-'.. ' ! !-i J'''JLl vo'-'!? . ' .. . . " .... . . -. . 1 1 1 . 1 ' . n - - , t i , , - -r , .,..-1. b k . - w-- - PRICE ONE DOLLAR PER Y&R INYARIABLV IN ADYANCE. OUR MOITO DIEU. ET MON DROIT, 1 : t THE LEDGER fUSLISI!S CQZTim. WINDSOE EEBTIE COUNTY, N. O.; THURSDAY, EEBRUARY 20, 1896. s KO. 11. MARTkA. WASHINGTON WAFFLES A Jorner cupboard quaint and old, and on each dusty -shelf, Quoet; relics, of the olden times, frail glass and bits of delf. 4 1 1 A baby's toys, a silken purse, a fan all lace and pearls, ' ' " . . : . s And shut -within a dainty- box, two faded yellow curls. A girlish, dimpled, laughing face, ahl me, this faded hair f ; X ' And pictured semblance, now. are all that's left of one so fair. ' " Grrt grandmamma, for fifty years, above her quiet grave. Have blown the drifting winter snows, while summer grasses wave. . : - Here is the sampler -where she learned to make the alphabet,: t " - ! Anl here the satin shoes, in which she danced the minuet. " ' Right well, I ween, she liked to go to party . un.l to rout, ; And yet she was a famous cook, 'tis said beyond a doubt. H9re is her olden cook'ry book, I look, and S ' tt wi IMtlll I i .4." . . 1 Otlb VALENTINE HOMESTEAD. " (Where General Vashin?ton' prayed.) still can see All faintly traced in time recipe. faded inks, each old- They're signed by many stately dames that hisfr'y knows full well; : 0, could they speak, what wondron3 tales these recipes might tell ! i "Writ by our hand,'the legenJ saith; "let's see, now here is one, - , Why, bless me, do T read aright? 'Tis Martha Washington! And did she write it? Ah, who knows? These are the words I see: "Ye Lady Martha Washington, her Waffle Recipe." "Beat now," is written upon this page, "six eggs till they are light, Then, ino thesa you lightly sift one pound of flour, white. ' , "Next, milk your cow; just three half pints take from the gentle beast, Tut in a teaspoonfal of salt, three table spoons of yeast. . "Now call the maids, and bid them beat the whole with all their might,! Then put it by the kitchen fire ' and let it rise o'er night. "When norning comes, this mixture stir," says Lady Washington, . ' ' "And then in well-greased irons, bake until the whole is done." 1 A simple recipe, you see, 'tis made without much fuss, , " - But what the country's "Father" ate will surely do for us. Lizzie M. Hadley, jn Good Housekeeping quent and impressive to a degree hard ly equaled by any other human ex pression of which history contains a record. The Valentine homestead was sur rounded by 238 acres on Valentine's Hill, which is midway between Yonk- ers and Mount Vernon, but in the pre cincts of the former. An iron door knocker was on the front door when Washington approached and knocked for admission. The Valentine family were tenants of Frederick Phillipse. They pur chased, in 1785, their farm of 238 acres from the Commissioners of For feiture under the act of confiscation. The farni commands an extensive view in every direction. During the Re volution the British built Prince Charles Redoubt and Negro Fort on the east side of Valentine's Hill. Lossing, in his -history, , says that "on the 16th of September, 1782, British foragers with a covering party I 5000 or 6000 strong, accompanied by Sir Guy Carleton and the Young Prince William Henry, made an in cursion as far as Valentine's HilL Washington's Face in a LiTlnjr Rock. Carved by nature in tha rough stono of Marblehead Keck the calm face of George Washington gazes out oveY tho waste of waters. . In that quiet, se cluded corner of Massachusetts, says the New York Pres3, this remarkable monument remained for ages undis covered until Albert Chapman,' of Marblehead, cropped the bushes and weeds which grew about its base in rank luxuriance, disclosing the stone features which bear