RURAL E N T E R P R IS E OWf*RG'»E¡j LMFORM INTERNATIONAL On the Funny Side Sunday School • Lesson’ Tanlac builds strong bodies " A ir e r r r a fir r a /ia a hfr wrat a n i weitri- Iln lU llh . A im m i w s t i t l n • / Tmhtt Z fe>a«g L e s s o n f o r F e b r u a r y 21 JESUS Llfa. S ----- 7 ----- > . By DEWITT J. MASON KORGE WASHINGTON, in his boyhood days, was a surveyor. He cu a vA rz/x# ( ir r j ^ r m z z . a x d zZJTAszîfT had much experience In that line and he was as un Indian, measuring six feet two If not disagreeable consequences, from highly successful. A inches in his stockings and weigh­ the latter while both descriptions are neglected scene of his ing 175 pounds.” This stood him well in the occupancy of the same propri­ youthful labors now is during the Revolution. Long hours in etor, it not being in my power under demanding public at­ the saddle could not tire him. He the tenure by which the dower negroes tention—the little stone slept once under a tree with its roots are held to manumit them. And where­ office in which he worked for Lord I for a pillow. The privations of Val­ as. among those who will receive free- Fairfax Is to become a show place ley Forge could not daunt him. He 1 dom according to this demise, thers of Clark county, Virginia. rode a horse to death to get to the may be some who from old age or A hundred and seventy-eight years front at Monmouth, and stop the re­ bodily Infirmities and others who on ago George Washington might have treat and had breath left to curse account of their Infancy that will lie unable to support themselves, It Is my been found there any day. figuring Lee for his cowardice. busily and poring over outstretched Washington’ s life ns a surveyor will and desire that all who come un­ charts and maps. In the neighbor­ made him 100 per cent efficient In the der the first and second description hood he made his first acquaintance, ways of the wilderness, where effi­ shall be comfortably clothed and fed as a surveyor, with a country he was ciency means life or death. He by my heirs while they live, and that later to know as a soldier. Here he learned to a hair's breadth what a man such of the later description as have became accustomed to hardships and could do with rifle, horse and boat; no parents living, or if living are un­ privations such as were to be his lot how to run like a coward and come able or unwilling to provide for them, In the Revolutionary war. The lit­ back like a brave man; how to use shall be bound by the court until they tle office is only some sixty miles or Morgan's riflemen who came in ft* shall arrive at the age of twenty-five so from Washington, D. C. When sponse to his hurry-up ca ll; how to .'ears, and In cases where no record pr-Iuced whereby their ages the young surveyor worked there it get the lay of the land and pick his ' •«» can be ascertained, the Judgment of was on a wild frontier. battlefield. Henry, Lord Fairfax, was once visit­ The old office has been left to the the court upon Its own view of the ing ids relative, William Fairfax, ravages of time and the elements subject shall be adequate and final. ‘‘The negroea thus hound are (by when George Washington was pres­ In recent years. It Is almost hidden ent. Lawrence Washington had mar­ from view by a long-stretching arm their masters or mistresses) to be ried William Fairfax's daughter. The of a giant locust tree. One window taught to read and write and to be great man took a fancy to the boy, Is concealed behind a screen of I brought up to some useful occupa­ just past his seventeenth birthday. bushes, and over Its roof a clinging tion, agreeably to the laws of the Finding in him abilities and attain­ creejier climbs, drooping like a stray commonwealth of Virginia providing ments beyond his years, be engaged lock over the front. Its corners are for the support of orphans and other him to survey his vast tracts of land chipped, Its windows broken and Its poor children—and 1 do hereby ex­ in the rich valley of the Alleghanles. shingled roof Is leaky In spots. But pressly forbid the sale or transporta­ Washington set out in March, 1748. repairs and restoration are now at tion out of the said commonwealth of any slave 1 may die possessed of. together with George William Fair­ hand. under any pretence whatsover, and fax ; and, through Ashley's Gap In A committee has Ixen formed, of | the Blue Ridge mountains, the west­ which Graham F. Blandy of New York I do moreover most