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TH| McHTOT PLATNDEALER, McHENRY, IIX. i^eted biio to make himself a king in fact If not In name. Men like Aaron Burr considered him a fool for giving up the Presidency. Had Washington felt It his duty, ha would undoubtedly bar* taken a third term. But he saw no such duty and set the precedent which haft prevailed to this day. The picture of Washington crossing the Delaware is from the moving picture, "Janice Meredith." Could Washington himself see It, he would laugh--and lie seldom did more than smile.' For Washington knew his way about--in canoe and batteau and river craft <of all kinds, just as he did on horseback and on foot through the forest and anywhere the emerpeASjzmg& ojr cteos<sztf& i2££ jyfyAi&i&p. iTtarrv v." Vtt&ifszvrj-i-* gARZY Pv >OHN DICKINSON 8HEftMAN --1 ASHINGTOXIAKA of 1925 Includ* IVT these facts: ^ Plana for the celebration in 1932 ysyK of the two-hundredth anniversary of * * the birth of George Washington are taking shape under the direction of the Sulgrave Institution, with headquarters in New York. The Colonial l>aiues of America have raised a fund of $100,000 for the endowment of Sulgrave Manor, the ancestral home of the Washiifgtons in England, ftiven to the United States hy the English people. Mrs. Victoria Woodhull Martin of .Norton Park, Worcestershire, I&igiund, has given an ancient English manor hoase to be used as a hotel for American visitor* to Sulgrave Manor; she Is the Mrs. Victoria Woodhull who ran for President In the Grant-Greeley campaign of 1872 and Is the wealthy widow, now eighty-seven, of John Bidulph Martin, an English banker. The American 'Bar association visited Sulgrave Manor last summer as the guest of the Sulgrave Institution of Great Britain and deposited in the museum a number of historical relics of importance. President Coolldge recalled to the recollection of his countrymen an almost forgotten spot which should be a Washington shrine J»y paying an unadvertised visit last summer to the birthplace of the "Father of His Country." { George Washington was born February 11, 1732, 4Kb Pope's Creek Farm, Westmoreland county, Virginia. The place is on the west bank of the Potomac river, 97 miles from Washington by automobile and about 75 by boat. Alongside the road is a small tablet with the Inscription, "This Is Wakefield." George Washington, however, never Irnew the place as "Wakefield." That name was given the farm by WUUam Augustine WashlngtjM,- his nephew. • * The visitor turns In on a well-kept road c6n- . structed by the federal government. After a mile «r two he comes out'into a little clearing on a knoll ainong the pines. At the center of the knoll, inside a high Iron fence rises a granite shaft bearing the inscription, "George Washington's Birthplace." There is no date; This monument Is 35 feet high, of the same pattern as the Washington monument at the capital and was erected by the federal government in 1896. At the same time the federal government constructed an iron boat landing on Bridge's creek, a mile away, and •o restricted its use that boats refused to land; it is now in ruins. Pope's creek winds about the edge of the clearing and gives Its name to the approximately jthousand acres comprising what always has been [known as the Washington farm. Pope's creek took 'its name from Col. Nathaniel Pope, from whom John Washington, the immigrant, bought this farm about 1652 and whose daughter, Anne Pope, be married, It is now a prosperous farm in the possession of the Latane brothers (pronounced Lafcaney), who apparently have come to it through inheritance. 1 The house In which Washington was born was ' hurned so long ago that the date lias been forgotten. In 1813 George Washington Parke Custis marked the spot with a big ^boulder of Potomac lduestone. Visitors chipped much of the stone away «n<l during the Civil war the last fragment of it was carried off. This stone was Inscribed with the date of Washington's birth and the names his parents. . , . John Washington of Northamptonshire, England, came to the "northern neck" of Virginia as tilts region is known, in 1657 and bought his farm of Colonel Pope. He left it to his son Lawrence-- •"Captain" Lawrence Washington--and he to his son, Augustine, the father of George Washington. Augustine was born on the old home place In 10W, and In 1715 took as his wife Jane Butler, a daughter of Caleb Butler, a neighbor. From this union sprang four children but only two, AQgustlne and. Lawrence, outlived childhood. On the death