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THE CHE MAW A AMERICAN
DEATH OF WASHINGTON.
(Continued from page 1.)
o'clock in the afternoon he said to Dr.
Craik, who was at his bedside: "Doctor,
I die hard, but I am not afraid to go. I
believed, from my first attack, that I
should not survive it. My breath can
not last long."
The doctor pressed his hand, but
could not utter a word. He retired from
the bedside and sat by the fire absorbed
in grief. About 6 o'clock the consulting
physicians were about his bedside, and
he held out his hand to be raised up in
bed. He sail to the physicians: "I
feel myself going; I thank you for your
attentions; but I pray you to take no
more trouble about me. Let me go off
quietly. I cannot last long."
About 10 o'oclock at night he tried to
speak, but he was hardly audible, and
after giving a. few directions, he asked
the physicians: "Do you understand
me?" When they replied yes, he said:
"Tis well," which were the last words
the Father of our Country ever uttered.
While those about the bedside were,
fixed in silent grief, Mrs. Washington
who was sitting at the foot of the bed, ask
ed, with a firm and collected voice: "Is he
gone?" No one was able to reply but
simply nod their answer. '"Tis well,"
she said in the same voice, "all is now
over; I will soon follow him; I have no
more to pass through."
About 12 o'clock the body was carried
down stairs and laid out in the large
drawing room. The burial took place
the following Wednesday, December 18,
his remains being deposited in the fam
ily vault at Mount Vernon.
The sudden tidings of his death fell
like a domestic sorrow upon the hearts
of the people; lamentations and solemn
obsequies filled the land and, through
out the whole world the event was heard
with the deepest emotion. Nearly 40
years after his death and burial his re
mains, together with those of his wife,
were reintombed, in order that they
might be placed in the marble coffins"
which had been generously offered for
that purpose by a patriotic citizen of
Philadelphia, to the legal representatives
of the departed chieftain. This was in
1837. Ex.
CHEMAWA DEFEATS ROSEBURG.
The Roseburg High School basketball
team and the locals met in the gymna
sium last Saturday and by accurate
basket throwing and systematic team
work the locals ran up a 25-to-3 score
in the first half, but in the second half
the visitors located the basket better
than the locals and raided their score to
22, while the locals registered 43.
It was a clean game and very few
fouls were called. The Iloseburg bays
were a very gentlemanh' set of young
men and it was a pleasure to have them
play in the local gym. The stars were
Powers for Chemawa and C. Blakely for
Roseburg.
The Mne-up of the two teams follows:
Roseburg - Chemawa
C. BlaKely F Clements
Black F Haight
Palm C. Powers
Hammond ....... G Charles
V. Blakely G Sortor
Officials: Referee, C. R. Hall way,
Principal of Roseburg-; Umpire, Larsen
of Chemawa; Time-keepers, Dr Fulker
son, of Chemawa, and Thompson of Rose
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