Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22
Dying President Led
Attendants i'm Prayer

fun. And he used to say just those things
she remembered.
why, mother" said her daughter as
she came in. you've been crying! What's
the matter?'
1T was nothing, dear" answered the
old lady as she wiped her eyes II was
reading, you know, and 1t upset me lit
tie. 1t was only bit Of newspaper
verse;"
Gen. o. o. Howard thus describes the
meeting between, Grant and Sherman at
Chattanooga
"IIe set out very early for the front.
He was then so lame that he could not
mount his horse without assistance. Gen.
Rawlings, who was strong and robust,
took him as If he had been a child and
lifted him to his saddle.
mot long after the battle of Wau-
hatchee a detachment from the Army Of
the Tennessee was hurried over from the
Mississippi under the command of Gen.
w. T. Sherman. This detachment had
reached Bridgeport and Sherman, leav-
ing his troops there, FASTENED on to con-
suit his chief at Chattanooga. Taking
few officers with me went UP on the
east side of the river and crossed to Chat
tanooga, where | reported to Gen.
Thomas.
"a number of officers were assembled
| in an upper room, among whom were
Grant and Thomas, and several corps
commanders. Before anything of an Of
| fetal nature was talked about Sherman
| suddenly broke in upon us. Grant and
| Thomas gave him cordial welcome.
| Grant first offered him the ever welcome
cigar Che was himself smoking), which
| Sherman proceeded to light, but without
| interrupting his rapid talk
frr7.t IT, z.... L.
Sherman, pointing to high-backed
rocker.
1.-The chair of honor, general, belongs
to YOU Grant replied But do not for
| get to give proper respect to age
" If you put it on that ground must
accept replied Sherman. who was about
three years Grants senior"
-S-:
John Sharp Williams is signing for
statesmen of the type of Tim Sullivan,
who served zone consecutive term in
| congress as a representative from Man
haitian Williams, as the minority leader,
has assumed the task of placing the DEM
| ocratic members on the various house
! committees, and he finds that his as
| signments are going to bring him more
trouble than thanks.
Timothy Drydolar Sullivan was the
easiest man to please in the matter of
| l.
williams the other day, as he was strug-
| Cling with the Chinese puzzle of distrib-
uting twenty-five desirable places among
| the sixty-seven Democratic applicants
| Sullivan called on me one day early in
| the fifty-ninth congress and drawing me
on one side said he wanted to talk with
me- l braced myself for an unreasonable
demand for committee assignments.
"'Its about those committees began
Sullivan. You. see it's this way, Gohn.
don't like this jay town and don't pro-
| pose to spend any more time here than
| the law demands. So don't put me on
any committees that will expect me to
show up at the meetings. Stow me away
some place where the committee meets
about once every two years
| IT put Sullivan on the committee of
| coinage, weights and measures" contin-
ued williams, "and assured him that he
would have nothing. to do"
"Mr. Hay, do you drink?' WI Ting
Fang once asked the late secretary of
state, his best American friend.
Very moderately, replied Hay, who
we'll understood Wus ways. why do
you ask that?'
''I have been reading the address on
Omar Khayyam that you made in Lon
don," said WI.
''well, what then?" inquired Hay
i "Well," said WI. "it had a hankering
note in it. / drank more than l should
have after reading I'll 1t read like the
| talk of somebody who was thirsty. 1t
made me thirsty. 1t read as If you want
ed very much to drink a great deal. Do
| yol?'
The secretary considered this the best
compliment ever paid to any of his writ
] ings or addresses