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mony, and made the great crowds
that attended his receptions and din
ners and those who came to call feel
very much at home. Mr.. Cutler, MEM
Der of Congress from Massachusetts,
who, in company with nine others
from Congress, dined with Mr.. JEFF
ferson, noted in his journal that the
dinner was not so elegant as those
served in Adams time. A part of the
menu consisting of rice soup, roasts of
beef, turkey. mutton. ham and veal;
outlets of ham and veal, fried beef.
fried eggs. a pie called macaroni, ice
cream, pudding with cream sauce,
choice fruits and plenty of good
wines.
Madison's stay of eight years re-
stored full ceremonies to the social
levees of the White House. His
young wife, famed for beauty, led
the fashion for court dress at her
famous receptions, which were prob
ably the most picturesque ever held
in the Executive Mansion. The social
life of her regime is probably more
generally reported than that of any
other administration. Even when the
British came to burn the mansion in
1914 they found a dinner which had
been prepared for thirty guests and
so, before going about their work,
did justice to the deserted hot meats
and cold wines.
President Monroe, the stately Vir-
ginian who served as the Nations
head for two administrations, was
conspicuous for his polished manners,
having been in public life from youth.
His colonial dress was complete, even
to the revolutionary style cock ed hat,
and as he was the last President to
l. ID
the last of the cooked hats"
The receptions of his administra-
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he or she will tell you the way to
Miss Fannie Washington's" home.
From Laurel Grove the Rambler
followed the nearly level land for
about a mile to the home of Law
renee Washington. Lawrence, or
Uncle Lal," is now SO years old, but
when the Rambler first came upon
him he was only 60. Twenty years
ago the Rambler wrote:
"A walk of a mile or so brings
one to the home of Lawrence Wash
ington, a descendant of Augustine
Washington of Wakefield, brother of
George Washington The byway
which The Star man travelled brought
him up to the kitchen door of this
Washington home, where he met Mrs.
Washington. Explaining his mission,
Mrs. Washington called to Mr.. Wash
ington and that gentleman came out.
He bears strong facial resemblance
to Washington the Father.
This Lawrence Washington re-
ceived a patrimony and has lived a
leisurely life as farmer and fisher
man. He served through the war as
a private soldier in the 9th Virginia
Cavalry, and was of considerable pop
ularity with his comrades and his Of
ficers. He is an affable and kind man
and has the esteem of his neighbors." ="
Since that was written Mrs. Wash
ington, who was Miss Carter. has
passed to another sphere, but per-
haps her soul dwells on the old farm,
keeps guard over the children who
live there and fits away to look on
those children who left the home.
Uncle LaTs sons, Lloyd, Lawrence
and Henry, live on the farm and
Miss Elsie keeps the house and acts
as mother of the family. The daugh-
ters, Isabel, Sadie and Julia, live in
foreign parts. Isabel, a graduate
nurse, lives at Alexandria; Julia is
school teacher in King George
County, and Sadie, married, lives at
Akron, Ohio.
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mother, Agnes Writ Washington,
lives there. Frances, now Mrs. Gar
land Jones, lives on Church Point.
X * X *
4 ND here comes a tragedy. There
was Dan Writ. brother of Agnes
and grandson of William Writ, law
yer and statesman. l cannot enter
Dan in these chronicles as "one of
the most prominent and best known
citizens of Washingt but l can
tell you without fear of contradic-
tton"-old and honored phrases
that everybody in Westmoreland and
many bodies in King George and
knew Dan.
So far as the Rambler knows, Dan
was not a lawyer and statesman, but
he was honest and agreeable Also,
so far as / know, Dan did not wear
rosette of blue ribbon on his lapel,
and, so far as l know, Dan never
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late Robert J. Washington of Camp
bellton was there.
Changes, many of them sad. have
been since the Rambler stopped there
at dawn in what he thinks was the
month of November, 1904. Little Lee
Swanson Washington died. George
Washington. who used TO hook Dolly
TO the buggy and take the Rambler
all around. was embraced by the
Great Mystery years ago. The house
of Laurel Grove burned and heaps of
sinders lay for years among the
Enarled and warty locust trees, the
fruitful fig bushes and tall Grape
hyrtles. Mrs. Agnes Writ Washing
ton built new house on the low
farm at Church Point, where Mad
doX Creek joins the Potomac. and
there Elizabeth and Frances grew to
bcllehood. Elizabeth, now Mrs. Bowie,
rebuilt Laurel Grove, and with her
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fore women began to quarrel over
brtge. l have seen so cents change
hands in one of those all-night par
ties in the cabin of the boat that is
no more.
Dan Writ lived in house that was
old, and showed its age, and which
had the name Bleak Hall. 1t belonged
to the Wirts two generations before
Dan, and for nearly, or quite, 200
years before had belonged to the But
Ter family, a member of which was
Jane Butler, the first wife of Angus
tine Washington, father of George
Washington the Great.
1t was a year ago last September
that the tragedy happened which I
have in mind. Dan Writ was killed by
a bull on the Church Point farm. He
had gone from Bleak Hall to visit
Sister Agnes. The family wash was
hanging in the yard and on the line
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was something red 1t may have been
a red tablecloth. The bull came out
of the field through the fence of the
yard. The red thing on the wash line
he took as a challenge, and he tram
pied things in the garden in a mad
bull way. Dan got a pitchfork to
drive him out. The bull knocked Dan
down and. 1t was one of the sad
things in OF Wes'mo'lan' County.
Though the course of this story
may slacken there are some thoughts,
call EN- that for courtesy, in the
Rambler's mind which he passes on to
you Paul Kester, dramatst and
otherwise litterateur. lives in the old
DR.. Writ house of Wirtland, which
was a long time the Wirtland Acad-
emy for Young Ladies. The Rambler
stopped there on one of his trips and
made the picture you see. Paul and
Vaughn Kester bought Woodlawn
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administration was one of storm.
Cabinet officers were frequently
changed, warm supporters became
Tyler's bitterest enemies, and Con-
gress seemed lined up against him.
After a company of unthinking
politicians assembled at the White
House to state their grievances. Con-
gress awoke to the necessity of pre-
venting a recurrence of such an in
dignity. A bill was introduced in the
Senate providing for an auxiliary
guard" to protect public and private
property and to enforce police regu-
lations. This corps, consisting of a
captain and Is other men equipped
with implements to distinguish
them in the discharge of their duties,
was the nucleus of the metropolitan
police of today.
TT is said that James K. Polk was so
slender that he wore his clothes
several sizes too large in order to
appear heavier than he was. 1t is re-
corded that he was of a serious, SEN
sitive nature. He was especially
pleased because Henry Clay, whom he
defeated for President, called on him
and took dinner at the White House.
The fact that John Quincy Adams,
then in Congress, did not call always
grieved him.
When troupe of jugglers performed
at the White House he did not wish
TO waste his time in seeing them, but
his interest in the. visit of Mr.. and
