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W. N. U . DALLAS, NO. 13-1930.
By ELMO SCOTT WATSQN
NE hundred and four years
ago this month there took
place on the Virginia side
of the Potomac river one
of the strangest duels in
the history of the Amer-
ican code duello. It was
between a member of the
United States senate,
John Randolph of Virginia, and Henry
Clay of Kentucky, secretary of state.
Back of the duel lay the conflict be-
tween two political theories, those of
President John Quincy Adams, sup-
ported by Clay, and those of a future
President, Andrew Jackson, supported
by Randolph. But the immediate cause
of the duel was a speech which Ran-
dolph had made in the senate.
The debate which produced this
speech was of minor importance. It
had to do with a resolution calling
for the production of certain docu-
ments. But Randolph made it the oc-
casion for such a vitriolic speech as
only be could make. He assailed the
administration, paying particular at-
tention to the ‘‘close association in it
of the austere, correct and pious
Adams with the frequently drunken,
Incessantly gambling Clay,” and end-
ing up with these famous words: “I
was defeated horse, foot and dragoons
—cut up and clean broke down by the
coalition of Blifil (Adams) and Black
George (Clay)—by the combination,
unheard of till then, of the Puritan
with the blackleg.”
Heretofore Clay had ignored the
whispering campaign against him. based
on his drinking and his gambling. But
this was a denunciation which he
could not disregard. He challenged
Randolph to a duel and ns word of
the affair got out the excitement in
Washington was tremendous. Thomas
Hart Benton, senator of Missouri, by
permission of the principals, was al-
lowed to attend the duel which was
held on the afternoon of April 8, 1826.
Noted for his eccentricity and run-
ning true to form, even on the duel-
ling field, Randolph appeared for the
encounter with a white flannel wrap-
per over his coat. Despite the fact
that his seconds had ‘‘haired” the trig-
ger of his pistol, he insisted upon
keeping on a pair of thick buckskin
gloves even though these would de-
stroy his delicacy of touch and per-
haps cause him to fire before the word
was given. And that is exactly what
happened. As he stood holding his pis-
tol. muzzle downward, It was dis-
charged. Clay’s seconds immediately
protested but Clay silenced them and
demanded that his opponent be given
another pistol.
When the word was given both men
fired but neither shot took effect, al-
though Randolph’s bullet nearly struck
Clay in the leg and Clay’s bullet
passed close to Randolph’s wnist. Ben-
ton immediately rushed in and tried
to stop the fight, but Randolph angrily
refused. He had determined to make
a grand gesture and was willing to
Imperil his life to make it. So the
pistols were reloaded and again the
men fired. The secretary of state put
his bullet through the senator’s coat,
but the latter purposely fired high in
the air over Clay's head. At this, Clay
rushed forward with outstretched
hand. ‘‘I trust in God, my dear sir, you
are untouched. After what has oc-
curred, I would not have harmed you
for a thousand worlds!” he exclaimed.
“You owe mo a coat, Mr. Clay,” re-
plied Randolph with a smile.
The whole affair is characteristic of
John Randolph of Roanoke, for surely
he was the strangest American of Ills
time and perhaps of all time. Gerald
W. Johnson In a recent biography of
him, published by Minton, Bale!) and
| Company, calls him “A Political Fan-
tastic” and perhaps “fantastic" is a
more opt word than either “eccentric”
or “strange” when applied to his life,
both private and political.
Declaring that “he has come down
in history with one of the most terri-
ble reputations ever attached to un
American politician who never was
convicted of murder, or treason or
theft,” the biographer points out that
he was in public life for a third of a
centur., during which he served as a
congressman and Jefferson’s floor-
leader in the house of representatives,
as a senator from Virginia, as ambas-
sador to Russia, as a member of the
constitutional convention of Virginia
ard on many commissions and spe-
cial missions. But, he declares, he is
not remembered for these services.
