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WASHINGTON'S TOME
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fe' T is so common to celebrate the
B birthdays of great men, and so
S-Vv I rare to hold ceremonies.in commemoration
of their deaths, that
f-p ?he memorial exercises which took
it place under Masonic auspices in vari?as
parts of the country on Decemp;
her 14, 1899, the centenary of the
I I;;.. death of George wasnmgton, atu-act&
ed wide attention, Curiously enough,
the original suggestion of the observance
came from the Grand Lodge of
Freemasons for the State of Colorado,
a part of this continent whose
existence was known to Washington
only vaguely as a piece of the great
onexplored Spanish Southwest. It is
trait* as odd that, after leading Free-,
masons in the United States had
jaken the plan in hand and invited
the craft in other lands to co-operate,
the first acceptance shonld have
oome, with every manifestation of
enthusiasm, from New Zealand,
which in Washington's day was a
savage dominion lately discovered
and salted by Captain Cook in the
same of King George of England.
Nothing could mark the world's
progress in the intervening century
more clearly than these circumstances.
"Many accounts of Washington's
death, differing in detail, have been
published by the standard historic
.tuts, and many theories have been
^T/tadvanced as to the cause of it. That
j?V ho caught a severe cold, and that
pi: this nan into the disease of the
|p throat which was then known as
||,vr Uuinsy, are among the settled facts;
piy bttt whether his me mignt not nave
I' been prolonged but for the copious
"bleeding to which lie was subjected
Is still open to debate. The only
official Tecord we have, perhaps, is
that .kept by his secretary, Tobias
lae&v, In a letter to John Adams,
1m refers to the fatal ending to the
disease and not to the treatment.
Ibis letter runs as follows:
Mount Tern on, December 15, 1799.
Tfc Is with inexpressible grief that I have
to announce to yon the death of the great
and good General Washington. He died
ewentng between 10 and 11 o'clock,
after a short illness of about twenty-four
hours. His disorder was an inflammatory
sore throat, which proceeded from a cola,
of'which he made out little complaint on
J&icbiy, Oa Saturday morning about 3
Vciock he became ill. Dr. Dick attended
If: ; him "in the morninr. and Dr. Craik, of Al0
exandria* and Dr. Drown, of Port Tobacco.
';'.;au sacta after called in. Every medical
awsusitoee was offered, without the desired
S&o&efc. Hts last scene corresponded with
w v the whete tenor of his life. Xot a groan
. or escaped him in extreme dis1
tress. With perfect resignation and in
If: possession of his senses he closed his
& xwjwjient He.
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||? ns that Washington informed Dr.
P(?!??? "that lie had no Iear 01 aeatn,
that his affairs were in good order,
that he had made his will, and that
pis public business was but two days
behindhand." He was buried at
Mount Yemon on Wednesday, December
IS. On the coffin plate was
inscribed, "General George Washingtin,
Departed this life on the 14 th
of December, 1799, Aet 68." Above
the plate were the words, "Surge
ad Judicium," and below it, "Gloria
Deo." From a local newspaper ac?
count of the day we learn that a
vessel was anchored in the Potomac
Hirer, firing minute guns while the
f;' funeral procession formed at the
manor-house and mored in this order
to the family tomb at the botr
torn of the lawn:
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Guard, Vwiih arms reversed.
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i Music.
Clergy.
The General's horse, with his saddle, hols ?
ters and pistols.
Colonels Colonels
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Mourners.
Masonic Brethren.
^ Citizens.
The cavalry halting, the Infantry
marched toward the tomb and
N formed their lines; the clergy, the
Freemasons, and the citizens descended
to the vanlt, and the burial
service of the Protestant Episcopal
Church was performed. The infantry
and cavalry each fired a volley,
eleven pieces of artillery on the
riyer-bank 6ent forth a roar, and
the ceremony was concluded.
When the project for a centen- i
nial commemoration first took shape j
it was proposed to re-enact this en- j
v tire scene, even to the extreme of j
having a catafalque borne to the site
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of the old tomb; but against that
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I60.LUr6 H JOUU pruicsu nao i ttiuvu,
on the ground that it would turn a
solemn memorial service into a mere
theatrical show. It was decided to
give the ceremonies a symbolical
rather than an imitative character,
though the reproduction was carried
up to a certain point. The day
chosen was the 14 th of December,
but the funeral of the 18th furnished
an outline for the incidents. The
Freemasons, the representatives of
the patriotic societies, and other citizens
assembled at the east side
of the mansion, and moved in procession
to the old vault by the same
path, and as nearly as possible in,
the order, taken by the procession
of a century ago. Here a dirge was
played/ by the band, Bishop Randolph,
of the southern diocese of
Virginia, read a prayer, an octette
from the Grand Lodge of the District
of Columbia sang a hymn, and the
Grand Master of Masons for Colorado
delivered an address. Then the procession
moved to the present ^omb.