positively and ern frontier of inhabited Virginia, , Is chairman, to collect funds for re- most solemnly enjoin It upon my exe­ they passed into the valley. In the shingling the roof, relaying the floor, cutors hereafter named, or the sur­ wilderness in the Shenandoah val­ ! enclosing the Inside and repainting the vivors of them, to see that thia clause ley. about twelve miles from the pres- i outside walls. By spring. It Is thought. respecting slaves and every part thereof he religiously fulfilled at the ent town of Winchester, they stopped [ B|| wm be In readiness for visitors, epoch nt which It Is directed to take at a lodge where Ix>rd Fairfax's land place without evasion, neglect, or de­ bailiff, or steward, dwelt with as many That Washington, ns was the cus­ lay after the crops which may then negroes as were necessary to farm the tom among the landed proprietors of be on the ground are harvested, par newly cleared land. This first arduous expedition lasted Virginia and other southern states, was tlcularly as It respects the aged and five weeks, with results of such satla- a slave Imbler Is well known. Ills Infirm, seeing that a regular and factlon to Lord Fairfax that he him­ views on slavery are not so generally permanent fund he established for self moved across the Blue Ridge understood and while It may not be a their support so long as there are surprise to many that on his death he subjects requiring It. not trusting to soon afterward, taking up his quar­ freed his own slaves, the provisions the uncertain provisions to t»e made ters at the lodge. He laid out a of his will In this respect are of much by Individuals." manor for the place, which he called There follows a clause providing for Greenway court, after his ancestral Interest. his personal “mulatto man" giving After providing that his wife, home In England; but the house was never built The master himself slept Martha Washington, shall have the him his Independence at once. If he In a wooden structure about 12 feet “use and profit and benefit of his so desires. The actual reading of the shove square?' On'the'¡aw'n"n«rt7 he* b u ilt1, *»’<’•* «•»’"*• r""1 clause throws an Intimate light on one-story office, where his deeds Ing her life, there follows thia clause "ITEM Upon the decease of wife Washington's extreme thoughtfulness, were drawn and his quit rents col­ showing, as It does, the consummate lected. There the boy Washington did It la my will and desire that all the r a r e exercised that hla wishes might his work, remaining for three years staves which I hold In my own right In the service of Imrd Fairfax. Many shall receive their freedom. To In no manner lie misconstrued. The provisions regarding the aged and In­ of the now famous plats of his sur emancipate them during her life firm, the children, can only serve would, though earnestly wished for by veys and subdivisions were made un me, he attended wllli am h Insuperable more firmly to endear this great man der this roof. who, leaving no children of hla own. Washington's life as s surveyor, difficulties on account of their Inter gave him a splendid physique When mixture with Hie dower negroes ma la so proudly called the father of an he had his growth he was "strslght to excite the most painful sensations, entire nation. mighty chime of 5.1 hells, given to the I'ark Avenue Baptist church by loba |i Rockefeller. Jr, In memory of hla New York's first carillon was of mother Recently Its first notes were nature's making. More than 2»»t years 1 beard when without previous an ago the French established a fort on noimcemenl, «7 of Its bells were rung the creek through which the waters | The other six had not been connected of Lake George (low Into latke ('bam 1 Ila moste wsa nW long unidentified plain. They named It Fort Carillon | and for Works sb»>t|l the church pe because the music of the falls remind destrlsns, motorists end persona In ed them of the chimes of bells In their their homes heard and enloyed lbs homes la ter this name was given up p io n e e r 11, meri on an Instrument on for Ticonderoga, the present name of common In lids country, yet asid to the city. Now the city has one 1 ha unsurpassed In eompleteness l»y New York’s Carillon any of Its kind In the world.—Path- finder Magazine. I m p o r ta n t F o o d in F.att Rlrs In the husk Is termed paddy. It Is largely groan In subtropical re­ gions and as an article of food It oc­ cupies In those countries the place similar to that occupied by wheat IS 1 he countries of the temperate zone It was brought to North America near the end r»f the Heventeenth ceutary sod first grown In fiouth Carolina, then s Brlllah cot on r I. L a zaru s S ic k ( w . 