JONH RAUDOIPH — A COJf-
TZIYPORARY BRITISH C4R7t)OIf
Rather Randolph’s reputation lives be-
cause he carried “the wickedest tongue
that ever hung in the head of an
American congressman, or at any rate,
in the head of one who had both the
courage and the wit to use it.”
Many Americans can remember the
day when invective, with all its syn-
onyms of abuse, reproach, railing, cen-
sure, sarcasm, satire and vituperation
were an indispensable part of the
equipment of the politician. But of all
who ever used them, Randolph wus
the acknowledged master, intimates
Johnson, when he says:
No man since his day, when attacked
In debate by half a dozen honorable
members, has had the superb insol-
ence to rise and quote, as he leisurely
surveyed the United States House of
Representatives:
"The little dogs and all,
Tray, Blanch and Sweetheart,
See, they bark at me!"
Nor have we since had Invective as
startling as the metaphor which he is
frequently said to have used against
Henry Clay, but which he really ap-
plied to Edward Livingston: "Fellow-
citizens, he Is a man of splendid abil-
ities, but utterly corrupt. Like rotten
mackerel by moonlight, he shines and
stinks.” His characterization of John
Quincy Adams and Clay as "Blifil and
Black George—the Puritan and the
blackleg," hardly needed the duel
which followed to stamp It upon the
memory of the country, for, although
there was no duel as a result, the
country had remembered the descrip-
tion of Thomas Jefferson as "St.
Thomas of Cantlngbury," because, as
In the other case, there was Just
enough truth In it to make It stick and
sting.
Although John Randolph himself
once complained that “All the bastard
wit of the country has been fathered
on me,” Johnson cites some of his
brilliant sallies.
He once spoke of “the glorious priv-
ilege of finding fault—one very dear
to the depraved condition of human
nature." Of Robert Wright and John
Rea (Ray) he said that the house
of representatives had two anomalies:
“A Wright always wrong and a Rae
without a light.” Once a new member,
elected to fill a vacancy In the house
caused by a death, attacked Randolph,
who Ignored it at the time. Later,
however, while discussing a bill in
which the dead congressman had been
much interested Randolph remarked
that this bill has lost much in the
death of his dear friend, Mr..........
“whose seat remains vacant.”
When Richard Rush was appointed
secretary of the treasury, the gentle-
man from Virginia declared that
“Never were abilities so much below
mediocrity so well rewarded; no, not
when Caligula’s horse was made Con-
sul.” Of a certain pedantic individual
he said that his mind was like a parcel
of land which lie knew—poor to begin
with and made more barren by too in-
tensive cultivation. “Denouncing me?”
he demanded when a friend told him
that a certain person had attacked
him. "That Is strange. I never did
him a favor.” One day he met an en-
emy on the narrow sidewalks of Wash-
ington. The man halted in the middle
of the walk and belligerently declared
“I never step out of my way for pup-
pies.” “1 always do,” replied Ran-
dolph, stepping aside, “Bass on!”
But Randolph’s place in history Is
milch more significant than that of a
mere coiner of epigrams, according to
his biographer, who declares that be
was “the most powerful single influ-
ence in transforming the South from
the nourishing mother of the repub-
lic into the frantic opponent of the
republic” and while “it would, be far
too much to say that John Randolph
of Roanoke diverted the spirit of
southern statecraft from the philos-
ophy of Thomas Jefferson to that of
Jefferson Davis; it is Incontestably
true that he witnessed that transition
and that he assisted it.” It seems
strange perhaps that the man who
was “admittedly the first orator in a
congress that included Webster, Clay
and Calhoun," should he remembered
mainly because of his violence of ac-
tion and vituperation of speech. For,
says Johnson:
John Randolph of Roanoke was a
strong man and h© contended might-
ppo
pressive enough, for he dared the
wrath successively of Thomas Jeffer-
son, James Madison, John Marshall,
John C. Calhoun, John Quincy Adams, j
Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and An-
drew Jackson. . . . He asked no
quarter of the best of them, and no
weak man could have stood a moment
against the least of these.
