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SOME SI DE LIGHTS ON FVosh Gossip Gather M ocint Vernon mid i Frank ./. Carpenter i i have been for some time gathering tits of queer gossip and tradition about George Washington. A large number of hi* papers are on tile in thc State Department. Papers show ing that he was behind in his ac counts with the Government arc on file in thc Treasury Department, and thc National Museum has one of thc largest collections of Washingtonia in existence. Alexandria is full of un published traditions of (Jcorgc Wash ington. 1 spent a couple of days there sometime ago, and though I found no oue living who had ever seen Washington, I got a fairly good idea of him from tho stories concerning him which have been handed down from father to BOH. Mount Vernon is only nine miles from Alexandria. Washington got thc most of his sup plie? at Alexandria. He came there to vote, and until a few years ago thc little ofiicc in which he did his busi ness there still stood. It was at Alexandria that Washington met < Jen eral Braddock and with him started oat on that disastrous campaign. His last review of troops was made from thc steps of an Alexandria hotel about a year before his death, and when I last visited the town I was of fered a mahogany bcd which had stood in this hotel, and on which, it was Kaid, Washington had slept many a time. From thc traditions of Alexandria, and from many other sources, I have tried to make up in my mind's eye a picture of George Washington as he really was. He was exceedingly tall, and, when youog, quite slender. Ile had enormous hands and feet. His boots were No. 13 and his ordinary walking shoes No. 12. No one can look at the silk stockings which hang up in Mount Vernon and not realize that it took a big leg to fill them. He was a man of muscle. During his service in the army he weighed 200 pounds, and was so strong that he could iift his tent with one hand, al though it usually required thc strength of two men to place it on thc camp wagon. ? mean, of course, when it was folded up and wrapped around thc polos. Washington could hold a mus ket with one hand and fire it. He was a good shot and a good swords man. The pictures of thc father of oar country make you think that Washington was a brunette. His face is dark and sombre. The truth is he had skin like an Irish baby, and his hair was almost red. He had a broad chest, bat not a fall one. His voice waa not strong, and dur iog his last days he had a hacking cough. His eyes were cold gray, and it is said that he seldom smiled, al though ibero is reason to behove that ho had considerable humor about him. His u?se was prominent. He was particular as to his appearance and fastidious in dress. He wore plain clothes and always kept himself weil shaven, acting as his own barber. During the latter part of his life he wore false teeth, made by a dentist named (?reenwood. His teeth did not lit well and pushed out his lower lip. He had a lot of trouble with his teeth, and I have before me a copy of a let ter which his dentist wrote to him a year before he died. Thc dentist tells Washington that thc old set of teeth which he sent him from Philadelphia was very block, and that it must have been discolored by his soaking them in port wine or by his drinking too much port wine. He warns Washing ten that all -.vines containing Odd arc bad for the teeth, and advises him to take out his teeth after dinner and put them in clean water, and should any holes bc eaten in them by the acid to hil them with wax and seal them tight with a piece of red-hot iron, such as a nail. He closes his letter as follows: "If your teeth grow black, take some chalk and a pine or cedar stick; it will rub ott. If you want your teeth more yellow, soak them in broth or pot liquor, hut not in tea or acids. To preserve teeth they must he very often changed and cleaned, for what ever attacks them must be repelled as often, or it will gain ground and de stroy the works. The two sots 1 re paired is done on a different plan than when entirely new, for the teeth aro screwed on the barrs instead of having the barrs cast red-hot on them, which is thc reason, 1 believe, they dissolve so soon near the barrs."' Signed your very humble servant. John Greenwood. Dated New Vork, December 28. 