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he, because the hand has damaged some
goods two cents worth, to fine him
diner"
Mr.: Markham, after a moments pause.
smiled.
At wish to goodness" he said, that every
victim Of the despicable fine system had
the same story to tell as an actor heard
Of yesterday.
This actor worked under a manager who
was a great finer. For bad makeup, for
lateness. for noise in the wings. for hun
dred things, the players were bilked from
a quarter to two dollars. The worse Of all
the fines was one Of ten cents for failure
to return properties for this was duty
that every one continually forgot.
I'm financial drama one night the sup
ply of stage money ran out, and the man
ager leaned an actor - in real bills to use
in the next scene.
1.-The manager said sternly to the actor
the following Saturday:
by the way, Charley. you haven't re-
turned that 50 gave you in act three Mon
day night
/" Never mind. said the actor. Just fine
me a dime"
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W5M. PR9RR(E7!oR q WAVTH7

condition was very unusuaf in early colonial
times. The private burial ground was Is a
rule not far from the family dwelling and
in the vast majority Of instances was but
a few rods distant. Not far from the Wash
ington cemetery and on rising ground over
looking Bridges creek is spot on which
long ago there was human habitation.
TheNrichness of the soil and the character
of the vegetation prove this. Besides. there
have been unearthed fragments of brick,
glass and pottery. 1t Is believed that the
first Washington made his home there. It
may be that later he built the house over
looking Pope's creek, or the house may
have been built by his son, Capt. Lawrence
Washington. But Of this there can be no
certainty.
Washington's birth house was burned, but
the date Of this occurrence Is unknown. BY
some it is believed that when Augustine
Washington removed from Wakefield with
his family to the farm opposite Fredericks-
burg in 1885, or when George Washington
was three years old. it was because the
Pope's creek homestead had been destroyed.
By others it is believed that Washington's
brother, Augustine, lived in the Popes creek
house and that it was destroyed In the life
time Of his son. William A. Washington,
and that 1t was this loss that caused the
latter to build Blenheim.
At any rate, the ruined chimneys of the
Pope's creek house are within the memory
of man. Capt. Barker Of the steamboat
Wakefield remembers this clearly. To The
Star man he said:
II was born on a farm adjoining the
Observation-Disclosures property sixty-five
years ago. AS boy 1 used to play about
the ruins of the old house. There was an
old apple orchard near the ruins, and this
was very attractive to myself and the other
boys in the neigh5orhood. 1 remember the
stone put there by Mr.. Gusts and / recall
with great ciearness the birthstone in
scribed with the date of Washington's birth
and with the names of his parents, that
was q part of the wall of the broken CHM
ney. 1t was lightish-colored stone, and /
know that as a boy thought it was marble
and 1 have retained this belief, though of
course 1t may have been sand stone. 1 was
a little boy when Charles Jet came to live
on the Wakefield land, but remember him
well. To my boyish mind he was remark
able for two things First because he cut
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WAKEFIELD, the home Of the
first American Washington and
wv the birthplace of George Wash
w ington. is second only to Mount

II fSt AmtIlcdn washington and
NV the birthplace Of George Wash
ington, is second only to Mount
Vernon in associations which
recall the life and times of our first Presi-
dent The place is not easy of access. 1t is
IN Westmoreland county, Virginia, about
twelve miles below Colonial Beach and FIVE
from Wirt's wharf, the nearest steamboat
landing. There are no accommodations for
travellers at Wirt's wharf. the nearest inn
being at Oak Grove, three miles from the
river and five or six mites from Wakefield.
Wakefield is now one OF the prosperous
farms of the northern neck of Virginia. The
owner is John E. Wilson, a Marylander, born
In Anne Arundel county and who has lived
at Wakefield since 1916. Mr. Wilson was
graduated from Georgetown College more
than half century ago. He is a man Of
scholarly attainment, versed in thu classics
and a Virginia antiquarian Of note. The
house he lives In was not a Washington
home, but was built by Mr.. Wilson. Great
red oaks, tulip poplars, red cedars and
iong-leaf pines that shade the house were
planted by him long, long ago.
This farm remained in the Washington
family for number of generations. First,
IL was the home of John Washington then
OF his son Capt. Lawrence Washington,
and then II passed TO his son Augustine
Washington. Augustine Washington died
April H. lI43, leaving large landed pos
sessions. TO his son Lawrence he left a
farm on the Potomac between Dogue run
md Hunting creek. Lawrenc, named this
farm Mount Vernon. To Augustine Wash
!ngton he left the old homestead on Pope 9
Creek, called Wakefield. To George when
re should come of age. was bequeathed the
sarm on the Rappahannock, opposite Fred
ericksburg. The other children were well;
provided for. AT the death OF Augustine
The Wakefield farm passed TO his son Will
liam Augustine Washington and thence to
mis- son George Corbin Washington In
1913 George Corbin Washington sold the
arm to John Gray OF Stafford county,
Tyho gave It 20 his son Atchison Gray. 1t
was next sold to Daniel Payne. Payne did
act really want Wakefield. but took 1t in
connection with some other property, and
owed balance on 1t of $4,000 or S15. 1000
Payne sold the place subject TO this deb.
% Henry T. Garrett, who soon afterward
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THE salesman was vexed, but he put