Certatn of the elements of greatness
John Randolph of Roanoke possessed
beyond the shadow of a doubt. In In-
tellectual keenness and alertness, he
rivalled the great Virginians; In cour-
age no man among them surpassed
him and not all were his equals; in
depth of learning he was superior to
most of them perhaps to all! In per-
sonal integrity not Washington him-
self was further beyond reproach. In
addition Randolph possessed a qual-
ity which none of the stars in Vir-
ginia’s political firmament shared in
anything like the first degree. This
quality was his sheen, his coruscation,
his sheer, blinding brilliance.
But for all this, he was a man at-
tended by fatality, the heir of the
House of Usher. Born to the purple,
wealthy, a handsome youth, charming
in his personal relations and equipped
with a magnificent mind, It seemed
upon his entrance Into public life that
all the beneflclent powers had com-
bined to Insure his happiness and his
glory. But his fair prospects were all
Illusory. Instead o'f primroses, his
path was strewn with stones and
thorns. . . . Instead of becoming
even the stepfather of his country, "I
mean the Commonwealth of Virginia,”
he urged her along a road strikingly
similar to the one he trod, and which
led not to glory everlasting, but to
defeat, madness and death.
For a physical affliction which Ran-
dolph sustained at the age of nine-
teen, following an attack of scarlet
fever, changed the whole course of
his life and made him an embittered,
frustrated man. To the end of his days
he retained a curiously boyish appear-
ance, beardless, with a shrill, high-
pitched voice. This fact, coupled with
the statement that he was “the first
orator” of his time and his own state-
ment of “I am an aristocrat. I love
Justice and hate equality,” only ac-
centuates the grotesque character of
the picture of the man who was John
Randolph of Roanoke. “When he was
over forty a spectator In the house
gallery was dumfounded at learning
that the skinny youth he saw on the
floor, and whom he had believed to be
about sixteen, was the great Mr. Ran-
dolph of Virginia."
The result of this affliction was In-
evitable. “Here was an intensely proud
member of a proud race, a man who
cherished his lineage above all his
material possessions, a man to whom
the family was not merely a sacred,
but a downright awe-inspiring institu-
tion, deprived of the privilege-of con-
tinuing his family,” writes Johnson.
“Here was a scornful man doomed
forever to be the target of the shafts
of the scornful. Here was a romantic
man ridiculously debarred from am-
orous romance. Here was a man whose
finest quality, perhaps, was his capac-
ity for unflagging devotion to the dom-
estic interests of his kin, denied the
possibility of setting up a domestic
establishment of ids own. It is in-
conceivable that this frustration, tills
profound humiliation should have
failed to work out in bitterness of
spirit.”
So John Randolph of Roanoke, who
had In him the elements of greatness,
Just missed greatness. If he had not
been such a strong man, his story
would he a pathetic one. His “own
people have remembered him with a
curious mixture of terror, pride and
wild delight. For, dark ns is his story,
on occasion It glitters and sparkles
as does that of no other American of
any generation. It Is the story of a
fighting man of the breed of Roland,
and no one who is stirred by a tale
of a warrior who lays about him with
a right good will can fall to be stirred
by Randolph. But It is above all else
a fantastic tale, frequently verging
upon the grotesque. The Incredibly,
long, incredibly lean figure was Don
Quixote to the life; but Job* Ran-
dolph’s own were the glittering eyes,
and the almost fabulous forefinger
with which he seemed to transfix a
shivering opponent”—this, the strang-
est American.
(©, 1930. Western News.japer Union.)
What Is a sonnet? ’tls the pearly
shell
That murmurs of the far-off
murmuring sea:
A precious jewel, carved most curi-
ously:
'T's a little picture painted well.
—Richard Watson Gilder.
