Show 9 the second son fell most Augustine of the rich lands in Westmoreland George the eldest born of the secwas cast ond m'arriage left to the guardianship career by a very scant of his young mother shared with the training four younger children the residue of his father the Augustine Washington estate He to inherit his lacked neither the will nor the means father’s farm upon the Rappahannock to set him handsomely afoot with as to possess and to cultivate if he In and books both in a good schooling would when he should come of age affairs as was to be had he would but for the rest his fortunes were to have done all that a liberal and provi- make He must get such serviceable dent man should do to advance his boy training as he could for a life of indeIn the world had he lived to go with two The older pendent endeavor him through his youth brothers had been sent to England to He owned land in four counties get their schooling and preparation more than five thousand acres all told for life as their fatfier before them and lying upon both the rivers that had been to to get his — Lawrence refresh the fruitful Northern Neck make ready to take his father’s place besides several plots of ground in the when the time should come Augusof Fredericksburg tine to fit himself for the law promising village which lay opposite his lands upon the George could now look for nothing part of the kind He must continue as be Rappahannock and of the stock of the Prlncipio Iron Comhad begun to get such elementary and whose mines and furnaces in pany practical instruction as was to be had 'Maryland and Virginia yielded a bet- of schoolmasters in Virginia and the ter profit than any others in the two young mother’s care must stand him in colonies the stead of a father's pilotage and His Father Ones a Sailor oversight He had commanded a ship In his A Wise and Provident Mother time as so many of his neighbors Fortunately Mary Washington was had 'In that maritime province carry- a wise and provident mother a woman of too firm a character and too ing iron from the mines to England and no doubt bringing convict labor- steadfast a courage to be dismayed ers back upon his voyage home again seemed She had by responsibility only a fair and beautiful girl when Augustine Washington married her and there was a romantic story told of how that gallant Virginian sailor and gentleman had literally been thrown at her feet out of a carriage In the London streets by way of introduction — where she too was a visitBut she ing stranger out of Virginia had shown a singular capacity for business when the romantic days of courtship were over Lawrenpe Washington too though but when his father died and left him head of the family proved himself such an elder brother as It could but better and elevate a For all he was so young boy to have he had seen something of the world and had already made notable friends He had not returned home out of England until he was turned of twenty-onand he had been back scarcely a before he was off again to seek service in the war against Spain His Brother a Captain He himself raised the ore trom the The colonies had responded with an mines that lay upon his own land unwonted close to the Potomac and had it carwillingness and spirit in ried the easy six miles to the river 1740 to the home government's call well were very for troops to go against the Spaniard managed Matters no said and Indies and Lawrence pains In the West there Colonel Byrd had sought and obtained were spared to make the business Washington a commission as captain In the Vln profitable had representwhich had volunteerglnian regiment Captain Washington ed his borne parish of Truro too in ed for the duty — He had seen those his where of terrible days at Cartagena with VerBurgesses the House athletic figure his ruddy skin and non’s fleet and Wentworth’s army frank gray eyes must have made him when the deadly heat and blighting as his constituents damps of the tropics wrought a work as conspicuous He was a man of of death which drove the could have wished English forth as no fire from the Spanish canthe world every Inch generous hardy independent He lived long enough non could He had been one of that force which devoted threw too to see how stalwart and capable itself and of how noble a spirit his young twelve hundred strong upon Fort San and came away beaten with son was to be with how manly a bear- Lazaro the in himself six hundred had to seen was He carry he the only ing out of the colonies world and had loved him and made raw provincials accordingly bim his companion carry themselves as gallantly as any veterans through all the fiery trial He Inherits a Farm But the end came for him before he had seen the storm and the valor the He vacillation and the blundering and the could see the lad out of boyhood shame of all the rash affair was but he 1743 when and had died April 12 years of age and before come away the friend and admirer of and in his will the gallant Vernon despite his headGeorge was twelve there wasof course for George only strong folly and sad miscarriage He The active had reached home again late in the a younger son's portion had been twice married year 1742 only to see his father presgentleman and there were seven children to be ently snatched away by a sudden IllTwo sons of the first ness and to find himself become head provided for The bulk of the of the family in his stead marriage survived All thought of further service away estate went as Virginian custom dicthe eldest son To from home was dismissed He accept tated to Lawrence George Washington ed a commission as major In the lonial militia and an appointment aa l of the military district in which his lands lay but he meant that for the future bis duties Bhould be civil rather than military in the life he set himself to live and turned very quietly to the business and the social duty of a proprietor among his neighbors In Fairfax county upon the broad estates to which he gave the name Mount Vernon in compliment to the brave sailor whose friend he had become In the far unhappy south Lawrence Marries and Settles was of course his first Marriage and the step towards domestication woman he chose brought him Into new both his connections which suited tastes and