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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-03-14
InstaIlment l
WASHINGTON was cast
VI for his career by a very scant
- and homely training.

HEORGE WASHINGTON was cast
for his career by very scant
- and honely training.
Augustine Washington, his father.
lacked neither the will nor the means
to set him handsomely afoot, with as
good schooling, both in books and in
affairs, as was to be had; he would
have done all that liberal and provi-
dent man should do to advance his boy
in the world, had he lived to go with
him through his youth.
He owned land in four counties,
more than five thousand acres all told,
and lying upon both the rivers that
refresh the fruitful Northern Neck;
besides several plots of ground in the
promising village of Fredericksburg,
which lay opposite his lands upon the
Rappahannock; and one-twelfth part
of the stock of the Principle Iron Com
pany, whose mines and furnaces in
Maryland and Virginia yielded bet
ter profit than any others in the two
colonies.
His Father Once a Sailor.
He had commanded a ship in his
time, as SO many of his neighbors
had in that maritime province, carry
ing iron from the mines to England
and no doubt bringing convict labor
ers back upon his voyage home again
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-03-14
sunerfluous Labor Counts.

The men who have achieved sue
cess are the men who have worked.
read, thought more than was abso-
lutely necessary, who have not been
content with knowledge sufficient for
the present need, but who have
sought additional knowledge and stor-
ed it away for the emergency resrve
It is the superfuous labor that equips
a man for everything that counts in
life.
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Fair Comparison.

do you mean to say that you COM
pare yourself to Shakespeare? why
not?" inquired the manager of the
Clothesline Burlesque company.
Shakespeare had pretty much my ex-
perience. The critics roasted him
and the authorities were always
threatening to close his show
Washington Star
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-03-14

WHEN RUBBERS BECOME NECESSARY
And your shoes pinch, Aliens Foot-Ease, the
Antiseptic powder TO be shaken into the
shoes, is just the thing to use Try II Tor
csc Sample FREE. Address, A. s. olmsted.
Leroy, NY. Don't accept any substitute Adv
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-03-14

If man WIS offered his choice Of
fame or fortune, he'd take the fortune
and hope to acquire fame later.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-03-14

Mrs. winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces innammar
tiou allays pain. cures wind collie, sc bottleAA
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-03-14
The Othcr Case.

Cary, Maine. ~" l feel it duty owe
10 all suffering women to tell what Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound did
forme. One year ago found myself a
terrible sufferer. ] had pains in both
sides and such soreness / could scarcely
straighten up at times My back ached.
had no appetite and was SO nervous Z
could not sleep, then would be so tired
mornings that I could scarcely get
around. 1t seemed almost impossible
to move or do bit of work and /
thought never would be any better
until | submitted to an operation, but
my husband thought had better write
to you and I did SO, stating my symp-
toms. commenced taking Lydia =.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and
soon felt like new woman. l had no
pains, slept we'll, had good appetite and
could do almost all my own work for
family of four. shall always feel that
! owe my good health to your Vegetable
Compound. Mrs. HAYWARD Sewers,
Cary, Maine.
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Honesty.

No man is SO dishonest but what
he considers his next door neighbor
more so.-Milwaukee Sentinel
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-03-14

Every time a wise man makes a
mistake he learns something.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-03-14

It's awfully hard for a girl to get
used to a stepfather.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-03-14

PILES CURED IN TO IA DAYS
Your druggist will refund money IL PAZO ONT
MENT fails to cure any case OF Itching, Blind.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-03-14
Acquires the Art of Mastery.