SIMPLE SAUCES
It has been well suid that hunger la
the beut sauce, but any feast is en-
hanced by n mental sauce
which is wit. Brillar-
Savarin, who will be re-
membered ns a great wit
and as a great epicure,
paid his respects to the
English by saying they
were a nation of a hun-
dred religions but only
one sauce. The French-
man believes in the value
of good sauces and
dresses his dishes with appetizing
ones. \
Our American cooks delight in learn-
ing some of those Gallic creations by
which they may transform plain food
into something seemingly out of the
ordinary.
The French chef keeps three kinds
of roux on hand, ready for sauces.
These are brown, a pale cream color
and a white. They are flour and but-
ter cooked together in various stages.
The white sauce is only cooked with
the butter long enough to mix well,
then the stock, milk or whatever
liquid Is used is added.
With eight ounces of butter and nine
ounces of flour the foundation is pre-
pared. For a creme, or that which we
call a white or cream sauce, take two
tablespoonfuls of the roux and mix
with a cupful of milk, a tablespoonful
each of finely chopped parsley, shal-
lots and chives. Cook fifteen minutes,
pass through a colander, add a lump
of butter, more chopped parsley and
salt and pepper. Mix well with a
wooden spoon and it is ready for the
table.
Sauce Piquante.—Cut two onions j
Into slices, one carrot and two shallots,
put into a saucepan with a tablespoon-
ful of butter. While heating add a
sprig of thyme, a tablespoonful of
parsley minced, a bayleaf and two or
three cloves. When the onions are a
golden brown add a tablespoonful of
flour, a little plain stock and a table-
spoonful of vinegar. Boil up, puss
through a sieve and season with sail
and pepper.
Sauce Bernaise.—This sauce is es-
pecially good with steaks and chops
as well as with roast beef. Beat the
yolks of three eggs, add a tablespoon-
ful of blitter and a little salt. Stir
over a-low heat until it begins to
thicken, then remove and add two
more tablespoonfuls of butter, stirring
until it is well dissolved. Season with
chopped herbs and parsley, adding a
teaspoonful of vinegar.
Sauce Raviflote.—This is especially
good with boiled fish. Mix one cupful
of stock with a little cider, add chervil,
tarragon, chives and parsley finely
minced to the amount of three table-
spoonfuls, adding salt and pepper.
Stew gently for twenty minutes, then
add a tablespoonful each of flour and
butter well blended, stir into the sauce
and Just before serving add the Juice
of half a lemon.
VARIOUS GOOD THINGS
When it is hard to think of a good
Aupper dish, try smoked salmon cut
into slices and spread
with butter, adding pep-
per, sqlt, and a pinch of
nutmeg. Heat under a
broiler or in hot frying
poo, cover with croutons
and serve.
Carrot With Rice Pot-
tage.—Cut firm, red car-
rots lengthwise and
place in a casserole with good bouillon
to simmer over a slow heat. Pass
through a sieve when the carrots are
soft and add a cupful of cooked rice;
bring to a boil and serve at once.
Cold roast pork cut into slices and
spread with sausage meat, skewered
and wrapped in oil paper, cook slowly,
remove the papers, roll In crumbs and
brown. Sqrve with a piquant sauce.
Turks Tart.—Boll one cupful of rice
until thick in milk to which lias been
added a stick of cinnamon, lemon
Juice and sugar. When the rice is
tender, cool it on a buttered plate and
fill the center with marmalade made
ns follows: Cut the stalks of tender
rhubarb into dice and simmer in a
small amount of water until like mar-
malade. Add three or four teaspoon-
fuls of sugar, a little butter and the
grated rind of n lemon. Take from
the fire and add the beuten yolks of
two eggs. Arrange In the middle of
the rice, sprinkle with sugar and set
In the oven for 15 minutes before
serving.
