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Day Hale, the painter, who now lives in
Roxbury, Mass.
The Sargent family was another of this
class. for. besides producing John Singer
Sargent, perhaps our greatest living por-
trait painter, 1t has given us Henry Sar-.
gent, the popular Massachusetts, artist,
born before the revolution; Lucius Man
Illus and Winthrop Sargent. active authors
of the early half of the last century; Epes
Sargent, early editor Of the Boston Tran
script poet novelist and playwright.
And there are the cases Of S. Weir
Mitchell and Richard Harding Davis the
former having followed in the footsteps
of a physician-author father, and the lat
ter having inherited genius for writing
from both parents. L. Clark Davis, his
father. was managing editor of the Pi1ila
delphia Inquirer, and, later. the Public
Ledger, and was also a short story writer
while Rebecca Harding Davis. his mother.
has gained fame as a writer of both
sketches and stories. Similarly, Nathaniel
Parker Willis was the son and grandson
Of writers. while his son, Bailey Willis, of
the United States geological survey. has
become well known as author editor
geologfst and explorer.
Owen Wister. our popular novelist of
today, probably inherits his artistic ge-
MUS from his grandmother, the great
Fanny Kemble. and his great-grand-
father. Charles Kemble. Indeed, his veins
hold some Of the precious blood which
throbbed In those of his great-grand-
aunt, Sarah Siddons, the greatest actress
Of her time in England. She, as II gen.
orally known, was the sister of Charles
Kemble, and his better known brother,
John Philip. Charles married an actress,
Maria Theresa De Camp and in 1882 they
came to the United States, bringing with
them their fascinating daughter Fanny"
who played with her father in our prin-
cipal cities, the engagement lasting for
two years. after which, at the age of
twenty-five. she married. in Philadelphia.
Pierce Butler. southern planter and son
Of United States Senator Butler Of Geor-
gia. The young man had been so deeply
in love with the ravishing young actress
that he had hired himself as a member of
her orchestra. in order to follow her from
place to place. After living for awhile
near Philadelphia he took her to his
Georgia plantation. where they fell out
over the slavery question. and after they
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was brought I'D as a sailor, and his
career, far as any one could see. Jay
in the royal navy. and there Is no train
ing more thorough than that or an Eng
lish naval officer.
To this day George has remained the
bluff sailor. and his virtues and his short
comings are those of the man who fol-
lows the sea. An excellent story Of his
modesty refers to the time when he was
a young officer on a Warsh1p which put
in at Nova Scotia to coal. A prominent
American politician was at Halifax when
the vessel entered the port, and In the
hope of seeing the young prince he OBJ
tanned permission to inspect the ship.
Coaling was in progress when he came
on board. and the captain. who was
busy, turned him over to young officer.
who showed him all over the ship The
officers face was begrimed with coal
dust, and his uniform showed that he
had been called from experimenting the
trimming of the bunkers to act as host
to the visitor.
The American questioned him about
the prince.
isn't he to be seen today?"
I'm afraid his features won't be WIS.,
ible.' was the reply.
"Oh, / suppose you keep him wrapped
UP In cotton wool when a job like this
is on" said the American, but the young
officer only laughed good-naturedly.
IHdlIS, wien he Udu Deen SHOWN
everything there was to see the Ameri-
can went to say goodbye to the cap
tain, who asked if he had seen all he
wanted.
well. the fact is l haven't seen the
man wanted most to see-the prince"
"T1le prince" said the captain. why,
man, you have been with him for the
last two hours"
Was that the prince?" the American
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had been married fourteen years were df-
vorced. on the ground OF incompahbility
and her abandonment Of him, the case
standing entirely mon crtminis." She re-
sumed her maiden name and spent the
remainder of her life in Lenox. Mass, and
Philadelphia, whence she toured the
country to give a course of Shakespearian
readings. She also gained distinction 10 a
poet. dramatist, critic and prose writer.
