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Show i j ? s -- x, JYsf? sherry'?' jr?:' IssuFASAs? 5&Af AWsSssr Slrsyi?f 7 A?r fit A 0 JSS?tCr'?S&. 1 1 V i J5 - AChromclc of the Heroism of thcGrcat Commander and I fis Men During the Severe Winter At Valley Forge. I i cf jnum The UtfwUel with fGHhZr7pfas7&A&drtty&rsT?ejiT Illllllil'1 ;4Uwia, fHmml fw but n tki r4 HEN (he greater prt tu arable UM thar waa fhr'fty Quhr aoldiar will tell yea that thla. more ! whereas thee wha suoc.ed.d la yet- arid U confronted wtth o4 element which had long IH lll4 thaa action, la tha monotony of war, Uny their train and other food to that threaten lh ( fre govern- thera. Ta tha nelyhborhood of thi even when comfort abound, hut with j tha Flrtush Commissaries were paid a permanence retired root ram tha Continental tho Continental Army them waa little jyood prtea. At leet a aretematio mar- - j H, M ment. m tt1rrai4 v' JW food and the men were yenarally dee. t ket a rheme waa Inauyura'ed by whrh j t t fen emim 1 far anf thought to Army. December 1 Jlh. 1TTT, about of j were ban! to able meet month tltu of proper clothlny for every- jth Qtisiiermasem after tha dlaaatrou. rd period la ur history wbt ,kl Germantown. Her General Washing-te- thlny waa worn out with use. klnf Mhe fsrmcr. at dr inaled place and j war ervggtlng colon! The resources of the (country were , (PSY'sc't? c BUrt meayer supplies as they wer I aouyht refute la uartere on these right la tablUh Ihl rf !4 win! as and an to ont hllle month bleak for durtny the cfXitsrA Inadcqust to able prohlem &JT7&S l3T.rBm.ol. briny. advanred the soldier, by hundred! that tlma suffered hardships whith luinr. the wfn'er a Isrye nuttiber It wa m Taller Tori ere compeled to Ur 'nthelr hut 6f prjfconec were Ir.to camp winter ef unusual severity nd durln hart tnada the name of Valley Forte V . ta th0f All throuyh end asfety All alony the Jersey roads a aynoeym of all that la berolo and went of the men jmyj frrq'ipn! flar of ifur Jha darkest hour f th jinrii were wlhoui ho. went to lt.l!adelph.a to obaln u h ! he Revolutionary M ar t her w ere la-- 1 1 1 Tone were an ea.y mark for the that Washington wuiM dlrlaa eounool faithful la a aoldiar. of ihia klnt tor while Wash- - Continental Army and after a la feta ffrt not oalr la bring the ltritah mlfht When Wa.hlntton'a men moved Ilcmb Men ouiiplir, f.,r them sever he of suit. cloy Wash'ny4 was nsrlsn a mnha rlft of nc'pl intton but ta bolster up th waning apirll away from Valley Frye upon tha j Ws.hlnylon tried in every way to men wr vlrtorloua. j ton' never failed to punish any bead. Par ewaruatloa of Philadelphia by the obtain supplies and iheertd the men itia army at whirl! ha The Trumbull picture of Washing men! of hi men. period t Prltl.h they 1G as beat ha could but finally on Feb hapa thara fees been eithy la unmarked In the believed American feutory whan our army suf- yrarea ar anylot Washington aceliered ruary Hth he wrote to Governor j Campaign Washlnai.m w always la the w fered a. it did at that Uma. aod tha throuth the eentern'hoaptlale h',7nibuU aa limtt.nanMn ht his men and never allowed the that "All work And no pt.y mak. Jack j k.nd t of the Shat Clinton: part at , wilt a m. dull boy." and although the daya spent thara tip our mr "For some daya pavt there has been j "second beuiensnts too mu h liberty bat we to three and four thouaand' of aod la regarded a the boat h 4 hMrt for Waahlngion army di-- ; waya remain a. tha great chrorvlela of their comrade who were III or had llttl leva than a fam'n In camp. A On one cession on of thee u showing the great Washingpainting Umee there and at American heroletn. play, nrour.gtd an ton aa an Army officer. .quad in erecting petiahed throuth tha treat hard.hlpa part of (he army has been a week areel nS It awkward In pec!al.T v ramp tsmes ,r mny lioratloa hut. v i r cod and now,ng and the reu j without any k'nd of Made A Fark they wera called upon to endure. Naked or alarved hard and Wish.cgton en'e'opcil in a 'rhrn the men went down turning In (three or four day Valley Forg la about nineteen mlla For year Valley Forge was a many Wallin In The CoM hod h then for and clams rlver had, "naolate .Mk,B they are. we cannot enough admire grrat coat, cap jnd mufer wx from Philadelphia, a .mail atrram place, aa ,om. of the of y aipnlfl-cantl; Kothlny could perhaps more the Incomparable patience and fldeiltt :nr not fvr aw ty wit.hlnir one tf,a supper of hot clam , eoup. Many of the barracks waa used for having U rl.a In tha bottom of tha v.n.