Show GETS sweetheart IN OLD ROMAN WAY LOVER CAPTURES HER IN TUG OF WAR WITH BROTHERS KNOT THEN QUICKLY TIED irate father accepts the inevitable and forgives story showing ro manee still lives in ten bessee hills dresden A good story of a lover who captured his sweetheart and carried her off and married her in the good old roman way came from the twentieth district of this county and is told as follows in a local newspaper it appears that ed grief has been much in love with ella francis tor some time the courtship however was carried on very much against the wishes of the young woman s par ants for some six months they had kept their eyes upon her at church at school and at hone if they were not watching they bad some per eon always near whose intention was to keep down the match in that mysterious way known only to lovers they kept up a correspondence with each other she is suring him upon every occasion pos sible that her heart was still true one recent sunday morning she con keyed the intelligence to her lover that she was going to visit her uncle in hyndsver Hynd community and would likely be accompanied only by her two brothers aged 15 and 17 years this news was sufficient tor the young man and he made preparations accordingly he came to dresden and procured the necessary license he then se cured the services of squire W W house a bosom friend of his and posted him near ohp roadside where the wagon vas to pass at the hour of ten the wagon came rolling along and sure enough the young woman was in it sitting on the front seat between her two brothers As it passed grief came out of the bushes halted it and reached tor his sweet heart the brothers seeing hat was about to happen whipped the mules but grief had taken the precaution to build a rail fence across the road just in front he swung on the wagon with all his strength and the team eoon came to a standstill he seized miss feancis with both arms around the waist while the brothers hung on to her feet but like all lovers in such cases he pulled her loose an they struck across the open field t find the justice lie was not ver far away and the knot was tied be fore you could say jack dobir eon after the marriage the couil tearing the father who had just los a daughter and gained a son in law might carry out his otten expressed desire to thrash the life out of hot of them it ever this important even which had just occurred did got in the justices buggy and brov brother and lover struggled for pot session of the girl to his house for dinner where they could at the same time have the pro of the law the boyrd in the meantime had gotten out of their notion to visit their uncle and had struck for home and told the story francis finding his daughter had beaten him rode ono of the mules back looking for the fleeing couple he learned that they were at the justices residence and called with the voice of a roaring lion squire house went out to see 1 and after much discussion and per s lasion he agreed to take his daugh ter back and receive his new son in law into the family they put the girl on the mule while the father and son walked neward hoi together dis cussing the wrather and crops like old time friends |