Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-05-26

lady, Daddy Hines asked him, Why
didn't you come in the house and stay all
night2' he said. And Washington said;
oh, well, / was 90 tired just went into
the barn last night and fell down ON a
pile of hay, and haven't slept so COED for
months as l slept there"
"Then what did he do 2" asked the first
old lady.
"Then," +" said the former acquaintance
of Washington, she sat down to breakfast,
but the poor old soul couldn't eat anything
but bread and butter, for fear OF IL making
him sick and keepin' hum from gainin' the
day.
After breakfast packed his satche).
got pies an dried beef in it an he made
me take 'em out. He said: 'Oh, my dear
child, daren't eat anything like that; IL
would make me sick. can only eat bread
and butter. So had to take them all out
and put in bread and butter. | felt so
sorry for the poor old soul that he couldn't
eat anything else. After that he came in
toward Philadelphia, where his soldiers
were on high hill.
"And did you ever see him after that ~
"No, but attended his mock funeral at
Pottstown when he died. Ii was grand
funeral"
"What hill was it where his men could
shoot down so nice 2" asked the first old
lady.
1.-THE hill" said the second old lady,
"where he gained the day."
All further questioning failed TO elicit
the fact of the location of the hill, the old
lady's Inyariable answer and her nearest
clue 10 it being always the same" the
place where he gained the day." Upon
further conversation 1t was also learned
that she had two venerable pictures. one of
Washington, and one Of hls wife, in the
form of prints, which had been taken
shortly after the revolutionary war. These
pictures the Old lady stated she had given
to her physician, DIR. Evans, of Seventeenth
and Pine streets, who had expressed some
admiration for them.
/" Ii you 90 to DIR. Evans, he'll show
them to you, /" said the second old lady.
A visit was then made to DR.. Evans. On
the walls OF his Office hung the identical
prints with Washington in snowy cravat
and powdered hair and his wife with high
Elizabethan collar and q stately bodice
the old cracked frames showing that the
pictures belonged to no present age.
The doctors account OF Mrs. Miller was
thai he had known her for five years and
that within the last few months her men,
CRY had been falling. ''There can be- no
doubt" said he, "but 104 years is her
right age and that she has seen Washington.
have seen the record of her birth i'm her
Bible. She was born in I777, She has
been married twice, both husbands and her
first child being dead. But her second
child is upwards of 20 years old. She was
born in Essex township, Berks county"
The old lady's unusual age is evidently
a matter of secondary Importance to her.
A few months ago, her physician relates,
he called ON her and found her complaining
of not feeling well. Knowing that she
was addicted to taking snuff the doctor
jokingly remarked.
"See here cid lady, the trouble with ycu
is that you use too much snuff. You
ought to break yourself Of that habit for
it may cause your death one of these days"
mo, doctor" said the old lady; shaking
her head, lit isn't the snuff. When | was
a little girl they made me work hard on
the farm, load on hay and grain in harvest
time, and it's that that's breakin' me down
at this age"