The salesman was vexed but he put a
good face on the matter
Bride you? he exclaimed Why, man,
you must be crazy. Who wants to bride
you? This was simple little present, the
same as I've made frequently to your en-
ployer. But II you won't have it as a
present. why, buy it from me. Give me q
quarter for it.
THE buyers suspicious vanished. He
searched his pockets
haven't got a quarter ne said. I've
got nothing less than this half dollar
" And T. said the salesman, hoping after
all that he wouldn't have to take the buy
er's money-'and haven't got cent Of
change
But the buyer nevertheless thrust the
half dollar on him.
Keep it ALL he said, and you can bring
me another box on your next trip
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removed from Virginia to Alabama. Wake
field was next sold to Charles c. Jett, who
lived there FIVE or six years. but without
paying the balance owed to Gray. Daniel
Payne died and Wakefield was sold at
trustees sale. the executors Of Payne buy
ing 1t In, thus making 1t part Of the
Payne estate. Mr.. Payne's heiress. Betty
Payne, in 1s45 became tho wife OF DR.. Will
liam Writ, son Of Attorney General Writ.
Tho next year Wakefield was sold to John
T. Wilson Of Anne Arundel county, Mary
land, and he settled his son John e. Wilson
on the farm. John E. Wilson married
Miss Betty Washington, granddaughter OF
William Augustine Washington, the builder
of Blenheim.
The origin and significance Of the name
Wakefield is obscure. 1t Is always written
that George Washington was born at Wake
field February O. 1892. Yet George Wash
ington never knew this old home-place al
Wakefield" In his time and in the time
Of the Washingtons before him 1t was
known as Pope's Creek. the Pope's Creek
farm, or the home on Pope's creek. George
Washington in his diary writes that In
lies he visited tho lands brought to him
by his marriage with Mrs. Custis, that he
then visited his brother John A. at Nomini
and the widow of his brother Augustine at
Popes Creek and his brother Samuel at
Chotank. in King George county. above
Matthias Point. There is no mention Of the
place as Wakefield.
II Is believed that the name Wakefield
was given the farm by George Washing
toms nephew (Augustine's SOM William
Augustine Washington, for on his death
he bequeaths Wakefield to his son George
Corbin Washington
The United States in 1896 erected monu-
ment on tho site of the house in which
the early Washingtons lived and in which
George Washington was born. There was
no vestige of this house IN the time OF
Washington Irving. That writer said:
George. the eldest. the subject Of this
biography, was born on the 22d of Febru-
airy III o. 81, 1892, in the homestead on
Bridges creek. This house commanded
view over many miles of the Potomac and
the opposite shore Of Maryland. 1t had
probably been purchased with the prop
erty and was one of the primitive farm
houses OF Virginia. The roof was steep
and sloped down in low projecting caves.
1t had four rooms on the ground floor and
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HneCdOfe8 COncefhinU
Well-knOWn peODle.

about the quaint old farm kitchen, and said /:
% And do you find the country very beau
tiful. my dear?'
Oh beautiful the youngster answered
And what have you seen during the
weeks sojourn here?
I've seen eighty-seven turkeys killed
and mans nose broken in a punkin
rattle.
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The Reviewers.

Jesse Lynch Williams, the playwright and
author. commiserated the other day with a
literary friend whose new book had been
harshly criticised by the reviewers:
Buck up said Mr.. Williams. You don't
expect the reviewers to be infallible. Why,
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Stood for the Fine.

