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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1870
Page
3
The poem Andreasizes a speaker addressing the future and past, invoked by a distant clock of centuries. It urges courage to confront wrongs, aid the weak, and heal wounds, while the future speaks of swift time and the need for decisive deeds today.
In a May 1868 Appleton's Journal tale, Wall Street partner Brisket reels from ruin as a forged note scheme unravels aboard a sleeping car to Washington. Hartley, Brisket’s wary associate, confronts treachery, a gun on the platform, and a fatal collapse into the river. The forged payment triggers a bank and firm panic.
A column of prose shares a Mark Twain quip on funeral sermons and a parable about minuscule sins, then notes two aged horses near Saratoga dying in service to a faithful family. The elder mare, aged 33, and another horse aged 43, had shifted from bay to silver gray.
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