Mrs. Tom Thumb was very marked.
In 1S49 Gen. Zachary Taylor of
Mexican War fame was sworn into
the office as President. This pleas
| ant-faced gentleman, with snow
white hair, pleasing voice and courte-
Gus manner, won friends on every
side. His appearance in public
brought forth such general applause
that he was accustomed to acknowl-
edge the compliment in the courtly
response Your humble servant.
ladies'; heaven bless you, gentlemen"
His sudden death of typhoid fever
16 months after his Inauguration
plunged the Nation into sorrow.
Mfilard Fillmore. who took Gen.
Taylor's place as President, was also
popular. He had the reputation for
affable simplicity. frankness and a
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tion were fetes of unusual splendor,
for Washington society had by that
time attracted many wealthy South
ern families that had means to lavish
on dress and in high living.
John Quincy Adams. President
who was son of a President, was the
most punctilious man who ever lived
in the Executive Mansion. The clock
was his master, for at in Summer
and in Winter he rose. Then a
cold bath, a four-miIe walk to the
Capitol and through the parks and
back home and he was ready to read
exactly two chapters in the Bible
After this he read the newspapers
until breakfast at 9. From 10 to A
each day he attended to his official
duties. After another walk he dined
at 6.
His evenings were devoted to social
duties and public business. In his
administration the White House, and
especially the east room, was pro-
vided with elegant new furnishings
costing $4,000.
WHEN Andrew Jackson was in
augurated President he started
the precedent for taking the oath of
office on the east portico of the
Capitol. The first great inaugural
crowds of visitors came to the city
to do him honor Jackson, In his
warm friendship, dispensed such
bountiful hospitality that he was con-
stantly using money from his farm
In Tennessee to help pay the costs.
Martin Van Buren,, the power be-
hind Jackson's throne, came to the
White Rouse a gentleman schooled
in the perfection of fashion and good
manners. About the only unconven-
tional act recorded of him is that he
went upstairs two steps at time de-
spite his b5 years. Though party fac
tions were bitter during his admins
tration, and campaign enthusiasts
often became personal at his expense,
yet he maintained his dignity.
Gen. William Henry Harrison, who
had been governor of Indian Terri
tory and had won fame in the Battle
of Tippecanoe. was put up for the
next President. The slogan "Tippe-
canoe and Tyler. too," indicated his
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joined the Rechabites or Jonadabs.
If he did. he didn't last long.
Dan had one of those long, aris-
tocratic pedigrees which so many
persons talk about and a few have.
When the steamboat tied up late at
night at Wirts Wharf, once a week,
Dan would come aboard. Dan. the
capn, purSer. mates and engineers
called each other by their first names,
and there was often an informal
party. All the passengers-some-
times 10 or 12-had gone ashore be-
fore the old steamboat got into Mad
doX Creek.
1t is not the business of the Ram
bier to take you into confidence and
give away the, secrets of those in
formal parties, but he will go so far
as to tell you that one of the amuse-
ments was seven-up, pastime fash
ionable in that part of Virginia be-
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Before reading his speech, which
he had SO carefully prepared ms to
have had it printed and even in
terlined with important statements,
he adjusted his Steel-bowed spectacles
and placed his gold-headed cane on
a paper weight.
1t would have been impossible for
any one to take Lincoln's place as
President, but the assassin's bullet
put Andrew Johnson in the White
House. Certainly no President ever
faced a greater task, either officially
or socially than that of bringing tho
Nation together again after the Civil
War, or restoring broken ties severed
by hatred, and of satisfying two fac
tions in a discordant Congress.
Johnson's family was so unostenta-
tious that they seemed almost to
live in retirement.
x X
WITH the Grant regime the old
w order of things at the White
House was banished. New furnish
ings and a change in plan of house
hold management made it possible
for the President to entertain in Il
style more in keeping with the
dignity of his office. Before his term,
Presidents wives had superintendent
their own culinary departments. but
now White House steward was in
stalled for the first time. For eight
years State dinners, brilliant levees
and receptions a the White House
were affairs of national interest
Steward Melah, the Italian, who
complained that there was not enough
silver to spread a proper table, got
up his dinners according to the quail
ity of his guests" AS the table
seated only 36, it was necessary to
make these functions weekly during
the short social season. Though some
dinners cost as little as $500. the
usual amount allowed was $500:
but when Prince Arthur of England
was guest the nine-course spread
for So cost S1,500, exclusive of wines.
The contest for the presidency was
so bitter in Hayes time that the
President himself was not sure of
his election until a few days before
he took the oAa;s of office The first
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| HE Rambler thinks it was in
the month of November, 1904,
that he first visited the
Washington lands and families
in Westmoreland County. BY
all the rules laid down for writing a
story-rules laid down by men who
never wrote a good one-that opening 6
sentence is the worst possible intro
duction to a story. In the first place
the Rambler should not think" it
was in the month of November 1904.
He should know more about it. A
successful writer must not think. He
should not write 'in the month of
November" because the matter would
be clear to some persons if he wrote
''in November" When story teller
writes November" even a reader
ought to know that the month of
November is meant. One ought never
take chances on a reader knowing
things, but now and then one meets
readers who can get" a thing if
told it in English, but it's safer to
give them a photograph.
A story ought not to be begun with
remark about the weather or the
season. There is no originality in
beginning a story with The luscious
golden sunshine seeped through the
fragrant lilacs of Spring Git being
known that the lilac is a Fall flower)
or Twas dark and stormy night"
There is no more originality in that
than in the friend who holds you up
while you are running for a street
car and enlightens you with his
opinion that the weather is a little
warm for this time o year, but it
may snow before night, ha ha! and
we are apt to have some windy days
in March"
Professors of English have laid
down all the rules for writing a good
story and if you follow the rules you
will get a collection of letters be-
ginning and ending Returned with
thanks" The way to avoid having
to write 'em worse than anybody
else. The proper way to begin a
story is not to soothe the reader but
70 stun him. Jolt him as though
truck had hit him. Grip him with
the first line and he'll read your
story until he sleeps.
Let us take up the trail in Wash
ingtonland - Westmoreland - where
for the peace of mind of the Sunday
editor we left off last Sunday. The
Rambler had breakfast at the farm
Laurel Grove, with Mr. George Wash
ington, Mrs. Agnes Writ Washington,
his wife, and their children, Eliza
beth, Frances and George Lee Swan
son Washington, the baby. Miss
Fanny Washington, daughter of the
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Dramatist and Washington Family
Associated With Country Home


