Evening Star Newspaper, April 3, 1897, Page 21

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1897-28 PAGE 21 ANHEUSER-BUSCH BREWING ASS‘ THE LEADING BREWERY IN THE WORLD. Brewers of the Most Wholesome and Popular Beers. The Original Budweiser The Michelob The Muenchener The Faust The Anheuser The Pale Lager erved on all Pullman Dining and Buffet Cars. Served on all Wagner Dining and Buffet Cars. Served on all Ocean and Lake Steamers. Served in all First Class Hotels. Served in the Best Families. Served in all Fine Clubs. The Two Greatest Tonics, ‘‘Malt-Nutrine”’ and “‘Liquid Bread” are prepared by this Association, apts. m& A TRUE HEROINE. hidden beneath a mass of burning cinders, her back frightfully burned. Tender hands bore her to a neighboring shanty, where all Life for Her Brother. that could be Sone to alee e ney ae ing was eager! stowed. But humai ee eee | ald came too late. ‘The brave little spirit She lived tn Placer county, not far from | Iingered until the following day and then where the pretty town of Auburn now | departed for a brighter land. It was not tands, many years ago,| known until after she had recovered con- aa posed Mid eet ccoack tie but te sciousness a short time before she died Se 5 that she had broken her leg. Her last now residing there have any recollections words were: “Kiss me, Tommy, dear; I've of the affair. The family, consisting of! saved you and I’m so happ: her father, a miner, her mother and little | see) = brother, dwelt in a small shanty erected OLD TIME COURTESY jer cover of a convenient ledge. The shanty was a miserable structure of two rooms, but {t held what many a grander dwelling fatled to contain, a loving house- A Little California Girl Who Gave Her Of the Sort Found in Oregon When She Was Young and Unfettered. From the Pendleton East Oregonian. old. 1 er lay sick with the fever, | : hold. The mother Way sick vt tweise, per,| ‘There wasn't any particular excitement formed the drudgery of the house. Her | over the hanging of the man pointed out little brother, a curly-headed romp of five. | was Carmen's great responsibility. The father was away from early morning until | late at night at his work, and so the little hands of twelve found plenty to do. In common with the custom of miners, the father kept a store of giant powder In the house, which In the present case wa contained in a sack placed in an old box stood by the foot of the bed where | the sick mother. The upper part of | shanty, under the sloping board roof. | ilized as a storage place for old | | and arrested at Big Bend as the chap who stole a pack mule from Colonel White's camp, over on Fish river. One of White's | men,who was over after bacon, happened to meet the stranger and he went to Jim Red- j fern, president of the vigilance committee, land said: é “Jim, is {t a good day for a hanging?” “Wall. tolerabiy fa’r,”” replied Jim. The kuss who stole our pack mew! is nin the fin front saloon.” T see. And you want him hung?" ‘I don't keer no great shakes about it myself, but T reckon the kurnel would be | pleased. | “I'm willing to obleege Colonel White, | as he's a good friend of mine; but do you dunnage and rubbish. One night the father was absent in the mine, on night work. By 1s the shanty took fire, probab ed and defective adobe chim- armen awoke to find that the roc and sparks dropping down. nging up. she loudly eried to awaken | think the critter down thar has any ob- mother and Tommy, but the little boy | jechshuns to bein’ hung?” became frightened and hid his head be-| “He don't lcok like a man who'd kick neath the covers of his bed. Carmen sprang! about it. "Pears more Ike a critter who'd to lift him from the bed when she saw /be glad to be off the alts.” the shower of sparks falling upon the | “Wall, we'll take chances on him,” sald powder hex. Recognizing the awful dan-| Jim, and he went to his shanty und got a ger, she attempied to leave the child for | rope and asked eight or ten of the boys to the moment and carry out the powder, but | go along. When the crowd reached the tin in her excitement she caught her foot in| front saloon, the stranger was just com. the overhanging bed clothes and fell to! ing out. the floor, breaking her thigh bone. Unable } . the brave girl crawled to the box | jer, and drawing herself up, covered ; y, we want you,” “What fur?” “Goin’ to hang you." remarked Redfern. he box with her body. The mother had by | time succeeded in getting out of bed ng outside the now furiously burn- anaged to take with h Kurnel White's pack all, fire away.” The cries of Carmen: “Oh. was escorted to a tree whereon a out, won't you!" turned for | more men had been duly hanged mother's thought from her lifted upon an empty whisky barrel, = danger. le fire had aroused | the noose was soon placed over hic if he neighbors, who speedily ran us ate “Want to say anything?” asked Jim, as 1e burning shanty and lent what ald! ay was read they could. Carmen was discovered and | “+7 ata Removed. Her rescuers found her almost! “Thon let ‘er go. NEW PUBLICATIONS. | An hour later, White's man, who had started for home, returned to hunt up Mr. Redfern, and sa: ——__—-— “Look-a-yere, our_mewl “No. Th got the feller and the mewl jover at Clay City, and hung him this | mornin’. I thought’ this was the feller, Stories of Mystery. 