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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-07-11

The old-time controversy has brok-
en- out in Canada over the question
whether Dominion militiamen may
consistently visit a Yankee city on
the Fourth of July and take in the
patriotic celebration of the holiday.
The argument urged by the remon-
strants is, that a jubilation over a de
fance of Great Britain must be dis.
tasteful to men loyal to the crown.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-07-11
Lost and Found and I,ost Aeain.

A strange story was the talk of the Nor
ton house in New York. It told of a father
who for thirteen years has been looking for
his first born son, who now, just on the eve
of recovering his child, has been frustrated
by the desire of his second wife to surprise
him. Fifteen years ago DR.. C. S. Scott. the
most prominent dentist of Pittsburg, was
married in Minneapolis where he then lived
A son was born to him, but the wedlock was
not a happy one and the husband obtained a
divorce giving him charge of the child who
was then seventeen months old The di
yorced wife, however, fed with the boy before
DR.. Scott could get possession of him. Since
then Pinkerton detectives have been
searching for the missing boy without
success In the meantime Dr. Scott moved
to Pittsburg, made q fortune and became
proprietor OF the Bijou Theater Lately
he went to New York to arrange for a spec
tacular play. He has not received a report
from the Pinkertons for nearly year when
on Friday he was surprised by the following
telegram from his second wife, who is a sister
in-law to Col. Richard NeYins and james G..
Blaine, DR.:
Pittsburg, Pa, June 29.-Go at once to
Palmer house, Chicago, for your son Charley,
If you delay you viii lose him. I sent Rich
ard Nevins rhin, intending to surprise YOU
but he refused to come with him. Go with
out delay and be there tomorrow. Answer
this so that / will know what to do.
MoLLIE D. ScoTT.
The delay caused by Mrs Scott's intention
to surprise her husband was unfortunately
the cause of the divorced wife and the long
lostson again being spirited away M. NJ .
Ogden, DR.. Scott's business partner. received
a telegram announcing thatthe doctor would
be compelledto goto Iowa afterthe fugitives,
and that he would not return until he had
found the boy.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-07-11
General News Items.

| IS F
The senate committee on the Judiciary has
decided to report back the nomination OF
Melville w. Fuller to be chief justice, without
any recommendation.
Official reports of the Russian crops are IA
vorable, and indicate a yield above the aver
age. The winter wheat prospects are very
promising The spring crops are also in ex-
cellent condition.
Carleton college Mimi, has just received a
legacy of S., 900 from Dr.. G. l.. Ives of New
Haven, Conn This is to be used as a schol
arshlp fund for the assistance of poor but de
serving students.
Barley has been practically ruined in the
western portions of Goodhue county, Mimi,
and in Pierce county, Wis, by the chinch
bugs. In many places the farmers are plow-
ing their fields under and sowing buckwheat
The probabilities are that the crops as a
whole will be even worse than those of last
year.
In the twenty called test case involving the
right of importers of liquors into Iowa from
another state to sell while they remain in the
original package. Judge Banks of Keolsuk
holds that the statutes of Iowa, in SO far as
they prohibit the sale while the liquors are
under the control of the importer and in the
original package. are in conflict with the laws
of the general government and thus far in
valid
Mrs S. N. Brooks, mother of Hugh NJ.
Brooks, alias Maxwell. the chloroformer OF
c. Arthur Preller, and her daughter. Annie,
arrived at ST. Louis, from Hyde, Eng, and
later in the day had an interview with young
Brooks at the jail. They were not permitted
to enter the cell department Of the prison,
that being contrary to the rules, but. they
held long and earnest conversation with
their son and brother through the bars. She
will be at Jefferson on the 9th inst, when
Gov. Morehouse will hear an appeal for the
communication of sentence by Brooks attor-
neys, and she and her daughte.- will make a
personal plea for young Brooks life and
present letters and documents in his behalf y
Wisconsin dedicated seven monuments on
the Gettysburg battlefield. The exercises were
held at Reynolds grove and within O few feet
ofwhere that general was killed. When Capt.
Levi Long, president of the commission,
called the gathering to order and transferred
the monuments to the representative Of the
governor of Wisconsin, the level space before
the stand was crowded with the veterans of
the Wisconsin regiments. Gov. Rusk was
not present. and the state treasurer, Col. H
+. Harshaw, accepted the monuments on be-
half of the state. United States Senator
Spooner delivered an eloquent grafton The
monuments were formally presented to the
Gettysburg Battle Field Memorial associa-
ton by Gen. Lucius Fairchild.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-07-11
nephew told the neigh bors, and search " / ];
made end body found as . hfare si.stza6i

