The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-11-21

yards below, amid driftwood and de-
 bris. He landed the animal at place
 where it could climb the bank, and it
 was soon on safe ground, none the
 worse for the fright and the bath. Grant literally rewarded the boatman for. the rescue of the horse, and in a short time triumphantly led Miss Dents dripping steed back to her. By this time their escort had appeared on the scene and the wet horse and sad de were exchanged for dry ones. It was agreed that ''the folks at home" would not be any the happier for a knowledge of the adventure, and that for the present nothing should be said on the subject. My informant says
 that this was the one event in Grants s life to which he ever afterward revert ed with a shudder.
 One evening in April, in one of Grants rides through the country with Miss Dent they passed along a pretty
 road with many windings on the top
 of one of the gentle ridges which di- vide the small streams and valleys. By the roadside two small boys had treed a coon and possum. They stopped moment to see the boys be- laboring the tree with clubs Just then
 a loud call of distress came from across the valley bottom, several hundred yards distant The call grew louder.
 They could see through the open forest
 at the far side of the valley partial
 opening or clearing. They turned their
 horses and rode rapidly in the direction
 of the cries of distress. They found
 that an old negro, while engaged in clearing the land for corn planting, had cut his foot severely with his axe had severed an artery. They found him holding the wound tightly with his hand to stop the flow of blood as much
 as possible.
 They dismounted and Grants quick
 action in emergency was again exhibi- ted. His pocket handkerchief was folded and pressed to the wound and
 then held there by Miss Dent-who
 seems to have been on all occasions Grants complement in coolness and command of xpedients-while the old darkey was made to press the severed artery on each side the cut to stop the flow of blood. Grant took the axe, cut
 some clean oak bark, and in a. minute had it bruised into pulp, on the top of
 stump. The pulp was placed on the wound, and Miss Dents pocket-hand- kerchfef and Grants, already saturated with blood were bound over it. Then the back of the mans vest was torn
 out and wrapped over these. These
 were held in place by Miss Dent, while Grant peeled a quantity of Heather wood'' bark from shrubs growing plen- tifuliy in the bottomlands, and careful ly tied the improvised bandages. The blood ceased to flow. The mans wife
 and two little girls (and that is how
 these particulars came to be revealed, for Grant never told a story of his own good deeds) came on the scene, but
 were so paralyzed with fear that they could do nothing but wiring their hands and cry The only ineligible words the woman uttered were in objection to | Grants tearing the back out of the old
 mans vest that lay on a stump near by. He told her he would bring her husband a new vest.
 Grant carefully lifted the old darlley upon his horse, took him to his cabin
 near by, and admonished him to lie still until the next day, when he would come and see how his patient was get ting on.
 While binding up the wound Miss
 Dent remarked to Grant that she had
 always had the impression that it was
 the mission of the soldier to make