2 .rs.e.2 or Awanied prizes in the great \ oe see. wal Bes bin hung and burted, and we can’t help him v. We'll jest “$30,000 TO AUTHORS” [let the ‘next one off, to even un titer : | My compliments to the kurnel, and tell him of 816 menuse: I shail always stand ready to obleege him." now ready : ‘ top, $1.25: SONS AND FATHERS, wiivs. ENNIES IN HAWALL. Ry HARRY STILLWELL EDWARDS. UNDER THREE FLAG: BL m, that feller didn’t steal General Jollification at Their Ap- pearance in Honolulu. ¢ Honoluln Advertiser. he pennies have came. | And now Honolulu people who never Hyed east of the Rocky mountains will have all Kinds of red, white and blue money. W. W. Dimond 1s responsible for the innova- tion, and his customers are tickled to death THIRD | F TAYLOR and A. T. par ZB. | THE INCENDIARY, By W. A. LEAHY. FOURTH PRIZE. NOW READy, when they learn that an article marked “Reduced to $1.97" does not mean $2 to the A MODERN CORSAIR | purchaser. By RICHARD RENRY SAVAGE, author My I did it,” he said, yesterday, “so that we Official Wife.” “Checked ‘Through can make exact change, and when we give Cloth, $1.00; paper, 50 cents. People @ discount for cash they will get full benefit of it. I believe within a year other stores will take t up and pennies will become current coin in Hawal!. When that comes, then they will probably be accepted in payment for stamps at the post office. No, there is no danger of their becoming a nuisance; on the contrary, they will be a convenience to shoppers. Only a certain number will be required for circulation here, and there ig no danger of people hoarding them long enough to compel heavier importations of the base coin. “They were brought into use in Denver, Col., twenty years ago by a prominent dry gcods firm, and there was a roar from their rivals. A 10-cent piece was the smallest coin used up to @ few years before, then the nickel followed and finally the cent pleces. it was not six months before every busi- ness house in the city was using them, and the man who introduced them was after- ward asked to be mayor of the city, run for Congress and all sorts of things. When he dies the city will probably erect a bronze monument to his memory. “You will understand that I do not an- ticipate that any political preference will be given me in the future for having intro- duced pennies in Hawaii, but think of the opportunities sign writers will have to pre- pare placards reading: ‘A bergain at 9c." ‘Everything goes at $1.48," and so on through the Ist. Pennies are a curtosity here, and I violate no confidence when 1 tell you that the principal reason for my importing a few hundred dollars’ worth of the little copper things is merely as an ad- vertisement. “That they will be a convenience to shop- pers there ts no doubt and a source of amusement as well, for the people here will follow in the footsteps of their cousins across the water. THE FASCINATION OF THE KING. By GUY BOOTHBY, author of “Doctor Nikola,"'ete. RAND, McNALLY & CO., Publishers, Chicago and New York. CHICAGO And Its Administration By the HONORABLE LyMAN J. GAGE SEORETARY OF THE TREASURY, in the APRIL NUMBER of i Tre Oren Covrr. (A MONTHLY MAGAZINE). Other Contents: CHICAGO SEVENTY-8IK YEARS AGO. From the Diary of COL, WILLIAM "A. TRIMBLE, St Hillsboro, Otito. THE LION AND THE ASS.” A Fable. a MAKTIN LUTHER. WAS THE CHURCH RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INQUISITION Tiinstrated. By DR. PAUL CaRUS. COMMERCIAL. MORALITY. by GEORGE JACOB HOLYOAKE, Brighton, lend. HISTORY OF MANKIND. "LIAN HARVEY. The Last of neh a ‘tista. Fits Bightiet! irthday. ScHILLPR AS a PROPHET. Batvortal. For Sale by all Newadealers. Yearly, $1.00. THE MONIST A QUARTERLY MAGAZINE Devoted to the Philosophy of Setence. CONTEN’ For April, 1897—Vol. VIT. No. 3. Bese, To Day Prof. RUDOLPH BUCKEN Genesis of Social “Interest,”” Prof. J. MARK BALDWIN @ome Points in Intracranial 3 Cee CAPrIE vctotion. Price, 10 cents. soe Such a High Wind. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “I saw you out on your wheel the day of the high wind.” “Yes; I punctured both tires before I got home. ‘Have to walk?” Fhe Confict of Races, Clames and , “Np. You see, the wind 20 strong Prot. G. BIAMIXGO | {t Kept both tires filled through the pune Fie Mr clony of Bostntom. ‘Mlustrated. EDITOR, tures, and I never found they were busted France. Loom anngar { Util next day. Criticiame and Discuasions. alerep gar ss yh on PS a oe ©. oo Im Chicage. Lt AN ACT OF BRAVERY Gen. Grant’s Literary Work Was Nothing Less. WHEN DEATH WAS AT HIS ELBOW —- Labored Calmly and Uncomplain- ingly to the End. MANY INTERESTING FACTS ee eee (Copyrighted, 1897, by Frank G. Carpenter.) Written for The Evening Star. HE TRUE STORY I of General Grant's greatest battle has is never been publish- \ ed. qt was not fought. during the bloody years —_be- tween 1861 and 1865. It was not waged during his stormy ad- ministration in the White House, but it came during the last few months of hi life, when bankrupt- ed and made penniless by the villain Ward, when racked with pain and enfeebled by disease, he shook his fist in the face of death and wrote the book which made his widow and his family wealthy. .No other good book has ever been written under such circumstances. Few books have ever been written which read so well. The lan. guage is as simple as that of Pilgrim's Progress or Robinson Crusoe, and the story is of thrilling interest from begin- ning to end. To read it you would not think that much of it was dictated in a voice not above a whisper, and that the thought came forth from a brain sur- rounded by nerves which were ever twitch- ing with agonized pain. Few books have had so great a sale as that of Grant's. Hundreds of thousands of copies were sold, and Mrs. Grant not long ago told me that her royalties upon it have amounted to more than half a million dollars. The book sells well today, and it will be a standard book for all time to come. The Man Grant Most Trusted. Much of the real story of this great work I am able to tell you today. I give it in the words of the man who of all others outside of his own family In those last days General Grant most trusted. His name is N. E. Dawson, and he is now the confidential secretary of General Nel- son A. Miles. He has had the confidence of many great men, and today he has the secret history of a score of famous states- men’s lives stored away in his shorthand notes given to him by the men themselves with the understanding that the matter is jot to be published until after their deaths, General Grant,” said he, “never trusted men by halves.’ When I first met him all I had with which to win his confidence were my recon mendations. I was employ- ed in the War Department, and was asked by him to come to New York and go with him when he imade his trip to Mexico. I was a comparative stranger, but he trust- ed me implicitly. He made me the cashier of the party at the start, and put §20,000 into my hands to pay the running expenses of the trip. I have never seen a man who trusted those he liked so much. He never for 4 moment thought his friends would not be faithful to him, and if I had writ- ien a note for $10,000 and. pr SA sented it to him in the shape of a letter I have no doubt he would have signed it. He had never had a stenographer trip before, and he said to that he would not object reminiscences to me.” “How did the general come to write his book?" I asked. Sees “I don’t think he had ary fdea of pied Mr. Dawson, “until after the failure of Grant and Ward. This left him penni- less and he became very anxious to make money. The Century people, you know, began the werk of getting him to write. They asked him to write articles for the magazine. But General Grant was not at all sure that he could write. He feared to attempt it. At last he consented to write four articles for them. I think he was to get $400 apiece for them. They took so well that it me more easy to persuade him to write his book. The Century Company made him the first propo- sition, but Mark Twain, who had known Grant, having met him at dinners and elsewhere, made a better offer and got it.” An Awkward Predicament. “Was General Grant really penniless at the time of his failure?” “Ye replied Mr. Dawson. ‘He lost rything that he had. Everything he owned in the world had been invested or deposited with Grant and Ward.” “How about that money that he got from Vanderbilt?” “He got nothing from Vanderbilt after the failure. He borrowed $150,000 of him the day before he failed, but every cent of this went to Ward and was swallowed up. I understand that all he had left at the time was about $80 in his pocket and $130 in cash belonging to Mrs. Grant. His friends at once offered him their help, but it was some time before he accepted any- thing, and what he did take came from a comparative stranger.” “How was that?” “The offers of a: with him on a me at the time to