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INSURANCE. MANHATTAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, of NEW YORK, 156 AND 158 BROADWAY, (INCORPORATED 1850), OAL Jj ATTENTION TO TII E llt NEW %> INSURANCE I NVEST M ENT BOND. Example at tlie Age >f *A.“. AMOUNT, #IO,OOO. For the above amount the total sum agreed to bo paid shall not exceed #7,539. (Payable in ten annual installments of $753 DO). THE COMPANY GUARANTEES: nnCT That the amount of SIO,OOO, together with all dividend accumulated shall he paid should death occur at any time within twenty years, F IFYn) IPAYABLE AT SIGHT, on receipt of proofs, WITHOUT DISCOUNT. crrr\l\m _That the Bond shall be FULL PAID IN TEN YEARS ; that it shall PARTICIPATE IN THE PROFITS of the Company during the twenty oLLUINJL'.’ - " years, and that it SHALL TPIEN MATURE. 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It Is NON-FORFETTABLE after three payments-surrender value being guaranteed by law. sth. It grants FREEDOM OF TRAVEL AND RESIDENCE. 3d. It contains no SUICIDE NOR INTEMPERANCE CLAUSE to void the contract. <;ih - I* is absolutely FREE FROM TECHNICALITIES, and the simplest form of insurance contract in use. THE SECURITY FOR THE FAITAFUL PERFORMANCE OF THE CONTRACT ON THE PART OF THE COMPANY IS TiEAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY OF THE MARKET VALUE OF OVER $11,000,000, OF WHICH THE SURPLUS FUND IS OVER $3,200,000. For of payments on all other ages apply to the Company or any of its Agents. JAMES AT. ATeLiKAX, President. 1 JACOB L. HALSEY, First Vice President. HENRY Y. WEMPLE, Secretary. I HENRY B. STOKES, Second Vice President. S. N. STEBBINS, Actuary. I HENRY HOHENSTEIN, Special Agent, Temporary Office at Herman & Kayton’s, Savannah, Georgia THE SON OF WASHINGTON. Shawneetown’s Remarkable Tradition and What it Rests Upon. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 'Washington, April 6.*—ln the cemetery at Shawnee town, 111., there is pointed out a tomb with the explanation that beneath is buried “the son of George Washington.” ‘ But Washington had no children,” the visitor argues. “He was the father of his country, and that was the extent of his paternity.” The Shawneetownsman repeats his asser - tion and stoutly stands by it. He refers to the oldest and most respected inhabitants of the once proud metropolis of tho Ohio Val ley to back him up. If the visitor is of an inquiring turn of mind he w ill soon find that all Shaw neetown believes this tradition, und those who have lived in the ancient city longest have the strongest faith. They got the story from their parents who lived In Shawneetown before them, and there has nover been any doubt about the truth of it. The tomb has many counterparts in tho oM graveyards of this country. Four slabs form the sides and ends, while a fifth slabs forms the top, the edge artistically bevelled and overlapping, The stones are still in a good state of preservation, and the letter ing, now- much more than half a eoutuiy old, is distinct. On the top slab is the fol lowing : 1 * In the memory of Gen. Thomas Posey, : who was born in 1750. ami died in 1818, : ; aged 07 years and 10 days. He was an • honest man and a pious Christian. : ••••' * One of the side slabs is nearly covered with an inscription of extraordinary length, reciting the instory of the departed. In style, spelling, and punctuation this incrip tion reads: • : Thomas Posey was born in Virginia. ■ Bth July, 1760. He entered the War of • Independene, as a Captain, 1770, at its . close was Lt Colonel. At the Storm of Stony Point, he. was first to give the ■ word ‘The Fort's our own.” In tho : American Republic he was llrg. General : • of the U. S. Army; Senator in Congress : • & Govemour, of Indiana Territory; In ■ Kentucky he wns I.t Govemour, and Maj. I General; lie died in Illinois on the tilth I March, 1818. I .caving an unstained char- : neier, a Lasting Monument of his Virtue. - The incription on the end slab is in keep ing with the unique character of the rest. In the centre is the weeping willow tree, once popular in graveyard ai-t. About tho tree is chiselled the following: • * . Alex'r Posy, • This Monument Wns Erected Byllls 7th Son.: A. 1). 1881. r • i Some of the oldest and most, estimable citizens of Shawneetown were bilked with m regard to this tradition of the parentage Gen. Posey. They had heard it as fat bark as they could remember, and with such postiveness that they looked upon it as veracious, although unwritten history. There wns no question, they said, but that those who lived in Shuwnectowu when Posey did regarded him as the son of Wash ington. One fact in the way of corrol(ora five testimony was the striking resemblance tn form and feature. This resemblance was transmitted to the sons of Gen. Posey, and •bided to the strength of the tradition. The oldest physician in Shawneetown, who in his youth was the family doctor of tlie Roneys <uid who attended one of the sons 9f the General at his death, said to the writer that he had heard the story when he came to Shawneetown to settle. This phy lician's professional relations with the family fave him opportunities to satisfy his cun and he improved them. Said he: ‘There is no doubt in my mind that Gen. rosey was the ton of George Washington. Mis family so understood it, and I received my impression from the ladies of the family. Thev were rather relutcaut to imeak of tho subject, as it seemed tc be the understand ing among them that it should not be talked about When they told me what they did, they cautioned me against referring to it in