170S. Washington was an eminently fair man. He had a quick temper, hut as a rule he kept it under control. Sometimes, however, it got thc better of him. This was thc case once in Alexandria. One of the county offi cers told mc the story as we stood on thc second floor of thc market hou^e in Alexandria and looked down at thc Open court within it, which is now /filled with hundreds of booths where ide farmers bring their products for Bale on market days. {It was on that Spot," said thc officer. "Washington (?KORGE WASHINGTON. od FVom .Alexandria-, lie Sbito I )epartment. itt ?it. Louis Ilepubliv. was knocked down by Lieutenant Payne. Payne wa* a candidate for the Legislature against Fairfax, of Alexandria. Washington supported Fairfax, and when he met Payne here ho made a remark that Payne consid ered au insult and Payne knocked him down. The story went like lightning through tho town that Colonel Wash ington was killed, and some of his troops who were stationed at Alexan dria rushed in and would have made short work of Payne had Washington not prevented them. lie pointed to his black eye and told them that this was a personal matter and that he knew bow to handle it. Kveryone thought that this meant u duel. The next day Payne; gat a note from Wash ton asking him to rome to the hotel. Ile expected a duel, hut went. Wash ington, however, was in an amicable 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 decanter of wine and two classes on the table which Washington had ordered to smooth over the quarrel. Tlje two drank together and became such strong friends after that Payne was one of thc pallbearers at Washington's fun eral.' : Kveryonc drunk in the days of Washington, and the Father of his Country always had wines upon his table. I have nowhere seen it stated that he overdrank to excess, although he usually consumed five glasses ef Madeira wine at dessert. During his youth he was a very fair politician, and among thc 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, 35 gallons of wine und 43 gallons of beer. (jeorge Washington was simple in his tastes, and during his youth was an enormous eater, but was not par ticular as to what he had. Ile wanted plain food and plenty of it. During his later years he ate very little. His breakfast at Mount Vernon was of corn cakes, honey and tea, with pos sibly an egg, and after that he ate no more until dinner. Ile kept, how ever, a good table, and usually had friends with him. His table manners were not of the best. I have a book written by Maclay, which gives his experiences when ho was in the United States Senute, at thc time Washington was President. Maclay dined with Washington a number of times, and scattered through his diary are bits of gossip about Washington. At two of the dinners he describes Washington as amusing himself be tween thc courses by playing the devil's tattoo wun the table with his fork. At another time he says: "The President kept u fork in his hand when the cloth was taken away. I thought it was for the purpose of pick ing nuis. He ate DO nuts, but played with the fork, striking on the edge of thc table with it." Washington, at this time, had some trouble in keeping up his establish ment. When the Revolutionary War closed he had plenty of land but little money. He had exhausted his pri vate fortune during thc war. and he had to borrow enough take him to New York to be inaugurated as Presi dent. Thc result was he was earcful of his expenses, and would not toler ate extravagance. An instance of this kind occurred one day when he found thc Hr.-t shad of the season on his table. Tho President was very fond of fish, and when the shad was brought into thc dining room his nos trils dilated as the savory odor struck them, and he asked: "What fish is that?" .*A shad," replied the steward, ex citedly: "a very fine shad. 1 knew your KxceUency was extravagantly fond of this fish, and was so fortunate a< to procure this one in the market. It was the only one, sir, and the first of thc sason:" "Hut thc price, mun? Thc price? Thc price?" demanded Washington i sternly. 'Three- three- three dollars," stammered thc steward. "Take it away I Take it away!" said Washington, "lt shall never bc said that roy tabla sets such an ex travagance!" And so thc *3 tish was taken from the room, to be devoured by the ser vants. As the years went on Washington's lands increased in value, and when he 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 hail valuable lands near the present site of Pittsburg. He was throughout his life a money mak er. 1 was told at Alexandria thu* when he wns a boy he got ?."> a day and up ward for his surveying. He put his surplus money into lands, and an ad vertisement in a Uoston paper of 1773 states that he had 20,000 tunes of land for Halo on tho Ohio river. Hi? will, which is now ki>?it ?Ki.?? 20 :;::!c? from Washington, in the ?afc of the old Court House, at Fairfax, Va., gives a detailed statement of every article he possessed down to thc calves and sheep. His personal estate was thon put down at $250,000, and this included a vast amount of tobacco, large numbers of cattle, sheep and horses, nearly all '.f which he willed to his wife. This will is now kept in a woodeu box, thc top of which is covered with glass. It was torn in two some time ago by some careless sight seer, and since then no one has been allowed to handle it. Thc account books which arc kept herc in the State Department show that Washington was very careful about keeping a record of his expenditures. He put down everything, and among other items you see the amounts which he lost at cards. In April, 1772, he lost $100 in this