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Thia, picture was painted LU 1772 by C brandt Peale, and usually kuown as the h uniform of a British colonial colonel. The <rf Washington, and Lee University.-The Bo A George Wa: By MILDREl ; f & you did not know what gi do?" This is what Lina asked Sister Emma after she had leaned ca her elbows and looked ont of the window five minutes with out speaking. "1 would think and think until I thought of something," replied Sis ter Emma, half closing ber book to take a Look at her little sister, "?nd if you could not think-" "J would ask every one 1 met until I found something." . Lina began to smile. "I'll begin with you, sister." V Sister Emma dropped her book, ., and .laughed merrily. "Wise little mild," she said. Then she took Lina on her lap SHE ONLY LEFT IT IN lind they talked lt all over. Talked ?Ter what? Why, Lina's party, liamma had told her that she might liave a George Washington party. The next day a box was spied on fae hall table with "Washington" in large letters on it. Each member of the family was asked to put in an Idea for a Washington party. Bertram. Lina's brother, thought cf something so funny that he bad to hick off bis shoes and dance a jig lefore he wrote it. It was just jane words, "Hatchets." Johnny could not think of any thing, so he looked in the box. When ! ho saw "Hatchets," he wrote, "Cher ' rr-trees," for he thought cherry tree? would be as good for a party as hatchets. Phil looked in, and said, "Pooh! I can do better than that," and he ' ?Tote, "Orange Pudding." , Mamma looked in, and she said, : "Whoever could make a party out of hatchets and cherry-trees? Orange padding, though, ls a good idea I will make th? pudding." So mamma wrote that Papa looked in, and he wrote, "lints and Goodies." Sister came last and she wrote, "?L^l?lnicing-c?p." . .Tfa&a Lina opened the box and' Sis ter Einma matched the ideas together asid mad? a party cf them. When the little friends arrived on th? afternoon of the 22d of February j th? box stood on the hall table/ and j Johnnie stood reside it, with a red sam tied over his white blouse, look Injp Y?ry gay. He invited each guest : to pdit his hand into the box and take out.what he found. George Washington himself, Ber-' tr,?.m, stood just inside the door, and ,ahow<)d each guest to seat Wi.en they opened the parcels each found that he held In his hand a hatchet. Some were red, nome white anil some blue. Then Sister Emma, Lady Washing ton, came in, and said that there were six trees on the wall, and one was a .ch?rry-tree, and the first one who dis covered it would Lave the first chance to nae his hatchet on it. Soy Gardner found it first Lady Washington tied a handkerchief over his eyes and told him to see how near he could come to putting the hatchet T OF WASHINGTON. Iharles Willson Peale, the lather of Kem ?Ider Peale, lt shows Washington in the original painting is now in the possession ok I over's Magazine. shington Box. 0 NORMAN. .IL the chopped place In the cherry tree. Roy walked off bravely, chopping right and left with his pasteboard hatchet, and pinned it up on the oth er side of the room. You may be sure there was a merry laugh over that. Dolly Dean did a great deal better, for she only left it in the top of the tree. Willie, Dolly's brother, said he knew he could bit the right place, but be hung lt on the roots. Annie Mabie placed it exactly. "I saw that it was just so high, right in front of me," Annie explained, "and when Lady Washington turned me around three times, I said to myself, "It is just so high, right in front of me, and it was. After that they played hide the THE TOP OF THE TREE. hatchet, and chase the hatchet, until every one was gled to eit down and spell the hatchet. Willie Dean spelled more words than any ono else. Willie wan a gor a speller. Then Lady Washington said they might match hatchets by the numbers on them. That was fun! Two by two they marched ont to ?su.pp.er, singing "Yankee Doodle," with their hatchets pined to their sbould?rs. ?? you want to know bow good a tima they had. try a Washington box yourself. The Flag of Fling out, flin;, out, with cheer and shout. To all the winds Our Country's Banner! Be every bar and every star Displayed in full and glorious munuer! Named After Washington. One State and some sixty-odd counties, cities, towns, rivers, lakes and water courses perpetuate Wash ington's name on the. map. All the Caesars and Napoleons who carved up Europe left no such reminders of their transitory greatness. Alexan der, after twenty centuries, left noth ing like it. As a city maker the capital which bears his name remains as bis monu ment. It was his