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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-02-20

the Banquet Hall at Mount Ver-
non."
In the Writings of George Wash
ington" by Sparks (Vol. TX, page
2S1) there is letter from Washing
ton dated Mount Vernon, IL Novem-
ber, 1887, in which he indicates an
error in the plan, as follows:
"The letter without date, with
which you were pleased to honor me,
accompanied by plan of this seat,
came to my hands by the last post.
For both I pray you to accept my
hearty and sincere thanks. The plan
describes with accuracy the houses,
walks and shrubs, except in the front
of the lawn, west of the courtyard.
(The bottom of the plan is west =.
There the plan differs from the origi-
nal. In the former you have closed
the prospect with trees along the
walk to the gate; whereas in the
latter the trees terminate with two
mounds of earth, one on each side,
on which grow weeping willows,
leaving an open and full view of the
distant woods. The mounds are sixty
yards apart. l mention this, because
1t is the only departure from the
original. THE Century.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-02-20
A GEORGE WASHINGTON TEXT.

The life of so many-sided man
as Washington furnishes all varieties
of texts for anniversary orators.
Texts for war and peace, for COM
merce and industry, for moral re-
proof, for every contingency which
arises.
Perhaps as appropriate a text as
could be desired Is to be found in a
letter written by Washington to
Hamilton in which he said that Of
all possible distinctions he valued
highest that most enviable of titles,
an honest man."
This was the opinion, confirmed
by years of experience, of the man
who as a boy had learned the moral
precept, Labor to keep alive In
your heart that little spark of divine
fire called conscience" In the year
that has passed since last Washing
tons Birthday the significance and
Importance of this sentiment have
been sufficiently emphasized.-New
York World.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-02-20
LIBERTY.

What man is there SO bold that he should
say,
Thus, and thus only, would 1 have the
seaW
For whether lying calm and beautiful,
Clasping the earth in love, and throwing
back
The smile of heaven from waves of anne
thyst;
Or whether, freshened by the busy winds,
1t bears the trade and navies of the world
10 ends of use or stern activity;
Or whether, lashed by tempests, it gives
way
To elemental fury, howls and roars
At all its rocky barriers, in wild lust
OF ruin drinks the blood of living things,
And strews, it wrecks DER leagues of desc
late shore
Always it is the sea, and men bow down
Before its vast and varied majesty.
So all in vain will timorous ones essay
To set the metes and bounds of Liberty.
For Freedom is its own eternal law;
1t makes its own conditions, and in storm
Or calm alike fulflls the unerring Will.
Let us not then despise it when it lies
Still as q, sleeping lion, while a swarm
OF gnat-like evils hover round its head;
Nor doubt it when in mad, disjointed
It shakes the torch of terror, and its cry
Shrills o'er the quaking earth, and in the
flame
OF riot and war we see its awful form
Rise by the scaffold, where the crimson AK
Rings down its grooves the knell of shud-
dering kings.
Forever in thine eyes, o Liberty,
Shines that high light whereby the world
is saved,
And though thou slay us, we will trust in
thee.
John Hay.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-02-20
LABOR WORLD.

John Horn has been connected with
the Mount Washington Railway for
thirty-two years, and the last twelve
as its superintendent.
Labor leaders in Washington al
legged wrongful practices of ship sub
sidy promoters to make labor men
appear as favoring bill.
Sacramento (Cal.) glass workers
have reached an agreement with their
employers and returned to work.
Both sides made concessions.
The Richmond, Fredericksburg and
Potomac Railway has granted the re-
quest of the Brotherhood of Con-
ductors for an eight-hour day.
Nashville (Tenn.) machinists have
a new scale. Those working in the
machine shops of the city will re-
ceive thirty-three and one-third cents
an hour.
Journeymen Horseshoers' Interna-
tional Union has raised the per capita
tax to twenty-five cents q month and
adopted the stamp system for the
payment of dues.
Union glass chimney workers are
asking the manufacturers to with
draw the sliding scale adopted year
ago, according to which they are
working under q twenty-five per cent.
reduction.
After many weeks of effort, repre-
sentatives of the Master Horseshoers'
Association, of Minneapolis, Mimi,
and the union journeymen have sue
ceeded in reaching joint working
agreement.
The laboring men of Hamilton,
Canada, are so jubilant over electing
candidate for the Dominion Legis-
lature that the talk now is of in
dorsing candidates for Mayoralty and
for Aldermen.
Street car traffic in Lima. Peru,
was recently suspended as result of
a strike of the motormen and con-
ductors. The company agreed to ar
bitrate the differences and the men
went back to work.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-02-20


