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Show w J erlcktiburg. Indeed, with the Connt ds Rochambeau, two year -- ago, ere-h- e followed his army from York to its posts upon thsulkudaon Mr. Lee la, his slater, had returned on day from vlaltlng s neighbor in th quiet la aetoulehment horses and attendupon an officer ants, at her door, and had entered to find her belovod brother stretched upon her own bed wtthlu, sound asleep N0TD EDUCATORS FROM EVERY tn hla clothes. Like a boy return. 1 from SECTION OF UNION 'MEET hunting. IN UTAH CAPITAL. Takes Hit Mother to a Ball. There had been a formal ball given, too, in celebration of tbe victory, before the Ftsiu k officers and the by President Conleft Fredericksburg to tains Outline of Plan of Reorganigo northward again, and Washington zation in Order td Keep Abreast had bad the Joy of entering tbe room With the.Timea. la the face of -- tfar gay coinpany w 1th hia aged mother on his arm, not a whit bent for all her seventy four years, of Salt Iaike and aa qule as a qnsea at receiving national e ami teachers prominent th homage of bar sons comrades Th from every section. ofJLlt Union were arm In this ilty Monday, April 7, for the He had gut his Imperious spirit of opening session' of the National command fn.Hu her. A servant had association, the visiting edutold her that Mars George had put cators being given a characteristic up at the taorn Oo and tell George to come here InActive direction of the activities stantly," she had commanded, and he and aims of the National Edncatton had come, masterful man though he association "through the medium of un waa. atUi e He hadfett'PT v r y old affect Ion and advlaary.t'ou.ucii e knit bo mot bloeely niay very old allegiance renew itself as he together-amUs more-effe- ct in ive i saw former "neI gh bora crowd 'around was advocated by President K. T. work, and that little gltmpae of Virhim; Fairchild In his official annual address ginia had refreshed him like a tonic to the" members of that brgunUatlon, deeply, and a tf It renewed bis vey nature, m only a silent man can he re- delivered Monday afternoon at th freshed. But a feVr days In Fredericks- general session in the Tabernacle. d In Its organisation President burg and at Mount Vernon then had holds- - the Education association been only an Incident of campaigning, is behind the times, as compared with only a grateful pause on a march. of other professional organUations Back to Private Life. ' Now at last he had come back to men and women. of An recommendation important keep hia home and be a' neighbor Mr. association is Fairchild that the, bo aa had not been these nine again, have an official publication of general years. It was not the same Virginia, nor EDWARD T. FAIRCHILD. even the same home and neighborhood he had gone from, that Washington' came back to when the war waa done. He had left Mount Vernon in the care of Lund Washington, his nephew, while the war lasted, and had not forgotten amidst all hla letter writing to send seasonable directions and maintain a" constant oversight upon the management of hla estate.' Rebukee His Nsphew. It was part of hia genius to flnd"time for everything, and Mount. Vernon had suffered something less than tbe or dinary hazards and neglects of war. It had suffered lees upon one occasion, Indeed, than its roud owner could have found it in hla heart to He was cat to the quick that his vn officers should deem him an ad venturer, willing to advance his own power at the eipense of .the. .very principles he had fought for Hla thought must have gone be it a bound to his old comradeship with brother Lawrence. wlthtKe Fairfaxes, George Mason, andthe Lees. Bind all that free conjpkny of gentlemen In the Northern NeCk who revered law, lored liberty, and hated a ' -- iasurper." But heebuld not blink the Just real grievances of the irmf; nor did he wish to. d ThoughotherawerengTyaftera no mans grief or manner he acorned. Indignation waa deeper than his that the army should be left penniless aft-- r all it had suffered and done, and be threatened, besides, with being turned adrift without reward or hope of provision for the future. Promisee Justice te the Army. "No man possesses a more sincere wish to aee ample justice done to the army than I do, he had declared to Colonel Nicola; "and as far as my power and influence, In a constitutional way. extend, they ahall