Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-11-07
THE GLORIEs OF ROAST PIG.
like Charles Lamb. n Southern Jour.
/ nalist kinks the hog n Joy Forever.
Nv. Grady in the Atlanta Constitution.

Il. W. Grady In the Atlanta Constitution.
AT dinner the other night, after the trash
had been disposed of. two roast pigs, each
with an apple in his mouth, were brought in
and set in front of the host and hostess. had
not seen such thing in years. but 1t was
savory reminder of many lavish board under
which my youthful legs had twined about each
other in ecstacy. There's good deal of senti-
ment in the memories that hang about the hog.
Where is there a festival that compares in solid
enjoyment with .'hog- killing time on an old
plantation? How many a time have L sat on
the warm side of big fire in the cold of De-
cember dawn and licked my half-frOzen chops
as 1 watched the sleek carcasses being drawn
and uuartered OF hung over the huge scaldng
pot like young Macbeth over the witches
caudronl
The late Senator Hill loved nothing so well
as plate of gatherings 1 have seen Governor
Herschel v Johnson eat pigs ear with in
finite relish. What were Governor Browns COL
lards Il refuse to spell il colewOrtsl to that
great and good man if underlying his historic
love for this fine esculent there was not an un-
confessed love FOR hogs jOwl? / one saw
General Gordon rushing through Wall street,
when we both had more stocks than was
healthy, with bucket of hogs brains that he
had bought from a downtown butcher for mis-
table mt the st. James. Governor Stephens
dOteS on DrOiied ham. and the nearest to death
General TOOmbs ever came was from indigeS-
ton caused by Overeating of head-cheese; so
that a little more hogs head might have pre-
vented secession. More than one historian
holds that Lees army was never whipped until
the bacon had given out and it had to fall back
on beef Mayor English frequently greaSeS his
distinguished chin with fatty bread and it was
at a governors table that saw the sucking
pigs that evoked tniS tram of n ,n1rieS.
The Facts s,bont the S25O,OOO Pension
for General Grant.
Capr Work corresrOutie1ce PbiIad / Tia TDrps}
Mr. jay Gould's elevated railway is like
panorama of the past and present rapidly I'M
folding into the future. ride down the line
sometimes affords a remarkable succession of
historical and contemporary portraits. single
train from Central park the other morning car
ried down town General Grant. General Horace
Porter stephen b. French. Charles ]. Folger
Carl Schurz and William NJ Evarts. They all
had the air and appearance of prosperous bust
ness men. except Mr.. Evarts, who wears Il hat
which might have been selected by competitive
examination as the worst worn by any Ancient
HibcTnan on last St Patrick's day
General Grant gets in at Ffty-eighth street
He is SO regular passenger that the brakemen
hardly turn their heads as he throws away his
cigar stump and steps upon the platform. The
general has to walk about half q mile across a
Corner OF the Central park in order to reach the
station. He enters the park at the menagerie
gate The big bison. called Ben. which died last
week, was a favOrite of the generals. He used
to pause before the cage which the animal n
hablted, and discuss his points with the keeper.
The ex-pr"sident usually makes the journey
down town alone. ami rarely reads q new SpapeT.
When he reads any paper it is the one published
by his TREND, Mr. George Jones. the originator
and collector of the 500. 900 fund to which Jay
Gould contributed. \ good deal was heard
about this fund when the scheme was first pro-
posed you may remember. and very little at
and after the time when the amount was filled
up Mr. Huribert of the World, would be
pleased to have the public believe that there is Il
mystery about the final disposition of the fund.-;
that Dir. Jones. instead of handing over the
quarter of "a million to the intended Beneficiary.
pOchctcd i when Jay GOuid's back turned.
and subsequently, spent il for CANDY. or on some
other sort of reckless dissipation.
The truth about the privacy attending the
final phase of the Grant fund is this as under
stand the facts: The original project to
make the fund permanent one. the income to
&c To- the oldest living eX-presdent That was
merely pretext TO spare General Grants sup
posed delicacy about accepting a purely indi-
vidual benefit. Neither Mr Jones nor any other
OF the promoters of the scheme cared picayune
about any eX-preSident but General Grant
Some of the heaviest subscribers indeed re
fused to accept conditions which would give the
interest of their money to Mr.. HAYES. in case of
General Grants death. The oldest living eX-
president" feature of the fund, therefore was
quietly dropped. and it became contribution
exclusively for General Grant II was found
that he had no delicacy about accepting it as
such. and that is how the matter stands. But
so much had been said IN the Times about the
beauty and patriotism of a provision for the de-
Ching years of all ex-presidents irrespective of
party. that it was thought proper to treat the
hna disposition of the money as a matter con-
Corning nobody beyond the benefactOrs and the
Beneficiary.