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-V ,N . -? , x % S!T" TWENTY Y Fve wandered through the villagi Where you are still reducing roc! I left you back in eighty-four? al Excuse me while I wipe a briny t The same old bricks are in the v; The same old warden's watching But few are left to greet me, Ton # The way they came to send up y Your cell looks rather different By new ones stronger than the b . ofin JLJUU ?AUIC ViVi. IV\,AOlvy r? on u With little of the awkwardness You know I was your lawyer, T You tried to make ir.e shade ray But I had done my duty?you ur< So let us, pray, dismiss the them J :: FIREP I- g By Mcri< P-v' I %TBmnK&L\*MWMi fnmvm> ig-m AOJC, ELL, Gerald, you seem Is strangely distrait to-night; O \/\/ O it is toothache or love, K ^ man?" exclaimed thejovia* Sro*r rector of Menstone, the Rev. Harry Ingold, a squarson of the old school, now fast passing away. Mountjoy started as the older mail ^ laid his hand on his shoulder. "Not toothache, I'm thankful to say. ? -.? j?ve never been troubled with that in |*?S roylife" * "Then it must be the other thing." ^ Ingold linked his arm into his friend's fe and drew him into. a recess. There were several of these convenient resting |e|a places in the great ballroom of Mellans Castle. The scene was certainly not one Egl;* ' * iWhich favored either melancholy or abstraction. Sir Harry Gayter, the owner of Mellans, was giving a ball *' to inaugurate his shrievalty of the lovliest county of England, in the eyes of. / at any rate, its inhabitants, Devon. It , ;was an affair of the elite of the county, with a large military, naval and marine element thrown in, to give a touch of brilliance and color to the en>h semble. It may be doubted whether more beautiful women or a finer body of men had ever before responded to | the hospitable invitation of the lord jpf Mellans Castle than on this particuiSrafif! lar occasion. From the alcove to -which Ingold and ji^;> Mountjoy had retired glimpses could he obtained of the dancers as they floated past on the carefully polished floor. Gerald sat forward. looking ea?' gerly at the couples gracefully circling round to tne tune or a waitz, piayeci by the marine band from Plymouth, ?1^.'' stationed in the whispering gallery. The younger man was so intent and preoccupied that he seemed already to have forgotten?at any rate, lie was oblivious of?the propinquity of his cornpanion. Ingold looked at the fresh, strong, handsome face with evident sympathy. |g? He knew perfectly what was passing ' behind that inadequate, ill-fitting mask. ^ He knew that every time the revolu' tion of the dance brought Bertha ||v Reeve and her partner, Lord Dayre, v;. into Mountjoy's line of vision, a hardness came about the flexible mouth, jgr . and something very like pain showed itself in the clear gray eyes, r? "You don't think Bertha would ever |-. . look at him, do you, Gerald? Why, she could crumple him up in the palm of one hand. She is the finest girl in the room, and that's not saying little. 'And he! Why, he has the intellect and frame of an under-sized monkey!" "What does it matter to me whether v-* she looks at him or not? Besides, you never know what a woman thinks or K? ' cha lilroc " "Don't you? I do. I never was a marrying man; but not the most inveterate husband in this room, or anywhere else, for that matter, can teach / .me about what a woman likes or dis? likes." v - "Perhaps, then," he remarked, some: ^ .what testily, "you will tell me what V- they do like?" "Well, above all things, some one e'.: . stronger than themselves?more inches, more fibre, more strength. Only a Woman who wants a title, and can content herself with that and nothing more, will marry Dayre; and I can assure you, with all the confidence in life, that woman is not Bertha Reeve." "I cannot help thinking sometimes " Gerald said almost under his breath. "That Bertha cares for you?loves ~ s you?" put in the parson. "Almost that," Mountjoy assented, after a pause. "Why don't you take your courage in both hands, arid ask her?" Gerald looked at his friend. "How can I?" "Why not?" "You know the state of my cx chequer just as well as I do. I have the oldest name in the county and the poorest property. My pedigree is as long as my rent roll is short. Bertha is Miss Reeve, of Reeve, the richest girl in the west, absolute mistress of herself and all her belongings. If she .were poor I would ask her to go with me'to Canada, or somewhere, and we! would make out life together somehow. But as it is! Would not men say I was a fortune hunter? Nay, should I not feel like one myself? I cannot even talk to her like I can to other girls. I should say that she thinks that fellow Dayre a genius by the side ?5 me. Look at them now."' The dance was over. They were now tt the further end of the salon. Lord ? ' ..." . EARS AGO. Tom, and sat beside the pen x as you were doing when 1 me! How time does fly! ;eardrop from my eye. all?you couldn't steal the bricks; you, to thwart the same old tricks, i, and none is left to know ou, just twenty years ago. , Tom?the bars have been replaced <}rs your trusty file defaced, in vogue -you journey to and fro of twenty years ago. o;n, and when the sentence came fee, and said I was to blame, ; doing yours, I know, e of twenty years ago. ?W. F. Kirk, in Milwaukee Sentinel. 