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New Stories of His Last Days,
When He Conquered Fortune
With Death at His Elbow.

him on a trip before, and he said to
me at the time that he would not OBJ
ject to debating his "reminiscences to
me-
How did the general come to write
his book ?" 1 asked
Il don't think he had any idea of it,
replied Mr. Dawson, until after the
failure of Grant & Ward This left
him penniless and he became very
anxious to make money. The Century
people, you know, began the work Of
getting him to write They asked him
to write articles for the magazine. But
Gen. Grant was not at all sure that he
could write. He feared to attempt it.
At last he concented to write four
articles for them. 1 think he was to
get $500 apiece for them. They took so
We'll that it became more easy to per-
suade him to write his book. The Cen
fury company. made him the first prop
osition, but Mark Twain, who had
known Grant, having met him at dim
ners and elsewhere, made better offer
and got it."
did Mark Twain make any money
out of it ?' I asked
Il don't see how it could be other
WISE" replied Mr.. Dawson. 1.-The pub
fishers of subscription books usually
make enormous profits. The book sold
I 81 for the set. There was an edition in
morocco and tree calf which sold for
$25 set, and the proba bility is that the
publishers made two or three times as
much as Gen. Grant out of the sales.
| 1t is question whether c. L. Web
ster & company, who represented Mark
| Twain, were good business men. 1t
was claimed at the time that it was
! their work which sold Grants book
! The fact that they failed since then
shows that it was Grants book that
made their reputation and that helped
them rather than them helping Grant
In other words, he succeeded in spite of
them" e re
WAS Gen. Grant really penniless at
the time of his failure?"
YES" replied Mr.. Dawson. "He lost
everything that he had. Everything
he owned in the world had been in
vested or deposited with Grant IL
Ward"
How about that money that he got
from Vanderbilt"
He got nothing from Vanderbilt
after the failure. He borrowed $780,
600 of him the day before he failed,
but every cent of this went to Ward
and was swallowed up. 1 understand
that all he had left at the time was
about $50 in his pocket and $3.50 in
cash belonging to Mrs. Grant. His
friends at once offered him their help.
but it was some time before he accept
ed anything, and what he did take
came from a comparative stranger"
How was that?"
THE offers of assistance came from
all parts of the country" replied Mr..
Dawson. Many poor men wrote that
they could loan him money and among
others he got one very touching letter
from Lansingburg, n. Y. This came,
about four days after the failure Of
Grant & Ward. 1t was from a man
whom Gen. Grant had never seen. He
wrote the general that he had made
some money out of his business and
that he had saved a few thousand dol
lars. This he said he would like TO lend
to the general in his extremity. He in
closed a check for $500, making 1t pay
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they gathered and used IT with irresist-

they gathered and used It with irresist-
ible force. r.
Bailey is SO years old His youthful
friends pointed to his age with pride.
They regarded it as an element of
strength, and not as weakness. They
recalled the fact that Napoleon COM
manded the army Of Italy when he was
only 26, but they seem to have forgot
ten that Verpgneaud, the chief of the
Girondists, led his PARTY to ruin and lost
his own head when at the same age
of Bailey. A veteran senator, on hear
ing of Bailey's nomination, said: "Well,
the urchinS are on top. There are two
roads before them. One is to Tophet,
and the other to a glorious victory"
Which they will take time will de-
velop. The march may be as destruc-
tive as the march of the Marseillais to
Paris, and it may be as glorious as the
march of the battalions headed by Car
not at Wattignies
Certain 1t is that Bailey has aplomb,
dignity and boldness. He is resourceful
and tactical. An excellent speaker
polished in manner, logical If not YER
satile, and of a pleasing presence, he
must attract attention. The galleries
will be more than ever charmed with
him, but the veterans of the house will
be apt to be cynical and skeptical as to
his judgment. They will hardly follow
his leadership with alacrity. If it is
tempered with good judgment, he may
win their affection, as Caesar won the
affections of the Tenth legion by his
campaigns in Gaul. There are danger
Gus defiles from which to debouch and
perilOuS heights to climb. AmbuScades
are to be feared, and there are unford-
able rivers to cross. Some fear that the
young leader will be vain and con-
ceited, If not f-opinionated. They say
that he is more fitted to play the role
Of Apollo than that of Mars His re-
cord in the house of representatives.
