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Grant His Old General Chetlaln Said the Great Sol dier When With Hla Intimate Wat Naturally a Very Loquacious Man. 1 f One of the thousands of men who pnllsted In the Union army a few days , after the publication of President Lin coln's proclamation calling for 75,000 Yolunteers was -A. C. Chetlaln. who rose to the rank of brigadier-general In the war. ,TilC cCLiifany In which uenerai unetlain enlisted was made up of citizens of Galena, 111., and of that company he was chosen captain. It was the company which Captain Ulysses S. Grant, then a clerk in a leather store in Galena, drilled before the company departed for Springfield. Ill to be mustered into military serv ice. Captain Grant journeyed with the company to Springfield, hoping that at the state capital he might re ceive a commission as colonel of an Illinois regiment He was an intimate friend of General Chetlaln and the two . men roomed together at a hotel in Springfield. "One of the comments made about General Grant after he became famous was that he was a man of unusual taciturnity," General Chetlaln said to me In 1895; "and I suppose that every one except those who knew Grant in timately believed that he was proper ly called the silent man.' But those w i nuu auen vxiaiii wucli lie was Captain Grant and some of us who MimA t lrnnw h1m wall lf& Vila tavm as president expired have occasionally smiled when it has been said that Grant was the most taciturn man con nected with either army and that, to save, his life, he couldn't make a speech. As a matter of fact, General Grant was naturally a very loquacious man. When I knew him at Galena before the war he was an Incessant talker. But, unlike many men who talk a great deal, he was an instruc tive and entertaining conversational ist " . ' "One evening, about two weeks be fore Lincoln wan inmiPiirntod no nrasl. dent for the first time, I dropped Into the Grant leather store for a friendly chat There I found Captain Grant, as we were in the habit of calling him, seated upon a counter, and grouped about him were three or four otner mercnants of tne town, all listen Portraits As a How Elklns Tried to Induce Chauncey M. Depew to Accept President Harrison's Offer of the State Portfolio. In the eulogy delivered last Feb ruary by Chauncey M. Depew in the United States senate at the memorial service for Stephen B. Elkins .of West Virginia, Senator Depew alluded to the fact that President Harrison had commissioned Senator Elklns, when the latter was secretary of war, to urge Depew to withdraw his declina tion of President Harrison's invitation to him to enter the cabinet as secre tary of state. "There was a dramatic feature of that meeting between Mr. Elklns, then secretary of war, and myself," said Senator Depew a few days later. "The details of that meeting, however, were not appropriate for a eulogy; I re ferred to the incident simply to illus trate the abiding confidence which President Harrison had in the dis cretion and tact of his secretary of war. "After James G. Blaine, In 1S92, re signed his portfolio as secretary of state in President Harrison's cabinet," continued Mr. rwpw "T rocci informal but very frank and kind in vitation from the president that if I were willing to accept the office it would give him the greatest gratifica tion to nominate me. as Mr. Blaine's successor as secretary of state. I re plied that, while greatly appreciating the distinction and the confidence President Harrison revealed in that invitation, yet. In view of my close af filiations with some of the larger rail way Interests in the United States. I thought it would be inexpedient to ac- "President Harrison then sent for me, and I called upon him at the White House. He renewed the offer of the state department, and asked me, before absolutely declining. If I would not consider the matter for a day or two. I answered yes, although it was a mere act of courtesy for me to accede, to the president's request, for my mind was fully made up. "On the following morning as I wan coming out from breakfast at my ho tel, I met Elklns. I Judge that he was waiting for me. We chatted for a moment or two. and then he asked me if I would not like to take a little walk with him. I nodded, and he led the way to his own office in the war department. We sat there for a while chatting, and then Elklns asked roe if I would not like to go with him over to the etate, department. I acquiesced, wltb bo suspicion that he had' any particular purpose In mind. "The first thing he did when we entered the department was to lead me In front of the portrait of Thomas