And the repeated manifestations of General Grant's truly great qualities - his innate modesty, his freedom from every trace of vainglory or ostentation, his magnanimity in victory, his genuine sympathy for his brave and sensitive foemen, 5 and his inflexible resolve to protect paroled Confederates against any assault, and vindicate, at whatever cost, the sanctity of his pledge to the vanquished will give him a place in history no less renowned and more to be envied than that 10 secured by his triumphs as a soldier or his honors as a civilian. The Christian invocation which came from his dying lips, on Mount McGregor, summoning the spirit of peace and unity and equality for all of his countrymen, made a fitting close to 15 the life of this illustrious American.

salutary: healthful. - incentive: that which prompts to action. self-abnegation: self-denial. ostentation: love of show.-magnanimity greatness of soul.inflexible: not to be bent.

AMERICAN COURAGE

SHERMAN HOAR

SHERMAN HOAR (1860-1898), an American public man, was born in Concord, Massachusetts. He was graduated from the academic department of Harvard University in 1882, and from the law department in 1885. In the year of his graduation he 5 formed a law copartnership and began practice in the city of Boston.

In 1891 he was elected to Congress, and was afterwards, for four years, United States District Attorney. During the SpanishAmerican War he was a member of the Massachusetts Volunteer 10 Aid Society and died as a result of typhoid fever contracted in that service.

One of the best of those paintings which have made the name of Edouard Détaille famous is called "The Salute to the Wounded." In the 15 painting one sees a country road in France, along

which are marching some wounded Prussian prisoners under an escort of French cuirassiers. A French officer of high rank and his staff are seated upon their horses by the roadside and are in the 20 act of saluting their wounded enemies, who are passing before them. The picture always has had an attraction for me, because it shows that strong patriotic feeling which led the French painters at the time of the Franco-Prussian War to find, even 25 in the incidents of a struggle fraught with so much

shame and disaster for their nation, opportunities to paint nothing that did not put in evidence the best qualities of their national character.

Here in the United States there is no lack of that admiration for courageous self-sacrifice which 5 the French painter has put so faithfully into his picture; but I sometimes feel that we fail to find in the devotion, the self-denial, and the sacrifice of those who have given themselves to make and maintain our country, all the inspiration that 10. should be derived from them, or that would be got out of them by the men of France, had those qualities been displayed by their countrymen.

I fear we undervalue the devotion to country which comes from a contemplation of what has 15 been done and suffered in her name. I feel that we teach those who are to make or mar the future of this nation too much of what has been done elsewhere and too little of what has been done here. Courage is the characteristic of no one land or time. 20 The world's history is full of it and the lessons it teaches. American courage, however, is of this nation; it is ours, and if the finest national spirit is worth the creating; if patriotism is still a quality to be engendered in our youth; if love of country 25 is still to be a strong power for good, those acts of

devotion and of heroic personal sacrifice with which our history is filled, are worthy of earnest study, of continued contemplation, and of perpetual consideration.

5 Let him, who will, sing deeds done well across the sea, Here, lovely Land, men bravely live and die for Thee.

The particular example I desire to speak about is of that splendid quality of courage which dares everything not for self or country, but for an 10 enemy. It is of that kind which is called into existence not by dreams of glory, or by love of land, but by the highest human desire, the desire to mitigate suffering in those who are against us.

In the afternoon of the day after the battle of 15 Fredericksburg, General Kershaw of the Confederate army was sitting in his quarters when suddenly a young South Carolinian named Kirkland entered, and, after the usual salutations, said, "General, I can't stand this." The general, thinking the state20 ment a little abrupt, asked what it was he could not stand; and Kirkland replied, "Those poor fellows out yonder have been crying for water all day, and I have come to you to ask if I may go and give them some.' "The " poor fellows" were Union 25 soldiers who lay wounded between the Union and

Confederate lines. To get to them Kirkland must go beyond the protection of the breastworks and expose himself to a fire from the Union sharpshooters, who, so far during that day, had made the raising of so much as a head above the Con- 5 federate works an act of extreme danger. General Kershaw at first refused to allow Kirkland to go on

his errand; but at last, as the lad persisted in his request, declined to forbid him, leaving the responsibility for action with the boy himself. Kirkland, 10 in perfect delight, rushed from the general's quarters to the front, where he gathered all the canteens he could carry, filled them with water, and, going over the breastworks, started to give relief to his wounded enemies. No sooner was he in the open field than 15