however, is good. He inherits to a great
extent the conceptions and ideas of
that old exemplar of Texas political
philosophy, John H. Reagan. Indeed
1T sometimes looks as though the young
Texan had taken Reagan for his men
tor. Though whatever canyon he is
marching, or over whatever cragS in
politics he is climbing, he keeps his eye
on the constitution. 1t is to him the
ark Of the covenant. Wherever there is
the slightest doubt as to the constitu-
tionality of a measure, he vigorously
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he put Benton McMillin In the place
occupied by Gen. Catchings. This was
strictly In line with precedent, McMillin
having served sixteen years in tbs
house, but when Crisp died he set
aside all precedent by appointing Mr.
Bailey. But the most marked sign of
Mr.. Reeds preference for Mr.. Bailey
was shown at the beginning Of this
extra session. The Texan had never
been member of the ways and means.
yet the speaker placed him at the head
or the minority on this committee,
jumping McMillin and other Democrat Is
who had served many years upon Il.
Thus Bailey's six years Of service have
brought him more honor than the
eighteen years spent by McMillin in
the house. There are men who are so
ungenerOuS as to aver that Speaker
Reed made this appointment with the
view Of fomenting disturbances in the
Democratic party. Mr.. Bailey is how
ever, no political Belzebub, as some Of
the conservative Democrats seem 10
have imagined. The antiques may not
be taken into his confidence, and at
times he may treat them unceremoni.
ously, but he probably has too much
good sense and judgment to worry or
to gaff them.
Mr.. Bailey is TALL long-haired. blue
eyed, claSsic-featured and of pink and
of Bryan-and, for that matter, includ-
ing Mckinley and Reeds smooth
shaven. He is big-boned and in process
of time may reach the proportions of
Gov Hubbard and Gov Hogg, if not
of. Speaker Reed. He wears a black
sOmbrero, a Byronic collar, a black
frock coat and a low-cut vest, showing
ar expansive shirt front with a silk
watch guard across the bosom. His
shoes are always neatly polished and
his trousers of the finest broadcloth
Winter and summer he appears in the
dress of statesman. Indeed, he is by
far the neatest dressed man in the Tex
as delegation.
The new leader is sure to attract at
tention in more ways than one before
the adjournment of the Fifty-fifth con-
gress. An army of young Democrats
have their eyes upon him as the repre-
sentative of the younger element of the
party. He voices their aspirations and
their desires. He has aSpired to- the
leadership of this element in the house
and has won it fairly and sQuarely. If
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along, but concluded to wait until the
book was done. He longed for the
time when it would be completed, and
was so anxious about it that l told
him one day that it was ready for him,
and that he could have it the next
day. 1t was not quite finished but
l could see that it could be given to
him along from time to time fast
enough to make him think that it was
so. My statement that the book was
done delighted him, and he called in
Mrs. Grant and told her that he had
finished the book, and that he would
have it all there the next day But
when the morrow came he was not SO
we'll. He grew worse and the result
was that the notes of the last volume
were hardly revised by him at all. [
wrote them out, and Col. Fred Grant
and 1 went over them before they were
published. The first volume the gen.
eral revised and also part of the sec
ond."
Was Grant an easy writer?''
Yes" replied Mr.. Dawson. HE thought
clearly and wrote easily. He dictated we'll.
He could say what he thought in the sim
plest language and still round out his ideas
in complete form. His military orders were
so worded. you know. that no one could
misconstrue them.
Ibid Gen. Grant have many letters and
private papers about him while he was work
ing at his book?'
He had some military papers, but no
private letters. He did not keep letters 1t
was his custom to read his letters and then
direct me to say and so in reply, not fully
debating the answer. After the letters were
answered they were burned. He was very
careless as to his private matters. 1t was
different, however, as to public papers. Every
thing connected with the army was carefully
kept. His orders will be found to be per-
feet and his clerical force had to keep them
just So
'Did he have the satisfaction OF seeing
any part of his book in print before he died?'
