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WASHi N~TONS BOOK- PLKT~
=~ HE ancient aad
~ dignified Athenae-
E ~ um at' Boston con-
m PY'~fm~l~ talns one collection
| lMt of ltos whloh will
[] W/~t[1%=1~ always excite rev-
[] ;]J//~|ll erence in the ,teart
i ~ of every citizen. In
l ~ ~ 1848 a company of
~L~=m=, "~ P u b 1 i c - spirited
• ~t~.~ ~-~ Bostonians deter°
~J mined that the Ste-
ss collectlon of George Washi~gton's
Oks, largely composed of books be-
loathed to Bushrod Washington,
L0Uld not go to the British Museum,
~d st~bscrihe~ enough to secure this
trtlof the Mt. Vernon library to their
ty and library. For this reason, BOS~
n can boast of the largest collection
~f Washington's books gathered in any
in the fine explanatory catalogue,
~hleh was made possible by the gener-
ii bequest of $1,000 from Mr. Thomas
Wse, the entire collection is classl-
1~1 as followe by Mr. Lane:
IeWto 239--Books mentioned in the in-
entory of Washington's estate, with a
volumes not in inventory, but ely-
WASHINGTON'S LIBRARY IN
Ing evidence that Washington owned
them.
300 to 362~Pamphlets bearing Waah-
lhgton's signature or known from eor-
xesPondence to have belonged to him,
~xcept these mentioned in inventory,
Which are arranged with first division.
400 to 414---Volumes assigned to
Washington by Mr. Griffin, but bearing
,no evidence of Washington's owner-
chip,
500 to 663--Pamphlets before 1800
bearing no evidence of ownership, but
may have been Washington's.
" ~80 to 687~Pamphlets b~ring the
names of others, but included by Mr,
Griffin.
To purchase these books $4,250 was
Athenaeum subscribing $500.
of this'wu expended for a book
vignette of the interior ofthe
:/librarY.--and the Paper. for the cata-
:~ -~e~es. A collection Of books Was alsu
":PUrchased from S. G. Drake.
~'~e acquisition of this valuable li-
) :'bi~a17 was largely due ,to the ,~fforts of
Mr. George Livermore and 7D well-
'k~oWm Bostonians who amb~ribed '$50
~h.
It may be a surprise to many to learn
that so large a part of WashPngt0n's
library is owned in Boston.
The library Is guarded with the
: ~a~st care. I~ is housed In the trus=
tees' room, where other rare volumes
" oWned by this corporation are In-
stalled. The visitor lsconducted by a
' ' ~C0urteous attendant up .stairways and
i ~"thrOugh corridors until confronted by
/~at g,tated iron door. The door locks be-
] '~ttnd the ViSitor; who then may corn-
!: 't~tlne Wit~ the past.
| ';" This place is only visited by students
crY'
" i?~s~ and collectors of WaShing-
i,°--~ It Is not sought by the bimy
~nan of the street.
" '~ Ofthe varied and interesting charac-
:'t~r of the volumes in Washington s It-
, trary lt-lsdifficult to speak in limited
I.' ~;'apaes, and Opinions differ as to What
|.~ ~eonstltutss interest and 'value. The
]b!bHomanisc, used to the interminable
| "and argumentative titles, the ltallcised
| and 10ng-~ type and the quaint dic-
,~, fish, will seem quite leonoelastlc~doubt.
~, to the y~ung student, who is Just
"~41scover~ng the wealth of information
~,~.t flrsf hand which lt~m in thesb Nlf-
~"~e volumes.
Am political setmoml~t, planter, wool
9
demptton of peat bogs was studied ex-
perimentally. Consequently, many of
the great questions of the nineteenth
century ls amply attested by his will.
via., a due regard for his .wife's prop-
erty rights and of her wish in re41~ard
to freeing the "dower negroes," a~ he
calls thegn; a wish to free all his own
slaves! to see the old and decrepit pro-
vlded for and the young educated in
their new found freedom,the very prob-
lems that the United States of today is
trying to solve.
