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New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-02-16

Of 5000 acres of land situated on the
Potomac between Epsewasson ant
Little Hunting creek.
Col. John Washington left 2,5O(
acres of this tract-that part including
Mount VernOn-to his eldest son Law.
renee.
The son of this Lawrence Washing
ton was Augustine, the father of Gen
George Washington. Augustine took
his bride, Mary Ball, to his home al
Wakefield, in Westmoreland. His sis.
ter, Mildred, inherited the Mount Yer.
non property, but on the death of her
husband, koger Gregory, she sold ii
to her brother Augustine. And it was
to this same place that the family were
removed in 1874, when George was a
baby of but two years of age. Here
he toddled about in his third and
fourth years.
1t is now believed that Augustine,
Georges father, built the first home at
Mount Vernon on what is the site of
the present mansion. Its beautiful sit.
uatiOn would naturally. lend itself to
the location of a home. About two
miles from the mansion house of to.
day is the site of an old mill, known
to have been built by this same Angus
tine Washington. That mill was on
the banks of the Epsewasson creek.
The walls, which were laid in lime
stone, began to crumble back in the
sixties and the farmers in the vicinity
hauled away some of the stone.
This mill was in actual use for 80
years BY General Washington, and so
superior was the quality of the -four
he ground that 1t was admitted to Eng.
hsh markets without inspection.
The huge brick barn covered with
~ one sess ut Mount Vernon today
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-02-16

*. lcMoyne, n mysterious
stranger, takes II room ut the
Page home, presided yer by
Sidney, her mother Anna and
her Aunt Harriet, Il fashionable
dr"SSluakrr, Through the in
ilucucc Of Dr. Max Wilson, II
brilliant young surgeon smitlcn
with her charm, Sidney becomes
n hospital nurse. X. loves her
from a distance; SO does Joe
Drummuud, an old high-school
chuu. At the hospital Sidney
makes the acquaintance of
Carlutta Harrison, who has
been oNcr-inlimatc with Doctor
Wilson, and who is Jealous Of
the l'.uuccul newcomer. Sid
uoy'S chum, Christine LorcuH,
marrI,~ Palmer Howe, n society
rake. and they take rooms with
the Pages. How" is untrue to
his bride. His arm is broken in
Il joy r'Iing accident, and john
ny lto~,ulcld, his chauffeur, is
mortality injured. All these
people are ucighhurS, 50 there
is a sort of common interest
amouS tholI. Doctor Wilson
discovers that LrMoync is II ia
"
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-02-16

built by Augustine Washington
also. Here baby George no doubt rode
on the back of the pillow horses and
climbed into the farm wagons just as
country boys do today. But in 1879
Il fire destroyed the house and Angus
tine moved down to another plantation
Of his near Fredericksburg, Va. This
place was known as Pine Grove.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-02-16

