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NET ALL RESPONSIBILITIES

History tells us how he met these re-
sponsibilities-how he transferred the raw
militia into the trained veterans; how,
with miserably meager resources at his
command, he struggled to equip, clothe,
feed and maintain them; how for ten long
months he entrenched Boston and, with
out a single battle, so harassed the enemy
that he compelled them to evacuate the
city; how for many weary weeks, with only
3l2,O0O half starved troops, poorly clad and
equipped, he held the city of New York
against a force four times his own numbers
and at last, having been compelled to evac-
.uate it, he crossed over into the Jerseys,
pursued by the, enemy, when he suddenly
turned on them at Trenton and Princeton,
amidst a storm of wind and snow, gained
the two most brilliant victories Of the war,
and drove the British from the state; how,
with men whose shoeless feet stained the
snow in crimson red, he passed the winter
at Valley Forge and in the spring defeated
the foe at Monmouth; and how in the sue
ceeding years Of the wal he endured hard
ship and suffered privation, sacrificed his
own fortune and separated himself from
the endearments of home, manfully and
heroically bore up in defeat without losing
courage or hope and turned these reverses
in the end into glorious victory for his
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provlncials, who were in the rear, took to
the trees to cover the retreat of the Brit
lsh regulars, and poured such a swift and
unerrlng fire upon the enemy that
checked pursuit and allowed what was left
OF the army to escape in safety. This was
regarded at the time as a great military
feat, and "Braddock's defeat" rang
through the land as 'Washington's vic
tory"
The war of the revolution, however,
brought out his highest abilities as q com
smander and displayed his true military
genius. No man OF ancient or modern
times was ever called to a more difficult
task. The whole population of the united
American colonies did not exceed 5000, 900.
england was the mistress of the seas and
the strongest military power on the globe.
Inc men in her armies were trained to
war and had every equipment for war that
wealth could purchase. The little band of
colonists which stepped forth to meet this
giant had neither training, supplies, fleets
or military resources. The odds in. the en-
counter were fearfully against us, and no
one knew it better than George Washing
ton. Defeat meant ruin to him, and, per-
maps, ignominious death on the scaffold.
But sublimely he stepped forth and ac-
cepted the responsibilities of the post.
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GERS, was among the commandments at the
church.
wASHINGTON'S WEALTH

