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(1) Norval's Point, near Colesberg.

(3) Near Bethule.

Kimberly.

(2) Frere Bridge, at Aliwal North.

(4) Fourteen Streams, Vaal River, between Vryberg and (5) Wagon Bridge over the Tagula, near Colenso.

BRIDGES OF SOUTH AFRICA.

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A Patriot's
Advice.

GEORGE WASHINGTON.

One hundred years ago (December 14, 1799) occurred the death of a man long respected by Americans as the greatest of Americans—a man who was reckoned a model citizen, a great statesman, and, in fact, the father of his country." It is needless to say that it is George Washington of whom these words are written.

Until within recent years American children were taught in text books to venerate his words and his memory. It is only since we have been seized with longings for greatness, with desires to progress beyond the ideals of our forefathers, that the precepts of Washington have fallen into ill-favor, that stories of his childhood have been excluded from school books. Perhaps nothing could be published here, at this time, in commemoration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the death of this great man, more fitting to the occasion than a few quotations from his farewell address an address he sent forth to the American people in which he expressed his gratitude to them for the honors they had extended him, in which he declined additional

favors, in which he warned his countrymen against the dangers he then foresaw.

He was loath to accept the credit for many things the people would gladly have bestowed upon him. He said:

If benefits have resulted to our country from these services, let it always be remembered to your praise. and as an instructive example in our annals, that, under circumstances in which the passions, agitated in every direction, were liable to mislead, amidst appearances sometimes dubious, vicissitudes of fortune often discouraging, in situations in which not unfrequently want of success has countenanced the spirit of criticism, the constancy of your support was the essential prop of the efforts, and a guarantee of the plans by which they were effected.

In giving the advice he believed essential to his country's welfare, he was reluctant to force his opinions on others, but he knew the need of words of warning. and so spoke them.

"Here, perhaps, I ought to stop. But a solicitude for your welfare, which cannot end but with my life, and the apprehension of danger, natural to that solicitude, urge

me, on an occasion like the present, to offer to your solemn contemplation, and to recommend to your frequent review, some sentiments, which are the result of much re

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