the presence of the sous erf Gen. Posey. So far as I know, the men never referred to the matter in any way whatever. The resem blance of the son, whom I attended on his deathbed, to the pictures we have of Wash ington was certainly very remarkable. He had the same high forehead and prominent features.” Recently this story, as told in Shawnee tow-n, was briefly related to Mr. Ainsworth R. Spofford, who for many years has had charge of the Congressional Library in Washington. Mr. Spofford is the intimate friend of Banc"fft, and probably has read and heard more about Washington than has any other living man except the histo rian. “Have they anything but tradition to base it upon?” asked Mr. Spofford. The narrator w-as bound to say that it was all tradition so far as Shawneetown folks were concerned. “It is possible there may be something in the Fort Folio." suggested Mr. Spofford. Probable nobody but a walking encyclo pedia would have though of looking in the Port Folio for the desired information. How many readers of to-day ever saw a number of the Fort Folio, or ever heard of it? Yet the Fort Folio was in 1584 what the Century, the Atlantic, or the Sort h Ameri can is to-day. , In the old leather-bound volume of sev eral numbers of the Fort Folio for 1534 appears a sketch of Gen. Posey, interest ing for what it contain*, and also interest ing for some things it does not contain, “Thomas Posey.” says the anonymous writer, “was born of respectable parentage pour the Potomac, in Virginia, on J uly it, in the year 1750. in* 17.50 George Washington was a young man of 18. His father had been burned out ou Pope’s creek, in Maryland, a short dis tance from the Potomac, ami had moved to a farm near Fredericksburg. But George was living with his brother Lawrence at Mount Vernon, on the hanks of the Poto mac the elder having undertaken to bring up and care for the younger. As the heir of this brother, George Washington subse (inpiitlv came into possession of Mount V ,-r --non. According to the biographies, W ash ington in these years of his early manhood spent the summers in active out-door life, and winters with his books. few months utter the date given for the birth of Thomas Posey there came a break in the monotony of life at Mount Vernon Lawrence Washington suddenly departed for the West Indies, taking George with him. The usual explanation of this trip given in the biographies is that Law renco went ou account ol ill health. >V by he tool; his brother is not made clear. In the Bar bailees George Washington contracted small-pox, and the pits in his fneo were dis cernible to his death. , All that has “eeii published of the antece dents of Thomas Posey is einbrimed in the single sentence quoted above. Ills biogra pher is just as brief in speaking of his youth. The sketch proceeds: “In 1769 he had received a tolerable Eng lish education, and, as he was to inherit no fortune, his enterprising spirit induced him u (hat early age to s<-ok a residence in trio Western part of Virginia near the fron tiers.” * By turning to any history the reader will find in the period including 1769, Washing ton was making frequent visits to the west ern part of Virginia, and spending much of his time there looking after interests lie had acquired. He had some year* previously married the Widow Custis, and in referring to this event, several of the biographers speak of Washington as having ha 1 ‘one or two affairs which had turned out unlortu " hili'l trouble with the Indians broke out on the western Virginia frontier, the sava <rp.s being incited to hostilities by _ British muisKurieH. Washington was prominent in tbo campaign whidi was inaugurated, lhe sketch of Thomas Posoy says t hat young nun received an appoiuUnept in the U.uor- THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MAY 1, 1887—TWELVE PAGES. termaster’s department. A little later Wash ington was at the head of the Continental forces, and the biography of Posey says he had joined the army, and young as ho was, had been immediately appointed a Captain. Right here a brief quotation from the sketch in the Port Folio: “Soon after Capt. Posey joiped the main army Gen. Washington directed a selection of omcers and men to 1* made from the dif ferent corps to compose a rifle regiment, to be commanded by Col. Daniel Morgan. Young Posey was one of the Captains.” No mention is made of the influence which gave Posey this commission in the crack command of the Continental army. But a little later be showed the blood that was in him. when “Mad AnthonV” Wayne led the night assault upon Stony Point with a picked body of officers and men. That most bril liant and daring feat of (he revolution called from Congress a vote of thanks to every mail who participated in it, and a gold medal for “Mail Anthony.” From Major, Posey rose to Colonel, and then to Brigadier General. He distinguished himself by personal prowess in the Georgia i campaign, and when the war was over he settled again in Western Virginia, but did not romai n long. From some source •he had inherited a restless spirit of adventure and enterprise. He moved further westward, and in 1810 he was found presiding os Lieu tenant Governor over the Senate of Ken tueky. When the war of 181:; eaine on, Gen. Posey was one of the first to present himself, and was placed at the head of the troops raised by Kentucky. When hostili ties were over, a handsome tribute to Gen. Posey’s course was paid by the authorities of Kentucky. Leaving this record behind him, he moved to Attakapas. in Louisiana, and was sent to the United States Smites. That