of Jane Butlor-Washington In 1729 the widower married Mary Ball of Lancaster county. The Ball homestead, called Epping Forest, is still standing. The children resulting from this marriage were: George, Samuel, John Augustine, <'harles, Elizabeth and Mildred. The last named died In infancy. When Augustine, the father of George, died In 1743, he left the home place oli Pope's creek to his son Augustine. To his second son Lawrence he bequeathed Mount Vernon. He bequeathe*! to George, when he should come of age. The farm on the Rappahannock opposite Fredericksburg. The farm on which George Washington was - Itorn passed on the death of Georges brother, Augustine, to the latter's son, William Augustine Wellington*, and next to bis son, George CarMn 4?A. Smgef Breath^ at *tt tim€9 i tatoes to continue growing while, If In the soil, they would not have enough After eattaft • eaafcia* VMtkybftea&M tWmowf and nrwuw the breath. Henres are soothed, throat 1* In Spring Plow, Disk and1 those planted in the SOIL The straw. D>».nn. o~it Tn , when once It becomes wet, holds the Harrow Until Soil Is ffr moisture, thus causing the small p<> Good Condition. _ The -Irish" potato seems to me, says ™°,»ture. M lt 80011 becomes dry an a writer In an exchange, to be one of ar ' ZBTZiAVXjD Washington. It then passed out of the Washington family. In 1846 the Washington farm watf - bought by John F. Wilson of Anne Arundel county, Maryland, who gave the farm to his son. John E. Wilson, who had married Betty Washington, granddaughter of William 'Augustine Washington. In this way the birthplace of George Washington ' came back to the Washington blood. Among the children of Mrs. Betty Washington-Wilson was. Latane Wilson. In 1735, when George was three years old, his father removed to the "so-called Ferry farm In Stafford county, across the Rappahannock river from Fredericksburg--perhaps it was the burning of the "Wakefield" house that .caused the removal. George Washington lived as boy and man on the Stafford county place until he took over Mount Vernon, which had been bequeathed him by his half-brother, Lawrence: How does lt come that February 22 Is now celebrated as Washington's birthday? In this way: In 1582 Ugo Buoncompagno, known to fame as Pope Gregory X^III, took the Julinn calendar 10 hand for doctoring. Caesar's calendar was then, ten days behind the sun. Part of the world adopted the Gregorian calendar and the rest stuck to the Julian calendar. It was not until 1752 that Britain made the change. The English Colonies In America of course" followed suit. George Washington was then twenty years of age and already a prominent figure. He had been commanded by Governor Dinwiddie of Virginia to go to the Ohio valley and order the French pioneers to leave. Being young, George quite naturally wanted to be older and promptly added 11 days to his age, fixing his birthday as February 22. The British parliament later passed an act prescribing that all births and deaths prior to September 2, 1752, should be dated according to the Julian calendar. Nevertheless, George Washington's birthday is February 22. George gave evidence early in life of being a real "go-getter." The celebrations of Washington's birthday, began immediately after the Revolution. The first '! celebration appears to have, been in the form of . a ball given by his neighbors and friends at Alex- . 1 andria, a few miles from Mount Vernon. The^ principal cities of the Colonies quickly established similar social gatherings. This birthday ball wij* always held at the seat of government while Washington was President and he and his wife, attended. February 22 was also a gala night at the theaters. Apparently Washington's sixty-fifth birthday, February 22, 1797, was tbe first to be publicly celebrated on a large scale with day-time ceremonies. It was so celebrated at Philadelphia with much ceremony. The ships In the harbor were decorated. The church bells rang peals every half hour. The diplomatic corps, members of ^congress and_ citizens called at his house to qffer congratulations. In the evening a ball was given In Ms honor In the amphitheater. The bulldlne was floored for. danclni: and gallv decorated. The President and his wife, upon entering, were conducted to an elevated platform, on which wns a sofa and a canopy. There were at least 500 ladles present and a larger number of centlemen. The President did not use the sofa much, but moved about, conversing with the company. "The President and Mrs. Washington," wrote an eye-witness, "were in