be employed to the utmost of my abilities to it." effect The pledge waa fulfilled tn almost every letter he wrote, private or public. He urged the states,, as he urged the congress, In season and out of season, to aee Justice done the men who had won the Revolution, and whom he loved aa if they had been of his own blood. Hla Counsel Disregarded. Rut even his. great voice went too unheeded. The spirit of party, Interest, slowness, and Indolence slacken, suspend, ind overthrow the best concerted measures, the Abbe Robin had observed, upon his first coming with Rochambeau; and now measures were sot so much as concerted until a final menace from the army brought the - country to Us Benees. A troubled summer came and went, snd another winter of anxioua doubt and Ineffectual counsel. The very approach of peace, aa it grew more certain, quickened the angry fears of the army, lest peace should be made a pretext, when it came, to disperse them before their demands could be driven home upon the demoralized and reluctant govern-nn- t they were learning to despise. I 'Another spring and the mischief so long maturing was ripe; It looked as If even Washington conld not prevent long private na-tion- IL A Menace From the Army. It had been rumored in Philadel- phia, w hile the winter held, "that the array had secretly determined not to lay down their arms until due provision" and should their pay. a' satisfactory vra the-subje- prospect of ct and that Washington had unpopular among almost all ranks because of his harshness against every unlawful means of sowing justice. "His extreme reserve, mixed sometime -- with - a . degree of asperity-- of temper, both of which were said to tave increased of late,- had contributed to th decline of his popularity ran the report and it grew every eek the more unlikely he could "heck the treasonable purposes of his grown - . men Springing the Mine. March. 1788, the mine was Pning; and then men learned, by a sew sign, what power there was In he silent man; how he could handle -disaffection and disarm reproach. An open address was broadspread cast through the camp, calling upon he army to use its power to obtain Jts rights," knd Inviting a meeting of officers to devise a. way. "Tan you consent -- to be the only sufferers-b- y this "revolution? . 7 7 ff you can. . . . go. . . . carry with fou the ridicule, and. what Is worse, he pity of the world. Go, starve, and he forgotten. . . . But if you have 3pur.- enough to discover, and spirit "Rough to oppose, tyranny . . . ake; attend to your situation, and fcdregS yourselves." Such were its kindling phrasbs; and no man need deceive himself with thinking they 0UId go unheeded. Checkmates the Movement. .Washington showed his tact gnd H'astery by assuming Immediate con-o- f the movement, with a sharp u!ie for such a breach of manly ropriety and soldierly discipline, but w no thought to stay a righteous In -- Protest himself summoned the officers, Sn,i when they had come together ePP,d to the desk before them, with 'o show of anger or offended dignity, Jt ery gravely, with a sort ef ty 11 otred one strangely to see, ln a taking a written paper from hla ndjuated hla spectacles to read .Gentleman." he said, very aimyou will permit metopat ea my 'Priaclea, I have not only grown y. but almost blind, in the service y country." Again a Victor Thre were wet eyes upon the tn-t! the room; aw man stirred p h" read read wards of adaeoai- c -- p -- fr " hi . tioupof counsel; hleh burned at in1 wh?n done, ai yir had withdrawn, leaving them teTdo what they wouldTthey did nothing of which he could be aa tamed They spoke manfully, wjj right, of what they deemed tt just and Imperative the eon (free ihonld do for them, but they "RMoircd. uaaaimoae-y- , that at the commencement of tha present war the officers of the American army engaged tn the service of their country from the pureet lore and attachment to the right and liberties of human nature, which motive till exist in the highest degree; and that no circumstances of distress or L.J.h d c e . ro d.u c t t hs t -may lead to sully tha reputation and Klrywhich they have acquired at the price of their blood and eight years' faithful services. Congress to Act. Washington knew, nevertheless, how black a danger lurked among these distressed, men did notfail to plainly of It to the congress; an breathed freely again only when fhe soldiers