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Nome, Alaska, FEBRUARY 22, 1018.
He, who Wastes a Crust of
Bread, Ih-olongs the War.
George Washington
Unci)’ Sam is refreshing Brother
John’s memory in reference to George
Washington.
He’s telling him that George Wash
ington, the first president of the Uni
te)! States .was born in Westmoreland
county. Virginia, February 22 (old
style Feb. 11,) .'.732. line lawless gen
ealogist has traced his ancestry back
to Odin. Another genealogy since giv
en up with much regret connected the
family with the Washingtons of North
humberland or Durham, England. The
ancestry of Washington can be traced
no father back than his great grand
father. John Washington, who settled
in Virginia about 1654. His eldest
son Lawrence, had three hildren- John
Augustine, and Mildred. Augustine
Washington married twice. By the
first marriage, with Jane Butler, there
were four children, two of whom, Law
rence and Augustine, grew to man
hood. By the second marriage, with
Mary Bull, in 1730, there were seven
children—George, Betty, Samuel, John,
Augustine, Charles and Milfred. The
father died when George was but
twelve years old; Lawrence inherited
the estate now known as Mount Ver
non and George Ills father’s usual resi
dence, nearly oppo: ite Fr dcricksburg.
Very little is known of Washing
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Pkou Mtli 11.
ton's early life, probably because there
was little unusual to tell. The story
of the hatchet and the cherry tree,
and similar tales, are quite apocryphal,
having been coined by Washington’s
most popular biographers; Weems.
The boy's life was not different from
that common to Virginian families in
easy circumstances. Hunting, fishing,
plantation affairs, and a little reading
made up its substance. His education
was but elementary and very defective,
except in mathematics. In which he
was largely self-taught.
Sparks has "edited” the spelling,
grammar, and rhetoric of Washington's
writings to such an extent as to des
troy their value as evidence. He was
then at .Mount Vernon with his half
brother Lawrence, who was his guard
ian. Lawrence was the son-n-law of
his neighbor Lord Fairfax, with whom
he had served at Carthagena. and had
made the acquaintnee of Admiral Ver
non, from whom Mount Vernon was
named. A commission as midshipman
was obtained for George through the
Admiral, but the opposition of the
boy's mother put an end to the scheme.
As a substitute, the appointment as
surveyor of the enormous Fairfax
property was given to Washington at
the age of sixteen: and the next three
years of his life were spent in thin ser
vice. fie always retnineua disposition
to speculate in western lands; "many
of his later invextiments were of this
kind, and they are treated in Butter
field's W astvi n gt o n - CrawfoI'd Letters."
He seems already to have impressed
others with a belief in his force of
mind and character, for at the age of
nineteen, when the first Indications
of the "French and Indian. War” ap
peared, he was appointed adjudant of
the Virginian troops, with the rank of
major: oni the death of his half
brother Lawrence in the following year
he was executor under will, and resi
duary heir of Mount Vernon; and in
1753, when he had barely attained his
majority, the young man was made
commander of the • northern military
district of Virginia by the newLieu
tenant-governor, Dinwiddle, it is at
this point in his career that Washing
ton appears in Thackeray’s Virginians,
but the portrait—there drawn of a
"shrewd young man" on the lookout
for a rich wife is not accepted as life
like by Americans.
At the outbreak of the French and'
Indian war in 1763-54 Washington was
the agent sent toy Governor Dinwiddle
to warn the French away front their
new forts in western Pennsylvania ;the
command of the Virginian troops whto
began hostilities fell to him, and his
vigorous defense of Fort Necessity (see
United States, vol. XXIII. p 734-35)
made him so prominent a figure that in
1755, at he age of twenty-three, he
was commissioned commander-in-chief
of all the Virginian forces.
He served in Braddock’s campaign,
and in the final defeat showed for the
first time that fiery energy which al
ways lay beneath his calm and unruf
fled exterior. He ranged the whole
fliqid on horseback, making himself
the most conspicious mark for Indian
bullets, and, in spite of what he called
ihe "dastardly behavior” of the regular'
troops, brought the little remnants of j
his Virginians out of action in fair
order. In spite of this reckless ex
posure he was one of the few unwound
ed officers. For a year or two his
task was that of defending the frontier
of more than 350 miles with 700 men;
but in 1758 he had the pleasure of com
manding the advance guard of tho ex
plditlon which captured Fort Du
Quesne and renamed it Fort Pitt.
The war in Virginia being at an end,
he resigned his post, married Mrs.
Curtis ,a widow, and settled at Mount
Vernon.
Washington’s life for the next twenty
years was merely that of a typical
Virginian planter n. conslstant mem
ber of the Established (Episcopal)
church, a large, slave holder, a strict
but considerate master, and a widely
trusted man of affairs.