way at thc house of Kev. Houschcr, and a little further on there is an item stating, "Paid for toddy for self, Walker and others, at a little jamboree near the Drummond Lake, five pounds." During thc time he was candidate for thc House of Bur gesses of Virginia, when he bought thc whiskey above .spoken of, his losses at cards and at thc horse races are frequent. The- curious thing about his accounts is that there was almost always a deficiency at the end of thc year which he could not account for. This made no difference, how ever, with his starting the new year with a fresh account, for one item at this time is as follows: "By cash, either lost, stolen or neglected to charge, 114 pounds, 8 shillings and ll pence." In other words, he was short that year over $700. Through his letters, now owned by the Government, you see here and there which shows that he was very hard up at times. In 1785 he wrote that he could get no wheat on credit, and that he hud DO Csish t? pay for it. Three years later he urges a man to pay the $1,000 which he owes him, and says he has put off the Sheriff three times already, and that he needs this money to pay his taxes. He was not afraid to dun his debtors, and he is said to have been one of the shrewd est dealers among the planters of his time. He was always preaching economy to his servants, but on the whole was somewhat lenient, as, for instance, he employed one mao, a car penter, making a contract with him for a year and providing therein that he was to have four days in which he might get drunk about Christmas. Washington was economical, but not stingy. He could not endure waste of any kiud, and he went about over his estates doing his best to stop the leaks. In one of his letters home he urges that greatest economy be used in feeding the hay at thc mansion house. He writes: "I enjoin upon you to particularly guard against Mrs. L. Washington's Charles and her boy in the stables,boih of whom are impudent and self-willed and care not how extravagantly they feed or even waste, for I have caught thc boy several times littering his horses with hay. I sec no sort of ne cessity for feeding the horses either grain or hay when they are not used or any horso that is at liberty and able to provide for itself. I can plainly perceive that in a little time there will bc nothing either for my negroes or horses to eat without buying it, which will neither comport with my interest or inclination. By Stuart's report I find he still continues to feed horses with corn, instead of cut oats, ns 1 directed. What two saddle horses arc those which stand in the mansion house report? I know of none but thc one Mr. Whitling used to ride." Thc planter who demanded reports Uko that must have been a good business man. . Speaking of Washington as a farm er, from an almanac cf I7?MI comes thc following: "General Washington possesses 10, 000 acres of land where he lives. He employs 250 hands and keeps twenty four ploughs going all thc year when thc weather will permit. In 1787 he sowed GOO bushels of oats, 700 acres of wheat and a large quantity of corn barley and potatoes. He has 150 aci^ in turnips, 500 acres in grass anil great fields of peas and beans. Ht visits his farms every day unless thc weather is stormy, and he is makin; extensive experiments toward thc im provemcnt of agriculture. In 1750 ht killed 150 hogs, weighing 18,5U( pounds, for his family use. which wai made into bacon." From thc above it will bc seen tba Washington had by no means an casi life. He had many troubles outsidi of those connected with hts estate He had as many enemies as our lead j inp politicians have to-day and he wa j accused of all kinds of crimes and mis demeanors. The Philadelphia Auror charged him with having committci murder during his campaign witl Braddock. Griswold, in his Bepubli can Court, states that an attempt wa made to poison Washington when h was President, and it ""as .lohn Ban dolph, of Roanoke, who, during a din ncr at Alexandria, ^roso and propose the toast: "George Washington. May he h m i When his birthday was celebrated, lu 1773, lucre wu? a great, deal of criticism on the part of his enemies, and thc Aurora, one of the opposition papers of Philadelphia, published long poems describing him as the worBt of men. He was nicknamed thc Ameri can Cicsar and the stepfather of his country. The Heuse of Representa tives was asked to adjourn for half an hour on the 22d of February, 17?JG, to pay its respects to President Wash ington on the occasion of his birth day. This practice had been in vogue since Washington was first inaugu rated. Thc House, however, refused to adjourn on the ground that it was the duty of Congress to attend to legislative business and not to pay foolish compliments. When Wash ington delivered his farewell address he was reviled by the opposite party. All sorts of libels were uttered against him, and the Aurora said there ought to bc a jubilee in thc Pnited States because thc Washingtonian adminis trations were at i.n end. Notwith standing all this the character of Washington shines brighter to-day than ever before. With his little weaknesses, whioh historians have done their best to'hide, he is, taking him altogether, perhaps the greatest American our country has ever pro duced, and tbe fatse charges against him were but drops of moisture on the mirror of his fame, which time has long since washed away. Society Wemen to go as Binrses. WASHINGTON, April 8.