project and he was its founder. Had he any idea of the country's future development into metropolitan districts? Did he fore see even vaguely a time of city dom inance in national affairs- such as is now threatened? The possibility of a community within a ten-mile radius of New York's City Hall greater than tho en tire population of the young Republic was then undreamed of. If the in fant nation could have received from Washington and his counsellors some provision for Its physical growth, if some part of the consideration be stowed on its political future could have been given to the establishment of safeguards for the restraint of menacing movements of population, would not the restriction have been beneficial? There has arisen a need for bar riers to preserve the balance of pow er between city and country which the Fathers of the Republic bad no means of foreseeing. - New York Evening World. An Apostrophe by Daniel Webster. That name was of power to rally a nation in the hour of thick-thronging public disputers and calamities; that hame shone, amid the storm of war, a beacon to light, to cheer and guide the country's friends; lt flamed, too, like a meteor, to repel her foes. That name, in the days of peace, was a loadstone, attracting to itself a whole people's confidence, a whole people's AN UNUSUAL WASHINGTON. Painted in J789 by Christian Gulager, to whom Washington gave but one sitting. Rev. Jeremy Belknap pronounced it .a "very good fi ken ess." The original is now in the possession of Mrs. Arthur Godman. Chateau of Lnufenburg. Grand Duchy of Baden.-The Booklover'n Magazine. love, and the whole world's respect. That name, descending with all time, spreading over the whole earth, and uttered in'all the languages belong ing to the tribes and raceB of men, will forever be pronounced with af fectionate gratitude by every one in whose breast there shall arise an as piration for human rights and human liberty.-Daniel Webster. _ Mightiest Name on Earth. ' Washington is the mightiest name on earth. Long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still might iest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It can not be. To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of Washington ls alike impossible. Let none at tempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its nakled deathless splendor leaving it shining on. Abraham Lincoln. . UNWRITTEN HISTORY. Papa Washington - "George, Neighbor Fairfax has reported to me that he has loot some of his choice ap ples. Now, do you know-" George-"Now, see here, father, just because I acknowledged that cherry tree racket, you needn't think I'm going to own up to all the devil try committed in the neighborhood." Washington. Blow, zephyrs, blow! Keep the dear en sign Jlying! Blow, zephyrs, sweetly mournful-sighing, , , ; signing, sighing! I -Abraham Colea, in Christian Herald. * '?^-.?n-r'rr^riV- i..'- TtV\Vii\raTfrf**.*-rT*r'7*ir^ah-i j iw^pU . .. IfOMfCIDE jTVpaARLOTTE W. S. Biggers .Shoots Down J. G. I Hood.in Front of Central Hotel Fenner. Eusincs3 Eclations the Canse; . - Charlotte, N. C., Special.-Mr. J. G. Hood, who for many years has been identified with the business interests of'Chai lotte, was shot down by Mr. W. S. Biggers in front of the Central Hotel a few minutes after 0 o'clock Tuesday morning, and died within twenty minutes after the first shot. Hood never regained conscious ness. By a railroad accident Biggers had lost his right arm, but wielded his pistol with the left. The shooting took place at close range, Biggers being within three or four feet of Hood when he opened fire. _Hood fell at the third shot, and in a few moments the sidewalk was red with blood, while a part of the brain of the victim was mingled with the blood that was streaming from che wounds in the head. One ball from Biggers' pistol pass ?d through the rear of the Central Hotel 'bus and shattered a pane of dass in the front, passing within four inches of the driver's bead. The same ball continued across Tryon street md broke a large plate glass in the front of the offices of the Southern Real Estate, Loan and Trust Com pany. Just before the shooting Hood was seen with his hands extended forward, asking Biggers not to shoot him, this being practically ail that was gather ?d of the conversation that took place. Biggers raised his pistol in his left hand, and pointed square at Hood, the first shot evidently going wild, and hitting the hotel 'bus.' The sec ond -shot is believed to have been the most fatal of all, the ball entering be tween the eyes and about an inch above a line across the middle of the forehead. When a policeman reached the scene of the tragedy Biggers was standing over his victim with his pis tol in his hand. Turning to the policeman, he said: "I submit to .ycu and here is my pistol. Hood has been trying to rob me, my wife and my children for several years and I have done all that I had to do. I am willing to go anywhere you say and will make no effort to resist." ! The men had been in business to gether some years ago. Biggers had subscribed for some of the stock and paid in part of the sum. Believ ing it to be a loss he refused to pay in the. rest while it seems Hood 1 demanded payment. This probably led to hatred and;the homicide. "The Times" Only at Thomasville. Charlotte. Special.