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. -
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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.)
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showed, at the battle of AusterliU,
he was the greatest leader in the world,
Ballard's Snow Liniment has shown
the public it is the best Liniment in
the world. A quick cure for Rheuma
tism, Sprains, Burps, Cuts, etc A. C.
Pitts, Rodessa, La., saysi "I use Bal
lard's Snow Liniment in my ' family
and find it unexcelled for sore chest,
headache,' corns, in fact for anything
that can be reached by a liniment."
Hart's drug store. ,v
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A MOST WORTHY ARTICLE.)
When an article has been on the
market for years and. gains friends ev
ery year, 'it is safe to call this medi
cine a worthy one. Such is Ballard's
Horehound Syrup. It positively cures
coughs, and all Pulmonary diseases.
One of the best known merchants In
Mobile, Ala., says: -.
"For five years my family has not
been troubled with the winter coughs;
we owe this to Ballard's Horehound
Syrup. I know It hat saved my chil
dren from many sick spells." Hart's
drug store.
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A, BOWLBY, President.
PETERSON. Vice-President
fRAXK PATTON, Caahier.
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