1, 2). Even thoaa who are In close fellow­ ship with the Lord are not Immune from sickness. Sorrow conies even to the homes where Jesus is loved. II . Martha and Mary Send for Jesua (v. 3). Those who receive Jesus into their borne w-ben alt are wall and happy can be sure of Hla love and sympathy when sickness and death overtake them. III. Jesus' strange Delay (w . 4-4). Martha and Mary sent for Jesus be­ cause He loved Lazarus They said. “He whom Thou lovest la sick.” Now, Jesus 'abode In the same place” be­ cause He loved Lazarus and his slaters (v. 5). Thia mystery Is to be explained by the fact that Jesus was divine and knew ail things. IV. Jasut Goes to tho Bethany Homo is ugly and annoying—make your akin aoft, white, losely, by uaing “I*ro surprised to hear abe t an ad­ vocate of matrimony." "Ob, yes; but only at a means to alimony, you know." Resinol Green's August Flower W h e n R o v e r W a g t H it T a il Ta«, hs lo vs s m s. a n d 1 k n o w It . A n d th o u g h o th s r fr ie n d s m a r t a lk T h is w o rld lo o k s g o od. I t a l l y o u . W h s o R o v a r w a g s h ia ta lL N e e d e d It T h en Coalman—When I got round with that load of coal for Mr. Jones, 'Is bouse was on fire! Coal Merchant—That's unfortu­ nate ! I suppose be told you to bring It back? Coalman—No. 'e said If It waa any­ thing like the last lot I'd better chuck It onl—Answers. O ld P la y An Englishman took an American to see “HamleL’’ “You are sure behind the times," commented the American. "Why. I saw Hamlet* In New York four years ago." N O T H I N G IN IT f» t C o n a tip a tie e , Indlgeatloa sod Torpid Liver Reliever th at feeling o f having e a te n u n w ia e ly . R k and 90c bottles. A T A L L D R U G G IS T S . Lum bago! M. MllSTEROLt G o t L o n g - L o tt T r u n k After a lat«e of more than five years, Mrs. Evelyn Oleman of Brat­ tleboro. VL, has received word that a trunk lost In June, l!(20, has been found. The director of the club where she stayed in New York found the trunk In a baggage room that was being cleared out pre;,«ratory to tear­ ing down the building. Sure Relief 6 B e l l -a n s I Hot w ater —] < sure Sure Relief D ELL-A N S Bug—Oh toucha. I always beard It «aa nice, and coot around these flat iron buildings ! U tin g O n e H a n d OB. • th« r*t< Of FandM»»« M«rU; ><• had feta a rm A r o « ad feta * l r L T ool a t At Montreal Toe,fa, hear grand op­ era “Romeo and Juliet." “T in e music." Toofua any. " I admira those music very muck ' “What of Juliet ?" ask Germaine “I you say nothing of that lovely young girt " hear -W e il th a t lovely young girt weigh 2f/j poun lA ' D y n a m ite ! fim lth— Do you and ‘ he Mrs ever «acuse the nwmey question ? Smythe— Tew we try to, but we re n e v e r a Me to hold it d<,wn to a aim pie FOR INDIGESTION 25< and 75« PkfiiSotd E/erywher« T h e L e tte r Ex p e n te "I hear that you’re bought your daughter an automobile. Pretty ex­ pensive game. Isn't It?" "No; It's a matter of economy. I figured that the car will keep her away from bridge partie«"— Boston Transcript. la Dr. «atti ra« N r A4? Tw eaa lia*>w h a * P»ary • If« a 4 VMM' f a r W « a v a tria d K. I T I P a a ri • The rood man who goes wrrmg lx In reality a bad man who has J'ist been found ouL Fro m School T ea ch e r to G reat Eminence A young man who was br«ejght up '*n a farm, qualified for district schred tam-her. then man­ aged toaaveewo'jrh m>,ney to pot him thru medical col­ lege. la t e r , he moved B io o y D u z Pete— fiom« o f yoor wash was Jump­ ing sound on the line last night P x « —T hat was probably my ath ­ letic underwear —Prtncetoo Tiger. B r illia n t Mike -W eiL I answered a q ievttoa I ritta ta ria j. Ike— W hat answer did you give? Mike—Preaeat T h e ir P a r p ó te A t,try »nd Belated Railway Pai te r — W h at use are the figure« set dowr, In these railw ay timetable«? General h ’ atioo M aster— Why, If it « p re « t for them figure« we d have no « s y of fe d in e ’ «* how U 'e the trains are to Buffalo. N Y., and today the nan.« of this man. Dc. R. Y. Pierce, la known throughout the w o r l d . Hla G o ld e n Medical Discovery is the beat known Mood med­ icine and tonic. More than fifty million bottiea have been wJd. If yoor deal-r n -« fi *zs< fit— rr~ w > . ____ I