THOMAS FRANCIS BAYARD, the fifth member of his family to occupy seats in the Senate of the United States, was born at Wilmington, Delaware, in 1828; intended by his parents for mercantile pursuits, he found he was not cut out for a business man and studied law. Mr. Bayard was elected by the State Legislature of Delaware to the United States Senate in 1869, and served continuously in that body until 1885, when he resigned to accept the portfolio of Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Cleveland. While he was a United States Senator his father was also a Senator from the same State. Mr. Bayard was a member of the Electoral Commission in 1876-7 and a candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1880 and 1884. He was the first Ambassador to the Court of St. James-1893-1897. He died soon after his return. (11)

HENRY WARD BEECHER, the most eloquent of American clergymen, received

a good New England education, went west to Ohio to study theology and began preaching of the gospel in Indiana in 1836. His work had attracted attention, and he was called to Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, and remained in that pastorate full forty years. A Congregationalist, Mr. Beecher was very liberal in his ideas and tolerant toward all creeds and dognias, having no patience with theology so stiff and unbending that it made no allowances for the frailties of human nature. His preaching was entirely free from affectation. He was born in Connecticut in 1813, and died in 1887. (12)

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, whose name will forever be associated with the telephone, although a Scotchman by birth, perfected all his inventions in the United States, and is one of the best known men, not only in this country, but throughout the world. He was born in 1847, his father being Alexander Melville Bell, celebrated as the originator of a method for removing impediments of speech. His illustrious son was graduated from the Edinburgh University, and introduced into the United States, in 1872, his father's system of deaf-mute instruction. It was in 1876 that he first exhibited his apparatus for the transmission of sounds and speech, and its success made him a very wealthy man in a comparatively short time, (13)

JAMES GORDON BENNETT, "the younger," as he is frequently designated, is sole proprietor of the New York Herald, a paper founded by the elder Bennett in the "forties." When the latter died he left the newspaper-which has made nearly $1,000,000 annually for many years-to his son. Who will succeed to the ownership when "young" Bennett dies is not known, as he has no direct heir, never having married. Becoming dissatisfied with New York, Mr. Bennett went to Paris thirty or more years ago (about 1870) and has lived there since. The Herald is also printed daily in the French capital. Bennett paid the expenses of the Jeannette Arctic expedition, and sent Stanley to Africa to find Livingstone. He found him. Mr. Bennett was born in New York in 1839. (14)

ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE, JR., United States Senator from Indiana, is a native of that state. He was but little over thirty-six years of age when elected to the Senate, in 1899, and is the youngest member of that body. In spite of his youth he is said to be the soundest constitutional lawyer in Indiana. His great speech in the Senate on the Philippine question showed him worthy of a high rank among orators. Senator Beveridge visited the Philippines before he made his address, and was on the firing line with General Lawton several times. He has a remarkable standing for a man of his age and legislative experience, and there are few bold enough to challenge him in controversy. His adherents and admirers predict the Presidency of the United States will be his some day. (15)