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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-11-13
Too Great a Risk.

Jinks Has a husband a right to
open his wife's letters!''
Blinks "a lawyer - Certainly, sir,
certainly; open all you please
well, here is a letter my wife has
written to your wife, and handed me to
deliver. I feel pretty sure there's
something unpleasant in it about me.
I wish you'd open it, and if there is
just burn it up"
'.Humph! Does my wife know your
wife is going to write to her?''
Eyes
.sAnd if my wife doesn't get this let
Ter she'll soon find it out, won't she?''
s.Of course. =
.sOn second thoughts, / believe there
is new law which makes it peniten-
tiary offense to open a wife's letters.
I couldn't take the risk, sir, indeed
couldn't New York Weekly.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-11-13
Eastern Bridals.

All the nations originally captured
their brides, and anent this an article
in Blackwood's Magazine gives us some
interesting particulars. Traces of this
primitive practice survive. even in
our civilized and complex marriage
service. The bridegroom takes
his best man, the youngest and most
daring among his associates, and goes
to carry off his bride in defiance Of her
protecting bridesmaids, who in their
degenerate days exhaust their energies
by hurting satin shoes. rice, ETC., at
the retreating, but triumphant, BRIDE
groom.
Lo! how the woman once was Wooedi
Forth leaped the savage from his lair,
He felled her, and to nuptials rude
He dragged her bleeding by the hair.
Among the tribes of Western China
the brutal savagery Of the first assault
has disappeared. Among the Lolos in
Western China the bride on her we'd
ding morn, perches herself on the top
most branch of a large tree, while the
elder female members cluster on the
lower limbs, armed with sticks. The
bridegroom then chambers up the tree,
assailed on all sides by blows, pushes
and punches from the dowagers, and it
is not until he has broken through the
defense, and captured the prize, that
he is allowed to carry off his BRIDE
low hof
the Chinese bride and her companions
utter doleful cries and lamentations, in
anticipation of the dreadful fate await
ing her, but
What she Thinks from what she'll say,
Lies far as Scotland from Cathay.
On the marriage morn no traces of
grief dis6gure the fair bride; and as
soon as the best man is ANNOUNCE
ed large, red silk wrapper is
thrown over the brides head and face;
thus vailed, she is conducted by the
best man to the sedan chair in wait
ing. Accompanied by music, forerun-
ners and flowers, she is carried to the
door of her new home. As the chair
stops the bridegroom comes out and
taps on the door with his fan, upon
which it is opened up by the brides
maids, who help the bride to alight.
She is not, however, allowed to enter
the house in the ordinary way, but is
borne across the threshold on the back
of a servant and over a charcoal fire.
What may be the meaning of lifting
the bride over charcoal fire would be
hard to determine. It has been sug-
gested that it may be either an act of
publication or the fire may have been
originally intended to serve as bar
against the rescuing force, and to pre-
vent the possibility of escape on the
part of the bride. Having once been
safely deposited in the reception hall,
the lady prostrates herself before her
husband, and submits to have the red
vail lifted by her lord with fan.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-11-13
A Timely Caution.

Husband Don't worry, my dear, If
I get home a trifie late occasio nally,
now that I've joined the Athletic Club.
| used to be great athlete when was
a boy, you know, and it seems like re-
newing my youth to go through with
the old exercises again. =
Wife mo, John, I won't, but when
you get home at 2 a. M, as you did
this morning, please don't renew your
youth by standing on your head in the
front porch, nor climbing through the
transom, because it's apt to excite re-
mark, you knowthat's all, dear 2
The Epoch.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-11-13
GoOd-By Err Howdv-Do.

Say good-by er howdy do
What's the odds betwixt the two?
Comm -goin' every day
Best friends first to go away
Grasp of hands you druther hold
Than their weight in solid gold,
Slips their grip while greeting you
Say good-by or howdy-do.
Howdy-do, and then good-by-
Mixes just like laugh and cry;
Deaths and births, and worst and best
Tangled their contrariest;
Every jinglin' weddin' bell
Skeer1n' up some funeral knell-
Here's my song and there's your 81 gh !;
Howdy do and then good-by.
Say good-by er howdy do
Jest the same to me and you;
faint worth while to make no fuss.
cause the jobs put on us;
Some ones runnin' this concern
That's got nothin' else to learn
If he's willin' we'll pull through,
Say good-by er howdy-do!
James Wh1tcomb Riley.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-11-13
What Made Her Ear Ache.