He was, above all things else,
capable, executive boy. He loved
mastery, and he relished acquiring the
most effective means of mastery in
all practical affairs. His very exer.
else books used at school gave proof
Of it. They were filled, not only with
the rules, formulate, diagrams and ex
ercises of surveying, which he was
taking special pains to learn, at the
advice of his friends, but also with
careful copies of legal and mercantile
papers, bills of exchange, bills of sale,
bonds, indentures, land warrants,
leases, deeds and Wills, as if he meant
to be a lawyers or a merchants clerk.
1t would seem that, passionate and
/ full of warm blood as he was, he
conned these things as he studied thi
use and structure of his fowling piece.
the bride he used for his colts. his
saddle-girth, and the best ways OF
mounting. He copied these forms of
business as he might have copied
Beverley's account of the way fox or
| 'possum or beaver was to be taken or
the wild turkey trapped.
The men he most admired-his
elder brothers, Mr.. Fairfax, and the
gentlemen planters who were so much
at their houses-were most of them
sound men of business, who valued
good surveying as much as they ad-
mired good Craftsmanship and skill in
sport. They were their own mer.
chants, and looked upon forms of
business paper as quite as useful as
plows and hogsheads. Careful exer.
else in such matters might well
enough accompany practice in the
equally formal minuet in Virginia, and
so this boy learned to show in almost
everything he did the careful prect
sion of the perfect marksman.
Goes to Mount Vernon.
In the autumn of 1747, when he was
not yet quite sixteen, George quit his
formal schooling, and presently join
ed his brother Lawrence at Mount
Vernon, to seek counsel and compan
ionship.
Lawrence had conceived a strong
affection for his manly young broth
er. Himself man of spirit and hon
or, he had high-hearted mans lik
ing for all that he saw that was in
domitable and well-purposed in thu
lad, a generous mans tenderness il
. looking to the development Of thil
thoroughbred hoy; and he took hin
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housekeeper lived, and there he might
depend upon being received with hos
pitality;;" and twas certain many be-
sides strangers would seek out the
young major at Mount Vernon whom
his neighbors had fastened to make
their representative in the house OF
burgesses, and the old soldier of the
soldierly house of Fairfax, who was
president of the kings council. and
so next to the governor himself. A
boy who was much at Mount Vernon
and at Mr.. Fairfax's seat. Belvoir.
might expect to see not little that
was worth seeing OF the life Of the
colony.
George was kept at school until he
was close upon sixteen; but there
was ample vacation-time for visiting.
Mrs. Washington did not keep him at
her apron-strings. He even lived,
when it was necessary, with his broth
er Augustine, at the old home on
Bridges creek, in order to be near
the best school that was accessible,
while the mother was far away on
the farm that lay upon the Rappahan-
mock. Mrs. Washington saw to 1t,
nevertheless. that she should not lose
sight of him altogether.
Apprenticeship in the Woods.
When he was fourteen it was pro.
posed that he should be sent to sea-
as SO many lads were, no doubt, from
that maritime province; but the pru
dent mother preferred he should not
leave Virginia, and the schooling went
on as before-the schooling of books
and manly sports. Every lad learned
to ride-to ride colt or horse. regard
less Of training, gait, or temper-ir
that country, where no one went afoo'
except to catch his mount in the pas
ture. Every lad, black or white. bono
or free, knew where to find and how
to take the rowing game in the for
ests. And young Washington, robus
boy that he was, not to be dauntet
while that strong spirit sat in hin
which he got from his father anC
mother alike, took his apprenticeship
on horseback and in the tangle'
woods with characteristic zest ant
ardor
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-03-14
TWO WOMEN
SAVED FROM |
OPERATIONS.
By Lydia E. Pinkhan's Veg
etable Compound Their
Own Stories Here Told.

Beatrice, Neb. -" Just after my mar
rage my left side began to pain me and
the pain got so severe at times that I
suffered terribly with it. Visited three
doctors and each one wanted TO operate
on me but would not consent to an OPP
Grafton. / heard of the good Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was
doing for others and / used several bot
ties Of it with the result that ! hsven'e
been bothered with my side since then
am in good health and have two little
girls. Mrs. R. B. CHILD, Beatrice, Neb-
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mo; what's it like?"
TITS like dreaming about something
to eat when you go to bed hungry"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-08

