Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1894 — Page 9

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SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1894.

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learrtlckt, UM. br a a MoCIaia. X4nH«A1 Nxir Yorc,^ April 2.-—Anf ooa who bM laid hi* tribata of wonbip at tba foot of Qaatial Qiaat without avar baviaic Mata tha lUHt aapariaoaaa a aorpriaa, and aimoat a •baak, wbaa ba necta tha maatar oi tha boiiM at Na »46 Waat SaTanty-fourth atraat, ia tha aity of Kaw York. Tha man whom ha raaiiy meala, and whom ha knowa ha maata, ia Coh Fradarick D. Grant. But tha atao whom ha aaaa—and tha illuaion will grow on him all through a long morning’a talk—ia aa exactly Gan. Ulyaaea 8.. Grant aa if tha painting on tha vesta rn wall of tha parlor of that houaa, or tha arayon on tha eastern wall of the library, j^d taken Ufa, and. doffing its .four^tarred Oanaral’e uniform for mufti, had stepped from its frame and sat down at -the library desk to wriM an ordeF to Burnside haleogured in KnoxTille. (^olonel Grant is perhaps a larger man than his lather, bnt proportionately their cranial maasnremenu would probably tally almost exactly. The square, short bead, indioatiae of the General’s perfect equability of temperament, is reproduced in the Colonel. The features are the same. Particularly is the rteemblanoe clMe in the nose of unobtrusive strength. Tha Grant nose is a Cwaarian organ with constitutional limitations, British and American. It most have been tha nose of a potential dictator once, hut eeturiea oi civil and religious liberty in Old and New England, have depresseKl the arch and set the member snug and lawabidingly to the face. I'here is the same penetrating and meditative eye, the eye that thinks bat does not brood. There are the same squared, even shoulders. There is the. same set but not protrusive iav. There is the same J>rown beard, now sligntiy tinged with gray, for Golonel Grant has reached the age qf torty-fonr, at which his lataer, his battles ail over, had created for himself the rank of General. When Colonel Grant begins to talk, and aspcclally when, to illustrate points In bis talk, be reads from his father’s manuscript order-books, the similarity of mental prootu as well as of outward appearance is ■boun. The General nev€r made phrases intentionally. He ncyer left things to intuition. Bat be made things so clear, at tuonoous pains to himself, that he ab^ lately stopped all loopholes of misunderstanding. 8o with Colonel Grant, the attribute that strikes you most is the impossibility of getting an incorrect idea from him. This mental similarity is not to be wondered at. The son lived in the lather’s shadow, slept in his tent, ate at bis mess, rode by his side—a volunteer aid-de-cf^mp, without pay) at thirteen—through the time when his mind was most plastic, aud when his father's mind was strenuously solving great wkr problems. • ALWAYS BID HIS BEST. "Did you notice any change," I asked, "in your father's manner of demeanor after he came East and took command of all the armies? Was there anything to show that ki thought ’Here ie the great taak ef my Ule’r f

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•tatement He would correct me, and then be very apt to give his ouiaiou on the subject, whatever it was. lie never studied strategy between the time of his leaving West Point and the breaking out of Ute rebellion. He had a few books, Jomini for one, and his memory retained all that he bad learned at the academy. Bnt, as a matter of fact, no European writer and no European commander could have given him mueb help in his campaigns." THE SUKRBNBEB or VICKSBURG. The talk fell upon Vicksburg, and CoL Grsmt, looking at it from the military standpoint, corrected my idea that it corresponded to the eampaign of Uim, and ■aid that its true resemblance was to the Italian eampaign of 179d-97. Then I suggested: ‘‘Colonel, there are a good many million boys in this country who would like to know what a thirteen-year-old aid-de-esunp saw on the day of surrender." The Colonel laughed and said: ‘‘Well, I don’t know exactly where to begin. I remember that father had had it given out that we were to assault Vicksburg on July 4, when the attack was ordered lor the 6th, and that brought the Hag of truce; and then Pemberton and his staff rode out to meet my father aud his staff. He and Pemberton went to one side and talked together, and then my father called Rawlins, and Pemberton called Bowen into consultation.

