Show ABOUT GREAT MENS SONS J r II A J writer In II a current re Ie recent cent y the o assertion that great hn great reat sous anti from this tact he flue lOn con conclusion that unlike mort com comman man ot of human nature is III not John Adam he said was the only American who hn had 1 had a sun who was as his peer to tn ahll Ity and lie he Ihl exception ns as tending rother to prove than to prove the rule 1 lie nc to e es The article has caused some discussion In the press and It is a 11 gUlar that mot ot of those thole who Hare on It have concurred In ho tile the opinions advanced To nl lIlIle that because great rent men do donot not utter ha hove great sons the law or of heredity doel 1155 not hail with reference to In exceptional its III rd take lake a 11 very en contracted 1011 or of th tine subject No breeder breelor or nt horses nr tat ti II would make malIC such on nn obvious Ilous mistake IIla in pass R RIni Ini on the r II a the stock stockman man dues doel not consider lont ld r only the In lIIL unlit or of Its III sire Ile ron also o the Individuality of oC its lIs dam ilAm ont and th the pelt Irre gree ot of both for many I generations lack alk lie He recognizes s lilt feet that the 1110 calf I Ia is isas a as likely l to inherit the th oC it one or of its ilK laments nil as tho those of Jle Ht that the II of a floe or especially lolI In ferlo tar butch In Its ilK n II ny may reappear In ha It In mare striking form torm than those thos of at is Immediate pro 1110 hue he Is pare that In most cattle are composite r re ot of tilt lilt their ancestors and Ihy It l is luu to le soy with certainty runt I ot of teem It lot got nil nilor any or of Its dp o 01 qualities Most if C those who nho discuss the law or of as al applied to Illy tarn fame II could sit lit At the feet ot of tie In gent livestock breder end learn mama lessons lor the Ill law of here lit time the lIme Way InIn as It h doer dOlI among brutes nod even among flowers Fv 1 err Or once In a there arises 1 a titan of lowly II Ih ii 0 or a 11 coin IL a genius that en II t b 1 for In con cnn eith this his In law nut But the seats th tie the lower otters of If Tiers and there will he found n 11 horse for whose speed or n a dog for tor whose Instinct or 01 n a hotel for tor its 1111 lineal seem seemIngly contains no explanation Yet these do not disprove the tho law It If WI we hll had t time Ie peplum or of getting all 1111 of the farts we should h mind that th they strictly conform to lt I It h ItIs Is III a law 1811 ot at nature that 1111 hiss shall beget lIegH 1111 Ilke and It will generally hi b found that this law Is where it II l he not crossed hV by the contrary and equally or more Inore powerful law or of But ut I Is it II trUEr true that thai great men mell do not have cr great ot sons the contrary It Ih thus who the CIS all en illustration hlll had push l his In 1 a little further t h he would have found that the of John and John Quincy Quine Adams was not exception exceptional nl al even In tint familY The Adams family Is probably the best of at the r that America has hns to offer John llama Adams was WIlf tor runt I hi Is m for hula hIli wits was ono ne of at the tho most t women la In Now Jn metal lorl ot of the ot of lire father bring neutral t l In the eon 1011 b by this or of the mother r or vice versa n Is lI 11 the enso the genius or of both bolh was IM John Adams and one ot of the strongest tint nu st characters and most and most powerful minds In hi the tho annals or of intuit Adams ea Admits Sr inherited 1 murk much ot of his ors r sod was an able man and diplomat And hi hula thrpo suns 1011 nil all rose Iose to 10 hll John Quincy Adams this the eldest ot of them woe n 11 In legislator n a lender In cnn tor ot es 1867 tn anti 71 Francis Jr II b n successful financier n 11 t 11 ell ry rythe the sot fOil ot of shades Francis k kA nt at was A professor ot of and n historical tt writer rl ter or nf tY nl t ton on an Interesting although I ha 1111 nn bearing b on this thAt the pat patriot rial anti statesman was IO a 11 second cousin or of John Adams and T Adams widely known as II writer under his pseudonym a II 11 Oliver Optic belong belonged ed to tn this falI Numerous or of the same kind could ho drawn train other sources The instance of the family which was first made d In title country b by Hart lson the signer of 01 the D Declaration ot of enre anti whose genius descended through hie fon nt William Harrison to the grandson on President Benjamin Harrison Is well known It Is not so 0 tell known that donator John Sherman ion Oen W Y T Sherman Shermon and ond I e F Hoar werE descended from Roger herman Fherman sIgner of the Declaration ot of Tn in independence dependence The father of oC Thomas J Jet t ferson was t a man Inan or ordinary ability hat bill his mother was WOR 1 a woman ot of un tin The 18 true ot Alf antler tone both ot of parents unseal talent an ant he was justly proud of his honorable gen The recent h or Oliver Oliver the jurist son on ot of Oliver Wendell the tho writer and physician to the tho United States su supreme premo preme court calls call II attention to 10 I the do scent ot of genius In lull family Julian Hawthorne the mho son on of NAthanIel Nat ban I cl I thorne line hns m made lle no mean reputation man In Amerl Ul as n a writer Perhaps no then President m Ca buns hns a bettor better pedigree Roosevelt ills Were lenders In Inthe life lito or of New York the 10 social and public before and during the revolutionary war In Instances of at the same lame kind might he be begat gat without umber number In the of England Lord Bacon tens n a sort on of Sir Nicholas Nichola Barron lord lorl keeper kelper ot of thin the In F time what Is II to tho point int inter hili moth mothr h er r Is II II its II ft woman of fine till tal enta ot of Uncoil r re recalls can calls hits hili relatives the Cecil family ot of whose WhOM members have been helping govern since long lont bl be before ron fore was Queen primE r which w t Is ft tin mv my tr nil Bal Balfour I tour four tile the prime minister his brother anti LorI Lord not to mention Lard Salisbury who hu has Just retired Then there are th the And Ill lon the Mille James Jamea and Stuart the Ihl Mc Ic Ju Justin lIn and aud JU th the Chinn s JO Joseph J n lph e p and Austin both of whom are now n In the In short there thero seems to hI be no end when awe bc begins to recall them of the In Instances stances great nto P line n neither hll l either Ither great rent sans lions or who ho distinguished themselves whether lr I the he II hell III ot it activity to eo be red be lit art tear wor business or states ma 1110 The rhe natural Is Ie that the young man or the young oln who Is Ie Isborn born lorn or of n family which has marked II 15 more likely other things equal to hop have c extraordinary than till the ono one who has not so o month a pres And what nn t II appears after I n shoving to 10 dP ole tears or of time anti Study tuII and toil mil Inns ot of dollars tl to the of If I or to 10 Ih breeding ot of I especially One OliO dogs 10 and hor horses e dl sheen M anti I even O anti to neither time nor mon to tn time breeding of lihn teen Inn and sus City J Journal |