sdentsF Family AreShl Residn
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cratic foppery." 1t is said that he
took the oath of office in his old suit,
because his new one did not arrive in
time, on account of the bad condition
of the roads.
Jefferson put an end to all cere-
New Britain herald., 1925-11-19
BERLIN news
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large that It's very size would cause
motorists TO pause IN awe
Residents claim that the childreh
ore in danger of being struck by au-
tomobiles as conditions no" STAND
and further claim that something
should be done to check the speed
Of automobiles as they pass the III
stitution. Whether or not me MAJ
ter will be taken up with the board
Of sclectmen is not known.
American Legion Meeting
Bolton KasiCa post, American Le-
gion, will meet tonight at s o'clock
at its hall on Main street, Kensing-
ton. Those desiring to make out
applications for adjusted compensa-
ton will be able to do so at this
meeting.
Athletic Club Whist
The whist and dance scheduled for
Friday night by the Kensington Ath-
lctic club promises to be one of the
Zig events of the season. 1t will be
held at Lloyd hall and dancing will
he enjoyed from s to Il o'clock,
NcKeon's orchestra furnishing the
music. Whist will be played on the
lower floor.
Resolution Sent Out
The resolution adopted by the
hoard of trustees of the Berlin, Saw
ings bank on the death of Francis
na,nIncr has hcen sent TO Mrs Dem
New Britain herald., 1925-11-19