his ezeentiou of his orders in reaching Atlanta. Between them lay the 'March to the ^a,’ which was a procession. The credit due him is for what be did before and after it." Tnere has been more "popular sentiment" about the Chattanooga campaign than any other of the wan Colonel Grant smiled as we came to talk about it. and walked across the room to some book-shelves. From the long rows of leather-bound books he chose out a volume of smoothly copied orders, saying, as he turned the leaves: ‘*I.K>okout Mountain is called the ‘Battle Above the Clouds,' I believe. The army lost nine men there, and-at the other mountain, Missionary Ridge, it lost six thousand or seven thousand, ifaen there is another story that the troops carried Missionary Ridge, without orders, in an access of heroism. Well, let’s see." He read from the volume of orders and commented. In all the multifarious detail of instruction, which took painful cognizance of the depth of mud on every crossroad and the comparative condition of the baggage cattle of each division, there was the fixed and iterated and reiterated exposition of the fact that Missionary I Ridge, the point that was carried ‘‘without . orders” by the Army of the Cumberland, i was the point where the hammer ot Thor I was to strike when ail this complex machinI ery should have raised it for its fall'tbat i was to re-echo through all the years of the I Republic.

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Colonel Grant shook his head, thoughtfully. "No," he said; "that was impossible. My father was always the same. He was always grave. Hq. was always thoughtful. He was always gentle. He was always extraordinarily eonsiderate of the feelings •f others. I have never known a man who had such nice ways about him in that re■peet aa my father. But, more than that, he always did bis best. He did as much his hast when he was a farmer as when be was lieutenant-general, and he never saw that doing your heat in one position in life was any diflereht from doing it in another. For instanee, ha never would look upon one partlcoiar achievement and say, ‘That was my most brilliant deed.’ He never looked at things thot Vay. He used to aay that he had done all he could, taken all the pains he eonld about everything, and if one thing turned out better than another it was because he had more or better information to aet upon. No, he never felt one responsibility more than another. He felt it his duty to doAls best under ail circumstances, and after tbit he did not care. Bo he never thought that be did one thing better than another, it was the doty idea that ruled him. And 1 mav say that in the hi.slory of my father’s family that same idea of doing Tour best In the place yon find yourself has been a ruling and an upholding one. * "It's been a rather remarkable family in that way, I think. HU father did the best that waa tn be done in the little town of Georgetown, O., where he lived, and that WM to be mayor, and draw the resolutions and platfoma for the local political conventioos. And hU father did his best, and that waa to fUl a lieutenancy in the Revolutionary>war; and that father’s father waa thanked by the Connecticut Asat mbly for hUatrvices in French and Indian warfare. Tbera waa another Grant, who became town clerk, book there ia Connecticut. And so 1 think of each generation, since the family came barn in it waa of the elan Grant t> SooMand originally—it may be aaid that there waa aome man' doing hu best, though nntil wvf t»ber‘§ time ia a comparatively aaall way. Then my father’s mother added fraatiy to jhe family stock of strict 4nte oi du^. 8ha was a woman who thought that aotnieg row could do would entftle you to wruse; tkae yen ought to praise the Lord lor giving you an opportunity to do it. My father bald himself to almost as strict an ■Mianritn^lhy. though he didn't extend it •noshera. He was always ready tcapraise his anbordinatee. and toward his chiliiren be van eepoettJiy indniii^nt and lenient" Grant’s reticence to talk "shop" is one of dha most asirked bat most exaeperating ingtaBCff of good taste in hn>tory. When the •nhjeet was lacntloatd to his son, he smiled R Mails of amused remembrance. "The en^ way I eoutd ever draw my fMiwrMlt npea the art of war," he sold, In tagage in conversaiioB with aome isn «ik» nanthen to make pnrposely a mia*