-The Southern Publisher for February was misled by an article that appeared in the news of the day, the substance of which was to the effect that an organization had been completed by which Thomasvilla was to have a new weekly paper. We accepted it in the simplicity of our^fjjjlh in the correctness of matter found in our ex changes, just as we would had we seen it in the esteemed Thomnsville Times, which is on the' ground already and is covering the field and meeting well the demand. We stand ready at all times to eulogize the untold value of journalism, but sometimes informa tion from an apparently reliable source may be in error, as in this case. Inventor of Oliver Typewriter Dead. Chicago, Special.-Thomas Oliver, inventor of the Oliver typewriter, died suddenly Tuesday of heart dis ease while waiting for his wife at a railway station to start for Pine Bluff, Ark., to test a machine which he had recently invented, which he declared would revolutionize the cotton indus try. The machine was a cotton-pick iner device, which was to do away with the work now clone by hand. National Highways Association Or ganized at St. Augustine. St. Augustine, Fla., Special.-Thc National Highways Association was organized here T?esday "with John A. Stewart, of New York City, presi dent; Albert Lewis, Bear Creek. Pa., first vice president; E. L.' Leighton. Cleveland, 0., third vice president. From this foundation, a national as sociation will be built up consisting of prominent members from all sec tions and a national convention will be held here next January when ac tion Will be taken looking for con gressional support. Jack Binns Welcomed Hoir-e. Peterborough. Eng.. - "Jack" Binns, the w'u Ale.-'s telegraph opeivf">r who was on board the steamer Re mblic nt the time of her collision oiT Nar^nclft last month with the steam ar Florida, was given a rousing recep <ion in Peterborough, his native town Tuesrlpv afternoon. He was met at the railroad station with bands play ing "See the Conquering Hero Comes" and the mayor :n his chains in"! robes of erice, extended him i welcome. Uncle Sam Not Responsible Foi Rainey's Utterances. Washington,', Special.-The United States government disavows all re sponsibility for remarks made by Representative Rainey, of Blinois, in the House about two weeks ago criti cizing President Obaldia. of Panama, according to a letter sent by Secretary of Str.ic Bacon to C. C. Aorsemen.v minister fiom Panama, in reply to s 1 protest by the ?aler made by div?: 'ion of the minister's government. Southern Steel Company Reorganized. Birmingham. Ala., Special.-Ad vices received here Tuesday from New York aro to the effe.-M tiiat the South ern Steel Company, a $20,000.000 con cern which went into bankruptcy last year, has been re-organized with H. Hassinger as president and the re sumption of operations will be under way within ten days. 9 TAFT mmm BOUND Talks Through South-Remarks at Hattiesburg, Miss.-Canal Manage ment Deserves Support. Birmingham, Special. - Talking through Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, just like campaign days, the President-elect had on Saturday the gratification, which he evidently enjoyed, of being heartily received by large and enthusiastic crowds w had not voted for him. He talked from the rear platform at Hattiesburg, Miss., in a vein of pleasantry and then touching on the Canal subject he said: "The Panama canal is going to be built," he declared," and what Iwant every American citizen to do, is to stand by the men who are building it. (Voices: "We will do it.") Don't set a fire in the rear, don distrust the men that are giving up their strength and energy and enterprise to put that great work through. When you have agents who are doing your work, you stand behind them. If you don't, you cannot get your work done. The men who do your work are entitled to your help and cnfidence and you ought not to allow yourselves to be led astray by buncombe speeches on the floor of the House of Repres entatives, or by headlines in. sensa tional