Show PURITY COMES FHO3I THE I PURE A pleasant story in relation to Geneal Grant comes from Long Branch through the Washington Stars correspondence which says that the General has a tender corner in his heart for young people part par-t arly those who are related to him and that he pay a great deal of attention to their immediate and prospective requirements The correspondent states that recently in the United States national bank in New York he asked its vice piesideut to get for him twenty English sovereigns The next day he came back and as the twenty I English gold pieces were counted out to him drew out of vest pocket 100 in United States treasury notes which he had rolled up in farmer style and paid them over while out of another pocket carefully wrapped in paper he took a handsome hand-some new Russia leather pocketbook pocket-book in which he deposited the gold saying as he did so I have a little niece who is going to Europe to morrow She never had 8100 of her own before so I am going to delight her heart with this There are many failings and imperfections im-perfections in this life which may and ought to be overlooked in contemplation con-templation of the virtues of the person otherwise General Grant is a man who like others of his kind has his faults we shall always believe I be-lieve that fate made up a combination combina-tion resulting in his elevation to the lofty position which he occupied occu-pied and that personal merit took a second place In the pro gramme but even if it were otherwise other-wise and the generals greatness resulted re-sulted directly from his own merits and his own acts all that he has gained as a soldier and a statesman would pale before such simple transactions tran-sactions as the one recorded above Victories are too often the reward bestowed by unsought fortune and in war chance may as it of n does elevate and degrade but in the peaceful pursuits pur-suits of this life mens excellence must be gauged not by results but by intentions not by great designs but by great impulses not by grandeur of position but by grandeur grand-eur of the heart and soul and mind A noble conception too often miscarries mis-carries because of inability to give it birth but the germ Is there just the same and under proper conditions condi-tions would have been born and prospered Grants greatness in military affairs af-fairs and politics is a matter opinion opin-ion but there need be no opinion about his splendor as a humanitarian > humanitar-ian and a gentleman when these qualities are evinced by acts which proceed from and appeal to the heart And what is true of him is true of everybody The man who tikes delight in the contemplatio of childhood who loves children and reveres all that is Innocent and virtuous in this life is a man to be trusted in great emergencies no matter what may be his faults and failings in ordinary affairs he may not pay his debts may be a Jefaulter may drink deeply maybe may-be profane and seek disreputable society but if his heart be attuned to harmony with the prattle of children if in the presence pre-sence of innocence he feels and shows no guilt he is a man upon whom in trying moments society may look without suspicion even if at trimes it has to visit upon him condemnation and reproach It is a very graceful thing to say of any man that he does not harbor suspicion and it is a grand thing to say of him that he is above suspicion The law iron bound as it is and of necessity must be inculcates at least the presump tion of innocence even in the presence of an indictment for crime but what must we say when we contemplate the picture of a mama being of unlimited faculties and boundless resources of varying tempers and adjustable dispositions reversing the rule of law and finding find-ing In a casual glance at the youth of either sex naught but vice and crime in their supposed behavior If such a person is not himself utterly depraved mentsliy and physically then it may safely be said that no such conditions exist in the human species Wherever and whenever you hear ol anyone presuming guilt where none appears when you see or know of a man watching for iniquity in-iquity and precluding the possibIlity possibil-ity of aught elbe existing simply because of mere waywardness or 8TOn actual folly appearing on the surface watch that man gdard against him avoid him if he is not vicious sndvile he is willing to ber and l only awaits < an opportunity s r l VVSV V p 1 Y 1 I b 1J e i i r 1 1 r VO i J |