In the meantime the two staffs mingled and talked afiout all sorts of things, and I listened. When we got back to the tent,” and here the Colonm grew more interested .ind more exact in statement, "I remember how I wanted to lie down. Dvsentery had pulled^e down from one hundred and, ten to sixty-eighV pounds, and 1 bad a toothache as well. The first thing 1 did after the surrender was to have that tooth nulieiL My father sat at his little desk. That was all that was in the tent, except his cot and iny cot; and the bottom of his was broken, and he had to stretch his legs apart when be slept in it to keep from falling through." The Colonel stppped to laugh a moment at the recollection, and went on. “He began to write very hard, and with great interest i' what he waa writing. I lav |n the cot. with my face in my hands. We were alone, and it was toward evening. At last there came an orderly with a dispatch, I remember seeing my father open it Be got up and said: ‘W-e-e-e-ll, Fm glad Vicksburg will surrender to-morrow.’ ” • "Then you were the first to .know,” I said, "that.Vicksburg had fallen.” “No, notsBxactly," said the Colonel. “I waa the first one whom iny father told, or rather he didn’t so much tell me as speak aloBd to hirngelf.*' WAS NOT A GREAT BMOKEIt The question bad been put to Colonel Grant while he was desoribing the scene in the tent whether his father was smoking at the time, and whether he really smoked as much as he was said to have. “I’ll tell you about that afterward," Colonel Grant then Bp id: ‘‘I'll tell you how he came to smoke." So, after the Vicksburg incident had bt-en disposed of, there came this first authentic history of Grant .as a smoker. ‘‘|My lather,” said Colonel (<raut, "tried to smoke while at West Foint, but only because it was against the rcculatious, and then he didn’t succeed very well at it. He really got the habit from 'smoking light cigars and cigarettes during tiie .^iexil■an war. but it wasn’t a fixed habit. When he lef^the army aud lived in the country he smoked a pipe—not incessantly. 1 don’t tnitik that he wa.s very fond ot tobacco then, and really there was always a popular miscoueeption of the amount of his smtking. But he went on as a light srafker, a casual smoker, until the day of the fall of Ft Donelson. Then the gun_^boat8, having been worsted somewhat, and ‘"Adjmiral Foote having been wounded, he sent ashore for my father to come and see him. Father went aboard, and the admiral, as is customary, had his cigars passed. My father took one, and was smoking it when he • went ashore. There he was met by a sfaff officer, who told liini that there was a sprtie and tne right wing had been struck and smashed in. Then my father started fori the scene of operations. He let his cigkr go out, naturuUy, but held it between his fingers. He rode hither and yon, giving orders and direction^ still with the cigar stump in his band. 'The result of his exertions was that Ft. Doaelson fell after he sent his message of ‘Unconditional surrender,' and ‘Fpropose to move immediately upon your works.’ With the message was sent all over the country the news tiiat Grant was smoking throughout the battle, when be only had carried this stump from Fopte’s flag-ship. But the cigars began to pome in from all over the Union. He bad eleven thousaitd cigars on hand in a very short time. He gave away all he could, but he was so surrounded with cigars that he gut to smoking them regularly. Rut he never smoked as much as he seemed to smoke. He would light a cigar after breakfaat aud let it go out, and then light it again, and then again let it go out aud light it; so that the one cigar would last until lunch time." POPULAR HI8TAKI ABOUT THE WAR. Here at Donelson the “March to the Sea" would have begun in the spring of 1862, instead of the summer of 1864, had General Grant had bis way. Then the march was to have* ended at Mobila. And after General Grant had taken command of all the armlet, his objective point wa.s still Mobile. “His idea was to cut another slice out of the rebellion, from the West." saiu Col. Grant, leaving it to be supposed that the first slice was the fall ot New Orleans, following the fall of Donelson. “But after Farragut bad taken the forts in Mobile bay that slice waa out and Savannah was the next in order. Popular lenthnent bestows rewards queerly,” continued the Colonel. “The ‘March to the Sea’ gives Sherman his highest place io the estimation of the people. But Sherman’s greatest feat was when be marched north after taking Savannah and prevented Johnston from joining Lee. 'That was a master stroke, aud of hia own making. Next to that waa

Chronologically the talk bad come to Grant’s journey east to assume general commanti and his first meeting with Lincoln. "Did he give you his impression of Lincoln when he returned from that interview ?’’iJ asked. *‘Notw|:actly,” answered Colonel Grant. “You, see, I was with him at the time.” "Is it true that Lincoln quoted a story about Capt. BoJ> 8horty aud the Mackerel Brigade from the Orpheus C. Kerr’s paper to your father at that nieeiing?” I asked. "Very likely, though I don’t remember. The story that I do remember hearing him tell my father that day was about Jocko. Jocko was the commander of an army of monkeys in a monkey war, and he was always sure that if his tail was a little longer he could end the monkey war. So he kept asking the authorities of the monkey republic for more of a tail. They got other monkev tails and spliced them on his. Mis spliced tail got too long to drag after him, and they wound it around his body. Still he wanted more; and they wound his spliced tail about his shoulders. Finally it got so heavy that it broke his back. Mr. Lincoln applied the story to the cases of generals who were always calling lor more men and never did anyth'n ’with them. They talked about the cempaign, but in a desultory way. I remeuioi;; jii. Lincoln saying: ‘I don’tgive many military orders. Some of those I do give I know are wrong. Sometimes 1 think that all of them are wrong."’ After this the boy aid de-camp was sent to school, at the Grant tamily’s new Eastern

