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Washinston's Crested Carriage.

of England. William of Normandy
was the victor, ard King Harold, with
tens of thousands of his English, was
among the slain. The victorious
French marched to London, and on
Christmas day they proclaimed their
dashing leader William /, Conqueror
and King of England"
King William, like all his French
knights, loved the French ideals of
government, church and home, and in
fused into the old English national
and domestic life all the customs of
his native land. Even the English
language, which William never could
learn, was gradually set aside, and
among the loyal French knights who
assisted the Conqueror in enforcing
his reforms was the distant kin of
George Washington. This early an
cestor of our first president was num-
bered among the intimates of the
King, and was one Of the leaders of
the French Conquest. In the past,
American historians, possibly because
Of the strong influence upon literature
exercised by England, placed the
Washington ancestry as beginning in
that country; but careful investigation
bears out the statement that the
Washingtons were of definite and d.
rect French origin. They were French
both in sentiment and training, and
the original name was De Hertburn.
a.
was the name changed, and what in
duced these faithful French subjects
of William of Normandy to assume an
English cognomen? The explanation
is simple enough William the Con-
queror was a careful and far-seeing
man. He realized that his usurpation
of the English throne was very RAD
zeal departure in governmental ex-
pertinent, to say the least; and he was
anxious to mould the people, whom
he had made his vassals by dint of
the strong hand, into as close dupli-
Gates of the French as possible. In
other words. he strove to implant the
French ideals into the English char
acter as deeply as circumstances per-
mitted. The complicated heraldic rec
ords found in the pages of the famous
'Doomsday Book" is undoubtedly the
pest evidence that the King wished
TO make his radical campaign of perm
anent record, and hence great num-
her of men of education and ability
were occupied in diligently surveying
and noting all the land and water con-
ditions of England. They also in these
visitations made lengthy entries as to
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-02-16
MANY STAR BATTERS
Where Star SIuggers of 1911
Will Report This Year.
Several of Hard Hitting Players In
Minors Have Been Drafted by Ma
tional and American League
Ciubs-Few Unnoticed

Following is list of the best bat
ters in the business, the 1911 cham
pions and the 1912 destinations as well
being included herein:
Southern League-Smith, Nashville,
and Pratt, Montgomery, tied, 316;
Smith reports to Brooklyn and Pratt
to st. Louis.
American Association = Cravath,
Minneapolis, 300; reports to Philadel-
phia, National league.
American League-Cobb, Detroit,
,420; reports to Detroit, American
league.
Appalachian League - Thrasher.
Cleveland. .351; reports 1912 to Cleve-
land, Appalachian league.
Blue Grass league-Mayer. Paris,
1852; reports 1912 to Atlanta, South
ern league.
Carolina sociation-Wofford, Char.
lotte, Carolina association.
Central Association = Holy Cross,
Muscatine, .361; reports 1912 to Chi
cago, American league.
Central League-Connolly, Terre
Haute, 1863; reports 1912 to Terre
Haute, Central league.
Connecticut League = Rossback,
Hartford, 1885, reports 1912 to Hart.
ford, Connecticut league.
Cotton State League-Smith, Hat.
tiesburg, .401; reports 1912 to Hatties.
burg, Cotton State league.
Eastern League-Perry, Providence
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adelphia May 3. 1892, the third year
of his presidency, and the package
was sealed with the Washington fam
lily arms as is indicated in a letter
which reads:
The arms enclosed in your letter
are the same that are held by the
family here; though | have also seen,
and have used, as you may perceive
by the seal to this packet, flying
griffin for the crest"
The Washington crest, "a raven is
suing from a ducal coronet, gold.' was
evidently given because of the sports
manship of the early English Wash
ingtons. In fact the crow. falcon and
hawk have been for more than four
hundred years the emblem of sport.
The pastime of hawking was engaged
in only by the wealthy and the Wash
ingtons were noted for their love of
hunting and sporting. Benson j.
Losing lent some color to the fore
going conclusion when he wrote OF
the English Washingtons:
For more than two hundred years
the De Wessyngtons, or Washingtons,
were conspiring after their kind (rob-
Der knights) fighting, hawking. ca
rousing and gaming"
This grant of the raven was in 1900,
at about the same time that hawking
was at its height as sport, for at
about the same period we find that
in Spain the son of Columbus atempt-
ed to prove that his father was of
aristocratic and also of heraldic fam
lily in that ''he was of people who
kept their own hawks" This alone,
in those days, stamped the man as a
falconer, as only people of high social
standing were permitted by license to
engage in that enjoyment; hence
raven, falcon, crow or hawk on
the shield or crest indicated promi-
hence. This sporty and hunting dis
position of the Wsshingtons was dis
tinctly manifested in the Washingtons
of Virginia, of which our first presi-
dent also gave liberal expression.
There are five distinct Washington
shielus, but in the heraldic records
they are pronounced of the same
origin, as follows:
A silver (argent) shield upon which
are two red (gules) bars; in the top
(chief) three red mullets (spurs of
knights boots).
A red (gules) shield with single
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Solely By Finger Prints

