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(Of. American
George Washington ib the
one classical hero of the republic.
The great man whose
birthday Americans are now celebrating
is the only figure in the history of
the nation whose llfecan be compared
to the notable men of the countries of
antiquity.
Washington made the nation, Lincoln
saved it. In the minds of many
patriots their achievements are linked
forever; they stand out as the two
mightiest figures in the history of the
New World, yet they are so entirely
different that they do not resemble
each other at a single point.
Washington is classical, Lincoln is
Intensely human. Here in a word is
described their most marked difference.
Washington was the son of a
wealthy and important family: Lincoln's
beginnings were those of most
absolute poverty, and the line from
which he sprang was lowly and nol
entirely free of crticisms.
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i uc iuunaer 01 ine country was
cold and reserved. His life among the
aristocracy had fashioned him to habits
of self-control, and it was perhaps
this rigid poise that enabled him to
support all he did, when he not only
had to be statesman, but general as
well, when he was forced against the
antagonism of his many friends al
home, to obtain the liberation of his
country in the field, and then, in the
capacity of chief executive, begin the
reconstruction, the upbuilding that he
would have been better content to
have left to some one else.
Through all the experiences of the
Founder of His Country he shows little
of what he feels. He Is reserved,
balanced, and save for the sentiment
that marks his farewell address, there
is little sign of humanity in this
grand, august figure that towers so
matchlessly above its contemporaries.
Andrew Jackson and Thomas Jefwerson
both have won lasting places
In the affections of their countrymen,
-but they are as different from Washington
as the distance from the poles,
Washington was of impressive dig*
nity, and he never departed from it.
In fact, he was at times criticised for
forsaking what his contemporaries
thought the proper erterior for th?
leading man of the most democratic
of countries.
Thomas .Tpffprcnn rldlncr
White House unattended and hitching
his horse outside the gate while
he went in to be proclaimed third
President of the United States, and
Jackson, with his blunt speech, not
dissociated from profanity, both prided
themselves on their complete divorce
from any pose or assumption ol
superiority.
At a later period, in General Grant
the republic produced a man whom
military experts concede as ranking
with the greatest commanders of all
time, yet the unassuming, modest little
general, wearing a frayed old uniform,
and despising the pomp and
parade of warfare, reducing it strictlj
to a business, an unfortunate kind ol
employment, that could not be toe
quickly dispensed with, was not a
classical figure. He had the same active
humanity and homely simplicit>
that 1b so appealing in the life of Lincoln.
PStnrioa nhnut rioovoro
mvw.wuvuv vjuui jsc fT naiiiu^iui]
are few and far between, and not
many of these well authenticated. By
contrast there are stories by the hundreds
about Lincoln and told by him.
It was ever his favorite method ol
relieving his feelings in time of stress
by retailing a good story, of which
he had an endless stock. The idea oi
the grave Washington dealing in funny
stories is so far fetched that nc
atretch of the imagination can carry
one that far.
Nor could any painter or sculptor
ever have thought of Jefferson. Grant,
Jackson or Lincoln in the guise ol
classic heroes with laurels on the
brow and a Roman toga replacing the
dress of modern times. Nor wonld
the good Dr. Franklin, statesman,
philosopher and inventor, without
whom there might never have been a
Washington, by David D'Ar.gers.
republic, be so presented to posterity
In spite of his ripe intellectual gifts.
Bat Washington has always appealed
as a figure for classical representation.
Not only is this true of artists and
sculptors who strive to-day to turn
back the pages of history and present
him as he was, but it was equally true
of his contemporaries, those masters
with brush and chisel, who actually
worked from Washington in life.
The appearance of the Esther ol
His Country was so impressive, so
Bantering, so august, and his features
f such distinctly classical contour,
recalling some of the majestic figures
of ancient Rosas, that "A seemed the
fa/
i most natural thing in the world to
present him in the guise of one of the
great men of antiquity.
( Many statues and paintings thus
. present him and furnish indubitable
! proof of the contention with which
this article began, that Washington
! alone of American great men carried
the idea of the classical to those who
. studied him.
The marble statue by Jean Antoine
Houdon, a foremost French sculptor,
i an emigre, who came to tho nnitort
States to escape the horrors of the
French Revolution, affords an excellent
instance of this.
