EXTRAORDINARY CRIME, At His Own Request an Old Man ls Murdered by a Boy. The Assize Court Alx-lee-Daln has just had before 14 one of the most i ages wi found of accused was a young boy i ———— A NOBLE FIGHT. AN EMISEST SOUTHERN LAWYLLR'S LONG COSVLICT Wiel BISEACE said, all done by pinching, that is w] thie sack o' rye on your hack to | the anck. “By said say, by leverage. But he used more | Widdesombe mill, and bring it homo | “flour!” than a lever—he employed rollers as; full o’ flour—and I will.”’ It was even go. That man had enr- well, Without than a ready He vied the burden of rye to mill, wit, and a keen estimation of weirhts task. { back with it in the cone and forces drawn from experience, and Ephraim was able to move and get in- | B to place blocks which two and even three other men would avoid toueh- AT TWILIGHT. m——— gum!" he; yl nt bwilizh: by the shimmering ; te | the man an impossible | | Twen yofive Yen of Prosperite, Advers siiyv nnd suffering ~The tivest Yio tory Wen by Beivave fisern wiuhborn Disease, {Frown Uw Aliant ys other had get the was five miles te road had 1p genck, the a cared for, as he $ f i y ¥ " as { : 1 5 ‘ i i$ § 1 “ty In the room we "Ys 3 in 4 OuL O01 of the enves, : he inary i swaying in the evening £3 ary ian the annn's thie sremost among the best pretty boat make A picture that no future years can take house From out ny memory; shadows such as these ye The l real--make oases In every earn fe: we dream and wake o nobler duties from such times of rest th seems a paradise reflecting heaven; Love floods the soul with colors richer Lan even nature in the glowing west, youth come 1 ihe hopes of back: new strength is given, 1ks the even through the twilight bre in Clevanud Leader. All opened be reached with very The main fio open into the | sort of barn in lumber kept roosting on the houses, door Of which was uml as a workhouse for the men iy or foggy days; here they could re- pair damaged tools, hammer out nails and rivets, store potatoes, the sheep in “‘yveaning time,” prepare the rushes for thatehing e at end were heaped up bi vast masses of dry bracken as bedding, and in this, in weather, the children played und seek, and constructed selves nests, At nt time livel the substantial tenant, Quintin Creeber, paying to the Crown a slight acknowledgment, and thriv- nurse the 0 the rool to serve bad hide them- tunnage one kine and horses. He tilled little grain, grew no roots. There was al- ways grass or hay for his beasts, f the snow lay on the ground deep, then only had he recourse to the hay- rick. What little grain he grew was rye, and that was for the household bread. Quintin Creeber had a daughter. Cecily, or. as she was always called, Sysly, a pretty girl with warm com- plexion, like a ripe apricot, very full soft brown eyes and the richest au. burn hair. She was lithe, strong, energetic; she was Quintin’s only child; his three sons were dead. died of scarlet fever, and the third had fallen into the river in flood, and had aquired a chill which had carried him off. Sysly would be the heir to Quintin ~inherit Runnage, his savings and inclosing another eight acres of moor. On the loss of his song, Quine tin had taken into his serviee gone Ephraim Weekes, a young man, broad-shouldered, strongly built, no- ted as a constructor of new-take walls, Ephraim had a marvelous skill in moving masses of granite which could not be stirred by three ordinary men. It was all knack, he ine, He was not a tall man, but was admirably set and proportioned. He had fair hair and blue-gray eyes, a orave, undemonstrative manner, and a resolute mouth. Instead of fice, it was Epl 8 ave lip and his head wenringe hair about his ym to the somewhat ranlm’s cust and wore cheek chin; he long, except only on two when he had his hair mown by the blacksmith at Widdecombe: one of was Christmas, the other mid- Then hile he was <hort-cropped ; hair naire of OCCASIONS these summer i but grew rapidly again. He was a quiet man who did not ved with the g companions of Post the speak much, reso were over t his wonted quiet tho Liles Quintin stared, fell and while § iIshiment he } onsideration. rainutes, He did servant. He had him his daugh- ‘ Pshaw! you're Wait another seven years, and if you be in the mind then, you and she, speak of it again.’ Epi se a valuable wught of giving So he said both too young. Out 8 remonstrance tempt to yielding. He remained on years. withont persuade him to be more another seven Then Sysly was aged thirty-one, and he~~thirty-seven. On the very day fourteen years on which he had entered the house at Runnage, ex- cluded, at the end of which Quintin had bid him farmer speak of the in of him, with the intent of again asking for Sysly. He had not wavered in his devotion to her. She He found the old man in the outer barn or entrance to the house: he ‘1 say~Ephriam,’”’ he apoke, as Weekesentered: ‘‘there’s the horse gone lame, and we be out of flour. What is to be done? Sysly tells me there hain’t a eramb of flour more in the bin, and her wants to bake to onee.”’ “*Maister,”’ said Ephriam, ‘I've waited as you said this second seven years. The time be up to-day. Me and Sysly, us ain't changed our minds, not one bit. Just the same, only us likes one another a thousand t!roas dearer nor vver us did afore. Wint'y now give her to me?” “Loosk’'y here, Ephriney, Carry shoe saw of the bac! heard all She Ephriam tying ‘Help her said he. tip on my yr ‘Eph !