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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15
Proposing a Truce

People began to forsake Tyrrel ana rally around Falkland. The latter bus fed himself with the affairs of his estate and in doing good all over the region.
 Tyrrel soon saw that he was overshad- owed, and a thousand little things oc- cured to make him hate the man who had thus quietly taken away from him his supremacy.
 Seeing the breach widening between them Squire Falkland went to see Tyr rel.
 MT Tyrrel,' he said, "I have come for an amicable explanation. An un- fortunate jealousy seems to have ln- sinuated itself between us. Precaution at this stage can be dishonorable to neither.
 "We are both of ample possessions, and we are both of a temper likely to kindle into warm resentment. Why should we be enemies? Our tastes are different; our pursuits do not interfere.
 "A strife between persons of our pe- culiarities may include consequences which I shudder to think of. I fear that it would be pregnant with death to at least one of us, and with remorse for the survivor. I came to ask your help to smooth matters over.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15
War Preferred to Peace

Upon my soul, you at strange men," cried Tyrrel. "Who asked you to come here? What are you up to? You must have some sly purpose in this. Well, I will tell you why l hate you.
 "Till you came I found myself con- tented and all my neighbors humored me. But now the case is altered, and as long as I cannot stir abroad without meeting some modification in which you are directly, or indirectly, concerned, am determined to hate you.
 Now, sir, if you will go out of the country, or of the kingdom-to the devil, for what I care-so 1 may never hear Of you any more, I will promise never to quarrel with you als long as l live.
 But as long as l find you thrust into my dish every day I shall hate you as bad as senna and valerian"
 MT. Tyrrel, I have done" said Falk- land; "but I hope, upon reflection, that you will give a calm consideration to my words
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15
CALEB WILLIAMS

Also they thoughtlessly picked up the knife with which I had stabbed the man and carried it home, where it was dis covered by the officers of the law.
 T waited for Tyrrel and killed him, and l sat by and saw the Hawkinses hanged. l have done this because I have valued. above everything else, the honor of my name.
 T have watched you for months prob ing my heart. You have tortured me and knew that you were doing so.
 NOW you are my slave. You shall never leave me. You shall be with me daily, submitting to my caprices, my tyranny, and feeling and knowing all the While that I hate the very sight of you.
 "lf you try to escape me you will find that my arm is long. For you there is no escape. You would have it SO. Now leave me"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15
Meditating New Measures

She was obliged to repeat, in the course of her tale, the rude accusations of her kinsman against her of enter taining a passion for Falkland. And this she did with the most bewitchins simplicity and charming confusion.
 The revelation occasioned hardly more confusion in the mind of the nearer than in that of the relator. They arrived at last at the house of tho protector whom Emily had sought and Falkland rode back to his home.
 Tyrrel, when he learned from Grimes of the interference of Falkland, was more furious than ever against the squire and determined that he would be revenged upon both him and Emily
 He was sure that, somehow, Falk- land had learned of his plot with Grimes and had been in the neighbor- hood of the house where the runaway pair had stopped with the premeditated purpose of rescuing the girl from her suitor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15
Overwhelming Curiosity

There was a youth--the son of farm CT upon his estate-named Caleb Williams. Falkland had observed him, noted his scholarly tastes and that he had school ing rather better than his station called for.
 He engaged Caleb as his secretary and set him to work in his great library which he was arranging. Falkland at first ap- palled Caleb by his ~'oNm and then be- gan to excite his curiosity.
 An overwhelming curiosity was the only vice that Caleb possessed, but he had that to the full. He got Collins into con- versation and learned the life story of Falkland.
 There was something vet which the young man did not understand. He deter mined to play upon his employer-to put him on a mental rack and extract from him the true story of the murder of Tyr rel.
 Caleb was not satisfied with the general ly received story. He would lead the conversation to subjects which made Falkland vince.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15

made her so ill that medical attention had to be obtained at once
 A fever set in which rendered her at times delirious. As she lay in this pit fable state, Tyrrel played his last card in the game of vengeance which he was waging against the unhappy girl.
 He sent for his steward and said to him: Go at once to Swineard the law yer, and have Miss Neville arrested for debt"
 Your worship-do I understand you- arrest Miss Emily? Why, she does not owe a penny. She has always lived upon your charity"
 "Scoundrel!' cried the squire, 'she owes me for board. She owes me G11OO for her bringing up. The law justifes me-what do you suppose the law is made for? l want nothing but my rights and my rights I will have"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15
Told in Her Delirium

