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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16

the body dragged to the place where
it was found. There were no blood
spots where the body lay, except on
the clothes.
Robbery is believed not to have
been the motive for aboIt $500 was
found in the pockets of his clothes. A
Santa F'e ticket from San Angelo,
Texas, to Lodo, California, was also
found in his pockets. The body was
frozen when discovered, showing that
the crime had been committed per-
haps a day or two ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16
SLIPS, FALLS TO DEATH.
Switchman second on BeIIeviIIe yard
Fatality List.

BelIeville, kan, Jan. 16.-Harry
Call. a switchman employed in the
Rock Island railroad yards at this
place, slipped on the ice and fell be-
meath the cars and his body was cut
in two, causing instant death. Mr.
Call was a young man of about 25
years of age, had been employed in the
yards for a number of years and leaves
a wife and child. This is the second
person killed in the yards here this
winter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16

Telegraphers' Union of America. THE
Commercial Telegraphers' union went on
record as favoring government ownership
three years ago at the Milwaukee COW
ton, said Mr.. Konenkamp. 1.-The ma
tionanzation of telegraph and telephone
lines is also advocated by the American
Federation of Labor and the dominion
trades and labor congress of Canada with
both of which we are affiliated"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16
BIG FLOUR MILL BURNS.
water Pressure Fails When Bad Blaze
Breaks Out.

Baldwin, Kan, Jan. 16.-The flour
ing mill owned by C. A. Light & Son,
in West Baldwin, was completely de-
stroved by fire. The mill and several
cars of grain were completely con-
surned, and all that was saved was q
wagon load of flour. Although the re-
serve tank of the city water system
was full. the hydrants near the scene
of the fire failed to furnish any water.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16
TELEGRAPHERS FOR IT
They Endorse the Recommendation Of
the Postmaster General.

New Orleans, Jan. 16-Organized teleg-
raphers of the country heartily endorse
Mr. Eitchcock's proposed recommendation
Of government ownership and operation
Of telegraph lines of the United States.
according to a statement given out here
TO-DAY by s. ]. Konenkamp of Chicago, in
ternationaI president of the Commercial
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16
Theater safe Is Robbed.

Sioux City, Jan. 16.-The safe in
the Orpheum theater was blown open
early on Monday and $1,000 secured.
The robbers hauled the small safe
from the box office across the main
floor of the house Into the cellar
where it was blow open They then
escaped
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16
HIS MONEY NOT TAKEN.
Body of Clinaman Had Frozen Be-
fore 1t Was Found.

Newton, Jan. 16.=The body of Tom
Oak Kin, a Chinese, his head nearly
severed from his body. was found I'M
der the carpenter shops in the Santa
F'e yards here. The body had been
pushed through hole in the founda-
ton. 1t is thought that the murder
was committed somewhere elsa and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16

GUM woman in the old country. Mr..
Broquet has resided here for num-
Der Of years and has conducted loan
agency. He and his wife will come to
this country in April and occupy the
famous villa BeIgica." erected by
Broquet here.
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FORT SCOTT HAS GAS SHORTAGE.
Kansas Natural Reduces Pressure to
EquaIize Supply.

Fort Scott, Kan. Jan. 16-The Kansas
Natural Gas company shut off several
pounds pressure OF gas from this city and
a vigorous protest Is being made. The
company says it is bound. under the in
junction obtained by Attorney General
Dawson at Topeka, to reduce the pres
sure here because the court restrained
the company from giving one town more
gas than another. Fort Scott, being near
er to the gas fields, has not suffered
much heretofore but complaint is general
now
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16
FORGBTFUL KANsAN TO RETURN
Edward Pease Left Little River jan
uary End.

