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Show ICPFEftaON'S LOVC AFPAIrf' lIHen at llr.1, II. , ,.,, ,,. "If wllli VVM.w. In a speech delivered st tho earn-mencement earn-mencement of the university of Virginia. Vir-ginia. Col William Lamb gave this In-trtlng In-trtlng sketch "Jetterson had Ills unpleasant rtmlaiacfucea of his alma ntr. Although he was a tall, thin, flued youth with ted hair, angular features and freckled faee. ho fell dee-Pratly dee-Pratly In love with Ittbecen llurwell. young girl of fine family, famous beenty lnd 1.1(1, mtelllf enra, a type or those women In that portion of the old dominion white Influence woe honnd-' honnd-' tbe ra that l the shore. Wberi the smiled on him ho waa the hsppleirt boy within the sound of tho college bell. he nave him a watch I Picture, whleh he regarded a more promt than bis birthright. Its loss I canted hlin agonising grist. Ilo writer) I to his old friend l'ge. afterward gov-i gov-i "nor nt Virginia, from college: 'The cure.l rats ate up my iioeketbooh within a foot of raj head nnd carried wy my silk garter. Of this I would not have avucd the devil, for rats will be rats, but something worte happened. It reined all night. When I went to bed I had my watch In Its usual place. In lbs morning I found It In tho same Plsce. Hut quantum mutntu nb lllol Alt nlloal in water, let In at n leak In the roof. Now there wero n thousand of other spots which It might have chanced lo Irak a well a this one. Hot It Is my opinion Ibnt tho devil came and Iwred n hole over It on purpose pur-pose Well, my poor watch lost her speech, l should not have csred much for this, but tho water got Inttdo the watch rate, and destroyed the priceless picture, and I would havo cried bitterly had It nut been beneath tho dignity ot a man.' Poor fellow, after all hla wild devotion bo was Jilted for n handsome rollego swell. Whereupon ho wrote ngsln to lilt friend. '1 nm sure the man who powders moat, pcrfums most embroider most, and talks most nontente Is mott admired; but some l"v too good sruro to esteem such nionkey-IIko anlinnlj as thete, In wbust formation Iho tailor and barbers gc hnltcs with (ho Almighty.' He In vltcs J'aga o nke n trip with him tc l.urope lhat would last two or three mre, and writes 'If we should nol Loth be cured of lovo In that time, I J" nk tho devil would bo In It,' llul this disappointment In love did nol provo a perpetusl frost upon his alfee .."..' ln qlle tlmB ' ft'l I" lo lln the charming widow Martha Ukel ton, nnd tho union proved a peculiarly happy one, and for many )ears she was the source or the greatest domestic 'Ulrlty. It Is quite a coincidence, II not a consolation to us ordinary mor-tsls, mor-tsls, lhat Jefferson, like his Illustrious contemporary. Oeoryo Washington, tho father of his country, although sa great and first In so many thing, vn not first In everything, for they both inrj-rled widows, and had to be satis-ned satis-ned with warmed-over affections, how. ever sweet and precious." |