Show GEORGE washington BY BT D 11 SPENCER JR every nation hes ha its heroes and wt we of this great and brond broad and long loner R republic caan caln would mould be unworthy to be called firemen did we not honor the names arid and memory of americans villo w ho by diplomacy or war as the ex cx of the times demanded have given u us 3 for fat a freehold more than our share of this terrestrial globe glob wherein to pranee prance about with fill a chip chin on our shoulder and dare dar other nations who mho have the their I 1 r hands f full ull at home to come and knock jl it air on preeminent pre eminent among our hero here ancestors stands our noble washington who upon one occa ilon before we me can remember twisted the tall tail of the british lion until that yankee eating quadruped led hom howled led with mith pain the lion ilan tied bad attempted to chow chew some of our forefathers who mho were chums of washington in the history ot of our fatherland the now illustrious name washington first appeals about the year this was waa john washington ot of virginia lie he was the gibat grandfather of george washington end and consequently the treat great great grandfather of out oui country but none of these great facts were known at that time lime the th military instincts of the washington family were apparent in john who mho led a successful military expedition against the na indians indiana we next road rend of lawre nce find and augustus washington being I 1 of engligh origin they had the english land colonization mania and induced george 11 II to grant them acres of land arid which he did not own they did not ho however mever attach ony any irrigation scheme to their land speculation dis languished men of that em eia did not meddle with mith water mater it Is now years since george washington the great patriot soldier and sti statesman nan man born his first lilith day was aas on february alth but later the astronomers discovered that our planet in her mad career had run eleven day ahead of her reckoning and so BO they moved the hand of time that much forward this gave washington a new birthday on the zand the earth and the astronomers not having had any unpleasantness unpleasant nees sine since then we continue to celebrate the birth of the first great Arne american rican on the latter date dale 0 when george was man ble bac enough he attended it 0 school of which one hobby was mas ti racher ile he had a new tin sword with mith which lie he used to drill the other hoys especially those w m ho sat in front of him one christmas morning he found a little cannon in fri his ble stocking with this he used to c cannonade a site the little nig biggers nl geers gers to their great inconvenience and the terror of his colored nurse nurs about time the father of washington made a fortunate discovery his favorite cherrytree cherry tree had been chopped down dann in a ruthless and manner ile he accused george of nt the th chopping goal gcorge ge looked him steadily in the eye for a few seconds and then said yes papa I 1 cannot tell it a lie I 1 did it with my mile little ex the historian says hatchet hat chrt but tile the artist in illustrating the Inel incident dent shows tin an ordinary squaw ax had it been a hatchet it would haip haio been so represented georgo george holds the ax in the left hand this does doeg not indicate that he be was left landed handed T the he artist placed the ox fix in the gofir ift hand for the same name reason that other artists place the milkmaid on the lefthand left hand side of the cow this discovery that george could not tell a lie II 11 did much toward making him famous f L in us other boys who have since attempted t to acquire tame fame by chopping chopping down domn cherry trees and then repeating the washington ashington W form formula ul a havo have tailed failed owing to I 1 the he violent talent and unsentimental natures ot at their fa fathead theas cis george was a diligent student and a good scholar proficient in ma ica when it he 0 was 16 years of age he took a contract of surveying tor for lord r fairfax who intended to fence the sheep men out of virginia lie he made front from 7 to 21 a day to the speed of the and took his pay cheerfully in gold or silver cola coin without distinction of color he excelled in baseball and other athletic sports ile he was expert jn in throwing the bar but the historian neglects to inform us D aa 14 to whether it waa as the bar ot of the village saloon or of the district courts court he floored with such commendable celerity J we must nowr now speak of washington as a young man standing well in I 1 the he community and on the threshold of those achievements which abich make history we do not know just how tall tail he was we gleon glean from w i i aiters 0 of that date that ho he was virus alne in form find and feature still and at least of average stature but artists with their usual un uncertainty cc r maln represent present re him as of giga title size however there were more normany not many artists and no kodak kadak llenas in those days which was quite lucky tor for great men two hundred years in the future when our successors and assigns are poring over back numbers p of the tribune and gazing with compit compassion islon upon the por bratts of our legislators and other great men what will mill they think of our shape shane washington was an expert horseman and could trade horses with a methodist minister and corn come out even he never owned a bl cicle cle lie he did not smoke cigarettes 4 nor play bluff nor draw poker preferring the more high toned games of euchre and seven up 11 he was sent ly by the governor of virginia e first as Emba ador and then as aa commander of a military expedition to the ohio river where ho he won ivan it a 21 number U M of 0 victories against tho the french and indians indiana lie he builta built tort fort near the carnegie iron works which he be called fort necessity as it was necessary to have it the war being over he returned to mt vernon and settled down to farming in this occupation he ha became an enthusiast and declared farming to be the most useful the most healthful and the t noble employment of 0 man unfortunately he forgot to include woman in this declaration hence the general discontent of vroman with firm life ie washington wa q a great admirer of 0 the beautiful and grand in nature spare routs lie ho about tho natural bridge in kilrow it to Is reported that he once threw a silver dollar over this structure this was waa before silver was some modern critics explain this feat on the theory that a dollar went further farther in th those me days than it does now ono one historian I 1 elates how wa washington used to cut note notches rhen it in the solid limestone abutments of tile the bridge ant and using these as a ladder he used to climb up about a a quarter tit of a mile which was higher than any of the other boys could climb one modern modem explorer claims that by meana mean of it a powerful telescope hit