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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-15

renewing his petition to be permitted
to WOO his daughter, in the hope" he
sentence, and see II ! cannot find an
alteration in my favor" The fathers
reply has not been preserved, but evil
IDENTIFY it was unfavorable. Mistress
Betsy afterward became the wife OF
Thomas Adams, Of Williamsburg. 1t
is tradition of the town that she
married for money instead Of love, and
that washington was rejected because
he had less wealth than her other
sutton.
Years passed. After the victory of
Yorktown, as he was on his way to
Mount Vernon, he visited the town Of
Williamsburg, en- PEASANT. as the guest
Of the people. From the balcony of her
beautiful home, his former sweetheart
watched his triumphal pageant. AS
Washington passed on horseback he
looked up at her balcony, smiled and
saluted with his sword. The lady
tainted
Susceptible Young Mar.
In his "Old Churches and Families
of Virginia" Bishop Mead says that
Washington was an ardent admirer of
Miss Mary Cary, the daughter of Col.
Wilson Cary, for thirty-four years Col
lector of Customs at Hampton, Va.
Col. Cary was a man of large wealth
and aristocratic connections, his elder
daughter having married the daugh-
ter of Lord Fairfax. Washington at
one time asked Col Cary's permission
to pay his addresses to her, but was
refused. The young lady afterward
married Mr.. Edward Amber. who was
great swell among the colonial aris-
tOcracy, being graduate OF Cam
bridge and the owner of large estate
near Jamestown. Mrs. Amber was a
frequent guest at Mount Vernon after
Washington's marriage, as his diary
shows. This love story is only sort
of little interlude.
Four years after his affair with
Betsy Fauntleroy, Washington fell in
love with Miss Mary Phillipse, the
daughter Of a prominent and wealthy
Englishman, Frederick Phillipse, who
lived in superb mansion on the bank
of the Hudson near West Point. While
on journey IN Boston in 1856 he met
this young LADY at the house of her
brother-in-law, Col. Beverly Robinson,
who lived in the same locality. After
a few weeks acquaintance he proposed
to her, but the coquette, although she
had accepted his attentions freely, now
frankly informed him that she was en-
gagged to another. The successful sutton
was Capt Roger Morris, a companion
at arms. who, like Washington, was
an aid to Gen. Braddock in the fatal
Indian campaign.
Miss Phillipse was two years older
49,
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-15


Fauntleroy was addressed one of the
original poems, which is here repro
duced punctuated and capitalized as in
the original:
Oh, We Gods, why should my Poor Resist
less Heart,
Stand to oppose thy might and Power.
AT last surrender to Cupid's feathered
Dart
And now lays bleeding every Hour
For her that's Pity,ess of my grief and
woes,
And will not on me Pity take.
When we read these dreadful effu-
sions and those which follow we are
almost inclined to sympathize with
pretty Betsy in her rejection of the
Father of His Country. To be a
younger son with naught but younger
sons portion is surely bad enough. no
matter how handsome the sutton. or
how excellent his family. But when
he also writes verses like these!
Persistent Suitor.
1t was certainly presumptuous in
young Washington to aim at so rich a
bride. But he was bred a gentleman
and a man of honor in the free school
of Virginia society, and the conscious
ness of this fact led him to MAZE a
second attempt to secure the "Lowland
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-15

fOurteen-year-old lassie, who figures
conspicuously in Washington's diary
and letters for the next few years as
Mistress Betsy" "Beauteous Betsy"
and the "Lowland Beauty"
The home of the Fauntleroys, in
which this first proposal was made,
was a magnificent mansion, which
stood within a beautiful park over
looking the river. Washington had
first met the little lady a few weeks
previously at the Fauntleroy planta-
ton at MAYORS Hold, about fifteen
miles from Wakefield, his birthplace.
II was a case of love at first sight
Years afterward George Washington
Is said to have declared half smiling
", half seriously, that this first love
affair was the most serious he ever
had; then, as though suddenly recol-
Necting himself, he added politely, Tex
ept the last one, which ended In my
marriage"
Some Poor Poetry.
Among the autographs papers OF
<eorge Washington, purchased of his
descendants by the Government of the
United States, and preserved in the
library of the Department of State,
arr four poems, written in his youth
prbably in his seventeenth year. Two
OF them are undoubtedly original, and
are very bad verses. The other two
aremanifestly copied from some news
paper or magazine, perhaps from a
boot. without credit or reference to
THEFT authorship; but the boy who COM
posed the other two could not possibly
have written these as will be seen by
the slightest comparison. TO Betsy
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-15
Bringing Him to Time.