with her sweet and solemn voicai
for the stricken couple. All day long
she was busy with these errands Of
grace, or in the kitchen at the stone
house, or in urging other women to
lend helping hand. And when she
passed along the lines of the troops
she would sometimes hear the fer
vent cry of God bless Lady Wash
ington!' or Long live Lady WASH
ington!' Well, indeed, might the men
feel that they could fight to their
very last drop of blood with a COM
mander whose wife, who was former
ly the belle and leader of her set
among the danes and damsels of Vir-
ginia, was not ashamed to be seen
darning his and her own stockings!"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-02-20

women, we must be patterns of in
dustry.' She did not hesitate to wear
brown dress and speckled apron
when receiving fastidious and ele-
CANT visitors at Morristown. 1t was
said afterward that she acquired her
inveterate habit of knitting in her
zeal at Valley Forge to relieve the
bare-footed men around her. On
every fair day she might be seen
walking through the rude streets of
the town of huts with basket in
her hand. Entering the hut of a
sergeant, she found him dying on a
pallet of straw, his wife beside him
in the anguish of final separation.
She ministered to his comfort with
food prepared by her own hands.
Then kneeling she earnestly prayed
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-02-20

interested III JlG SKeJCN
map of the grounds at Mount Vernon.
1t was made in color by Mr.. Samuel
vaughan, merchant of London, who
visited General Washington at Mount
Vernon in 1887, and is part of man.
uscript journal kept by Mr.. Vaughan
during a journey through Pennsyl-
vania, Maryland and Virginia. This
journal is now in the possession of a
descendant of its author, Mr.. Benja-
min Vaughan, of Boston, who has
furnished the Century with a copy of
the plan, and the following descrip.
ton Of them taken from the journal
literally except as to paragraphing:
''The Generals house is SO feet
by 32 upon an eminence, with a
piazza next the Potomack of like
length 141A feet wide and IS feet
high. Between the house & the
River is :. Lawn about 100 yards
broad, from thence Declining to the
River about 400 yards on which is a
hanging wood, but not seen from the
house, from which the River appears
to be very near, 7s of a mile over,
but higher and lower much wider,
and meanders in different directions.
Maryland on the opposite side of the
River, is variegated and in high cul-
tivation. On each end of the house
there are sections of semi-circular
collonades to outhouses, from whence
a street is formed on each side at
right angles above 200 feet long in
which are sundry houses for dome
sticks, Tradesmen, Workshops, &c.
Before the front of the house (Which
has a cupola in the centre) there are
lawns, surrounded with gravel walks
10 feet wide, with trees on each side
the larger, for shade, outside the
walks trees and strawberries.
Parallel to each exterior side
Kitchen Gardens, with a stately hot
house on one side, the exterior side
of the garden enclosed with brick
wall, vide a sketch on the ether
side.-
1.-THE General has near $4,000
acres surrounding this delightful
WHClCOh ui . oCfOioi = oi hoJ
five of which are kept under cultiva-
tion, under separate negro overseers,
who every Saturday night gave an
exact account of the Stock the in
crease, decrease, condition, work
done, &C., &c.
1.-THE General breakfasts at Z then
mounts his horse G. canters 6 days in
the week to every one, circuit of
about 20 miles, inspecting and giving
directions for management at each
& returns home at 2 O'Clock.
''In good years he raises 10000
bushels of wheat like quantity of
corn besides Oats barley r.H buck
wheat peas potatoes, &C.. breeds
horses Cattle mules & has 700 sheep,
plants no tobacco, has an excellent
grist mill on creek supplied by
various springs collected in run of
two miles, flower, &C., shipped on
craft in the creek very near the
River, has fishery & ferry.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-02-20

A young man in Illinois was killed
when a train struck his automobile,
and his relatives having sued for dam.
ages were awarded the sum of one
dollar. The verdict has just been af-
firmed by the appellate court. The
decision, it appears, says the Indian.
apolis Star, was rendered on the
ground that the man was a bachelor,
with no one dependent on him, and
the natural assumption, is therefore,
that the dollar represented, in the
Judgment Of the jury, the value of an
unmarried man TO the community.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-02-20
WARNING AGAINST DESPOTISM.

