WHY GRANT WAS GREAT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3701, 3 January 1891, Page 3

WHY GRANT WAS GREAT.

*Due Socogaitioa wiea True Merit is once Established. Was Grant a great General ? Con- j ceded. ■■-'■ What made him so ? When j U. S. Grant was hauling cordwood into St, Louis, his neighbors did not > imagine he.would become the famous man of his generation. When he waa managing th 6 little tannery in Galena no one of his intimates recognised in him a future hero ; but he displayed qualities which should have satisfied them he was no common man. What was there about him ? If, you start to build a singlestory shanty, you must pay attention to the foundation; you may lay stringers in the sand with little fear the building will fall. But if you propose erecting a -10-story block, your architect will tell you you must go to the rock for the basis of your foundation, or the stately structure is liable to tumble about your ears. The foundation of a great force—character ; rock foundation. acks it; he never succ ■;-iurans never used an oath—a- « indication of mo al character. ■,—•>' never told or listened to, if he- could help it, a Vulgar story; this showed peculiar moral fibre, an anusual strength oi'i character. He was a man of opin-1 ions as his wife said was obstinate; j in other words,, he had will-power, force. These qualities, with good judgment, well balanced mental powers, and peculiar executive ability/ supplemented by a mil-j itary. education, fitted him for the emergency when it came. As soon as his merits became known, Success was assured. This is always the case with things as with men. Mr W. Bradley. Surveyor, of Dimboola, Victoria, writes under date of 22nd August, 1800 :—"I have suffered for three years from disorder of the liver and urinary organs and kidney! disease. I had such pains in the j region of the heart as led me to I \ IwSree that there was an organic \ of that organ. All these \ were removed after using \ Warner's safe cure, of which I took \ three bottles, which made such - \ an improvLtnent in my health that 11 a gentleman who has resided for the /'.! past thirty years in the Gippsland District, has favoured us with tne **i subjoined testimony. Balgonie, Stratford, Victoria, April 20th, 1890. —"The middle of last year when exposed to the wet I caught cold, which terminated in rheumatic fever. illness took such a serious turn that high fever set in followed by i shivering and constant sweats. For | bine weeks I.was confined te my bed '■. in a state of complete helplessness,and [' the slightest morement'caused exquisite torture.MylimbsJfecame swollen and inflamed, aniniflit the use of my right hand and left foo"- Ex Perienciug no relief from other medicines prescribed, Warner's " safe Aeumatic cure was given to m e alternately witb Warner's safe cur-' a decided improvement condition took place. With t# s tuml bottle, the stifihess of my uail( * aud foot was removed. Lia** to °k te n or twelve bottles and a fr wvulls of safe pills. My Buffering v' I,UJU was 6i an intense

„; remedies." The tost of merit; is tti 1 accomplishment! of the matter ut , band. "The best is that which i c most certain.