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IDOLS OF THE PEOPLE Great Popular Idols in America and Elsewhere--Parts Played by Heredity. ' lly Huyoyunl. Our country ha produced four brll llnnt men who dauled their- followers and limy be named u popular Idols Henry Cliiy,.Ntephen A, Douglas. Jam (i. Mains nod William Jcnnint Bryan, aahington nnd Lincoln were In in other clan, venerated rather than ad mired, trusted ui(r than loved, Jak' on wa military hero and gnt to be the head of a party but he eannnt be clamed a "a man of niaKtietlem.". New England admired Webster for lila (riant Intellectdespite bis laxity of moral and the Mnvnrrtu-y of bit intellect, t The Fonts' admired Calhoun for hie ex quUlte Intellect and venerated him for the Unman Integrity of his private char acter John Jlreckendridjte wa the fa vorite of an epoch and Tbaddtn wa the Incarnation of an Idea. Hut after all, Clay, Dougl. BIslne and Bryan are our popular Idol. And of the Clay wa Immeasurably the greatest. He waa not only a great ora tor, but a great itateoman. lie wai not only a superb popular leader, but an unrivalled constructive statesman, ' He made the war of 1812. lie was the artlflier of the mlnealled "Miouri Com promise," Tie eeved the country from revolution and blood In the real com promise of IMS. Ife wore the mantle of Alexander Hamilton a the apotle the "American Pyetem of Revolution." Ife again averted war by ,the compromise of 18W. III following waa the mot devoted army America ever bad. Men loved him to delirium. Tie wai a chant man, women raved about him. lie w Alidade without hie vlcea, Condemn without hie treason. Thrice ba ws bit party' candidate for President nnd i thrice he wee defeated, but bla fame I the Mtr for It. and be live In history a the knltfhtliet man In our enti eltlrenehlp. j 1'Mugln, Hkp (lay, aprang -from th people. Tie did not have the graceful pcr.on, the melllffluou voice, the com mending Individuality of Clay, but he waa the greatest debater of an bkc rich er In great debater than any other epoch of our annal. He knew no hliito ry but American historyj he waa so nualnted with no literature, but the lit enitupe of American politlea. It doubtful If be knew whether the houe of Tudor preceded the Hnue of Plan taganet or succeeded the bouee of 8tu art. He probably could not have told whether William III reigned before or after Edward III. If he ever read rllr. he kept that' fact to himself There la not a poetical quotation In a hi pePM'he. He wa devoid of the ne of humor. But on the atump be we matchless, and in the Senate that contained Toontb and Dnvl. Fecmlcn and Sumner, Benjamin and Cfittendnn SawaM and Chnsc he w the first per' tonality and the strongest man. Douglaa might have beon President If be hnd organised hi following In 18JS2 or 183(1 a be organixed it In isno. lint the fact I that Dougla did not court the nomination In 18S2 or 18,10. He felt that the enate wai Hi field, and he waa right. Men. loved him devotedly, He wai approachable and convivial. He lived fiwt and died early. I shall not eiteculnte upon what might nave hap pened if he had mrvlved the war. Would be have acted a did Logan, or would be have done a did TildonT Would be have nint ained Lincoln in upondlng the Confttitutlon for the preservation of the Union? It doe not require a very vivid Imagination to "peculate that hi death wat a necessary to the triumph of the union 'Ama a Stonewall Jack aon'e. What if he had led the political revolt that MeClellan headed? Jamei 0. Blaine wai more loved by hi following than Dougla wa by hi, or Bryan 1 by hij but men did not idol Ize him a they did Clay, Ho wai In Congress while Grant, Thomas, Sherman and Sheridan were IK the field, but none of these wa the popular idol. Blaine was, Conkling 'was art abler man, Carpenter an alder and more brilliant man, Morton a stronger man, but the young guard swore everywhere by ''tne man from Maine." Bonn unhorsed him in the famous debate, but he emerged from a "plumed knight, who through bis shining lance full and fair In the brazen face of treason. Carpenter' set Mm upside down and Thurman turned bim inside out in the great debate on the disposition of the proceeds of the 'Geneva Award," but the galleries rose to him,, No other manpf his day could have survived the "Mulligan Lcters." and it is a tribute to the man that mil lion of his followers never read thorn. He would have been President if he had obeyed bis own instincts. Lat In 1BR4, against hi own judgment, be was draged to the Middle West. He