Edwin Markham Is a bitter opponent of
child labor. Discussing the effort that he
is making towards the reform of the child
labor laws. Mr.. Markham said recently:
I would abolish, too, the contemptibly
unjust system of fines. What right has
an employer to fine hand an hours pay
for Eve minuteS lateness? What right has
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at luncheon yesterday one Of them said to
me:
ct get through. on an average. fifty books
q week.
"'Good graciousv said I. How do you
manage It? Why. 1t takes me at least
day to read one book
81 don't read them. sir he said. re-
view them"
A Bargain in Cigars.
Martin Van Camp, a wholesale poulterer
Of Omaha, was talking the other day about
buyers.
MY salesmen," he said, would always
prefer to deal directly with the heads of
firms instead Of with buyers. With the
heads everything, always, is open and
above-board. But In the case of buyers,
anything one does seems to smack of
trickery and deceit.
"A certain New York buyer for a big firm
ordered from a salesman Of mine last week
a large consignment of turkeys. The sales
man. pleased with the order, took the buyer
box OF 100 expensive cigars. 1t was an
honorable enough performance, but the
buyer. when the present was offered to him.
got mad.
Look out he said, warningly. None OF
that. You can't bride me, you know
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Was Not Strong Enough.

Jules Dupree. the French artist. was talk
ing in New York about America.
II have been much impressed in Ameri-
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in that city. within view of Kenmore. the
home Of her daughter, Betty Washington.
by the Prayer Rocks" where she was
wont to knit and pray for her son George;
Capt Laurence Washington, 1896" Part
of the inscription on this stone is UNI
decipherable, the lettering being worn py
the weather.
The other stone is inscribed
Here Ives We body Of Jane. wife Of Az
gustine Washington. Born at Pope's
Creek Virginia Westmoreland CO We oath
of Xber 1899 and died we Path of 9ber 1729.
Who left behind her two sons and one
daughter
This lady was the first wife Of George
washington's father, and the mother Of
Lawrence Washington, who bequeathed
Mount Vernon to George. curious fea-
t t;on OF Of p 5ecs as Xber." or Decem-
Der. and November as 9-ber," or NO
vem"-ber.
After dinner with Mr.. Wilson, during
which that old-school gentleman produced
an antique cut-glass decanter Of whisky
a carafe Of cold spring water and box
of cigars The Star man turned his back to
Wakefield and continued his walk, directing
his steps to Montross. the county seat,
twelve miles southeast. The road carried
him by the site of Pope's Creek Church, the
worship place Of many colonial dignitaries.
and close to Stratford, the home seat Of the
Lee family and the birthplace Of Robert E.
Lee. But this Is material for another story.
Montross was reached long after night
fall, but genial lamplight beamed through
a number of windows. Montross contains
abou: one hundred inhabitants and twenty
or twenty-five houses. more Of them new
than old. Despite the fact that there are
twenty Or twenty-five buildings, the viii
lage is two miles long. and as many of the
houses are far back from the main high
way, 1t may be gathered that there is no
congestion Of population there. The CEN
ter of the community, though, is at the
court house. an eighteenth-century brick
building with twentieth-century additions
and improvements. Around the court
house grouped several dwellings,
stores and two hotels. There Is no sa-
loon. That part of the country Is local
option, and Sheriff Harvey, who lives at
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The Washington cemetery is a place
where reflections on the mutability of life
force themselves upon one. This reverent
spot is in level field that is grown breast
high with weeds A wire fence incloses
the little cemetery. No weeds grow there,
but there is a rank growth of grass. The
trunk of a dead plum tree stands IN one
corner of the plot, and near it are two
young persimmon trees. Once there was a
vault in this lot. Like thousands of the
colonial burial vaults, 1t was an excavation
in the fiat earth, bricked up at the four
sides and arched over flush with the surface
of the surrounding ground, or perhaps just
q little above the ground. 1t Is supposed
that the bodies of John Washington and his
wife, Anne Pope, the son, Capt. Lawrence
Washington, and others of the very early
The brick top of the vault is broken in,
and the interior has been filled with earth,
but the location of the vault is discernible
because of some brickwork and deep de-
preston which marks where the vault roof
caved or was broken in.
1t is not known that Washin gton's father
is buried in this lot, but at a grave which
was believed to be his there stands a
stone thus inscribed:
I'm Memory Of Augustine Washington,
Father of George Washington. Born in the
year 1894. Died May IL. 1743. This Stone
Was Placed Here by the Society of Colo
NAL Danes of America in the State of
Virginia.
There Is one error in this inscription. Au-
gustine Washington did not die May -.
Mary Washington. as is generally
known, is not buried at Wakefield, but at
Fredericksburg, not far from her old home
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down the old apple trees, which the boys
called Gen. Washington's orchard. and he
pulled down the only standing chimney
chimney was torn down the birthstone was
broken, and the pieces were thrown over in
a clump of fig bushes nearby. With other
boys used to brush away the leaves from
these fragments and spell the words chisel-
ed in them. 1 suppose these pieces Of
stone have sunk under the mold, but be-
lieve 1 could go to the spot where they
lay so long, and it Is possible that they
might be resurrected."
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SOusa,a ttThe Free IanCe.v


