Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1900-01-24

Men Of Mark In Politics, Ar and Lit
erature Who Never Married.


Men Of Mark In Politics, Art and Lit
erature Who Never Married.
Samuel J. TiIden was the richest
American who ever entered public life
and remained single TO the end OF his
days His persistent celibacy was re-
markable. for. unlike most others. Mr..
Tilden was born with money. and thus
from his youth was considered eligible
by the mammas of many young wom-
en-.
No republican of half Mr. Tilden's
prominence has gone through life with
out marrying, but, including David
Bennett Hill. who seems TO be con-
firmed bachelor. democracy's rolls
show a noteworthy triumvirate of the
distinguished celibates. James Buchan-
an. she only bachelor president, being
the third member thereof Buchanan
is understood to have refrained from
taking a wife because the girl upon
whom he set his youthful affections
was obdurate. He is said to have re-
gretted the single state to the day Of
| Lis death. Mr.. Hill. on the other hand.
Is reported TO be a bachelor from
| choice.
| Literature has furnished a long
| string of names to the list OF eminent
bachelors. Possibly the best-known un-
married man of letters to-day Is Henry
| James, the novelist. He maintains
stoutly that the artist, no matter what
| the medium of his expression, should
| remain single, on the ground that the
| petty cares and earnings OF domestic
| life tend to wear on delicately adjust
| sd nerves and exhausts the mental n
| ore OK genius, whether its possessor be
painter of pictures. a worker IN
| words. a modei!er of statues. compos-
| sr OF music, a singer, or one who
| amuses the people from the stage.
John Greenleaf Whittier was a bach
| slor. though not from the same cause
| ss the brilliant fiction writer mentioned.
| Whittier was a great admirer OF the
| married state, we are told, and in his
| boyhood had a blue-eyed, red-cheeked
| New England girl for his sweetheart.
| Together they went to school as chill
| aren. and when they grew to youths
| estate he told her the story most girls
like to hear. She heard II gladly, too.
| but he. was poor and poet and love
must wait for recognition She prom
| ised, but waiting Is wearisorne before
recognition came to the young gentle
verse maker she forgot him as lover
and was married to some one else.
Edward Fitzgerald. the translator Of
| omar Kahyyan's quatrains, was
bachelor, and there was a romance in
ais life. much like the one which sad
lened Whittiers but there was little
Else which they had in common. The
,eIibacy of Charles Lamb was full
81 pathos, for he remained single all
ais life that he might care for his sis
Ter. Venerable John Burroughs. natu-
,alist as well as writer, and one of the
most charming of men, has never mar
led. Mr.. Burroughs was not even
woman hater, neither has any one ever
,urmised that romance caused his
,achelorhood.
The only literary bachelor who is ac-
tpowledged to be hater of women Is
The English poet, Algernon Charles
svinburne His sentiment appears to
De based upon the fear that a woman
" little culture would be dull beyond
description as life partner. and the
conviction that the clever woman Is
me least attractive of her sex.
Only one noted Protestant divine has
oeen a bachelor. He was Philip Brooks,
Hho finished life as Bishop of the Epis-
.opal Church, and seemingly possessed
every quality desirable in a model hus-
band. The cause OF his remaining sin
gle appears never to have been under
stood, even by those who were closest
to him. He did not avoid the fair. nor
has any one been able to recall ro-
nance in his life. In his student days
and his career as a clergyman he had
many friendships with women, while
his passionate fondness for children
was remarked often. His letters to
some of his Juvenile friends, published
in one of the magazines, were models
in their Yay.
The basheloriiNod Of Sir Isaac New
ton was a puzzle to some of his con-
temporaries, but others knew he re-
NAMED single solely on account OF his
mother. He thought the world of her.
and her affection for him was un-
bounded but her maternal love was
married by jealousy, and whenever her
son thought on marriage or evinced a
passing interest even in a pretty face
she wept and wrung her hands, and
managed somehow TO check true loves
course He finally told her he would
give up all notion Of marriage as long
as he lived. After her death he found
himself too deeply absorbed In his sci
entific work and too mature to think or
matrimony.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.