The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1905-04-08

1 Hearts r s s 81: |
4 Courageous |

c,srssAs $50. y zee powExAERRnL oonsAM
44444e%++44441 44s411114

cloth for Continental uniforms Across
the plant rows, where the negroes hoed
Groam, the overseer with cowhide un-
der his arm and his old FonteDoy bell
mouth tower musket strapped on his
back. still walked his horse, with fer
ret eyes under his broad brimmed hat
But there was little leaf raised, and the
wharfs at the foot of the lawn were
overgrown with weeds
Inside the great house there were the
same candle lighted dining room, the
high backed chairs, the tall, cumbrous
clock the portraits, the polished side
board rejecting the slender stemmed
glasses But the meals were silent
Anne's trouble hung over the house
hold in a shadow that was not tighten
ed by the presence Of vaster ones near
at hand. She had sorrowed with that
fostering sorrow that rs sell accusatory
And to know that newer so few, aware
of her part In ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS scene
believed her to have done a heroic
thing was like an added death to her
For a time she had fed for refuge to
her Odd passion for the cause. But the
| effort failed.
One day early In the new year, when
the world was busted with delicate
| frost Hike seed pearl, Colonel T1lIotsor
brought to GLADDEN. Hall the news OF
how "tha Old fox OF Mount Vernon by
a willy double across the Icy Delaware
had taken the Hessians at Trenton
Anne heard it alphabetically. To hei
despair, victory and defeat spelled the
| same. .
When the door closed upon her, the
colonel looked at hts wife silently
~And she still believes In hfmL-
~As she believes In US" replied the
lady softly. Colonel" she SAID hse0ly
''you have heard newst7
AVE- be answered after a pause
II have. A reply came to Mr.. Henry's
confidential inquiries today. There II
no doubt that Armand 6 the sans
prisoner who escaped from thu Ouch
ess OF Gordon or Amboy last August
Thank 0Ddr' breatbed Mrs. Tiisot
son fer~entiy. Tam glad can't heil
tt
~Anne bad better not know. Twill
do her no possible good"
'Cosonek- said the hdy decfssveiy
'1n this most have my way. an
going to tell her Just as fast ss can
She rose. laid aside her knitting, tool
up a candle and left him standing dub
ousiy before the fire.
The light came back to Anne Hike tn
spring sun The great horror was gons
and In spite Of the wars gloom Glad
den Hall grew more cheerful agair
zettes and read eagerly ieteers whfc
came to Henry from abroad
These told her how the Reprisa
lodging the British shops Of war, ha
landed Benjamin Franklin safely a
Nantes, of hts meeting there with Beat
marchafs and of his reception in Pari
: at the little hotel IN the Rue vieille d
Temple, where a mercantile Sign Q
"Roderique Hortaiez s. Co" hid plea.
ant conspiracy whose object was th
furnishing of war supplies to the Ame,
lean cobonlsts, and whose silent par
ners were prime minister and e kin,
Somewhere, she thought, there in hi
own land perhaps Armand was SAT,
not believing In her. but free and III
condemned
| The sound Of war came nearer whe
Howe's feet sailed into the Cbesapeak
and when Henry. summoned In hast
, from Hanover. called out the mifiti,
She watched them march through WI
lhmsburg. sixty-four companteo stron,
but the feet and the army It carrie
sailed on to beat back Washington Q
Brandywine 30 enter Philadelphia an
, turn the grave town into an orgy {
Tory rejoicing.
So the months passed IN. alternai
[ hope and despair. Spring unfurie,
summer dropped IT'S blooms, autumn
singed gtebe and copse. SNOW fell an
purified the earth stains. And at la.
; Virginia knew that Burgoyne had bee
4 entrapped in the northern forests, thu
D Philadelphia had been evacuated; ths
the cord which was 30 encirck N
q throat OF the rebellion had snapped
that France had reoognised indepen.
ence and made treaty OF alliance viii
the United States.
There followed a closer campaie
when Lord Germaine. the kings WI
p minister. having failed 10 strangIe A
monster, attacked It's exfnmitias. wle
o the r"booats swept into the sootber
= basbo's, when savannah ana August
0 fell vieD Linooins army was csugi
az tliariest0sn and Gatas ryutad ,
a camden, and tila@e wer fis soutis
DARKEST days
u knev tissf Vas W boo fsom a
army ~ fie issfb nseaBF, ~ elslss
hslf starved, without nsaeasinas, IA
senais 10 .ean. Washington IA
o sals'sls llse : 1ssk oilDsos's 400