just demands had atjast In some m assure been met. by at any rate the proper legislation. He grew weary with longing (of peace, when the work seemed done and his thoughts and leisure to turn towards his home again. But once in all tbs lengthened days of .fighting had heeeen Mount Vernon. He had turned aside to spend a night or two there on his way to Torktown, and he had seen the loved place again for a little after the victory was won. Now, amidst profitless days at or In counsel wfth the committees of the congress upon business that was never finished, w'hile affairs stood as it were in a sort of paralysis, waiting upon the interminable conferences of (he three powers who' haggled over definitive terms of peace at Paris, home seemed to him, in his weariness, more to be desired than ever before. Sorrow at Mount Vernon. Private griefs had stricken him at the very moment of his triumph. Scarcely had the victory at Torktown been celebrated when he was called (November, 1781) to the death bed of Jack Custis, his wayward but dearly loved stepson. and had there to endure the sight of his wifes grief and the young widows hopeless sorrow added to his own. The two youngest children he claimed for himself, with that wistful fatherly longing that had always marked him; and Mount Vernon seemed to him more like a haven than ever, where to Beek rest and solace. The two years he had yet to wait may well have seemed to him the longest of his life, and may have added a touch of their . own to what strangers deemed his sternness. .Washington .had ..seldom seemed, so stern as in one incident of those trying months. An officer of the Americas army had been taken In a skirmish, and the English had permitted a brutal company of loyalist, under one Captain JLlppincott, to take him from his prison in NevrYork and "wantonly hang him in broad daylight on the heights tijr; u J hi disgraceful death, like any com-inospy, granting him not even the fe?orto be shot, like a soldier. It seemed hard to learn the Inflexible Hues UpoQ which that consistent mtud worked, aa If It had gone .to school to Fate. Osodhy to Hia Officer. But- - no on deemed him hard or stem, or so much aa a thought more or less than human, when at last the British had withdrawn from New Tork. and be stood amidst hit officers in Fraunce's tavern to say goodby. He could hardly speak for emotion; he could only lift hts glass and say: "With a heart full of love and gratVa - tudr.l-new-ta- -- ke my leaTB uf-'ytj- u; near Middletown. Washington at once notified the British commander that unless the murderers were delivered up to be punished, a British officer would he chosen by lot from among his prisoners to suffer in their stead f and. when reparation was withheld, proceeded without hesitation to carry hia threat into execution. The lot fell upon Captain Charles Aaglll, an engaging youth of only nineteen, the heir of a great English family. lady Asgill. the lada mother, did not stop short of moving the very French court itself to Intervene to save jier son, and at last the congress counseled hla release, the .English commander having disavowed the set of the murderers in whose place b was to suffer, and Washington himself having asked to be directed what h6 should do. Captain Asgill haa been released." Washington wrote to Vergennes, in answer to the great minister's InterI have no right to assume cession. any particular merit from the lenient manner In which thla disagreeable affair has terminated. But 1 beg you to believe, air, that I moat sincerely hurejoice, not only because your mane Intentions are gratified, but because the event accords with the wishes of his, moat IChjIstian, ma- jesty.. A Great Weight Lifted. a great weight from hia lifted It heart to have the Innocent boy to and be go unhurt from hia hands, wrote almost tenderly to him in acquainting him with hla release; but It was of hla simple nature to have ent t$e lad to the gallowa. neverthestand as less, had thinga continued to first at were they He was Inexorable to check perfidy and vindicate the Just rule of war. Man were reminded, while the affair Andre. Arpended, of the Hanging of In treason, confederate British nolds eommander-lB-chle- f and how pitiless the had seemed tn eendlng the frank, jeotlemaa accomplished. ex') -- City.-Educa- f Sun-da- v c c ofti the N i: ut ion -- Undei pant a they at", the!.