worth took after him and brought cHved ns a lega’ fee from a WOOING him In. “OLD NICK” fellow, accused of horse stealing, and who “It was a risky situation, because had nothlug else to give, two second he had to buck the tide to to OF ALICE get LONGWORTH hand copper stills. These were In shore, which was a big enough job charge of Joel Williams, who kept a In itself, without a having helpless, tavern adjacent to the river, and ROOSEVELT floundering man to tow. Quaint History of the who was n large property holder “Miss Roosevelt, with the other there In early days. On presenting women, had gone ashore at the first THRILLING ROMANCE.' Man Who Founded the this order, Mr. Williams told Mr. alarm. Most of them were crying Lcmgworth he could not let the stills and wringing their hands, but she Fortune of go as he was Just building a distil- Told By a Member of the Tuft didn’t. j * * lery In Butler County, but he would “She stood knee deep in the water Be- Nick Longworth. give him a lot of thirty-three screa Party-How Courtship leaning forward with her hands on Western row In lieu of the arti- clinched and "her face pale. But not gan on Way Across and cles. Mr. Longworth, whose view of a sound came out of her. When it “Just now everybody's talking the value of property here was al- Was was ail over and everybody was pat- about Nicholas longworth of Cincin- Engagement ways In advance of public opinion, nati. there was Fifty years ago an- gladly closed with the proposal. Announced other Nicholas Longworth, of Cin- These thirty-three acres occupied a who had come to fame over cinnati, front on Western from Sixth to AU through the long trip to the row, a much more difficult path. He was 8eventh Far which Mia* Street, running west for East, Roosevelt and "Old Nick" as succed- Longworth. quantity, and this transaction alone, Mr. Ix>ngworth took with the Taft Nicholases have been lng "Young taking Into view the prodigious ad- expedition, the attention of the party, vance In real estate here, would of especially of the women, was Intently Itself have furnished the basts of an focused upon the young couple. Immense the naked From one of the members of the fortuue, ground being now worth nearly two million* party we have obtained sundry per- of dollars. sonal recollections of incidents on the "What Mr. way In which Miss Roosevelt and Mr. i.ongworth’s property Is worth Is rather difficult to deter- Longworth figured. Some of these mine, but aa his taxes for 1860 wero are printed below i upward of $17,000, the highest sunt individual In the United “It speaks well for the women of paid by any States, William W. Astor the Taft party that they were able excepted, whose taxes for the same were to keep a secret so well, for all of year the is that them knew before the voyage back 938,116, presumption there are few Individuals of to San Francisco was ended that Mr. htghnr wealth State*. Longworth had proposed to Miss reputed in the United If, however, he were a man of wealth Roosevelt and had been accepted. The Attention of the Women Was more “Miss Roosevelt was under the and nothing this notice would Especially Focussed on the Young not have appeared in these pages. strict chaperonage of four women of Pair. mature years, and, naturally, they "Longworth la a problem and ft the back and were keen to know If their Judgment ting Longworth on riddle; a problem worthy of thft him what a hero he she was to be confirmed, because they telling was, study of those who delight In explor- walked Is were all morally certain before we away. ing that labyrinth of all that hid- “In a minute she came back. Her human had been at sea a day on the outward den and mysterious, the were red. All she said to trip that Mr. Longworth was an ar- eyes Long- heart, and a riddle to himself and dent suitor. worth was: others. He Is a wit. and a humorist what a brave man! UDWWD&OU 'WW Ohio, Their Individuality sufficiently wants of a destitute but deserving the farthest "Old Nick," horn January 16, 1783, ferent to make one a foil for the went to a window, at widow residing In the Sixth ward. where the was in Newark. Thomas was a Tory, and other, but they have a good many corner, light hardest, Among other persons I applied tft lace not being willing to subscribe to the tastes In common. But they couldn’t Miss Alice Roosevelt*a and pushed back the draperies, Longworth. ‘Who Is she? Do yon them back with one Declaration of Independence, the agree on colors. and holding know her? Is she a deserving object? « American and the Constitution tried on the hat with the Eagle “Miss Roosevelt dislikes yellow, Shrewdness in hand, I assured him that she was. I had "Ye*, I've Promised," Said Mlsa it. On the Buy- other. of the United States, made and pro- while Longworth likes reason, I said, to believe that the success good Alice, Blushingly. ‘‘She studied the effect so vided by of the Revolu- contrary, she likes green, against long, she bore an excellent character and ing Amazes Clerks hts was confisca- has a for the and side and tion, property duly It was an old one, for It has been In which Longworth strong preju- turning