Caution those intrusted with ad-
ministration to confine themselves
within their respective constitutional
spheres, avoiding in the exercise OF
the powers of one department en-
croachment upon another The spirit
of encroachment tends to consolidate
the powers of all departments in one,
and thus to create, whatever the
form of government, a real despot-
.-Washington's Farewell Ad-
dress.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-02-20
WASHINGTON'S HALF-BROTHER

Lawrence Washington, Georges
half-brother, returned from England
a fine young gentleman when George
was still going to "Mr. Hobby's old
field" school, diligently learning to
misspell. There was a pretty affec-
ton between George and his half
brother. Lawrence went off again,
a doughty captain in the Kings
navy, to whip the Spanish.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-02-20
WASHINGToN's CHARACTER.

America has furnished to the
world the character of Washington.
And IL our American institutions had
done nothing else, that alone would
have entitled them to the respect
of mankind.-Daniel Webster.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-02-20
RECITATION FOR A o-YEAR-oLD

Pm just a very little boy,
/ never fired a gun;
! never led an army,
Like brave George Washington.
And though like him l may not fight
To set people free,
III try to be as brave and true,
As kind and good as he.
Alice Jean Cleator.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-02-20
WHEN COOKING STEAK.

When beef is tough, twice cooking
improves it. Steak half cooked will
keep in hot weather and when wanted
the process can be completed with ex-
cellent results.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-02-20

by JOsepn wright.
From the original portrait, in the
United States National Museum,
Washington, District of Columbia;
owned by Mr.. G. l.. Mexican, Chicago,
Illinois. Canvas, II by 21 inches.
In 1870 Joseph Wright painted a
portrait of Washington and etched
a small profile, which is the same
as the portrait reproduced except
that the body in the etching is also
in profile. Washingtons profile is
very attractive, and the simplicity
and directness of this one have
charm of reality which is its highest
recommendation, while the etched
profile from its first publication was
universally accepted for its correct
ness Of line. and expression.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-02-20

Glass brushes are used by artists
who decorate china. They are made
Of glass fibers as thin as spun silk.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-02-20
MARTHA WASHINGTON IN CAMP.
At Valley Forge She Knit Stockings
For Her Husbands Bare-Footed
Heroes,

Martha Washington was then
forty-five years of age, and those
who went to the camp and expected
to find her arrayed in the gowns
which they had supposed would be
worn by the Generals wife were dis
appointed" writes William Perrine
of "Washington's Christmas at Valley
Forge" in the Ladies' Home Jour
nal. Whilst our husbands and
brothers are examples of patriot
ism,' she would say to her country
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-02-20
by David dangers.

BY David dangers.
The bust was cast by Hohwiller;
the pedestal was cut from the marble
quarries of Berring Nicoli at Car
rara; the bronze plate, in the style
Of Louis XVI, was made by the tai
ented artist in metal, Charles Du-
pont.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-02-20

R?s$$s: a s !e: y: &. 5:;;; III ;;s;:
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-02-20

Seventy-three lynchings, apportion-
ed to fifteen states is the record for
last year.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-02-20
A PLAN OF MOUNT VERNON, MADE 1887.

photograph Coolidge Of the original color sketch owned by
Benjamin Vaughan.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-31
FEEDS -FOUR MILLION.
Chinese Government Confronted by
a Gigantic Duty.
FAMINE IS FEARFUL.
Terrible Story of Starvation, Each
Member of a Family Perishing
In River, Offspring Thaown
In, Parents Shielding.

