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Washingtons? l think we should all
be glad that we have Sons to give to
our country in this time of need"
"True," the other said, but what
could Washington accomplish without
the assistance, the devotion, the sacri-
fees. OF the volunteer soldiers and the
prayers of the loyal, God fearing wOm-
en- at hOme?"
Again he pressed the sufferers fin
gers to his lips and then abruptly turn
ed and walked to the door. The you'll
ger woman followed him beyond the
threshold
ado you think. SIR she faltered,
'tf-if should see General Washing
ton that-that"-
MY child" he said, not unkindly
General Washington is about to start
upon Il long journey. All night long he
will be on the march, and by daybreak
he will be many. many miles from
here"
For brief instant he paused, and
then. with stately courtesy, he uncov-
cred his head and, bowling low, kissed
the tips of the girls fingers, then re-
leased her hand and strobe away in the
darkness.
Scarcely an hour had passed when n
familiar step was heard upon the path
leading to the door Of the cottage, and
Paul Rogers burst into the room.
With n glad cry the girl threw her
self into his arms. He kissed her fond
ly and pressed a letter into her hand,
then knclt beside the bed and took his
mothers head in his arms and petted
her cheeks while she laughed fcebly.
Ncrvously breaking the seal of the
letter, the girl read the following. writ
ten in n heavy scrawl:
My Dear Child-One who in the hour OF
great sorrow has been strengthened and
encouraged by the knowledge of your love
and your patriotism returns to you. by
virtue OF his pardon. him who is dear to
you as your affianced and dear to me as
a brave soldier for the son of such a
mother could never be n coward.
G. WASHINGTON.
For several moments the girl stood
motionless in the dim light of the tai
low dip. Then tear dropped upon the
paper. and her lips moved.
"God bless General Washington
she said reverently.
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to reproduce the features of his illus
trious patron. The first portrait was
painted in 1895. Stuart was so dis
satisfied with it that he ultimately de-
stroycd ii. though it was considered
by others so excellent likeness that
Lord LanSdoWne commissioned Stuart
to paint him full length portrait Of
Washington. which he took to England.
Shortly after this Washington himself
asked Stuart to paint his portrait as
woll as that of Mrs. Washington.
Stuart, driven by the press of visitors
from his home in Philadelphia to Il
country retreat in Germantown, trans
formed his barn into n painting room,
and il was there that Washington sat
for the so called Athennum portrait
Stuart, with Washngtons consent, re-
tanned the original of this picture and
the Martha Washington head, making
copies for Mount Vernon, the where
aboutS OF which are not now known.
1t was in 1794 that Mr.. Stuart first
met General Washington. and from
that time he devoted his brush almost
entirely to his illustriOus patron. The
number of portraits Of Washington
which he made is not known. He left
n list of thirty-nine portraits which he
had been commissioned to paint for
admirers of the president at home and
abroad, but lie also painted five full
length WaShingtOns and twenty others
of different sizes, the proceeds of the
sale of which he invested in an estate
in Pennsylvania.
The originals of Washington and
Mrs. Washington were sold after the
artists death 10 an aSSOcia tian Of gem
tlemen, who presented them to the Bos-
ton AthcnWum in 1898. They paid
Stuart's widow 81, 800 for them.
Gilbert Charles Stuart. the most emf
nent of Americas portrait painters and
the rival of the greatest English artists
of his day, was born in Narragansett,
II. l.. in 1T56. and died in Boston in
1928. He received his first instruction
from Scotch artist named Alexander,
who took him to Edinburgh when he
was about eighteen. He subsequently
studied under benjamin West in whose
family he lived for some time. In 1871
he set up as portrait painter in Lon
don and achieved immediate fame. He
returned to America in 1893.
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Paul. she .-icd. Paul Rogers! He
was n soldier. sir. He fired his first
shot for his country along this very
rOad-hcre and at Lexington. He help
ed to drive the British mur,lcrCrs back
to Boston and has not laid down his
rifle since by day or night"
She paused moment to control her
emotion. and then she continued:
But he came home to see his moth
er-his mother who Is dying in the cot
taGc where you see the light down
there in the valley. And the soldiers
came. sir. and took him away, and he
ls-and he is to die az II dcscrtcr.'
"And you?" Ire asked
81 was to have been his wife when
The war is over" she answered mcckly
The officers face grew grave. but he
did not reply. Drawing his crcatcoat
more closely about him. for the night
wind was rising and the air was grow
ing chilly, he took the basket from the
girls arm.
"Shall we not go down to the cot
tacc:" he said. Il should like to see
this boys mother"
The girl made no response. but, again
placing the shawl over her head, she
walked beside him over the untrodden
snow. At the door she paused.
''She does not know" she whispered.
The soldier nodded his head. and they
passed into n room where an aged wO-
man lay in the dim light of a tallow
dip.
When she saw the officer standing be-
side the bed the sick one gave a sud
den sob.
"Paul. Paul"' she cried.
"Nay, my good woman" the soldier
replied. taking one of her thin. trem-
bling hands in both Of his. II am not
Paul, but am Paurs friend"
The woman smiled proudly.
"Aye. Paul Is brave boy" she said,
"a brave boy and good and dutiful
son. 1t is because there are so many
boys in the army. sir. who are good and
true and brave. like Paul. that God will
bless us and General Washington will
be able to lead our forces to victory"
Courteously. yet tenderly. the officer
hand to his lips and kissed 1t.
''It is the brave boys In the field"
he snid-"the brave boys whose patri-
otism sustains them even though they
have not food or clothing to keep them
warm - and the loyal. Christian. self
denying women Mt home who will win
the victory that must surely come. To
them more than to General Washing
ton should be the honor and the glory"
"Nay. nay" the woman made haste