A physician of my acquaintance.
was called in recently to see an old
lady who resides in her own house IN
the third ward. Tt was his first call,
and he had never seen the lady be
fore. She lay on a couch, neatly at
tired, with her gray hair in cluster
of small curls ateaeh side of her head.
Doctor she said, Il have sent
to consult you on a very serious
matter. / have for a long time sui
fered from pains in the head, and
have consulted many physicians
without receiving any benefit. Yes
terday / accidentally swallowed a
fshbone, and coughing it mp felt a
singular sensation in my left ear. !
put up my hand and drew this from
my ear
She extended toward the doctor a
small loaded statue of Napoleon,
such as used to be sold on the streets
years ago in little glass bottle.
You drew this from your carp
asked the doctor.
1Co3 uOSool, L oid3 was CiiS ~
ply, 'sand | have been much easier
ever since
The doctor examined her ear and
found tpertectly natural. He didn't
know what to say, but he thought a
good deal.
Il want you to do something for
me- she continued, ''for [ am salts
fed that there is another heather
god like this in the other ear-for it
is heather god, I have no doubt"
Glow oyousupposeitgot there?"
the doctor asked.
81 think Ezekiel or one of the minor
prophets must have put two of these
heather gods in my ears when was
a child. Now, doctor, | want you to
prescribe something to bring out
the hea then god from the right ear"
''SwolloW another fshbone," said
the doctor, as he left the room in
high dudgeon. Brooklyn Citizen.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-11-13

case so long as she forgets that life is
q struggle anywhere, and feels that
she should be excused from helping to
carry the burdens of those by whom
she may be surrounded.
The mutual bearance and forbear-
ance OF life is as greatly the secret Of
happiness in marriage as in anything
else. We have to tolerate unpleasant
things in our companions in any rela-
tons of life, and why try to build up a
law of marriage in any other way?
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-11-13
Save That Sweet Girl.

Don't let \ at beautiful girl fade and droop
for want of timely care at the most critical
stage of her life. DR.. Pierce's favorite Pre-
scription will aid in regulating her health
and esta blishing it on firm basis and may
save her years of chronic suffering and con-
sequent unhapiness
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-11-13
A more pleasant phpsic
You never will find
Than Pierce's small Pellets"
The purgative kind.

Many families at Terrence bay, N. S. are
bordering on starvation. Only four families
have any provisions on hand, and as all have
to be provided for, this store will not last
long.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-11-13
Where is the Schoolmast

There are 125, 900 persons who can
neither read nor write. all in one state,
and it isn't in Texas, either, that we
find them. They are in Massachusetts.
What is wanted in Massachusetts, is a
little less culture and a little more
readin, writin', n rethmetic; less eye
CLAWS and more eyes; less accent and
more education. Burdette in Brooklyn
Eagle.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-11-13
Her Grandmot her Paid.

i0f VrduQmOC neT. Fa1Q.
slow much is this silk yard, sirs''
A blushing damsel asked
OF a gay and gushing salesman
Who admiring glances cast.
s'Only kiss he answered,
With an audacious air,
AS he unfolds the fabric
Before the maiden fair.
''H you please, I will take ten yards, sir;;'
For a while his heart grew still,
Till the cruel creature added:
'sGrandma will settle the bill ~
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-11-13

.'Have you any childrenan asked the
landlord. None but goat" was the
reply All right; you can have the house. y
Boston Courier.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-11-13
The Latest New York Story.

