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w SURRENDi A YOUNG SPANISH PAINTER ^SToMfSOF GEO. /z?s2^ F*rcdcri< \L^~^Ss?=r ? r 'THE LOVE OP M1 V . S f\E . THP. RULING * ' MfV - MV - CONDUCT" g George Washington was born 176 years ago to-day. His name will live through all the ages as the liberator and founder of the greatest country the world has ever known. Washington was, and is, America incarnate. The United States has outgrown the fondest hopes which he entertained for the national fledgling he nursed into life, but with that growth has grown the name and famo and honor of him who is In truth "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." * * * The first recorded observance of Washington's birthday appeared in the Pennsylvania Packet on Tuesday, February 17, 17S4 (old style). It was sent by a correspondent in New York, and read: "Wednesday last being the birthday of His Excellency, General Washington, the same was celebrated here by all the true friends of American Independence and Constitutional Liberty with that hilarity and manly decorum ever attendant on the sons of freedom. In the evening V V i WASHINGTON IN 1779, \ AGE I the entertainment was given on board tha ^ v% u a gK?m + r\ q tuc IKCU9L iliU id 1U UIC uaiuui, w ?* very brilliant and respectable company. and a discharge of thirteen cannon was tired on the joyful occasion." * * * What a difference between conditions then and now. At that time there were barely 5,000.000 people in the Unitetf States. There was really no great. American city. New York having only 33,000, Philadelphia 30,000, Boston IS,000 and Charleston 16,000 Inhabitants. Washington died in December, 1799, and the progress of news was so slow at that time that some of the settlers beyond the Alleghenies did not learn of his demise until February and March of the next year. At the time of his death Washington was probably the richest man i:s ?v? nomTMTATTTf" AT" XTf ur 1<UJ\J3 vv m By V. ds Pareries. OF HISTORICAL SCENES HAS PRO WASHINGTON : cJ-^Kiry. _ ^ / "rni'iMTBv.iir.ii'.'-B INFLUENCE OF- ( "oip/yc 'tt'dsfiinyton/ZQJm " the United States. He had vast holdi ings of real estate, and more than i half of his wealth lay west of the ! Alleghenies. Some idea of his ex! tensive holdings may be had from an j advertisement which appeared in the , Alexandria (Virginia) Gazette of the | time, which contained several colj umns describing lands that he wished to leaso or sell. He offered to "lease ' 8000 acres of Mount Vernon land, , the properties known as the River ' Farm, the Union Farm, the Dogue Run Farm and the Muddy Hole Farm, j respectively." The lands for sale were "9744 acres on the southeast side of the Ohio River; 23,266 acres on the Great Kanawha; 3042 acres on the Little Miami, within a mile of the Ohio, and 5000 acres in the Green River country of Kentucky." * * * Ttri i. ~ *V?/> TUMnw VV Ufcfil UU liiai i ICU uc [; vbi; thuuh Custis, Washington received into his hands one-third of the famous Custis fortune, amounting to about $70,000 in money. He purchased, among other places, Great Meadows, the scene of the battle in the French and ^ ^ I |?^ I i'ORTY-SEVEN, BY C. W. PEALE. Indian War where he fought his first fight and "signed the first and only capitulation of his life." At Washington's Run in the Alleghenies. there is an old water mill in operation which stands on the site of one that ' he built in 1775. * * * His diary, carefully kept almost without a break from 1760 until the . close of his eventful life, shows his I careful, methodical habits, and gives ' much information about his extensive ! business affairs. Among the products J of his place were a yearly manufac- j ture of 1000 barrels of meal, 2000 j barrels of good whisky, and frequent [ .sales of hogs, sheep, etc. From 1759 : j to 1764 Washington was his own ex- ! porter, sending out tne produce from i liis great farms to Bristol and Liverpool. Large quantities of tobacco I vvere handled in his name during this | 'inie, and his agents in England were I .... ' - i Vt > ' 1 ' 1 < ,v - < > s ' '' ' "" ^ v v V '> MOUNT VERNON AS IT IS TO-DAY. JRKTOWU. I DUCED THIS SALON PICTURE. instructed to keep their eyes open for any improved agricultural lmple ments ana sena tnem to mm. One of the most widely circulated stories about any public man who ever lived is the old one in connection with Washington, the cherry tree and the