Bisbee daily review., 1913-05-06

h0chamDeau, two years ago, ere he followed his army from York to it's posts upon the Hudson.
 Mrs. Lewis. his sister had returned one day from visiting a neighbor in ho quiet town to look in astouishment upon an officers horses and attend ants, at her door. and had entered to find her beloved brother stretched lpon her own bed within, sound asleep in his clothes. like a boy returned from bunting.
 Takes His Mother to a Bail.
 There had been @ formal ball given too, in celebration of the victory, be fore the French officers and the com nander-in-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 lis aged mother on his arm, not a whit bent for all her seventy-four years, and as quiet as a queen at receiving he homage of her sons comrades in arms.
 He had got his imperious spirit of command from her. A servant had told her that Mars George" had put up at the tavern.
 GO and tell George to come here in- stantly," she had commanded. and he had come, masterful man though he was.
 He 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 tonic ! deeply, and as if it renewed his very | nature. as only a silent man can be re- | freshed. But few days in Fredericks- ! burg and at Mount Vernon then had been only an incident of campaigning, ! only a, grateful pause on march.
 Back to Private Life. ! Now at last he had come back to l keep his home and be a neighbor again, as he had not been these nine I years,
 | It was not the same Virginia, nor even the same home and neighborhoOd he had gone from, that Washington came back to when the war was done.
 | He had left Mount Vernon in the care Gf 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.
 It was part of his genius to find time for everything. and Mount Vernon had | suffered something less than the or dinary hazards and neglects of war It had suffered less upon one occa- sion, indeed, than it's proud owner could have found it in his heart to wish.
 In the spring of 17s1 several British vessels had come piliaging within the Potomac. and the anxious Lund had regaled their officers with refresh ments from Mount Vernon to buy them oil from mischief 'It would have been less painful circumstance to 1 me-" his. uncompromising uncle had i written him. ito have heard that, in consequence of your noncompliance with their request, they had burnt my house and laid the plantation in ruin. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative. | Kept though it was from harm, however, the place had suffered many things for lack of his personal care. There was some part of the task to be over again that had confronted him | when he came to take possession of the old plantation with his bride after the neglects of the French war.
 Flnes Virginia State.
 But Virginia was more changed than Mount Vernon. He had left it col ony, at odds with a royal governor: he returned to find it a state. with Benjamin Harrison, that stout gentle man and good planter, for governor, by the free suffrage of his fellow Vir- ginians.
 There had been 10 radical break with the aristocratic traditions of the lpast. Mir. Harrison's handsome seat at Lower Brandon lay where the long reaches of the James marked the old est regions of Virginia's life upon broad. haIf-feudal estates; where there were good wine and plate upon the table. and gentlemen kept old customs bright and honored in the observance.
 4 Great Change in Affairs.
 But the face of affairs had greatly lehanged. nevertheless. The old gener- ation of statesmen had passed away, almost with the colony. and young Ter generation was in the saddle, not withstanding gray-haired figure here iapd there