very good spirits and, I am persuaded, have not spent' so acrreeible an evening for a lone time. Every countenance bespoke pleasure and approbation; V even Democrats forgot for a moment their enmity. and seemed to Join heartilv In the festivity." No wonder tbe Washington* were "In spirits." Washington's second term as President w.i« almost at an end and they were looking forward to a resumption of their old happy life at thpir beloved Mount Vernon, "far from the madding crowd" and free from the cares of state. Washington. of course, could have had a third term for the asking. Every statesman in Europe ex- <S6uas"67br6naf6 jrt 7iCo/Itscfkxrx. f*ncy found him. Any man who successfully ear •fed a fight to the American Indian In his own wilds had to know his business. So Washington Would be as amused as astonished at the boatload here pictured. However, lt is an Improvement on the famous painting In the Boston museum by '-Thomas Sully (1783-1872), which it much re- Seinbles. \\ hile the picture may be laughed at, the cross- ;pfe itself on that Christmas night of 1776 must be reckoned as a vital factor in the outcome of the ^Revolution. Before that crossing the cause of the Colonists seemed hopeless. Washington was their one hope. Aud Cortiwallls had Just chased Washington clear across New Jersey and driven him to the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware, leaving Rail with 1,550 Hessians at Trenton to gobble him up as soon as the river should freeze over or boats be secured. Congress was Inefli Ctont. Jealousies had created dissensions among the officers. The Colonial forces were melting a*ay by desertion. No less than 2,700 of the New Jersey people had turned Tories to save their necks and estates and had applied to Rail for "protection papers." Cornwallls was so sure of immediate victory that he had arranged for passage home that he might carry the news in per acn. In Trenton the Hessian hirelings were celebrating by a /glorious drunk. So It was that fate- <ful Christmas night. Behold the transformation by noon of the next day Washington in possession of Trenton; Rail Mid his surviving Hessians prisoners! And when Washington marched his captured Hessians through the streets of Philadelphia all the world Mnrveied at the "Fahius of America" and the Colonies passed from despair to jubilation." President Washington was inaugurated April 30. 1789, in "Federal hall," Wall street. New York. December 6. 1 <!H>. the seat of government was moved to Philadelphia. During the next ten years Washington came into being as the federal capital and in October of 1800 John Marshall, secretary of state, Oliver Wolcott, secretary of the treasury. Samuel Dexter, secretary of war and Benjamin Stoddert, secretary of the navy--brave lit cocked hats, powdered wigs, broadcloth coats and small-clothes--arrived and took possession of the little brick "offices clustered about the White House. President John Adams and his family arrived In November. Thereupon the Sixth congress assembled In the one little wing of the Cap!- to! that was ready for It. The government of the United States of America was at home in its oVn capital at last. Nevertheless. the new capital was a good deal of a Joke. New lock, Philadelphia and other cities called it the "national bantling, a ricketty infant unable to go alone." That there was anything at all re- •Binbling a capital was largely due to the activities of President^ Washington, to whom congress had delegated the task of selecting and develop Ing the site. The act of 1790 was passed when -the new nation's treasury wus empty and It had BO credit; therefore there was no appropriation. A list of the "counterfeit presentments" of George Washington--portraits, replicas, copies, statues, busts, medallions, etc.--would fill several of these columns. Every now and then a new one--or one stored away and forgotten--comes to light. The portrait reproduced is the well-known fainting by Gilbert Stuart In the Henry c. Frlck collection. Last year what appeurs to be a replica of this portrait on a circular iron panel was purchased by a New York collector at a price Sftld to be $100,000. Last year Walter L. Eh rick of New York exhibited In the Chicago Art institute one of the four "Lansdowne" portraits puinted by Stuart of Washington. Thereupon 500.00(1 school children, with help from their elders, bought the picture by penny contributions for $75,000. The bust here pictured has had a most amazing history. It Is said to be--and probably Is-- the bust made, in 1882 