Show General Grant Under Arrest I Among the wellremembered fancies of General Grant was that for fasttrotting horses He became at the close of the war a familiar figure on the streets of Washington especially upon those which lead out to the country north of the city as he sped away in his plain buggy and citizens dress But ho was apt to forget that the city ordinances forbade fast driving driv-ing and more than once he was arrested for exceeding the rate of speed which had been prescribed as the limit It is due to him to say that when on Pennsylvania avenue or in other populous parts of the city his instinctive sense of propriety would restrain him from transcending the law but as he neared the boundaries he I was sure to give the rein to his horse and to begin making a mile in three minutes at the least On one of these occasions a policeman on horseback accosted him as he passed and requested him to stop He promptly complied when he was informed in-formed that he was violating the city ordinance and that it would bo necessary for him to appear before a city justice The hour was designated for the next I day but the prisoner forgot the matter and failed to attend The policeman I thereupon called upon him at his headquarters head-quarters corner of Seventeenth and F streets and remindedhim of the engagement I engage-ment The General was not pleased at what he regarded as undue pertinacity of I the policeman but when told by the latter I lat-ter that he had served under him at Vicksburg where he learned that it was the first duty of a soldier and a subordinate subordin-ate to obey orders the General yielded and commended him for the performance of hJs duty He accordingly appeared I before the justice who imposed the fine which was paid promptly without murmur mur-mur Waxhinglon Lttter II I I |