front was all In her power to sup- ted and be was told to to doing so often that heart go England the Longworth family for years dice. back effect my port a large family of small children. Here are some Impressions of Miss for she'd or elsewhere. Whether he obeyed or ‘Yes,’ said Miss Roosevelt, blush- “While we were In Tlen-Tsln the was In my mouth fear 'Very well, then,’ said Mr. Long- Roosevelt's shopping tour by the and the not the present writer cannot say, ing, but frank enough, when she saw Empress of China, whom we were on throw It back on our hands, ‘I shan't give a cent. Such who waited on her. but he was left so that, worth, salespeople Bvsry boss would blame and I was poor every- the women looking at the ring, ‘I've our way to visit, set apart for our ac- me, persons will always find plenty to re- woman In the land ought to read 1 would body hud to work, lucludlng father, promised.' commodation a big palace. Sedan thinking of the alterations lieve them. I shall assist none but their stories. when she and young Ntohnlas, as he was then, ‘‘She insisted that the engagement chairs were provided In which to tote suggest, If It didn’t suit, the Idle, drunken, worthless vaga- with that radiant rustled along the best he could un- must be unannounced until her us around. turned to me bonds that else will help. If was old to to South nobody BY MOLLIE! GRAHAM. and said: ’Thank I like til he enough go father and mother had been con- “All of* them were green, except smile, you! you meet with such cases call upon send Carolina and tnke a place In his sulted. Of course, every one agreed. Miss Roosevelt’s, which was yellow. It very well. Will you please me.’ That this was not a mere pre- Second Lady at a Fifth Avenue D. to the brother’s store. But he was ambi- “Mr. Longworth’s wooing wasn’t The minute she saw it she proposed the three by express, 0. O. tence I And In the success of an ap- Modiste’s. D. C.T tious to become a lawyer, and prob- altogether a bed of roses. He didn't a swap. White House, Washington, plication made here In behalf of thft when I to the store as all ably realising that Ohio was to be a merely have to ask once. I know ‘All right, you take my green "Honest, got "Then she looked around Mormons after they were driven great State some day he went to Cin- that. He had to do some coaxing. He one,’ said Longworth, ‘I don’t like that morning and found the head the other girls do, to see. If there was from Illinois. A committee of that note I fainted. She sent else that took her cinnati in 1804 and entered the law was frankly Jealous, too. green, but I can stand yellow. I’ll lady’s nearly anything faney. peoplft visited Cincinnati and applied me a note a who at office of Judge Jacob Burnet. Later "While we were In California ride In your yellow chair.’ by messenger boy One of shaded green she looked to n friend of mine, who said he had estate and Came Into the out of breath for a time but shook her he quit the law for real there was a French count. In the “But our Chinese escort would not shop long finally no money to give but wrote a note to became a millionaire and the second French diplomatic service, who was hear of it. from hurrying. She must have head. Mr. Longworth, In which he atated largeet taxpayer in the United "Yellow, they explained, was the given him a fearful big tip. The head You might have It retrlmmed If he had sent them to him aa having a he married Susan I’ve so the said Mrs. Cor- Statea. In 1807 color of royalty, and only Miss lady said: got the neuralgia you like shape," claim on him, they not being Chrla- Howell, daughter of Captain Silas Roosevelt, the American Princess, that I can’t step out of my room. My nelius Vanderbilt, who was with her. tlana. Mr. Longworth gave them ao- not Howell, of the New Jersey Conti- could ride In a yellow sedan chair face Is a sight. I wouldn’t care about I No,’ she Bald. ’That would oordtngly flO. (Not*—‘The devil'* nental line. One of his sons, Joseph, without fracturing precedents and the pain If I didn’t look as though I | change the line. And after all, In poor’ Mr. Longworth called the kind was the father of Nicholas, a Judge customs that had obtained In the had been beaten. I couldn't show hats, the line Is the thing, don’t you he helped.)’’ on Ohio who since Confucius such a swollen face to think so? A may wear any col- the Bupromo Bench, Flowery Kingdom discolored, girl Thua ended the Clat chronicle of the lines was the father of tho prosent Nicho- was a baby. So the swap was de- Miss Roosevelt. For this Is the day or, especially at night, but twelve in two Con- fifty-four years ago, and Roosevelt she's to on those three must harmonise with those of her las, Representative clared off, althought Miss coming try ended the of it. from and a Re- years later subject tilted her nose time she hats and order a few more. And head, as well her shoulders. And gresses Cincinnati, every i He left a fortune estimated at |16,- Into her chair. there’s for It but that she shouldn't her nor the publican, as his great-grandfather climbed yellow nothing you’ve forget hips and ever said any of