across, sitting In silence and watching
his grave profile and steady eyes.
lie had a little picture Of Sidney,
snapshot that he had taken himself
her hair blowing about her, eyes look
ing out, tender lips smiling. When sh,
was not ut home, 1t sat on KS dresser
propped against his collar-box. Wher
she was in the house, it lay under thu
pin-cushion.
Two O'Clock in the morning, then
and *. In his dressing gown, with thu
picture propped, not against the col
lar-box, but against his lamp, where ht
could see it.
lie sat forward in his chair, his
hands folded around his knee, ant
looked at it. He was trying to picture
the Sidney of the photograph in his
old life-trying to find II place for her
But it was difficult. There had been
few women in his old life. His mother
had died many years before. There
had been women who had cared for
him, but he put them impatiently out
of his mind.
Then the bell rang.
Christine was moving about below.
lie could hear her quick steps. Almost
before he had heoved his long locs out
of the chair, she was tapping at his
door outside.
ITS Mrs. Rosonfeld. She saws she
wants to see YOU"
He went down the stairs Mrs Ro-
senfcld was standing in the lower hall
n shawl about her shouIdrrs Her foca
WAS white and drawn nhuv. If
.Jye had word IN co I'm the hoy,itolr
She said 81 thouobt movha v,,,,d 90
with mo II seems n.ir cor,t .t,nd II
uIuur on Johunv Jnbunvm
"WLnrn'S pol,uur9" X dnn,ndod %
Christine.
"IIr's net in vot
"Arn Won afraid +, etov in tbo bou,o
~oIono1r
"Nn. uIrasn non
He ram mn tbn sioircoeo +o bis roon,
and finn, ON .,,,, oL,,hi,o H. .ha
lower hail Mrs HosnurnId,. soLc bad
L.r,unr law ,nn.u, rhri.,ino .ta|d
hnrrI.sslv ,yor b.r
81 am terrillc s,rrv" cha .,i,
"tnrrfhIv so,yo., Wb,, thi,l- n"Ia.a
ronIIt mi his is, >"
Mrs R,srnrrId rut ont Il rror,. bora
ou.d L,ud and onroht Ch,i.ttnn,n 81
mars
"Noyor mind that she soid "you
didn't dn if moss vnu and 7 r,dnr.
stand each other only nrov Cod van
u,v,r hovn china"
X u,vnr fnr.,ot ,hn Soma in tbo small
nmnrcnncv ward to which Tnbnnr had
Lo,u t,L.n I-nh,r ina hito urhts his
hovisb tIgura locked STRANGELY long
Thoro u.os rro,,, or,,,d thD haa
May Wilson two or thr,o in+orroe ,ho
uiuht nu,so an Jut, and ,ho HID
Sitting inst ipsiJo tho door an n
stroigbt chair voe Sidnov-.ucb . sid.
nov ,s no navor b,d soon hnrnro bor
f,co roInrloss hon, o,,s wi1o and nm.
snoiuo bcr bona. clnuchod In bo, Inn
Whom he stood hn.ido hnr .ho did nat
nova or hook nm rho cram ,ro,nd
tbr he'd had n.rtnI tn admit Nrs po-
sonfn1J and ,.Insn, op,in ONLY Sid
and X romoi,,d II, tho d,nr iso-
,Ionp
.ynu must NAT ,oLo n Il,o that
donr It,o s,d az ,,r,o pa af,an
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-02-16
AT TOMB

Where rhododendrons browse and willows
weep,
And frail forget-me-nots their charms
reveal;
Through moss and foliage. making mute
appeal;
Where sapphire waters. purling.' coil and
creep,
And evermore a murmurous vigil keep;
Where elegies through leafy arches steal.
Chanted by birds the lordly oaks conceal;
A king, uncrowned, is throned in dream
less sleep.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-02-16
"BIue Laws"

Blue laws is a term that was applied
to certain early statutes of a puritan
ical nature passed In Connecticut. The
name is now frequently applied to re-
strictive statutes that prevent Sunday
activity
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-02-16
GOES BACK TO 1867
Washington Family Was One of
the Earliest to Settle in
Colony of Virginia.

!" HE first Washington to land in
the new world was Col. John
Washington, who came from
near Beverly, England, in 1867.
This was only about so years
later than the jamestown settlement.
This Colonel Washington, who was a
man of great influence in the infant
colony, was the great-grandfather of
General Washington and the first wner
of the tract now known as Mount
Vernon. He brought Over with him a
partner, Nicholas Spencer, received
from Thomas Lord Culpeper a grant
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-02-16

What do you think is the real
secret about X. LeMoyne? Why
has he given up his promising
career? What does CarIotta
Harrison know about him that
is damaging? Some interesting
developments will be recorded
in the next instalIment.
The Washington times., 1917-04-09
SEEKS POLICE RECRUITS
Major Pullman to Adopt Army and
Navy Methods to FIJI Ranks.

Major Pullman will inaugurate in
the next few days an extensive ad.
vertising campaign for police depart
ment recruits.
Placards will be posted throughout
the city. telling OF salary, pension and
other advantages offered able-bodied
young men.
Although nearly 400 men have ap-
piled in the last two months for the
ninety new positions created in the
department, only forty-eight have been
appointed. There are forty-two jobs
open.
The object OF the advertising cam.
paign, the first ever conducted by the
department, Is to get at least 100 ap-
plicants on a permanent waiting list.
Such a waiting list 10 desired as a
preparation for war emergencies and
to prompt Congress to make further
increases In the department personnel.
The posters are being drawn by w.
II. Chandlee, a Washington artist, and
will resemble the thousands which
are being posted throughout the
country by the army and navy.
Fifty applicants will be examined
tomorrow at quarters OF truck No. ,.
Fourteenth and Ohio avenue north
west, and there will be another exam
ination Thursday.
The posters will feature the fact
that after July / the pay OF police
men will be increased 10 per cent.
making the salary of beginners $3.50
month.
The Washington times., 1917-04-09
LOCAL RESERVE OFFICERS
War Department Prepares to Trails
Them When Congress Acts.

