The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-08-18
H Debt Of Honor.

Many year9 ago, when had but lately achieved the dignity of repre- senting East Wamstead in the Con- servative interest for the first time, my attention was attracted by the name of the Liberal candidate for a manufacturing town in one of the midland counties. I wondered sev- eral times W hcther this Richard Ath- erstone could possibly be strange fel- low who had been at Balliol in my time, some eleven or twelve years be- tore; lunatc with beautiful soul; |; an impracticable, hot brained enthu- siast, with n guileless belief in all sorts of claptrap; the liberty, equal ity and tratrrnity business, and 80 forth and no less childish and vehe- ment abhurrence of all established forms.
 He hat rGed certain patronizing respect [. na.l most of us.by the sincere but hopelr>~ forts with which he en- deavored to carry out his theories Cor principles. Us he would have called them) in every day life. He once in- vited all ,he college scouts to wine party in his rooms, but could never afterwards be induced to refer to this entertainment, which we gathered from the gloom that seized him when we approached the subject, and from the voice of rumor, to have been of a painful and disastrous nature. It is certain that he quilted the best rooms in the college shortly after this event and retired into melancholy lodgings fA ho1t h, portunate familiarities of the scouts who had partaken of the hospitality
 He used to take walks with a drunken Radical cobbler, whom he declared to be splendid fellow, and who was always borrowing money from him. He was cheateu and i'm. posed upon every day of his life; but every day seemed only to render hin more guileless and confding prey for the human crows to gather around
 But at last one idea took complete possession of him, to the exclusion o all the rest; and he left Oxford sud. denly to lay himself and his property at the feet of the Orpheus whose pip, had set the mountains and trees O. Italy dancing after him, the rocks ani stones of selfish and indolent heart which had awakened with flash ts generous lifs in answer to the call.
 Even l can grow enthusiastic ove Mazzini. Young England was wilt about him then, and it was small won der that Atherstone was carried ava, altogether.
 About the same time Inchkeith, o Corpus, queer creature, full O crotchets and always in opposition t, every one else, went of and enlisted ol the opposite side, in the Austrian cav airy.
 Atherstone succeeded in bearin, along with him an Italian named Bel lamonte, whose mother was an Eng lishwoman, and who had matriculate at Balliol about two years befors seeming heartily glad to escape fror the redhot crater of Italian politics.
 He was older than the rest of us, an, had been married very young to charming lady of Austrian connec tions, who had found it expedient t persuade her husband to leave hi storm tossed country and visit hi English property. Being . wis woman, the contessa knew that tn best way of keeping her husband con tentedly in England until the storn should blow over ct home was to giv him plenty of interests here; 90 sh induced him to como to Oxford an, enter the university. Nor was this difficult task. Bellamonte was . fer vent Anglgmaniac at this time, an, almost indifferent to tho affairs of hi country.
 For some time all had gone well