nephew told the neighbors, and search Nj 5.
made and the body found as above stated.
Louis j. Finlay, a furniture worker Of Mil
Waukee is charged with tempting to poison
middle ofthe night to find her husband hold
ing a viaa to her mouth. axe a drink, dar-
ling, he said, when hesaw she was awake
There was strong odor of chloforIn, and
her clothing was saturated with it. She went
to neighbours, and at once communicates
with her parents at Oshkosh, Wis. from
whom She aseertained that her husband had
written them several days before that she
was dangerously i'll. These circumstances, in
connection with the fact that she had felt I'M
well after drinking a cup of coffee prepared
for her by him, led her to cause his arrest
be at first admitted and then denied the
charge His marriage occurred less than a
year ago. and it is supposed he wanted to get
nd OF has wife to marry another woman.
-Four years ago a former wife and child were
burned to death in their dwelling at Grand
Rapids, Mich
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-07-11

A young man who was arrested for
robbery in Leavenworth claimed to
have robbed % graves in a cemetery
in an Illinois town Several of the
graves were opened and his story
proved false, when he pretended to be
Ehe murderer Of Benjamin Nathan,
and is now waiting to be sent to New
York.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-07-11

The name of Theebaw, formerly
king of Burmah, has almost passed
oblivion SO far as the general public
is concerned. 1t has been revived in
England, however, owing to an in
quiry as to what became ofthe treas
ure once possessed by Theebaw.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-07-11

Lightning recently struck a Kansas
Judge and cured him of deafness.
However, we do not believe there are
many who desire the efficacy of this
new alleviator OF auric difficulties. Tt
performs too many radical and eter-
nal cures.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-07-11

On opening an ice-laden car at Gin
cinnati a tramp emerged and hurried
ly made off. As the car had been
locked three days before tits supposed
that he endured the wintry tennpera-
ture all that time.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-07-11
Personal Notes.

Rev. r Deltill Talmage writes: ssAs T am
expected in your region wish tosay through
you that, exhausted with the heat, travel,
too much leeturing and preaching, it is phys
ically impossible for me to come to the Chau-
tauqua assembly at Waseca.''
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-07-11

Miss Josie Carroll, a young school
teacher at Birdseye, Ind, was killed
byfright the other night. Her broth
er and some boys made a ghost
which they placed in her path as she
returned alone from a neighbours
house. She was thrown into convul-
sions and died on the spot.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-07-11

Gladstone is a land owner at Nj
agara Falls. He has a patch of land
on the Canadian side, commanding a
fine view of the falls; and though
spectators have tried several times
to inducehim to sell, he will not part
with it.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-07-11

A clergyman at West Chester, Pa,
was SO busy tying matrimonial knots
one day that he had to send one
couple to another minister to be
married.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-07-11

Poison for some animals is food
for Others. Hogs can eat henbane
or hyocyamns, which is fatal to dogs
and most other animals. Dogs and
horses are not easily poisoned with
arsenic. Goats eat water hemlock
with impunity; pheasants, stramon-
ium; rabbits, belladonna; and NOR
phia is said to be innocuous to
pigeons. There is some truth in the
old saying that what is one mans
meat is another mans poison
This is due to habits andidiosynerac-
les.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-07-11

An extraordinary experiment was
made at Bone, in Algeria, on May
20, after the execution of a native
who had murdered his brother and
the latter's wife and father-in-law.
AS the head fell from the guillotine
doctor took it up and spoke a few
words. Various movements of the
mans eyes and mouth seemed to
show that his words had been heard
and understood.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-07-11