by Pierre Jean David. Th^ bust was presented to the United States by France Fire destroyed the Congressional library In 1851. The bint was supposed to be burned. In New York, not lonn ajro. Mitchell Kennerley, president of the Anderson Galleries, announced that he had Just sold the missing bust for $10,000 to Henry E. Huntington, retired railroad man and art collector. According to^ Kennerley. the bust- was rescued from, a junk yard. ® the most profitable and reliable vegetables than can be grown, as It la a crop that very seldom falls. For early potatoes an Ideal place should be selected, such as an old garden spot that has been improved for several years, or a place where clover has been plowed under for several years In succession. The clover causes the land to be rich and loosens up the soil. The soil should be of a medium hature, light sandy Just enough to be In a good state of fertilization. Manure the patch broadcast with good atable manure. In. doing this not so much Is needed In the row at planting time. Break the ground good aud deep, then In the spring replow, disk ind harrow until the soil Is In a good pulverized condition. Lay off the rows 3 or 3*4 feet wide, making the rows good and deep. If possible cut your pieces of potatoes so as to have two eyes on each piece and use the whole potato In doing so, as the larger the piece the better the germlnation-and start the young plant will have. . Plant Quite Early. Plant earlier than any of the rest of your neighbors, say In March, covering the potatoes after dropping, with tnanure and then deep with soil. Even If the ground does freeze on top the potatoes are gettiug a start. As soou as the freezing weather has passed take a drag and run lt across the patch, then give a harrowing which wllj "gain loosen up the soil. Planting at this time, we know It is too cold for the young potatoes to come up, but the pieces will sprout and take root and young potatoes will begin to set on even by the time the plant reaches the top of the ground. Try a small patch planted at this time and see the results, then compare with your neighbors and see If you don't have earlier and better potatoes. Straw! ng Late Potatoes. In strawlng late potatoes prepare your ground In the same manner as you would If going to plant without the straw, having It In a good condition for planting. Lay It off In rows about 2% feet wide and drop the potatoes about 10 or 12 inches apart, covering them with an Inch or so of soli. Now bring on your straw and scatter It over the entire field of potatoes to a depth of 3 feet, as after a rain or two tbe straw will settle down. After the planting Is all done, nothing more Is required until digging time. In digging, a manure fork Is used, the straw being lifted off and your potatoes are found lying on top of the soil. Planting in this way saves a great deal of time and extra work and they will atand more of a drought than Tricks of Trade During Winter Orchard Pruning Growers of fruit trees who do their own pruning will find it both lnteres Ing and profitable to apply some of th<j "tricks of the trade" during this win ter's pruning. One of the most inter esting of these is to put living ties In the tree. They are of principal value when applied to young vigorous trees. If u tree of this type Is found to have j a scaffold limb which Is not firmlyj knit to the trunk of the tree It can be tied there by twining together two twigs from 6 to 18 inches above the crotch and one of which has its origin j from the weak limb and the other from | the more solid part of the tree. These ! should be wrapped around each other as tightly as Is possible without break- j ing the wood and the ends should not I be cut off until after several years* j growth and the twigs have firmly | grafted together. Such treatment will form a living tie which will have a greater strength than any artificial one that could be put in. refreshed ud digestion 1 So easy to cany Ac Utflr packet! 1 - after ei>ery meal f,M * iilr Apples Important Food Apples are one of the best sources of iron for the diet. Raisins have baea advertised for their Iron content. It Is true that both fresh grapes and raisins, as well as plums and prune* furnish this element, but the apple la the heaviest Iron-carrying fruit that wa can eat, having 39-100 per cent of lm In Its makeup -- Balanced Grain Rations Favored for Dairy Cows The following balanced grain rations to feed dairy cows cost approximately the same. They are recommended for supplementing corn silage and alfalfa hay, and should be fed at the rate of seven pounds for each pound of butterfat produced. The first ration is 600 pounds cornmeal and 400 pounds bran. The second consists of 500 pounds corn and cob meal, 400 pounds ground oats, and 100 pounds cottonseed meal. The first ration, with corn at $1 per bushel--allowing 12 cents, per hundredweight for grinding and bran at< $1.25 per hundredweight-- costs $1.65 per hundredweight. The second ration--allowing the same price for corn and with ground oats at $1.85 per cwt. and cottonseed nteal at $2.45 per cwt.