Logan Republican | 1903-04-24 | Page 7 | General Grant's Bon Mot

GENERAL GRANT'8 BON MOT. Witty Rejoinder That Is Credited to the "Silent Man." A portrait of. Jay Cooke, by Wm. M. Chase, is ono of tho best pictures at this year's exhibition of tho Philadelphia Philadel-phia academy of flno arts. Mr. Chnso standing beneath tho portrait tho other afternoon, sold: "When Mr. Jay Cooko posed for mo ho told mo of n bon-mot of Gen. Grant's. Grant was entertaining a clergyman ono ovenlng, and tho clergyman had to mako a certain train on a certain railroad or ho would not got homo that night. Thcrcforo his host kept reminding him of tho hour, but ho would put the matter off and begin to talk in his fluent, clerical way again. "'Now, doctor, rcmomber your train goes at 10:20,' Grant for tho tenth tlmo said. '"That Is all right about tho train, General,' returned tho clergyman; 'tho Lord controls tho trains.' "'Yes,' Grant chuckled, 'but If you want to get this A. & II. lino train, you had better start now. Tho Lord has had nothing to do with tho A. & 13. this many n year.'" Pittsburg Gazette.