1 r * I :e Girard 1 Dayre was lialf a head shorter than his companion. An ill-matched pair physically, any one would have said off-hand. But those who knew the circumstances might have judged differently. For in rank Dayre would take rank of any one at the bajl, and in wealth the mistress of Keeve, an orphan ruling in her own right, had no peer. j Neither Ingold nor Mountjoy spoke a word for the next few minutes, ' which seemed like an eternity to one of them at any rate, herald felt perfectly certain that what lie loved most in the world was slipping from ln'3 grasp, and his fate was being decided while the band rested from its labors, and the gay assemblage prepared itself for the next item in the programme. There seems something specially incongruous in blank despair gripping the heart under such conditions. The 1 brilliancy of the lights, the beautiful iiroccAs nnd ennsnieuous uniforms all seemed to mock the gnawing pain at, Gerald's heart. Bertha Reeve and Lord Dayre passed the alcove. As they did so these words fell, softly as they were spoken, 011 two pairs of ears: "I liardljr know what to say; it is all so unexpected. You do not wish me to decide tonight:'' "May I come for my answer tomorrow?" Then the speakers passed ont of hearing of those involuntary listeners. "I cannot stay here," Mountjoy said, in a horse whisper, very unlike his usual tones. "The air of the place chokes me. I shall get away without any fuss. They won't miss me. If they do, make some excuse to Sir Harry and Lady Gayter. Say I was taken bad, or something." With n snnppze of the hand Gerald slipped out of the alcove. Mechanically he found his coast and hat, and then went out at the hall door. He was glad that the stables were likely to be deserted. He had not brought a groom himself. In his present state of mind he hated to have to make even trivial explanations and excuses. With some difficulty he managed to find his own marc among the hundred horses tethered wherever standing room under cover could be found. The carriages were outside in the great yard. Gerald was just issuing from the stables when he heard a great shouting from the direction of the castle. He let go his mare's bridle; she galloped out of the yard and disappeared. Mountjoy smelt burning wood. He ran toward the entrance of the courtyard. When he reached the great gates his heart stood still. All the basement and ground floor of Mellans were in flames. Panelled and lined, as the fine old rooms were, with oak, dry as tinder, centuries old, with a great staircase of similar material in the centre, the c-astle was just adapted for rapid conflagration. As it turned out afterward, when Investigation into the cause of the outbreak was made, the- fire originated with the overturning of a lamp in the butler's pantry. Gerald rushed to the main entrance, before which a crowd of guests were standing. They all seemed paralyzed ?1'Aiiitrr Tvior* hnichml Willi I Ceil. liiU *vuxijj liuiu k?i ? them to one side. He could see Bertha Reeve nowhere. She must be in the burning building still. And there was Ingold, too, the man he loved best in the world. Gerald dashed into the hall, meeting overwhelming smoke. He was choking, and his eyes were smarting and red hot. He could hear the cries of girls, the shouting of men above. In his frenzy he could have thing himself into the flames which danced before him. Then an arm was laid upon his shoulder, and he was half dragged, half led, our. It was the parson, whose courage was of that order which rises calm and resolute to the greatest emergency. The men, under Ingold's direction, were bringing up long ladders. Up and down they went in relays, bringing in their arms fainting women. The gentlemen above either helped by bantling insensible burdens to the rescuers, or stood back to wait their turn. Half a dozen times Gerald had been up and down the ladder he had made his own. Ingold was at the next. On i each journey he had brought some one j I to tbe outside air and safety, and thew | handed her to another willing helper to take away. But that some one was not the girl for whom, with glad prodigality. he would have given his life. Then at the last, when almost all were saved, Gerald saw