Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1889-11-28


from their parents by their own diso-
bsdient impulses or the powerful sim
ister influence Of man, or it may have
been the childish beauty Of Eunics
Howton, his distaat relative, which
doomed her to become the bishops
wife when she should be old enough
10 receive his orders and not bring
the laws of Pennsylvania down upon
his head. The bishop bided his time
Ennice was hardly fifteen. . slen-
der. gray-eyed blonde, whose feet,
touch the ground as they would,
turned into lisies Of grace. and music
|.s~rsxi 10 be rlayine - she waIksd
or moved, 10 such harmonies did she
bend; while in the action Of her head
upon her delicate neck and even in
the motion of her lips there appeared
to be violin music whistled by her
spirit as the upland zaphyrs played
upon it and her heart desired 10 dance.
The country people said that this
was because her mother had been an
actress and dancer.
Somewhere back in The undiscerned
past and vagueness of e larger world
it was said that Bishop Howton had
been q show manager and that his or
phan cousin had married French
dancer who was in his strolling com.
pany.
This cousin had been left to Gar
rick. who had kept him down and
nearly starved him, repressing his
spirits by an avarice and superstition
which lay across each other, and f.
nslly retired Garrick from the show
bu siness complete failure. whilst his
ward, set free by matrimoDy, made a
nice little fortune keeping dancing
academy with his wife.
When the parents died something
of the husbands inherited tenets
caused him to repent, though he had
never done anything bad, and in the
weakness of dying he gave bis child to
his relative to be- her trustee and the
trustee of a respectable little fortune.
The poor dancing teacher thought
the word "bishop" covered regener.
ate heart.
The bishop was merely capitalist
in marriage fees.
Some of the boys called him Old
Yoke-f.noki, because he yoked 90
many couples.
What education he had picked up
svarice and illiterate associations had
chased out Of bis head; like an old
country Dutchman, he could spell
joists for his barn joyce and talk about
the breechman on his horse when he
meant breeching.
This is considered reasonable hu.
mility.
As time advanced Garrick grew
deeply in love with Eunice, and for.
got TO give spiritual restraint to his
son.
"At seventeen sharp" old Garrick
Howton often repeated 10 himself,
looking at Eunice with the threefold
passions Of love, avarice and supersti.
ton,
Often when an old man falls in love
it seems to him like holiness, when it
is only foolishness.
In that way Garrick threw himself
back into his natural state, before he
became ar avaricious scoundrel, or a
self.frightened hypocfite. He got to
believing in the religion he practiced
upon. He feared night solitude and
ghosts. He believed that his mon
strous passion was a sacrifice on his
part for the sake of securing Eunice's Q
soul.
II should be the devils prize with
ont her." mused Garrick Howton.
"The children I have tied in wedlocks
of despair, the uniformed souls have
manacled to selfish fsnds, the head.
strong schoolgirls I have made the
legal slaves Of hideous skiufints, and
who have in a few months awakened
to everlasting repentance and horror.
would troop into my lonely home
amongst these mountains and drive
me crazy with their curses. should
go mad But Eunice, Eunice, she
will guard my door and warm my
heart and bring other angelo like her
from Heaven to my relief"
II was plain that the bishop was
becoming slightly hesterical.
Weasiey Howton had been notified
by his father that he must 20 West
and establish his own congregation of
the Zionskites.
He was sent to the garret to study
the discipline and Scriptures.
One day Eunice stole up into the