hatchet. The first mention of this is found in "Weems' Life of Washington," published in 1808. This M%son L. Weems was an itinerant preacher who is alleged to have manufactured many illustrations and events found in his book. For this reason it has been claimed that the hatchet story was manufactured out of whole cloth. We cannot be too sure of this, however, because Mr. R. H. T. Halsey in his book on blue Staffordshire pottery, describes a mug that he saw on which the story was depicted in full. The mug was of rough earthenware and was made in Germany between 1770 and 1790. It was decorated with a quaint little boy, a cherry tree, a large hatchet and the inscription, "G. W., 1776." * * One" of the most interesting relics on exhibition at Mount Vernon is not a memento of an American incident. Hanging in a glass case on the wall of one of the corridors is a massive iron key which was used to unlock the Bastile before it fell at the hands of the Paris mob in the first revolu tion. This extraordinary souvenir was presented to Washington by Lafayette. The boy-guides at Alexandria are fond of pointing out the house where General Washington met Mrs. Custis at a ball, and they describe the incident in the characteristic way of Young America: "He was comin' down the stairs with Mies Sally Fairfax, and they wuz gone on each other, and Miss Sally she got mad because George made goo-goo eyes at Mrs. Custis."?Louisville Courier-Journal. Washington's letters were noted for dignity and simplicity of style. In corresponding with his ward, George Washington Parke Custis, when that WASHINGTON. From a drawing by C. B. J. F. De Saint Memin. youth was at college, the General observed the same phraseology and dignity that he maintained with his older friends. He addressed this boy a3 "Sir" with the same gentle gravity that he used when he later addressed each of his grandnieces as "Madam.'* George Washington. He was the truthfullest of men, A.,,1 C..11 f wnt He wtid. "I'm glad to see you" when He really was not. ....nil, mi ,m??JL'.vju4'8?MwS1WSS i * i New York City.?The loose box coat is a pronounced favorite of the season and is peculiarly well adapted ja to fur and to the many fur plushes are of the fashionable three-quarter length and the coat is so loose and ample that It can be slipped on and off with the greatest ease. v The coat is made with the loose or that are exceptionally beautiful this year, although its usefulness is not to be confined, for it is also adapted to broadcloth and to all suitings as veil as to the various otiier materials T1 ased for separate coats. In the lllus- It tratlon it is made of broadtail plush br tflth trimming of handsome buttons or tnd with braid and is an exceeding- ca y smart little garment that can be br fforn over any gown. The sleeves ar fronts and backs that can be made fr< vith the seam at the centre as illus- sij trated or without, cut one piece, as br iked, and is finished with a wide roll- ta >ver collar at the neck. The sleeves br ire made in one piece each, gathered m; w into bands to which the roll-over si| cuffs are attached. wl The quantity of material required for the medium size is three and ar seven-eighth yards twenty-seven, two by yards forty-four or one and three- br ruarter yards fifty-two inches wide. Pretty Hood. The graceful burnoose, which is of Arabian origin, is copied very / carefully by some women's tailors | of importance and worn by American society women over their elegant evening gowns. The hood, which is of an integral part of the garment as worn by the Arabs, is convenient to draw on over the hair without disturbing the many puffs and curls of the evening coiffure. Doncd Corset Waist. There are several varieties of the new boned corset waist on the market. These sprang into use with the popular princess and other tight dress forms, but they will not pass out with them, for, from every point of view, whether of comfort, beauty or mere utility, they are the most attractive form of underwear that has been recently devised. I I Japanese Lines. The Japanese bodice has not alto- a : gether disappeared. It Is shown in ed many of the newest waist models. The long sloping shoulders of this fin type of bodice are universally becoming. Of the trimming for these foi waists braid and velvet are undoubt- ha edly the most fashionable. foi Dressy Evening Hats. For evening wear dressy hats of ce