Plans have been formed at the War
Department to call out the new re-
serve army officers for preliminary
training at Plattsburg camp as soon
as Congress acts on pending legisla-
tion.
The reserve officers, from the date
they are ordered into service, VIII be
paid at the regular army rate OF pay
for officers Of their grade.
Orders for the establishment OF
fifteen civilian training camps be-
tween June and October have been
abrogated by the War Department.
Instead. there will be six officerS
training camps. one in the four pres
ent army departments and one each
In the two new departments to be
formed May 1. The Eastern Depart
ment camp, to which Washington Of
ficers will be ordered, will be at
Plattsburg.
1t is planned to put the new officers
through three months OF intensive
training at these camps to it them
for command Of troops when the first
Increment OF conscripts Is called out
In July or August
The Washington times., 1917-04-09
A. B. c. MINISTER'S
GALLON ZIMMERMAN
Europe Looks for Rupture Be-
tween Germany and Latin
Americans.
Continued from First Page.) }

ners OF war, and that an immediate
declaration taking the steps would
be better.
The declaration of war by the
United States has exerted a tremen-
dous effect here in Brazil. There has
been a revival OF a Pan-American
sentiment and for unity of action
with the United States because II is
held that Brazirs interests are closely
interviewer with Americas.
The government has placed heavy
guards around all the German ships
as well as around the German and
Austrian consulates and legations.
President Brazos is constantly con-
with his cabinet.
German Minister PAUL. said today
that in event Of a break he would go
to Montevideo to await instructions
from his government. The allies
ministers have agreed on q safe con-
duct for him and for the legation and
consular staffs.
Drastic orders have gone out to
police throughout the country to pre-
vent disorders. In many sections feel
ing runs high against the Germans.
There is considerable apprehension as
to what effect a break, or war. would
have on Germans in Rio Grande prov
ince. One rumor today had it that
representatives OF these half-million
Teutons held a secret meeting at Por-
to Allegro to decide upon a course of
action.
The Washington times., 1917-04-09
WAR BILLS TO FORE
Legislation Rapidly Assumes Shape
In the House Today.

IN the House Today.
War legislation began rapidly TO
assume shape at the House end of the
Capitol today.
Putting aside the jealousies of ordi-
nary times, the several committees of
the House who are to handle the war
bills have reached a working agree
ment whereby the Appropriations
Committee will be the real budget
committee" of the war.
Military and naval appropriation
bills that belong technically to the
House Committees on Military and
Naval Affairs are to come from the
COMMITTEE on Appropriations. headed
by Congressman John ]. Fitzgerald
OF New York.
These bills, in the aggregate. will
carry more than three billion dollars
and they may be but a start.
II has been decided that the Naval
and Military Committees will report
all legislative measures-that is, the
Appropriations Committee does not
intend to load down the supply bills
with legislative riders.
First, the Military Committee,
which today heard Secretary Baker
and army officers. will report the bills
authorizing and writing into law pro-
vision for a narmy of 100000 men.
Then the Appropriations Commit
tee will furnish the hundreds of mil
The Washington times., 1917-04-09
FUNDS FOR WAR IN
SUNDRY CIVIL BILL
Senate Body Reports Measure,
Adding $4,254,6oo for
Armories and ArsenaIs.