dictating his re- ‘ance came from all arts of the country,” replied Mr. Dawson. Many poor men wrote that they could loan him money and among others he got one very touching letter from Lansing- N. Y. This came about four days the failure of Grant and Ward. It was from a man whom General Grant had never seen. He wrote the general that he had made some money out of his business and that he had saved a few thousand dollars. This he said he would like to lend to the general in his extremity. He in- closed a check for $500, making it payable on account of his share due Grant for services ending in April, 1865. In his letter he told the general he could draw upon him for more until his surplus was used up and that he could pay him when he got ready. He told the general he would lend him $1,000 at once for his note at twelve months without interest with the option of renewing at the game rate. This af- fected General Grant very much. He ac- cepted the check and used it. After the government gave him his pension he paid the money back as soon as he could. Grant Never Forgot a Favor. “Gen. Grant never forgot a favor,” Mr. Dawson went on, ‘‘and he remembered this man to the day of his death. I was pres- ent when he met him some time after this. It was during the last days of Grant's ill- ness. There were many famous men wait- ing at the hotel there to see Grant, but they had been turned away again and again because. he was not well. When this man’s card came in Grant ordered that he be admitted at once. He received him kinc- ly and thanked him in person. “But did not some of Grant’s rich friends offer him money at that time, Mr. Daw- son?" I asked. “I don’t know that there were many per- sonal offers of assistance,” replied Mr. Dawson. “His richest friends were full of suggestions and plans for raising large sums, but I don’t know that they made offers to relieve his immediate necessities. Still there were many kind things done and many offers made which were not accepted. I remember one case was that of Senor Romero, the present minister from Mexico. As soon as he heard of the failure he came to New York and called upon Gen. Grant. After he left a check for $1,000, payable to Grant, was found on th» table where he was sitting. Mr. Romer) kad offered to loan him money, but Grant refusing to ac- cept, he left the check. I believe the gen- eral returned it.” “When did Grant first realize that he was going to die, Mr. Dawson?” “It was before I went to write for him. After we came back from Mexico I had position as stenographer at the Capitol, though I told him that whenever he re: be&n his book before I came, and had written the first half of the first volume. He penned this with his own he realized that death the face. die he sent for me 40 help him. Tt waa| through me that hewlictased the most vf | the book and he wrote very little after I came.”" In His Last Miness, “What kind of a man was Grant at home during those last days?’ I asked. “Gen. Grant was always the soul of sim- Plicity,” replied Mr. Dawson. “You would never imagine that he thought himseif a great general or a noted man. I doubt whether he felt that he was so. There was no self-assertiveness about him. He put every one on.the sarhe standing with him- self, and he never “acted+as though he thought he was better than others. He was kind to every one. During his last days he was in the greatest of pain, but he kept his agony as far-as possible to nim- self. I remember during our dictation looking up suddenly at-times and finding his face contorted with pain. As soon as he saw that I was looking he would force himself into composure and he would not permit his family to know how he was feel- ing. He loved his family as much as any man I have ever known, and they all lo: him. He was proud of his boys. He likec ¢o have his family about him, and it was the greatest comfort of his last days that they were with him. I have a photograph which was taken of Gen. Grant and the family at this time. Copies of it were made for the family, and when the general gave me mine nearly all the family wer present, and I had them all write their autographs ypon it. This was during the very last days of Grant's life, and others seeing my photograph were anxious that Grant should write similar autographs for them. He was too weak, however, to do so, and so I have the only autograph copy in existence.” “How did General Grant work? “His work was varied,” replicd Mr. Daw- son. “When I first came he dictated quite @ great deal and wrote somewhat on slips of paper which he gave to me to copy. AS | he grew weaker he had to do his dictation early in the morning. It was at that time that he felt stronger. At the last he seldom dictated more than an hour at a