Beet Reltah.—Chop one cupful each
of beets and cabbage, udd three table-
spoonfuls of fresh horseradish (grat-
ed), two teaspoonful8 of sugur, one
teaspoonful of salt and four table-
spoonfuls of lemon Juice. Serve with
cold sliced meats.
Sour Beef.—Cut cold roast of beef
into thin slices and strips. Place in a
bowl a finely chopped onion, some
chervil, a few minced gherkins, a tea-
spoonful of capers, add a little vin-
egar, three times as much of good olive
oil, pepper and salt, and serve tossed
over the meat.
Harold’s Mother
Knew Answer
“Yes, sir, I am cer-
tainly proud of my
little boy,” says Mrs.
H. M. Smith, 421 To-
peka Ave., Topeka,
Kansas. “He’s five
and weighs fifty-sev-
en pounds. He's the
picture of health as
you con see, and I feel like he’ll al-
ways be that way as long as I can
get California Fig Syrup. I have
used It with him ever since he was a
year old. I knew what to give him
for his colds and his feverish, upset
spells because Mother used Califor-
nia Fig Syrup with nil of us as chil-
dren. I have used It freely with my
boy and he loves It. It always fixes
him up, quick.”
In many homes, like this, the third
and fourth generations are using
pure, wholesome California Fig Syrup
because It has never failed to do
what Is expected of It. Nothing so
quickly gild thoroughly purges a
child’s system of the souring waste
which keeps him cross, feverish,
headachy, bilious, half-sick, with coat-
ed tongue, bad breath and no appe-
tite or energy as long as it Is allowed
to remain in the little stomach and
bowels. Fig Syrup gives tone and
strength to these organs so they con-
tinue to act as Nature intends’them
to do, and helps build up and
strengthen weak, pale and under-
weight children. Over four million
bottles used a year shows Its popu-
larity. The genuine, endorsed by
physicians for 50 years, always bears
the word “California."
MW**®
Ease
Mothers.. .Watch
Children’s colds
/COMMON head colds often “settle”
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become dangerous. Donft take tt
chance — at the first sniffle rub on
Children’s Musterole once every hour
^ Children’s Musterole is just good old
Musterole, you have known so long, in
milder form. .
Working like the trained masseur, this
famous blend of oil of mustard, camphor,
mertthol and other ingredients bring®
relief naturally. It penetrates and stimu-
lates blood circulation, helps to draw out
infection and pain.
Keep full strength Musterole on hand,
for adults and the milder — Children’®
Musterole for little tots. All druggists.
Swiftest, Easiest Way
to End Bilious Spell
When you neglect those first symp-
toms of constipation—bad breath,
coated tongue, listlessness, the whole
system soon suffers. Appetite lags.
Digestion slows up. You become
headachy, dizzy, bilious.
It’s easy to correct sluggish bowel
action! Take a candy Cascaret to-
night. See how quickly—and pleas-
antly—the bowels are activated. All
the souring waste is gently propelled
from the system. Regular and com-
plete bowel action Is restored.
Cascarets are made from pure cas-
cara, a substance which doctors agree
actually strengthens towel muscles.
All drug stores have Cascarets. 10c.
jVhs Lena Rolling
Texas Mother Has
Healthiest Child
Mrs. Lena Rolling is perhaps
the happiest mother In Houston,
and It is all because her little son
Itoyce Lee finally got over a spell
of sickness which pulled him down
terribly.
“Ills blood must have gotten
very thin because he broke out so
badly all over his little legs,” said
Mrs. Rolling In her home at 3011
Harrisburg Blvd. “From the time
I started giving him Nature’s
Remedy Juniors It so thoroughly
cleaned out his system that all
the broken out places healed and
others did not come back as they
did hfefore. Now he is in so much
better health that I wish every
mother could see him and see
what those little chocolate candy
NR Jrs can do for ailing children.”
All drug stores which sell Na-
ture’s Remedy, the safe depend-
able laxative and corrective, also
have NR Jrs. They are just 25c.
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