FATHER AND MOTHER OF GPAST.

home, Burlington, N, J., preparatory for j West Point, and he only hud occasional glimpses of the war. GRANT AS A SOUND MONEY MAN. There are points in his father’s career. Colonel Grant says, that even yet have never I been made as clear as they should be made : —lor one, his posi.ion aa a sound money I man. i “Surely, the inflation veto made that ! clear,” said 1. “Yes, then," he apswered. “But have you ever considered how much bis first inaugural message, recommending a return to specie payments, had to do with settling the finances of the country? Have you ever considered that all the legislation for resumption Avas accomplished during his administration?" "Gf those whom he met in civil life ^ Conkling became the nearest to him, did he j not?” said 1, as our talk concluded. In a rather pensive and low tone, Colonel Grant answered: “Conkling and my father loved each other. They were devoted; and Conkling’s devotion was quite unselfish. There was a large element of hero-worship in it. He had three historical ideals—Mary Stuart, Napoleon and my father.” A. E. WATBO us. Gerrymander In Ireland. Galway, Kilkenny and Newry, with 5,169 electors, send three members to Parliament, while Belfast, with 35,000 electors, only sends four members. Kerry, with 21,792 voters, and Antrim, with 36,712, send four each; Longford, with 10.000 voters, has two members, while Londonberry, with 20,845 voters, has also two. Donegal has 28.149 voters, and sends four members, whila Dowu, with 36,1>62. only sends four. Good la Beat. Good ia beat when soonest wrought; Linganog labors come to nought. —LSoutbwaU.

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striped or figured are the cheapest and they are really Within the reach of every one. They wear well and can be had in a great variety of patterns. The natural wood handles or even the Dresden handles are

WRAP OF BROWN VELVET, LIGHT SILK AND CREAM LACE. ^

prettiest with this style of parasol. The old-time parasol with the carved ivory handles inude of fine blotik lace over white silk or with the coral handle which were in vogue in the time of the Empress Eugenie will, it is said, be.onne more in fashion this summer, with those who are always not only up to date, but a little ahead. Ivory and coral are certainly the fashion aud there has never been any handle so pretty as ivory or coral when artistically carv,ed, but celluloid imitations will doubtless soon flood the shops, and then good-bye to the original fashion. A little rumor was whispered abont some few weeks ago to the effect that big sleeves were doomeu and many a woman took fresh heart again and fondly and deludediy thought she would be able to have two new gowns instead of one, as so mneh less material would be needed for the sleeves. The latest fashion! would seem to prove that the rumor was an idle one. While the sleeves do not stand up to such a bight, they are aa full and take up every whit aa much room in the coats. It ia impossible to wear any coat over dressy spring costmnes with comfort. A cape is the only thing possible, and capes are in consequence seen everywhere. In light weight velvets, in silk bengaline, moire and lace, the wraps are made. They all stand ont almost straight from the neck like cherubs’ wings, and give every one a bunched-UD appearance. Some are trimmed with lace, and some with insertion; some few are ruffled all the way up or down aa the case may be, and the prettiest and moat dangerous to health are merely deep collars aUbax pointed er reoud. In tan eletk «r