or maline will be worn. Hunter's Green For Blouses. Pipings of hunter's-green panne :lvet follow the edges of the tucka 1 a blouse of champagne pongee. New AVlnged Collar. An entirely new winged collar, Ith little round wings turning ick from the centre of the front, among the newest of the neck* sar. Yoke Gives Slenderncss. * noirnm annnrA nf p.ontrastine A. Ifu aui i VTI ^ aterial let into the back of a waist, >ke fashion, has an odd look like a itch, but if it is just right gives a tcoming slenderness to women in? ined to stoutness. Waistcoat. The separate waistcoat is not one a fashionable feature of the ason, it is also an eminently prac:al one. Few, If any, of the coats e really sufficiently warm for actual Id weather, an<i this extra garment lows of varying the weight as the ty demands. Velvet broadcloth, ocade, embroidery, all are called to requisition. Broadcloth is used ith plain and elaborately braided, ilvet both of the plain and the ncy sorts is well liked and, Indeed, most every material of a similar rt is used, and the garment can be ade plain or elaborate as the cosme demands one sort or the other, lis model Is peculiarly desirable, as allows a choice of single or double easted closing and of the regular round collar. A third-style also n be evolved by using the single easted model, omitting the collar id meeting, In place of lapping the ont edges. In the illustration the igle breasted waistcoat is made of oadcloth with trimming of souche applique, while the double easted one is shown to the same aterial simply stitched with belding Ik in tailor style. Both are closed 1th handsome buttons, however. 1 The waistcoat is made with fronts id backs and the fronts are fitted means of single darts. The singlo easted waistcoat is simply underced at the edges and finished with* | vu, # |j round collar, but the u~..l>le breast* j ; one shows a swim at Lin" c 'itr;, 1 )nt with the coat collar la p.*! J < ishiiig the nock. 1 The quantity or' materiel 1 require) r the medium size is 0110 and on: i [ 1 If yards twenty-seven or one yar I i 1 rty-four or fifty-two inches wide. I J ft v 7'":T aim ITiis' Once a Political Loader and Foremost irj Wood Ptilp Industry. Former United States Senator, on Edge of Men? al Collapse, Hctirc3 to Place of Rest. IMCY/ xuru V/:ty. Lj I U HJII Lil Dpi lib and in body and oil the verge, it is said, of mental collapse a3 a result of unfortunate mining speculations, former United States Senator Warner Miller, once a power in the wood pulp paper industry and promiuent in politics, made at the age of seventy a general assignment for the benefit of his creditors to Ernest L. Conant, a lawyer, of No. 34 Nassau street. Though living at Herkimer, N. Y., Mr. Miller's business headquarters was in this city, at No. 100 Broad way. Mr. Miller's present whereabouts is not known, it is said, except to members of his family and a few personal friends. :'I cannot say where he is now," said Mr. Conant. "Some days ago his family came to me, explained the financial difficulties he was in and asked me to take charge of his interests. After going over the situation I concluded to do so. I saw Mr. Miller here in this city, and he made an assignment of all his interests to me. Mo wan iinrenrpRpntfirl hv counsel. I have never been his counsel. "He looked feeble and much worried and distressed. His folks said they were going to take him away somewhere to a quiet place where he could forget for a while all his business cares. I do not think he is in a sanitarium. His folks believe that after a rest he will be able to take up his varied business affairs. "I cannot as yet give any estimate of Mr. Miller's assets or liabilities, aa Jio schedules have been prepared. I ihould say they were not likely to exceed $.1,000,000 in any event. He was interested in a number of mining enterprises, but so far as I know, had no speculative interests in Wall Street. He was probably caught, likev other men, in the recent financial stringency, and could not get enough money to go on with./' Ex-Senator Miller's failure is understood to have been precipitated by the troubles that overtook the Sierra Consolidated Gold Mining Company on January 18. GIRLS BACK IN TENDERLOIN. Pittsbufg Politicians Accused of Secretly Promoting Vice. Pittsburg.?Of the 100 young girl3 arrested in the Tenderloin district those who would not agree to reform, more than