rogues On the strength of the finger
print they have arrested man they
know was guilty of crime. but whose
face no person concerned had seen.
There was a swell gambling house up
town in which the proprietor was
more effectually hidden than ''the man
in the iron mask" TIE remained in q
little room. which he entered from an
other house. No one ever saw him;
not even his employees. All business
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him." Finally, however, Detective
Charles Steinert gained entrance to
the place. pushed his money through
the wicket and secured lot of chips
and cards. He put them in his pocket
and took them to police headquarters.
From them he took innumerable Fin
ger prints" left by the unsuspecting
gambling house keeper. These he
compared with the finger prints In
the rogue's gallery.
That evening he arrested man on
the streets and charged him with con-
Quoting gambling house. And the
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Postoffice Baseball Fans.

There are baseball fans in the Chi
cago postoffice department. A letter
addressed to Hans Wagner, Chicago"
was promptly Forwarded to Pitts
burgh. If the letter had been adj
dressed simply Hans Wagner" the
flying Dutchman would have received
it just as long as one Of Uncle Sans
national pastime fans had chance
to put his bread mitt on the missile.
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- II d
IL ZaA George. and he was
Ep=J born February % in
the year 1882. The old
colony of Virginia was
his birthplace, but the true name
of his male ancestors was not Wash
ington This may seem a sweeping
statement in the light of generally &C.
cepted history, but careful research
has established beyond doubt that
the ancient founder of the family from
which came the Father of our Country
was named William De Hertburn. The
key to this apparent paradox lies In
the fact that, in common with many
noblemen and monarchs of Europe,
the first president possessed an estate
name and real, or family name, the
latter being known as the patronymic,
or paternal name.
The first Washingtons were of
French, and not English, origin, and
were numbered among the powerful
knights Of the northern portion Of
France. When the Duke of Normandy
conceived the ambition Of becoming
King of England he called to his aid
the Catholics of France, and among
those who responded to his appeal was
an ancestor Of George Washington.
The duke gathered his soldiers about
him and announced that by right and
promise he deserved and intended to
be the new King of England. His spir-
tied address had the desired effect
and the knights and their vassals
thronged to the standard until there
was soon gathered under the leader
ship of William, Duke of Normandy,
the greatest army France had ever.
mustered, ready for the field and
thirsting for the glories of conquest.
Among the many banners thrown to
the breeze appeared the shield of the
neutrality-suspicious. of our own
George Washington. His name was
William de Hertburn. The 10000 fol-
lowers of the duke set sail in 5000
vessels of war for the English coast
and landed without OPPOSITION, because
OF the English King Harold's conflict
with the Norwegians in another part
of his invaded domains On October
IA, 1865, the rival armies met, and on
the field Of Hastings took place one of
the most terrific battles in the history
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preme. A decline in their
fortunes then appears to
have taken place, for in
1920, the year the Pill
grims set sail for Amer
lea, the Washingtons
were practically driven
from the Sulgrave estate
to take up residence at
Brighton with minor ma
nors and holdings. The
loss of the hundreds of
acres of rich meadows
and harvest fields was
in a measure counter
acted by the marriage of
a Sir William Washing
ton to a sister of George
Villiars, Duke of Buck
ingham. This union
brought about new al.
liances and affiliations
which made Washing
tons possible in Amer
lea, and ultimately led
to the rearing of George
Washington to be the
military leader of the
colonies and eventually
our first chief executive.
This marriage brought
the Washington family
into direct domestic so
cial and court relation
ship with the prominent
and powerful favorite of
the then reigning mon
arch, ami political cir
cumstance destined the
Wa ShipptonS m oSpouco
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ed the ssitement as cor
rect. Tho English poet
was misled ey his fervid
fancy, for the Heralds'
College at London, the
highest authority on
British heraldry, writes
as follows: "a Washing.
ton shield with stars and
stripes (pales) has never
been of record" It
Is altogether probable
that Topper, as well
as others, was deceived
by the shape of the
'mullets." These spurs,
as worn by the knights
of old, were round in
form, resembling mod
ern cog-wheels some
what, and their bristling
points possibly suggest
ed the stars" of which
Upper spoke.
Hundreds of writer's
have also announced
that the crest on Gen
eral George Washing
tons coast-of-arms is an
eagle, and that this fam
lily emblem was the foun-
dation of the suggestion
that the eagle be the en-
blem of the American re-
public. While the crest
may appear like an
eagle, the facts are that
the heraldic grant of
arms to this Washing
ton branch present a ra-
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vas transacted through a little wicket,

