| Show AT OLD MOiNTPEMER DnAUTIFUL HOME OF PRESIDENT PRESI-DENT MADISON hihrre III HIMJ XW IIHITh rIu I 1 It Tme TII tonireind lh llw > Idion Ki rlMp pllli Ill Illor flpwlol Utl r IICItK I to I ono n I tIn t-In the Unltedlltea r I from which can lco Inn S I-nn the horaiol a four of III praTT praT-T dente That pot toT l In Orange eounir T VlrKlnta whr turns t minmll of a little ItJ Ii jt1 AI U hill one ho within range of lobo Monlflicllo the birthplace of Zachary Taylor Anh Lawn the early home lit Monroe James lodlllOn nialely Mont trllrr nnil Montlrello Ibo wellkn own home of Thoniu JtfTerwn The two Utter nre twenty mlltil ur more apart but MadlKin and JfRpmon creton lil ercil tielghbora at that Ump when a fee 1 mile wore nr lane I mad no difference nod n murnlnn rail laitnl all day louc I The Iwo men were alwayi warm Inrush ami I political Hoelaln anil there wag murk UltlnK b < twr n their homes Nowailaya the name of Montlcello Ii al moot oa familiar aa that of JerTfMon hlmwlf but the home of Maill on slot not rrm lo be no well known Mont prller atantlt on allitht eminence abOJl 1 four mile from Orange Court HOUM facing the Tong line of the Illue UlilKO Mountain In the illitance 1 he braid pediment porllrii upheld hy atately Ipri txilumiK tutu on both aides 1 1 the I sang wing uf the liuino which give It I the appearnnre ni It were of holding out open arm to weliomo tho naming = = t Ira eiy3 r < x A e S 1a a t 10NTICIiI7tt 110ti OI 1REihUNT hU180N jiiMt Ono of tbrao wlnn with lie anlcna 11111 oKlco nttnchc1 In It ma devoir nnchltla ely to thin uio of IJ Mra Madlton the prwldonfa motlr who llvnl to n sro4t age Hero iliaoil a quiet lift humor to her chlldrenj npart from the guy thronn wills w > ch the how wm often lUltsl Tim hunt door lisa nwiulrnJ n quaint old = tae took from the hlh polnti narsl over It Inalilo the holies la lariEWid I ommodln furnlahM plainly Jut rlthly I nnil t everything U rrnn tll t K view anto comfort rather than 00 went Hut the wpoclal benuljrof Monlptllrr la I Ha magnificent M many of them hoary wllh ng wish hut the old houao In wllh a sort of I meeting tenilerui from the mjllo world To the right la I nn ttvonfluj ejlruee plnea planted under thnjr wiial nupervltlon of Madlnon nndit fur nwny n grimi of r ancient war role I tree under whom shnd a inlet relun and the gmm Is I alls green Hour the lions Is I n mnjlo oak which Is I so large thai n he placed tin one aide of It cannot bifoi from the oilier Tula ha ntp ally tested by many people ahem a-hem PresliWtu llayea when he vTII I MunlpellT arrompanliHl by hliK net In U78 I Al one wail of the a tOSgO I ol pin a which wo rolclM MVtUll > uiW uoiwo dug In thi ground aceorjm i he Virginia fnthlefti Over l 11 Inlnty little DorU lcmj > le l In w Madison often iWt U 8 uornlng nadhHC Of is hie drv One U tlk I I hleh th good folk ol lit ne Hood delight In Wiling Is I about houaw which was the tint over yf In that auction The negro net believe th tr ear when odd nil It with Ice early In the wlnt ilia overseer ulmselt flllud wllh C i pihlII y tttMnpteil to illoau mutw from ao urerua an umli I Mtdliou can grenfly coma a I at I Uiuihlngly pronilaed the man I Bilal JuleJ au the nesf punb s tu eicbange for hli lHfia I surf following ChrlatmM Ti this in I Her willing agreed deeming Ma perfectly safe On the fourth Just enough Ice rein the taw u fill Ihe compact no son told the story with grat KI friend while cunlog a fly I fl-y for his Chrl tw a dinner During the nummer aontha mate of Montpell shut m their time on the jMwlou lawn t of due house mid olla had vlnecov MrVHl under a lug bar In one of Mra 1 