CAPITAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1889.
UNPRECEDENTED ATTRACTION I
Over a Million Distributed.
Louisiana State Lottery Comp'y.
Incorporated by the Legislature In IWW for
IWiionlloimiiiml Charitable purpo.oi", and lis
franchise iniulo n part of tlio present state
constitution In 18711 by an overwhelming po.p
ulnr vuto.
ItA Mnintnoth Drawings tnkc place
Scml Annually ( June nnd Decem
ber), nnd Its Grand Single Number Draw
ings tnkc place In cncli of the other ten
months of the year, nnd are nil drawn In
public, nt the Academy of Music, New
Orleans, Ln.
FAMED FOR TWBNTY YEARS,
For Integrity of Its Drawings, and
Prompt I'nyment of 1'rlzcs.
Attested ns follows:
"Wo do hereby certify that wo supervise
tlio nrriiiiKCiiiciitn for ull the Monthly nnd
Hcml-Aiinunl DriiwIiifW of Tlio loulslnim
fitnto Iottory Company, mt In person man-
nno nnd eontrol tlio umw-liiRS themselves,
mid tlml tlio Kiuno nro conducted with lion-
osty, fairness, iitul In pood mllli toward nil
imrtics, nnd wo authorize the Uiir..iniiiy to uso
this cortlllento, with fmvslinllles of our sltfiin-
ure. nttnehed, In Its advertisements."
Commissioners.
Wo, tlio undersoil
aMII pay nil prizes i
tttnto Lotteries wide
our counters.
It. M. WALMSLKV.
l'IKUUKI.ANAUX,
A. llAl.ltWIN, 1'res.
OAHIiKOHN, l'ros.
I'd llaukH nnd Hauliers
Irawn In tlio umlslatui
h limy Ik) presented lit
I'res't Iiulsann Nat U'k
I'res.'Miito Niillomit U'li
New Orleans Null llnuk
Union Nntloual llnnlc
GRAND MONTHLY DRAWING
At the Academy of Mnilc, New Orleani,
Tuesday, March 12, 1880.
Capital Prize, $300,000.
100,000 Tickets at VJS Halves I0; Qi
f; Tenths 12; Twentieths 1 ;
I.IHTOK IMUZKH.
llMUKOKfWO.ttml fW.M
1 lMtI.K)KltW,lMI 100,000
1 l'HI.KOK M.nOOlH o(,00
HMUZN OK Wmo Is ft"i,u
2 rill.KHOF 10,M nro ai,W
n I'ltl.KH OK fi.OWuro 'A000
2.r. I'UI.KS OK l.UOOur Si,(
lUOrillXKHOK NX) lire 5",(XJ0
-200 lMtl.KSOK .TrtOnro iw.ooo
COO I'ltl.KHOK SOU nro 100,000
AITUOXIMATION I'lll.KH.
lOOPrlzcs of tfOO nro fiO.OOO
too do. noonru :io,(kx)
100 do. aw nro 20,000
TKUMINAt. 1MII7.KS.
m do. loo nro w.noo
099 do. lOOnro I9.000
Jl.lll I'rlzos, amounting to 11,051,800
Notk Tickets drawing Cnpltnl Prizes nro
not entitled to Tcriiilnnl Prizes.
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KEMEMHEU thnt tlio payment of the
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courts', therefore, beware or nil Imitations or
anonymous schemes.
ONEUOLLAIlis tho prleonf tho smnllest
part or fraction of a ticket ISSUED 11V US
in nny drawing. Anything In our namo of
fered for less than n Dollar Is n swindle
HAGENOW & ASGHMANN,
Philharmonic Orchestra
AND
MILITARY BAND,
OITicc,Rooms 139 and i-pollurr Block.
Telephone ij.t
J. II. W. HAWKINS,
ARCHITECT AMD SUPERINTENDENT,
Buildings completed or In course of erection
from April 1, ltWJ:
limine block, O E ontgnmery, lltli mid N.
do do L W lllllltigsley, 1 1th near N.
