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Show p IT hadn't been to really serious It might have been laughable tbla For Just a day Dr. English held out. 8UII little Mrs. Breckenrldge kept tn Then he gave In. weeplug. I'll forgive you, said Dr. English, of pretty little Ethel English, Just turned 15 years, and Clark Brecken ridge, big and 23. It was a a wedding, a spanking and jt wlth,n tba br,er ran !vlnf-- U 5 To days. And more than that ingry father began proceedings at to hve tbe n'arr,a& annulled, to boot had the youth arrested to find that the per yerjury, only Lycbarges could not be sustained tbat annulment was Impossible. The old etnrya schoolgirl falling with the first young man who and line along and was ltd tender things and talked of Half of Browns and moonlight. tbat Dr- - H- - J- - Kn-5Illle, Pa. the brides father, did perfectly the romantic Mrs. rlriit m tearing away from her indigBreckenrldge ent young bridegroom. The other emphasis, feels for Ulf. wllb e(lual man. Why shouldnt he tb young n,rry the girl of his heart, seeing she had money of her own and a good salary for be s food position at Is heir to a nice and bis of years, oe fortune besides? The Wooing. It only began the other day, when school over for the Ethel English, to Carmichaels, Pa., :to term, went eiilt her cousins, the Baileys. At the had a game time young Breckenrldge rotation and he went to Carmichael's, too. And there he met pretty Miss English vivacious, clever, pretty as a picture and young and romantic to her Unger tips. He bad met Miss English casually before, In Erownsville, where he lives, but there were plenty of other young cbaps around then and he was only on cf fifty. But here at Carmichael's was clear for him. Miss tbe field Ethel did not know a single other soul la all the town except her relatives, when young tbe Bailey family, and Mr. Breckenrldge touched his bat In tbe street to the pretty little girl from Bronsvill9 she colored a bit and itopped to speak to him. "What brings you hers? she asked, ... Breck-enrldg- good-lookin- h Interestedly. Im just on a vacation, Ob, the young man. Isn't that nice? exclaimed young Breckenrldge telephoned for another car, and In half an hour It up and once more little Miss English smiled. They hurried along swiftly in the second ear to Washington, and there put the auto In a convenient garage, all three taking the train to Steubenville, O. And here their troubles really began. Fearing pursuit all tbe time, the youngsters wanted to get married Just as soon as they could. Meanwhile the angry father of Miss English and the angry father of Miss Bailey began to think that something was wrong. .The trio had only been going ostensibly to the Dawson races near by, and why had they not returned? Soon the telephone wires In all directions were made hot by tbe two fathers, trying to locale tbe fugitives. By this time they were at the county clerks office In Steubenville. But even before that Dr. English had got wind of their direction and telephoned by long distance wire to Steubenville. Nothing doing," said the clerk, laconically, when Clark Breckenrldge brought Miss Ethel In for a . license. "We've heard from papa!" The three turned and fled. said "Why, father might get here any Miss minute, gasped the girl; "we must get away somewhere! Young Breckenrldge was resourceful enough. He bundled the two girls aboard a trolley car and In a few minutes they were over the state line Into West Virginia, where It Isn't so. hard to get married. Dr. English's 'phone hadn't reached that far, and by hard work they got a license and found a parson who was willing to tie the knot. The Home Coming. Then the young culprits decided to go back to Brownsville and make a clean breast of the whole thing. And Annie Bailey went along. It was ten oclock at night when they got back, tired out, dusty, hungry and happy. chug-chugge- SWMMVMkWWW Ethel that was found herself triumphantly escorted to the Breckenrldge home. Threshed by Bridegroom, When Dr. English heard how things had come out he was scouring the countryside for any trace of hta missing daughter by tbat time he sent his two eons to bring her home. Clark Breckenrldge prompt ly thrashed both for attempting to interfere In his fam-lly affair. Dr. English was furious. "I'll bring her home, he declared, and he drove right over to the Breck- inridge place from his farm at Red-ston- e township. He stalked boldly In and was confronted by the bride. Then he did what father! have done before, but perhaps never to a bride. He took Mr. Clark Breckenrldge If you please right across his knees, and gave her a good, sound, spanking. Now come home where you belong,'' added Dr. English. "A for you, young man, he shouted, turning to tbe bridegroom of less than a day, "I'll see wbat the law can do In your case. If I can do anything to punish you, you may be sure I will do It! Next day Dr. English had Clark ar Breckenrldge, his new rested on a charge of falsely swearing to his daughters age. Then he sent a messenger to West Virginia to look up tbe facts and find out the law of the state regarding the marriage of minora. He was going to have it annulled, if It were possible. Begin Legal Proceedings. Clark Breckenrldge sued out a writ of habeas corpus. In turn, to regain possession of bis bride, getting out on ball on tbe perjury charge. Tbe town took aides; it was going to be a fight to a finish, whether or not a father might forbid tbe marriage of a daughter, and whether or son-in-la- "I'm here, too, for a visit with oy cousins, the Baileys. Won't you come up and see me, and well talk over Brownsville? 