inslstod that the battle ground was Nw York, and was kept in Ohio and Indiana the ten days that would have made New York safe. There was a fatality in it, and maybe a benefioiont Providence that Clay, and Douglas and. Blaine all failed in the ambition to be President. Mr. Bryan Is Just come from foreign parts, whee be went to study political systems. Before he got home the Re publicans were walking the floor, now Democrats are walking the floor. But Mr, Bryan la a man of magnetism and a popular Idol. If h bad' Ui sagacity of Bamuel J, Tlldcn h would go far. For ten years he ba been In the public eya, But ajwayi the question baa ob truder, "Where 1 this man's wisdom." I beard hi first speech In Congress, It wa on the tariff 0atlat'i epigrams m an eloquent tongue. - It et the Hone afire. Not one member In ten bad ever heard that stuff before, and none nod ever seen It in so attractive a dress It stampeded the Chicago convention In a figure from Burke' great speech on the recency, bill, and 1 civs him the credit t telleva that he never read that pcech and never beard of the re genry bill. . .. -.'ki'U.S 2 '" : 1I went up and down Jht, earth preaching that the itamp of the govern- ment made the dollar, and It I not possible that any statesman of our entire history-' ever unloaded so much fobm lotclc, , If we can asoelate fallacy with the word logic, a William J- Bryan did In 1800; but be is, going to eclipse It now with his Im possible government ownership of think lines, and bis absurd Stat ownership of locnKHne. . p If the Republican could have chosen a State committee to writ the railroad clause of Bryan's Madison Square Oar- den speech, it could not have been con structed mora to the advantage of the Republican party than Bryan made it himself. Unless Jibe Democratic par ty is ready to go to the slaughter on thi Impossibility, a tbey did on the 10 to ! absurdity, the party mut get a lantern and go searching for Demo crat to nominate in 1008. .Tame O. Blaine' grandson, third of the name, Is a cleric In a New York bank and gnawing his chain even if he would' hi gramisire had that great man accepted the department clerkship In Washington, when, a penniless adven Let us take the family of Plantagcn et, and go back no farther, the Black ranee, a . splendid ticro Polctera and Creey tell the victory- Was the son of one of the greatest kings who ever wore the English ptirple, and the father of one weakest kings in Kngllsh history. What a glorioui story is that of HenryV Shakespeare's iTine nab His Queen jvas that Kate of Franca who was the ancestress of the nouse of Tudor, a (rrand-dame of Queen Be of Tudor, a grand-dame of that she and "Hal" cave the English throne, was that hapless weaklinir. Hen ry VI., who, thouirh hi Queen was the heroic Margaret of Anou, perished mis erably before the arms of the "White Rosa." ' William the Silent wa the first man of a grand epoch, and bis son Maurice of .Nassau, was the most ae compllshed aoldier of a generation that produced flplnola. What an Illustrious tamlly It waathst House of Orange! William ITT, of that line, whom Mc Caulsy' considered the jrreat man of his time, bad the bloods of Orange, Tudor, Bourbon," Plantagenet. Stuart, Lorraine, coursing through bis vens, i nere ii no nner-nrea in profane histo ry, few greater statesman, and no stout. er soldier. Marlborough' son died ear ly, but Berwick wss hi nephew, Toe marshal of Louis XIV, who was more like Bayard than any other, and none of us can read the history of hi defence of France from the attack from the direction of Savoy without reminder of Robert 13. Lee. A difference is that Lee failed and Berwick aucceded. What a different story Berwick would tell If Berwick bad not lteen barred from the English liirone br the bar ainlster? If Arabella Churchill, instead of Hyde, had been the wedded spouse of James IT, In all probability the Stuart dynas t would now be regnant in the Brit lh Empire, Charles Edward, bero of battle, and "Prince Charley" of song, was Berwick's nephew, and a direct lin eal descendant of that Duke of Oulse who restored Calais to France, by one oi i ne most neroio teats in tne annais of war. - - ' Another striking example of heredity is that of the two William Pitts, and these w,e may supplement with Hester Stanhope, of the third generation, grand-daughter of the great Chatham turer, it wa offered to him. Of this It would be hard to tell who was the Hlafne or the third generation It Is re-J greater man, or greater orator, the first niorked- "He would rather be a