--totals $1.68 per cwt ' * Plant Vegetables Early Many of the "cool season" vegetables germinate better and grow better if planted almost as early as the ground can be worked. In this group are onions, radishes, lettuce, carrots, beets, etc. Cabbage, cauliflower and celery, which are also Included In this group, must be started Indoors for best results. Tomatoes, egg plants and peppers, which are "warin season" crops, should be started the aama way, the first of April. , Ei>er since irth of the Industry PMfMl 4he first days of the gasolma buggy to the present day automobile MonaMotnr Oils and Greases have been leaders in the lubrication field. Thirty^ five years making motors ran smoother and last longer! You buy thirty-five years of quality and reliability in each quart <• ManaMotor OiL Monarch HMnfiMtutef Oow Council Bluffs, Iowa Toledo, Qw ' MonaMotor Oils & Greases World** Tetephonm Statistics recently published pHl the total number of telephones in use at 22,937,000, this figure being mad* up as follows; America. 15.840.000; Europe, 5,ftW.0<»0; Asia, 683,000; Aoatralasia, 3SU.000. and Africa. 122.000L GARDENERS SHOULD PLAN FOR ROTATION OF CROPS Good Way to Avoid Perpetuating Diseases. The same crops should not occupy the same space In the garden from year to year. There are several reasons for this. One of the chief ones Is to avoid perpetuating disease which may have afflicted some of the vegetables the germs of which may carry over In the soil. As members of the cabbage tribe and the bean and pea family suffer from different ailments, their positions should be switched In order that any such pests may be discontinued. A good plan Is to reverse last year's plan and then change It back again ne^rt year, thus furnishing a rotation £>t crops. If this Is not done, at least the"~*>ttrangement should be changed by moving the sections devoted to one vegetable this year to some other position In the garden removed a few feet at least next year. A good rule would t>e to plant the root crops next year where the leaf crops such as lettuce and spinach have grown this year or to give the root crops the space next year where the legumes, a term applied to members of the pea and beau family, have been this year. It will not be a difficult matter to study out this arrangement with a little practice. Planting the taller growing crops such as corn and tomatoes on one side of the garden one year and then moving them over to the other side the following season will be a convenient method of securing rotation. If rotation cannot be conveniently arranged because of the small size of the plot, the best way Is to make np for the deficiency by careful fertilising and occasional liming of the toll ta sweeten It up. Fertilized and Limed . - Soil for Clovef Crop At the Ohio agricultural experiment station on land that has been properly fertilized and limed and worked Into a good seed bed, six pounds of clover seed per ncre has produced a sevenyear average yield equal to that from twelve pounds of seed under the same conditions. Slightly acid soils now In winter whent, according to t. E. Thatcher, associate agronomist at the station, may be put In good condition for red clover by top-dressing the wheat with a ton or more of finely ground limestone per acre when the ground la bnre and frozen. A top-dressing of acid phosphate or 0-14-4 fertilizer early In the spring before sowing the clover will greatly help the stand and reduce the amount of seed needed. Nurse Crop for Alfalfa To get alfalfa growing on land where It has not been previously grown, sow the seed In the spring with a light seeding of a nurse crop, using Inoculated seed. If soil conditions are at all favorable, some plants will thrive from the spring seeding and these wllt»* cause the development of the proper bacteria, which will be likely to be well distributed throughout the soil and be ready to grow on the second seeding. % C3H^iC,A OO - eOS•TFOitmN. b-/ rrPhtidt tsm SUSJR AH - NKWNCWI A