'Ill only be too glad, young man, from Ethel such replied the flattered at the invitation a pretty, likable girl as English. Ill to come around right Now, most that this was Brownsville folks say pure chance, this meeting of the two young people in another town. But there are a few who declare that young Breckenrldge had fallen In love with the girl the first time he say her at Brownsville and that he had gone purposely to Carmichael's, where he could have the Held alone to himself. At any rate, there had been another girl to whom he had been but three weeks engaged, before he had given her up the reason he gave at the time was because he Lad danced with another fellow. So that very night the young man cHed on pretty Miss Ethel. They sat out on the porch and talked of many things. Next morning it was a stroll through the qujet lanes of the country-Idand in the afternoon a drive. There was candy, too, whenever the foung man came, and flowers very o d FARM A WORK SY PRISONER!. Danish Plan to Improve Heaths of Jutland. Barren "Realizing that crime In many li stances Is the result of early environment, which made the criminal what he la, the Danish government takes a paternal Interest In those who are brought within tbe charge of the prison authorities, said Eric Her-lana lumber merchant of Traverse City, Mich., who has been on n visit to his native land, Denmark. In the "Denmark still possesses heaths of Jutland a large undeveloped territory that requires much labor to make It suitable for agricultural Mr. Herland. purposes, continued Of late years, however, many farms have begun to dot this Jutland landThrough persistent efforts scape. trees are now In evidence where foe merly the heaths were barren except for unbroken stretches of ling. Acres of grain bearing soli have replaced the tough undergrowth that was good for nothing but tbe torch. "The work of reclaiming the Danish heaths has been accomplished of largely through the the Danish prison authorities and Individuals who wished to embgrk In farming on their pwn account and had no means of buying ground. In such Instances every Inducement Is offered the agriculturist to become tbe owner of a plot of ground on the heath. For him to break up the earth single handed and start business would be a physical Impossibility. It Is here the prisoners do the preliminary work. "A freedom which will not Infringe on the regulations necessary to keep up discipline Is enjoyed by the prisoners on tbe Danish heath, but the work Is no child's play. Severe as the labor is, however, seldom Is a prisoner heard to complain, for If such complaints should reach the And all hr life. at what they though a little frightened ahead had done. The news had gone and bride both of Friends of them. relatives and families bridegroom, the and and a big wagon drawn by mules stathe at wuh serenaders filled with two sistion. Besides, there were tbe bride the of brothers two ters and of their the sisters to give her a piece it out mind and the brothers to take of Clurk Breckenrldge. The sisters started toward young moment she Mrs Breckenrldge the True to her new car. the off stepped resented their dignity the bride The slBters sought to drag wouldn't have It her home. The brldo a was at all and there of everybody. front In match right for such U was rather a aad ending bride a The a pretty little romance. nil trying to get her to go wore familytheir the Breckenrhlges and homedetermined that were equally friends Clark's bride bo let alone. bjJJl won out groom's friends Intel-feren- Ethel ark English waa eloping with Breckenrldge! And Annie Pal-e- ? knew they weren't coming home ??tu Httle Miss English was Mrs. Breckenrldge. From Carmichaels they started to tor swiftly to Washington, Fa. For moment luck waa against them, he car broke down and the brlde-to-In teara. r an answer to her pleadings to urT7, for fear they would be caught, a 70 PRACTICE IN SPITE OF CADETS CLING REPRESSIVE MEASURES - , it" itVSvW J..' 4- - - iTI - ... , ; . Jlr'Y' t hale-pullin- JJ ce. not a husband, after the marriage, could not take his bride from her father and bring her to his home. The English family threatened all sorts of punishment for the bridegroom; the Breckenrldge family' promised all sorts of reprisals. Meanwhile the poor little bride, deprived of her husband of an hour, was weeping away, at home as If her heart would break. And that was the final straw that broke the camel's back of the fathers hitherto unrelenting resolution.- - Dr. English couldn't bear to see his pretty little daughter weeping all the time and begging to be allowed to see her young husband. "Do you really love him? demanded Imthe doctor, when he found that a not was doing home at prisonment bit of good. "More than anything in the world," sobbed the girl. "Oh, can't I see him for Just a little minute? Won't you see him? Wont you talk to him? f J ir I (f ,t lui t zmmzivruHVAZJ ywi'. ... Asmeai mr pqwt. d him with such relontlesaneBs that Anally compelled to send In his resignation as a cadet. He said that his son told him, In addition to the boy was well-know- aspect ? A riT Foi e often. the time the Baileys didn't a thing the young people Wer Just enjoying their vacation. The Elopement There was a garage In Carmichael's ml occasionally young Breckenrldge tot a speedy roadster for an afternoons run. Nothing was thought of at. either, by the Baileys, for often hen the two went out for a apln 'hey took along Miss Annie Bailey, the daughter of the family where Mls Ethel was visiting. 