Another Of these great actor families
was that of the Davenports. First there
was Edward. who played with Junius
Brutus Booth. who was popular for years
in Boston, who delighted also the English
during tour of their Isle. and who gain
ed the reputation of being one of the
most finished actors of his time. His
wife, Fanny. daughter of the manager OF
the Haymarket Theater, London, was also
a player of talent. and of their union was
born Fanny, whom we knew better than
the rest: Blanche. singer, who Guilt
waited her voice in Milan, became ia
vorite there and in Naples, sang in grand
opera here and played later with Booth:
Lily, May, Edgar and Henry, all of whom
have been players of more or less note.
The Drew fanajly has been just such
another. producing first John, the Irish
comedian. who married Louisa Lane
the Mrs. John Drew who lived until
lately. Then there is their son John, our
John of today, and his sister Georgiana.
who married the late Maurice Barry
more and became the mother of Ethel
and John Barrymore. We have had also
the Hacketts-James Henry. native OF
Long Island, a popular actor, polished
gentleman and intimate companion Of Irv-
ing, Cooper and John Quincy Adams Ha
married an English actress and they are
the great grandparents of James X.
Hackett, among others. Then there are
the Jeffersons. Joseph and Thomas. sons
of the great Joseph. And our Booth OF
today is Creston Clarke. nephew of Ed
win. and grandson of Junius Brutus
Booth. Also we have the eminent Leo
pold Damrosch living again in the flesh
of his son Walter. and Jean Louis Ru-.
dolphe Agassfz, alive again In the body Of:
his son, Alexander Emmanuel R1pdolphe
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS
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What We're Comma To.

SENATOR DEPEw. at the recent bach.
elors' cotillon in Washington, praised
the growth of advertisement.
Advertisement he said, has made
many man. many book, many a COM
modify. But how much farther will iSs
go.
verify" said Senator Depew, IT can,
imagine stormy night in the near IN.
ture, with March winds bowling across
roaming seas and with the captain of a,
hard-pressed ship shouting to his mata
from the bridge:
rs that Punk's Pillsr
aye, aye, Sir with Gibraltar Pants
SHINING TO leward. the mate vii. reply.
Wen weather Peerless Typewriter
rock. then, after all, the captain cries.
mat We will, sir. heaven be praised /.
says the mate cheeriy. for already
CAMS Cod Liver Oil light is bepinn;ns.
to show up on our lee'"
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W.CArERoN TORIES
GRAFP5orT s(ErER5or

of stories under the nom de plume John
Quod," and died In New York in 1906 at
the venerable age of ninety-four.
i
We are better acquainted with the
Hawthorne of our generation than with
any of these descendants, direct and COL
lateral, of the country's masters of lit
erature. Nathaniel Hawthorne married
woman OF genius. Sophia Peabody,
whom he met while she was illustrating
THE Gentle Boy" and who after their
marriage developed literary as we'll as ar
tistic talents. After his death she not
only edited his mote Book but pub
lished a volume of her own. Thus Julian
Hawthorne inherited his aptness for writ
ing from both parents. This hereditary
genius cropped out after an engineering
career had been chosen for him. 1t was
while he was working under Gen. George
B. Mcclellan in the New York depart
ment of docks that he began to write for
the magazines, an industry which soon
lost him his position. Then 1t was that
he pulled out for Europe to write tho first
OF the novels which were to give him no
mean rank in our coterie of authors. he
is now Sixty-three and lives at Yonkers,
N Y. where the literary genius in the
Hawthorne blood has cropped out in the
third generation, his daughter, Hide
garde, having already achieved success
as a contributor Of poems, sketches and
short stories to our most exclusive maya
zines. Nathaniel Hawthorne's youngest
child, Rose, the aunt Of Miss Hildegarde,
has also had published many poems and
short stories. She married George Par
sons Lathrop, the author, son of Francis
Lathrop, the artist.
James Fenimore Cooper's daughter SUI
san also achieved some success in her
fathers calling after serving an appren-
ticeship under him as his secretary and
amanuensis. In her later life. however.
she devoted herself to the care and edu-
cation of orphan girls.
The Curtis of today is Miss Constance.
the niece of George William Curtis and
the daughter of his brother Edward
She is a painter and has exhibited at
the Paris and st. Louis expositions.
