Bisbee daily review., 1913-05-08

He agreed with Philip Barter that if he would serve him faithfully as gardener and keep sober at all other | times he would allow him -four dol. J lars at Christmas, with which to be i drunk four days and four nights: two | dollars at Easter. to effect the same purpose; two dollars at whitsuntide, ! to be drunk for two days: a dram in !. the morning and a drink of grog at ! dinner, at noon;" and the contract was drawn, signed, and witnessed with all formality A Thoroueh-eoIne Master. Philip no doubt found short shrift of consideration from his thorough going master if there was any drunk enness in the garden beyond the limit of the eight days nominated in the bond, and found the contract no jest , In the end, for Washington had small | patience and no soft words for a breach of agreement, whatever it's kind.
 He would help men in distress with 6 generosity and wise choice of means which few took the pains to exercise. but he had only sharp re- buke for carelessness or neglect or any slackness in the performance of 8 duty. Men who had cheated or sought to impose upon him deemed him harsh and called him a hard mas | ter, so sharply did they smart after ne had reckoned with them.
 1 Washington exacted the uttermost farthing. But he spent it, with the other hand, to relieve genuine suffer ing and real want. though 1t were de- served and the fruit of crying fault In his home dealings, as in every. thing else, his mind kept that trait by which men had been awed in the camp-that trick, as if of Fate, of let | ting every act come at its cOnse- quences and it's full punishment or re- | ward, as if he but presided at a proc ess which was just Natures own. When he succored distress, he did it in pity, not in justice-not excusing fault, but giving leave to mercy. If he urged the government to pension and reward the soldiers of the war, who had only done their duty, he him self set an example.
 Rewarded fer Service.
 There were black pensioners not few about his own homestead. Bishop, his old body-servant, lived like a re- tired gentleman in his cottage there; even Nelson. the good sorrel who had borne him so brayely in the field till Yorktown, now went forever unsad- dled, free in his own pasture.
 But, much as he loved his home and courted retirement amidst the du-
 ties of a planter, the old fife would not come back, was gone forever.
 He was too famous, and there was
 an end on it. He could not go abroad
 without drawing crowds about him.
 If he attended service on a Sunday
 away from home, though t were in
 never so quiet parish, the very walls of the church gFoaned threatsningly
 under the unaccustomed weight of | people gathered in the galleries and
 packed upon the floor to see the hero
 of the Revolution. Not even a ride , into the far west, to view his lands
 and pull together his neglected busi-
 ness on the Ohio, was long enough to , take him beyond the reach of public
 affairs.
 4 Trip Into the West.
 On the 1st of September, 17S4, with
 Dr. Craik for company, be set out on
 horseback to go by Braddock's road
 again into the west.
 For nearly five weeks he was deep
 in the wilderness. riding close upon } seven hundred miles through the for ested mountains, and along the remote , l courses of the long rivers that ran in- } to the Mississippi; camping out as in 2 the old days when he was a surveyor
 and a soldier in his 'prenticeship in ! these very wilds; renewing his zest 2 for the rough life and the sudden ad
 ventures es the frontiersman- 2 out, though he had come upon his 3 own business, 1t was the seat of flu ] ture empire he saw rather than his 3 own acres scattered here and there. 4 Different Washington. 2 When last be had ridden the long : stages from settlement to settlement and cabin to cabin in this far country of the Ohio, he had been Yirginiar
 and nothing more, a colonial colonel merely. come to pick out lands for his ! comrades and himself, their reward for serving the crown against the ! French.
 A transformation had been worked upon him since-then.
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