The Grand Masters of the thirteen
original States stood in line in front
of the tomb, faced by a semicircle
of the Grand Masters of other States
and foreign jurisdictions, while the j
Grand Lodge of Virginia formed
in a circle around the tomb, holding
hands. The Grand Master of Virginia
called for tributes, first from
the original thirteen States, and then
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THE FUNERAL
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from the East, West, North anfl !
South, respectively. After brief responses,
the Masonic dignitaries returned
to the east side of the mansion,
where the whole assemblage listened
to an address by President McKinley,
who received his initiation j
into the Masonic order during the i
Civil War, in Virginia, and only a |
few miles from the lodge in which J
Washington had presided as master, j
The evening was spent in memorial |
banquets in Washington, George- j
town and Alexandria, where the vis- j
iting Freemasons were entertained
by the local lodges. About fifty foreign
lodges attended by delegation.
It was hoped at first that the Prince
Wiiioo fl-niiifi on.nip aiTionsr the
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British visitors, but he was reluctantly
obliged to decline.
George Washington became an entered
apprentice at the lodge in
Fredericksburg, Virginia?No. 4?
on November 4, 1752, passed to the
second degree on March 3, 1753, and
was made a master Mason on August
4, 1753. When the Washington
Lodge of Alexandria was organized,
in 1788, he was one of its charter
members, and was elected worshipful
master at once.?Harper's Weekly.
THE ORIGIN OF WASHINGTON'S
BIRTHDAY.
The custom of observing Washington's
Birthday had its origin in New
York, according to the local histories.
Mary Simpson was a negro slave,
once owned by Washington, who ultimately
freed her. She lived at John
and Cliff streets, near the old Fly
Market, and sold butter, milk, eggs
and cookies. She never forgot
Washington's Birthday and tried to
see that none of her patrons forgot
it either.
Regularly on February 22 Mary
baked a huge cake of a kind especially
liked by the General, and put
the cake on a table with a bowl of
punch and a pot of steaming coffee
for her patrons. On the wall she
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hung a picture of Washington, and
beneath it she put a small leatherbound
trunk, displaying the initials
G. W. in brass nails. Both the picture
and the trunk were gifts General
Washington had made to her.
It became a custom to pay old
Mary a visit on these occasions, partake
of her hospitality and talk ?f
Washington's deeds. The custom
spread and by-and-bye the Tammany
Society voted to celebrate the day.
It was the first organization to hold
public celebration in honor of the
anniversary.
BE PREPARED FOR WAR.
To be prepared for war Is one of
the most effectual means of preserving
peace.?George Washington.
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Silver Plate From the Wooderi* Case
Which Inclosed the Leaden
Coffin of George Wasliington.
This plate was found among the
debris in the old tomb at Mount Vernon
when Gen. Washington's casket
was removed to the new tomb. It
was attached to the outer wooden
case, which was so decayed that the
plate fell off ana was not oDservea
until the coffin had been inclosed in
a new cedar case and placed in the
tomb. It was purchased from the
undertaker by Mr. W. F. Havemeyer,
of New York, who now owns it, and
through whose permission the above
is reproduced.
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WASHINGTON IN WALL STREET.
Sublime, where traffic's billows beat
A nation's wealth about his feet,
He stands: upon the surging street
He looks benignly down.
ITe hears the distant, wall-hid sea,
The silver chime of Trinity,
And, voicing passion, grief or glee,
Our million-throated town.
And, up and down, our tasks we ply
With rapid step and heedless eye,
Alert alone to sell and buy;
But when the day goes dim.
When evening brings its sweet release
From toil and care, when tumults cease,
When twilight crowns his brow with peace,
The children come to him.
Rejoicing, free, in careless grace |
They climb the massy granite base; j
Unawed, they view that noble face,
They swarm the brazen knees
Whose polished surface now denies
The gray of age that artists prize;
But more than art is all that lies
In love of such as these.
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What matters race, or hue, or creed?
Though born to \j*calth or born to need,
Or sprung of poor plebeian seed
Or proud patrician stem,
From lowly hut or lordly hall?
By these his land shall rise or fall.
His hand outstretched above them all,
Their father blesses them.
?Arthur Guiterman, in Youth's Com- j
panion.
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AMUSING PATRIOTIC DISH.
Harper's Bazar described an amusing
dish for the patriotic table. Have
French chops carefully trimmed.
Broil them nicely and have ready
some rounds of toast or fried bread.