a most striking re semblance to the Father of His Conn-try. Some eall it the 'Old Man of the Sea," but the majority of Marblehead citizens trace in its lines and curves a counter feit 'of the ' loved face of the first President. Mr. Chapman is undoubt- edly the discoverer of this strange sculpture of nature, as "the oldest in- -APACHE'-SCOUTS An Arizona Tribe "in The United (' States' Service, ' ..... They aro Invaluable In Subduing ' Indian Uprisings.. ' The Apache reservation in the east ern part of Arizona . contains the first successful showiog of disciplined In dians employed ai a body of fighting men by the UnitedStates Government, the White Mountain Apache scouts. The United States has, called into requisition the, services of some 300 trained Indians, who have within the last flvejrcars'jproven io valuable in subduing uprisings in different Indian reservations. At ' various times the Governmentthas employed special In dian police, 'and Individual Indians and firing wmla they hang on on HA in trno Indian7 faAhionl The Apacba Scouts are feipccially dreaded br th Navajoes, .Yamas and th Msricopaa; whose outbreaks they .aro occaiion ally callctl on , . to . subdue, , , and who know them of old from tho ' pilfering expeditions for 1 wljichthe Apaches are famous, f : 1 ' ' " - -The Apsebe reatrration la abon 250 miles from ,tho Metlca : bonndry line. As they are cpn.tinasllj at -war with their ncigbbort or among; them selves, it is dilcu!t fo'eitiasto, thcir numbers, but it is known to l lo.' tween 5,000 and7,00O. They speak the Spanish language almost nnivertsllr and display all the undesirablo qnal ities of the North American Sboihoa in close admixture with the blood of tho Mexican Indian. . Life Without Bodify txtttUK The Rot. - Wm. DaviC. rector of PIOUS WASHINGTON. His Impressive Prayer on the Kve of a Battle. An interesting episode occurred dur ing the stay' of General Washington at the old Valentine homestead shortly before the battle of Chatterton Hill, in White Plain?, N. Y. Elizabeth Valentine, aunt of Na First Celebration ot Washington's Day. Probably few people of the millions who celebrate Washington's Day are aware that the first public observances of it used to be on the 11th of Febru ary. The Gregorian calendar took effect in Great Britain and her colo nies in 1752, but it was customary for a generation and more after that date to continue without change the cele oration 01 Dirtnaays occurring pre vious to it. Indeed, the stone placed at .Washington's birthplace, as late as 1815, contained the words: "Here the 11th of February, 1732, ueorge wasnington was Dorn; nor was there any reference to the differ ence between old style and new style. The first recorded - celebration of THE GEORGE WASHINGTON ROCK. habitant" fails to recall ever having heard of it. The face is formed by three rocks, one forming the forehead, one the chin and the other the nose. The face rests upon a slightly elevated knoll, at an angle, as it the great General in effigy were taking his re pose and languidly gazing out to sea. The George Washington stone will have served in the army on important I Stauoton-upon-Wje, and vicar of Alf 8aint Hereford, di 1700, aged 103. The life of this gentlemaa 'displays tho most extraordinary initanco cf departure from all thosd rnles of Um pcranco and exercUe'which . so. ranch influence the lives of the zstf of man kind tLan ia probably to be found in the whole records of longevity.'' Dar- the Iaal 35 years of his lifo ha nerT .... uaed any other cxercuo thaa that-, of slipping his foot, on before the other scouting dhty, but the H t ntiii zation of . the good t part of a. whole tribe, , .trained to ; modern , arms and tactics is a comparatively new depart ure. Aside from the Apaches,' the only other instance on