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ULYSSES S. GRANT
SLUGS AND ARROWS
1822--April 27, Hiram Ulysses
Grant borm at Point Pleas-
ant, O.
1839-—Enrolled at West Point
Military academy ans
Ulysses Simpson Grant.
1846-8-—In the Mexican war,
1848-—Aug. 22, married Julla
Dent,
1854—Resigned from the army.
1861-Colonel of Twenty-first 111i.
nois volunteer regiment of
infantry,
1861—August, brigadier general.
1862—April, fought battle of Shi.
oh.
1863—July 4, took Vicksburg.
1864——March, lieutenant general
in command of the armies.
May, opened his campaign
in the Wilderness in Vir.
ginia.
1865-April 9, received Lee's
surrender at Appomattox
Court House.
1869—March 4, inaugurated
eighteenth president, aged
45.
1872—Grant re-elected.
The Credit Mobilier scan-
dal exposed.
1876—February, “whisky ring”
exposed,
March, Belknap, secretary
of war, impeached,
1877—March 4, Grant retired
from the presidency.
Po
of
FAILURE at thirty-nine, at for-
ty-one Grant was the
successful soldier of his gener-
ation. War was his element, but
he did not suspect it. On the
contrary, he hated warfare, was
sored by army
»00ks on the military art,
lean war he had been contented to be
-
Grant as Second Lieutenant.
fromm the fighting
quartermaster deg
wide-tracked
the
experience Inclined him a
tractor for supplying to
army at the outbreak of the Civil war
when the politicians refused to make
him an officer.
The first time Grant came in sight
of the enemy In the Civil war he frank-
ly tells ug inat his heart jumped Into
his throat. “1 had not the moral
courage.” he sald, “to halt and con-
sider what to do: I kept right on.”
That the whole story how
Grant to Appomattox: he kept
right Starting a
at his back, and with ¢nly a long, un-
broken trail of disappointments be
hind hint, he never asked promo-
tion, an assignment or a favor, yet this
uanambitious man rose to be genemnl
In chief. ’
line in
That
artment.
to be
bread the
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got
on.
of
without
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Grant at
depressed,
than
and
Appomattox,
as he tells us, nt
Lee as If that foeman
acighbor in trouble,
When he became
Grant's misfortune to know no one ex-
»ept his associntes in the war,
1877-8—Grant’'s tour of
world,
1880-—June, defeated for nomi.
nation for third term in
Republican national con.
vention. Entered the firm
of Grant & Ward, bankers
in New York.
1884-—Failure of Grant & Ward.
Grant began to write his
“Personal Memoirs.” Af.
flicted with cancer of the
throat,
1885-—March 4, Congress revived
the rank of General for
him. July 23, died at Mt.
McGregor, N. Y,, aged six-
4 ty-three.
J
the
HEN Grant left the White House,
| first time in 15 years, his uppermost
{ wish was to visit hig daughter, Mrs.
Nellie Sartoris, in England, where he
was surprised by the public welcome
that greeted his arrival.
zled to find himself a personage,®
| James Russell Lowell.
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THE INNOCENTS
OW Mr. Rat was rather young
and he did not know that he
should look well around before he ran
ut of his home under the barn floor
n the daytime
And Mr. Puppy was also young and
1¢ did not know that when he saw a
at he should not begin to bark and
jump about,
One morning when Mr. Puppy was
sleep on the floor of the barn near
‘he door he happened to open one eye
wddenly, and there In the corner of
‘he barn was Mr. Young Rat, nibbling
orn.
Up jumped Mr. Puppy and barked,
fumping about ou his little legs as
though he were standing on hot coals.
| these own prestige at home, and they
of the world,
unequaled ia brilliance.
his way from London
emperors and kings honored
{a tour
| perhaps,
| he went
{ Tokyo,
{ him
{ Coming home after a thfee yeurs'
| absence, he weakly yielded to the
{ politicians who were using his name
in a desperate adventure to regain
| the Republican party. But the unwrit-
| ten law against a third term was vin
| dicated In his defeat in the Republican
convention of 1880,
Falling the White House, he
{ tempted by a “young Napoleon of
| Finance” into the whirlpool of New
York and to become a partner In a
{| Wall street bank. Into that blind
| venture he put what little money he
had and most of ali his name.