Fasten each chop between two of
these rounds with wooden toothpicks,
or small skewers, and the result
is a very close imitation of a
cannon. Put a few stoned olives on
each plate to represent ammunition.
A pretty salad in keeping with the
general scheme is made of the choicest
canned or preserved cherries to
be had. Unless the stones have already
bean removed, take them out
carefully, and substitute a blanched
filbert or hazelnut. Arrange on white
lettuce leaves, and serve with a
French dressing in which lemon juiw
takes the place or vinegar.
TRUTHFULNESS.
If I had been George Washington?if I
had,
I never would have told a lie
To vex my dear old dad.
And yet the people seem to think
Because he told the truth.
It's something very wonderful;
Indeed, my great-aunt Ruth,
She sighs and says she wishes that
"Our George were such a boy,
For then he couldn't fail to be
His father's greatest joy."
But I can't nelp a thought or two
About that other lad?
If once before he'd told the truth
(Please don't repeat this to Aunt Ruth),
Why should there so much praising be
About the chopped old cherry tree?
?Olive Preston.
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?From Harper" Week!/.
MBER 18, 1798.
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BY BIG MAJORITY
House Adopts Conference
Report on Immigration Bill.
"BiG STICK" IN EVIDENCE
Measure, as Adopted, Gives Roosevelt
Power and Privilege to Deal With
Exclusion of Jap Laborers
as He Sees Fit.
A Washington special says: Un*
der suspension of th-j rules, the house
Monday adopted the conference report
on the immigration bill, which
was agreed to by the senate Saturday,
although the Democrats generally
made a party issue against the passpoit
provision as well as to that requiring
air space in vessels. The vote
stood ayes 187, noes 301. Four Ii&
publicans voted against the bill, and
tour Democrats voted for it.
Representative Burnett of Alabama i
made points of order against the j
first provision, which undertakes to
tegulate the incoming of Japanese
cociies, by giving the president authority
to refuse to recognize their
passports, and also against the whole
of section 42, having relation to the
air space in vessels bringing immigrants
to the United States.
As to the first proposition, Mr. Burnett
insisted that the authority conferred
by the section cn the president
put ;n his hands a "big stick," which
he could wield over a state. He declared
that it gave the chief execu
tive a power which was never con- j
templated by the constitution, nor by
the enabling act of any sovereign
state.
As to the second proposition, ?it
was Mr. Burnett's contention that
the air space provision properly belonged
in a bill relating to navigation,
ai.d had no part in a bili regulating
the immigration of aliens into the
United States
Mr. Burnett- asked the speaker if
the whole Chinese exclusion law
could not be repealed by a conference
report.
"Oh. why does the gentlemen ask
about that which might, could, would,
or should happen?' replied the
speaker, amid laughter.
Sir. Williams, of Mississippi, desired
to wari. the people of California
of something which they already
knew, and that was that the views
of the president was not their views, j
"This man to whom you have ieic!
the discretion in tho matter of Japu- j
note immigration is one who has al- J
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tion of the Japanese/' said Mr. Wil-1
liams. *1 am,with the peop'e of California
oil the question of separate
schools.
"And I am with them on another
question." continued Mr. Williams. "I
want the Pacific coast kept.a white
man's country (applause), and I want
all this country, as far as it can
be, to be a white man's country, not
merely because 1 believe the Caucasian
is superior to other races, but
because this is our land, the land of
our traditions and our ideals, and 1
know that the influx of another race
means another race problem tor another
portion of this republic, and another
social warfare.
"I want to say that every woe
which this country has suffered has
resulted from the landing of the first
slave ship at ^Jamestown." (Applause.;
COTTON EXPERTS ASSURED.
Provision for Their Salaries is Finally
Agreed Upon.
The appropriation of $20,000 for, the
employment of experts to work abroad
to increase the business in cotton
products, which has been in conference
for several weeks, has been
finally agreed upon.
The conference report containing
the item was signed Monday afternoon.
Thp whole appropriation for extending
foreign trade in American
manufactures is $50,000.
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COTTON DUCK COMPANY*
Shows Great Gain in Business Done
the Past Year.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Consolidated Cotton
Duck Company was held in Baltimore
Monday and largely attended. The
statement of earnings for the year,
a?i Olof loc.^ w'hnijr^H
t'UUfcJU L/CtClllUCl 14131, IttiSL, Kiuunvu
the gross income to be $10,024,824.29,
an increase of $666,867.46 as compared
with 1905, and net earnings ol
$1,201,881.39f an increase of $384,709.31,
as compared with the previous
year.
ENJOYED BRIEF FREEDOM.
Three Prisoners Released from Atlanta
Pen to Face Other Charges.