Barnes, the steward, pleaded with him, but Tyrrel only became more excited and more insistent that Emily should be ar rested. Finally Barnes terrified by the rage of his master went to Lawyer Swineard and gave his orders.
 Emily was seized and removed forcily to the county jail, where her illness in creased and rapidly became critical.
 In her moments of delirium, which now became more and more frequent the girl called out constantly for MT. Falkland for her dear husband. her first and only love-"
 Falkland learned of the condition of Emily, and on the second day of her ar rest went to the jail. When he saw the haggard figure of Miss Melville and warrant of death written on her coun- tenance, a victim to the diabolical pas sions of her kinsman, it seemed almost too much for him to endure.
 Where have they hid my husband, my love, my lord, my lfe?" cried the delir- fous girl IS Falkland entered with the physician. You are assassins.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15
In the Nick of Time

Eagerly did Emily embrace the pro- posal of Grimes, and, long after mid night, stealing with palpitating heart through the house and the garden, came to where, outside the wall, Grimes was waiting for her with two horses.
 Mounting they rode away Just as dawn was breaking they came to q lonely house in dark wood.
 I've will stop here" said Grimes.
 "No,--nol" cried Emily. Where are We? Take me to where you said you would"
 Grimes gruffly ordered her to dis mount She saw that she had been trapped and pretended to yield. Grimes dismounted and approached her horse.
 As he cid so the girl gave a cut with her riding whip and dashed away, followed by the curses of the lout, who, vaulting into his saddle, galloped after her.
 As Grimes began to overtake her Emily screamed and in answer to her cry of agony there rode out of the darkness three men. They were Equire Falkland and two of his men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15
Aggie Colleges Face Crisis

from the Topeka Journal
 The editor of Farm and Irireside in cludes Tn the current issue of that periodical an editorial in which he says that the agricultural collegs face a crisis because private interests of various kinds are robbing them of some of their best men. He tells about a teacher in western agricultural col lege who has taken a year off to give company engaged in development work in the south the benefit of his almost unequaled equipment in soil management. He tells of another expert who has gone from western agricul- tural college to become farm adviser for an Illinois company, at salary of SfOO0 year. Following is an extract from the editorial:
 '''rhe agricultural colleges face a crisis. When corn-belt counties are will ing to pay $4000 a year to practical scientific men the field of scientific ag- ricultural work becomes suddenly so expanded that nobody knows where where the trained men are coming from to carry It on. It Is so great a war wi:-. our force of officers becomes too small for the enormous armies of volunteers
 And the campaign for skilled agri- cultural demonstration and instruction has not even begun, if it makes good. That's the only if in the whole mat ter-if it makes good. If the various leagues, associations, corporations and local associations for the bettermcnt of farming are able to show in five years from now that the work pays the farm CT, that the farmers working according to their suggestions are actually More successful than other farmers then th, whole farming population will insist on going to school as they go to the fields.
 ''In such a revolution in matters agri- cultural, the agricultural colleges will need the best thought Of the state gov ernments, and the sanest sort of man. agement, or they will be lost in tho rush they have started and are now, leading. If, on the other hand, it turns out that even under the best instruction farming still remains the same steady. slow, close-figuring old business. that the results of the better methods arc so small as not to be very apparent, then the movement to carry salvation to the farmer will wane, and the professors who have left the agricultural colleges for commercial life will go back and the deans will be relieved of the fear that their dearest professors are likely to be kidnaped overnight"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15
On a Different Brand

As a matter of fact, Falkland had been there quite by accident. He was looking for Hawkins and his son.
 The two men had been evicted from the holding they had of Tyrrel after be- ing hardly oppressed by him and were said to be hanging about the woods with the criminal intent of turning highway men.
 Falkland has arranged to give Flaw kins a farm upon his own estate and rescue him and his son from the life of crime into which, rumor said, they had been driven.
 But he found Emily and found not Hawkins, who. as a matter of fact, was with his son at the home of some reia- tives in a distant villa ge--had not turned highwayman nor thought of so doing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15
Eternal Hate

when Falkland had gone Tyrrel broke out into new fury.
 "This," cried he 'is d new device or that fellow to show his imagined superb ority I wonder what possessed me that did not kick him!
 q cannot sleep but I see him. l shall know no joy until I see him ruined. shall be glad to see him torn with tenter- hooks and grind his heartstrings with my teeth"
 After that interview, Tyrrel forebore to treat Falkland with a random hostility. He seemed to wait for his victim and to collect his venom for mortal assault
 He grew more tyrsnnical and arbitrary and unpopular People began to avoid him.
 One night, few months after this in- terview. as Falkland, accompanied by his steward, Collins. was riding home late from the house of a deceased friend.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15
A CL A SSIC
 1 N A P A c E
Copyright. 1911. by Irving King. X
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Copyright. 1914. by Irving King. All
 rights reserved.1
 William Goodwin published Caleb Will Hams" as a protest against almost every thing that, in his time was the received order of society. But the interest of the story itself was SO great that the sociological and political part of the tale was lost sight of.
 As "The Iron Chest" this story has had a popularity which, beginning in 1796, when the younger Coleman dramatized it. has existed to the present day.
 Goodwin was a dissenting minister-as was his father before him-and rad ical Of the extreme sort. Goodwin mar ried Mary Wolstoncraft. the author of ''Nindication of the Rights of Women, and their child was the wife of Shelley, the poet Neither Mary Wollstoncraft Tor Goodwin believed in marriage as an essential, but consented to it for pruden- tial reasons-after a while.
 Goodwin wrote many other works. but Caleb Williams" alone remains as his literary monument" He and his 'ad- vanced' companion set the political and social world of London by the ears once. Now only Caleb Williams' re- mains of all his fame.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15
Love on Both Sides

