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Show Moncure D. Conway, mousing among the papers of the Long Island Historical society, has found 6ome letters from Washington that had .never been published, pub-lished, and given them to tho world in book form. It was supposed wo know all about Washington as statesman, soldier,' sol-dier,' and even as a moony young man in love, writing to his girl the most execrable execra-ble rhyme ever perpetrated even by a young man in love, but it was reserved for Mr. Conway to show us Washington the farmer. When he was president, after the stato duties were over, Washington Wash-ington used to sit up nights and write with bis own hand long letters to his farm manager, telling what to do with this horse or flock of sheep and that turnip field. It was before the days of stenographers and pretty typewriter girls. It may perhaps be a consolation to farmers in our time to know that the father of his country was as hard up for money as they are, that he had to borrow bor-row constantly, and was put to it to meet his expenses at times. Yet through all be held steadily to the idea that there is no life for a gentleman but that in the country, upon bis own estates. |