iTfe of George l^shingtoo

By /V. G. fiopUirvsorv

•om* two j««rm Utar oo to the Ufly whom he v.ooed with »ucb ardent ■WlftneM—Mn. Martha Cut tit. Mm. CottU waa a widow—youn*.

well connected.

a dlnn« -nine wi

lored her. and before the erenl

oeer bad told her ao.

Waa not that ft very bumon aort of,

lover?

And the next time they met they' rare betrothed, each having taken the other completely by storm, each carried In the awing of that reckleaa. Impel uoua wooing. ' / And married they were, in January of 1759. with the gayeat of weddlnga. The bride waa lovely In brocade and pcaria. the bridegroom correapondli rnlflcvnt In blue and allver-, let. with gold bucklea at hla knees and on Ills shoes. After, which the bride was driven home In a coach and six. while her bus band, at the head of a magnlflly uniformed party, rode Just beher. And ,they were, as all the world knows, faappy ever after.

Few of the millions of people who have visited Mount Vernon during 'ie last half century could have rerltM^ed the picturesque and stalart figure of Uncle Edmund Parker, the old colored man who reverently guarded the tomb of Washington. His courtly and dignified manners, hla deeply marked lace and the re •ay -with which

spectful court(i

he an-

Jbort time and than Joined the ' army at Fort Washington and > malned as cook for the band of /l Fourth Artillery until the Hooe o

THOMAS BUSlfROT?^ (The new guard at tomb of Wishing

war. Then be went back to Ids ole home again, cud te 1ST4 was appoint ed-guard at the tomb of Washlngtor by the Ladles’' Association, where ht remained until he was taken 111. and for six months was a great sufferci from cancer of the stomach untC death released him. The regents pensioned him. did everything for bit comfort and paid hla funeral ex pensea. Uncle Edmund was the father ol nineteen children, nine of whom art still living and vhlted him

lues*. 1 He.' but v

very prot arrled In

that he waa mat Mount Vernon

LIbbey In the presence c

ington family ni who ever had t

WAHLS O* THOUGHT. Ho who fiattera you la your «

Self trust la the e

THE SONG OF THE AUTOMOWU.

Cbuclt Chuck ! f com* la a is ‘ Or toxg with the roek of oU, | Coo«.|i»a ia • as<1 Isrsotor • .

I Tb« saga or ihs child with a recklasa tcor%

tha whaeU of a bardlcaa lalo;

ithey. . "I.."" TJ"’ We cannot always obllg can always apeak

talre.

He who loses hla conscience has w(i»eia of a b> »«"> i»**-*->, ••

nanon. A»lfushtothe*oalofmyb»sn'ide«re—

Monuments are the grappling from , I d>e Uieleaa '

that bind one generation to another- hew York Herald.

Joubert. ,, - HUMOROUS. Next to the slanderer we de<e8t the i

bearer of the slander to our cam - Nell-What a delightful converaaM. H. Catherwood. j tionallst he Is. Belle—What did he

The passionate are like men stand., '»lk about? Nell—Me.

their heads; they a

y see all things

ln «

the wrong way.—Plato. Misrepresent nothing. No perms

MARCONI’S DEBT.

e .Wash ily alav«

i Th© True fcomarvee of WasKirvgtorv.

EflBGE WABHINGTON. soldler. statesman and hero, was V^TVt hU beat at a lover. v From the time when he u ■tumis youngster of fo«in<

until be stood beside Martha Cnstta,

proud bridegroom at twenty-

the young Virginian was continually

falling in or falling ont of love.

