Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1868-10-03
SATURDAY MORNING, OCT. ;. 1865.
Hiram ULYSSES Simpson Grant.

Hiram Ulysses Simpson Grant.
we have received from Maj. StrA.ma-,
of san Francisco. n li,llo yellow covered
book, entitled - The Life Of General Clys-
ses Simpson Grant. Now Stratman sends
us a great many good things, and bis lib
eraliiy is proverbial, but we can't say much
in compliment of this life of Ulysses Simp-
son, but that il not S!ratman's fault. A
life history should. Of course, give some ac-
count Of the youthful career of its hero"
and Grants history was marked only by
extraordinary stupidity. His fathers let
tiers to the Ledger proved this much, and
the duty of suppressing the old gentle
mans veracious history became at once
"miIitary necessity" Notwithstanding
the old gentleman says the "hero's" name
was Hiram U. Grant, who, we think, UNI
der the circumstances, should be tolerable
good authority, the historian persists in
the use Of the imposing cosuomen Of Ulys-
ses Simpson Grant.
Hiram Ulysses Simpson Grant, it ap.
pears from the biography, when twelve
years of age, while at school, was puzzled
as to the meaning of the word can't. He
looked in the dictionary for it. He asked
his schoolmates. lie spent several days
in tribulation and anguish, but could OBJ
tain no solution Of the mighty problem.
lie finally went to the teacher, who ex-
planned that it was corruption of the
word cannot" This indication of stu
pidity is made by the author an evidence
of Grants "invincible determination, ="
and he proceeds to relate the following in
cident in proof:
"While boy at school Grants father
sent him, on one occasion, to get a log Of
wood out Of the timber land, and gave
him charge of a,horse and team to bring
the log home. He expected his son would
find men enough on the ground to assist
him load the cart. On arriving at the
spot young Grant found the men all gone
and yet he did not like to return 10 his
father without the log. 1t was too heavy
for him to lift, and the question how to
get the log home became serious one for
the boy. BY dint of great personal effort
he raised one end Of the log until it rested
on stump about the height Of the cart.
lie then backed the cart until i. acted as a
kind of fulcram under the log. and thus
gradually but surely he worked the log
into the cart and brought it home"
This astounding feat, through some
oversight, has never before been heraldrd
to the world, and we rejoice that We have
been enabled to chronicle an isciden,
which will be read by posterity 10 eonnee.
ton with the story Of George Washington
and the apple tree.
We have bat space to give one more in.
stance Of the indicatios Of the Coming
man" in II. U. S. Grant. 1t appears thai
his father cent him 10 buy hnrs~. telling
him to ofer 6fty So!lsn and increase the
the price TO sixty. If j: could no: h. bought
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