New-York tribune., 1908-02-23

with him Yet he was his friend, and had seen .'
roll on the ground. Few facts about Washlhs'o"
personality full of significance
Upon grave questions his mind was in the hap''
of acting slowly and he generally reached cohoiu
sons only after long deberation-With the reSui'
that Jefferson and other public of his day pro-
nounced his Judgment the soundest they mao eNei
known; but there were moments In Dattie' anu o'i
moments well. when he acted Win piop
noes that must have been appalling. He came one
dav during the Cambridge winter upon the oesi'
ming of a fight between some soldiers newly ariVeu
from Virginia and some Yankee troops 1he Ne"
EngIanders had made fun of the Southerhers c's
tune and though harmless snoWDalihs was "
they at first induged in they had got further "hei
Washington rode upon the scene Such fight was
f,11 of danger to cause. as jealousy oetWee"
North and South was bitter The commander In
chief sprang instantly from his horse. seized t"o
Virginans by their throats, and shook thefn To-
gether until. when he had finished. everybody eise
taken prudent departure and the stage was
vacant.
Another slight incident but little known used
to he told to Phadephians recently surviving oy
a participant in 1t. Whep scarce more than boy
he had carpenters apprentice. ana one iiioii'
ing had been sent early to the house "here tiio
President was living to make some repairs ne Hel
upon the staircase a young colored girl cleaning
and the scream that she raised on account of some
familiarity that he took with her brought instantly
ont into the hall tall figure whose face was COW
cred with shaving lather- What in -- are you
DOING" th1ndered the figure: and the next the ap-
prentice knew he flying down the stairs ana
so out of the front door, assisted at the bottom
b,, q secretary And So he used to conclude,
when he narrated this adventure, Il had the honor
of being kicked by General Washington
Nothing more reveals Washington man and
makes US realize him than the many pages OF letters
and of diaries that he wrote on the SUBJECT OF HIS
farming Mount Vernon.
The following is taken from various pages IN his
diaries and directions;
You will be particularly attentive to my negroes
in their sickness and order every overseer pos
itively to be SO likewise: for sorry to observe
that the generality of them view these poor crea-
lures in scarcely any other light than they do a
draft horse or OK, instead of comforting them ana
nursing them when they lye on sick bed. Doll
at the Ferry be taught to knit. and made TO
do sufficient days work of it Lame Peter. "
nobody else will. teach her. Tell house Frank
7 expect he will lay up more penteous store OF
the black common walnut. And | wish you
would reprehend the severely for suffering
the sheep under their respective get foul
as l saw them when was at home. -. find by
the reports that Sam is. in manner. always re-
turned sick; Doll the Ferry and several of the
spnners very frequently So for month at
stretch: and ditcher Charles often laid up with
lameness -. What sort of ameness is Dicks
and what kind of sickness is Betty Daviss? more
lazy deceitrul and impudent huzzy is not to be
found in the United States. 1 am as uH-
wiling have any person in my service forced to
work when they unable as am to have them
skuIk from il when they are fit for it. II
some of the nights in which overseers are frocking
were spent in watching the barns. visiting the
negro quarters a unexpected hours. waylayfng the
roads or contrving some device by which the re-
ceivers of stolen goods might be entrapped 1t would
rebound much more TO their own credit than run
ming about
There may we'll be thousand large pages OF
such details: orders about corn, tobacco. spinning
breeding animals. planting trees ditchng, rotation
crops-and all in the same vigorous, homely style
of English. full of common sense Kindness justice.
knowledge the soil and its herbs, disclosing the
huge energy of the writer and his marvellous grasp
of detail. But imagine early historians and In
structors permitting to know that the great
Washington wrote such words as "a more
lazy deceitfuI and impudent huzzy is not to be
found in the United States.