eoneessive in tone. and while it promises
direful consequences in case the general
government declines to recognize the
rights of the Indians, 1t adroitly injects,
in patronizing way. the suggestion that
the Americans who had wrested indepen-
dence from the British crown would be
glad to be in position to accord great
consideration TO the unfortunate Indian.
Able as General PiclSens was in the field
of statescraft, it was impossible for him
so to impress the standard of his charac-
ter to a plane to cope with the villiany
of McGillivray. The difficulty lay In the
fact that the two men were working
from two opposite points. Pickens was
seeking reconciliation, while this was pre-
olsely what McGillivray did not wish.
Pickens was seeking to heal a serious
breach, while it was to the interest of
McGillivray to keep 1t as wide open as
possible. However, negotiations were ar
ranged for, and the congressional COM
mission was to meet in council Colonel
McGilivray at Golphinton.
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are to, let kindness have its perfect
work.
1 confess that I find it difficult to
think kind thoughts of the man who
forever keeps an uncorked bottle of vim
egar about his person, from which he
takes a sip whenever you make pleas
ant remark. He reminds me of Caliban,
of whom Prospero said to Miranda,
"Well visit oaliban, my slave, who never
Yields us kind answer"
1t Is not easy to feel kindly toward the
people that rush out of the theatre five
minutes before the final fall of the cur
tain. You want to hear the end, and
strain your ears, but it's useless, for
everybody is moving as if the house were
afire. Then, our kindness of soul is not
provoked into exercise by the man who
sits next to us at the opera and persists
in whistling the tunes that are sung on
the stage. o, how 1 have suffered! 1
have turned my head from the whistler;
I've tried not to hear him by placing my
hand over my near ear" but all to no
purpose. l once said to whistling Of
fender, "Will you be kind enough not
to whistler lie replied, "Ain't l whis-
tim the tune the woman's singin' in the
show? Watts the matter with you?'
We can be unkind to people by our
thoughts. We often constitute ourselves
judge and jury and dispose of mems
acts and of men themselves, turning
them over to the limbo of our ever
lasting disapproval, all within our own
minds. Kindness would suggest that we
do not know all the facts in mems lives
Most men are far better than an occa-
sional deed of wrong would Indicate.
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ROMANCE OF ALABAMA HISTORY-THE INL

about the south. were active through the
tories in melting to rebellion the fero-
cious Indians. Every wrong was exag-
gerated. and many supposed wrongs were
created to engender strife between the
whites and the Indians. On reaching
Wetumpka young McGilivray was hailed
as their chief and as the man who had
come to the kingdom for such a time as
this. Fresh from academic honors. the
youth was altogether responsive to the
batteries of the Indians. Proclaiming
himself the emperor of the Creeks, he
donned their garb and became their idol.
He began his operations on a scale SO
delightful to the Indians that he won
their confidence at once.
His movements attracted the attention
of the British authorities at Pensacola,
and there was rendered him colonelcy
In their army, without interference with
his chiefship in the Indian tribe. lie was
placed on the payroll of the English
army, and exchanged his toggery of the
Indian chief for the crimson uniform OF
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cities and sojourned in the mountains
and by the sea. Yet have we not found
the same charm as this land of Yes
terday
1t matters not how insignificant the
spot, how common or mean the sur
roundings. the eyes of child see
beauties hidden from mature vision
And memory itself is an enchanter so
that in looking backward we gaze
through double lens, and somehow
the glass transforms the scenes into
those of the. land of the hearts desire.
/ think all Of us unconsciously pic
ture heaven after the fashion of our
land of Yesterday.
However many years and miles we
are away, we know every nook and
Granny of 1.-THE old fences the clumps
of sumac and alders, the chestnut
trees. the apple orchard and cherry
trees, the wood lot--every foot of it
we have traversed in those far-off DAYS
and in our dreams ten thousand times
since.
l do not know which is the more en-
chanting prospect-youth looking for
ward to the future or age looking
backward at the past.
There are doubtless illusions in both
views, though 1t would be cruel to tell
of these illusions either to the boy or
to the man. The backward look Is less
feverish, but there is sadness in II
that was absent from the other.
Yet what would life be without some
| illusions? And there is soul food gath
cred in these journeys to the land Of
Yesterday.
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"EMPEROR"- B. F. Riley, D.. D.