Washington, Jan. 31.-Appalling con
ditions in China as the result of the
famine, told in Chinese newspapers
and other mail adviCes received at the
state department. coupled with a warn
Ing by Consul General Rodgers of pos
sibIe affects of outbreaks which daily
occur in the famine districts affected.
have attracted to the attention OF the
government authorities and develop
ments will be closely watched.
one OF the greatest dangers which
rellet workers confront is epidemic
IN the great concentration camps
which have been formed by refugees,
who fed from stricken districts to the
south by the tens o thousands, people
live, some of them only partially
clothed, others entirely naked, in mud
huts held together by netting Medical
supplies and skill are badly needed in
these self-formed habitations as we'll
as clothing
Native officials and authorities are
doing their utmost to control the stu
alton, but the task is now far beyond
them, and outside aid is badly needed.
The government has opened public re-
lief works where men can secure EN-
ployment.
Estimates have been made as to
the cost of feeding each starving per
son and the total amount will reach
close to $4,000 daily. This estimate
is based on the calculation that 1900,
600 people are actually starving.
Some of the incidents Of the famine
related in the Chinese press are most
revolving. A story is told of one fam
ily-mother, father and two children.
The mother left home in search Of
food. While she was away the father,
despairing OF aid, threw both children
into river. The mother returned and
learning what had happened threw
herself into the river and was drown
ed. The grief-stricken father followed.
and thus the whole family persisted.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-31
THE NORTH LOUISIANA COT
TON PLANTERS AS
CnrIATInN
SOCIAT HON

In the court house. OH Wednesday.
January 80, there was held a meeting of
the North Louisiana Cotton Planters
Association. In this gathering were men
who have for years been striving to adj
vance the best interests OF all growers
of cotton Until the growers Of cotton
had effected some system of organiza-
ton they were more or less at the mercy
of the rapacious spectators whose pur-
pose was to keep cotton at the minimum
pirce As was well said by Captain
Marston, the State organizer, cotton
will never again sell Tor less than ten
cents a. pound In his speech Captain
Marston presented facts which could not
be disputed. The growers Of cotton have
been in sense the hewers, Of wood and
the drawers of water for coterie Of
spectators who have grown rich and
powerful at the expense Of the tillcr Of
the soil Not only have encouraging re
suits been derived through the associa-
ton of cotton planters, on the advance
of the price of the staple, but the seed.
which had limited value as the price
was controlled by trusts, has been en-
HANGED and commands recognition il
had not enjoyed preceding the Birming
ham meeting.
Since the trusts are organized against
the producers and the consumers, it is
but natural that the producers of cotton
should be combined intelligently and
protect their interests. The organization
of the growers Of cotton is being
strengthened every day, and in little
while will embrace in its membership all
growers of cotton in the States of the
South.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-31
"a JUDGMENT.

No. ro,o27-In the First Judicial Dis
trict Court Of Caddo Parish, Louis
lana Mrs Lula Robertson VS.. J. D.
Robertson.
In the above cause, by reason Of the
default having been duly taken, and after
legal delays duly proven lip in open
court, the law and evidence being in
favor thereof, ii IS ordered. adiu..ged
and decreed that the plaintiff, Mrs Lila
Robertson. wife Of j. d. Robertson, dc
have and recover judgment agaissst her
husband, j p. Robertson. dissoivirg the
community OF aequets and gains hereto
fore existing between them as man ard
wife. and giving and granting 10 the
said Mrs. Lula Robertson the sole right
70 manage and control in her own name
any and all paraphernaI property that
she now has or may hereafter acquire
It Is further ordered and decreea that
the defendant pay all cosi, and that deie
notice and publication. Of this Judgment
be advertised as the law directs
Thus done, read and signed IN ope:s
court on this December ID, Ioo6.
Z. BELL Judge.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-31
FORAKER'S FIGHT.

The Monroe Star saws. sForaker's
fight in behalf of the discharged negro
soldiers may result in the disruption of
the Republican party rat least, there is
likely to be division which may Sc
riously affect the success Of the party
The brotherly love which formerly &C.
mented the party is a thing of the past J;
it was beautiful while it lasted, but it is
gone forever. A certain element of the
party hates Roosevelt worse than Satan
hates holy water while another wing
worships at the Presidents feet. Una
niniity no longer exists A ray of sun
shine appears behind the cloud =
The Foraker fight is nothing more
nor less than a grand stand play. Pos
sibly Roosevelt and Foraker do not
speak now as they pass each other since
Roosevelt at the Gridiron Club where in
a speech he said: "All coons look alike
to me- to which Foraker retorted
fercely, All persons, as well as eoons,
look alike to me However wide the
chasm of words, Roosevelt and Foraker
and their satellites will rally as one man
on the waving of the Bloody Shirt.
Without his thunder Foraker would at
tract little attention Seriously no sane
man should entertain the possible dis
ruption OF the Grand Old Party as long
as political plumber is in sight.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-31
ANOTHER PANEL ORDERED.
Thaw and His Wife Sat Together For
Ten Minutes,