EWS of YESTERDAY ..v.l'- 3 By E. J. EDWARDS Friends Knew ing intently to what the captain had to say. I took a seat and listened also, and I should say that Captain Grant talked to us almost without a break for half an hour, and jerhprs longer. , ' "At that time most of us in Galena were of the opinion that the trouble with the south would blow over; cer tainly none of us expected that there would be a resort to arms to settle the differences-between the two sec tions of our country. But Captain Grant took a different view of the matter, and that evening in his father's leather store he told us earn estly that he was convinced that'we were wrong in our viewpoint The politicians of the south, he argued, were unswervingly determined to es tablish an independent government, and he gave it as his belief that they had been leading the people of their section to that goal for some years. He also declared that we under-estimated the resources of the south; he told us that at any time we might hear of overt acts on the part of the south, and he rather looked for a speedy demonstration of the south's purpose to resort to arms somewhere along the Mississippi river. i Some American Coincidences Blaine Believed His Career Would Be Like Clay's Three Ex-Presidents Who Died on the Fourth of July. James G. Blaine could sometimes be prevailed upon at a dinner party or a private gathering to speak of some of the extraordinary coincidences which have occurred in our political history. Hannibal Hamlin once told me that Mr. Blaine, who, like many men of great intellectual ability, had a streak of superstition in his nature, always believed that his own political career, so far as the presidency was concerned, would be found to match that of Henry Clay, for Mr. Blaine be lieved that he could be nominated when he could not be elected, and could not be nominated when his elec tion would be assured. Mr. Hamlin pointed out that Clay failed of the Temptation Jefferson, after which we passed be fore the portraits of John Marshall, James Madison, James Monroe, John Qulncy Adams, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Edward Everett and William H. Seward, stopping for a moment or two before each one. Then when we had finished this survey of the por traits of the great secretaries of state. Elklns turned to me. There," he said, 'are the faces and the pictured lips of men far more eminent and dis tinguished, even, than the presidents of the United States as a whole. To have your picture hung in that line is fame.' "That was all Stephen B. Elklns said. But I knew, then, that he had come from the president to me, and that with infinite tact he had taken this method of tempting me to accept the president's offer. Yet, when I told him what my reasons were for declining it, he would not gainsay me." (Copyright, 1911, by E. J. Edwarda. All Rights Reserved.) ' Something About Dreams. Dreams are due to an Increase of sensation and circulation over that which exists in profound sleep. Ob servations made upon patients with cranial defects show that when we are dreaming the brain Is greater in vol ume than in deep sleep, and less than when we are awake. Thus this Inter mediate volume of blood would indi cate that dreams are an intermediate stage between unconsciousness and wakefulness, and their incomplete and Irregular intelligence would indicate the same thing. This increased circu lation Is usually due to sensory stim ulation affecting the vasomotor center and causing a return of blood to the head, with resultant increased con sciousness. Contrary to popular be lief, dreams in themselves do not con tribute to light or broken sleep in which they are present Such a con dition is due to the ever-presenf stimuli which, according to their strength or the degree or irritability of the cells, maintain even In sleep a varying degree of consciousness of which the dreams are merely a mani festation. Therefore the fatiguing ef fect often also attributed to dreams Is not due to them, but to the lighter degree of sleep and less complete cell restoration which they accompany, and which are due to some Irritation. Fred W. Eastman in Atlantic. Three Times and Out. He Is Miss Smith in? Maid No, she's out He Well, then, call Miss Smythe. Maid She's out too. He I guess I'll sit by the fire and wait Maid I'm sorry, but the fire la out Sphinx. . . E "l never shall forget the clearness and force with which Captain Grant explained to us the strategic value of the Mississippi. He declared that it would be impossible to overthrow the Confederate government, in case war began, until the north had secured un interrupted