The latest beggarly vagary comes
from New York, of course, where a
party coming from the theater was
stopped by a ragged Individual with a
small kitten in his arms. He opened
the conversation Immediately and said:
"Gents, maybe you think am going
to spar you for money, but I amt. l
am not hungry or thirsty and have a
place to sleep, but | have no cash. [
want few pennies, not for myself, but
to buy some milk for this poor little
starving cat, which I found crying in
this park" The party was for mo-
ment stunned, but amid roars of laugh
ter purse of nearly a dollar was col
lected and given to the guardian Of
the kitten.
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very enormity of the crime and It's hor-
rlble circumstances staggers belief that
Sullivan, who had everything to lose
by discovery and nothing much to gain
by accom- lishment, is the awful
malignant this accusation would
make him out. That any man
OF even ordinary repute, happily
married, comfortably circums tanc-
ed, mlddle-aged, we'll acquainted with
the sweeping character of the conspi-
racy law in Illinois, would deliberately
incur the possibility Of swift and igno-
minious death on the gallows and the
pains of an eternity of torment. leav-
ing a name infamous and accursed, is
monstrous supposition not to be ac-
cepted unless upon proofs. The Times
has presented fully but will not make
any present analysis of the testimony
upon which the coroner's jury acted.
Happily the time-honored and wisely
cherished maxim Of the common law
that an accused is innocent until his
guilt is proved holds in our courts if it
does not always guide popular express
sion.
It remains for the state to prove it's
case. 1t remains for the state to prove
it's case before a petit jury with all
the limitations upon testimony requir-
ed by courts of record. 1t remains for
the state legally to prove its case with
the accused at the bar fighting for their
lives. There ought to be but one sem
timent in the public mind, the senti-
ment of complete fairness expressed
in the phrase, Let justice be done!-
Chi cago Times.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-11-13

When baby was sick, we gave her Castoria,
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
When she had children, she gave themC astoria
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-11-13

The molders' strike at Pittsburg is virtual
~ settled in favor of the men. All the large
firms but one have conceded the advance. and
work will be generally resumed this week.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-11-13

and down and all over, which does not
help little Eva, and your husband
would have appreciated you more had
you spent your evenings with folded
hands and happy face in your rocking
chair by his side. You spent hours of
time on unnecessary things and forgot
the essentials OF your partnership.
which is to evolve as much peace and
comfort as possible out of your mater
ials.
The science of good housekeeping
in these days, when we can buy so
many conveniences, is not so much
superiority in any one thing as gem
eral excellence in every thing. We
do not need cooking-schools for girls
so much as schools where all branches
OF home-making are taught, in order
to preserve the balance Of usefulness
in the girls mind. A man does not
want to marry a chef de cuisine, and
it is no wonder the papers make fun OF
cooking schools. To learn one de-
partment of housekeeping to the neg
lect of every thing else is ruinous.
II a woman is to marry, there is
nothing so much to be valued as good
health and good sense and very low
ing heart, and then it will follow that
she will adapt herself to the calls upon
her ability. When a woman marries
for life of ease and doesn't get it,
there is certainly no remedy in her
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1889-05-18
Worth knowing.

Mr.. w n. Morgan, merchant, Lake City
Fla., was taken with q severe Cold, attended
with distressing Cough and running into
Consumption in its first stages. He tried
many o-called popular cough remedies and
steadily grew worse. Was reduced in fet b,
had difficulty in breathing aud was unable
10 sleep. Finally tried DR. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption and found immed.
iste relief, and after using about half dozen
urn OF the disease. No other remedy car
show SO grand record OF cures, as DR.
Kings New Discovery for Consumption
Guaranteed to do just what is claimed for it
Trial bottle 10 cts. at K. @. WILLIAMS
Drug Store.
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Scopes.