"A new way to induce army officers
to pay old debts" remarked an Official
of the War Department to a Star re-
porter, has been inaugurated by Gen.
Grant, commanding the department Of
the East at New York. In a case In
point, an officer indebted to regimen
tai club to the extent of about $50 was
finally persuaded, after considerable
correspondence, to agree to liQuidate
the indebtedness In small installments
at long intervals, covering more than
a years time. 1t was the best arrange
ment that could be made with him ap-
parently. Soon afterward, however,
the officer applied for leave OF abb
sence. In reply Gen. Grant informed
him that inasmuch as he was not able
to pay q longstanding acknowledged
debt OF $50 in less than one years
time, the military authorities consider
ed it proper to deny the application.
presumably on the ground that the
ofiicer would be less expense II he re-
manned on duty.
when the ofncer received this COM
munication he promptly sent Gen
Grant q check for the entire amount Of
his indebtedness to the club and re-
newed his application for leave. The
reason which prompted the denial
was plunging about IN te severest
having been removed. the application
was granted much to the qualification
Of all parties concerned. ~ Washing
ton Star.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-15
sHREwD SCHEMES or ANIMALS.
Devices Which Show They Come Pref
~ Close to Thinkinn

Devices Which Show They Come Pref
ty Close to Thinking.
They were talking about instinct in
animals. II saw an exhibition of
greediness and cunning by a horse"
said one of them. There were two
old dirt wagon horses that had
stopped for the noon meal. The driv-
err had emptied portion of oats into
a wheelbarrow set at the head of the
two horses, who still remained in the
traces. The horses were to eat out Of
the common mess.
"Old Mr. Bay Horse, who evidently
was veteran in the, dirt wagon line
and possessor of good appetite,
would grab mouthful of oats and
splutter them out on the ground on
his side of the rwheelbarrow. After
he had collected quite a pile on the
ground he commenced on the common
stock, and when he and his compan-
ion had cleaned out the wheelbarrow
old Mr.. Bay Horse turned to his priv
ate store on the ground, while his
companion, from the other side of the
wagon pole, looked hungrily on, but
could do nothing
1 was travelling in the mosquito
country last month";" said the other,
and the mosquitoes were terrible.
They attacked cattle and live stock
and would drive them frantic. At one
place farmer was burning brush in
the field, and I noticed dozen cows
and horses clustered in the lee of the
smoke made by the burning brush.
They would move around as the wind
shifted, always keeping in the smoke
drift, where, of course, no mosquito
could live. And the animals stood
with closed eyes, too"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-15

Don't judge of men by the money
they own, but by their keen sense of
debt and the promptness with which
they meet their obligations. Some
men who are only worth a few thous-
and dollars, pay their debss the day
they are due, and th-re is more salts
faction in transacting business with
them than with others worth hun
dreds OF thousands of dollars, who are
slow pay This rs true of corpora
tions also. 1t is therefore as safe to
do business with The Mississippi Home
insurs nee Company as with one that
has many million, because it has q
twenty years record Of prompt pay
ments.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-15
Cures Blood, Skin L. ouDles, Cancer, Blood
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II your blood is impure, thin, diseased,
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take Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. b. accord
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trouble and special free medical advice also
sent In sealed letter. B. b. B. Is especially
advised for chronic, deep-seated cases Of
impure blood and skin disease, and cures
sfter all else fails.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-15
How,s This /?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure.
F.. CHENEY i Co., Toledo, O.
We. the undersigned have known F. j.
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe him
uerfectly honorable in all business transac-
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obligations made by their firm.
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Halls Catarrh Cureis taken internally, act
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faces of the system. Testimonials sent free.
Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
lake Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-15

were too copious and frequent, and
very bad in appearance. 1t was in 1908
that Doan's Kidney Fills helped me So
quickly and cured me Of these troubles
and I've been we'll ever since"
Sold by all dealers. so cents a box.
Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. 7.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-15
To Honor Patriotic Chef.