Dinners for a penny are given
every week to 1000 people out of
employment by a Birmingham, Eng
land, charity organization.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-07-11

Hanging is not played out in Kan-
sas. On one day there were four sue
ressful lynching matinees in as many
different places in the state.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-07-11

IF Ignorance and semi barbarous dominance
be fatal to civilized communities. not less SO
is constant and deliberate defiance of law.
In national union Of states, where fair cleo
tions are assumed, systematic fraud or vio-
closely contested poll, would inevitably de-
stroy the conviction that the apparent re-
suit would be challenged amid disorder 1t
is not enough that national election be
fair; it must be the national conviction that
it is fair. The citizens Of this magnificent
commonwealth cam OF reach across the Pc
tomac aid impose their will respecting the
suffrage upon the mother Of states. nor can
the States of New England dictate legislation
ginian knows that the Pennsylvania is Wit
3 ally interested in his action. Iowa and Wis
consin know that Maine and Rhode Island
have acommon stake in such local laws, and
as Washington and Pinckney. Jefferson and
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-07-12
such high tariff as we have now and
lad then
HOW THE CONSUMER PAYS.

HOW TIE CONSUMER PAYS.
From the indianapolis News.
Here is the way the tariff works in
more instances than one \ New York
workingman wanted to buy sewing
machine for his wife, and after trying
many settled on one that cost so. This
is what followed:
IA friend engaged in the export busi-
ness. knowing of my want, then came
to my aid, and with the following re-
suit: He ordered one of the machines
l wanted sent to one of his ships for ex-
port to Mexico. After it had been put
on board / sent an eXpressman for it,
took it home, unpacked it from the very
nice box which contained it, and which
must have cost considerable, set it up
myself, and it Was soon at work.
When the bill came there was a dis
count of so per cent. and I paid for the
same article, with the addition of the
box, which we utilized in a way that
housekeepers use, S35."
The query naturally arises, who gets
this difference? The actual expense of
the machine is Sl2. If we assume that
the difference between Sl2 and S3j is
enough for profit and reward to the
patentee, why should tariff compel
the citizen to pay SO for an American
article that a foreigner can buy for S355??
and all the while Protectionists pre-
tend that it is the difference in wages
that makes tariff necessary.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-07-12
Where's Captain Tillman:
IL. 4. r. in Augusta Chronicle

Some time since Capt. B. r. Tillman
challenged Col. J. G. Haskell to meet
him on the stump in Laurens County,
and discuss politico-agricultural ques-
tions with him. The challenge was
promptly accepted, but nothing further
has been heard of the matter. 1t is
understood that Colonel Haskell is
ready for debate whenever his adver-
sary names the day. The people of
Laurens would no doubt be delighted
to hear this discussion between two
such we'll known speakers, and no
doubt the people generally throughout
the State would be greatly edited. BY
all means then let the debate be fixed.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-07-12
How the Procession Moves.

From the Louisville Courier-J ournal.1
In the presidential election of 1872
there were eight states which voted the
democratic ticket; in 1876 there were
seventeen democratic states; in 1880
there were nineteen democratic states,
and in 1854 there were twenty In
1872 there We're thirty states voting the
republican ticket, or rejected or stolen;
in 1876 there were twenty-onc thus
categorical; in 1850 there were nineteen,
and in 1881 eighteen. This is the march
Of destiny.
The people have been gradually, but
as steadily as the hand of fate, regain
ing their grasp upon the government
and striking off the shackleS to the
party of rings and monopolies and con-
spiracieS of ali Imaginable kinds against
the peace. dignity and welfare of the
nation.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-07-12
PRICE $3.50 A YEAR
VANISHED INTO THIN AIR.
Remarkable Story of the Disappearance Of
Corpse in Ohio. ...

