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HIGHLAND PARK «INEWS LETTER}: When it was said by many that father, chafing under Genera! Washiuztous ua‘r‘elmtihg discipline. was openly making uncornflimentary" remarks about his Commander when it was reported that father was saying “that Washington lacked' every winning ' quality,” I trembled but I need not have feared. I have reagpn \o believe that a young girl’s heat. confidence and mm in the Commander was 1h¢ ”and that shaped father’s destiny. for the General wrote tc me in his reply these wands,“ My ,dear ehild, all your express“! sentiments respecting the {arson ydu discuss hear the stamp of truth. 1 tell yen with mdor that I have made it my duty handy Rm Mada]. end [weme to realize that it is firm fat the Continental army «mum-1w out) RENE. 16112th: am By LA that he Inn a victim of mil. inter-id oppreuion. and 1m no time in gathering hi: belongings together, am! soon as his business mtg" could be arranged he gained the home of 1m when forever. ' 011', than: were anxious days for his womm folk! The tori!!! both in E1331and and America minted him to be hung (not even shot) and they mide lampoons about him (‘I sat down one of them ’heré): ‘ Many wondered 3: Gene“! Wuhiuigmu’s patience with tether ell through his time of service the American ”3‘" . , -fi __,_ _ "-vâ€" .â€"_- "â€"y‘. â€"w-.- Father was, yen know, taken prisoner at, Beals- town by Harcourt‘s WW, ‘ “GeneralrLee'hns Esmed‘fienérnl Howc‘that by the British occupying the Chgupiqne grid con- gutting Pennsylvania, the Continental Congress would be force-dim dimlve, and while Carlton was hold§n¢ New Englgnd in ‘awt, in invadfit army mm 9393 from fianadg.Mwu:¢ :fllug gaming fig mm of the Wu; of New York."'~ This Volunje 1 7 DORO ‘T W1 'Bj LAURA DAT T ON FESSENDEN 0»er 1105‘ by Lara Dayton Fund“ {a 'tpget‘ he}, ant! Plan is very ‘PU 11‘! and we should admire to his plan was at _ be arranged he see the Ditish try it; but we have a little prdphecy most of his an ever. ‘ to make - - Ami if can HIGHLAND PARK, ILLINOIS, APRIL 29, 1905 " When a certain great King whose iuitial i:"G‘ Fetch limp; upon payer, and fall: to Mall; Tea1 When Mac folk; bum flu': tea and (III: paper like gamma} Petition he mod: «42;, rm, , But when 8 and C get their qr'm'e: well cm», KlnzG mil do well if he “be: his own bacon! : In the year seventeen hundred and cighly‘aId-lwo A :troEe he will get tlm will _mlz¢ Mm 200]: blue! Ami .ro‘ou, very :00», shall the swan arrive ‘ When Nebuchadnezsar to pasture shall drive! In the year eighty-three the afl‘aw will be over Am! G :lmll eat turnip: that grow in Hanover.” “ The face of the Lion slull the: baromg pale, He shall yitld, fourteen lull: and be- sheared of his Aiui send: over the are“ an army and fleet; ’ ~ When that only, 1903f finished, and frantic with stubble, ‘ . . Ybu ‘may ms: that Mu Kw u the. coating“ _ tail. , ° " ,. Oh, Georgia! dear King,"you‘3hafl be wary sore. ‘ Frp'ng“ the ‘star: dnld like ‘sm'pe: you will mercy“ ‘ {Mlmnl‘ '-‘~' ‘ u . h ' ' 'Y ' it William Howe’s movements were “re- markab- ,”v'1ldo not see that father should be blamed for them. and if Howe abandoned hi: direct Mirth on Pdeht'a through the Jerseys, end that gave up his oo-opentidn with Burgoyne, to all through the Chenpique, and lend at the head of the Elk fiver. pray, is that father's huh? Could they age hive decided upon it themselves without full- «5 mm? Md- I don’t eee why Lord Howe 3i yio‘g’g‘é. pendincbetm 17::meth believchim! Idonotwishmnflnemww fildmtoowea'ty ham-mumhtib nfinmforadaughmmddendhum” much’as'uui-hermjmvodn, a": éforthisrdsonflmlcopyayufimaiu that éyhtherwtweu: Mfiwnw‘mmmwa :lackéch'Ma-thntmybthuconwm Many as five pieees of cameo ,m . '7 hill that stands up in its; in «Red "e, mgudow I placed a battery to heir fleet in awe I did eventhing that u. Wt could do to make the place «pub!e oi W resietmée, but the but? was ,‘a piteous' ninety, and none knew tIns better thin I, and no voice protested more loudly of the leeks on every ~s'ide. I called these mines-able barricade: by their right names. and laughed at Our pigmy attempt; to frighten (May a powerful opposing forge-ave, with our tickety little fort and oer few guns. I wrate Washington that ‘I could see it crumbling in my mind’s eye. in the first Ithck.’ mes begin'in m‘thuwwm \ V uohenucva'hcptased (l ms.mw.m1.mdo}z «14K» hisplnwnotho-sbh'ugmmnd dethhubudflm? 3'“I drew a hamcade across the sheet that the town folk can Broadway (which begins about tho gird; in the rear of the fort), nad there . f'I probably made enemies in an mks. when I. said that ‘Ameticn’s defenders were untrained firm lads, and the apprentice: of petty tradesmen; most of whom Ind never hendled a musket? Why‘ the British did my: take admuze of .n this week- neas is 1 question not yet answered. Safely if _I had been the miter (that some wish to make me out) it would hive been .an'euy‘mmer to have ten: new: to the Asia, {or she quid-maria“ 9W \hel half empty town, and the British army Number 22