Show general C S grant today the apfl doing honor to the memory of general GRANT for it is the day of his birth the history of the man is too known to americana to bear repeating at this lute date in a newspaper he was one of the men who came prominently to the front during a most trying time ot our nation because his personal attributes seemed to adapt him so well to the part that he performed he was a man of a most courageous temperament tem gen eral PORTER in the amny number of mcclured McClure 8 magazine saya general GRANT could ride perfectly erect while bullets and shells were whistling around him he always seemed booi and collected in battle general SHERIDAN once confessed it is said to a party of friends that general GRANT was a greater general than he 1 I know more about military tactics than general grant joe said general but what bouros me like the devil he care for it seema that reckless daring BO to speak la necessary to e reat generalship NAPOLEON BONAPARTE was that kind of bual all the biber marshals of france were afraid to fire on the masses ahe public sentiment in behalf of the hungry bordea from st antoine and other slam districts of pans was much the same as the sympathetic feeling in this country today in behalf of the industrial armies no officer before NAPOLEONS time dared fire on them after the revolution had started but he swept the streets with chain shot and shell and then followed the masses to their very dena and unarmed them he seemed to care nothing for public opinion all he wanted was to become a conqueror he baw victory afar and he set about to achieve it little banog what it cost general GRANT waa of the same same courageous nature his object was to put down the rebellion and he seemed te calculate nofa so anch on how much it would cost as how it could be accomplished he carried with him that same spirit of daring and semi we will say for the want of a better word that yankees carry with them into business speculations and which has characterized them as the most buo business men of the age their laotto ia that if a maa risks nothing he can win nothing general GRANT won every time on the battle field and we all call him a great general he lost once in the world of trade and we call him a poor financier Ho weyer he was a great man and a great |