the city OF Hartford, who spoke last
night at a we'll attended meeting of
the Mems Bible class of Berlin.
Mr.. Butler spoke on the world
court, saying that as yet no substi-
tute has been found for war in spite
of our great developments of the
past years, The League Of Nations
appointed a committee to bring in
a scheme for the settlement of dis
putes, this not to consist Of a court
of arbitration.
A constitution for a World Court
was drafted and presented to the
League of Nations, it being accepted
after one important change had been
made. This change was that nations
should not be compelled to submit
cases TO the World Court, but once
a case is submitted. no nation can
refuse to abide by the decision.
Practically every nation. with the
exception of the United States join
ed the league. A list of the names of
100 men, thought capable of serving
en- this court, was presented by the
New Britain herald., 1925-11-19
various nations.

various nations.
Mr.. Butler then went on TO explain
the personnel of the court The
court consists of If judges and four
deputies, nine judges being necessary
to make a quorum. None of them
can hold political office and they
must give their entire time to the
work.
The question was asked, "What
can force nations to abide by deCi-
sions Of the world COURT" to which
Mr. Butler replied "National honor
will cause nations TO abide by the
decisions" He stated that any ma
ton may appeal to the court Wheth-
cr it is a member or not.
The question of the World Court
/ is particularly interesting to citizens
OF the United States at this time, the
speaker said, because it is slated to
come up at the next session of the
/ United States senate. Many people
We're opposed 10 the league for the
simple reason that the late President
Wilson sponsored it, he said. adding
New Britain herald., 1925-11-19

that the main opponents are gone
now in the persons Of Senators
Lodge and Brandogec. The real liv-
ing opponent is Senator Borah.
twenty-five nations out Of co have
voluntarily agreed to abide by all de-
Cisions of the court, he said.
The meeting was attended by
about 50 members Of the Bible class.
who voted it an excellent one and
rendered a vote of thanks to the
speaker.
East Berlin Items.
The regular mid-Wcck service will
I he held at the Methodist church this
, evening at tho usual hour.
The prize winners at the whist so.
oial given by the ladies Of the Sacred
Heart church Monday evening were
as follows: Genucmcn's first, Pau
SieErist; consolation, +. G. Morgan
! adde's first. Mrs. J. \. Williams, am
consolation. Mrs. Shceddy of Mid.
/ dletoWn. Mrs. Adam Krauth will on.
certain at the social TO be given mex
Monday evening,
New Britain herald., 1925-11-19

