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SPRING PLACE JIMPLECUTE.
J. C. HEARTSELL, Eld. and. Puto.
VOL XIV.
birth.
A physician says he finds it tires
him more to ride twenty miles in his
carriage than the same distance on his
bicycle.
“If there are fewer fortunes math
in farming than in any other business,"
observes the New York World, “there
arealso fewer failures.”
The English people are staggering
along under the most
depression of modern times, the Han
Francisco Chronicle maintains.
The Kansas City Star is authority
for the statement that Missouri had
more regiments of cavalry /, in the Union
Army i • the Civil W ... than other ,
in ar any
State.
Ilie Boston Cultivator thus philos
jpkizes: Gardening is conducive to
contentment of mind, and therefore to
longevity. There are suggestions in
the cultivation of growingplauts which
keep the mind in a state of healthful
activity. It gives plenty of outdoor
exercise and pure air. Plants need the
sunshine, and whoever cares for them
must be much in it. The first man
was put. in a garden, and had he never
been obliged to leave it would have
lived in innocence forever. That there
is much hard and some disagreeable
work in gardening does not prevent it
from being one of the most desirable
occupations that any one can wish. In
what occupation can hard work of out
kind or another be avoided?
Cattle ranphing in the Northwest
Territories of Canada will soon be a
thing of the past, declares the New
York Times. The Government refuses
to renew their leases, as the lauds are
in demand for new wheat farms. And,
beside this, the business lias been
found unprofitable chiefly on account
of the enormous increase in the num¬
ber of wolves, which have of lr)s< be¬
come exceedingly destructive. An¬
other difficulty experienced is the
greater cost of winter feeding, as the
grass meadows have been largely taken
up by settlers, who cut the natural liay
and demand excessive prices for it
from the cattlemen. This will doubt¬
less be a great advantage to the Can¬
adian farmers in the removal of an
irksome competition in feeding
beeves.
The Minneapolis Tribune discussing
immigration statistics has the follow¬
ing to say of the South: “England
has a population of 27,500,000 on 50,-
823 square miles of area. Either
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,
Alissouri, or North Carolina has a
larger area than England. The coun¬
try south of the Alason and Dixon line
could comfortably accommodate the
entire population of England, and
would be an immense gainer by the
transfer. Texas has a larger area than
the German Empire with England
added, and could accommodate the 30,
000,000 of Prussia with great ease and
profit. Saxony lias 3,500,000 popula¬
tion on only 5789 miles of area.
Arizona, with its 113,000 of area,
could accommodate the 3,500,000
Saxons and the 1,600,000 of Alsace
Lorraine thrown in, and it would be
the making of Arizona.”
Says the New York Post: Aluryland
is in particular need of the services
of a forestry commissioner, and the
State Academy of Sciences, with a
view to the creation of the office, is
collecting specimens of the 167 kinds
of indigenous trees to be found in
Alaryland, and inviting the people to
examine them. The interest excited
has already repaid the academy for its
labors, and the appointment of a com¬
missioner is now only a question of
time. Wasteful cutting of trees in
Maryland will denude it of forest
tracts in a comparatively few years un¬
less a halt is called. The Louisiana
tupelo, or large-leaved tupelo, for in¬
stance, flourishes in the country back
of the Pocomoke River, and during
the last ten years several square miles
of these trees have been felled to fur¬
nish material for factories which make
bowls, bread-trays, peach and berry
boxes and baskets. The tupelo
reaches a height of 100 feet and at¬
tains a diameter of four feet, and it is
a tree that merits preservation, being
picturesque to look at and indispensa¬
ble to the watersheds.
SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GA. SATURDAY. MAY 19 1894
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MARY WASHINGTON.
A MONUMENT TO THE MOTHER
OK THE FIRST PRESIDENT.
How It Was Built—Former Unsuccess¬
ful Attempts to Do Her Honor—
Her Romantic Marriage
—ul Domestic Life.