sitting. This was enough to tire him out. As the days went on and death came nearer his throat grew weaker and weaker. I had to move closer and closer to him until at the last the dictation was given in a whisper in my ear, and I had to listen intently to make the shorthand notes of his conversa- tion. After the dictation he would rest a while then from time to time during the re- mainder of the day his daughter and daughters law would read to him the cifferent accounts of the battles about which he proposed to write on the morrow. He did this to refresh his memory and to fit him for the work.” “Did he revise the manuscript of the book?” “He hoped to be able to do so all along, but concluded to wait until the book was dene. He longed for the time when it would be completed, and was so anxious about it that I told him one day that it was ready for him, and that he could have it the next day. It was not quite finished, but I could see that it could be given to him along from time to time fast enough to make him think that it was so. My state- n.ent that the book was done delighted him, and he called in Mrs. Grant and told her that he had finished the book, and that he would have it all there the next day. But when the morrow came he was not so well. He grew worse and the result was that the notes of the last volume were hardly re- vised by him at all. I wrote them out, and Col.Fred.Grant and I went over them before they were published. The first volume the general revised and also a part of the sec- ond.’ “Was Grant an easy writer?” “Yes,” replied Mr. Dawson. ‘He thought clearly and wrote easily. He dictated well. He could say what he thought in the sim- plest language and still round out his ideas in complete form. His military orders were so worded. you know, that no one could misconstrue them.” His Method of Work. “Did General Grant have many letters and private papers about him while he was working at his book “He had some military papers, but no private letters. He did not keep letters, It was his custom to read his-letters and then direct me to say so and so in reply, not fully dictating the answer. After the let- swered they were burned. He s as to his private mat- as different. however, as to pub- Everything corfnected with the army was carefully kept. His orders will be found to be perfect, and his clerical force had to keep them’ just so. “Did he have the satisfaction of seeing any part of his book in print before he died?” : he saw only ;the proof of the Cen- tury article. He did not see the book him- seif, nor did he realize what a wonderful success it was to be. The manuscript was copied entirely by hand before going to the printer. Colonel Grant saved everything connected with it, and every scrap that the general wrote was carefully preserved.” “Had he any idea of the enormous amount of money it would bring to his fam- ily?” “I think not. He saw before he died that it would net them a fortune, but I don't believe he ever supposed that {t would pay them more than $50,000 or $60,000 at the most."” “Did Grant care much for money No, I don't think he did,” replied Mr. Dawson. ‘He certainly did not, at the expense of his conscience. I told you once before, you may remember, how, during our trip through Mexico, he réfused an offer of $1,000,000 to accept the presidency of a gold mining company, where his name would be used to boom the stock. Still he admired money makers, and it 1s strange how much he thought of good business I really believe that during his lat- lays he would have prized the reputa- tion of having been a good business man HOW THE HEARING IS RESTO RED So That the People as Well as the Doctors May Understand the Seeming Miracle That Has Banished Deafness, Dr. McCoy Talks to Them as an Instructor From a Blackboard, PENING OF EUSTACHIAN TUBE IN THROAT. If you will look at the above picture very close you will see that it is taken from a section made hy sawing right through the temporal bone of the skull, which contains the structures that go to make up the ear. You will see that nearly all the parte of the ear are situated within this bony mass, and the bone, belag a hard subs not sleld when the ear tubes become swollen. This accounts for the that goes with ear diseases back of you you Will notice an enlargement mp on th: and I want to tell you that this bump is porous and fs connected with the mi Whan the middle ear cavity by several channels. ear becomes diseased the disease these channels and into this cavity, where an forms, and the disease ix called mastoiditis. The Ear and the Brain. Any disease that attacks the middie ear mastoid cavity is very grave und dangerous, b cause these parts are situated 0 close to the Inflammation In these structures is liable