Show HAMILTONS HAMILTON'S PICTURE The Literary Digest discusses the physical changes chunges in the American fa face e since the days day's of tho the revolution and explains that in 1876 there was a strong English look to people while now the thc type has been greatly changed We rethink think it quite likely The best of Ireland has conic come here the best o of Germany some millions from southern Europe no end of Scandinavians Scandinavians Scan Scan- and some Congo negroes It would b be strange if the prevailing type had not changed It gives two portraits of men of the old days one of John Adams the other of Alexander Hamilton John Jahn Adams by the picture might have been the one whom Gray referred to when he wrote about I IIi Ii Some Som village Hampton ton that with dauntless breast The Tho lit little tie tyrant o or of wood withstood I Hamiltons Hamilton's s picture it cl calls ls English It has a good deal such a poise a as that of tho younger Pitt but if English it is softened clown down by the environments of his birth in the tropics and his years of battle in war and aud peace A magnificent face with irregular features but all clean cut and revealing all ll that there is of genius and courage and intellect and manhood manhood manhood man man- hood in a man It takes tul a good while sometimes to tofit fix fit a mans man's place in history Hamilton's Hamiltons is not yet et quite exactly located His lIis fiery nature sometimes antagonized antagonized antagonized an an- men and more or less of the old bitterness of the revolutionary days clings to him but the final verdict will be that he lie was the broadest brightest and and bravest of the old olp band Y c can cnn think of no modern American who is such a a aman man as he lie was Henry Clay was like him but lacked his breadth of vision S S. S. S Prentiss had many ninny attributes in common with him General Tecumseh Tecumseh Te- Te Sherman was a good deal like him in his ways and temperament in iu his nervous quick decisions decisions decisions deci deci- I and ever present courage and directness but butof butof butof of all the revolutionary re immortals his was the only brain that w t a perfect cube Had Aaron Burr possessed the same sense of justice and aud integrity of purpose he ho would have been Heen his real rival for in clear intellect Burr was a wonder onder In ancient history his his- tor tory Julius Caesar was his nearest counterpart writer orator lawyer lawer soldier in every O attribute a wonderful man to compel admiration and love and fear The Thc new land needed him and he was sent to fill the want |