newspapers, and go back on the men that are doing your work. "I don't care whether you aro Democrats or Republicans, you want the work done and when, the army engineers who are doing this work are giving all their time to the carrying out of this work, you are not men to go back on them and to believe every idle story that comes from the mouth of some politician who is seeking to make himself prominent or to give himself the advertisement of a little unfounded sensational statement. "That work is being done honest ly. I know what I am talking about. It will he built and all the wind op posion that comes merely from a de side to exalt and exploit the man who makes himself responsible won't ob struct it. "I know what thc people of the United States want in that regard and in so far as I have power, as the Executive of this country, I am going to push that work and I am going to stand behind Ihe men who are do ing it. And now, gentlemen, you have gotten me into more heat than I expected but I think you very much much for your welcome.' Policeman Fatally Shot. Salisbury, Special.-Policeman W. A. Monroe and Policeman Siceloff were called to North Church street, a negro settlement, on account of John A. Jackson, a negro, beating his wife Saturday night. As they attempted to arrest him and while trying to es cape Jackson shot Policeman Monroe and made good his escape. Monroe was taken to the Whitehead-Stokes Hospital where his wounds were con sidered necessarily fatal. He was shot in the abdomen. He is about 50 years old and was esteemed for many years faithful service on the police force of Salisbury. Against reason able expectation Monroe expects to recover. $150 reward is offered for the capture of Jackson. Scarlet Fever on Receiving Ship Han cock. New York, Special.-Between 200 and-300 men on board the receiving ship Hancock at the navy1 yard, Brooklyn, are under quarantine, owinc: to an outbreak of scarlet fever on the vessel. Eleven men sufferins with the disease have been removed to the naval hospital in Flushing avenue, Brooklyn. Care has been exercised to prevent the spread of thc disease at the navy yard. j Tuberculosis Exhibit Opens Sunday Philadelphia, Special.-The inter national tuberculosis exhibition which was formally opened here Monday was visited Sunday by many nurse* and school teachers. An exhaustive programme has been arranged for the coming week, each day being devoted to some particular phase of the evil or its remedy. Loses His Life in an Attempt to Res cue Aged Woman. Rochmond, Va., Special.-Mrs. Robert Skipwith, an aged woman be longing to a prominent family, and a man named Johnson were burned to death in a fire which destroyed an old mansion near Clayville, Powhatan county, Saturday night. Johnson and his wife were tenants in the house which was the property of Mrs. Skip with. Johnson returned to rescue Mrs. .Skipwith when the floor fell in. Severe Storm Strike Mississippi Town Learned, Miss., Special.-A storm struck this place from the northwest about 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon with terrific force, blowing down a ne gro church, killing Dick Harris' wife and one child of Maggie Bennett, and injuring eight or ten. About seventy flvo persons were in the' building at tho time. If it had not boen for tho arched ceiling they would all proba bly have been killed. May Send War Vessel to Liberia. Washington, Special;-The State Department is considering the ques tion of dispatching an American wai vessel to Liberia where alarm is fell for the safety of British and French citzens employed in the customs ser vice of the republic. Already thf British government has dispatched ? war vessel to Monrovia and also ?' company of soldiers. The present sit uation, according to official advices may result in thc passing of its 40,000 miks of terril cry into alien hands. DOINGS OF?ONGRESS ?ummary of Import?nt , Proceedings Enacted From Day to Day. The postal savings bank bill was icfore the Senate during most of the ession Wadnesday and Senator Hey nrn, of Idaho, spoke in opposition "to t. But little nrogress was^made. The Senate took a recess in order o join the House of Repr?sentatives ? counting tho electoral vote, returni ng its legislative work immediately hereofter. Wednesday tho ceremonj' of a counting the electoral vote, resum ormed by the Senate and House of lepresentatives in joint session. Wil lam H. Taft, of Ohio, was officially eclared elected President and James I. Sherman, of New York, Vive Pres ient, the count disclosing 321 elec oral votes for the Republican can ?dates as against 162 for Messrs. Iryjtes and Kern. Following the refusal of unanimous onsent for the consideration