Cabbage Cold.-Chop cabbage
season with little salt and vinegar.
Sweeten with rich cream and turn
over cabbage just before serving.
Boiled Tongue.-Let it stand in
water over night, and in the morning
wash out the salt, which is put INTO
the crevices to preserve it. Boil in
plenty of water till tender. Remove
the skin while hot, and when the
tongue is served garnish it with pars-
ley.
Roast Lamb.-Procure quarter
OF a lamb trim and roast in hot oven
so as to be cooked through and nice
ly Drowned all around; make a
gravy from the drippings in the pan,
pour this gravy over the lamb.
Chop one large bunch of green mint
very fine and mix with one pint OF
vinegar and three-quarters of a
pound of pulverized sugar, stir until
thoroughly mixed, and serve. This
sauce can also be boiled and cooled
again to make stronger mint flavor.
Wash off the contents of two cans of
French peas, put in saucepan with
piece of butter, salt and pepper,
toss over fire to become thorough
" hot, and serve.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1889-05-18
baltimore AND OHIO RAILROAD
ID TIME TABLE,
IN Eject Sunday, Nor. rs. 1883,
WEST R0ITMn

No Cincinnati Limited Daily, leaves
Martinsburg bo4 p m, connects at Hancock
for Berkeley Springs, except Sundsy.
MOI Pittsburg, Wheeling and Chicago
Express, Daily, leaves Martinsburg II IL p m
Nos Cincinnati and Wheeling express
leaves Martinsburg 40 m, daily, stops 81
Hancock, Sir Johns Run and Paw Paw.
Nob Chicago and Pistsburg Limited,
daily, leaves Martinsburg II GA IN. con-
cept Sunday.
No 6b Baltimore and Grafton Acconmo-
dation, leaves Martinsburg ia 40, daily en-
cept Sunday. Stops at all stations, connects
Hancock for Berkeley Springs and Greer
Spring Run for Romney
No SO Baltimore and Keyser Accommoda-
ton, leaves Martinsburg 7.50 m, daily
stops at all stations, connects at Hancock
for Berkeley Springs, except Sunday
No l4T Leaves Harpers FefTY 7.40 ma
arrives at Martirsbnrg $40 p m. daily excepa
Sunday.
No Leaves Martinsburg j 81 . IN, iailys
| arrives at Washington l 55 m, Baltimon
255, Philadelphia M, connects Ut Har-
| per's Ferry for all points on Valley Road.
No G Leaves Martinsburg 90 N, daily;
| at Washing ton 9.35, Baltimose lVas leaves
| Baltimore m, arrives ~ Phlladelphia
| a m.
| No A Leaves Martinsburg : SO a m, daily
| stops at s. v junction arrives ~ Washing.
| ton g. 90, Baltimore 1850 a M
| No. 8 Leaves Martinsburg oh m, daily
arrives at Washington TO, Baltimore s.3V'
a m Philadelphia 100 pm.
| No Sc Accommodation. wa oldline, leaves
Martinsburg 1890 N, daily except Sunday.
stops at oil stations, connects AZ Harper II
Ferry TOR Valley, at Weaveri0n for HageTs-
town and at Frederick Junction for Fiede.
| rick.
No 38 Daily, leaves Martinsburg 4.40 p M
| stops at all stations west OF Gaiillersburg for
passengers, and at all stations OF. metropolis
tan branch TO let off passengers; connects
for Winchester, Hagerstown and Frederick
No l48 Leaves Martnsburg s 10 m, daily
except Sunday arrives at Harpar's Ferry
| 6.bb IN ; connects for Winchester, Hagers.
town and Frederick.
q. w. SANTMAN
Ticket Agt., Martinsbux
c. 0. ScULL,
Gen'l Pass. Agt., Baltimore.
VIM. CLEMENTS,
Gent Manager, Baltimore.
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manufacturers Notice.

The Crane Machine Company, OF Balti-
more City, has secured the manufacturing
plant of John Fitz, at Martinsburg, West
Virginia, together with the services of the
said John Fltz, for the purpose Of building
the new combined CRANE MACHINES,
for which they hold twenty odd patents,
ard which machine Is pronounced by COM
petent judges 10 be far iii advance of any
farm implement IN the way Of c0mDina-
ton and simplicity, ever seen, consisting OF
roller, interchangeable with wheels. drill,
and harrow, all used together, or either by
itself, and with greater ease TO both man
and team than many single implements.
In addition TO the building of this imple-
ment and general line of improved farm
machinery, the Company VIII continue the
manufacturing Of Chains, and the general
repair work that said John Fitz has been
engaged in for the last twelve years. They
will conduct the business strictly upon a
cash basis, and all bills will be paid at
their head Office in Baltimore.
DECOURCY w. THOM, Prest.
JOHN REDWOOD, Sec. & Treas,
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NOT AN INTERESTED PARTY
Goodnight sweetheart" he softly
said,
And held her tight.
Upon his breast she bowed her head
And sighed, GOOD night !"
He,clasped her close. Goodnight Y said
he,
In tender tones.
Goodnight - once mole responded
she.
"My Lowell my ownw
And then "Good-night, my own dear
love ~
Again said he.
More sweetly than cooling dove,
''Good night !" said she.
But whether be said SO again
/ cannot say,
For got tired of listening then,
And came away.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1889-05-18
How 10 Succeed in Society.