Bertha. He jumped from the ladder top through the window and ran to her. The flames were at the back of her, and had begun to singe her light dress. Lord Day 13 was still by her side. Just as Mountjoy reached her she was overcome and tottered backwards. Lord I>5iyre, with a quick effort, saved her from falling:. There were now only these two and Gerald left at that end? the most dangerous part of the great salon. Some devil seized him, whispering in his ear: "She has half given herself to Dayre; let him save her." For years the memory of that terrible lapse haunted him. "Take her, Dayre, and carry her down." The peer was hardly able to support Bertha's weight, much less carry her down ihe ladder. Pie glanced at the window, tilled with the eddying smoke; (hen he turned to Gerald. "Curse you," he said; "you know I can't do it. Take her yourself." "If I do," replied Mountjoy, "I take her for good and all." . Then he gathered the gml up in his arms and carried her down the ladder. Lord Dayre closely following. In the afternoon of the following day Gerald rode over to Reevj to inquire after its mistress. Dressed in a teagown, looking very white and interesting, she received him in her boudoir. "I came to ask after you," he said. "To confess?to ask forgiveness." "For saving my life? It surely is easily obtained." "I had the devil in meT be cried. Then he told her all. "So you have come to me for absolution V" she said. "Then you shall have tt without any pains and penalties, since you saved my life." ?he added. looking at him with a half smile. "Lord Dayre only asked me whether I would care to be one of his party for a yachting expedition. Even that I would not promise offhand, llad it been what you thought " "Bertha!" "I shouid have had no hesitation at all."?London World. Teaching School in Persia. Persians servants are always summoned and addressed by their masters as "children." When Mr. Wilfred Sparrow became tutor to the children of the royal family of Persia he was greatly amused by the daily customs of the little princes. He tells of his first day in the schoolroom: We were in the middle of a lesson, when Akbar Mirza, the magnificent, laying down his pen and taking off his spectacles, complained of the heat, which was 105 in the shade. "It is hot, yes. sair," he said. I made no reply, whereupon he resumed his work; but in a moment he lifted up liis voice once more. This time his tone was loud and imperious. "Bachalia" (child) he cried. To my amazement, in stepped the stately general, and stood in an attitude of grave humility at a respectful distance, his head bowed and his hands clasped folded at the waist. "Ab-i-i.klimerdan" (drinking water) was Akbar's word, and smart the sartip's action. Out he went, and back he came with a silver teapot iu his hand. Very solemnly and slowly he went the round of the class, and raising the spout to each thirsty little mouth in turn, waited in patient silence until the imperial thirstshad been quenched. While one little prince was being served, his neighbor, eyeing the silver nipple, sucked his lips in anticipation of the refreshing draught. As for me, it was mine to revel in the humor of the scene, which was followed soon after by an interlude in which our friend, the major, in full dress, was summoned by Bahrain Mirza, the imperious, to clean his slate. These interruptions tickled my sense of humor, undoubtedly, but they achieved a more useful end than that. They were the means of showing mo that the first thing 1 should have to thaeA vnnfhfnl TCniors was not modern languages, but rather the first principles of self-help, self-reliance, self-dependence. Kill More Plgti. A characteristic incident in which George Francis Train figured occurred in Omaha once when he was lecturing in the Farnam Street Theatre, showing the alertness of his mind and his power to condense a great problem in a phrase of three words. The occasion referred to was at a time when the South Omaha packing houses had been, operating for a period of several years. Gmaha had high ambitions and hoped to succeed Kansas City as the second pork packing centre in the United! States and the world, but didn't know just how to go at it. While Mr. Train was speaking some one in the audience interrupted him with the question, "What shall we do to make Omaha the second packing point?" or words o! similar effect. Quick as a flash and without a moment's hesitation .Mr.' Train replied, "Kill more pigs." Here was a great truth in a nutshelL? Omaha World-Herald. Not to tlio Extreme. It seems as though the popularity ct profuse illustrations in daily newspapers is rather abating, says Newspaperdoin. Few journals run to the extreme that many did when the illustration first became a fad. The papers which have let up 