Show I 1 A GREAT HANS MANS MEMORY the place where general grant breathed his last possesses marked interest tor for the american people and for a great rr irany any who are not ameri cann for it is to estimated that about 2000 persons a month visit it some of course out of idle curiosity but the vast majority maio rily through th the profound respect in which they hold the memory of the dead nearly every one wants to take away eone come eo ne relic but a soldier on guard prevents t is and a great many content themselves with taking away pebbles from the walk it is eaid said that thia this gravel has hail to be renewed every month on account of these relic hunters and the stones they carry away have never seen grant mr arkell who owns the mountain says he was offered for the cot cottage toge and that the men who offered this were western men who eaid wd they wanted to cut op up the cottage and ani sell it tor for relics relies the probability babi lity is that they would have taken it to pieces have carried it beto chicago and shown it there at the exposition in the same way that libby prison is to be shown somo some three years ago THE STA STANDARD did all it possibly could in a small way toward completing the monument to general grant it kept a subscription list op n for several months and put in in a little contribution of its own it the city of new now york which implied by promise to do the work within a reasonable time bad had done h balf alf as well as oden ogden all things considered the structure would now be completed and would rank among the grandest odthe of the lind in existence N now w that congress has decided not to r remove be the remains it is doubly the duty of the na national tonal metropolis to go ahead and keep the promise made to the country |