-lwoo- d I at of aeU.fra home tha tho the of men of eir.phaaiae the let a the anti Jojc mlaery not thev been have soldiery that drop Chaatcr Vall.y aod pour northward to time than the fact that no accurate ere this rsclted by their sufferings to the young olllcrr let forth a vo..ey fjh'orge hid officer billeted with them firewood by tb people who resided the village. Tha other hut crumbled to tha Schuylkill River. About mid-wa- y or even of a and these houses number " I today 'oaths. "Go alow. oun man. It approximate record of deaths general mutiny and desertion awav and it waa not until 1113 that up tha ravlna was aa Irenworking at Valley Font ha boon found aor Early In February. 177! 4 000 men ' very cold" he said This seemed to are marked with- tablet. the State of Pennsylvania appointed a tha railed Forge, Mountjoy Industry la It known with cerialnty en today were excused from duly being nakl rulllo (he officer. 'And who ar you After Clinton- force had left Phil- set of commissioner 'To acquire, called waa hut tha pUra commonly here the common burial place I lo- and unable to leave their huts. At pra. that jou should meddle in m adelphia the army of Valley Forge be- maintain and preserve forever the Valley Forg. cated. The ramp mu.t have been a the end of the month only 5.000 effer- - ' affairs " t.c replied Indolently. to mov. Then Home flour had been Itcvolut'onary Camp Ground at Valley gan Tha finest homa at tha Forg waa picture of mlaery for tho ahaek built tlve men could be found In camp cam the answer: "I am Gcotya Waah-Ftfb- d obtained and before they started on Forge for the free enjoyment ef the that owned by !aao Potta. tha grand by the men did not keep out the cold Commander-In-Chief of the j the march some half baked bread was people of tha State. eupplie continued to be gath- ington This commisaoa of Williams Pod a. who operated and their ciothea and blankets were ered from Ih unwilling farmers by I'nlted. States Army, and I order your eaten. Then they pursued the British sion purchased 475 acres of the origthe aaw aod grist m'.lle and thla torn to thraada. There waa no (lyhl-In- y force, payment being mad In certi- AfrnM following them like a serpent as they inal rround and converted It the bosdquarters of General to keep tha blood warm. It waa ficate for tho redemption of which It Is aafe to say that young offlckra wera crawling painfully, across the Into camping Valley Forge Park containing covWashington, Tha haiyhia wera fust tha tlreleaa wattloy. Evan today Congress bad made no provision. were much more lenient In their treat-- 1 sands of New Jersey toward the era Washington headqoartera and other I to cT&cvS a I i tr f f Irr. tnci . n i ss7 i J ft I t- lth ; i 'n i 1 r , he-ca- ? ! ! 1 j&vrseS &ZfJse,sm bwea KXorie landmark which h restored. Headquarterpertleu-larl- y nr in The headquarter good condition and on may walk almost eacrad room through where Waahlngion used to walk na ha pondered ever the plight ef the p iriotle men under his romeiasl Tbs'll house t filled with relic ef Washington. The office contain much of th Including the e'd eng'nal furniture. oecrat panel ta Ih aleck. Thera la window aeat where Washington hep his private paper. On ef bid ewerA. bang near th 14 f th wtndw an on of th gun used by th army h ever the door. In th parlor 1 th old spinning wheal, a cupboard filled with old dishes and aoa comfortable seat. Mr. Waahlngion oporM earn i time her with th General and It waa I her pleas ur to gather tn tb women f th neighborhood and hev th ecu knit j stacking for th soldiers. Other worn ea cam to headquarter and mad up a sewing parly for th purpoa of making shirt for th rggd oldlre Mr. Washington taking part. Road have been built en the reservation and the natural beauty ef the place enhanced by graea and fiowtra. memory wae An