The library of Washington was large
for its time, although in these days of
immense public libraries, the depart-
ment devoted to these volumes seems
small indeed. But the books are great
in interest, and reveal the many sided
THE BOSTO NATHENAEUM;
Washington unfalteringly and un-
flinchingly to the gaze of future gener-
ations.
Every mother and father will think
of the great and stalwart Washington
with a new tenderness for the little
scrawls his childish hands traced' on
convenient material, mainly on the
title pages of his father's books. Tra-
dition does not state whether he own-
ed up to their defacement as bravely
as he did to t~e Cutting down of the
cherry tree. But the series of signa-
tures there, one written when he was
surely under nine years of age, and the
others written when he was 13 and 17
years of age, appeal with singular ten-
acity to the .mind, as do even the love-
lorn ditties of his later boyhood when
he extolled the charms of "the lowland
beauty" in verse. ~he grandeur and
the dignity and the oomple~rltT which
J . , ,
HOUDON'S WASHINGTON• .
(MOdeled at Mt. Vernon tn 1785 now still
keeps its vigil surmounting' the ease
containing the books at the Athenaeum.
Gilbert Stuart pronounced this the
greatest portrait of Washington. The
signature is that o£ Washington durln~
his presidency, and of his best time,)
~vents and his distinguished services
threw about him melt away to give
place tO the picture of the callow at-
tempts of the clever little boy trying
to write his name large, with all the
flourishes possible to ,hie childish pen,
all unconscious that it was to be writ-
ten in years to come with no uncer-
tain chirography in the roll of fame.
It w a~, a weighty volume with the
'title of 'The Sufficiency of a Standing
Revelation in General and of the Scr~p-
tnre Revelation In Particular. Both
as to the Matter of It, and as to the
Proof of It! and that New Revelation
Cannot Reasonably be Desired and
Would Probably be Unsnccessful," by
Offspring Blackall, Late Lord Bishop
of Exeter, which tempted the infantile
hand of George Washlngtom His auto-
graph is written twice upon the title
page. The names of Robert Wlek~
and Samuel Bowman appear as owners
of the book at various times. On ~he
last page and immediately after ~he
collect for the second Sunday in Ad-
vent is the following quaint certificate
of ownership evidently Written in the
hand of Bowman: "
"This book ~lnt to me by the owner,
he being dead I believe it mine for-
ever."
The margins of the volume are worm
eaten, and the title p~ge Is defaced hy
marks which suggest that the bqy
might have attempted drawing also,
but as this book bea~ the earl~ept
speciments of Washlngton's Writing
extant, it is of untold value to the
antiquarian.
"Short Discourses upon the Whole
Common Prayer," by Thomas Comber,
the dean of Durham, was ~elected by
the 18-year-old Washington, up@n
which to writs his own and his motl~
er's name.
Against the former his nephew.
George C. Washington, has written:
"The above is General Washington's
autograph written at 13 years of ~e,"
and under the latter he writes: :"~hs
above name of his mother is in the
handwriting of Washington at 13 years
of age, as will be seen by comparison
with his writings of that date in
Spark's wo~k."
The same flyleaf contains the auto-
graph of Washlngton's father and
mother~"August Washington, his
book, 1727/' and "Mary Washington."
~!'÷ ÷÷÷÷÷4-1-÷÷4-I-÷ ÷÷4~4.÷4~4~
0a alr*Pot0ma¢'$
.It.
i somo S r¢.
Mount Vernon! who can tell the charm
Of life on that Virginian farm
Before our country's birth?
For there was simple godly fear,
And woman's grace, and royal cheer,
High thoughts, and tempered mirth.
At twilight, when the chimney glowed,
What wit and wisdom freely flowed,
I~ughter and quick retorts!
knd then the old-time games~what
fun
When George and Lady Washington
Joined in the youthful sports!
And when the night grew dark with-
out.