Unl-lor econd Pitt. Both ruled England ted (states senator than corner the mar. when England could only be ruled by kets of the world." It i polole that Fox, and' tbe morfe eminent Charles hi grand dad would have suffered a long James, father and son, also present a hint ua rriayhap a perpetual absence I marvelous example of heredity. We are In bl service to corner of New York In told that tbe youncer Fox' was tbe forty-eight hour. The cider Blaine was greatest parliamentary debater who ev a born man of affairs and on Wall er upoke onr tongue, nd we can read Street he would have been a Mid a of lly believe it after reading bis crushing the nrst magnitude. .; - . reply to Pitt in the debat on the breach Heredity i a thing we may speculate of Amiens. Not so learned as Burke. upon. It I more apparent among horae I not so brilliant a hneridan, perhaps and doR. sheep and chickens, than it not so eloquent as his rival, tbe younger is among human beings. There is the Pitt, in reply he was the greatest ora myth that Marcus Brutus wss the son tor our country hss ever known. He of Jullu Caesarj there Is the acandol was the mot lovable man In the world. that Anne Boleyn wa the daughter of despite the worst tmininjr In the world Henry VIITs there is the absurdity t hot Reared by a fond father who could deny frnnccs Uncon was the sou of Queen him nothing, at sixteen he was a com Elisabeththese concotions of fnncy plcte reprobate. Before he wa thirty III THE CITY CHTJECHES.' Firat M. E, Church. The Sunday evening sermon has been prepared especially tot and fn tbe In terest of the clerks of the city, A large chorus choir will lead in tbe music. Miss Grace Rannals will ainir. Tbe morning subject will be "Features of the Christian's Life." Other annoint- ments are; Cla3 meeting at 10:15 ,a. m, Sunday school at 12: IS n. m. and EpworMi League tt fl:30 p. m. If you are not otherwise engaged, we will be glad to sue j on among the worshipper at any of these service. G. 0. Ttarick, pi:m Grace Episcopal. Divine service at Grace church Sun day (October 21) at 11 a, m. and 7:30 in. Sunday school at 12:30. First Preibyterian. Morning worship,. 11:00 o'clock: Sun day school, 12:15) Y. P. 8. C. E., 0:30; evening worship, 7:30. Rey. Dr. ? H. Hare, assistant pator of the First Presbyterian churcH of Portland, will preach morning and evening, the pas tor preaching in the First Church of Portland. Congregational Church. , Services will be held Sunday next, morning and evening, at the usual hour. Tbe pastor will preach at both services and earnestly requests all Con- gregationalists in the city 'to attend. Morning service at 11 o'clock. Sub JecU "Growing." Evening service at 7:30. Subject, "A Nameless Example of Noble Womanhood." Sunday school at 12:20. Y. P. 8. C E. at 6:30. Mid week meeting Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. We believe we can help you in your VASPQTOrfSqOY' What Will Be Doing'atthe National Capitol this Winter. ' IY OUIt SPECIAL COKitESPOJfDENT T Washington, Oct. 20. , HE chief Interest of Washimzton'i smart society for the next six weeks will be found in tbe launching of the season's de butantea to whom will be de dicated the f little season" preceding the opening of Congress and official enter tainments at the White Houe. And if any one thinks tbe launching of a eirl into Washington society i a matter of little importance I would like that in dividual to spend just one day with tbe Mother of even the least ambitious of tbia galaxy. of buds. Forty irown and twenty bats constitute the major- por tion of one coming out olitfit with acces- sorie of lace and linen in proportion, while the girl who has not at least twen ty five gowns to start her social cam paign may as well make up her mind not to start, v , In the case of the twenty or thirty in tbe field, one-half have been outfitted rom Paris, with nearly every large city in America contributing to the boxes and boxes of millinery arriving by ev ery train. Of the girls who will wear the clothes there i literally an infinite variety, with tbe result that tbe gayest debutante season of many years is upon us, notwithstanding the adminis tration circle will have no' representa tive in the group of belies to be. The advent of Miss Marion Leutze, daughter of the commandant of the na vy yard, and Mis Helen Hatsfield, daughter of the commanding officer of Font Myer, will bring these posts very milch to the fore in general society and introduce a larce number nf vnnn nffi. daily life by the message delivered , cerNf army and