~—you do not mes [t's too much * Carry tl ymbe mill flour, iddees 31d of said these wonls the ing gl over Sousson's Moor a figure descend- ing the path or road. dy gum!’ said the farmer, ‘it is Ephraim. He's done it; he has come back beat—turned halfway. By crock! he's fallen over a stone, is too much for him des- I swear, if I didn’t know he were as temperate as——asg-no one the I'd say he were frunk, he reels so. There he is now Ha! hing set the sack down, and is leaning-his head on it. 1 reckon he's just about dead beat. The more fool he! He should ha’ known I never meant it. What! he's coming on again. Up hill! That'll try him. Gum! =n snail goes faster. He has a halt every three steps. He daren't set As he 3 he discerned in ever never he's down $ Fhe weight fise On moor, he up on his back again. There he is ascent wi’ a sack o’ flour on his back, and four to five miles behind him.” The farmer watched the man as he toiled up the road, step by step; it seemed ns if each must be the last, and he must collapse, go down in a heap at the next. Slowly, however, he forged on till he came up to Quin. tin, en the yeoman saw his face. Ephraim was haggard, his eyes stuart ing from his head; he breathed hoarsely, like one snoring, and there was froth on his lips and too. the ck to Runnage, could 0b spend He Ephraim master foam, not r were purple, eracke 0 they the : r chamber dropped ached *R sSef-gu NO We or which a mas miles of : shipping a thimble [Outing A Strange Experience. About forty-five Wallis, then a boy age, went out t catch a about to place a halter the colt Years filte # oO frisky colt neck, kicked head, making a ragged we Ih wound healed, but it soon became + parent that the boy was slightly mented. His hal culiar forms. He would and down the bay on the claiming proprietorship, and ing to pay fare The ste humored him. ag he was considered daft. He was the butt of the small boy's jokes and banter. He has lived in the village since, and is now sixty years of age. About six weeks ago in On Loon travel uy sloeambonts » Fas TON oat men periment on his cese. They found that a portion of his skull had been contact with the brain by the blow, and by a skillfal opera- tion they removed the pressure. The first question he asked, when he re. covered from the operation was, “Did the colt get away?’ He is perfectly sane now, but forty-five years of his life are a blank to him. =f Portland (Me.) Advertiser. Apples for Coffees. German papers report that apples cut into little pieces, well dried and pulverized, make an excellent coffee substitute. When this is mixed with equal parts of ground coffee, oniy an expert can tell it from genus ine unmixed coffee. The sptle flour alone mixed with a little chicory is said to give a palatable ‘'‘coffee,’’= [New York Wor, of fie naineaq wlio wing chigro old { RHOIIer « man Qur Early Diplomats. i apenas a courts and form to the ¢ prevailed in the matter time Franklin was he could not make at the of s I'S alied- arance President etd money Ji na- jams, Some of these strict ures may have been warranted, for Adams was including a charge for the education of his son in sount of his abroad was disallowed on ground that the iovestigating com nittee did not find ‘any book or proce ng of Congress, nor are they informed of any general or received cnstom on which the charge of mon. eva for the education of the account 1 son can be admitted, and though the same is inconsiderable, they are of the opinion that a prece. dent be not established.” —{8an Fran- cizco Examiner, An Odd Man. The eccentricities of Henry Stephen Fox. an early Engliset minister at Washington, were the laugh of the town. Fox generally did not arise until people were about ready to go to bed. When duty compelled him to rise earlier, Fox was like a an owl in the day time. *' How strange.’ sald he to Mme. Calderon, one morn- ing at a State * function’'=' how strange we look to each other by daylight.” His debts compelled him to economy, and he rarely gave din. ners. Heonee invited a large party to hig house==Mp, Clay. Mr. Calhoun, Mr. Webster, and all the giants and when they were ail assembled, hie said: “Gentlemen, now be good enough to put on your hats and fol. low me.’ And thus saying, he led the way to a neighboring eating house, «(The Argonaut. $3 Eros tad John found expenses Fhe item the ¥ h s&" Sis 8 of { on the y hag been my mind Ln, my hand with 5 of ascupe S frehives yere oon. rugs, ere tried 10 the resuit RI — Why Pa: O80 iil you are You can 1 soure nid fons at oo at the first sig tack a singie ta Precepts lead, but draw, may exa mples will Aftor six vears' suffering. I was cured by Piso are Many Trnossox, 20% Ohlo Ave Allegheny, Pa. March 18, 1894 81 A reformer is often a man whose neighbors wish be would begin on himself, [ J. H. MoGuive, I'sq. A Lawyer Says 1 have found Hood's carsapariliaof great hems ¢fit for Spring ass tude and that dull, sleepy, eavy tired feeling, that crept over me like a Hood's: Cures vampire. Hood's gave me entire relief and § am sure “it oures being tired.” J. 1H. MoGuUung, Attorney, Fayette, Alabama. Oot Hood's Hood's Pills are purely veseis BETTER ——— WALL $T, 333 ETERS mldn in & Ca WW
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