TO use him. In order to facilitate their
schemes they gave to McGillivray the
commission of colonel in the Spanish army
on full pay, and besides made him COM
missary commissioner to the Creek In
dians, whom to win to the loyalty of
Spain there was offered to them open
ports on the gulf coast for the shipment
of their peltry.
This latter position gave to McGillivray
vast advantage. as his palms itched for
Spanish gold, much of which he handled
In this new relation. Having the conf
Dental ear of both parties, McCillivray
was slow to repenish his impoverished
purse. He was equally the trusted coun-
selor of both, and was not hindered in
cross purposes by any scrup1e to make
the most of the advantage afforded. He
was the prince of plotters and the i'm
personation of selfishness. treaty was
entered into at Augusta, Georgia. be-
tween the white settlers and the Creeks
respecting the lands, which treaty was
repudiated by the Indian tribes and led to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-08
MORE THAN CORONETS"-By Dr. W. E. Evans

of base and unworthy men.
Having reference thus to family rela-
tionship and class affinity, the word
came to describe those qualities of soul
that were due to all the class, such as
gentleness, consideration, courtesy,
mercifulness and love, The primary
basis of kindness. then, lies in the fact
that all men are of one kindred, of one
family. and constitute a vast brother
hood, since God made us all And, as
God made all creatures. kindness should
be extended to those of the lower or
der of creation because of their divine
origin IL for no other reason.
sense of the universal brotherhood
of man will tend to beget a universal
kindness that will patiently suffer the
foibles of men and bear with their
weaknesses. Kind hearts are more than
coronets. and they are more needed
than coronets.
The occasions for the disclosure of
kind hearts and the actual ministrations
of kindness are almost limtless. They
are constantly arising in the home, in
private life, in places of business, in So
cial life and on public occasions Every :
where there are people that annoy others
by their manners or lack of manners,
and wherever the annoyance is given
there is a fine opportunity for self-con-
troll and for the exercise of the law of
kindness. l know, for there Is right
much Of the human in me, that at times
1t is very difficult to think kindly of
people whose doings grossly violate the
more refined amenities; but for the sake
OF the intrinsic excellence of ones SELF
as well as for the part that offenders
have in the universal brotherhood, we
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sian and native. who almost lack vest
ments, and whose symbolic movements it
is the fashion to call artistic" The
fashion invades New York, and all the
cities. Sunday newspapers sometimes
pander to the vulgar fashion, and show
to susceptible young women how far it
Is possible to go and still be deemed
beautiful, artistic
VIII 1t not possibly happen before long
that the true philosophy of dress will
emerge? And to that end must not the
present dual tendency in modern cos
tune be welcomed?
| had intended to end there; but II
looks too cryptic. | mean that the real
and persistent significance of dress is also
the ultimate significance of every social
act. Dress must come to mean aid kind
ness, courtesy, the Christian attitude. BY
this test every whim of sex must be
judged. What men want in woman and
what women want in man is something
worshipful and strong and gracious. The
dress, constant bridge between the one
and the other must symbolic this, and
the community conscience must come to
demand no less than this Less than
this must come to be regarded as vul-
gar and tending to the obscene because
exploiting feminine beauty for selfish
ends. The evolution of dress was first
the useful, then the decorative In the
social sense of these words. this method
of evolution is an inviolable law. First,
the useful, useful not only to the wearer.
but to all who are affected by it. And
then the decorative
IrNemains to be seen in what way the
form of dress becomes a psychological
asset or danger for the whole community.
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There is much badness in good men
and there is much goodness in bad men.
Then gently scan your brother man,
Still gentler sister woman;
Tho thay may gang a kenning wrang,
To stepsaside is human
From thinking unkindly of people there
is only a short step to speaking unkindly
of them. What irreparable disaster has
been wrought by the unllind word !,
Words are mighty forces for good and
they are just as powerful for evil. When
Kind, words are like dew upon the flower
or like rain upon the mown grass. But
when words are bitter and harsh, they
wither up and burn like the hot Sirocco.
Virgil, in the Aenied, tells of Alcestes
arrow. 1t shot with such rapiditv
through the air that it took fire. Long
fellow, referring to the incident, says:
Like Alcestes' shaft of old
The swift thought kindles as it flies"
The burning flight of the arrow may
represent unkind words that destroy
every flower that blooms in the heart