Maillaou a e r 1 written on a hot July day flftye ien yeah ago alie says Yesterday we bail ninety people to dine with ua at one table flied under the arbor Only a half doyen of them stayed all night butt but-t am lea I worried about a hundrnj gueata here than twentyfive In Waah union I in summer nprelally I truly believe a country home Ii the happloat and most Independent In all the wqrld About a quarter of d mil tram the know If I Ihn amity burying ground which la no surrounded by Ireea lint many of the gravestones have been thrown out of line Ity l their spreading root In this apnt He the rem alas of the fourth preeldeni of the UnHol State ender a handsome granite hall nn which In I cut In large black loitern the one word Madleon and the date of his birth and death Till mom rent woe erMlnl hy private uUcrlp llon molly In his nwn county Many > eara afleroanla hula wlfea remain were remoieil from Wanhlngtnn and ploreil 1 here by till aide Over Munlpell like the frigran of au old llme Mower llngera the memory mem-ory of Ira Madleon Sweet Dolly Madlaon oho waa railed then and It lana I la-na Sweet Jnlly MAillaon that ihc hat gone down lo hhiory Madlaon when member of Congrtai from Virginia mot lit Philadelphia Mil arena Told n daihliiR widow of a ball Nancy and benut seldom equated Oh Ibo widow They lietwltched 1 Ul then aa they bewilder ua now Per pals oven a little more for In readIng read-Ing the hlatory of thono parly days OIK cannot but Iw I back with the number of widow ono comni niTimi They held right royal away and wuro undlapulMl belies What became of the girt until they theniirltea became widows It Ii dlinciilt lo dlrcotcr In moth they seem mnlciitly to have held luck while their wldownl ilalera rcnpctl noble triumphs tri-umphs on Iho field of conquest Of the I III Ilnt four prealdcnla I et thrteWnahing I I ton JilfiTton and Madlaon niorrleil widows and ninny oth ra among Iho prominent men of that day followed 1 the prcvnlllnjt faihlon Mndlaona marriage mar-riage lo the aprlghtly Widow Todd < l took llama In UJI nt llnlewoo1 her lateri home In Went Virginia Thla alder had mnrrled Cleorgo Hlupton Wnihlnxton ncphow to Ooorge Vanhlngton It hai alien to tlio lot of fow women to ga through no varied n career aa that of Mra Madlaon She waa brought up according ac-cording to Ihn atrlctnt rule of Ibo Quaker church In Philadelphia and lit tie Dolly Paine tripping to whool In her illmure Quaker bonnet and quiet drab KOUII waa aa different from dull hag Dolly Mnditon an If they had Urn I two pcrfona intend of one stud Ibo Mine Hut the deniuro Junker lonuet I i I could not crnnul lime besuly anil melt hour beneath It toll oho soles had ad I inlrcr gnlori She murrlnl one of theio John Toni by name a member of Clue Sir iet I of Prlcndi and a riling I Dung hw > erinil until hla death about three year later IHiil I ho life of a ao UrQuuktr mutroii Aflermournlnghliu L I I I r MRS JAMP8 MADISON In Old Allen Alle-n rome lime ahe threw off her qul t garb and bloomed out one of the moat bewitching belle of her city until < he left It to < < o to Monliieller U the hind I I of James Madison Here he rnmaliu1 until Mldlaon became Becretary of Hate under JeBerwn and the left her quirt country home for the gay life at the capital Traveling then was not what It la I now atvambouta were few I railroad unheard of soil a Journey mint t lIed ba taken oa honebtek or lit a roach Mr Madlaon carried much of her household furniture with her I nod coinnianitej frequent tops on tho way to tell her weary bone a ao thaw length of Urn U took lo mike the toll seems alnvo Incredible to ua of taiay |