Restaurant (Odells) C H Montgomery, N near
11th.
Itualdpiice, J J ImliofT, J and 'M.
do J I) Macfarlaiid, Q and 14th.
do John Krhrmii;, I) and 11th
do Albert Watkins. 1) lct lith and 10th,
do Win 31 Leonanl. i: lx-t 0th and 10th,
do Kit Guthrie, '.Till nnd N.
do J K Heed, M I), K 1st lflth and 17th
do 1. 0 31 llaldwln. U bet lHtli and lBtli.
hbiiltarlum building at Mllford. Neb,
Flrrt llaptist church, 14th and K htreets,
ortuary can lei anj tvojlvln tumli at Wyukn
oemetery.
Office
Hooiuj 3H nud!)4
Richards Bloolc
A. Nowicki, 1. D.
Formerly I'rofiwsor In tho UnlverMiV Mh
cow. Dr. Nowlckl hus rtTimtly ri'ivrmtl
from lkarK Vlunutuiml other Kuropnm ('WW
wtiuro hu Iihh Iioum Htmlyhitf the new Nyntei:
of truntmtmt of hlH HpuulultloM, iVnmlo coin
plulntx anil liver, kidney ami eve tllncuKt'H.
130 North Ulh Ht, Transit Hotel llulUUui;
MOll Meivlnff.AInrliln'
o si pnet fiiiDiimn
trtd in all pm, by II
cinr our mtcninta
fouat wnrrt id iwvpi ran
inrm, w win hou rrr iopn
Et(n In ttch Iuclli7,tbf vrrjr
! itwlnfmichlD tutdt to
world. ht til the atuttimtnii.
Wo will tlw pJ frr comptrl
lint of our cottljr and valutbt art
MispUi. la return tik thai you
how whil wt itnd, to ihH wbo
way rail at your noma, aid antr H
monini an man xconta your owm
prnrir. Thla rrand mat bin t
mtdaahfr tba nlnsrr patanta.
MnicaMTarukouii uiurfaiaia
k ran out It oM for 911 IS. with it
laitathmtnlaand now atlla for
ftilmatbtaa Iq tbt world. All la
no eaolial raauirad. rlala.
aUt UatructioDa RTa. Tboaa wbowrtia to uaat oncacaaat
An t lint ofwvrka of blU art otof aaawa loftUar la Aravrica,
TJtUK te U. 0s 74t, Augaata MaUaaj.
wra IrrV ina Of itwiavnBcnin to too worio. mo
aFEVlLTlaU;
Ha i j 3 a j r"TaW "
aaaj 3 iaar MLtna
ESTTaTA. Iltha
m m aTjaaajaajajam
iijHn rota
1 nut rrtLi
ON THE ISTHMUS.
SPLENDOR OF THE SCENERY IN
PANAMA.
Tlio Smith American Holdlrr Cuitoii). nt
tlio tVcictrrlri "Coflliin to lt" Tli
Scant Cnttiinim of I'Hiininii The rontll
lie, of Djlng KxrrriU That of l.ltlng.
Sixvlnl OirrenHmleneo.
Panama, Jnn. 17. Nowlioro on tlio
civilized or tinclvlllr.LHl earth In tlicro
witnessed n Btrnnger nii;it tluiti on tlio
oliort journey across tho IstlitnttH of
I'nnaiim from tho Atlantic totho 1'aclllc.
Its gorgeous mid vast vegetation, its
waving palnm mid InxtirioiiH liaumiaH,
Hh tall grnsacH mid tirllllant llowers nro
rarely Iwantifulj hut these one emi bco
nil over South America, in tho nclghhor
hood of the equator. It Is the human
congloinorntion that in most tiuiqtio mid
interesting. Tho Pniinnm cnnnl has
brought to tho Isthmus n working forco
of 15,000 negroes from Jninnicn, Africa
mid tho flinall West India Islands. After
them linvo eomo mi nrmy of Imshwliack
era, the very dregs of tho earth, consist
ing of French, Knglisli, Spanish, Turkish
mid Chinese men mid women.