to extend to the brain, and disease set up in the middle ear cau th of 30,600 pe the United States serious is disease of the middle ear cons'dered, on acco of parts of the brain, that Ii refuse to insure those persons so aftli It was such a disease that destroyed the life the late Roscoe Conkling, and the present Emper of Germany’s Crratic and peculiar actions at or arness are att d to a chronic disease of the middle | ear from Which he suffers. | What Constitutes the Ear. knows that situated in: few und one ure is ind holds & sounds of nature and aetion in it wn an ex! the substane of the br sound as is molded the a surface of the hand whic fixing of sound upon the various t copy 88 of putty to the inm spe it firmly, This ris called > Whi re called the ear. What Hy styled the ear ts but a projection to guide sound fi a of hearing, which is nearly two tnches tuside the head. The varioas | of the engravi caternal wardly to of this tub: Mttle bones immediately bebin own clearly re Bee in the Jar to consist of the rand a tube that leads from it in- ain that entirely blocks tne end ear drum. The drum and three connect h it and the cavity the drum constitute what 1s called the middle ear. various channels, some resembling bulf circles aud other spirals, are filled with flufd Into which dip the ne ose hen and these parts, her, ore called the Internal ear. If you will take uy trouble to lock you Will notice that there is a tube whieh pass: ear down into th tnehian tube, from the cavity of the middle throat. ‘This is at Mt c air into the recesses of the Without air in the ear, higher than that of having been a great soldier. As to money, he spent {t ver: freely. When he became President he r garded the salary not as a personal mat- ter for him to save what he could of it, but as money given to him to uphold the dignity of the office. He devoted his salary to that end, and, upon figuring up at the close of his first term, found that he had spent $8,000 more than he received. This made him more cautious during his second term, and | believe when he left the White House he found that he had saved a little bit. His trip around the world was made car po sound can be heanl. ‘The ear news air convey the sound to the parts which imprison it and repeat 1t to the brain, the same as electricity requires a Wire npon which to travel when it is sent in the form of a messag Eye and Ear Compared. The eye 1s but a looking glass with a cable com- posed of nerves passing out of its back suri and reaching to brain. ‘The mtrror of th takes up pletur event I felt that I should have the any by the Grant fund, collected by his friends. This amounted to something like $200,000 or more. This he used. “Tell me, Mr. Dawson, did Mrs. Grant realize what a great man Grant was before he died? You know it is said that many men are never great to their wives nor their valets.” Mra. Grant's Appreciation. “Yes, she did,” replied Mr. Dawson. “I believe the general was always a great man to her. She told me once, for instance, how during Lieutenant Grant's courtship a. party of officers were calling at her Mis- souri home. A very warm political discus- ston was going on among them, but General Grant sat quietly and said nothing. When the discussion could come to no conclusion one of the men turned and appealed to Lieutenant Grant for his opinion. He gave it in a few words, overthrowing everything that had been sald, and presenting the sub- Ject in an entirely new: light which was so evidently the true one that every one as- sented to it. After the party had left, Mrs. Grant says, her mother remarked about Mr. Grant, saying, ‘That little man has a great deal in him, and it will be a surprise fe he does not astonish the world- some ‘You must have had some interesting conversations with Grant, Mr. Dawson. ‘Tell me, did he ever speakiof how he felt in his great battles. He must have realized the enormous responsibility which rested ufon him, did he not?? = “General Grant seldom talked of himself,” replied Mr. Dawson; ‘but: I asked him questions about such things at times. I re- member one day when we were talking about the campaign of the Wilderness I asked such @ question. / It was at this time, you know, that he crossed=the Rapidan to engage with an army that had always beat- en his predecessor. I said to him: ‘Gen- eral, I should think the ‘esponsibility of those days woul& have overpow- ered you. You knew where you were going, and that the whole cause of the Unign rest- ed upon your success or failure?’ “General Grant acted as though thix thought had never come to him before. He smoked for several minutes, puffing out the smoke as he was wont to do when in deep reflection. At last he said that he did not know that the feeling of bis responsibility rested very heavily upon him. Said he: ‘Had I asked for the place of commanding general the weight of my respousibility might have been overpowering. But when I entered the army I resolved never to ask for promotion, but only to do what I was s iousness of knowing that I had Jone my best.’ "” Loss of Life in Battle. “Mr. Dawson, did General Grant speak of his regrets at the terrible los life which was caused by his campaigas “Yes, once,” replied Mr. Dawson. “. this time he told me that the pui dersicod such things, and that the truth was the more rapid the killing in battle the more merciful was the result In the end He showed me how more men had died in the late war through sickness caused by exposure than by bullets, und that the sooner the war could be ended, no naiter at how great cost, the fewer lives would be lost. He said that when campaigns were lengthened out there was an enortaous loss by exposure and disease. You know the lives lost in McClellan's campatzns vere really greater than those at in Grant's, when all things are considered.” “Did Grant ever say arything about ithe accusations that he drank too much?’ I asked. z 2 “Yes,” replied Grant's secretary. “I ask- ed him about this when we were working upon the chapter concerning Shiloh. He told me that the stories published about him at that time were all lies and that he had never drank to excess. The sub- ject came up because I was a friend of Senator Harlan of Iowa, who had tried to have Grant removed from the service for alleged drunkenness on the field of battle at Shiloh. I asked Grant how the impres- sion that he was drunk then got out and he told me. It Is an interesting story and has never been published. A day or 80 before the battle, late at night, when it was dark and stormy, firing was heard along the picket line. General Grant and his staff left their tents and rode out to see what it was, for they feared it might be the enemy beginning an engagement. When they reached the pickets they found it was only. a party of skirmishers and amounted to nothing. They then started back to the general’s tent. It was very dark and the party became separated. General Grant let the reins drop on his horse's neck and trusted bim to find the way back. ‘The horse, however, took the wrong turn, and in trying to climb up a bank slipped and fell on the general, spraining his leg. ‘The sprain was so bad that General Grant did not get over it for days. He had to be helped on and off his horse, and this was the case at the battle of Shiloh. The news- paper correspondents who did not know of the sprain published the story that he was drunk, and General’ Grant was too ud to correct it. I don’t believe that eral Grant ever drank to excess. I have heard many men say that he did drink and I have tried to trace such reports to their foundation, but I have yet to find the man who will say that he ever saw Gen- eral Grant under the influence of intoxicat- ing liquor. FRANK G. CARPENTER. ever of often extends | . | measures have suffered consid ] to it, and molding this picture on the nerves, the sense of sight Is made manifest through the brain | The eye cannot mold objects except by the nid of j light. The consisting as it does of tubes and sounding boards, cannot fix and hold sounds ex- cept when these tubes are free and contain alr. As we have seen, alr only enters a sound ear through a tube that passes from the throat up be ise provision of nature, that most hind the ear drum, ¢ thus to have the air delicate of all human organs, come fi where no dust or dirt may enter with It, the air has already been heated so that th eswarm air ‘The ear is us in any form, and the ear to the ranged b shuts off How Deafnens is € What a lesson this should be to every one having or earachi shows most plain | in infal affect | the form of warm | tube of the ear or bot bags of salt or 5 j filled with bot wi whem applied t ternal car give almost Instant relie ‘tions. It fs needless to say that of the inner parts of the car inter ing and in time produces deafness. ult from disease from the throat, interfering with the drum of the middle en, from any cause, air is shut out tron S of the ear the hearing is inter- and the first sign that him that bis hearing Is failing ts rs slowly, the indist to such ny dis. res with Near] muftied, ther. With ying sounds as of steam eseaping, ringing, or of water falling, annoy during the day time ai night. Such a sensitive struc ed as carefally as nature could <i accidents and disease, is still quite subject | ease which impairs its function, Car | show thnt one person out of every or less deaf ax a result of a. are by tube which leads from e throat ear is what produces y all ¢ ness, and the reason