Out of the federal prison at Atlanta
where they had done live years
for postoffice robbery in South Carolina,
three men, with charges of bank <
robbery against then;, stepped into
the arms of Carolina officers .Monday, 1
who were in Atlanta awaiting their 1
discharges. - ....
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SCHOOLS OPEN TO JAPS.
'Frisco Authorities Will Admit Yelicv*
Youngsters Under 16 Years, and
Who Speak English.
Japanese children are to be admitted
V) white schools ot San Francisco
under certain restrictions; skilled and
unskilled laborers coming from Japan
barred from the mainland ot! the United
States and American laborers*
skilled and unskilled, are to be-excluded
from Japan. This is the basis
of the agreement between President
Roosevelt, Secretary 1-Lcct, Mayor,
Schmiiz and the San Francisco school
board, as an adjustment of .the antiJapanese
agitation brought about by
the segregation cf Japanese children. v.
in the schools of San Francisco. The.
agreement means that schools of San.
Francisco will be conducted in the
same manner as they were before
tire board of education adopted the
resolution, last October providing* tor
the segregation ct the Japanese, excepting
that adult Japanese, who are
in primary grades must continue to
attend the Oriental schools, and that
Japanese children under 16 year's of
age will be admitted to classes with,
white children oi their own ages.
While the resolution of the school
board, as amended, reads ''children of
alien birth." it is freely admitted by.
Mayor Schmitz and his associate^ I
that the resolution will apply only . J
to the Japanese children, and that ;i
the changing of the wording was to
make it plain to the Tokio govern- ;
mont that no discrimination was in- |
tended against Japanese children. .
Mayor Schmitz is quoted as saying: '
"This is only a temporary agree- ..%
ment President Roosevelt has given
us direct aiid positive assurances , .
that he will at once begin negotiations
with Japan for the purpose of
bringing about a new treaty that will
exclude Japanese laborers, skilled and /; 'i
unskilled, from continental United 'jjt
States.
Shortly before midnight Monday 1,^
night the following statement was
given out at the White House: .
' A typewritten copy pf Mayor.
Schmitz's statement was submitted fo ,
President Roosevelt and Secretary
Roor, and the statement is entirely
satisfactory to them."
In reference to modifying the order
excluding Japanese children from 'th? ' ^
white schools, the representatives of San
Francisco said:
"As a condition of the modification. ^
o? said resolution, we respectfully insist
that the legal proceedings hereto- V;f
fore instituted be dismissed forthr Jfh
with, and that it is expressly under- .'^$p
stood that we have not conceded and
do not concede, or intend to concede?
that our action was in violation of
any of the stipulations of the treaty ?0
between the United States and ja!><>n,
but on the contrary we do claim
and assert that if any 'stipulation in - '
said treaty contained is inconsistent '
or conflicts with the power and auihoriry
given, by section No. 1662- o? .
the penal code of the state of Oaii- ^
fomia, then so far as said treaty At- "
tempts to circumscribe or prevent the
board of education from, regulating
its own scraool affairs as an exercise V 4i
of locral police power, such provision
in said treaty are negatory and void.'' > ^
contradictory testimony. ;,p
Versions of Black and White Soldier*
Do Not Agree.
Witnesses in the Brownsville Jhearing
at Washington Monday testified *.
that the shooting lieg;m in the rear
of the commissary; away from the "
town, and continued around the road
and into the town while the call to
arms was being sounded. The corn- )$,
mittee heard a great^ deal of contradictory
testimony. As to certain inci- 13
dents it was white soldier against ne- .'|jj
gro soldier. . y ; -?
RAILROADS ARE EXEMPT
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From Paying Occupation Tax . ir*
: Georgia Towns.
Authority is vested in no municipality
to levy and collect an occupation,
tax upon a commercial railroad doing: ;
business in such municipalities.
That was the decision of the Georgia
supreme court Monday morulas
in the case of the town of Arlington
against the Central railroad. The authorities
levied an occupation tax of *
$10 on a? warehouse owned -by the
Centra1. (
GARRETT TO SUCCEED WALTERAs
Head of the Seaboard Air Lino "vf;
, is Current Report.
The New York Herald prints the > -J
following:
"It is understood that William Vsrf
Garrett., first vice president oi> ine_
Seaboard Air Line, will succeed the
late Alfred Walter, as president ojt
that road. . . "_v.
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BAR PASSES AND FRANKS.
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Tc Accept Either is Made a Criminal
Offense in Oklahoma. _ . j
The Oklahoma constitutional con- >,:
vention Monday passed the Section 6t -7'
the railroad report making it a crimin:il
offense to accept a railroad' pass
or a telegraph frank. A railroad com- ;1
mission to be elected by direct vote
of the people was created and the
consolidation of railroad, companies* :Si
was prohibited. ^ ^ :p- O ^