The Ktiropenn mnnngera, engineers
nnd contractors brought their peculiar
following, mid tho whole, with tho imtivo
elements, makes tip u cosmopolitan popu
lation, wonderful in its diameter, reck
lessness r.nd general nppejirance. No
0110 is surprised nt anything 0110 hears or
sees in this strange land, for tho Turk,
tho African, tho Mongolian, tho Kuro
penti make up a heterogeneous jumble
mid do about ns they please. Sotno wear
ono nrticle of dress, soino K'arcely thnt.
Jinny children nro in a continual htnto of
nnkedness, nnd tlio diversity of costtuno
suggests Joboph's coat.
Tho government demands that nil men
nnd women shall wear n trillo more cov
ering tlitui tho traditional llg leaf, mid
when n ship load of Africnns from tho
south coast nrrived in Colon n year or
two ngo, enscs of shirts nnd trousers
wcro Bent them beforo they wero per
mitted to land. When they readied
town their nppearnnco wns striking, to
Bay tho least. Somo hnd tho trousers
fastened around their necks, while tho
majority used tho shirts ns nitrons mid
resembled n Inrgo body of African mn-
Bons robed only in their regalia nnd
nttending n colored brother's funeral.
Poor wretches! Their fnto was sad.
When they wero put to work it was
found, Btrnngdy enough, thnt they could
not stand tho climate. They died like
slieep, nnd after n month of experiment
ing tho living lot wero 6ent back to
Africa. About this timo :i Chinese mur
chnnt enme to their town with a load of
trunks painted n brilliant green. Tlio
interested Bnvnges bought them with
avidity nnd wero rowed back to their
ship proud in tho possession of fo ninny
green boxes, which to their crudo tasto
Bcenicd beautiful. Their irksome clothes
they throw nwny, but tlio trunks which
might liavo hold them they enrried
bravely back to the Dark Contlnont.
M J.
Ono of tho interesting fenturcs of tho
isthmus is tho soldiers. Thoy nro a
.scrubby lot. Tho Colombian govern
ment, which supports ncnrly 0,000 of
thorn, calls itself very strong in conso
quenco nnd thinks it is fully prepared
for wnr with any other South American
republic. Thcso Boldicrs wear a uniform
consisting of red breeches nnd bluo frock
coats, but very dirty, ill fitting and
coareo. Occnsionnlly a soldior will wear
shoes, but as a rulo thoy aro barefooted.
Their guns aro as rusty as their clothes,
nnd in marching thoy shmnblo along in
a way that tho most awkwnrd of awk
wnrd squads in tho north novcr dreamed
of equaling. They nro all little men, ns
nro nil tho males of this country, and
somo of them nro not older thnn 10 years.
You can scarcely imagino anything moro
grotesquo thnn their general appenranco,
and yet I am told thnt in tho riots and
rovolts which occasionally break out in
these republics thcso men in miniaturo
will fight liko littlo devils. Jlultum in
parvo. Napoleon Bonuparto was but a
trillo over five feet In height.
If tho Colombian soldier is an oddity
tho Panama policeman is a marvel. Ho
lounges nbout town, smokes cignrettes,
walks into tho saloons nnd sips native
whisky by tho hour whilo on duty,
gambles in tho Chineso houses nnd oc
casionally goes to sleep on tho benches
of tho plaza. I should imagino tho Pan
ama policeman's lot to bo n very happy
ono. Ho is paid eighty cents a day (equal
to sixty cents of our money). Tho soldier
gets ono dollar a day (about seventy cents
of our money) and has to find himself.
Tho policL'inan'a nppearnnco is oven moro
disreputable than that of tho soldier,
which i3 Baying very much. But thero
is a dingy, cnreless, go-ns-you-pleaso nlr
to every government official, high or
low, in Panama and on tho isthmus,
which shows n woful lack of Bystem,
training and power.