1t is probable that at his death Wash
ington was worth $3.50, goo. The late Paul
Leicester Ford, in his excellent work, "The
True George Washington" puts it at that
sum. This did not include the: property
that his wife brought on their marriage,
which is estimated at $l00, 900. Washing
ton always insisted that she should retain
that in her name, nor did it include the $780,
600 which the death of Patsy Gusts in
l773 added to the estates. He was, there
fore, one of the wealthiest men of his
time, for then wealth was not so much
centralized as it is now.
His hand, however, was a charitable one.
lie gave freely of his wealth to deserving
causes and expended large sums towards
maintenance of the army during the revo-
%lutionary war, as well as contributing to
the support of the provisional government.
John Adams, in one of his moods of jeal-
ousy toward Washington, once asked:
Would Washington have been commander
OF the army or president of. the United
States if he had not married the widow of
rich Mr.. Custls?" He undoubtedly would,
for he had achieved military fame before
the revolutionary war cloud came over the
land and had proven his fitness. While he
was wealthy, he gave of that wealth for his
country's need in its darkest hours and
such cynical questions cannot tarnish his
fame or patriotism.
Illustrative of this willingness on his
part to sacrifice his wealth to his country's
good is this instance: In 1851 the British
were marching through Virginia and car
rying On a general system of plumber and
devastation. They laid Richmond in ashes
and assembled the Chesapeake and the Po-
tomac, landing at Mount Vernon, WASH
ington's home. To save the mansion from
flames and pillage, the manager of the es-
tate furnished the army with an abundance
of supplies. When Washington heard of it
he was. much displeased and wrote his
agent as-follows:
ut would have been a less painful cir
cumstance to me to have heard that, in con-
sequence of our refusal to comply with
their request, they had burned my house
and laid the plantation in ruins"
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country would be the conspicuous feature.
blended with it, in harmonious coloring,
would be honesty, nobility, spotless integ-
rity, and all those elements of character
Which go to make up true manhood.
Washington, it is true, did not have to
struggle with poverty, as so many of our
Americans who have attained greatness
have done, for his parents were wealthy
tor the times in which he lived. But this
wealth did not, as is so generally the case,
tasten upon him idle and dissolute habits.
From the beginning of his career until its
close his life was a busy and active one, free
from vices OF every kind. Indeed, Wash
lngton's morality has ever been held up as
an example for the youth, and even the
mouslng historian has failed in his attacks
upon it.
Washington enjoyed all the substantial
comforts and the advantages of a good
education, and, at the age of l6, left home
and school to engage in the occupation of
civil engineering and surveying, which at
that time, when the country was a path
less forest and infested by Indians, was a
calling filled with hardships and beset with
perils. He followed it for three years.
Then hostilities with the Indians began and
the government appointed him a major in
the army sent to operate against them.
Shortly after this the American war be-
tween France and England, over claims to
territory, broke out and Washington, es-
pousing the cause of his mother country,
was COMMISSIONS a colonel. The war last
ed four years and at its close, then only %
years of age, he returned to his home at
Mount Vernon with an enviable reputation
as a military officer, and for Is years de-
voted himself to the farming Of his estates.
Then came the war Of the revolution and
ne was called from this happy home to take
the position of commander in chief of the
American armies. A thousand pens have
told the -story of his career in that strug.
gle for our independence as a nation. For
s%even~long years he endured hardship and
suffered %privation, gave freely of his for
tune, and separated himself from the en-
dearments of home. When at last the vic
tory came and the new government under
the constitution was launched, the people
attested their appreciation of the value of
his services and the confidence they had in
his wisdom by calling him, with a unani-
nous voice, to rule over the new nation
as its first president. He remained in the
executive chair for two terms of four
years each when he once more returned to
his home, which he loved so well and the
comforts of which he had enjoyed SO little
during his long, p%erilous, e%ventful and
busy public. career.
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He hopes that the officers will, by example
as well as by influence, endeavor to check
it, and that both they and the men will re-
fleet that We can have little hope of the
blessings of Heaven on our aims if we in
suit it by impiety. Added TO this, it and
profanity are vices SO mean and low, with
out any temptation, that everyone of sense
and character detests and despises them.
The general hopes that every officer and
man will endeavor to live and act as be.
comes a Christian soldier"
During his army life Washington did not
forget or neglect his religious duties. His
morning and evening prayers were always
offered, and, whenever possible, he OIL
served the other means of divine grace. Al
one time, when the army was encamped
near Morristown, N. j., he called on Rev.
DR.. Jones, the pastor of the Presbyterian
church at that town, and said: doctor,
l understand that the Lords sapper is to
be celebrated with you neat Sunday. l
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and offered his mother his arm and ina
few moments they left for their home, but
IN telling the story Mrs. Hamilton, in her
memoirs, adds: I'VE must, however, not
fall to record that after he had seen his,
mother home, he returned to the reception
and spent the remainder of the evening",
Inc wife OF Washington, to whom he was.
married when he was 81 years of age, had
oeen Mrs. Martha GUSTS, a young widow
OF great wealth and beauty. She had1anded
estates at the time Of her marriage that
were value at $l00, 900, with Gan incum-
branceo of two children. Washington, be-.
tore that, was wealthy. The beautiful estate
OF Mount Vernon had descended to him by
inheritance. After his marriage he enlarged
MS home mansion, embeliished the grounds,
and made considerable additions, by puF-
chase, to the estate, which consisted Of
o'ooo acres, 1000 of which were titled, the
remainder being in wood and uncultivated
land. His occupation was that of a large
planter, raising wheat and tobacco. The
wheat was ground on the estate and shipped
Tor sale. The tobacco was sent to England,
from which then almost every article Of
domestic use was imported. This was the
beautiful home and the happy, independent
life ne left to fight the battles for the
struggling colonies.
Martha Washington was a noble Chris
tan woman, refined and educated, and she.
ever exercised over him an influence that
was helpful and good. When he parted
with her to take command of the army in
the revolutionary war, she said: This is
a sorrowfuls day for me, but your country
needs you and you must 60. My morning
and evening prayers will be that God will
watch over and protect you and return you,
when victory is won, safely to me" And
that.God of the nations, who was with the
colonies in their unequal struggle for in
dependence, answered her prayers.
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LEE.