Houdon has made many reproductions
of the features of Washington,
of which the most noted, perhaps, is
the marble original now in the State
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i FAMOUS OF ALL THE LIKENESS
> ?From the Painting in
Capitol at Richmond, Va., a place
I where it belongs, since Washington,
p next to being an American, was proudf
est of being a Virginian.
, This bust is also absolutely classiL
cal, and the name on it could just as
well be Virginus, Marcus Aurelius or
Marc Antony, for all there is in it to
distinguish it from the statues of
those giants of another age.
! Yet it is a faithful likeness and car.
ries the impression that Washington
, made on his contemporaries. The
best proof of this is the death mask,
which Houdon also made.
, A death mask must show aecurate,
ly in outline a man's features. The
color, the expression of the eyes and
, the effect of the expression of the
| face must be lost in the process, for
, it is taken only after death has set
, its stamp, but it does record the features
for all time, and the high brow,
. the shape of the nose and mouth?
in fact, every line in the Washington
death mask? are distinctly those of
, the classical model. It might have
j come out of the catacombs of Rome
so faithfully does it suggest the ancient
ideal.
The noted Roman sculptor. Giuseppe
Ceracchi, came to the United
States in 1792, animated by the fame j
of Washington and the triumph of
the young republic in its fight for!
independence, determined to devote ;
himself to a master work, which i
should be the eternal chronicle of |
that victory. His grand conception j
never got any farther than a bust of ,
Washington, but this ifi itself is well
worth while, for It Is a classical mas- :
terpiece, showing Washington in the i
manner of one of the great tribunes 1
oi noine, laurei wreatns In his hair
and the face lit up with the serenity
that the Bculptor of old regarded as
a marking trait of the truly great.
In this city, facing the east front
of the Capitol, there stood, until its
recent removal to the Smithsonian
Institution, one of the most classical
examples of Washington statuary. It
shows the Immortal leader of the
cause as a Roman senator. The fig
ure is seated. It wears a Roman
toga, and in the hand is held a scroll,
presumably an exposition of some of
i those eternal principles of interna:
tional law that he helped to put on
i the world's statute books,
i French and Potter, IVAngers. Bre'
han in a noted miniature, St. Memin
and a host of other great artists have
! pictured Washington in classical pose,
t and even those painters'who picture
i him in the clothes of a general in
, the continnental uniform have been
i unable to divest him of the o lass lea I
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LADY WASHINGTON'S GARDE!
It is the mlstfortune of the ord
ary pilgrim to Mount Vernon that
must see the place only in the gar!
glare of day. The garden is full
sentiment, but sentiment and brillit
sunshine are sworn foes. It is 01
in the cool silvery envelope of ev?
ing that we can repeople the spot a
make it live again the life of tl
eighteenth century in which it \\
planned and developed. We can th
stand back of the glass enclosui
and fancy once more in place the lot
straight rows of blooming plants fr(
which Lady Washington replenish
her nosegay vases?the tlowers nt
ding drowsily amid the chirp
crickets and now and then swayi
softly in response to the whisper
a passing summer breeze. We c
almost fancy the bronze-armed gj
dener stirring the soil between t
rows with his hoe as he put the 1
lated last touch to his work befc
bidding the care-laden world got
UlgUl. Ul" WO <iin IttKf up our po
I tion at another point and watch t
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GEORGE WASHINGTON. THE MOS
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the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
overseer in his quaint Continent
garb as he finishes his round, lante
in hand, among the "quarters," ai
takes his way back to the great hou
for a final look to make sure that t
is well. Or we can ourselves str<
up the path where the varicolor
borders merge into the more state
shrubbery that lines the old gray wa
Whether or not the greatest Amei
can actually had a hand in the m
king of all this dainty array, at lea
he dwelt amid it, sniffed its odoi
heard its faint murinurings. and pc
sibly?nay probably?was unco
scinosly mellowed In mind and mora
by the Influence of such an enviro
ment. Next to the shimmer of tl
moon, in its power of calling up fa
cies like these, is the twilight hoi
at Mount Vernon. As the day dra>
iu the edges of lengthening shade
are softened in a faint mist trailli
close to the ground. The earth sent
up a rich moist smell, and over th
deep bass there plays a fugue of pe
fume from the flowers. A gauze
thinnest blue air veils the detail
the fine old trees outside of the ga
den wall and masses them again
a tender tinted sky and against
lower glimpse of enpurpled red ro
and white supports. From the den
foliage on the lawn comes a hal
hushed chorus, the softening twai
and creak of an oakful of blackblri
away over against the edge of the o
kitchen garden, antiphoned by tl
throaty chirrup of many robins fro
the big chestnut by the gate. A fe
small birds hidden among the bougl
that overhang the flowers are utte
ing little notes and cuddling soun<
under their breath, and from the to
most twig of a tall maple down at tl
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COl/ONlAh LFXCIIKOX.
lnl For February iJil.
lly Colors Blue ami Huff.
n j Crape Fruit Cocktail.