was transacted through little wicket,
through which his voice might be
heard. but his face could never be
seen. When a player wanted to buy
cards or chips he passed his money
through the wicket and got his cards
and chips-but never saw the proprie-
tor. When he wanted to scash In" he
passed his chips through the wicket
and got his money--but never saw the
proprietor.
The nimble wits of the police de-
partment wanted to pinch" that man.
but they couldn't get the goods on
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ven issuing from a golden ducal
crown, the crest of the family. Furth-
ermore, Washington himself clearly
shows by correspondence with the
Herald's Office at London that it was
not an eagle, and the letter. Is dated
ten years after the eagle had become
the emblem of the republic June 20,
1882. His letter was sent from Phil
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the cause of the king, rather than the
idol of the Commons-Oliver Crom-
well. The Washingtons performed
heroic services for the king, but
when Cromwell proved victorious
and seized the reins of govern
ment. they found England to be
no longer a safe dwelling place.
Prison sentences, exile and death was
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descendant of the James Washington
who landed in Holland in 1850. He
married Bavarian lady and held
certificate of honorable discharge
showing that he had been lieutenant
in the Bayarian army. To obtain
commission as officer In the Federal
army was his wish, but because of the
inability of our consul to assure him
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or herald1c tnveSt1ga-
ton.
Later the e s t a t e
known as Wessyngton
was spelled and en-
tered officially as Wes-
sington, the proprietors
assuming the same
name. Then it was re-
corded as Washington,
and a natural change of
the owners name In
accordance with that
Of his land followed.
The proprietors became
known as William,
John, Lawrence, Rob
ert and Nicholas De
Washington. Finally
the haraldic shields
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ruined towns. One hundred thousand
people died in this debatable strip of
land, and there, where active hostili-
ties ever reigned, the De Hertburns, or
Wessyngtons, were stationed. This rec
ord of the great family is absolutely
authentic In every detail, having been
proved by minute research and per-
sonal visits to the locality where its
members were lords of the sofia
task which embraced fifteen years
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queer part Of it all is that the police
are sure they will convict him, though
no person can be found who ever actu.
ally saw" the man in the gambling
house. His finger prints, however, are
deadly evidence against him.
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VI tnlS nonOr, ana possibly
because he deemed that suf-
hcient respect had not been
shown to one of such noted
ancestry, ne did not emf
CRATE to the United States.
However, before the inter
view was closed, he deposit
ed with the American consul
a certified genealogical chart
on which the following ap-
pears:
Baron de Washington is
a direct descendant of the
ancient and honorable Wash
ington family of England, the
earliest emigrant to Holland
being James Washington,
one of the four brothers of
Stuart ympa h z 9 s
tCharles y. James came to
Holland in 1850, his two
brothers emigrated to Vir-
ginia, and the fhird brother
remained in England, where
he was serving as a divine. :"
This remarkable bit of
genealogical history gives the
earliest and most authentic
record of the Dutch and Ger
man Washingtons, of which
there are many and of whom
the church records abound in
entries of marriages, births
and deaths. Further investi-
cation brings to light the
fact that this earliest Dutch
emigrant, James, was mar
ried in the English church
of Rotterdam, all of which
tends to corroborate that he
was of English training.
Baron de Washington was
born in 1888, and his brother
Max married the Duchess of
Oldenburg and in this way
became connected with one
of the oldest sovereign fam
lilies of Europe. The House
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Gambler Who Always Kept His
Face Hidden.

