The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-03-05
HIS LONG-LOST BROTHER.

Hnlcn may SHOCK suoH soieeh S"
present generation MS may have had va
Hoblyer pointed out to them.
4 / remember the time when he was a swell
His shirt fronts cost him five gulnehs each'
and he had a set Of studs and waistcoa'
buttons to match for every day IN the
month. Hero golden youth will perhaps
observe, "Who but a cad would wear en-
broidered shirt fronts md studs!' tHsh'
ions change, and we change with them my
youna friend, 1t is r fact that Old Hob
LIVER was o swell according to the SOCIAL
sumptuary avs and ph'aseoiogy OF 'hs
DAYS in which he flourished. Ills people
were in society; he was not bad LOOKING; NC
Appearsd to have plenty of money to spend
md nothing to do but amuse himself. Inns
business he performed with great assiaul'y.
Never mind whas soured him--or VINO.
Yes. there was a woman in It. OF CO" rs; II
perfectly good woman. who IL respohsioAe
FOR his becoming the miserable snuity olu
miser that YOU find him. There was
another woman also. OF course VINO te!l
into his life as a splash of mud might 1ali
onto his coat sleeve and could haTs oeen as
easily brushed off, only the ot1er one was
too pood to see it in that light, and too in
nocent. or--as I am writing sense-l haa
better say too ignorant to be Taught oetter.
This is not the. only instance have Known
of lite-wrecking done by those perfectly
good women for whom the Chriss Is mol
sufficiently Christian.
He VENT use the language of his order
and his aee--a mucke,! One of the heav-
lest muckers known at that time IN Lon
don: and then he went-abroad. he dlsap.
peared. and his younger brother sallea ioF
India in the wear Of the first great exhibit
ton. the year of peace Gas we are toldl that
was the father of years of bloodlest war;
the year 1851.
The elder Hoblyer, not quite yet "Old
Hoblyer," reappeared soon after the death
of his father. which took place some time
in 1860 or 1861. and in a comparatively
small town like Wyvs,nden there was a
good deal Of talk about him. In the first
place he was SO changed in face that it was
difficult to recognise him; and in habits
and manners he was not the same man at
all. Some said that everything he had
inherited from his father went to his
o. editors, md the MORTGAGES only
refrained from selling Wyve.n Hall
(where the family had lived
for four generations) on condition that he
let it and paid them the rent. On the
other hand there was a party that believed
him to be actually rich, that he had turned
wiser, and invented a host of creditors to
excuse his many acts of Ihoy
argued that n man who had been brought
up as he was, who had been accustomed for
years to indulge himself in every direction.
would not turn into a careful aeraper to-
little cottage, unless some passion stronger
than that of self-indulgence had conquered
and teplaced 1t. The Willie Hoblyer OF
1850 would have spent his last half-crown
like a prince. He might have robbed on
the highway for more when that was gone,
but he certainly would not nave thought OF
saving any OF II.
In 1861 our nearest railway station WAS Mt
Bunson, four miles off (they called it Wy
yernden road), and no ons seemed to think
we should ever have one any nearsr. eXcep:
n certain M. Beavst, who bought u slip of
land on each side of the river Flick. and
had Just time to run up a row of houses
such houses!-on it before the new railway
people came along with their chains and
dumpy levels to lay out the new line which
connects us with Steepletown. There was
no other way of getting in except by making
n long cutting or an expensive tunnel. and
90 nj. Beaver sold half his land and his
houses for about five times as much as the
whole he'd cost him.
Who was Beaver? Well, q good many
thought that Hoblyer was Reaver aud Bea,
yer YVES a myth. No one but Hohlver ever
saw Beaver, and he only SAW him once fol
about half HI hopr, when Beaver appointed
him his agent ESQ hob!yer said, and theu
went abroad. This was why Hoblyer had
TO be 80 hard on the tenants. His instGuc,
lions were precise, and he could not psr-
suade his principal to alter them in any re.
speet. Beaver would not answer q letter il
-, nL&-k ~-a ,-. -,
making repairs in it. So Hoblyer Of Wy
vernden went about with q canvas bag ir
his hand and a bottle of ink hanging tc
his rusty lapel, collecting three and-six,
pences from the wives of bticklayerl
and railway pofters, with not uafre
quently a brokers' man at his ell
bow. IL was a scandal and
shame, anyhow. If, rs people said
he was rich, what q shame to grind thu
poor under the shield of that lie, If h
wore a poor man himself, as he said, wha
a disgrace to hig family 10 ply such & trad
in his native town! Why couldn't h. u,
somewhere else and be mean and dirt
where no one knew him?
Now this was not quite fair, because h
he'd no family OF WyVernden to be dis
eraced; at least he had not at the time whe
.his was common talk. AS for the othe
phase OF the conjecture, young Mr.. Iio
beta. of the bank, who had not yet ar
i tl.A ,l,ol,t, ,.1z, - II
qu!fea 'nao anso.a'o io''oenea aD"u' sA"
which MS cI'ls 'lhpo9'h, leo ous Cu"s VI
rents IN 9uestioh "eto lehlIy una tL0ly r
mftseo thtougn his n''n e'efy quaFtsF 10
house at Frankfurt Tor account OF n
Beaver.
. o nc one knaw oEuctly "ht' 70 fn@Ae
cia noplyef' ano a. S1@'A "ehs On l'eop
iett on ylhR anu 'o"N niHi as 'ue lo"n
ana seenS olo creature; WIN huhG
eyes, VINO liFea apaft, anu pIlKhteheu =
%heh a hiia worn was baIo 70 A"tu. US