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Show Had No Feats. At the height ot Washington's Tame there were those who carped and criticised to some extent, warning him that being a celebilty was a pro-carious pro-carious thing und that he ahould be most careful, lest ho do or say something some-thing that would turn the tide or popular popu-lar favor -against him. To these admonitions ad-monitions Washington merely smiled. "There Is just one thing that might be done," he said, "and that is something some-thing that will not be done until long after I am dead. By that time my fame will be so solidified that nothing can shake It. If we wero cufllclently advanced In commerce for this one thing to happen, then, Indeed, I should bo careful." "What Is that ono thing?" Inquire the others. "Put you In a historical novel?" "No: namo a flvo oont clirar for mo." |