AU reads lend f. Iterrr nd nil mulo
paths along tho isthmus mako for Pan
ama. There tho motley musses gather
on Sundays nnd feabt dnys nnd enjoy tho
bull fights, tho cock fights nnd tho other
Innocent pleasures provailing. They
flock into tho city day and night, spend
their money fast and furiously, eat,
drink nnd nro merry, finnlly returning
to their work, perhaps to livo, perhaps to
! dio. Lifo is held cheaply here, for death
btalks grimly over tho entiro Btate. I
met n French pliysician on tlio Panama
plam. Ho was drinking absintho and
smoking cigarettes, nnd his mercurial
nature was nil buoyancy and joy. And
yet ho was almost tho last of n gallant
coterio arriving hero within tho year.
"Thero wero cloven of us physicians left
Paris last February to servo tho Panama
Canal company," ho 6aid. "Tho fever
caught us nearly ull; within seven
mouths eight of us died; myself mid an
other is all that is left of our group.
Others nro hero and moro are coming.
If 1 livo I shall return to Paris next au
tumn; if I diu well," and ho shrugged
hia shoulders nnd silently watched tho
bluo Binoku curl from his cigarette.
Lato at night, when tho lamps nro
llgh'.cd nnd the cafes open, tho gaycty of
Pniumn promenading is witnessed mid
you seo the city nt Its best or worst.
You henr the rustling of dreswa. tlio cries
of children, the confusion mid feverish
fun or a tropic feto. It is nil wildly
strange and picturesque, this mingling of
nations. Tho soft uitisio of tho Spanish
guitar prevails, mid you feel yourself in
a laud of passion mid pleasure. When
you go on tho ship after midnight for if
you nre u wise American you will Bleep
in tho hay you hnvo to pass Panama
petticoats galore. These far southern
cities nro like unto Paris, perhaps unto
Sodom nnd (Jomorruh.ln tills particular.
Tlio Isthmus clearly has its worldly
pleasures iih well as its worldly pains,
but tho shadows nro very deep ami
the sunshine is nut always dear. Tho
heat Is dense nnd heavy from January to
Jununry; ull business censes from 10 In
the morning until late afternoon, nnd
oven then it Is carried on with mi ener
vating llstlesMiieHH, for tho air is filled
with insidious disease, nnd no ono knows
just what to-morrow will bring forth.
Tlio cost of living on tho isthmus Is
not expensive, but tlio cost of dying is
very considerable. Ono must bo n mil
lionaire o quietly give up tho ghost nnd
bo bur'jd decently, with anything like
th pomp attending tlio obsequies of n
middle class citizen in the United States.
Collins nro so expensive that they hnvo
n peculiar way of making economical
tho "path which lends but to tho grave."
Therefore it is not uncommon to read in
tho two great cities of the isthmus this
rather startling legend:
i coiTiNB to i.irr. :
Having arranged to upend n tiny or
two on tho canal, mid time being valu
able. 1 had Mr. K. C. llorst, who accom
panies mo through Spanish America as
artist and photograi,Jier, examine ns to
tho methods of burial, and after a careful
investigation ho thus reports:
Tho cemeteries of Panama, five in nil,
nro nt Cocoa Grovo and aro within one
minute's walk from one another. Thoy
nro nil managed by ono firm, HvcsObarrio
y Cia. Ono of tliebo gentlemen went with
mo through all tho graveyards and ex
plained everything of Interest. Tlio five
cemeteries aro tho foreign, tho Chinese,
the Jewish, the old Spanish mid tho now
Spanish. People may bo buried in any
of thcso according to desire. The man
agers of tho cemeteries nro tlio only ones
in tho business of manufacturing, selling
nnd letting coffins, so they have n coffin
nionoiioly just jia tho Boston Ico com
pany has a monopoly of ice, or as a Now
York house has n monopoly in hams.