Clam Bisque. Olives.
lat Roast tloose. Baked Squash,
ras Uoston Bake Beans.
pn Apricots With \N Itipped Cream.
Spotijje < 'ake.
"es Tea in Blue and White Cups,
lg, Candied Mag Hoot.
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Washington's Sunnier Side,
ng Until Senator Ixulge drew, in his
of "Life of Washington," the niosl liuan
man portrait ot the great man ever
tr- given to the reading world, peopl"
he saw him through an atmosphere
je- wherein constraint, dignity and seire
verity combined to produce the int>d
pression illustrated by the poet
si- Southey's lines:
Where Washington hath left
llis awful memory
A light, for after times!
In her "Martha Washington." Miss
Wharton presents a sunnier side of
the soldier and statesman, by quoting
from the reminiscenses of those who
associated with hint "those intimate
personal details which. HI::? the lights
and shadows in a painting, are as essential
to its completeness as the
sharper strokes."
General Henry "Light Horse
Harry," never seemed to have stood
in awe of his former commander-inchief.
One day while Lee was dining
at Monnt Vernon. Washington
said that he wanted a pair of carriage
horses, and asked him if he knew
where a pair could l>e bought.
"I have a tine pair, general." answered
Lee, "but you can't get
them."
"Why not?"
"Because you will never pay more
than half-price for anything, and I
must have full price for my horses."
At this bantering reply, which hit
Washington's closeness in buying.
Mrs. Washington laughed, and the
parrot perched beside her joined in.
"O Lee." said the general, taking
the hit at himself in good part, "you
are a funny fellow. See?that bird
is laughing at you!"
Once the great, dignified man was
guilty of a pun. The Reverend Doctor
McWhirr, of Alexandria, dined
with the Washingtons, and the general
called upon him to ask a blessing.
When the cloth was about to
be removed he returned thanks himself.
Mrs. Washington, who sometimes
administered a wifely rebuke
to her distinguished husband, said,
with a smile: "My dear, you forgot
that you had a clergyman dining with
you to-day."
"Mv rir?iir " rPnlioH \\7 o el* % n o-fon
pleasantly, "I wish clergymen and all
men to know that 1 am not a graceless
man." This play upon the word
"grace," though a commonplace pun,
jT allies ihe "awful" Washington to
every-day human nature.
Dr. Ashbel Green, a former president
of Princeton College, says that
Washington always asked a blessing
a' at his own table when no clergyman
rn was present. On one occasion, "when
'd his mind was probably occupied with
se some interesting concern, on going to
the table the President began to ask
'11 a blessing himself. He uttered but
ed n word or two. whea bowing to me,
ly he requested me to proceed, which I
11. accordingly did."
rt- Doctor Green is also the author of
a" the well-known anecdote from which
ist we learn that Washington was an exrs.
pert in mingling a rebuke with an
,s~ apology. At dinner-parties, aecordn"
ing to Doctor Green. Washington aids
lowed five minutes for the variation
n" of timepieces, and then, when tardy
h? members of Congress appeared after
n" the dinner was begun, his sarcastic
,,r apology was: "Gentlemen, we are
vs too punctual for you!" or, "Gentle,w
men, I have a cook who never asks
'8 whether the company has come, bnt
ds whether the hour has come!"
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of February 22.
No country's had a hero
,r- More steadfast, true and great
Than Washington; a captain
To guide the ship of state
a With hand more strong and steady,
of Or eye more true and keen?
se Long live his name, his deathless fame
I^et memory keep green.
ig In our love we set apart
da His birthday every year,
jjj With revTence tell the children
11 is history so dear;
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m 'Tis for him we how alow
w And bend the willing knee,
. For him we fly our banner
"8 Upon the land and sea.
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So let the honored name survive
Of our great Washington;
To our country he was father,
i? Yet America's liest son.