Adding $4.254,6OO to the sundry
civil bill for armories and arsenals
in all parts OF the country, and max.
ing other large additions, the Senate
Appropriations Committee today or.
dered the sundry civil bill reported
to the Senate. Senator Martin Of vtr.
ginia presented the report. The bin
will be hurried.
The measure as IL passed the
House carried $4,000 900. More than
IS. .000.00 has been added by the SEN
ate committee. The larger part of
the increase was for War Department
purposes. The sum OF $500, 900 Is
added for military publications. The
vast Increased demand for drill reg
ulations and other military books has
made this necessary.
For the detection and prosecution
of crimes by the Department of Jus
tice an additional amount of 5000, 900
is allowed.
The committee decreased by $780,
900 the amount allowed the Federal
Trade Commission for the foodstuffs
investigation.
The sum OF $4,000 Is added to the bill
for the central heating. lighting, and
power plant. to be used to increase the
limit Of cost Of this building. provided
heat, light. and power Is furnished to
certain buildings to which the Secretary
Of the Treasury Is authorized to extend
such service. These buildings are the
Pan-American Union Building. the
Civil Service Commission Building. and
the Municipal Fish Market
The time for beginning the erection
Of the George Washington Memorial
Building in this city Is extended to
March 4. 1913.
The Washington times., 1917-04-09
U. S. And ALLIES TO
UNITY TRADE PACTS
America to Cooperate With
Other Foes Of Germany to
Strengthen Blockade.

The United States will cooperate as
fully In trade matters as IL does in
naval and military operations with
the Entente allies.
Details of such trade cooperation
will be worked out shortly by COM
mercial commissions representing the
United States and its allies.
A special commission has been APP
pointed to determine what commerce
legislation is necessary from an eco
nomic and trade standpoint and to
make recommendations. The recon-
mendations will go to the Council Of
National Defense.
Members of the commission are DR..
E. Z. Pratt, Chief OF the Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce:
State Department, and Assistant At
torney General Charles Warren
Instructions to the commission
cover domestic and foreign trade re-
lations.
The Administration has not yet con-
sidered a commercial council with
the allies.
The President has issued a proc
lamation guaranteeing the liberty
and property rights OF Germans in
the United States, but IL IL probable
the commission will give much
thought to domestic trade.
to pass a trading with the
enemy act" to prevent provisions,
supplies, and munitions going to Ger
many through domestic channels.
may be given a black
list.
Relief is expected from embargoes
placed by British, French, and other
allied governments. This-is parti-
cularly true with respect to such
as linen. tin, ore, and
pl&te, and food, clothing, and muni-
tions materials.
All British and French restrictions
against the United States will be
lifted, except where sup
plies are urgently needed at home.
All American firms have been taken
from the British blacklist.
The most accessible channels Of in
direct trade between the United
States and Germany are through Nor
way, Sweden, and Denmark. This
trade has been restricted by British
The Washington times., 1917-04-09
COPPER STILL SOLD AS JUNK
Taken to Illinois by Grandfather Of
Congressman r. RaIney.

CARRoLLToN, ILL.,. April "a
huge copper whiskey still. which was
taken to Greene county. Ill. in 1918. by
Samuel Thomas. the first settler in that
part OF the county north OF Macoupin
Creek. has been sent to the junk pile
High prices for metals caused 1t. for
there are us pounds of pure copper in
the old still.
The still is fifteen feet In diameter and
has a capacity. OF ten or twelve barrels:
In recent years it has been used only
as a receptacle for rainwater or a scald-
ing kettle at hog-killing time.
The original owner made corn whiskey
in It. One of his grandsons Is Congress
man Henry T. Rainey. who has been
active in proposed prohibition legisla-
ton. John II. Thomas, another grand
son, sold it to the junk man:
The Washington times., 1917-04-09
KNOWS
NO. E N { N 7
LIKE P0SLAM

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write TO Emergency Laboratories, z2
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Poslam soap Is a daily treat 70 tenoer
skin or skin subject to eruptional trou-
bles.-Advt-
The Washington times., 1917-04-09
TANKER SINKS U.BoAT
Steamer Sequoya Destroys Sub.
marine OF Cornish Coast.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 9.-The
sinking Of a German submarine Off
the Cornish coast by the British tank
steamer Sequoya was revealed for the
first time today when the sequoya ar
rived here from England.
The submarine was destroyed after
a twenty-minute battle during which
one man on the Sequopa was killed.
three wounded, and the bridge and
wheel house were carried away by
fire from the submarine. Finally a
well-piaced shell from the Sequopa
struck the diver, which sank imme-
diately amid a burst OF fame and
smoke.
The Washington times., 1917-04-09
ARGENTINA FEARS EMBARGO
Stirred by Report America Win
Back British Coal Decree.