New York, Jan. 31-Another panel
Of 100 men has been ordered for the
Thaw trial
H. G. Brearley, an advertising agent,
was selected as the tenth juror.
Mrs. Evelyn Nesbitt Thaw and Miss
May Mackenzie were again early ar
rivals at the courtroom Wednesday.
When Clifford Hartridge, Thaw's lead
ing counsel came into court young
Mrs. Thaw extended her hand and
greeted, him cordially After a brief
chat Mr.. Hartridge escorted Mrs.
Thaw and her compaion into the pris-
oner's pen, where there was a touch
Ing scene between the accused man
and his wife. The two sat together for
ten minutes or more, exchanging conf
dences. ThaW was disappointed on
entering the courtroom to find that his
wife was the only member of the fam
lily present. The others, 1t was stated,
had been detained uptown by a heavy
snowstorm, which began early Tues
day night, and continued Wednesday.
There was wild story going the
rounds of the criminal court building
to the effect that there was a fund of
100000 for use in corrupting jurors
1t was given no credence whatever in
an irresponsible quarters. 1t was also
stated that talesmen who are yet to
be examined are under surveillance OF
county detectives, but this could not
be verified
The statement of Harold r. Faire,
one of the jurors excused, that he
could offer no explanation as to why
he was replaced in the jury box was
repeated on many sides, and it was ru-
mored he might demand in court an ex-
PLANTATION of the action taken in his
case.
For the first time talesmen called
Wednesday were asked specifically if
the yhad been approached by anyone
in connection with the case, or wheth-
er they had discussed the case.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-31
BURTON AND BAILEY.

Some of the last charges made against
Senator Bailey are of a very serious
character. Il is charged that he has ae-
cepted compensation for using his inhu-
tnce before the departments Of the gov
ernment i'll behalf OF individuals and
corporations. Such charges may lead to
an investigation by the United States
Senate and to indictment and trial be-
fore the United States court Burton
is now in prison for that SORT of thing.
Homer Guardian Journal
But Bailey IS not Burton, and Bailey
has been yindicated by an endorsement
Of the Texas Legislature and reelected
for another term Of six years in the
United States Senate.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-31
GOVERNOR SHOT DOWN.
Political Prison Official Dies Almost
instantly From Wound.

St. Petersburg, JAN 31.-M. Guide.
ma, governor of the political prison in
Vassili Ostroff, a suburb, was shot on
street there Wednesday, diving al.
most instantly.
The assassin, youth of eighteen
years, dressed as a workman, emerged
from tea house as M. Guidema was
passing on his way home and shot him
twice In the stomach. The youth also
shot and mortally wounded the prison
warden who accompanied NJ. Guidema.
and who pursued the assassin. The
latter disappeared
Guidema was sentenced to death by
the local group of Terrorists for the
merciless use of the lash in suppress.
ing the hunger strike which prison,
ers declared a fortnight ago as a pro
test against the killing by guard OF
a prisoner who was leaning out of a
window. Guidema caused the prison.
ers to be ffogged in order to force
them to eat
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-31
FRUITS AND NUTS.

APPLES-Per Dbl: Choice $3,25a
SO; fancy $3.z5a4oo.
ORANGES-Per box: California ma
.e1s $2.z5a3.oo,
LEMONS-Pcr box $aoa4oo,
WALNUTS-Per lb. California I6c !;
Iaples &c.
PEANU TS-Raw hand picked pc:
b. Ease; &c higher on all grades roasted
RAISINS-London layers, new crop
;I,coa2. 90.
PECANS-Per ID. Texas zoe.
ALMONDS-Per ID. 16c.
BRAZIL NUTS-Per lb. &c.
COCOANUTS- Per 100 $375.
CURRANTS-Per pkg. 1oc