There the Panama Canal company man
ufacture whatover colllns thoy need for
their employes, and transact a very brisk
business in this particular. In tho price
of coffins thero is a wido margin, the
sum being rroin 7 to $100. If even $7
is higher than can bo afforded, an old
coffin moro or less clean, in good con
dition of repair, can bo hired for one
tenth tho selling price of n now one, and
a second hand coffin of rather disreput
able appenranco bo bought for Interment
nt 91, tho corpso being transferred nt the
grnvc. This is dono to n largo extent.
For instance, if n poor man's frienda
want to give him n first class send off
for n littlo money, they can hire a $100
coffin for one-tenth, i. o. $10, nnd buy nn
old ono for interment nt $1, making
$11, or hiring n $-10 one, tho whole
cost Is only $5, or ho may buy a $1
ono at once nnd not hiro nny other, or he
may go still lower by not using any
coffin nt all, in which case ho is sand
wiched between two weather bentcn
boards. It is said that ho sleeps as long
and perhaps as comfortably this way as
ln tho most superbly trimmed recep
tacle. Tho graves aro not sold, but rented for
ono or two years. If tho regular rental
is not paid, tho body is disinterred, the
bones thrown in a common heap and the
coffin used as a second hand one. This
is n very general result of burial. The
samo system prevails, too, in tho Bore
das, where holes in masonry nro let for
$12 for eighteen months. Fi lends nro
usually neglectful after n period of
mourning, nnd tho common heap of
bics kept in n hugo yard is enormous.
Thero Celestials, Caucasians nnd Afri
cnns nro mixed up liko Buttercup's
babies. Tills jumblo of humnn remains
suggests much troublo when (Jabricl
blows his trumpet. Who will lw able to
find tho full complement of his own skel
eton? Tho agilo ono may mako up his
own deficiency from tho pick of tho rest,
but the slow moving individual will bo
apt to miss it. I fear thero will bo many
misfits nt tho celestial gnte. Who can
tell whether ono is entitled to admission
If ono is composed partly of somo ono
else? Tho very thought is disagreeable
and perplexing.
Fued'k W. White.
Onvfiriimrnt In Clmiirron.
Poet and political rhapsodist liavo de
scribed In captivating lines tho descent
of civil government, a divlno ordinnnce,
Jlincrva like, full grown mid perfect
freis the mind c! Psity. But the hlbto
rian must bo moro prosalo and exact. Ho
bees that men originally combined In
squads against other men mid wild
beasts, then many squnds in one tribe,
and thus on, tho local being merged in
tho general, from tho day when tho
original Aryan, living in his hut liko n
wild beast in his den, combined with his
fellows, to tho dny when tho British par
liamcnt legislates for 300,000,000 people.
Tho initial processes hnvo been repeated
hundreds of times in tho far west. A
company started "across tho plains;"
thoy organized, elected a captain and a
"sheriff." A few hundred men of ull
nations found themselves In a mining
gulch, far from courts or capital; thoy
orgaidzo, mako a government ami wait
for regular courts and laws to overtako
them. In Colorado thero wero onco
fifty independent governments. That
civil government is purely a human in
vention is conclusively shown by tho
fact that man is continually inventing
it. Cimarron is only tho latest object
lesson in that lino. Its government is
j now in fairly successful operation, and
mo peopto aro waiting to boo wliat con
gross will do. Exchange
THIS WASHINGTON JOKE.
HOW CERTAIN MONSTROSITIES WERE
FASTENED UPON AMERICANS.
Oun Who Una faing mid Patiently Buf
fered from It. Uiithec. Unburden. Ill
.Mind Itrpirdlni; Thl. Crjlnn l.vll A.
Hoy Ckii l,iiugli nt Anything.
"Washington U not n real limn to list lio Is
n steel K)rtrnlt," wild Hob Iiigcrxoll, mid la
that Nirvnaui I. a bit of very Kotuid philoso
phy. It Is tho tendency of nil peoples to oxnlt
their heroes toward, tlio rank of demigod.