squire and the whole group stood mo- squire, and the whol group stood mo- tonless while Emily explained what had taken place and besought Fall<- land, whom she had at once recognized, to save her.
 Grimes, taking advantage of the calm manner in which Falkland was hearing the tale of the distressed damsel, slunk away, and the squire conducted Emily to the house of Mrs Jakeman's aunt Then he rode home musing and thinking.
 Emily in that long dawning ride had told him of what she had undergone, and he knew why. A wellspring of love which never before had he felt sprung up within him.
 As for Grimes, he rode post haste to Tyrrel and told him of the result of their infamous design.
 While Falkland was escorting Miss Melville to the refuge which she sought Emily told him the whole story of her oppression.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15
Paving the Penalty

But his examination was purely for nal and he was allowed to go. The Hawkinses were arrested and in the house of the relative where they lived was found the half of a knife which fitted accurately into the half of the knife which had been stuck in the back of the murdered Tyrrel.
 The Hawkinses offered little defense They seemed to have lost all spirit because of the constant prosecutions to which they had been subjected
 It had grown out of little natter the refusal of the elder Hawkins to allow his son to become a "whipper- in" of9Tyrrefs hounds.
 r Falkland belonged to the bench of magistrates but would not sit on the case of the Hawkinses. The father and son were condemned to death and hanged.
 From that day Falkland forsook so- ciety and took on gloom which never left him. Life, which he had hitherto eXquisitely enjoyed, became a burden to him.
 He was too deeply indoctrinated (people said) with the groundless TO- mances of chivalry ever to forget the public reinstatement which had been inflicted upon him In the assembly rooms.
 To be knocked n--cuffed-dragged along the f1oor-sacred heavensi such a treatment could not be endured
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15
Murders and Murderers

For instance, one day as Caleb was placing in the proper shelf a life of Alex ander, he suddenly turned to Falkland and asked. Do you consider Alexander murderer"
 Falkland explained that the great Mace- donian was not a murderer. but a man sent to put new phase and a better one upon the world, That naturally led Caleb to asks-apparently in all innocence--what Falkland considered murder.
 The squire broke out in foaming rage against him: What are you here for? What do you mean?'
 The next day Falkland called Caleb into his study. What are you trying to do?' he said. You are a young man eaten up with curiosity. We'll, will tell you I will satisfy your curiosity if you will swear that you will not reveal my secret Swear!"
 The terrified Williams swore the most horrible oath that Falkland could dictate to him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15
His Doom Fixed

And return he did, onave a charge of robbery made against him by Falkland, to have money and jewelry found in his trunk which, in his haste at leaving he had not taken with him. Who had placed this discriminating evidence there?
 Collins and the two other servants also swore before the magistrate that they had seen Williams almost in the act of opening by force the squires strong box on the day of the fire.
 Such an offense as Caleb was charged with in those days was punishable by death. So, in. spite of his protestations of innocence, into jail was Caleb cast to await trial upon a capital charge.
 Falkland had a secret interview with him and told him that he did not desire to take his life, yet he must make no more attempts at escape-his doom was fixed; he had deliberately chosen to be the slave of his master and his slave he was.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15
Resolved to Escape

Just as he had done so and before he could look at the contents of the box, he heard a noise beside him and looked up to see Falkland standing there. He had just returned and the fire was extinguished.
 He said coldly: What are you doing there?' A look of the utmost malignity was , upon the squires face. Caleb trembled and was unable to give any explanation of his conduct
 Then the squire sang out for Collins, and the steward, accompanied by two other servants, came running at his call. They saw the chest with the broken lock-they saw the confused Caleb standing with the crowbar in his hand.
 Falkland made no explanation, but, motioning them all from the apart ment, began to talk in a calm and mat ter of fact way of the fire-it was due to defective flue, he thought.
 Williams was now in state of terror which so completely mastered him that he resolved to fly at all costs from his thraldom
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15
Back to Slavery