his training Three months after his father's death he married William Anne Fairfax daughter of Fairfax his neighbor Twas William third Fairfax’s granduncle Thomas Lord Fairfax who had in that revolutionary year 1648 summoned Colonel Into his Henry' Washington to give and who hands the city of Worcester had got so sharp an answer from the King's stout soldier But the Fairfaxes had soon enough turned royalists again when they saw whither the Parliament men would carry them A hundred healing years had gone by rflnce those unhappy days when the nation was arrayed against the king Anne Fairfax brought no alien traditions to the household of ber young husband Her father had served the king as her lover had — with more hardship than reward as behooved a soldier— in Spain and in the Bahamas and was now when turned of fifty agent here in Virginia to his cousin in the Thomas sixth Baron Fairfax management of his great estates ing upon the Northern Neck and In William the fruitful valley beyond Fairfax had been but nine years in the colony but he was already a Virginian like his neighbors and as collector of his Majesty’s customs for the South Potomac and president of the no small King’s Council figure In their affairs — a man who had seen the world and knew how to bear himself In this part of it Lord Fairfax Arrives himIn 1746 Thomas Lord Fairfax self came to Virginia— a man strayed out of the world of fashion at into the forests of a wild frontier The better part of his ancestral Lawrence Washington thrift father These untilled stretches were of land in the Old Dominion now become the chief part of bis patrimony 'Twas said too that he had suffered a cruel misadventure In love at the handd of a fair Jilt in London and so had become the austere eccentric bachelor he showed himself to be In the free and quiet colony A man of taste and culture he had written with Addison and Steele for the Spectator a man of the world he had acquired for all his reserve that easy touch and intimate mastery In with men which come with dealing the long practice of such men of fashHe ion as are also men of sense him to Virginia with though brought past fifty the fresh vigor of a young man eager for the free pioneer life of a province Lord Fairfax Builds a Lodge He tarried but two years with his where the colony had settled cousin Then to an ordered way of living he built himself a roomy lodge shadowed by spreading and fitpiazzas ted with such simple appointments as sufficed 'for comfort at the depths of the forest close upon seventy miles away within the valley of the Shenwhere a hardy frontier peoandoah The ple had but begun to gather ha had meant to great build was never begun The plain of “Greenway Court” satiscomforts fied him more and more easily as the years passed and the habits of a simincreasingly ple life grew pleasant and familiar till thirty years and more had slipped away and he was dead at men said because the king’s government bad fallen upon final defeat and was done with in America Bred In Good Company it was in the company of these men and of those who naturally gathered about them in that hospitable country that George Washington was bred “A stranger had no more to do” says "but to Inquire upon the Beverley road where any gentleman or good such housekeeper lived and there he might VERY CURIOUS FRYING-PAdepend upon being received' with hospitality" and ‘twas certain many be- Interesting Relic In the Cluny Musesides strangers would seek out the um In Paris— Its Remarkable young major at Mouut Vernon whom History his neighbors had hastened to make their representative in the house of At the Cluny museum in Paris is burgesses and the old soldier of the a very interesting relic of which this soldierly house of Fairfax who was Is the history It appears that one president of the king’s council and day a year or so ago the curator A bo next to the governor himself of the museum to visit a happened boy who was much at Mount Vernon small restaurant In the suburb of and at Mr Fairfax’s Belvolr seat Saint Denis in which the samo room little to that a see not expect might and kitchen served for was worth seeing of the life of the While waiting to be served the cucolony rator's eye was caught by a George was kept at school until he of most unusual appearance that was close upon sixteen but there He took it down hung upon the wall was ample vacation-timfor visiting removed some of the soot carefully Mrs Washington did not keep him at with which it was covered and made her He even lived out part of an inscription What he when it was necessary with his brpth-e- found Interested him so much that he Augustine at the old home on bought the old pan near be to creek in Bridges' order Whon it was properly cleaned it the best Bchool that was accessible was found to bear the arms of France while the mother was far away on and Navarre surrounded by the chain the farm that lay upon the Rappahan- of St Louis and the cord of the Order nock Mrs Washington saw to it of ' Saint Esprit and this inscription nevertheless that she should not lose as well sight of him altogether Prince “Here lies the magnificent In the Woods King Louis XIV king of France and Apprenticeship When he was fourteen it was pro- Navarre Requiescat in pace” had fastwas It the that been plate posed that he should be sent to sea as so many lads were no doubt from ened to the coffin of Louis XIV When of the royal family that maritime province but the pru- the dent mother preferred he should not In the populace of 1793 it bad been leave Virginia and the schooling went wrenched from the coffin fitted with a on as before— the schooling of books handle and turned into a frying-paThe relic may now be seen in the and manly sports Every lad learned The handle has been to ride — to ride colt or horse regard- Cluny museum removed but three holes show where less of training gait or temper — In it was attached that country where no one went afoot except to catch his mount in the pasVERY ALIKE ture Every lad black or white bond or free knew where to find and how to take the roving game in the forests And young Washington robust boy that he was not to be daunted while that strong spirit sat in him which he got from his father and mother alike took his