Washington's real fcnturesnrn Idealized In tlio
Htnutliird MirtrnltMi a halo of glory olmctmvi
tlioknctunl Ijifnyetto, nnd to tunny ooplo
William I'eiin U hcnrccly moron hlxtorlcnl
pcrvoungo thnn Huiuulus or Agntneiunoii.
Hut tlio American nmiso of humor has re
volted. Heclng no other uuy to tltalpnto tho
fcciui-lilMorlc linlo, tho Nitlrkt luis do tscd tin)
(J. Wellington Jolio, When ono I nut laughed
nt tlio lmH)snlMy good groat man ho can then
iuvostlgnto uith moro Impartiality.
Thero In tho cherry true and littlo hntrliot
story, for instance, how much fun tho modern
pnrngrupliist Int. mndo out of It, lint It
novcr wns n fact. Then thero I. tho
silver dollar ami Washington did throw
n silver dollar ucross tho Potomac
as to which a statesman of tho Inlla
tlon era unbent so far us to snyt "Tlicro
wns nothing wonderful in It a dollar would
'go u grcut deal further' then than now."
Thero nro also tho almost original U. Wash
ington Jokoof ArtcuiUH Ward, mid tho quite
iilKirlglunl hurlcHquui of Hill Nyo uud Annoy
ICuox.
Hut hero ami now It U proposed todcnl only
with tho old stand bys, tlio lino old crusted
jokes. And ut tlio head of tlio list, hoary
with ago, . thnt merely verbid trniisKsitloii!
"This is Hli'tlilngton's Washday." Of cow-mi
It wns originally mndo by a child or a booby,
pcrliups by n hlumlcriug schoolboy. That
sort of thing Is n fuvorlto amusement with
children. Listen to tho progressive luibblo
of n group in their word building stage of
life, thus: "John Jefferson, Jeff Jounerbon,
Jon Joffcrson, Joff Jeniicrson, Juffcr J onsen,
Joffcr Jensen," etc. This Is ono of tho wnys
thoy learn to talk. And of till ngo was
l)orn "HirtliliiRton's Washday."
No doubt it lind a hundred thousand birth
places, do to tlio Green Mountains nmt tlio
lathy Vcrinonter gives It to you with n grin
ns something quite now nnd refreshing. In
Oregon It U a iwrcnnlnl Joke, Mnko your
bed In Philadelphia, It Is tlicro. Tnko tlio
wings of tho morning nnd lly to tlio swamps
of 1OuUlaiin, mid tho sallow crcolo cnlivenn
you with tho remark, "Well, this Is Birth
itigtou'H Wnshduy." As a Jolto thero Is ab
solutely nothing In It, And thnt'ii the reason
It lives. Tho lowest enpacity can catch on to
It, Kvcn a Digger Indian who known I'ng-
llsh will smllo at It. When you first heard It
In childhood you laughed Immoderately; It
struck you an supremely funny. Twenty
yours later you could still smllo, but only out
of polltciicu to tho speaker. At forty you
felt liko hitting somebody. And now, hi old
age, you smllo again not at tlio . Ue, O, no!
but nt remembrance of tlio time when you
coidd laugh at such n lingual monstrosity.
I retnomlier, as If It wcro but yesterday,
when I first heard It. Approaching tho door of
tho vlllago seminary on n miserable Febru
ary morning, 1 met "tho cutest loy In Btono
burg," as wo ull admitted. Ills faco was red
with suppressed fun, lib Jacket wns almost
bursting with laughter, as ho broke forth:
"O, Jolinnlo, did you know this was
Dirthlngtou's Wushday!" For n half min
ute 1 stared; then tho forco of tho broken
backed icrvcrsiou struck mo In all its verbal
absurdity. I fell back against n locust trco
and laughed. 1 sat on tho plank walk nnd
laughed. Bvcry time 1 cooled down tho
"cuto boy" repented It, nnd off wo went
again. Vo saw the teacher nt tho window,
and crossed tho street to tho blacksmith shop
and sat on tho bench and laughed. O happy
days, when wo could laugh I For many u year
that boy ranked in my estimation us "Just
too smart for anything."