Residents of Nice are about to erect
a statue in memory of Nebain Dubois,
who for many years was chief cook to
the kaiser's grandfather. King VIII
liam of Prussia, receiving salary Of
$4,000 year. AS soon as the Franco
Prussian war was declared he re-
signed to fight against his former en-
oloyer.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-15

than Washington, having been born at
Yonkers Oh July 3, $780, Her husband
fought on the British side during the
Revolution, and all her family were
extreme Royalists. In 177S Mrs. Morris
and her sister, Mrs. Robinson. were ac
cused of acting as spies for the British.
They were arrested and imprisoned and
their property confiscated. But If is
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-15

ride in her own coach"
Such were the naughty words which
fell from the lips of William Fauntle-
roy, ESQ.,, wealthy and aristocratic
planter of Fredericksburg, Va. They
were addressed to a blue-eyed lad of
sixteen, who had just asked the plant
er's permission to make proposal of
marriage to his daughter, pretty
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-15

by Bright's Dis
ease, that l know.
/ had eye trouble,
backache, catches
when lying abed
or when bending
over, was lam
guild and often
dizzy and had sick
h ca daches and
b e a rim g down
pains. The kid
ney seer tiOnS 8.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-15

said that Wasnington's influence saved
his former sweetheart from more Sc
we're punishment. 1t was in the Phil
lipse mansion nat Benedict Arnold
was residing when he betrayed his
country, and from their grounds he
took the boat which carried him within
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-15

fsyior's Cherokee Kennedy OF Sweet Gum
and Mullen Is Natures great remedy-Cures
Coughs, Colds, Group and Consumption,
And an throat and lung troubles. At drug
pists. z5c.. b0c and 81. 90 per bottle.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-15

A Guaranteed Cure For Piles.
itching, Blind, Bleedinc, Protrudtug Pilas.
Druggists are authorized TO refund money!,
Pazo Ointment fails o cure in 6 to IA DAYS. Soc.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-15

Beauty" when he was twenty years
old. He had just returned from voy-
age to Barbados with his brother
Lawrence, who was in feeble health
at the time and who died soon after
his return home To the same naughty
Mr.. Fauntleroy he addressed letter
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-15

E that is your business
here, sir, | wish you to
leave the house. My
daughter"-with a singing
emphasis in the words
"has been accustomed to
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-15

England's first spinning wheel to be
worked by electricity has been started at
Pendlebury.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-15

Itch cured In ~ minutes by Woolford's
Sanitary Lotion; never fails. Sold by
Druggists. Mail orders promptly filed
by DR.. Detchon, Charlottesville, Ind. 81.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-15
DEATH SEEMED NEAR.

How . Chicago Woman Found Help
When Hope Was Fast Fading Away.
Mrs. E. T. Gould, 514 w. Lake ST.,
Chicago, ILL.,, says: 'Doanss Kidney
Pills are all that saved me from death
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-15

Enlightened men will freely follow
where fools can not be led.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-15

To Cure u Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
Druggists refund money if 1t fails to cure. E.
" Groves signature on each box. Csc.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-15

Salvation is lot more than q sal
wage department..
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-15

The late Charles I. Yerkes was a col
miner in his youth.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-15

Congressman Longworth's great-grand
father was native of Newark, N. j.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-15

Better blushing cheek than a
black heart.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-15

FITSnermanentlycu No fits or nervous
ness after first days use fDr Kline's Grea.
Nerve Restorer, S2trial bottle andtreatisefree
DR.. R. II. KLINE, Ltd, 931 Arch St., Phila., Pa.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-15

It's foolish fly that accepts an in
vitation to walk into the spiders par
lOy
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A Guaranteed

j. j. Miller is the oldest clerk in servic
of the National Government.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-02-07
LUMBER PRICES
60 A-SOARING
GREAT DEMAND AND LIMITED
SUPPLY THE EXCUSE.
MANUFACTURERS CONTROL
Bill Stuff Has Sharp Advance by AS
ISOLATION of Manufacturers Which
Controls the Output of Northern
Miils-Local Dealers Have Nothing
to do But Submit.