- - it hers of tlu luted S! tt s ar-- n, t only imi'nl, lining, but ui proving, tlu-- : win snl it puMu-ps- i bools ot iho .couutiy This w.rs prurtually tin i resulting !rtHHdbnjiHion of tt'o port ou teachers' salaries, ti mir and pensions as presented to the national eomicil by President Joseph Swain of Svvirthmrtie college. Svvaithinoie, Pa, The sessions of tho council yere held 1 m-- tor Kdu-cat'o- at Italian ball n P ITaxton, Ujiltcd States cfnr misisonor of education, attributed thts nuiintejmnce and Improvement., of school work to the splendid chnr actor of the teachers, and not to tho encouragement received by them in their labors - ArnitT all of 1 he bus mess oTTfio Na tlonal Education as.soi lution, tho so- rial fcatutes were not neglected and the women of the couventiorPespectaJ- -ly were shown 'inuth social attention.. At" the meeting of the hoard of directors of the'N. E. A which was held Monday at the lion house, it was decided to prosecute a campaign to raise an endow meat fund of $1,000, Otto in tlve years, and an appropriation, of f ."00 to carry on the work was aurtor-1ej- ; 1 weli-om- e , - - Fair-chil- A Fervent Parting. When General Knox, who stood nearest, approached him, he drew him to him with a sudden Impulse and kieaed him, and not a soldier-amonthem all went away without an embrace from this man who was deemed cold and distant After the parting they followed him in silence to Whitehall Ferry, and saw him take boat for his journey. And then, standing before the congress at Annapolis to resign his commission, he added the . crowning touch of simplicity to his just repute as a man beyond others noble and sincere. Resigns His Commission. I have now the honor of offering to Con my sincere congratulation gress, he said, aa he stood amidst the august scene they had prepared for him, and of presenting myself before them to surrender into their hands the trust committed to me, and to claim the Indulgence of retiring-frothe service of my country.Happy Jn the confirmation of our Independence and sovereignty, and pleased with the opportunity afforded the United .States of becoming a respectable nation, 1 resign with satisfaction the appointment I accepted wljh diffidence a diffidence in my abilities to accomplish so arduous a task, which, however, was superseded by a confidence In the rectitude of our cause, the support of the supreme power of the Union, and the patronage of Heaven. The auccesful termination of the war has verified the most sanguine ex pectations; and my gratitude for the Interposition of Providence and the assistance I have received from my countrymen Increases with every re. view of the momentous contest. I consider ii my indispensable duty to close this last solemn act of my official life by commending the interests of our 'dearest "country to theprotectloa of Almighty God and those wbo have the superintendence of them to hla holy keeping. It waa as If spoken on the morrow of the day upon which he accepted hia commission; the same diffidence, the same trust In a power greater aid higher than bla own. An Idol and a Hero. The plaudits that had but Just now filled his earn at every stage of hia long journey from New York seemed utterly forgotten; he seemed not to know how hla fellow countrymen had made of him an Idol and a hero; hla simplicity was once again hla autben tic badge of genuineness. He- - knew, it would seem, no other way in which to act A little child remembered afterwards hew he had prayed at her fathers house upon the eve of battle; how he had taken scripture out of Joshua, and had cried. "The Lord God of feds, the Lord God et gods, be knoveth, and Israel he shall know; If It be la rebellion," or If In transgression agetnst the Lord Cease as net this day)." There wae here the mss note of devosolemnity end of tion as If duty and honor were alike Inevitable. On Christman eve, 1783, Washington wae ones more at Mount Vernon, to resume the life he loved more than victory and power. He had a seat for the means and the labor of succeeding, but not for the mere content of euoeees. He put the revolution behind hla es he would have laid aside a book that waa read; turned from tt aa quietly aa he had turned from receiving the surrender of Cornwallis at Torktown interested in victory, not as a pageant and field of glory, but only as a means to an end. He looked to find very sweet satisfaction In the peace which