The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-04-10

and purchased by Mir Corder, of Bir- mngham.
 Mir Corder was, or rather had been button manufacturer; not maker of all kinds of buttons, but a specialiSt--a manufacturer of smoked mother-of-pearl buttons
 For many years Mr. Cordcr had done badly in business; there had been no demand for smoked mothcr-of-pearl. Corduroy was worn only by cheap,jacks and velvetecn by gamekeepers, and smoked mother-of-pearl buttons go with corduroy and vclveteen as certainly as prmroses and peacoclis went with Lord Beaconsiicld, by inherent fitness. Now the cheap,jacks are dwindling in num- bers, and the gamekecpers are not many, consequently the market for smoked mother-ofpearl buttons was sluggish, till by freak of fashion d rage for wearing vclvctrcn came over the English people. ! The gentlemen wore vclveteen jackets and the ladies vclycteen gowns and bodies With the vclvctcen came in smoked mothcr-ot-pcarl as Il matter of course. The demand for buttons of this sort was great, and the factory was cn- gagged night and day in turning them
  l shecny lustres Mr Corler rapidly re- alih"d u fortune, and then sold his btsi- hess at the proper moment, before the fashion declined, and sold il aS though 1 the fashion for vclvetccn and smoked mothcr-oi-pcarl buttons was as certain of maintaining its place as the government of Mr. Gladstone, or as securely cstab lishcd as the church of England. Mr i Cordcr was now clear of business, and with very handsome fortune safely in vested He had an only child, d son, ] Mir. Charles Cordcr, young gentleman 1 of one-and-twcntY, good looking better 1 educated than his father, and very idle 1 Mir. Cordcrs great ambition was to have his son accepted by society as a real member of the order which stands SUI i prcme above trade. So MT Corder moved from mid England to Essex, away i from where his antccedcnts were known, and bought the mansion-housc of Dead i leigh, with the intention of settling there, and getting his son married into one of 1 the ariStocratic families of the nciyhbOr l hood. To accommodate himself to his new position he underwent several trans l formations. He had been accustomed to very shabby coats more shabby trouS- CTS, and most shabby hats; now he as sumed scrupulously smart, if slightly old-fashioned, habit He had been Il 1 Disscnter and Radical; hcnow became Churchman and Conservative
 Mir Corder had paid Deadlcgh fly ing visit to look at the house and learn something of the ncighborhood before he bought the place. When he came there on the completion of the purchase he was accompanied by his son IIeput up for few days at the Rose and l Crown till he could see that all was ready for his reception at the house. He had engaged servants bought carriage and horses, and hoped in month to be comfortably established in The Ycws," as his mansion was called. He had pur- chased the place with its furniture pie lures, and conServatorics. The turni- turc was old-tashioncd and poor, and the pictures of no value. When the To- cal solicitor, who had acted as agent for the late owner, handed over the keys to Mir Cnrdcr, the latter said, "rhe house is not in tirst-rate order. I'll have to do n lot to it.
 You see, sir said the lawyer, it has not been occupied for a long time
 Now that is amazing" observed Mir Corder;-"a large house, and commo- dious, one would have supposed it might have let for at least a hundred year
 There were drawbacks
 What drawbacks?'
 We'll, you see, in the first place, Dcadleigh is some distance from the railway
 But folk, a, would take Tho Vows would keep a carriage; so that don't count
 Then it is far from London"
 Not so far as Wcstmoreland or Corn wall; and houses let there.
 There is no shooting
 Every one don't shoot don't shoot
 Then, began the lawyer. and hesi- tatcd, and added tamely, there may be other things
 What other things?
 Oh nothing, nothing said the so- licitor looking uncomfortable
 "l'll tell you what said MT Corder not observing his uncasiness That house is full of odds and ends, and traps and dust. I'll begin with pretty clean sweep.
 The lawyer looked filrtively at him, his mouth twitched, and he said, half seriously, half jcstingly, " You must get rid of the ugly, dirty one
 '" don't take you said Mir Corder. opening his eyes wide. intend" he added, to have a good substantial sweep
 In the place of an unsubstantial sweep, observed the solicitor in low tone
 Nothing imperfect, unsubstantial with me Mir Corder went on. !" in- tend to r"papcr recurtan, and alto gether reiurniSh the mansion, after I've i had that sweep out spoke of.
 " The first thing is to have that sweep out
 Exactly said SO
 " But can Non lnit2 The hnusn would