After three years he was
awakened from his dream
by the Napoleon's™
that he go borrowing from William H.
Vanderbilt the bank from
« crashing. lame from a fall
an when the truth was
broken him, but he limped Into
| the Fifth avenue palace of the multi
millionaire and came out with $150,000
As he bank, two
later, he met with the crushing
i news that the firm of Grant &
had gone down In a shameful fallure
Hours afterward found the
hroken still =itting at his desk
in his head dropped
i forward, his hands gripping the arms
of his chair,
Out of bad came good
his “Personal Memoirs”
admission that he consented
i that narrative ily
wins borrowed
of wealth
“young
to
He
icy street
save
was
on
to
entered the days
was
¥ ’
a clerk
man
glient despair,
Grant
a frank
to write
becnuse
Hving money when
a publisher proposed the undertaking
As he pursued his
ifled to
for unfolding a
opens
with
he
great of
on
theme be was grat
an unsuspected gift
moving tale of his ad
Jd achievements in the field
He wrote on had fini
story as imposing in its directn
ipl his nature
first sales of it brought hi
discover
yeniures an
until he
. 3
own
ICILY as
the
from him,
nan who never forgot and never dis-
rusted a friend, not even when he
Ulysses §. Grant.
lor Charles Sumner spoke scornfully
af the administration ns a “gift en-
terprise.”
The many scandals of the adminis
ration were mostly traceable to the
petraynl of Grant's childlike confi
dence In unworthy friends, “Black
Friday” in Wall street cast its
shadow on his family circle itself.
The “whisky ring” involved the
president's private secretary. A mem-
ber of the cabinet was impeached for
squalid transactions, but by accepting
Gis resignation Grant let him dodge
the conviction.
A liberal section of distinguished
Republicans revolted against Grant's
election to a second term, but they
were mostly leaders without follow.
ers. The popular revolt did not come
until the panic of 1873 had plunged
the country Into six years of hard
times, and a tidal wave in the elec
tion of 1874 swept the Democrats
fato control of the house.
| when he was gone, more money than
{all the earnings of his lifetime. *
| One day, in the midst of his writ
iing, as he was ‘eating a peach, he
{felt a stabbing pain in his throat. A
| dendly cancer had him In its clateh.
{til he had completed the two voluthes
i of his “Memoirs,” although he was re
| duced to the necessity of whispering
| his dictation in the ear of a stenog:
| rapher. Finally he was left speech.
| less and had to write out the closing
i
| chapters on a pad in his lap.
At the coming of summer, he Was
| taken up state to a cottage on Mt. Me.
| Gregor. There he silently welcomed,
{as he sat on the plazza, the visitors
| who came to see him, among them Gen-
eral Simon Bolivar Buckner. To that
classmate at West Point and foeman
| at Fort Donaldson, Grant gave his last
message of rejolelng that his suffer
Ings had united North and South In
a common sympathy.
(Copyright, 1920, by James Morgan)
Mr. Rat stopped nibbling and ran
back of a barrel, where he peeked out,
{ but when he saw it was not the big
{
|
sald Mr. Puppy, and down he dropped
and went to sleep In the sun by a big
rock.
When Mr. Rat found out no one was
chasing him he ran out from under a
bush and looked around. “Tired him
out,” laughed Mr. Rat when he saw
Mr. Puppy asleep.
S80 off he ran for home, and when he
reached the barn there was Mr. Fup-
py's mother, and he had just time to
slip Into his hole before she caught
him, i
Mr. Young Rat got a good scolding
from his mother when he tumbled into
the house for letting Mrs. Dog sce
where he lived, and Mr. Puppy was
well scolded by his mother for bark-
ing and playing when he should have
caught Mr. Rat.
The next day when Mr, Young Rat
poked his nose out just tu take a look
around, Mr. Puppy spled him. “Come
out here and let me catch you,” he
sald.
“Oh, you ean't keep awake
smough to cateh me,” sald Mr, Young!
Rat, jumping back in his house. “I|
saw you sleeping by the rock when 1!
run home.”
