The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-07-11
No. 80 berkeley square.

The house Is not without traditional
interest, for it was in the last century
the scene of a romantic elopement. It
was then the residence Of Mr.. Child, the
opulent banker Of Temple Bar, who had
an only daughter, the heiress of his
enormous wealth. The Earl of West
moreland paid attentions to the young
lady, but his suit was not encouraged by
her father, who wished his daughter to
marry younger son, and form a new
family, which should perpetuate the
name of Child. Nothing daunted, Lord
Westmoreland determined to make a
clandestine marriage at Gretna Green.
In order to make good the heroine's es-
cape it was necessary to evade the vigil
ance of her duenna, who slept in the
room through which that of the heiress
was approached. So the old lady's posset
was drugged, and she slept the sleep of
the just while her young charge slipped
out into Berkeley square, where Lord
Westmoreland was waiting with his
travelling carriage. But, unluckily, in
their eagerness to be off, the fugitives
left the front door ajar, and the watch
man coming round soon afterward
| alarmed the house.
The flight was discovered, and Mr..
Child, ordering out his carriage, set forth
in pursuit. All night long and all next
| day the angry father raced his Grant
daughter, and, as they neared the border,
he began to gain on the fugitives. Then
Lord Westmoreland drew his pistol and
shot Mr.. Child's leader dead. The victory
was won, the chase was over, and the
Young couple were duly married by the
blacksmith. Meanwhile Mr.. Child re-
turned in high dudgeon to London, and
made a will leaving all his wealth, over
his daughters head-not to her sons, for
so he would have enriched the earldom
| of Westmoreland-but to her eldest
daughter. Thus the principal interest
in the great banking house passed to
Lady Sarah Sophia Child Fame, who
married the Earl of Jersey and was the
grandmother Of the present peer. She
was for fifty years one of the best known
figures in the society Of London, and is
graphically described by Lord Beacons
field in ''Endymion," under the name OF
Zenobia. Lord Jersey sold the house tc
Lord Roseberv. -Murray's MAGAZINE.
Conquest Of the Smoker.
The following little incident is worth
noting as arising out Of great changC
In natlOnal custom
Scene-A railway carriage, occupied
by an enormous man smoking cigar
with which he makes the atmosphere re
semble the Strand in a November fog
and a thin. nervous person, with a bag
of sandwiches. Says the latter: 81 be-
your pardon, sir, but will it incommodt
you if l venture to eat?' The former
with gracious wave Of the cloud givin:
weed: mot at all"
Twenty or thirty years ago this woulC
have looked like burlesque. Then tn
smoker had only a bare federation afford
ed him. He was not allowed to indulg
his favorite propensity even on the plat
form Of a railway station, but wa
warned off by placards, which may still
be seen at some stations. The accom-
mediation provided for him was poo
and scanty, and woe betide him if h
4 ventured to take any liberties in prohib
I 5bed places. Now he has things all hi
own way To his supreme will an
pleasure the misguided persons who d.
not smoke must conform, and whereve
friends meet arrangements are made 70
his convenience, while even those stronl
minded ladies who assert their right
to attend public dinners and othe
functions heroically endure rather tina
protest against the once detested fumes
This is nice for the smoker, who woul
go to few dinners if deprived of whs
Prince Bismarck has called the deliciou
seventh course.-London Globe.