The Hickman courier., 1874-05-23

al And TO tile ora Cious Urse OF tender friends.
There is an end TO all 1t one sweet thing
To love there's ne end.
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al The empire now is buiike him--a name:
be That statesman spoke, nd by burnirM word
of | Eindled nations hea, into dafAa.
Now naught is left butshes and &#bring
Onr homage to new ma to them W bend:
as There is an end TO all Ut one sweet thing
~ To love therds no end.
Of All beauty fades away,r else. alas!
- Mems eyes grow dim ad they no beauty see:
- The glorious shows ofiature pass and pass.
II Quickly they come, as uicily do they dee:
n And ne who hears the oice Of 6 blooming
e There is an end 10 ali Ave o5le sweet tnino-
), To love there's az md.
n And for e'yes--our htAes. where is fs,
) Gone, and memory alele remains;
u There IL no refuge afnotuefss knee
For us brown, old, AMI sad with cares and rains
q Brotherless sistesess, bur 1Fsy we wend
10 Deasn'7 dss - a,eh We shall not rove
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Soren wasNI-a- passs5' of the little vii
lage of Veillby, situated few mile
from Grenace. in the 6utland peninsula
He was a man of excellent moral char
acter, generous, hospitable and dilieeni
IN the performance of his sacred duties
but he was also man of constitution
ally violent temper
At Ingvorstrup, village not far
+ ON Veillby, dwelt cattle farmer,
| one AIOrten Burns, who by means any
thing but honest and honorable, had ac-
quired considerable property, and who
! was In i'll repute as a reckless self
seeker and oppressor of the poor. This
man Morteu thought fit to pay court to
the pastors daughter. but the suit was
! rejected by both parent and child, and
either the refusal or the manner of it,
so irritated the smtor that he swore
secretly to be avenged on both.
Some months later, when the short
lived suit had been forgotten, the pas
tor, being in want of a farm servant.
engaged Niels Burns, poor brother of
the rich MOrten, the discarded lover.
Niels soon showed himself to be an ut
terly worthless fellow, lazy, impudent
and overbearing and the result was a
constant recurrence OF quarrels and
mutual recriminatiOns between him and
his master. Soren, on more than one
occasion, gave the fellow a thrashing,
wech did not at all tend to improved
the relations, however, destined to come
to a speedy close. The pastor had set
Nlels to dig piece of ground in the
garden, but on coming out he found
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on his spade and cracking nuts which
he had picked, his work being left un-
done. The pastor scolded him angrily:
the man retorted that it was no busi-
ness of his to dig in the garden at
which Soren struck him twice in the |
face, ana the fellow, throwing down his |
spade, retaliated with a yolley of abuse. |
Thereupon the cid man lost all self con- |
troll, and seizing the spade, he dealt the /
fellow several blows with it. Niels fell |
TO the earth like one dead, but when /
his master IN great alarm raised him mp, |
he broke awav, leaped through the /
hedge, and made off into the neighbor-
ing wood. From that time he was seen
no more, and all inquiries after him
proved vain. The above was the pas
tors account of the fact.
Ere lone ssTass syossai e isssurns was known to
on produce his brother, even if ne had
to dig him out of The earth. Soren
was intensely paind at the calumny
implied, and instituted at his own ex-
pense a quiet search after the missing
mana search which failed altogether.
Even before that flilure was known,
Aforten Burns, in fulfllment of his
threats. applied to the district magis-
trate. taking with him as witnesses one
I I,arsen, cottag r, ard laborer's
= idow and daughte-, OF the strength
of whose testimony he declared his
suspicion that the past had slain his
brother. The magistrate represented
to him the risk he ran in making so
serious q charge egainstthe clergyman,
and advised him to weigh the matter
we'll before it was too late. But Nor
ten persisted in his design, and the
statements of the witnesses were taken
down.
When the witness had deposed, Nor
ten demanded that the parson should |
be arrested. Wishing to avoid a scandal /
10 possible, the magistrate, who was !
friend of Soren's, proposed that they |
should go together to the parsonage, |
where they wonld probably receive a |
satisfactory explanation of the facts de-
posed to- Morten then consented to
this, and the party set out. On ap-
proaching the house they saw Soren
coming to meet them-when Morten
ran forward, and blunily accused him
OF numbering his brother, adding that
he was come to make search for the
body. The pastor made him no reply,
but courteously greeting the magistrate,
gave directions to the. farm servants,
who gathered round, to aid by all the
means in their power the search to be
made. Morten led the way to the gar
den, and after looking round for some
time pointed to a certain spot, ana
then called upon the men to dig there.
They bad not dug long when one OF
them cried out Heaven protect us J
and as all present crowded to look, the
crown of n hat was visible above the
earth. "That is Niels' hat" cried
Morten Z" know it we'll here IS a
security we shall find him Dig away !
he shouted with fierce energy, and was
almost as eagerly obeyed. Soon an
arm appeared, and in few minutes the
entire corpse was disinteEred. There
could be no doubt that it was the miss
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niSed for decomposition had commenced
and the features had been injured
| by blows, but his clothes, even unto his
| shirt with his name on 1t, were identi-
| fed By his fellow servants even a
leaden ring in the left ear of the corpse
was recognized as one which Niels had
worn for years.
There was no alternative but to arrest
the pastor ON tha spot-indeed he will
inrlv surrendered himself, merely pro-
/ IGSbiIk LIS 41AOStASCs hDNSdEduCtS
are against me, - he said s' surely this
must be the work of satan and his min
istry but He still lives who will al
pleasure make my innocence manifest.
Take me to prison in solitude and in
chains will await what he in his wis
dom shall Decree"
When asked what he had to say il
his defense, the pastor replied, solemn
", $50 help me, God, / will say notl
ing but the truth. struck decease.
with spade; but not otherwise thar
he was able to run away from me, ant
out Of the garden what became of hin
afterwards, or how he came to be burie,
in my garden, know not. AS for tn
evidence of Lawson and the dairy
maid, who say that they saw me IN th
garden in the night, it is either a lie O
a delusion. Miserable man that am
shave no one on earth to speak in m
defense that I see clearly. IF He
heaven likewise remains silent, / hay
only to submit to His inserutable will.
When, some weeks later, the trii
! came on. two more fresh witnesses wei
produced. They declared that on IL
] oft-mentioned night they were procee,
) inc along the road which runs from IL
/ pastors garden to the wood, when the
i met a man carrying sack on his bac
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