navy into resident on Sabbath days, and we cordially in- i circles. Commander and , Mm, Lenbw vita taii tn Mime ami ntfen.l 11 ftiA are delicrMfllllv sitiintpil In tka Varna ervices of this church. All Grangers ! old-fashioned headquarters at the navy and visitor in the city will find welcome and be li jcneflted be attend- yard, which wa center of so much en aiway be glad to help you in your gpiritual life. G. E. Moorehouse, Ph. D, pastor. Baptls Church. Morning service will be conducted by Rev. D. L. Dutton. Sunday school at a. m. Young People's meeting at 10 for the credulous. mm? J A be bad dissipated in riotous living one of the most opulent fortunes in Europe. An inveterate gambler be was ever nn fortunate at haHird, and would rather I lie cheated nt play, then not to play at all. He was a drunkard and a roue. and when Pitt explained to wondering French itatesman how such a man could fill so great a place in the English pub lie, he said : "You have not been under the wand of the magician." Fox waa direct descendant of Charles n by child of the left hand, and if George HI could have bad his fondest desire, an aunt of Fox would have been the Queen of England. Had it been so there would have been no American revolution in 1770. . -, ,. lytiia E. Pinkham'a Vegefahsa, Compound la a positive on re for all tbosa n&lnfnl ailments of women. It will, entirely oure the worst formal of Female Com plaint. Inflammation and Ulceration, Fallintr and DlflDl&cemnnta nnd quent epinai weakness, and la pecnll- In our country there have been two families conspicuous for heredity Mar shall and Adams. This-Mi Hawea who is the first orator of Missouri, is the nephew of Thomas F. Mar shall, the first orator of Kentucky, who was the nephew of John Marshall, the first Jurist of America. There are four generations of the Adams family all distinguished for intellect and character. The late W. r."C. Breckendridjre was the trrandson of William C. Preston, himself riy adanted td the Chanat of TAf a mnrrnlflcenf. nrntor. and the Errandson T4 111 " 1 ... . .. . V - O 0 ------ i.wmsuireiycure. of. the father of Patrick Henry. Thorn Banleafhtk a Jefferson, John Randolph, of Roa n 1a , noice, jonn warsnau ana noot. m. xx-e: Weaknesathan nv rth.rr.m.j. ,! hU rang from a Randolph who flour world haa ever known. Itiaalmostin- l8,ieJ in Virginia in the colonial period, laUible in such cases. It dissolve anil But tbe t ime is limited and vet expels Tumors in an early stage pf cannot but help think , that all other pedigrees are base compared with in the oospel of Matthew, where a line is traced throuch more than two score generations. With what contempt must Isaac of York looked doAvn on the House of Plnntngenct. , development, That Boarlng-down Fooling, causing pain, weight and headache, is Instantly relieved and permanently curou uj im uo. unaer ait circum stances it acts in harmony with the xemaie system, it corrects Irregularity. Suppressed or Painful Periods, Weak ness of the Stomach, Indigestion, Bloat ing, .nervous rrostration, Headache, General Debility. Also Dizziness, Falntnoss, Extreme Lassitude, " don't-care n and ' want-to-be-left-alone " feeling, excit ability, Irritability, nervousness, sleep lessness, flatulency, melancholy or the v Diues, - ana uacuncne. xnese are Nothing to Fear. Mothers need have no hesitancy In continuing to give Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to their little ones, as it con tains absolutely nothing injurious. This remedy is not only perfectly safe to giye to small children, but is a medi sure lndicationa of Female Weakness, 1 0ne of great worth and merit. It has some derangement of the organs., For a world wide reputation for its cures Kdstey Complaints and Backache of either tex the Vegeta ble Compound is unequalled. . xou ean write Mrs. Finkham about yourself In strlotest confidence. USU t, riHKHil JUD. CO.. Iraa, Mass. of coughs, colds and croup and can al ways be relied upon. For sale by Frank Hart and leading druggists. Morning Astorian, 60 cents per month. Delivered by carrier. tertainments under Rear Admiral and if 1 l 1.1 -r. ance a. thee, .errlc'es. Th Mtnr .ni l"'y ",,ln lur,p uaugnier, inss , . . . , ' l Eleanor Terry, made her debut a few alway be glad to help you in your . ',' . . ... . tion as the handsomest girl in the navy. Fort Myer, which, although geographi cally in Virginia, is socially a part of aslungton, and a very important part at that, has not' bad any young people in the family of its chief for many years, which gives