Los Angeles, Cal, Jan. 16.-Edward
Pease OF Little River, Kan, who ap-
peared at the county hospital in Visa
liza, near here, with the story that he
his memory of events of the past
week, is somewhat improved mental
~, but is very nervous. Continued
questioning on points of which he has
only a faint recollection throws him
is still unable to tell how he came to
Visaia nd he says he has not the
slightest recollection of any of the cir
cumstances surrounding the loss of his
money and jewe1ry.
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WANTED@Three boys to sell State
Journal on streets at noon from 11:15
a. m. until p. m. Apply State Jour
nal office tomorrow morning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16

Lyons, Kan, Jan 16.-Edward
Pease, of Little River, left there
January with a team of horses
which he sold in Lyons that day, took
the train to Hutchinson where he
bought a ticket to Needles, Cal. When
he reached VisaIia, Cal, he left the
train and reported to the sheriff that
he was without money, watch, suit
case and other belongings and said
that he remem bered nothing after
leaving Little River. The sheriff at
Visalia wired Sheriff Burfield here
about his condition and arrangements
are being made for his return to Rice
county,
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'Daily. tDaily except Sunday SSunday
only. saturday oniv 1Remains at
Thurmont
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ASKED AID OF WASHINGTON
Frenchman, In Financial Distress,
Turned for Help to His Great
Commander.

A letter from the Chevalier de Lam
bert to George Washington, asking
pecuniary aid, brought $10.50 recent
ly. The letter is dated Philadelphia,
May 26, 1883, and reads as follows:
Honored Sir: came into this coun-
try recommended to your excellency
by the Marquis de La Fayette.
served in the American army two
years in quality Of lieutenant Of ar
tillery under the command of Colonel
Porter. l have the honor to be OF
the Order Of the Cincinnati.
I am at present disagreeably cir
cumstanced, being in debt to my
landlord. The favor / have to ask
of your excellency is that you would
lend me G100, for which / will give
you bill Of exchange on the Presi-
dent Front de Vile at Rouen, and
shall think myself forever obliged. l
have remained In this country IN
hopes of serving it in military quail
ity, but, having now no prospect OF
that, my intention Is to return to
France.
It is to pay my landlord for my bed
and board and to defray the expenses
of my passage that l want the money
just mentioned. l have the honor to
be, with the greatest esteem and re.
spect, your excellency's most humble
and obedient servant,
CHEVALIER DE LAMBERT.
P. 81 earnestly beg the favor OF
an answer as soon as your excellency
conveniently can. My directions are
at Mr.. Pereton's at the Golden Swan,
Third street.
The letter is addressed to "His Elk.
cellency, Genl. Washington, President
of the United States, New York" On
the back Is Washington's tndorse-
ment: "From the Chevir. de Lam
bert, 26th May. 17SS."
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you may read the tablets describing
the affecting scene on his departure
to his home in Mount Vernon.
But on April 80, 1889. little old New
York went wild with Joy when the
idol Of the nation returned to be Its
president. and the pomp and ceremony
Of that first Inauguration took place
In the old Federal hall. now marked
by the Subtreasury building, in Wall
street. Here you may see the very
stone on which the president stood
while taking the oath Of Office, and
the Bible is owned by st. Johns lodge.
In the Masonic Temple.
The fine mahogany furniture OF
Sheraton design used at that time is
shown in the Governors room of the
city hall. the high-backed inaugural
chairs, and the desks and armchairs
used by the cabinet and the senator's
The flag that waved over all this re-
joicing Is carefully preserved In
glass case.
Two different houses were used by
Washington during the year 1889
and 1890 as presidential mansions
the first, beautiful colonial house
belonging to Walter Franklin, a
wealthy merchant, that stood at No.
1 Cherry street. now shadowed by the
gloomy Brooklyn bridge pier; the sec
ond was at No. 80 Broadway.
Each day he drove in courtly style
to the federal hall, In Wall street,
and SO thoroughly did he acquire the
habit that he is everlastingly glued
to the spot in the bronze statue on the
subtreasury steps.
On Sundays the president wor-
shipped at st. Pauls chapel. in the
commodious box pew, as large as