Impetu< 1 he at

ud hr

oung Virginian was g In or falling out of

Ie was barely In his teens when he set about, penning verses. Poetrj however, was apparently the wron lyute to the heart of Mary E Westmoreland, who proodly

mt* to the heart of Mary Bland. land, who proodly reserved

her smiles, but whom Washington referred to for years as hla ’'Lowland

Bsauty”

r was not a virtue to-

fourtaei

But constancy j the eyes of ti

Washington

sec-year-old

In less than a year he had been in •love with two others—Mias Lucy

Grj— - '

Grymes and a nameless miai whom he addressed at “Dear Sally." i ~ The heroine of the next,eng \ affair was Mias Mary Cary. _ Though at \ first MLss Cary reminded him

flf -the

■ Painfully nf the "LowUnd Beauty" vwho had rejected, him. and'made him

he aald.-'fo “bury that chast< inblcsom*- passion In oblivion,'

t he finally succumbed to the new Attraction *end the affair with Miss

inned for several yean, youth though lie '

Washington did not always find favir

; w»i the au

TWe waa, tee l

i •Me ». »

besought to revoke her “former cruel

sentence."

But all this was the mere appt

schoollively netted

Sallies and Betsies who coquett with Washington at fourteen left no permanent scar. Susceptible as he was. he never yielded the whole, of his generous heart until one February day in 173(1, when the handsomest young officer In America met and loved the most brilliant and beautiful young woman of her time. There waa nobody In New' York of those day . who did not know of Mary Philllpee.

celebrated'beauty and wit and heiress —the queen of her little world. And when Colonel George Washington. that lithe. Impressive figure, handsomely mounted and accoutred, with the inspiring consciousness that hla fame had preceded him, rode proudly into New York, there waa probably not a human being he would have been morc glad to Impress favorably than MarrjndHlpee. \ Nobody fwociereit -for-the fact was perfectly e/ldeut that Washington loved Mary j Philllpee—the Dobie-look--ing girl, withiher exquisite round con tours, brilliant color, and the fire of an untamed spirit burning' In her eyes. What did anew strange w*s the calm impartiality with which the spoiled beanty darned Washington with a ecqfe of other admirers. For he waa the very picture, at this ~ •. af the gallaet that maidens love; i hie fcele. aqualine fare and jnlllflgure sot off by a uniform of and Mne. with a white and sear let cloak over, his shoulders and a rd knot •( red and gold. Hla

swered questions made alon upon every one. He was , tali'

of stature, but

slightly bent with age. and hla beard and hair of late years became sprink-

led with gray.

The old man died with the old year and Is greatly allseed by all the habitues of that sacred place, for he

had been there since 1841. with oc- Bushrod.

casional Intervals of absence during the war. He waa born la 1827

an Impres- times in the South masters used

perform the marriage ceremony, on the occasion of Edmund's wedding

1 to but

<n of TTork#r» I

tilings.

1 desire to say In this presence that I have built very greatly on the wort of my predecessors, and 1 wish te mention Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, Prof. Hen ry. Prof. Hertz. Prof. A. G. BelL" This is downright disingenuous. SigMarconi Is not Ignorant of the lory of wireless telegraphy; of It might say. "An of which I saw. and a part of which I was." The names of the men woo. far more than himself, have made his recent triumph possible, are known to him, alt Why, then, are the real wotjrers. t o whom he la indebted. passed in alienee, and others, to whom he owes little—In one case nothing—set ip large view? The existence of electric waves was predicted by-Maxwell In 1864. They were actually discovered by Hertz in 1887. But neither U&xweu nor Hertz ever dreamed of utilizing these new oscillations to transmit signals. That Idea fame first In view with the discovery of the delicate coherer by Prot Branly of Purls. Yet even he failed to ca*cn sight of Its tremendous poasibllII tie:. It was Prof. Lodge of Liverpool

have been the first.

Teller—Time is money. Askln— I'hy don't you make money, then?

'eller—'

•—I haven’t time.

wedding p:

ents." says the Cynical Bachelor,

ulcus—More ofe the (lothes.

