05 Jun 1885
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Newspaper
Camden Herald
Location
Camden, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1885
Page
1
Fragmentary verses touch on loss and memory as gulls, dawns, and distant shores evoke youth and waning days. The speaker laments vanished toys and ships, seeking a single vivid vision of what has passed and cannot return.
In a frost lit kitchen Deacon Shermer’s old clock chimes nine as Mary Shermer, a seventeen year old beauty, chats with Tim Marshall. He urges Mary to marry him before Christmas amid family and rival suitor tensions, while a homely farm night unfolds with warmth and memory.
A clandestine romance unfolds as Mary hides Tim Marshall in a clock case to evade her father the deacon. The clock’s ticking presages a marriage instead of death, prompting a plan for a public union as Tim proclaims his love and Mary confesses theirs.
Kentice Malfard urges readers to embrace aging, scorn youth, and resist new learning. The provocative piece mocks youthful sports, extols sluggish vitality, and claims decay is natural, urging acceptance of age fifty or sixty with a fatalistic tone. It critiques modern desire for healthful living and dismisses self-improvement as irrelevant.
A sharp dialogue explores how careful language and etiquette shape friendships across cities. A Bostonian and New York woman debate linguistic precision, letters, and the subtle pull of culture that frees speakers to become poetic, revealing how social norms mold expression and identity.
The Montreal Gazette lauds Ulysses S Grant as the greatest Civil War commander, alongside Napoleon and Wellington. It notes Grant’s leadership, strategic vision, and the rivalries among Grant, Sherman, McPherson, and Sheridan, praising his ability to choose the best plans and coordinate vast troop movements.
The piece extols Ife as a hardworking, self reliant country doctor who masters both practical skill and learning. It cautions against mistaking nervous fatigue for simple tiredness, notes the dangers of overindulgence, and quotes Oliver Wendell Holmes on memory and duty. It closes with a domestic vignette of a son in the parlor and Belinda at his side.
A collection of fragmented quotes and anecdotes from various voices including The Boston Globe and Theodore Parker. The passages reflect humor, misreadings, and reflective musings on reading, life, and social snatches, with brief sketches of figures mistaken for royalty and everyday conversations.
The passage reflects on death and the afterlife, describing death not as a void but a lifting to a higher sphere. It contrasts earthly sorrow with spiritual progression, urging calm belief in a future reunion and the value of patient, purposeful living free from harmful passions.
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