"Crosslngtoii Washing tho Delawaro" Is
another of tho same sort, a littlo moro elabo
rate. Another b tho standard query: "If tho
father of hU country could look on this ad
ministration, what would ho think of his
children V Hut wo nro indebted to recent
humorists for many ugrecablo variations.
Mark Twain modestly claim, an Improve
ment on Washington: "Ho could not tell n
lie I cau, but 1 won't." Artemus Ward's
dry humor has put many of tho old anecdotes
about Washington whero thoy rightfully lx
long, In tho category of tho ridiculous. Tlio
"hatchet" has hecn laughed out of good so
cloty. Kvcn tho Joko of tho nowspapor re
porter's "hatchet," pinned upon his coat,
with tho inscription, "I cannot tell a Ho,"
has liecomo stale. Tho original hatchet story,
and tlio rcmarkahlo dream of Oeorgo's
mother about his putting out tho firo which
was destroying tho hotiso, wcro pure Inven
tions of a good Mr. Weoms, who got up a
series of littlo histories for (icdillcrs, and ac
cording to tho notions of tho tlmos added
somo goody-good anecdotes of tho Mary-had-a-llttlo-lnml)
order. Tho samo Mr. Woems
took MnJ Horry's note, on Gen. Mnrlon and
mndo them Into a "life" which Is half
romance.
Lifo, tho humorous paper, gives this, which
must lie credited ius now:
THE THOUOIITKUL nOV.
vv Hi'fji
viyz rsmnr
M- H
Young Aiiuricu (to hi. father, who has re
cently Willed tho tomb of Washington
Why, I. Washington dead!
Pother Of courso lie is a long thuo ago.
Young A me! lea Then why does ho keep
un having tiii'thdnysl
George Washington himself occasionally
KTotrtiUil a mild Joko. On one hutauro ho
and some l.ioth-r olllcciii went to see n
dwarf, whose ho-i t was seventeen Inches long
nnd his body but tneuty-evcn. The general
luked hh'.i whether ho was a Whig or a Tory,
to which tho boy answered ns he had boon
taught thut hu "had never taken an active
part on cither side." Hostllltlus had evened
and tlio army at Nowburg was only waiting
for thedelhilto treaty of peace; so an ofllcer
ventured to Introduce to Washington a Now
iQ ': '
it, T
t--L4ii W t JC.tT 'It till I
Yorker whoso tmtrlotlMii was suspected in
fact, n "(pilot Tory" but most unwisely did
It with n sort of nxdogy.
"O, never mind," said Wnhln,9to "Mr.
B - I. liko thnt big hended Uiy at Mnttea
wan ho has 'novcr taken an active urton
either side.' "
In rotu'lu.loii tho following nro offered ns
mild attempt, to do up two prominent pro
femlou.i A U)NO I.INR Of TIIRM.
Ms ljll$ff& w
Teacher Who wns tho father of his coun
try I
Clans fleorgo Washington.
Teacher lllght. Now, whnt particular
thing w a. hn noted for when ho was it loyl
(Hllence.) Well, well, what did ho mine on
his plantation!
ilrlght Hoy Nurse
A UfNDIlUI) YEAIIS HENCE.
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PPliV
First American Citizen Who is that
ancient looking darky over thero!
Second American Citizen Why, that's ono
of Washington's body servant.
First American Citizen Washington!
Who's ho!
Is It oven remotely possible that tho mag
nltudoof the Into war will in thuo mako tho
Revolution Hcem like a inero series of skir
mishes! J. IL Ukadix.
WimliliiKtoii iitul tlio Children.
Tho venerable Mrs. Bemines, who died a
few years ngo In Alexundrlu, used to tell this
story:
After Gen. Washington hnd retired from
ofllco, and was living at Mount Vernon, ho
accepted an Invitation todlno with her fa
ther. Many distinguished men wcro bidden to
meet him, uud the nwo and excitement of tho
young pooplo of the family grow lutein) as
tho great occasion approached.