a 000,000, nobody “While we were In 8ulu we r»n got to wait on her. Now, don't funk. flare of her skirts at the hem. One waa Whig. It waa tainted money, although there on tho across an up-to-date Datto, the Datlo Do your best, Mollle. You’ll be all most have the entire outline In mind Not as having any bearing were good and ploua Cincinnatians Jokammin. He wore a hat and unless to take out when she a bat. Color and caso, but moroly as a coincidence, it plug right you forget buys who aald If "Old Nick" hadn't gon* a celluloid the tem- gum. For Heaven's sake, don’t are of slight Importance may be stated here that the old collar, although your trimming to meet hla namesake the harmony was well toward a hun- chew. I heard her she was dead compared with them.' Longworth homestead In Pike Street, perature up say of the hereafter would be out of dred. He was the best per- set It. 8he’s real nice, so Agrees With Milliner, Cincinnati, was some years natured, against hpught tune- spiring fat man I ever saw. don’t be afraid, only keep your wits "Now every milliner known that. £lo by tKe late David Slnton, next -yfcjsfT “Some one had placed him enrap- about you, and act as you would If If the customers knew it, It would after Mr. Longworth Cincinnati’s NICHOLAS LONGWORTH III. and one had driven In make a thousand richest citizen, and to-day lives “Run Away and Play,” She Said aa port with the situation, af- any other customer up the hat business tj)ere_ She Floated, ternoon he lumbered up to where her brougham. times easier for all concerned. his son#u-law, Charles P. Taft, on* *' Miss Roosevelt was domiciled to pay "Well, I rushed to a mirror and ‘No, that Is too small,’ she said time representing the Longworth to Devoted to the Violin-—Hu Hare devoted to Miss Roosevelt. Mr. Ixmg- a on a She district in and a his compliments. He could cackle straightened my pompadour and when she tried turban. Congress half Ability as an Entertainer. worth did not fancy the a friendship little and his manners were rubbed the shine ofT and I ‘Hats are the brother of Secretary Taft, with English my nose, laughed. crowning was bora bit, and he showed It. Oh! he was Nicholas Longworth III., very Impressive. had no sooner done It than clang feature of a costume. I’ve heard so whose party Mias Roosevelt and Mr. jealous all In 1869 and enjoyed all the advan- right. “When he to leave he went the elevator and there she was. toured the Orient. got ready many persons say of a girl she has Longworth that.accrue to those who fall "There was a dance one night, tages lugged out a box In which there were Gracious, but I felt queer. I had such a distinguished air, so much 80 much for Introduction. Now for and the Frenchman and Mr. Long- heir tg thfge generation; of wealth several fine pearls. With great dig- been reading all about the American manner, when really all the girl ever of Nicholas worth had a sedate race to Miss the chjoulcle Lonjworth. ana two Of higher education and cut Princess that might have been queen did was to use common sense and In a riff old f>oo!T Sn Cincinnati, Roosevelt's side to beg the honor of ture. He was educated at Harvard, of the Sulus and all and hers a Instead the that, buy hats that were frame written by Cbarlea Cist, Queen course a dance. Longworth got there a lit- graduating from the classical as a girl that looked like her pic- of a caricature of her.’ City’s local historian, entitled '‘Cin- tle ahead, but Miss Roosevelt gave In 1890. He entered the Cincinnati tures In the paper, but didn't. She she cinnati In 1861, Mr. Cist, who was ber arm to the Count. 1 “When she took the elevator Uv School the same year, but fin- " was Just an everyday girl s historian and a friendly 'Run away and play,’ she said, looking ■nulled at me and said 'Thank you; quaint ished his legal training at Harvard. that might have come from Madison ner man, fond of his city and its people, laughingly, as she floated off with good mJrnfng, and T heard say- Two years were spent attending the or Lexington Avenue, no different had this to lay of that other Nicho- the Count. ing to Mr^; Vanderbilt: ‘Hats are Im- business affair; of £ls mother's es- from fifty young women I wait oo las Longworth eighteen years before "Longworth became Interested portant.- One saves so much money tate, and then he followed $he tun- every day until she smiled. without the present Nicholas was bm-n: in the prettiest girl at the party and If she happens to look better Her Smile. the p'S 2f. A‘» MsMi let Miss Roosevelt severely alone for Winning than with a hat.’ •'j^Jchoiaa Ixvngwojtft, pubject worth II., and kT pel It lei “She has a smile. etflparkej the rest of the night. They made up beautiful It must "And I knew she was thinking He was SbrnTnated a seat hi the have been when she smiled at him we Tpr the next day, though.” about herself, for while have the lower housJ of the Ohio Leglslaturf that Congressman Longworth first hats In she didn’t “Like most of the younger men ol prettiest town, in 1897, but that year his p4ffy went the wore thought of her as a rising sun. I'll need them, I’ve noticed that girls residence ever since, in May, 1804. party, Longworth white yfars later he was He once in down^to defeat. ‘Jwo ducks and flannels when we were bet it when she gave him some with pretty necks like hers, needing engaged at reading and “This Present of Pearls was more fortunate and was one of Is for the look as she me that he no that law In the office of in the hot climate going down such gave collars, are the sort, too, studying Judge who the Princess the Datto Said. the few on his ticket carried the Islands. He Longworth," matfe up his mind to propose. It's best without hats." Burnet, and after a briefer apace through liked to ^ook county. But his service In the a brilliant red he bestowed them such a kind, chummy smile and than would now be allowed by the sport necktie—the nlty upon Miss was not entirely satis- was Legislature reddest red I ever Roosevelt, and, over makes you feel in a second as though courts admitted to the bar. He saw—which did grinning all his BY JOHN MOULTON. factory to the leaders at home. He not tald: you were an old friend of hers that followed bis law practice until 1819, Bult the critical eye of Miss face, the of " preferred pleasures society Roosevelt. ‘For Princess Longworth.’ she thought a lot of. when he left the legal profession to Who to the hard grind of legislative la- “Someone must ‘Good morning.’ she said. ‘I Fitted Miss Roosevelt's Roots. newer or younger members. His "She frequently bantered him have put^hlm up bors, but he was returned to Colum- would like to look at the three suit “8ay you Just listen to mo. That and had about It and entreated him to take It to It. I suspected Taft." earnings savings been, dur- j girl of the President’s Is the best bus as a member of the State Senate. off. But he wouldn’t. hats Miss Roosevelt wrote about last : tbe period alluded to, Invested in make. No She knows During his term as Senator he re- “At BY MLLE. week. Are they ready?’ they Jokin’. lands and lots In and adjacent to Hong Kong she bought a tie LOUISE HELLIEKF,. ceived his first nomination for Con- how to treat an artist In my line. for “I gave her a chair the Cincinnati, under the conviction that herself, redder and more violent, facing and was elected. There Why, I’ve fit half the feet on Fifth gress easily if than Head at a Fifth cheval with her back to the no other investment of hts funds anything, Longworth’s. Lady Avenue glass, was even less trouble in a and I never was treated bet- obtaining “Red two the was Avenue, would prove so profitable. This may Isn’t especially becoming to Coutouriere’s. windows, where light re-election. ter than she treated me. seem Insufficient to account for her, but she put on the tie the next most flattering, coming through the Mees Roosevelt Is charmant. Ze "She me on Like his progenitors, Nicholas day and announced that she rose-colored curtains. We always complimented fitting amount of property he has since ac- Intended most made a hobby of one gracleuse American girl I have her feet and finer than any Longworth III., a to wear It until the old ladies or quicker cumulated from these investments, Longw'orth surren- met. I sell her place there, people \ He Is an five robes and It was one that ever did the That’s so. be of the finer arts. expert dered. He we want very much to Mias ; Job. but It should rememebered that weakened, and both ties as I have please. on violin and has though entertained my test And hers ain’t no easy foot to lit. for performer the were to the Roosevelt took the seat and tried on property here was held at low values consigned deep. friend a of his In this direction at cup tea and chat. she has about the highest Instep I of gratified tastes “We all got a scare at Jolo *>n the hats without a word, but with la early days, many his city lot ac- Vraiinent! She know the of one the finest what she wish ever see, and you could roll a rubber been made for by purchase count of Longworth. The youngsters that pleasant, chummy sort of a purchases having |10 and she wish nothing else but sat. Is ball under the arch of her sole. You Stradivarlus instruments In exist- were In the ocean one smile. She looked in them. or less each. bathing after- it not lovely to his attainments as right? Sairtenlee. It saves ze listen to what I’m tellin’ ye. She ence. Added noon and a newspaper man of the “One was a hat of dull ‘‘As an example of the facility time of ze traveling a musician Is a rare as an en- saleswoman, although if took twenty pairs off of us; six pairs ability name of O’Brien got caught In the gray, with stiff white wings. An- with which small amounts, compara- she be not so sure what she of walkin’ shoes—stout leather, tertainer that has won him many undertow. He tired and woyld other was a durk blue turban that tively, secured what has since be- quickly, was want we would sell those with whom ha her more what short vamp and military heel.” friends among being carried out to sea when suited her style Another come of enormous value, it may be Long-' she call substitutes. perfectly. comes in contact. He is a quick- stated that Mr. Longworth once re- witted and graceful speaker.