additional interest to Miss from the army circle will be Miss Mar Hatsfield's debut, Other acquisitions gjtretta Syraona, only daughter of Maj. and Mrs. Thomas W. Symons, and Miss Juliette Williams, daughter of Col. and Mrs. John R. Williams. The' latter, who is one of the hand somest of the season's buds, has already seen something of society in Manila, where her father is now stationed, and where, in spite of ier youth, she parti cipated in many of the post gayeties two seasons ago.i In- the past summer 30 p. m. Norwegian-Lutheran. At the First Norwegian Lutheran Synod church, corner 29th and Grand avenue. Services Sunday mormnir at 10:45. Evening service (in English language) at 7:30. Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. The annual sale, (Hen by "The Girla'Sewing Society," will take place next Saturday night, October 27, In the church parlors. Theo. B. Neste, pastor. ! "" ; V. - First Lutheran. Service at the First Lutheran church are observed as usual tomorrow morning and evening. Morning service at 10:45, and evening service at 7:30, The topic for the evening sermon will be, "Be of Good Cheer." Since this ser vice Is in English, we take the pleas ure in inviting the public to attend, Midweek aervice is held Wednesday evening at 7:30. Alderbrook Presbyterian. Worship at 10 a. m.j Sunday schoqjl at 11 a. m. Y. P. S. C. E. at 7:30 p. m Warrenton Presbyterian. Sunday school at 10:30 a. m. Ev ning worship, service of song and preaching by the pastor at 7:30 p. m Norwegian and Danish. Thirty-seventh ; street and Duane Avenue. Sunday School at 10 o'clock Preaching at 11 a. m. Subject, "The Christian's Sun and Shield." Evening service at 7:45, subject, "Saved to the Uttermost." , You, are heartily wel come to join with us in worshipping the Lord on the Sabbath Day. Ellas Jerd- ing, pastor. -; she enjoyed quite Vogue at Narragan sett Pier, and is assured a partner for the three large cotillions of the wintwr. Miss Symoris, on the other hand, comes direct from school, but is a remarkably clever and accomplished girl, whose mo ther was one of the belles of Washing ton a generation ago. . Mis Olga Converse, third daughter of Rear Admiral Converse, Mis Ruth Tanner, daughter of Commander and Mrs. Z. L. Tanner,, and Miss Johanna Sshroeder, daughter of Capt. end Mrs, Sea ton Shroeder, form a trio of nary girls who have traveled practically all over the world in the last ten year. It being found as convenient and econom ical for the average officer's family to be educated abroad as at home, and much more interesting. Miss Converse like her elder sisters, has spent most of her youth in Italy, is an acomplished lin guist and musician, and in special de mand for the popular fancy dances now a fad with smart society. Since her return to Washington, two years ago, when she presented her second daugh ter to society, Mrg. Converse has had a handsome apartment at the Connecti cut, but will shortly take possession of new home on Connecticut avenue to bring out this last of the family. Miss Tanner ha also been educated in Eu rope, and i a really fine violinist; not of the average amateur class, but with a skill and charm that, were she a poor girl, would make her fortune 0n the plat" form. Miss Joanna Schroeder. the youngest of three sinters, was bom In Washington, as was her mother before her, and claims by inheritance a high place in the social world, being the great-great-grasddaughter of Benjamin ' Franklin, as well as the daughter of one of the most distinguished officers of the American navy. Miss Schroeder, when a child of twelve, accompanied her par ents to Guani, where as the daughter of the governor, she learned at a very early age all the charm of official so ciety and saw her elder sisters reign as belles in the coterie of officer always to be found in that far-away and ideally fascinating land.. One of the great heiresses of the wint er, aa well as one of its beauties, will be Miss Katharine Jennings, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hannen Jennings of Ken Orleans and London, but now estab lished as permanent membera of the winter colony of Washington, where they are building one of the palatial, homes going up in every section of the fashionable northwest. In the mean time, Mr. and Mrs, Jennings have leased Mrs. A." C. Barney's' artistic home on Rhode Island Avenue, from which they will introduce their daughter. This par ticular house, which brings one of the (Continued on Pace . 7.) FINANCIAL. 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