Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-12
the best of his fellow-countrymen had

law of progress, the law of justice; the
land that first peopled her colonies with
her own children, that first explored the
seas and the wilds of heathendom, that
| first planted the roots of civilization in the
worlds remotest corners, that first gave
the savage the schooling of commerce. that
first gave him the standards of Christian
| life, aud the aspirations and possibilities OF
a future Of advancement, of happiness, and
even of greatness. Aye, and the land that
first sowed the fruitful seeds of moral and
material majesty In the soil OF our own be-
loved country, our second England, our
Greater United Empire of the people.
The banner of St. George it was that
fioated over the pioneer bands led by Fro
bisher, Drake and Raleigh over the Episco-
palian settlers in Virginia, over the Puri-
tans of Massachusetts, and the Quallers of
Pennsylvania. 1t was the thrilling tradi-
tons of Old England that nerved her chill
dyen, our fathers. to catch them up and
carry them on with glory undiminished and
| Increasing 1t was with an all-compelling
pride in the greatness of Great Britain
| that the founders and upholders OF these
| mighty states unhesitaUipgly adopted the
language, the laws, the literature, tho
| faiths, the customs, the traditions OF their
| old fatherland. We to-day, as a people,
| still breathe the very air OF England in
| Splre her thoughts, possess her birthright,
| share her aspirations. work out, with her,
| her and our common problems, progress as
| she progresses, suffer as she suffers, linked
| together by nature in the march to our
| common destiny-the destiny of the sure
| supremacy Of the Englfsh-speaking people.
| Why do we senselessly blink our eyes to
these inspiring realities2 Why sink our
| nobler selves down to the plane of miser-
| ably small professional stirrers-up of fac
| tional and geographical jealousies! Are we
| not strong men, strong enough in our ma
| tive American strength, moral no less than
] material, to stretch our patriotism wider
| than parish politics. ''What is great in pa
| triotism,' said one who gloried in his own,
| ''comes not from the love of ones country
| TO the exclusion of others, but from the for
getfulnesS of ones own self in the possess
sion of larger idea of humanity Mean
must be the soul of that man DE he who, in
whatever cline his lot be cast, is capable of
grudging the well-won tribute of pride and
affection for the motherland of his fathers.
Blarnaby and his wife resolved to live
their own ample life, rich with d ripe and
rare experience, apart from the iostling
footlight paraders, content in their own
suffciency saying little, thinking much,
amicably with all.
He thought it best to form silent part
nershlp with comparatively young man of
high standing who owned seat in the
Stock Exchange
But why delay over crawling detailss
Two more years had not passed, now five
in all since the string of disasters that had
driven HIM abroad, before Blarnaby's firm
had strobe right to the forefront of railroad
and mining tinanciers. His genius for
scheming, Terwilliger's practical explora-
ton and investigation, had carried every
thing before them. They were both of an
age, and had tastes and aptitudes alike
And the first million they made soon
courted and welded a second million, and
between them they made fine growing
family of millions that promised to occupy
all the spare mansions in Wall street and
build up a big millionaire colony again in
that colonial squatting- ground.
In his second year Blarnaby paid every
cent of his wiped-out debts, with interest
TO date, refusing the profered banquet, and
even declining to accept the service of plate
which the grateful creditors urged him to
allow them to present.
Il am not in society" he quietly re-
marked, land it would jar on my perfect
enjoyment of my own freside."
He regretted that Fotheringham's IN
doubted abilities had not been able to pre-
vent that gentleman'S second bankruptcy
during his absence in England. But our
hero did not conceal his disgust that the
creditors got little from their debtor but
the information that the $1,000, 600 they re-
ferred to- with suggestion that it rightly |
belonged to them, had been unfortunately |
settled on his wife that very day twelve |
months. |
Good Miss Bennison was the old friend |
with whom relations were renewed on the |
old terms. She always had had a sincere |
admiration for Blarnaby, and it had grown |
hundred fold when she learned how he |
faced the world afresh and single-haDded |
had conquered adversely. They had many |
genial chat about old times, and the good |
fortune of Genie, whom he was truly de- |
lighted to know was so happy.
Do YOU fail to guess what her happiness |
was2 Know, then, that within very few |
months of the marriage of Mrs. Shicksper |
and Mr.. Blarnaby, an equally interesting |
event took place in one of the fayorite |
churches in that quarter of wealthy London |
known as Belgravia. 1t was double we'd |
ding, which transformed Genie Dabchic Of |
New York into Lady Ponsonby Tyrwhitt of
Norman Castle, Sussex, and the Lady Els
peth Graeme, daughter of the Countess of
Ossulstone, of Catherwood Court, Cheshire,
into Mrs. Ettrick Shepherd Hogg of New
York and Newport, r. !. Much as she |
wished to drop her mere courtesy title,
Mrs. Hogg found it hopeless to induce her
American friends to address her otherwise |
than Your ladyship."
Lady Ossulstone's name was as if 1t had
never been, nor did Blarnaby go out of his
way to speak of MIR. Hogge.
The Tyrwhitts visited Miss Bennison !
every year. The good lady greatly wished
to bring them to meet Blarnaby and resume
old pleasantnesSeS, but Blarnaby always
declined, sorrowfully enough, but firmly.
I'm no longer desiring to be in society"
''But come as friendSl We care as little |
for society with its big S as you do
Nothing could move him. Besides. he
gave much time and thought to insure the
good bestowal of his large charities, work
which lay near to his heart and his wife's.
lie was getting oldish now, too, and pre-
ferred the company of his wife and a hand
full Of unpretentious old friends around his
cosy fireside.
One day in Madison square whom should
Mr.. and Mrs. Blarnaby meet but Sir John
and Lady Tvrwhitt- They met half way
along one of the narrow walks and there
was no escape. The Tyrwhitts were de-
lighted to catch their shy friends Moth
ing would do but Mr.. and Mrs. Blarnaby
should call upon them. Lady Tyrwhitt |
was so charmed to learn from Miss Benni-
son what he had been able to do for her
uncle Terwilliger, whose very existence
she had never known q hint all her life until |
auntie had told her last summer in England |
Blarnaby was not so skilled now as of old, |
d. perhaps he no longer cared to hide his
feelings.
My dear Lady Tyrwhitt, you must not
refer to that yet, beg of you. You know
but little, necessarily and that little must |
be imperfect; but time will reveal all that |
you will naturally wish to know. Let me
say to you. and 10 your good husband that |
am under a pledge to my old friend and |
present partner. Mr.. Terwilliger, to keep |
silent until he himself wishes to speak"
They understood the situation and the |
Rlarnahy hoo |