The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-21
M WILLIAM fiAkEPFAG THACkERKY

time too far past to permit him to use the genius for depicting the manners. cus %orlS %heh s @ads 0a snf Ss ssfhe Newccmess and svanity Fair" such monumental achievements in modern literature. At the the sane n,n time; the L ps- ,. is too recent, as historical time is meas ured. to lend his story the glamour and romance of buried past that make Henry Esmond"" so glowing and pie
 A man of lesser power probably would have succeeded only n making "The virginians" one of the many novels. in which the story gains ai- most all of It's interest from the hiss tory. william Makepeace Thackeray has made history gain by his story.
 That is the difference tbetween gem jus and--oth CTS.
 There was only one subject In aii the world regarding which Harry Es- mond of Virginia did not agree with his sdored twin brother George. who, by fortune of having been born haif an hour or So before the other. was heir to the great estate Of his grapd- father. Henry Esmond.
 That one subject was their young neighbor. Major George Washington.
 He always seemed great to me- wrote Harry Warrington, long after ward (only he did not spell 1t so well. Poor Harry never managed the pen as well as he did the gun and the bridle) . 'T never thought of him otherwise than a hero. If he fired a shot the bird was sure to come down. If he flung net the largest fish in the river was sure to be in it.. To see him riding to arl army. Ills words were always few, but they were always wise; they were not idle as our words are, they were grave. sober and strong and ready on occasion to do their duty. In spite of his antipathy to him. my brother re- spected and admired the General as much as did--tfat is to say more than any other mortal man"
 Whence sprang George Washington's antipathy to that other George? Not from dissimflarity of temperament. for If he was more quick of speech and passion, he was not less grave or less fhoughtful or Less just than was Mir. Washingtou; and Harry spoke truly of his brother's admiration for the gen. tleman.
 Perhaps 1t ali sprang from an incl denf in their boyhood days, when Mir. Waahington, being called on for advice by the lads mother in a matter of inc subordination, had relunctantly but firmly counseled a thrashing by their tutor. Although the thrashing never was administered. owing to the fact that Harry and George nearly gave one to the tutor instead. George never for got the part played by MT. Washing ton, a part which seemed all the more eggravating as the one George was only a few years older than the other.
 So the two proud virginians. though they could not help being friends, maintained their friendship with ju- dicious reserve--quite different from the eager, brave. headIong Harry gave with all his heart.
 As time went on. George looked with growing displeasure on the intimacy with which Mir. Washington was re- ,eiyed at all times by the lady of the estate. their mother. Mrs. Warrington, who treated him with an evident and open respect that was only less than Harry's.
 Not many persons in the colony of Virginia--not even the Governor, and certainly not his lady--could boast of enjoying the deference of Mrs. War rington, who held that her fathers family of Esmond was only a little less than royal.
 Indeed. she called herself Mime. Es- mond. choosing to ignore the Warning tons of Norfolk, of which family her husband, Mir. Warrington, had been a q self Esmond Warrington, the War rington" was generally abbreviated, and in the colony she was known, half in pIeasantry and half in earnest. as Lady Esmond. ouarrels. angry words, perhaps even scuffie or two marked her demands for precedence at the Governors as- semblies in James Town and similar functions. But her pretensions were successful, for all the world knew that 1 a.l A.% CAlA al LyuV.a f&s the simplicity with which he bore him self after his retirement to America had been the rightful Lord of Castle wood In England, and thafe had re- signed titles and estates out of love for a kfnsman, whose mother he mar Eted and brought to the Virginia pro- perty. Everybody knew, too. although he never spoke of 1t, that he had torn up a patent of Marquis conferred upon him after and himself by King Jarnse IT., and thrown 1t at the feet of that monarch's selnsh. ungreteful and i'll.
 As Colonel Esmond he lived ir America, and died, after having pass. ed his widowed latter. years in peace. ful, humorous suomission to ms impeg'
 Mime. Esrnond never forgot the re- linquished Marquisate of the estate of Castlewood, after which Colonel Es' tions. As she surveyed the immense territories that were to fall D o George as heir to her fathers property, al well as his grandfather's, she wlshec more than once that she could lay then all and the titles before Harry; and from Georges infancy he had become accustomed to hearing her refer tc boy who but for half an hours acci. dent E birth might have been master Of all.
 Honest George never thought of for. thing as being theirs to share equally and Harry relied implicitly on hin and paid little attention to Mime. Els
 so came the year 175s. when thu British and French settlers met on thu Ohio River and the British colonisti became keenly alive to the aggres sions of the French lords of Canads the militia rank of Major. who hat already made fruitless trip througl the wilderness as an envoy to tn, raised a scanty regiment of virginian and marched them Into the wilder ness. Near where Pittsburg now stand he constructed small fort. A super iSr Sat oOez DeTzmtted Gt Rim to retire Wtoa named 1t Duquesne, after the Canadian
 in the next year Major Washington again voIunteered for wilderness ser vice. and led small body of pro vincials to repel the Frenchmen; Il that expedition was fired the nrst sho in the French wars Of America
 Thus, in a savage forest of Penn sylvania. young Virgiplan fired :; shot and woye up e war wnicn was ' last for sixty years, which was | into Europe, to cost France her Amer ican colonies, then Co cost Englan' her American colonies, to rage oyer tn Old World when extinguished In tn NauN--amA Af all the myriad enRaRei