Show J GENERAL GRANTS GRANT'S LAST DAYS In the thc New York Sunday Herald Frederick Ward ard ardis is publishing his recollections of General Grants Grant's long contest with death Nothing that General General General Gen Gen- eral Grant ever did in health equals what he lIe did in inthe inthe inthe the closing months of his life nothing so reveals the indomitable soul of the man The fatal dart had struck him in a way most tr trying ing and painful he could count the days he was to o live but in iu his old quiet way he lived on and worked His us own and his sons' sons misfortunes and mistakes had bereft him of his fortune but there was the wife of his youth to be provided for and and so though death was at the door he looked hi his fate in the face and aud bade the grim messenger wait Seizing his pen he wrote his final bulletin from from- the thc b battlefield lie Ic simp simply coined his memory int into words and d made the stor story p. p It needed few When finished it was the stor story p of how the country and the nation was wag saved saveR when threatened threatened threat threat- ened coed ened s a-s as no modern nation had ever been There is no egotism in inthe th the pages not one line to i indicate that he had hac a thought except that it should shoula be bJ a concise and truthful statement of a momentous pcr period pe pc- r rod nOd od of history there is not a word of vindictiveness vindictive- vindictive ness U though he had many times times been een shamefully assailed and his motives misjudged When Then it was finished he folded his hands and turned turned his face to the thc wall the silent li hero to the last A great soul was his 1 f fI I J Vi |