The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-20
HIS GREATEST FIGHT
HOW GENERAL GRANT HELD DEATH
AT BAY AND FINISHED HIS WORK.
New Features of story of suffering and
Toll One Of the Great Warriors Most
Trusted Associates Tells OF His Last
Hard struggle

Trusted Associates Tells OF His Last
Hard struggle.
The true story of General Grants
greatest battle mas never been publish.
ed twas not fought during the bloody
years between 1854 and 1865 II was
not waged auring his stormy admins
ratior IN the White House. but il came
during the last few months of his life,
when bankrupted aud made pennies
by the villain Ward when racked with
pain and enteebled 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 under such cir.
cumstanCes Few books have ever been
written which read so we'll The Ian
guage Is as simple as that of Pilgrim
Progress or Robinson Crusoe, and |
the story is of thrilling interest from
beginning to end To read 1t you would
not think that much of it was dictated
| in a voice not above a whisper, ana
that the thought came forth from a
brain surrounded by nerves which were
ever twitching with agonized pain. Few
books have had so great sale as that
of Grant. Hundreds of thousands OF
comics were sold, and Mrs. Grant not
long ago said that her royalties upon IL
have amounted to more than $500, 600.
The book sells we'll today, and 1t Will
be standard book for all time to come.
Much of the real story of this great
work is told now for the first time IN
the words of the man whom OF all others
outside of his own family in those last
DAYS General Grant most trusted. Ills
name is n. T. Dawson, and he is now
, the confidential secretary OF General
Nelson A. Miles He has had the conii'
/ dence of many great men, and today mas
, the secret history OF score OF FAMOUS
3 statesmen's lives stored away III hl'
9 shorthand notes, given to him by the
, men themselves with the underestimate
: that the matter is not to be published
@ until after their death Genera
0 Grant. " said he, "neyer trusted mel
g nv halves. When | first met him, all
o had with which to win his conildehc
d were nv recommendations. was en-
It Moved in the war department ana WA
10 asked by him to come to New ork al
10 90 with him when he made MS "Trip
Ii Mexico. I was a comparative stranger
he but he trusted me implicitly
is "He made me the cashier OF the pa
$. ~ at the start and put $50, 600 into III
at hands to pay the running expenses
I'd the trim. | have never seen man WI
TX trnsted those he liked so much. He he
OF for a moment thought ms lrien
would not be faithful to him, ana IL
had written note for $40, 900 ana pl
santed il to him in the shape OF lett
ats I have no doubt he would have sign
if lie had never had stehograpii
he with him ON a trip before, ana he 81
ief 20 mo at the time that he would not
mt iect to debating his "reminiscences
he me- :,
M "Was General Grant really pennil
of ot the time of his failure?' Mr. DAVIS
was asked. IL.
it'll ives He lost everything that
ing had Everything he owned III the Wo
ry had been invested or deposited "
Try Grant & Ward. ~,
ase The money from Mr. Vanderbilt
me received before the failure-the DAY
, of foro in fact--and General Grant
,o+bino from him after that
out a,ourt he borrowed was $50, Ooo'
she eve,v cent of this went to WARD
and was swallowed up, l understand
Is oil he had left a, the time was at
call $50 in his pocket and Sl3O III casn ,
ing? longing to Mrs. Grant. his irien''
rear once offered him their help, but IL
tty? sor,o time before he accepted anyth
,uld and what he did take came from
narrative stranger
wer The offers of assistance came iroh
man rorts Of the country Many poor
my wrote that they could loan nun NV
for and among others he got one very ~
It to ;no letter from Lansingburg' N
ime Th;s came about four days ai'er
now sa;Ir,o of Grant & Ward. 1t was
our = nan whom General Grant haa
coon He wrote the general ina. III
n to n,o1e some money out OF his ous
and I'D that he had saved few thou
can dollars. lnls he soiu ~
five lend to the general in his ex'rel
an He inclosed check for Sooo' in'
write II novable Oh account OF his snai'
Your Grant for services ending III April
lblic. In his letter he told the genera
could draw upon him for more u'''
surnlus was used up, ana mat "v
lg;an nav him when he got rtauy' Il,
,s an the general he would lena "'n' '
n IA at once for hi, rctc at Il hio'i'i'o
20 he ont interest. with the oriicn ol y
To- set INC at tie same rate. lhis an'''e''
ratcb eraI Grant ,uy much Hc a"ci''
;tants check aud Le,dlt A;''rthr Cover
las cav, him Is i,rs;on he raia 'hc
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