New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-21

gains aad losses lie also took frequent chance.
=" 'LlHes " washington gave a great deal OF money
90 '''ll'S- 20 soldiers wounded or Destitute 10
i'oiS' ana OFTEN 10 widows and begging women
lie gave literally to his mother also. IN money
ana valuable presents. and made presents to his
4eIatIves- For his own table he bought Madeira
vine IN butts and pipes. or cIaret by the hon ala
anu O'-1dy In kegs Twice before his marriage he
was so III as to employ nurse. He was more OF
" reader than is generally supposed. especially on
aSricuItuTa. war. history politics travels efc In
LOS ne bought a ring IN philadelphia. A few week.
later 10 may 10 found ~ Mrs Custis's with bis
"'e-aI tys 10 her domestics. all faithfully re-
Corced- The purpose or the ring may "a inferred
He often treated the crowd when stoppinx AZ q
public house with party OF gentlemen. always re-
cording in his cashbook the amount expended
Washington had defective teeth and frsouenty
visite1 ths dentist On January 8 1-qq he vrrot.
TO John Greenwood. his dentist: II you should ~.
move to Connecticut I should be glad 70 b, al
Eiset OF IL and 70 what place. as I shall ALWAYS
prefer your services that OF any other IN the line
Of your present profession On February Is 17g1
George Washington wrote from PHILADELPHIA 10
Dr. Greenwood, follows: Your letter OF thu
9Th and the oox which accompanied It came safe
TO hand. The OF the latter were perfectly
agreeable 20 nc. and WILL I persuaded. answer
the end proposed very weH.
Enclosed I send YOU 80 IN PAYMENT for them
ard the repairs OF the old ones-snd am. sir
Tyr. Very Hole servt
G. WASHINGTON"
In a letter written IN 1850 by Isaac John Green
wood. ore OF the descendants OF Washfnztor's
dentist to DR. Taft the writer says: There is a
pair OF false Jaws with human teeth on, now I'm
The head % President Washington. IN the tomb at
Mount Vernon made IL my father. John Green
wood. in 1923 and they made with the bone
sums-T think Of the elephants tooth ivory ard
made from rlculds OF beeswax.' Washington was
a cOnsiderste master 20 hts servants. had them
well clad. housed and fed When 81 they were at
tended b. physicians whom Wlshingseo had en-
ployed by the year for that purpose. and he hal
two rooms reserved hospital.
There is no qualification IN the praise great men
have given Washington. Those who have spoken o.
I written OF him at all have done so in terms -
absolute eulOgy- Gladstone. FOR instance. said %
him: Il have almost idolized him for sixty years"
Later he wrote: Washington is to my mind the
purest figure In history. L look upon Washington
among great and good meE as one peculiarly good
and great. he has been to for more than forty
years light upon the path OF Hfe.'' 1t was LOrd
Erskine who said: Il have large acquaintance
with the most valued and exalted class OF men.
but you are the only human being FOR whom {
ever felt an awful reverence. T sincerely pray
God TO grant long and serene evening to a life
30 z!oroJisy devoted the universal happiness Of
the world" John Richard Green. the student OF
great men wrote OF Washington: mo nobIer figure
ever stood in the forefront Of nations life And
Lord BrouRharn declared Washington 20 be "ths
onIv man in fact upon whom the epithet great.
80 thoughtlessly Iavished by men. may be Justly
bestowed" The Marquis de ChasteiiuX. a French
oracer and a member OF the French Academy. IN
1-es said OF Washington: Brave without temerity.
Iaborfous without ambition. generous without
prodizality. noble without pride. virtuous without
ssvsrtv he seems always TO have confined himself
WITHIN those limits beyond which the virtues, cloth
,,- Themselves in more lively but more changeabla
and doubtful coIors. may be mistaken for faults
Lord Byron wrote:
v-ps-~ nav tn. wearted rsposs.
when gazing the great
yvbere neither guilty. glory glowS
Nor despiClbls state
first. tho last ths best
Cincinnatus Of the West.
v-aou1 dared not hate
al The Of Washington.
70 make man blush there was but onsf