What mighty themes they talked abottt
In those historic days.'
Or how their souls with rapture soared
When Nelly at her harpsichord
Sang gay and gallant lays!
Oh, brave and bold were wom~n then,
And pure as women were the men--
For that was long ago;
The old then felt the zest of your]l,
The young were sober, and in truth
It ever should be so.
On fair Potomac's sloping shore,
Mt. Vernon, as in days of yore,
Is still a lovely place;
But they are gone that gave that scene
Its air domestic and serene,
Its Joyous life and grace. ~' i,.:
No cavaliers in pointed shoes,
In powdered hair and braided queues,
Converse in high-flown clauses,
While ladies listen, all arrayed
in tabbtnets and s~lff ,brocade,
Lustringe and gold-wrought ga~.
No more they dine and make their
Duns.
Eating love puffs and Sally Lunn's
Laplands and beaten biscuit;
While little "darkles, single file,
Bring plates of waffles in a pile
As high as they dare risk it.
But there today the ~riet ling~,
And round the sign,--' Keep off you~
fingers,"
Are relics to be viewed.
And ~tsslng boats all toll the bell, .,
And lower the flag as if to tell
A nation's gratitude.
--Exchange.
~hence came the river, so strong and
clear.
rhat waters the meadow far and nea~
From a clear little spring,
Like a lustrous pearl.
Where the mosses cling,
A~d the fern-leaves curl,
On the htlltop's height
Bubbling up so bright,
Fed by mountain rain,
Without taint, without stain, i
Whence came our Washington, d~od
and grand,
Whose name is honored in every'IgndY~
From a stainless youth;
From the upright ways,
From the strength and truth,
Of his early days;
From a boyhood true,
Pure as mountain dew,
As unsullied a thing
As the clear hilltop spring.
~Persis Gardiner~
Practitioner Oros~ St~t~ L~
Dr. W. E. Grimm of West Virgule,
who went over on call to attend some
smallpox patie,~ts in Cumberland
county, Maryland, when no local phy~-
elan could be qbtatned, is under a~r~t
on the charge of practicing medicine
In Maryland without that state'~l lg-,
tense. ',
Ill -- - III
.SOMEVAGAI I[.S' OF
II I I
1 • ' I
:U=OUoS~Wt~, t .Ahe o~a~:he:2r~:~,
I INTERi'E[~ING I wielded with all the e:~pertnees of a
| ~I/ITH A THl~tr~l~V [ hand lens ,skilled in Its application.
| . wetH ~ st ,~v,~. | -There was plenty of ecien~e about the
• • , | experience, but it did not appeal to
! i Adaline. Her remonstrances had not
~" ~J .:l' • :, the remotest effect on Mrs. Graham,
/Ir~'~l~&P LI-F ~ Who, when she finished, looked re-
1~[~9~lJl I.II' | markably at peace and happy.
'l~~~.~.~|.! '| "Please pick up your d011 thll~.
Adaline," she repeated.
' ~/~'- "-=- ~ - -- .... ' - And the haste with which Adenine
~.~ ,:,..~,~.,,~ ~. ~ ~ ^, the el~ minded the request would have star-
-~'^~' ~^-'.~=~-~a-ent; whe~ tied her mother out of a year's growth.
~uu~. =~ u~.~=~,,;.~.~. ~, s,,Ccems It is still a mystery to Susan why her
.... r child was so strangely meek humb •
t~ily brought up six children of he own . ...... '.
- ........... "-d a-d ana oDea~ent during the rest of her
Who came wnen tney' were caw - : ..... .......
- • ..... "-- ~-li-f in ViSit at ner granamotner's But Mrs
otherwme oe~raye~ an acuve u~ ~ .......... : .., "
• th~ theory that the maternal word was :t~ranam ann Aaailne ,coin i~epc ~ne so-
law and the end of all things. ¢re~.