his footsteps-during his tender years and
whose influence followed him in his after
life was a model mother. Kind, loving, de-
voted and watchful, she i~nstilled into the
mind of her son the principles of Christian
religion and nodded a character that the
vices of his times could not corrupt. He
attributed to her early training much of
the success that came to him during the
e%ventful career through which Providence
led him. A nations homage gathers around
the memory of Washington's mother and
her name is written in history.
As illustrative of the influence that his
mother had verhim, Mrs. Alexander Ham.
ilton says that while Washington was in
the meridian of his fame a brilliant recep.
ton was given one evening in his honor at
Fredericksburg, Va. When the church bells
sounded the hour of nine Lady Washing
ton, his mother, arose, and walking across
the room to where her son was engaged in
conversation with a party of gentlemen,
said: Come, George, it is nine o'clock. 1t
is time to 60 home" Washington turned
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FTER having been stabbed by
Brutus, and Immediately pre-
ceding his death, Julius Caesar,
in one of the most intensely

~3 fIER having been stabbed by
WN9M Brutus, and Immediately pre-
NES ceding his death, Julius Caesar,
SaS@ in one of the most intensely
GsW dramatic scenes ever enacted
S1gSJ upon the stage Of real life, said:
W 81 have provided for every
thing in my life excepting death, and now,
alas! l am to die, though entirely unpre-
pared"
How different were the last dying words
OF George Washington: at is WE'LL"
Both were great, as the world measures
greatness, but when the curtain fell their
last words revealed, as nothing else so fore
IDLY could, the relative merits of their
earthly deeds to true greatness.
Washington retired from the presiden-
tial chair on the 4th of March, 1897. His
death occurred on the-14th Of December,
1899. These nearly three years of his life
were spent happily and peacefully at his
beautiful Mount Vernon home, superin-
tending his large estates and enjoying a
health that promised a lease of life far be-
yol- the 6S years that were allotted to him.
: 1t was his usual custom to ride over his
estate each day to look after the work that
was being done by his slaves. He was doing
SO on the 18th of December, l799. A driz-
cling rain, turning into snow, was falling
and he returned home late in the afternoon,
shivering with cold, but sat down to his
Dinner without changing his clothes. The
next morning he had a slight cold and re.
manned in the house until late in the after
noon, when he again rode over his farm,
returning quite hoarse. He refused, how
suggestionSto take a remedy, saying:
"You know ! never take anything to car
ry off a cold. Let it go as it came"
he passed the evening as usual, reading,
writing letters and conversing with his fam
lily, and at his accustomed hour retired to
bed. About two o'clock the next morning
he awoke in an ague chill and was seriously
ill. At sunrise his physician, DIR. Craig,
was sent for. He lived some miles away
and it was IL o'clock before he arrived at
the house. Two other physicians were also
called, but, despite their efforts, Wash
lngton's condition continued to grow
worse. His. sufferings from the infamma-
ton of his throat and the struggling for
breath were severe. He knew that death
posure. He spoke to his wife about bust
ness affairs and to Others about his funeral,
examined his will, and destroyed some pa,
pers which he did not wish preserved.
About four o'clock in the afternoon he said
to DR.. Craig:
doctor, l am going to die, but l am not
afraid to go. ! believed from my first at
tack that 1 should not survive it. My
breath canno lastslong."
About six o'clock his physician asked
him if he did not wish to sit up in bed. He
held out his hand and was raised up on
his pillow, when he said:
Il feel that I am going. / thank you for
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NOT HIS FIRST LOVE