THE Superstition of Sousa" would
be an appropriate title for the new
comic opera which John Phillip Sousa
and Harry B. Smith have contracted to
write for Klaw s. Erlanger. The name
Of THE Free Lance" the March
Kings great success with Joseph Cav
thorne, was originally entitled "A King
for Day." After printing had been
arranged for and that title used on
all the pictorial work. sousa wrote to
Klaw & Erlanger that he had a super
s.itious fear of the title. He could not
explain the feeling, but in an earnest
appeal confessed that every time he
thought o. the name he saw spooks.
Not the least Of the troubles Of
authors and composers is to find suit
able and catchy titles for their pro-
auctions. Il once knew a young mu-
sician," says Sousa, who went one
day on an excursion with a party to
view a new tubular bridge that had
peen thrown over the Susquehanna
river. He was much impressed. When
he returned ne wrote a schottische in
honor Of the event.
Mr.. Sousa,' he said to me, I have
written une schottische about this,
and I want to ask you II you don't
think this is just the name for it.
| "'What is the manner I asked.
Why, I intend to call it 1.-The
Tubular Bridge Over the susquehanna
Schottische."
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REPUBLICAN STATE
COMMITTEE EXPLAINS
DR.. A. B. Cole Send Out State.
ment to Weekly Papers Re-
lative to Socialists.
Asksk Papers to Publish Fact
that j.. w. Johnson is So
cialist Candidate.

an tdheh cd the man went down to the
DR.. A. B. Cole, chairman of the Re-
publican state committee, Is evidently
DESTROYS Of giving much publicity to
the fact that there is difference be-
tween John w. Johnson, Socialist-La-
Dor candidate for governor of Mime
sofa and John A. johnson; the Demo-
cratic candidate.
He asks every newspaper In the state
to publish the following statement:
Il greatly regret that the Socialist
| Labor party has nominated man by
the name Of John w. Johnson for the
| office of governor. I regret 1t because
1t may cause a confusion Of names.
! I am asking every Republican paper in
| the state to publish the fact that there
are two Johnsons on the state ticket
the one John "A. johnson, Democratic,
and the other John w. johnson. Social
list Labor. I want them. to do this. to
the end that every voter may know
just who he is voting for. want to
get this before the people and have
every voter in the state know the diff
! ference between the two nominees u
! respectfully,
A. B. COLE,
| Chairman.
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At the Metropolitan.

Success is difficult to obtain in the
theatrical musical world, but when a
manager eventually reaches the goal
Of his ambition and launches some
venture that is the real thing he is sure
to be rewarded for his pains. Robert
Gordon Of the Kentucky Bellies" a
company Of peerless burlesquers, may
be said to be such a man. The Ken
lucky Bellies" which will visit the
Metropolitan the week Of Oct. IA, is one
Of the shows that has won instant
public approval. It is an entertain
ment for the masses as we'll as the
classes. BurlesQue farce comedy, music,
high-class singing, dancing, scenic dis
play, and light effects is combined and
offered in a manner to suit the most
exacting and fastidious amusement
seeker. Besides two excellent one act
comedies there is an inning of re-
fined, wholesome and capital vaude-
Vile. The list in cludes the woira
Trio, Hungarian singers and dancers;
Reid & Gilbert, adroit and clever ex-
ponents of Irish wit; Young Buffalo,
assisted /. r Mile. Marietta in sharp
shooting act that is unique as we'll as
thrilling; the Century Comedy Four,
a quartette Of male singers with sweet
and harmonious voices, and Andy Nc
Leod, a musical artist and comedian OF
the first water. The first part Is called
Society" satire on American heir
esses in search of husbands, while the
show closes with 'Murphy's Mistakes
| the best singing and dancing chorus on
the circuit today, which helps to clinch
the reputation Of the Kentucky
Bellies" company as the foremost bur
lesque troup on the boards. The men,
! bers of the champion chorus are all
| pretty, shapely and talented, and even
! a misanthrope could not demand more
:Matinees Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday. 80 D. =
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Smoke Puradora Cigar, Clear Havana
Union Label and Home Made.
sHER1FFs EXECUTION SALE.