control of the Mississippi from its souico to its mouth. And 1 can recall as vividly lb at in his lengthy exposition he did not hesitate for a word or a phrase; he talked as easily as many a polished orator that I have heard, and with a good deal of grace. "That was not the only time I and other old residents of Galena heard Captain Grant talk at length before war came. So, when after the war had begun, there came reports that Grant was a silent man, we smiled to ourselves, for we knew better. And we had no doubt what the meaning of his taciturnity was. He had adopted that trait as a part of his military methods. He knew that the soldier who talked too much was in danger of talking himself into danger. Ha was silent during the days of the war simply because he regarded silence ai the expedient policy and not because he could not talk. When with a few friends he was really one of the most brilliant and Instructive of conversa tionalists." (Copyright. Mil. by E. J. Edwards. . Rights Reserved.) Domination of 1840 and again in 1848. wnen ne couia nave Deen elected, and, on the other hand, Blaine was noml nated In 1884, when all the conditions made for his defeat, and that was the case with Clay in 1844. But the coincidence in his own case was not the only one in which Mr Blaine was Interested. Upon one oc casion when Mr. Blaine was. entertain' ing a few friends at his house in Washington it was the year before his nomination for president, and at a time when he was revising the proof sheets of the first volume of his monu mental work, "Twenty Years in Con gress" the conversation turned to wards Mr. Elaine's favorite theme, the political coincidences of American his tory. "I have always thought it to have been the most extraordinary coincl dence in our history as a nation that three of the ex-presldents of the Unit ed States should have died upon the Fourth of July, and another, Garfield, should have been at death's door upon that day, to be snatched at the last moment, and when apparently in ex tremis, from death," said Mr. Blaine. "The three ex-presldents were John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe, and to me there seems to have been something more than mere chance that Jefferson and Adams, two of the four statesmen of the revolu tionary epoch who wrote the Declara tion of Independence, should both have died on the Fourth of July ex actly fifty years from the date of the signing of the declaration. And have you ever taken thought that to them, and to Monroe, also, who died six years after he retired from the presi dency, the fourth day of July meant much more than it means to us at this time? "I very often find myself thinking of the career of Monroe after he fin ished his term as president," contin ued Mr. Blaine. "It stands apart from that of any other ex-president I have heard from some of those who knew Monroe in those days of his retire ment that he was in a serious pe cuniary condition. He went to New York to practice law, because he found it absolutely necessary to gain an income. He was neglected in New York. I have heard that he was de pendent to some extent for support on his son-in-law; and that if he had not sold his library to congress for, I think, about $20,000, this great states man would have been entirely depend ent for his support on his family. "Another pathetic circumstance, and one little known, I believe, con nected with Monroe's last days has always attracted me. He was buried in a little cemetery on Second ave nue, near Stuyvesant Square, New York. There his body remained for 27 years, and it was forgotten by the people that this great statesman was buried in an obscure cemetery in the city which was really his temporary home. "1 have tried to find out who sug gested the removal of Monroe's body to his native state, Virginia. I think the suggestion came from one or two gentlemen of New York City; I can not find any record that any one in Virginia was the originator of the movement for the taking of the body of Monroe from New York to Rich mond. But I remember well when that was done, and that a New York regi ment escorted the remains to Rich mond, where appropriate and perma nent seculchre of this great president was made, and I am certain that these facts are but little known at this time by the American people." (Copyright. 