Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1911 — Slight, But Terrible. [ARTICLE]

Slight, But Terrible.

Gen. F. D. Grant, at a dinner at West Point, once analyzed the military genius of Washington. "Washington,” he said, “gave ns our independence by campaigning faultlessly. He never made mistakes. There have been more brilliant soldiers than Washington, -but there has never been so sure a one. “In warfare, you must know, the smallest mistake may lose a whole battle, a whole campaign, a whole cause. And that reminds me of poor Tom White. "Tom White failed in business owing to the mistake of one single letter made by his stenographer. Tom’s patron in business was a deaf millionaire who was very touchy about his deafness. This millionaire turned from a good friend to a bitter enemy —he foreclosed on Tom —because the unhappy fellow’s stenographer accidentally began a letter to him: " Deaf Sir.’ ”