Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-01-29
Mary ChawOrth's Husband.
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from me o. LOUIS RepGbttcGIl.
One Of the best-known citizens of 81. L1Iiz
happens TO be native OF Nottingham, VIII .re
lie resided until the age of a. and from tli :
reliable source we derive the few, but amp Y
sufficient facts, concerning Mr.. Musters. Our
informant, then an urchin of 10 or II, was
bathing in the little stream which runs
through the town when horse aud two or
three carriages were seen approaching along
the London road. There comes Byron's fl-
neral!' shouted his companions, and hurry
ing on his clothes he rushed off TO a oOnven-
ieDt spot and watched the dismal train pa :
by. He afterwards saw the corpse lying in
state In the great room in the Red Lion in +,
and thinks now, though ne did not then,
that 1t was something to have looked upon
the dead face of "Childe Harold's Pilgrim
age" His acquaintance with Mr.. Musters
commenced at later day, when that gentle
man was perhaps IS years old. Even at this
rather advanced period he was magnificent
specl men OF physical manhood. Tall, ele-
gantly formed, graceful in every move
inert, with strength almost Herculean, and
"a tongue that could charm the birds out OF
the trees" Jack Musters was known the
country round as the best rider, the best
lumber. the best dancer and the best pugilist
the Nottingham region could produce Even
now, II is said, The ruStics point out to stran-
gers the different spots In the neighborhood
where the redOubtable Jack, mounted On his
thorough bred hunter, made tremendous
leaps never matched before or since. Our
Nottingham reporter visited Annesley often,
and OIL one occasion was admitted into Mr..
Muster's bed room. The dressing-room was
fairly loaded with the paraphernalia of the
toilet-pomade, oil, rouge, powder, etc. -
showing that the veteran beau knew how to
repair the ravages or time, and had the ma
tefial TO do 1t with always at his elbow
But the most singular feature of the apart
ment was what might be termed the fortiti-
cations. The windows were projected by
huge iron gratings, and the doors had more
locks than an ordinary prison cell. 1t was a
regular citadel, in fact, from which the oc-
cupant could not be dislOdged without a
siege; Why should John Musters go into
he afraid OF? These questions can be ans
wered briefly and satisfactorily. The
husband of Mary Chsworth was as
internal scoundrel as ever walked the
earth. He had committed almost every
crime in The calendar, except, perhaps, high
way robbery and murder. He was a notO-
rious rou, and had given half the husbands
and fathers In the vicinity ample reasons 10
hate him with a deadly hatred. He had
horsewhipped his own wife. and SUBJECTED
her TO outrages compared with which morse
whipping was the teDderest kindness. No
wonder, then, that this devil in human shape
crawled into an impregnable fortress at
night. The wonder is that even this precau-
tfOn saved him from the fate he so richly
merited. But it did save him; for the last
time our informant saw him, he was in ad-
mirable preservation, arrayed in scarlet and
top boots, on the back of a superb horse
which he sat like centaur, galloping
through the archway that led TO the court
yard OF Annesley hall. He died quietly in
his bed, not many years yea later.thereby
lsins are born TO be hanged. Such was the
husband of ByrOn's Mary.
DIR. MCCosH ON MANLY SPoRrs-I know
how my Concentrating fathers acted 200 years
ago In my native country. In the opening of
"Old Mortality" Sir Walter Scott desert oes
shooting match popinjay, and represents
the cOvenanting ministers as denouncing 1 {.
The great historian, DR.. McCrie, reviewed
SCOTS tale and quoted the case OF q Presby-
terrain minister who happened, in the dis
charge OF his parochial duties. to be passing
that way, going up To pOpinjay match and
taking The prize! An ancestor of my chill
cren through my wife, William Guthrie, au-
settled I'm very wild parish. Finding the
people playing at foot-bal instead OF going
10 church, he threw himself into the same,
and outstripped them all, and when they
came up TO him at the close and asked hi m
who he was, he said he would tell them IL
they wentintO the church, where he preached
sermon that conquered their hearts.
hope i have Inherited the spirit OF these
men, who did not contemn manly exercise,
but were ready to lay down their lives 70
Christ at any moment / encourage all
sorts OF manly games at the college, but
make sure that there be no drinking, no
gambling joined with them, and that they
be not done in study bours. / believe that
thereby promote healthy morality. / take
pains, meanwhile, TO meet every student
twice week for Bible instruction.
THE principle of frying is "to scorch some
thing solid in oil or fat" To do this il is
necessary that the fat be In such condition
as 10 scorcb Whatever is put in to ft; for il the
substance fried does not burn, IL must soak