umui tuny select his wife, but ^£ cah't pick out his own relatives. , Idleness la the only refua tf binds. To children every day Is exciting; yet they never suffer from Insomnia. Qvilizatum Goes Back to Land of Sphinx It is to the land of the sphinx that civilization Is carried back, writes Margaret Sherwood In the North American ttevlew. Possibly this may account for some of Its mysteries at the present day. Here was invented the copper chisel which, with Its stimulation of the crafts of carpenter and stoiie worker, meant a vast step forward in human development. Here, Irau studying the habits of the Nile, men found out the method of Irrigation ; here flourished workers In gold, makers of pottery. Inventors of weaving; here the first calendar was devised. Mind and imagination are challenged and stimulated as we follow the trade routes of these early adventurers, enkindling civilization throughout the world: Crete, whence sprang the culture of Greece; Italy, Spain, France, Britain, Phoenicia, Carthage, India, the East Indian nfrhlpelago, Polynesia, the Caroline islands. South America--so runs the breath-taking tale of archaic civilization. ___ Worse Than a Cross-Word The following note was left on the desk of a social settlement worker in Cleveland. It is intended to be English. It Is a message which was tqken down Just as it 'Sounded to this foreigner^ who did not know how to write English correctly: ' "Mrq. Goltmeus galtop and sezet sons juknm hom plis galerop sei Bio rner howlyt agonhl sez galerop," The meaning of this is: "Mrs. Goltmeus called up, and says that soon as you come (Jukom) home please call her up. Says no matter how late It's going to be, says call her up."--The Christian Evangelist (St. Louis). Lived Long in Same House At WimbbHlon, Eng., Mrs. Bridget H. Itlchusdson died" in the si)uie house where she wus .horn, having lived there 107 years. Should Get Acquainted With Various Machines During the winter months is a good time to get acquainted with the farm machinery and equipment. The more we know about our machines, the more efficiently they will be handled, and the less trouble will be encountered, and the more pleasure we can obtain out of farm life. Start with the tractor and automobile; they are similar In a good many respects. Get the Instruction book and study the motor; note how It operates, how the carburetor works, how the gas Is Ignited, bow the mechanism is lubricated, why some parts need more and a better grade of oil than others. Study the troubles of the motor, and the causes. After the motor and Its accessories are thoroughly understood, go to the transmission, then the wheels. On the automobile, find out all you can about tire repairing. Other machines can be studied In the same way, the lighting system, the water pump, 'the epraying machine, and the farm Implements. They can not only be studied with the Idea of jUlng them more efficiently, but ao that repairs and adjustments may bf made without oatalde assistance." STOP CROUP IN 15 MINUTES Croup usually comes suddenly--at midnight--without warning. Be prepared to open the dangerously clognd throat at once. Have on hand this Chysiclan's prescription which oft em rings relief In li> minutes--no vomiting. Used in millions of honiM for tl years. The quickest known relief for Coughs, Colds and Whooping Covfli. If you have children, get a bottle of this time-tried remedy--Dr. Drake's Gleasco--from your druggist. Ooir Ma a bottle.--Adv. ¥>•• i Kicking against fate doecnt help any in the great moral uplift. It la a question whether wbistHhC means we're cheerful or nervous. x Let's adopt now a permanent policy of legume growing. • • • e /- Fruits and vegetables ai* health, and health la more than farm profit* « e • Top-dressing with manure Is decidedly beneficial, with little danger of Injury. • • * "Like father, like son" Is ss troe in the plant world as among men and animals. •. • e A fanner la one community mi cap- Itaiize on the experience of farmers la other communities through the medium of the county agent " • • • A one-cent postal card may brlaa yen from the agricultural college publications worth hundreds of dollars towards better farming. • • • The best time to sow alfaift n ^ doubtedly In August, after the first good rain, but a spring seeding may be successful if the conditions are good. Well-Merited Success Honored politically and profession* ally, Dr. R V. Pierce, whose picture appears hcr% made a success f e w h a v • (-quailed. 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