record Is that of two companies of Sioux f Indians attached to the United States Army post at Salt Lake City.' ' ' ''The Apaches are one of tho most barbarous and warlike Indian tribes ery henceforth be one of the many objects of patriotic pilgrimage on the coast of I maneuvers without any difficulty the Bay State. thaniel B. Valentine, who still resides Washington's Birthday, we believe, on the famous Valentine's Hill, was liv !ng, with her parents, in the bid house at the time. Although but - a child, she was profoundly impressed by the visit to her home of such a notable per Eonage, and retained'a vivid recollec tion of the incidents of the occasion to the end of, ; her fjqngf lif v I, - was the one at Bichmond. . Februarv 11, 1782, a few months after the great and decisive victory at Yorktown. The next year the day was commem orated in Maryland, and the year af ter in New York. - All these ? celebra tions occurred as a matter of course and without question on the 11th of v She was always glad to tell of them, February. The change to the . 22d recalling nothing more clearly than the fact that the General made a prayer in the presence of herself, and others - ' OliD DOOR KNOCKEE. (From the Valentine House.). at about the time of his departure for what proved to' be the battlefield cf Chattetton Hill, in the course of which he quoted the twenty-second' verse of the twenty -second chapter of Joshua K as follows: JThe Lord God of Gods, the. Lord God of Gods, He Kno weth , V and ' Israel, He ' shall know ; :if it be in- rebellion, , or it in, trans gression against the Lord, (save us not this day.") When ! it is considered that- these words were, uttered by the Cominan: der-in-Chief of rCthe v Kevolutionary forces at such a supreme crisis r m the , long struggle' forindependence, when the chances of Bu45ceWeeme more , than doubtful, all who read thiem will iegax4 this utterance as being; elo- was made for the first time, it is said, in 1793, in this city. Thereafter the 22d regularly . took the place of the former date. Of course the first cele brations were in a measure informal, somewhat resembling, perhaps, those of Lincoln's Birthday now, and large ly conducted, indeed, by Washing ton's military and other associates, or by the communities in which he hap pened to be. When he became Presi dent, the celebrations were rather more marked, and were looked upon unfavorably by some of his opponents as being a relic of monarchical observ ances. But after his death tlje cus tom of honoring the day grew until at length statutes widened the observ ance, and now ..we see it the public holiday which attracts the attention ot the world. New York Sun. ' Early Christening ot Washinsrtous, Has the following entry in - the parish register of Chislehurst ever been published, and how does it fit in with the ascertained facts of the Washing ton pedigree? ? ( ' . t "1614. ! Laurence, Bonne of Lau ren(feJWashington & Anneh is wife was christened on . ye 24th daie of July in the place at Modingham, generosL'! " Modingham, now Mottingham is i hamlet between' Chislehurst and; Eit ham, and according to. Hasted's "His tory of Kent. V 8vo edition., ; VoL I.; (1797.) page' 480 M6ttingham Place belonged - to . the .Stoddard family through the whole of the seventeenth century. Notes and Queries. . -;- made him .the mastered; man most thoroughly self- among his contem poraries and a patriot of patriots. It is a well authenticated fact that he was of a sensitive, nervous organiza tion what was called in an old-fash ioned way "high strung" but h had his naturally hot temper under such thorough control that the impression he produced was one of extreme mild ness. : -1 - , r ; The American humorist who said of in North America aud until recently I from room to room, and Uhey