The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-04
REJECTED SUITORS.
FAMOUS LOVERS WHO HAVE BEEN VICTIMS OF cUPlo's FRANKS.

Ryron's Cruel Experience With mias ohnworth-sheney's Affairs of the Heart-The Girl Who Was Much Too Good tO Marry Abe Linceln.
 It may be of some consolation to the rejected lover to remember that many of the greatest men in history have suffered equal bangs and survived the same ordeal to find married happiness elsewhere.
 Even Byron, that most beautiful and gifted of men, had more than his share of refusals, and one of them at least was accompanied by words which left a sting to his last day. He was only Harrow sehoolboy of sixteen when he fell madly in love with Miss Cha worth of Annesley, a young heiress of some beauty, who was two years elder [ than himself
 But Miss Chaworth treated all tho boys shy advances with laughter and contempt, and, although he was "suf- fering the tortures of the lost'' for her sake, refused to take him seriously. But the crowning blow came when, in an adjacent room he overheard Miss Chaworth say to her maid, Do you think I could care anything for that lame boy?" This cruel speech" he afterward said, was like a shot through my heart. Although it was late and pitch dark, darted out of the house and never stopped running until I reached Newstead."
 Shelley, too, almost as handsome and as gifted as Byron. knew from more than one experience the bangs of re- lection" After he had been expelled from Oxford and went to London with his fellow eulprit, Hogg, to live, he fell violently in love with his landlady's daughter, who bore the unromantic name of Eliza Jenkins But Eliza, even though he threatened to commit suicide in his despair, refused to have | anything to do with him, and when l few months later, having thought bet i ter of the suicidal threat, he sought to I console himself by paying court to | Mss Harriet Grove. n pretty cousin. she was so alarmed at lis heterodoxies that she sent him very decidedly about | his business.
 When Sheridan, following the exam l pie of many other amorous young men, ] fell over head and ears in love witn Miss Linley. tho beautiful singer, "shs i only laughed nt his ardor and made faces at him behind his back" and ye he used that subtle and eloquen tongue of his to such purpose that h' actually ran away with her to French nunnery and married her after fighting several duels with his rivals and her prosecutors.
 When Burke the great politician and orator, was student at Trinity col lege, Dublin. he is said to have had more than one love disappointment. His first infatuation was for the daughter of a small publican, whose dark eyes fired the blood of the young Irishman" but after coquetting with him for time she tilted him in the most heartloss fashion. His success, too. with his beautiful country woman, Margaret Wellington, was no greater. although he remained her loyal lover to the last.
 When Abraham Lincoln, as youth of eighteen, was living in rude log cabin in Spencer county. Ind. and picking up the rudiments of education in the intervals of rni splitting and blowing" he fell in love with the daughter of a poor Irish settler in 1 neighboring log cabin, and after many clumsy failures to declare his love to her in person penned with difficulty one of his first letters. asking her to become his wife.
 He never received an answer to this '4clumsy effuslon." as he afterward call ed It. but when next he met Bridget "she tossed her head and looked another way" She was much too good, she is said to have declared to marry a gawky farm laborer Then 1t was that Lincoln left the paternal cabin and voyaged as hired hand on a fat' boat into that greater world which before long was to ring with the name of tho gawky farm boy. When. thir' teen years or so later, Abraham Lin coin became president of the United States, Bridget was still living. the slatternly wife of farm laborer In
 log cabin" and still preserved the III
 penned letter which might. if she had
 been wise, have made her the first
 lady of the land"
 It is well known that Jean Baptiste
 Bernadotte, when he was a private of marines, was indignantly refused by q girl of very humble rank who thought herself much too good to marry a common soldier" What her redec
 lions were in later years. when ths despised private was the powerful
 king of Sweden and Norway history does rot record. Philadelphia Times.