Therefore Mrs Graham took it hard --~--
when her third daughter, Susan, be- | I |
came a convert to the new theories | TDi~P.~ AF THE |
on the proper way of disciplining JU- • ............. •
veniles and developing their intellects. I ' PHILIPPINE8|
Susan s 9-year-old daughter, Adaline, • •
• ' "" "t" I ii i I
was gOing to grow to matumty wl n-
out the humiliation of corporal pun- The forestry bureau at Manila,
ls'hment, without the breaking of her Which ~s In charge of Capt. Ahem, u.
proud splriL without the crushing of
her originality into conventional
molds. At least, that is how Susan
explained her theories to her mother
when Mrs. Graham remonstrated at
Addline's elevating her muddy boots
to a resting place on a new $10 Per-
sian sofa pillow adorning her grand-
mother's davenport. Mrs. Graham had
suggested the old-fashioned application
of the back of a hairbrush as suitable
to the case, but Susan had cast up her
hands in horror.
"I never punish Adaline, mother:"
she remonstrated. "Whippi~lg is ~ar-
bar6us! I point out the error of her
ways, recognizing she Is a human be-
il~g with a 'brain capable of being con-
vinced. Then she does not repeat the
offense, neither does she loss her re-
spect for me nor for herselfY
"I wouldn't interfere with Adaline's
self-respect for the w~,rld, Susan," said p ~=
her mother, crisply, but seeing you[~
are going to put those beliefs into prae- I|
tice during your visit I hope you won't I|
mind If I lay away my expensive cush- I |
ions~ and dress the brocade furniture ]|
in hollande."
At dinner that night Adaline began
on her third helping of pudding before
her grandmother, who had been
squirming, finally opened her mouth.
"She'll be sick," she said to her daugh-
ter.
Susan looked mildly surprised. "If
Adallne wants a dozen servings of I~d-
dine, mother," she said gently, "she
is to have them. If she is sick she will
see the foolishness of greediness, and
not do it again. ~ never interfere."
Mrs. Graham shut her llps tightly.
"There's a bottle of painkiller in the
medicine chest," she remarked incon-
sequentially, ';And the hot water bag
is hanging on the hook. I dislike to
be d~sturbed after I have once got to
sleeD."
Adaline looked at her grandmother
contemptuously. "He," she said be-
tween spoonfuls, "when I have aches
I holler. ~ make everyone come a/~d
sit around me to wait on me. Mamma
says I am not to be repressed, tt
would interfere with my pro-prog-pre-'
greseion."
Mrs. Graham gasped and her handg
twitched. Her daughter was placid and
beaming. "Dear Adaline," she said,
Smoothly, "understand= so cleverly my
attempts at doing my d~ty by her. It
is so oomforting."
Mrs. Graham is a delicate and Prim
lady, so possibly she did not snor~ as
she 'arose~ but it sounded muoh . that
way. And in her eye ther~ was a light
~t which |n years gone by Susan had
qt~ked, It wu "Just as we!l~bh4~ '~id
not m It no~:'c The light ]lngered
ete~dllyLtlR the day came whenSusan
went to"~stt~ old-seho01m~te and
left Adallne in her grandmother'S
charge, then it glowed like an are
ligh~
"Adaline," called Mrs. Graham
time,
nut
and their ¢t6thea
you left ~ttered
all about the ll-
1~rary?"
"Of course," Ads-
line answered, very
"But i
don't want to. I'd
rather look out of
the window."
Before Adaline
loomed her grand-
mother, who turned
the young pe~on
about with no gen-
tle hand, "Do you
intend to mind me or not?" ~ in-
quired, with ominous calm.
Adaline's bullet eyes opened in gen-
uine aurpris~ "~Why, can't you hear?"
she asked. "I said I didn't want t~
And when I don't want to do a thing
I am never made to. It W0uld be bad
fOr my high splrits,.mam~na ~."