never have not been amenable to tho in- I after that were raised bat to go down fluencc of civilization. " They aro re- or up stairs, a task, bowever.to whieh lated to. the great Shoshone or Paciflo be aeldom subjected , himaelf. His Coast Indians, a branch whoso treach- breAkrattwailTcarty, cociiiting, of, and cruelty are ' traditionally hot rolls well battered, with a plentl- ful supply of tea or coffee. Hia din ner was substantial and frequently consisted of a variety of disbeV At supper ho generally mto hot rosst meat, though never to excess, Though nearly blind for a number of yeara,ho was always cheerful in Lis manner and entertainming In bis converts tion. He had neither gout, atone; paralysis, rheumatism', nor any of those disagreeable infirmities which mostly attend old age, but died peace able in full poMeasioa of all hit facul ties, mental and coperea!, save his eyesight Like moat long livers,, be was very short. San Francisco El amincr. The Red Sea Xlraele Rprodocrd It is a well-known fact that at cer tain times of the year Link Rive r, a stream a rallo and quarter lonj, which connects the great , water sys tems above and below this point, be come almost dry. This state, of if fair,' however, lasts, as a rnlf, but "a few hours, during which time people have been known to walk across the river, 300 feet wide, without gttling their feet. wet. Tho bottom, of, the river has been du$ out in many places by the action of the water, forming large pot holes, and when the fiver becomes dry these . holes are flUci with trout, which aro left stranded At such times it is a common occur rence to ace men and boys knockf&g the fish on the head with clubs, and sec aro many a ood famous among' all Western Indians. The Apaches - are at present 'divided into the White Mountain Apaches and the Mcsculeros. The latter tribenow headed by the treacherous. old San Juan, was formerly a band of desper adoes, led by tho well-known Gcroni mo and, the Apache .'Kid." The Apaches are a naturally vicious peo ple, and while' they aro capable of re ceivinga'moderate degree of educa tion, are totally unfit afterward for any other pursuit than wandering over the. plains in armed bands. Even under a thorough military education they areunablo to fight other than in their own methods of warfare. They learn the xnanuel 1 of arms and field and i i: . PH0i.vrsT PEC PLC w n.IMI m - x TYtiA-f Ivlrrfrr .irrVu-et -C.tCO !r: Fir Ji"5 IUrT, b e'rA:-S Err'.Ua CTiirtij, s:-3 a Jw djt t,jt la Ixits. Unix U r Prwli'ct CreUaJ wH'U-k fwctH E!asiloa la Txvzila' la trUz'j ttlij ot fcr Gopp-r.--r , r . weetlrtTJtM.arr;''! I-J IU U-i lowa. ii ei;irj rrt a 't; r'?- U4ts V7 J : , f a la hla rcsth. anl tt UmU iti t cm19 rua lor tall a Cj&ltti-za r.r wiihm hr9m J . ,, f j , , Daia t-iy wttl t r Ul fa U:b tc? far frcstht 13 wUi 4.5:a. D:;:wU. tv. orlrlaAl I Cinr.'.a.' O-- rrj yw Dam inx ar l.-srU aii fU?4 a wriAii cf r.?t it. ctrr;-f cj tit P?Uj ew?.U nUl tS3a a "rIca I;I.M a a it cr- l&ev4tTA&tUriL f Oe rsU aa Taai rii f . U f ? Tort t-. !U-dll'S-Ir. l tfrrtl U -Ttrrr frca f t rraia.' aai. it 4j m.:1, w crr?r4 it Cltdl3 t-l-' to rt NftJinJ Cf lrt wtt t rA ru tTttt u tract t?4 Profawf Toa:nU;,of tralrrm:' f QOra. U rnt ci "XjxzIk. IU v w Wot tit roU!lsl wrlf.tv ILU wi!m 1$ tkXtotl3yaa, atrra4ajtfc tJ TaxMrOci- Ur.m J 1 Cirxfwta "ttit. r?:Gli!crr'.i. to tta rrrjt;:t of IMtz cf ttat jzrr lawjfrt ca it -JT4 eajri f l U I iJtu st Lis itr;t-fvt t"tt! u i tz isa la iK C3 -rt ri.a a l rwtf itn to &jr 'Jary.fT ....... tfitoa. lu riva elc: xu f ranc: a tnxf rrHa?y ct ti &ari'cf Kvrrif.-lU I art a '.