011 the practice are more prosperous, too, than heretofore. With the toning down of the scare heads, and other things taken into consider?, tiou, newspapers in general are to-day healthier and more prosperous than a year age , r ' 7 \ "> 'i.; * --yx ' those swayne charges Furnfuhed House Judiciary Committee in Pamnhlet Form?Judae's DC fense Also Included. A Washington special says: The evidence in the impeachment proceedings against Judge Charles Swayne, of the northern district of Florida, taken in Florida by the house subcommittee of the judiciary committee, and ncluding the brief of Judge Swayie before the committee in. his own defense, and that of Judge B. S. Liddon, for the prosecution, was furnished to the committee Thursday in printed form for the first time. The document consists of 360 printed pages. The charges against Judge Swaynw are concisely as follows: Nou-residence in the northern district of the state of Florida. .Foi unlawfully imposing a fine and imprisonment of one E. T. Davis and S. Belden in 1901. Fop unlawfully committing to prisI on in 1902 one O'Neal for alleged coni temp; of court. Fo.v conduct unbecoming a judge in appointing one Tunison in 1900, knowing him to be a man of bad character. In his own defense Judge Swayne filed with the committee letters of in dorsement from seventeen lawyers and five other persons, not attorneys, written in November, 1897, recommending to President McKinley bis appointment to succeed Justice Field on the supreme court bench of the United States. I^e also filed twenty four letters mostly from Florida attorneys, written in February, 1898, recommending his appointment to the position of circuit judge of the Fifth circuit, which had just been creates i by an act of congress. In his brief Judge Swayne reviews his life briefly, stating that he was born in Delaware in 1842; read law in Pniladelpljia, and was admitted to practice there. In 1885 he moved to Sanford, Fla., where he practiced law until appointed to the bench in 1889. His appointment was a recess ap, pointment, which was not confirmed until April, 1890. Judge Swayne said he never was a registered voter nor had he paid any taxes in Florida. He said he had 6pent his summers mostly in Delaware, but had understood that the summer months were the proper time for his vacation. His recollection was, he said, that no one ever had been injured because of his absence from Florida and that the business of his court had not suffered. Judge Liddon, in cross examining Judge Swayne, asked him if he did not understand the laws of Florida to nrnvldp that a man could not hold of flee there unless he is a qualified elector. Judge Swayne admitted this. Judge Swayrie, in commenting upon the proceedings against him, said to the cQmmittee that they were due to but two causes?the malice of the man O'Neal, who was sentenced, and the intense political feeling engendered at that period. There never would have been anything of this hhd it not been for these causes. ARMSTRONG CHEATS GALLOWS. Young Man Who Killed Sweetheart Suicides in Prison Cell. At Tuskegee, Ala., Ralph Armstrong was found dead in his cell Thursday ! morning, having hanged himself with his belt. Armstrong was under sentence ol dea:h for the murder of his cousin. Miss Alice Armstrong, at Notasulga, three months ago. He shot her when sho refused to marry him, telling him she was engaged to another in Atlanta. A special term of court was called and Armstrong was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree, 1 ?T?r\ ^nlrArt 'ITVi /TV fl CL I OUt, clli <i pyudi wao kani^u. ^uv uv I fense was mental irresponsibility at I the time. He left two letters to his | moiher outlining his purpose to kill ! himself. The young man was a son of !ne lat ; Colonel H. Clay Armstrong, consul to Rio de Janeiro, under President Cleveland and was a member of one of the most prominent families in the eta e. SWAYNE CASE GOES OVER. Steering Committee in Congres* Desides that Time is Too Short. The senate will noi take up the impeachment trial of Federal Judge Sweyne, of Florida, at this session of congress. The steering committee in congrrvi has been considering the advisability "? 1? II*,v.