The Northern Pine Manufacturers
association has signalized its birth as
the representative organization of the
manufacturing lumber interests of
Minnesota and Wisconsin by advanc-
ing prices. One dollar per thousand
tells the story Of the increase along the
lines of "2x4-16" and other common
lumber generally used in the construc-
ton of buildings The new assOcia-
ton tas formed recently at Min
neapolis by the consolidation of the
Mississippi valley and the Wiscon-
sin valley lumbermen's associations.
Lumber stocks are low everywhere
in the northwest, and the lumbermen
are in a position to charge whatever
prices they please. The present l4ice
of 2x4-16-studding used in buildings
is $3.50, and from now on the price
will be $3.50 to 500 Other items have
been raised proportonately
Since 1895 the price of lumber has
nearly doubled, and the demand is
still for such vast quantities that no
one OF the thousands OF lumber yards
throughout the northwest has now
stock on hand suitable to its needs
The cry is for lumber lumber,
more of It's kind more of that kind.
more CT any kind, and the manufac-
turers, unable TO furnish stocks at any
price, are taking advantage Of the con
ditons An objection was urged
against the advance by the conserva-
tive members owing to the attitude It
placed the lumbermen in regarding
the tariff on Canadian lumber. II
was pointed out that the Canadians
are now paying little attention to the
So tariff but are shipping in large
quantities of their product, the Amer
can consumer paying the freight" in
all instances.
1T is a straight case OF a tremend-
Gus demand and a limited supply,
said wholesale dealer. we haven't
lumber enough to 90 around, and If
people will bid up the prices, what
are we To do? Refuse TO take more
than is offered for It? Hardly"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-02-07
OUR VALENTINES.

We sent a valentine one day
To our dear father, far away.
1t was a splendid big affair,
OF loves and doves and blossoms fair,
OF Cupids, roses, hearts and lace,
And on each rose you saw face
A photograph so cute and wee
Of Archie, Bessie, Nell and me-
A big rose made the thing complete.
With mothers picture smiling sweet,
And verses: Dear, for thee We pine.
Say, wilt thou be our valentina?"
Soon came the answer thick ana wide.
And eagerly we looked inside.
Twas just a beauty, heaped with lots
And piles of sweet forget-me nots.
And verses, too: Dear loves of mine
sure will be your valentine,
Your love is sweeter than the flowers
That perfume all the summer hours
Each night, before my eyelids close,
kiss with ardor every rose,
Goodbye, AS long as sunbe2ms
shine
I'll be your loving valentine
ZEthelwyn Wetherald.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-02-07
STAND UP STRAIGHT.

Brooklyn Standard Union--ls there
anything more unsightly to an admir-
r. OF the human form divine than to
see bent men and women, not bent
by age or sickness, but in many cases
young, or comparatively young. per
sons with rounded shoulders and mol
low chests? The ancient Greeks be
.ieved in physical perfection, and
strove for it, slrenuousIy at lines, and
Homer depicts Thefdles, tn twisted
bent creature. as the emblem Of ali
hat IS morally crooi Cd Dr. ". c. Lat
5on, in the Outlook for January, adyo-
eating A Reational System Of Physical
Development. says the world. may in
a broad general way, be divided into
wO great classes--the erect and the
nerect, the strong and the weak, and
hat in an investigation covering the
Measurement of several thousand
asses he found less than one per cent
Who were erect This is a startling
statement. especially when one consid.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-02-07

