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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1900
Page
4
Verse on procrastination and time management urges seizing the present. It warns that tomorrow may not come and each missed moment erodes opportunities. The speaker notes promised tasks, letters, books, and writings left undone as time slips away.
In Scott County a man named Ralph Mydack sells his farm to finance a cotton mill scheme and dies soon after. Ten years later his son, now a healthy 15-year-old, rebuilds the old saw mill to support the family while neighbors recall the vanished fortune and the abandoned cotton venture.
Ralph Kendennis toils in pine and hemlock until Gertrude Kendennis returns, pleading for a life together as villagers doubt their plans. Aunt Hannah reveals four thousand dollars hidden in old parchment, changing their prospects and sealing a tentative wedding amid village scrutiny.
The piece describes Cuban housewives arranging door to door milk delivery to ensure pure milk. It warns of adulteration by unscrupulous vendors who dilute milk with water and sweet potato color and notes similar tricks by Italian and Indian milk sellers. The account emphasizes vigilance against tampering.
A dated critique notes that most Chinese mandarins avoid exercise, with the late Nanking Viceroy praised for taking 1,000 steps daily in his garden. It remarks mandarins rarely walk in their own jurisdictions and mocks a person who acts as if he expects to live long yet fears tomorrow.
A Chicago Times Herald excerpt presents a humorous ramble on early marriage from a rural speaker, arguing the tradition benefits families and grandfathers while criticizing delaying matrimony. The piece notes fears for birthrights and generational consequences, with vivid dialect and memories of parental control.
In old English times each family paid flour duties and a brisk tailor could set his sleeve afire. The phrase temee referred to a cloth sleeve, later misinterpreted as the river Thames by time, giving the saying that a lazy man cannot set the temee on fre. The piece ends with a malaprop about pigs in a man’s nature when he travels.
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