* ! of t aking up tne case, ana u.ny n vai nesday morning derided it would be bes to postpone the maiter until the short session, which begins next Dej cen.ber. I JAP EDITOR ALLEGED I RAITOR. | Legislative Committee is Appointed tc Maka r.n Investigation. An Associated Rress dispatch froir Tokio says: The house of represen latives has appointed a committee o 1 eighteen members to investigate the charges that Teisuke Akyama, a mom her of parliament, is. in the employ t>; the Russian government. Akyama is the publisher of the Ni rokusbitbun, a Tokio paper, which ha.e been bitterly assailing the govern ment, particularly on its financial pol , icj. * r > * yr t~~, I THE NEWS OF A WEEK i] | IN SOUTH ? A103JNA.il i Student Dies From Operation. D. E. Ballentine, a young Furman University student operated on for appendicitis, died at Earle's Sanitarium in Greenville. * * Cotton Mills Will Be Sold. Judge W. H. Brawley, in the United States court at Charleston, ordered the sale of the DeKalb Cotton Mills of Camden, this state, for the benefit of creditors. The upset price is fixed i at $150,000, and the date of sale *s left, with Special Master Thomas C. Duncan. * Mail Carriers Organize. At a meeting in Newberry of the R. F. D. mail carriers of Newberry county, the Rural Letter Carriers' Association was organized. The following officers were elected: President. , B. T. Bishop; vice president, J. D. Smith; secretary and treasurer, W. G. Peterson. i Bought Competing Line? Says a Columbia dispatch: Attori ney General Gunter has gone to Aiken to confer with the attorneys in the Edwards suit against the Southern, i charging that road with violating the state law in buying a competing or i parallel line. The attorney general will in a few days institute proceedings against the Southern road to test this law in accordance with instruc1 tions from the legislature. i *% Appropriations for South Carolina. A Washington dispatch says: The sundry civil appropriation bill, which was reported Saturday, continues a number of appropriations for the carrying on of work under way in the southern states. For buildings under construction in South Carolina appropriations are made as follows: Rock Hill, $10,000; Georgetown, $15,000; Florence, $10,000. In the river and harbor improvement items are the following: For Charleston, $73,000; Winyah, bay, $70,000; the Great Pedee, $10,000. * * Large Property Deal in Newberry. One of the largest property transfers that has ever taken place in Newberry was consummated recently when Messrs. Sumner Brother? purchased from J. J. Lane the property known as the Lane block. The price paid was $30,000. . ? The property is some of the most valuable in the city and comprises two large stores now occupied by Sumner Bros., one store occupied by J. W. White and one by E. M. Evans f!o ThA huildincs front on Maiu street and are located in the main business portion of the city. * ? c Croft to Have Opposition. An Augusta, Ga.,"news item Yaysl j Ex-Governor M. B. Sweeney, of South i Carolina, passed through the city en | route to Columbia, to attend a meet| ing of the state democratic executive committee, of which he is a member. The meeting is called to fix the dates of the party primaries for the congressional vacancy in the second South Carolina district, caused by the death of Congressman George W. Croft. Governor McSweeney says there is nothing in the report that all other aspirants for the place will withdraw, and leave the office to Theodore Croft, son of the dead congressman. While the sentiment is a pretty one, men have their political ambitions, and the right to avail themselves of opportunities to further them, and there are j already several men in the race and j several more who will probably enter. "I have had several friends to urge j me to enter the race, and promise me ! their support and to express the opinion that I can be elected if I run, but I am out of politics, and have no deI sire to get back in. I was never de, feated for any office in South Carolina, j and when I left the governor's office j I did so with the determination to devote my energies to my private affairs. There is no money in officeholdiner and a man loses valuable years in which he could be materially building up his business and accumulating a competence." "You spoke of others entering the i race?" "Yes; I hear that ex-Congressman J W. J. Tolbert, who was in the race for j governor last time, and ex-Congress| man William Elliott, who was a can- j j didate for the, United States senate m j j the last primaries, are going to run. ! j and' L. J. Williams, S. G. Mayfield, J. j O. Patterson and Theodore Croft are : already in the field. " i ! The governor has fixed May 17 as i the date of the election to fill the vaj csncy, and the executive committee j will fix the primaries for certain dates ' in April. There is likely to be a good j string cf candidates, and it may take j two primaries to settle on the nomi| nee. Of course, whoever is nominated in the primaries will be elected on j May 17th. That will be. as it is in Georgia, merely the official entering up of the I verdict reached in the primaries when j the real race will be run. ^'' ''' J* | >v ^ ^ ?\ jc | ' | A Moscow do tifet has invented a jgtf : >;."