ers what a cramped attitude in stand
ing or walking means. He gives the
reason why an erect carriage is i'm
portant. and It should engage the at
tentiOn of every one who wishes for
health and long life. 1t is because
when the body is not erect it is under
constant muscular strain, but when it
is erect the vital organs have elbow
room" to DO their necessary work of
digestion and blood circulation. He
gives reasons why this is not neces-
sary to repeat here.
The question of physical develop
ment, he says. is receiving wide at
tention. but the tangible results are
far from what they should be. What
he wants to see is not more trained
all-around athletes, interesting as
their performances are. for one may
be all that, and yet he possessed of
grave physical defects, but moro
healthy men and women, with per
fectly erect, poised figure. a straight
spine, a broad deep and capaciouS
chest, uplifted and flexible, and har
monious development of all the mus
cles And il is easy 10 attain this
condition. The doctor does not recon-
mend any new system, with costly
gymnastic apparatus. nor wearying
violent exercises. but a simple process
that has been in practice through
countless years by millions in whom
it has developed all these desirable
bodily characteristics " 1t is very
simple The ordinary stretch. ac
companied by the deep. retaine,
breath commonly called a 'vawn." is
he says. 'in and of itself, the mos'
recuperative exercise conceivable
Others would call the ''yawn" an in
haltion. OF course this Is not all. 70!
the doctor recommends IN inarduous
physical exercise formerly known as
calisthenics, in contradistinction &c
gymnastics. which, he says. train onl,
one set Of muscles, while this simple
system trains all. for true exercise
is not work; it is play" SAYS he. H
gives details of this exercise with il
/ Illustrations, which those unfamiliar
with the subject might study witt
profit Certainly when it is so easy r
matter 10 attain an erect carriage
by easy exercise. it seems a shame
We should have any stoop-shouldered
hollow-chested. consumptiye creatures
among us "A sound mind in a sount
body" is what the doctor, in effect
says this results in, for one thing
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-02-07
Drink More Water.

Free water drinking is another es-
sential to vitality and to the develop
ment of staying power. All the oper
atoms of the body, digestion. assim-
ilation, absorption, elimination Of
poisonous waste and so on, are carried
on by means of water: and an INSULT
cient amount of water in the system
means embarrassment of every func-
ton. The body of man of average
weight contains more than half bar
rel of water; and such body needs 70.
its proper operation at least two
quarts daily of pure water In this
connection, it may not be irrevelanI
to mention that the Japanese soldiers,
whose surprising powers are now en-
gaging the admiration of the world,
consume each between two and -four
gallons of water daily.-W. r. c. Lat.
son, NJ. D., in Outing Magazine
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-02-07

for the purpose of Irritation. But she
found Cyril Kingsley extremely hard
metal; smiled she ever so sweetly,
she could scarcely ever get more than
a "good-day," or 'good-evening," from
him. 1t is true that this was pleas
antly given, for Cyril Kingsley was
perfectly chiyalrous in his manner TO
women, and his grave courtesy won
every female heart about the place.
At certain hours of the day, Cyril
Kingsley could always be relied upon
to pass the cottages-wnen he went
out in the morning, when he came
home to dinner, and often when he
returned 10 the farm for the evening;
and at these times Polly generally
happened to be at the gate, either ar
ranging a flower in her dress, or do
ing, a little knitting, or reading a
book; and always as he passed, Cyril
Kingsley nodded, and gave her SINH
ing "good-morning," or 'goodeven-
ing" Once or twice he had stopped
to speak to old Marsden, and then
Polly would smile pleasantly, and ask
after Mrs Tibbett and the children.
or the young calves-anything served
for topic for conversation.
This evening Polly was at the gate,
looking expectantly down the road:
and when Cyril Kingsley strobe In
sight she watched him eagerly.
Presently he came abreast with the
gate, and, as usual, nodded, but with
out his usual smile, and Polly saw
that he was not only grave, but wet
through. which was enough 10 make
man grave.
"Good-evening, Mr. Kingsley she
said; then, "Oh. whatever is the mat
ter? Why, you are wringing wet!'
"Eh?" said Cyril, stopping short
he had forgotten all about his damp
condition-"yes, have been in the
water"
after one of those wretched sheep
l suppose. Oh. Mr.. Kingsley. you'll
catch your death" said Polly, with
fattering anxiety.
To be Continued.