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Show I'OjlflHK Magnifying Great Men . M I ffiSl Magazines nowadays are picking up the heroes ! WftjflH' of Revolutionary days and retouching pictures ' IBB! In Scribner'8 Thomas Jefferson is pictured, . Hb through a story taken from diary of a woman 1 ' i'jlaB who was-contemporary with Jefferson, as the very - '; f U wlH grandest and greatest of men. One who filled will iMBi every ideal of the impulsivo lady as a man who Mi HI possessed all wisdom and who in his graces was HB t0 tllls voman a sort o demi-god. She tells how 'fjlHfB she conversed with him, not knowing who he was, I rlnRB nnd tlle conversation was most delightful until her riHjgMK husband came in and introduced lier to Mr. Jeff- ' IlillffllR erson, and then so awed was she that she could I nPifflBs not talk any more- Tuat is tho wshest compli- H SfnP mont we over saw paid to' Mr. Jefferson'; that the M HSH knowledge of the man's name, with whom she US HKI llad beon lulotly conversing, suddenly paralyzed mHI her so she could not talk is possible, but if that is true then women have changed since the old Revolutionary Rev-olutionary days or Mr. Jefferson must have been a spellbinder sure enough. Another magazine, the Cosmopolitan, has a story of Andrew Jack3on by Alfred He .ry Lewis; all the corners are rubbed off from old Andrew and the photograph made of him by Cowls must be a half-tone of what the spirit of the old fighter must be like In the land to which he has gone. The truth about Andrew Jackson is that he was a most masterful man and the greatest patriot of his day, but he swore somewhat. He was as ready for a fight as ever was a game chicken and when he was gracious and kindly it was only fn the mood that the Bengal tiger is in when he lies down on his back, puts all his paws up In the air and in contentment purrs like the rumble of a iur-off iur-off steamboat, plying its way on a still night. In Pearson's magazine a story is given of "Romance "Ro-mance of Aaron Burr," and to read that story it is very hard for one to forego the thought that Burr was the most misused man in his tinie. But nevertheless, never-theless, without any sufficient cause he challenged and killed Alexander Hamilton and the next week Thomas Jefferson, ns President of the United States, gave him a dinner, because thero is little doubt that Jefferson was glad that Hamilton was killed, " although it was through the influence of Hamilton that Jefferson was made President rather than Burr. The real facts as drawn out of the history of those days Is that they were all human beings, that they all had their passions and their prejudices, they were all more or less possessed of envy and jealousy and down deep they were no better men than modern men: no more careful to live lives without reproach than many and many a modern man. The hatred of Aaron Burr for George Washington was incurable, the hatred of Jefferson for Hamilton was unworthy of as great a soul as his. And with all the pictures pic-tures of the chivalry of those times no one of these men revered I rue women as much as do modern men. |