to answer. Upon General Washing
ton lies the entire crushing responsi-
blity of the success of the conflict. To
him the country looks for guidance in
this hour of darkness. Hunger and
cold-what are they, sir, compared to
the anguish that must at times be
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of anguish and pity and compassion.
that she shivcrcd.
AS her shadow swept across his line
of vision the officer leapcd to his feet
and placed his hand upon his sword.
Then he hehcld the slim young woman
standing beside him. her large dark
eyes. all shining wet with tears. search
ing his face anXiouSly, and he lifted his
hat from his powdered wig and bowed
cOurtcOuSly.
You are i'll, SIR" she asked. You
are suffcring:'
mo. my child" he replied, deep
tenderness in his voice. "It is not |
who suffers; it is my country-my poor.
poor country"
Our country" the woman corrected
him. "Our country. May God bless
our country
For several moments the man. with
him, the woman with her shawl thrown
back upon her shoulders and n wealth
of chestnut hair falling about her neck.
stood silently with bowed heads.
General Washington we all love
him. she said. I'VE who because of
our sex must remain at home and in
secret cry our hearts out over our coun-
try's wOcs-we have the faith in God
and the confidence in General Wash
ington to believe that our small but
brave army will drive the enemy from
our shores, sir. And at Candlelight, be-
side our beds. we bend our knees and
ask the blessing of our Father upon
General Washington and the Continen-
tai army"
The officer raised his face to that of
the woman. In his weary. melancholy
eyes a great and newborn peace seem
ed to shine.
"Oh, the women" he said. "the moth
ers and daughters and sisters and
swccthearts - the dear. good women.
the grand, noble, brave. loyal women!"
''Do you know General Washington,
sir:' she asked eagerly, bending slight
ly forward and laying her hand lightly
upon his arm. The other hesitated.
''Ycs, my child" he replied at length.
81 know him quite as well as any one,
! venture to say"
"Thcn-then"- She chOked and bow.
ed her head. and the tears dropped 81
lently
The officer removed a glove and laid
hand tcndcrly upon her hair.
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of which pass
now as StuartS,
havcbccn paint
ed by lesser art
lists. 1t is also
the source of
the most nopu-
lar engTaVinGS
of Washington
and has been
officially indorS-
cd by the Unit
cd States GOV
crnmcnt. which
uses il on the
two cent stamp.
This portrait
W a S Stuart's
third atiDnlnt
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OF ne inscribed
an affecting acrostic to young lady
of the Alexander family, Frances AleXa
by name.
After his visit to the Barbados in
11Il, whittier he went with his brother
Lawrence for the latter's health, he
wrote to William Fauntlcroy that he
had hurried back to Virginia for the
purpose of calling on FauntlerOy's Sis
ter. Betty, in hopes "of obtaining a
revocation of her former cruel SEN
tence."
After his second campaign, result
ing in the defeat of BraddOck and the
debut of Washington as an American
hero. he 10 longer had to sue for
the favor of the Virginia damsels. On
the contrary, Lord Fairfax wrote that
If he did not promptly put in an ap-
pcarancc at Belvoir the ladies would
go in carriages, on horse or afoOt Ito
see if Washington was still the same
identical gent that had lately departed
to defend his country's cause"
In 1856 Washington spent a week In
New York with Beverly Robinson, who
had married Susannah Phillipsc, daugh-
ter of Frederick Phillipse, one of the
largest landed prOprietOrs of the colony.
Here he met Mary Phillipse, then
girl of twenty-five. Short as were his
visits, they We're long enough to bring
him to her feet. She declined his
urgent proposals and two years later
gave her heart to Lieutenant Colonel
Roger Morris. A curious turn of fate
made the Morris home Washingtons
headquarters in 1916, both Morris and
his wife being fugitive Tories
1t was in March, 1853, when Wash.
ington was journcying to Williamsburg
to consult physicians on the state of
his health, that he met Mrs Martha
cambridge Custis, the relict of the
wealthy Daniel Parke Custis. She was
twcnty-siX years old, nine months
WashingtOn's senior and widow of
seven months standing. Washington
urged his suit to Mrs. Custis with an
impctuosity equal to that with which
he had WoOcd Miss Phillpse and in
January, 17J9, was married to Mrs.
CuStiS.
Very little is really known about
Mrs. Washington. One historian de-
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scribcs her as petite, overfond, tenn
pestuOus, obstinate and poor speller."
BE that as it may, Washington loved
her dcvotcdly, and her poor spelling
and her temper he could readily ex-
cuse in view of his own shortcomings
in those respects. Their married life,
interrupted as it was by the war and
the duties of the presidency, was nev-
ertheless so happy that the general, in
congratulating DE Chastellux on his
approaching marriage, delivered a
eulogy on the married state. In his
will Washington left to "his dearly be-
loved wife" the use of all his property
and named her as his eXecutrix. She
did not survive him long.
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VOUR food. they say. was poor and
4 bad.
The quantity was small;
The luxuries were few you had
In fact. you'd none at ali.
My tea is weak. my steak is tough.
The milk is pale and blue.
And. worst of all. there's not enough
sympathize with you.
know how thin you were. great
George:
My boa rd is overdue;
On fowl they dine-it's meek" for
mine
sympathize with you.
VOUR congress plotted for your
u fall
Whene'er you turned about.
The friends you trusted most of all
We're those that sold you out
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drew DaCk nal1
startled, for a
man was sitting
upon a log by
the roadside. He
wore the uni
form of an ofii-
Ger in the Con
tincntal army.
He was not
aware Of her
presence, for he
did not turn his
head nor even
raise his eyes.
but sat motion
less. wrapped in
M @ d | ia tions,
h Is greatcoat
thrown b &c k
upon his shoul-
dcrS.
And upon his
forccful, reso-
lutte features
the girl sa w
such deep lines
Of sorrow, such
indcliblc marks
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1904-02-20
Stuart's Portraits
OF Wa ngton

