Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-03-29
Through a Woman's Eyes.
HOW PRESIDENT GRANT LOOKS TO ONE WHO
SEES HIM OFTEN.
By A GRAPHIC LADY WRITER.

President Grant stands to-day a
Sphinx in the midst of those he so
perfectly typifes. As people we
do not yet recognize the realization
of the calm ideal we struggle for,
and we go out from his presence
dumb ourselves, saying: ''What is
this man-a mighty warrior who set
tied the destiny of a nation a states
man who has ruled through the de
moralized era that ever follows ter
rible war; who sees enemies con-
quered and friends false, and even
his own future threatened, and says
nothing!" 1 sat face to face with
President Grant during the Wilson
obsequies in the Senate Chamber.
There he sat, in the presence of death
that day, with the thousand curious
eyes turned upon him, and not
muscle moved perceptibly. His hands
were folded quietly before him, his
feet square upon the floor, his head
trifie bent but as / studied
his strange features 1 seemed to
see the real face under the ma
terial mask, and it was not that of
an unsympathetic man. 1 cannot
describe the effect its immobility had
upon me, unless 1 should say that af-
ter the moulder shaped it he drew a
hand over the clay and erased there
from every line and wrinkle that
might tell story to the world.
His forehead is broad and project
ing, and zigzag line through it,
running down between the gray eyes,
betokens thought concentrated and
intense. This line deepens each
year The eyes, looking straight out,
apparently see nothing-they see
everything. The nose, with its def
mite curve, is that of a soldier the
mouth is tightly compressed above
square, firm chin, covered with a
healthy growth of sho;s-ss, ttnick beard,
and tie c-c4uour of the whole is
agreeable. President
Grants head, with its dark, smooth
hair, is IN its conformation as stub
born of revelation as his face, It is
broad and even, the animal faculties
not over-prominent, and it is well set
on a shapely neck. He is man Of
medium stature, fairly proportioned,
and carries his body a triie forward
in walking.
When the President became aware
Of The action of the Secretary of
War his great natural impulses leap
ID to the surface and betrayed their
master. He violently rang the bell
md ordered his fastest horse. Then
he drove madly, relentlessly, as if
pursuing fate dogged every step,
through the city, away from men,
,ut into the silent suburbs When
le came quietly back to the White
House his horse dripped with foam ;
,ut he was as stoid, as much his own
Master, as the hour before he was be-
rayed.
He that ruleth his own spirit is
,reater than he who taketh a city"
President Grant is kind husband,
tender father, a thoughtful broth
r, and most loyal friend His ma
ure is generous one. His sympa-
HES have gone out towards perse
'uted nations and suffering individu
is; he has been ready to aid strug-
cling women; he is pitiful to crimi
nais- But beneath his tomblike 81
lence ne buries these great capabili-
ties Tor human good, and he Will go
out OF Office into quiet citizen life.
Judged by the many as a man whose |
unspoken thoughts were for himself. |
whose sympathies were with the mo-
neyed few: whose desire was for
power, place and patrician dignities.
A simple man in his tastes, soldier