T N a letter concerning the dedica
j j cation memory of of the Mary, monument the mother to the of
Va., 4 Washington, at Fredericksburg,
the New York Recorder says:
The monument is a beautiful obelisk
°* marble, fifty feet high
and eleven feet square at the base,
bearing an inscription in embossed
letters, simply, “Alary, the Mother of
Washington.” It, was executed in
Buffalo, N. Y., and was set in position
on 1)eeL ' lnl,t l ' || cofi |’. SI 1,000,
raised . entirely by tile ladies the
of
National Alary Washington Alemorial
Association, and the monument is in
itself creditable alike to tho distiu
guished woman whom it com
memorates and to the patriotic
American women who have honored
themselves by thus honoring her. The
association was formed only three
years ago, and it. may well be a sub¬
jeet of gratification with its members
and, indeed, with all Americans, that
the heroine-mother of our first Presi¬
dent should at. length, 104 years after
her death, have a suitable token of
respect raised above her unheeded
grave.
The previous attempts to discharge
an obvious duty in this respect have
been many, but all unsuccessful.
Projects were agitated soon after Airs.
Washington’s death to mark her
burial place by a stone to be paid for
by the Government, but in the con¬
fusion attendant upon the organiza¬
tion of the new nation they were suc¬
cessively forgotten, revived and for¬
gotten agaie- In 1826 Air. George
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Washington Parke Curtis, Washing¬
ton’s adopted son, issued a stirring
appeal to the country, and wide in¬
terest in the matter was excited for a
time, but it bore no fruit until 1833,
when the Hon. Silas E, Burrows, of
New York, offered to bear the ex¬
penses of constructing a stately
monument. The design of this, how¬
ever worthily conceived, was ridicu¬
lous from an' artistic standpoint,
Eight Grecian columns were set in
embrazures upon a square pedestal
and over there were perched four
eagles. Above tapered an obelisk,
surmounted by a bust of George
Washington, and upon the bust was
a fifth eagle with outstretched wings.
The corner-stone of this fantastic
conception was laid with great public
pomp by President Andrew Jackson on
May 7, 1833, in the .presence of a vast
crowd of citizens, strangers, militia and
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Alasonic societies. The romantio tale
is told that a lovely Southern girl who
had won the affection of Air. Burrows
consented to marry him on condition
that he build the monument as pro¬
posed, and that she jilted him before
it was done, whereupon he abandoned
the enterprise. The real fact iff that
“TELL THE TRUTH.”
Mr. Burrows, meeting with financial
losses, postponed the work until he
should be able to continue it, and died
before accomplishing his design. At
all events the structure, as it was left,
crumbled with slow decay and gradu¬
ally fell. Until last fall, however, por¬
tions of the pedestal, buttressed cor¬
ners, monolith and recessed columns
still remained on the ground in a ruined
pile, weather-worn, time-stained and
more or less mutilated by relie-huut
ers, Whan forming a melancholy sight.
the new shaft of the National
Mary Washington Memorial Associa¬
tion was pnt up, severe in simplicity
and beautiful in symmetry, the ruin
was demolished.
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EPPXNG FOREST, BIRTHPLACE ( [ MARY BALT, (MARY WASHINGTON).
However remarkable the lack of i
formation elsewhere respecting Alai
Ball, wife of Augustine Washingto
and mother of George Washington,
everybody in Fredericksburg knows
all about lier and glories in her his¬
tory. They know the year and the
place of her birth, the year of grace
1706, and the place Epping Forest,
down the Rappahannock, in Lancaster
County, Va., which nearly two cert
tunes ago wus the plantation home of
her father. Colonel Joseph Ball, son
of Colonel William Ball, a royalist Eng¬
lishman of gentle lineage, who emi¬
grated to America away back in 1657,
They know that as Alary Ball grew to
womanhood she was known through
out that region as the “Rose of Ep¬
ping Forest” and as the “Belle of the
iSorthorn Neck,” ai,ul that m
maiden' hIic was sensible, modest
loving, with hair like flax, cheeks like
peach blossoms and eyes of cloudless
blue. The tradition is current amodg
them, too, explanatory of the fact that
she married her husband in England,
that, having been taken there by her
brother Joseph after the death of her
widowed mother she resided with re
latives in the village of Cookham, in
Berkshire, when a gentleman’s travel
ing chariot was upset in front of the
house, and the gentleman himself
brought iti seriously injured, and was
nursed to recovery by her. He proved
to be a fellow Virginian and neigh¬
bor—Colonel Augustine Washington,
of AVestrnoreland County, Ya., a
gentleman of historic British
stock, tracing h s ancestry back
centuries in England. They were
married on Alarch 6, 1730, he be)
ing a widower with three young sous’
The Fredericksburg folks can tell you'
also all that is known about the birth
of George Washington, their oldest
child,in Westmoreland County in 1732;
of the life of the family it Wakefield,
on the Potomac; of the fire that de¬
stroyed tfie little homestead, of the
subsequent removal to Pine Grove,
across the Rappahannock, from Fred¬
ericksburg j of the death there of the
father, Augustine, whin George was
but eleven years of age, and of the
widow’s brave, energetic, positive and
methodical character and life with her
children—three sons slid one daugh¬
ter—at the Ferry Farm until .her
young eaglets seatered from the
family nest.