The stuart head of Washington in
the Boston AthcnTum is regarded rs
the standard portrait of the great pa
triot. From it nearly a hundred copies
were made by Gilbert Stuart himself,
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80, 60 ,BAl1'MoRl "asa Ono
RAILROAD,
November %, 1908.

NN and AFTER above date until further
notice TRAINS will arrive and depart
from CUMBERLAND as follows:
Main Line.
EAsTBoUND.
Washington. Baltimore, Philadelphia and
New York Express:
No. 4. arrives 80 a. M; leaves 25S a. III.
No. TO- Observation-Disclosures. leaves 30 H. III
No, $, arrives 7:5l Il. m. leaves Sll a. III.
No. >. arrives sis Il. m; leaves S:2i IA. Ill.
No. g. arrives 1859 p. m. leaves To- r. H.
No. II. arrives 1920 p M. leaves lo:4' p H.
*Baltimore and Way:
N, leaves 3:l5 p. III.
Express
No. 46. arrives 6l7 p m; leaves ESQ p III.
*Grafton and Way:
No. -. arrives 535 pm.
wEsTBoUNp
Pittsburg Express;
No. 9..arrives l:25 Il. M
Pittsburg Limited:
No. II. arrives $50 a. III.
Cincinnati and st. Louis Express;
No. 3. arrives 5:25a. m. leaves 332 a. M
*Parkersburg, Wheeling and Way:
M. leaves 1:Ua. III.
Express;
No. a. arrives 9:l0 III.
No. 80. arrives 2:35p. M; leaves 800 p. M
No. 5. arrives 2;55 p. m
Cincinnati and St Louis Limited Express
No l..arrives SD p. III. leaves S2S p. m.
Chicago Express:
No. /. arrives 1910 p. m; leaves 1880 p M.
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w HOLE NuMnER. 1856.
EJarly
l9S2:j Loves Of
Washington
By
CHESTER A. MCKAY
CHESTER A. MCKAY


