New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-05-06
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l.. tie good old times when cv"ry man carried
sword and proddcd hs icllow-lncn with tie S'''IP
.,d Of II # they didn't keep out of his way. d."
delicate matter Of love ard couriNhip appears 10
have been treated in q uniform m'nncr Ihr
,oun.. mnn-hc was usually prince I'm disguise
ru IN love with the lady al first sight Inc
,,,,r,, gentleman was not backward in declaring
L,, love. whcreupon the lady father tie crusty
olI baron with "A temper permanently spoiled III
carly Youth. promptly cappcd her INTO an upper
room Ia lis castle and locked the door on the
outside and pat the key IN his deepest pocket
Then tine youn. man came on the scene again and
ram through several of the lody's knsucn. tlkins
inflated blank verse the while after which he
went to where she was imprisoned and in som"
uuaccuuulabe WAY put IA rope ladder mp 10 hrr
window and brought her down safely, and bore
her away on a white horse. laughing hollow,
mockin laugh as he went over the hill and turned
down by the forks of Tie road We order these
matters differently in this last decade Of the nine
,crnth century The Tribune has kept colnt
and SPEAKS by the card wien IT. says that during
the past four weeks no less than three young
ladies IN this country have been secured for their
lovers bv writs Of habcas corpus. We repeat,
three young ladies rescued by wrlts of habrN
corpus. once the sword-now the writ Of hahcaS
y
corner Of Bccckcr-st. and South Fifth-ayc. once
said " L. roy est mort-viVc lc roy We can
not parapllrasr th.S remark and say: La rope
ladder est mort-vvc It. habcas corpus!'
Can We become great and aggressive people if
we rescue our future wives with wrltS of hahraS
corpus? Can a man who got his wife by habcaS
corpus proceedings retain that respect from her III
future life which it is said 10 be very convenient
| 10 have? II would seem that it must he UNI
comfortable to 20 through life linked 10 d.
tcrmincd woman. who tells You every morning at
breakfast that You were afraid of her brother and
would never have got her if it had not been for
an casy-guing Judge and muscular constable
But Notwithstanding. the writ of habcas corpus
seems 10 Ice getting almost as firmly established
as the marriage license the kissing of the bride.
\ month ago "a Missouri young man was kicked
ont of the house and half way down 10 the post
Office by tine father of the young lady he was
making arrangements To marry writ Of habcas
corpus put him in possession Of the object Of his
affections. and they were married. Two weeks
later almost precisely the same thing happened
a, HYDE Park. Ohio. Now comes fine latest
this time from Fan Claire. Wis. Lizzie Nelson
was engaged to marry Ole Anderson. Her father
had no oh cctions. but her brother had made other
arrangements for her Last Thursday morning
Lizzie went out to milk the cows In one hand
she carried a tnpail with straincr ON one side
Of H. and In the other hand Il Tec-lcggCd stool
licr heart was light. and she was building those
nmsy atmospheric structures known castles in
the air very like the Noah Webster spelling book
mi knaid who thought to get the green silk
gown and dance at some sort of expected " do
inqs she was. in short, proceeding toward
cow when suddenly she was seized by her brother
and accomDlice. put in wagon and driven To