; Hard-

io appears to have been the first, d It waa te who rigged up the little upper, or decoherer, which makes It -easy to spell out words on a tape. Just as with an ordinary Morse instrument Prof. Bose, the Hindu savant Also contributed hla share. Perhaps he was the first to actually send a signal. The form of the sender or oscillator, which

Mar

Signor Marconi uses waa devised Ida countryman. Prot Right Hie of “tunlpg" two Instruments to v

in' tmlabs. i

to, no other*

1 by Idea

Augustipe Wai

Parson LIbbey. who waa i of the fanil^y c

' “ late. /

Washington was - HI. and

a member Ailed upon to officiate.

Unde Edmund's successor as guard the tomb ^f Washington Is Thomas

-•-a--* *2*1

the young man unwilling to divide his honors? And what. pray, has Prof. Henry, who died before the Hertz waves were known, to do with the case? ' Or Lord Kelvin, who has contributed practically nothing to the subject? And If Prof. Bell la to be mentioned. because he Invented the telephone. why not Moree, who devised the key which Marconi employs to aewd hla signals?—Harper's Weekly. Klffltt mf -Trial by Beril*.The Dymoke claim in England to the king's championship reminds one

of the office, which by the conqueror

after the battle of Hastings, when the dignity waa conferred on Robert de Fontenay. But the

closely

of the antiquity <

'venerable

are aware that

slave of Mrs. Johh Augustine Washington, and came with her to Mount Vernon, where be lived on the plantation nntil he Joined Ells

How many

trial by combat

part of British Jurisprudence until the

sexton at Pohlck Church, in Fairfax beginning of the reign of George IV., County,'Virginia,- with which Wash- or how It ended? At that time, there Ington was ao closely identified.. being a charge of murder against a

the

d on the committee fits and superin-

was

Washington served that selected the

tended Its construction vestryman and warden of/

for many years.

Bushrod was born In 1823

Mannlon.-I.ord of championship is with the trial by c

Britons ar bat sinned

-jeh f—*

>eglnnlng c ■r hsw U e

itla :!«s

the matter of wedding pres-

lyniral Bacbeloi

Is .better to give than to receive.V "What’s the matter with you late-

“No;

what she r

yon b

make the woman? Cynic than the woman makes tl Blobbs—Why do you suppose 1

uppe Is raising whiskers? SlobbsMaybe he can't raise the price of -

Shave.

Wigg—Borrowell did me out of 50 cents the other dhy. Wagg—1 never before knew Borrowell to do things by halves. Wife—Oh. doctor. Benjamin seems to be wandering in his mind. Doctor (who knows Benjamlnj—Don't trouble about that; he can't go far. Tommy—Pop. to prune a tree Is to cut the limbs off. Isn't it? Tommy's Pop—Yea. my son. Tommy—Then does that make prunes grow on It? ;—-Where do you suppe t pleasure comes In to th an who entertains? Nye—In not sending Invitations to some other women. Mrs. Gadabout—She appears to be prelty well-to-do. They say she's got' ' quite a collection pf old laces. Mrs. Nocker—From her fismily's old shoes? "A woman's favorite weapon is a tear." remarked the Wise Guy. ''Yee. even the Eskimo women are addicted to blubber," murmured the Simple

Mug.

Tom—I don't think .'I’ll ever get up enough courage to psk you to marry me. Y’ou know "faint heart never won fair lady.” Belle (blushing)—B-but

I'm a' brunette.

Choily—Your father bowed to me

aeantly on the street today. >d? Mamma said he'd

lake some awful blunder If he went

ithout hi Lovelorn

>Hy—

very pleas

Edith—Indeed’

written

ters, proposing to her. but I bavenU got any encouragement yet. Funnicus —well, what can you expect? One has to write 13 letters before he gets "encourage^nt."

day u The c

and w of /the i

certain Abraham Thornton, the gentleman was advised by hla counsel to claim -his. right of “trial by battle." Accordingly, when brought before the

he I

i flung down

He was a Slav family from 1847.

near - Warrenton. Farquhar County,

"av*- of the Fitxhngh

47. when hla hoihe

i a plantation near Pb

Fairfax County, where he male relative of the deceased, Ived. H5 Is a man of-ven- '* ""

arable appearance, and quaint dignity and fully appreciates hla respocslbU-

changed to Church in

e lived. Hr is a man of-

Fitxhngh home waa ar Pohlck

court of king's bench

hla gage.'