apprenticeship on horseback and in the tangled woods with characteristic zest and ardor Acquires the Art of Mastery He was above all things else a He loved boy capable executive mastery and he relished acquiring the most effective means of mastery in all practical affairs His very exercise books used at school gave proof of it They were filled not only with the rules formulae diagrams and exwhich he was ercises of surveying taking special pains to learn at the advice of his friends but also with careful copies of legal and mercantile “No what's it like?’’ papers bills of exchange bills of sale indentures bonds warrants land “It’s like dreaming about something leases deeds and wills as if he meant to eat when you go to bed hungry" to be a lawyer’s or a merchant’s clerk Charity Without Pauperism It would seem that passionate and A great defect of many charitable full of warm blood as ho was he conned these things as he studied thi schemes is their tendency to pauperThis is overize the beneficiaries use and structure of his fowling piece the bridle he used for his colts his come by one of the methods adopted and the best ways of by the Robert Browning settlement at which supplies boots to mounting He copied these forms of Vealworth The footgear is handbusiness as he might have copied poor children for the payment by Beverley’s account of the way fox or ed over in return small weekly “rent” ’possum or beaver was to be taken or the parents of a the retail until price has been covered the wild turkey trapped The men he most admired — his After the final payment the boots still elder brothers Mr Fairfax and the remain the property of the settlement whose permission they can gentlemen planters who were so much without be sold nor pawned — London at their houses — were most of them neither sound men of business who valued Globe good surveying as much as they adLabor Counts Superfluous mired good horsemanship and skill in The men who have achieved sucThey were their own men sport chants and looked upon forms of cess are the men who have worked more than was absoread thought business paper as quite as useful as Careful exer- lutely necessary who have not been plows and hogsheads cise in such matters might well content with knowledge sufficient for but who have enough accompany practice in the the present need and storequally formal minuet in Virginia and Bought additional knowledge resrve so this boy learned to show in almost ed It away for the emergency is the superfluous labor that equips everything he did the careful preci- It a man for everything that counts in sion of the perfect marksman life Goes toMount Vernon In the autumn of 1747 when he was Fair Comparison not yet quite sixteen “Do you mean to say that you comGeorge quit his formal schooling and presently Join- pare yourself to Shakespeare?” “Why ed his brother Lawrence at Mount not?” inquired the manager of the Vernon to seek counsel and compan- Clothesline Burlesque company ionship “Shakespeare had pretty much my exLawrence had conceived a strong perience The critics roasted him affection for his manly young broth- and the authorities were always er Himself a man of spirit and honthreatening to close his show”— or he had a man’s lik- Washington Star all that he Baw that was infor ing in the domitable and 8TRENGTH lad a generous man’s tenderness in Without Overloading The 8tomach of this to the development looking The business mad especially needs thoroughbred boy and he took him food in the morning that will not overload the stomach but give mental vigor for the day Much depends on the start a man gets each day as to howxhe may expect to accomplish the work on hand He can’t be alert with a heavy TWO IVOMEII SAVED FROM OPERATIONS Lydia E Pinkham’a Vegetable Compound — Their Own Stories Here Told By Beatrice Neb —“Just after my mar riage my left aide began to pain me and the pain got ao severe at times that I suffered terribly with It I visited three doctors and each one wanted to operate on me but I would not consent to an operation I heard of ths good Lydia E Pinkham’a Vegetable Compound wsa doing for others and I used several bottles of it with the result that I haven’t been bothered with my side since then I am in good health and I have two little The BeatriceNeb Other Case Cary Maine— “I feel it a duty I owe to alt suffering women to tell what Lydia E Pinkham’a Vegetable Compound did forme One year ago I found myself a I had pains in both terrible sufferer sides and inch a soreness I could scarcely times My back ached straighten up I had no appetite and was so nervous I could not sleep then I would be ao tired at mornings that I could scarcely get around It seemed almost impossible to move or do a bit of work and I thought I never would be any better but until I submitted to an operation my husband thought I had better write to you and I did so stating my sympI commenced taking Lydia E toms Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and I had no new woman soon felt like pains slept well had good appetite and could do almost all my own work for a I shall always feel that family of four I owe my good health to your Vegetablo Compound”— Mrs Hayward Sowers Cary Maine a The Reign of Woman Women will serve as public porters and dining car waiters on the special train which Is to carry the Illinois suffragists to the Washington parade and except for the train crew and sob ltary man to shine shoes It will be an example of feminized railway transmale shoeblack The portation prompts masculine reflections on ths labor under ths division of menial man But mere new dispensation The time is still remay take heart mote when there will be women at comotive throttles or the more re sponsible posts in railroad operation —New York World M Those Perilous ’Busee The experts from the National Physical laboratory who have been asked to ascertain how far if at all the me tor 'buses are endangering the stabilwill havs ity of St Paul’s cathedral no simple task In apportioning to ths ’buses their share in the tremors to which the cathedral is said to be subBut modern methods and jected measuring instruments are capable of some wonderful things— Pall Mall G zette WHEN RUBBERS BECOME! 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