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Many Letters Received Urging
Passage of Bill.
FARMERS7 UNION" HEARD.
South Carolinian Declares That They
Are Not of Advantage Either to
Consumer or Producer.
Washington. I>. Special.?"This
question involves hundreds of millions
ul' dollars and the welfare ol'
millions of people." declared T. J.
Brooks, of At wood, Tenn.. president
ol the Farmers' National Union, in
opening the hearing on the antioption
bills before the House committee
on agriculture last Wednesday.
The proposed legislation i>
designed to prohibit dealings in fui
tures on boards ot trade and ex
changes. Tlie commit lee room w;i>
crowded with Congressmen t'roiu the
States interested.
Mr. Brooks declared linit dealings
in futures of cotton were 110 more
necessary than in wheat and wool and
farm implements. Hedging operations
"on change" he characterized
as no different from gambling on
the rice and fall of prices.
"On what moral principles,*' he
asked, "is one class of citizens obliged
to make up for the losses of another
class, for where one gains another
must lose ? The original intention
of the cotton exchange to bring
the buyer and seller together has
been eliminated in the development
of present exchange practices.
"We are willing to abide by 1 lie
results of abolishing futures." he
said, depicting I lie temptation* held
out to the prospective victims who
later "come into the game" and get
"frozen out."
Under the shadow of the exchanges.
competition among local
buyers had been eliminated in the
South, he said, and he charged the
existence of a tacit understanding in
the cotton and tobacco belts for division
of territory. The farmers'
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hns a membership extending over 29
Stales.
Characterized by Mr. Lever of
South Carolina as tin* largest con|
sumer of cotton in the South, Lewis
I TV. Parker, a Greenville. S. C., manufacturer,
contended that abnormal
conditions ought t*? he represented
at the same time. lie said that as a
rule futures control spot cotton. He
declared that the exchanges are not of
advantage. either to the consumer or
the producer and that it seemed impossible
to make the exchanges realize
the fairness of the complaints
against them. lie said the light of
his interests is to have the farmers
properly warehouse their cotton and
to market it gradually during the season.
fJeorgc W. Neville, an important
factor in the New York cotton exchange,
arraigned the report of Commissioner
of Corporations Herbert
Knox Smith as a "masterpiece of
theory," but lacking in practicability
in the working out of his theories.
Charles S. Webh. a broker, contended
for the necessity of "hedging"
against future deliveries and predicted
that abolishment of the cotton
exchanges would put the price *>f
cotton in the hands of the spinners.
Cotton Exchange Side of the Case.
The cotton exchange interests presented
their side of the case at |
Thursday's session of the hearing by
the House committee on agriculture
on the proposed legislation to prohibit
the dealings in futures. President
S. T. Huhhard, of the New
York cotton exchange: George TV.
Neville, one of the leading members
All Kinds of Weather.
Louisville, Ky? Special.?Last Friday
the South experienced all kinds
of weather. At Tampa, Fla., it was
warm; rain at Mobile, Ala.; freezing
at Atlanta, Ga., high winds at
Galveston. Texas. In fact the South
from Ohio to the Gulf and from
lexas 10 uie auuiiiic, had a variety
of weather, real ol?l time winter.
Poor Man's Bill Passes.
Washington, Special. ? Senator
Overman's hill allowing a poor man
to prosecute writs of error and ap
peals from the circuit and district
courts of the United States to the
court of appeals without giving hond
and being required to advance fees
or pay cost passed the Senate Friday.
High Honor for Peary.
Washington, 1). C.. Special.?Commander
Kobi. K. l'eary has been made
a rear-admiral for bis achievement
in discovering the North Pole by
Congress.
Big Sum to Plant Cotton.
Los Angeles, ('a!., S|ieeial.?Arrangements
have been made with
Ixiitdon and San Francisco banks to
1 advance $5(Ht,000 to finance the
planting, cultivating and harvesting
of this year's cotton crop in the
^Imperial valley.
Gas explosion in a coal mine, at
Starns, Ky., Thursday, caused the
death of six miners.
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111 FUTURES
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* Taft Approves Suggestion. *
* Plans l'?>r the reclassification *
* of public lands, suggested by *
* (Sitl'ord Piuchot. liavc been up- *
* proved by President Taft. The *
* action made available for home- *
* stead settlement more than *
l.tKMMMiO acres of land included *
in the forest domain.
