Litchfield enquirer., 1881-10-27
 
H1saLoHG-LosT BRoTHER.

S1t-tRNk .5siSE GA tIs4s@A%-E tA .tktEs 3 3-.ii..ti!..
 a,2 :, HIS LONG 1osT BRoTHEEsR. ,
 I have to begin with . stsssstruent which may
 shock such golden youth of the present sener-
 ston as may have old Hoolyer pointed out so iQT renenibef the time when he was . swell. His shirt. fronts cost him i've guineas each. aud he had set of studs and wais.c6at but. tons to match for every day" fh the month. Here golden youth will perhaps observe ; sWhO but cad would wear embroidered shia -fronts and 3studsF9sR R Fashions change. and we change with them, my young friend. It is afact that Old Hobiyer was swell ac- cordjng to Ahe social sumpluary glawsh aDd phfaseologyof the day in wbicis ne fl'arished.
 His people were in society; he was not bad
 looking he appeared to have plenty of money
 to spend, and nothing to do but to sm,lse
 great assiduity. h Never mind what soured him--or rs who, Yes, there was q woman in it. of acourse q
 perfectly good woman, who is responsible for his becoming the miserable, snuffy old tniser
 that you find him. There vas. another ws,-
 man, also of course, who fell into his life ss Q
 splash of mud might fall on his coat sleeves
 and could have been as easily brushed pf. son- | ly the other one was too good to see it in that light. and to innocent, Or-as l am writing sense--I had better say too ignorant to be
 taught better. Iris is not the only instance have known of life.wrecking done by these perfectly good wonien, for whom Christ
 is not sufficiently Christian. esaasa sis1e4sz
 f He wensAIause the language Of his order
 and his age -aa mueker! !sa One S0f the heaviest
 muckers known at that time in London 1; and
 then he went abroad 3sdHe disappeared. and
 his younger brother sailed for iudia in the first
 year of the Great Exhibition, theyear of peace (as we are told1 that Was the father of years of bloodiest war ,5the year 1851 .i.ea aostala The elder HOblyer. not quite yet sOld Hob lyer,p reappeared soon after the death of his
 father, which took place some time iu 1860 or
 61 and, in comparatively small town like
 Wyverden, there was 8 good deal of talk about him. h the first place, he was so changed in lace that it, was;difilcult to recog uize him ;k and in habits and manner he was not the same man at ali.d Some said that everything that he had inherited from oliis fatlier went to his creditors, and tbei moriga gees only refrained from selling Wysern Hall (where the family had lived fJr four genera tions) on condition that he, let it and paid them the rel.t 3 OuE the other hand, there was party that believed him to be actually rich,
 that be had turned miser, and invented a host of creditors to excuse his many acts of mean ness. They argded that . man who had been brought up as he was, who bad been saccus
 tomed for years to- indulge himself in every direction, would not turn into . careful scrap
 CT together of six -pences, and starve in a dirty little cottage unless son,e passion stronger
 than. that sof self-inda lgenee, had, csJnQuered
 and replaced it. The Willie 'Hoblyer of 1850
 would have spent his last zhaif cr0wn like a prince. He might have robbed on the high way for more when that was gone, but he eer taiuly would not have thought of saving auy of it. h ,sspi9fE Lsioyd Q zeve'..a sri 5aiA
 osTIne 1861 our nearest railway station was was at
 Bunson, four. miles of {they called it Wyver- den Roadl. and no one seemed to think we should ever cave one any nearer, except acer-
 tain M. Beaver, who bought a,slp of Iaad on each side sfthes river Flicts aud had ius,
 time to run up a row of houses s--Such houses ]!
