Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1891 — The Little Hatchet. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Little Hatchet.

George—Father, I can not tell a lie, I did it with my little hatchet, etc., etc. His Father —Come to my arms, my

noble boy, etc., etc. And now you may chop it up into stovewood length, and pile it neatly, inside of two hours, or I’ll see you in the woodshed. *

An English E-tbnnto of Washington. No nobler figure over stood in the forefront of a nation s life. Washington was grave and courteous' in address; his manners were simple and unpretending: his silence and the , serene calmness of hi’s temper spoke of a perfect self-mas-tery; but there was little in his outer bearing to reveal the grandeur of soul which lifts his figure, with all'the simple majesty of an ancient statue, out of the smaller passions, the meaner impulses of

the world around him It was only as the weary fight went, on that the colonists learned, little by little, the greatness of their leader—his clear] judgment, his* heroic endurance, his sience under difficulties, his calmness in the

hour of danger or martha Washington. defeat, the patience with which he waited, the quickness and hardness with which he struck, the lofty and serene

sense of duty,that never swerved from Its task throiteh resentment or jealousy, that never t uro tig'll war or peacti’felt the touch of a meaner ambition,-.that knew no aim save that of guarding the freedom of his jkltow-cotmtiymen,' and fio personal longing save that of returning to his own- ; 'Wheh -their freedom was secured; It '.was almost unqqnsciously thats mon .learned ,to cling to Washington with a trust and faith such as few other men have won, and to regard Jun)., yytth. a reverence' hu3hP§t&^ty i ,fe his memory.—J. ILoGreen, History of the English Peo-

THE LITTLE HATCHET.

STATUE OF WASHINGTON AT THE CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION.

WASHINGTON AT THE BATTLE OF PRINCETON.