Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-06-20
THE STORY OF A YOUNG ENGLISH.
MAN.

| custom OF the time, sent 10 lnuid
rs an officer in the English army,
then engaged, as now, in assisting
the British merchant TO plumber India.
He was brave, gamy young fellow, as
English noblemen always are, but he
distinguished himself quite as much by
the ease with which he threw away
money i'm all sorts of extravagances as he
did by his services, and he always did
his duty and more than his duty. He
was half English and half Irish, as hand
some as Prince, as liberal as-well, az
an Irish gentleman, and more devoted
lover of pleasure never lived, or a more
thoughtless spendthrift.
A few years Of India satisfied him, and
more than satisfied his father, who got
tired of cashing drafts for enormous
amounts, knowing that no young fellow
could spend such sums OF money in any
legitimate way.
lie was brought home and sent to Aus
tria, where his uncle was Field Marshal
in the Austrian service, and high in
favor with the Emperor. He was made
Captain in the Austrian service, and
the title of Baron was conferred upon
him, making him noble in two coun-
tries.
The young Baron preferred Vienna to
India, for two reasons: The uniform was
more striking, and the facilities for
spending money more extensive. lie
plunged into all the gaieties of the Capt.
tai at once; not gradually, but with a
plunge. He struck out more extensively
than ever, and il there was an cxtrava-
gance or folly that India had not taught
him he found able instructors in the
officers of the Austrian army stationed in
the gayest Capital of Europe. He threw
money right and left, before him and
behind him. lie kept horses. He gave
dinners, and made the entire circle of
extravaganccs In four short years he
had accumulated debts to the amount of
f30, 900 (s125,000!
His eminently conservative and re-
spectacle father in England objected to
this sort of thing-fathers are always un.
reasonablc-and his uncle, the Field
Marshal, did everything in his power to
restrain him, but all to no purpose.
Then the father came to Venice and
sent for him. He explained to him that
an expenditure ut the rate of Sl25,000 in
four years would bankrupt any estate on
Garth in the course of time and that that
sort of thing must come to sudden end
ing. lie further set forth that while the
title belonged to him, as the eldest son,
the accompanying estates, which were a
necessary adjunct, were not entitled, and
that he, the father, could dispose of them
by will, rs he choose. That he preferred
the estate to go with the title, but that il
he persisted in his present course he
would, as certain as fate, disinherit him,
and divide them among the other chill
dren. He then presented the wild young
son with n carefully drawn paper, a
promise to conduct himself something
like prudent man, especially pledging
himself never to incur another penny of
debt, the penalty affixed being loss of the
property, and the old gentleman assured
him that this was his last opportunity,
that he must decide now what to do, and
that this decision must be final.
The son signed the promise, vowed all
sorts of amendment, the father gave him
his blessing and departed for England.
The SON returned to Vienna, and in n
week run in debt $4,000. He had been
compelled to be moderate while he was
with his father in Venice, and he wanted
to make up for lost time.
That determined the father, but there
happened to be mother in the case. She
made one effort for her son which resulted
in transferring the Captain to little sta
ton in Hungary, where the temptations
of Vienna did not exist and where there
were no opportunities for debt and ex-
travagance. Then n marriage was ar
ranged for him after the English fashion
with the daughter of another good family,
and the family had hopes that after
SOLDERING down in the little Hungarian
village year or so, under the control and
supervision of a very strict commanding
officer, he would be reduced to the point
of marrying sober English girl, and re-
firing from the service and settling down
after the fashion of his people.
But fatality seemed to pursue him.
In this Hungarian village was Hunga-
garian notary, who had daughter beau
tiful beyon compare. She was of the
regular Hungarian type of beauty, 1.-THE,
slender, creamy, peachy complexion,
slender ut the waist, with delicate hands
and feet-everything, in word, that is
beautiful in womanhood. All the officers
at the post were crazy in love with her.
in fact, the fame of her beauty had gone
long way beyond the village of which
she was native and extended all over
Hungary, and she had offers from Vienna
and Pesth.
Probably because everybody i'm the
service wanted TO marry her our young
English-Irish Captain determined to, and
this in face of the fact that he knew his
parents had II wife already selected for
him in England. lie laid siege to her at
once, and the handsome young fellow
carried her by storm. Dueis by the
score were the result, but that was what
the Captain delighted in. For the sake
of this girl and the FUN of the thing, he
carved q dozen or moro Hungarian and
Austrian officers i'm the most approved
sty!c, for he was as skillful with weapons
~ no vas in love. With the impetuosity
OF his race lie Immediately married her,
drawing on her father for the $4,000
lInriDs necessary to deposit with the Gov
crnmcnt.
That settled the matter at home. The
rate father refused to see him, his uncle
was compelled to hint that his resignation
would he accepted, and he retired. His
father, gave him an allowance of G400
Il year, and he took his wife and settled
in another and larger village, where
- mcthing like decent life could be at
tanned on so small an allowance, and in
his house these lines are being written.
lie is now mature man of forty-cight.
tie has daughters as beautiful as their
mother was. her beauty living again in
talm he has SONS as gallant and hand
some as their father was, all in the Aus
trian service; and he, self.cxiled, lives n
sort OF lord over the village, for his in
come, small as il is, Is a very large one
in 70 poor a county AZ Hungary,
Is he happy and satisfied?
Many years ago there was an English
officer who came to the house of an emf
ncnt surgeon and demanded to have his
leg amputated.
ii will not" said the surgeon, There
Is nothing the matter with your leg"
at matters not--l want the right leg
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