“You never will see me asleep |
again,” said Mr. Puppy, jumping at |
the tip of Mr. Rat's nose, which he |
missed, |
“We are going te move,” called Mr.
Hat from inside his house, and though |
Mr. Puppy watched and ran around |
long |
he decided It was something to play
with, and around the barn he ran.
Over the barrels and
| grain they went, Mr,
ahead of Mr.
came to the door Mr.
| she yard.
After him
| the yard
| went Mr,
aver
went Mr. Puppy.
they ran. Under the
Rat, and under went
! Puppy, and down the road they
| until they came the woods
| there Mr. Puppy lost him,
“Oh,
gute
Mr
to
0
What the Sphinx Says
By Newton Newkirk.
ng
men,
des
well
oO me
in or
to be
SPOR On
of, ary
obliged to
the lob
l
niselves,”
inwrning
work. And da
ane show up,
He geeva look wot day ees on da
calendar and telia me go home.
! When show up for da
work 1 tink mebbe was out late and
i no gotta ambish deesa morning
{da boss tells we no trouble lika
dat. He say today wis da Labor day
and nobody work, He tella me | can
go home and hava Ja vacash,
MARA
and show up for da
Hives Geese
uss he maka meestake
LOO,
vise
nobody
was
he never saw Mr. Young Rat
it was dark he,
with his mother, ran down the road
to a barn where there were no dogs
again,
(Copyright)
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STEAMING THE SKIN
66 AN sou tell me.” runs a letter |
signed Roberta, “whether |
gleaming the face Is really good for it
or not? | once had my face covered |
enemas for a month, It left
full of noticenbly Inrge pores, though,
and | want te to normal |
invigilile size ns soon as possible, Will
help me?”
if the face
my skin
reduce these
steaming really
Steaming will, is rinsed
rublaed with a
Daily
anything
piece of Ice for a few
moments,
for
messages wiil nisn
which promotes
evers
no
Yacrash and
heegn
year
work
+ oof he go to work
1 questa work, da
ton,
Da boss tells me 1 no losa da wage |
and maka da :
Righta queeck 1 tink da Labor
day was greata stuff So 1 go
ind feegure out smarta idee.
1 no tells my but | am gonns
finda guy wot maka da ealendar. 1
tell a heem eof he maka tree hundred
nd seexnty fonr Labor day every year
and juss one day for iay off ees gresta
stuff. We go to work on da iny off |
day and lay off en all da Labor day.
Da boss forgetia deesa morning was |
da Labor day before he geeva look at
fia ealendar. So weeth jusa leetle |
body else 50 works.
can go home
g cele
brash
home
boss,
you gotta steady job,
| was moocha deefrence—jusa
{ Monday. September six thine.
| But he say een deesa country one
miami stoma ions
every day.
guy alla right,
Wot you tink?
- 3 cscs
tink 1 am pretty smarvs |
r
WILL
Copyright.)
IN CONFIDENCE
1 would not speak in bitter tone,
But Brown is such a stupid pup!
His eoliar-bution’s made of bone,
And su 1s he, from that place up.
- * -
Jobs,
Johs is
ETHEL CLAYTON
are what everybody up
The job a man hae is hardly ever |
the one he wants, after he has got it, |
He knows of another job that beats |
his all hollow, i
Another fellow has it, i
It i= ensler work and pays better, |
$
well, how he gets by is more than any- i
body can find out.
Must have some kind of pull, he 1
This job the man has would he all
right if the hours were different. if
the pay was mised, and If the bose
wasn't unreasonable,
Only Inst week the boss refused to
tnke this man's advice about some
thing. :
Stubborner'n a mule! ;
Like to know how that guy got to
be boss, anywny,
Some fellows have all the luck,
He gets to do the kind of things he
wants to, If the man had the kind of
things the hoss gets to do—ah, there
would be the snap! :
But catch that boss letting him do
oy
Ethel
ation in reading.
chosen library in her Hollywood (Cal.)
home.
the Orient, spending several months
was booked with her mother and
brother, Ronald, for an extended vaca.
tion In Europe.