> . r-iii whereby 'n'se teeth can he i ;: : i\i to ;imw iuto tl?c guars as firmly ' j rati-rai ontJ. j A London bootblacic displays thio lu -itrht of his patrons: "If you j like my work, roll your friends; if y?? i _ J don't bite it, tell me." i i V, hen n newspaper or sheet of pa- .j j per seen attached 'o the window i or 5k;Icon v of a fcouso In Mexico, it ! f* i indicates that there are rooms to let I it: the house. I ? = c\ Fj. Hudson, who lias been paint' jug the fishes of II waiian waters, j | , j:..-tys that nearly all bottom sea fish jb-.ve the powor of c *inging color at | v!!i. like chameleons, j Charles WetiiiOi'e. of Winchester j Centre. Conn., has-a remarkable heB. ! H lays in n tree IF any other birl * and keeps ^r. We.more ana his me* ?-r>y hunting eggs. In Prague here ! - a goose fair where 3.0 :0.000 _,ecse change hands. They ^ are driven in from th? country in the fall, a,id that they may travel with o in fort their feet are c tca ;ed in tar hjots to preserve them from injury ' en the road. V ? A VANISHING ISLAND; Falcon Isle Disappears and Reappears In an Astonisliins Manner. One of the most curious islands ifl ^ the world is now known on the charts * as Falcon Island. It is curious from the fact that it appears and reappears at intervals in the most exasperating manner, and has been doing this ever . ' since 18S8, when it was first taken possession of and charted. This island is one of the Tonga group, and when in 18S8 England took " w' possession of it her officers found it -crowned with palm trees and tropical vegetation. The highes; bluff was sou:? 3.53 feet above the sea level, and on this the Union Jack was planted. But only a year later the island had :h! disappeared. The cliff was represented i:| by a low-lying, dangerous reef, and there was not the remotest sign of v ; vegetation. For thus making away with itself Falcon Island was speedily wiped off the charts. .. - VV But in 3802 a Trench man-of-war. rediscovered it and duly planted the tricolor flag thereon. At that time Falcoa > - * - ?-- ? " - - - -!.???- rv* island nnoraeu ior uie yiuuuug ml wi flagstaff a cliff twenty-five feet high at the southern end (the bltiff mentioned above was at the northern end), and it was covered with a growth of green bushes and ferns. But Falcon gt Island did not behave any better with its new possessors than with England, for in April, 1894. it had again done the vanishing act, only a streak of reef remaining. r j About a year later tile Tongan Gov- ' **5' crnment took it in band and went to lind Falcon Island. They did find it with a vengeance, for when they arrived they found an island with bold. /, ^ steep sides, the highest point being fifty feet above sea level. It was taken possession of it in the name of King I George of Tonga and formed part of [ his possessions until iff 1897, when it ! again disappeared?apparently for good % J that time, for since fhen, unless it has reappeared quite recently, it has not been heard of. Falcon Island holds a unique record. Several islands have disappeared be 4 fore now, and many of ffiem have ear- y riod down thousands of people. But | when they went down they stayed ! down, whereas Falcon Island bobs up j and down and causes navigators to j doubt their figures and wonder it vis! ions are about?New Vork Commerj cial. - ' ^ Emperor of Japan'* J/sdlgree. The Emperor of Japan Hurpasses all / sovereigns in the length of his pcdiI gree. He is the one hundred and j twenty-second uienmer in direct, un| broken descent of Ids family Who has | sat on the throne of Japan. The foundj er of his house was, in Japanese le' gend, a goddess of llii* au.*?, and couI temporary with XebuchadSezzar, CG? . years before the Christian cfti. On the ^ ? 1 other hand, the Romanoffs have been j royal only since ItiOl, whet* they suci eeeded to the sovereignty <.i the then extinct house of Rurik. As for the a } other European rulers, King Edward 7 1 <-an go back to Cedri<% 405 A. B., the I Hapsuurgs to 052 A. D., and the HoIieiizollerns to the eighth century, but as kings only to J701.?London Chronicle. Greatest Advertising Scheme. The London Times has just closed up what is probably entitled to rank as the greatest advertising scheme ever > undertaken by a newspaper. After devoting no less than $1,000,000 worth of advertising space to the sale of the Encyclopedia Britannicaon the instalment plan, the undertaking has now ceased. ^ Like all great ventures exploited by newspaper advertising, this one has yielded vast returns to all those who have had to do with it. And it de- * serves to be noted that the originator and chief promoter of the enterprise was a clerk in a Boston bookstore but a few years ago. This undertaking, and others like it, have yielded him a * great fortune, and he is now the owner and occupant of a beautiful estate near London, t._ " .. ;v -ii: