Show anecdote Ane ciota of washington Washing toiL toll in MA 1154 he was stationed at alexandria his regiment the only one in the colony which he was waa the colonel there happened at that time to be an election in alexandria for members of the assembly and the ballot ran high between colonel george fairfax and mr elgey washington was on the side of fairfax and a mr nir william payne headed the friends of el elgey eley ey in the course of the contest washington grew very warm for his passions naturally were very powerful though a wise regard to duty i i e honor and ha happiness priness soon reduced them to proper command and unluckily baid said something to mr payne who J though a but a cub in size was a lion in heart hearts hearty elevated his shillelagh shi llelah and at a blow extended our on the ground news was soon carried to the regiment that their colonel was murdered by a mob moll I 1 anthe on the passions of the soldiers who upon their commander such a report fell at once like a flash of lightning on a magazine of powder in a moment the whole regiment was under arms and in rapid motion towards the town burning for vengeance during Z this time washington had been liberally plied with cold water acids and volatiles and happily for mr payne and his party was BO so far recovered as to go out and meet his enraged soldiers who crowded round him with faces of oil honest joy to see him alive again after thanking 0 them for such an evidence of their attachment to top him he assured them that tha t he was not hurt in the I 1 least east and begged them by their love of him and their duty 1170 to return n peaceably to their barracks As for himself ee be went to his bis room generously chastising his passions which had just struck but a spark that had like to have thrown the whole town in a flame and feeling himself the aggressor of mr payne he resolved to make lim rim him the honorable reparation of asking his pardon no Boone sooner rhad had lie he made madeth thi ii heroic resolution reso lusion than recovering that delicious gayety gaiety which ever accompanies good purposes in a virtuous mind he went to a ball that night and behaved as pleasantly as though 17 nothing had happened early next morning he wrote a polite olite note of invitation to mr payne to meet him at the inn payne took it for a challenge challene and repaired to the inn ina in the full ex expectation ec tation of smelling gunpowder but what was his surprise on entering the chamber to see in lieu of a brace of pistols a decanter of wine and a pair of glasses on the table washington rose to meet him and ofT offering oftering ering his ha hand d with a smile began payne to err is sometimes nature to rectify error is always glory I 1 believe I 1 was in the wrong in the affair of yesterday you have had I 1 think some satisfaction and if you deem that sufficient there is my hand let us be friends 12 an act of such sublime virtue produced its pro proper pe r detec effect t upon n the mind of mr nir payne payee who fr from t that h a moment omen became the most enthusiastic admirer and friend of washington and for his sake ready at any time to charge up to a battery of two and forty would our youth says the narrator but be persuaded to act in a style so correct and heio ical our papers would no longer shock us with accounts of elegant young men murdering each other on false principles of honor by one desperate deed de depriving themselves of all present pleasures antof and of alf future hopes ly recollections of the american revolution A SENSIBLE GIRL A young woman in the back woods of america looking over the atlas of the united states remarked to her mother that there were two states miss missing ing the mother replied which are they my dear the me girl then asked where is the state of the mind ahl why my dear that is no territory it only means how ow we feel are we happy ac 11 she then asked where is the matrimonial state the mother told her that was not territory either but meant a young man and woman getting married well says the girl I 1 should like to t live in iu that state |