mo; he only the proof of the Century
article. He did not see the book himself, nor
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attacks 1t. For instance, he does not
believe that congress has a. constitu-
uonal right. to charter corpora
tons, and The has infiexibly set his
face against such measures. Glass Leg
lslat1on IL his abomination.s He has in
troduced resolutions abolishing the re-
tired list IN the navy, and he probably
regards the retired list of-the army with
the same disfavor. If he had it In his
power there Is no doubt but what he
would wipe out both lists Fl
"A keen and discerning politician, he
has won the confidence of his younger
associates. Indeed they regard him
with enthusiasm. They will sport him
heartily and without reserve. The vet
Grams, however, will be harder to man.
age. They may try to wrest the leader
snip from him5 when important meas
ures are being considered. 1t will be
dlITlcult, however; for them to do this
while Thomas B. Reed is speaker OF
the house. Mr.. Reeds recognition Of
bailey as the header of the minority
Will have great weight in making him
the real leadeE Mr.. Reed has treated
the young Texan with marked favor.
When he announced his committees
last year, Mrst Bailey appeared as a
member Of thei judiciary and elections
committees and also of the committee
OF revision Of the laws. Speaker Reed
made him one7 of the six Democratic
members of the committee on judiciary
This gave Texas two places on that
committee, David B. Culberson, Of that
state being the leader of the minority,
having served as chairman for many
years.
A marked evidence of the speakers
favor was shown on the death of eX-
Speaker Crisp His death left a vacan-
cy in the committee on rules. To the
establishment Of the house, Mr. Reed
placed Mr.. Bailey in the vacancy. This
was of itself either a distinctive mark
OF the personal confidence of Thomas
b. Reed or g. recognition on the part of
the speaker Of young Bailey as a Dem
ocratic leader. Bailey had served only
two terms in the house. His selection
looked like marked discourtesy to Gen.
Thomas c. Catchings, of Mississippi,
who had been a member since March
4, 1885, and who had served on the COM
mittee on rules through Mr.. Crisp's
term as speaker. When Mr.. Reed APP
pointed his committee on rules at the
beginning Of the Fifty-fourth congress
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time he told me that the public misunders+oo.6s
such things, and that the truth was the more
rapid the killing in battle the more mercifuH
was the result in the end. He showed ND
now more men had died in the late waH
through sickness caused by exposure than
by bullets, and that the sooner the waR
t ecu De ended, no matter at how great cost I
the fewer lives would be lost He said THAI
when campaigns were heightened out therd
was an enormous loss by exposure and diSl
ease. You know the lives lost In Mcclellan Il
campaigns were really greater than those 1oGd
In GRANTS, when all things are considered. q
DID Grant ever say anything about the
accusations that he drank too much2" Il
Yes replied Grants secretary. 81 askesfi
MIN about this when we were working uponl
me chapter concerning Shiloh. He told mel
tnaI the stories published about him at thaH
time were all hes and that he had neyeH
drank to excess. The subject came up beu3
cause | was friend of Senator Harlan, Cd
Iowa, who had tried to have Grant removed
from the service for alleged drunkenness onl
the field Of battle at Shiloh. I asked Grand
now the impression that he was drunk therH
got out ana he told me- 1t rs an interesting
story and has never been published. A daW
or SO before the battle, Fate at night, when III
was dark and stormy, firing was heard alon5
the picket line. Gen. Grant and his staff lefE
tnelr tents and rode out to see what it wasrl
ror they feared 1t might be the enemy bel
ginning an engagement. When they reached
tne Plokets they found II was only partM
OF sklrmishers and amounted to nothing. Theyl
then started back TO the generals tent III
was very dark and the party became separate
ed. Cen Grant Get the reins drop on hisl
horses neck and. trusted him to find thai
way back The horse, however took the
wrong turn,n and In trying to climb up al
bank slipped and fell on the general, spraininEl
his leg. The sprain was SO bad that Gen.
Grant did not get over 1t for days Hal
had TO be helped on and off his horse, and
this was the case at the battle Of Shiloh. !
The newspaper correspondents who did nod
know Of the sprain published the story thae
he was drunk, and Gen. Grant was too proud
TO correct 1t. don't believe that Gen. Grant,
ever drank to excess. have heard manvl
men say that he did drink and 1 have triedl
to trace such reports to their foundation but
l nave yet to find the man who will say that
ne ever saw Gen. Grant under the influence
of intoxicating liquor J
Frank G. Carpenter.
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vigorous attempt to secure reappotntment,
but failed.