A meeting Of the Modern Wood
men will be held at the Athletic
building this evening.
The members Of the Social Five
club enjoyed their annual hountiful
Thanksgiving dinner at the home of
Mrs. George Pollard on Cottage
street today.
The Epworth League Of the NJ. Z.
church will serve "A supper in the
basement Of the church on Satur-
day evening from five TO seven
o'clock. The public is invited to at
tend,
New Britain herald., 1925-11-19
SUED FOR S25OOOO

New York, Nov. 10 P) - J. Rob-
crt Pauline, stage hypnotist, and
Jack Phillips, his assistant, were
made defendants yesterday In a
S950,000 damage suit brought by
Solomon Trencher. waiter whom
they threw ont OF a Hotel Flanders
window.
New Britain herald., 1925-11-19
heavily charged electric feed wire.

The coroner holds that the Lake
Engineering company, owner of the
feed wires, and the United nlumin-
ating company which furnished the
power over the wires, cannot be held
criminally responsible.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-04-02
CENSORS WIN POINT IN
 WILD WEST MOVIE SHOWS

CHICAGO, H., April 1.-Wild west movie shows, or other pictures where a character kills for personal revenge or some similar motive, are immoral and subject to the censor's shears, the appellate court declared in decision today. The decision was in the fight of movie producers against municipal censorship and reverses lower de- cision by the courts restraining the censors from interfering with the showing of "bad man" thrills.
 Where gun play or the shooting of human beings is the essence of the play and where it does not pertain to the necessities of war nor the pre- servation of law and order, when it is for personal spite or revenge and thus becomes a murder, the picture may be said to be immoral it inculcates murder" the decision read in part.
 "One of the most conspicuous of all crimes today is indiscriminate shoot. ing, the statistics of which we all know are appalling"
Seward daily gateway., 1925-04-02
AN ACT TO AMEND
 MINING CLAIMS

In the 68th Congress, H. R. HAS was passed. This is an Act to modify and amend the mining laws in their ap- plication to the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes.
 Be It enacted by the Senate and House of Representative of the Uni ted States of America in Congress assembled, That section 4 of the Act of Congress of August 1, 1912, section 129d Compiled Laws of Alaska, enti- tied, An Act to modify and amend the mining laws in their application to the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes" be amended to read as follows:
 Sec. 4. That no placer mining claim hereafter located in Alaska shall be patented which shall contain a greater area than is fixed by law nor which is longer than three times it's greatest width as determined by transverse line drawn within the lines of the claim and at right an .gles to it's longest side: Provided, That where any isolated parcel of placer ground lies between and adjOins pat ented or validly located claims on al of it's sides and is not over thirteer hundred and twenty feet i'll length this dimensional restriction shall no apply"
Seward daily gateway., 1925-04-02
Rio Spends $6OO,OOO
 In CarnicaI Gaieties
(Rv Associated Prnssl

(By ASSocldleU fTebSJ
 RIO DE JANEIRO, Apr. 2.-T h c carnival of 1925 is over, and the city today is resting from it's three days and four nights of merry-mak ing. Banks and business houses are closed, and the street cleaners are hauling away cart loads of col ored paper from the principal streets like snow in an American city af- ter a winter storm.
 Confetti and serpentines. cost more this year than they did in 1924, but even the increase in price did not prevent a large consumption. One hundred tons of the former and 250 of the latter were tossed about the streets by the pleasure-seeking mobs, it is estimated Rios bill for the publication is placed at. $600,00o. No masks were worn this year on account Of recent political disturb ances.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-04-02

The American people are joyrid- ing back to the jungle. They are fast throwing overheard the moral conven- lions and restraints of their forefath- CTS and galloping toward wrack and ruin. This civilization is following the same trail that wrecked Greece, Rome and Pompeii."
 Dr. Hargett's description of mod ern burlesque show follows:
 The theatre is blue with tobacco smoke. It is filled with men and wo- men, mostly moral degenerates and morons.
 The curtain rises and couple of dozen nude girls come dancing out on the stage, throwing their naked legs and going through deXtrous dances. Men gaze wideeyed and gulf flaw at risque jokes
 Every phase of this show, from beginning to end, is designed for but one purpose - to arouse the animal passions of men,
 Dr. Hargett has led fight here against bootleggers and corrupt police and has been given credit for start