Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1893 — New Story of Washington. [ARTICLE]

New Story of Washington.

Here is a new story of the Father oi his Country. Washington’s head gardener was a man from some European kingdom, where he had worked in the royal grounds. But coming to America he left his wife behind. Homesickness for his “gude" woman’s face soon began to prey on him, and Washington noticed the anxious eye and drooping spirits of his servant. Finally the man went down to the river and declared his intention of shipping to the old country, when who should come up and lean over the side of a newly-arrived vessel but his wife. The kind-hearted general had secretly sent for the woman, and she fortunately suprised her loving husband in one of his fits of despondency.—Philadelpnia Times.