war had earned, as sufficient a scope for bis powers at home ns to the field. Once more he would be a Virginian, and Join his strength to his neighgood citibors In all the ' tasks ... zenship. He had seen nothing of the old familiar pleoea since that sprihg ln the year 1778, when he had left his farming and his amidst rumors of war, to attend the congress which was to send him teCambridge. Be had baited at FreAg - - J self-forgetf- d ... far-awa- g, y wish." . In the spring of 1781 several British vessels had come pillaging within the Potomac, and th anxious Lund had regaled their officers with refreshments from Mount Vcrtion to buy tbem off from mischief, It would have been a less painful circumstance to me," his, uncompromising uncle had written him, to have heard that, In consequence of your with their request, they bad burnt my house and laid the plantation tn ruin. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative." Kept though it waa from harm, however, the place had suffered many thinga for lack of his personal care. There waa some part of the task to be over again that bad confronted him when he came to take possession of the old plantation with his bride after the neglects of tbe French Virginia a State. But Virginia waa more changed than Mount Vernon. He had left it a- colony, at odds with a royal governor; he returned to find it a state, with Benjamin Harrison, that (tout gentleman and good planter, for governor, by the free suffrage of hla fellow Virginians. There had been no radical break with tbe aristocratic tradition! of the past. Mr. Harriaona handsome seat at Lower Brandon lay where the long reaches of the James marked the old-aregion of Virginiasllfe upon eatates; where there broad, were good wine and plate upon the table, and gentlemen kept old customs bright and honored in the observance. wkr.-Find- s - at half-feud- -- (TO BE CONTINUED.) Reindeer Venisen From Alaska. times In the last twenty the government imported reinyears deer lato Alaska about 1,200 in all--in hopes to provide food for the natives in the future. The plan caused ome (BDueement. and some criticism at the tine. Subsequent . develop tents, however, have justified tbe attempt The herds have now Increased to about 16,000 or 40,000 animal and are rapidly Increasing. Tbe naof tbe numtives own about ber. Shipments of meat have been made to the Pacific coast cities. Laa4 years sales of venison and akin amounted to $26,000. It' is claimed the vast tundra or' treeless, frosen plalm of Alaska will support at least 10.000.-00anlmsls. Th federal authorise! hj charge Sr so optimistic of the future outlook that the prediction It made that "within 25 years the United Statea can draw a considerable pari of its meat supply from Alaska" Apparently, all we have to do la to live long enough, and w will see dear meat made cheaper by deer meat from Alaska Wall Street JournaL At different two-third- B . 0 - - lu-a- -- Urs New-buffg- prominent members of the , National Fduc.it ion association. .Jletore au audience-oapproximately .VS'bi persons in the tabernacle Robert delivered an night. H tutor sting address on Monnontsiu and Kduc.iupo.' prefacing hi talk by s.iuug that he assumed that a largo number of the oiigrcg.itiou consisted of s iltors who are hre to attenl I tomik-toToo- Installment 18 many teachers la the citywhlle the members of munv wards of the Mormon t hurch listened to addresses from " - meeting of the agricultural ht;h school teachers of the state was held Monday at the Hotel Utah, uuder the direction of the extension division ot the Utah agricultural college,-- , l)r. E, 0. Peterson of the agricultural college, who presided, explained that the purpose of the gathering was to systematize the agricultural work in the high schools of t) state. One of the special entertainment features for the reception at Saltalr on' Tuesday" was the lecture given by Professor Arthur Jl. Chamberlain in the Hippodrome, The subject of the lecture was Our Western Wonderlands." and It wua illustrated wlthr colored lantern slides' said to be tho finest that modern art and science can A . produco. That the teaching of agriculture without effective practical application Is as great a mistake aa ltwould be to teach only the theory of reading, arithmetic and other subjects was the statement, made In the annual report of the committee on courses of study, given Monday