copyright. 1901. by G. n. Lurie.l
T I0UGU lovers be pcrjurers at
I'll whom Jovc laughs, George
B Washington, whose inability
to tell Il lie is traditional, was
none the less notable lover. Indeed,
it seems to have been but shortly after
the time of the alleged incident of the
cherry tree that Washington made the
acquaintance of Dan Cupid. While
still Il sChoOlbOy, according to the late
Paul Leicester Ford, he was caught
romping with one of the largest girls"
and more serious romanccs quickly fol-
lowed. AS early as 1TiS, when Wash
ington was only sixteen, he was deeply
cnamorcd of "lOwland beauty" of
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Pittsburg Division.

EASTBOUND.
No 10. Express. ........ arrives -'lo IL H.
No 46. Express. ........ arrives wv T. NJ
No. Ii. Cumberland III. arrives b:lo p. m
No II. Limited Express. arrives lo;l2 T. III
No Il. Mail ............ arrives - r. III
No. g. Limited Express. arrives l2:4' p. M
For leaving time see same Express numbers
eastbound on Main Line.
wEsTBOUND.
No. o.. Express. .....; leaves i;32 Il. III
No. II. .Pittsburg Limited leaves i;33 a. Ill
No. l3. .Connellsville Ii. leaves 40 a. Ill.
No Al. Chicago Express leaves $40 a. III
No ). Chicago Limited leaves 3;O5 p. Ill
No. 10. Mail ............. leaves 3:l5 p. m
For arriving time see same Express num-
bers westbound on Main Line.
*Except Sunday.
No 40 is local train from Cumberland to
Pittsburg, and No. II from Pittsburg to Cum
berland.
Through tickets, east and west, for sale at
Cumberland. NJ. {. CLARKE,
c. S. SIMS, Ticket Agent.
General Manager ID. b. MARTIN,
Nov 2S Manager Passenger Traffic
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(Oln the
2D Road to
A Story of Concord
Washington
EDGAR WELTON COOLEY

copyright. 1901 b.. Edgar Welton Cooley.1
"HE road that led to Concord
81 was covered with n thin coat
ing OF snow, through which a
woman walked slowly with
bowed head The woman was young.
not over eighteen, but her features
We're drawn with lines of sorrow. Be
low the fringe of her shawl showed a
basket woven of coarse hewn hickory
strips, from which came the savory
fragrance of tea cakes and brown
bread and wild grape butter.
"He is to die"' she kept repeating to
herself. "IIe Is to dc-to die as
coward. Oh Paul, Paul. my dear one.
my bcloved"'
Presently in turning bend Of the
road, the girl -Eaused suddenly and
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Evt lei them laugh; my strip is packed.
Sometimes. when things looked blue.
You slyiy beat a night retreat
I synpathi1e with you.
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whom he wrote
in glowing terms
to his youthful
correspondents,
but whose idcn-
tity his biOgra-
piers have fail
ed to establish.
His youthful ar
dor was so great
that on several
Oc'IS $40 II 5 lie
broke into po-
etr.y. of which
she WAS the
subject. Still he
does not appear
to have been
wholly inscnSi-
b lie to t Ii e
charms of other
nlaidcnS. for ut
this same peri
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"My child" he said kindly, what
great sorrow has this war brought
your"
"Oh, sir" she sobbed pitifully, "he
is to die-to die as coward. But 1t is
a lie mighty falsehoOd. No man is a
coward, sir. who loves his mother as
does he"
"He% the officer replied. "Who. my
daughterT'
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Oh. hard is misplaced trust. great
sire!
owe her ma a "V."
And so She smirks at cheap youns
clerks
sympathize with thee.
= x
MES. Father George. I'm mopina here.
4 With but your Life" to read.
While down below they laugh and sneer
Eor give me little heed.
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His Sympathy
For George
(As Expressed by Boarder)
BY JOE LINCOLN

CUpyfIBNt, Dy
NEORGE WASHINGTON. great Father
"a George.
I've read the story dire
OF how you froze at Valley Forge
With little warmth or fire.
Nv lodgings are not fine or grand
They're four flights up. you see
I'm owing something for them. and
1 sympathize with thee.
know just how you felt. great man;
There'll be no heat for me.
I'll freeze until l pay my bill
sympathize with thee.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-04-06
Forgetting How to Use the Feet.

