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Show GENERAL GRANT. Another birthday anniversary of General Grant has gone by. It was celebrated in a few places. It would be celebrated everywhere throughout the land except that the war in which he became illustrious was a civil war, and the battles he won were against Americans. But he was a marvelous soldier all the same. When military men go to Vicksburg and examine that field, they ever after speak with reverence of General Grant. Even General Sherman believed that the task was impossible, at least on the lines marked out by Grant. Among soldiers he has the wonderfui distinction of being a soldier that never struck an enemy that he did not either destroy or capture, and was never defeated. Often the enemy believed be-lieved he was defeated, but next morning he was there, his face to the enemy and the enemy could never shake him off or escape him. Both he and Sherman were living examples of the mistake of Dr. Ostler. At forty they had tried and both were failures until the great war brought their . opportunity. By the way it will be twenty years in July since General Grant died. How the years roll by! As long since he died as it was from the time he started out, unknown, became commander com-mander of all the armies, crushed the rebellion, served eight years as president, circled the world and then, while death stood at the door, wrote the book which gave his wife independence from the cares that poverty brings to women. After all it is not time that is wanted, but the opportunity oppor-tunity and the genius to embrace it. |