position he gave up to accept the more im portant one of Governor and Cmmissiono lu charge of ludiana Territory. The Governorship he held until the admission of Indiana as a State. Washington and Posey lived to nearly the same age—o 7 years-—and the manner of death in each case was very similar. Wash ington eaugh a severe cold from a horseback ride in the rain. Posey contracted his cold on a trip down the Wabash river ill bad weuther; both men took tot heir beds; the usual remedies failed, and they passed away calmly, conscious, and giving instructions as to wordly matters just before the end. Posey, before lie died, placed in tho hands of Ins wife a sketch of his life and a denied letter. The letter lias never been made public. One more extract, and tho most signifi cant of all, remains to be given from tho Fort Folio sketch. It is this: “In his person Gen. Posey \v.ls tall,athletic, tic. and finely formed. His appearance united dignity and gracefulness, and in his maimers wore blended in a remarkable de gree the stately an l gallant bearing of the soldier with the ease and suavity of the jw>l ishod gentleman. His face was remarkably handsome, his features high,fine, and promi nent, and if at times they assumed the stern ness of command, there was a softness in his lino blue eye, a spirit and intelligence, mingled with a calm and benevolent expres sion, which prevailed the whole counte nance, that at oiks' attracted the admira tion, and even tho affections of the be holder. " And there tho sketch closes. Between the. lines one may read that the resemblance of Posoy to Washington was very striking, but the writer of 15W4 makes no mention or it Years afterward there appeared in an ancyclopodis a brief sketch of Gen. Thomas Posey, in which were used these words: “He was the intinato friend of Washington.” iu Spark's “Americanßiographies,”pub lished in the forties, there is a short sketch of Gen. Thomas Posey, which the author says was complied from memoranda in the hands of his family. 'Oils, too, ignores tho story of the relationship with Washington. It contains nothing more in the way of in frormation than appealn in the Fort Folio ■ketch, hut there is the following rather curi ous reason given for the elaborate personal desoript.on: “We should not allude to a subject so ap parently unimportant,’" says the biographer, “if it were not that, the personal appearance of this distinguished gentleman, both as to form and feature, was so attractive as to be a subject of remark wherever he was known.” The Shawneetown tradition must stand as such. It has no record of birth or published history to rest upon, but it is none the less in teresting. W. B. S. WILD MEN OF THE PLAINS. Life of the Savages Encountered by Fremont in Hie Early Explorations. When Fremont explored the great basin, out of which Nevada and Utah have since been carved, he found the Indians really wild men. Their business was to get food, their recreation to mak9 war. The men lived alone. The women lived alone, but the lives of both were de voted to getting something to eat, says the Youth's Companion. The women gleaned from the earth everything of vegetable or insect life; the men killed every animal they could find for food, awlevery man of every other tribe for pleasure. One day the exploring party encamped “,000 feet up on a mountain, near a spring. Fresh tracks made in the sand by a wom an’s naked feet were and iscovered, but no other indications of human life. After a supper of antelope steak the men were lying around the camp-fire, smoking ami conversing. Kit Carson was lying on his back with his pipe in his mouth, bis hands under his head, and his toward the lire. Suddenly he half rose, and, pointing to the other side of the fire, exclaimed: “Look there!” In the blaze of the lire, peering over her skinny, crooked hands, which shaded her eves from the glare, stood an old woman, nearly naked, her grizzly hair hanging over face and shoulders. She had thought it a camp of her own people and had begun to talk, when, seeing the white faces, she become paralyzed with terror. She turned to escape,but the men gath ered around her and brought her near to the fire. Hunger and cold dispelled her fears, and she made the white men under stand that; her own people had left her to die at the spring because she was old and no longer good for anything. A quarter of an antelope was given her, but instead of roasting it by the file she darted off with it into the darkness. In the morning her livsh tracks at the spring showed that she hud been there for water during the night. The party left for her a little supply of food, which, with what she could gather from the nut-pine trees, would prolong her life. Wild men though, these Indians were, their bows anil arrows showed that they worn not destitute of ingenuity. Then bows were made strong by winding sinewß about them, and tlieir arrows were headed w ith volcanic glass, os sharp as steel, and worked iu by patient labor. A chief of the Tlamaths, a tribe a little more advanced than the wild men, was killed in the night attack. Ho had forty arrows in his quiver, which Kit. Carson pro nounced “the most lieautiful and warlikear* rows ho had ever seen.” They were headed with a lancet-like pier-e of iron and wore poisoned for about six inches, to which depth they could be driven into a pine tret*. • These same Indians gathered in a field of sage-bnisli, intending to make a hard fight against, Fremont’s party. But tho range of tlie rifles made their arrows usolees. 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