 One dark night he stole away from the hall and walked to neighboring village, where he hoped to get a stage coach for London. In the great me- tropolis he thought he would be able to hide himself.
 It was dawn when he reached the vil- lage and upon inquiry at the inn learned that the stage coach for Lon don would not go through that day it came only twice a week.
 He must walk 15 miles to the mar<t town to catch the coach that day. For the market town he set out
 A horseman passed him on the road, looked sharply at him, turned about and handed him letter. It was from a MT. Forester-a half-brother of Falk- land-and it read:
 This will be handed to you by one of my servants. I have sent him at the request of my brother Falkland. If you are an honest man you will return with the bearer. It is of the utmost conse- quence to your future and character.
 If you can clear your chaarcter ] pledge my word that you shall be free to go wherever you please and shall re- ceive every assistance from me"
 With what am I chargedg' asked Caleb
 The servant knew nothing.
 q will return with you" said Caleb.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15
More Than Eis Pride Could Bear

If Falkland had been able to reflect with perfect accuracy he would have been able to look down with indifference upon a wound, which, as it was, pierced his vitals
 A man of true dscernment would have said: "I make it my boast that I can endure calamity and pain. My honor is in my Keeping above the touch of all man. kind"
 But Falkland was "human.' And while philosophy is an excellent alternative for the moral system. yet there is so much of the "Oid Adam" in a man that he can hardly ever forgive a public chastse- ment, especially if he is, as Falkland was, a gentleman.
 Falkland brooded and spent his time be- tween outbursts of anger and deep spells of gloom after the execution of the flaw kinses. He began to apply himself to literature and the collection of library.
 His old steward, Collins. watcehd over him. But Collins was not able to fulfill the place of a secretary and a secretary Falkland needed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15
A Mock Escape

But all the tortures that Tyrrel could invent did not succeed in overcoming her resolution. Then he tried craft and framed up plan with Grimes Her door opened one day to admit the young farmer.
 gro be sure said he, you have re- fused me in a disdainful sort of way. but I will show you that I am kind hearted.
 T scorn to marry lass that is not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15
N Cat and the Mouse

In the jail Caleb endured every sort of opposition and indignity which could be invented for him. His trial was put off and put off-and then he was allowed to escape.
 He fell in with a gang of thieves; he sent to York to be tried. On the way to reached the coast, intending to escape to Ireland and hide himself.
 He had even gone aboard ship, and the ship was about to sail, when he was ar rested and brought back to land as an escaped prisoner
 A proclamation offering 9500 for the ar rest of Caleb Williams, jail breaker, rob Der. highwayman, etc., was out. In de- spair he acknowledged his identity.
 Under the charge of two bailffs he was sent to York obe tried. On the way to York he was again allowed to escaupe. Falkland arranged these things through his agents. By means of his wealth and his prestige he was playing with Caleb as a puss plays with a freshly caught mousse
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15

every bit willing as me. And so I will help you to follow your own will. I am tired of the squire and his orders and when all the house is asleep do you steal out and through the garden to the little door in the wall.
 q will be there with two horses and we will drive away to wherever you say. If you like l will take you to Mrs Jakeman's aunt who will give you cb
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15
A Secret Shared

And then Falkland looked in his face and sneered. Well" said he. "as you want to know-I killed yryrrel. The Haw- kinses happened to pass by where the body was lying just after I had done the deed and. probably, attempted to take 1t up. which would account for the blood upon the clothing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15

whose eXeeutor he was, he suddenly saw the sky on one side assume the appear ance of a reddish brown and a sudden angle of the road placed this phenomenon directly before him
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15
New Villainy

The courage with which Emily had borne herself through the hour of her trial left her when she thought herself in safety, and q reaction set in which
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15
More Than He Planned

Falkland withdrew himself from this painful scene and desired the physician to follow him as soon as the condition of the patient would permit to the inn.
 T am sorry," said the squire to the doctor, that had not heard of this yes- terday. l will immediately bail the debt which Tyrrel says Miss Melville owes him. Will she-will she recover?" He hardly dared look the doctor in the eyes as he asked this question. T
 Tt is possible, but unlikely" answered the doctor.
 T will stay here until the end," re- piled Falkland.
 The next day Emily regained her req son, but all saw that the end was rap- idly approaching. Falkland went to see her and the poor, persecuted girl died with her eyes fixed upon him.
 The doctor went at once to Tyrrel. Miss Melville is dead" he said abruptly.
 Dead! I-I--never meant that.'
 Come and convince yourself with your own eyes," said the doctor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15

match in point of strength for Tyrrel.
 The combat was short-Tyrrel was forced from the rooms and the injured Falkland escorted by his friends to the neighboring inn, where he soon mounted his horse and rode homeward.
 It was but short interval after they had seen Falkland ride away when the dead body of Tyrrel was found lying by the roadside. Falkland as has been sair, was arrested and brought before the magistrates
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15
Confession at Last

"Williams, you have conquered. can see that the artless and manful story you have told has carried conviction to every one of your hearers. My pros poets are ended.
 'I have spent my life in the basest cruelty to cover an act of momentary