Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-08-28
HOBART PAsHA's ROMANCE.
A Dying Comrades Request-An Old
Soldiers Care for an Orphan.

Dying Comrades Request-An Old
Soldiers Care for an Orphan.
Hobart Pasha, as the papers told when
the story of his death came across the
wires was the fourth son of the duke of
Buckingham and distinguished naval
officer bafore he entered the sultan's
service aid rose to Mohammedan honors
and dignities that no Christian had ever
before obtained.
During the early part OF his career,
while he was still in the English service,
a brother officer of his was so severely
wounded that the surgeon announced to
him the mortal nature of his injury. The
dying man sent for the future pasha, to
whom he was greatly attached, and con-
fided to him a secret. He had married
girl who was of rather humble parent
age, and because of his family's opposi-
ton the marriage had been kept con-
cealed and the girl rested under stigma.
A child had been born to them before he
left England, and now that he was about
to die he was anxious that it and its
mother should be righted in the eyes of
the world. Complications as to its proof
had arisen by the death Of witnesses, but
he trusted to his friend Hobart to repair
his fault IF you will pledge your honor
for the truth of the marriage" he said,
the world will believe you, and you will
believe me when | swear to you that il
is So"
When Hobart, now becomes Turkish
officer, returned to England, he under
took to.comply with the request of his
dead FRIEND but the young mother,
under the weight Of her grief and the
equivocal position she occupied, had fol
lowed her husband, and the dead mans
relatives, when he at last discovered the
child refused to acknowledge it. Moth
ing was left to him but take care of the
little orphan himself, so he accepted the
charge with what grace he could muster,
and when he left England, as he did soon
after, he placed her at famous school
for girls in the isle of Wight, where SO
many English women of rank have got
ten their training and education.
Then he went back to his duties and
thought no more about her except to
send an occasional letter full of good
advice, with boxes of Turkish sweet
meats and trinkets. When she was II
years old, he got letter from her full OF
passionate misery and stained with tears.
Some girl enemy had discovered the
mystery about her birth and tainted her
with it, and she wanted him to come and
take her somewhere, anywhere, away
from girls who were cruel. So the
tender-hearted old soldier put himself
aboard the next steamer for home, and
got his little protege, though what he
was to do with her he didn't quite know.
She was young, she was pretty; she chung
to him with tenderest gratitude and love,
and the hearts of even bronzed, gray
mustached old soldiers are not proof
against that, and so, as that, after all,
seemed the quickest and simplest solu-
ton of the trouble, and they both wished
it, they were married. And now, at 80,
she is left to mourn the loss of one of the
most brilliant and daring commanders
England ever produced. Here are. all
the materials for three-volume ro-
nance, with Turkish coloring ready
made, and with the advantage of being
strictly true.-New York World.