Show J NEW EW NEWS OF YESTERDAY J I THE THOUGHT T THAT AT PLEASED A GREAT DIPLOMAT By J 3 E Edwards ThIs ThIe daily series aerie ot of anecdotes and Incident that throw new and frequently dramatic light on antS and ot of the past have bern been collected by Edwards dunn durin g nearly forty of more maro or less InU Inti Intimate mate acquaintance with maC ot of the co since the CIvil War Var Cach anecdote or IncIdent Is Ic freeh lh from Mr Edwarde notebook and either In whole or In part It constitutes Now Nil ot of Yesterday garnered from the tho mOil men who made tUo tilo from eq sources All Ae IrD portent of at the Human let Int crest ort cort to American history thello articles have a value all their own Yesterday in the tho anecdote of oC the tho United States senator who offered to sell himself I had to refer reCer to Charles Francis Adams soldier finan financier cler cier and writer anecdote Is 9 of oC his father that Charles Francis Adams who was a 11 son of oC one president and II a gr grandson of oC another and who as our minister to England during the tho trying days das ot of the Civil war earned elUned for tor him himself self Hi a Ilace second onlY to that of Franklin In the history of American 1 It was WIlS In the tho earl early summer of oC ISH 1177 that I was wag sent on a confidential or er errand rand to 11 Adams by the late A Dana Arrived at his home In Quin Quincy C cy Mass I was shown into the parlor and while awaiting the appearance ot Its owner 1 had opportunity to observe Its colonial simplicity and dignity The ho furniture might have some somo of aC It certainly did two pres presidents dents who were evere his father and his grandfather Upon the walls hun hung their portraits anti lInd they must have been almost speaking likenesses for or those pictured lips seemed scorned almost ready to break forth Into utterance I seas Wola studying the portraits when I heard a step behind me and turned to a cordial but dignified gr greeting from torn Mr Adams For art an hour there thereafter after we ve dl discussed cu S the mutter matter had occasioned m my visit Then m my host I looked up at the portraits of oC his fore forebears forebears bears I when I came Into the th room that you were looking at al the tho per por portraits traits which hang upon the wall lie he said salIl I presume you ou recognize them n ns the likenesses of oC ne m father an and grandfather I have seen een many copies of oC them themI I replied I have sometImes been told that Cleat there thero Is n a personal resemblance be between between tween myself and m my grandfather ho continued Strangers who have hae come cometo cometo to call upon here leave hao made mado that comparison I should bo be glad slad to havo hao your our opinion truthfully I an answered red It If you OU wore were dressed eta CUI your our Is In Inthe inthe the portrait und and you ou a few years oars I older I should sa say that you OU had just from the tho frame of the tho picture With mingled simplicity antI and dignity the tho quaint little man turned to the ol of his father John Quincy Quine Adams Some have thouGht that there was even stronger personal resemblance to tomy tomy my father than to m my grandfather lie he said I should be glad slad to have havo your our opinion There Thore Is certainly a strong family likeness I answered though It seems to me that the features and ex depleted depicted in the portrait of oC your our grandfather are aro moro more nearly re reproduced produced In yoU titan than are the features anti anel of your our father The Tho man slight of oC figure and short ot of stature the SOn 50 ot of ont one president and the grandson ot of another looked fondly at the likeness of oC the tho two teso men upon the parlor wall It Is of course gratifying to know that Cleat you ou recognize a physical resemblance blanco blance between those whose portraits you ou see seo and myself he said But there thero Is another thought that gives me greater gratification It Is this Whatever real or fancied resemblance there ma may be physically I am proud to realize that In character In tom tem anti and In some somo of my mental characteristics I leave have inherited quail Qualities ties tle which are arc associated with the achievements or of my father and my I gran grandfather d fath or I Naively ho he spoke and doubtless It was Mr realizatIon ot of his great Inheritance and his proper ap thereof that helped largely to make mako him the tho national power ho throughout the tho Civil war nr and for tor many years ears thereafter Unquestionably It was mOt moat fortunato for tor the Union that Mr Adams vas given this In anti and wa able to use It In great measure In behalf ot of tim the Union at the court of oC St James for full tull ROVon years |