Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-08-13


by his order"
81 try to be conservative of right.
stand by the Order of Worth, Courage
and Loyalty to Freedom"
"Oh, there you go again into your
foggy metaphysics"
Again he came one day and said with
much concern, "My dear, | was dis
tressed to know from Skaats that your
fathers estate owned q third of the Red
Rover"
Why" she asked, with no concern.
Il was sure you did not know, or you
would be as much shocked as am. She
is in the slave tradel"
"Well. And l have often heard my
father call her tidy bit of property
and say she had paid for herself dozen
times"
He could not make her comprehend
his hatred Of this vile business, and his
contempt, as gentleman, for all tho
base subterfuges by which base people
tried to defend it.
The Red Rover fortunately did notre-
main a subject Of discussion. On that
very trip the negroes arose and broiled
the captain aud crew-and served them
right. Then, being used only to the
navigation Of dugouts, they omitted to
pump the vessel, whereupon she sunk
and the sharks had festival
With such divergence of opinion the
first year Of this propitious marriage
passed miserably enough. Yet there
was time when it seemed to the disap-
pointed husband and the defiant wife
that their love might revive.
In seventeen hundred and fifty-eight
Edwin Brothertoft. rich, aristocratic
and a liberal, the pride of the colony as
its foremost young man, was selected as
the mouthpiece of a commission to pre-
sent at home a petition and remon-
STRANGE. Such papers were flying freely
across the water at that time. Reams
of paper must be fired before the time
comes for firing lead.
SO to England went the envoy with
his gorgeous wife. They were received
with much distinction, as worthy young
Americans from Benicia and elsewhere
still are
"Huzzay" was the rapturous acclaim.
"They do not talk through rebel nosesr'
"Huzzay! 1t is English they speak,
not Wigwameew
"Huzzay The squaw is rs beautiful
as our fairest, and painted red and white
by cunning nature, not daubed with
ochers. Huzzayl The young sycamore
is an Adonis. He beats Chesterfield at
a bow and Selwyn at a mot"
Mrs. Brothertoft grew proud Of her
husband and grateful to him that he
had chastened her Billop manners.
What brilliant visit that wasl
All the liberal statesmen-Pitt,H Henry
Fox, Conway, mellifuous Murray-were
glad to do the young American honor.
Rugged DR.. Sam johnson belabored
him with sesquipedalian words, but in a
friendly way and without bullying. He
could be a good old boy, if he pleased,
with good young ones.
Young Mr.. Burke was gratifed that
his friend from a sublime and beautiful
hemisphere appreciated the new treatise
on the sublime and beautiful.
Young Mr.. Joshua Reynolds was fiat.
tered that the distinguished stranger
consented to sit to him, and in return
tried TO fiatter the portrait.
Young DR.. Oliver Goldsmith, poor
Bohemian, shattered in music and medi.
cine, came to inquire whether a clever
man, ont of place, could find his niche
in America.
Mr.. Garricz, playing Ranger, quite
lost his self possession when Mrs
Brothertoft first brought her flashing
black eyes and glowing checks into the
theater, and only recovered when the
audience perceived the emotion and
cheered it and the lady together.
That great dilettante, Mr.. Horace
Walpole, made the pair charming de-
jeuner at Strawberry Hill, upon which
occasion he read aloud with much ca.
| dence-as dilettante gentlemen continue
to do in orr own time-his friend Mr.
Gray's elaborate "Elegy in a Country
Churchyard," just printed. After this
literary treat Mr.. Horace said: "Tell
me something about that clever young
aid-de-camp, Washington, who got Iro
quois Braddock the privilege Of dying
in his scalp. A brave fellow that! an
honor to your country, sir"
MI. GOofBe oelWyui lue VIII, was also
guest. He looked maliciously out Of
his 'demure eyes" and said, "You for
get, Horny, that you used to name
Major Washington "a fanfaron,' and
laugh at him for calling the whiz OF
cannon balls a delightful sound. v
Whereupon the host, little abashed
laughed and said, Il wish such fan.
farons' were more plenty in the army
And the sparkling gossip did not relate
how he had put this nickname in black
and white in letter to Sir Horace
Mann, in whose correspondence it may
still be read, with abundance of Other
secondhand jokes.
What gay visit it was of the young
pair in that brilliant moment Of Eng,
landl
While Brothertoft, in the intervals OF
urging his petition and remonstrance
discussed all the sublime and beautiful
things that are dreamed of in philosophy
with Mr.. Burke, while he talked ari
with Mr.. Reynolds, poetry with Dr.
Goldsmith and de omnibus rebus with
DR.. Johnson, his wife was holding lit