gray crepon, wraps are often made trimmed with white lace or black and with a full ruche of crepe about the throat inside the collar, which is of course flaring. EVENING WRAPS. The evening wraps are more beautiful this spring than for many years past and can be made of inexpensive materials to look almost as well as the superb brocades and other heavy fabrics. Several young ladies have this spring ivory-colored, long, full cloaks for covering which are exceedingly handsome. They are made on what might be called the improved circular shape, and are long and full. They have stiff round shoulder capes of ivory mirror velvet covered all over with tiny gilt spangles and bordered with a band of beaver fur. Inside the full, high collars are full ruches ot light heliotrope, which give an odd and becoming finish. Another wears over her evening gowns a picturesque garment of pale gray satin brocade. It is tqade with enormous sleeves and a full WattcKu pleat in the back, with full straight fronts and is finished around the neck and down the front with light gray ostrich feather tips. Such a garment needs careful cutting and fitting to avoid a bulky and unbecoming appearance, but this has been cut and fitted perfectly and is most becoming to a slender, stylish figure. This style of wrap really looks much like a tea gown but nevertheljess is a sensible pattern. It can he made In a dark material or in any light cloth or cashmere. There really does not seem to be any absolute model to follow in wraps for afternoon and evening wear provided they stick out straight over the rieeves and are becoming, two facts which would seem to be in (\irect contradiction but with care, taste and,>jingenuity and a little study as to one’s gofid points, the odd fashions of the present day can always be modified to look well. Individual taste has never had such an opportunity to show itself os now. AXUELM. JOLLY JINGLS4.

THE NEWKST IN WINDOWS.

The buBT bee is on the wing— Hail, gentle Spring: The birds amf.d the branches siog— Hail, gentle Spring! New liie is in the ambient air; New growths areapronting everywhere. Except on my bald bead no hair Doth sprout, O Spring! —j Kansas City JoornaL The tramp he tramps the country round. For spring is in the air: Or eioe a bench heholdeth down Witbin the city aqnare. —I Philadelphia Bocord. Go to the ant, thou sluggard. For the days are coming nijgh When the snt is sure to find The picnic oostard pie. —(Chicago Intwr Ocean.

, you I Waa going to redte. —{Exchange. Equipped with baaket, bolt and rod, He to the trout brook hies. Ton’ll bear him little later on Baheoraing lost year’s Ilea. —{Boston Traaserlpt Wbaraver man esoays to go He meets the question, “Yea or Not" WUi be do it? Does he say it? Does he-owe itt WiU he pay HT Lifeis thua Irom day to day, A brief reeponee of yea or nay•HGelverien Hewn

An Invention That May Lessen the Number of Cleaning Accidents. "C-l-e-a-n, clean; w-i-n-d-e-r, winder" was one of the moraJ precepts which Mr.

the housewife's joy. Mr. George Settlea, of Forrest Gate, a gentleman who haa paid a good dee of attention to the anbjaot, aaye tne number is aomething like a hundred and fifty a year of accidents that are immediately fatal; while acoidenta that are attended with subsequent fatal oonsequenecs, aot^acoidents that result in serious but non-fatal injuries, are enormous la number. In this connection lA>ndon Queen makes note of an appliance which, if adopted, may tend to lessen the number of winaow-eleaa-ing accidents. This'appliance, it is said, absolutely obviates any sitting ontsids the window at alt; the top and bottom sashes being, by an ingenious arrangement of bolts and hinges, brouKht right in^ the room itself, whether for cleaning, painting.

houses now in course of erection in London.

CLEANING THK UPPBR SASH.

ciM the constant practice of the windowcleaning virtue with continued existence in one piece. Just when the upper window has after much rubbing attained a high degree of polish that makes it a pleasure to look at It, poor Mary Jane loses her balance

The Citizeii’e Duty.

In the last yolurae ot Herbert Speneer’e "Synthetic Philosophy” he disensses. under the head of “Political Beneficenee," the dutv of every citizen to take a share in

political life. He says:

“In days of exclusive militancy, when slavish submission was conducive to ef;Bciency in war, individuality of thou^l and action was out of place. But, under • political regime like that into which we have grown, taking a share in political lilt is the duty of every citizen, and not t« de so is at once shortsighted, nngrateftU

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CLEANING THE LOWSB BASH.

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Btentlon, if general, mn)t hriag decay of any good institutions which exist; ungrateful, because to leave oneared for, these good institutions which patriotic ancestors estailished is to ignore onrindebSedncee to them; mean, beoanse to benefit by soch institutions and devolve the maintenance and improvement of them entirety npon others implies readtnese to receive aa advantage and give nothing in reinra. Fos a free political organization to remain abva and healthy, all Its units mast play tkeil parte. If numbers of them remain yiEatra, the organization, in so far oa they are concerned, ia dead; and, in proportion as oneh

numbere increoao, mustioormpt.”

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