-9dEH1fFS EShECUIlON SALE.
Under and by virtue of an execution
the. District Court. Of the State Of
Minnesota 4a,oss5 IN and for the Eleventh
on tSe 9Th aa aay co of Of
1905. upon Judgment rendered and
docketed in said Court and County in
an action therein. wherein Frederick
were Plaintiffs. and siias Robinson was
and against said Defendant and each
Ct then for the SUN Of T TdIa
80 cents increased costs, which. said
st. Louis County, been duly directed
Vii sell at pabd ea aueti eHe 70 hsR
the District Court House. in the City
Of Duluth. in said County of st. Louis,
$685. at ten &c O'clock q IN the foreneon
Of that day, all the right, title and in
terest that the above named judg:-
9seae he esarpe ID e On
date Of rendition OF said judgment.
or. any interest therein which said
aa1 aeaared The ' Of the
property being as follows, *to-wit:
Lots number eight and ten in. Sec
ton number nineteen and lots number
ship number sixty-four North Range
Lots 1. g. 3 Sec. 80, Twp. "a. r. IL W.
In st. Louis County Minnesota. ac-
cording to the. government survey
thereof. :5 4
Dated Duluth. MIN sept 9'E Si 80 1909.
Sheriff OF st. Louis. County, linn.
INV s. Il IERCE. Deputy.
itor5sy 4 fo 3, . i Il i a e snt Cssd,t or
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can be, II he: will, in the labor world.
There is a great deal Of good in or
ganized labor for the negro, and it Is
up to him to get 1t out. One way to
do 1t Is to organize unions and become
part of the labor movement, and then
we are bound to get what Is ours by
now stana.
There is now more than 20 inter-
national unions that accept the negro
into, membership, so we can see that it
Is not as bad as some may think.
The negro must start today and not
tomorrow. to pluck the fruit that is
fast ripening for him in the labor
world
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ADJUSTMENTS.
O'Neil Bids Farewell to "Monte Christo."

When James O'Neil presents Monte
Christie" at the Lyceum it will be for
the last time, for this distinguished
romantic actor has positively announced
that after years o. uninterrupted sue
cess with Monte Christie" he will never
again play it after this season. The
company Is an exceptionally strong one
that he has engaged for his support
this year, and the production is new
and elaborate, and in every way fitting
the last performances of such a famous
old play.
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Mr.. Union Man: lofty your print
or, that the Bell Phone is Unfair.
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The present tour of Maude Fealy,
the youngest dramatic star on the Am
er1can stage, Is one Of the most sue
cessfu1 of the season, and the former
talented leading woman Of the late
Henry Irving is meeting with flattering
praise IN every city In which she is seen
IN her latest triumph, the comedy by
Martha Morton, entitled THE Illusion
of Beatrice" OF Maude Fealy's skilled
work In the THE Illusion of Beatrice"
the New York Telegraph recently said:
mot in many years has star won
so pronounced a success as has dainty
Maude Fealy in Martha Morton's latest
creation. The role of Beatrice fits Miss
Fealy like a glove, and her impersona-
ton Is o. high artistic plane. The
production Is one of the really few
genuine successes Of the day."
Miss Fealy will be seen here at the
Lyceum.
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I 8s The best education In the world is
that got BY strugEl fling to- make g Eliv-
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Smoke Puradora Cigar. Clear Havana
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Mr.. Union Man:-Notify your butch
er that the Bell Phone is Unfair.
Excursion Rates for Summer 1905,
Eaaferu POinfa.

Intermediate points at proportionate
rates. On sale daily. Return limit
Sept. 10th, 1905.
Western Points.
Denver, Colo, Colorado Springs,
Colo, Pueblo, Colo. .$31.e5
Salt Lake City, Utah; Ogden,
Utah NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. $4,000
Portland, Ore.; Tacoma, WASH;
Seattle Wash. $4,000
Spokane Wash. $500
San Francisco. CAL; Los Angeles,
CAL, San Diego. Cal. .$71.5o
Vancouver, B. c.: Victoria, B. c. $4,000
Boise City, Idaho. $500
On sale daily, return limit October
31st, 1906.