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Show I in li I J Pj J , . ' THE FACULTIES THAT WIN. B l.n 111 General Tecumseh Sherman once said that the B rj 1 I ! difference between General Grant and himself B ' Hi 1 , 1 ' rested in the fact that in planning battle, he B I 1 1 J ! !( (Sherman) could more clearly see the losses that B j 'M I !j ' !i would be suffered by himself, while the man of B ' I I r I ' i Appomattox looked for the injury that would be B ',1 f -; inflicted upon the foe. Grant's mind was like Von. B ; J ' I -J Moltkers in one respect. With him it was an in- H f j j f j stantaneous mathematical estimation of weight H; ! m 1 f and momentum, that both propelled with the same HI ' I ' ' I I speed a IG-pound hammer would knock out a 12- !. j i j pound hammer, and that the 12-pound hammer, I' ' ' B ' : ! given speed enough, would knock aside the 16- j ' ; J pound hammer, or that the loss sometimes of a HjjT' f thousand men Was justifiable whon a loss of H H 1 :'" seven hundred could be inflicted upon an enemy Hjlr " which was in his way and which was calling on Hjj ' ' , its last reserves to keep its ranks filled. And still , Ht, ;! Grant was a more cautious man than Sherman. Brfl, ' v : When the latter from Atlanta wired the former H' V j ' I ft j, j in Virginia for an order to make the march to HHfMJ 1 jl hi! tne sea' declarlnS that the Confederacy was but ?H'i 'IS ' a She11 and he C0Uld pr0Ve It; the ProPsltIon H''' ! ' n -! f ! struck all the officers at Grant's headquarters as !" Pi ' ' magnificent. Grant smoked in silence for half H' (J 't'j an hour, then turning to his adjutant said: "Wire B ; J I I Sherman to detail Thomas with force enough to '11 1 look aftor Hood and then s ahead." Suppose Hjjfj. I I 'jfiji i Sherman had left his rear exposed and Hood had, lilj!i 1 unobstructed swept up through Tennessee and H- ' I liia' Kentucky. Again, on another occasion, Sherman Hi 1 1 ' 1 19 said: "When in a close place I always knew that Hi J III I i Im Grant was thinking of me." When 'Grant drew his H lull' ! linos around Vicksburg and was forced at the same In ' H I II time to build and man entrenchments to stand off iV1 ' j'lffi tllQ army of General Joe Johnston from the out- 1 '' I 'iffi sIde; hIs aWest oflicers including General Sher-K' Sher-K' ' ' "m man' thought the attempt impossible and that it M ' Hi must end in failure. But Grant's seeming reckon reck-on U , i Hj lessness was merely putting in execution his ex- !n ' j j II act mathematics. The singular thing was that (i iff! aside from his profession as a soldier, Grant had ? i 1'i iH failed to accomplish anything. He had resigned ! J ' I UJ from the army and tried civil life with results so I j IB disastrous that when the war broke out he was I i j jli living on a clerkship. The walks of peace and the Hi fi ilK competitions of business cowed him. Still he was I h lu the one General that when he once struck ho left 1'i ' n'- I IS llis antagonist in no position to make further war- I ' - II ' I III fare" If the first blow was unsuccessful, he kept HH 1 i 1! llrllf llis llold and struclc aSam and again until the end. wilri 11 There was no escape from him any more than Ml !'i ' B from a devil-fish, and when he finally got all his M 'P !' B tentacles wrapped around a victim then the end ft J i r II was closo y seo men ofton in business that f 1 1 '' r B follow his methods and the result is that in a little VI '-if IB while from small beginnings they draw to them- 1: ' ' f tffl selves half the wealth of a city or state. They B i i i 1 jl'n can e aljsolutely honest in their dealings and Bill ' I i H sti11 accorQPsh the same result, for they do not Bill I ' n misB a detail are never taken by surprise and I'll, i i H when a crisis is precipitated they are prepared to tfj'i ill MB meet it Avith'out loss to themselves though a hundred HIl'i I 'ijW around them are overwhelmed. There are gen- i H ! I f fl erals in finance as in war and as in nature so Bl r ' I ' A among men. The sparrows and the deer are Bi l 1 8 turned out to make a living and they make the Hn ''' 'hi 8 food for thQ hawks and the tigers. |