 -on it, before the new railway people, came along with the new line, which now connects
 us with Steepletown. There is no other way of getting In except by making iong cutting or an expensive cutting or ap, expensive tun.s nel aadsoahs Beassrsoh half his land and his houses for about five time as much as the
 whole had cost him.i lt's 4e enti7Lss M .3 p Who was Beaver i.saWell, a good many thought that Hoblyerhwas Beaver. and that Beaver was myth. No one, but Hoblyer ever saw Beaver and he only saw him once for about half anhour, when Beaver appointed
 him as his agent Sso Hoblyer said5, and then
 vent abroad. This was why ss H0biyer lad been so hard on the. tenants His ainstruc, Htions1 were precise. aud he could n5t persuade
 his principal to after them in any respect
 Beaver would not answer a letter if there
 were anything about lowering rents or making
 repalrs in it. SO,a Hublyer of Wyyerden
 went about with 3 Canvas bag in his hand.
 and Q bottle of ink hanging to his rusty lapel,
 collecting three, and sixpences from the wives of bricklayers and railway porters, with moi
 unfrequenlly q brokers man at his elbow. IL
 was'a scandalandca shame, canShow If as
 people said, he was rich, what a shame ta grind the poor under the shield of that lie !!
 If he was poor p.an himself, as he said,
 what a disg:aceto his family to ply such a
 trade in his native town! Why couldn't he go somewhere else, and be mean and dirty where no one knew hini1s ! 3.D' 7'' s''''''
 Now this was not quite fair. because he had
 ne family at Wyyerden to be disgraced at
 least be had not at the time, when this was conimon talkg4 Aafof the othei ephase uf the conjecture, young Mr. Mbbetts of the bank ] who had not yet acquired that absolute 7reti' cenee about shop which his craft imposes, let
 out that, the renEs i question we're really and truly remitted through his firm every quarter to house at Frankfort for account Of M ! Beaver v.yts-r,F1 s ,'''' a'3s 1' 'S''
 Old HOblyer, and, years went on, people left of trying, and took him as they found
 him-a seedy old cTeature.s with hungry eyes.
 who lived apart, and frightened up when a kind word was saidto him He did not oftenf
 ons sfihs seepe ehasses s sssd ssd to shs be held
 near Wyverden,a and for four days cur town sOf Trainers, ipckeys betting men and booth keepers which, such meetings c,ngreeate. Fhefsvorteiu the principal event started at two to one on him., and 90 perhaps. it, is un-h T necessary tor me to observe that he was beat aen. Sa Three gentiemenwh had gone to the lcourse in q dog cart, took this 90 much to .heart or were 90 elated by it mo ssnalter which-that they drank soo much champagne. and'on the return journey upset their tran nearly opposite Old Hpbley' cottage. That Providence whichis assigned duty over el,ild. :. ron4 and dfunkesi men must hsye beena aegi
 gent op this occasion, as one of the trio tell out head foremost, and wasRery nearly Killed Fosi weeks he f1ickered between lite and aaeath
 under M I. d5 dHCablysrs ay roof and every one wss sur. sprised at the patient, \, almost womanlf care which ahe ol hunks sbest0weds alpossq eim. When he reeosered and left he, gave ksa 4.yer twenty bounds, and publicly declared tslsS, tue old man was regular trump. Andinaeedsby this time,ssEead deel of the dIslike toward him had diei pHts partly becsuse those who knew him in his better days had died out too. and
 partly because he was noi nearly as hard as hs -pafd tQ hs Eith ihe g Feppts. fonSo
 .SAboat sI. ksedtlIs Il ter thS event. a hand.
 some travelling carriage drove up to the Wy vernden iAfnis.s with asitawny individuall on the boz, who might have been aa prince but, swas q valct- valet to the inside passenger,a a dyspepticai ihdivitiual wrapped sup in furs, though ft was April, who Annoupded himself a EolOnel HoblYer. late resident at the court, lof bis highness the Rajat of Muskaiapore, in. sas sesyice cf her n'sjsst s Empress of h usA:d g bsM bse6 .siIt.a bisS oos sfsssfsiass svrYon see now, young gentlemen, that I have. gQf down to Y0Ilr ON Ii fifneAal.I hlsl.Ga snee