byl. C. Bishop, chairman of the State College of Agrlcuiture. Ames, Iowa, at the Joint meeting of the rural and agricultural and school - garden - departments. Tha President of the National Education meeting was held at the First PresbyAssociation, who has a plan for re- terian church. organization of association. The kindergarten department of the N. E. A. heldlta Initial meeting at the circulation among the people as a First Christian Science church Monmeans of Increasing the effectiveness The leading addresui day morning. of the association work. was given by Miss Barbara Greenwood Continuity of the work of the N. E. A. is a leading consideration of PresiP. P. CLAXTON- dent Fairchild, it la apparent. In Tila advocacy of a board of throe to take the managerial reins of the organization. He propose the election of Vwq" members of the board by the trustees, the third member to be president of the association, The plan, as he outlines, would mean that these men eminent educators devote most of their time to the work, and that they be placed on contmen-iurat- e -- - salaries? , The attendance at tbe convention has been A disappointment to many. Fully 10,000" educator had been expected, --yet at the opening session there were scarcely 4,000 present. Addresses were also made t the opening Session? by M. P.Shawkey, state superintendent of public schools of Charleston, W. Va., wbo took for his subject What Shall We Do With the Single-rooSchool? and by Henry Neumann, leader of th'e Brooklyn Society of Ethical Culture, who spoke on The Moral Values In Public Tbe delegate had been arriving for a week before the opening session, and on Sunday welcome was voiced by Charles "W Penrose," 1q"tehairbf the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints, at services in the tabeK nacle, following which Philander P. Claxton, United States commissioner of education; delivered an address on "The 8chool Teacher. If a school teacher be unable to give all hhi life and being, not negatively, but affirmatively and aggres-sivelfor the sake of the child, for the sake of the home and for the sake of tbe nation, he should leave tbe profession. This is the view exP. Dr. P. Claxton in his pressed by address. "Educational Sunday was observed generally In Salt Lake churches and ward chapels, pastors of tbe various " denominations sermons delivering of on interest to the bearing topics r y y. United States Commissioner of Education, who attended tbe National Ed-- , ucation Association convention at Salt Lake. of Ig)s Angeles, Cal., on Ways and Means of Increasing Effective Kinder- garten Supervision, One of the feat .ires of the convention waa the musical program. It Is doubtful If at any prevtiua session such a high class musical program haa been provided. Historic Church Burned. Montreal. The historic Roman Catholic church of Saint Charles on Center street waa burned to tbe afternoon. The ground Saturday church waa one of the oldest In the city and contained several valuable paintings. Tbe loss la about $500,000, partly covered by insurance. T Three Fatally 8hoi Preferred' Death to Arrest. Aberdeen, S. D. In a battle beSt, Louis. While a police sergeant Go Thou to Canaroio. was waiting at hla home to arrest tween Greek laborers and circus New idea about sleeping comeo him ou an embezzlement pharge. Geo. hands, three circus hahds were fatalfrom a 8w1ss sawbones, wbo says tbo A. Sowman, treasurer of a coal min-er- ly shot and two more seriously inamount should bo regulated by the alunion of Belleville. 111., stepped jured. Posses are hunting for Torn titude of tho plaea where you five. In Into another room and suicided. Stevens, accused of firing shots. low lying district, liks Carnarsie, ha Rich Woman Murdered. Killed In Wreck. thinks, seven hour are enough, but if you live in Washington Heights or Sacramento. Cherry' De SL Maur- ? Manila. P. I. Six men were killed Bdgewater you would , better get ice, the richest woman of the night and thirty injured Wednesday when eight or you'll be feeling rocky by life of Sacramento, was found dead In a flat car crowded with members of tha time you reach the office aftee her apartments late Wednesday and the coast artillery was wrecked behusking tha line ha tha subways is believed to have been murdered tween here and Corregldor, about Tjv Tprk with chloroform. thirty miles southwest ,o( thq city. ' , -- a r -- |