The ~ttie ~l=ht i~ Mn; Or,~,e
eyes doubled in lntsnaity..'. Come ~ere,
A4~llne," she card, and Adalint, =till
I J IIJ [ I
S. A., is an inheritance from the
Spanish government, says Science. It
was established some 35 years ago and
through its officers and employee
supervises the government forest prop-
erty, which is estimated to comprise
between 20,000,000 and 40,000,000 acres.
The .Philippines are known to possess
over 400 species of trees,~tnd a more
careful survey will bring the number
nearly to 500. Of these at least 50
are valuable, the Yangylang tree be-
ing considered among the most Im-
portant. This furnishes an oil which
forms the ba~ of many renowned per-
~umes. On the island of Romblon a
mass of cocoa palms, the result of
planting under a former governor, cov-
ers the slopes from sea to mountain
top, and furnishes a yearly revenue of
from $1 to $2 per tree.
WHEnE W0 EN hE. !
TAIN THEII~ NA?~ES
Elizabeth Cady Stanton declares that
a woman should keep her family name
through life and not have it merged
in that of her husband. Mrs. Stanton
would be delighted with the custom
pertaining in the Channel Islands,
those remnants of England's French
empire lying off the coast of France.
In the Channel Islands the woman
does not change her name on mar-
riage; no matter how often she changes
partners~ she carries her maiden name
with her to the grave,
Losq to Artistic World.
The destruction by fire of the cha-
teau of Beloeil is a great loss to the
artlsfie world. This ancient chateau
-called up a host of memories of past
glory and grandeur, and the loss of its
rare collection of historic relics is irre-
parable. Beloell was not only one of
the finest castles in Belgium or Eu-
rope, but was a veritable museum of
paintings, arms, objects of art, manu-
scripts and rare books; its library was
of immense value, It was the Versall-
los of Belgium. Here old Field Mar-
shal Claude Lamoral, Prince de Ligne,
died, after having been at all the courts
and in all the camps of Europe.--Chi-
cago News.
PS~sion for LltiffaUon,
A recent illustration of the Passion
for lltlgation is furnished by a citizen
of New York, who was a guest at one
of the Mills hotels there, and whose
~ndershirt was lost in the wash. What
Wasdeemed compensation for the lost
garment was offered him. but he pre-
ferred to carry the. case to the courts,
where he Sued Mr. Mills to recover 75
cent& He was nonsuited, and then he
~arrted the case up. to the higher
~ourts; and now the ~pellate term of
the supreme conrt has 'ttffirmed the
JUdBment of' the lower court. It has
CO~t the litigious plaintiff the price of
several dozen undershirts.
£ Clmslest Irish S@holltr.
Mr. James Maclvor, /the librarizm of
theHonorable Society of
l)t~blln, who
the most
for Several years
letted, however, sehblariy
th'e ~tlb 0f forensic life, and=a~oept,
ed from" thd benches the 'libi~t~i~tahip
of the IriSh Inns of court. He was a
Clerical'scholar, of Trinity college, a
gold medalist in ethics, and the" winner
of univemity prizes In Arabic and In
civil law.
Genele Cry gror "~iv)e~"
De coy win' blow f'um eas' ter wee'
En make me shake an shiver;
DeF'heah me pray "
By night en day:
"Lewd. sen' de el' man'klver!"
Come down. en please deliver!
Yo' col' win' make me a~vm';
BY night en day
DIs pra'r I pray~
t ,
'Me klver. Lewd--me' kiver!"
De sparrow hidln' In he nee' You notice en deliver.
~:Telt des can't be
me* dan me?
I~wd. sen' de oI" man Moor:
COme down, elf please deliver!
Ye' ~I' win' make me shiver;
• D~ pra'r I-pray
~y nJdrht en day"
Me' kiver', I~wd. me' ktverl"
--Atlanta G~m=Ututto~,
il I III i
THE DAY 1!
est little o~ ~o~y l~lli~/~",l~ll
in the world. Her i{" ~[~f/~]~:
glistening w h i t e ~.~
hair Is always done ~~~
in little sausage ~/lff~||lP~i
curls and she wears ~.~I~'~
crisp g~whsofblack I~~
silk ~with real lace ~/~
about the throat .~. ~
and wrists. Herllt- [~'.~
tle shriveled, knot- [/ - --- |
ted hands are laden ~... _ _ _
with diamonds and pearm and her uny
feet are hidden in satin slipper~ of
the softest kid. Her rooms look-
ing out over a park, are like dreams
come true. They are furnished in pale,
sweet colors and the ro~e ,bowls are
crowded with flowers the year around.
