El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-24
1900 CASES FEMALE DISEASES.

looking after your personal safety, and
If YOU are hurt / viii try to do better
by you than you did by me in Mexico"
This was an allusiOn TO a happening
during the Mexican war, when Dent,
having been wounded, was picked up
by Grant and laid for safety upon
flat-tOpped wall, the idea being that
Grant should come back for him later
J-nfortunatelv. Dent rolled off the wall
and broke two or three ribs, being
much worse hurt thereby than by the
shot that had hit him.
Aids Negro Dock Workers.
During the siege Of Richmond, II Is
related, Grant was making an 1nSpec-
ton of the docks at City Point, and
stopped TO look at a couple Of negroes
who were trying to roll barrel Of
bacon aboard a boat. They were IN
able TO move it, and a young heuten-
ant standing by, said
Push harder, you niggers, or 90 get
another man TO help you"
The cOmmander-in-chief Of the armies
up his sleeves and helped roll the bar
rel aboard the boat, wiped his hands on
his handkerchief, and walked away 1t
was not until later that the lieutenant
the man was
called Obstinate by Wife.
New York editor once called upon
Mrs Grant and asked her if she thought
that her husband would succeed in cap
turing Richmond.
We'll she answered, reflectively. Il
don't know. I think ne may Mr.. Grant
always was a very Obstipate man
Abraham Lincoln once remarked
Grant is the first general I've had
I'll tell YOU what / mean. You know
how it's been with all the rest. As soon
as I put man in command of the army
he'd come TO me with the plan Of
campaign, and about as much as say,
i don't believe / can do il. but If you
say so III try it on'-and so put the
responsibility of failure or success upon
me- They all wanted me TO be the gen
HeHwnH ---M# mi .
hasn't told me what his plans are 1
don't know, and don't want to know
am glad TO find a man who can go
Aids Man to Work.
A senator's son in one of the depart
ments in Washington drank hard and
was discharged His friends gave him
up as hopeless. and he came pretty
near to the gutter. Then he reformed,
and struggled hard for years to sup
port his family. President Grant heard
about the case, and sent for him. He
sad; I want to help you What can
1 do for your
"I want work" replied the young
You shall have il. Where would you
prefer to gO-in new scenes or OldZ'
Send me, sir, where I left a black
former position"
Grant gave him a note to the secre-
tary OF the department asking that the
young man be reinstated- But soon ne
came back, saying. The secretary sent
OUT word lnaL my application WOulu 90
on file WhereupOn the president with
some show Of anger, remarked: gu
can't put your wife and children on file
can yOuE' and gave him another note,
saying. Present this in person, and
bring me an answer" The answer, duly
returned, was. NO vacancies Grant
wrote in red ink across the face OF the
note, Make q vacancy, or I will But,
strange TO say even this did not ac-
complish any result.
No further notes were exchanged, but
on the next day, after the cabinet meet
ing, the president tapped the secretary
on the shoulder, and said to him.
Nv HON would you recommend as your
successors"
The secretary, having no alternative,
wrote his resignation As for the young
man. 10 is related that he made good
and rose TO position of honor and dig
nifty in the world
A Rigid DiscipIinnrlan.
Grant was always a rigid dlsciplln-
2rlan- on one occasion. while he was
president, a controller of the treasury
Ca small autocrat in his way refused
TO comply with an order in regard to
the auditing of somebody's expense ac-
count He said that under the law the
president had no power to compel him
to do what he did not want to do in
such a matter. TT is true" responded
Grant. that I cannot compel you. but
I can get another controller The ac-
count was passed
Though commonly known even in the