and that burn to a crisp every hope and
"i'oi'iOi ehae the NiOnSeu Soul Hldy YET
cherish There is such a thing as speak
ing daggers," as Hamlet says; and the
cowardly gossip and loathsome scandal
monger uses the dagger of words to stab
the reputation to the quivering quick.
1t We're kinder to use a dagger of an
other sort; for a man with a reputation
like Caesars mantel, had better be dead.
Of that same mantel, said Marc Antony
when displaying it before the Romans,
Look, in this place ran CaSsiuS' da
through
See what a rent the envious Casca made;
Through this, the well beloved Brutus
stabbed:
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voted loyalist throughout. and when peace
was declared his property was eonfis-
Gated. he was left without a penny, and
worse still, the wings thrsted for his
blood They sought to find him. and
without n DIME in his pocket he fled the
country and returned to Europe, after
making many narrow escapes, for had he
been captured he would have paid the
penalty of his loyalty to the British
crown by dangling from the end of
rope. All that saved Alexander's neck
was that he was recognized chief of the
Indian tribes whom the Americans were
eager to concliate. The conditions created
by the close of the war afforded to Col
onel McGillvray a fresh opportunity for
new alliances on a new field.
IMPOVERISHED by The calamtous result
of the revolution, Colonel McGilivray
was more enraged than dispirited. and in
seeking new connections he turned to the
Spanish, who recognized the services of
so valuable an ally, and were not slow
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herself today like a Balkan officer to-
morrow perhaps like a sailor boy What
ever she does she Will have an eye to
its effect on other boys. If sne is "a
silly and ignorant young thing" whose
mother has neglected her social suscepti-
bilities 1t may be she will make exces-
sive demands on the attention of the
champions of the conventional. And
surely there will be those who will make
such demands because they so frankly
restrict their ambition to merely domestic
considerations. Brands for the burn
fng!" sghs the apostle.
Yet who can doubt that dress has in
itself the power of a sort of automatic ad-
justment in the presence of the commun-
ity feeling? The police are not needed
to regulate it so much as the home and
the school and the church and the recog-
milton of responsibilities that properly
belong to each human unit The modern
woman expresses a new community feel
ing. She does not merely defy the for
mer feeling.
Under the spell OF the changing but
compelling influence of the community
feeling. the community conscience obey
ing in part woman's new relation to
public affairs. woman's dress will also
change from year to year. The fashions
of today will be the laughing stock of to-
morrow, as we now laugh to think of the
old crinoline and the "chignon." Only
one thing may be expected to persist
1t is mans need of woman, woman's need
of man, and the nations need of both.
A generation ago England was torn by
the established church clergy developing
a love of 'vestments." Now the music
halls are willing to engage artists Rus
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outbreaks of violence on the part of the
savages. This action was inspired by
McGillivray, the promotion of whose in
terest lay In agitation and disturbance.
Outbreaks became general, actuated by
McGillivray, who did not act directly. but
who inspired the Spanish to stimulate
the animosity of the sages against hte
white settlers.
Conditions rapidly assumed an aspect
Of gravity, and outbreaks became SO gen.
eral that it was necessarily for the Ameri-
can government to take the matter Sc
riously in hand and seek to placate the
Iidians. A commission of able men was
appointed by Congress under the leader
ship of Gen. Andrew Pickens to negotiate
with the Indians. with the end in view
of adjusting all differences. General
Pickens addressed a letter to McGillivray,
which communication was masterpiece
of astute diplomacy While it bristled with
threat 1t Is at the same time pervaded by
conditional conclliation; while stout in
the assertion of independence. 1t is yet
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the British colonel. This was an occasion
Oh fascination to the Indians. who ex-
ulted in the promotion of their young
chief. McGillivray now had everything
his way. He piled his seductive arts,
and there was nothing that he desired
that was withheld. The Indians dotted
on him, and the pride of the young man
knew no limit. He proved skillful leader
In battle, courageous and stragetic. but
his sphere was in the field of diplomacy.
He left others to lead in fight, while he
solicited the aid of Indians in the SER
vice of the king of England In the ranks
or the tories. none was SO efficient as
was McGillivray, yet when the war closed
disastrously to the crown, and when the
British had no further use for him they
abandoned him to his fate, took his COM
mission from him. and cared no more
for him.
While the result was disastrous to the
British arms it was exceedingly so to the
MeGillivrays. The father had been a de-