The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-07-12

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An idol and 4 Hero.
: The plaudlts that had but just now
dlled his ears at every stage Of his
long journey from New York seemed
utterly forgotten; he seemed not to
know how his fellow countrymen had
made of him an idol and hero; his
simplicity was once again his anthem.
tic badge of genuineness. He knew,
1t would seem, no other way in which
to act
A little child remembered after
wards how he had prayed at her
fathers house upon the eve of battle;
how he had taken scripture out of
Joshua, and had cried. 1.-THE Lord God
of gods, the Lord God Of gods, he
knoweth, and Israel he shall know; If
1t be in rebellion. or If in transgres-
sion against the Lord (save US not
this day."
There was here the same note Of
solemnity and of self-forgetful devo-
ton as If duty and honor were alike
inevitable.
On Christmas eve, 1888, Washington
was once more at Mount Vernon, to
resume the life he loved more than
victory and power.
He had zest for the means and tho
labor Of succeeding, but not for the
mere content of success. He put the
revolution behind him as he. would
Eave laid aside book that was read;
termed from It as quietly as he had
tsrned from receiving the surrender of
CORVALLIS at Yorktown-intereste in
victory, not as a pageant and field Of
glory, but only as q means to an
end.
He looked to find very sweet salts
faction in the peaoe which war had
earned, rs sufficient 4 scope for his
powers at home as In the 6eld.
Once more he would be VirRiuian.
anu join his strength to his neigh
bors' in all the tasks Of good oit1.
xsnship. :
He had seen nothing of tho old
familiar places since that faraway
spring In the year Its, when he had
left his farming and his fox-hunting.
amidst rumors OF war, to attend the
congress which was to send him to
Cambridge. He had halted at Fred
ericksburg, indeed, with the Count de
Rochambeau, two years ago, ere he
followed his army from York to its
posts upon the Hudson.
Mrs Lewis, his sister, 4had returned
one day from visiting / nsaghbor in
the quiet town to look In ACCOMPLISHMENTS
upon an officers horses and attend
ants, at her door, and had entered to
find her beloved brother stretched
ppon her own bed within, sound asleep
in his clothes, like = boy returned from
hunting.
Takes HIS Mother to a Ball.
There had been a formal ball given,
too, in celebration of tho victory, be-
fore the French officers and the COM
mander-ln-chief left Fredericksburg to
go northward again, and Washington
had had the Joy of entering the room
in the face Of the gay company with
liz
bent for all her seventy-four years,
and as quiet as queen at receiving
the homage of her sons comrades In
armA
He had got his imperious spirit of
command from her. A servant had
told her that MARS George" had put
up at the tavern.
90 and tell George to come here In
Btantfy," she had commanded, and he
had come, masterful man though he
was.
BE had felt every old affection and
every old allegiance renew itself as he
saw former neighbors crowd around
him; and that little glimpse Of Vir-
ginia had refreshed him like a tonic
deeply, and as If it renewed his very
nature, as only silent man can be re-
freshed. But a few days in Fredericks-
burg and at Mount Vernon then had
been only an incident of campaigning,
only grateful pause on a march.
Back to Private Life.
Now at last he had come back TO
keep his home and be a neizhbor
again, as he had not been these nine
years.
It was not the same Virginia, nor
even the same home and peighborhood
he had gone from, that Washington
came back to when the war was
done.
He had left Mount Vernon in the
care of Lund Washington, his nephew,
while the war lasted, and had not for
gotten amidst all his letter writing to
send seasonable directions and main
tain a constant oversight upon the
management of his estate.
Rebukes His Nephew.
J 1t was part of his genius to find time
for everything, and Mount Vernon had
suffered something less than the or
, binary hazards and neglects OF was.
1T had suffered less upon one occa,
sion, indeed, than its proud owner
could have found 1t in his heart to
wish.
In the spring Of 1871 several British
vessels had come pillaging within the
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