Tho children, according to good old Vir
ginia custom, dined with tho guests, but as
there was not room for them at tho large
board, a sido tablo was laid for tho littlo girl,
who was afterwards Mrs. Homines, and two
other littlo girls, ono of whom wasafterwards
tho mother of Gen. Robert Ii Leo.
As tho dinner want oil, tho three girls,
with their rosy chocks and liuioceut gurgles
of laughter, attracted tho attention of tho
general, who, during tho solemn speech mak
ing, cast many furtivu glances toward them.
Thoy hail agreed, child liko, to eat of exactly
tlio samo dl.hes, and accordingly all took tho
same kind of fish, vegetables, meat und des
sert, Washington beckoned to a waiter,
poured out four glasses of somo simple
cordial, and thou, followed by thu man with
tho glasses on a tray, crossed to tho children's
littlo tablo, bowed profoundly, and saldi
"Young ladles, will you all drink with mo!"
"It was tho proudest moment of my life,"
Mrs. Bemines said. "Washington was re
garded as tho greatest of living men, and
this notlco from him was n:i honor which
would mako uny child happy beyond words.
Ho know this, nnd took tho troublo to glvo
three foolish children this happiness, which
they novcr forgot,"
It was too much tho custom, after Wash
lugton's death, to imrtray him as a faultless,
emotionless being, lifted abovo all human
feelings and weaknesses. Thcso trivial anec
dotes glvo us a more human and doubtless a
moro accurate view of his character.
WtuliliiKton hliic tho "llorliy Hum."
When Washington, after tho revolutionary
war, was Unvoting through Connecticut ho
visited Hnrtford, staying at tho Hull's tav
ern there. A boy eumo into the kitchen of
tho tavern and saldi "I want to see Gcu.
Washington." Tho functionary on duty did
not proposo to let any inero boy seo Gen.
Washington merely for tho asking, nnd said
as much. "Hut I have a nolo for him," re
monstrated tho Ixiy. "From whom!" "My
father, Chief Justice Kllsworth." "Oh,
well," and tho functionary relented. Gen.
Washington read tho uoto and said to tho
loy; "Your father Invites mo to dinner, and
1 will do more thnn thnt, 1 will go and break
fast with him." And ho did tho next morn
ing. And after breakfast ho took tho twin
sous of tho Justice, each on n knoe, nnd sang
them "Tlio Derby Ham," an old Knglish bal
lad, liegiuulug. "It was on a market day,"
and setting forth that the ram of Derby was
so big that tho birds built ivhtu in tho wooi
ou his back, and tho butcher ?lio undertook
to kill him wns drowned In tho blood. Cor.
Now York ludejieudcut.
lly (ieorsel Wu.hliutiml
By QeorRU' our vlclonrs with won,
lly IJixjre' our liberties secured;
UyUcorgo' Inunortul Washington
lly UeorRu! MhokUffciuO ami rudured
In unr's alarms, lliroiih lultlu'n IIU,
At Trenton nud at Valley I'orgu:
In ivaec on Vernon's sunny liHK
Iho houoii, ull v.cru hoii, l!y lii-oro
lly George' wc stand, lly Ocurgo' uutnrar,
One day the iintion cUiw to I ,"
Thu soldk-r hruMi. thu ttutcxnuu raru.
Tor luouuiui-iiul inemoiy
lly OeorKu' wIiomi Klory I. our fainol
lly (Jeorgo' ulion- di-ed. vo rail our anil!
lly tieorgo' Uiomj honor and whose tamo,
lly OcorRo' Li ours, and ours alouo
-Jo Klug In puck
There was a very curious contrast between
the tint and tlio second Inauguration of
George Washington, tho first was conducted
with all tho pomp and ceremonial tho young
republic could mutter, thw second as ipilutly
as posklblo.
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