The age-herald., 1900-07-23
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1 uay, MOHudyJ Juiy 70, lJVus
 Sell; unfavorable for all else"
 "Thou hast a most unfortunate birthday and wilt experience sickness, losses, and 1 disappointments; thou wilt also quarrel and
 risks
 "A child born on this day will possess
 an unruly disposition and will be careless, l headstrong, and unfortunate and trouble
 to itself and it's neighbors.'
 "Tf a female, she will be subject to dis | grace, yet will marry we'll"
 1 Astrologer Raphaels prophecies for Tues
 day July 24, 1900:
 Court, marry, ask favors, and seek work l before o'clock in the afternoon"
 Thy birthday is a good one and thou
 wilt not lack friends; thy business will
 prosper and thy domestic affairs will please 1 thee"
 l Young women will have much attention 1 from the opposite sex, and will receive of l fers."
 "A child born on this day will have many
 good and useful friends, who will help it
 up in life and through whom it will benefit l greatly"
 If female, she will marry well and
 happily"
 Women and men alike are interested in l the one great romance in the life of the l Duke of Devonshire, who is sixty-seven l years old today. It is a story not very | we'll known in this country, but is familiar
 to and greatly relished by the upper classes 1 in England. When the Duke was young | man and bearing the courtesy title of Mar | quis of Harrington, he came to passionately | love her who is now his Duchess. She was l remarkably attractive young noble- l woman, the admired one of half a dozen 1 courts of Europe. He was then superbly
 handsome, and remains so, as for that mat | ter, and friends who knew them both in those days never doubted 1 that she was deeply attached to l him. There were Princes amongst his 1 rivals, and no end of noblemen. One of | the latter won the woman. This winner | of the priceless prize was, like Lord Hart | ington, the heir to a dukedom, dashing 1 physically splendid young fellow. He was
 Lord Vaudeville, heir to the Duke of Man
 chester, and through her marriage to him
 she became the mother of that later Duke 1 | Ygnazi sisters, the famous sisters of New York whose beauty has been the toast of l two continents, and she is the widowed
 mother of the present Duke of Manchester,
 the very young nobleman whom the 400 of | New York were worshiping year ago. Just why Lord Harrington and the
 woman of his idolatry did not marry when | fI,o,r
 known to themselves only. Their most in
 innate friends were never aware of the cause, and the possible causes of the affair | were never discussed outside of the pri-
 vacy of English society: the newspapers in
 England having a sense of decency un- 1 known to most newspapers in the United l States. The loss of his beloved did not em- | bitter Lord Harrington, but it changed his | life completely and resulted in developing
 one of the first statesmen of the world 1 He at once began to devote himself to all- conquering work, and for many years so- ciety saw him but seldom. He attached
 himself to the fortunes of Gladstone, and | took up the study of politics, finance 1 economies history, statecraft and what is | more commonly called science. He became
 a member of the House of Commons, his | noble title being one of courtesy and he
 rose with extraordinary rapidity All Eng | land at once knew that one of Clad | stones young men," and soon his name l became familiar in all the capitals of the l world. Within comparatively a few years 1 he became a cabinet minister, an honor | that he has enjoyed at various times and | which he holds this sixty-seventh an
 niversary of his birth. His name became | almost as familiar as that of Gladstone, l with whom he parted political company at l 52, young age for public men in England; | and the world at large, which rung with | his praises, wondered why he did not mar l ry. Society knew. The woman he loved was | the ever adored Duchess of Manchester, | best horsewoman in England. He remained
 absolutely loyal to her. The two met occa- | sionally at the houses qf the great, and l always seemed perfectly happy together | Their friends left them alone to each other as far as practicable, and no whisper of l scandal ever attached in society noted | for scandal. Lord Harrington was a lover | not a betrayer, and she was beyond the l reach of scandals breath. The affair was i perfectly understood, and the Duke of | Manchester being gentleman, offered | no objection.
 | The constant man and woman grew old | The old Duke of Devonshire promised to | live forever, and the aging lover remained | Marquis of Harrington But suddenly the old Duke was laid away with his ances- | tors in the mighty mausoleum at Chats | worth, grandest and most beautiful home | in England, and the Marquis of Harting- l ton at 60 became Duke of Devonshire. l About the same time the Duke of Man | chester died, and the old lovers, each | grown grey were free. Within thirteen | months they married each other, the only
 instance in the British peerase where a l widowed Duchess married Duke. They l were the happiest young couple English | society has known. Their happiness seems | to be all the sweeter for long waiting. | These facts as here given have never be- i fore appeared in public print; though cer- 1 tain disreputabe journals tried years ago !