Edward Everett's son, William, follow
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that he Is wholly and indisputably Eng
fish. Even his grandmother, Queen Vic
toria. spoke English with a German ac-
cent, although she was intensely Eng
lish in sentiment. The pro-German in
cHnations of the first four Georges We're
notorious, and most Of them could hard
~ understand the language OF the coun-
try over which they had been called to
rule. King Edward, while he speaks
English like an Englishman born. is a cos
mopolitan in tastes and sentiment and is
never so happy as when he IS enjoying a
holiday at some continental health or
pleasure resort. He speaks almost all the
EuroT can languages as well as he speaks
his own, and he has made his reputation
as the most astute diplomat in Europe.
largely owing to his ability to deal on
equal terms with the diplomats of every
nation. To the French he Is a French.
man. to the Germans a German. He Is
allied by marriage to the Scandinavian
nations, and ii has even been said of him
that he could understand the Russian
point OF view better than any minister he
ever sent to St. Petersburg.
4
Now, 1t is different with his son.
George speaks no language but Eng
ish. He had the usual drilling at
school in the European tongues, Of
course, but as soon as his formal edu-
cation was finished he promptly forgot
all about them. declaring emphatically
that English was quite good enough for
all his wants. He doesn't like foreign
ers. and. in fact. one Of his fathers
chlef trials lies in persuading him to
be ordinarily civil to diplomats and
distinguished visitors whom 1t is his
duty as heir apparent to the throne to
meet
why should l see the brutes?" he
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Four Horrible EXAMPLES.

JEROME s. McwADE, condemning the
J evils of intoXication, said In the course
of a temperance address In Duluth:
'Col Ingersoll, as an example of a
drunken man, used to quote the case of
him who lay on his back in a field and
felt up in the air for the grass.
sYou know, of course. the British
definition Of intoxication:
mot drunk is he who from the floor
Can rise again and still drink more;
But he is drunk who PROSTATE lies.
Without the power to drink rise.'
THE Canadian idea of a thoroughly
drunken person is one who tries to smell
the flowers in the carpet.
Another example of total drunkenness
came to my attention recently.
Three New York men after a protract-
ed evening at the club. took a taxicaib and
drove to the residence OF Smith. one Of
their number.
"They rang the bell. and. when Mrs.
Smith put her head out Of the window,
they said in a thick chorus:
"'Will Mrs. Smith-hic-please come
down and-hic-pick out her husband?
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ment to disagree when the South Afrl-
can generals visited London after the
war. The king. 1t was known, could no.
forget that these men had been in rebel
lion against him. and while his exquisite
tact enabled him to be polite to them he
had no desire to lionize them. The
prince stepped into the breach and sur
prised the men from the veldt by his
intimate knowledge of all that had hap
pened in South Africa since the white
man first settled there, and of all the
problems that had to be solved. There
can be no doubt that the princes genuine
affability to the former enemies of his
country had lot to do with the speedy
reconciliation of the Beers to their de-
feat and their loyal acceptance of British
rule. The story has gone abroad in
South Africa and the prince will have the
warmest of welcomes when he arrives in
the newest dominion of the British crown
this autumn.
The thoroughness with which the prince
had made himself master of South Afri-
can problems is typical of all his work.
Every now and again he makes a speech
at some public function that surprises
every one by its grasp on the subject
treated. Such one was his famous
Wake up. England" speech, delivered
at a Guildhall banquet a few years
ago. when he tried to arouse the coun-
try to sense of how it was being out
distanced in the race for the worlds
commerce by the younger nations, in
Guiding the United States.
II Is the IaSnlOn Wnen prince makes
a speech like that to say that it was
written for him by some one, but in
the case of George Of Wales this is not
so. He prepares every speech that he
lie man among his subjects. OF course.
this does not mean that he does not
trust to a secretary to look up his fig
ures and references, but every busy pol
itfcian does that. The fact remains
that the speech is his own in ideas,
phrasing and construction.
Perhaps this thoroughness is the re-
suit of his early training. He is now forty
five years old. and until he was twenty
six he had no idea that he was ever
to be King Of England Until his elder
brother. the Duke Of Clarence. died. he
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bar and the other an associate justice of
the highest legal tribunal of the land.
This interesting coincidence suggests an
inquiry as to what attachments are
geniuses of yesterday, and the research
may further test those opposing maxims:
blood will tell and Greatness never
strikes twice in the same family"
"a
The appointment. a few weeks since.
