The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-02-09

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-
BILE 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 repub-
ican notions are not exactly acceptable
to the royalties who remain to poster
the world.
Let it be said to the honor of Miss
Roosevelt that she decided to marry
man rather than title. That the man
is an American is all the better. After
the alliance of SO many of our heireSses
to princes, dukes, counts and other
weal1lingS with noble Mechanics this
is a 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 Il land of men and
of deeds, aud il is well that the daugh-
ter of a president who is himself so
democratic should thus honor the gen
iuS or her country.
Yet high society in Washington long
predicted that the daughter of the
White House would wed IA title. Ru-
NOR in that city of rumors has it that
there is not an unmarried titled mem
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 a tale to be snuired out by mere
denial Why spoil so exciting TO
nance by the prosy statement that it
is not fact?
washington rumor also says = but
what does it not say?-that 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 Il
lover, and especially a 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 Il better
cause. That union, dependent on a
seventh popping of the question" by
persistent lover. should be a 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, a Sher-
man and Sheridan: where were born
Stanton, Il Howells 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
C0rwin, Giddings. Chase, Thurman and
Taft-to say nothing of Hanna, John
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 if he
cannot have a Buckeye birthplace he
can at least afford a Buckeye son-in-
law. He can have the state related to
him by matrmony 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 thoroughbred. More
over, he has wealth, birth. position,
education, social distinction and all
those things priced by certain classes
Of people, but withal 7 : possesses the
more fundamental qualities of manli-
ness, independence, intellectual stamina
and pprightness 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 a grandfather, but
q great-grandfather There are people
who would give money for a great
grandfather-in fact, they have been
known to do so and have thus had an
cestors made to order.
Mr.. LongwOrth also has great-great-
grandfather, but perhaps he would not
point to this forbear with so much
pride, that worthy having been Tory
at the time of the American Revolution.
AS result of his sympathies with
George Ill, his lands near Newark, ~
j., were confiscated. This fact caused
the t-grandfather, another Nicholas
Longworth, by the way, to emigrate to
Cincinnati in 1903, when he was TWEEN
ty-one years of age. He became law
yer and took the defense of a horse
thief for his first case As fee he re-
ceived two copper whisky stills, which
me traded for thirty-three acres of land,
then in the woods, but now in the very
heart of the city. Before he died the
land was valued at 100000 He also
went in debt to the tune of $4,000 to
buy an old pasture lot and was sharply
reproved by one of his friends for his
eS ravagance. He lived to see that
I'D worth nearly as much as the other.
He took up grape culture and made
1t exceedingly profitable He gathered
about him fine library, rare old paint
ings and notable art collection. His
son Joseph, the grandfather of the
present Nicholas, gave Cincinnati her