arch to Washington erected and eeveral states ham ket up memorials to heir dead. Decoration Day services ar usually held at th Park and there alwav a ceremony at Washington headquarter on hie village I dotted with birthday. hemes, th altea. at least of naarlv every en having plared n part la that dark hear ef th revolution. rpoch Of Herotmn In all Wathlngtona tker Is nothing that will eland out In hiitorv aa a more hrole episode than tho six month at Valley Forg when the young colonies wer struggling to become n nation. Counties pen hare written of Valley Forg but when on read th testimony of aom of tha men who took part It seems Ilk an epoch ef suffering for love of country and on of which every American should forever b proud. the JyrrJc,iAf tkA& S1Lrsy- Acvrp 5 A5& ' I 1 carr !l f ! - brought him a fortune of 100,0j0 and more than 100 slaves. Mount Vernon The Mount Vernon mansion, when he Inherited It, waa what waa known In those day as a "four-roohouse" which meant that It had that many rooms on the ground floor. Not until after th Revolution did add two wing a "banquet hall at one end, and a library at: the othdr. Th kitchen (as may be seen today) waa detached, but connected with tha m I A Very Human Youngster, cas and Not the Prig That Tra-dition Makes llim Out. Copyright, 1820, The International Byndlcate HEN George Washington waa elatoen yearn of age, he was seised with n sever spasm of the acute nervous disorder falling in love,", It was an affair that might almost be described na premature. Inasmuch as the young lady la the case was two year his Junior. But girls seem to have grown up much quicker In those days. Anyhow, her father, a wealthy planter, named' Fauntleroy, residing at Fredericksburg, treated Washingand ordered tons suit with contempt, him out of the houSe. In The social organization Virginia la those time iwas typically aristocratic, and. It lb an, old tory that nil aristocracies ar ' fundamentally based Young W ashifiglo n upon wealth. came of an excellent family, and was received everywhere, but he had no remoney, nod on that account was "detrimental" as a hopefee garded from a matrimonial standpoint. IT lust shows that on never can tell. Hera was "a youth destined to be his country's foremost citizen, to, bold supreme command of its armies, to be " A- - I' A come President, and to die perhaps the richest man In th United States. But he was poor. and. so could not have Betsy Fauntleroy. ' Unrrf In Farmhouse He was born In a moda-r-t Virginia farmhouse, which was burned three years later. H s parents then moved to a plantation on the Rappahannock, aerqs the river from Fredericksburg where he spent his early boyhood and went to a little schdol kipl by the sexton of th parish, an old fellow named Hobby, who was addicted to getting drunk occasionally. When be was ten years old his father died of gout tf the stomach, but, luckily for him, he was thereupon taken in charge by a LaCrShce, his father's eomby an esrli- er marriage. Lawrence sent him fcf a better school. 'where he made a'falr acquilhtahre with the three Rs. Little Known Of Boyish HMory Very iittie is known about Wash.ng- ton as a boy, hi jond the fact that he was tall for his age. athletic, and could further-tfys- n way gun fatf r and of h s shoti, matca As a fitatt. Ire was the beAjumper in all Virg.ms. l " v - pn Mimed that h waV balf-brolh- , I Not Only would he not fight." says Weems, "but he would not allow his schoolfellows to engage in fisticuffs If he could not soothe their savage passions by argument, he would Instantly go to the master and Inform him of their barbarous Intentions. Tht boys were qften angry with George for this. Angry! One might rather think so But what 'Could have been the feelmuch like other boys, and In no way ings of Washington himself If he had resembling the pictur of him drawn lHed lo read this account, by which iia was made out to have been a tell- - , by tha Rev. N, i Weems, who published in 1808 abook (now extremely tale and a sneakf 7 Jr rare), descripthe of Washington in Washington, In 1ter life, had a his early youth. This hook contains temper that was on occasions fairly the original of the "cherry tree story, ( ungovernable. Presumably as a boy which almost undoubtedly was a fig he had the same weakness, and it srA &2.c5 mVnt of Weems fertile imagination. 