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The Highland Park News. Published in the Interests nt Highland Park, Highwmxl and Ravinia. every Friday afternoon by H, F. A. E. Evans. Adyentsl’hg rates mhdc Known on walk-um at this office; Terms, 5|.00 psr year, 55 cunts fur six months, 30 cents for three months. “'e understand that the new cen- sus idea. like the measles. sometimes has “ struck in." down in Ravinia as well as up in the village of Fort Sheridan. It is all a friendly rivalry of course. to see which place has the more people and therefore which is the more impel-taut factor in this nineteenth century of civilization. As both will be annexed to the Park in a few years. we want both to grow rapidly. Entered LEWIS B. HIBBARD, < - - EDITOR. H. F. EVANS ' - BK‘SINESS MANAGER. This city practically has 110 mail to Waukegau the county seat and only twelve miles 21an aftPr 11:39 a. 11). No matter how important thebusiness. no mail. When the Electric comes we can have mails that leave here at almost any afte'rA noon hour and go straight to the Lake Forest and Waukegan offices and we. can also arrange for a light freight or local express business HO pao'k: ages can come for less than 27) cents. Big things in our Electric. you see. You just hear in mind, reader. that the Electric road means a saving of fifty cents every time you go to Wau- kegan as instead of seventy cents for a round trip as you pay now. you will then pay only 27) (wins. And 'what it saves to you it will saw to every other citizen who goes to the county capital from this city. Ravinin or Fort Sheridan Village; as tlwro are morn or loss going (-wry (lay of the week you see it means hundrvds of dollars saved to tho- poo. plo harp. so much [HUH' for (-lothing and gnu-Prior". ( )ffice Avenue, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 19.1897. ed at the. post-office at Highland Park, UL, as sccund alas»; matter. McDonald‘s Building, St. johns Highland Park. Illinuis. There are three things noteworthy about Washington. Note them brief» ly in their order today. EARLY LIFE. Born in Westmore- land County. about {)0 miles up the Potomac from the Chesapeake Bay. February 22. 1732. in the best per- iod of our colonial history. His an~ cestors had lived there 75 years. had a largeprooerty and were influential. Their ‘ prOperty.’ of course, was; in lands and slaves and what these would produce. There was fine blue blood in their veins. through breedâ€" ing high toned scwiety with refined manners. Sons were educated in England. whence also came the choic. est family supplies direct from some factor in London to the planter in Virginia. After his father's death. he. lived ,with his older brother. and patiently. ploddingly and thorough- ly. of his own free will. mastered hue» iness methods. and the practical arts'. so that he was in high repute in all the counties along the. Potomac beâ€" fore he was 20 veal-s old. MILITARY LIFE. The contest of the French for mastery of'this continent had been pursued for a century till it perished on the Heights of Abra ham. Quebec. in» 1759. All those years of Washington's youth the conflict had been sharp on the westâ€" ern border of Virginia and Pennsyl- vania. Washingtml. while yet a young man. became the recognized leader. the most capable man in the western colonies for this work. Like every Virginia young man early train- ed to the saddle and the sword, Wash- ington entered the service as an adeht and by the time he was called to the commandof the colonial forces after the Battleof Bunker Hill. I775. he was known as the most compete ent military man in the colonies He knew his business and the country soon learned the fact. He saw the strategic points so quick, and used them so successfully that European masters of the art of war admired him. But most astonishing is ‘the fact that though the countrv was as THE HIGHLAND PARK NEWS. lam that thuugh the (-tmntry was as large then as now. distances as great and tllt‘lf;' war» no railroads. no sin-am ships. m) n-logmphs‘ nu navy. no r0. mun-m. and ”w whale (-nuntrv had WASHINGTON. CIVIL LIFE. During the Revolu- tion Washington’s generals con. spired against hinn longress failed him; the colonies left him alone many tunes to get along as he could, ,with or‘ without ain army; and yet he bore it all and carried the c<mntry successfully.through, and when he surrendered his commission he 'as the best loved man in the land. For several years after the war every thing was chaos. but everylxxly looked to Washington. and the coun- try in due time got a >constitution and form of governmente but who could set it going and run it till it a population only equal to the stats of New York today, while the Brit- ish had untold resources, and yet Washington beat them. No wonder George III. dismissed tho ministry in grout wrath. was established and in good working order? Everyone said Washington for first president. and he vas twice elected without opposition. He was opposed and abused as no man was before or since in this country. and yet he alone could guide things aright. and before he was done the people wanted him a third term! He was the one man in the country equal to any and every emergency. Many times .zhe distrusted himself, but he did th: best he could. and history has shm’vn that it was the best that could have been done. The simple fact was this, God raised up that man to meet the two moment- ons emergencies of our country‘s his~ tory at that time. in face of every possible kind and degree of opposi tion. and then by his Providence led the people to select him to do it. and it wasdone. God. who measured with unerring accuracy the exacting demands of each emergency. en- dowed Washington for them. Hence. like Joseph. and Moses. and Cromâ€" Well. and Lincoln. and Cavour, and Bismarck. he succeeded. About a month ago thc cditur of thc News publishcd a column and.“ half rvvicw (If Dr. Watson's Yulu Loctnrcfi on preaching. in thc Stand- ard uf Chicago, and scnt him :I copy of tho nrticlc. so {hat thc author of Drumtnchty skctclws could scv what IAN MACLAREN.