Burden Carried Home Becomes Love Shared
A bookkeeper Clarence Spencer learns from mentor Mr. Wardle that a heavy burden is self imposed by dwelling on quarrels. He returns home to forgive and embrace his wife, shedding the gloom, restoring happiness, and teaching that grudges harm both. The couple reconcile, building a stronger marriage and turning the lesson into a lasting partnership.
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Clarence Spencer
Clarence
Solomon Wardle
Noway
Iris
Mr. Wardle
Sarah
Clarened
Mgr. Wardle
Lomg
Sarah Spencer
Lyayal
Poor Boy Hearts and Pious Parlor Plans in One Tale
A humorously overlong tale follows Augustus Smythe a penniless clerk who courts the prettiest girl in the city by skipping payments to a wash-woman and tailor. He proposes in his Laura’s parlor and is gently led toward poverty as the necessary condition for a shared future, while a later montage extols famous poor-born leaders and debates religious debates with Ingersoll style. the piece also blends satirical vignettes and jokes about public life and letters from the era.
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Augustus Smythe
Ladde Dad
Ile
Laura
Court Avenue
Angel
John Adams
Andrew Jackson
North Carolina
James K. Polk
Millard Fillmore
New York
Ife
James Buchanan
Allegany Mountains
Abraham Lincoln
Kentucky
Andrew Johnson
General Grant
Ohio River
James A. Garfield
Tle
What an Old Man Noticed
An old man observes purses hold pennies as well as pounds and notes that some men are honest only to be forced into dishonesty by necessity. He warns that silk, breadcloths, and jewels are often bought with others’ money and that a skeptic who treats all men as rogues will meet a rogue in the mirror and should surrender the rascal to justice.
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Ingersll
Talmage
Robert Ingersoll
Walter
Ingersoll
Paley
Gibbon
Sherlock
Tall
George W P. Fisher
Divinity School
Yale College
North American
I Review
Dr. Johnson
Sres
Voltaire
Vast winter rain renews water sources and promises abundant harvest
The sustained rainfall ends a multi-year drought, replenishing springs and wells, keeping ground porous for steady absorption, and reducing frosts. The piece argues nature’s laboring classes deserve rewards, then a Camden passenger recalls a counterfeit ten-cent piece involving effort and recognition.
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New Jersey
Camden
How and Then by Louise Chandlee Moulton
A reflective poem recalls a missed romance from dawn to a sun setting in the West. The speaker laments lack of love and faith earlier, noting a shelterless heart as time passes from morning to afternoon and the relationship falters.
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Clarence
Yas
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