Show I 1 FEBRUARY TWENTY SECOND BY COL PAT DONAN one hundred and five years ago today was born the old virgins virginia rebel slaveholder george washington Washingto nm ft hose name now blazes among tile highest arid and brightest on the muster rolls or of immortality the man without whom under god the american republic would probably never have arisen to dazzle the world with the stilt ador ot of freedom and perhaps ultimately to armound citation cie allon with the awful magnificence ence of its downfall find and ruin george w m ai a good boy as boys so go in N which aich it 11 Is 19 to be feared he be differed greatly from some of 0 the th small boy leaders of this memorial dissertation lie ile was obedient to his mother which kept him front from being adaid a midshipman sh khinan inan in the british navy instead of ill the founder of a nation in w m hos ohonor millions of at anth enthusiastic tri lastic young americans american will today be banging breci ackers and lying to stray dogs tails iron irom obee to skookumchuck Skookum chuck from to yuba dam george never told a lie in ili this res respect hect he be was utterly unlike any known american statesman politician or editor at least east ot of the rocky bocky mountains they have told lies they do tell them and there la is reason to a apprehend that they y always will milt tell them most of 0 them are so unacquainted with tho the truth that they would fall all to recognize it if 1 they mot met it face to fa face 0 e in the road george made tile the tittle little hatchet the symbol of truth ruth for all time but since christian civilization has S robbed tile the utes the apaches tho the lif sioux u x and nil ali the other wards of tho the nation of tahe the e last it acre of a hemisphere non little hatchets hive have pone gone out at 0 ia fashion chlon george attended to hla his tobacco plantation t did IL a little surveying and townsite platting took a few indian scalps a recreation that has been popular for ad years drunk drank old crow Th whisky isky went to horse races find and cook cock fIgh ichta tJ courted a girt girl and got a 0 mitten which to tit fit hla his liand hand had to be as big biff as a ham sack and conducted himself generally as became a well regula I 1 ted ed citizen of the period mindi w nir UD lip by marrying a widow and two children the thirteen 1 colon colonies les t thirteen lit arteen neenie seem to 0 have beeri been a lucky number I 1 in I 1 his Ins instance lance that then represented english civilization in the new world had been h living having a goo good many under 1 landings with king hing george three times and the mother country the run rumpus opus increased the th colonists kicked against taxation without representation resen tation the people of 0 every territory the women of every state but four in the union have to stand it now the Han hancocks clicks and adamsey and I 1 other pigtail queued old gentlemen of 0 their kind howled at baling haeng to buy 6 stamps I 1 man P S the freemen of the united states do it now without a protest american subjects subject revolted at a trivial ship tax then american sovereigns erel ere igns gils endure it tenfold ten fold or a hundred bundred told fold now the fuss grew fussier fast at last the old ladles ladies sewing societies of boston swore they would not pay a a cent a pound tariff on their tee A t tempest in a tea pot pat followed red coated troops col coi tided lifted with a mulatto led mob in boe BOB conlan crooked mum lanes the ambat embattled tied farmers fit at concord ailred the shot that echoed round the world blo blood od rowed ln in small quantities war was mas declared 1 I i george was prompt to act he pa packed aked his leather saddlebags saddle bags with ar ruined ruffled shirt and it fresh w m ig 19 a pack of cards a few of yellow leaf tobacco a quart bottle odium of 1 um and a a pocket bible said goodbye good bye to hla his weeping widow and family by mart martlage lage glided girded on his gleaming cacese ariffe mounted his clia charger ordered one of h his Is darkies to follow him and rods rode oft off to the held field ot of gore core arid and glory gari galore olle he was um not a chin warrior like many ot of the rambunctious heroes who are now urging a scrimmage with mith all christendom ile he was mado made corn com mander ln in chief in seven fierce dark dreary years he ran four tat fat well dressed and heavily accoutered di itlie armies to death in vain asin endeavors to catch him and his long legged barefooted mountaineers and backwoods men ills his racetrack race track extended from bunker hill to the great peedee from the green mountains to the rips and back again with chase chassee east and west from the atlantic to the alleghenies semi occasionally at rare race intervals the unhappy soldiers or george rex would get near enough to the patriot rear guard for a skirmish mish then bullets would ly fly and then the continental toot foot cavalry would follow suit at lost last the woin out remnant of 0 the british hosts gave up the fatiguing exercise in despair and disgust mr cornwallis Cornwall ll with the tears of it a tired s sprinter printer in his voice said sir mr washington here herci Is my sword to be ot of any wo use to me it would have to be fifty miles milers long instead of fifty inches you can have it tor for a bunion trimmer and the long lank and cruel war max was over the star at 0 earths grandest republic took its place in the firmament of nations nati onH A hemisphere dis enthralled three millions of people get tree free hailed george as their peerless rater pater patrene first in war first in peace and first farat in the hearts of his countrymen standing ing forever in flor glor lous contrast with the those a latter day who ullo are always and only first in the pockets ot of their countrymen the world rose up lip to do george honor kings and emperors enthroned enthralled paid homage to ills exalted heroism and integrity patriots of every land b beneath the sun drew courage rind inspiration from his career and when on art that sad december night of 1781 1789 in the quiet homo home at ml vernon ho he calmia breathed back bis big great soul to god who gave it it the mourners mour nera were a all 11 mankind ills his simple tomb beside bealda the blue potomac that he loved will bo be ill the mecca of holy pilgrimage to millions of freemen and freedonia lovers yet unborn boys or at america truth integrity toward r god 0 I 1 and man bro are the sacred lessons of the fuenty sec ond and 0 f february learn them well treas treasure ure them in your hearts practice them in your lives ilven and your noble physiognomies in ili red Is anav Y shine out resplendent on the two tent cent 9 postage tramps of generations y yet et to come me |