of a esolulion appropriating $1,250,000 or a Loncoln memorial in Washing on and the passagge of several bills f minor importance, consideration of he agrcultural appropriation bill ras resumed. The effert of Mr. (ever, of South Carolina, and his fol awers to abolish the board of refc ees of the Department of Agricul ure failed. The bill was pending .'hen the House at 5:07 p. m. adj ourned. A report was made to the Senate 'hursday from the committee on ap ropriations on the President's state ?ents concerning the attitude of Congress toward apporpriations for he support of the secret service, enator Hemenway who presented his report, added that the President 'as not justified in making the state lent contained in his message to 'ongress. Just before adjournment the Sen te passed a joint resolution in the xact form it had been passed by tho louse of Representatives declaring 'ebrua)^ 12th. be a specia"; legal oliday in honor of the centenary of he birth of Abraham Lincoln. A bill was passed also repealing be increase in the salary of the Sec etary of State from $8,000 to $12,000 0 as to permit Senator Knox to ac ept an appointment as Secretary of ?tate. Senator McLaurin mada a speech 1 opposition to the passage of any ill for the re-enlistment of the negro oldiers of the Twenty-fifth Regiment ccused of having "shot up" Irownsville. The agricultural appropriation bill ,*as passed by the House of represen atives Thursday practically as it ame from committee. Debate drag ed wearily on for several hours when he proceedings were enlivened by a rief but spicy tilt between Mr. Mu on, of Arkansas, and Mr. Cook, of Colorado. A successful fight, led by Mr. Sa ath, of Illinois, was made against he bill amending th? naturalization rws which, among other things, in reased the naturalization fee from ve to ten dollars. By an emphatic ote the conference report on the ?easure was rejected and the bill laid pon the table. A tribute to Lincoln by Mr. Boutell f Illinois, closed the day's proceed igi. The Senate on Thursday adjourned ill Monday. In the House on Friday Representative Raney took up the anal libel suit matter and thrusts nd retorts consumed much time. L?t l? seemed to be effected. The Senate was not in session on iaturday. In the House a variety of oards shall be "minutely itemized." ppropriation bill technically was un er consideration, but many members vailed themselves of the opportun ty for general debate. Mr. Lamar, f Florida) argued for the amendment f the railroad rate law, churning the iw was insufficient to cover thc cases icluded in its provisions; Mr. Mad en., of Illinois, referred to increases i freight rates since the rate law rent into effect ; Mr. Murphy, of Wis onsin, delivered an eulogy of Lin oln ; Mr. Washburn, of Massaclui etts, favored a modification of the ?herman anti-trust law in order that t might be less burdensome; Mr. Tayr, of California, attacked the ules of the House; Mr. Langley, o? LciUncky, criticised the administra ?on nf the affairs of the Choctaw lil ians; Mr. Sherman, of New York xplained the provisions of the In ian bill^ while Mr. Proctor, of Ver dont, pleaded for an adjustment oj lostal rates as affecting merchandis? hrugh the mails. i Sunday was set apart; for eulogie.1 if three deceased members. The? /ere Senator William Tinkney Whyt< if Maryland; Representative Willian I. Parker, of South Dakota, and Rep esentative Abraham L. Brick, of lu liana. Fifteen addresses were deliv red. The horses ot Iceland are shod wit? r?eep'a horns-_ Divining Rod. D. W. S. (New York City): Kindly ;Ive me some Information about the ivitch hazel divining rod for locating ?vater; how it is made, used, etc. As usually employed, this device consists of a forked twig, held In a lorizontal position in front of the >perator. He grasps one tip of the "S ?vlth each hand, and the main stem projects before him. He walks to ind fro In search of a hidden vein of ivater, and it is said that when he is aver one the stern will bend down ward. Though hazel was once con sidered essential, some operators re port equally satisfactory results with Jther wood, and even with wire. The ievice does not work in everybody's "ands, and we do not wish to be un ierstood as guaranteeing that it will succeed in any one*s. Nevertheless, a few of the cases in which the divining rod seemed to reveal water are now fairly well attested.