The New York police force is will
ing to admit that it can go NJ. Bertil-
ION one better on his finger print
Identification system, which. by the
way. was invented by the Chinese a
few thousand years before NJ. Bertil-
son became terror to the French
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and French prefix of de" was drop
per, and the modern spelling Of
Washington prevailed.
The Washingtons were very prom
inent in the military as well as the
civic phases of English life. In the
days of Henry VIII, when that mon
arch was in conflict with the pope
of Rome, Lawrence Washington sided
with the king, and the latter confiscat-
ed the monasteries, converts and
churches of the Roman Catholic
church, giving to this Washington the
Sulgrave estate, where for over a. CEN
tury the Washington family ruled SUI
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Ty Cobb.

ing, 800; reports 1912 to Reading. Tri-
state league.
Virginia League-Block, Norfolk.
$3.50; reports 1912 to st. Louis. Ma.
donal league.
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/ well as an accurate record
of the biographical and her
aldic character of the new
or French proprietors. And
in this last seemingly I'M
necessary entry appears the
statement that the brave.
ever reliable knight. Sir
William De Hertburn, for
military service to Will
lam l, be granted with feu-
dial rights and power the ex-
! tensive estate known as
Wessyngton, and henceforth
said Sir knight shall be
known as Sir William de
washington; but he shall
still be a vassal of the bish-
op and his heraldic demon.
nation shall continue to be.
Arms: Argent, two bars
gules (red); in chief, three
mullets of the second. Crest:
A raven with wings endorsed
proper, issuing out of a du-
cal coronet or (gold)."
AS a further demonstra-
ton of the Importance of the
De Hertburns, or "Wessyng-
TONS" history furnishes the
information that the estate
In question was under the
command Of the Bishop of
Durham, and situated in a
locality exposed to the at
tack of the Scots of northern
England. On this border
there was constant warfare,
and the king naturally select
ed the bravest and most
warlike Of his adherents to
hold lands in the disputed
district. For nine years this
country between Durham
and York was laid waste,
and for ten years it was
practically a desert, no man
having the courage to at
tempt cultivation of the
blasted fields or inhabit the
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Mertes an Umpire.

Sam Mertes, an old time National
League baseball player, has been
named as one of the umpires who viii.
officiate in the Pacific league during
the season of 1912. Mertes became
famous as left fielder of the Chicago
and Nav York Nationals in 1902 to
1905.
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The man who is doing good work is
writing his name on the memory OF
the world. Stone monuments are only
seen by very few, no odds how high
they may be built
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Where all men are not allowed s
hand in making the laws that govern
them. they are slaves. They must bow
to the dictates of other men and have
no redress.
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Misconstrued.