H1s ertruordinary escape in. Brad
dock’s defeat ad led a collonlal minis
ter to declare in a sermon his belief
that the young man had been preserved
to be “the savior of his country." If
there was any impression it soon died
away, and Washington gave none of
his associates reason to consider him
an uncommonly endowed man. His
marriage had brought him an increase
of about $100,000 in his estate; and
his diaries show comparatively little
reading, a. minutely methodical conduct
of business, a wide acquaintance with
the leading men of the country, but
no strong indications of what is usual
ly considered to be “greatness." As
in the case of Lincoln .ho was cdueat
cl into greatness by the increasing
weight of his responsibilities and the
manner in which he met them. Like
others of the dominant caste in Vir
ginia, he was repeatedly elected to the
legislature, but be is not known to
have made any set speeches in that
body, or to have said anything beyond
a statement of his opinion and the
reasons for it. That he thought a
great deal, and took full advantage of
his legislative experiences as a polit
ical education is shown by his letter
of April 5, 1769, to his neighbor George
Mason, communicating the Philadel
phia nontruportant resolutions, which
had just reached him. He considers
briefly the best peaceable means of
resistance to the policy of the ministry,
but even at that early date faces
frankly and fully the probable final
necessity of force, and endorses it.
Without speech-making he took a
•prominent part in struggles df his
legislature against Governor Dunmore,
and his position was always a radietd
one. He even opposed petitions to the
king and parliament, on the ground
that, the question had been put by the
ministry on the basis of right, not of
expediency, that the ministry" could
not abandon the right and the colon
ists could not admit it; and that pe
titions must be, as they have been re
jected, "Shall we," says ne in a letter,
"after this whine and cry for relief?”
In 1774 the Virginian Convention, ap
pointed seven of its members as dele
gates to the Continental Congress,
named Washington as one of thorn;
and with this appointment his national
career started.
(To be continued tomorrow.)
BE PREPARED
The many strikes and other serious
symptons of labor discontent, intelli
gent economic discontent which has
been chronicled almost continuously
for some time past, will impress itself
upon all readers. Those workers who
know what they all signify, who un
derstand that they mean labor is in
revolt against the bonds of capitalism,
will now more than ever exert them
selves to develop the industrial idea
among their fellow workers, and which
must be grounded upon solidarity—
upon organization without no kind of
action can be effective.
"Be Prepared.” Without the pre
paredness which organization brings,
these symptoms of revolt, and of dis
content can turn very easily into the
grimest of grim—most barren trage
dies. Organization in one big union of
.-ill workers aligned along industries
can alone provide preparedness.
Now is the time to organize. Now
is the time to effectively prepare for
the future, and the Industrial I'nion
is the future of the human race.
It would be a terrible thing should
the efforts and the energy and
the workers be taken unprepared, and
lives of their fellows be spent in vain.
One thing alone, can avert that even
tuality, and that is thorough organi
zation of the working class.
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Potatoes
For the remainder of the mo.
A194.50
PEI' CUTE
We guarantee them to be as
good as any in town.
They will probably need picking
over about the tint of March. .The
price will then be $5.00 per crate.
Jf purchased this month the price
will be $4.50 per crate, and we will
keep them in warm storage for you
until railed for.
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C. W. Lewis
-Formerly Delbar’s store—
The place where you can
reasonably buy anything
from a needle to an
anchor
Charles L. Ross
Milling, Lumber, Contractor
fi HAVING TAKEN OVER THE FREIGHTING St TRANSFER
BUSINESS OF W. STEIGEL MAIKR AND OF LEO KENT,
FREIGHT ORDERS AND TRANSFER CONTRACTS WELL RE
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BREAD
Conforming to orders of Food Administrator; on sale at all times
WE RECOMMEND OCR SPECIAL HE VETO BREAD FOR
FAMILY USE
We guarantee the best cup of coffee in town
We serve Hot Cake, Ham and Eggs etc. froviu 7 ,V. M. t* 1 P. M.
Lunches from 13 Noon to 7 P. M. Every Day.
We are in business to satisfy our Customers.
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out and out. Already the mighty piohibition wave is engulfing
“demon rum” and the flood gates of righteous antagonism against
John Barleycorn is going to sweep him into everlasting oblivion.
Thousands of men in the country oxer are going to shortly find it
impossible to get their daily, most of them their hourly “nips”
and those fellows are going to look up the best bottled drink they
can get to wet their whistles with. They are not going to “get
off" booze, and drink any pink “tea slop" Oh no—they want
something with a delightful relish—a sparkle and a zest and the
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