-New York Tri? bane. GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY Live Items Covering Events of More or Less Interest at Home and Abroad. A company to manufacture brooms bas been organized in Roanoke, Va> with ample capital to operate success fully. The principal stockholders are James S. Yeatman and Charles S. Fox. It w?s recently found that some inmates of the West Virginia peni tentiary had an outfit kit for counter feiting coins. Some had been pass ed out of the prison. The barkantine Matanzas bound from Philadelphia' to Fernandia,' Fla.," got in distress Thursday night 121 miles south of Diamond Shoals and signalled by -wireless telegraphy. Six ocean-going vossels to her side. She has a cargo of lumber and will be towed into port. Hon. D. E. Hydride, of Spartanburg, S. C., was chosen as associate Justice of the Supreme Court of South Caro lina, on last Thursday, after 37 bai lo ic were taken. Ai Lakeland, Fla., Charlie Crumly, a r.egro, who was believed to be tho criminal who assaulted a white lady, wqs taken from jail Wednesday and was on the point of being burned at the stake when officers plead for him and saved him. He claims an alibi, and was not positively identified. The last rail was laid Wednesday, connecting Dante, Va., with Bostie, N. C., on the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio railroad. The sheriff and other officers cap tured three distilleries in Lineolnton county a few days ago. Mrs. Harry Samson is to be tried in New York on the charge of mur dering her husband, who was a nephew of the late Admiral Sampson. The National Bureau of Forestry, it is said, will get an army of An gora goats to eat paths three hundred yards through the California foresta as checks to forest fires. Street cars stalled in the streeta of Sioux City, Mo., Tuesday night in snow 13 inches deep on a level, and a 55 miles an hour wind. Roby Baskin, a Negro who robbed" and then murdered Rev. W. Y; Hud son was lynched at Houston, Miss., Tuesday. *The mob of 300 was not resisted. They calimed that justice was too tardy. The Illinois Central's Chicago Flyer plunged into, an open switch at Cold Water,. Miss., killing Martin", Stanton, of Memphis, and injuring several others, i The yeggman killed at Laurens, S'A C., last week proves to be "Sheeny Mike,'I who has been recognized by a former, but now reformed, crook, who had been in prison with him. In New York recently a baby only three days old suffered a hemorrhage and would have died, the doctor thought, but for the fact that about a pint of its father's blood was transfused into it. It1 is now Hoing well. The Mauretanin, Cunard Lina steamer, has made a new record, crossing the ocean, 2,934 miles in 4 days, 20 hours and 27 minutes. Washington News Notes. C. H. Martin has been made pri vate secretary to Senator Overman in place of Fred L. Carr, resigned. The House of Representatives has voted the* sum of $12.000 for auto mobiles for the president's use. It now appears that it was an erroneous story in circulation some time ago to the effect that President Roosevelt struck, with riding whip the horse or horses of lady riders. Admiral Sperry is regulating the speed of his fleet so as to arrive io the Chesapeake on the 22nd, when a reception program will be carried out. President Roosevelt will be on hand. After 50 years in the present Nat ional House of Representatives it is proposed to return to the old plan of arrangement of seats without desks, that members may hear more perfectly. Tho change in the Hall wiU cost about $35,000. President Roosevelt takes part in the ceremonies at the Lincoln Home- > stead, at Hodgenville, Ky., Friday, the 12th, the occasion being the 100th anniversary of the birth of the murdered president. The nomination of Dr. Cram to be collector of the port at Charleston, has met with such opposition in the U. S. Senate, that it is thought the matter will go over for the considera tion of Mr. Taft. A story has just come to light that President Lincoln narrowly escaped death from a bomb in Baltimore, when on his way to Washington to be inaugurated. Foreign Affairs. The American Red Cross has given $250,000 to Queen Helena to found an orphanage for the parentlcss children, the victims of the earth quake. Death has just recently claimed" two of the best-known men in France, Catulle-Abraham Mendes, the poet and novelist, and Ernest Alexander Honore Coquelin, known familiar}' ?'IS Coquelin Cadet, one of the last of France's celebrated actors. Germany and France have settled by amicable treaty, their differences in relation to Morrocco and mutual respect now seems better than since the war of 1870. Capt. Roald Amrindsen has receiv ed $1S,000 appropriation from his government and will set out from Norway in the spring to be gone five or six years in search of the North Pole. He will sail in Ihe Fran* with about 10 men. He will secure American dogs. His hope is to find currents which he believes exist that will * .ing him well on his way.