The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05
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other patients We're cared for, l went
to market garden and bought a head
of cabbage. He had often said he
wanted something green, II only boil
ed grass" When the cabbage was
cooked l carried him some, with cider
vinegar, and fed him.
He ate all there was on the plate,
| asked for more, which was brought,
and still third and fourth plate, till
he had eaten the whole cabbage
From that dinner, in May, he began
| to improve. and on the 14th of June
started with him on a stretcher for his
home in Pennsylvania, as his life even
then depended upon his diet, and such
meals as he ate would have made q
| well man sick.
He recovered, but had stiff knee.
Grants Gratitude.
II think l carry with me the finest
proof of Grants love and gratitude Of
any man living" said Col. William
Barnard, of st. Louis. He opened his
| pocketbook and drew out two worn and
creased papers; one, a blank check
| signed ULYSSES S. Grant," the other,
n few lines Scra wled ON a torn bit from
a memorandum book, to the effect that
1.-The within is good up to $50,00O," and
| signed Grant"
The "Col. Bill" told his story:
Years before he had been a rich man,
and there came time when the young
| infantryman got into trouble through
| no great fault of his own, but through
that faculty for trusting people, which
never left him in all the after years. He
| needed some money, and needed it bad
ly, yet he was too proud to ask anyone
of his wife's relatives or family con-
| nection to loan him the amount. AS
Ii, afterward expressed it when talking
over the affair with "COl. Biz" who
had been one of his best friends from
the time he cOurted Miss julia" he
was ''in devil of fix"
Without knowing very much about
the complications, but receiving an in
tfmatiOn from an officer stationed at
the same fort, the Colonel sent the
subaltern an untitled check, with in
structions to use if he needed it. Grant
the little debt of gratitude he was to
owe for many Il long day. "Col. Bills"
fortunes fell with those Of hundreds of
others in the city on the banks of the
big river, but always. in some unob-
trusive way, chance was given him to
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again he kept lin comfortable circum-
stances"
Parties knowing the intimate rela-
tons existing between the successful
General and the Colonel besought him
time and again to go with them into
certain gigantic schemes that needed
only the tacit consent and protection of
Grant to make every man among them
a multi-millionaire. Once the Colonel
hunted up Grant down in the jungles'
of the Southwest and told him how he
was being ''pestered to death" by those
erterprising blockade runners" Grant
listened quietly until the story was
done, and then he swore few of the
mighty, righteous oaths kept for choice
occasions.
"Bill, do you want to so into that
thing? If you do can't say word,
but"
"It would have done your heart good
to have seen his face soften and heard
his voice tremble, when l assured him
that though l didn't consider myself
saint by any means, 1 did consider my
self a gentleman, and that though a
million or two would come i'll right
handy, / had no though of making it
in way that would certainly reflect
upon his honor. We talked of other
things after that, as Grant seemed to
want to dismiss the subject entirely.
In answer to his inquiries told him
was doing fairly well financially, and
then we drifted to home talk and l
soon after left him and went North, and
later abroad When l next saw Grant
he was in Washington, and upon bid
ding him goodnight after one of our
long talks, he handed me an envelope,
saving carelessly: Here is something
may fit in sometime When l went to
my rooms | broke the seal and found
the check just as you see it and this
characteristic note" Washington
Post.