Dress well, even ifyour taylor has
to pay for i.
Feed those who are already over
fed. Thsy viii probably return it.
Mos. animals are fashionable. Few
men ale.
Tue most conspicuous adventurer
is the most reliable weather-cock.
No man knows society better than
lie who has worked his way up, and
there IS no greater scoundrel than
the one who has worked his way
down.
Snow is white till people tread it
down. So most of us are tolerablo
till the world has rubbed its dirt in
to us.
Seldom hazard an assertion. When
retailing a scandal or q marriage,
preface your statement with, dis it
true that ~ etc. This is never COM
promising.
The object of extreme discretion
is TO intrench imbecility and impo-
tence. assA.
Speak well of everybody till they
are irretrievably broke; then listen
to nothing in their favor.
Shun poverty its consequences
are contagious:
In these days gentleman must
be snob. Formerly a snob could
not be a..gentleman.
| Snobbishness is worldliness with
out knowledge of the world.
Don't be ashamed of your vices ;
what irritates us are our virtues.
Follow these instructions, and you
will be considered "nice."
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1889-05-18
LIGHTS & SHADES
To stand under the sky

light day after day and expect to make a
success of every pictuI Il every fsce, to
select the best view anc ain 4 eN-
preston from each sit isaw tlat
requires u greater am OF bra ION
is generally allotted to mortals cat
Judgment, skin, experience and -ce
the operator must have, and use II ~ Sli
the time, and then he will hear complaints.
On the other hand, there are many pleas
ant things. Says one: 'Shall never get
done thanking you Tor the perfect picture
OF my now sainted parents slou caught
the sweetest expression of my dear babe"
says fond mother. So reader, you see,
there are other lights and shadows In Pho
Biography than those on the face Of sitters.
+. G. HUNTER, the leading photograph
err Martinsburg, and successful portrait
painter, uses the best paints In each face
as it IL presented, uses Judgment in light
ing and posing the face to make the best
likeness possible, end keeps his sitters in
good humor by being agreeable himself.
He Is master of the situation and under
stands his business. Everything system
attic, no excitement, all that is required to
make good portrait. Call and see him.
&c N. Queen Street.
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from you.

Mrs. Nathaniel Noyes, Of Stoning-
ton, Conn, found upon the beach
near the Latimer Reef Lighthouse,
a diamond ring that was recognized
as lost by G. P. Noyes, just twenty
three years ago.
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Select Siftings.
A lion lives twenty years.

Select Siftings
A lion lives twenty years.
Garter snakes are harmless.
Charlie Ross was lost in 1874.
An opal is worth SIS to $40 per
carat.
Mystic, Conn, boasts of singing
rat.
Brazil has prohibitory tariff on
hand-organs and monkeys.
A cat nineteen years old belongs
to N. B. Shaw, Of Area, N. Y.
Fatjo is the peculiar name of one
of the trustees of San Jose, Cal.
The average weight Of a carload
of freight is about 10000 pounds.
A snake with two distinct heads,
both perfect, was recently killed by
John bennett, of Santa Cruz, Cal.
A new industry in Hackettstown,
N. j., is the manufacture of "beef
lard" 1t is made from pure beef
suet.
A head of cabbage, grown by Geo.
Berry, near Pensacola, Fla, measur-
ed twenty-five inches in diameter.
The library Of the British Museum
will not hereafter supply novels to