- JI;in, wtu Irart isr riiat3 Jti. - - f - j A P??alt p?xtt C'.crl rr5 tl f dlkjwi&x llrtet 6Asr folJrtT 1 3 a lYa12-t!Ui eAaiJial fna: Govri'.T lor Tillin, Toj iYa:oa. J six Cllw;. J. C. $ihtjtti?tm3r rtS5pfr. C-rr--tsa4 Uot-ari..c! JlLaVa aa i Qcral lirater. a t tz'ul 9Qcrf I WaUr: .wi tx ba -i 1 9 arw4 Srat:T Oibi.23. f llATy'.iii. U wtat Uro3rvSlv lrt a i-tl'-cJa tras. !Uatteaii !t!dlc&!jr a jir aal aUr la tla tortood, but Vwr J mtllm at wctl. p&t bla Tciro taWsrli. aa vSKalla. wtJca la?lal m ibor jtoc t ilz u tbtorj aai jutra:-5re. ( . "A'lJtrtsi ax!"iei!Hfl43 Up;.Si iZtjtr. Ka o vq Tvryw!wrt -a ii.a Cinr! la il Ta.'oa ruf.-'at Atsxrx'3, r-ar.-.. TfUIo - lt-T&a ezr&f'1 ,a t:;itf to taul a" lt -is a wtfoa lt trw ai;l frxait&,Lal&c t ax3 13014 iIyT da3. 'ZCz.s -a cs cf ala Wxa Tta Usl tt-i.'j n-S ItatU m toizi x,:!Hrj to a-srsttta If. are drilled to fire by platoons, but when it come to tho actual fighting they can operate to greater advantage if left to their own devices and in herent trickerV;' 1 ' - Their usual dress is a native woven cotton cloth shirt . and turban to The Man Who "Sever Sloppel Over.' Not a political seer like Jefferson, nor a great philosopher like Franklin, Washington was pre-eminently the good citizen, always equal to "the de mands of his duty and always ready match, close-fitting "pantV and buck- o make the sacrifices it required of skin boots.. In righting trim' they mm. - uiscara everyinmg uut me turoan. He represented the highest type of I boots and a loin cloth. .Thus cos- the character, resulting from careful turned and equipped; with a repeating home-breeding as distinct from that I rifle and cartridgo belt, they make a produced by education in letters or by I desperato and dangerous antagonist ravel. ' The education of the home The Territory of, Arizonia contains Wri inrtlli-r la It l0ft of Ktw XsxX sra from' I It tn 1 21 jut A rear ttloa. of rr.':kUTrn' IiJm:JcU VnJoa t.i tnta latai ta Co . OUa. tf&zs ?r? t- XaA-19 it Vfmr.m F:i; , A mifcrai KaJ ct vu icr Uiia atJ aalP! Mjcj wi'.I -r. iVatiA-'a w;ta ita lla for Aa4 rla PaCrm: y c rt r-'.3f. Arras raAt Tor ff t .- : i: i pjet as i cr9T jf tarr-.T-rr ar tisjt til by tfca rerrlera' ftioa la Ntw Tcta Cf j. ' 1 TaVWaWrAUharrJl Sa coetrartfil fcr m Jars :it tsi;if f a t i u? la li Gra tia rj I at 'g r 9yt: ri roi. ' Tt rwrtM trta; ltt la f Nw Tot a li'.Sus trvt lii poTrtii.! evay wftridajcsiftf aat harttfa-i, t"sU c;r- - 5ilrafaaVrXa!r ,05irr5,rcoaT rci tbarr6i'T c cf ri-rm!ri ra rJoya la tsar S-atl.3t5 fl. t. Tta tT act (Iaj'j wrX la Ia aai ca-lltlr4 toxr. Th CTt-rl Uateat lat 1a Ita tozn montbfal of food or a-drop.of,TUr. ,loy.KUr to.Jb, nT U.th. .fio9ff JSU'fM A band ot.l;000 Apaches could wear the wind,- The course -of the, stream rrt trartija aiaia;, krxrr rr?ii rr- their pttfr.' il., r i stretches of the most unproductive' soil in the country, but the Apaches, muscular of limb and hardy by nature. thrive.. under its semi-tropical sun, , 4 . t . in this way. they i- -. i meav f . , phenomenal. They have been known I There are many traditions re card- to go two wholo days, running, fight- I ing this phenomenon among the In' ing and retreating, without tastiogla I dians hsrc, but tho real .eanao: of the the life out of .nn: ordinary army in a month". They 'fight in squads' of the wind.- The course -of the, stream is". ' southeast, and , the high winds which prevail in-the apring and fall him that he "neyer slopped over' twenty or thiriy. scattered out over are from the'soulh,' and blow nr Hhe condensed his character m a phrase the plains and concealing themselves river. Tho outlet-! from the upper not the less strikingly true because of the element of the ludicrous in it. New York World. i, , The 22d of February. The 22d of February has rightfully become .immortalized in' our calendar of time. 'The birth of , the illustrious Washington -is the focal point from which we date our American! history. His coming was the auspicious begin ning of that grand is .now 'recognized the, pride and glory manhood. We do well the name and memory of His Country." . ' JTtw 5w ZaU.