1911. by E. J. Edwards. AL Rights Reserved.) Refuted. "Jones grumbles that his wife cant take a joke." "That's funny, seems to me." "How so?" "She took Jones." Judge. MUST GET TOGETHER DIFFERENCES IN WAKE COUNTY ON ACCOUNT OF COUNTY PHYSICIAN SHOULD END. rO MAKE AN INVESTIGATION rhe County Commissioners, the Solic itor and Superintendent of Roads of Wake Will Investigate Statements In Letter by Dr. McCullers. Raleigh. The County Commission- srs of Wake have authorized and di rected Mr. Wiggs, Supervisor of the Roads, to make a thorough Investiga tion of the cause of the death of the colored man, Columbus Rowe, as re ported in a letter by Dr. McCullers, formerly recognized as County Su perintendent of Health. As soon as Solicitor Norris read the letter of Dr. McCullers he called the matter to the attention of County Attorney Beckwith, and the County Commis sioners ordered an investigation. It must be thorough and all the facts brought to light, and if there has been any dereliction of duty punish ment must follow. , Dr. McCullers wisely makes recommendations that the county provide some place for the proper treatment of convicts who are sick. The people of the county will be surprised thn Dr. McCullers and the County Commissioners had not years ago seen the necessity of such a place and made provision for it. But it should be dene at once. The report, of Dr. McCullers also shows that the County Physician, cr some authorized physician, should visit the camps often and see that the sick are cared fcr. The untrained supervisors do not know how to do this, and the County Physician, cr some doctor alone is competent to do it. County Commissioners have re- recognize the legality cf the H .ment or Dr. Mccuiiers on tne fee casis, but have made provision with other doctors to care for the sick in the home, in jail and in the convict camps. A member of the Board said: "Provision has been made to care- for the sick of the county, and we will have doctors who live near the camps to attend to the convicts." "Another matter that Mr. Wiggs will look into is the report that the super intendent of the Leesville camp, R. E. Thompson, was found lying beside the road In a drunken condition while three of the cenvicts under his care were needing medical attention. Dr. McCullers reported this state of af fairs to Solicitor Norrl3 who will see to it that such conditions shall not continue. There Was No Apparent Opposition. Durham. The campaign fcr the farm-life school has opened in a form er slice of Wake county, Carr town ship, where sixty voters gathered in an enthusiastic rally and heard ad dresses by Supt. C. W. Massey, P. C. Graham, T. M. German and Col. Bennehan Cameron. Of the entire voting strength of that precinct, not one signified his intention tc oppose the school and , the sentiment was especially strong there. The fight continued in Bragtown, Durham township, and In Rougemont, the ex treme northeastern eection of the county. Wise Was Found "Not Guilty." Morganton. Therman Wise, who has just been tried for the killing pf Turner Vance at Jonas Rdige, Burke county, several months ago, was found not guilty by the jury. It took the jury only a short time to come to a conclusion, and render a verdict ol not guilty, which met with satisfac tory approval. The case was the most important and a considerable amount of interest was manifested in the outcome. The court house wag packed to its utmost capacity throughout the trial. Wise was de fended by the able attorneys, Messrs. Mull and Spainhour of Morganton and Lieutenant Governor Newland oi Lenoir, while Solicitor Johnson alone made a brilliant plea for the state for conviction. North Carolina Supreme Court. Raleigh. Preparations are undel way for the North Carolina Supreme Court to convene for the fall terra. Monday, August 28. The first day will as usual be devoted to the examlna tlon of applicants for licenses to prac tice law, the indications being thai there will be an average class at least Tuesday, August 29, there will be the call for arguments on appeo,s from the first district. Thereaftei each week will be devoted to a dls triot until the sixteen into which the 3tate is divided has been heard. Case Workers Hold Meeting. Stateslle. The North Carolina Case Workers' Association held a meeting in the rooms of the ' Com mercial lub, but on account of a freight wreck on the Asheville divis ion, which caused all trains to be de layed, the members of the associa tion troi the western part of the state could not reach here. The meet ing was well attended from the east, and they had a very enthusiastic meet Ing, discussing the various points thai wre of interest to furniture manufacturers. NEWS FROM TAR HEEL STATE Latest News of General Interst That Has Been Carefully Collected For the People of the State. Durham. At the meeting of the di rectors of the Y. M. C. A., D. H. Wil cox, formerly assistant, but more re cently manager of