" crued interest and 11⁄2 1 coin. There were five indiv tion loan on behalf of t third name in the list w Co. The bonds at on one per cent. The World stated t the Secretary from t cent. more advantage those offered by the Such was the op "the crowning mercy or of our currency t Since that time a National Bank no Europe at par, like notes of the Ban trade, in the sense gone along until t easily exceed its c OUR FORMER PRESIDENTS A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE NATION'S HISTORY F GEORGE WASHINGTON, IRST President of the United States, was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, on the 22d of February, 1732. He was the son of Augustine Washington, a wealthy planter, and his second wife, Mary Ball. John Washington, the great-grandfather of the illustrious subject of this sketch, emigrated from England and settled in Virginia about 1657. George Washington's father died when he was in his eleventh year, leaving him in the care of his mother, a woman of marked strength of character. She was worthy of her trust. From her he acquired that self-restraint, love of order, and strict regard for justice and fair dealing, which, with his inherent probity and truthfulness, formed the basis of a character rarely equaled for its simple, yet commanding nobleness. Apart from his mother's training, the youthful Washington received only the ordinary country 439 |