-.t Tti -it ! c:sjiit lu till wiS:a rrtlilba rrrrydotwrtJs arret ta ta ovca It to k a tlf-aoU-dy rrtrv Vtllxj i J tt It -r.;iorr cf ttUprlTlfftf. ' i Tt9 TCl3lw CU TToflftm Kail:&al rrrr ,f Oil I TOipecwrs en The Jonun. l,thdxaaJ. axi e3ta;::iot tcacryia- According to consular reports, it is the intention of the Torkiah authon- ;u-m rolwiar t:.rpi jar ttar: From this ambuscade they makd for ties, at Jerusalem.to caUblitba steam- mMtt. rvii Uarrtfj fnmUr. Kfw lOO 'luuniiiiB, nuciaituur vuiv.yutg behind a small stone or clump of sago I lako being small, the force of .th brush that . would scarcely hide a I windjfccnijjio .water back in the birr child, t They can shoot right or left lake, cauaiogthejivsr to become very kdTi.rT. '.Vi handed; either -in. a. crouching atti-'llow. Klamath Falls Express! 5 I aCesaaad fcr o 4vAe.jwar la i T 11.1 1.-11 ; .1 I , , 4 . .. . ' . 1 .-..W7 WU-.4 flat ina shallow 'arroya,M . a .ditch washed out of - the soil during, the rainy season. ) I :it j rr . a rrv-. ---4 I . Nfttionftl lif T;-hiVTi LPauera ""ul.Jrivlit:ciT vuc -c Mccruine 1 . . ' . I !--. r ' 1 ' K 1. 1 1 -il . r t the world over, as ? ' i ; - uTri .uMlc W? ii f 0ii . I aoio jo ouvwiuu a ,uufu uTcr kuo 1 tionai aeoeiopmenfc 01 vo . "An Old Title. ri The sobrioue, 'Father o! Hts Coun try," was first applied to Marius, the . Eoman officer who, B. C. 102 and. 101,: won signal victories over the .northern barbarians. Marius declined the Hon- . or, but the name T7as afterward given to Cicero, then to several more or less , worthy Koman emperore, and inslly to Washington. ship line on tho Dead sea. t .The eziiU- themselves in gulch'esond fire on their I ODee of asphalt in thai region haabten. I., WiiV lanJ;it ;i auppoaed thatj B5ta;r. lacc A, rm ie JprdsuTal- 1 .in honoring .Pchedplains. "Apache measengers ley from Lako Tiberias dawn, and ra-' of the "Father between.' government' stations 7 frV- racially" the opening op' of the Vicb quently cover a distanco of twenty- mineral rcsourcea . of itho .Dead.' se; five.miles in less' .than three, hours, basin is considered Terr profitable and know how to' elude' the terrific undertaking., for which, ' however. ' sandstorms that " sweep; the desert foreign capital will hardly bt foanJ tracts in the vicinity of the Gila moun tains. .In mbuntaincUmbing they are like chamois, jumping from ledge to ledge with the greatest case and agil ity and scaling 'precipitous walls ,on the mostdelicato tobtiuW 'When riding horsebaoK tney aimps.i'uecome par .of the animal, crawl in? around itsboclv as the lcgal status ci protxrty holdeis In those Regions is very unaafe.-r-Sciea- . . ... . -tific American " . ohr.- . -ittra'ctUe. " Is'sbef retly? "No. bnt the haa. av prepo-s'-talau bshk sccoant.rr-fPacki: -i . . ' i C I .... r.; - . ; ' ' rr&ki.aoulT. AU4SJ; 5pcs4 Tirrwi- dot, uiUU'a UprxM. liiior. Tnji r-r-- Tt :lt K ts c( LVt CcsfTw ta AJtAar, -jf. T.. He;:i titoe2n: iVwi-d-r."jo!5a Jdfla3r. cf Jrw Terk, Tif Ptmidecr, Dr4l OIWLrr.'st Cliij r&I; Frmarr, Jotpa R. i:iii4ja. ci r-$ Trcyj Tre. art r: Ttwcua . Q'Tri' .ct rrocllyaj Lctarrr. ilra. Lota .Pari, ci i'..xi.?m C Oarke, ctCotfilia. rxa la-r&tf taft'tsf :frJ4 U tvTak Cty ara trry DTfr ti. r rxi; ttx ttu jwatWiU t? U krt. la Cf;ea rar. aa tr aa ttMr work UfoLr6L Ii i &uj irr rt ru ct rr ? c-j t wj ttrr r XsaayoU bail4iei tbii will M ttra do wa aad UryvaaJ t3f-r t-tl ta laeir f Uca. lira 'wrTklar day aa5 alxtj caiooit U t.f bsJi:r;xa la crirr to tav lia C5c:;;rtei fcf fra'Jiz. V ',riTtrn!ii,RMu. " " X vtfa cf a!tOff-ttk!.l.sta3 all tat i Tirhtl la tka rcrl r. vt Wa H-Ttrl c-irr ih tova cf LI'.'Ja I-tfr. EtrOrritr.

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