Washington As A Politician

General Greely's artiele in March Lacides' Home Journal upon 'The Personal ide of Washington" will show Washington was largely in.lueneed by liis environments, 'out also which, in -those days, consisted in tlie hlgher standard. oi the present at;e, eepecially as regarde his habita and ideáis. Of tlie first election in whuh he actlvely paxtleipated Gen. Gréely writes : "In his younger daye Washington extended at hls íirst election rhO usual post-election hospitality, which, in thseo days, consisted in the niinimum amount of food with the maximum amount of spirits. We found him payiiig íor such an entertainment ïor some four hundied voiere, where the account was time shillings 'ïor food and thirty-seven liquors. Olie capacity of the average drinker may, pei-haps, be placed at three quarts at asitting, as derived from 4liis aocoimit, which covered one liogshead oí punch one barrel oi punch ïorty gallons oí punch, nine bowls oí punch, ïorty-iive gallons of wiue and 47 gallons of wine. Washington, who was not present, expressed his surprise at tneir moderation, and wo te liis agent that he íeareü lie had not been liberal enough, and expreseed Üie hope that he liad not neglected tliose who had voted in the oppositkm. 'His peilective mimi and aeute observation soon noted the ravages made by drink, and döubtleeé confirmed that personal moderaüon wliicli never permitted liim to run into exeess oí auy kind. In the l'rovi anny, when general charges of druukenness were made against the Lrglnlii broope, thei-e was no word ag Washington pereonally. He had, moreover, thus early üeplored I is by Btrin orders, and applied a hundred lawhee man ïound drunk. Still latthat 'Gin shops servet! roprietor and those make tin ■ and in advlsing his nephew Erain iioiu drink, which ie ruin of duvkineu i - látry.' "