8o, when an auto spin was proposed . oe bright afternoon the other day'1 n4 Miss Annie was Invited to accom-pnMlss Ethel, nobody had ihe lightest objection. But Annie Halley In a little ' secret, too, and her roln was only to be with her cousin the most momentous occasion of Azim band-shake- The Beginning. Ethel. I taking the girl wire in hie arms. guess you love him and I guess he loves you. We'll send for him right away. The Forgiveness. Tli next minute Dr. English was at the telephone calling up the home, and finally be got Clark Breckenrldg himself on the wire. He had learned that under West Virginia law the marriage was perfectly legal, and It waa the father-in-law- . , not the who found himself forced to give In. Come over. be suld. Youre for given, but don't do It again. It took young Breckenrldge only a few mlntuea to dash over to Redstone township to claim his bride of 48 hours s before. There were kisses and all around and oft went the bride, suffused In amllea and teara, to make her new home with her young husband. Now the perjury suit is dropped and the habeas corpus proceedings are quashed. "After ell, says Dr. English, "1 can't blame them ao much. 1 might have done the same thing myself. The bride Is the youngest daughter of Dr. English, a very physician. He has a magnificent farm, well kept and stocked. The mother la dead. All the family are high spirited. There are three daughters, all bright and vivacious. The eldest Is the wife of Charles C. Carter, a leading young lawyer of Brownsville. Josephine, tbe second daughter, Is single. A son, B. J. English, M. D., died recently. The children Inherited money from their mother's relatives, and a recent sule of coal acreage gave Ethel $47,000 from that deal alone. And she has other money. Tbe father wanted the girl to go to school, but she opposed, and It la believed fear of being sent to some tight-laceInstitution had much to do with this elopement. She was approaching- - the romantlo age and took the first man who asked her. In this case the man was quite He la a handsome young attractive. fellow, Immensely popular with young women. He la the eldest son of William Breckenrldge, a rich te tired hotel man. The lad has always had a free hand with money and bis latest exploit was to drive bis father's automobile to the point of exhaustion la running away with bis bride. the tabasco treatment, that one of the things they did to hltn at West Point was to pull the bedclothes off of hint wax on his bare body. Ilia mother testified that her son wrote her that the cadets at West Point were brutes and bullies." But the boards tbat Investigated had their hands full getting the cadets to talk, as Is shown on every page of the records of the proceedings. Cadet after cadet would admit having been to the melted wax treatment, and other Innoceut tortures, but they were loath to tell the name of the young man who melted the wax and WRIGHT did the pouring. WAR. C&KZTARY T put my Anger In the sauce, said Tbe recent case of hazing at tbe one cadet witness, "and was told to West Point Mllliary academy bas lick It. I made aa awful face, and again drawn the attention of the pub-li- e licked the wrong Anger. I officiated at a rat funeral, said to the fact that the practice still prevails among ti e cadets despite the another cadet earnest and detet mined efforts of the 'What Is a rat funeral? asked a officials of the academy to stamp It member of the Investigating board. "A rather simple little affair, anout It Is a disease of long standing, dating back for a century, and no doubt swered the cadet with a smile, "and It the germs of the disorder so saturate didn't do anybody any barm. The rat the grounds and buildings that It will waa caught and killed, and we were perhaps take another generation to ordered to give him a funeral. The fully destroy the .vitality of the hazing rodent was placed In a little box that microbe and completely eradicate the looked like a coffin, and this box was disease. placed on a table and surrounded by The recent outcropping of hazing four lighted candles. Then a white has been In spite of the voluntary towel arranged to look like a shroud agreement on the part of the corps of was placed over the box, and the fucadets tn 1901 to quit tbe practice and neral ceremonies began. We read a In direct violation of the drastic laws few extracts from the 'black hook. passed by congress In the same year, (the cadet name of the book of regulabut as we have said, a century of seed tions). Then we placed flowers on the sowing is still producing Its fruitage. casket There wae a song or two, and There are original documents In ex- then the rat waa taken away to be istence to prove I bat hazing began In burled. the early life of the Institution. For The cadete admitted that they were Instance, sway back in 1814 Gen. Ram- compelled to crow like roosters; that sey wrote tbat the new cadets sweep they bad to climb the ridge pole, out the rooms and shovel