Love and Loss in Elmwood Park Tale of Adelaide Manvers
Horace Morton recalls a childhood love for Adelaide Manvers, whose marriage to Sir James Mantravers unravels under gambling debts and illness. After years apart, he returns to discover her drifting toward death and promises to protect their child, Adelaide. Adelaide dies, and Morton reflects on a fragile, unfulfilled love.
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Elmwood Park
Adelaide Manvers
Jong
Adelaide
Horace
Catharine
Southampton
James Mantravers
James
England
India
Sir James
baronet
Lee Priory
Dorset
Adeelaide
Priory
Fforace
TIarewell
Faithful Promise Kept During Years of Family Ties
A speaker reflects on ten years since a benefactor came to live under their roof. The woman’s affectionate care and cheerful conduct have brightened the narrator’s declining years and fulfilled a pledge to protect and cherish the child.
Honest men and robbing God of worship and time
A lengthy moral sermon contrasts boastful honesty with neglect of God through tithes offerings worship and Sabbath keeping. It argues such people owe ten thousand talents to the Maker, needing the righteousness of Jesus Christ for judgment. Also notes a Maryland trickle on coon hunting in Somerset and Dublin districts with colonial nostalgia.
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Tim
God
Ilim
Jesus Christ
Maryland
Herald
Princess Anne
Somerset county
Dublin
Balance in Nature and a Comic Interaction
A Philadelphia Call excerpt discusses balanced character and the tension between moral and mental natures. The piece contrasts impulsive and reflective minds, then shifts to a humorous scene with a photographer and a customer as a wall legend reads Positively No Credit. An epolist’s reminiscences are interrupted by a witty reply from a victim.
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Philadelphia
Country girl's breach of promise suit shocks court
The young country woman testified the ex sweetheart hugged her and held her close, sparking laughter in court. She described fear of him stopping, prompting the judge to collapse with laughter and be carried out for resuscitation.
True Education Teaches Service Not Mere Knowledge
The King of Sparta argues against overvaluing book learning, warning that many educated men lack practical skills to earn a living. True education, he says, should bring out innate powers, strengthen ability to work, and serve usefulness. A flawed education harms body and will, turning into a curse.
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Sparta
For the Fun of It
A quirky column of playful quips and verses recounting oddities and humor. It snaps at local scenes with puns about lying on the left side and wings of a dove, a banana skin on the grocer floor, and a mock sermon on toddy and beer.
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