from the San Francisco Examiner ]
On the mcrning of the l4th day of
August, 1872, Charles j. Reid, a young
man of twenty-five years, living at
Nenia, Ohio, fell dead while walking
across the dining room in his fathers
house. The family consisted of his
father, mother, two sisters and a
cousin, boy of fifteen.
All were present at the breakfast
table when Charles entered the room,
but instead of taking his accustomed
seat near the door by which he had
entered, passed it and went olliquely
toward one of the windows with what
purpose no one knows. -,
He had passed the table but a few
steps when be fell heavily to the floor
and never again breathed. --..
The body was carried into bedroom,
and, after vain efforts at resuscitation
by the stricken family, left lying on the
bed with composed limbs and covered
face. In the meantime the boy had
been hastily dispatched for a physi-
clan, who arrived some twenty minutes
after the death. He afterward remem-
bered as an uncommon circumstance
that when he arrived the weeping
relations-father, mother and two sis
ters-were all in the room out of which
the bedroom door opened, and that the
door was closed. There was no other to j..
the bedroom. -.
This door was at once opened by the
father of the deceased, and as the ply
sician passed through it he observed the
rigid outlines of the body under the.
sheet that had been thrown over it, and
the profile was plainly diseernible under
the face cloth, clear cut and sharp, as
profiles of the dead seem always to- be.
He approached and lifted the cloth.
There was nothing there. He pulled
away the sheet Nothing.
The family had followed him into
the room. At this astonishing discovery
-ifso it may be called-they looked at
one another, at the physician, at the
bed, in speechless amazement, forget
ting to weep.
A moment later the three ladies re-
quired the physicians care; all had
tainted and fallen to the floor. The
fathers condition was but little better;
he stood in stupor, muttering inarti-
culately and staring likean idiot.
Having restored the ladies to con-
sciousness the physician went to the
window-the only one the room had
opening upon garden. 1t was locked
on the inside, with the usual fastening
attached to the bottom bar of the upper
sash and engaging with the lower.
No inquest was held-there was moth
ing to hold it on; but the physician and
many others who were curious as to this
remarkable occurrence, made the most
searching investigation into all the
circumstances. but without result.
Charles J. Reid was dead and "gone,"
and that is all that is known to this
day.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-07-12

"The city which had by far the great
est rate Of suicide" continued DR.. Ma
gle, twas Gera, in Germany, which
presented the enorm Gus rate of 80, OF per
100000 inhabitants, or pretty nearly
one man in a thousand. I received no
information to account for this. Neither
Go understand why the rate of suicide
in San Francisco, in our country, is so
large. The low rate in Scotland is re-
markable.
"Writers have claimed that there
have been epidemics of suicide in for
eign countries, but I have never been
able to find any trace of such a thing
in this city. A table Of the proportion
of the suicidal deaths to the total popu-
lation of the city since 1904 shows that
the rate rises or falls year by year in ac-
cordance with laws, doubtless, but laws
which We do not yet understand. The
highest rate of suicide we have ever
had was in 1906, when there was one
suicide to every 3,0l7 inhabitants. This
rate gradually lowered until 1872, when
there was one suicide in every 20,367
inhabitants. The very next year came
fearful drop to one suicide in every
9,5O7 of the population. The lowest
proportionate number of suicides was
in 1864, when there was one suicide to
23,S27 people. In 1874, right after the
great financial panic, the suicides were
more in number than at any time for
forty years-one in every 5,515 people,"
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-07-12
ANOTHER BABEL.
The Efffel At Three Hundred Feet-A Tre-
mendous Pyramid.