A solemn argument waa afterward held on th* case, when the Judges were unanimous that he waa entitled

te wag* hla battle. Th*

mlfeatly unable to

Hy.-Chicago Becord-Herald.

ins nearest, >ceased, a lad tushie to meet dined any fir public feAUng

of 14. being mgaL

Thornton In combat, declined ther proceedings. ;rb* ptdfth

I waa so much .outraged that the afteri nay gemeral of the day immediately ! introduced a bill for abolishing the

Washington held a record of twenty- right of appeal in nil criminal case*, two feet at broad-jnmptng. and he waa a bill which, however, did not pass

a* • expert a wrestler that he wak known, t* have thrown In succession

three,men. the lightest of them weigh- Mesifer ceeemi ■« Ifg 240 pounds. in West Phlladelthia, th* other day

four men answered an advt calling tor a man to do

work. . ! Of the-four men who mad* appltoff' tkm for th* place, on* was a China man. one a colored man. who had been porter la a dub. one n retired sailor

and .the other a widower.

Th* max. who advotlaed would not l.but

nweLr- EDMUND

Whoa they wew ts bmuti he r* ■aired m the dty and reeked far the Lame^he^wre^e^■ Mm

i not Math to express hjn pre i for a are to do the wort thea a eromaa. With hie wife

khVea ■4st * taf*.

wtth there frere abroad, but w had saved area* to hve ■ < at hare* to were bash. '

r Fhto •* Me* a ■

Waffs ■ ——* to a ire-

girls' boat

schools Includes among ita day I a'young miss of 17 years who r cents the Concentrated affection c parents, a slater mud s number of older brothers. She bubbles over with, merriment, la healthful to a degree that alarms the family physician and speeds through her lessons as thoughtfully and regularly as could be expected of a girl who takes music lessons and must give half an hoar a to each member of a large family, other day ahe went to school In good spirits, but succumbed to a toothache at the end ,pf her first study period. Instantly the whole school went to -work to nurse her—possibly out-of recognition of her father's Influence and his Interest In the school. She was taken up stairs to the room of one of the boarders, blankets were heaped on her until she almost smoth-

camd In the inda. the hlafered edibles,

potfred In

d to inquire

how she was. But no one gave her any remedy for ber_ toothache. 8b* itfy there two or three hours, suffering bravely and counting the figure# In im* wall paper design, when suddasdy

p«ln ceased. She accoru.ngiy arose

put on her wraps and walked home. Yesterday .4he vouchsafed to tell her home folks something about'iL "Why In the world didn't you tell us before?" they all asked. Then the sly Uttla school girl's eyes began to twinkle and she replied demurely: "Well, yon see. I knew If I did you would"have my tooth fixed for good and all. And Its a mighty lot of fun being sick In n boarding school, 'specially when yon

don't know your lessons.“—V

ton Star.

H

-

lory ti

and reery girl in her class p after leach recitation period ti

-Washing-

TIm Oe>S* •< LIMI* OMa. Grandad—What makes yon look SO in happy. Willie? Willi*—'Cause nobody never calli me good unless I'm doing something I don't want to do.

"I tell yon." saM auatis. playfnUy. "1 know a tew things." "And 1 know as tew things re I ly i gnrea." said fdastar Walter, irerely. ‘ . ■ * ' paddy. v asked Uttte Jack, "wf dare a treks h*«ta when he want nag hie tail—. Mamma tat the krenhtere taM Yah always regkt to use yrer nag •regn—I am reta’ «. mntataa; Fsn get the dew tied i* th* to M Ato tnhta