-Within the psst few days, while the the war fever has been rising higher every hour, there has been a perceptible determi nation on the part of society matrons and maids to volunteer their services as nurses in the event of war. Should it happen, as rumored will be the case, that the two magnificent hotels at Fort Monroe will, in the event of war, bc seized as hospitals, the ardor of these volunteer nurses will be increas ed. Nothing will then keep them iu Washington. The wife of an ex-Cabinet officer now in Washington, has declared her iiiteution of becoming an army nurse. The two daugters of "Bob" Evans have aign:fied their intention cf vol unteering as nurses. Representative Wheeler of Alabama, who almost at the first rumor of war, went to the President and volunteered in case of war, sees his martial and patriotic spirit shown forth again in his three pretty daughters, each of whom asserts that she will only be too glad to go as nurse to the wounded soldiers and sailors. lr. the case of Commander Robley 1). Evans, history has within thc past week repeated itself. It will bc re membered that a few days ago the young son of Commander Evans was a member of thc class graduated ahead of time at the Annapolis Academy, and immediately assigned to duty on the battleship Massachusetts. Com mander Evans was, during the late war, graduated ahead of time and at once sent into active service. Thirty Three Regiments of Regulars Ordered ?oath. WASHINGTON. April 15.-Decided ly the most warlike step taken by the war department in preparing for the possibility of an encounter with Spain was inaugurated when orders were is sued for thc eoncentration at four points in the South of six regiments of cavalry, twenty-two regiments of infantry and the light batteries of five regiments of artillery.: at New Or leans eight regiments of infantry, at Tampa seven regiments of infantry and at Mobile seven regiments of in fantry. Since the Civil War no such proportion v.f the army has been mo bilized and "he movement itself is the best evidence of the gravity of thc situation as looked upon by the Presi dent and his advisors. Tne determination te rendezvous the troops in the South where they can be acclimated to the conditions of a more tropical climate has been under con sideration of the President and his cabinet for some time, lt was not until to-day, however, that the Presi dent in view of the enormous expense which will be entailed,felt justified in taking this step. When Secretary Alger returned from the cabinet meeting ho at once called into confer ence General Miles and Adjutant General Corbin and acquainted them with the result of the cabinet's delib erations. There were hurried consul tations in which thc quartermaster, who has charge of the transportation of thc troops, the commissary general, who looks after their subsistence, and representatives in Washington of the various railroads running South, par ticipated. . Tho heavy batteries of artillery in thc five regiments will remain at their present posts. Thc two new regi ments of artillery recently authorized by Congress have not been ree rn i ted to their full strength and in addition arc not well equipped with horses and other necessary requisites and there fore are not included in to day's or ders. The department has so distrib uted the 22 regiments of infantry at such convenient places on thc gulf that they wi'i be accessible for trans portation tn Cuba. Proposals have been invited from steamship compa nies for chartering vessels to tho gov ernment for this work. Instructions to the commanding of ficers of thc regiments ordered to move were sent oat Ute to-day with direc tions to bc put int? effect as soon as possible. It is the- confident expec tation of thc officiais that the move ments in some places/will begin to morrow. Thc railroad facilities, the officials say, atc more than ample to meet thc demands of thc occasion and no trouble will bo experienced in mo bilizing this largo body of men at the places designated within a reasonably short spaec of time. - . mm Children like it, it eaves tbeir Uvea. Wo mian One Minute Cough Cure, the infal lible remedy for cough?, odds, .croup, bronchitis, grippe, and all throat and lang troubles. . Brans Pharmacy. ?Var Honte?. "It is remarkable how quickly horses adapt themselves to the military service," said an old soldier. ' Every artilleryman knows that they learn thc bugle calls ?uti thu evolutions quicker than the men, as a rule. They soon acquire a