Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1906 — Washington at Princeton. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Washington at Princeton.

Our greatest national hero is nearly always pictured for us in some j>o*ed position. sitting for his portrait, a* it were, to some one of the great art|sts of the time. Yet he was a man of action, nnd as strenuous in bis wny aa time of bis MtcirMors in the presidential chair. His bravery and activity at the battle of

Princeton has furnished the theme of some fine pictures. In the battle of Trenton. Washington, long on Iho defensive. changed his policy and attacked without the slightest warning. II •> had only (>.OOO men. against 2.5.14H1. He. planned an attack with five divisions,-those of (rates. Ewing, Griffen nnd his own. co-operating with that of Putnam from Philadelphia. He threw his own 2.400 men across the Delaware by night, marched them nine miles through a blinding snow storm and attacked at dawn. Only Griffen's division gave him any help, but so well had the plan been laid and executed that hia victory , was complete, and he went back across. the river with 1,090 prisoners. To punish this audacity Cornwallis was sent our from New York with 7,000 men. Stationing three regiments at Princeton, he advanced on Washington's position, the Ameri'-au army being posted in line of battle across Assunpink river. Arriving before them at nightfall. Cornwallis deferred the attack till morning, and this was enough for Washington. who was remarkable in that he instantly detected and always took advantage of an enemy's mistake. Leaving his camp fires brightly burning and heaped with fuel. Washington mnixhed to Princeton by a circuitous route nnd. as at Trenton, attacked r.t dawn, winning one of the most signal and decisive victories of the war. The British lost over 500 in killed, wounded and prisoners, and the confidence of the country in Washington and in the war was once more fully restored. These two movements were declared by Frederick the Great to be the most daring and brilliant military exploits of the century.

That thou art dead tha sons of men yet gi ieve; A light wert thou upon n natloo's path, A rock unshaken 'mid the deep sea's wrath. 'Neath which the young ln>|>e of the world might live. •Ob, warrior seer! Our country's need Is dire. Though ne'er an alien foe besiege her g.tlc I Vain hope were armaments or navies great. We bleM within and burn with our own tire. ' All shadowy the evils that lieset , Tire gift thou gavest uh,, ao bravely won. Thou shouldst live now; ah, with what keen regret Wouldst thou then view thy handiwork begun ‘ In such abundant hope—nor nearer yet Thy great Ideal, noble Washington ! Loudon la undoubtedly leading the world In the matter of women's clubs. Twenty-one years ago there was not a single Institution of the kind; now there are thirty. There are also several mixed clubs, of which the women members number • thousand.