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Newspaper
Bowen Weekly Chronicle
Location
Bowen, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1899
Page
3
Poem recounts a woman left behind as her master, now married, strolls with a new wife through a familiar site. She recalls the Lovers Walk shared with him, noting how pride and sorrow mix as she sees him and his wife together, while she remains a loyal, lonely observer. The piece reflects longing, change, and unrequited affection.
A rain soaked homecoming scene unfolds as Ralph Wroughton returns to his childhood estate to confess career failure and poverty. He confronts Phoebe, his former love, who reveals long hidden forgiveness and love as their son’s laughter hints at a future he never shared. Ralph dies by the door, a victim of a life marked by relentless disappointment and unfulfilled promise.
A Philadelphia judge in jokes illustrates a career started with a sign that mocked law. He later tried real estate planning, joking that exposing plans would invite ridicule until he laid out the property. Separately a tenement resident warns helpers not to talk down, noting the value of respectful language and dignity in aid.
The Russians plan a lapidary masterpiece for the Paris exposition of 1900. A map of France in jasper will detail each department, with the sea in lapis lazuli and rivers in platinum. 106 towns will be marked by precious stones.
A lavish 150 pound autograph album collected by Capt. Pabst of Milwaukee, purchased for eight thousand dollars. The volume contains autographs and notes from President Cleveland and McKinley cabinets, judges, congresses, military figures, artists, actors, writers and notable Americans, many with sketches, quotes, or brief biographies. It marks a national memorial effort linked to Lydia Ely’s Civil War monument fund and appraises the book as perhaps the costliest in the world without aging to back it.
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