The Eit1el tower, now 800 feet high,
is the sensation of the hour in Paris. NJ.
George Price, 4 Paris reporter, gives the
following account of the-work and its
builder:
NJ. Eiffel lives in Il pretty house in
Rue Prosny, furnished and decorated
in delightful. fashion, which suggest
the artist rather than the engineer.
Eitfel is a man of from forty to forty
five years, rather under the average
height; his hair is gray, his eyes bright,
his expression quiet and pleasant. One
feel at once that he is persistent rather
than enthusiastic. In his triumphs
over difficulties, thought and mathe-
matical precision have done the work.
NJ. Eiffel gave me card which entitled
me to visit the tower. After a visit, |
must admit that, considering the strong
doubts I once held, upon aesthetic
grounds, as to the advisability of the
Eiffel tower, the impression made upon
HE by the reality was altogether unex-
pected. l cannot say whether it will
be handsome, but am certain that it
will be superb. 1t is impossible to de-
scribe the effect of this gigantic scat
folding of iron in geometric design, the
whole forming tremendous pyramid.
1t is majestic, impressive, and yet so
light that from a distance the effect
against the sky is that of a grand spi-
der's web. I walked back and forth
under these great arches, feeling very
small. looked on with such amaze
ment that 1 scarcely noticed Il bolt Of
iron which fell like bullet from the
heights above upon some sheet iron at
my feet.
"It was $50 steps up to the first plat
form, by an easy staircase. Neverthe-
less was glad to hold on to a firm
hand-rail. The first platform is not
yet entirely finished. In parts rough
boards bridge the space from beam to
beam; through the cracks you can see
the earth below. / walked cautiously
along, and was glad to reach spot
where a solid brick floor held ME up.
In the center of the platform is an
immense openinenotyet provided with
ratings. Peering over the edge, I could
see the workmen below, looking like
beetles. Around the outside tower a
railroad runs, bringing beams, sheet
iron and other material. Above our
/ heads 100 worknlen hammered ut hot
rivets, and the four giant corner posts
stretched skyward. The view is mag
nitcent. Up go again, by winding
staircase, to the top OF the highest
beam, held in place merely by claims.
The wind whistles through the scat
folding so that we have to hold our
hats. But we discover a splendid
panorama. Paris lies in sunlight at
our feet, with shining domes, the whole
yelled in mist which deepens OH the
distant hills. The Seine looks like the
motionless glass used to initiate water
on big relief maps; the Arch of Triumph
looks like paper-weight, the obelisk
like needle, and the Nendeme column
like its case. Yet we are only 300 feet
high, a third of the way up that is to be.
got back to ground strongly im-
pressed. TO those who scoff at the
Eiffel tower I have now but one an
swer: Go and see it,"
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-07-12
A LESSON IN GRAMMAR.
What to say Instea OF What is Not to be
Said.
[Boston Evening Transcript


Careless habits Of speech are among
the prominent faults Of our young
people, even those young people
who have advantages of schools and
intelligent home surroundings. Recog-
nizing this the professor Of English
literature at Wellesley College has
prepared a list of "words, phrases and
expressions to be avoided" from which
the young land old) readers will re-
ceive many serviceable hints:
Guess, for suppose or think.
Fix, for arrange or prepare.
Ride and drive, interchangeably
(Americanism.)
Real as an adverb, in expressions
real good, for really or very good, etc.
Some or any, in an adverbial sense !;
e. G., II have studied some," for some
what.
~ have not studied any, for at all.
Some ten days, for about ten days.
Not as I know, for not that know.
Storms. for it rains or SHOWS mode
rately.
Try an experiment, for make an ex-
pertinent.
Singular subject with contracted plu-
raj verb; e. g., ''She don't skate we'll"
Plural pronoun with singular ante
cedent: EVERY man or woman should
do their duty" ;or, "lfyou look any one
straight in the face, they will finch.
Expect, for suspect.
First-rate, as an adverb.
Nice indiscriminately. (Real nice
may be doubly faulty.)
Had rather, for would rather.
Had better, for would better.
Right away, for Immediately.
Party, for person.
Promise, for assure.
Posted, for informed.
Postgraduate, for graduate.
Depot, for station.
Stopping, for staying.
Try and do, for try to do.
Try and go, for try to 90.
Cunning, for small, dainty.
Cute, for acute.
Funny, for odd or unusual.
Above, for foregoing, more than or
beyond
Does it look good enough, for well
enough.
Somebody else's, for somebody's else.
Like l do, for as I do.
Not as good as, for not so good as.
Feel badly, for feel bad.
Feel good, for feel well.
Between seven, for among seven.
Seldom or ever, for seldom if ever, or
seldom or never.
Taste and smell of, when used transi-
lively. Illustration: We taste dish
which tastes of pepper.
More than you think for, for more
than you think.
These kind, for this kind.
Nicely, in response to an inquiry for
health.
Healthy, for wholesome.
Just as soon, for just as lief.
Kind of, to indicate moderate de-
gree.
The matter of, for the matter with.