Probably it is owin' to the fact that
Alary Ball Washington the widowed
mother, by the untiaely death of her
husband, had the sde responsibility
of and training particularly and rearing Ge»rge, her children, people
that
seldom hear or spent of Washington’s
father. As to hi mother’s worth there
is no disagreement whatever among
historians and bqgrapliers. Respect¬
ing her, Washin.fOD himself declared
solemnly : “Alhhat 1 am I owe to my
mother.”
Count Rochahbean is reported to
have exclaimadafter meeting her: “If
such are the matrons of America, she
may well boast of illustrious sons!”
One of her neighbors recorded this of
her a week following her death: * ‘There
is no fame in the world purer than
that of the mother of Washington, and
no woman since the Mother of Christ
has left a better claim to the reverence
of mankind. ” Of her also the adopted
son of Washington wrote, thirty-seven
years after her death: “Had she been
of the olden time, statues would have
been erected to her memory at the
Capitol, and she would have been
called the Mother of Romans. ”
While the name and fame of Mary,
the mother of Washington, rightfully
to the whole this
quaint old shipping town of Fred¬
ericksburg claims and holds it as a
particularly local heritage. Right,
here in tho heart of the town on
Charles street, still stands the interest¬
ing old wooden house which Mary
Washington purchased for a residence
at the suggestion of her illustrious
son when the Revolution broke out,
and where she passed fourteen years at
the close of her beneficent life. It is,
perhaps, tho most esteemed relic in
Fredericksburg, which is full of Wash¬
ington mementoes and other objects
of later historical interest. As origi¬
nally built it was of the cottage type,
but Inter it was enlarged to its present
proportions. It is of two stories in
the centre and one at the wiifgs, with
half-story attics lighted by the dor
aa windows'*, -‘■aSwsw.. an,- ipnc win*
(lows Of uniform size on the first floor
and three on tho central second story,
over the portico entrance. On the
side street there are also four win
dows, of unequal size. In the de
tached building in the rear are the
kitchen and servants’ dormitories,
Behind this is a spacious back yard,
kept which, in her day,'Mary Washington
beautiful with blooming dahlias,
sun-flowers, caly can thus, hollyhocks
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THE UNFINISHED MONUMENT.
and other old-fashioned blossoms of
our great-grandmothers’ time. Here,
when the Revolution was fully on, she
received from her son, the Command
er-inChief, dispatches from time to
time by special couriers, giving tid¬
ings of the strife as it progressed.
Here also, when Yorktown had been
won and the fate of the war decided
triumphantly for the colonies, and
the allied French and American troops
entered the town on their way to
Philadelphia, she received her son
alone, who had made his way unat¬
tended through the streets vocal with
liis name to the corner cottage where
she tremblingly awaited him, after an
unavoidable absence of eight stormy
years. On the next, evening, Novem¬
ber 11th, 1781, she proudly issued
thence, hanging on her son’s arm, and
was conducted by him w'ith loving
pride to the Town Hall, where, in
public, as the hero’s mother, she pre¬
sided over the Peace Ball given in
honor of the great victory for liberty
—arrayed in black silk gown and
snowy kerchief and cup, and received
with placid dignity the compliments
of the home and foreign officers, hold¬
ing delightful court until 10 o’clock,
when, making a sign to the kingly
Commander-In-Chief, who was leading
a Fredericksburg matron through a
minuet, she called archly in her clear,
sprightly voice: 1 ‘Come, George, jit is
time for old folks to be at home.”