room in our modern apartments, be-
ing of suficient area to admit Of the
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this truly great man has accomplished
for the liberties of America, the gen.
erous Inspirations which he impaired
to the French who were attracted to
his school of arms; the sublime act
which will ever add luster to his mem.
ory, when, after having exerted his
talents in giving liberty to his coun-
try, he voluntarily relinquished su.
preme power to conceal his glory in
the obscurity of private life"
Naturally, Napoleon was attracted
to the great general who led an army
of ragamufflns to victory, after long
campaign of almost unparalleled vicis-
studes, and whose power was attest
ed by the fact that none Of his gen.
erals, except Wayne, accomplished
much after they left him. When the
news of his death reached France, the
first consul issued the following or
der:
washington Is no more! That
great man fought against tyranny. He
firmly established the liberty Of his
country. His memory will ever be
dear to the French people, as it must
be to every friend of freedom In two
worlds, and especially to the French
soldiers, who. like him and the Amer
leans, bravely fight for liberty and
equality. The first consul, In conse-
quence, orders that, for ten days
black crepe shall be suspended to all
the standards and flags of the repub.
lic."
At almost the same time the Ga
Zette de France said:
washington is dead! This news
in the time of the directory 1t would
have been imprudent to announce.
Now, the heart may with confidence
abandon itself to all the generous
emotions of the soul. and we may dare
to weep at the tomb of great man.
A general funeral service has been or
dered in America, and this will be OBJ
served by the citizens Of every nation.
No period has sustained loss so ir-
reparable as the end Of the eighteenth
century"
This concluding sentence may be
taken as generally expressing the esti-
nation in which the great man was
held.
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~ INTIMATELY associated
with the years 1889 and
j 1890, when Washington, as
first president Of the Unit
ELLA ed States, was living In
New York city, is the orig
inal Trumbull portrait of him. painted
from life. the oldest portrait owned
by the city, and now hanging in the
governors room Of the New York city
hall.
Flippant young Manhattanites make
merry over the tiny watery blue eyes
and red nose of that dignified gentle
man and the enormous hand. which
rests on the wooden horse, carica-
ture of the spirited war charger. In
the background Of the portrait is
shown the old Kennedy house. now
No. 1 Broadway, where Washington
held his first headquarters during the
earliest days of the Revolution. He
then removed to the Richmond Hill
mansion, at the corner Of Varick and
Charlton streets, afterward the home
of Aaron Burr. 1t was during these
days that his troops drilled in the City
Hall park, then the "Fields." or Com
MONS" and here on July 9, 1776, on
horseback, surrounded by patriotic
soldiers, the general listened to the
first public reading Of the Declaration
Of Independence in New York city;
for that one time New York was slow
er than Philadelphia.
After the disastrous defeat Of the
Battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776,
Washington was forced to abandon
the city. During the Battle Of Har-
lem Heights, September 16, and for
FIVE weeks afterward the Jumel man
sion, in One Hundred and Sixtieth
street, near Amsterdam avenue, then
known as the Roger Morris house,
sheltered him. For seven years, until
1888, the British lion swished his
proud tail and roared through our
New York streets, but on November
rs of that year General Washington
returned to his own. The previous
night the Van Cortlandt Manor house.
in Van Cortlandt park, opened its hos
pitable doors to the victorious gen.
eral, and you may see the room he
occupied, the bed in which he slept.
He entered the city on Evacuation
day at the head of his ragged but tri-
umphant soldiers after Lord Howe
and his troops had sullenly departed.
Quaint little Fraunces tavern, at
Broad and Pearl streets, then came in
for It's share Of the glory, for that
very night the patriots gave Wash
ingon banquet. which ended with
the toast, May the remembrance OF
this, day be lesson to princes. ~
Again, on December 4, a farewell din.
ner was given by Washington to his
ofacers In the Long Room" and here
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Washington and Steuben at Valley Forge

