers in Chicago. One of the applicants was a negro who, on account of an injured hand, was being given an oral examination. He stumbled along in away, finding some kind of answer to all the questions until he was suddenly asked: “What is the capital of Texas?” The darky was in a quandary. He didn t know. But he did want the position. He studied for an answer for fully a minute. Then hi g face brich» ened. “G'long,” he exclaimed. “You'se foolin' me. I doan wan' to deliver letters in Texas. I wants to deliver letters in Chicago.” This and That. Every workman in Japan wears on his cap and on his back an inscription giving his business and his employers name. During the time of Christ two sparrows were sold for a farthing, or. according to another evangelist five were sold for 2 farthings. nTe were Augustus paid for grouse 80c- dove 24c; for a partridge. 48c; for a d ucit ’ ow, for a fat goose, $3; for a bare, $2.20* for a pheasant, $1.60.

Concealing His Recor<t. Bv some chance a member of Con* ffr ess not in Washington, had fallea Lto the ch U-hes of the joliceman. • Du jou know who I am?*’ he a>ked with the same manner he would have employed had he been in Washing. tO ”1 can’t say that Ido.” replied the policeman, willing to please. •4 am a Member of Congress, sir."’ and the statesmans chest puffed out albeit he was rather unsteady on bin 1 —sh—l” exclaimed the officer warningly. “Don’t give it away and you’ll get a lighter *entence/’ A Pertinent Paragraph. “Our country, if right, should he kept right if wrong, should be put right.” is a noiitical maxim which, paraphrased. plies to other conditions of life, thus: our health, if right, should be kept right; if wrong, should I* put right, especially in badily ailments, such as pains and aeliea. which St. Jacobs Oil promptly cures. Many out of work should heed to give it a chance to cure and it will give them a chaace to go to work cored. Another adage is: ”He doeth best who doeth well.’* Well, of course, you want to be well from all sorts of aches, and the best thing to <i.» is to use the great remedy. He who do.-x so is doing well indeed. Mr. Carlisle, an English cyclist, who recently broke ail previous records by riding 866 miles in eighty-six iiours, used no stim laut when he felt exhausted except tea. Ba< k with Rich Trophies. Last spring we made notice in these columns that Mr. Henry A. Salzer, of the John A. Sataer Seed Company. I4i Crosse, Wis., America’s leading Seed Growers and Merchants, was in Europe iu search of rare seeds ami novelties for the American farmer and citizen. Judging from their new catalogue, his trip was an eminently successful one. It is brim full of rare things. Os especial merit we name the BHrnarck Apple, bearing the second year; the Giant Flowering Star Phlox; the German Coffee Berry; and for the farmer the Victoria Rape; Germanies Vetch; the I-athyrus silvestris; the Giant Spurry and Giant Incarnate clover; Sacaline; and dozens of other rare things. This wide-awake firm is in the van. and their catalogue, which is seat for 5 cents postage, would be cheap at St per copy. The eye a*ia* ts itself to view objects near and distant by a change in the ••□natures us the crystalling lens. Reduced lime Tickets Offered b\ Agents <f the Nickel 1 .s Road to Cleveland, Ohio. National Brick la vers Association. Tickets sold Feb. 9th to 14th. National Electric Light Association. Tickets sold Feb. 16th to 26th. National Educational Association. • Department of >u|H*r n , ' , n<ient.) Tickets sold Feb. h>th to 20th. Al ox v are reduced raus suid ou the certificate plan. The brain of the idiot contains much less phosphorus than that of the person of average mental powers.

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