why ny remain deaf has resulted from the in- y to reach rib the deep parts of d with anything that could cure ft, and at same time would do no harm to the ears, Vor centuries the doctors have tried in vain to ac complish this result. They have devised all man- ner of apparatuses and instruments to open up the closed tubes, but the mujority of these with af- fected ears who have submitted to th doctor's whieh | to but in a few instances obtained sufferers tment, inst All this talk about the ear, while very inte ing and instructive, would amount to but aid it not tell Yeon found at last of ren + of lost hearing | of restoring In the of cas sense of sound. a way wd major In appreachin I that degree of hesitaney aking of his till, I am compelled to state the facts fairly and clearly. I wish to sey that the tre: ment which I have arranged consists entirely He Wore a Silk Hat and Frock Coat While Hunting the Alligator. From the Boston Herald. W. H. Graffam of Malden, Mass., accom- panied by Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Stevens of that city, who are making a sightseeing tour through Florida, arrived at Indian river on the 19th instant. Yesterday Messrs. Graffam and Stevens joined a hunting party of fourteen, bound on an alligator hunt down the river. A prize of $20 having been offered by one of the party to the hunter who should capture alive the largest alligator made the hunt an interesting one. Mr. Graffam, who has had considerable experience in alligator hunting, mentally resolved to win the prize. Firmly grasp- ing his fifteen-foot handle gaff he started off through the swamp with an air of de- termination. Although the day was @ very warm one, and he was clad, not in his traditional hunter's suit, but in his best “Sunday-go-to-meetin’ clothes,” with a silk tile for headgear, he seemed entirely un- conscious of the incongruity of his appear- ance as a “gator” hunter, and pressed on through the tall swamp grass, jumping over ditches and holes. Suddenly he became aware that some- thing was very much alive near his feet, while at the same time a hoarse growi and then a sound as of escaping steam and the braying of a donkey combined greeted his ears. The next instant the air was filled with flying mud and water, and our valiant hunter found himself taking steps backward, with the water and mud to his waist, and his glossy silk tile floating along on the surface of the water directly in front of him. After a few seconds of deliberation as te what had struck him he espled his hat and pushed forward to rescue It. About this time Mr. Alligator, the Sause of all the commotion, who was lying con- cealed in the water and grass, also struck out for the hat, thinking, no doubt, that it was a young black pig. This aroused the ardor of the sportsman, and blood was in Mr. Graffam’s eye, as, firmly grasping his gaff, he awaited the coming of the al- ligator. As the animal's huge jaws opened to swallow his between them. ! 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It is needless to add that the prize of $20 was awarded to Mr. Graffam, who, upon landing at the dock, immediately commenced a hunt for a tailor shop and a hat store, which are harder to find in this section than alligators. — or James T. Fi EAltor. Col. T. W. Higginson in the April Atlantic. In 1859 the Atlantic Monthly passed into the hands of Ticknor & Fields, the junior publisher becoming finally its editor. It was a change of much importance to all its contributors, and greatly affected my own literary life. Lowell had been, of course, an appreciative and a sympathetic editor, yet Fields had the advantage over Lowell of being both editor and publisher, so that he had @ free hand as to paying for articles. The prices then paid were lower than now, but were raised steadily; and he first introduced the practice of paying for each manuscript on acceptance. He had a virtue which I have never known in any other editor or publisher—that of volunteering to advance money on pros- pective articles, yet to be written; and he did this more than once to me. I have also known him to increase the amount paid, on finding that an author particularly needed the money, especially if it were the case of @ woman. His sympathy with struggling women was always very great; and I think he was the only one in the early Atlantic circle, except Whittier and myself—with Emerson also, lat*erly—who favored woman suffrage. With all his de- siro to create a staff, Fields was alw eagerly looking out for new tulent, was ever prompt to counsel and encourage. He — of course, to know eminent yd and his geese were apt to be swans, yet to discriminate. He organized for instance, and went Ss securely h, where Ee Fee tite TG H i Hh : If }