one of Farlev's dry goods stores, was chosen unani mously to succeed Secretary J. S. Hunter. Raleigh. On September 4, Labor Day, there will be held in this ' city the seventh annual fiddlers' conven tion under the auspices of William J. Andrews, the "patron saint" of this now well-established and very popu lar custom. It will be held in the A. & M. College auditorium and only good old-fashioned fiddlers will be eligible. Salisbury. Vice President N. B McCanless of the Salisbury-to-Mon roe Railroad gives out the informa tion that the survey has been com pleted to Monroe and that after a few slight changes are made the grading will begin and the road will be completed and in operation by 1914, three years.s v .... . , Lillington. Jim Coon and Henry A J 1L. 4. 1!J. . 1 I .mcu, IUB iwu JUUUg wnue men WUO escaped from jail here were caught and placed back In jail. The state ment about the jailer giving them a pair of scissors was an error. He did not give them any scissors. They broke through the wall with a piece of steel taken from a wash bowl New Bern. The State Association of County Commissioners of North Carolina will convene at Ashevilie. Vlready a large majority of the coun- ties in the state have appointed dele- gates to this convention. The indi- cations are that It will be the largest convention in the history of the as3o- ciaticn. Many prominent people from all over North Carolina will be in at- tendance. Lencir. According to County Su perintendent Y. D. Moore's report for the past year there has been $932 raised by private donations for the improvement of schoolhouses and grounds and the lengthening of school terms in Caldwell county. The people of the county are wide-awake to the importance of good schools, and much interest in educational work is evi denced la all sections. Wilmington. The fifth annual meeting of the Country Bankers' as sociation of North Carolina, conceded to have been the most successful session from every standpoint ever held, came to a close with a grand ball at Lumina, Wrightsville Beach, in honor of the vis:t:ng bankers and their friends. It was an elaborate and largely attended affair. itandleman. ihe following com piled by Hal M. Worth, county as- sessor, shows the total amount of taxable property in Randolph county for 1911; Real estate $4,517,324; per- ?cnal, $2,682,233; total value 1911, $7,199,577; total value 1910, $6,033,691; increase ever 1910, $1,16E,S66. Randlei man township, the largest township in tne county in point or population, Increased $20,913. Raleigh. For the purpose of provid ing the marble bust of Chief Justice Thomas Ruffin that is to.be placed in the rotunda cf the state house by the North Carolina Ear Association Presi dent Franci3 D. Winston, of the asso ciation, announces Chief Justice Wal ter Clark, Judge H. C. Connor, Jno. W. Graham, Frank Nash and E. J. Justice as a special committee. Shelby: Prof. M. C. S. Noble came' in to take charge of the teachers institute that is being held ia the graded schcol auditorium. Prof. W. D. Carmichael, head of the public schools at Durham, was instructor and his lectures were highly profi table to those in attendance. He was assisted by Miss Ada Womble of Ral eigh and both are well liked by the teachers. Carthage. John Coins, the mulatto who shot and killed W. H. Lowry, the section master on the Randolph & Cumberland Railroad, August 1, while the two were engaged in a fracas over the cwneuhlp of a chick- en, surrendered to the sheriff and was immediately taken to Raleigh and placed in the state prison for safe- keeping until he is arraigned in crim inal court here to answer for his crime. Durham. The Durham doctors sent back to Canton, W. W. Clarke, who was brought here three weeks ago for pellagra, of which he appearently Is cured. The Canton physicians have had an epidemic there as they have had here. Raleigh. Adjutant General R. L. Leinster of the North Carolina national guard expressed special gratification at the high record the men of the First Regiment mgle the past ten- days encampment at Morehead City. There were 199 men qualified as marksmen and eight as expert rTSe- men. Raleigh. Governor KItchIn issued a notice of $100 reward offered for Lonnle Barnes, colored, Johnston county, wanted on the charge . of murder in that he killed Tardle Sanders August 5. Raleigh. Governor Kitchin has commissioned E. L. Harris, of Raleigh, as a member of the board of directors of the Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad. Mr. Harris is secretary of the North Carolina Merchants' Asso ciation and was an active candidate Cor appointment as corporation com ulssicner