Show ETS IN OLD ROMAN WAY LOVER CAPTURES HER IN TUG OF WAR WITH BROTHERS KNOT THEN THE QUICKLY TIED irate father accepts the inevitable and forgives forgiven story showing romanes romance still lives in ten riessen hill dresden tena A good story of a lover who captured his sweetheart and carried her off and married her la in the good gd old roman liay ay camo came from the twentieth district of this county and la Is told toad as an follows la in a local newspaper it appears that cd orlef grief has been much la in lovo love with ella francis for some time the courtship however ho was waa carried on very much against the tha wishes ot at the tha young womans comans parents for some nix ix ont they had kept their eyes upon her sa church at school and at home if they were not watching they had some person always alays near whose was to keep down the match in that mysterious apy known only to lovers ho however kever they kept up a correspondence with each other she assuring him upon every occasion pos bible that her heart was still true one recent sunday morning she conveyed the tha intelligence to her lover that she sha was going to visit her uncle in Hynd ever community and likely to be accompanied only by her two brothers aged 15 and 17 years this news was waa sufficient for the young man and he made preparations accordingly he came I 1 dresden and procured the license ile he then secured the services of squire W W house a bosom friend of his bis and posted him near nar the roadside where the wagon mas to pass pasa at the hour of ten the wagon caino rolling along and sure enough tho the young woman was in it sitting on the front seat between her two in bi others brothers As AB it ft passed grief came out of the bushes halted it and reached for his sweet heart the brothers sing seeing what as a about to happen whipped the iules but grief had taken tho the to build a rail fence across the road just in front ile he swung on the wagon with all his strength and the team soon came to a standstill ile he seized miss francis with both arms around the white while the brothers hung on to her feet but like all lovers in such cases cages he be pulled her loose looga md and they struck across the open field to find the justice ile he was not very far away and the knot hnot was waa tied before you could say gay jack robla robin con 1 after the marriage tho iho couple fearing the abe father who had just lost a daughter and gained a son con to in law might carr carf out his often expressed desire to thrush thrash the ufa out of both of them it if ever this important event which had just occurred did occur sot got la in the justice a buggy and drove v brother and lover struggled for possession po of the girl to hta his house bouse tor for dinner here they could at tho the same time have hava the protection of the law las the boys boya la in tho the meantime had bad gotten out of their notion to visit their uncle and had struck tor for homo home and told the story francis finding his daughter had beaten him rode ono one ot of the mules back looking for the fleeing couple ile he learned that they were at the justices justice a residence arid and called with the voice of a roaring lion ilon squire house we at out to see ee him hial and after much and per biasion he be agreed to take hla his daugh ter back and receive his hi a new son in law into the family faintly they put the girl ou oa the mule N alle hile the father and son walked homeward together die cunking the weather and crops like old timo ti fi lends |