Washington and Steuben at Valley Forge
H DETWEEN one and aOo hundred thousand people eoe,y
HID year uiA Valley Forge
E Everything possible has been done to attract Them On
# the hills where Wasingtons army suffered and bed there
Eff beautifully kept macadam roads and bride paths
that meander through the trees
By tahn ao BICYCLE motorcycle and qtoot the crowd
but always in the spring. summer autumn
When falls fresh mavOes of beauty revealed But
telD, saue the fox hunters, Them
In many places the do differ greatly from those Of that
memorable uinter I7778 when Washington and his fought
against cold and Starvation An army of rqgamn, many of the
troops wahom Shoes poorly and hs6ceny nourhed
almost miracle that any of those pstros suroiDed
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HE real name OF the first
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was George, and he was
hnrp Eahr,orU % In the

States was not Washing
ton. His baptismal name
was George, and he was
born February 20 In the
year 1882. The old colony Of Vir-
ginia was his birthplace, but the true
name of his male ancestors was not
Washington. This may seem sweep
ing statement in the light Of generally
accepted history, but careful research
has established beyond doubt that the
ancient founder of the family from
which came the Father Of our Coun-
try 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 a real, or family name, the
latter being known as the patronymic,
or paternal name.
The first Washingtons were OF
French, not English, origin. and were
numbered among the powerful knights
of the northern portion Of France.
When the duke of Normandy con-
ceived 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
III of Ep0
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 Normany,
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
multi-great-grandfat 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, be-
cause OF the English King Harold's
conflict with the Norwegians IN an
other 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 of England. William OF
Normandy was the victor, and King
Harold, with tens Of thousands OF
his English, was among the slain. The
victorious French marched to London,
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man nature, perhaps, may
be attributed the fact that
people are more likely to
admire a brilliant fail
ure than a solid, substantial success.
And to this, also, may be attribut-
ed the additional fact that, of all the
heroes Of the Revolutionary period,
posterity has been inclined to dwarf
the stature Of Washington.
For time his biographers tried to
transform him into saint. Obvious
ly impossible, this, because, above all
things else, he was man among men,
a figure in his time which, so far as
obtained to his personality, was not
unlike that of the late King Edward Of
England-prone to human weaknesses.
but at the same time a gentleman of
rare tact and dignity.
After 1t became apparent that Wash
ington was not a saint, the trend or
opinion was to consider him a re-
spectacle numskull, creature of cir
cumstances, who managed by luck
never to do the wrong thing. At the
same time, men who, In his day, took
minor parts were exalted into heroes
Of the first rank, largely because Of
their fondness for epigram and that
further weakness of the general pub
lie, which would rather scent out a
hero Of it's own than acknowledge to
the greatness of the obvious, outstand-
ing figure.
All of which would indicate that the
time has about arrived when Wash
ington should be rescued from his
biographers.
Moderation and determination are
the two dominant characteristics Of
which time has not robbed Washing
ton. or them, the first is the one
which has deprived him Of a great
deal of the appreciation which has
been lavished on less deserving char
acters.
Whatever the vices Of the man, they
were always held within respectable
restraint Whatever his virtues, he
never gave them undue prominence.
So 1t Is that, after more than a
century, there has come tendency
to depreciate the ability of the one
man who, more than any other, would
naturally be exalted For long time
1t was held that his fame was tar
nished because he swore real oaths
at the battle of Monmouth. That was
succeeded by the present epoch,
which has chosen to regard him as q
lovable gentleman, with enough horse
sense not to make fool of himself
and, by a series Of events over which
he had no control, to become the IA
ther of his country.
And yet 1t is doubtful If another
character of the age Is more to be
admired for its many-sided excellen
cies. AS man, warrior and statesman,
Washington yields to no figure of his
time.
What place Washington held. in his
own day, must now become matter
of interest. Shortly after his death,
Felix Faulcon voiced the opinion OF
the French parliamentarians when he
addressed the legislative assembly as
follows:
"The tomb has claimed him who
was the model of republican perfec-
ton. This Is not the time to trace all
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comfortable stretching Of his long,
dignifed legs, and far enough re-
moved from the pulpit to encourage
few yawns or a sly nap unheeded
by the rector.
As we celebrate the birthday OF
Washington. patriotic New Workers.
will point with pride that Is pardon
able to the four buildings still in fine
preservation, which were honored by
his presence-the Jumel mansion, the
Van Cortlandt Manor house, st. Paul's
chapel and Frances tavern.
Can proud Philadelphia or boastful
Boston show more?
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Historic and Beautiful Ground.

There is no more historic ground In
the country than that around Valley
Forge. The very mention Of the rev.
olution suggests Valley Forge, the
scene of its greatest crisis. And the
work of beautifying and improving
1t is continually progressing. But re-
Gently 1t was that congress was urged
to pass bill granting 100000 for
the erection Of suitable memorial
arches. Already memorial chapel
and q museum are under way, in ad-
dItion to historic buildings that are
maintained as nearly as possible In
their original condition.