to succeed tK'e late Henry Brawn. ' CONGRESS WILL ADJOURN SOON TARIFF REVISIONISTS MADE GOOD PROGRESS GIVE WOOL BILL RIGHT OF WAY. WOOL BILL BACK IN SENATE House Adopts Conference Report and Hurries It to Upper House Where No Action Is Taken FlnaJ Adjourn- ment Not Until Next WeekV y ' Washington. The tariff revisionists made considerable progress In Con gress. The House, by a vote of 206 to au- wnnout a Democrat Dreamng tne Party alignment, adopted the confer- ence report on the wool tariff revision Dl" and rushed It over to the Senate where it was hung up on the cajendar for passage probably in a day or so. ThJa mM,l1M lmnnaM n fln n(1 ninr. I Hi,tv nt 9M ror r,t nn nil raw wools with corresponding reduced rates on woolen manufactures. The other two tariff measures will be side tracked to give wool right of way to the White House for the expected veto. On the veto depends the fur--ther progress of the House Democrats and the Senate Democrats and pro- gressive Republicans, including the formulation of plans for the speedy ad- journment. Democratic Leader Underwood of the House, in expressing the .opinion that final adjournment will not come before next week, said that he did not expect Congress to stay after the pending bills have been disposed of. 'unless the Senate determines to stay and act on the cotton bill." That bill, which makes an average cut of 21 per cent in cotton duties, was debated without action in the Senate. It al ready has passed the House. The free list bill, which admits a variety of products duty free, includ ing cotton bagging, shoes, agricul tural implements, flour, lumber, etc., was put in such shape that it could be considered In the Senate in a few lays as a conference report if consid eration of the wool bill should be de-, layed. The conference disagreed as to two vital amendments but these, according to plans of the leaders, will be speedily adjusted by the two houses without necessity of returning, the bill to conference. Admiral Count Togo For Peace. New York. "The relationship be" tween the United States and Japan must ever be one of peace and neigh- borly good will." As Admiral Count Togo, speaking In his native tongue, uttered that sentiment at the luncheon given jointly by the Japan society and the Peace Society of New York, only the Japanese present understood and applauded vigorously, but when Commander Taniguchl, his aide, re- peated the words in English, an out burst of applause arose spontaneously from the hundreds of guests present. It was the first expersslon here by the great fighting man of the East on the subject of international relation ship. From St. Louis to Chicago. " Chicago. By flying the 286 miles from St. Louis to Chicago with only two intermediate 'stone, and in an actual flying timlof 5 hours and 43 minutes, Harry N. Atwood of Boston believes he has set a pice which will result in his establishing a new record on his flight by aeroplane from St. Louis to New York and Boston. As it is, Atwood appears to have broken the American record for a single day's flight. The best previous American record was made by Atwood himself whn he flew 148 miles from Atlantic City to Baltimore on July 10, 1911; Do Each Other Up in Pistol Duel. Poplarville, Miss. As the result of a pistol duel engaged In between R. B. Boyette, local railroad agent and J. W. Bradshaw, a merchant, here, both men are in a hosnital sulTerlng from seri- oua wounds. The trouble between the two men Is said to have grown out of a notice posted on Bradshaw's store warning Boyette to leave town. Alfaro Government Overthrown. Washington. The Alfaro govern- ment in Ecuador was overthrown by a revolution organized by supporters of President-elect Estrada. Few cas ualties occurred and a ' provisional government headed by the' president of the senate was formed, according to the state department's advices from Minister Young at .Quito. Mr. Young's cable sent, reported the city fairly quiet. The arrival of-Presidentelect Estrada was momentarily ex pected. Gen. Alfaro and family took refuge in the Chilean legation. Town Not Badly Damaged. Pensacola, Fla. The report that Carrabelle, Fli., had suffered serious damage from a storm the other day proved erroneous, as telegrams from that place stated that the storm was not severe. The river steamer Fritz and the mail boat Ruth, which left here a few hours before the storm and for whose safety some uneasiness has been felt, owing to their failure to ar rive back in port wlien they were duo . have reported their safety and state i that they 'were net. damaged."- ' . j
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