Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-08-03
CTo be c%ontinued.)
HONOR BELONGED TO CEN. GRANT.
Colonel says lie Was seen by More Per-
sons than Any other Man.

The military gentlemen who occupy
the seats around the bi|liiard-room NJ
WiIlard's discuss everything available
for conversational purposes, but some
times they get out OF "A topic. This hap
pened to a Colonel aud a Major OF
something more than local reputation
last night, while a young Treasury
clerk was playing with his member Of
Congress for a - supper after the the
alter.
The Colonel stuck his knobby cane
up under his grizzled mu>tache and
bent his watery orbs on the table. The
Major reversed his toothpick and null
tiplied the Colonel : silence by two.
They sal this way for fifteen minutes,
when the Colonel suddenly slapped the
Majors knee, aud introduced what a
ma standing by has since regarded as
an absolutely new proposition.
~Mljah, there are a good many fell
lers looking at this game and that boy
there Is the center OF observation"
very manifestly. sab assented the
other.
We'll. now, this suggests to me TO
ask you a very interesting question,
sab"
All right, Cunnel. lets have it."
"Um-m-m, Tell me. if YOU can, what
man in all history was seen by the
greatest number of human beings from
first to last during the course of his
natural life
Gee whiz. Cunnel. let me off. That's
too much! Why don't you 90 down and
tell that to Teddy Roosevelt for the
Civil Service Commission
Well. its a fair. bony fidy, real live
question and there's an answer TO it.
that you and |, a kentuckians, never
liked SO powerful much, but it's a true
answer as sure as your Twin. an l kin
prove it, too"
well, Cunnel, if you'll just spin
ahead and answer the thing yerself, I'd
give up. My intellectuals need scrap.
ing Il little tonight; they're kind y
gummed-up like
"Gin'ral Grant,
"Gin'ral Grant?'
"Yes, Gin'ral Grant
"Ye don't say-Gin'ral Grant! I'd
never a thought he was the man
We'll, be was. More people laid theI
eyes on that man than any other man
since time began way back among the
star dust.
We'll, come To say so an think so.
perhaps, begosh, it is So"
Yer bet, Maiah. First he was seen
with that everlasting cig-yar O. his in
the Western army and in the Army OF
Virginia. Then he was President. In
these twelve years he was seen by AT
least 5000, 900 people. They say or
an average 500, 600 people visit Wash.
ington every year, counting in inaugu.
rations and big blowouts. Then thins
of his travels away from Washington
Why, | was in Philadelphia wher
George W. Childs gave him that recep
ton before he sailed down the Delaware
to 20 around the world. The people
just seemed like the sands of the sea
shore aud the leaves of the forest. JUS
think of that journey round the world
first TO England, then France and
Spain, and Scotland, and Germany, and
Turkey, and Egypt, and all through
India, Siam, China, Japan, and ther
that tremendous welcome in California
Think of the big cities that turned out
to see him. Why, the Car had Grant
review his whole army. | reckon not
less than 200. 600, 600 people saw Grant
first TO last. Alexander the Great.
Napoleon. Bismarck, Queen Victoria
well. whats the use OF taking? They
weren't in il with Grant. - WASHINGTON
Star.