When she goes to air she has a dark
.brougham, with her own monogram
on the panels, and a coachman and
horses warranted to ~be perfectly re-
liable and not afraid of the cars. writes
"The Girl Philosopher" In the Chicago
Daily News.
She herself s~metimes declares that
all thls luxury seems llke a passing
dream. In her heart she believes that
It Is awesomely extravagant to wear
silk go~Vns for everyday, and she
thinks that tatting is quite as good
a fnish for neck and sleeves as this
real lace that can never be washed
with 'honest yellow soap and water.
"But I've got to Iive up to my son Will-
Jam's irises," she says with a comical
sigh. '~l'hough sometimes I do Jest
long for a dinner of corned beef and
cabbage instead of one of these hero
course things where I get hungry
while they're changin' plates."
Then for a little while she is silent.
Perhaps she is thinking of the time
when those little knotted hands were
red and hard from toil and those lit-
fie feet were always a~wcary from con~
stant trudging on the farm. ~Phen she
bursts into another peal of laughter.
"But the most ridiculous thing Will-
Iam and Mettle ha~ tried yet was to
say I must have a maid all to myself
--not a hired girl, but a real maid to
fuss around and do up my hair and
lace my shoes and all them kind of
things.
"So they got me one. She w~ s
gay piece, with one of those ~msky
noses that I never could abide, still
I guess she meant all right. But the
first day she most
setme plum4) crazy! "~.
I Jest couldn't
~hink of enough
things to keep her
~oin'.. ~naily I i
,ays: Maria, I'll :t
make 'a bargain
i
with you. I'll lot
you alone if you'lI
let me alone. ~You
can have every aft-
ernoon and evening ~|
out if you'll let me
d~ up my own hair
and lace my own
Shoes~ You can set
in your little room to the back a my
bedroom when you ain't out, and then
If I should wast anything ~'ll sen~l for
yo~.'
"Well, Maria was agreed to this. an~
we got along first class. Every o~ut
in awhile V~flliam or .Mattie Ud ask
me if I enjoyed my maid and I atlas
said yes, for it wasn't no untruth, for
after Maria left me to my owe devices
she was a real com~kn-t. Then one day
~ William and M~ttie ~w my maid
traipsing around when they thought
she was on duty. They begun to make
• inquiries and then the~ whole ~ory
come out.
"Do you know, I ,Jest felt like I had
been caught stealing? But t wouldn't
iet 'era blame M&rie~ for ghe*d Jut
done exactly what I told her to do. I
paid her ¢o let me alone--and she done
It. But when William and M~ttle
caught me I acted Jest that sheepish.
Flnally I up and told them the whole
thtn~ and ,how I had Jest kept a maid
to plem them.
. ~'The~ William laughed till I w~
m~nz
waa
When he come to he
said that I shouldn't']
any more if I didn't want one. He said
"he wanted me to do jest what I Ple~d.
IdiOt had a ~Uo~ tO say that I could
lspense with a good man~; of these
ehi~en flxin s, but I didn't, for onot
I heard him say to Mettle:" "The things
can do for my mother Is the most
comfort I get out Of my moneY;" Wlll-
lam'e as good a son u (we=" was o~ thIs
earth, so I Jest try tO plea~ him by
goln' round all togged u~ a~d llvln"
up to ~his idees as well as I can. But
I Wo~ld relish some corn beef gml
cabbage, blled ul~ togetherl"
The first law ~ptinst Sunday h~
In Indlana was pined lu lilY.