1t is difficult to conceive Of anyone
not using MS feet. The feet, ankles,
back muscles of the leg aud the knee
cap rl:y such an important part in life
that not to always use them is hardly
understandable. Yet S'r Francis p.
Winter, the explorer, has recently
met in New Guinea people so un-
used to stepping on solid ground that
their feet bleed when they try to walk
any distance.
The race is that Of the Ahgaiambos,
and for ages they have lived in
swamps, their houses being on bamboo
poles aud elevated ten and fifteen feet
above the mud and water. These peo-
pie have to depend entirely on canoe
ing and swimming for locomotion.
They are such good swimmers that
they can glide over and between the
half submerged reeds like water snakes
and it is as natural for an Ahgaiambo
to slip into the water to go "next door,"
as it is for woman in this country
to throw q shawl over her head and call
on neighbor.
They never leave their swamps, but
remain in them from the time they are
born until they die; they are as shy
as the crocodiles aud reptiles that
dwell there.
This life has changed their bodies
so that they look unlike any other hu-
man beings in the world. AS they
never walk, their legs become small
and aabby, and their feet are soft.
Sir Francis Winter describes these
strange beings as follows, in a report
to the Australian government:
"The men would be Of good stature,
if their bodies, from the hips down,
were in proportion to the upper part.
They have good chests, thick necks
and powerful arms But from the
hips down they are shrunken crea-
lures, looking more like apes when
viewed from the side than like hu-
man beings.
"Their feet are short and broad and
wonderfully thin, they look almost as
if they lacked joints.
"The feet of all the people whom
saw rested on the floor when they
stood or sat in q way that reminded
one irresistibly Of wooden feet, be-
cause they were SO helpless and
clumsy"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-04-06
Animals and Rain.

1t seems strange that no animal,
unless it be the squirrel, seems to
build itself shelter with the ex-
press object of keeping off the rain,
which they all so much dislike. Mon
keys are miserable in wet and could
easily build shelters if they had the
sense to do so. Gas the creatures
hop disconsolately along in the
rain," writes Mr.. Kipling in his
Beast and Man In India cor
crouch on branches, with dripping
backs set against the tree trunk as
shelter from a driving storm, they
have the air ef being very sorry for
themselves" ;" But even the orang
outang, which builds small plat
form in the trees on which to sleep
at night, never seems to think of a
roof, though the Dyaks say that
when it is very wet it covers itself
with The leaves of the pandamus, a
large fern.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-04-06

- An epidemic of suicide among
Iowa bankers who were driven to des-
peration by business troubles and
killed themselves furnishes theme
for people who believe in suggestion
as motive to action. Five managers
of banks, all supposed to be wealthy,
and all ranking high for character
and business ability, have taken
their own lives this winter. All did
it by blowing their brains out.
- The cotton crop of the whole
world is estimated at II .179,766 bales.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-04-06
sIEFEFs .Ss{a ~ zN----..
One of the BLESSINGS.

She was greatly distressed.
Il could have married an ear" +"
she said, eff I had had money. He
was very devoted to me for awhile -
ooh, well, there are other men,"
lEas the consoiing reply.
Il know" she admitted, 'Fbut an
earl. Think of it! An earl! I'm
asurc l could have had him if it
hadn't been for that last slump in
Eapa's pet stocks. And that odious
gkittie Jenkins got him."
] Two years passed, and they met
again.
a "How about that earl? was the
question naturally put to her.
4 i've just returned from abroad,
lFhere I visited Kittie ct her coun-
s38y place." she said. "She's very
8raye and patient"
II '1s she ?"
g eyes indeed. And do you know,
I've discovered that poyerty-com-
HE5rative poverty, 1 mean-is a
Messing" Brooklyn Eagle.