Shopman-The fresh herringa frt
very nice this morning, MN.
Lady-Er-have they roes?
Shopmar-Well, MIN. all fss ,
dearer q: thiz aeason!-Punch
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branch of the Holstein-Gottorp stock,
which has given emperors to Russia
and Kings to Denmark, and is prom
inently related to the present King
of England, George v. And Jacob
Washington was first lieutenant of
the Dutch navy in 1845, this branch
being related to the wealthy banking
firm, Cornelius L. Keurenaur of The
Hague. Upwards of seventy-five
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WaSnlngtOnS are numbered
among the inhabitants of Hol-
land and Bavaria. Hence the
Washingtons, in the farthest
genealogical tracings, hail
from France. We next find
them in England and then in
Holland and Bavaria.
Regarding the Washington
ian coat-of-arms some odd dis
coveries have also come to
light. Quite contrary to our
American belief the Washing
ton shield does not contain
stars andS stripes" notwith-
standing that more than a
thousand books and as many
more published articles so pro-
claim 1t. The facts are that
the Washington shield con-
tains bars and mullets (spurs
of the Knights boots. The
earliest reference which / have
been able to find which announce
Washington shield blazoned
stars and stripes, relates to a ]
banquet at Baltimore, Maryland
1851, where the ideas of an Ell
poet-Martin Upper by name
voiced, proclaiming that the .
lean flag, with it's heraldic NO
was borrowed from the Washi
shield, which possessed stars
stripes. Ever since this ba
American authors and orators
without further investigation, a
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HE real name of the
first president of the
United States was not
Washington. His bap-
ii 8 m al name W a s
George. and he was
born February % in
the year 1882. The old
COLONY Of Virginia was
The Washington times., 1912-02-11
Members of Congress
Received at White House.

Members of Congress and their wives
were the guests or honor at the Whit"
House reception OF the week Tuesday
night. Because of the absence on u1-
count of mourning of the Vice presi-
dent, the President Of the Senate, and
Mrs. sherman, the Speaker and Mrs
Champ Clark, wera the principal guests
of honor. Their late arrival occdsion@d
some little DELAY in the beginnrng Of
the reception wlich finallI was obliged
to proceed without the Speaker at the
head of the long li0e Of guests.
Dancing in the East Room followed
the reception Of tn" guests as usual,
and there was even more turkey trOt-
ting" than at the last reception. The
ruror of Mrs. Tafts disappruval of
the new dances seems to have but lit
tie weight with WashingtOn's younger
Ball Monday night 'al modes of dane
ing, from the stately minuet in cos
tune, by a select group of the season $
bellies and bcauN. TO ;he much discussed
modern steps were in evidence.
Miss Della Torrey. the President $
aged aunt, who Is spending fortnight
at the White House, was a conspicuous
figure in the Blue Room Tuesday night.
occupying a comfortable arm chair just
back of the receiving line. Later she
accompanied the President on little
tour of inspection through the various
state apartments watching the dancers
in the East Room for some little time
Bachelors Cotillion
Best Of Present Season.
The third and last of the Bachel-
ors Cotillions of the season at tn"
New Willard Wednesday night, was
the most successful one of the win
ter. This was the pink one and the
faVorS were unusually attractive.
Mrs william F. praDer, representing
resident circles # Washington soci-
ETY. received the guests, l.awrenc"
The Washington times., 1912-02-11
Miss Vass to Wed
DR.. Lawrence S. Ricketts,.

Mr.. and Mrs. Rosslyn Cumming
Vass, of Culpeper Va, announce the
engagement of their daughter, Miss
Mary Harper Vass, to DIR. Lawrence
Sanford Ricketts,, of orange, Va.
The wedding will take place in the
carly spring.
Congressman II. NJ. Jacoway, of
Arkansas. and Mrs. Jacoway are re-
cciving congratulations upon the
birth OF son, Henderson Madison
JaCoway, jr., on Friday, February
9, 1912.
Mrs Nellie p. Keleher, of the Con-
Gressional, has gone to Boston for a
short visit.
Dr. ]. c. Wise, who has been spend
ing some time in Norfolk. Va, has
returned to the Portland.
-T.-
Brig. Gen. Albert L. Mills. L. S. a.
and Mrs. Mills have arrived in Wash
inGton from Atlanta, and are the
guests of Brig. Gen. James Il. Ale
shire, L. S. A.
General Mills mas come to Wash
inGton to assume his new duties aS
president Of the War College.
4 fancy dress ball will be held at
| the Burlington Wednesday evening