In the back yard of this same old
cottage, working among her flowers
and garden pots, Alary Washington
received Lafayette, her country’s
friend and her son’s brother-at-arms,
who had come to bid her farewell.
The chivalrous Frenchman was guided
to the side gate by a little son of Betty
Washington Lewis, her only living
daughter, and found her all unpre¬
pared for his visit, engaged in raking
together dry weeds and sticks into a j *
heap for burning. As the nobleman
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advanced the startled hostess dropped
her rake, but with admirable dignity
and self-possession she took between
her bare paims the hand the visitor
extended, while he bared his lofty
head and bowed before her in deepest,
reverence.
“Ah, Alarquis!” said she, “you
have come to see. an old woman! But
come in. I can make you welcome
without changing my dress. I am glad
to see you. I have often heard my
son George speak of you.” She pre¬
ceded him into the inuer hall, con¬
ducted him into her “living room,”
and, after seating him, laid aside her
straw hat and placed herself opposite
to him. Erect as at eighteen, her eyes
unfaded, she listened with calm de¬
light to the panegyric upon her son
pouied forth by the eloquent French¬
man, in which her George was lauded
as the miracle of the age, as greater
than C.-osar or Alexander or Hannibal
and more modest than Cinciimatns—
the one immortal hero whose fame
would outlast time, Her eharacter
istie and comprehensive response was
simply: “I ani not surprised at what
George has done; he was always a good
boy.”
lates, Fredericksburg tradition further re¬
with homely, kindly humor,
that Atme. Washington mixed with
her owu hands for her distinguished
guest a mint julip and offered it with
a plate of her own home-made “gin¬
ger cakes,” which he accepted with
grateful courtesy, pronouncing both
delicious. Thun rising to take his
leave, he begged her blessing ere he
embarked for his native land. She
looked up to heaven, folded her hands,
and in sweet, thrilling- tones prayed
that God grant him safety, happiness,
prosperity and peace. With tears
the foreigner bent to kiss the with¬
ered hand, thanked her fervently and
departed. Returning to Mount Ver¬
non as Washington’s guest, Lafayette
reported: “I have seen the only Ro¬
man matron living at this day. ”
Here also, George Washington, at
the age of fifteen, attended school at
the same academy in whioh two subse¬
quent Presidents—-Madison and Alon
roe—were prepared for college, row¬
ing himself across the river and back
from his mother’s plantation on the
other side. Likewise here in Fred¬
ericksburg, a stone’s throw distant
from the Alary Washington cottage, is
the old mansion known as Kenmore,
tho residence of her daughter Betty.
-When -built by Ooionel Fielding Tie wis,
iii order that his wife might be near
her mother, Kenmore was in the sub¬
urbs. It is still in a fair state of pres¬
ervation, and is one of the “show
places” of Fredericksburg. In it, ac¬
cording to Alary Washington’s great
granddaughter, Washington, Airs. Ella Bassett
Alary Washington died
■ ei August 25, 1789, although other
authorities place the death scene in
the Alary Washington cottage, Not
far from the Kenmore grounds is the
hitherto neglected grave of the first
President’s mother, on a gentle knoll
crowned by some gray boulders,
whither she often retired with her
knitting or her Bible.
On sacred spot the new marble
obelisk is placed ; and hither, doubt¬
less, to this shrine of noble woman
hood will countless bands of pilgrims
repair for centuries to come—Ameri¬
can sons and fathers as well as mothers
and daughters—to pay deserved tri¬
bute to the memory of her who pro¬
duced and reared the fouuder of this
nation.
Geueral John B. Gordon.
There is a tall, ereot figure that al¬
ways attracts attention on our streets
when the Senate is in session, writes a
Washington correspondent. The
on the face and the bearing' stamp him
at once as a soldier and a leader of
men. This is General John Brown
Gordon, Senator from Georgia. He
was born in the State he represents so
well in 1832, and was educated for the
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GENERAL GORDON.
bar. At the beginning of the Civil
War he went in as a Colonel and came
out at Appomattox, a Lieuteuant
General and seoond in command to
Lee. He has been Governor of Georgia,
and was Senator before, but resigned
because oif his poverty. He is a re-
1 , yet this does not prevent
rominent in the society of
, where he and his family
very popular.