One wintry morning during her brief stay
in the Mormon capital, Miss Cousins told me
her story.
II was engaged to Senator Fair" she said.
"and | loved him. He came to me In Chi
cago and asked me to be his wife, We were
to have been married there soon. He was
summoned to California on business, and left
promising 10 return for soon. l never
heard from him again, and here is the notice
of his DEATH
ut is all a mistake, wrote Miss Cousins,
from California. to a st. Louis friend. Don't
dear friend, try 20 reform the world It
doesn't want to be reformed Live quietly
and happily In your home 1t was SO decreed
for women. | do not believe any longer in
outside work for women. I believe they
should all be pensioned, and that bachelors
should be taxed to provide the pension"
WOMAN's TRUE MISSION.
''Do you remember where we met. Miss
Phoebe?" sked one Of the visitors TO her bed.
side the other day. II was the venerable
Judge Seymour d. Thompson.
No Judge" said Miss Cousins, as che life.
ed her hand above the coverlet.
1T was on train en- route to Chicago from
st. Louis. You were talking of the mission
OF woman. ! had the temerity to say The
mission Of woman is motherhood You dis
dained to reply except by a scornful flash Of
your bright eyes, which awed and silence6
me-"
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THE YOUNG
MAN WHO
LEADS THE
DEMOCRATS.
Bold MI. Bailey

the front to stay. They are there today
and their number there Is increasing.
Antiques in politics are being sent to
the back seats. The young element has
also discovered its power in the house,
and has asserted 1t without regard to
precedent 1t takes a genuine delight
in burying precedent. 1t is the same
element that has astounded the grave
and revered seignors of the senate for
the last four years. 1t is now showing
it's strength in the house of representa-
tives. This 1t is that makes the selec-
ton of Mr.. Bailey significant The in
dependent course taken by Dubois,
Hansbrough, Allen, Kyle, Mantle
Pritchard, Wilson and others with un-
silvered hair in the senate is finding it's
echo in the other wing Of the capitol
The Democratic members are the first
to respond by choosing Joseph w. Bal
ley as their candidate for speaker. The
selection carried with 1t the leadership
of the minority of the floor. That Bal
ley could walk off with the prize, with
such veterans as McMillin and Bland
in competition, may excite surprise, but
it is by no means astonishing. The old
members failed to see the cloud on the
horizon. They relied too much upon
the strength of term Of service. Gen.
Henderson, Of Illinois, made the same
mistake when a candidate for clerk in
the last house of representatives. Bal
ley's friends, with very few excep-
tions, were men youthful and bright
eyed, without tufts of gay moss on
their chins, and without rheumatic
pains in their joints. They worked
night and day, while the veterans were
asleep. Intuitively feeling their power
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Gen. Grants
Greatest Battle.

Copyrighted 1897, by Frank G. Carpenter)
WASHINGTON, D.. c., April 1.-The
true story of Gen. Grants greatest
battle has never been published. 1t
was not fought during the bloody
years between 1861 and 1865. 1t was
not waged during his stormy admins
tration in the White house, but it came
during the last few months Of his life,
when bankrupted and made penniless
by the villain Ward, when racked with
pain and enfeebled by disease, he
shook his fist in the face of death and
wrote the book which made his widow
and his family wealthy. No other
good book has ever been written un-
der such circumstances. Few books
have ever been written which read so
well. The language is as simple as
that of Pilgrim S; Progress or Robinson
Cfusoe,, and the story is of thrilling
interest from beginning to end. To
read it you would not think that much
of 1t was dictated in a voice not above
@ whisper, and that the thought came
forth from a brain surrounded by
nerves which were ever twitching with
egonized pain. Few books have had
so great a sale as that of Grants.
Hundreds Of thousands Of copies We're
sold, and Mrs. Grant not long ago told
me that her royalties upon it have
amounted to more than $5O0,0 The
book sells well today, and 1t will be d
standard book for all time to come.
MAN GRANT. MOST TRUSTED.
