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Show Timely Topics MAKING UP HISTORY. "Oeorge Washington Is the only person I ever heard of mho always told th truth," remarked Jostle. Darling In, the hearing of a ess at His Old Bailey In London. As s matter of fact, this claim for unswerving veracity was originally made on behalf of on. of the Judge's own countrymen, the eldest son of James BeeUtle, who died at the age of 12. Th. author of The Mlnstrsr soothed his grief by writing a biography of his son. In which appeared the story of the cherry tree and many other Instances of young Iteattle's faultless demeanor. 'When Washington died an American bookseller named Mason L. Weems thought that a biography of th. first ITeeldent, written In a popular style, would be a profitable profit-able venture, and determined to writ, one, Ultle was kjiown of Washington's boyhood, so Weems evolved much of this portion of his hero's lif. from hi own imagination and from books h. had read. Th. cherry tree and little hatchet incident was taken almost verbatim ver-batim from Dr. Seattle's account of his son, which was published eight years before Washington's death. Other things credited to Washington were equally untrustworthy; for example, the assertion that In his younger dsys h. had thrown a sliver dollar across ths Pstomae at Mount Vernon a feat which I manifestly Impossible. Manchester Guardian. Posterity will have to pay th. bill for the war. That's what It gets for being posterity. Greenville (8. C.) Piedmont. . Disarmament Is something no nation wanta a monopoly on. Chambersburg (Pa.) Publlo Opinion. Furniture la coming down. Now If there wer. just soma plae. to put IL Chicago News. - Germany may just as well agree to pay, sine- She doesn't Intend to, anyway. Boston Transcript Another pathetic little feature of everyday life 1 what Is called a complete education. Ohio State Journal. "Don't drift Into a pacifist stats of mind." Per-shlng. Per-shlng. No dsnger. general. Th. Income tax season 1 ' upnn us New York Mall. |