But Martha Gusts, this loving, devoted
wife, was not his first love. The heart of
Washington had been won before he gave
it to her. This other love was a Miss Bet
tie Fantleroy. She was the daughter Of
William Fantleroy, a wealthy Virginia
planter, at whose home he had frequently.
visited during the time he was engaged in
surveying. 1t would seem from what BIZ
%ographers have been able to gather con.
corning this love romance of the first presi-
dent that Miss Fantleroy had not been
favorably impressed with Washington as
a lover and that she had refused his offer
of marriage.
At that time Washington was 20 years
old. His active, out-of-door surveyors
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to national strength in national righteous
ness. ~ .
The acts Of no man in public life have
been free from criticism, nor has his char.
acter remained unassailed, but; fewer of
these shafts have been turned on: Washing.
ton than on other men who have:held such
high positions of trust and honor; but they
cannot dim the luster that has gathered
around his name or detract fromthe rever-
ence in which he IS held by every patriotic
American. No better evidence:of the es-
teen in which he was held by his contem.
poraries could be given than the fact that
the public observance Of his birthday be.
gan during bis lifetime. This has been true
of no other American. And the a%nniver-
sary of his birth is the only "man's birth
day" made a legal holiday by this nation.
Whatever other have come or may
corae up for honor and reverence, that Of
Washington is secure as the first in the
Hall OF Fame. FRANK MLLIpIIlE
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life had probably made his personal APP
pearance such as would not attract a young
lady of Miss Fantleroy's mold, although
his manners were refined, courteous and.
gentle, and his address that of an educated
gentleman. He is described as being six
feet two inches in height, broad shouldered,
and weighing 200 pounds. He was ire
mendously large muscled. 1t is said that
he wore a No. l3 boot and that he could
not buy gloves large enough to fit his big
hands. His hair. was a chestnut brown,
his cheeks were prominent, and his head.
was not large in comparison to every other
part of his body. Added to all this he was
awkward and "was an enormous cater"
This was a description of him when he was
a young man. Of course, his personal APP
pearance changed when he grew older. Had
Miss Fantleroy seen him in his later years,
and known the fame to which he would
arise, she might probably have given a diff
fercnt answer.
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prove. One of these, although a slavehold-
er himself. was the recognition of slavery.
he had fought for national liberty under a
banner which, in the declaration of indie
pehdence, had declared that "all men are
born free-and equal" With Adams and
jefferson he believed that the corner stone
OF the new republic should be equal rights
under the Law for all men, with no recog-
nlzed aristoeracies or peculiar rights for
certain classes or races. 1t was to this
unfortunate compromise that he alluded
when he wrote:
There are some things in this form, 1
will readily acknowledge, which never did,
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HIS PLACE IS SECURE

1t was not his public life and services
alone that have given to Washington the
commanding position he holds in the af-
fections of the American people. His per-
sonal character, his unimpeachable integ.
rity, the purity of his motives, and the
tenor of his whole private life have had
much to do with it. He was able to be-
come first in the hearts of his countrymen
because he deserved this distinction, and
because. by his honor and truth, his wisdom
and. judgment, he rose above the intrigues
of the selfish and jealous men and the.tur-
MOL of party passion and pointed the way
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your attention. You had better not take
any more trouble about me, but let me go
off quietly. cannot last long"
He then sank back on his pillow and
made several unsuccessful attempts. to
speak. About ten. o'clock in the evening he
motioned to those around him to approach
his bedside and said feebly:
II am just going. Have me decently
buried, and do not let my body be placed I'M
the gravesAntil three days after l am dead.
Do you Understands" To the reply, "Yes,
sir" he answered: sit is WE'LL These
were his last words, and soon afterwards
he WHO was ''the Father of His Country"
apd First in war, first in peace, and first in
the hearts of his countrymen," breathed
his last.
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would learn if it accords with the rules of
your church to admit communicates Of
other denominations at your tablet"
Certainly" was the reply, "ours is not
the Presbyterian table, but the Lords
table, and We give the Lords invitation to
all His followers of whatever name"
y am glad Of it" the general responded,
that is as it should be. l propose to join
with You on that occasion. Though q
member of the Church of England, l hau
no exclusive partialities."
Tn pastor treasured him of a cordia,
welcome, and ON the next Sabbath day tn,
war-worn veteran, with several Of his Off
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AND WIFE