the anow, brace, exercise, one fellow admitting but there Is no hazing." that be stood on hie head In a bathFrom this rather Innocent beginning tub full of water, and adding that tt developed tbe practices that resulted did not hurt him. The Investigation In the cadet episode of a few days also made publlo for the first time what a cadet has to do to qualify, ts ago, when Col. floott, the superintend ent at West Point, In obedience to the tbe cadets put It, for the mess ball. mandate of congress as expressed In Here Is how a cadet explained dining tbe law on hazing, sent to their homes room qualifying: First we were given a large dish eight cadets who had been convicted of hazing, there to await the action of full of prunes, the exact number of the secretary of war, who, under the which was 85, and we were required regulations, as prescribed by congress, to eat all of them at one sitting. Then had no alternative but to summarily we were given a bowl of molasses and told to swallow that, after which we expel" the offenders. That the hazing which began with tried to eat six slices of dry bread. the ludicrous acts tbat characterized Tbe molasses test sometimes took two It before the civil war grew Into the or three trials before we could accomtortures that caused the congressional plish it." Young Phil Sheridan had to ride Investigation of 1901 Is a matter of around the campus on a broomstick, history. In the cadet days of Grant, and Sheridan, and the other the exercise being Intended to remind great martial figures In American his- those that saw him that be was a son tory, the plebts, of course, had their of the commander made famous tn stunts to do, but those acts were as Sheridan's Ride. UlysHes S. Grant. mild as can le Imagined when com 3d, used to get up and shout: 1 will pared with the modern ways of doing fight It out along these lines if It takes things that wire laid bare In the in all summer, while J. M. Hobson, Jr., a brother of the naval commander, had vestlgatlons. Gen. John M Schofield Is on record to tel over and over again the story as having told the cadet corps, when of his brother's exploit at Santiago. he was superintendent at West Point, Of course there were singing, speakthat If the acts that the young men of ing, bracing, and exercising galore, bethat day were guilty of had occurred sides all this. Of the officers who have grown up before the war (hero would have keen bloodshed before such things would since the civil war, all tell of their have been submitted to. Other older experiences ns plebes, hut it Is Interofficers have talkeJ the same way, and esting to note that almost to a man they tell how, according to the tradl they have forgotten about the real tlon, Ulysses S. Giant, Robert E. Lee, strenuous things they had to do. Phil Sheridan ana Stonewall Jackson used to brace themselves as plebes Curious Russian Law. walking about the plains, with chin Russia has & law which to outside drawn In and shoulders thrown back observers seems almost to put a But they didnt drink tabasco sauce premium on theft, by which stolen neither did they do eagles till they fell good9 become the property of the from exhaustion, as did young Dougins thief if he can prove that he has had MacArthur and Pegram of Virginia, possession of them for over five years. the latter a son ol the confederate of In the thieves market which Is, cf fleer of the same name. course, licensed by the police goods Of course, In the history of West that admittedly have been stolen Point hazing the case that stunds out (more than five years before) are above all others was the hazing of openly offered for sale,- and the place young Oscar Booz of Pennsylvania, to Is a verltalde Mecca for the gentry and their enterprising the rigors of which treatment his family went before the congressional in friends, as also for the more honest vestlgatlng committee and swore was members of society, who secure mauy due the tuberculosis of the throat that a tempting burgaln. eventually caused that poor young fellow's death. Cows Huge Yield of Milk. When Booz died the cause of death Both the open milking trial and the was given as thro.it tuberculosis, and butter test at the show of the Tunon December 11. fight days after his bridge Wells and Southeastern Coundeath, the matter was brought up In ties society (Eng.) were won by a congress, and alter the warmest sort cow belonging to Messrs. Green Bros, of debatp the coug esslonal committee Goring, which gave the astonishing was appointed to investigate condi quantity of 77 pounds 12 ounces, equivtlona at West Point. alent to more than 7,4 gallons of milk, The father ol Cidet Booz told the during the 24 hours. This milk was Brooke board that Ills son had re- so rich In fat that the cream after fused to his dying Jay to disclose tbe separation produced 3 pounds 94 names of the cadet.i who had torment- - ounces of butter. at night and then pour melted aub-ecte- or e, , 1 - light-fingere- d The End. ears of tbe officials tbe convict would at once be deprived of this and returned to the confinement of the prison. The average human being loves liberty too well semi-libert- to voluntarily exchange it for tbe x prison cell, An Important adjunct Is found In the large dogs which are a feature of the prison colony on the heath. There Is little doubt that these guards Inspire respect. four-foote- d |