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CUSTIS WAS IN LOVE.
WASHINGTON WAS OBLIGED TO
LET HIM MARRY.
The Charms of Nelly Calvert They
AT ore Moro Potent Than the Aged
Hero's Wishes Old Letter * in Colum
bia's Archives Koveal Facts.
LD letters , just un
earthed from the
archives of Colum
bia unive r s i t y ,
throw a new and
charming light up
on the character of
George Washing
ton. They show
that he was a
warm friend of the
college and that
from Virginia
he once journey thither
ginia to place his adopted son ,
young Custis , tinder the care of
the professors. Custis , however , did
not graduate from King's college ,
as Columbia was then called. He
had fallen in love with Nelly Cal-
vert , daughter of Benedict Calvert.and
ended his studies abruptly to marry
the girl of his choice. The story
of Washington's connection with the
college , which incidentally reveals
much about the father of his country
as the father of a family and some
thing of college life during the last
century , is best told in his letters to
the Rev. Dr. Cooper , president of
King's college , and to Mr. Calvert.
The first letter , dated April 3 , 1773 , is
from Washington to Mr. Calvert , and
reads as follows :
"I am now set down to write to you
on a subject of importance and of no
small embarrassment to me. My son-
in-law and ward , Mr. Custis , has , as I
have been informed , paid his addresses
to your second daughter , and having
made some progress in her affections ,
has solicited her in marriage. How
far a union of this sort may be agree
able to you you best can tell ; but I
should think myself wanting in can
dor were I not to confess that Miss
Nelly's amiable qualities are acknowl
edged on all hands and that an alli
ance with your family will be pleasing
to his. "
But the couple was very young , and
the letter goes on to recommend a
postponement for two or three years ,
in which time Mr. Custis "might pros
ecute his studies and render himself
more deserving of the lady and useful
to society. "
That Mr. Calvert acquiesced in this
view is probable. In a letter of April
13 , to Lord Dunmore , governor of Vir
ginia , Washington bids him farewell
In these words : "The design of my
Journey to New York is to take my
son-in-law , Mr. Custis , to King's col
lege. If your lordship , therefore , has
any commands I shall think myself
honored in' being the bearer of them. "
By the end of the next month the
young man was duly entered as a stu
dent , and Washington departed from
New York , leaving a letter to Dr.
\ )
WASHINGTON TAKES HIS STEP
SON TO COLLEGE.
Cooper behind him , which serves ad
mirably to illustrate his paternal solic
itude. A verbatim copy of this letter
reads :
"New York , 31 May , 1773. Reverend
Sir : Inclosed you have a set of bills for
100 , which please to set at the pre
vailing exchange and retain the money
in your own hands to answer Mr. Cus
tis' expenses at college and such calls
as he may have for cash to defray the
incident expenses of his abode in this
city.
city."In
"In respect to the first article of
charge , I submit wholly to your better
judgment , under a firm belief of your
adopting such measures as will most
contribute to promote the principal end
of Mr. Custis' coming here , not re
garding the extra charge incurred to
the accomplishment of it. In regard
to the second , as I do not know what
sum he ought , with propriety , to ex
pend in such a place as New York , I
shall not undertake to determine it ,
but hope , if , contrary to my expecta
tion , you should find him inclined to
run into any kind of extravagance you
will be so good , by your friendly ad
monition , as to check its progress.
"As Mr. Custis may probably want
clothing and other necessaries , you
will please to establish a credit in his
behalf with such merchants as you
can recommend , and when the deposit
now lodged with you is expended in
this and other payments , be so good
as to transmit to me n copy of the dis
bursements , and I shall furnish you
with other bills whereby to lay in a
new fund.
"I have nothing further to add at
present , except that at the next vaca
tion , or at any other time , I shall
think myself happy in seeing you in
DR. COOPER ESTABLISHES A
CREDIT FOR MR. CUSTIS.
Virginia , and that I am with very
great respect and esteem , your most
obedient serv't.
"GEORGE WASHINGTON.
"To Rev. Dr. Cooper , president of
King's college. "
Although this is not the kind of let
ter that President Cooper's successor
of today would be likely to receive , it ,
nevertheless , shows the young man
entering college with good prospects of
staying.
But barely six months later love got
the better of learning , and Dr. Cooper
was addressed again in these terms :
"Mount Vernon , 15 Dec. , 1773. Rev
erend Sir : The favorable account ,
which you were pleased to transmit to
me , of Mr. Custis' good conduct at col
lege , gave me very great satisfaction.
I hoped to have felt an increase of it
by his continuance at that place un
der a gentleman so capable of instruct
ing him in every branch of useful
knowledge. But this hope is at an
end , and it has been against my
wishes that he should quit college in
order that he may soon enter into a
new scene of life for which he would
be much fitter some years hence. But
having his own inclination , the desires
of his mother and the acquiescence of
almost all his relatives to encounter ,
I did not care , as he is the last of the
family , to push my opposition too far ,
and I have therefore submitted to a
kind of necessity.
"Not knowing how his expenses at
college stand I shall be much obliged
if you will render me an account of
them. You will please to charge lib
erally for your owrf particular atten
tion to Mr. Custis and sufficiently re
ward the other gentlemen who were
engaged in the same good offices. If
the money with you is insufficient to
answer these purposes , please to ad
vise me thereof and I will remit the
deficiency.
"I am very so-rry it was not in my
power to see you whilst in these parts.
I thank you very sincerely , sir , for
your polite regard to Mr. Custis dur
ing his abode at college , and through
you beg leave to offer my acknowl
edgments in like manner to the pro
fessors. With very great esteem
regard , reverend sir. I am yo.ur most
obedient humble servant.
"GEORGE WASHINGTON.
"Reverend Dr. Cooper , president of
King's College. "
Less than two months later the mar
riage of young Custis to Miss Nelly
Calvert took place. This ended Wash
ington's connection with King's col
lege until the revolution , when his
troops were quartered in the halls in
which he had placed his stepson.
Knocked "Washington Down.
Washington was an eminently fair
man. He had a quick temper , but as
a rule he kept it under control. Some
times , however , it got the best of him.
This was the case once in Alexandria.
One of the county officers told me the
story as we stood on the second floor
of the market house in Alexandria
and looked down at the open court
within it , which is now filled with
hundreds of booths where the farm
ers uring their products for sale on
market days. "It was on that spot , "
said the officer , "Washington was
knocked down by Lieut. Payne. Payne
was a candidate for the legislature
against Fairfax of Alexandria. Wash
ington supported Fairfax , and when
he met Payne here , he made a remark
that Payne considered an insult , and
Payne knocked him down. The story
went like lightning through the town
that Col. Washington was killed , and
some of his troops who were stationed
at Alexandria rushed in and would
have made short work of Payne had
Washington not prevented them. He
pointed to his black eye and told them
that this was a personal matter and
that he knew how to handle it. Every
one thought that this meant a duel.
The next day Payne got a note frojja
Washington asking him to come to
the hotel. He expected a duel , but
went. Washington , however , was in
an amiable mood. He felt that he had
been in the wrong , and said , 'Mr.
Payne , I was wrong yesterday , but if
you have had sufficient satisfaction ,
let us be friends. ' There was a de
canter of wine and two glasses on the
table which Washington had ordered
to smooth over the quarrel. The two
drank together and became such
strong friends after that that Payne
was one of the pallbearers at Washing
ton's funeral. "
The Richest Man of His Time.
As the yfcws went on Washington's
lands increased in value , and when ho
died , he was one of the richest men of
his time. He owned lands and stock
and negroes , and his estates amounted
to thousands of acres. He had houses
in Alexandria and property in Wash
ington. He had valuable lands near
the present site of Pittsburg. He was
throughout his life a money-maker ,
and I was told at Alexandria that
when he was a boy he got SS'a day and
upward for his surveying. He put his
surplus money into lands , and an ad
vertisement In a Baltimore paper of
1773 states that he had 20,000 acres of
land for sale on the Ohio river. His
will , which is now kept about twenty
miles from Washington , in the safe of
the old court bouse at Fairfax , Va. ,
gives a detailed statement of ever article -
ticle he possessed down to the calves
and sheep. His personal estate was
then put down at $532,000 , and this in
cluded a vast amount of tobacco , large
numbers of cattle , sheep and horses ,
nearly all of which he willed to his
wife. This will is now kept in a
wooden box. the top of which is cover-
ed".vith glass.
"Washington ns a Drinking
Every one drank in the days of
Washington , and the father of his
country always had wines upon his ta
ble. I have nowhere seen it stated
that he ever drank to excess , although
he usually consumed five glasses of
Madeira wine at dessert During his
youth he was a very fair politician ,
and among the items of his election
expenses when he was a candidate for
the house of burgesses of Virginia
were a hogshead and a barrel of whis
ky , thirty-five gallons of wine and
forty-three gallons of beer.
A wife should not expect her hus
band to be light-hearted if her biscuits
Some colleagues of Congressman
Mudd solemly , declare that the Mary
land man still wears the identical red
necktie which encircled his throat
when he first came to congress. Ori
ginally it was a flaming affair , abso
lutely sparkling with redness , but it
now has lost much of its brightness ,
and wonder is being expressed when
Mr. Mudd will ge a new tie.
At a sale in London an autograph of
Holmes brought $8 , one of Emerson
32.50. and one of Longfellow $7.50.
The comparative prices are interesting
and suggestive.
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accident , and only noticed that I was getting nervous. Suddenly without
warning I was taken sicK , and was prostrated. I had the best of physi
cians but grew gradually worse. At a council of doctors , they aaid I had
nervous prostration , and had destroyed my whole nervous system and.
would never recover. For three years I was unable to mote from my bed.
The doctor said I had locomotcr ataiia , and -would never be able to walk
again.
"The pains and suffering I experienced during those years are almost
I Indescribable. The friends that came to sec me bid me good-bye when
they left me and I was given up. The doctors said nothing more couldbc _
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"The Progress of the World , " tli
editorial department of the Review (
Reviews , deals this month with tb
new problems of colonial administn
tion now confronting the country , wit
the senatorial campaigns jn tne dil
ferent states , with the polygamy ques
tion. with the cuestion of army bee
in its bearings on the reorganizatio
of the war department , with our re
cpnt industrial progress , protectiv
tariffs , and the "trusts , " and with th
month's developments in foreign po'
[ tics.
Oil to calm the waves was used o
an unusually large scale during tb
recent gales in the English channe
The water breaking over Folkeston
pier made it difficult for steamers t
enter the port till some one thought c
pouring a few gallons of oil into th
harbor , when the seas immediately be
came smooth.
There 18 a Class of People
Who are injured by the use of coffee
Recently there has been placed in al
the grocery stores a new preparatio :
called GRAIN-0 , made of pure grains
that takes the place of coffee. The moa
delicate stomach receives it withou
distress , and but few can tell it fror
coffee. It does not cost over one-fourti
as much. Children may drink it wit ;
great benefit. 15 cents r.nd 25 cent
per package. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-C
Talebearers furnish the fuel for tli <
ire of strilo.
STATE OF OHIO , CITY OF TOLEDO , \
LUCAS COUNTY. f
Frank J. Clieney makes oath that he is th
senior partner of the rirm of F. J. Cheney & Co
Joint : business in the City of Toledo , Count
jnd State aforeEaiil , and that said firm will pa
the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS teach
? ach and every case of Catarrh thtit cannot b
: ured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in m
presence , this Oth day of December , A. D. 18S
( SUIL.J A. W. GLEASON.
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Hall's Fumily Pills are the best.
God has to take some people out o
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ation.
Iowa Patent OClco Keport.
A patent has been allowed upon ap
peal to the Board of Examiners-in
jhief , to Mrs. E. J. Dunn of Humeston
[ owa , for a velocipede in which tht
l > ody is in the form of a horse , an (
ivhen the rider works treadles with th <
teet the jointed legs will be cperatec
in imitation of the natural motions o
a horse.
Our practice , established 20 year :
igo , of filing incomplete application :
in place of caveats is justified by th <
following recent expressions upon thi
subject :
Bx-Chief Clerk Rogers , of the Unite <
States Patent Office is reported to hav <
said he "was in favor of abolishing th <
javeat. "
W. D. Baldwin , vice-president of tni
Patent Law association at Washington
said , "in a practice of 42 years he ha (
never found it of any benefit to hi :
clients. "
Ex-Commissioner Doolittle , approv
ing Messrs. Rogers and Baldwin , gavi
tiis opinion that "caveats should b <
ibolished. "
Continuous successful practice o
aver 25 years in preparing and prose
uiting applications for patents war
rants me in giving advice pertaining
to all matters relating to securing pat
ents for inventions.
Consultation and advice free.
THOMAS G. ORWIG ,
Solicitor of Patents.
Des Moines , February 4 , 1S99.
Some folks think they are Christians
> imi ly because they want to go tc
leaven.
Sir G. S. Clarke. K. C. M. G. . F. R.
to the February number
S. . contributes
ber of the North American Review an
entitled-
exceedingly brilliant article
"Imperial Responsibilities a National
Gain , " wherein he discusses the new
position the United States will
henceforth occupy among the nations
of the world. The responsibility for
the government of the Philippines will ,
he asserts , be sreat , but If it Is approached
preached with high aims , a single ey
to the general good , and a reverence
moral earn
incalculable
for justice ,
will accrue to the country as its
awards.
The snows of winter are welcome
when they coaie down from the moun
tain in August.
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