The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1906-02-15

MISS ROOSEVELT AS A kings and en-
BAH. perors are sit
ting up and taking notice. Practically
every p0tentate of Europe is to send
Wedd .ng present. 1t 10 said that the
pope will honor the occasion by token
OF remembr nee, and 1t is not improba-
BILE that the sultan Of Turkey, the EN-
press Lowag. 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 repub-
lican notions are not exactly acceptable
to t',e royalties who remain to pester
the world.
Let it be said to the honor OF Miss
RO :eveIt that she decided to marry q
man rather than title. That the man
is an American is all the better. After
tie q ance Of so many of our heiresses
to p, ices. dukes. counts and other
week ngs with noble nicknames this
is gratpf,il variation. This is an age
Of men. not of title: Of deeds. not OF
eeeEin~s. In America this is especial
Iy true. for ours is a land Of men and
Of dec,,s. and it Is we'll that the daugh-
ter Of n president who is himself so
Tcmo"ratic should thus honor the gen.
iUs If her country.
Yet hiGh co";ety in Washington long
pref ted that the daughter Of the
White House would wed 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 capitol that has not had designs
on Eer Besi1es. the castles Of Europe
ore full of moro of the sort. Then
there is Ala. She might have been
sultana of Snlu. True. she denied that
s+0ry about the sultan of many wives
oa~nrirg her his hand and the upper
left ha, corner of his heart. but
ot!iC-S Gf the Taft party insist that the
propo al actually took place. 1t Is too
good ta' - be snuffed out by a mere
denial Why spoil so exciting ro-
nance by the prOsy statement that 1t
is not fact?
Washing. On rumor also says but
whHt does It not say?-that Congress-
man Longworth had to propose seven
times before he was finally accepted.
| There IS Il man after our own heart.
| Tp deserves her. All the world loves a
! lover. an; especially a lover who
knows what he wants and will not
take no f,r an answer. Lucky seven!
| The Elv~t.;- number that has been sung
| by oriental 1,nc"s and is held in rever
| ci,,c by people even farther west.
| Never C. il turn the trick in a better
cause That union, dependent on
| sc,lnth ''Uoon ng OF the question by
persistent lover shou.l be happy one.
Ore othc~ thing is there that Should
not be ovc@ 'oNcd Mr.. Longworth-the
Hon Nicholas Longw orth-to whom be
all honor fJr 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
Il Stanton, a HOwellS and an Edison;
! that was the home of one Harrison
and the birthplace of another and that
! was both tue home and birthplace or
three other presidents; the state OF
| COrwin, GiddingS. Chase, Thurman and
Taft-to say nothing of Hanna. John
+
people who have gone so far as to say
that the only thing President Roosevelt
| lacks is an Ohio birthplace. but II he
cannot have Buckeye birthplace he
can at least afford Buckeye son-1n-
law. He can have the state related to
him by matrimony if not by maternity.
As for Nick Longworth, as he is
familarly called by everybody about
his two homes at Cincinnati and Wash
inGton. lie is q thoroughbred. More
over. he has wealth. birth. position,
education, social distinction and ali
those things priced by certain classes
Of people. but wthal : +, possesses the
more fundamental qualities Of manli.
ness, independence. intellectual stamina
and uprightneSS that are esteemed by
every one. His family has been lead
ing one about Cincinnati since the be-
ginning of the nineteenth century. He
can point not only to grandfather. but
4 great-grandfatGer. There are people
who would give money for great
grandfather-in fact. they have been
known to 90 so and have thus had an
= cest0rS made to order.
Mr.. Longworth also has greatgreat
grandfather. but perhaps he would no,
- point to this forbear with so much
2 pride. that worthy having been a Tory
at the time of the American Revolution
AS Il result Of his sympathies with
T. George III. his lands near New ark. n
= j., were confiscated. This fact caused
i the great-grandfather another Nicholas
Longworth. by the way. to emigrate tt
Cincinnati in 1888. when he was twen
ty-one years of age. He became law
yer and took the defense of q horse
thief for his first case. AS 4 fee he re
ceived two copper whisky stills, which
:. he traded for thirty-three acres Of land
then in the woods. but now in the very
! heart of the city. Before he died tn,
land was valued at 100000. He alst
went in debt to the tune Of S.. COO Il
buy an old pasture lot and was sharpl,
reproved by one of his friends for hi
extravagancn Fe lived to see tina
land worth ncarl~ rs n .,ch as the other
He took up GA culture and mad
It cXC""'fn~ : He '-athere,
about HIN arc 81 paint
e0L Joseph, the grandfa ,her Of tn
/ p.esent Nicholas, gave Cincinnati he
art Museum. Joseph's daughter, nov
tht wife of Beliamy Storer, the Amer
lean ambassador to Austria Hungary
- was the founder of the famous Rook
b wo1! potteries at Cincinnati. She wa
! herself a proficient painter of china
receiving a gold medal at the Paris ex