The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-03-26

the midst OF his vast properties in
America. His grants included originally
all the lands lying between the Potomac
and the Rappahannock aSd away into
the mountains for distances then IN
known.
Like young Washington, Lord Fairfax
was an ardent sportsman, loving horses
and craftsmanship, and an enthusiastic
rider to the hounds. Finding George a
congenial companion as we'll as good
and accurate surveyor, he employed him
to help ascertain the approximate extent
of his illimitable domain. They became
intimately acquainted, and the English
lord held in great respect this young
man of erect and vigorous frame, clear
blue eye, honest countenance and great
powers of endurance. He took him first
to his hunting lodge at Greenway Court,
, on the farther side of the mountain
ridge, and there he was initiated into
the tolls and even perils of surveyors
life in the forest. Years later, it is re-
lated, even after his quondam protege
had become famous as the great Revolu-
tionary general and had received from
the noble lords countryman Lord Corn
wallis the sword surrendered at York
town, the nobleman was still living at
his lodge in the wilderness.
When Cornwall delivered up his
sword, Lord Fairfax was 80 years of age
and still a stanch loyalist, in which
character he would have suffered many
indignities had it not been for the pro-
lection extended by Washington, and
which he gratefully remembered. But
on learning Of the humiliating surren
der be said TO his valet, well, Joe. you
may as well put me TO bed, for it's now
high time for me to die" And die he
did shortly after. and was buried in the
soil Of Virginia.
Some excerpts from Washington's
earliest diary, "a journal of My Jour
ney Over the Mountains" begun a
month after he had entered his seven
teenth year, will give Us glimpse of
his life at this time:
Sunday, March Is, 1748.-Rode to
his Lordship's Quarters, about 4 Miles
higher up We River. We went through
most beautiful Groves Of Sugar Trees,
& spent ye best part of We Day in ad-
miring ye Land. "
march 81, 174S.-Early this Morn
ing one Of orr Men went out with ye
Gum and soon retuTn'd with two Wild
Turkeys; we then went to our Business;
run of three Lots & return'd to our
Camping Place,
His exact and methodical habits show
themselves thus early. The account book
and ledger which he began at this time
and continued through life contain en-
tries of all the sums, no matter how
small, which he spent from day to day,
among them his gains and losses at
cards-especially at ''loo''-and sums
paid for lottery tickets. That his life in
the woods was not all fun. even though,
with his grand physique and his love
for outdoor sports, he enjoyed every mo-
ment in the open air, a letter written to
one of his friends after he had spent
several months in the field will show:
''Since October last have not slep'd
above three Nights or four In a Bed,
but after walking a good deal all the
Day lay down before the fire upon lit
tie Hay Straw, Fodder or Bearskin,
whichever is to be had, with Man, Wife
and Children, like parcel of Dogs or
Cats, & happy be that gets the Birth
nearest the Firel There's nothing would