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of that forum, and others identilled
with eottun speculation in the uietrojKili*.
were present to voice their
opposition to the inhibitory bills.
The eoinniittee has lieeti receiving
a heavy mail from people throughout
the country interested in the
measures and Chairmau Scott says
he has received several hundred letters
from men claiming to be rot ton
producers urging the proposed legislat
ion.
The opponents of the hills took the
stand Thursday afternoon. Their
spokesmen included President ll.ihhard.
of the New York Cotton l*xchange;
(Sen. \Y. Neville, and other
memhers of that body, and Mr. Sol
Cone, of tireenshoro. N. a <pot
cotton dealer.
I>. .J. Will, rp resentinj; the Farmers*
Cniou. of Texas. testified that
tin* Texas legislature blotted out
bueketshops three years a;jo an<i llie
only brokers in Texas tlint sutTered
calamity thereby were iwo men who
left the state for New York ami
break lambs in the bands of tin1 exehanire.
lie asserted that the tanners
of' the eountrv had been 4"prostrated
h the exchanges.**
Uphold Exchanges.
Last Kiiday A. R. Marsh of the
N. V. Cotton Kxehaiitre and .1. F.. I.athain
of (Jrensboro. N. C.. before the
bouse committee on unmhlinjr fntures
in eotton. upheld the exehatitres.
Senator Smith of South Carolina,
soutrht to show that the violent flnetntions
in eotton were due to mauipulatioii,
that the men on 'elmlitre
jot together and eompared sheets,
arhitrarily fixed prices and effected
a clean up.
MANY LOST AT SEA
Only One Surviver Oat of 157
Passengers.
1'alina. Island ol Majorca, lJy Cable.
?Driven helplessly from her course.
ill uiii1 of lho wildest storms that
lias swept the Mediterranean sea in
fort,* years, the French Truns-Atlantie
Steamship Company's steamer
, (ieneral Chanzy eraslied at l ull speed,
in the dead of night, on the treaeliei'O'is
reel's near the island of Minorca
and all hut one of the 157 souls on
hoard perished last Friday. Onlyone
aboard survived. No Americans
were aboard.
The passengers of the Chanz.y were
mostly Freeh otlieers and oilieials
returning to their post in Algeria,
aeeompanied by their wives and children.
a few soldiers, some Italians
and Turks, and one priest. The only
Anglo-Saxon names on the passenger
list were Given and Stakely. There
we it' members of an opera trope of
eleven which had been engaged :??
sing at the Casino in Algiers. The
General Chanzy sailed from Marseilles
Wednesday at noon and was due
to urive at Algiers Thursday afternoon.
The Chanzy is a total wreck.
Night-Riders in Rockingham0
Reidsville. N*. Special.?Several
farmers throughout this see!ion have
I received circulars and post-en ml*
threatening deeds id' violence similar
to the outrage of the night-riders in
Kentucky unless tliev pool their tnhaeco
in the dry prizeries and stop
: the practice of disposing of Mic product
on the -warehouse floors.
German Ambassador to Spain Dead.
Madrid. Ry Cable.?Count Von
Tattenbneh. the German am has.-a dor
to Spain, died last week.
White Slave Bill Passed.
Washington, Special.?The Senate
last Friday passed the Rennet "whiteslave"
bill which linil nrnui/i.iol" ?
reived the sanction of the House.
The measure was so amended as to
liminnte the inter-state regulations
originally contained in the bill, the
object of the Senate being to divorce
I the immigration feature of the
question from all others.
Gets Two Years in Pen.
New York. Special.?Oliver Spitzcr
former dock superintendent of the
American Sugar Refining Company's
plant at Williamsburg, was last
Thursday sentenced to two years in
the Federal penitentiary at Atlanta,
Ga., for his part in the recent extensive
undorweighing frauds.
Diplomatic and Consular Bill.
Washington, SpeeiaJ.?The diplomatic
and consular bill was passed bv
tlie House lust Friday. It carries an,
appropriation of more than
000.
To Organize Big Cotton Corporation.
Washington, Special.?John Hays
Hammond and Daniel J. SnHy. associated
with several men prominent in'
the cotton business in the South, are
planning the organization of a cotton
securities corporation, which probably
will have a capitalization of $10,000,000.
I^ast Thursday Clark Howell, of
Atlanta, Ga., was operated on for appendicitis.
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