BUENOS AIRES. April 9.-Argen-
tina was aroused today by reports
that the United States had Joined
with England in Threatening to cut
off all supplies of coal to Argentina
unless Argentina rescinded her wheat
embargo.
The story as received here was that
Counselor Polk, OF the State De
partment, had been in conference with
British Ambassador Spring Rice over
such a step. Argentine officialdom
expressed amazement over the plan
today. The newspaper, Epoca, known
as the mouthpiece OF President Iro-
goyen, declared:
THE president OF Argentina will
never depart from the path of his
duty under pressure"
Jorge Mitre, editor OF La Nacion,
declared:
"Argentina's embargo on wheat was
adopted solely because that wheat
Is needed here"
The Washington times., 1917-04-09
MAY SHUT OFF COAL
ArgentIna's Wheat Embargo Being
Considered by U. s, TODAY,

Considered by v. s. Today.
The United States may cut on this
country's coal shipments to the Ar
gentine Republic IL that country per-
sists in keeping an embargo on wheat
to the allies.
1t was learned today that while no
such retalIatory step has yet been
taken, there is an inclination to take
it. II Argentina pursues her present
course.
The allies must have wheat, il is
stated, and with the American supply
small and in prospect, of being even
smaller than usual. the United States
will be disinclined to look favorably
upon an embargo which shuts on a
vast supply of Argentine wheat, IL
such an embargo is really not needed.
At present this Governments chief
interest in shutting on coal to Argen-
tina is to prevent any from reaching
German, raiders. But a. matters are
row shaping a definite embargo on
coal may be expected IL Argentina
does not yield.
The subject is one of others which
are now under consideration in this
Governments plans for cooperation
with the allies.
The Washington times., 1917-04-09
U. S. WILL SUPPLY /.
NEEDS OF ENTENTE
Actual Participation In Hostili-
ties Not Probable for
About a Year.
CONTINUED from First Page.)

ulations of the entente nations de
pendent on the American supply. II
is realized that IL anything definite
is to be accomplished in this direc.
tion it should be done now while tn,
planting season is still on.
Heretofore there has always been a
considerable degree of cumbersome.
ness about the Agriculture Depart
ment that will have to be speeded ur
IL rapid results are to be gained. II
was only a few months ago that ef-
forts to get a detailed summary of the
food supply of the country brought
out the fact that the latest detailed
figures were for two years ago.
All Resources Pledged.
When it is stated that the principal
results to be looked for in the next
twelve months will, as far as this
country is concerned. be economic
rather than military or naval, lit is
not to be inferred. officials say. that
the President did not mean precisely
what he said in his war address, when
he pledged all the resources of the
country to the prosecution Of the
war,
1t is borne In mind, however, that
1t would be suicidal for the United
States to attempt to send a body of
raw volunteers or conscripts to the
battIefields OF Europe without train
ing or previous experience. 1t would
be equally unwise. ii is declared, to
send across the regular army, which
is not only needed here to guard
against internal disturbances, but as
a training nucleus for the large force
to come.
In connection with the economic pro-
gram, II Is taken for granted in we'll
posted quarters that the cooperation of
the United States with the entente pow
ers will be to the extent OF assisting in
the enforcement OF the blockade against
Germany. As a neutral. the United
States was free to protest against the
enforcement OF this blockade. As q
belligerent. II Is assumed that she will
conform her policy to that OF Great
Britain and France.
The Washington times., 1917-04-09
PAPERHANeERs LOYAL.

Its ideals" members of Paperhangers'
Local Union No. 420, at the meeting
yesterday at 40 Ninth street north
west offered their services to Presi-
dent Wilson.
Resolutions were unanimously
adopted asking that the Government
furnish the necessary-military aid in
equiping its members for war duty.
The headquarters OF the union were
placed at the disposal of all members
who desire to drill
The Washington times., 1917-04-09
CUPID'S SPECIAL ARRIVES
Mrs. Gill Leads Richmond Couples
to Capital to Be Wed.

Richmond SWANS focked to the mar
rage license counter at the City Hall
today.
Cupids Special. conducted twice a
year by Mrs. c. II. Gill. arrived at the
Union Station at noon. and ten minutes
later two blushing couples approached
Colonel Kron to invest 81 In Hymen' s
corporation.
They were Joseph Merryduke and Miss
Minnie Haynes. and Stuart NJ. Nuckels
and Miss Diana Burger.
Nuckels suggested to Colonel Kroll
that he had better get re-enforcements,
as there were twenty-five anxious
couples on the special" who later would
seek him out.