The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-23

sounding "appreCaafi0nb anu pgies that issue in q constant stream. Thy writers who have provoked such Ioluteiy hysterieal praise ss have Ise very remarkable and tfaIy gifted knen. why tlhis should be. why al- lst every critic, especially if q lman. sbould become over balanced
 soon as a Bronte comes under dis saicn, is an intsrssting problem n kcholoey in itself. just as Charlotte d Emily Bronte and their novels are.
 tae present writer 1t appears that p4rtisi explanation is that in the kotte genius has elevated the neu- Itik from a pathological condition to
 lores that thrills into being the eTofio chords h even the sanest htifs.
 vtr-strained situations. such fools as hbt of the moro important characters |, have rarely If ever been evolved M truly great writers. They belong the trash of the ladies' arfuais of 3elr day. Yet for all that. the Bronte lorix is 6 vital thing. It stays with b We read it. want to read it, and Eel It's vague power even while we beer at the iaEeniousiy faulty art. Ehe Brontes are d most extfaordinAry hixtuEs of the utterly ccntnaon-piace Ind of true genius.
 when old MT nArnshaw. the master bf wuthering Heights. in Yorkshire, brought home a little. black, screwiing steets Of Liverpool he was received wkh anything but weleonae. His son HhdIey, though a boy 0k 1ourteen, T wtled aloud when he found that his faher had broken promised fiddle in raFying ths waif cathsrink. six ysaFs olE spat at the mumbling: snerling ! q whip that he was to have brought nd Both refused to have the creature inkheir rooms or anywhere near them. Ven Mir. EarnBhaw awoiSe in the fnEning hs found 1t lying before his climber door. where 1t had crspt sn the ntht
 \ his stupid. obstinate way the kh-hearted man adopted the wrong cdrse to establish the foundiing. He bsed his ehildren'o ears for their in- htnanlty, and triad to make up for it b3treating the stranger with far more cisideration thAn he would base sawn ordinarily.
 e chriatehsd the child IasaEhciiff. abr son who had died in childhood. Twas all the name he ever got, eerv- ii him for both Christian and sur- me Hfndley hated him moro and ire as the ynonlhs went by He beat IL and tortured -tfeatment 1ich Heathcliff bore euileniy, patient - ifwithout whifnpering or shedding a tr. This endurance made old Earn Aw furious when he discovered hie ' prosecuting the fatheriess child. ] punished his son aavagely and be- wed all that Heath6liff told hlFn. < 80 from the beginning Heathciiff Id ill-faeilng In the house. He was len enough. with all his apparent lli- nsibiilty to know that he would Do lieved against Hindiey, and h6 took vantage of this fact to force the son
 the house to give up to hIm horseh q other possessions that he happen
 to fancy.
 Soon tTindisy grew so regard his ther as an oppressor rather than a lend. The waif had made division Atween him and his sister alsos for atherfne. who had begun by hating he black viBAsed intsEioper As much the rest did. grew strangely fond
 the frowning, rough lad.
 A wild. wicked slip she grew up-- Hways in mischief. always teasing lomebody, and none the better for Ies- Ing her mother before che was slaht. But she had the bonnieat eyes, the sweetest smile and the lightest foot; and if she made folk cry. she would lsry herself till they forgot their own GtGGA~ less of all control. she took the part of Heathcliff against Hindley till that young man disllked her as much as he hated his rival
 She was thrown altogether into de- pendence on Heatheiigf'e society some years after her mothers death. when Mir. Earnshaw' s cof1hfant dlsakrAennef,ts with his sen caused him to send the lad away to college. He was not seen at home again for some yeArs--iiot, indeed, till Mfr. EarnshAw died and he succeeded to the estate Then he re- turned. bringing a wife with him.
 He promptly ,relegated Heathcilff to the company of the servants. made him labor with the farm lads ana withdrew from him the instruction that the curate had been giving the children. At first he bore his deg radiation pretty well, because Cath sr. inc taught him what she learned ana played or worked with him in the nelds But that did not suit fEindiey. of Heathcltn and teach him that he was not one of the family.
 Chance favored him and he was quick to take advantage of 1t. Cath ertne and HeathclifE ramhIed off one day and looked into the windows of Thrusheross Grange. some miles away, to see; as Catherine expressed
 
 their Sunday evenings shlvering Tn dark corners while their elders sat 'eauing and drinking. laughing and talking" The two were so indignant when they saw Edgar and Catherine Linton in the beautiful, cArpeted room, all ablaze with candles. that they made noises to frighten them. Then they started to run. but the terri fled children inside had loosed the bulldog and he got Catherine by the ankle.
 Instead of crying out. she sasped: 'Run. Heathclin. runl The bulldog holds mel" Heathcliff snatchsd a stone and tried to beat the dog off. Then servants came up and releaaed the girl When the Lintons discovered who 1t was they took Catherine in- to the house and ordered the servants to thrust HeathcliR out that their children might not hear the curses that he uttered at all concerned in the harm that had come to his playmate. He hid himself in the shrubbery and watched through the window while they bathed Catherine's foet and brought her cakes and negus and playthings. ~- And when he turned away. lonely enough his last glimpse of her was that of q laughing. merry little girl who had apparently forgot ten him entirely
 The LAntons insisted on keeping Catherine for almost two months Giil her foot wes quite healed. when she returned, instead of e wild. hat less little savage she had become a young lady ta a grand silk frocIr who would not let the dogs touch her for fear of soilipg her elothen