In the two great influences which have
SO much to do iwith the shaping of the lives
of men-mother and wife-Washington was
peculiarly blessed. The woman who guided
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n PICTURE OF PATRIOTISM

10 give,a biography of Washington would
he to paint a picture Of patriotism itself.
1t would be a picture in which devotion to
The daily tribune., 1903-04-22
A SIMPLE QUESTION.
Florence People Are Requested to
Honestly Answer This.

| In not the word Of "A representative
citizen OF Florence more convincing
than tho dcubtfol utterances Of peo-
Pile living everywhere else in the
Union? Read this:
X. L. Cox. now retired Of III Front
ST., says: ''Flattering recommends
tions and advertisements in our news
papers about Doan's Kidney Pills in.
duced 10 20 to w. j. Daniels drug
store for box. / required some
thing for my back for it ached severe.
| ly and when the attack WAS in the
virulent stage headaches and depres-
sion were tho rule in place of the ex-
ception and on more than one occa-
sion | dreaded to stand too long on ac
count of the irksomeness and peculiar
sensations which followed that action.
/ knew that my kidneys required either
stimulent or r sedative for the Sc
cretions plainly proved it. but l was
at a loss to know what to do during
the last attack until Doan's Kidney
Pills came to my notice. a dose or
two helped and continuation of the
treatment acted DIRECTLY upon the
kidneys and 80 strengthened aud puri-
fled those organs that the backache
ceased. "
For sale by all dealers Price 80
cents. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo.
N. Y, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name Doans and
take no substitute. 60 d
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FED FAT HIS GRUDGE.

Some poor misguided wretch, whose
habitat IN GunnisoD, evidently holds a
grudge against the Agricultural col
lege or the Gleo club of that institu-
tion, and in order to vent his spleen
he accomplished the humiliation of
the two young ladies who are members
of the glce club. In Gunnison. some
time since two girls participated in II
'houchy couchy" dance. One of the
girls wore red dress. II happened
while the c. A, @ glee club was in
the city, With the club were two
young ladies', ono of whom also wore
red dress. Because OF the discovery
of the red dress information was iiled
with the grand jury against the two
college girls, and All officer was sent
to Florence whore they were arrested
after the concert and taken back to
Gunpison. or course Investigation
showed at once that the young ladies
were innocent of tho malicious charge
and they we're dismissed with apollo,
gies.
Some of the better citizens of Gun
nison were very indignant over the
humiliation of the young women, who.
by tho way, are accomplished and
charming Young ladies', but no one has
beon able 10 learn who was the miser
able wretch that gave the information.
There ought to be some severe punish
meut provided for such white
hvered cur, and We think he would
about get his just deserts If he could
be discovered on the college campus
about twilight by the student body of
tho agricultural college.
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Wakeful Children

For long time the two year old
child of Mr.. P. l.. Mcpherson. 80 n.
Tenth St, Harrisburg, Pa, would
sleep but two or three hours in the
early part of the night, which made
it very hard for her parents. Her
mother concluded that the child had
stomach trouble. and gave her .ialf of
one of Chamberlain Stomach and
Liver Tablets, which quieted her
stomach and she slept the whole night
through. Two boxes of these tablets
have effected permanent cure and
she is now well aud strong For sale
by all druggists.
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l. o. o. F. Excursion.
,o,.,..,...,. s.rl r-.s.,

The Odd Fellows lodges of Canon
City and Florence will run an eN-
cursion to Colorado Springs on Satur-
day, April 25th, where the lodges Will
celebrate the S4th anniversary of odd
Fellowship. Train leaves Canon City
at 1880 a. m. and Florence at $3.50 a.
III. Returning leave Colorado Springs
at II p. IN. same day. Fare for
round trip 81. 90. Here is chance
for people to visit their friends in
Colorado Springs, Colorado City,
Manitou or Pueblo and a low rate.
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