Of Ralph Waldo Emerson's grandson
William Cameron Forhes-as Governor OF
the Philippines is a case directly in point.
In filling this berth the President not only
put this young man In his own shoes
and not very old shoes. at that-but con-
ferred that office which he Is known to
guard most jealousy. FOR the Philippines
are the special Taft hobby. And the heir
to the Emersonian genius now comes to
fill the responsible office when still in his
thirties. Gov. Forbes Is the son OF the
authors daughter. Edith Emerson. who
married William Hathaway Forbes. The
governor remembers his illustrious grand
father. for he was twelve when the latter
died After being graduated at Harvard
he entered the firm founded by his pater-
nal grandfather and was displaying his
genius as q financier when, at the age
of t,lirty-four Secretary Taft chose him
as a member Of the Philippine commits
sion and made him also secretary Of COM
merce and politics for the islands. His
case and that of Mr.. Justice Holmes are
similar, In that both went to Harvard
and neither of them chose the calling of
their noted forebears, yet seemed to in
herit from the latter the germ of attain
ment. The younger Oliver Wendell
Holmes had barely received his sheep
skin In 81 when he heard his duty calling
him to war. He entered the struggle as
lieutenant and rose to lieutenant colonefs
rank. although wounded in the breast the
first year, in the neck and In the foot
the third. After the close Of the conflict
he returned to Harvard for the law
course. practiced in Boston, married
taught constitutional law at Harvard
while still in his twenties. became justice
Of the state supreme court while in his
thirties, and chief justice three years be-
fore President Roosevelt placed him On
the Supreme bench at Washington.
And what Of the IIongfellows, Whit
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made their mark in the development
of the empire Lord Strathcona. who
began life as Donald a smith; nrappsp
Canada, is one of his most trusted
friends and advisers, and another is
Lord Mount Stephen. whose career mas
of the great Canadian Pacific railway
system. He has no use for, the new
nobility of wealth which has sprung up
in recent years in England, and the In
ternational financiers, many of them OF
eastern origin. who swarm about his
father will find the court a very cold
place. indeed, wher he succeeds TO the
throne.
I'm many other ways the prince differs
from his father, who is an all-around
man of the world and sportsman. The
prince detests cards and can hardly be
persuaded to take a hand when he is
staying at country house. He cares
nothing for racing, for which his father
has a passion. and he cares even less
for entertaining, while his fathers love
for surrounding himself with clever peo-
pie has made his court the most brilliant
in Europe. There Is no better evidence
of this than the difference between the
life at Marlborough House now and when
the king was Prince of Wales. In the
old days a succession of brilliant balls,
garden parties and other entertainments
followed one another throughout the Lon
don season. Now the prince gives one
ball and one garden party every year
and grumbles at having to do this. At
these functions he contents himself with
a formal appearance and then settles
down IN a quiet corner with some colo
NAL or some man who Is doing things at
home, and forgets all about his more
frivolous guests In discussion of some
problem of empire.
1t must not be thought, however, that
the king and his son are at loggerheads
in any way. As a member Of the court
said to me the other day In discussing
the two men. It Is really q case Of Jack
Spratt and his wife. Jack Spratt could
eat no fat and his wife could eat no
lean, so between them they got through
the joint and never quarreled. The
king likes foreign politics and high d.
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lected for him was Princess May Of Teck.
who had been engaged previously to his
brother and unlike many such mar
riages OF state, their union has turned out
an ideal one.
Tn fact" said the informant at court,
all that we can complain of is that the
prince is too domestic for man in his
position. He is never seen at the clubs
and seldom at the theater or the opera.
His idea of a pleasant evening is to sit
at home by the fire with a book while
his wife sits at his side with her knit
ting. He cares for nothing in the way
of amusement or sport as it is generally
understood. except for shooting, and he
has a perfect passion for that. But even
shooting won't induce him to accept an
invitation from any Of the new nobility
or the Jewish financiers Of whom the
king is so fond. It is a safe prediction
that his court will be a much quieter one
than his fathers, but the names of those
those who have studied English history.
