The Green Forest tribune., 1908-09-04

can do in your case. If I can do any thing to punish you, you may be sure I will do it!"
 Next day Dr. English had Clark Breckenridge, his new son-in-law, ar rested on a charge of falsely swearing to his daughters age. Then he sent a messenger to West Virginia to look up the facts and find out the law of the state regarding the marriage of mi nors. He was going to have it an nullsd if it were possible.
 Begin Legal Proceedings.
 Clark Breckenridge sued out writ of habeas corpus, in turn, to regain possession of his bride, getting out on bail on the perjury charge. The town took sides; it was going to be fight to finish, whether or not father might forbid the marriage of 15-year-old daughter, and whether or not 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 bride groom; the Breckenridge family prom ised all sorts of reprisals. Meanwhile the FOOT little bride, deprived of Ter husband of an hour was weeping away at home as if her heart woIld 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 young husband
 Do you really love him?' demanded the doctor, when he found that i'm prisonment at home was doing not bit of good. More than anything in the world sobbed the girl. 'Oh, cant l see him for just a little min ute? Won't you see him? Won't you talk to him?"
 For just { day Dr. English held out. Still little Mrs Breckenridge kept on weeping. Then he gave in.
 'Ill forgive you" said pr. English, taking the girl wife in his arms. T guess you love him and 1 guess he loves you. We'll send for him right away
 The Forgiveness.
 The next minute pr. English was at the telephone calling up the Breck- eEridge home, and finally he got Clark Breckenridge himself on the wire. He had learned that under West Virginia law the marriage was perfectly legal, and it was the father in-law, not the son-in-law, who found himself forced to give in.
 Come over he said. You're for given, but dont do it again"
 It took young Breckenridge only a few minutes to dash over to Redstone township to claim his bride of AS hours before. There were kisses and hand shakes all around and off went the bride, suffused in smiles and tears, 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, q cant blame them so much. I might have done the same thing myself"
 The bride is the youngest daughter of Dr. English, very well-known phy- sician. He has a magnificent farm, well kept and stocked. The mother is dead. All the family are high-spirited. There are three daughters, all bright and yivaeious. The eldest is the wife of Charles c. Carter, a leading young lawyer of Brownsville. Josephine, the second daughter, is single. A son, B. J. English, M. D., died recently.
 The children inherited money from their mothers relatives, and a recent sale of coal acreage gave Ethel $47,000 from that deal alone. And she has other money. The father wanted the girl to go to school, but she opposed, and it is believed fear of being sent to some tight-laced institution had much to do with this elopement.
 She was approaching the romantic age and took the first man who asked