Australian Alethodists have accumu
ted a fund for their superannuated
inisters, so large that they are able
pay them from 8500 to 81000 per
mum, according to length of service
NO. 11.
A SPRINO SONG.
O dear and gentle spring,
I sing
With gladsome, mirthful glee
To see
■u on the wing.
My mind
Hath pined
For your return—
A yearn
Full 18 karats strong—
Proportionally long.
Not that I love tho lassitude,
With which my spirit is imbued*
When you come on the scene,
With grasses green ,
Not that I love your most unpleasant way
Of sprinkling hoc and cold throughout the
day;
Your beastly plai
Of aggravating man
By sending blizzard’s when he’s dressed for
heat.
And making things red-hot when he fears
s'eet.
Not that I love one oi your fads untoid ,
But I rejoice because you bring me gold.
For I’m a druggist keen, and o'er the
counter take
A dollar for a pill it costs a cent to make,
Wbieh tired-feeling people buy when you
appear,
Which neither harms nor cures, but muoJl
allays their fear.
And so, O spring,
I sing
With gladsome glee
To see
You on the wing.
—Harper’s Bazar.
PITH AND POINT.
The girl who lacea merely does it as
a matter of form. —Philadelphia
Record,
We could stand prosperity much
better if we only had the time to en¬
joy it. —Puck.
It is nothing to brag about when a
homely person says with a air of self
approval, “I’ll be plain with you.”
—Boston Transcript.
“Yes, he’s my dog. He answers to
the name of Jowler.” “How can ha
answer to it? You’ve cut his tail clear
off.”—Chicago Tribune.
The most serious trouble in some
towns is that there is nobody to en-
4<aw ficials.—Galveston eJ% ordinances News. against the ^qf
How well the course of time attests
The truth of pastorals or sonnets—
There are no birds in last year’s nests,
There are no heads in last year’s bdnneta
—Detroit Free Press.
If two men who are mortal enemies
meet in society, they ignore eaoh
other; if two female enemies meet,
they kiss each other. —Fliegende Blaet
ter.
Soak—“Do you always pay as you
go?” Freshby—“Always." Soak—
“Why?” “Freshby—“Because they
won’t let me go without.”—Brooklyn
Life.
Jillson says he has noticed that
some men are a great deal like rivers.
When their heads are swelled you
realize it from their mouths.—Buffalo
Courier.
Hicks (iu the graveyard, reading a
tombstone)—“Sacred to the memory
of Thomas Slendermind. ” Wicks—
“Yes; isn’t it ridiculous ? Slendermind
was the most forgetful fellow that ever
lived.”—Boston Transcript.
Ralph—“Suppose a fellow’s best
girl gets mad when he asks for a kiss?”
Curtis—“Take it without asking.”
Ralph—“Suppose she gets mad then?”
Curtis—“Then he’s got some other
fellow’s girl. ”—Brooklyn Life.
Alissouri Judge—“Stand up, sir.
Have you anything to say why the sen
tence of the law should not be passed
on you?” “I’m not the prisoner, yer
Honor, Pm a detective—” Judge
Cleveland (fiercely)—“Is that any reason?”—
Plain Dealer.
Youngpen—“Do you think it will
pay to publish anything about the
affair? It is a matter which can eon
eeru nobody but the parties them¬
selves.” Oldboy—“That’s just it.
It’s nobody’s business; everybody’ll
want to read all we can print about
it. ”—Boston Transcript.
An Ingenious Beep Sea Thermometer.
The deep sea thermometer, as in¬
vented abroad and improved by offi¬
cers of the United States Navy, is a
marvelously ingenious and effective
contrivance. It is in effect a self-reg¬
istering instrument, though not tech¬
nically so called.
The thermometer is so arranged
that it is automatically turned upside
down when the machinery begins to
draw it up from the depth at whioh
the temperature is to be ascertained.
The effect of the inverting process is
to break the column of mercury, and
a small portion of the column remains
in the upper end of the tube, exactly
enough to measure the temperature at
the moment of inversion. The tube
is graduated so as to read from either
end, and the quantity of mercury in
the upper part of the tube is so small
that it does not respond to any but
great and sudden changes of tempera¬
ture.
It thus happens that the reading,
when the thermometer reaches the
surface, is practically correct for the
temperature at the point of inversion,
—New Orleans Picoyune.