Much of the real story of this great
work / am able to. tell you today. I
give 1t in the words of the man who
of all others outside of his own family
in those last days Gen. Grant most
trusted. His name is N. E. Dawson
and he is now the confidential secre-
tary of Gen. Nelson A. Miles He has
had the confidence Of many great men.
and today he has the secret history
of a score of famous statesmen's lives
stored away in his shorthand notes
given to him by the men themselves
with the understanding that the mat
ter is not to be published until after
their deaths. Gen. Grant" said he.
never trusted men by halves When /
first met him all l had with which to
win his confidence were my recommen-
dations. l was employed in the war
department, and was asked by him
to come to New York and go with him
when he made his trip to Mexico. I
was comparative stranger, but he
trusted me implicitly. He made me
the cashier of the party at the start,
and put $4,000 into my hands to pay
the running expenses. of the trip. L
have never seen a man who trusted
those he liked so much. He never for
moment thought his friends would
not be faithful to him, and if / had
written a note for $4,000 and present
ed it to him in the shape of letter I
have no doubt he would have signed it.
He had never had a stenographer with
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began the career which, so far as hu-
man insight goes, is nearly at an end
She made a few strong woman suffrage
speeches-One at Presbyterian Sunday
school convention in Jefferson City.
where she started her staid audience bys
asserting that "Paul's words TO women
amounted to nothing. for Paul was
simply crusty old bachelor, with no
authority to lay commands upon wom-
anklnd," and another at the banquet
of the Mercantile Library association,
where she was toasted as our own
Phoebe Cousins
Then she spread her ambitious wings
and flew away to Washington.
There she was entertained by promi-
nent families and lectured before var
iCuS audiences on the cause she had
eSpouSed. She became a protegee of
Susan B. Anthony, and the little circle
Of agitators hoped much from this
promising addition to their number,
Young, handsome, talented, she would
reach the ears of many who cared not
to listen to the equally earnest but
less favored. She was as logical as
any Of them; she wrote gracefully and
forcibly, and if her manner on the plat
form was little forced, that would
wear away in time. ef@- i
MANY PROPOSALS.
Men high in the councils of the ma
ton were curious about the brilliant
young woman from ST. Louis, and then
became her slaves. During one winter
Vice President Wilson was a frequent
caller. So also were a senator and
congressman.
Phoebe her hostess often said, do
decide which Of these gentlemen you
prefer and let him have a hint of your
preference. All of this game is anx-
ious to be bagged." But Phoebe never
decided. Instead. she bored the mag
mates with long. argumentative CONVEX
sations on advancement and the
elevation of humanity" Affection Is q
tender plant and cannot withstand the
frosts of indifference. 1t was but nat
ural that this distinguished trio sew
orally and collectively, relinquished
its suit
Then came bluff, rudy Senator Fair,
with his millions and his quaint idioms
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TO AID HELEN KELLER.
Friends of the Deaf, Dumb and Hind
Girl Make Appeal. 8&

NEW YORK, April IA number OF
literary people in this city have co..
operated in starting q movement in aid
OF Helen Keller, the wonderful blind,
deaf and dumb girl. So gifted is Miss
Keller that at the age Of seventeenl
she will enter Harvard college annex
probably better prepared than any
girl in full possession Of all her faculs
ties. AS she has no means Of her own,
Miss Keller's friends are trying to raise
the sum of $4,000 to be invested so that.
the income will furnish support for
Miss Keller and her teacher. At their
death the income is intended to revert
to some benevolent institution. Amon&
those who have interested themselves
in raising the fund are William Dean
Howells, Charles Dudley Warner, and
Mrs. Lawrence Hutton.
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Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, April S.-The selec-
ton of Joseph w. Bailey, Of Texas, as
the Democratic candidate for speaker
of the house of representatives empha-
sized peculiarly the action of the Chi
cago convention last fall. That con-
vention nominated William ]. Bryan,
thirty six years old as its candidate for
the presidency. The nomination fired
the hearts of the young Democracy in
the South and West. They went into
the campaign with zest and zeal born
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PRESIDENT TO TAKE VACATION.
Brief Trip Down the PatOmac In
Planned.

WASHINGTON April 3.-President
Mckinley has in contemplation brief
vacation from his official duties
The month at the White house hGrS
been trying one, and while not in arfgf
way indisposed, he feels that a few
days rest will benefit him greatly.
Nothing has been determined, yet it
is probable that he will avail himself
Of the presence here of the dispatch
boat Dolphin and go down the Po-
tomac river for couple of days about
the middle OF next week.