4
HE is not likely to have the personal
popularity of his father, for the reason
that he has not the kings wonderful
memory for names and faces and Incl
dents. King Edward never forgets a
name or a face, and years after he has
met man he can recall the -circum-
stances perfectly. He is also very
thoughtful in remembering anniversaries
and the like and in sending kindly mes
sages. The prince is just as kind, but he
simply doesn't understand how a mes
sage from him can give pleasure to any
one, and on occasions when II is abso-
lutely necessary that he should send one
he has to be urged to do SO. He is ter
ribly conscientious, and once he realizes
that it is his duty to extend these for
NAL courtesies he will be most pune
tilfous but his actions of this kind will
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Sardines Suggested 1t.

y 1CHARD CROKER at a luncheon at
Palm Beach was reminded by a
course of grilled sardines Of a story.
You know. of course" he said. ''the
Horse Guards at Whitehall. in London.
They are the finest English regiment.
Every man is over six feet, from the
colonel down, and on guard before White
hall. with their jackboots, their snowy
buckskin breaches. their enormous sha-
kos and their brass breastplates, they
make, on their fine horses, an imposing
sight.
"Once as I motored past Whitehall I
saw little street urchin leaping up and
down before one of the stately guards
in his bright, bullying breastplate and
shouting:
you with sardine opener?"
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tiers, Bryants, Hawthornes, etc, of to-
day? Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow, son
of the great poet, seems to have fallen
heir to much of his fathers artistic
painter rather than poet. His father sent
him to Paris to study art under Hebert.
Bonnat and Couture, and after finishing
with them he travelled in Italy and the
Alps. where he made his well known
painting of the Matterhorn. This winter
he celebrated his sixty-fourth birthday at
his home in Magnolia, Mass.
The artistic streak in this blood has
William Pitt Preble Longfellow. son
OF the great poets brother Stephen.
He has been an art writer and archi-
tect of note--is a trustee Of the Bos-
ton Museum of Fine Arts and was the
original editor of the American Archi-
tect As young man he was assistant
to the chief architect of the government
service. and at the worlds fair in Chi
cago he was chosen chairman of the
architectural section He is also the a,I
thor of text books and cyclopedias on art
and architecture. His home is in Cam
bridge and he was seventy-three last fall.
The Whittier Of today Is Charles
Franklin. son Of the Quaker poets
brother, Matthew. Although he was edu-
Gated in the Friends College, Providence.
he left it to serve in the civil war, but
after peace had dawned again he chose
the tools Of the chief genius of his fam
lily with which to carve out his career
He began on the staff Of the Portland
(Me) Transcript. later became editor OF
the Westbrook CMe.) Gazette and is now
editor of the Portland Advertiser. He is
bachelor of sixty-six. William Cullen
Bryant's son, Of the same name, also
pursued journalism. In the case Of Wash
ington Irving. also, a nephew contracted
Munroe Irving. who, although educated
for the law, acted as his uncle's literary
assistant, managed his business affairs.
attended him in his last illness and was
chosen as his biographer. A younger
nephew, John Treat Irving, combined the
law with literature. He wrote a number
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DECENT Coincidence in
N Supreme Court Suggests
Inquiry as to, What Descend
ants of Great American
Geniuses Are Accomplishing
Today-Some Great Families
Which Continue to Achieve,
Generation After Generation
Ralph Waldo Emerson's
Grandson Made Governor
of. the Philippines What
the. Longfellows, Whittiers,
Bryants, H a VT h orn es.
Holmeses, Irvings, Coopers,
Curtises, Everetts, Furnesses,
Tuckermans, Hales, Sargents.
Kembles, Drews and Booths
of Today Are Achieving.
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A Youthful Joke.
xtW7HEN Mark Twain was

S<V7HEN Mark Twain was the editor
Of the Virginia City Enterprise .
said an essaytst at the Franklin Inn In
Philadelphia, "a servant girl in the neigh
boring town of Lovelock Unexpectedly fell
heir to 100000. Her name was Miriam
Rogers.
"A day or two after the announcement,
while all Virginia City and Lovelock
hummed with Miriams good luck, Mark
Twain printed on the editorial page or
the Enterprise this paragraph:
If Miriam Rogers of Lovelock, who
recently inherited a large fortune, will
call at this office she will hear something
greatly to her advantage. We are a
bachelor =