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WASHINGTON CITY. -THE CAPITOL AND PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE.

shaft that has been reared as his monument and memorial. The home he loved so dearly at Mount Vernon is the most sacred spot in all the land, sought by pilgrims from all over the world, as one, in foreign lands, visits the shrines of saintly men. On the far Pacific coast a great and growing state bears his name, and, all over the land, towns and counties, streets and parks, schools and institutions and banks and all the things that people most prize and most work for, honor the memory of Washington by bearing his name.

And how grandly has the country which he helped to form and which he led to victory and a future, made his predictions come true! Its four millions of people who hailed him as president have grown to nearly seventy millions, its thirteen states to forty-five, its four cities to more than four hundred, any one of which is more populous than the most populous city of Washington's day. The American leads the world in enterprise, energy, invention, prosperity and patriotism; and, under the folds of the banner of the stars and stripes, schools and churches flourish as in no other land, homes are happier, men and women freer, boys and girls better, and the future more certain and more secure than in any other land upon the whole round earth.

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THE SEAL OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON.

And all this is because George Washington lived a hundred years ago; and that is why his story, as I have assured

you, was not yet come to an end. It never will end, while the world stands, and fathers and mothers teach their boys. and girls to reverence worth and greatness, truth and honor, nobility and goodness, strength and purpose, grandeur and success-all of which are chapters in the ever-living story of George Washington, the noblest American.

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