The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-17

pcIOES are Sit
ting up and taking notice. Practically
every potentate of Europe is to send
wedding present. 1t is said that the
pope will honor the occasion by token
Of remembrance, and it is not improba-
bic that the sultan of Turkey, the en-.
press dowager Of China and the mikado
of Japan may get into the game. Your
Uncle Samuel has grown big enough to
be the fashion, even though his repuh.
lican notions are not exactly acceptable
10 the royalties who remain to pester
the world.
Let it be said to the honor of Miss
Roosevelt that she decided to marry n
man rather than title That the man
b an American is all the better. After
the alliance Of so many Of our heiresses
TO princes, dukes, counts and other
Weaklings with noble nicknames this
IS grateful variation. This is an age
of men, not of titles; of deeds, not of
seemings. In America this is especial
ly true, for ours is a land of men and
Of deeds, and it is well that the daugh-
ter of a president who is himself so
democratic should thus honor the gen.
ius of her country.
Yet high society in Washington long
predicted that the daughter of the
White House would wed a title. Ru-
NOR in that city Of rumors has it that
there is not an unmarried titled men,
Der of any foreign legation at the ma
tional capital that has not had designs
on her. Besides, the castles Of Europe
are full of more of the sort Then
there Is Asia. She might have been
sultana Of Sulu. True, she denied that
story about the sultan of many wives
offering her his hand and the upper
left hand corner Of his heart. but
others of the Taft party insist that the
proposal actually took place. 1t is too
good tale to be snuffed out by mere
denial. Why spoil so exciting a ro-
nance by the prosy statement that it
is not fact?
Washington rumOr also says - but
what does it not sayethat Congress
man Longworth had to propose seven
times before he was finally accepted.
There is a man after our own heart.
He deserves her. All the world loves a
lover, and especially lover who
knows what he wants and will not
take no for an answer. Lucky seven!
The mystic number that has been sung
by oriental poets and is held in rever-
ence by people even farther west.
Never did it turn the trick in better
cause That union, dependent on q
seventh popping Of the question" by a
persistent lover, should be happy one
One other thing is there that should
not be overlooked. Mr.. Longworth-the
Hon. Nicholas Longworth-to whom be
all honor for his good taste, luck and
perseverance, halls from Ohio. Does
that not solve the riddle? The state
that gave to the world Grant, Sher-
man and a Sheridan; where were born
a Stanton, a HoweIls and an Edison
that was the home Of one Harrison
and the birthplace of another and that
was both the home and birthplace OF
three other presidents; the state OF
Corwin Giddings. Chase. Thurman and
Taft-to say nothing of Hanna, Jonn
Sherman and Rockefeller. There are
people who have gone so far as to say
that the only thing President Roosevelt
lacks is an Ohio birthplace, but II ne
cannot have a Buckeye birthplace ne
can at least afford a Buckeye son-ln'
law. He can have the state related TO
him by matrimony if not by maternity
AS for Nick Longworth, as he is
Familiarity called by everybody ABOUT
his two homes at Cincinnati and WASH
ington. he is a thoroughbred. More
over. he has wealth, birth, pOsltlon'
education, social distinction ana all
those things priced by certain classes
of people, but withal he possesses tne
more fundamental qualities OF MANN
ness, independence, intellectual stamina
and uprightness that are esteemed ny
every one. His family has been leau'
ing one about Cincinnati since the pc
ginning of the nineteenth century. ne
can point not only to grandfatner' pu'
a great-grandfather. There are people
who would give money for great
grandfather-in fact, they have peen
known to do so and have thus had an
cestors made to order.
Mr.. Longworth also has great-erea'
grandfather, but perhaps he wouid ho'
point to this forbear with SO mucl
pride, that worthy having been Iofy
at the time of the American Revolution
As a result Of his sympathies VIII
George Ill, his lands near Newark N,
J., were confiscated. This fact causeo
the great-grandfather, another Nlcnoias
Longworth, by the way. to emlgra'e -
Cincinnati in 1903, when he was wen
ty-one years Of age. He became Jaw
yer and took the defense OF morse
thief for his first case. AS zee ne re
ceived two copper whisky stills. wnic.
he traded for thirtythree acres OF ianu
then in the woods, but now In the very
heart of the city. Before he died tne
land was valued at 100000. He alse
went in debt to the tune ct $asOoO &c
buy an old pasture lot and was SHARPLY
reproved by one Of his friends FOR MS
extravaganza. He lived to see ina
land worth nearly as much as the otnei
He took up grape culture and mao'
1t exceedingly profitable. He gathered