Fk s
activity of the
its
face
than
, for
is muddy
with he
is
skin tends to re
blemishes
The
more
should not be stemmed
then
It the
oaRsn
fwice n
and
shout ten minutes
week
or blotchy n Ie
wilng cream Into the open pores
but if, as In Roberia's
fineness of the
face should be wiped «
svisahle,
case, only the skir
the
soft
=
fe
clot}
of
with =a
sleamed
fo remove
then
} con] water (oo close
aut the pores
TT TITIIITTTTITI TT]
The Skin Should Not Be Steamed Too
Often,
the pores, and finnlly, rubbed with a
pores terdds to shrink them and in time
they will return to their normal size.
Everything tnakex time, of course,
Nature, intelligently assisted, wiil overs
come and cure most abnormal condi
tions, Hut nature works slowly
Copyright.)
them' The boss knows very well if
he the other fellows do those
things awhile they'd get hep to what
an snap he hak, and wouldn't have any
respect for him at all,
Huh! Guess yes
0 well, some people get it
niece, but others have to work.
let
ix work-—hah!
work ?
The permanently unemployed
fitter! with a job,
There
every job they get,
People whe are inclined to be frank
ahout it. think the main chieetion on
the part of some folks to a job, is that
there Is work connected with it,
But of course this may be wrong,
- - a
FINNIGIN FILOSOFY
if yer find anny throvble lov.
in' other people, use on thim
some av what yex have been
wa-asti~' on yresiif,
WOMAN SLAYS
HER AVENGER
Shoots Man Who Had Killed Two
Others Who Had Attacked
Her Honor.
ARGUES OVER MOTOR
First Husband Ambushed and Killed
Bix Years Ago—Her Ranch Fore.
man and His Father Were
Shot by Wilson.
Winfield, Kan—A year and a balf
pear Win-
He
roud,
Kan., by Mrs. Wilson.
Charles West, first hushand of Mra,
near Tahlequah gix years ago,
William, fell at
Wilson
Wilson's hands he
charged young Anthony,
Mrs. Wilson's ranch, &t
Tahlequah, had been too friendly with
Mrs. Wilson while her husband was
orm.
Canse
Trip.
Wilson killed her husband as
were returning from a cattle buy-
trip to Dexter, 22 miles east of
Mrs.
they
ing
who have ranches near Dexter,
Wilson had been driving
bile very fast, according to the storey
his automo
the tragedy.
When a stop was made for tire trou
ble and Wiison left the car, Mrs. Wii
son slid into the driver's insipt-
ing she would An argument
followed and Mrs Wilson suddenly
shot twice with an automatic pistol
she had taken from the flap of one of
the seats
seat,
drive,
After Wilson had been inducted into
the service he complained to the draft
officig } his wife had reported suf-
iz that kh
£ that
Mrs. Wilson Suddenly Shot Twice.
fering at the bands of her foreman,
Anthony. When he returned
from the army he engaged Anthony in
in the street, shooting him
The «lider Anthony rushed)
dead
duel
twice.
son's gun.
Acquitted Under “Unwritten Law™
The successful duelist was acquitted
by the jury under the “unwritten law”
He testified at the hearing that his
wife had confessed the Anthonys had
ambushed and killed her former hus
hand and had sworn also to kill Wil
Wilson, thirty-five years oid, gained
He wus
with the 101 Ranch Wild West show
several years as chief of its cowboys,
with that circus. Mrs, Wilsen is of
Indian blopd. according to friends.
Bathtub 1s Too Warm.
Philadelphia. — Before going on
etnire to take an bath, Solomon Salkin.
proprietor of a hardware store In
Philadelphia, lighted an oll lamp and
placed it in the store directly below
Later, Solemon, sitting In the bath
tub. noticed that the water was be
coming unusually warm, He torned
on the cold water. It failed to reduce
the temperature. Getting out to n-
vestigate, Solomon found flames ent.
Ing throngh the flonr beneath the tub,
Tle suffered. a $4000 loss before fire
men extinguished the blaze.
Wasp Bored Moles Through Ear,
RKRpringfield, Mase Rushing into the
office of an ear specialist, Miss Lillian
Beechly had a wasp which had pone.
tured her ear four times removed hy
the physician.