ills has moen the autograph of washington curved about nine n inc feet above the topmost notch when wo we were it a boy bay and read about washington deeply nto into that solid limestone me e tried to cut and climb tile the limestone ledge which was near to our troublesome old school house in hut but our old jackknife jack knife would make only just a scratch we W could not cut one no noich c b this shows how much hatt r the s t eel was wa made in thov thor baret old days or may be ba they bad worse opre liars then than w bave now washington waa bold fand self pom po in the presence of the enemies of chiq hi country anti and would drape ac vi Biting for introductions duct ions but in the prince presence of ladles he h was va Preserved iland formal did no no courting to speak of but fell it a victim to the strategy ani fortuno or of the charming wadow curtis 1 0 nw now it a strang rid nd thrilling filled the air ralond swiftly day and night men lost in terent in their everyday pursuits 1 and L nd r irba ann in with quick r e a th ard flO flashing shing aves eve rooka when the riders stopped an instant to change for others mon ca ara about find and heard th tho words word bunker hill losing ton ticonderoga strange men inen visited washington at i if th bartil wal kiland tal talked kedith Hith him benrath bon the trees the th ova oval iwer soter coula get no orders from Ms big employer and vainly to manage the farm arm w alte every implement seemed A weapon an and d every cart IL a cannon washington spoke hurriedly to hla his 0 overseer a few words the man only half understood der stood sandwith and with amord find anil sp spurs ursand and martial uniform washington mounted ili hl best find and noble horse and rodo rode calmly forth with mith no thought but for or his hi country the foe oe was wall the most moat powerful ni gerful rich and invincible at 0 earth none 0 n e could imagine the lh dangers to be met the sufferings Buffe rings to be endured nor I 1 alio llio lie duration nor final outcome of 0 those te dlou bloody and exhausting campaigns lall ni washington possessed courage persistence si and martial qualifications sufficient lor for nil fill the trying experiences experience of 0 those seven years ot of war ile he won cicat vict and suffered galling defeats at the hands of 0 it a toe foe more numerous and better belter equipped lie he was forced to endure the complaints and discontent ot of hla his suffering lne army anny requiring hla his greatest exercise of will to preserve discipline and also to suffer the unjust criticisms of many in civil office and at home congress was vacillating and unjust at one time washington pave gave way to just indignation and gave co congress n gress a a piece of his mind of 0 which it he c had a very verry liberal quantity in recent years we have been haunted with the terrible suspicion that that congress neglected to transmit that piece of 0 mind to its sue suc censors cos sora to retreat successfully requires as much ability as to min in victory when washington with men was nas d tented on long island bv gen howe glinse hose army numbered lie successfully cess ress fully crossed creased his command to manhattan Nian hattan island inland and then to the mainland this masterly retreat won tor for washington the admiration ot of friend and foe oc a 0 sometimes washington would feign retreat for weeks and then somo some dark night alien ft hen the enemy had been carousing and was sleepy he would march his widen wideawake wake yankee soldier boys around to the rear of the ener rys camp kick him in out of hit his blan blankerts kots and whip him before breakfast this was tho the case when washington pursued by cornwallis Cornu allis with a superior force crossed the aclaro into pennsylvania the british general waited for the river to freeze so lie could cross croo hla his army in this emergency washington sent bent men to the mouth of the river to borrow or otherwise sell acquire U ire the boats of the duck hunters bunters in tic the darkness of night he embarked embark e d his forces to cross crops back on an offensive movement we mean offensive to the enemy the river was beset with floating lee ice and the voyage was perilous silently with muffled oars the expedition tion proceeded in the bow of the foremost boat stood washington great must have been his mental excitement and anxiety ant lety his troops landed safely and falling upon the sleeping british inflicted slaughter defeat and utter rout finally with the surrender of at cornwallis at yorktown the cruel and exhausting hau sting war was over tho the stars and stripes floated triumph triumphant a nt over it a nation new and a people li brave rave and free washington bade aarem farewell ter ito to his com cam ln in arms and af after an absence of six years returned to the th farm chich win was all run down domn under ills hla able guidance order fertility and thrift were soon restored one day washington invited a a number of statesmen to visit him at the farm they walked about the line fine fields and orchards looked at the jersey cows poland china pigs and the blooded horses they admired the tat fat happy negro n groes cs made a long call at the still heuse house ant and then they lay las on the grass with w ith washington in the shade of great trees on the hanki banks of the broad floto mae mac and talked about remodeling our government ament under a constitution arid and gobiet th that la 3 the way may our constitution was waa born on the first wednesday of january 1789 washington was elected first president of the united states he was inaus inaugurated april of that year on the balcony of the custom house in wall street new york city which was then the seat of government of the now new republic little did washington dream he was in the midst of that place which should become the rendezvous of the money changers tho the domain of the jew the home of shylock the vastal vassal of EniT england land the tomb of liberty lie ho wa was q elected arid and a served it a second term and e a a precedent to us its now by declining a nomination to a third term it if wo via STO aro to believe many statements now current washington etc ln had great numbers of colored body servants all of 0 whom ham lived to the age of one and one halt half con centuries all the old darkles darales to 0 o years of age ne claim to havo have been his body servants tx and it has been found impossible to refute their testimony all the old ladle ladled who were born back in tho the eighteenth century remember distinctly of seeing washington to have ha 11 cc ri him seems seeing to have been ot of grea great t benefit to the eyesight eye sight as most of these old people are now going a bout about reading finer print and picking up pins without glasses december 14 1799 washington ashington sank bank to rest beneath the weeping willows of ML vernon ile he left no natural offspring but was the father of his country and his immortal name goes ringing down the ages |