The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-11-07

MA" rs often n occasion required. Hon,
politics were, on the contrary, a might,
occasion OF words. and blows, especially
when they touched local interests, ant
election times wero h%alf.carnival half
PandCmonium. The h%untirs.aeld wa!
Elyaium, literature nowhere, and tn,
feudal system, with all lis sins that now
no doubt, we have expunged. and Its deal
old kindly virtue that We still regret, wa,
carried out In some OF Its most carolina
points on large and small estates alikc
Ecclesiastical matters troAbled nabod,
much, -uot even the parsons, and drinking
was conducted on liberal, not to say lavish
principles.
TO that species and those days, then
belonged Humphrey, carrying on the tra'
ditions OF his fathers with unswcrving
faith, but stamping his own individually
none tho less on his tenure oil power, al
Boutwell, Hall. lie was tho only o 0!
his parents, and priced and spoiled &c.
cordiDsly. His fathers eyes g~listened
with pride US he tossed the Handsome boy
on his shoulders for n visit 10 the kennel
and the servants mud laborers on the estate
We'd with each other to abct his whims
and to initiate him into the mysteries,
legal or otherwise, Of those field sports So
dear to The hearts OF Erltoas.
1t wls hard to suy whether the Squire
punished himself or Humphrey most
when at last the lad was sent to school,
but certain quiet influence, OF which we
have yet TO speak, wns III longer-to be re-.
sisted, and In the doubtful hope that
Master Humphrey might now be induced
for the first time In his lilo 10 sit quiet at
his books for bulf m holr, be was sent to
Harrow. aud the echoes OF home were
silent to his merry laugh and boyisll
shouts. Every II missed and regretted
him; tho Squire on his return from escort.
Ing the boy to his new abode drank guam.
titles OF bottled ale and port.
But Humphreys parting words to his
father had been, "BG sure 10 tell mamma
TO write to mo often, and to write p|ain,
and tell her | won't furget to try to be a
good boy"
This mother Of Humphreys gaye him,
as mothers often DO. and, alas, often do
not, his first idea OF excellency in woman.
Her beautiful oval face, the regular Tea.
lures Of which lo inherited, was to him
more sacred than any Of the Madonnas.
Calm, undetermined, unselfsh, loving,
she was spending herself dcvoicdly for
husband anlGon, and fulfilling all her du-
ties faithfully and ~unobtentiousiy. Con-
tent with the ayc in which shc lived, she
yet wished that her boy should rise above
it, DO more cultivated, more fit 10 be the
master Of othcru..
For the destiny OF the ypung life of
Humphrey size felt she stood in part re-.
sporsiblc, and that from her training his
first bias must of necessity be taken: Per-
haps it would seem from the foregoing
picture Of Humphreys boyhood that she
succeeded but ILL bit many other iniin-
ences, and some harmful enough, were at
work on him: prerindulgence, N~attery,
and surrounding license,
Hut let those who think she failed, re.
member this; Humphrey to the emil OF
hls days could scarcely speak her name
with clear VOICE and dry eyes; lie never
asked pardon Of an offended Maker With
ont feeling he had sinned also against her
who had taught him SO much better. lie
lneyeF gaayc up the hope that in his wife
he might meet again her rare sweet good.
Hees EHl wise waysi never until in his
married days the bag disappointment re-
vealed her 'hi!eous shape and pointed the
road to Despair.
Humphrey was left master Of himself
aud IiotLweil Hall Mt m early a.o, Tor the
Squire and bis wife both died premature.
~; and by the time no attained his mn,
jorisv the loss OF his parents had become
an ousgsown grief, uncanaected will, the
present, although ,ondprly lonorel In ro.
mcmhElnce. Tie hatchrncnt was down,
the flags G; rejoicing were up, and it takes
but n few years 10 mako up Il lon. a.o ri
twenty-onc.
TT. Va. 6 b,nd.oro ana no,1
man.onI Win no n],r,icn III Wac ,u n,rs
scllor al his side to keen him in cheek Il
way small g,otic.r Tint 10 inH Il conf Soai
In love with lila forinno md himscli
Warm hearted by nature. ;ntny;c,t.J Nv
the rare atmosphere he brea,hcd on III
heights OF youthand pleasure he thon.ht
in, and liberty nor;ection.and meant 10 "a
ALWAYS we'll: Wien 10. iirsl r,mn nnn s,;o
ard sIidc. and then anolInr anJ he fornt
hc did III inslpu1 al well. he i,;r i,o;Hh,s
had been proiaYed and he good infen.
iIons we're not 30 easy 10 carry ont
THAI beginning wa; only .9o ],ynic,l If
h;s own Bachelor career, His Wa csson.
tial.y shining and %reuen,inr nature liza
tho oli cnu;rc's lrfnra him Int ,he nas.
sions Of tie son ran deeper than, those Of
tia father. lie oouId not, sin and rnnent
or love and lament In moderation. and
s;nre ,ride and shrpess maJe him reser,.
ed aSout his feelings. in site Of his nnn,.
lar;ty thc storms within lin Allan ln;t
snen, and shattered and lis In, a iimre
went on. waa not ycry la,ny. lint he had
not FORGOTTEN his moih:r nn,i nj.
wars meant IN marry soron ono
who should be m~arvellously like her,
and make the old hall again the
happy, orderly hom.'o:' hi5 chiLlhaol.
And now that he was we'll over thirty he
would probably have soon made choice Of
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