uniform gait, which is about the same as what wc call the route step or the usual marching step. If the horses did not acquire the same gait as the infantry there would bc varying distances between the different arms of the service-that is, between infantry and tbe cavalry, artillery and the commanders and their escorts. In the drills in thc artillery service thc horses will preserve their alignment as well as the infantry rank. "I shall ?!ways remember one illus tration of this trait which I noted at a very exciting and critical moment of a battle during our civil war. In order to save some of our infantry from being surrounded and captured the commander of one our batteries quick ly mounted the cannoneers on the guns and put thc whole battery at a dead gallop across a stretch of meadow about half a mile wide. I was quito accustomed to such sights; but when that dashing compauy was half way across the field I noticed the inspiring array, and for a moment was lost in rapt admiration of the magnificent picture. Every driver was plying the whip and spur, the great guns were rocking and thundering over the ground, and every horse, reeking with foam and full of animation and excite ment, was straining every muscle as he galloped forward, yet a straight line drawn along in front would have touched the noses of the lead horses in front of the six guns. That was an artillery charge, one of the most thrilling sights in the evolutions of war. "It is surprising how quickly hor ses learn the bugle oulla. Let toe first note of the feed or water call be sounded and instantly there will be a stamping, kioking and neighing among the horses. Once, during a terrible night storm in camp, our horses were seized with such a terror that those of nearly every battery broke loose and scattered about. The next morning there was a wild rush among the artil lerymen to capture horses for use. All was excitement, and the horses refused to be caught. An officer ordered the bugler to give thc feed call. Horses, from every direction came dashing into that battery, and thc rush was so great that it was with difficulty tho men could get out of the way of the eager horses. "When it comes to a battle a horse seems to know everything that ia going on and the reason for it all, and does his dtlty nobly. He enters into the spirit of a battle like a human being. He shows no fear of death, no sign of being overcome by p*oic ir. si! the wild tumult of the battle's roar. A horse io one of ons batteries during the Murfreesboro fight was hit by a piece of shell, which split his skull so that one side was loosened. Thc driver turned him loose, but he walked up to the side of the gun and watched thc firing, and when a shot was fired would follow it with his gase as if to note its effect on thc enemy. When a shell would burst near by he would turn his head and look at it. When he saw the team he had worked with being driven back for ammunition he ran to his old place and galloped baok with the rest. When an officer pushed him aside to have another horse pul in he gased at the new one with a most sorrowful expression in his eyes. Then he seemed to realize that the glory of battle was no more for him, and he walked aw*y ?&d lay down and died. The officer declared that it waa a broken heart, not the wound, that killed him. "During a fierce ohargc of Confede rate cavalry at Murfreesboro an officer was killed and the cavalry driven back. The horse thc officer had rid den was a magnificent animal, and he had not been taught to retreat. Rider less he kept on his way. and as he dashed through our battery the sight of him was indescribably grand. Hts nostrils were extended wide, his eyes fairly blazed and he clutched the bit determinedly with his teeth as hie came on like the wind, with his saddle flaps flying, until he looked as if he were himself flying instead of wildly running. Everyone gave him room as he dashed toward us. An officer shouted that he would give $100 to anyone who would capture that superb animal, but all seemed toe much bound up in.admiration of tho noble'beaat to make tho effort, and he sped on and disappeared in tho bluo distance." New York Sun. -m m - An Iowa editor waa challenged to fight a driel. Ho promptly accepted, aud chose axes as the'weapons. Then he issued a supplement, and named forty rods as the distance. T. li. Rice, a prominent druggist of Greensboro, Ga., writes as follows : "I have handled Dr. Pitts' Carmina tivo for eight years, and havo never known of a single instance where it failed to givo. perfect satisfaction. Parties who once usc it always make permanont customers. We soil moro of this article than all ?Ure other Car minatives, .soothing syrups and eolio drops combined." For teething chil dren it has no equal. " S?M?THINO iii I Arge packs?? of the world's beet cleanser Tor a Dickel. BUM greater economy in 4-pound MwfellftlWatf iHlVrd.r.o i package. All grocer?. 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