AND THEIR SONS A writer in the san francisco ex miner askot who wo the worlds greatest women and then proceeds to give this answer surveying the history of hie world and with the accomplishments and am kiliona of fhe women of today in plain view one ke who are the greatest women of hia mryr Is it not eafe ea fe to aicer tho women to whom may be traced the influences or the borcea which have most affected the history of the world the mothers of great men the women who by transmission and th nurture implanted in childish minds those qualities which ripened in napoleon Napo or washington lincoln or cromwell alexander or caesar were not theeo women who exerted the greatest influences upon the worlds history were they not after all the greatest women the world aias known to tako a aty ia a triumph to bear and nurture a son who demakes remakes the map of ane world is a more lofty accomplishment ment the mother of napoleon was inestimably greater in the truest sense 0 the word anan queen elizabeth to rule the nation well with the aid ot the cound lora a democratic people may select is a noble to mankind but to bring up a son to stand for the right to instill into his mind auch devotion to the principles plea of human liberty uch an aver flon to the license of courts and the of monarchal mon archa that when the time comas ho darc to risk hi hed in the battle for vl viland religious liberty la better the mother of oliver cromwell was than queen victoria we have no hesitancy in formulating a general rule the worlds greatest women lire those bong did alio greatest daeda for onoro than two thousand years alexander of macedon haa been known to all the world aa alexander the great at the age of twenty he was called to the throne of macedonia ay the assassination of hia father in twelve years he had conquered all tho nations of tha then known world alexander served the world well though ho served himself ill but for his victories european civilization as wo know it now might not exist before lim asiatic power WB dominant the led the world in wealth in chiv in military power with their faces turned to the north they menaced ana home it is conceivable that but for alexander and hia victor lea they might have over theao land BB in later days the turks into europe and the moors spain then civilization aa we it would navo ban cac back tor centuries thrust himle europe d the asiatic tide ho lot the Xnia ia slew darius con egypt and orttie abat badt bw th er of fark ns tb fountain of ide wheeler of bebr yo ingle personality ex ha on of baxa belh haa much to nuke M m fa 1 fmc 1 A world of civilization wo liva in what it is as alexander of Moc cdon he leveled the terrace upon which Europ cart lug tory built alie world rightly calls him great for the services he rendered it but tho world has tho mother who bore who turned his young mind into paths of ambition and formed that character of courage and inflexibility which ended by conquering the world ho ofia through and through a mothers boy writes president wheeler his most sch olary biographer to her ho had tho stronger attachment and from her ho inherited the predominating traits of his spiritual character