'CMtis altogether likely that like other Weems desorlhcs himself on the title boys, he fought nowjrtJd then of Mount Yerndn , "Such trill, ng play TUTfiiarliTes and page as Parish But there never was such a lops he never could abide writes Mount Vernon and a good dea) pf Thus the youS?-m- ii other parish, and Weems was naught but an Parwn Weems. Of course not. He then propertyr"' of years age, found him-ketwenty Idle lacked those time for the to pursuit have Itinerant parson, who seems Into a position elevated s In suddenly 'he cultivat.ng picked UP ail the facts he could find being engagedto the normal youth Not of affluence. sa.dear about Washington after the latlers The esate. as we demise, and, where there were blanks onlv did he not tell lies but, according know tt Mount isVernon of no great sae. todiy, ro have titled rheinn with Act, on lie o the Parson, he could not. Innertted by Washlngon from his tites no other authority for ihe Inherit Fortune was bro'her, it comprised a number of H's "cherry tree" yarn than an unnamed Lawrence, farms and with lands that he bought lady well acquainted with th family t oiertaken by consumption, and the and added to it, the property covered MoUnt Vernon. . doctors, in the hp-saving his life an area of more than twelve square In earlier day ltw aa deemed req-lb- y exchange of climate, sent him to miles. It was. in fad, of btfron.al There Georg (who ulsite that th heiT of any book for sire, and worked by pver 200 slaves should be a trtifacle ofailthe enmpan ed him) was taken sick with it was o'f suptlort.nlf' producing S to Ro (according smaHpox. which, Mrtue and aaexXllthIlLgprlg. eems) about nieded by hose who everything lookv-tlni- n ! othhis are s a good ipmplt: sq likew.se rather improved lived cn It. w But. d Merton. Stanford His Ixite Affairs came to pious prlggisleneas. the Im- Let 'G?e had always a pronounced ferns n,ortal George, as p cturvjl weakness for he Ld.es, and was a was in a class by himself. c rArSb&fJ&A' or lf vir-ue- i half-brothe- r. , ac-bo- -- V. j confessed admirer of the fair sex. Nevertheless, his early love 'affair ere surprisingly unsuccessful. He cast a sheep's eye upon-- Mary Cary, da ugh er of a rich citizen of Hampton. Va., but she preferred another man. Later, when he was twenty-fou- r years old. h became'i enamored by Mary thlllipse. who lived near West Point," N. Y. But. after a violent flirtation, she refused him, and married Captain Roger Moriis.'. who during the Revolution fought cn the British idef It waa tn tfie Phllltpse mansion that Beaedtct Arnold res.ded when be betrayed his country. Two year after this fallflre, Washington mejthe 'widow fusus, slightly older than himselTrwho had lost her husband three snJ afer a brief courtshfp, he married her. She Thu Improved, It was a very fin house; but w of" today would regard ltf as a most uncomfortable place to live in. To begin with, there was no plumbing. - Alt-thwater, for drinking and washing, had to be drawn from a well and brought Into the house in palls. There was. of course, no plant. Staves .were unknown; and no means existed for heating the room except open firee. - In which logs were burned. Washington was thenot hospitable of men. People who were almost strangers would come and stay at Mount Vernon for months at a time. As he himself once wrote, the placo was like a tavern; and this was one reason. he gave his mother for not Inviting her to reside there. He waa very fond of dancing, and enjoyed that form of entertainment up to three yeara before his death. The ladle fairly worshipped him, looking upon him a a demigod. But no man ever had more bitter enemies, and no President was ever more outand slandrageously blackguarded ' ered. Hla chief affllctloh seems to hay been a chronic melapcholy, 'When fifty-tw- o years of age, he wrote lo Lafayette, saying. "I have had, my day. and adding that he "might soon expect to he entombed 4n the mansion of his father." It was a eirange point of view for a man to th prim of life. . . |