seventy-five, were released because the county workhouse Is overcrowded. They returned to the resorts. Mrs. Enoch Rauh, noted for her Jewish reform work, said: "We know positively that men in high positions are silently abetting the things that they are publicly trying to eliminate. One man, high in political life, who holds a responsible political position, is living in luxury on the money he collects from these women. We have at last decided that the social evil can never be eliminated in Pittsburg." JAPAN RESTRICTS EMIGRATION. To Conserve the Rights of Those Wh? Have Already Migrated. Tokio, Japan. ? Foreign Minister Viscount Hayashi announced in the Lower House that Japan has agreed to restrict emigration to Canada, within reasonable limits, but without surrendering any of her treaty rfghts nor her prestige. He added that the negotiations with America were con- . tinuing, and that a satisfactory settlement was within sight. It was the duty of the Government to conserve | the interests of Japanese subjects resident' in other countries by preventing a further exodus, which might be prejudicial to those already residing abroad, and the restrictions therefore would be extremely rigid. MILK WAR IN WISCONSIN. Situation Near to Milwaukee Similar to Kentucky's Tobacco Region. Milwaukee, Wis.?"If you sell another can of milk to Milwaukee we will blow up your place the first good chance. Beware; we mean business." This threat is being posted all over the Waukesha milk producing district in the war to make Milwaukee dealers pay an advance of ten centa per eight gallon can. The situation is almost parallel to the Kentucky anti-trust tobacco warfare. Shippers are afraid of their A n II *y?k AM /-V f f k Am ll 4 IT A tTfTlf uvea. iiuiuuci UL IUC1U uaw " AIV* ten to dealers in Milwaukee, expressing fear of poison and injury if they ship milk. BOY OP TEN" KILLS MOTHER. Little Harry Exclaims, "I'm Deadwood Dick!"?Gun Discharged. Pittsburg. Pa.?"Throw up your hands, mamma, I'm Deadwood Dick!" commanded ten-year-old Harry Malloy at the home of his father in Latrobe. Michael Malloy is a policeman, and the boy had his father's revolver leveled at her head. Before she could seize the weapon 1 it was discharged and the bullet entered her stomach and she died with- j out regaining consciousness. The lad went into convulsions when told that his mother was dead, and 'f ^ ~ wAnAi/Are h r\ TV ? 11 ho m Otl. I ! tJVtJll II. lit; icwroio av ?*** MV ?mvm tally unbalanced for life, the physicians think. TOBACCO CROP DAMAGED. Porto Bico Suffers From Sever? Storms and Landslides. San Juan, P.R.?The storms which have prevailed during the past week have seriously damaged the tobacco crop. There have been several landslides, and a number of bridges have been iamaged. Lands owned by the Amercan Tobacco Company have suffered from the storms. r;utiuiu? awui w# ? i * .Too Ulman, well known as a book- j c maker, died in a sanitarium at Ami- l ? :yvile, L. I., where he was taken last j i November. Christian-Intermann, of North Rer- I I ;en, N. J., has secured a three years' ( case of the old Guttenberg race track it Guttenberg, N. J.. lor harness rac- f ng. ? The Harvard 'Varsity crew man- ? lgement announced (hat arrange- ] ments had been completed for a race * tvith the Cornell eight to be rowed on * Ihe Charles River. 1 -? - - . Late News BY WIRE WASHINGTON. , ; ? The Navy Department has consented to another trial of the armored cruiser North Carolina, wfclch twice ha3 failed to make the contract speed. The War Department has readvortised for bid3 for the construction of a dirigible balloon for the use of the army. Admiral leans' fleet'B first stop after leaving Magdalena Bay will be at San Diego, Secretary Metcalf says. All of the correspondence in the Brownson-Risey controversy over the appointment of a surgeon to command the hospital ship Relief was w-' sent to Congress b7 the Secretary of ' ';\ 'r the Navy. To deprive public ofiicials of telegraph and telephone passes or franka is the purpose of a bill introduced b7 Senator LaFollette. Secretary Taft, in a letter to Rep- \ resentative Parsons, withdrew as a candidate for the votes of Now York's delegation to tho Republican National Convention. Tho resolution authorizing the appointment of a commission to investigate recent mining disasters w*s favorably reported from committee to tno senate. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. There are 183 Filipino students being educated in the United Stages. ( y Asiatic cholera has appeared among V the soldiers on the Island of Min- ' * '.> $&? danao, P. I., one death having oc- i-fti curred. The Government of Cuba spent ' $346,545 on account of American Intervention. A Japanese has been discovered' :'.\A sketching Honolulu, "Pearl Harbor and the coast line from the heights behind Honolulu. . , , The War Department decided to 1 undertake the development of the Bataan coal mines in the Philippine Islands, whose coal will be utilized for railway and transport purposes. ' The Pacific Scientific Institution has been incorporated at Honolulu for the purpose of making a full ethnographical and biological survey , bf the numerous little known islands -M of the Pacifio Ocean. DOMESTIC. Edward Alexander MacDowell, the ' V-\^l composer, died in New York City. Andrew J. Detach was acquitted of "> the charge of murder in Philadelphia, . , Mrs. Antonio Yznaga, mother-oi the Dowagar Duchess of Manchester . \ and of Lady Lister-Kaye, died at Natchez, Miss. . John R. Walsh, the conwicted Chl< Sago banker, visited Wall Street tc , pet help for the Southern Indiana . V5 pallroad. Frederick Kasten, a Milwaukee banker, in an Interview spoke in r ; favor of the Aldrich currency bill. . Frederick W. Wiley, a survivor oJ v.*'! those aboard the Cumberland when she was sunk by the Merrlmac, died ' F at Portland. Me. The International Independent Tel? ephone Association, operating whollj ' fa the West, has chosen A. C. Linden* ,y * inuth, of Richmond, Ind., as presl' dent. I Virginia proposes .to spend $10,004 lor a marble statue of Washington, to be placed in the Hall of Fame af Washington. ' !' When attacked with a shovel bj John Chambers, colored, near Ameri? cus, Ga., Superintendent Stephen# if killed him. At Bennington, Vt., Alfred Mahaq -7was convicted of murder for the kill' ing of his four-year-old niece and n sentenced to the State prison foi life. ? For cpntempt of court, S. S. SmRfy a well known politician of Minneapo* lis, must serve three months in jail. A victory for 50,000 rent striken !n New York City has been an? nounced. The reductions range frow $1 to $3 per month. Young Chow and Mock Hung, who < were to tie nangea in Moyamensinj} Prison, Pa., are angry because thej will not be executed until Marcj ^. 10, if at all. The Chinese had made all arrangements to die. FOREIGN". ." ?' J The cotton mill workers at Man< Chester, England, accepted the term! of the employers, thereby averting ? great lockout. The military court of honor at Berlin acquitted Count von Hohenau, lorweny aujuiam tu iuc jcjinpeiui, u? charges' growing out of the Harden trial. Sir Robert Hart, director genera! of the Chinese customs service, ii granted a year's leave of absenc? from Pekin. Baron Takahira, the newly appoint Japanese . Ambassador to th? United States, decided to leave Rom? to reach Washington by February 15, The South American republics, including Argentina, Uruguay an<{ Peru, prepared to welcome the Amen ican fleet. The tug Katherine Moran, bought by the Canal Commission, arrived af La Boca, West Panama, after a voy age of 11,616 nflles around South America. M. Gude, who has been appointed * Minister of Norway to the United , States In succession to M. Hauga, will , lake ud his duties AdtII 1. The death of General Jules Louil Lewal occurred at Paris, France. Hi , tva.i born in 1823. John Hicks, the United States Min? [ster to Chile, who with his family las been on a vacation in the United States since May last, returned tc Santiago. The Japanese will build immediate* y two monster battleships of 20,000 ons and two of the swiftest cruisers >f 18,500 tons. Prompt Government action at Lis? ion stamped out a plot to overthrow he Portuguese throne and murdei he Premier. Mall advices from China contain m order rennirinsr the sons of imDe? ial princes and clansmen to he ex* imined in Pekin as to their proficient :y in the saddle. This step is taken 10 that the art of their ancestors may lot ba lost. The lower house of the Japanese Met defeated a motion to censuro the government. A diamond dealer at Paris idcnti* led stones, which Lemoine gave to 5ir Julius Wernhei as manufactured, ls some which had been sold to Mme. jemoine. The president or the Jewilers* Association of France has odgefl a complaint of fraud against -egiojjae,.