Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-07
The Story of Lorna Doone.

Albert Armstrong, the world-famouS
story teller. who presents his S4005
picture play in City hall, tomorrow
evening, has won fame and fortune by
his inimitable portrayal of the fas-
einating old Devonshire love story.
Lorna Doone is story into whose
spirit one can enter only by going
back in the history of England 250
years. when the division of family es-
tates and the injustice of the courts
drove men to desperation, even until
they became outlaws, and lived ae-
eording to the motto: THE world hath
preyed upon me like a wolf. God help
me now to prey on the world" This
they We're ena bled to do by betaking
themselves to remote parts OF the
country where nature furnished them
hiding places and where they We're
safe from the officers of the law Into
such times OF disorder and injustice
the author, r. D. Blackmore, has
woven the romance of Lorna Doone.
Sir Ensor Doone, Scotch nobleman
holding joint ownership in a certain
estate. is deprived of it unjustly by
the courts, and in despair of ever
gaining his rights fees with his near
of kin to EXmoor forest in the west
of England, where they prey at will
upon the farmers and villagers of that
district. This lasts through many
years, until one day the family of the
man who deprived the Doones OF their
estate came within reach of the out
law band and were killed, all except a
little girl, whom they carried away to
their wild eyrie in the mountains.
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stealing of cattle, horses and sheep
were enacted under the very eyes of
the country people. They nevertheless
had great respect for these robbers
of high birth. If a farmer resisted
the Doones it was to his sorrow, for
they spared neither property nor hui
man life.
John Ridd of Plovers Barrows farm,
in Dare parish, was killed by the
Doones, on the slightest provoeation,
while riding home from Porlock mar
ket on Saturday evening. His widow
followed the murderers, but to no pur-
pose. The outlaws We're naughty and
bold. But in the widows family there
is Il young John Rid. who ia time,
avenges the death of his father Only
school boy when his father was kill
ed, he comes through the years to
| manhood, four inches higher and two
inches wider every year, until there
are few men of his size on Exmoor.
Into this period, from boy to man
there comes romance. By some stroke
! of fortune the boy finds himself one
| day very near the home of the out
! laws, so near that he meets the little
| girl who is held in captivity by them
| She tells young John that her name is
| Lorna Doone." But Lorna is a lady
! born. while John is a yeoman's boy
every inch of him. and the result OF
| his adventure in the Doone glen is tic
make him dream a good deal of nights
and to drive him with ten-fold zeal tc
| the practice of bullet shooting.
| The story is concerned with Johns
| winning Lorna and rescuing her from
| the outlawed Doones: how he is sum.
moned to London to give evidence
against them; how he saves the life
of Jeremy Stickles, the Kings mes.
! senger. when three armed Doones lay
iii wait for him; how he enters thu
very den of these desperadoes ant
carries away Lorna, with a rich neck
lace which the Doones made sure o.